The TPU UK Clubhouse

[Fourstaff]

Tried getting power and gas connected to my flat, took British Gas almost 2 hours over phone to sort it out. Retards.

[pantherx12]

clearly never spoke to vodaphone virgin bt etc helplines:twitch:

everyone (company) should do as EA do, an online chat forum, theirs has helped me nice n easy a few times

Tried getting power and gas connected to my flat, took British Gas almost 2 hours over phone to sort it out. Retards.



LOL Phone companies are AWFUL, I work in CEX so get people selling in phones to me, blackberrys have a pin so if someones registered it we need the customer to call their service provider and make it so a new user can register the device with their own email address etc.

The amount of times we get people coming back from the phone shop stores with their phones simply reset, or being told that such a thing isn't possible, or we've made it up.

Or they don't even know what a blackberry service account is ( It's something that they are all very good at selling though :laugh:)

Does my head in!







Now to reply to second quote :p

That's why I hate it man, at-least via email you can take a break :laugh:

[KieranD]

I have telephone anxiety which makes telephoning companies a problem.

Also with email you can send pictures or have long explanations without waiting on the phone for them to work things out. Mostly first time you state the problem then they read it go work out some shit and reply with an answer.

[cheesy999]

Tried getting power and gas connected to my flat, took British Gas almost 2 hours over phone to sort it out. Retards.

British gas are crap though, they got fined a few days ago for their stupidity

at the end of the day, i can never describe something very well in writing, plus i can only type at around 50-60 words a minute (source = http://play.typeracer.com/), so talking to people it much faster for me

[kurosagi01]

British gas are crap though, they got fined a few days ago for their stupidity

at the end of the day, i can never describe something very well in writing, plus i can only type at around 50-60 words a minute (source = http://play.typeracer.com/), so talking to people it much faster for me

Wow i don't think you should do courses in future that involves essays then lol.

[theoneandonlymrk]

i made you a walkthrough to get some of my panels/widgets/gadgets



Walkthrough
Download this --> http://rainmeter.googlecode.com/files/Rainmeter-2.0.exe, run the installer, select either 32bit or 64, it doesn't matter

download this --> http://www.deviantart.com/download/1...ia-d2mhn7l.zip --> unzip it --> run the setup file

--> the omnimo theme will start, but it will configure your PC in a windows phone 7 like fashion, just select the correct screen resolution, weather code etc, and let it set itself up

Important bit now, right click one of the panel, and go through the menu to :\WP7\background, and click 'BG.INI' to disable it

you will then have a load of free panels floating on your desktop, you can now move them remove them, and somewhere on your desktop will be an arrow in a circle, click this and it will give you a load of new panels to add, which will do a large variety of different features


after you've done that, you can then modify the panels to look like whatever you want them to look like:D

just sorted it many may have missed it i got a win7 phone desktop sic now to mod it:D

[cheesy999]

Wow i don't think you should do courses in future that involves essays then lol.

Nah, essays are great, i get A/A* in most of 'em

:D

just sorted it many may have missed it i got a win7 phone desktop sic now to mod it:D

Do you think i should make a thread or something about that?, maybe i could screenshot in step for step and make it more in depth?, and good luck modding it, show me what you end up with once you've finished

EDIT:I was playing learn to fly 2 and look what came up --> http://img.techpowerup.org/110728/fly.png

[theoneandonlymrk]

Do you think i should make a thread or something about that?, maybe i could screenshot in step for step and make it more in depth?, and good luck modding it, show me what you end up with once you've finished

id say so, had a mess its v good and v easy, to moddify the look and usefullness of your desktop = win

heres what i have so far ive possibly put a bit too much transparency on mm.:)

43015

cheers dude:D

[cheesy999]

id say so, had a mess its v good and v easy, to moddify the look and usefullness of your desktop = win

heres what i have so far ive possibly put a bit too much transparency on mm.:)

43015

cheers dude:D

nice, looks a bit cluttered for my tastes

Ignore what i said about the thread, i'm thinking of starting some sort of club, where people can share tips on these sorts of things, desktops, taskbars, basically anything that allows you to customize the look of windows

[theoneandonlymrk]

yeh was thinking the same ,its a work in prog tho :)

[cheesy999]

yeh was thinking the same ,its a work in prog tho

i'm already 200 words in:laugh:

[arnoo1]

no i think he can, we allow people into the UK because they have UK GF's, so why not the clubhouse at least :laugh:

EDIT: Even the mailman spends time in here, before Tatty deletes him

count me in then xd


and i have a cool rig? xd

[Fourstaff]

and i have a cool rig?

mine takes less than 65w max, so by design my rig is cooler than yours ;)

[MightyMission]

thats aswell as may be,but mine is subzero
therefore mine is cooler by bodgification :D

[KieranD]

count me in then xd


and i have a cool rig? xd

It was decided a few posts later by Tatty to uphold the values of the original post.
My desktop is clean i used to have a dock bar 2 years ago but now i just have a few icons and thats it, i tried to go all start menu once didnt like it after awhile. I dont run those shitty widgets they just drain resources for the amount of time im on desktop anyway its useless.

[kurosagi01]

Is it just me that i need be in the right set of mind to be able to play console games?? Because all i'm doing is watching Shaman King on my desktop lol.

[cheesy999]

Is it just me that i need be in the right set of mind to be able to play console games?? Because all i'm doing is watching Shaman King on my desktop lol.

All games really, I say that having spent the last 3 days playing gt5 6-8 hours a day

[kurosagi01]

Yeah i guess so lol,finally completed a chapter on Gundam Musou 3/Dynasty Warriors gundam 3.

And i love it on ebay when people give feedback of most typical yet ineffective feedback "fast delivery" yeah alright a week is a fast delivery in the UK. Also hate it when people sell stuff they don't even have courtesy to message you back when you send them a message.

[cheesy999]

Solution: don't buy things on ebay

[kurosagi01]

Perhaps but when i want something that isn't available in stores or online no other choices really lol.

[cheesy999]

What exactly is it you want anyway?

[scaminatrix]

Op is clear in my mind, this is for UK members, it does not say they have to be of UK citizenship however it at least suggests they have to live in the UK, if not it's pointless calling it a "UK" clubhouse...... although the Op is rarely here, that at least was his intention.

Don't forget there's the guy who's English but works in Spain or something - he was accepted among us :laugh:


I used to be terrible on the phone, but one day I just thought "think fast" and now I can say I'm damn good. Probably got a lot to do with the music making thing (freestyling requires fast thinking) but yea, I can leave an answer phone message without any "umms" and "aahs" now. Knowing what you've got to say beforehand helps too :laugh:

[InnocentCriminal]

Don't forget there's the guy who's English but works in Spain or something - he was accepted among us :laugh:

Yeah, because he's English.

[scaminatrix]

Yea, but the bit I quoted, said "suggests they have to live in the UK". That's what I was pointing at.

[FreedomEclipse]

Death to the infidels??

[InnocentCriminal]

Yea, but the bit I quoted, said "suggests they have to live in the UK". That's what I was pointing at.

That's for those that aren't indigenous.

;)

[FreedomEclipse]

That's for those that aren't indigenous.

;)

you sound like bill oddie when you say that.

We arent birds you know!

We dont migrate to warmer countries when it gets cold

and we dont get caught trying to bathe in the neighbours bird bath.

[MightyMission]

We dont migrate to warmer countries when it gets cold

Damn sure i would if given the opportunity!

[FreedomEclipse]

Damn sure i would if given the opportunity!

If you cant stand the weather here then you are not worthy of calling yourself BRITISH! GTFO HEATHEN!!

[KieranD]

you sound like bill oddie when you say that.

We arent birds you know!

We dont migrate to warmer countries when it gets cold

and we dont get caught trying to bathe in the neighbours bird bath.

http://img.techpowerup.org/110729/128824800153771270.jpg

[MightyMission]

i never ever call myself british.home is where you lay your hat right?
I'm an african national :roll:

[KieranD]

I never call myself British either "FREEEEEEEEEEEEEDOM!" lol yeah im from the UK but im still Scottish, though i do get pissed when Yanks call me a limey or something along those lines.
Also Braveheart is a terrible representation of Scottish History, Rob Roy the film was decent more accurate although the MacGregors where actually cattle rustlers and did protection rackets.

[FreedomEclipse]

i never ever call myself british.home is where you lay your hat right?
I'm an african national :roll:

So long as you aint surfin the coast of somalia hijacking peoples boats and stealing peoples booty..... you be welcome in these parts! Yarrrr!!!


(Edit: I know im cutting this pretty close to borderline racism.....)

[MightyMission]

haha
it would be nice to be employed even as a pirate,i mean kiera knightley,she's a bit flat but you would have to be a fudge packer to turn her down! amiright?
you can have that old couple they kidnapped couple months ago,i'l have the flat chick with pouty lips

[Fourstaff]

(Edit: I know im cutting this pretty close to borderline racism.....)

The term racism only exists for the politically correct class. Given that we are not politically correct ...

[MightyMission]

Well the term racism is a fallacy too.
We are all from the human race(some peope i dealt with could be exceptions),so how is it racist?

