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  • BeniskickbuttBeniskickbutt Member

    @xpress7 said:

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    @BlazinDimes said:

    I do a lot of router mods, let me know if you ever need assistance.

    I need some advice on OpenWrt on my Netgear 7500v1

    Ooooh, HMU on Discord and I got you. I can't maintain a proper conversation on that topic here with all the noise.

    Go go go no openwrt for xpress

    Ha ha. Already installed and running it. Just need some suggested config..

    Install transmission and do torrent

    Had it on NAS. Removed after one drive died. Always felt the Transmission was the reason for my drive failrue in the wdcloud.

    I doubt it was due to transmission, can be something else entirely hard to figure out....

    Entirely possible depending on the amount of torrents running, they're extremely heavy in I/O operations. This is made worse by running it on a SOHO router.

    Sad then. I killed my drive and data with my own hands. :(

    Is the drive actually dead? Or just the controller in the USB enclosure?

    Well, SMART showed errors, and then WD clodu showed drive error. And also if I put it in NAS bay, it is making some weird noises.

    I removed it and runninig with only 1 drive now.

    This most probably means an issue with the little hand like things that actually read the data on the platter. Sometimes, replacing them fix the issue, at other times, you might actually have to replace the BIOS chip and write the old data to this one.

    Any tutorials or vids available abou this?

    Opening the drive to replace the head without a professional clean room is never advised unless it is for data recovery before retiring the drive. An issue with the drive controller board, while rare, is possible, but rather tricky as well as you need an exact match replacement. Being able to dump the nand from the original board and writing it to the replacement is almost always required unless you get lucky.

    These are all data recovery methods, not "keep the drive working for further use" methods.

    Then I'm done with the drive? Already lost hopes about drive working. But is it possible to recover data at home?

    Or any other repair methods you suggest?

    Just go for the head replacement! I think it would be fun and if it works you'll feel like a mad scientist

  • TrKTrK Member

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    @xpress7 said: I mean the grand and big prizes.. you got ipad also right?

    that makes just two man and the ipad was around 6th position or something i had to fight codelock to get it :joy:

    That was lucky man... ipad at 6th position.. :D

    See i told you I only got after things I badly at.

    Because every one wants the bigger one.. :p

    I want the needed one....

    If need is the word.. then i am more eligible here.. ;)

    Bring the heat up man....

    Worry to heat up now.. it may fire all of us.. :p

    You mean involucra............

    Isn't it obvious.. this method will turn like a spam fest..

    Spam fest cest pit that is.......

    Thanked by 1xpress7
  • noob404noob404 Member

    @Beniskickbutt said:

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    Cece is like, Dad why did you buy such an expensive laptop? :p

    Babe its to gift our beloved xpress. B)

    :D

    You get the Nitro, you ain't touching my Strix. :p

    Next year maybe, we will have a Strix in the pool.

    If business is good, maybe I'll upgrade and offer up my used one next year in some kinda of raffle. Would be easier to get a used model through customs I imagine!

    What if I shipped it all torn apart, and the winner had to assemble it? :p

    Reassembling it would be a challenge in itself. BTW, so kind of you to even consider it. At times, with Indian customs, it doesn't even matter, if it's used, broken or brand new.

    Exactly.. don't know what they learn at training.

    It's prolly not just training. Unclear policies could be a very good reason for the uncertainty.

    Good reason for them to earn a lot from the loop holes.

    Yup. Right. There's still some corruption in the customs department

    is it really that bad there?

    Used to be worse, but, I guess, it's gotten a bit better in the past decade.

    Thats good to hear. As long as they are improving can keep to hope for the best

    Let's hope fo more improvement.

  • BeniskickbuttBeniskickbutt Member

    @BlazinDimes said:

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    @BlazinDimes said:

    @xpress7 said:

    @BlazinDimes said:

    I do a lot of router mods, let me know if you ever need assistance.

    I need some advice on OpenWrt on my Netgear 7500v1

    Ooooh, HMU on Discord and I got you. I can't maintain a proper conversation on that topic here with all the noise.

    Go go go no openwrt for xpress

    Ha ha. Already installed and running it. Just need some suggested config..

    Install transmission and do torrent

    Had it on NAS. Removed after one drive died. Always felt the Transmission was the reason for my drive failrue in the wdcloud.

    I doubt it was due to transmission, can be something else entirely hard to figure out....

