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  1. alavaz

    Home buying thread

    Maintenance towards someone elses shit. I'm not trying to say that I don't understand why you should desire to avoid pmi, but I also don't think it makes a person a total sucker for getting a pmi mortgage because all they have is a few percent down payment either. Because realistically, the only...
  2. alavaz

    Home buying thread

    You so funny. For reals, explain it to me. Let's say you pay relatively the same amount on your mortgage + pmi as you would on rent, why is it "omg so stupid burnin money" for the former but not the latter? And, yes we all know what should "ideally," be done but life for most of us isn't as...
  3. alavaz

    Home buying thread

    I got my last house on a 5% deal but was able to have it reappraised after I did some remodeling six months later and drop the PMI. I guess I don't see how PMI is necessarily throwing money away. You would just be spending it on rent otherwise and you don't get any of that back.
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    Computer Issues

    What type of motherboard? Because what you're describing is basically what happens to me on my Gigabyte motherboard and Booze also has a GB motherboard but his issue is way way worse. I think GB just has some fucked up drivers or parts or something. I first blamed it on my video card since it...
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    Computer Issues

    If you work for a decent sized company try putting in your work email here: https://www.microsofthup.com/hupus/home.aspx. I've been able to get the HUP discount on office from every company I've worked for. Can get 2016 for 9.95.
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    The Fast Food Thread

    I thought Jersey Mike's Philly was pretty shit. But I also only really like the real deal Phillys with amoroso bread and cheese wiz (which probably isn't traditional but I dig it). I don't know how widespread the Cook Out chain is, but it's my go to for hamburgers these days.
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    Computer Issues

    Was probably a VL or education key or something.
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    Uncomfortable Situations

    There is still confusion. The sheila was never hounding him about a car - that was a cover story. She was really hounding him about why he does not have to work. Your friend should at least come up with a story (true or not). Hell, he could just tell people he works from home doing customer...
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    Computer Issues

    Have you tried going into your bios and setting your processor to the "eco" or whatever the lowest power setting is and see if that buys you more time in between freezes? I'll bet it's the motherboard itself causing the issue. Have you also tried monitoring CPU heat? HWMONITOR | Softwares |...
  10. alavaz

    Uncomfortable Situations

    Meh I think it's just a grass is greener thing but I suppose your weaknesses are up to you to define. I don't view my introversion as a weakness at all because I absolutely hate to depend on others for anything. Plus I know too many extroverts who just plain bug the fuck out of people - which is...
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    Uncomfortable Situations

    Being introverted or extroverted is not a strength/weakness. This shit has been around for what like 40 years and at every job you've ever had, you'd think people would know what each means by now. Being either has an influence on your social skills, but does not define them. Either can be...
  12. alavaz

    Computer Issues

    I have a Gigabyte board that occasionally hard locks as well and I think they just have messed up chipset drivers. For me it had something to do with power because I was able to drastically reduce the frequency by upgrading my power supply and plugging it into a UPS. After doing that I could...
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    Uncomfortable Situations

    If any of my family asked me to pick up their friend I didn't know, I would probably just tell them "na, I got shit to do." If they said it was really really important to them, then I probably would do it. I trust most of my family though and if they vouch for someone, I can trust they'll at...
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    The Fast Food Thread

    Someone isn't going to catch their colon cancer in time.
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    Must Have Software

    Chocolatey - The package manager for Windows - is pretty much the only way I install software on my personal machines. Almost all of the stickied software is available and it makes installation and removal as easy as it is on Linux.
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    Parent Thread

    Guess I'm really lucky, both of my kids slept/sleep pretty well from about 6months on. My oldest did try and pull some middle of the night shit once he got out of the crib into a bed. My wife would usually handle it before I had a chance to fully wake up but one night when we were going on the...
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    Windows 10

    First thing to do in Windows 10 is right click unpin everything from start. Then go find the shit you use (click start and just start typing) then pin it to the start menu. Resize the icons to whatever size you prefer and you are good to go. You can control start menu layout with gpo as well
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    Parent Thread

    My oldest son was all done with diapers by 2.5. He started peeing in the toilet at 2 and was consistent with that. Pooping took a little while longer cause (I think most kids do this) he would just wait until the shit ship was sailing and at that point there was no chance of making it to the...
  20. alavaz

    Everquest - Agnarr Server: Sunset Mode

    The policy on truebox has always been if we get lots of complaints you might be banned whether legit or not. It's the EQ RICO act.
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    Media servers

    You can force ssl and your router uses upnp to dynamically open ports.
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    Interesting Supreme Court ruling for you in the programming world

    Makes sense to me. They exceeded their authorized access by downloading and using the database for a competing business and having done so would have damaged the company monetarily. I think people are getting too hung up on who's fingers touched keyboards. I mean if this were a group of...
  23. alavaz

    Routers & Other Networking Stuff

    I have a netgear CM700 modem and a netgear r6700 router. The router does all of the things I need it to do out of the box without custom firmware. The modem is overkill at this point since I only have 300mbps service but it works great.
  24. alavaz

    Phobia of flying...what to take?