I guess it depends on how you see evolution,everyone knows that alot of countries were joined before ice caps melted and so continental drift was accentuated,so whats to say we aren't all from one land mass originally anyway?

[scaminatrix]

Well the term racism is a fallacy too.
We are all from the human race(some peope i dealt with could be exceptions),so how is it racist?

Good point, it should be called ethnicism!!

[KieranD]

Discrimination pretty much covers everything, so i say we just call it that.

I cant stand discriminating its not political correctness its having manners and being polite, people are cunts because they are cunts and nothing else!

END OF RANT.

[FreedomEclipse]

Discrimination pretty much covers everything, so i say we just call it that.

I cant stand discriminating its not political correctness its having manners and being polite, people are cunts because they are cunts and nothing else!

END OF RANT.

youre Scotish! what the f**k do you know about being polite :laugh::laugh:

[Fourstaff]

youre Scotish! what the f**k do you know about being polite :laugh::laugh:

Sounds like he is more polite than this chinese specimen :nutkick:

[KieranD]

youre Scotish! what the f**k do you know about being polite :laugh::laugh:

Im going to ignore that you southern fairy :laugh:

[MightyMission]

Fack off you fackin cant!

Guys i got a question:i got dirt 2 retail game,but my son has broke the disk,i cant register it as a coupon to download it through games for windows live,i cant do that with steam either,is the serial tied to the disk do you think? i mean if i borrowed a legit disk but entered my own serial?

[scaminatrix]

Fack off you fackin cant!

THIS! A true southener pronounces f*cking c*nt as "facking cant"! Sweet, I've found a way of swearing on the forums at last!

[kurosagi01]

Freedom why don't you go back to lapsap doi where you belong lol.

Someone recommend me a cheap loud phone for like £20-30,need one that can play loud ringtone and when taking calls the voice is loud aswell from the receiver.

[MightyMission]

yew can fack off too yew facking ferry! :roll: god i love phonetics :D cants der lotter yah

kuro: i dont know if its any good to you,i got a nokia e63(e6300?) sitting in front of me,that only ever gets used to see inside the pc case when im too lazy to drag it out from under the table?
my proper fone cost 4x as much and doesnt have a torch function,so the e63 has a hard life being an ultra bright torch occasionally..

[kurosagi01]

yew can fack off too yew facking ferry! :roll:

kuro: i dont know if its any good to you,i got a nokia e63(e6300?) sitting in front of me,that only ever gets used to see inside the pc case when im too lazy to drag it out from under the table?

Well i need it to be loud because i want get it for my parents take away,as when i take calls i can barely hear the receiver from my ears,maybe because my ears sucks or the phone is too quiet. Or the receiver not talking loud enough or something.

[MightyMission]

im not gonna test it now as i finally got my youngest off to sleep but i will let you know tomorrow fella.

[scaminatrix]

Freedom why don't you go back to lapsap doi where you belong lol.

Someone recommend me a cheap loud phone for like £20-30,need one that can play loud ringtone and when taking calls the voice is loud aswell from the receiver.

W810i.My all time favourite phone, rugged as a rock and very loud (has manual equaliser settings etc.). Good luck getting hold of one now though, they're old.

E63's are a nice phone apparently. Really good reviews online.

[MightyMission]

its not bad mate,it does what it should and that torch its got is like one of those penlight laser thingys you used to be able to get!
i have a w810 my mate give me coz he couldnt pay for osmething,thats the one with the stylus built into the side right?
the imei thingy got blocked after a month,snidey norvern basterd!

[scaminatrix]

:laugh: yup those northener's will get you every time *waits for beating*
The w810i's this (http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/products/mobilephones/overview/w810i?cc=gb&lc=en) one, she's not a touchscreen. I've had loads of them through my door; I fix phones so if anyone ever needs a screen replaced etc. I do all that shizzle.

[kurosagi01]

Well the e63 be nice but qwerty keyboard won't be necessary. The phone is only used to pick up calls only lol as its for taking phone orders.
So the w810i has good speakers and when you take calls its loud??

[scaminatrix]

So the w810i has good speakers and when you take calls its loud??

Yea from what I remember. Have you thought about using the headphones? You could just stick one headphone in when you get a call. You know the earphones like this with the rubber bits in:

http://store.whsle.biz/images/Sony%20MDR-EX51LP%20In-Ear%20Earphones%20(Black).jpg

they would be perfect in a loud environment IMO.

[KieranD]

The old K800i but you'd probably be stuck getting it second hand. Fucking rugged phone, i used to love that phone and lol its better than my current phone.

[kurosagi01]

Yea from what I remember. Have you thought about using the headphones? You could just stick one headphone in when you get a call. You know the earphones like this with the rubber bits in:

http://store.whsle.biz/images/Sony%20MDR-EX51LP%20In-Ear%20Earphones%20(Black).jpg

they would be perfect in a loud environment IMO.
My parents don't like earphones and the phone used at work is old school its an old nokia phone with those giant plugs to plug in to use earphones.
The old K800i but you'd probably be stuck getting it second hand. Fucking rugged phone, i used to love that phone and lol its better than my current phone.
I love the k800i it was definitely one of the best phones i have owned,very reliable in every way. Excellent camera and fast lol.
I was thinking about getting a k800i to replace my parents work phone.

[KieranD]

My parents don't like earphones and the phone used at work is old school its an old nokia phone with those giant plugs to plug in to use earphones.

I love the k800i it was definitely one of the best phones i have owned,very reliable in every way. Excellent camera and fast lol.
I was thinking about getting a k800i to replace my parents work phone.

K800i has a good audio and signal quality, the speakers are clear, voice is good on this too. Has a bright screen and the menus are easy to navigate.

Thing feels nice to hold and the phone is well built, it can stand a lot of punishment.

You can get one of those cheap phones but the k800 would be better overall and since its a few years old it will be cheap to get. I looked up some cheapo phones at like £10 lots of them are bright screen and simple to use but no mention of call quality or volume :( which can be a problem on those. Nokia C2 isnt very loud and doesnt feel good if your hands are sweaty, my grandparents have that as their main phone but its easy to use.

EDIT: yeah man the k800i was fast to use everything just happened as soon as you pressed it unlike my current nokia, fucking sloooooooooooooow! Great battery life too i almost forgot that.

[Tatty_One]

Yea, but the bit I quoted, said "suggests they have to live in the UK". That's what I was pointing at.

If your not a UK citizen you can be of another nationality providing you live in the UK, If I was a Russian living in Angola would I be eligable? :D

[FreedomEclipse]

If your not a UK citizen you can be of another nationality providing you live in the UK, If I was a Russian living in Angola would I be eligable? :D

YES

Because you would be moonlighting as a double agent for Mi5!!

I know you too well tatty! you and your Ops training will never fool me!!!

[Tatty_One]

YES

Because you would be moonlighting as a double agent for Mi5

Damn you finally found me out :cool:

[cheesy999]

Best page on the internet --> http://pophangover.com/2011/07/25/20-wtf-wifi-network-names/

[FreedomEclipse]

Its 27'c here....and i want a BBQ...

[cheesy999]

Its 27'c here....and i want a BBQ...

don't know about the temp, i've only left the house twice this week and both times i went by car.

BBQ sounds like a good idea though...

Still think that's a really good wifi name --> http://pophangover.com/images/wtf-wifi-5.jpg

[scaminatrix]

It does sound epic. I like in a block of flats though so no bbq for me :laugh:

Fish and chips for din dins tonight.

[cheesy999]

It does sound epic. I like in a block of flats though so no bbq for me :laugh:

Fish and chips for din dins tonight.

Pizza for me :)

Can't you just have the barbecue inside or something?

[FreedomEclipse]

Can't you just have the barbecue inside or something?

yeah....Its called a kitchen fire.

Hail to the chef!!

[scaminatrix]

Maybe I'll try and get onto the roof - that'd be nice :laugh:

[cheesy999]

Maybe I'll try and get onto the roof - that'd be nice :laugh:

i don't know how high your house is (this might be dangerous) but it sounds good, you get a lovely view from that height

EDIT: i have pepsi for the first time this week!!!

[scaminatrix]

Yea, I got the sea like 300 metres from my house. It's only 3 stories high but would get a nice tan, and it'd be peaceful. Only bad thing would be the seagulls crapping everywhere.

[cheesy999]

Yea, I got the sea like 300 metres from my house. It's only 3 stories high but would get a nice tan, and it'd be peaceful. Only bad thing would be the seagulls crapping everywhere.

How sloped is your roof, if it's a flattish one then it'd be a good idea

[scaminatrix]

Yea it's completely flat up there. The builders are always going up there to fix aerials and stuff but the loft-hatch thing they go through's got a padlock on.