    Entirely possible depending on the amount of torrents running, they're extremely heavy in I/O operations. This is made worse by running it on a SOHO router.

    Sad then. I killed my drive and data with my own hands. :(

    Is the drive actually dead? Or just the controller in the USB enclosure?

    Well, SMART showed errors, and then WD clodu showed drive error. And also if I put it in NAS bay, it is making some weird noises.

    I removed it and runninig with only 1 drive now.

    This most probably means an issue with the little hand like things that actually read the data on the platter. Sometimes, replacing them fix the issue, at other times, you might actually have to replace the BIOS chip and write the old data to this one.

    Any tutorials or vids available abou this?

    Opening the drive to replace the head without a professional clean room is never advised unless it is for data recovery before retiring the drive. An issue with the drive controller board, while rare, is possible, but rather tricky as well as you need an exact match replacement. Being able to dump the nand from the original board and writing it to the replacement is almost always required unless you get lucky.

    These are all data recovery methods, not "keep the drive working for further use" methods.

    Then I'm done with the drive? Already lost hopes about drive working. But is it possible to recover data at home?

    Or any other repair methods you suggest?

    If the drive itself outside of the enclosure, put in a PC, yeilds no access to data, then the above methods might be necessary. Is it readable at all? If not and it's making noises the heads may be stuck to the platters. A firm slap to the side of the drive while powered down can sometimes free it up, but I have had to open them up to unstick it. At that point it's a race to dump what data you can, and then the drive is done.

    All depends on if it works at all, if you have already stated this, I missed it my bad. :p

    in addition to this, if you put in a pc see if you can format assuming you have raid 1 or something and data is already replicated

  • xpress7xpress7 Member

    @TrK said:

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    Noob and ben going the past pages like fire...

    Dark....

    Dark fantasy.... You need the taste 😉

    Dark series. have you watched it?

  • noob404noob404 Member

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    A computer store near me has this wall of motherboards, so cool.

    And just look at all these Linksys WRT series routers!

    Probably acquired them when someone ran outta business.

    They've been around for a while and love to collect like me, so we get along quite well.

    Ahh, are these on sale BTW, the routers, esp?

    They're mostly for display in the shop, but maybe if I asked really nice.

    Here's my setup for the big RackNerd thread of 2021 :D

    Woah, that's impressive, man. That green lit keybaord an HP Pavillion gaming?

    Yeah that's my 2019 HP 15Z, Ryzen 5 1050ti. Not a bad little rig for $450!

    "Not a bad" is an understatement. That laptop had great thermal management (both hardware and software) for the price it retailed for.

    Oddly enough the reviews from Best Buy said the exact opposite, but I snagged it anyway and mine is excellent still to this day. Probably fixed the cooling issue with a BIOS update by the time I purchased it, I guess the fans weren't kicking in when they should have been?

    I was able to play Cyberpunk 2077 on it with no problems when it released, when people with much higher end hardware were complaining of constant problems, so I was happy with my choice.

    I see, maybe you got one of the very first generations. Pavillion series you own was later famous among gamers for badass thermal management.

    My first laptop was compaq. 2GB ram, pentium. 5kg weight.

    Whatever happened to Compaq?!

    Absorbed by HP.

    Yup. That was solid laptop though. Service was also good at that time.

    I have an old Compaq sitting in my mom's garage somewhere, probably only a handful of years newer than that IBM Thinkpad. I should go get it and see if she will still boot.

    I think it will. Mine still turns on. Screen damaged but can see some gibberish on it.

    Still own the old Compaq? Remember how much you got it for?

    Not working. Just have it in a box. I think I got it for 32K at that time.

    Didn't know laptops were that cheap in those days.

    theres always some form of entry/basic level available

    Oh yeah, maybe my dealer back in 2003 was trying to make a quick buck by overquoting us.

    Most likely, needs to manage his margins to keep his business and himself alive

    Yah, and since there was no source to compare prices like today, they coulda easily gotten away with it as well.

  • BeniskickbuttBeniskickbutt Member

    @BlazinDimes said:
    Just to re-iterate, more information on the exact drive condition and state of function is required before I can safely recommend anything. :)

    Its gonna be hard to fix remotely but it would be a fun yolo for him! At this point thougha new drive is needed regardless.

  • TrKTrK Member

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    And I skipped pages filled with ben like vroom

    I skipped all pages.. don't want to hurt my eyes..

