Tech: Open thread

2010-10-30 16:46:06

#5551

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6502

clean the shitty wiring in a student house? if the wall mains source is shitty, how can you improve it?

i don't know... it just seems all my tech problems started since moving my shit into the new house

i'm having a hard time understanding how a car-transit that i've made dozens of times before could break a PSU AND a mobo

that must have been one pretty catastrophic car-ride, no?

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2010-10-30 17:13:20

#5552

Winston_Churchill: Bazinga!; +521|6770|Toronto | Canada

it was mostly meant as a joke, but i assume you can get some sort of power bar that stabilizes the current through it. google is telling me a power conditioner is the word im looking for

2010-10-30 17:35:25

#5553

FFLink: There is.; +1,380|6722|Devon, England

Get a surge protector multitap thing if you don't already have one.

2010-10-31 04:01:13

#5554

Freezer7Pro: I don't come here a lot anymore.; +1,447|6229|Winland

Really, as long as you're using reasonably good power supplies, it doesn't matter a whole lot what you get out of the wall.

The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP

2010-10-31 04:26:06

#5555

jaymz9350: Member; +54|6609

Freezer7Pro wrote:
Really, as long as you're using reasonably good power supplies, it doesn't matter a whole lot what you get out of the wall.

yeah we had some really funky electric problems here one day, about the only thing that would turn on was my pc. all other electronics wouldn't run due to lack of voltage or no power at all (one leg was dead one was underpowered).

2010-10-31 06:11:40

#5556

11 Bravo: Banned; +965|5268|Cleveland, Ohio

so which mod gave finray the tech badge to begin with? my money is on liquid or tucker. maybe kcd.

2010-10-31 07:06:26

#5557

Benzin: Member; +576|6030

Freezer7Pro wrote:
Really, as long as you're using reasonably good power supplies, it doesn't matter a whole lot what you get out of the wall.

I was under the impression that even PSUs nowadays can suffer from a bad power source. I'll obviously defer to you since you play with this kinda stuff in your free time.

Uz - perhaps you can get a power meter and check the electric sockets and see if you really are having a problem? You're studying at uni, so I imagine you must have some kind of an electrical engineering department, right? Buy a few beers and offer it to one of the guys there to come by and check your place out.

2010-10-31 07:53:23

#5558

Freezer7Pro: I don't come here a lot anymore.; +1,447|6229|Winland

CapnNismo wrote:
Freezer7Pro wrote:
Really, as long as you're using reasonably good power supplies, it doesn't matter a whole lot what you get out of the wall.
I was under the impression that even PSUs nowadays can suffer from a bad power source. I'll obviously defer to you since you play with this kinda stuff in your free time.

As long as there's between 80 and 280V in the outlet, any decent quality unit will run perfectly. "Decent quality unit" being the key here.

The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP

2010-10-31 09:25:01

#5559

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6502

Freezer7Pro wrote:
CapnNismo wrote:
Freezer7Pro wrote:
Really, as long as you're using reasonably good power supplies, it doesn't matter a whole lot what you get out of the wall.
I was under the impression that even PSUs nowadays can suffer from a bad power source. I'll obviously defer to you since you play with this kinda stuff in your free time.
As long as there's between 80 and 280V in the outlet, any decent quality unit will run perfectly. "Decent quality unit" being the key here.

well as i mentioned in my computer thread i've just bought the cheapest Corsair CX600w at the moment

will get a HX650w in the new-year... have paid out my ass for power supplies lately and have had enough of the expenditure

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2010-10-31 09:27:06

#5560

Dauntless: Admin; +2,249|6774|London

did that computer shop make you pay for the no name 800w PSU?

2010-10-31 10:03:17

#5561

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6502

yeah, cause they got it into stock for my repair only... it's a standard student-repair shop... mainly laptop troubleshooting and shit

so i had to pay a 'services' charge for 4 weeks of in-shop attention and 'effort', and pay for their wholesale purchase of the PSU

which i then didn't take cause i thought it would be utter shit and i didn't need

which i could have needed in the end considering i have now essentially paid for my 3rd PSU in as many days

fucking headache

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2010-10-31 20:01:35

#5562

RTHKI: mmmf mmmf mmmf; +1,736|6768|Oxferd Ohire

somethings fucked up. IE is opening randomly, a lot of times to ads, sometimes to facebook. and a few times ive heard an ad with nothing opened . .
i just got an ie window that said are you sure you want to close this page . . and i dont use ie
ive scanned but havent found anything :s

2010-10-31 20:39:55

#5563

liquidat0r: wtf.; +2,223|6659|UK

well that's a virus/etc. try more AV

2010-11-01 00:03:26

#5564

Benzin: Member; +576|6030

Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware aka MBAM - it's the tactical nuke of the AV programs. Hopefully that should kill it before you have to get ComboFix (the Death Star of AV).

2010-11-01 08:29:13

#5565

Lucien: Fantasma Parastasie; +1,451|6684

Thinking of buying an Asus EEE pc 1215n

yes/no/buy X instead?

2010-11-01 09:21:08

#5566

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6502

my old housemate had the earlier model of an EE PC

seemed fucking useless for anything other than youtube and email

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2010-11-01 10:05:53

#5567

Lucien: Fantasma Parastasie; +1,451|6684

This one's got a decent dual core processor, windows 7, and the nvidia ion 2 is plenty for anything non-gaming by the look of it. It's hardly even a netbook

2010-11-01 10:12:24

#5568

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6502

i see more point in an iPad than those incredibly small netbooks

but if you can find a use... sure

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2010-11-01 10:16:18

#5569

FloppY_: +1,010|6317|Denmark aka Automotive Hell

The iPad has nothing to offer in comparison with a netbook running a full OS

Your thoughts, insights, and musings on this matter intrigue me

2010-11-01 10:19:52

#5570

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6502

enjoy using a microscope in your lectures to type up notes

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2010-11-01 10:27:32

#5571

Lucien: Fantasma Parastasie; +1,451|6684

A 12 inch screen is hardly too small IMO

2010-11-01 10:28:57

#5572

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6502

anything less than 15" and imo you're wasting your time and money. it's just not a good 'working' device.

but okay. everyone thinks these piss-tiny laptops are great nowadays.

they have a shorter lifespan than a pissing iphone

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2010-11-01 10:33:01

#5573

liquidat0r: wtf.; +2,223|6659|UK

my laptop's 13" and that's good for me. nicely portable.

2010-11-01 10:37:39

#5574

.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6485|The Twilight Zone

liquidat0r wrote:
my laptop's 13" and that's good for me. nicely portable.

fits nicely in your Channel purse doesn't it liq? I have one too, smaller, and I use it when I go to a drink with some geeky friends of mine. Some serious exchange of data happens.

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2010-11-01 10:38:55

#5575

.Sup wrote:
liquidat0r wrote:
my laptop's 13" and that's good for me. nicely portable.
fits nicely in your Channel purse doesn't it liq? I have one too, smaller, and I use it when I go to a drink with some geeky friends of mine. Some serious exchange of data happens.

you made my fingers quake thinking about data exchange

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