• CIPWTTKT&GC V0x0F (v15): Scoot and Deeps Drama Diaries
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[QUOTE=ButtsexV3;33393775]holy fuck what happened to HDD prices they've doubled in the past few months[/QUOTE] Flooding in Thailand destroyed a few warehouses worth of drives.
[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;33393810]Flooding in Thailand destroyed a few warehouses worth of drives.[/QUOTE] Almost. It destroyed the factories that produced them. Hence why hard drives can't be produced fast enough to meet demand, so prices have literally doubled.
[QUOTE=1solidsnake2;33393897]Almost. It destroyed the factories that produced them. Hence why hard drives can't be produced fast enough to meet demand, so prices have literally doubled.[/QUOTE] Some tripled.
[QUOTE=wingless;33393688]Orange box?[/QUOTE] Nope, and time's up because I spilled the beans somewhere else. A new phone! Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket.
[url=https://github.com/TTimo/doom3.gpl]Dude, check out what just got released[/url]
[QUOTE=gman003-main;33394520][url=https://github.com/TTimo/doom3.gpl]Dude, check out what just got released[/url][/QUOTE] Doom 3 for Nokia Linux devices by the end of the year.
[QUOTE=gman003-main;33394520][url=https://github.com/TTimo/doom3.gpl]Dude, check out what just got released[/url][/QUOTE] About time. Wooh!
I still don't get why Android apps use Java, why wouldn't native code be better? (yes I know you can run native programs on android but that's not the point)
[QUOTE=BrainDeath;33394660]I still don't get why Android apps use Java, why wouldn't native code be better? (yes I know you can run native programs on android but that's not the point)[/QUOTE] Obviously you don't know about the NDK.
[QUOTE=wingless;33394702]Obviously you don't know about the NDK.[/QUOTE] I was, actually, but it's nearly 2am so I'm forgetting things. Isn't it why you can't run flash on armv6 devices? I still don't see why it can't all be native. Speed please.
[QUOTE=gman003-main;33394520][url=https://github.com/TTimo/doom3.gpl]Dude, check out what just got released[/url][/QUOTE] Which means soon I will be able to play Doom 3 on Linux! :toot: [editline]22nd November 2011[/editline] (the ID binaries have some odd control bug or other)
Until I get a heat gun, I used the temporary fix with a penny and a quarter pushing up against the GPU under the motherboard. It works now, except the hard drive was sticking. So I did something I never thought would work: Manually starting a hard drive. I started the laptop and when I heard the HDD motor trying to get the platters to spin, I spun them with a screwdriver in the middle of the platter (Where it connects to the shaft, no data stored there). The drive picked up speed and loaded OS X, somehow. [thumb]http://i.imgur.com/uQZJZ.jpg[/thumb] I have it all back together now, and I checked the computer out further. The RAM was upgraded to 384 (I saw the 256 MB stick, I assume 128 MB is on the motherboard or somewhere other than under the keyboard). Unfortunately, there is no Airport card, though they're only $10-ish on eBay.
Wait why exactly did you take off the cover of the hard drive again? Was it not working before?
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;33395605]Wait why exactly did you take off the cover of the hard drive again? Was it not working before?[/QUOTE] The drive wouldn't spin up after I put a little too much pressure on the motherboard (Which was under the drive), so I took it apart and tried making it work again.
[QUOTE=benjgvps;33395480]Until I get a heat gun, I used the temporary fix with a penny and a quarter pushing up against the GPU under the motherboard. It works now, except the hard drive was sticking. So I did something I never thought would work: Manually starting a hard drive. I started the laptop and when I heard the HDD motor trying to get the platters to spin, I spun them with a screwdriver in the middle of the platter (Where it connects to the shaft, no data stored there). The drive picked up speed and loaded OS X, somehow. I have it all back together now, and I checked the computer out further. The RAM was upgraded to 384 (I saw the 256 MB stick, I assume 128 MB is on the motherboard or somewhere other than under the keyboard). Unfortunately, there is no Airport card, though they're only $10-ish on eBay.[/QUOTE] you jump started a HDD you are a wizard benjgvps, welcome to the club I just spent 20 minutes making you this. [img]http://puu.sh/9a4u[/img] My first ever pixel art! looks pretty good [editline]22nd November 2011[/editline] that makes 3 of us [img]http://puu.sh/7AwU[/img]
[QUOTE=Shadaez;33395755]you jump started a HDD you are a wizard benjgvps, welcome to the club I just spent 20 minutes making you this. [img]http://puu.sh/9a4u[/img] My first ever pixel art! looks pretty good [editline]22nd November 2011[/editline] that makes 3 of us [img]http://puu.sh/7AwU[/img][/QUOTE] Awesome!