    And the time required to post new ones 😂😂😂

    Can't even have a chat now.. like wtf.

    It gets buried by noob and ben 😂😂

  • noob404noob404 Member

    @Beniskickbutt said:

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    Cece is like, Dad why did you buy such an expensive laptop? :p

    Babe its to gift our beloved xpress. B)

    :D

    You get the Nitro, you ain't touching my Strix. :p

    Next year maybe, we will have a Strix in the pool.

    If business is good, maybe I'll upgrade and offer up my used one next year in some kinda of raffle. Would be easier to get a used model through customs I imagine!

    What if I shipped it all torn apart, and the winner had to assemble it? :p

    Our customs still charge on it may be. They do unexpected things. :D

    Yup, they might even charge it as a new product.

    They do?

    Have heard of stories of that happening as well. Don't have personal experience of this specific thing though.

    I hope we don't have to see anything like that. > @noob404 said:

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    TrK is so hyped now, he won't be leaving the first spot for anyone

    Anyone hoping for the laptop needs to grab it from him, but, he's extremely competitive and that's understandable.

    I'm here.

    Go for it then..

    Let's go go for it don't give up

    Anybody who gave up- too soon. Take xpress' example. Learn from him.

    He's on the lappy again?

    Have one month to catch up..

    Indeed, people might not give in.

    You'll see more people join after holidays.

    Yah, that's what I am hoping for.

    More competition .. let them come..

    Yup. Let's hope more people will join soon.

    I don't want more competition to my lappy

    I feel the same way about the telly

    Good luck to you both.> @Beniskickbutt said:

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    Anyways, gotta get back to work and also have my breakfast. Will see you guys very soon. Keep it alive.

    You also have work today?

    Yup, need to finalise my personal project today.

    what is your personal project you are working on?

    Oh, actually, it's projects. A blog, a URL Shortener and 2 tables. Coming soon.

    oh very cool. I have some uses for your shortener when its ready! need tha toften!

    Are you sure. I believe you gonna love it then.

  • BeniskickbuttBeniskickbutt Member

    @SillyGoose said:
    BlazinDimes is coming in HOT!

    True that! Hes on fire! Getting ready for his new blazin servers it sounds like. He does seem like a techy guy that could get reseller hosting done

  • noob404noob404 Member

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    Cece is like, Dad why did you buy such an expensive laptop? :p

    Babe its to gift our beloved xpress. B)

    :D

    You get the Nitro, you ain't touching my Strix. :p

    Next year maybe, we will have a Strix in the pool.

    I wish first 5 gifts are laptops with different configs this year.. everybody wins a laptop. :p

    Interesting. That would mean, the configs have to be lowered a bit. But, it'd guarantee more laptop winners.

    Exactly.. lower specs..

    Maybe Framework laptops?

    Means?

    Easily customisable laptops - https://frame.work/ Even GPU can be upgraded without soldering.

    wow pretty cool. Had not seen these before. an interesting concept

    They ahve beena round for some years now, but, they are getting traction now.

    Next time in the market i'll have to check them out. Pretty happy with my very old asus for now

    Please do. You will love it.

  • BeniskickbuttBeniskickbutt Member

    @BlazinDimes said:

    @SillyGoose said:
    BlazinDimes is coming in HOT!

    BlazinDimes is gonna blaze some dimes and get some SLEEP. :p

    dont do it! It is too early for you!

  • TrKTrK Member

    @xpress7 said:

    @TrK said:

    @xpress7 said:

    @TrK said:
    Noob and ben going the past pages like fire...

    Dark....

    Dark fantasy.... You need the taste 😉

    Dark series. have you watched it?

    I mean dark fantasy choco filled cookies 🍪. I don't get enough time watch entertainment apart from music.

  • noob404noob404 Member

    @Beniskickbutt said:

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    Cece is like, Dad why did you buy such an expensive laptop? :p

    Babe its to gift our beloved xpress. B)

    :D

    You get the Nitro, you ain't touching my Strix. :p

    Next year maybe, we will have a Strix in the pool.

    If business is good, maybe I'll upgrade and offer up my used one next year in some kinda of raffle. Would be easier to get a used model through customs I imagine!

    What if I shipped it all torn apart, and the winner had to assemble it? :p

    Tearing apart laptop? worst nightmare. :'(

    It's actually fairly easy to reassemble in most cases, unless you don't desolder anything.

    I am bad at hardware soldered hardware.

