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WiFi coverage options for a house

2 floors. Doesn't matter which, there'll always be one with great coverage and one with shit coverage. That seems like a good idea.
- Mr. Pedantic
- Post #4
- Jan 19, 2016
- Forum: Networking
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WiFi coverage options for a house

I'm renting a two-storey house which I want to cover with WiFi. The problem is the first-floor ceiling seems to be made of concrete or something that blocks WiFi signal. The signal is great on the same floor as the router, but as soon as I climb the stairs the signal decreases to almost nothing...
- Mr. Pedantic
- Thread
- Jan 18, 2016
- Replies: 10
- Forum: Networking
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lol @ Qualcomm

This is what the Nexus 5X does: This is what I'd expect:
- Mr. Pedantic
- Post #9
- Nov 9, 2015
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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LG G2 Refuses To Charge Suddenly

My charging port is fine, but I've had the phone just over 2 years and I just dropped it the other day cracking the screen and rendering the top third completely useless. Coincidence? I THINK NOT!
- Mr. Pedantic
- Post #17
- Nov 4, 2015
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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What Is Your Class %?

Occupation: 99th Education: 91st Income: 91st Wealth: 85th Overall: 91st.
- Mr. Pedantic
- Post #54
- Sep 19, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Can't remember the name of a sci fi series

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
- Mr. Pedantic
- Post #2
- Aug 30, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Windows 10 steals your bandwidth, to save Microsoft money!

You're quite right. My 160GB data cap and I are making a big deal of it. Happy?
- Mr. Pedantic
- Post #49
- Aug 4, 2015
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Windows 10 steals your bandwidth, to save Microsoft money!

Me and my 160GB bandwidth limit are making a big deal out of it.
- Mr. Pedantic
- Post #43
- Aug 3, 2015
- Forum: Operating Systems
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AMD Fury X Reviews

It's been 404'd.
- Mr. Pedantic
- Post #16
- Jun 24, 2015
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Trying to fix internet explorer

Are you using some kind of proxy connection? If you've got Chrome set up to use the proxy but you haven't set anything else up, you'll be able to connect with Chrome but nothing else.
- Mr. Pedantic
- Post #3
- Jun 22, 2015
- Forum: Computer Building
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Why do people like to flip their flap jacks?

When do they go flap? When you...flip them? You realise other things make that sound too, right? And who's Jack?
- Mr. Pedantic
- Post #30
- Jun 17, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Why do people like to flip their flap jacks?

Why do you call them Flap Jacks?
- Mr. Pedantic
- Post #26
- Jun 17, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Inconvenient service hours

You think you have problems? I work 7am to 6pm Mon to Fri (nominally finish at 4pm but it never happens), and every 3rd weekend 7am to 11pm Sat and Sun. Good luck getting anything done, ever. Want to go to the bank? Tough luck. Want to get your car serviced? Ridiculous. Want to see a doctor, or...
- Mr. Pedantic
- Post #20
- Jun 12, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Need a new PC in Middle Earth

Sorry guys, been way too busy with work and shit. Pretty much. And shipping stuff here isn't much better. For example for a $120 processor (e.g. x5660) it costs about $60 for shipping, then there's another $40 for customs. It's not just the exchange rate. From what I understand the base of...
- Mr. Pedantic
- Post #16
- Jun 11, 2015
- Forum: Computer Building
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Need a new PC in Middle Earth

I think it supports the Westmere 6-cores, but the problem is finding one. Most places don't sell them anymore, since it's, you know, 4 years old, and the cheapest one I've found is $500. So why not get a 5820? Also, and most important, I want something new, and for the first time in about 5...
- Mr. Pedantic
- Post #5
- Jun 7, 2015
- Forum: Computer Building
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Comcast doubled my internet speed

Just...erm...chipping in from New Zealand...the 29th fastest internet in the world...apparently... I absolutely wish I had 7Mbps. What I have is a shitty 3Mbps from a service that was advertised as 11Mbps where the ISP-supplied router cuts out literally twice a day.
- Mr. Pedantic
- Post #17
- Jun 7, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Need a new PC in Middle Earth

The encodes are actually pretty slow on my i7 920. The normal DVDs take about a day and the Blu-rays take quite a bit longer. And I suspect H.265 takes a further performance hit. It's not like it's a job or something, but I have quite a few Blu-rays and I'm planning to add to the collection...
- Mr. Pedantic
- Post #3
- Jun 6, 2015
- Forum: Computer Building
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Need a new PC in Middle Earth

Handbrake, gaming. Day to day usage isn't so heavy, but encoding blu-rays takes a lot of multithreaded CPU power. Aiming around $3000, but everything will probably be from New Zealand - simply not worth it to ship from another country because of shipping costs and customs taxes. New Zealand...
- Mr. Pedantic
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- Jun 6, 2015
- Replies: 15
- Forum: Computer Building
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I miss duck

I'm not actually in Auckland. I wish I were, but I'm not. Sorry if it suddenly makes your feeble attempt at insult completely ineffectual.
- Mr. Pedantic
- Post #59
- Jun 2, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Office chair

I don't know which one I tried out, but it felt a bit uncomfortable, it didn't really feel like it was the right shape. I ended up getting a leather middle-management type office chair. Very comfortable. The only thing I don't like about it is that the chair is a bit big (the wheelbase, the...
- Mr. Pedantic
- Post #11
- May 30, 2015
- Forum: Peripherals & Components
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Visible Racism because of White American Kids not winning Spelling Bee

