monkeylizard

It's about time for the news to be chock full of home heating oil price stories again. Maybe Chucktshoes can get worked up over that. If not, I'm afraid he'll have to wait until late May when the next round of shark attack stories makes the news reels.

  We haven't had a good salmonella outbreak in a while...

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  Spectre is good. It's not as good as Skyfall, but still good. If you like the old Bond movies, you'll like the subtle and sometimes not so subtle homages to them.

I go to the theater a few times a year. It has to be a big movie where the larger screen has a significant impact. That's simply because I'm a cheap SOB and hate shelling out that kind of scratch for a movie. For me to go, the movie has to be either a big action movie (The Avengers, Star Wars, etc.), have large sweeping cinema scenes (The LoTR series, etc.), or a series that I'm hooked on (007 comes to mind). I also go if it's something my wife wants to see, but she's even cheaper than I am. Our local theater does $5.50 matinees from 3p-5p (or 4p-6p, I can't recall). We try to hit those whenever we can.   I almost never go to anything on opening weekend, partly from the crowds, but mostly because I just get busy and forget that movie X premiers on Y date. Then I'll hear something on the news about how ell it's doing and I'll thing "oh yeah, I wanted to go see that.".

  Are you suggesting that randomly jabbing a paper clip into a deadbolt WON'T cause it to open? :lies:

Darryl comes back and blows up all the Z's with his gas truck!   the end.

That's why I want a RaceDeck floor. Lots mo money, but zero maintenance and I can take it with me if I move.

So we got and hour and a half of Morgan going all Karate Kid on us, but we just get an hour for the mid-season finale? And they all spend most of that hour holed up in garages? That was kind of a sucky regular episode, much less a mid-season finale.   Did nobody think to tell everyone in the group leaving the house to STFU when they were outside?

Found the problem.....The R9 380 defaults the resolution much higher than my monitor can handle. I ran an HDMI cable from the PC to my TV and it works fine. I have lowered the resolution and connected the monitor back up, but same issue.   No worries...a perfect excuse to go get a bigger/better monitor.

Yeah, power was something I thought about, but I do have distinct PCIe connectors on my PSU, so I'm not siphoning power off of a regular 12v rail with adapters. This R9 380 only takes one of the PCIe power plugs. Oddly enough the older HD 5800 took both of them. Go figure.

I have the following hardware: Gigabyte P35-DS3L with 1 x PCIEx16 Intel Core2 Q6600 CPU 4GB RAM Enermax 535w (model EG565P-VE) Windows 10 HannsG HW223D monitor I have a Radeon HD5800 1GB GPU that I want to upgrade (Star Wars Battlefront says I need 2GB minumum). I'm hoping to get away with just upgrading the GPU as my CPU and RAM are rarely taxed above 40-50%. If I can get the newGPU working, I'll also max mt RAM from 4GB to 8GB. I picked up a Gigabyte Radeon R9 380 4GB. When powering on, I get through the BIOS, then I get the Windows 10 circle of dots as Windows starts, then the monitor signal drops off, monitor reports "No Signal" then goes to sleep but the PC is still running. Then I hear the Windows startup chime so I know Windows finishes loading. I was thinking it would be a driver issue (and it may be), but with no screen I obviously can't install any drivers. I removed the R9 and put back the 5800. I was able to boot successfully. I installed the latest AMD Catalyst Control Center (Driver Packaging Version 15.201.1151-150821a-188665E | AMD Catalyst Control Center Version 2015.0821.2209.38003), then swapped the cards again. Same sleepy monitor result with the R9, but the 5800 works fine. From everything I'm able to find online 15.201.1151 is the newest AMD GPU driver and it's made for a plethora of cards including the HD 5800 and the R9 380. I have a new SSD drive so I removed my original HD and installed a fresh copy of Windows 7 on that new SSD. It will boot up successfully with either the 5800 or the R9, but Win7 sees them both as "Standard VGA Graphics Adapter" in Device Manager. This makes me think it's not a power supply issue as the R9 works just fine as long as I leave it this way. I installed Catalyst on that Win7 install (which installed the AMD 15.201.1151 display adapter driver) and now I get the same results as before. Sleepy monitor but windows boots (I hear the Windows chime, and monitor goes to sleep) with the R9, no problems with the 5800. The 5800 though shows in Device Manager as "Standard VGA Graphics Adapter" even though I have the Catalyst software installed. Ultimately I'd like to be using the SSD as my boot drive, so I formatted the SSD again and did another fresh install of Win7, followed by the free Win10 upgrade. Both were successfully completed with the R9 380 installed but without updating the drivers. Win10 worked all through the setup and for a few minutes after it completed. Long enough for me to open Device Manager and see that the Graphics Adapter was something like "Generic Graphics Adapter" or whatever Win10 calls its generic driver. Then the monitor went to sleep (No Signal) and I heard a Windows tone, which I think may have been the Device Disconnected tone. If I reboot, I get the Starting Windows screen with the circling dots, then the monitor goes to sleep and I hear the Windows startup chimes. I swapped the GPUs again and booted succesfully. Windows Device Manager sees the Display Adapter as an AMD Radeon HD 5800 with the 15.201.1151 driver so Win10 evidently auto-detected the R9 380 and automatically installed that driver. That would explain why Win10 worked for a few minutes on its first boot after the upgrade. It worked as long as the Generic driver was in place, but once Win10 installed the 15.201.1151 driver, it caused the R9 to stop sending a signal to the monitor.   I'm kind of at a loss here. I know I'll have a bottleneck using a PCIe 3.0 GPU in a PCIe 1.0 slot, but it should still work, and it does as long as the driver isn't updated from the generic windows driver.   Any ideas?   I've posted this over on Tom's Hardware, but no response there yet. Thought I'd try you guys too.

