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    Post Your Rides!!

    Thanks, after 10 years of driving a Jetta TDI, this was a nice upgrade.
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    Post Your Rides!!

    She's dirty and just back from getting some used shoes/tires installed. 2011 335d pushing 260RWHP/425FT-LBS at ~28 MPG.
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    Home Automation

    I picked up a new house in October and the wife is letting me play. I'm running a Wink 2 Hub (Z-wave/Zigbee), Amazon Echo & Dot, one Wink Relay (another one site to be installed), a Logitech Harmony hub w/ remote & smartphone app, a Vizio 70" 4k Smart TV (crappy yahoo apps [3 year old Woot...
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    vpsBoard's Future

    Woot!
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    IoT defense on Home Network

    With the recent DDOS propagated from IoT on a new level, beside changing the default password, how would you prevent your devices from becoming part of this botnet?
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    Do you use a VPN for your normal internet browsing?

    PIA VPN to CYA for certain apps via proxy. On a recent trip I setup my PIA as a US VPN in Central America to use Google Hangout calling for free. So, I'm a selective VPN user.
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    Unlocked Chromebook users running Linux?

    I'm running an Acer C720 11" w/ ChromeOS. I ran a dual boot for awhile & chroot a bit, but my needs were minimal and I restored it back to ChromeOS. With a few apps installed I'm able to manage most of my toy vps', but nothing major. I picked it up for $100 on CL and haven't looked back. My...
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    Home Network Setup

    Yeah, late to the game but here is my setup. This took a while to build. Cox w/ 50MBps down & 15 MBps up (typically 20/3) @ 300GBs/mo soft limit (w/ free monthly overages notificatoins  :D ) Scientific-Atlanta WebSTAR DPC2100 Cable Modem DOCSIS 2.0 w/ Netgear CD3000 DOCSIS 3.0 replacement on...
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    What's your car?

    black on black '11 335d & lovin' it also.
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    ChicagoVPS - Christmas 2Gb Special

    I'm not on the LA IP block, instead 75.127.*.* in Chicago. I'm also point a sub domain to the assigned IPs and mail is hosted on a shared account. I saw your question on the newest LET offer. I'm waiting for their answer.
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    ChicagoVPS - Christmas 2Gb Special

    I have heard some issues on the various forums, but so far none yet for my experience.
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    ChicagoVPS - Christmas 2Gb Special

    Here is my objective quality evidence. I've had uptimerobot running a ping and http monitor on this VPS.
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    ChicagoVPS - Christmas 2Gb Special

    Two file error - one permission error (x13) & on where a file did not exist. The only time the server has been down from their side was to reboot the OpenVZ vunerability this week. As far as I can tell, the server has always been reachable. I'll try and find some OQE, but each time I try to...
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    Reviews: Rules and Formatting Guide

    @MannDude sorry for posting my review before 10 posts.
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    ChicagoVPS - Christmas 2Gb Special

    retest same command: --2014-06-25 12:41:14-- htp://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net (cachefly.cachefly.net)... 205.234.175.175 Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net (cachefly.cachefly.net)|205.234.175.175|:80...connected...
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