The polar opposite of my build. I wouldn't know cable management if it slugged me upside the head
I have my SSD and spinners setup vertically inside the disk trays just below the optical drive.
I wouldn't mind a mini ATX case. Those are reasonable sized, but compact enough to look cleaner up on a desk. I'm using my old Elite 350 right now, but I'd love to get my hands on an N400. Maybe for the next build I'll go for a mini ATX config. IDK yet. 4790k rig should get me by for years to come. For now I should focus on getting a new GPU. I've always detested Radeon drivers on Windows, but flip the table top and boot Linux and it's reversed. Nvidia on Linux leaves a bit to be desired...
Maybe ... maybe not.
I used to love big cases - huge boxes with nothing inside. Now, I'm smitten by Small Form Factor (SFF) cases.
I wouldn't mind a mini ATX case. Those are reasonable sized, but compact enough to look cleaner up on a desk.
I've always detested Radeon drivers on Windows, but flip the table top and boot Linux and it's reversed. Nvidia on Linux leaves a bit to be desired...
I've splashed out on an external CD-ROM drive.
I'm smitten by Small Form Factor (SFF) cases.
SFF cases are packed like a can of sardines, and changing the config is akin to solving a Rubixs Cube puzzle[...]
I'm very tempted to buy a Dell mini and mount it either behind the monitor, or underneath the desk. I've seen these setups on hospital carts, receptionist's desks, and so forth, where space is at a premium.
I've still got an Iomega Zip-Drive, and an old 3.5" Fujitsu Magneto-Optical drive sitting in the closet. God knows why [...]
Okay my interest is peaked now .. why those specific tyres ?
Okay my interest is peaked now .. why those specific tyres ?
Okay we may have a winner for something we actually get cheaper....
https://www.oponeo.co.uk/tyre/michelin-primacy-alpin-pa3
My father never drove a car. Well, that's not quite right.
I should say I never saw him drive a car.
He quit driving in 1927, when he was 25 years old, and the last car he drove was a 1926 Whippet.
'In those days,' he told me when he was in his 90s, 'to drive a car you had to do things with your hands, and do things with your feet, and look every which way, and I decided you could walk through life and enjoy it or drive through life and miss it.'
At which point my mother, a sometimes salty Irishwoman, chimed in:
'Oh, bull----!' she said. 'He hit a horse.'
'Well,' my father said, 'there was that, too.'
So my brother and I grew up in a household without a car.
The neighbors all had cars -- the Kollingses next door had a green 1941 Dodge, the VanLaninghams across the street a gray 1936 Plymouth, the Hopsons two doors down a black 1941 Ford -- but we had none.
My father, a newspaperman in Des Moines, would take the streetcar to work and, often as not, walk the 3 miles home. If he took the streetcar home, my mother and brother and I would walk the three blocks to the streetcar stop, meet him and walk home together.
My brother, David, was born in 1935, and I was born in 1938, and sometimes, at dinner, we'd ask how come all the neighbors had cars but we had none.
'No one in the family drives,' my mother would explain, and that was that.
But, sometimes, my father would say, 'But as soon as one of you boys turns 16, we'll get one.' It was as if he wasn't sure which one of us would turn 16 first.
But, sure enough, my brother turned 16 before I did, so in 1951 my parents bought a used 1950 Chevrolet from a friend who ran the parts department at a Chevy dealership downtown.
It was a four-door, white model, stick shift, fender skirts, loaded with everything, and, since my parents didn't drive, it more or less became my brother's car.
Having a car but not being able to drive didn't bother my father, but it didn't make sense to my mother.
So in 1952, when she was 43 years old, she asked a friend to teach her to drive.
She learned in a near by cemetery, the place where I learned to drive the following year and where, a generation later, I took my two sons to practice driving. The cemetery probably was my father's idea. 'Who can your mother hurt in the cemetery?' I remember him saying more than once.
For the next 45 years or so, until she was 90, my mother was the driver in the family. Neither she nor my father had any sense of direction, but he loaded up on maps -- though they seldom left the city limits -- and appointed himself navigator.
It seemed to work.
Still, they both continued to walk a lot. My mother was a devout Catholic, and my father an equally devout agnostic, an arrangement that didn't seem to bother either of them through their 75 years of marriage. (Yes, 75 years, and they were deeply in love the entire time.)
He retired when he was 70, and nearly every morning for the next 20 years or so, he would walk with her the mile to St. Augustines Church. She would walk down and sit in the front pew, and he would wait in the back until he saw which of the parish's two priests was on duty that morning.
If it was the pastor, my father then would go out and take a 2-mile walk, meeting my mother at the end of the service and walking her home.
If it was the assistant pastor, he'd take just a 1-mile walk and then head back to the church. He called the priests 'Father Fast' and 'Father Slow.'
After he retired, my father almost always accompanied my mother whenever she drove anywhere, even if he had no reason to go along.
