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  ECC/non-ECC isn't a big deal for home use.   Are you sure you don't have DDR2 chips in there now?  That's what the specs from HP are saying.   You should have two more slots for RAM to go in, I'd recommend buying and popping in two more of these if you do indeed have DDR2- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?gclid=Cj0KEQjw3vyeBRDt673h5ZTYrdQBEiQAzhkf8p-qZCY-YyhNrPFLz3AbLRVQad3kOK2JTw5jZWxBIrEaAtg58P8HAQ&Item=N82E16820134045&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleAdwords&cm_mmc=KNC-GoogleAdwords-_-pla-_-Desktop+Memory-_-N82E16820134045&ef_id=U9-5@gAAAKCI7L0V:20140804212410:s   The system you have now actually limits what you can do to upgrade it.  You'll notice light years of difference when you make your upgrade.

  I'm with you, his death isn't reason for me to cheer.  I won't mourn his loss, but I won't celebrate it.  That's bad taste at the least to me.     No new laws will come from his passing. His death as a rallying cry for new legislation will be nominal at best.  Democrats are already in an uphill battle to keep the Senate.  If they take up an assault weapons ban or any other gun control measure now, every Democrat in a contested race would have to line up against it, or it would almost guarantee a Republican Senate.   At best, the usual entrenched anti-gun folks would put up legislation in the Senate.  It may or may not get a committee vote, and Harry Reid probably won't let it come to the floor before the lame duck session.  Even at that stage, it has a 90% chance of dying, but if it somehow passes the Senate, the House won't touch it before the legislative session is up and it would need to be reintroduced in 2015.  Where it would still be a non-starter in the House.

  You forwarded (or in this case posted) it with no commentary, as a stand alone work, so that can make people assume you agree with it.  Silence equals consent.    If you didn't agree with all of his points, you could have pointed out disagreements and counterpoints before or after it without any edits.    This is the danger with chain emails and the like. The echo chamber effect and the ease of using the forward, like or share button have stopped people from looking at the whole body of work and asking themselves, "do I agree with the sentiment and tone of all this?"    Conservatives have plenty of actual issues to disagree on the President with.  I'll respect those disagreements even as I argue against some of them.  But when anybody tries to disguise in racist jabs that are little better than dog whistles, I'm going to call BS every time.     No kidding.  My cousin and I were texting about those adult responsibilities and problems we have now and I fondly reminisced, "Remember when all we needed to pay for ourselves, were the beer and liquor we weren't supposed to be drinking?"

  1)  Comparison shopping won't be hard.  I upgraded from 4GB to 16 GB and used amazon.com out of convenience.  The prices differences aren't as big as you might think if you stick to computer equipment vendors- newegg, tigerdirect, ect...  Don't even think about buying off the rack at Best Buy or any other big stores that love it when people don't know what they are looking at.  If you need help deciding if somewhere is a fair price, PM me and I'll tell you if I'd buy it.   It also depends on if your current 2GB is 2x 1GB sticks, or one stick with one slot open and you only need another stick, or you have one slot only and need a 4GB stick.     2)  tnguy is right.  The OS makes more of a difference than anything.  So, give us the specs and we can help more.  On that note...   I've been done with 32-bit systems for a while now.  They are too limiting for me since anything over 4GB of RAM isn't usable.  Going forward, I'd advise anybody to spend the extra bit for a 64-bit OS.  You'll be able to get a longer life out of your system from it.

Much better now. Still have to trim a bit more and get the mower down in the ditch, but I'm happy with the weekends work. :D Pardon my ad hoc panoramic cropping skills. Batman, sorry for making your thread about my backyard.

  Using not so subtle racist language like that is about the fastest way to get ignored and ridiculed in my book.  It tends to show the authors true colors.   The poor white Christian males will be just fine. White trash can put a pit bull in the backyard just as easily as any other race can.  But hey, why not assoicate it with the political assention of minorities to keep people outraged. :rolleyes:  

  An Aimpoint PRO at 20% off can be a great deal.  Those are solid optics.   The rest of the tax free weekend I blew off.  Even a 9.75% discount isn't worth being out in public when shoppers descend en-masse like they do on these weekends.