    Me as well. I try to stay away as much as possible, but recently I have taken an interest to it

    You soldered anything recently?

    Yup, a router and my Android box.

    What did you ahve to solder on these? usually they are good to go

    Soldered UART cables on to them to get Shell access

    Did you go to school to learn how to do this or has it all been via trial and error?

    Trial and error and a whole lot of YouTube videos.

  • BeniskickbuttBeniskickbutt Member

    @SillyGoose said:
    These people are casually on 1500+ comments!

    yeah its crazy but i would hardly call it casual, everyone just trying to keep pace with noob who isnt trying for any prizes

  • BeniskickbuttBeniskickbutt Member

    @SillyGoose said:
    This kind of dedication is something else!

    you could say that again!

  • noob404noob404 Member

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    @BlazinDimes said:

    Cece is like, Dad why did you buy such an expensive laptop? :p

    Babe its to gift our beloved xpress. B)

    :D

    You get the Nitro, you ain't touching my Strix. :p

    Next year maybe, we will have a Strix in the pool.

    If business is good, maybe I'll upgrade and offer up my used one next year in some kinda of raffle. Would be easier to get a used model through customs I imagine!

    What if I shipped it all torn apart, and the winner had to assemble it? :p

    Our customs still charge on it may be. They do unexpected things. :D

    Yup, they might even charge it as a new product.

    They do?

    Have heard of stories of that happening as well. Don't have personal experience of this specific thing though.

    I hope we don't have to see anything like that.

    Let's hope for the best. But, can't say for sure, since Indian customs is known to be volatile.

    what issues do you usually have with them?

    Mainly, taxation without a proper base to it. They can charge you virtually anything they feel like.

    Ah i see so it can vary from day to day. Depends on who you get and also what mood they are in? Thats no good

    Exactly. You get the whole idea now.

  • BeniskickbuttBeniskickbutt Member

    @SillyGoose said:

    RACKNERD-HYPE

    RACKNERD-HYPE

    Got your back goose! Lets get the hype going for a giveaway or flash deal! The people are here!

  • noob404noob404 Member

    @Beniskickbutt said:

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    @BlazinDimes said:

    Cece is like, Dad why did you buy such an expensive laptop? :p

    Babe its to gift our beloved xpress. B)

    :D

    You get the Nitro, you ain't touching my Strix. :p

    Next year maybe, we will have a Strix in the pool.

    If business is good, maybe I'll upgrade and offer up my used one next year in some kinda of raffle. Would be easier to get a used model through customs I imagine!

    What if I shipped it all torn apart, and the winner had to assemble it? :p

    Our customs still charge on it may be. They do unexpected things. :D

    Yup, they might even charge it as a new product.

    They do?

    Have heard of stories of that happening as well. Don't have personal experience of this specific thing though.

    I hope we don't have to see anything like that. > @noob404 said:

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    TrK is so hyped now, he won't be leaving the first spot for anyone

    Anyone hoping for the laptop needs to grab it from him, but, he's extremely competitive and that's understandable.

    I'm here.

    Go for it then..

    Let's go go for it don't give up

    Anybody who gave up- too soon. Take xpress' example. Learn from him.

    He's on the lappy again?

    Have one month to catch up..

    Indeed, people might not give in.

    You'll see more people join after holidays.

    Yah, that's what I am hoping for.

    More competition .. let them come..

    Yup. Let's hope more people will join soon.

    I don't want more competition to my lappy

    Unfortunately though, for you, you will have more competition. Remember, harder the battle, sweeter the victory.

    And the prize really likes to draw in the competion as well! remember to breathe and relax when you take home that prize!

    Exactly. Hope you do get the TV!

    Thanks noob! Im going to start making some spacefor it soon. Need to throw some things away

    Oh yeah. 75 inches is no joke.

  • TrKTrK Member

    Look at page 353.... We racking on the numbers I tell ya guys.

  • BeniskickbuttBeniskickbutt Member

    @BlazinDimes said:

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    @BlazinDimes said:

    @SillyGoose said:
    BlazinDimes is coming in HOT!

    BlazinDimes is gonna blaze some dimes and get some SLEEP. :p

    No sleep? Omg!

    Been busy! But its 3am, and no emergency calls tonight. So, I think I am safe to lay down.

    wow that is very late. I thoughtyou were some where else actually. No emergencies is good though

  • noob404noob404 Member

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    It's Christmas today, what are your plans!

