Howard

Tire rack has great prices, problem is by the time You pay for shipping mounting and balancing the prices suck. Check your local car dealer, yes I am serious. When I bought my last car I bought my winter tires from the dealer. The price was $10 more per tire than tire rack but they offered free mounting and balancing twice a year for life. Over a few years that paid for the price of the tires by itself.

Finally got my new Florida plate. Not as cool as my USPSA plate from NJ but I knew that would be taken. Also avoided the standard “sunshine state” plate and got these plates cause I do, and figure that might get me out of a ticket some day.

Who NEEDS more than 10 rounds Just do a NY reload - you have three guns in easy reach each with 10 rounds - now you have the equivalent of a normal capacity magazine with insurance against such things as feed failures Me, I just got the hell out of Dodge and am making good use of my 15 round mags by adding Dawson +4 basepads which give me 19+1 in 140mm length for shooting .40 major in USPSA. Sorry don't mean to rub it in, well maybe just a little

That is why I am buying an older home (2003), which is old for here that is in a mature area with almost no available land and no new construction - but safely out of Duval County in St. Johns.

I use spray on brake cleaner to clean mine, works very well. Just avoid getting any of these solvents on fiber optic tubes as it makes them brittle.

Speaking of Foscam, I had one for years with no issues until it freaked my wife out and she made me throw it away. We were in the kitchen one day and a voice came across it saying hello, hello, hello. Don't know how this happened as I changed the username and password from the defaults.

No elevator for me, by that time I figure I'll just get a full leg transplant

Wow, you are right that is fast. I can't believe she picked a place to live in only 30 minutes. We have been down here 7 weeks and have probably looked at over 60 homes, some three and four times. The homes we are looking at are all NJ priced, or higher as well. What I find very strange are the rents here. While $1049 for a 2bd/2ba sound good, the place we are renting right now proportionately is even cheaper. For exactly double that number we have a 4 bed 3ba home with LR/DR/kitch with large eatin area by kitchen and another large family room and a good sized (for here) property with fenced yard and covered inground pool and three car garage with a driveway that you can park 9 cars. Not sure why rentals are so cheap. We are in St Johns county which is the highest income county with the best schools of all 67 counties. It also is growing like crazy, I heard they are building something like 70,000 new homes in the next five years. Some of the developments are totally crazy, like two miles by three miles of just brown fields that they have stripped clean and are planting houses. Don't know how anyone could buy a home in these places not knowing what might be next to them or near them. We are concentrating on some older areas circa 2003-2005 that actually have 1/2 to 1 acres lots and mature trees. The new developments like Nocatee are crazy. You get a 4,000 sqft home on a lot that is about 5,000 sqft. I told one sales woman that her home would be a problem for me if I gained weight. She gave me an odd look till I explained I would have a hard time fitting between the edge of the house and the edge of the property - and I am far from fat. Why anyone would pay top dollar to live like that is beyond me. Reminds me of some inner city homes where you reach out your kitchen window to the kitchen window nextdoor to borrow a cup of sugar.

Had to check downforeveryoneorjustme, assumed you were just blocking people like me that escaped the socialist people's republic of New Jermany to a free state

I've got two each of these cheap cams from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B075K89NTR/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B075KGNB58/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 They are 1080P and one is real wide angle the other has pan and tilt on it that I can control from my phone. They both record to SD cards and also connect to my LAN. I can record to the hard drive and I mirror the stored files to my Google Drive account all at no monthly fee. Predominantly have them so I can watch the dogs when I am not home.

Don't eat that stuff

Well yes that is true Glen. I was talking mostly about income taxes. Rent well that is all based on supply and demand and what market rates are - sometimes they can probably pass the property tax in other times the landlord eats it, not like it is commercial with triple net leases. My rent here for a large four bedroom three bath home with a 3 car garage and inground pool is only $50 more a month than what my daughter pays in NYC for a very small studio apartment. Yes there is sales tax and the first year DMV charge is low. Oh and what I am not paying in NJ income and property taxes more than covers the rent for the entire year. The sun is in fact hot, and so is the humidity this time of year. But we picked St Johns county as they actually have fall and some semblance of winter - a few days when you might actually see frost. The one think that is freakishly expensive here are fresh veggies, and I don't get why. While in NJ I could buy a pound of green peppers for about 79 cents here it is 79 cent for one small green pepper. Other veggies are similarly priced. Thus, each time I go to the grocery store I say "nah, too expensive" and end up buying wine instead as it is much cheaper

Interesting, I have heard almost nothing on the news of this and I am in Florida now. While still a bad law, you have to temper the number based on the number of people with guns and the fact that the population in Florida is more than Double that of the socialist people's republic of New Jermany, aka NJ. That said all the positive things about Florida gun laws out weigh this screwed up law. While I lived in NJ for 32 years, owned property there, paid taxes there, and was known by many I could never get a carry permit there. Here in Florida I don't own property, don't pay taxes, am known by almost no one yet I got a carry permit in 10 days. It only took 10 days because there was a technical error and it got delayed by about five days. Also here in Florida you don't even need a permit to have a loaded gun in your glove compartment (must be in a holster or case) if you don't have a permit.