If she were going to the beauty parlor, he'd sit in the car and read, or go take a stroll or, if it was summer, have her keep the engine running so he could listen to the Cubs game on the radio. In the evening, then, when I'd stop by, he'd explain: The Cubs lost again. The millionaire on second base made a bad throw to the millionaire on first base, so the multimillionaire on third base scored.'
If she were going to the grocery store, he would go along to carry the bags out -- and to make sure she loaded up on ice cream. As I said, he was always the navigator, and once, when he was 95 and she was 88 and still driving, he said to me,
'Do you want to know the secret of a long life?'
'I guess so,' I said, knowing it probably would be something bizarre.
'No left turns,' he said.
'What?' I asked.
'No left turns,' he repeated. 'Several years ago, your mother and I read an article that said most accidents that old people are in happen when they turn left in front of oncoming traffic.
As you get older, your eyesight worsens, and you can lose your depth perception, it said. So your mother and I decided never again to make a left turn.'
'What?' I said again.
'No left turns,' he said. 'Think about it. Three rights are the same as a left, and that's a lot safer. So we always make three rights.'
'You're kidding!' I said, and I turned to my mother for support 'No,' she said, 'your father is right. We make three rights. It works.' But then she added: 'Except when your father loses count.'
I was driving at the time, and I almost drove off the road as I started laughing.
'Loses count?' I asked.
'Yes,' my father admitted, 'that sometimes happens. But it's not a problem. You just make seven rights, and you're okay again.'
I couldn't resist. 'Do you ever go for 11?' I asked.
'No,' he said ' If we miss it at seven, we just come home and call it a bad day. Besides, nothing in life is so important it can't be put off another day or another week.'
My mother was never in an accident, but one evening she handed me her car keys and said she had decided to quit driving. That was in 1999, when she was 90. She lived four more years, until 2003. My father died the next year, at 102.
They both died in the bungalow they had moved into in 1937 and bought a few years later for $3,000. (Sixty years later, my brother and I paid $8,000 to have a shower put in the tiny bathroom -- the house had never had one. My father would have died then and there if he knew the shower cost nearly three times what he paid for the house.)
He continued to walk daily -- he had me get him a treadmill when he was 101 because he was afraid he'd fall on the icy sidewalks but wanted to keep exercising -- and he was of sound mind and sound body until the moment he died.
One September afternoon in 2004, he and my son went with me when I had to give a talk in a neighboring town, and it was clear to all three of us that he was wearing out, though we had the usual wide-ranging conversation about politics and newspapers and things in the news.
A few weeks earlier, he had told my son, 'You know, Mike, the first hundred years are a lot easier than the second hundred.' At one point in our drive that Saturday, he said, 'You know, I'm probably not going to live much longer.'
'You're probably right,' I said.
'Why would you say that?' He countered, somewhat irritated.
'Because you're 102 years old,' I said.
'Yes,' he said, 'you're right.' He stayed in bed all the next day.
That night, I suggested to my son and daughter that we sit up with him through the night.
He appreciated it, he said, though at one point, apparently seeing us look gloomy, he said: 'I would like to make an announcement .. No one in this room is dead yet'
An hour or so later, he spoke his last words:
'I want you to know,' he said, clearly and lucidly, 'that I am in no pain.
I am very comfortable. And I have had as happy a life as anyone on this earth could ever have.'
A short time later, he died.
I miss him a lot, and I think about him a lot. I've wondered now and then how it was that my family and I were so lucky that he lived so long.
I can't figure out if it was because he walked through life, or because he quit taking left turns. '
~ Michael Gartner, editor of newspapers large and small and president of NBC News (1988-1993).
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I haven't looked at the tyre prices but isn't it something to do with the fact that American cars tend to look like they're on automotive growth hormone? In other words, are most of the tyres actually bigger?
16", the same as my sons Fiat, and smaller than my missus Vitara.
I run 40 psi in these tires and they're schizo as fek ;D
I used to run my Toyos at 40 or 42... but have deflated these Kumhos to 35 because the roads on our end of town are just too frakking falling apart and thus noisy... all is well whenever we hit fresh new pavement... but our local City Council Rep seems to be only repaving roads in neighborhoods that predominately vote for her... roads around her office have had work done several times, but our neighborhood hasn't seen roadwork in the entire 10 years we've lived here.Hi spence,
::)
Hi spence,
Isn't that what is called democracy in action ? >:(
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I have to say (yet again)...
I don't know when it became cheaper to buy a Dell, than to build a 'salad bowl' computer*, but it is.
* By 'salad bowl' computer I mean, throw a bunch of mismatched items into a box, stir it, and hope it works.
Take the CPU, for instance. Hell, one can buy a complete Dell 7010 i7 for less than the price of the CPU alone :-\
That's just begging for a Peppermint sticker :)
I plan to treat myself to a used Dell monitor.