No change for me, but I'm getting the 25 Mbps I'm paying for.  I don't use Comcast equipment, but my own stuff is rated up to 175 Mbps, so if they widened the bandwidth for everybody, I should have seen it.       http://www.speedtest.net if you want to use one not embedded into a Comcast website...outside source and all.

  I thought the system was down from on or about April 4th and didn't come back up until 24 June.  How were you able to e-file a Form 1 during that time?

  According to this trend graph, yeah, e-file is much quicker.  It might not be purely scientific, but I think the sample side and randomness of it is good enough.  I tend to ignore the lightning fast e-file approvals, those are probably user input errors.   http://www.nfatracker.com/TrendGraph.aspx

  Form 1 has been back up on e-file for a little over a month now.  Aside from being offline on Wednesdays from 6am-6pm EST for maintenance, it seems to be working within acceptable parameters.   I used it three weeks ago to submit an SBR application.  All I had to do besides fill out the form online was upload my trust documents.  A simple .pdf at 3MB uploaded with no issues.  My payment was processed the next day and I had a control number on my application the day after that.  Now I'm just waiting for approval or corrections.

  Option 4, let a lawyer keep a higher than normal percentage of any settlement costs as payment.  That might make a few want to take the case.

  From that AG opinion... The person approached, however, need not answer any question put to him; indeed, he may decline to listen to the questions at all and may go on his way. He may not be detained even momentarily without reasonable, objective grounds for doing so; and his refusal to listen or answer does not, without more, furnish those grounds.     It takes enough citizens standing up for their rights to keep them.  If the police are giving rides and booking people for refusing to show ID, that needs to be challenged.  My 4th Amendment rights matter to me just as much as my 2nd Amendment rights or any other rights do.  I just wish more people would fell the same.

I've rented vehicles for work when the company pays and for pleasure on my own dime.  Here are my quick thoughts... I'd imagine a van would be cheaper to rent than an SUV if you aren't out for style points Be ready for sticker shock regardless, holidays are peak times for rentals with all the travel Check now if your personal vehicle insurance covers rentals; insurance can be a rip off from a rental company Note any scratch, dent, chip or imperfection you find on the checkout inspection- that goes double for the interior- as a safety precaution Do the math if they offer a pre-pay for fuel option; it seems convenient, but it's not always a great deal Don't bother paying for a GPS in the rental if your smartphone has a good map & directions app

I hope taking money from a widow makes him feel like a man.  His 15 minutes can't be up fast enough.

  I'd toss this in their lap if I could, but lawn care and landscaping are tenant responsibilities per the lease.  I'm fine with that since my rent is more than a fair price.  I've seen other townhouses on my street with similar square footage for go for about $100-200 a month more in rental listings.

  Since 97% of it is overhang, the roots on the other side of the fence.  I wish I could just have this pain in the ass uprooted.  The best I can do is spray it until it's dead and hack away.   Once I have it cleared, I can just do maintenance sweeps when I mow the lawn and that should do well enough.  I'm in a rental while I go to MTSU, so this isn't a permanent problem to me, I just want to get it past hideous looking and not be a pain in the ass to mow around.   Looks like I'll be gracing Lowe's with my credit card tomorrow!  Thanks for the suggestions all.

  Most of it is overhang from what's behind the fence, there are only a few things where the root is on my side.  And honestly, I can handle that when I get enough room to roll my mower down in there.  Raking and bagging it would be a pain, but that's life.

This is what I'm up against and am considering getting something to deal with. I want the tree tamed, and anything coming over or under that wood fence gone. Would I need a poles saw, hedge trimmers, or both? Of course, if anybody knows a landscaper who can come get rid of this flustercluck and haul off the debris at a reasonable rate, I'd take that too...the local companies either don't return my calls or tell me it's not big enough of a job for them.

