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by Drewstre
Sat Jun 29, 2019 3:56 am
Forum: Mobile Tech
Topic: Do new phones have significantly better radios?
Replies: 14
Views: 8075

Re: Do new phones have significantly better radios?

Hiya- Just to follow up, I ended up getting an iPhone XR, and switching to Verizon. The phone is pretty sweet, if a little large for my preference, but the news relevant to this thread is that I now have good-to-great signal throughout my shop. My iPhone 5s on Sprint had -ZERO- signal in my office.....
by Drewstre
Thu May 02, 2019 9:34 pm
Forum: Mobile Tech
Topic: Do new phones have significantly better radios?
Replies: 14
Views: 8075

Re: Do new phones have significantly better radios?

Hiya- Thanks to you all for your helpful insights. Wi-Fi calling is indeed an option, and I've used it in the past. It's actually what I sometimes use at home, because Sprint's signal is iffy there as well (another good reason to look into another carrier). Unfortunately, the Wi-Fi at our facility, ...
by Drewstre
Tue Apr 30, 2019 9:58 pm
Forum: Mobile Tech
Topic: Do new phones have significantly better radios?
Replies: 14
Views: 8075

Do new phones have significantly better radios?

Hiya- So, my trusty old iPhone 5S has two nasty issues going on: (A) It's old, and the battery is dying quickly. It will go from, say, 47% battery to shutdown mode in a heartbeat. It will shut down because it thinks it has no juice. When I plug it in to charge it, the meter will read 47% again, and ...
by Drewstre
Wed Jan 23, 2019 11:08 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Can private companies use license plate scanners?
Replies: 54
Views: 6095

Re: Can private companies use license plate scanners?

Thanks to all for the replies. This was a kind of an unsettling discovery; it does not surprise me at all that it is likely a Facebook thing. One big reason I have never signed up for Facebook. I read about the beacons... I heard about that technology "coming" several years ago. Didn't rea...
by Drewstre
Sun Jan 20, 2019 9:48 pm
Forum: Overclocking, Tweaking, & Cooling
Topic: Swapped Corsair H115i for Noctua NH-D15 (i7-6700k)
Replies: 7
Views: 8985

Re: Swapped Corsair H115i for Noctua NH-D15 (i7-6700k)

Same symptom I had, exhaust was not warm, even under load. I painstakingly reseated the pump twice after initial install, no change. Used different TIM pastes, including Arctic Silver and some Noctua paste I had from an earlier build. No improvement. I would blame the stupid non-soldered IHS on the ...
by Drewstre
Sun Jan 20, 2019 9:08 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Can private companies use license plate scanners?
Replies: 54
Views: 6095

Re: Can private companies use license plate scanners?

Oh, good call. Her car is a 2007 Nissan Sentra, no GPS, unlikely to have any nefarious gadgetry. Her phone is an iPhone 6... it's definitely not loaded with all manner of apps, she uses it mainly for calls, texts, solitaire and Facebook. That last one gives me serious pause, especially considering r...
by Drewstre
Sun Jan 20, 2019 8:42 pm
Forum: Overclocking, Tweaking, & Cooling
Topic: Swapped Corsair H115i for Noctua NH-D15 (i7-6700k)
Replies: 7
Views: 8985

Re: Swapped Corsair H115i for Noctua NH-D15 (i7-6700k)

My apologies for the delayed response. Yup, the Corsair was being fed a constant 12v from the CPU_OPT fan header. For my next build, I'll likely get one of the Intel chips with a soldered IHS and a liquid cooler to keep it cool; I might just have a bad H115i pump. I'm willing to give water cooling a...
by Drewstre
Sun Jan 20, 2019 8:29 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Can private companies use license plate scanners?
Replies: 54
Views: 6095

Can private companies use license plate scanners?

Hiya- So, maybe about a year ago, due to our work schedules, my girlfriend and I starting having dinner late at TGI Friday's since they are open til 3am. We'd go maybe two or three times a month. We took her car every time, but I paid every time. Soon after we started going, she started receiving di...
by Drewstre
Fri Nov 16, 2018 10:10 pm
Forum: Storage
Topic: Synology Nas advice
Replies: 132
Views: 25623

Re: Synology Nas advice

I have a DS218j with (2) 6TB NAS drives in it, mirrored. Love it. Full native Mac/Windows access to files, and very good mobile access (at least on iOS, dunno about Android). Originally bought it so my Mom can have one big ol' bitbucket to put her years and years of photos and videos, and be able to...
by Drewstre
Wed Oct 24, 2018 9:42 pm
Forum: Gaming
Topic: What are you playing right now?
Replies: 965
Views: 212161

Re: What are you playing right now?

Overload, and enjoying the whole shebang.

