Beefy's Corner.......For all off Topic threads

Yeah, I'll try to keep my ****ty laptop in a somewhat working condition so I can use it for that purpose, but man do I hate it sometimes. I'm going to try to learn to put a desktop together myself and buy all the individual components from their actual manufacturers rather than going through Dell or whoever, because basically all they do is put it together for you and you can potentially save a couple of hundred pounds by cutting out the middle man.

 

He's still at it, is our Joey....

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I had my PC made and delivered to me only cost me a extra £100 for them to set it up and was free delivery. I got it from a small company in America if I remember right, best PC I have owned and far cheaper then the crap you get from shops.

 

Yeah I do. They're very good indeed and boot up phenomenally quickly. As described earlier, I run a System disk and a Data disk. It's actually an old arrangement that dates back to 1970-80's digital computers and using 8" floppy disks, and it is much more reliable than one disk alone, any RAID configuration [although nowhere near as fast], and it is flexible. If, for example, your system disk quits, your data is intact. If a virus hits the OS, your data is fine. A more mobile version of it is the external disk caddy, although that tends to be slower because it is external to the computer system, using USB1, 2 or now 3. Of course, you can remove your internal data disk, house it in a USB caddy and away you go again.

I've digressed again. I'm just trying to give decent advice. Yes, a Solid State Drive is faster than a Hard Disk Drive, although being much more expensive, I would utilise each type's strength. Use the SSD as the system disk and the HDD as the data disk, simple as that. An 80Gb system disk is more than enough, and your pocket is the limit on the size of HDD you can have, and remember you can have several in a Desktop/Tower PC. Note that WinXP does not natively support SSDs, and will, without a fixit patch, eventually render the SSD useless [at least that was the news when I last set one up on WinXP Pro]. Vista, Win7 and 8 are fine with SSDs just as they are with HDDs. WinXP was designed before the SSD was invented, so it took a little while to design the fixit. I believe it has only got one because XP is still so bloody popular. Way more than Vista, although Win7 overtook it a couple of years back.

Is that a full enough answer..?

 

Very full, thank you!

 

That's a very good idea BD, although I've learned a huge amount over the years just building computers myself. You begin to realise that under the cover there maybe enough technology in the average computer to make a sophisticated car seem like it was out of the Flintstones, but if you stick to some very easy rules, all that sophistication is amazingly easy to understand and put together. It's actually slightly difficult to go wrong nowadays once you know the basics. An d besides, you can follow any number of Youtube videos that show you how to build your unique dream computer.

You could even bite into a pear, take a photograph of it and stick that on the front.

 

I'm actually going the other way at the moment. I have a pretty good gaming desktop which I built myself a few years ago, the only change I've made is upgrading to an SSD. But I am going to sell it and put the money towards a desktop replacement laptop to hook up to the TV (new TV sitting next to me *drool*) and use with a wireless mouse and keyboard when in and take it out and about when necessary. Its a change of necessity mostly due to space restrictions in the flat I am moving to and the missus wanting a dining table rather than an office space.

I would defiantly recommend putting the components together yourself, its not that difficult and there are plenty of instructional videos online.

In terms of SSDs I won't go into the same detail as TSS but he's 100% right, I would recommend a system/data disk split over two separate physical devices, SSD for system and HDD for data.

 

Er... what the hell?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21595814

So she gets punished for being raped. I honestly don't know what to type.

 

Yeah, that's a weird part of the world. It's easy to forget that the Maldives actually has natives, what with it just being full of western honeymooners and retirees. I think it's safe to say **** Sharia law.

 

Yeah saw that the other day, just shows how ****ed up the world is.

 

Rafa Benitez just snapped. Says he's going at the end of the season and to leave him alone now.

 

I'm confused by the article saying that "Prosecutors said her conviction did not relate to the rape case." So they are saying she willing had sex with her step-father in other instances but not in the case he is being prosecuted for? Or that she had sex willingly outside of marriage with another partner but there is also this case against her step-father? Or that they just don't recognise rape in that law? The punishment is completely wrong either I just cant work out out if its being stupid or if the article is poorly written... more likely the former than the latter..

 

BENITEZ: "They are wasting time with their banners and songs. They don't need to worry about me. I leave at end of the season. These Chelsea fans have an agenda. These Chelsea fans are damaging the image of the club."

 

Chelsea fans are going to be really pissed off now!

 

Well... not wrong, is he?

 

"They have to support the team. They gave me the title of interim manager which is a massive mistake."

Agree with this massively, that was always going to undermine anything he tried to do while at the club. They could have privately given him a contract until the summer with discussions about renewals based on performance at that point rather than labeling him as the interim manager, I guess they were waiting for Guardiola... oops.

 

Got to share this: I'm on the fiver computer doing this post, listening the Kraftwerk's Autobahn via vinyl, on a 1970s turntable, probably made at the same time as I bought the record, that I fished out of a recycling bin. It's a Goldring Lenco GL75, but all that's beside the point...

I suddenly realise I'm listening to this album like it's the first or second time I've heard it and it sounds absolutely f****** brilliant. Think this might turn into a big vinyl session.

 

Good on the bloke for speaking out. I'm sure the Chelsea fans will blame Benitez for everything and not the guy who offered him the job in the first place.

 

A big vinyl session? I can almost hear Finbaar Saunders now!
My Dad had a Goldring Lenco, complete with little chrome plated weight on the arm to adjust the thing. My brothers and I were banned from using it as we must have wrecked the cartridge at one point so that was that.
Mrs Fodder has one the USB turntables but the quality is so poor that its not worth converting my collection over.
Btw, does your turntable have the strobe in the middle to check the speed?

 

I think it's okay to post this on here...

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