Posts by petrolhead

FaceTime in the dock

Funny how the chinese are all of a sudden tightening up on ip infringement, except when its a chinese company doing the copying.

HP ProLiant power supplies 'may die when dormant'

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It's probably the capacitors and bad design causing the failures, I'd imagine sitting discharged for extended periods on powering up they would momentarily present a dead short load until they have a bit of charge in them and the inrush current resulting is doing damage somewhere. There are design measures to mitigate inrush from a cold start but if these are the same supplies as the G5s I look after the quality isnt up to much, I've had a few where the output rectification diodes shorted killing the mobo and hdds just out of warrenty, and its £850 for a new mobo for these. Thanks HP. At least the G4s biggest problem was the electrolytics on the mobo itself, that was fairly cheap to rectify if a bit of a pig to solder.

Online car-buying firm agrees to more transparent pricing

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Thats whats known in the trades as a fuck off price. As in they don't want your business, but if your stupid enough to accept the offer the amount of profit makes it worthwhile.

'Plutonium pinch' nips NASA

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Surely in 5 years time they will just be able to bolt on a mr fusion and power equipment with rubbish?

Wall-punching Brit gamer foams (milk) at the mouth

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What a bampot. Someone needs to send the men in white coats round.

Alien, because you can see the resemblance.

Microsoft boots modders off Xbox Live

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Its called the XBOX 360 because when you see it you'll turn 360 degrees and moonwalk away.

Shamown.