Might have to borrow my Dad's bolt-croppers :D

[cheesy999]

http://pophangover.com/images/evr-9.jpg

This is so close to my summer so far it's scaring me

[Arciks]

looks like its me on sofa there :D

[cheesy999]

looks like its me on sofa there :D

you own a mac?

what led to that bad decision :rolleyes:

[Arciks]

you own a mac?

what led to that bad decision :rolleyes:

No not that, its just i spend more time on sofa than on real life this must be ended i hope after wedding will make me change my life a bit, because 6years ago i was a good sportsmen and now i got like extra 20Kg on me

[scaminatrix]

Meh you made a good choice IMO :laugh: sports is overrated, and you only get a billion heartbeats (so they say)

[cheesy999]

No not that, its just i spend more time on sofa than on real life this must be ended i hope after wedding will make me change my life a bit, because 6years ago i was a good sportsmen and now i got like extra 20Kg on me

i've only left this house twice this week, and since my PC is broken i've spent about 6-8 hours a day on the playstation

As opposed to last week where i had so many things to do and not enough time to do them

[Arciks]

welcome to the team, I guess we spend too much time on PC and PS3 or whatever.

[scaminatrix]

Finished work experience now cheesy?

[cheesy999]

welcome to the team, I guess we send too much time on PC and PS3 or whatever.

I've gone from having around 30 cars on GT5 to about 130 in 3 days :laugh:

[Arciks]

I've gone from having around 30 cars on GT5 to about 130 in 3 days :laugh:

i played very little on GT5 but lineage2 took lots of time from my highschool life so i couldnt finish my grade,
and after than i just moved to England, atleast now i got job and dont sit on familys neck :D

[Arciks]

tomorrow i flyin to my homeland to get married on 6th Aug, hope everything will go smooth

[FreedomEclipse]

tomorrow i flyin to my homeland to get married on 6th Aug, hope everything will go smooth

Congratulations, you've just sold your soul to the devil!

[FreedomEclipse]

Just had an offer from someone on ebay to buy my PSU for £70....I dunno... I wanted £80

[scaminatrix]

Just had an offer from someone on ebay to buy my PSU for £70....I dunno... I wanted £80

Market's not great at the mo. That reminds me - did you sell your 5850 to some guy called Sean by any chance?

[FreedomEclipse]

Market's not great at the mo. That reminds me - did you sell your 5850 to some guy called Sean by any chance?

nope I did not.

[scaminatrix]

nope I did not.

Aah, I won't bother with the long story then :roll:

[FreedomEclipse]

Trying to press for £75 + P&P for the PSU...

[cheesy999]

tomorrow i flyin to my homeland to get married on 6th Aug, hope everything will go smooth

Homeland? where?

[kurosagi01]

I am always out for like hour or two going gym lol..or going shopping with family or whatever.
But mostly at home doing nothing.
Going out tonight though as its friend birthday.

[NdMk2o1o]

Cannot fricken wait for next week, check my new audio setup :pimp::

http://images.thomann.de/pics/prod/185476.jpg
http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/8/1/8/5/3/5/webimg/418817134_o.jpg

[cheesy999]

Looks nice, how much?

[NdMk2o1o]

Looks nice, how much?

£175 for the headphones and £30 for the amp, the headphones I managed to get from an German audiophile site where they normally retail for £200-£250 in the UK.

[NdMk2o1o]

Awesome a club for the mob we beat in sport 90 odd % of the time never get tired of beating the mother country hehehehe :p:D have fun ya all :toast:

haha reading the first page I came across this, oh how the tables have turned :nutkick: :rockout: :roll:

[FreedomEclipse]

Just had a look at the first page myself. UK Clubhouse was started back in August 2008....It still feels like the club was started yesterday.

[FreedomEclipse]

On a more serious note.... I was doing some lurking across the internets (as you do) and i came across this.....

http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n210/FinalFreedomEclipse/7800GTX.jpg

the price puts it in the same range as a 6950 which is utterly disturbing for a card thats so many generations old....
Not only that! BFG are long gone :laugh:

[FreedomEclipse]

motherf**kers on ebay are lowballing me for my 5850 -_____-

[cheesy999]

In retrospect starting a 500 mile long race may not have been the best thing to do at 11 o clock at night but it does feel great when you finish :D

[Arciks]

Homeland? where?

Latvia, and thanks.Maybe I sold my soul to Devil, but it could be the only way for salvation :)

[cheesy999]

So your in Latvia? I was trying to work out why I wasn't the only uk user online at 4 in the morning :laugh:

[FreedomEclipse]

So your in Latvia? I was trying to work out why I wasn't the only uk user online at 4 in the morning :laugh:

Insomnia

[cheesy999]

All forms of insomnia can be fixed by playing many hours of computer games, and i'm dangerously close to unlocking the 24 hour races on gt5 :D

[KieranD]

lol i see you lurking in this thread cheesy what time is it? i went to bed at 9pm but i just woke up during the night so i decided to play some zelda on the 3ds which leads me nicely to the point im on the shitty 3ds browser right now, it dosent even do tabs lol. ah freedom sucks to get lowballed, i hate selling on ebay ive had a sega master system up for 3 months no bites still at least its not like gumtree all the lowballers there!

[KieranD]

my sleep pattern is eratic to say the least

[scaminatrix]

Howdy peeps! What a boring Sunday - Might get some beers...

[FreedomEclipse]

Howdy peeps! What a boring Sunday - Might get some beers...

go to church you heathen!!!

[Fourstaff]

Animeh, animeh, animeh!

[scaminatrix]

there's a church across the road from my flats so I think I'm close enough to god already :laugh:

[FreedomEclipse]

I think I'm close enough to god already :laugh:

that will be your Mrs talkin when shes in the wild throes of an on coming orgasm!

get yer self to church!!!

[Fourstaff]

that will be your Mrs talkin when shes in the wild throes of an on coming orgasm!

get yer self to church!!!

Real man goes to mosques.

[scaminatrix]

Mate if I walked into a church the whole place would instantly set alight in violent flames :p

[FreedomEclipse]

Mate if I walked into a church the whole place would instantly set alight in violent flames :p

Tell steven spielbergs special FX team to take a hike then!!!

----

Loving this AC unit... went from 29'c to 26'c in less then an hour.

:ebay update:

was offerd £60 for my PSU & £85 for my 5850 :roll:


all i said was "Not a chance mate, Thanks for viewing"

[Techtu]

Just curious... how much would I expect to get for the RAM in my main rig? and are any of you interested maybe (I will make a FS thread if interest is shown - I'd like to keep with the rules).

[FreedomEclipse]

not quite sure. Prices seem to be all over the place for that set of ram. (OCZ Obsidian's were on about i hope) some shops sell new for £30 others sell for over £100 Id just say £30-35 as £50-70 seems the be what most sites are quoting

[Techtu]

I'd be happy with £30, I originally paid £90 but that is besides the point unfortunately and I've seen some other's that I really want... Just need to find a buyer for these :D


... and yes we're talking about the obsidians.

[scaminatrix]

What latency is it Tech?

[Techtu]

CL9 I've honestly never really tried pushing them anything beyond the default value's either, ChickenPatty tried to tell me how to do it one time but I gave up almost instantly :laugh:

[cheesy999]

Today i found two Amazing places in canterbury

The first was a shop dedicated to selling anime (in DVD, VHS and Paper!!!) and old games consoles from the 80/90's for really cheap prices

The second is this place --> http://www.facebook.com/GWCanterbury which is one of the best places i've ever seen, i now want a job just so i can buy their stuff

[FreedomEclipse]

theres quite a few of those places in london.

[cheesy999]

theres quite a few of those places in london.

but it takes 1H 25M to get to go the 60 miles from here to london, it's only 49mins for the 8 miles to canterbury (got to love southeastern, almost an hour to go 8 miles)

[FreedomEclipse]

So???there are mo oppotunies to work at the places you want if your ones reject you :p

[cheesy999]

So???there are mo oppotunies to work at the places you want if your ones reject you :p

no i didn't mean a job at the shop, i meant a job so i can get money, which i can spend in the shop

[KieX]

So.. what do you think?

http://img.techpowerup.org/110731/P7310003.jpg

That's my makeshift way of keeping the sun out of my room to keep it cool. Window on the left is open so that all my crunchers blow air outside straight from the shelve unit I put in front of it.

[FreedomEclipse]

In that case dont come to london. bigger population = less jobs

[scaminatrix]

So.. what do you think?

http://img.techpowerup.org/110731/P7310003.jpg

That's my makeshift way of keeping the sun out of my room to keep it cool. Window on the left is open so that all my crunchers blow air outside straight from the shelve unit I put in front of it.

Very ghetto :pimp: Careful - high electric bills + cardboard on your windows; people might think you're cultivating :laugh:

[cheesy999]

Very ghetto :pimp: Careful - high electric bills + cardboard on your windows; people might think you're cultivating :laugh:

:wtf: <-- the police faces when they raid his home to find a load of computers stacked everywhre

meanwhile, a very important decision has to be made, warhammer or warhammer 40000?

[Fourstaff]

meanwhile, a very important decision has to be made, warhammer or warhammer 40000?

Neither :p I prefer the old Warhammer if I have to choose.

[scaminatrix]

40,000 for me. More oppurtunitys for crazy paint options IMO. Old Warhammer's just "cloth, wood, flesh, blood, spears." Bit boring. I like guns Guns GUNS!!!

[cheesy999]

i've narrowed my first army down to 3 if i go to 40000

Space marines --> http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?categoryId=cat440176a&aId=6500052a (40000)

Blood angels --> http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/landingArmy.jsp?catId=cat440165a&rootCatGameStyle= (40000)

Orks (only army i've used yet) --> http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?categoryId=cat440175a&aId=10500005 (40000)

If i go for the original it could be anything but it's most likely lizardmen

[Fourstaff]

Standard S-M is boring. Go for Daemonhunters instead. Or Witch Hunters.

