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    SSD advice please ???

    Never heard of that brand of SSD (maybe Canada is different). I try to keep with known (good) brands for my hardware. But for $80 your not going to get a very big SSD, and if you want to try and cram windows+apps+games onto that drive.. its going to be VERY tight. the windows folder my...
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    How far is to far with automation?

    My eventual goal is to automate building of my base. Mine until I get 3 diamonds, build a turtle and set it running. Come back in the morning with (most) things ready to go. No more worries about fending off mobs while im trying to build stuff.
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    Tank: Open Block or Railcraft

    Normally I use RC steel tanks. They hold a lot more and their are a known size -- this makes base planning MUCH easier. I tried an openblocks tank once, but it was too laggy for my tastes. plus the inability to fill buckets from it was major turnoff. Drums are great for early-mid game...
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    Favorite Tinker's Construct Tools/Weapons?

    Hammer is my favorite. Fully steel, gold+diamond, 4x redstone, never need to run to the nether to fix and I can lag the server while mining. Lumber axe is most useful early game for farming wood.
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    My attempt at bee housing

    You can skip the iron pipes if you use alternating stone / cobble pipes, since they dont connect to each other. Less resources early game. As for AE compatibility ... it "mostly" works. I almost always endup with a chest full of non-stackable drones with random mutations. or the queen will...
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    Easy-To-Use ComputerCraft Support?

    Glad you got it solved!
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    Easy-To-Use ComputerCraft Support?

    If your just returning an array of objects.. return a 2 column array { [ "itemID", 30761], [ "metadata", 42], ["stackSize", 64], ["displayName", "Yeast"] } This has the nice feature to be (almost) infinitely extensible so you dont have to revamp your API if you want to return more or less items
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    [Help] Most Efficient AE Storage System?

    ok that makes sense now. But I usually use a DSU for high count items so I dont have to worry about overflow.
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    MFR Bioreactor Question

    My jungle tree farm doesnt use fertilizer either. For some reason it was not even working on those trees. Using a +2 range upgrade gives me plenty of wood to make into charcoal. I tried a +7 range upgrade and it grew wood faster than the ic2 induction furnace could process. Now if you want...
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    [Help] Most Efficient AE Storage System?

    I never understood the point of pre-formatted disks other than to store a single item. Is there some other advantage? Aside from the material cost, I find a DSU does a much better job. For single items that I will have a lot of, I just use a DSU. I start with the obvious ones, cobble, dirt...
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    MFR Bioreactor Question

    Compression dynamos actually. compression dynamo will burn the (orange) forestry ethanol. And last I tried, it will NOT burn the green biomass you get from fermenting saplings. Try changing what you are growing in your farm. In my current world, I have a MFR farm with +2 upgrade growing...
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    Dw20 1.6.4 bat morph?

    When I tried an early version of morph it was set so that you lost all your morphs when you died, and so you had to go out an re-aquire them. Sucked big time when I died as a bat while exploring underground ravines. As much as it sucked at the time - I think losing your morphs when you die is...
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    Need help picking a new CPU for this game(recording)

    The 2nd one (i5 chip) will work better because its newer technology and a faster clock speed. Since minecraft is mostly single threaded, the more MHz you have the better off you are. I would go for 4 cores rather than 2. then you have 1 for MC, 1 for windows, 1 for the server and 1 for your...
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    Underrated/lesser used techniques and items

    +1 for this. Just dont let your jetpack run out when your 2k blocks from home. While this isnt new -- ive always been a fan of biomass power. With the new compression dynamo from TE, ethanol burns for LONG time.
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    Mekanism: Feature Request Thread

    I havent read the entire thread, so maybe this was suggested -- but there should be some way to signal if a EU cube has run out of energy, or is fully charged. I already tried bc gates, and they dont work. Once I can get a signal that the cube is empty/full I can start/stop other things to...
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    Having trouble launching FTB.

    From you logs, it looks like you are trying to launch monster. And then I see this: Description: Registering texture java.lang.OutOfMemoryError And then this: JVM Flags: 3 total; -Xms256M -Xmx1024M -XX:PermSize=256m This says you have only allocated 1G of ram to a modpack that needs 2G (or...
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    how would this be?

    for FTB it should be okay. for other gaming... hard to tell the GTX 650 is starting to get "low end" but its still cheap however the monitor you listed has me scratching my head Monitor #118.5" Widescreen Monitor - Black - 2ms - 1366x768 - VGA 1366x768 sounds like a 15inch LAPTOP screen, yet...
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    not so much a problem, as a tech recomendation

    It will be CPU speed first... then GPU... then RAM. i have a 2.5ghz chip on my laptop, a dedicated vid card and 8GB of ram. Its still quite slow. Adding more RAM to your system wont hurt. but your going to be bottlenecked by a slow CPU
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    Silly mod, Abstract Power Generation!

    Much more efficient this way. Just wait for the 'chunk unloaded' event. Record the current time before its saved. Then the next time the block ticks will be when its loaded.. so compare stored time with the current time and generate power accordingly. Then clear the stored time and do...
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    Weird things you've skipped

    usually its xp for auto-enchanters and/or mob essense -- at least thats what folks say on the servers I play on. But yeah -- after EE3 went away, i have never "needed" mob drops Nope never. Im not a fan of the magic stuff. Prefer railgun over a fireball anyday. And after reading this I...