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[ne6togadno]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_trees

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

naaa

noones interested in American trees.....

 

[ne6togadno]

ya but there is an interesting info about them.
80k years old colony of trees. didnt knew such thing exist.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

A famous American tree is in the news today......................oh dear.

 

[dorsetknob]

noones interested in American trees.....

except lumber jacks

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Your lack of Joshua Trees is disturbing

 

[mcborge]

New member here and fellow brit. Can i be added to this thread pls.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

New member here and fellow brit. Can i be added to this thread pls.

Sorry for the delay. But welcome!! We're normally quite a social bunch.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Sowwy.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

If i must explain myself -- Ive been without a PC for the last few days PC started BSOD'ing again randomly so i replaced the PSU i bought last November with another.... I hope this fixes the problem, If not then its probably my graphics card which is borked. but the strange thing is before i decided to replace the PSU again (when my PC was actually stable) I had no problem playing BF1, KF2 or GW2 for hours....

Ive literally just finished eating dinner after coming home from work and replaced the PSU. I ordered another AX760 so it was a straight up swap.

 

[Finners]

New member here and fellow brit. Can i be added to this thread pls.

Missed your intro to. Welcome! Mostly this thread is just full of us having a moan but occasionally we actually talk to each other

Are you a gamer? or do you use your comp for other things?

If i must explain myself -- Ive been without a PC for the last few days PC started BSOD'ing again randomly so i replaced the PSU i bought last November with another.... I hope this fixes the problem, If not then its probably my graphics card which is borked. but the strange thing is before i decided to replace the PSU again (when my PC was actually stable) I had no problem playing BF1, KF2 or GW2 for hours....

Ive literally just finished eating dinner after coming home from work and replaced the PSU. I ordered another AX760 so it was a straight up swap.

You dont have much luck do you mate, Any particular reason you think its the PSU? I would be doing a lot more testing before just throwing money at new components.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

You dont have much luck do you mate, Any particular reason you think its the PSU? I would be doing a lot more testing before just throwing money at new components.

Twice ive woken up in the middle of the night to my PC in the throes of a never ending bootloop. Ive checked BSODviewer and its something to do with Nvidia drivers so i stepped my clocks down a little as i think i might of been pushing my 1070 too hard. Last wednesday night, my PC went into another bootloop for the same reason, I couldnt even boot into windows without going into another boot loop.

But the strange thing was I was playing KF2 for a few hours earlier in the day prior to jumping into a few games of BF1 with you and corpse and my PC ran absolutely perfectly. I honestly hope its not my 1070 which is faulty. If I have to RMA and they send me back one with Micron ram then im doomed.

 

[Finners]

Twice ive woken up in the middle of the night to my PC in the throes of a never ending bootloop. Ive checked BSODviewer and its something to do with Nvidia drivers so i stepped my clocks down a little as i think i might of been pushing my 1070 too hard. Last wednesday night, my PC went into another bootloop for the same reason, I couldnt even boot into windows without going into another boot loop.

But the strange thing was I was playing KF2 for a few hours earlier in the day prior to jumping into a few games of BF1 with you and corpse and my PC ran absolutely perfectly. I honestly hope its not my 1070 which is faulty. If I have to RMA and they send me back one with Micron ram then im doomed.

Micron memory isnt that bad

I'd try Prime95 blend test for a few hours or even this memory test (http://hcidesign.com/memtest/) it found errors alot quicker then memtest did for me. You have to run multiple instances of it testing 2gb at a time until your testing all your RAM. It explains this when you try to run it to.

At least them to test will prove your CPU and RAM out then you can go down the route of GPU stressing

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Micron memory isnt that bad

I'd try Prime95 blend test for a few hours or even this memory test (http://hcidesign.com/memtest/) it found errors alot quicker then memtest did for me. You have to run multiple instances of it testing 2gb at a time until your testing all your RAM. It explains this when you try to run it to.