[cheesy999]

Standard S-M is boring. Go for Daemonhunters instead. Or Witch Hunters.

S-M does give you a large variety of colours and paint schemes to try out though

I think I'll decide when I'm in the store, if i look at the models in the shop it should be a lot easier to pick one out, whether i go 40000 or not will depend on what my friends do as i don't want to end up with a load of stuff i can't use cause everyone i know is on a different game

[Fourstaff]

S-M does give you a large variety of colours and paint schemes to try out though

I think I'll decide when I'm in the store, if i look at the models in the shop it should be a lot easier to pick one out, whether i go 40000 or not will depend on what my friends do as i don't want to end up with a load of stuff i can't use cause everyone i know is on a different game

My advice is that you ignore collecting. Things cost expensive fast, and at the end of the day, you will sell everything eventually anyway. Personal experience at least. Better spend money on rigs. :D

[KieranD]

Games Workshop in Glasgow on Union Street is all warhammer and similar little models ect, no anime or computer games. There is a shop called Geforce but its kinda high priced, i get most of my games from the internet; shop to, amazon ect.

There's another thing its computer games not vidya gaems!

When i was in high school i knew a guy who collected warhammer and had a massive lord of the rings helms deep model. Not that i was really mates with him or anything more an acquaintance.

[cheesy999]

No, the anime and games shop is a different place from the warhammar place

@ fourstaff, I'm not collecting them, i just like painting them and playing the games with them, and as much !s I would like to spend money on my rig there's nothing I want to spend money on at the moment

[FreedomEclipse]

When i was in high school i knew a guy who collected warhammer and had a massive lord of the rings helms deep model. Not that i was really mates with him or anything more an acquaintance.

when i was in highschool, i also knew a guy like that. we'd be sitting in geography class and he'd be painting his warhammers lol

[KieranD]

when i was in highschool, i also knew a guy like that. we'd be sitting in geography class and he'd be painting his warhammers lol

TBH this dude i knew made it hard on himself for various reasons like saying he was allergic to alcohol and said he was part of some mosh crew and did this sign with his hands lol (he obviously want part of any group or crew). I knew he went to college to do sound engineering but apparently he is or was a sound engineer on some disney cruise thing lol which is funny because he became a big metal head near the end of high school so its funny to see that he ended up doing that. One of my mates has him added on facebook but i wouldn't add him.

Im not a warhammer fan at all.

[FreedomEclipse]

So you discriminate against him just because hes a metal head??

[Fourstaff]

So you discriminate against him just because hes a metal head??

That is reason enough, no?

[FreedomEclipse]

That is reason enough, no?

and youre chinese.

thats enough reason to discriminate against you

[FreedomEclipse]

Disliking or hating someone is cool. if the guys an asshole, fine! hes an asshole. but if you hate on him because he likes a genre of music that you dont like then its no worse then racism.

Its just childish and immature just like the 'Imma pc & Imma Mac' arguments

[Fourstaff]

and youre chinese.

thats enough reason to discriminate against you

I kid, I kid :)

But discrimination will always be there, it can never be stomped, only reduced.

[Bo$$]

Its just childish and immature just like the 'Imma pc & Imma Mac' arguments

never in my life have heard such insolence :mad: , You are hereby banished from this clubhouse and TPU! :shadedshu


:laugh:

[InnocentCriminal]

never in my life have heard such insolence :mad: , You are hereby banished from this clubhouse and TPU! :shadedshu

If only.

[kurosagi01]

Time for me to go ape shit on this user for declaring something real when its not.
Bidded on a pair of beats tour earphone,£51 i was pretty happy,because the guy say they were authentic because of serial number...But soon as i got it today it was obvious its fake just by the box itself.
But some people say box don't matter,so i dug deeper and the packaging is clearly fake too.
Now that i msg the user his going get a lot of heat from me.
He/she sold lots of beats so i assume they were legit,but my am i wrong.
Never again am i going buy those products off ebay again now.
Lesson to be learnt for myself and i am going get myself some serious earphones when i get my money back.

[Fourstaff]

Bidded on a pair of beats tour earphone ...

:shadedshu You should have consulted Head-fi.org first before bidding on any ear gear. Quite a few of the earphones should not be bought because of the prevalence of fakes, Sennheiser CX300, Monster stuff, IE8, etc.

[cheesy999]

Time for me to go ape shit on this user for declaring something real when its not.
Bidded on a pair of beats tour earphone,£51 i was pretty happy,because the guy say they were authentic because of serial number...But soon as i got it today it was obvious its fake just by the box itself.
But some people say box don't matter,so i dug deeper and the packaging is clearly fake too.
Now that i msg the user his going get a lot of heat from me.
He/she sold lots of beats so i assume they were legit,but my am i wrong.
Never again am i going buy those products off ebay again now.
Lesson to be learnt for myself and i am going get myself some serious earphones when i get my money back.

Serious headphones, so when you get your money back, your not going to get beats are you. :wtf: (just to clarifiy, i've got nothing against people who buy beats, it's just a personal dislike of the brand because they manage to get people to pay twice as much for them compared to other headphones of a simalar quality)

if you are going to get other headphones, try this link --> http://www.whathifi.com/reviews/accessories/headphones I've only bought 2 pairs of their reccomendations, but so far i've found they get it pretty much spot on, in terms of what they say

[LifeOnMars]

Annoyed. Should have been recieving my new SSD today but bloody parcelforce forgot to load it on the van!! It should now be coming tomorrow. It was a next day delivery through ebuyer. Should I complain to ebuyer as well as Parcelforce? If so, what's the best method on ebuyer to rant and rave?

[cheesy999]

Annoyed. Should have been recieving my new SSD today but bloody parcelforce forgot to load it on the van!! It should now be coming tomorrow. It was a next day delivery through ebuyer. Should I complain to ebuyer as well as Parcelforce? If so, what's the best method on ebuyer to rant and rave?

call them

I thought ebuyer were shipping my stuff today but apparently i got the 'ship date' and the 'delivery date' mixed up

[InnocentCriminal]

All this buying malarkey. I'm so tempted to buy the 8GB Mushkin RAM on Aria but it's not actually £39.99 fuckers bung an extra £7 standard postage on it.

:(

I hate Aria sometimes.

[cheesy999]

All this buying malarkey. I'm so tempted to buy the 8GB Mushkin RAM on Aria but it's not actually £39.99 fuckers bung an extra £7 standard postage on it.

:(

I hate Aria sometimes.

looks like we're all having problems with shops lately, i think the cure would be to stop buying stuff online... It's always a delivery problem or something that could of been spotted eaily if you'd bought it in person

[Fourstaff]

All this buying malarkey. I'm so tempted to buy the 8GB Mushkin RAM on Aria but it's not actually £39.99 fuckers bung an extra £7 standard postage on it.

:(

I hate Aria sometimes.

I thought if you are active at their forums, you can get delivery free?

[cheesy999]

I thought if you are active at their forums, you can get delivery free?

why would you be active on their forums, when TPU is so much better?

[InnocentCriminal]

I thought if you are active at their forums, you can get delivery free?

I expect you do but I'm not active on their forums otherwise I wouldn't have a problem.

[Fourstaff]

why would you be active on their forums, when TPU is so much better?

Just to get free delivery? It says something like 50 posts or 20 posts in the last week or something like that. Something any TPU'er can do in a day or less.

[cheesy999]

Just to get free delivery? It says something like 50 posts or 20 posts in the last week or something like that. Something any TPU'er can do in a day or less.

not worth the effort really, last time i looked there was nothing interesting on their forums

[InnocentCriminal]

I'll sign up anyway and do the whole helping thang. I used to be active on the Novatech forums but I lost interest. However, I did win a i7 870 in a Intel compo they held. However I sold it as I needed the money to go on a flat. Kinda wish I kept it.

:(

[kurosagi01]

:shadedshu You should have consulted Head-fi.org first before bidding on any ear gear. Quite a few of the earphones should not be bought because of the prevalence of fakes, Sennheiser CX300, Monster stuff, IE8, etc.
Well the seller used a picture of a legit box,being stupid of me because i found the picture on google lol and i am waiting for answer from head-fi now as i am abit lost with it because of variations of the box changes from monster. I have emailed person
Serious headphones, so when you get your money back, your not going to get beats are you. :wtf: (just to clarifiy, i've got nothing against people who buy beats, it's just a personal dislike of the brand because they manage to get people to pay twice as much for them compared to other headphones of a simalar quality)

if you are going to get other headphones, try this link --> http://www.whathifi.com/reviews/accessories/headphones I've only bought 2 pairs of their reccomendations, but so far i've found they get it pretty much spot on, in terms of what they say

I am getting my money back if people will agree their fake and i will get lot better earphones when i do.

