Session Start: Wed Feb 05 00:00:00 2014 Session Ident: #glitchpc [00:00] * Now talking in #glitchpc
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[10:17]<+camerongray> Scotland legalises same-sex marraige (yesterday), lostcoast can't refrain from saying something stupid - "<lostcoast> Now child services will take your kids and place them with same sex parents for safe keeping isn't that wonderful..."
[10:26]<jamer> Hes an idiot ..
[10:31]<+camerongray> yep.
[10:33]<jamer> He lives in California ...
[10:34]<+camerongray> Yeah - That's hardly Bible belt is it?
[10:38]<jamer> Far from it
[10:38]<jamer> Im in the bible belt area
[10:39]<+camerongray> Ahh yeah
[10:39]<+camerongray> I've not met one person here who isn't in full support of it!"
[10:39]<+camerongray> But of course LC wants to have the unpopular opinion
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[10:45]<jamer> camerongray even if he says hes a christian and such just remind him do unto others as you would do unto yourself
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[10:45]<+camerongray> ahh lol
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[11:44]<jamer> camerongray whats your view on thermaltake psus
[11:49]<+camerongray> Very mixed
[11:49]<+camerongray> Their high end units are brilliant but their low end ones can be pretty terrible
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[12:17]<jamer> Thermaltake SMART Series SP-550PCBUS
[12:19]<jamer> i might buy a used high end one then
[12:21]<+camerongray> Hey Calum
[12:21]<@Calum> hey camerongray
[12:24]<+camerongray> Never really had experience with that unit - Doesn't look dreadful
[12:24]<+camerongray> Calum may know though
[12:26]<@Calum> Can't find a proper review of that exact model number, but if it's similar to their other Smart series 550W units (maybe the same with a different model number) it'll be alright
[12:26]<@Calum> probably 6-7/10
[12:26]<jamer> ok
[12:26]<@Calum> most modern Thermaltake units are at least OK, some of their older ones are dire and some are excellent. They tend to just be expensive for what they are because apparently people pay a premium for the name
[12:27]<jamer> basically selling my toshiba 640gb hard drive to a person in my lab and gonna use the money from it to buy it
[12:27]<@Calum> how much is it?
[12:27]<jamer> the toshiba drive or the psu?
[12:28]<@Calum> the PSU
[12:28]<jamer> 50
[12:28]<jamer> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817153172
[12:30]<jamer> eh ... im seeing reviews i dont like ...
[12:31]<@Calum> where?
[12:31]<jamer> on newegg
[12:32]<@Calum> I would ignore the reviews on Newegg...it's pretty likely they're not professional PSU reviewers and therefore are not qualified to say anything about the unit. Remember that someone with a bad experience is more likely to post about it than someone with a good experience
[12:33]<jamer> ive seen at least 5 dead on arrivals
[12:33]<@Calum> that said, there are a lot of 1 egg reviews, so possibly a high DOA rate or possibly just a lot of stupid people buy it and fail at life
[12:33]<jamer> lol
[12:34]<jamer> other psu i was looking at was the http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817438016
[12:35]<@Calum> the EVGA is actually not a bad budget PSU
[12:35]<jamer> its not
[12:35]<@Calum> some of their PSUs are plain awful but that's not bad
[12:35]<jamer> 500 watt continuous
[12:36]<@Calum> Lepa have a pretty cheap 600W but I can't find much info on it as it's quite new, so I'd hesitate to recommend it as they can also be hit & miss.
[12:36]<@Calum> I would go with the EVGA to be honest, it's nice and cheap and not bad at all
[12:37]<jamer> Thanks
[12:42]<@Calum> ah man...nearly snuck a few Haswell i7 laptops past the boss today, but he spotted it and made me change them to something cheaper :( still, new laptops, new monitors & other new kit for us as we have to move the IT office downstairs heh
[12:43]<@Calum> one of us is getting the best desk *ever* - they get to stare at a door that doesn't open, and a fire extinguisher
[12:43]<jamer> Lol
[12:44]<@Calum> so I negotiated us all new kit if we have to move :P
[12:44]<jamer> lol
[12:47]<jamer> all for new kits
[12:48]<jamer> decoration in the office?
[12:48]<@Calum> apparently we're not allowed to decorate or change things it looks "untidy". We can't even have a whiteboard once we move
[12:49]<@Calum> we have one network port per desk and 2 power sockets, so today I ordered 8 power strips and 8x8port switches, so we can..you know...do our job
[12:49]<jamer> lol
[12:50]<jamer> our lab weve decorated before ...
[12:50]<@Calum> it's so badly thought out it's just ridiculous heh, so many obstacles to us using it as a new office. Our current one is perfect, we have storage space, enough power & network ports, and enough desk space to install and repair machines. Down there, nothing
[12:59]<jamer> were gonna have a interesting week .... ithink 3 kids in my lab is gonna get thrown out
[13:00]<@Calum> oh?
[13:01]<jamer> acting up .. one had to right an essayon teamwork and wrote the exact opposite on why teamwork hurts you
[13:01]<@Calum> smart...
[13:03]<jamer> our student adviser walked in on him reading it too
[13:04]<jamer> i think i could make a decent business buying and selling stuff O.o
[13:07]<@Calum> It's easy enough, if you have an eye for a deal
[13:08]<@Calum> and if you have the space & money to buy things and keep them for a little bit, until you can sell for a good price
[13:10]<jamer> i guess you say i do have a bit of an eye for stuff :D
[13:10]<jamer> and i know how much stuff is worth
[13:11]<@Calum> that's the trick to it. I buy and sell quite a lot, not as much as I did but still helps bring in some cash now and again
[13:11]<@Calum> I'm not as lucky at snagging cheap laptops as camerongray though
[13:12]<jamer> or me XD
[13:12]<jamer> dell d620 bought it for 50 dollars :D
[13:13]<@Calum> I just hate bidding on stuff on Ebay, so I leave it for everyone else to do heh. I just buy on the forums mostly, still have those 10 or so laptops sitting waiting for me to get them up for sale
[13:13]<jamer> lol
[13:14]<@Calum> ah nice, I have its smaller brother somewhere around here heh, the D610
[13:14]<@Calum> D620 is a nice laptop
[13:15]<jamer> yeah
[13:16]<jamer> my current laptop im using atm is my acer aspire 5736z
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[14:23]<+camerongray> Calum: I sort ebay listings to ending soonest and a very low max price - Then snipe them at the end
[14:25]<@Calum> I just never have any luck with winning auctions heh, never have done
[14:26]<+camerongray> ahh
[14:26]<+camerongray> I bid on loads, only win very rarely
[14:27]<@Calum> I might give it another go sometime
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[19:48]<jamer> ooo ... found a ibook g3 for sale
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