The AG must have gone to law school in a different country. The 1st amendment protects free speech, which means anyone can print anything they want on paper or the internet and he can't stop it. Clowns like him don't get that the first amendment is not there to protect popular speech, as no one objects to that; it is there to protect unpopular speech. Things like hate speech should be protected. Drawings that people make are protected, whether they are of a pretty mountain or of how to build something.

The weather is crazy everywhere. I ran into a Monsoon yesterday by I95 and International Golf Parkway in St Johns FL, it was coming down so heavy I waited almost a half hour to head home. When I got home which is only 30 minutes north west of there it was dry and my wife said it never even looked like rain.

I recently made the move from NJ to FL and can tell you the drive taking 78 to 81 to 77 is so much better than taking 95 all the way. Once we got west of Allentown the drivers were all wonderful, everyone drove right and passed left and people moved out of the right lane as cars entered the road. Then, we linked up with 95 in South Carolina and everything changed. Once there we had cars with NY, NJ and CT plates and for the most part they were all assholes. They drove slow in the left lane and weaved in and out all over the road passing people. Sure glad we avoided them most of the trip.

So how much is the mega machine you are looking at and where are you getting it? A complete machine or components to build? I ask as my machine may be toast and I am looking for something new to do photo processing on that needs power.

Think I found part of the problem. The heat sink and fan came loose from the processor. I wonder if the cpu can get hot enough to trip with this off during the minute or so during boot or if this is one of multiple issues???

The problem is not something failing at startup, not beeps or error message, system just shuts down. Thus, I feel it is either an overheat issue with CPU or some sort of short or capacitor. Will try unplugging everything and seeing if that helps, I recall I once had an issue a few years back and doing that fixed it so maybe same issue. I guess something could have come loose in the car trip here.

Good suggestions will try them. I had some related issues where it shut down before the move. Survived move fine and ran for three weeks before acting up. Then one morning it went to sleep and did not want to wake up. The dirt or loose component makes a lot of sense. Thanks.

It’s not a boot problem perse. It goes through the bios startup and shows all the equipment, sometimes it does there. Other times it makes to the windows 10 logo and then goes down. It seems like it is losing power at that point. The current power supply has three lights on it and when it dies two of them go out. The new power supply did not have lights, but similar problem. Assuming something on the MB went, probably a capacitor I am guessing.

I thought it was the power supply, but I ordered and will be sending back a replacement, as that did not take care of it. I am guessing it is something on the motherboard. It gets about halfway though starting up and then just shuts down. Guessing perhaps a capacitor on the MB went bad or something like that. The only problem with Dell is that they use (or used to use) a bunch of proprietary boards and combined function boards. Rather stick with an ASUS motherboard and discrete components. Agreed RAM is king, as is an SSD for the system. Love my iPhone and iPad, but don't like MACs. You pay a heck of a lot more for their hardware and the operating system is no better than Windows anymore and all the software runs on both.

Just moved to FL from NJ and now my Desktop computer died Have not gone computer shopping in quite some time and don't know where to buy around here or even what to buy. If anyone is an expert I would appreciate advice. Besides the normal daily stuff I use the machine to process photos from my Full Frame Nikon D800e camera in Adobe Lightroom. My current machine, although dated, was quite powerful. It was an early i7 3ghz processor with 24 gb memory and a good but not great graphics card. Have four 2TB hard drives in it along with a 256gb SSD and DVD Drive. Have two good monitors hooked to it so really only need the guts not an off the shelf complete system. Any and all suggestions welcomed. I had built it from components that I bought at Microcenter in Patterson, unfortunately they don't have a store with me but I guess I could buy parts from them online if I had a shopping list. Any advice welcomed. Thanks

I had a pair of 2002 Prius that I bought used in 2005 when no one wanted them. One had only 7,200 miles when I bought it. They were the original ones that were four doors and a trunk that they made in 01-03. They got 50 mpg. Probably the only person to replace I hybrid with another hybrid and got 10 mpg less than the old one. The one I have now is a very nice large car, a Sonata Limited hybrid, but only average about 40 mpg on it.

Nothing against wanting a beater car, but let's at least be honest about the math. A 2018 toyota Yaris is rated at "up to" 30 city and 41 highway, while a toyota Prius is rated at up to 51 city and 53 highway. If you drive any distances that is a significant difference.