[scaminatrix]

Time for me to go ape shit on this user for declaring something real when its not.
Bidded on a pair of beats tour earphone,£51 i was pretty happy,because the guy say they were authentic because of serial number...But soon as i got it today it was obvious its fake just by the box itself.
But some people say box don't matter,so i dug deeper and the packaging is clearly fake too.
Now that i msg the user his going get a lot of heat from me.
He/she sold lots of beats so i assume they were legit,but my am i wrong.
Never again am i going buy those products off ebay again now.
Lesson to be learnt for myself and i am going get myself some serious earphones when i get my money back.

That's quite definitely your own fault for thinking beats are good earphones :p They are absolute sh*t and not worth a w*nk. I don't understand why anybody is even bothering to buy them.
Oh yea, cuz they've got dre's name on :banghead:

C'est terible


Afternoon everyone :pimp:

[cheesy999]

C'est terible

This, both his music (if you can call it that) and his headphones

[gumpty]

Annoyed. Should have been recieving my new SSD today but bloody parcelforce forgot to load it on the van!! It should now be coming tomorrow. It was a next day delivery through ebuyer. Should I complain to ebuyer as well as Parcelforce? If so, what's the best method on ebuyer to rant and rave?

Complain to ebuyer - that is who you paid and who you have a 'contract' with. I've had a similar thing happen and they refunded the whole delivery. I think I opened an 'e-ticket' or something like that.

[cheesy999]

it had to happen, someone mixed 2 of the best things on the internet together

http://nik.bot.nu/o5141.jpg

[kurosagi01]

That's quite definitely your own fault for thinking beats are good earphones :p They are absolute sh*t and not worth a w*nk. I don't understand why anybody is even bothering to buy them.
Oh yea, cuz they've got dre's name on :banghead:

C'est terible


Afternoon everyone :pimp:

Lol i didn't have any thought of thinking there great earphones and i didn't give a crap about dr dres name on it either.

[cheesy999]

anyone else noticing TPU keeps becoming unavailable

[Techtu]

Yes... Thought I'd been banned for not doing my FS thread correctly :laugh:

[InnocentCriminal]

anyone else noticing TPU keeps becoming unavailable

I started sweating.

[cheesy999]

Yes... Thought I'd been banned for not doing my FS thread correctly :laugh:

no, i've got the 'maintainece' picture once or twice, and when it fails to load, google chrome says 'many other users are currently experiencing similar problems' so...

[Tatty_One]

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=149914

[KieranD]

So you discriminate against him just because hes a metal head??

At what point did i say i hated this guy i knew because he was a metal head? Please clarify that for me.

[cheesy999]

At what point did i say i hated this guy i knew because he was a metal head? Please clarify that for me.

yeah, why would anyone discriminate against someone just because they listen to one of the best types of music?

[KieranD]

The Aria free delivery is 50 posts every month. I dont think its unachievable infact its probably easy but i dont know if there is a lot of activity in their forums. Ebuyer is supersaver right? I think its over £50 or something. Scan.co.uk do free delivery with hexus or av forums members, i think its orders over £50.

yeah, why would anyone discriminate against someone just because they listen to one of the best types of music?

Where did i say i did? Because i dont and dont want people thinking i do.
Sycophants who only enjoy the popular music of the moment annoy me, the people who change music types because of popularity are stupid, people who swing with todays fads ect. I dont hate anyone because they listen to a certain genre.

[cheesy999]

The Aria free delivery is 50 posts every month. I dont think its unachievable infact its probably easy but i dont know if there is a lot of activity in their forums. Ebuyer is supersaver right? I think its over £50 or something. Scan.co.uk do free delivery with hexus or av forums members, i think its orders over £50.

Ebuyer is £50

Scan is orders over £20 with AV forum




Where did i say i did? Because i dont and dont want people thinking i do.
Sycophants who only enjoy the popular music of the moment annoy me, the people who change music types because of popularity are stupid, people who swing with todays fads ect. I dont hate anyone because they listen to a certain genre.

I was implying you didn't, worst people in my view are people who say 'that's old' about music, good music doesn't age, it stays as good as it was 30-40 years ago, it's only crap music thats get old and boring

[InnocentCriminal]

The Aria free delivery is 50 posts every month.

Same as Novatech, I'll have to get post on as I want that Mushkin RAM for £40.

:/

[FreedomEclipse]

At what point did i say i hated this guy i knew because he was a metal head? Please clarify that for me.

the part where you said he couldnt work for disney because he became a metal head

[scaminatrix]

I've just been rung on my house phone by a blatant scammer.
I answered the phone and an american woman's voice said "You have won an all-expenses paid holiday to the Caribbean. Press 1 to claim your prize!"

I knew it was a scam so I pressed 1. Obviously!
A foreign guy answers and the conversation goes like this:


"Hi, claims center; can I have your name please?"
"So who's this?"
"I'm calling on behalf of Visa Mastercard, I just need your name sir so I can pull up the details of your winnings"
"Apparently I've won a holiday."
"Okay sir, I just need to pull up your details so I can check what you've won."
"Sam Curtis" <- Fake name. Obviously!
"Oh yes, I have your details here. Now, to confirm the Visa or Mastercard account that is associated with the prize, I just need you to make sure the beginning of the 16 digit card number on the front of your card begins with a 4." <- They all do don't they? btw, I don't have a Mastercard or a Visa!!
"Yes it does."
"Okay sir, can you go ahead and read off the 16 digit number off the card?"
"No, if you've got in front of you, you can read it back to me."
"Sorry sir I can't do that."
"What's your name?"
"My name is Bill Welch."
"And what company do you work for?"
"I'm sorry?"
"You obviously work for a company. What company do you work for?"
Goes quiet... "Mr Welch, I can't hear you, you're breaking up."
"What are you on about? I'm not Mr. Welch, apparently you're Mr. Welch."


Hangs up.

Some scammers are just laughable!! Didn't even prepare with a fake company name! Was I the first one he done or summat?

[InnocentCriminal]

Some scammers are just laughable!! Didn't even prepare with a fake company name! Was I the first one he done or summat?

My GF & I don't answer the phone any more as we constantly get cold-callers and these 'competition wins'. Have you had the "Your computer is infected with viruses..." call yet?

That one is fucking great. Being an enthusiast first & a technician second, the phone-call didn't last long when I started firing off the questions. Bloody bum'oles! Still, some ignorant sods get caught out.

[cheesy999]

My GF & I don't answer the phone any more as we constantly get cold-callers and these 'competition wins'. Have you had the "Your computer is infected with viruses..." call yet?

That one is fucking great. Being an enthusiast first & a technician second, the phone-call didn't last long when I started firing off the questions. Bloody bum'oles! Still, some ignorant sods get caught out.

but that sounds fun, the idea is to try to have fun with the scammer, and waste as much of his time as possible, the trick with the Computer virus one is to pretend your using windows 95 and dial-up, you can waste about 4-5 minutes of his time just by telling him your waiting and playing dial-up noises loudly into the phone

[InnocentCriminal]

but that sounds fun, the idea is to try to have fun with the scammer, and waste as much of his time as possible, the trick with the Computer virus one is to pretend your using windows 95 and dial-up, you can waste about 4-5 minutes of his time just by telling him your waiting and playing dial-up noises loudly into the phone

When they catch on they hang up pretty quickly unfortunately.

[scaminatrix]

Na, I haven't had any of those calls yet. This was our first one (only had a phone line since end of May)

cheesy's kinda got the right idea - If my fingers would work quick enough, I'd have pulled up some other scam artists bank details from 419eater (where a scammer has asked a victim to put money in his account but the victim has instead posted the details online for others to scam scammers with lol)
So yea basically I would have given him the bank details of another scammer.

I just rung BT and reported it.

[cheesy999]

This --> o4MsAVm5XQc 23-40seconds in is actually pretty decent

[purecain]

When they catch on they hang up pretty quickly unfortunately.

my dad has the best one, he answers the phone and as soon as he realises its an ad or scam he goes...i've been waiting for this... let me just go and get my bank card... then just leaves the phone on the side and goes back to whatever he was doing... :cool:

[scaminatrix]

I saw some thing on TV where a guy had a load of pre-recorded messages and he just made them play when the geezer stopped talking. Sat with a cuppa reading the paper while the guy was saying about these new double glazing windows for like an hour!

[KieranD]

the part where you said he couldnt work for disney because he became a metal head

No i never said that man. I said i found it funny and it is funny because you wouldn't expect a guy like him to end up working for a company like Disney. I dont know how that equals i hate metal heads.


Anyone heard of a Nokia 3201? According to google it doesn't exist because i can find fuck all pages about it. My mums a retard she could have got a good phone upgrade and like a dumb fuck said i just want a phone i can text and read none of this touch stuff mumbo.

She was supposed to cancel and get a new provider obviously got swindled into staying with 3 of all fucking networks.

I think it might be the indian guy on the phone trying to say C2-01 which is an appolingly cheap phone, just have to wait till wednesday to find out what it is.

[cheesy999]

Anyone heard of a Nokia 3201? According to google it doesn't exist because i can find fuck all pages about it. My mums a retard she could have got a good phone upgrade and like a dumb fuck said i just want a phone i can text and read none of this touch stuff mumbo.