    Train travel is usually expensive as fuck now for some reason too. It used to be dirt cheap - at least I assume it was since my parents were broke and we rode the train once or twice a year.
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    Phobia of flying...what to take?

    I've flown a shit ton (domestic and international) this year so anymore I pretty much immediately fall asleep and while it's not awesome sleep, I do doze most of the flight making it feel a lot quicker. The worst part for me is my ass hurting from being in a seat for so long. I do have to make...
  26. alavaz

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    She did. Or I caught the beetis eyes too, but something is definitely afoot.
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    Doesn't really matter if leveling is long or not. It all depends on what provides the greatest gains. If I can tailor my way to killing dragons faster than I can fighting my way to them, I'd consider doing it. There are no real casuals any more who are content just dabbling with everything. At...
  28. alavaz

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    Well in the grand scheme of things an extra day of school aint shit. I do understand not wanting your kids to be treated unfairly though.
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    Parent Thread

    I cuss while yelling (well not really yelling, but stern, no bullshit tone) at my kids sometimes. It's just a bad habit I have, can't really expound much more than that. They know very well not to cuss though and they also know that if I am then they fucked up so I guess it works fine for me...
  30. alavaz

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I do know that there are lots of jobs for developers with socom on MacDill, AFB in Tampa. GDIT, MacB and Jacobs would be the best places to look. This of course assumes you are eligible for a security clearance. I'm guessing you don't already have one but developers are in demand enough they'll...
  31. alavaz

    Everquest - Agnarr Server: Sunset Mode

    Is MQ2 still going around on Agnarr? Last I saw eqmule was no longer releasing source. Believe it or not, I never heavily used MQ2 on live, only tested it here and there. I'm a systems engineer so the dev side interests me more than actually using it. Anyway, if people were doing what I did...
  32. alavaz

    Google service alternatives

    I've got 7 ish email addresses I use just for personal stuff. I only really check 2 of them though. After the great wow account hack spree of 2009(?) I learned the hard way that using the same email to sign up for all sorts of nebulous shit on the web and your important accounts is not the most...
  33. alavaz

    Google service alternatives

    The only alternatives that will be able to complete from a reliability and availability standpoint will be MS products. OneNote will replace keep and is free along with OneDrive, Skype (Hangouts), Outlook. Com (gmail and calendar). I mustve missed what Google did this time?
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    Smartphones

    Are you actually interested in everyone's insight or just trying to argue? It's super simple. People in the US don't use WhatsApp cause they have a bunch of other shit and see no reason to mix in another.
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    Parent Thread

    When my oldest son was between 2-3 and was really starting to run he smacked his head right into the corner of a coffee table and as head wounds do, it was bleeding like a sumbitch. Luckily I steal shit from work and one of the things I grabbed from a bunch of first aid kits we had was this...
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    Smartphones

    MMS as a protocol is getting pretty long in the tooth these days as it was built for super low bandwidth cell networks. That's why everyone has mostly shifted to messaging apps that use newer protocols when possible and fall back to MMS when not possible (i.e. iMessage to non iPhones (the green...
  37. alavaz

    Smartphones

    That's a provider limitation. iMessage is an app just like hangouts. Just happens to be an exclusive app. Great if everyone is on board. If not, just have them download hangouts since it, you know actually works on all devices. While I said before I don't really give a shit about brand, I just...
  38. alavaz

    Smartphones

    I use Hangouts for everything. Works fine for sending pictures and videos to iPhones.
  39. alavaz

    Smartphones

    Some playstore apps have a bunch of click baits in them or are horribly tuned, but yeah I can't see anyone getting true malware from the play store. I'm firmly in the don't give a shit about brand as long as it works for me crowd. An awesome camera and SD card slot is really my main criteria...
  40. alavaz

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Well "web development" is a very ambiguous term though. If you plunk out HTML, CSS and some minimal JS to make a few things blink then yeah probably not career worthy. If you develop highly scalable node.js infrastructure you can probably make a decent living. Looking at it from the bigger...