its still big in medical, mainly for HIPAA compliance as email is not considered secure. most records are sent from practice to practice that way as there currently is little standardization for electronic medical records. i would send/receive hundreds of pages a day.

agree. 3 out of the 4 times i updated my ledger nano s it got stuck somewhere and i had to hit reddit to figure it out.

NEVER had a problem with my trezor updating. i have two, 1st was bought several years ago, another last year. my trezor t arrives today.

trezor is much more polished, better design from an intuitive and physical usability standpoint, better ui, doesnt need chrome; it can use any (most) browser. although ledger is moving away from chrome to a stand alone app from what i gather.

i would argue that happiness is security (or at least security is the base that happiness can grow on), as in no worries about your future.  pretty much you need to own property and a home, and have enough things of value (money/crops/tradegoods/livestock/crafts/knowledge/whatever) that you know your future needs will be met with what you have or know you can produce.

at that point you can more or less not worry that others control your future, instead of you (i discount war/terrorism/tinfoil hat stuff).

so actually, perhaps happiness is having control of your life.

its not the cpu, undernourished cpus are usually fine in miners. even single core cpus have been used with no problems (in most miners).

probably a bios limitation. vga cards need a lot of resources, and the mobo/bios can run out unless special settings are used.

see if the bios has something like "above 4g decoding". short version is it increases the range of memory the mobo can assign to the cards, which is likely the issue. that bios setting is fairly recent in consumer mobos as having 4+ video cards wasnt very common back then when those mobos came out.

no worries, here, have some of mine. the white ones are the best.

SWEET!

now we are prepared for serious doom and destruction. none of this wishy washy half baked stuff.

so we are only at "suck level 3"? it can get worse?

bleh

at least the dial doesnt go to "11"

i have found my criteria for meriting posts changes when i am almost out of smerits. and it does tend to lean towards giving to lower ranks at that time. which is unfair on my part.

legendaries obviously dont need smerits for ranking up, but i figure (generally) legendaries will give out merit with greater "accuracy" than lower ranks simply because they know more about the subject matter and what benefits the forum than lower ranks. so they definitely need merits sent to them.

OTOH for lower ranks it can be discouraging for them to have good posts skipped, where legendaries probably wont care as much (at least i dont). i like to encourage them.

when i only have one or two smerits left i find myself withholding smerits on the off chance i might find a better post later, and thats kinda a pain. i wound up with a bookmark folder named "merit these posts" for when i have smerits to send lol. when i go through that folder, lower ranks do get preference all else being equal.

is that unfair toward legendaries on my part. well, yes.  on average, legendary posts do tend to be better quality and thus deserve merit like any other quality. but since smerits are intended to reward good posting habits, and (generally) legendaries already have that, the merit goes toward the lower ranks to "point the way" so to speak.

while the ledger is pretty easy (if sometimes kinda picky during firmware updates) its better learn the procedures for updating, restoring from seed, secondary accounts etc now with small values. last thing you want is learn a new coin storage system when the next bull run puts your stacks value in the stratosphere and not have absolute confidence in it.

i doubt boards like these riserless miner style mobos (octominer/onda boards with 8 full size slots) will ever be very good at VR as the cards are being run with only 1 PCIe lane per card. VR has more traditional gaming type requirements, you would want at least eight PCIe lanes (PCIe x8 or x16) per card to load textures and such. textures loading at a single PCIe lane speed will be too slow.

might be possible to change some slots to use more lanes but that might disable other slots or devices (msata/sata ports maybe)

so folks, i am curious as to how you all store the bulk of your bitcorns. hardware? paper? offline computer to sign transaction and use an online computer to broadcast? something else??

currently i have the core wallet (same wallet i created late 2011) for day to day stuff. once btc started to gain traction and become more valuable to the point were i wasnt comfortable with that much btc just sitting on a 24/7/365 online rig i sent the bulk of them to paper, where they sat for a few years. last year i swept the paper to a trezor and only reason i swept them was to cash out the free bcashlol.

i must admit there is a certain logic to that.

wait.. you mentioned the btc price on an exchange and analyzed it! isnt that off topic here?

i can see this off topic thread being derailed fast.

i use MEW (myetherwallet) with a trezor and ledger nano s for eth and erc20 tokens.

havent used MEW without a hardware wallet though so cant comment on how secure your keys are without one.

edit: i wouldnt bother with the official mist/geth wallet, it seems to have problems syncing even on multi core systems with SSDs. and the size of the blockchain is ridiculous.

PCIe 4x? does it need the 4x? ie, will running it on a single PCIe lane hurt performance?

i have an onda mining board with 8 full size 16x slots but i believe they run in 1x mode, so any PCIe  ->m2 adapter card would run at 1x.

ive known those built in windows tools exist but ive never actually tried them. im so used to reflect, its so reliable and ive been using it for so long, that i never bothered with anything else. being free for personal use helps of course

never thought to build a  baseline windows miner image. good idea, that would save some time with all the updates and tweaks that need to be done for deploying a typical new rig.

i wonder how well an image would tolerate a chipset change, like from B250 to Z370 or something.

from what i understand (a very limited amount i assure you) the fpga chip itself has no inbuilt thermal throttling to limit it from overheating, temperature sensing needs to be part of the bitstream (i am unclear on this) or depend on software to monitor the boards various other sensors like voltage and current limits and such. so its very easy to destroy the chip if proper cooling and monitoring are ignored.

 

when you have a stable setup make a disk image of the OS. that way if you blow the OS or drivers away just load the good image back on and good to go.

i use macrium reflect free. saved me a lot of grief many times. both miner rigs and my other computers. anytime i change something and it works i make a new image.

https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree

i also have windows update totally disabled anyway. not sure if i want to update from 1709. miner is stable so im good atm. the 1709 image with drivers and miners setup the way i like it is my insurance policy for anything that sneaks through.

LSD. with enough of it you can build a quantum computer too. maybe even turn yourself into one.

ive been looking on twitter for the official feed, so i can send 0.5 howeycoin and get 5 back.