Looks to be one of those low-mid range phones, It has a Touchscreen (and due to the sort of pages i've seen for it, i'd imagine it to be the same unresponsive and laggy one found in low end samsungs

It will probably have basic apps from that nokia App store

are you sure you don't mean the 2301, looks to be what she's describing --> http://latestmobilephones4u.blogspot.com/2008/03/nokia-2301-review.html

It's probably worth 20-30 brand new on PAYG, so if she's locked into a contract with it, she's been ripped off really badly

[cheesy999]

just saw this --> http://store.steampowered.com/app/70420/ looks really good actually, anyone else know how good it is?

[MightyMission]

my boys got it,he reckons it quite good,but you must remeber to save games as it doesnt autosave.

[cheesy999]

my boys got it,he reckons it quite good,but you must remeber to save games as it doesnt autosave.

looks similar to the older games, back when they concentrated on fun instead of graphics

i'm looking for something that'll play well on an intel graphics card. and not cost too much

[KieranD]

Looks to be one of those low-mid range phones, It has a Touchscreen (and due to the sort of pages i've seen for it, i'd imagine it to be the same unresponsive and laggy one found in low end samsungs

It will probably have basic apps from that nokia App store

are you sure you don't mean the 2301, looks to be what she's describing --> http://latestmobilephones4u.blogspot.com/2008/03/nokia-2301-review.html

It's probably worth 20-30 brand new on PAYG, so if she's locked into a contract with it, she's been ripped off really badly

Hahaha well what happened was my mother was phoning up to cancel her contract with 3 but they offered her more minutes and texts for the same price, i think she pays £13 or maybe £15 cant remember. The upgrade they offered was "what phone would you like" now id have said the best one you can offer me and googled whatever they offered but typical women answer was "just one for texting and phoning please!". I guess i will have to wait till Wednesday to find out what she got, the gentleman was an Indian with quite a strong accent but i thought the telephone marketing people in India got training to talk to Brits on the phone? Who cares.

Anyway i just wanted to ask about a deal i saw for a mobile phone contract.
http://phone-shop.tesco.com/tesco-mobile/paymonthly/deals/434d7b85-8686-445a-9d71-d4a55efe827d?CurrntPage=2&PageSize=9&RowCount=11&SortBy=-1&ManufacturerId=135&ModelId=328&PriceId=-1&ContractDurationId=-1&TypeId=1

700mins, 5000texts, 500mb internet, £25 a month £50 upfront for the handset. Samsung Galaxy S II. Tesco piggy back off the O2 network so coverage is excellent.

[cheesy999]

Hahaha well what happened was my mother was phoning up to cancel her contract with 3 but they offered her more minutes and texts for the same price, i think she pays £13 or maybe £15 cant remember. The upgrade they offered was "what phone would you like" now id have said the best one you can offer me and googled whatever they offered but typical women answer was "just one for texting and phoning please!". I guess i will have to wait till Wednesday to find out what she got, the gentleman was an Indian with quite a strong accent but i thought the telephone marketing people in India got training to talk to Brits on the phone? Who cares.

Anyway i just wanted to ask about a deal i saw for a mobile phone contract.
http://phone-shop.tesco.com/tesco-mobile/paymonthly/deals/434d7b85-8686-445a-9d71-d4a55efe827d?CurrntPage=2&PageSize=9&RowCount=11&SortBy=-1&ManufacturerId=135&ModelId=328&PriceId=-1&ContractDurationId=-1&TypeId=1

700mins, 5000texts, 500mb internet, £25 a month £50 upfront for the handset. Samsung Galaxy S II. Tesco piggy back off the O2 network so coverage is excellent.

Looks good, whats the question?, looks like a really nice phone, one warning though, as i know someone who has a HTC on the o2 network, they always have 2g signal, but on o2 the 3g signal is comparitivly poor compared, he only has 3g signal in very limited places and it is normally quite slow when it does work.

Overall, if you want the internet to be fast on your phone, steer clear of o2, cause in the southeast at least, the 3g reception is quite bad for o2, i'd say go for T-mobile, however i heard they aren't as good up north as they are down here

[KieranD]

Yeah i just wanted someone else to confirm its a good deal as i dont want to do anything and get bummed out. Might go into Phones 4 U and Carphone Warehouse and ask if they can equal that deal or better. I dont think i will get better than that tesco deal for the money.

[kurosagi01]

All networks will have poor signal depending on area you are,also for the "3g" thing your friend may have not got an updated sim card from o2.
I remember my brother couldn't get 3g connection on his old o2 sim card on a HTC so he got o2 newest sim card and 3g was working on his HTC now.

[cheesy999]

All networks will have poor signal depending on area you are,also for the "3g" thing your friend may have not got an updated sim card from o2.
I remember my brother couldn't get 3g connection on his old o2 sim card on a HTC so he got o2 newest sim card and 3g was working on his HTC now.

No, he got a brand new sim card, and I think he's on his second now cause the first one didnct work, he also had to talk to them because they decided they would add £5 a month to his contract for no reason, overall, If you'd of asked me a few years ago I'd of recommended o2, but its not a few years ago, its now, amd they've caused the people I know so many problems I'm glad I switched to t-mobile last year, overall avoid o2 because their customer service exists only to cause you pain and suffering

[KieranD]

Actually o2 have had a great customer service and signal for me and a few of my family. I would recommend them to anyone but their expensive.

I think its a case of personal experience although i thought o2 was considered decent but pricey like i said.

[cheesy999]

They were really good up till this year, ever since then, they seem to have lost the abilaty to do anything correctly , add in the fact that they have a 3g network where you can go from full signal to none everytime you walk Inside a building or near anything using high voltage electrcity ( i went to crew on the train watching youtube videos on my mobile, where he was sitting next to me on the train unable to even get google) has led me to beleive that o2 must of had some sort of management change last year that's left them totally incompetent.

[FreedomEclipse]

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[kurosagi01]

Well it really comes down experience i guess,i've been with virgin for my 1st time i had phone and been with them 2 or 3 years.
Moved to o2 and i loved it but switched to orange because i accidentally locked my SE w380i lol to orange.
Then moved back to o2 and been on o2 ever since.
Only problem i have is signal in certain areas and price i am paying compare to others on o2.

[cheesy999]

6FWUjJF1ai0&NR

Strange, i never used to be able to watch youtube videos straight of the webpage, but now i can, but only in fullscreen, still, i'm doing better then an iphone would do on a phone a 1/4 of the price

Ignore that, i can watch it out of fullscreen as well

[gumpty]

I refuse to get 24 or 18 month contracts. But that's just me, I'm bitter. I have it in my head that phone companies are sneakily collaborating to drive up prices.

In NZ about 10 or so years ago they abolished the practice of giving away free phones by tying people into contracts. So initially it was great. You paid for the handset up front and were only on a cheap rolling monthly contract. But slowly, as new high-end handsets appeared, the companies used these as an excuse to tie people back into contracts - to the point now that you still pay hundreds, if not thousands for a high end handset, but are again locked into a long-term contract. Asshats.
Over here it is similar. When I first got a mobile contract in late 2006, 12 month contracts were everywhere; I would upgrade my phone each year - Orange would offer an excellent deal if you threatened to quit (protip: the people that deal with the disconnect requests are the only ones that can offer proper deals that go beyond what they offer in retail). Except every year, the number of 12 month options from all the different companies got smaller and smaller, so my bargaining power as a consumer got smaller too.
Thankfully Tesco has bought back a bit of a resurgence in 12 month contract. Long may it continue.

/rant

EDIT: An example of how they've fucked the market in NZ.

Galaxy S2 - £375 up front + 24 month £40p/m contract (http://www.vodafone.co.nz/shop/mobileDetails.jsp?skuId=sku12060049&voucherCode=&selectionKey=mobile&menuKey=)

Fuck that. Before I move back there I am going to buy up big on tech.

[LifeOnMars]

Morning all,

:shadedshu, I feel sorry for the poor ebuyer customer service person who receives a call from me this morning.

My scheduled next day delivery for yesterday (SSD) can still not be located by Parcelforce at their National hub so I'm not going to receive it today either.

Anyone remember Basil Fawlty venting his anger on a car, that's how I feel :pimp:

http://youtu.be/78b67l_yxUc

[kurosagi01]

Wow parcelforce lost your SSD?? They would probably have to make claims back to ebuyer and then refund your money back or something.

[MightyMission]

i bet they send out a replacement one and both turn up :D
RAID 0!

[cheesy999]

I refuse to get 24 or 18 month contracts. But that's just me, I'm bitter. I have it in my head that phone companies are sneakily collaborating to drive up prices.

In NZ about 10 or so years ago they abolished the practice of giving away free phones by tying people into contracts. So initially it was great. You paid for the handset up front and were only on a cheap rolling monthly contract. But slowly, as new high-end handsets appeared, the companies used these as an excuse to tie people back into contracts - to the point now that you still pay hundreds, if not thousands for a high end handset, but are again locked into a long-term contract. Asshats.
Over here it is similar. When I first got a mobile contract in late 2006, 12 month contracts were everywhere; I would upgrade my phone each year - Orange would offer an excellent deal if you threatened to quit (protip: the people that deal with the disconnect requests are the only ones that can offer proper deals that go beyond what they offer in retail). Except every year, the number of 12 month options from all the different companies got smaller and smaller, so my bargaining power as a consumer got smaller too.
Thankfully Tesco has bought back a bit of a resurgence in 12 month contract. Long may it continue.