At least them to test will prove your CPU and RAM out then you can go down the route of GPU stressing

Well one step at a time. For now the psu has been replaced so now we wait and see. Otherwise I'll definitely have to test my clocks. I play so many games with the same clocks but not once has the system crashed or BSOD'd while ive been in game and the only time it did it was due to having mismatched ram or a faulty PSU. I had a previous AX860 that was on its way out that would cause me to bsod while gaming with you guys.

 

[mcborge]

Missed your intro to. Welcome! Mostly this thread is just full of us having a moan but occasionally we actually talk to each other

Are you a gamer? or do you use your comp for other things?



You dont have much luck do you mate, Any particular reason you think its the PSU? I would be doing a lot more testing before just throwing money at new components.

Thanks, yes i am a gamer and have been gaming since the commodore 64 was a thing and i was heavy into the Amiga as well before switching to and then building my own gaming pc's. I do most of my gaming through steam and play a lot of space engineers were i've built a few ship and station collections on the workshop. Here's one of my latest builds.

Sorry for the delay. But welcome!! We're normally quite a social bunch.

No worries... Thanks.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Welsh sailor Alex Thomson is claiming a world record after again narrowing the gap on leader Armel le Cleac'h in the Vendee Globe race.
http://www.vendeeglobe.org/en/

The race is in its final stages and Thomson has reduced the distance he trails race leader Armel Le Cleac'h to 73 nautical miles.

Thomson and his team say he has set a solo 24-hour world mark of 536.81 miles in the process.


Amazing helicopter footage
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/wales/38602923

 

[dorsetknob]

From that pic correction needed

Welsh sailor Alex Thomson

Welsh Submariner Alex Thomson either way if he's from wales he is used to that much water usualy in the form of Rain

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Welsh sailor Alex Thomson has gained 30 miles on Vendee Globe solo race leader Armel le Cleac'h ahead of Thursday's expected finish.

Thomson, 42, trailed by around 70 miles on Tuesday, but cut the deficit to around 40 overnight.

Having been making a steady 10-15 knots on Tuesday, the leaders are expected to encounter changeable conditions before arriving into Les Sables d’Olonne on Thursday, with lighter less stable winds coming in from the North West.

Despite already reaching the latitude of the finish line in Les Sables d’Olonne, France, they are being forced to sail much further north due to an anticyclone currently blocking their path home. The routing the pair must follow could take them as far north as the Scilly Isles, an archipelago off the coast of Cornwall in the south-west of Britain, before they can tack and finally point their bows towards the finish.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

North Wales earthquake was just ‘fat bird slipping on a kebab’




An ‘earthquake’ that rocked North Wales earlier today has been explained away by local geologists.

The earthquake measured 1.1 on the Richter Scale but was put down to an overweight woman slipping on a discarded kebab.

Jonny Pebbleface of the North Wales Earthquake Club said:


“I was in my bedroom earlier today monitoring my earthquake equipment when I noticed that the needle jumped. I noted this down in my notebook and immediately informed the authorities. I told them what I had seen on my equipment and gave them the exact time of the recorded event. They asked me to bring my findings to their office so I packed up my stuff and headed downstairs. Upon opening the front door, I noticed a large woman on the floor outside the kebab shop next door. She was moaning about how she’d bruised her gunt. I inspected the scene further to see an abandoned kebab next to her, some of which was on the bottom of her dap. I therefore concluded that the fat woman had slipped on the kebab, thus causing the mini-earthquake.”

The woman, who didn’t want to be identified said:

“I was too busy tucking into my own kebab to notice the one of the floor and I went arse over tit. I landed on my gunt which really hurt but I’m ok.”

Residents of North Wales reported household ornaments moving as well as hearing a deep rumbling sound across the region.



From my favourite online newspaper which deals with important current affairs in Wales
http://www.walesoncraic.com/

 

[dorsetknob]

^^^^^^

 

[mcborge]

North Wales earthquake was just ‘fat bird slipping on a kebab’




An ‘earthquake’ that rocked North Wales earlier today has been explained away by local geologists.

