CIPWTTKT&GC V0x0F (v15): Scoot and Deeps Drama Diaries
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[QUOTE=Warship;33389856]buy the kindle fire[/QUOTE]
No.
[QUOTE=Warship;33389856]buy the kindle fire[/QUOTE]
If he's buying a kindle just for reading there's no point to the fire.
The fire lost all what made the kindle special, the month long battery, e-ink screen. It's just another competitor in the tablet market.
But what I'm really asking for is alternatives, as in, different brands. The nooks have no appeal to me because I hate the design, but do you know of any brands that are less widely known but just as good or better?
[QUOTE=dije;33388960]x79 supports up to 40 pci lanes :v:[/QUOTE]
It's also a huge waste of money (for most people) and I feel sorry for you for wanting it, seriously should just get Ivy Bridge.
Oh wow.
NetSec club today. Mostly just dicking around, since we go on Thanksgiving break after today.
Two boxes full of random crap appeared on our shelf. We are forced to assume they're donations. Contents:
~20x Ultra-2 SCSI hard drives, ranging from 9GB to 18GB (one has an old Sun logo on it - awesome)
A variety of ZIP drives (250, 1GB, 2GB) and blank media
~5x IDE hard drives, up to 120GB
A couple regular floppy drives
Most of our servers use SCSI drives (only one uses SATA), so it sounded cool. Problem is, the only one with empty spaces needs special brackets to mount them - the spacer brackets don't actually have mounting holes or anything. So we'll probably just keep them as spares - we have a couple machines with 3-8 SCSI drives in RAID, and they're like 10 years old, so they'll fail eventually.
We also slapped one of the zip drives into Tarkin (the ancient piece-of-crap party-like-its-1999 desktop) to see if it works in OpenBSD. Took so long to fix it (someone ran the IDE cables BACKWARDS) that we didn't get to actually test it.
1GB Zip disks???
I thought at that size they used Jaz drives?
[QUOTE=Blaberry;33390289]But what I'm really asking for is alternatives, as in, different brands. The nooks have no appeal to me because I hate the design, but do you know of any brands that are less widely known but just as good or better?[/QUOTE]
Maybe the Sony T1, as you can [url=http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2011/10/22/sony-reader-t1-hack-now-available/]hack it and run Android on it[/url]?
[QUOTE=1solidsnake2;33390822]Maybe the Sony T1, as you can [url=http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2011/10/22/sony-reader-t1-hack-now-available/]hack it and run Android on it[/url]?[/QUOTE]
That's pretty cool, slightly out of my price range, but still something to consider, since having ssh would be massively awesome.
[QUOTE=Fatal-Error;33390697]1GB Zip disks???
I thought at that size they used Jaz drives?[/QUOTE]
Ah yes, my bad. There were several Jaz drives mixed in - I don't know much about them (I went straight from 3.5" floppies to USB flash drives).
[QUOTE=Blaberry;33390289]But what I'm really asking for is alternatives, as in, different brands. The nooks have no appeal to me because I hate the design, but do you know of any brands that are less widely known but just as good or better?[/QUOTE]
Nah, the Kindle is pretty much the best e-book reader.
I'm not sure if you can still get the Kindle 3 but the new Kindle seems like a downgrade imo. Reduced battery life, cut storage (from 4 to 2GB) and removal of the (admittedly terrible) physical keyboard. But then again, it's cheaper and smaller so whatever.
My main concern is price, as I'm not the richest of the bunch. No physical keyboard has bothered me in the past, but I've learned to live with it. Battery life of about a month is good enough for me and a thousand books is probably enough, considering much of what I read is online.
[editline]22nd November 2011[/editline]
Looks like it's going to be a kindle, then.
[QUOTE=nikomo;33384980]I honestly doubt they enjoy a mix of Iron Maiden, Minecraft's pig noises or the constant "FUS RO DAH"[/QUOTE]
my parents love iron maiden
your parents suck
[editline]22nd November 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;33386752]1000 euros isn't a lot[/QUOTE]
that's like 2 months of work for me at my day job
[editline]22nd November 2011[/editline]
I thought I'd share my fondest childhood memory
the year is 1994, I'm playing the lion king on my sega genesis. The Promise by When In Rome is on the radio
that's it, that was the highlight of my childhood.