    Nothing special. Got a few friends and neighbours who already sent me cakes. Gonna enjoy them first.

    Enjoyy..

    Funny thing is I am on a diet right now.

    You also dieting? I am doing IF since last 2 months.

    Nah, nothing serious. I mean I have removed certain items from my diet completely.

    What types of items? anything specific? Junk food or something else?

    Mainly junk food. Soon, I am also gonna take sugar off my diet and maybe use honney or jaggery instead.

    Tthats a good idea. Or atleast cut back on sugar? Sugar isnt that bad, i think its more the quantity of sugar that people use

    Yah, but, too many people attest to the benefits of completely giving up on sugar.

  • BeniskickbuttBeniskickbutt Member

    @TrK said:

    @noob404 said:
    Should I just use Redis Object Cache plugin for WordPress, or should I manually setup Redis for Wordpress?

    try w3 total cache or litescache if on ols/litespeed webserver.

    better than redis? Or just better for wordpress because of their support for it

  • noob404noob404 Member

    @Beniskickbutt said:

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    @BlazinDimes said:

    @xpress7 said:

    @BlazinDimes said:

    Cece is like, Dad why did you buy such an expensive laptop? :p

    Babe its to gift our beloved xpress. B)

    :D

    You get the Nitro, you ain't touching my Strix. :p

    Next year maybe, we will have a Strix in the pool.

    If business is good, maybe I'll upgrade and offer up my used one next year in some kinda of raffle. Would be easier to get a used model through customs I imagine!

    What if I shipped it all torn apart, and the winner had to assemble it? :p

    Our customs still charge on it may be. They do unexpected things. :D

    Yup, they might even charge it as a new product.

    They do?

    Have heard of stories of that happening as well. Don't have personal experience of this specific thing though.

    I hope we don't have to see anything like that. > @noob404 said:

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    TrK is so hyped now, he won't be leaving the first spot for anyone

    Anyone hoping for the laptop needs to grab it from him, but, he's extremely competitive and that's understandable.

    I'm here.

    Go for it then..

    Let's go go for it don't give up

    Anybody who gave up- too soon. Take xpress' example. Learn from him.

    He's on the lappy again?

    Have one month to catch up..

    Indeed, people might not give in.

    You'll see more people join after holidays.

    Yah, that's what I am hoping for.

    More competition .. let them come..

    Yup. Let's hope more people will join soon.

    I don't want more competition to my lappy

    Hahaha, you'll face resistance

    Competition is the right term.

    true. Similar words for a similar meaning

    Exactly, sometimes we forget that it's just a competition.

    But don't forget its a friendly one that that! We all have fun doing it. Really it doesnt matter who wins and we just enjoy ourselves in the process

    Oh yes, Ben. We are all here to spread the friendly RackNerd spirit all around.

  • BeniskickbuttBeniskickbutt Member

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    I do a lot of router mods, let me know if you ever need assistance.

    I need some advice on OpenWrt on my Netgear 7500v1

    Ooooh, HMU on Discord and I got you. I can't maintain a proper conversation on that topic here with all the noise.

    Go go go no openwrt for xpress

    Ha ha. Already installed and running it. Just need some suggested config..

    Install transmission and do torrent

    Had it on NAS. Removed after one drive died. Always felt the Transmission was the reason for my drive failrue in the wdcloud.

    I doubt it was due to transmission, can be something else entirely hard to figure out....

    Entirely possible depending on the amount of torrents running, they're extremely heavy in I/O operations. This is made worse by running it on a SOHO router.

    Sad then. I killed my drive and data with my own hands. :(

    Is the drive actually dead? Or just the controller in the USB enclosure?

    Well, SMART showed errors, and then WD clodu showed drive error. And also if I put it in NAS bay, it is making some weird noises.

    I removed it and runninig with only 1 drive now.

    This most probably means an issue with the little hand like things that actually read the data on the platter. Sometimes, replacing them fix the issue, at other times, you might actually have to replace the BIOS chip and write the old data to this one.

    Any tutorials or vids available abou this?

    Opening the drive to replace the head without a professional clean room is never advised unless it is for data recovery before retiring the drive. An issue with the drive controller board, while rare, is possible, but rather tricky as well as you need an exact match replacement. Being able to dump the nand from the original board and writing it to the replacement is almost always required unless you get lucky.

    These are all data recovery methods, not "keep the drive working for further use" methods.