[QUOTE=benjgvps;33395716]The drive wouldn't spin up after I put a little too much pressure on the motherboard (Which was under the drive), so I took it apart and tried making it work again.[/QUOTE] Could you not have just dremelled a bit of the case above and below the drive to give it some extra space? Poor drive won't last very long in those conditions.
[QUOTE=Bonzai11;33396396]Could you not have just dremelled a bit of the case above and below the drive to give it some extra space? Poor drive won't last very long in those conditions.[/QUOTE] I feel like I'm the only one who doesn't have a shed full of power tools.
[QUOTE=Bonzai11;33396396]Could you not have just dremelled a bit of the case above and below the drive to give it some extra space? Poor drive won't last very long in those conditions.[/QUOTE] No, the drive fits just fine, though I was pushing on the bottom area a little too hard, causing the drive to stick somehow. According to some of the documents on the desktop, the laptop hasn't been used since around 2009, so sticking might have been a bit of a problem until it got some usage.
[QUOTE=benjgvps;33395716]The drive wouldn't spin up after I put a little too much pressure on the motherboard (Which was under the drive), so I took it apart and tried making it work again.[/QUOTE] I hope you understand that the chance of the HDD failing pretty much just skyrocketed.
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;33396727]I hope you understand that the chance of the HDD failing pretty much just skyrocketed.[/QUOTE] Working with a chance of failing is better than not working at all
The 90's called. They want their data cap back.
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;33398358]Deeps. How the fuck is it friendly, it's more Zing or Funny. -.-' And yeah they want their fucking data caps. THERE IS 1 ISP that does unlimited, but it's going on the 4th of December. And it's $100 incl. Phone line.[/QUOTE] I felt bad because you have datacaps and your dad seems like an annoying twat.
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;33398395]Quite reminds me pretty much like you. I'm sorry thats too harsh.[/QUOTE] Touché.
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;33398395]I'm sorry thats too harsh.[/QUOTE] Not really.
So we were doing a practical hardware in out ICT course one day, very simple, we just had to plug in a hard drive and change a system setting. We went through this in lessons ad-nauseum so nobody really had an excuse to muck this up. Still, things were going well, I finished up mine in the time it took me to jiggle the plugs in an out (those bastards were stuck in there REALLY thigh) till one member of the class noted he could smell burning. Teacher walks over, can't see anything wrong, walks off. He calls them over again, saying the hard drive is making a funny noise, it was like the clicking you get when an electrical plug isn't quite in properly. Teacher orders the computer turned off just in case, by this point most of the class was gathered round, we were all looking for this hidden issue, thinking he probably just got some faulty hardware. Then, out the corner of my eye I spotted something. You know those little power cords that plug into floppy disk drives? And those series of pins used to determine weather a hard-drive is a master/slave etc? He had plugged one into the other thinking the hard-drive needed two power plugs. To be fair on the poor guy he had not done much with the inside of a PC before but we still covered all this in a previous lesson so I guess it's more a case of him being a crap student but still....
My parents suck at communication. My mom, as you know, offered my step dad a 64GB iPad (which he refused because he's like a Southern redneck version of Stallman) but refused me an entry level Mac Mini. I called my dad on Skype today and we started talking about Christmas/technology. He asked me if I'd chosen a color for my iPad(what I wanted before the Mac Mini). Apparently my mom told him I wanted an iPad so he was saving up for that... :wtc:
Because we don't have enough stuff to do at work experience, our manager made us do a "computer aptitude test" Considering one of the ~super hard~ questions was "What is a megapixel", I did fine. We had to make a good custom PC build. During this, another person doing the test called the Radeon HD3450 "high end" :suicide:
[QUOTE=Dr. Deeps;33398536]My parents suck at communication. My mom, as you know, offered my step dad a 64GB iPad (which he refused because he's like a Southern redneck version of Stallman) but refused me an entry level Mac Mini. I called my dad on Skype today and we started talking about Christmas/technology. He asked me if I'd chosen a color for my iPad(what I wanted before the Mac Mini). Apparently my mom told him I wanted an iPad so he was saving up for that... :wtc:[/QUOTE] Why don't you just save up and buy it yourself?
[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;33398630]Why don't you just save up and buy it yourself?[/QUOTE] I asked for it for christmas. I'm completely willing to pay for it myself if they don't get it.
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