[QUOTE=gman003-main;33390927]Ah yes, my bad. There were several Jaz drives mixed in - I don't know much about them (I went straight from 3.5" floppies to USB flash drives).[/QUOTE]
I found a small box of Jaz drives in my shed the other day.
All 1GB, yep.
Loadsa backups... one had porn written on it...
I need to find a reader.
I have a few 100-250Mb Zip drives laying around, a few USB and one IDE.
[QUOTE=wingless;33391563]I found a small box of Jaz drives in my shed the other day.
All 1GB, yep.
Loadsa backups... one had porn written on it...
I need to find a reader.[/QUOTE]Funny this conversation came up because I was digging around my dad's office today...
[t]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1276735/Pictures/Other/IMG_0427.JPG[/t]
Now I just need to find the player and the ~$100 of free software~
My great uncle asked if I wanted a broken iBook and an old LCD monitor. Turns out the LCD monitor was the same as the off-white model I had, though black and had built-in speakers and a USB 1.1 hub. Which is nice.
The iBook is an 800 MHz G3 model with 128 MB RAM, 30 GB HDD and a DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive. When you boot it up, you can hear that there's a working computer behind it, though the screen remains black. I did some searching and it appears to be a really common problem, the fix being a reflow of the GPU. I'll have to ask my Facebook friends if one of them has a heat gun that I could borrow. The latch also seems to be faulty, though that's like $10 on eBay at the most if I can't fix it myself. I'm hoping to install Linux on it, since it's going to be difficult to find applications for OS X Panther.
[thumb]http://i.imgur.com/kvcre.jpg[/thumb]
you don't have a heat gun?
A gun that shoots heat must be really useful for killing polar bears.
Kindle Keyboard 3G is $89.99 on Black Friday at Target. Target opens at midnight, too.
My SSD seems to be acting suspiciously slowly
[img]http://s.duck.me.uk/AS_SSD_Benchmark_1.6.4237.30508-2011-11-22_23.08.47.png[/img]
It still refuses to leave SATA 1.5GB/S even though my motherboard supports 3GB/S and the SSD supports SATA3 6GB/S. Any ideas short of buying another motherboard?
`[QUOTE=leach139;33392456]My SSD seems to be acting suspiciously slowly
[img]http://s.duck.me.uk/AS_SSD_Benchmark_1.6.4237.30508-2011-11-22_23.08.47.png[/img]
It still refuses to leave SATA 1.5GB/S even though my motherboard supports 3GB/S and the SSD supports SATA3 6GB/S. Any ideas short of buying another motherboard?[/QUOTE]
Check your mobo manual, not all of the SATA ports will be SATA III.
If you can guess what I got I'll buy you Portal 1
[QUOTE=lavacano;33393277]If you can guess what I got I'll buy you Portal 1[/QUOTE]
an extra copy of portal 1?
[editline]23rd November 2011[/editline]
:v:
[QUOTE=leach139;33392456]My SSD seems to be acting suspiciously slowly
[img]http://s.duck.me.uk/AS_SSD_Benchmark_1.6.4237.30508-2011-11-22_23.08.47.png[/img]
It still refuses to leave SATA 1.5GB/S even though my motherboard supports 3GB/S and the SSD supports SATA3 6GB/S. Any ideas short of buying another motherboard?[/QUOTE]
are you using AHCI
[QUOTE=BrainDeath;33392942]Check your mobo manual, not all of the SATA ports will be SATA III.[/QUOTE]
I thought 3Gbps was SATA 2?
[QUOTE=BlkDucky;33393314]an extra copy of portal 1?
[editline]23rd November 2011[/editline]
:v:[/QUOTE]
excellent guess but no
[QUOTE=lavacano;33393674]excellent guess but no[/QUOTE]
Orange box?
Are HDD prices going to go down eventually?
[QUOTE=toaster468;33393703]Are HDD prices going to go down eventually?[/QUOTE]
Not for a few months.
holy fuck what happened to HDD prices they've doubled in the past few months
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