Recent content by James21

I hate to break it to you, but from lots of experience, if you choose "escalate to eBay" they won't even bother reading anything you put in. They will just simply automatically side with the buyer, and then for extra fun give you a bad mark on your seller ratings for having bothered them with...

I have Windows 7 x64 running on a Dual processor Xeon Scalable Gold CPU workstation booting from an Intel NVMe SSD, so I think there is a fair bit of life left in it if you don't mind pulling out the PS/2 keyboard & mouse from time to time.

I wonder if they happened to read the financial report from Apple where they said that the huge jump in phone prices seemed to maybe be linked to a similar drop in sales? Seems like they might not have. Really nice phones... but the price... it hurts.

So our new Technocrat overlords are still not satisfied in their quest to control all speech and thought to make it conform to their whims. So now if they don't "like" or "agree" with the news (regardless of if it's actually true or not), they want to try to block it or at least make people not...

Interesting how the people that claim to be so "progressive" and "Free Minded" and "Diverse" and "Tolerant" and "Accepting of everyone" pretty much decide they want to be some Fundamentalist Christian Prudes when it comes to the human body. There is a lot of other things on Tumblr that might...

I wound up getting one of the EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti XC ULTRA GAMING, 11G-P4-2383-KR cards a bit ago. Now I turn on my system each day wondering if it will boot up, or catch fire. Computing hasn't been this full of crazy dangerous excitement in some time.

It could be interesting. A lot of the good old Science Fiction writers had assumed we would have semi ballistic transport services by now, so this would kind of be the first step on that. First you get cargo delivered, then once you figure out all the details, you could do passengers eventually.

Have you looked around for a cheap used i7-4790 or such? Also if you have a HDD, a SSD would also be a good upgrade & 512gb ones used are pretty cheap. Then when you get some more money, add in a video card depending on the deal that comes your way.

My guess is they are about to go into a nosedive financially. Apparently they decided they want to be the moralistic police & couldn't even bother to explain what misguided religious viewpoint they were following. It's just plain an simple religious bigotry against the natural body that these...

So all the gamers who were whining loud, long and all righteous about how Nvidia needed to make tons of video cards so they could have all they wanted & lower the prices back to MSRP because they are "loyal virtuous gamers".... So now all the cards you want, at prices lower than they have been...

You should only use 1 cable going from the raid controller to the primary EMM. You should only run 2 cables from the same controller / system if you have the front selector switch set to the split mode & then half the backplane will be on one cable and half on the other.

On the other side, there are quite a number of customers that seem to have no problem removing the do not remove sticker from a complicated product, opening it up, ripping components off the boards while trying to haphazardly "inspect" the product & then call you up and complain that you sent...

Some people bought the video cards they wanted for gaming when the cards first came out, there were plenty and were around MSRP & didn't worry for the next 1 to 2 years. Some people didn't buy the video cards they "claim" to "need" when they could, and then shouted all loud and hard for a bit...

Your new corporate overlords. Pretty much the Technocrat class today are repeating how things went with the "industrialists" or "Robber Barons" of the late 1800's Trying to see how badly they can treat employees and how little they can pay so they can have it all & laugh at their slaves...

There was also some new scam going around with hacked accounts on eBay/PayPal, ordering video cards with 2 day shipping option, shipped to the confirmed address on file for the account. Apparently the plan was some kind of refund scam if they still had control of the account by the time the...