Best posts made by Mike Ralston

@technobabble EVGA is straightforward. Plug it in, turn it on, and get the drivers. The Factory Superclocked ones are extremely stable and manage to get insane clock speeds. I didn't beleive it when I first saw it, and I still have trouble believeing it but my EVGA GTX 660 SC Signature model will push itself from the standard clock of 980 MHz all the way up to (If you know a ton about GPU's, this number will rock your socks) 1387 MHz. 1387 MHz! And it's Air cooled and has never gone above 70 Celsius. I'm very impressed with EVGA, I'll probably never buy a GPU from a different Manufacturer, unless it has something really special they don't. NOTE: This Pushes the GPU to be faster in ALL ways than a GTX 760. The memory will OC itself from the standard 1502 MHz to 2100Mhz.

So I'm setting up an OpenSuse Server, and it has given me a choice between a KDE GUI, or a GNOME GUI. I've heard of KDE, but to be honest, have no idea which one does what. What are some of the features and benefits of each?

Windows Forensic Analysis Toolkit, 4th Edition: Advanced Analysis Techniques for Windows 8

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Harlan Carvey has updated Windows Forensic Analysis Toolkit, now in its fourth edition, to cover Windows 8 systems. The primary focus of this edition is on analyzing Windows 8 systems and processes using free and open-source tools. The book covers live response, file analysis, malware detection, timeline, and much more. Harlan Carvey presents real-life experiences from the trenches, making the material realistic and showing the why behind the how.

The companion and toolkit materials are hosted online. This material consists of electronic printable checklists, cheat sheets, free custom tools, and walk-through demos. This edition complements Windows Forensic Analysis Toolkit, Second Edition, which focuses primarily on XP, and Windows Forensic Analysis Toolkit, Third Edition, which focuses primarily on Windows 7.

This new fourth edition provides expanded coverage of many topics beyond Windows 8 as well, including new cradle-to-grave case examples, USB device analysis, hacking and intrusion cases, and "how would I do this" from Harlan's personal case files and questions he has received from readers. The fourth edition also includes an all-new chapter on reporting.

I got 5 people and 1 tank in one shot. Love them ballistics

I'm trying to get OpenSuse to run live off of a USB Flash Drive, and it just wants to install. Is that what should be happening, or am I missing something?

I've personally used it, and it's very impressive. You need a special monitor and a GPU that supports it. It pretty much eliminates screen tearing and frame-draw lag.

This is pretty cool, and as a competitive player of that game specifically, I was impressed by his performance... I may take a look into this.

So I know this is a completely Non-Business subject, but what for those of you that do gaming, what Hardware and Software do you guys run, and what brands do you guys tend to stick to?

Welcome to the team!

About the only games I don't play are turn based strategy. Huge fan of racing simulators, but I've been rather disappointed by the ones for PC.

Hanging out at VEEAM ON

So I'm seeing this program and I'm going to be working with it shortly. What exactly is it, what does it do, and is there any competing or similar products?

I've been thinking for a while about building a Mini-ITX PC, and I finally did it. Parts should be here on Wednesday, and I'll be doing a build guide/impressions/performance in this topic. I'll be using an AMD APU A6-6400K, 8GB of RAM, a WD 1TB Green Drive, a 400 Watt PSU, GIGABYTE GA-F2A88XN Motherboard, Cooler Master Elite 120 Advanced for the case, and SteamOS as the Operating System.

Actually if you specifically ask them, you can get an 8 Shot at Starbucks.

@g.jacobse said:

@Reid-Cooper said:

I have no idea where to go from here.

Uhm... I do.. To the fridge for another Angry Orchard Hard Cider... Wash my eyes out.

Sure that's potent enough?

I killed it. Officialy broke PBX! What did you do today?

I'd just look up the power requirements for each part, then add them together, then give yourself around 100 more than you need. Edit: To answer your question directly, not very much.

Here's a list of all the VM's I've built and tested it on. All of them are running the latest version of Android OS - KitKat, and the latest version of Chrome. Also all of these were tested with their stock browser (In some cases this is Chrome).

Nexus 10 - Worked, May have issues with Landscape mode in some of the posts that have pictures posted in them at resolutions that are not in a 16:9 or 16:10 resolution, due to the 2560 x 1600 display being just plain goofy.
Nexus 7 - Worked
Nexus 5 - Worked
Nexus 4 - Did not work, factory reset and VM rebuild did not work, but Google Chrome works.
Nexus S - Worked
Nexus One - Worked
HTC One - Worked
Galaxy Note S4 - Worked
Galaxy Note S3 - Worked
Galaxy S4 - Worked
Galaxy S5 - Did not work, factory reset and VM rebuild did work
Sony Xperia Advance - Worked
Sony Xperia M - Worked
Sony Xperia ZL - VM did not boot
Sony Xperia Z1S LTE - Worked
And this last one just for fun
NVIDIA Shield - Working, loading, and running at a better speed than any other tested device.

@coliver said:

@Dashrender said:

Since this is a gaming machine, I'm a bit surprised you went with the i5 and not an i7.

i7s price per performance really isn't there yet for gaming. Or at least as far as I can tell. However for an extra 100$ I could get a 4790K which would be awesome. Still considering...

For gaming, an i3 is barely fully utilized with most games. A few, like Metro: Last Light Redux, and Star Citizen will push well beyond that, and even some i5's, but the new Devil's Canyon processors should be more than good enough for the next 3 years, even the 4690K. All the physics simulation and such is done on the GPU (so long as you buy Nvidia), so as long as your processor doesn't cap PCI-E 3.0 8x, and it can do basic tasks, it's usually fine. RAM and GPU are what the games need large amounts of performance from usually.

So the consensus is buy 7 or 8 on a prebuilt?