I've seen some of Instructor Zero's video's before, though not this one.  He can shoot, I'll give him that. Though, to me at least, his video's give a "wow that's cool" vibe and not a "that's practical for my situation and needs."   Not saying that looking at cool shooting videos isn't fun- it is.  But I'd hate for new or developing shooters (and I fully include myself in the term developing shooters) to watch that video and think focusing their efforts on towards that result are what they need to do.

  It's funny, because it's true. 

    I bought a $60 plate carrier on Cheaper Than Dirt (this was in 2010, before they decided to gouge people with no remorse) for my contracting gig.  I think it was a Condor as well, but I can't remember for sure.  I wanted it for flights from Kuwait to Iraq so I wouldn't have to use an Army issue vest.  I didn't use it more than a few times, but for $60 I didn't feel bad about the purchase. I brought it home when I left Kuwait.   A year later, I used it all the time to fly around in Afghanistan.  I was traveling about 40% of the time and that cheap plate carrier held up like a champ, doing the same exact job one that cost 3x as much did for others.  It was so worn in that the shoulder pads were in a permanent arch from carrying the weight of the plates while on my shoulders.  But the stiching held up just fine.   Would I have wanted it if I was still in uniform, no.  But for my needs it was just fine.  I felt I had gotten my use out of it and bequeathed it to another FSR instead of bringing it home.  I sort of regret that, but helping out a co-worker lessens that regret.  Since I can't see myself buying ballistic plates on my own dime, I will probably just put together a LBE style rig someday for ammo, water and other field stuff to use for the range and bug-out purposes.   Moral of the story is, unless you're going to take it to combat, you don't have to blow an entire paycheck on kit you are most likely only going to use at the range.  Beat the hell out of that vest and you may decide you are quite comfortable with it and don't need a more expensive one.

  How do you think it would handle low hanging tree branches?  There is a tree that hangs over the fence to the townhouses behind me and is almost touching the ground.  I want to clear everything out as high as I can reach.  I figured I might need a chainsaw for those, but do you think the hedge trimmer would work?

      I have the Kobalt battery powered lawn mower.  I can't say I would recommend it for large lawns, but it serves the purpose quite well for my needs.  Not having to deal with gas, oil, storage of it and all that jazz was worth the extra money.  I'm seriously considering the hedge trimmer and chainsaw for some clean-up work in my backyard if the landscaping companies don't return my calls.

  A lot of political noise has been moved to Facebook, blogs, forums and other places on the internet.  It's just the times a' changing.  Elected officials still look at who shows up to vote more than anything else.  A poll of likely voters is taken very seriously.  If you're ever asked to participate in one over the phone, that's a good way of having your opinion heard.   Communicating with an elected officials office is still the best way to convey the message you have.  They can ignore it, but if they get enough heat on an issue, they will consider their vote a lot more carefully.  Sometimes they know what is good politics in their districts by instinct and it's the way they would vote anyway, other times public opinion can sway their vote.  Also, consider sending a thank you letter to a member of congress when they take a vote that you agree with.  Too often, they only hear the negative side after voting and we risk letting that volume drown out the conversation.   As all this relates to gun rights...I can tell you with no doubt whatsoever, that the pro gun crowd is more adamant about this issue and represents a greater amount of single issue voters than those who want gun control.  Politicians who directly vote against gun rights are held to account for those votes- the usual suspects like CA, NY, MA and such excluded.  There are Democrats representing pro gun districts that would never dare put their name as a "Yea' on much gun control.  Background checks are about the only issue they are willing to consider.  Voters who consider gun rights a priority issue have made this so.  On the other side, gun control isn't as hot a priority...unless it's general bitching about things.   Our state legislature is a bit different.  Since there is a Republican trifecta and nobody really trusts a Democrat with pro gun issues, the powers that be aren't in any hurry to take on pro gun issues.  Hopefully the 2015 legislative session is a productive one.