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Ah yes, I keep forgetting that data is transmitted in packages, and does not claim a line like the phone does. More flexible, but a little slower for each person. 
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BTW: that may change: the cost of materials for fibre is typically 1~5% of that of copper - so if the world copper price continues to rise, they may start laying fibre in order to reclaim the copper and sell it! It's currently around US$5000 per ton, and it doesn't take much cable to run up that much...and of course, they can charge you for the upgrade as well.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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That would depend on the labor cost I assume, and the depth the cable is buried under. The state controlled Telenor company is currently arguing about the depth the new cables should be at, they want 40 cm maximum, while the local municipalities want it to be at 60 cm due to road maintenance issues. Case in Norwegian[^]
Don't think they are planning any such feature, I assume they think its money out the window. It seems they would rather want people to use wireless 4G, as they get more money for that and its cheaper to upgrade.
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So I take it you have fibre optic from the exchange ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Yep! Fibre optic from the exchange to the "final distribution" box and then copper to subscriber premises. Which means in my case about 50m of copper in the entire run.
And that copper is brand spanking new, having been fitted last summer after the old cable was cut. So I should get a pretty good speed, with any luck.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Can't you invest in 50m of fibre to finish the job off ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Lucky you: I can't even have 0,64 Mbps (yes, lowercase "b") with copper and the line service refuses to bring me any cable at all - since the cabinet is full I can't even have the phone.
And the price would be ~50£/month for that amazing speed... Now I'm connected throug a radio bridge that gets to 7 Mbps, normally I'm able to substain 3.2 without major problems. Except for the rainy or windy days it is reliable too, much more than fiber/copper providers in Italy.
Of course we have only mobile phones, which is not bad as we can skip the base price of 25£/month for the privilege of having the phone in 2015.
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Hello all!
Yesterday I went to my inlaws house and I spent half the afternoon solving the GPU issue, after discovering the BIOS was already updated  I got a PSU and installed it into that computer, then the steps that were in the youtube video posted by @KornfeldEliyahuPeter and @Paul-S-Wilcox helped a lot, definitely it was the motherboard what was impeding the system to start as I was even able to start it with the original 300W PSU following the steps depicted on the video... after all I've changed the PSU for a brand new 600W one and everything is ready.
during this week they'll meditate if waiting two minutes to start the computer while pressing keys at specific moments will be ok or not... if it's ok I'm ready, if it's not I'll have to change the mobo... 
anyway, thank you guys and gals, you've really helped me, as always!
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I somehow was expecting a report about a computer goes in flames...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Yeah, I was thinking that we would appear in the evening news... you know, building demolished caused by a PSU short circuit... 
Wait for the next week when they decide what to do regarding the mother board... if they decide to get a new one... dismounting the current one will work for sure, assembling the new one should not be a problem... the only thing is scary is the thermal paste thing... I've never done it in the past... So don't worry your report will come sooner or later...
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Thermal paste isn't a problem: a little goes a long way!
But...quality of the paste is important.
See here: http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/geek_tested_17_thermal_pastes_face[^] - it's worth looking at the results summary on page two and the different in temperatures they got with the different pastes. Especially once dust starts to build up in the fans and the efficiency of the air flow drops.
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Glad to be of some help. If it's possible, you may find that exchanging the nVidia card for an equivalent AMD card may cure the problem.
I have an nVidia GTX750Ti card and although I've had no hardware incompatibility problems on my rig, I've had plenty of problems with Linux either not installing or driver problems. It seems that something has radically altered on these newer cards compared to the older nvidia ones.
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Haven't had a haircut in ~5 yrs so even though the second one looks interesting the first one would be my choice.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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Haha, oh well, just for your general knowledge! 
I don't live in America myself! so...
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I just noticed, Syncfusion is offering a community license of all their controls for free, http://www.syncfusion.com/products/communitylicense[^] The page says they liked what Microsoft did with Visual Studio Community, and decided they would do the same. It is crazy what has happened for individual and small teams of software developers in the last couple months.
modified 24-Jan-15 23:46pm.
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Thanks downloading now and going to kick the tires.
Need to add this to the Free Tools forum!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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... edit ...
What I did to be able to (finally, on the eighth attempt) try out the SF WinForm Grid:
1. create a new WinForm Project in Visual Studio 2013 targeting FrameWork 4.5.1.
2. drag the SF Grid onto the Form.
2. manually add a reference to:
c:\Program Files (x86)\Syncfusion\Essential Studio\12.4.0.24\Assemblies\4.5\Syncfusion.Grid.Windows.XmlSerializers.dll ... end edit ...
I was curious to try out the current version of the SyncFusion Grid, so I downloaded this release, got a free key, and installed it on my Win 8.1/x64 machine.
Created a new project in Visual Studio 2013 targeting FrameWork 4.5.1, created a WinForm Project, dropped the SF Grid on a Form: will not build:
"Code generation for property 'SerializeCellsBehavior' failed. Error was: 'Type 'Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Grid.GridSerializeCellsBehavior' is not available in the target framework.' Tried changing the FrameWork to 4.5: that crashed Visual Studio.
Tried the same thing with FrameWork 4.0: same result. FrameWork 4.0 Client: some SF Controls show up in the ToolBox, but not Grid.
Below FrameWork 4.0, you get errors like:
Error 2 The type or namespace name 'Tasks' does not exist in the namespace 'System.Threading' (are you missing an assembly reference?)
Error 3 The type or namespace name 'Tasks' does not exist in the namespace 'System.Threading' (are you missing an assembly reference?) After seven tries to get a basic Grid running, I'll stop at this point.
I note that in their install folder
C:\Program Files (x86)\Syncfusion\Essential Studio\12.4.0.24\precompiledassemblies\12.4.0.24 They show assemblies for .NET 2,3,3.5,4,4.5,4.5.1
Since they're gifting this whopper on "the rest of us," guess I'll give their support forum a jingle.
«I'm asked why doesn't C# implement feature X all the time. The answer's always the same: because no one ever designed, specified, implemented, tested, documented, shipped that feature. All six of those things are necessary to make a feature happen. They all cost huge amounts of time, effort and money.» Eric Lippert, Microsoft, 2009
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Thanks, that is nice to know.
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As a long-term Syncfusion user, this opens all sorts of opportunities for my articles.
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In the past (until 3 years ago) we tried to use Syncfusion for win forms - we had enormous problems (most of them memory related) with the controls, so slowly we replaced them with components from other company...As today we are Syncfusion free...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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May I ask which companies' components you're using now? I'm currently considering to purchase a DevExpress WinForms suite.
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A mix of Janus, DevEx, Telerik and home-made...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Disclaimer: I am not and have never been affiliated with any company that provides control suites. The following is just my personal experience.
I have used DevExpress Winforms exclusively for several years. I switched from a very bad experience with Component One and Syncfusion. DevExpress Winforms suite is very nice. Controls are consistent - that is, the way their properties are laid out and their property names. Controls are integrated. For example, you can put a DX combo box on the form surface, or you can put it in a DX grid. Same combo box control. Controls are very customizable. By this I mean that if you want to set a specific caption or custom total for group rows while grouping a grid by a column value, go ahead and do it. Top notch customer support. Very little waiting for support. I had an excellent experience. But please note that I have only used their WinForms controls -- not web, wpf, orm, etc. But I expect these other sets of controls would be equally good.
On the negative side, and these are probably true of most control suites.... It is pricey. The files you have to include with your project bulk it up quite a bit. The controls feel "heavy" sometimes, like the computer has to downshift in order to process the form. But greater functionality usually involves more computing needs and larger files to deploy. Hope this helps with your decision.
Mike
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