If you liked Descent, this is it's modern(ish) reboot. Made by the same guys, and done well. Two thumbs up.
by Drewstre
Thu Sep 20, 2018 1:26 am
Forum: Overclocking, Tweaking, & Cooling
Topic: Swapped Corsair H115i for Noctua NH-D15 (i7-6700k)
Replies: 7
Views: 8985

Swapped Corsair H115i for Noctua NH-D15 (i7-6700k)

Quick(ish) post... So a coupla years ago, I splashed for the Corsair H115i liquid cooler when I got my new rig: CPU: i7-6700k Mobo: Gigabyte Z170X-Gaming 7 Case: Fractal Define R5 RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws V 16GB DDR4 3000 From the get go, I was unhappy with the cooling of the H115i, as alluded to in an ...
by Drewstre
Thu May 24, 2018 12:52 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Car accident, what is insurance's responsibility?
Replies: 34
Views: 5846

Re: Car accident, what is insurance's responsibility?

Thanks so much to you all for your answers and experiences. You've all been very helpful. I think our progress forward should be to get the police report first. Can't hurt to have it. Then, if that tells us what (if any) insurance van guy has, we'll personally file a claim with his insurance. Hopefu...
by Drewstre
Wed May 23, 2018 12:15 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Car accident, what is insurance's responsibility?
Replies: 34
Views: 5846

Re: Car accident, what is insurance's responsibility?

Thanks to you all for your help and insight. We could not get the van guy's insurance info, he was barely conscious. Whether that was from the wreck or the booze or both, dunno. We did get the accident report number from the police, and the nice police lady indicated that would be all her insurance ...
by Drewstre
Tue May 22, 2018 10:30 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Car accident, what is insurance's responsibility?
Replies: 34
Views: 5846

Re: Car accident, what is insurance's responsibility?

Here's her reply on the coverage:
- Bodily injury/property damage liability
- Medical payments
- 500 deduct comprehensive/collision
- Underinsured motor vehicle BI/PD
- Death dismemberment & loss of sight
by Drewstre
Tue May 22, 2018 9:58 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Car accident, what is insurance's responsibility?
Replies: 34
Views: 5846

Re: Car accident, what is insurance's responsibility?

Thanks JBI... ya, I need to find that out. I asked her, she's gonna look it up. Will post back when I hear from her (she's at work right now).
by Drewstre
Tue May 22, 2018 9:40 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Car accident, what is insurance's responsibility?
Replies: 34
Views: 5846

Car accident, what is insurance's responsibility?

OK, long story short, mainly because I don't like thinking about it. Riding with a friend a couple of days ago, her car, she's driving. Two-lane road. Dude in a work van (ladders on the roof) coming towards us, at speed, veers into our lane, and completely obliterates her driver's side rear view mir...
by Drewstre
Fri Feb 09, 2018 12:38 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: New Emoji: "RECEIPT" Easter Egg
Replies: 1
Views: 1603

New Emoji: "RECEIPT" Easter Egg

Just watched a vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qLDBQ583Y8 showing all the new emojis we were all waiting so desperately for, and there's a new "RECEIPT" emoji with a barcode on it (at 1:53 of the above vid). Just for gits and shiggles, I scanned it, and it scans to "YOUNERD"...
by Drewstre
Thu Aug 11, 2016 11:04 pm
Forum: Overclocking, Tweaking, & Cooling
Topic: 50°c difference between CPU and coolant? [i7, Corsair 115]
Replies: 28
Views: 23860

Re: 50°c difference between CPU and coolant? [i7, Corsair 11

Right, so I double-checked in the BIOS, and it looks like my core voltage is set at 1.30v. I don't think I've monkeyed with it, so that's probably stock, at least for this mobo. But according to the Intel Extreme Tuning Utility, it varies pretty wildly. Just running that benchmark a coupla times, it...
by Drewstre
Thu Aug 11, 2016 3:50 am
Forum: Overclocking, Tweaking, & Cooling
Topic: 50°c difference between CPU and coolant? [i7, Corsair 115]
Replies: 28
Views: 23860

Re: 50°c difference between CPU and coolant? [i7, Corsair 11

Thanks to all for your help. I dunked a heap o cash into this build, I just want to make sure I get every penny's worth. My reason for posting was because the coolant temp seemed low for such a high CPU temp. I had hoped that a high-end dedicated CPU cooling loop would wrestle an overclocked 6700k i...
by Drewstre
Wed Aug 10, 2016 2:28 am
Forum: Overclocking, Tweaking, & Cooling
Topic: 50°c difference between CPU and coolant? [i7, Corsair 115]
Replies: 28
Views: 23860

50°c difference between CPU and coolant? [i7, Corsair 115]

Hiya- I'm trying to dial in some decent fan settings to make (and keep) a water-cooled overclocked i7-6700k happy. Relevant deets: CPU: i7-6700k @ 4.5 GHz Mobo: Gigabyte Gaming 7 Cooler: Corsair H115i Case: Fractal Define R5 Goop: Arctic silver The H115 radiator is in the roof of the R5, fans are bl...
by Drewstre
Thu Jun 02, 2016 2:57 am
Forum: Gaming
Topic: Memories of Ultima
Replies: 28
Views: 5799