It's weird just how aptly the tweets of the spelling bee demonstrate the reason why no white Americans won the spelling bee.
- Mr. Pedantic
- Post #17
- May 30, 2015
- Forum: Politics and News
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VPN service? how much does it typically cost?

http://www.vpngate.net/en/
- Mr. Pedantic
- Post #14
- May 30, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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I miss duck

It's not the right way, because the whole point is that the meat is used for other dishes. The way that's pictured is for two-bit "authentic" Chinese restaurants run by 3rd-rate chefs that couldn't make it in, you know, China, for Westerners who don't know that Peking Duck is a specialist...
- Mr. Pedantic
- Post #30
- May 30, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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I miss duck

This is what you're sounding like: "But it's obvious Zeus doesn't exist! Anyone can see that Yahweh is real!"
- Mr. Pedantic
- Post #24
- May 29, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Can China defeat the USA in war? Do you fear the Chinese?

I think it's really entertaining watching you try to shoot me down but you're missing by so much. It really is. Please, keep going.
- Mr. Pedantic
- Post #91
- May 29, 2015
- Forum: Politics and News
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I miss duck

Okay. If you want to get hung up about the contextual relevance of a picture I pseudo-randomly picked off the internet, fine. You go do that. But go do it somewhere else please. Also, saying duck and chicken taste the same is like saying beef and pork taste the same. Maybe they do to you, but...
- Mr. Pedantic
- Post #21
- May 29, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Can China defeat the USA in war? Do you fear the Chinese?

Holy shit. Maybe if you used your brain a bit more you might be able to understand what other people say.
- Mr. Pedantic
- Post #85
- May 29, 2015
- Forum: Politics and News
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I miss duck

Please don't infect me with your stupidity. I obviously didn't take a picture of the duck I had last week. It was just a picture I took from Google looking only at the thumbnail. The important thing about the picture from the perspective of this thread is not what creature it comes from, but...
- Mr. Pedantic
- Post #13
- May 29, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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I miss duck

I wished I had this problem.
- Mr. Pedantic
- Post #3
- May 29, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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I miss duck

I'm living in a fucking backward town of 70,000 people where you can't buy duck to save your life, and the only Chinese restaurant serves "Peking Duck" like this: The worst thing is the backward-ass provincials here think this is the "real deal". Fuck me.
- Mr. Pedantic
- Thread
- May 29, 2015
- Replies: 58
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Can China defeat the USA in war? Do you fear the Chinese?

Only an idiot would even imply that a nuclear war would be a "good thing" for anyone. Best-case scenario would be >100m dead, potentially a billion casualties, and large parts of the world uninhabitable for thousands of years. Given this, who "wins" is largely irrelevant. This is actually what...
- Mr. Pedantic
- Post #74
- May 29, 2015
- Forum: Politics and News
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Cancer.. i have it

Note that flexi-siggy doesn't clear the entire colon, it only clears the rectum and about the last third of the colon.
- Mr. Pedantic
- Post #219
- May 24, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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NOW CLOSED ; List some movies you've watched recently. Theatre, rental, TV... and give a */10

Pitch Perfect - 6/10 I thought I'd watch it before watching Pitch Perfect 2, since many of my girl friends and even some of my guy friends have said they enjoyed it. Worryingly, they all said they enjoyed the first one more. I've never watched Glee. In general I hate movies and shows that have...
- Mr. Pedantic
- Post #9,110
- May 21, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Cancer.. i have it

Sigmoidoscopy? Cisplatin is really really crappy for nausea, it's one of the worst. They should be able to give you stuff to make it better though.
- Mr. Pedantic
- Post #209
- May 20, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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IQ test

The test is pretty crap. It only tests abstract reasoning in a very limited format, the pattern progressions were predominantly Western-style up-down-left-right, and many of them were quite arbitrary - though this is hard to determine for sure because none of the answers were released. Even the...
- Mr. Pedantic
- Post #80
- May 15, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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IQ test

This is about as valid as a Briggs-Myers personality test.
- Mr. Pedantic
- Post #75
- May 15, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Project Cars

I started playing nearly 3 years ago, and even at that stage I wouldn't really call it "unpolished". Unfinished definitely, and there absolutely were bugs, but the core functionality of the game (driving a car around a piece of asphalt quite fast) worked well even then. Due to various hardware...
- Mr. Pedantic
- Post #21
- May 7, 2015
- Forum: PC Games
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Headphones while driving are a thing now?

I've done all 3 of those...was in CA for a month. No tickets.
- Mr. Pedantic
- Post #23
- May 5, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Avengers: Age of Ultron Trailer

(I love that picture by the way) The blue brain thingy is positively identified as not human. It came from a Hydra lab, which additionally I think implies that it was "gifted" by something/someone else. By the end of the relevant scene we aren't given enough information to speculate on the...
- Mr. Pedantic
- Post #205
- May 5, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Avengers: Age of Ultron Trailer

If you go by the assumption that an artificial intelligence is smart in the way that a human is smart, then everything about Ultron makes sense. People seem to assume any artificial intelligence will be intelligent in a way that will be intelligible to humans, because we are the only intelligent...
- Mr. Pedantic
- Post #203
- May 4, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club

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