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Games to play with young kids (4 yr old)

Hi all I'm looking for suggestions of games to play with young kids. To give you an idea, I've had some success with Plants vs Zombies (the original), Kerbal Space Program (which degenerates into watching rockets blow up after about 5 minutes), and arcade-y racing games like Asphalt 8 (I...
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- Jun 26, 2017
- Replies: 16
- Forum: PC Games
I've gone electric

Good idea -- I was in the same boat: commute changing to all in-town, plus free electric car charging at work. Now I've driving an eGolf about 5000 miles, and the trip computer reports an average speed of 17 mph. I'm happy that I didn't get a GTI, and I still have fun with the instant torque...
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- Post #46
- Jun 20, 2017
- Forum: The Garage
Matlab, hardware

How familiar are you with writing parallel Matlab code? Lots of Matlab is single threaded, but you can force it to run "stupidly parallel" operations with functions like parfor and blockproc. Unless you're processing 1000's of images or huge datasets, I don't think it's worth spending on a...
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- Post #4
- Mar 9, 2017
- Forum: Computer Building
Iphone 7 Plus photos question

why not iTunes?
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- Post #2
- Mar 5, 2017
- Forum: Mobile Devices
BMW i3 electric car used prices are looking attractive

A 2014 Leaf with <20k miles is less than $10k. Is the i3 really worth double the price of a Leaf? The REX model is only worth it if you reprogram it to allow you to manually control the REX engine. If you live in California and need the HOV sticker to commute, there is some possibility they...
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- Post #13
- Feb 22, 2017
- Forum: The Garage
Black Friday Builds - DIY Router

Between the router botnet hacking and the build-your-own-router article over at Ars Technica, I've decided to put together my own pfSense router. It seems like most people run pfSense on a mini-computer like a NUC rather than building a full system -- this makes sense to me based on space...
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- Post #2
- Nov 29, 2016
- Forum: Black Friday 2016
$55k SUV/Crossover

I looked at Macan's this weekend (for my wife) and I was unimpressed. They had a nice demo-model Macan in the showroom at $98K USED, but the cheapest ones on the lot were $62K with pretty much the same 2.0L 4-cylinder as a $25K VW GTI (with a very mild ECU tune). The only options on the $62K...
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- Post #36
- Nov 7, 2016
- Forum: The Garage
cheap PowerEdge T20 home server (freenas)

That's a good question -- I suspect my ancient EVGA X58 board doesn't support ECC memory. Perhaps ECC is overrated, though it seems to be a matter debated frequently. I'll have to look up the model number of that board when I get home. If I do keep the X58, I should get a a more efficient PSU...
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- Post #3
- Oct 21, 2016
- Forum: Computer Building
cheap PowerEdge T20 home server (freenas)

Hi all I'm thinking of replacing my old i7-920 / Ubuntu file server (no RAID, but with CrashPlan) with a slightly more modern setup using a PowerEdge T20, Freenas, RAIDZ2, and CrashPlan. I don't have a hard budget, but I don't want to waste $$$ either. I want this to be a file server, backup...
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- Oct 21, 2016
- freenas home server t20
- Replies: 4
- Forum: Computer Building
Do you think that Ford will ever bring back the Thunderbird?

...but so many of these cars are/were just ugly :) ... or they were driven by old people without kids Generally all of these cars were sold beside identical 4-door models (or very similar 4-door models). They sacrifice convenience of 4 doors for a little bit of "style". From the 80s onward...
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- Post #14
- Aug 18, 2016
- Forum: The Garage
2004 Buick Century: AC barely cools

If the AC compressor spins when the AC is turned on (if it is *barely* cooling then this is the case!) then you've got a 95% chance of fixing your A/C easily at home with something like this: http://acprocold.com/ac-pro-instructions/ ...just check out their Youtube video. It's really that...
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- Post #10
- Jul 30, 2016
- Forum: The Garage
Good lease for under $300/month?

Does your friend have a place to charge an electric car? Or interested in a Chevy Volt? You can get any of the following: Nissan Leaf, BMW i3, VW eGolf, Chevy Volt, Chevy Sonic EV, or Fiat 500e for $2500 to $5500 down and less than $150/month. (Any if/when they renew the CA EV rebate...
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- Post #22
- Jul 26, 2016
- Forum: The Garage
Which auto brands have auto parking? (comparison)

By auto-parking do you mean auto-parallel-parking? (A feature that uses ultrasonic sensors in the bumpers with computer-controlled electric power steering to maneuver cars into parallel parking spaces.) If so, the first cars I remember seeing advertised with this feature are Fords. As far as I...
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- Post #2
- Apr 22, 2016
- Forum: The Garage
Integrated video cutting out on Shuttle box

I will do this as soon as I get a chance. I've also thought about plugging it into a Kill-a-watt just to see what the power draw is. If I'm getting up to the limit of the 300W power supply I'd get a bit worried. I did run it for a weekend using Prime95 back when I built it with no problems...
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- Post #6
- Apr 12, 2016
- Forum: Barebones
Integrated video cutting out on Shuttle box

Answers: H170 chipset does not support overclocking CPU: i7-6700 Dell 27" ultrasharp monitor (works fine with other computers) @ native resolution of 2560x1440 Both HDMI and Displayport have been tested, using Amazon and Dell cables Powersupply included with the Shuttle box. It is 300W Bronze...
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- Post #5
- Apr 12, 2016
- Forum: Barebones

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