That's just begging for a Peppermint sticker :)
Great idea. I might request a couple of those :)
I purchased this card September 1 2016. The card has been used for total of 6 months and would consider it in almost like new or perfect condition. it can be used for very light gaming and video steaming. You will receive the card in the anti static bag and the original box it was purchased in with the driver CD as well as associated accessories.
Done updating winders 7. Now I'm flashing the firmware, updating the Dell drivers and so forth - 20 hours and counting ;D
╭─vindsl@Chi-You ~
╰─$ systemd-analyze time
Startup finished in 3.208s (kernel) + 1.171s (userspace) = 4.380s
╭─vindsl@Chi-You ~
╰─$ systemd-analyze critical-chain
The time after the unit is active or started is printed after the "@" character.
The time the unit takes to start is printed after the "+" character.
graphical.target @1.162s
└─multi-user.target @1.162s
└─mintsystem.service @868ms +293ms
└─basic.target @857ms
└─paths.target @857ms
└─acpid.path @857ms
└─sysinit.target @855ms
└─systemd-update-utmp.service @839ms +10ms
└─systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service @817ms +13ms
└─local-fs.target @815ms
└─boot-efi.mount @769ms +45ms
└─systemd-fsck@dev-disk-by\x2duuid-EA02\x2d59E2.service @564ms +198ms
└─dev-disk-by\x2duuid-EA02\x2d59E2.device @562ms
╭─vindsl@Chi-You ~
╰─$ sudo inxi -CDMSfm
System: Host: Chi-You Kernel: 4.18.0-9-generic x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: N/A Distro: Peppermint Seven
Machine: System: Dell (portable) product: Latitude E6430 v: 01 serial: 88VXNX1
Mobo: Dell model: N/A serial: /88VXNX1/ / Bios: Dell v: A22 date: 02/21/2018
CPU: Dual core Intel Core i7-3540M (-HT-MCP-) cache: 4096 KB
clock speeds: max: 3700 MHz 1: 1235 MHz 2: 1315 MHz 3: 1205 MHz 4: 1363 MHz
CPU Flags: acpi aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon avx bts clflush cmov constant_tsc cpuid
cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb ept erms est f16c flexpriority flush_l1d fpu
fsgsbase fxsr ht ibpb ibrs ida lahf_lm lm mca mce mmx monitor msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe
pcid pclmulqdq pdcm pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pti pts rdrand rdtscp rep_good sep smep smx ss
ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi
vpid x2apic xsave xsaveopt xtopology xtpr
Memory: Array-1 capacity: 16 GB devices: 2 EC: None
Device-1: DIMM A size: 4 GB speed: 1600 MHz type: DDR3
Device-2: DIMM B size: 4 GB speed: 1600 MHz type: DDR3
Device-3: N/A size: N/A speed: N/A type: N/A
Device-4: N/A size: N/A speed: N/A type: N/A
Drives: HDD Total Size: 570.1GB (4.2% used) ID-1: /dev/sda model: Samsung_SSD_850 size: 250.1GB
ID-2: /dev/sdb model: Hitachi_HTS72323 size: 320.1GB
╭─vindsl@Chi-You ~
╰─$ Is it even possible to fully update winders 7 :-\
My ISP is still not allocating IPv6 .. but then again I don't really care which addressing protocol is used as long as I can access what I need :)
Cool @VinDSL ... but I'm wondering when the Dell laptop sale begins again?
In fact IIRC Crucials have power loss protection where Samsungs don't.
Not sure how effective/necessary it is, but can't hurt right ;)
They call it "Integrated Power Loss Immunity".
Of course they do and I'll bet it's an acronym too .. Crucial's very own IPLI technology :))
It's highly rated in reviews and has a 5-Year warranty - which is the most telling indicator of its true worthiness. :)
Rather fitting, don't you think - Peppermint 9 living it up in the penthouse; winders 7 buried in the basement?!?!? 8)
That does p*ss me off, firmware updates that require Windows software ::)
vindsl@Killerwatt ~ $ systemd-analyze time
Startup finished in 2.292s (kernel) + 839ms (userspace) = 3.132s
graphical.target reached after 835ms in userspacevindsl@Killerwatt ~ $ systemd-analyze critical-chain
The time after the unit is active or started is printed after the "@" character.
The time the unit takes to start is printed after the "+" character.
graphical.target @835ms
└─udisks2.service @505ms +329ms
└─basic.target @468ms
└─sockets.target @468ms
└─avahi-daemon.socket @468ms
└─sysinit.target @462ms
└─systemd-update-utmp.service @457ms +4ms
└─systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service @448ms +8ms
└─systemd-journal-flush.service @197ms +250ms
└─systemd-journald.service @135ms +61ms
└─systemd-journald-dev-log.socket @134ms
└─system.slice @128ms
└─-.slice @126ms