Sbrideau

Actually going to hide my post as it might be disturbing to more sensible users. [hide] Did you know that having bacteria on your body and surroundings improve your immmune system? Talking about fecal matter, you just can't get away from it. Even the Mythbusters proved it with their experiment where they put toothbrushes everywhere in the bathroom, and few controls in the kitchen. Every single toothbrush had fecal mater on it. [/hide]

Once you get the hang of the manual transmission, you don't even think in what gear it is, you just put it in the right one. At home we always had standard cars and the driving school had automatic cars, so I passed my license with an automatic, but by then I already was used to driving manual. Also manuals are easier to maneuver in ice and snow storms. (I mean we get 30cm snow storms at least once a week here, during most of the winter).

This is literally what I did also today. Except no test, fortunately. Even with the distance there's always people in the same boat :P. Hope today wasn't so bad for you, I was still feverish today, but luckily I had Advil this time. Also, somehow, I aced the test!

You shouldn't have any issues running Rs in high details with that build.

I was a software developer for a while, best job I had so far :P.

The skill clothes, I never seem to be able to get them. The squeal of fortune is a joke, all I get are the 1k coins, the small lamps and the 1 day recharge things.

Meat Department cleanup at Atlantic Superstore (Canadian Maritimes). Probably the worst job I have had as of yet. I was 16 at the time and wanted some money, the parents weren't poor they just didn't give us money. Helped me gather a few thousand dollars for my college years since the Canadian student loans don't give enough money to last the year. At least it was only about 15-20 hours a week at that first job.

Had some fever because of the flu today. Was struggling to stay awake during my vmware test and classes this morning. Went and bought some Advils at noon and was able to concentrate this afternoon.

I thought my body hurting during the weekend was my hangover... Apparently not, seeing as I have a pretty full on flu...

Depends on where you live, Here I can live for <$1000/month and with that can still afford paying $85 for my internet and $70 for my cell. I do not have the Tv or a landline phone though. I live in a small Canadian province so my 1 room and still pretty big appartment costs me $490 a month and that's in a good neighborhood of a small city. $80 doesn't go far for groceries here though, Even just getting the nececities (such as bread (that I always get on half price sales), milk and some other basic foods, and not brand names either) comes to around $30 a week, and that's when I go between the 3 grocery stores (they're all near each other so it's not a problem) to get the best prices and sales. I do have a car, but being a fully paid car and a Toyota Echo, it doesn't cost me much either compared to other people. It costs me on average $110/month to have that car. About $60 for insurance and $50 for gas for the full month although sometimes it can cost more depending on the gas prices. I also thing your "cheap" >$50 cell plan can be even lower than that if you don't have a smartphone. Before getting my Android phone last year, my cell bill was $38/month.

Unfortunately, coupons don't exist here, but we do have a half price sale on a lot of stuff and quite often. When I go for groceries, sometimes I only need what's on sale. Just now there's 2packs of pork chops for around $2 each, I buy more than I need in those times and freeze what I won't eat right away. There's often sales on bread, which has the advantage of making me taste a lot of brands of bread.

Agreed. I have a first gen i3 processor and am not OC'ing it and I have no overheating issues with the fan that came with it. Runs pretty cool actually, 30 Celsius idle and 50 Celsius when on heavy load. The default cooler is fine for most cases when there's no overclocking.

Thanks Furah for letting me know of the google play sale! I have a $25 google play credit because I bought the Nexus 7, but knowing about that sale was a blessing! Bought a few of the onsale, and not just games, but the one app I like the most is tunein since the radio around here just sucks. A few of those apps have been useful for me, and will be using them :). Also, google drive (free) is a pretty good cloud app, even though I don't like the cloud apps since I prefer having my stuff on my own hard drives since I want my stuff more secured than through the cloud. Google drive had been pretty useful for college and saves the use of USB sticks for saves since it just installs as a directory in Windows and syncs automatically on all the machines/Google drive.

Not depressed at all. Starting to do stuff like making routes and stuff on actual routers rather than just packet tracer. Same with the servers, instead of theory we're actually installing domains and exchange servers and stuff. This is the most fun I've had in college so far.

Update since I updated my internet: Dat Latency

THanks! It's also fun that they gave me a $25 credit on my google account because I bought the Nexus :P.

No! Bad Sbrideau! Bad! Killing your apps is a very good way to flatten the battery. You see, in Android, and iOS, when you're not using an app and switch to another app the app is just put into a frozen state in your RAM. This won't drain your battery like using CPU cycles will, which is pretty much the only way for an app to drain battery life. If you kill an app and want to load it up again, it now has to load everything from the internal memory, rather than the RAM, taking longer and using up more of your battery. To test this just grab one of the many battery monitoring apps (I use GSam) and check the battery % usage of apps compared to how long it has been running. Just start up a game and then switch to your browser and don't open the game for a few hours. Now look at that nice 0.0% usage with a few hours of it running (provided it didn't get removed from the RAM to make room for newer apps.) If you really want to increase battery life, reduce your brightness. Even at roughly half-way, I can get more than 90% of my battery loss through the screen being on. Thanks for your post, I know you're a knowledgeable person in this, so I guess I'll follow your advice. I wonder why being able to kill all came built into my cell's android though. Probably has to do with the version (2.3.5 in my phone and 4.1 in the Nexus) I guess if it's just in a frozen state in the RAM it's alright. I already have the screens in both my phone and the tablet on the lowest luminosity.

Just bought a Nexus 7 :). Experimenting with it, although it seems to lack a place where all the apps are listed and that I can just kill them all with a single button instead of going into each of them (My cell has that built in android). Might have to find an app to do that.

Are you using 32 bit or 64 bit Java? For 32 bit, reserving 2GB of the process virtual address space is invalid, since 2GB is the whole user mode address space. Java should not even start with that setting. If you run RS in a browser, it will work simply because the parameters specified in the HTML page (which includes -Xmx256m) will be honoured over the user set parameters. I'm using 64bit Java. Anyway I prefer giving it too much so it can use what it needs than not giving it enough.

There's only 1 casino in my province and it's 3 hours away, so it's going to be a while before I decide to go.

I agree with that. While I still have nostalgia for the 2005-2006 Rs, I like the one we have today better. It is generally a better game, and I say this with a 1.5 year gap since I only started playing RS again this month. While it is much easier than it was before (well on the skilling aspect), I think if people come back they'll like it. Also you can still play the old way, it's still there, but with a lot of new stuff on top of it.

Same here but it looks like 2012 is the year that really slowed down OT.

I have no trouble with Java and Firefox, it's for other reasons that I posted that, and they are not related to Java at all. Could have to do with the fact that I have given a 2GB limit to heap and such with Java, which gives it enough RAM when it needs it. I do have a crashing problem though, which is why I'm still running version 11 when Version 15 is out cause 11 is the only one not crashing. I was posting more on the security side of things. Firefox isn't as good as it used to be and I don't think it should be used anymore.

My favorite low price tower, and I've personally used it on a few builds for friends, very good for wire management and airflow. For $60CAD it's not bad. http://www.ncix.com/...re=COOLERMASTER And Lowc I agree with what you say, a 560 should be sufficient for a long while to come.

The blue is not too bad, but I agree with black if you want maximum hdd performance.