/rant

EDIT: An example of how they've fucked the market in NZ.

Galaxy S2 - £375 up front + 24 month £40p/m contract (http://www.vodafone.co.nz/shop/mobileDetails.jsp?skuId=sku12060049&voucherCode=&selectionKey=mobile&menuKey=)

Fuck that. Before I move back there I am going to buy up big on tech.

Hang on, you mean to say your actually new zealandish? (The correct word has temporarily escaped from my head)

why would you move back there? if your missing the sheep you could always go to wales :laugh:

And that disconnect thing is not entirely true, i know someone who reguraly manages to get £5 less on their contract, or takes a lower contract and has the included stuff upgraded, just by spending a very long time talking to the sales department.

Phone related story, When my dad wanted a new phone, he wanted a HTC Desire, now the people at phones 4U get massive bonus commision if they sell nokia's, compared to the amount for HTC's, I have to say, they were really good salesmen, theyt used every single trick in the book to try to sell him this crappy nokia which wasn't even touchscreen for an incredibly high price, unfortunately, i was also their, and over the years, through varius sources, i've also learnt most of the trick salesmen use, and also how to counter most of them, when i managed to convince him he didn't want the nokia, the Phones 4U Salesmen then went and got a second person to help him sell the phone, to skip to the end of the story, we left the phone having tried out every phone in the shop, having assistance from all but 1 staff member, and since they wouldn't give us a HTC desire for £25 (apparently they were out of stock of a contract?) we didn't get anything from them

[InnocentCriminal]

i bet they send out a replacement one and both turn up :D
RAID 0!

I hope that happens for LifeOnMars, that'd be fuckin' amazin'!

[Techtu]

Scaminatrix is such a great guy!! (Not in a gay way... sorry :p)


I got that upgrade itch, was torn between 8gb of RAM or just get 2tb drive to replace my storage (1tb) .... or suggestions?

[cheesy999]

anyone know hos good this is, thinking of replacing the broken PSU i've been using for the past few weeks (Thermaltake 575W Toughpower XT Modular PSU | Ebuye... (http://www.ebuyer.com/234911-thermaltake-575w-toughpower-xt-modular-psu-tpx-575m))

it's on £21 off meaning it's quite cheap for a modular and i've heard it's very high quality

[Techtu]

Just been reading a review cheesy and it doesn't sound too bad...

Thermaltake Toughpower XT 775 W is definitely a good power supply that easily beats cheaper 750 W units (Seventeam ST-750P-AF, Cooler Master GX 750 W, Thermaltake TR2 RX 750 W, etc), but its success among its competitors will depend a lot on its street price.

Review Here (http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/Thermaltake-Toughpower-XT-775-W-Power-Supply-Review/926/1).

[MightyMission]

yea scam is cool(in an entirely hetero way ofcourse)
i hope you get a free ssd techtu!
i know nothing of psu's cheesy.sorry.

[LifeOnMars]

I hope that happens for LifeOnMars, that'd be fuckin' amazin'!

Got me hoping now :laugh:

I only happened to get one of the nicest guys in customer service didn't I......I couldn't get angry with him dammit :mad::) Still, I made my point known and he had a note on there about my call yesterday so at least that shows some efficiency on their part. He is now following the issue up with Parcelforce and has assured me that I will receive the item tomorrow, even if they have to ship another one out today.............SSD Raid anyone :D

I'll keep whoever is interested up to date in this thread, here's hoping I get double the throughput I was expecting ;)

[kurosagi01]

Got me hoping now :laugh:

I only happened to get one of the nicest guys in customer service didn't I......I couldn't get angry with him dammit :mad::) Still, I made my point known and he had a note on there about my call yesterday so at least that shows some efficiency on their part. He is now following the issue up with Parcelforce and has assured me that I will receive the item tomorrow, even if they have to ship another one out today.............SSD Raid anyone :D

I'll keep whoever is interested up to date in this thread, here's hoping I get double the throughput I was expecting ;)

You got the blokes name so when you next time phone ebuyer you just ask for that rep as he remember the issue.

[LifeOnMars]

You got the blokes name so when you next time phone ebuyer you just ask for that rep as he remember the issue.

I did mate. I have worked in many call centres myself in the past and many moons ago I used to have my internet through Tiscali. I'm well aware that spending hours on the phone waiting for something to be sorted can be useless unless you have a constant point/person to reference.

I actually got on first name terms with Tiscali I was phoning them that bloody often :D

[Fourstaff]

I use a dumb phone with Voda, and given that I don't have a lot of friends anyway, I don't need to use my phone for anything other than emergency. No contract nonsense for me :D

[gumpty]

Hang on, you mean to say your actually new zealandish? (The correct word has temporarily escaped from my head)

why would you move back there? if your missing the sheep you could always go to wales :laugh:

Ah, the sheep jokes. Next time you're chewing away on a succulent Welsh lamb chop, or juicy NZ lamb roast, just remember the extra care we bestowed upon them. And yet you guys still eat it.

New Zealander is the technical way to describe us. I think. Kiwi will do too. 'Aussie' is a good way to insult us.

And that disconnect thing is not entirely true, i know someone who reguraly manages to get £5 less on their contract, or takes a lower contract and has the included stuff upgraded, just by spending a very long time talking to the sales department.

Yeah, I don't like talking on the phone, so when my contract comes up I just call the Orange number to get the PUK code, explaining that I cannot find the deal I want on Orange. They usually splutter for a minute then offer to have a look to see if they can better the deal I'm after - which they can. I've tried the sales guys but they've always tended to be rigid in the deals they can offer. I'm not the most persuasive person on the phone though.

[InnocentCriminal]

Got me hoping now :laugh:

I only happened to get one of the nicest guys in customer service didn't I......I couldn't get angry with him dammit :mad::) Still, I made my point known and he had a note on there about my call yesterday so at least that shows some efficiency on their part. He is now following the issue up with Parcelforce and has assured me that I will receive the item tomorrow, even if they have to ship another one out today.............SSD Raid anyone :D

I'll keep whoever is interested up to date in this thread, here's hoping I get double the throughput I was expecting ;)

I'll be interested to know how you get on. Just update the thread it's better than most of the conversations that go on in these 'ere parts.

[MightyMission]

lets see some figures to get us salivating too :D

[KieranD]

I use a dumb phone with Voda, and given that I don't have a lot of friends anyway, I don't need to use my phone for anything other than emergency. No contract nonsense for me :D

This will be my first contract, way i see it is there is no way i could get 750 mins and 5000 texts from a £25 top up and id have to buy my own new phone. Galaxy S II are what £300-400? Not that i would spend that id probably get a cheaper phone but a lot of the single core android phones can be sluggish and i want to go to a faster phone not one that does a lot more but slower.

I'll be interested to know how you get on. Just update the thread it's better than most of the conversations that go on in these 'ere parts.

If you think the conversation is lacking why not make a few new posts yourself? No?

@LifeOnMars - For the inconvenience at the least ebuyer should give a full refund to delivery, they should be able to claim it back from parcelforce i think. I hate waiting like that, i bet some bugger slipped it away after work for themselves.

[cheesy999]

yes!, now i have 2 wireless networks!!!, think of the choice, and this new one has almost infinite range

EDIT:It even works outside my house, i don't know what sort of witchcraft edimax have used but this Wi-Fi signal is never ending

[InnocentCriminal]

If you think the conversation is lacking why not make a few new posts yourself? No?

Didn't say it was lacking as there is more than enough to read, it's just not interesting if you lot have been to the gym or not for 3 weeks or whatever. Tedious. I'll only post if I think it's relevant to the thread.

[cheesy999]

What would cause a laptop to run for longer then it's rated battery life?

[Fourstaff]

What would cause a laptop to run for longer then it's rated battery life?

Magic. Laptops nowadays have better power saving features than "average battery estimate" can handle, leading to wild estimates.

[KieranD]

Didn't say it was lacking as there is more than enough to read, it's just not interesting if you lot have been to the gym or not for 3 weeks or whatever. Tedious. I'll only post if I think it's relevant to the thread.

Some of us are here out of boredom rather than for our striking conversation i suspect :laugh:

[KieranD]

What would cause a laptop to run for longer then it's rated battery life?

Useage, depends on how CPU Intensive the programs your using are.

[Fourstaff]

Some of us are here out of boredom rather than for our striking conversation i suspect :laugh:

Boredom is a good catalyst for trying to start conversation :D

[MightyMission]

cheesy:minimal usage of graphics,lower resolution,undervolting,underclocking(setfsb/clockgen),not turning it on :D

[cheesy999]

Useage, depends on how CPU Intensive the programs your using are.

mixture of TPU+Music, gaming, so the answer would be not very

cheesy:minimal usage of graphics,lower resolution,undervolting,underclocking(setfsb/clockgen),not turning it on :D

no, i'm not trying to make it last longer, it just is for some reason

Magic. Laptops nowadays have better power saving features than "average battery estimate" can handle, leading to wild estimates.