True. And I have a hard time thinking that this group who has been out in the wild for the last year+ would just start to acclimate so quickly. I get that there hasn't been a lot of time passing, but they've had time to wander up and down the streets and chat on porches. I'd think this group wouldn't be wasting a second in fortifying the town. Once that's done, then it's time to get comfortable. Maybe just the presence of the walls made them a little too complacent in a hurry.

I know, but Rick and Co. have been in town long enough to be implementing some of those things. Certainly not most of them, but they could have gotten a good start.

  It's like you read my mind!

  This. Once I'm on the plane, things are cool. It's everything up to that point that I hate. From getting to the airport, parking, getting to the terminal, getting through the line to check bags if I have to, getting through TSA, making the 26.2 mile walk to the ass-end of the terminal to my gate, then checking my boarding pass against the departure schedule repeatedly like some kind of deranged lunatic because I think I may be at the wrong gate or worse, at the wrong time or even date. It all sucks.

  I'm with you. They all wandered off from Glenn's dumpster after a day. They may not wander far from the wall, but they wouldn't be piling up against it. It would look more like the wandering morasses we saw in Atlanta before they get disturbed by anyone.   Either way, the church collapse makes it all moot anyway. They're coming in.   I still don't understand why certain security things have been neglected, like having defensible structures within the town walls. If things go bad, everyone goes to a set hardened location or three where there are staged weapons and supplies. That also spreads out the risk of losing things. Right now, one small fire would wipe out all of their food and weapons. Another would wipe out all of their medicine. It's not like they haven't had time. How many hours have they spent walking around the streets or hanging out on their porches?   If that was my town, I'd have the supply caches spread out and have a full surveillance system established on the perimeter. Surely they can find cameras on buildings. Plus loads and loads of barbed/razor wire around the perimeter. Maybe not on top of the walls. I think that does something to the psyche of the inhabitant. Too much like the prison. But certainly on the ground. I'd also have Aaron's super-secret tunnel mapped out, secured, booby trapped, covered six ways to sundown with cameras, and ready for a quick exit. Build that thing up with a ramp access from the surface inside the town, stage some ATVS and be ready to roll. Find some cement trucks and start pouring tank traps around the walls to keep something like the semi-truck from happening. Then come up with a way to secure the main gate. Perhaps the wheel spikes from a car rental place, or if you could get to a secured military/gov building, take the flip up gate/pop-up poles. Just some K-rails from a road construction crew laid out to force a zig-zag would keep someone from crashing the gate (but also slows you down in a hasty exit/return). Then set up boat loads of crazy-town-Morgan's walker traps. Oh yeah....clear out the trees surrounding the town for at least 200 yards.

That would be a great twist, but a lousy long-term outcome. Lauren Cohen is a lotter hotter than Steven Yeun.  :D

I have a pair of Nikon Action EX 10x50, 6.5deg. They're super bright. I mostly attribute that to the big 50mm lenses. I've glassed deer well into the twilight hours with them and been perfectly happy. They'd be good for tree stand hunting if you don't have to go a long way to get from truck to stand. They're a little large and heavy for anything else. I got them for casual stargazing and they're excellent for that. A testament to their brightness is that I have to wear sunglasses when looking at the moon with them.       Mine have adjustable eye cups. Twist them to extend/collapse them.

  If you need to see Norman Reedus in something else, watch Boondock Saints.

I see a Craigslist ad in your future. Just change the pic and title. :D

This would be cool to have. Kind of a poor man's (relatively speaking) home hydraulic lift. They make a 3.5Klbs and a 5K lbs one. http://equiptool.com/i-22164889-ranger-bl-3500-quickjack.html http://equiptool.com/i-22167375-ranger-bl-5000-quickjack.html I think I'd still set jackstands under the car if I was going to be under it though.

Something tells me he's not wearing eye protection for that welding job either.

  If it was a Ford, he'd have been shopping for a .22 years ago.

Get a pair of ramps. I have Rhino Ramps and they're great. The only time I fool with the jack and stands is when I'm doing something with the wheels.