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Post by 2stroked on Jul 9, 2016 12:06:49 GMT -5
99% of legal offices work in a similar manner. The other one percent have went out of business......wonder why?
Legal work is in no way cheap. Today's paralegals are well paid and earn every dime of their checks. Being a paralegal means almost the same work load as the partners, but with a lot less prestige. Not to mention the fact that being a lawyer or a paralegal is the most hates profession around. No one likes a lawyer till we need them....Then we still bitch about paying the bill, even though they EARN EVERY DIME most times. Legal work isn't cheap because it isn't easy. Ever. Simple contracts can cost a fortune because there is a tin of research and work being put into them.
Any way, I started working on my own version of a media PC Dual mother boards six disk drives quad core CPUs and soon to come a dual.core graphics card for both. At the time it dumps into my surround sound system I just finished and now I am working on a fourteen hundred watt post amp for the sub and sub-sub. I have an eighteegn inch sub that I am going to be feeding ULF bass notes.
The media PC currently runs two screens due to the double boards, I hope to find a way to remedy that.....Also, I am running a total of six HDDs with a combined volume of 21 terabytes. Four drive are externals that have been jacked to actually bootable. According to the guy that I got them from anyway......
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Post by FrankenMech on Jul 9, 2016 19:55:56 GMT -5
It sounds like you have built gaming PCs..?
My office/media PC units are cheapo low power units because it does not take much to display HD video or surf the web. Both units have 120GB SSDs and one has a 500GB spinner. I have a 2TB NAS on my wired network to hold a few movies and files. Mostly I use DVDs or Netflix streaming. Amazon Prime is notorious for having a season or two of a show on Prime then going to a Pay-per-View on the rest, -it sucks. Netflix is bad about having movies etc on DVD but not available to stream.
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Post by arkie on Jul 10, 2016 2:23:18 GMT -5
You guys seen what can be done with a hefty raid 0 setup? Geek out on this!
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Post by Chris Cristini on Jul 10, 2016 9:06:57 GMT -5
My Asus ROG laptop I use for solid works has an X4 PCI SSD that's fast lol love it hit the power button and takes second's to be online. Well worth $1000 I paid for it.
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Post by scooterswapshop on Jul 10, 2016 10:28:21 GMT -5
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Post by FrankenMech on Jul 10, 2016 16:18:25 GMT -5
My son builds high end PCs and raid systems for his own use to do web development/design and Photoshop. We used to build high end gaming systems or upgrades together for customers. I used to use hand me downs or trade-ins occasionally. Now I just upgrade real junkers with SSDs. I have an old Lenovo laptop that needs a SSD upgrade. I just don't trust spinners anymore now that there is a better & faster option. I have been building and using PCs since before the IBM PC arrived. I have lost far too much data to spinner failures and wasted far too much time trying to recover data. I hate spinners. I do have the first 20MB 5-1/4" hard drive to arrive in the USA in my collection of old hardware.
I need to work on my stereo upgrade some more today. I wish my new smoking pipe was here. My hands are shaking bad today.
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Post by Raizer on Jul 10, 2016 21:12:43 GMT -5
My media PC is just a laptop with no screen I paid $50 for.
Decent enough i7, 8gb ram, 1tb hdd, more than enough grunt for movies and netflix etc.
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Post by 2stroked on Jul 10, 2016 21:36:02 GMT -5
The very first PC I built was an IBM PcJr. No hard drive, cartridge basic, 5 1/4 floppy drive. I used it to play a very slow floppy drive Duke Nukem and wrote several basic programs for different things. I used it for a long time till the primitive CPU fried out bad Think it may have been a socket2 if that don't mean anything, the flat Pentium 4 CPUs were socket7. I kinda miss that thing. I eventually bought a 15 meg hard disk, and thought I had something. Which at that time it was, I also had the magnetic tape drive that played my chess and checkers game. I have built several Alien Ware smoking machines back in the day. I stopped doing for cash but built myself a game box, that was submersed in mineral oil that had a modified air conditioner coil in with it to keep it cool. That one had three HDDs all 40 gig Seagate's it ran the last edition of P4 the vertical one, and was amazingly fast and since it was liquid cooled it never slowed down. If course the spinners were not in the MO they had two fans to cool them one in front and one in the side. Used my 65" projection TV as a monitor. Loved it. That was in 02 I think....I haven't built anything since, until the other day.... Today, I worked in a buddy's buggy, with a over built 257 Linhai I sourced from eBay for him 800$ then he turned and put another thousand in parts on it includes a small wetsuit system and an over bored cylinder and a oversized JCista Vari that I would kill him for.......Whaa...no wait did I say that?  |
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Post by ryan_ott on Jul 11, 2016 21:26:54 GMT -5
Spent yesterday burning some fuel. Another reason why I love my Honda's. Did about 6 hours of this. youtu.be/JsJW4O506k4 |
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Post by birdman on Jul 11, 2016 23:53:23 GMT -5
Spent yesterday burning some fuel. Another reason why I love my Honda's. Did about 6 hours of this. youtu.be/JsJW4O506k4You did this on the elite??  |
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Post by ryan_ott on Jul 12, 2016 5:12:57 GMT -5
No that was on this guy! Your funny.  |
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Post by aeroxbud on Jul 12, 2016 5:48:31 GMT -5
Spent half an hour getting the indicator off my bike. Who says scooters are harder to work on because of the bodywork. Had to take off both side panels, grab rail and whole rear tail section. Just to get a broken indicator off.  |
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Post by Fat_Panda on Jul 12, 2016 15:26:34 GMT -5
Finally got the wiring done on the passat. Runs and drives now, more work to be done to dial it in correctly but its a leap forward compared to yesterday.
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Post by FrankenMech on Jul 12, 2016 16:42:23 GMT -5
One screw and an electrical plug and my rear indicator is gone.
The front ones require the same plus removing six screws to flip down that damn plastic battery box.
I hate plastics...
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Post by aeroxbud on Jul 13, 2016 4:57:02 GMT -5
One screw and an electrical plug and my rear indicator is gone. The front ones require the same plus removing six screws to flip down that damn plastic battery box. I hate plastics... Its never easy is it? Just glad I don't have one of those new cars. Change headlight bulb, first step remove the front wheel!!! |
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