--- Log opened Sat Mar 03 00:00:11 2012 01:45 -!- RangerZ [~mwalker@c-98-211-44-193.hsd1.tn.comcast.net] has quit [Quit: Leaving.] 02:55 <@jb7od> lol! "Prowler needs a jomp." 02:57 <@jb7od> anybody wanna come have a post-disaster cleanup chainsaw party over here at daybreak? 02:59 <@jb7od> yeah... me neither. 04:13 <@Evilpig> lol 04:20 <@Catonic> mornging 04:33 <@Evilpig> indeed it is 06:36 -!- Catonic [~catonic@adsl-98-83-128-111.bhm.bellsouth.net] has quit [Ping timeout: 252 seconds] 08:51 -!- Catonic [~catonic@adsl-98-83-152-114.bhm.bellsouth.net] has joined #se2600 08:51 -!- mode/#se2600 [+o Catonic] by ChanServ 09:56 -!- rangerz [~mwalker@c-98-211-44-193.hsd1.tn.comcast.net] has joined #se2600 10:40 -!- rangerz [~mwalker@c-98-211-44-193.hsd1.tn.comcast.net] has quit [Quit: Leaving.] 10:54 -!- rangerz [~mwalker@c-98-211-44-193.hsd1.tn.comcast.net] has joined #se2600 12:05 <@oddball> Son of a bitch. 12:06 <@oddball> I wasn't paying attention to the hard drive specs on the bare bones kit I ordered. 12:06 <@oddball> It shipped with a 5900RPM drive. 12:08 <@Evilpig> what were you planning on using it for? 12:08 <@oddball> My windows box, so mostly gaming. 12:10 <@oddball> I was wondering why it seemed like everything was loading slower than on my old box... 12:10 <@Evilpig> gotcha 12:32 < rangerz> i still haven't tried out a SSD hdd yet 12:33 < rangerz> always felt they were too expensive to justify it, and then the floods just made me laugh at even the idea of even trying one here soon 12:34 <@oddball> Yeah, I'm going to rip the proper speed hard drive out of my old box. One of these days, I might get an SSD drive. 12:47 < rangerz> plus you can easily have 8GB or RAM... so you can easily store the OS and game in ram alone 12:47 < rangerz> ./s/or/of 12:48 < rangerz> does anyone here use a bicycle for daily travel (or even occasionally?) 12:51 <@oddball> Well, the new box does have 8GB of RAM, but the loading from HD is infuriating. 13:01 < rangerz> yeah my work laptop actually gets 7s on window's self ranking system on all but the HDD, gets a 5 13:01 < rangerz> similar results on my desktop, i've wondered about upgrading, but i'm fine with what i got 13:35 -!- rangerz [~mwalker@c-98-211-44-193.hsd1.tn.comcast.net] has quit [Quit: Leaving.] 14:49 -!- rangerz [~mwalker@c-98-211-44-193.hsd1.tn.comcast.net] has joined #se2600 15:22 -!- sync350 [~sync@adsl-184-36-110-67.asm.bellsouth.net] has joined #se2600 15:28 -!- peaches1984lap [nine@c-69-137-80-31.hsd1.tn.comcast.net] has joined #se2600 15:42 -!- peaches1984lap [nine@c-69-137-80-31.hsd1.tn.comcast.net] has quit [Quit: Leaving.] 16:19 -!- daswork [~dasunt@174-20-79-106.mpls.qwest.net] has quit [Ping timeout: 245 seconds] 16:21 -!- daswork [~dasunt@174-20-88-95.mpls.qwest.net] has joined #se2600 17:33 <@Catonic> i really didn't want to build a system for the express purpose of burning DVDs 17:33 <@Catonic> but vmware isn't playing nicely, even with two cores. 17:45 < eryc> the thai floods affected ssds? 17:45 < eryc> i don't think so 17:54 -!- sync350 [~sync@adsl-184-36-110-67.asm.bellsouth.net] has quit [Ping timeout: 245 seconds] 17:54 -!- sync350 [~sync@adsl-184-36-107-43.asm.bellsouth.net] has joined #se2600 18:06 -!- kilohelo [~freenode_@69.61.67.40] has quit [Ping timeout: 252 seconds] 18:06 -!- sync350 [~sync@adsl-184-36-107-43.asm.bellsouth.net] has quit [Ping timeout: 246 seconds] 18:07 -!- sync350 [~sync@adsl-74-190-97-5.asm.bellsouth.net] has joined #se2600 18:28 <@Evilpig> eryc: the thai floods affected hard drives. ssd = hard drives clearly they must be produced the same way. lol gas prices still haven't gone down after katrina 19:01 -!- ZombieChicken [~none@unaffiliated/forgottenwizard] has quit [Ping timeout: 245 seconds] 19:10 -!- kilohelo [~freenode_@69.61.67.40] has joined #se2600 19:12 < eryc> ssds are not hard drives 19:12 < eryc> ssds are pcbs with nand flash chips and a sata socket 19:12 < eryc> its a completely fucking different process 19:16 < eryc> http://camelcamelcamel.com/Crucial-2-5-Inch-Solid-State-CT256M4SSD2/product/B004W2JL2A 19:43 <@Dagmar> So, apparently in Columbia, TN there is a street called "Negro Creek". 19:43 <@Dagmar> I took pics. :) 19:44 <@Dagmar> I was joking at first about it, because me brother was driving and his response was "Oh no... We're going _back_ right now." 19:44 <@Dagmar> LOL 20:04 -!- sync350 [~sync@adsl-74-190-97-5.asm.bellsouth.net] has quit [Quit: This computer has gone to sleep] 20:07 -!- sync350 [~sync@adsl-74-190-97-5.asm.bellsouth.net] has joined #se2600 21:04 < rangerz> eryc: i never said the floods stopped the production of SSDs, just that they got more expenive , because of supply (same) demand (higher) (because less HDDs) 21:05 < rangerz> and i wouldn't be surprised if SSDs where made near the HDD manf. also 21:05 < rangerz> but that is just guessing/hypothosis 21:08 < eryc> they didn't get more expensive 21:09 < rangerz> this is the internet, stop bringing facts into this discussion 21:09 < rangerz> lol 21:10 < rangerz> i honestly don't know, still too expensive for me to justify personally, so i don't track it regularlly , just randomly here and there 21:11 < eryc> i have a 120gb ssd in this laptop 21:11 < eryc> the only noticable difference is the wake from suspend time, and how fast the gimp loads 21:12 < eryc> the boot time is probably marginally faster but not significant and i rarely reboot anyway 21:32 -!- sasquatc4 [~none@c-71-229-186-129.hsd1.co.comcast.net] has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer] 21:33 -!- rangerz [~mwalker@c-98-211-44-193.hsd1.tn.comcast.net] has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer] 21:35 -!- sasquatc4 [~none@c-71-229-186-129.hsd1.co.comcast.net] has joined #se2600 21:35 -!- mode/#se2600 [+o sasquatc4] by ChanServ 22:37 -!- peaches1984lap [two@c-69-137-80-31.hsd1.tn.comcast.net] has joined #se2600 22:44 -!- peaches1984lap [two@c-69-137-80-31.hsd1.tn.comcast.net] has quit [Quit: Leaving.] 22:46 -!- peaches1984lap [pink@c-69-137-80-31.hsd1.tn.comcast.net] has joined #se2600 22:46 -!- peaches1984lap [pink@c-69-137-80-31.hsd1.tn.comcast.net] has quit [Client Quit] --- Log closed Sun Mar 04 00:00:11 2012