    Then I'm done with the drive? Already lost hopes about drive working. But is it possible to recover data at home?

    Or any other repair methods you suggest?

    If the drive itself outside of the enclosure, put in a PC, yeilds no access to data, then the above methods might be necessary. Is it readable at all? If not and it's making noises the heads may be stuck to the platters. A firm slap to the side of the drive while powered down can sometimes free it up, but I have had to open them up to unstick it. At that point it's a race to dump what data you can, and then the drive is done.

    All depends on if it works at all, if you have already stated this, I missed it my bad. :p

    I'll buy a sata cable then. It will take some days may be. Main while I will post the disk pic, so you can understand the model and all.

    Do you have a computer parts store you could run to and get one or does it all have to be shipped and go through customs?

  • xpress7xpress7 Member

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    @xpress7 the code web 503ed me

    Yup me too.. they didn't expect the traffic it seems.

    Hosted on speedy shared one I guess 😂😂

    I don't like it when big provider who supposed to handle all our servers traffic can't handle their own.. :p

    I suggested using AWS with scaling on 😉

    Yeah i've read it. :p

  • TrKTrK Member

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    Cece is like, Dad why did you buy such an expensive laptop? :p

    Babe its to gift our beloved xpress. B)

    :D

    You get the Nitro, you ain't touching my Strix. :p

    Next year maybe, we will have a Strix in the pool.

    If business is good, maybe I'll upgrade and offer up my used one next year in some kinda of raffle. Would be easier to get a used model through customs I imagine!

    What if I shipped it all torn apart, and the winner had to assemble it? :p

    Our customs still charge on it may be. They do unexpected things. :D

    Yup, they might even charge it as a new product.

    They do?

    Have heard of stories of that happening as well. Don't have personal experience of this specific thing though.

    I hope we don't have to see anything like that. > @noob404 said:

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    @SillyGoose said:
    TrK is so hyped now, he won't be leaving the first spot for anyone

    Anyone hoping for the laptop needs to grab it from him, but, he's extremely competitive and that's understandable.

    I'm here.

    Go for it then..

    Let's go go for it don't give up

    Anybody who gave up- too soon. Take xpress' example. Learn from him.

    He's on the lappy again?

    Have one month to catch up..

    Indeed, people might not give in.

    You'll see more people join after holidays.

    Yah, that's what I am hoping for.

    More competition .. let them come..

    Yup. Let's hope more people will join soon.

    I don't want more competition to my lappy

    Unfortunately though, for you, you will have more competition. Remember, harder the battle, sweeter the victory.

    And the prize really likes to draw in the competion as well! remember to breathe and relax when you take home that prize!

    Exactly. Hope you do get the TV!

    Thanks noob! Im going to start making some spacefor it soon. Need to throw some things away

    Oh yeah. 75 inches is no joke.

    I wonder how it would feel pared with 7.1 channel hifi sound system

  • BeniskickbuttBeniskickbutt Member

    @TrK said:

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    @xpress7 said:

    @TrK said:

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    @BlazinDimes said:

    @xpress7 said:

    @BlazinDimes said:

    I do a lot of router mods, let me know if you ever need assistance.

    I need some advice on OpenWrt on my Netgear 7500v1

    Ooooh, HMU on Discord and I got you. I can't maintain a proper conversation on that topic here with all the noise.

    Go go go no openwrt for xpress

    Ha ha. Already installed and running it. Just need some suggested config..

    Install transmission and do torrent

    Had it on NAS. Removed after one drive died. Always felt the Transmission was the reason for my drive failrue in the wdcloud.

    I doubt it was due to transmission, can be something else entirely hard to figure out....

    Entirely possible depending on the amount of torrents running, they're extremely heavy in I/O operations. This is made worse by running it on a SOHO router.

    Might be but I doubt express was using transmission aggressively compared to myself.

    I was agressive. Have around 40-50 active torrents at that time.

    Bruh..... Seriously?

    Yup.. remember I've 3TB free space at that time.. :p

    so you filled it with torrents, astonished i am.....

    that space goes quick when you are running through the candy store

  • noob404noob404 Member

    Time for me to take a break. Will be back soon.

  • BeniskickbuttBeniskickbutt Member

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    Just to re-iterate, more information on the exact drive condition and state of function is required before I can safely recommend anything. :)

    I slapped the disk though. Didn't work. :p

    just need to slap it a littler harder m8

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