Re: Memories of Ultima

I've played a lotta games, but my favorite game ever is still Ultima IV on my dear old Atari 1040ST. It came with an actual cloth map, and a really cool ankh made of pewter. I played that game, same character, for two of my teenage years. I did everything and loved it. From fashioning an IRL widget ...
by Drewstre
Wed Apr 27, 2016 5:00 am
Forum: Storage
Topic: WD Caviar Black x2: Windows RAID vs. Intel RAID
Replies: 31
Views: 16642

Re: WD Caviar Black x2: Windows RAID vs. Intel RAID

Captain Ned wrote:
Waco wrote:
I'm tempted to figure out how their Bash integration really works, and see if I can get ZFS on Linux running under it to somehow expose it to the Windows side of things. :P


Total Protonic Reversal. I love this plan.


I cannot read this post without grinning.
by Drewstre
Wed Apr 27, 2016 4:13 am
Forum: Storage
Topic: WD Caviar Black x2: Windows RAID vs. Intel RAID
Replies: 31
Views: 16642

Re: WD Caviar Black x2: Windows RAID vs. Intel RAID

Soooo, I think I remember that having SSDs in an Intel fake RAID would not benefit from TRIM.
(A) is this still true?
(B) do SSDs in Windows RAID get TRIMmed?
by Drewstre
Sun Apr 24, 2016 12:48 pm
Forum: Storage
Topic: WD Caviar Black x2: Windows RAID vs. Intel RAID
Replies: 31
Views: 16642

Re: WD Caviar Black x2: Windows RAID vs. Intel RAID

I am curious. In the name of science, can you also test "simple" Storage Space (which is essentially stripping)? Oh yeah, I'd forgotten about Storage Spaces... I set up a "Simple" Storage Space, here ya go: seq read: 182.7 seq write: 174.5 Q32T1 read: 190.6 Q32T1 write: 176.9 Hm...
by Drewstre
Sat Apr 23, 2016 10:43 pm
Forum: Storage
Topic: WD Caviar Black x2: Windows RAID vs. Intel RAID
Replies: 31
Views: 16642

Re: WD Caviar Black x2: Windows RAID vs. Intel RAID

JBI- I'm not sure how to explain the speed difference between the drives; they are connected to two adjacent SATA ports (port 0 and port 1), both hanging off the chipset, using two SATA cables that came with the mobo that appear to be the same (except one has a 90° connector on the HD). I figured it...
by Drewstre
Sat Apr 23, 2016 10:07 pm
Forum: Storage
Topic: WD Caviar Black x2: Windows RAID vs. Intel RAID
Replies: 31
Views: 16642

WD Caviar Black x2: Windows RAID vs. Intel RAID

Hiya- so I just built a new gaming box, and since it worked so well on my previous box, I figured I'd use a coupla Caviar Blacks in RAID 0 for my games library. I wanted to see the difference between the motherboard's Intel fake RAID and Windows' built-in fake RAID. I wanted the speed of a striped a...
by Drewstre
Thu Apr 21, 2016 12:53 am
Forum: General Hardware
Topic: Mice
Replies: 34
Views: 5341

Re: Mice

This G9x is truly ancient now. I doubt it has especially high build quality - it is probably a reminder that I don't play as much or as frantically as I used to :( I gotta disagree. Very high build quality. My G9x has lasted me through six years, dozens of games, thousands of hours, and trillions u...
by Drewstre
Sat Apr 16, 2016 3:56 am
Forum: Linux, Unix, and Assorted Madness
Topic: Repurposing old gaming box to Linux server with ZFS?
Replies: 36
Views: 6115

Re: Repurposing old gaming box to Linux server with ZFS?

Gentlemen. You can't fight in here. This is the War Room!
by Drewstre
Thu Apr 14, 2016 4:46 am
Forum: Linux, Unix, and Assorted Madness
Topic: Repurposing old gaming box to Linux server with ZFS?
Replies: 36
Views: 6115

Re: Repurposing old gaming box to Linux server with ZFS?

Wow, thanks for all the replies! Lots to parse here... First lemme say that this is a starting point for a project I've had in my head for a long time... one central Home Server (if I could put lens flare on that I would) to reliably and easily contain and serve all the various bits that we in the h...
by Drewstre
Wed Apr 13, 2016 4:41 am
Forum: Linux, Unix, and Assorted Madness
Topic: Repurposing old gaming box to Linux server with ZFS?
Replies: 36
Views: 6115

Repurposing old gaming box to Linux server with ZFS?

Hiya- So, I just built a new gaming box, and I'd like to repurpose my old one to a multi-talented home server type deal that does, mostly, the following things: - backup other house computers including Windows and Macs (Time Machine) - act as a file & media server for Macs & Windows, includi...
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