I wonder who made their Smartpower range? I had one of those fail last year, I took it appart to see if it was just the internal fuse that had blown. What I found inside was one of the worst examples of electronics manufacture I have ever seen. (I worked in this area for 17 years).
The live and neutral mains wiring got reversed by the time it was connected to the pcb so the neutral was fused and the soldering on the underside of the pcb looked like it was done with a red hot poker. The cable looms were like spagetti, individual cables in them were all different lengths
You can hide a multitude of sins behind one of those "Warranty void if broken" paper seals.;)
I've also had problems recently with two Hiper PSU's, Hiper appear to have used some really low quality fans on both these units.
I have a good one for you. In the early hours of October 30th thieves made off with BT multicore cable from their access points in the pavement on my street. Got through to their automated line testing using my mobile, entered the number to be tested (my home landline) waited the short while for the test to complete and it came back saying that there was no fault on my line. I found this all rather amusing as I was standing in the street by the open access point looking at the results of the thieves handy work.
"it seems that the only sensible thing to do is very quietly hand it over to a journalist."
Theft by finding?
I would imagine that if you find something and can't return it to its owner you should hand it into a police station and not a newspaper. Newspapers are not law enforcement bodies. How much do they get paid by said newspapers for handing them a story I wonder?
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Since 2000 I have had seven motherboards fail within warranty period.
1 MSI
1 ECS
1 Abit
4 Asus (All in the last 3 years)
I'm Gigabyte all the way now and won't touch Asus with a bargepole.
I wonder who made their Smartpower range? I had one of those fail last year, I took it appart to see if it was just the internal fuse that had blown. What I found inside was one of the worst examples of electronics manufacture I have ever seen. (I worked in this area for 17 years).
The live and neutral mains wiring got reversed by the time it was connected to the pcb so the neutral was fused and the soldering on the underside of the pcb looked like it was done with a red hot poker. The cable looms were like spagetti, individual cables in them were all different lengths
You can hide a multitude of sins behind one of those "Warranty void if broken" paper seals. ;)
I've also had problems recently with two Hiper PSU's, Hiper appear to have used some really low quality fans on both these units.
They were launched in under 45 minutes too. ;)
EA have just released Red Alert for free too. Posted the link earlier.
http://www.ea.com/redalert/news-detail.jsp?id=62
With installation instructions for XP and Vista.
They also did this a while back with Command & Conquer Gold which is still available on somewhere like filefront iirc.
It's on the BBC site http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7770456.stm
There was also a piece on BBC Radio 4 this morning.
Thank you, a more down to earth explanation than I expected. :)
What that line is that runs parallel to the comet from the centre of the sun to the bottom left of the image?
If that wasn't so true it'd be funny. I did laugh out loud though.
I thought the camera's movement spoke volumes.
To me it said "Whoa WTF was that (doubletake)"
I was sure I read somewhere that they were registering domains ahead of them but they just didn't have the funds to keep doing this.
I read that they had. Servers in Estonia shutdown quickly but one left up in Germany.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/26/srizbi_returns_from_dead/
How many American Football players would be in the same position without their armour?
at £60($90) a month it ought to be bloody awesome
"I guess they just suck !"
I have a good one for you. In the early hours of October 30th thieves made off with BT multicore cable from their access points in the pavement on my street. Got through to their automated line testing using my mobile, entered the number to be tested (my home landline) waited the short while for the test to complete and it came back saying that there was no fault on my line. I found this all rather amusing as I was standing in the street by the open access point looking at the results of the thieves handy work.
175 lines were down in all.
Wait till they're in the bargain bin at three for £10. I'm surprised how quickly they arrive there nowadays.
"c.) either losing my sanity in the confines of ship I can't leave for months on end"
Like any mom's basement dwellers are going to have a problem with this. ;)
I thought rubber came from trees? ;)
"but when I think games, I don't think of a middle-aged white guy. /end rant."
Middle aged white guy here with over 300 bought games for the PC, that's on CD/DVD and not counting the old ones I have on floppies either. I'm 54.
But the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Commission isn't.
"the people currently selling them would move"
Into banking maybe? At least they have lots of hard cash. ;)
folding@home.
My 3GHz C2D gives me 1920 points every 30/33 hours. My Geforce 8800GT gives me 480 points every 2.5 hours.
why the UK government wouldn't condemn illegal Phorm trials.
http://home.clara.net/lesmcdm/images/desktop.png
I still am. ;)
My local pharmacy POS still uses DOS on 486 machines.
"it seems that the only sensible thing to do is very quietly hand it over to a journalist."
Theft by finding?
I would imagine that if you find something and can't return it to its owner you should hand it into a police station and not a newspaper. Newspapers are not law enforcement bodies. How much do they get paid by said newspapers for handing them a story I wonder?