I think it might be because i set the cooling to passive, so there aren't many moving parts, still, i want one of these core i laptops now, i can do gaming without any fans spinning up, impressive

EDIT:Proccesor is reading 10.82W in HW monitor

[scaminatrix]

Ok, who just sent me £18; and why?
I've checked PP and it's genuine, someone just sent money to me. Man, I'm forgetting shizzle left right and center here...
If I got a trade pending with anyone, let me know :p

[cheesy999]

Ok, who just sent me £18; and why?
I've checked PP and it's genuine, someone just sent money to me. Man, I'm forgetting shizzle left right and center here...
If I got a trade pending with anyone, let me know :p

not me, i'm interested in your dark knight, but i have no money on me, and won't till the end of august

[scaminatrix]

not me, i'm interested in your dark knight, but i have no money on me, and won't till the end of august

Aah, DK yea... I think I remember now lol I gotta shoot a PM.

[Fourstaff]

I think it might be because i set the cooling to passive, so there aren't many moving parts, still, i want one of these core i laptops now, i can do gaming without any fans spinning up, impressive

Friend has an i7 processor inside, it gets LOUD once you start stressing it. you want the Sandy Bridge ones, not the old gen ones.

Ok, who just sent me £18; and why?
I've checked PP and it's genuine, someone just sent money to me. Man, I'm forgetting shizzle left right and center here...
If I got a trade pending with anyone, let me know :p

Yes, I paid £18 for your entire rig. Please send it to the address, PM incoming :p

[MightyMission]

dammit fourstaff you ninja'd me!
i'l give you £9 for the crosshair4,you can keep the rest:rockout:

[cheesy999]

Friend has an i7 processor inside, it gets LOUD once you start stressing it. you want the Sandy Bridge ones, not the old gen ones.



Could be one of those quad cores, i'm on an old I3, but it's a dual core, so 35W TDP as opposed to 45W on quad + no turbo boost means it doesn't push right up to the 35W, also, the fact that HP made it so this laptop doesn't spin up till the proc hits 60'c helps a lot

i used to think of HP as a bad company, however this laptop has changed my opinion of them

[scaminatrix]

Yes, I paid £18 for your entire rig. Please send it to the address, PM incoming :p


i'l give you £9 for the crosshair4,you can keep the rest:rockout:

Damn, what did I agree to last night? Why do I feel sore? :laugh:

[Fourstaff]

dammit fourstaff you ninja'd me!
i'l give you £9 for the crosshair4,you can keep the rest:rockout:

You pay for postage? Deal! Now where is Scam when we need him :roll:


i used to think of HP as a bad company, however this laptop has changed my opinion of them

I have lost faith in most of the major companies to produce consistent quality. The next product I buy will need to be backed up by good feedback from community. Especially after the Nvidia graphics ass rape.

Need to change the name of the clubhouse to "jobless UK peeps clubhouse". Wonder where Freedom is, he is usually around. Maybe I trolled him too much >.>

[cheesy999]

You pay for postage? Deal! Now where is Scam when we need him :roll:



I have lost faith in most of the major companies to produce consistent quality. The next product I buy will need to be backed up by good feedback from community. Especially after the Nvidia graphics ass rape.

Need to change the name of the clubhouse to "jobless UK peeps clubhouse". Wonder where Freedom is, he is usually around. Maybe I trolled him too much >.>

i think i will get whatever laptop has high specs for a good price, and if it doesn't work well i'll make some modifications to it when the warranty runs out, there was a nice i3 370 + ATI 5650 for £330 last week, if something like that comes us when i have money :)

[Fourstaff]

i think i will get whatever laptop has high specs for a good price, and if it doesn't work well i'll make some modifications to it when the warranty runs out, there was a nice i3 370 + ATI 5650 for £330 last week, if something like that comes us when i have money :)

Don't lose sight on what your primary need is though, I thought my laptop was awesum until I needed to run Matlab simulations. Its faster for me to walk to uni, run it on their i7's, have tea and come back. That is how slow the processor is.

[MightyMission]

Damn, what did I agree to last night? Why do I feel sore? :laugh:

:roll:

[cheesy999]

Don't lose sight on what your primary need is though, I thought my laptop was awesum until I needed to run Matlab simulations. Its faster for me to walk to uni, run it on their i7's, have tea and come back. That is how slow the processor is.

I3 and 6650 is good for games, should run most games maxed out, it'll definatly run Dirt 3 and all the other console ports maxed out, and so long as you don't turn the Resolution up too high i've heard the 6650 is not exactly bad when it comes to games like BC2 or crysis

[Fourstaff]

I3 and 6650 is good for games, should run most games maxed out, it'll definatly run Dirt 3 and all the other console ports maxed out, and so long as you don't turn the Resolution up too high i've heard the 6650 is not exactly bad when it comes to games like BC2 or crysis

Good for games, not so good for work >.>

[cheesy999]

Good for games, not so good for work >.>

are you saying i may struggle with word and excel?

the worst my computers ever do it video encoding, and it's not as if you do that in a rush

i do run adobe programs like Photoshop occasionally, seeing as my primary camera is 7 megapixels, i'm not ever going to end up working with massive files

My main question is, Can a Core I dual core, cope with video editing and maybe video transcoding, 'cause i have a feeling may be doing a lot of that after September, but i won't have any Core I7 to go to if i need more power. The best i can do otherwise is a phenom II X4, or a first gen core 2 Dou, so there's won't be much competition for the processor to deal with

i've always have desktops for the power, but now processors seem to be improving faster then programs create more load for them

EDIT:I can change the font!

[KieranD]

are you saying i may struggle with word and excel?

the worst my computers ever do it video encoding, and it's not as if you do that in a rush

i do run adobe programs like Photoshop occasionally, seeing as my primary camera is 7 megapixels, i'm not ever going to end up working with massive files

My main question is, Can a Core I dual core, cope with video editing and maybe video transcoding, 'cause i have a feeling may be doing a lot of that after September, but i won't have any Core I7 to go to if i need more power. The best i can do otherwise is a phenom X4, or a first gen core 2 Dou, so there's won't be much competition for the processor to deal with

Maybe but it will be slow, you need like a quad for high def video editing but cache and raw speeds help too.

Just wait untill the bulldozer is out and you can snag a cheap x6 or something. As for a laptop most of them run sandybridge i3s but thats okay if the graphics chip is low or medium anyway. Sandybridge output less heat and use less power.

Just overclocked my CPU to 3.6ghz at 1.325v which i think is good, its been at desktop and playing a video file for about an hour so hope it will only need a little more bump if it fails something more demanding like OCCT.

[Fourstaff]

are you saying i may struggle with word and excel?

No, I am just telling you my experiences. I bought this laptop thinking that I will only need it for games and interwebs, and since that I only play Starcraft 2, Torchlight and other low req games, it was fine. And then simulations came. And I got raped. Hard. Just don't repeat the same mistake as I did.

[KieranD]

Also not so good for work as the games put you off doing anything productive lol!

[Fourstaff]

Also not so good for work as the games put you off doing anything productive lol!

lol, you dont need to rub it in

[cheesy999]

I won't have to do anything like that for at least 3 years, overall, it'll be a case of, i'll get whatever laptop i can afford, and if it isn't powerful enough for whatever reason i'll have to use my phenom desktop.

i3 350 + 5650 is what i'm really looking at as a minimum, but there was a nice i5 + 550M i saw yesterday

Overall, it'll depend what i can get in a few months time, i'll probably see what refurbs are around after christmas

[Fourstaff]

I won't have to do anything like that for at least 3 years, overall, it'll be a case of, i'll get whatever laptop i can afford, and if it isn't powerful enough for whatever reason i'll have to use my phenom desktop.

In that case just get whatever suits you best.

Bored >.>

[cheesy999]

In that case just get whatever suits you best.

Bored >.>

do any of you have sky?

[Fourstaff]

do any of you have sky?

I don't do TV.

[cheesy999]

I don't do TV.

http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2011/5/25/5f377e87-413f-4979-9f90-7e6be889c7fd.jpg

Maybe you wouldn't be bored if you had Sky movies

EDIT: Do you have spotify?

[KieranD]

http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2011/5/25/5f377e87-413f-4979-9f90-7e6be889c7fd.jpg

Maybe you wouldn't be bored if you had Sky movies

More like Sky repeats all day everyday. I bet you dont have to pay for that Sky TV do you cheesy?

[MightyMission]

We got sky but i can't stand tv,the sky has got lots of educational/interesting programs for the kids though

[cheesy999]

More like Sky repeats all day everyday. I bet you dont have to pay for that Sky TV do you cheesy?

no, but we got Sky movies, cause when we rang them up to cancel it, and they offered us movies and halved the price of our subscription, they sent us a Sky anytime wireless adapter a few weeks ago, which we've used a lot (imagine having loads of movies available to watch, anytime you want, for free) and a letter arrive this morning telling us they were freezing the price of our subscription for 12 months, ever since we tried to cancel, they seem to of started throwing free stuff at us in an attempt to make us stay, and it has worked

[Fourstaff]

I have always been a gamer, and only recently (in the last few years), I started being more of an otaku. I haven't been to cinema for the past year >.>

[MightyMission]

(in the last few years), I started being more of an otaku. >.>
whats an otaku?

[Fourstaff]

whats an otaku?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=otaku