The earthquake measured 1.1 on the Richter Scale but was put down to an overweight woman slipping on a discarded kebab.

Jonny Pebbleface of the North Wales Earthquake Club said:


“I was in my bedroom earlier today monitoring my earthquake equipment when I noticed that the needle jumped. I noted this down in my notebook and immediately informed the authorities. I told them what I had seen on my equipment and gave them the exact time of the recorded event. They asked me to bring my findings to their office so I packed up my stuff and headed downstairs. Upon opening the front door, I noticed a large woman on the floor outside the kebab shop next door. She was moaning about how she’d bruised her gunt. I inspected the scene further to see an abandoned kebab next to her, some of which was on the bottom of her dap. I therefore concluded that the fat woman had slipped on the kebab, thus causing the mini-earthquake.”

The woman, who didn’t want to be identified said:

“I was too busy tucking into my own kebab to notice the one of the floor and I went arse over tit. I landed on my gunt which really hurt but I’m ok.”

Residents of North Wales reported household ornaments moving as well as hearing a deep rumbling sound across the region.



From my favourite online newspaper which deals with important current affairs in Wales
http://www.walesoncraic.com/

Well that activated my hilarity unit... ROFL.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Right....to almost complete the shitiest customer service experience i have ever had the misfortune to be involved in. I am not going to repeat the whole sorry saga but we finally have a phone (as you may be aware.)

My daughters missing phone.....Chapter 8


Now to the matter of the compensation being offered to me by samsung. I havent actually asked for anything but i did explain that their shoddy goods have left me with a phone bill fora phone that was in their care for 2 months.

JOY OF JOYS.....they are sending me £ 50.00 worth of Amazon vouchers.....a piffling sum compared to the inconvenience they have caused and the time, effort and expense i have wasted in chasing them for their inefficiencies.


Guess what? ...........one final kick in the teeth from their inept customer service dept. in Sheffield..... " they will arrive by post and will take several weeks to arrive"
When i was told this i quizzed the operative a bit as to her definition of "several" Turns out in sheffield several means two, so i said to her "so you mean a couple of weeks" i.e. a couple is two. No she said it will take several weeks......................i then gave her my definition of "several"

couple..........2
few.................3/ 4 or 5
several...........6/7 or 8

so i then asked her....which will it be? 2 or 8 ?

it all got a bit confusing for her at that point as she couldnt answer my question. As i always do, i asked her " if you were a customer would you be happy with that as an answer?" she then got a bit flabbergasted and kept repeating " i dont know " so i took her name , which seemed to upset her . I then asked to speak to a manager in the building ( i named 4 of them) and she denied knowing any of them


My parting shot was. " i'm not sure if i mentioned it but....i record all calls for training purposes".......

These are all the people i have spoken to by chat, email or phone at samsung sheffield.

Rhiannon
Rubeena
Liam twice
Mo
Anan
Neil
Niamh
Immie
Sonia
Anrar 4 times
Ryan
Maria
Alex
Abigail
Farah



So, in summary


the phone worked properly for 3 months....when they lost it ,it took 8 weeks for them to supply a replacement and it could be anything up to 8 weeks before we receive the vouchers.

I could be really rude about them now but im going to leave it with this--------------- samsung customer service dept. especially the " alternate resolutions" department are a bunch of wankers and despite liking their products i will not be buying any more of them.

Any member here has my permission to punch me in the face if i ever buy another samsung product.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Right....to almost complete the shitiest customer service experience i have ever had the misfortune to be involved in. I am not going to repeat the whole sorry saga but we finally have a phone (as you may be aware.)

My daughters missing phone.....Chapter 8


Now to the matter of the compensation being offered to me by samsung. I havent actually asked for anything but i did explain that their shoddy goods have left me with a phone bill fora phone that was in their care for 2 months.

JOY OF JOYS.....they are sending me £ 50.00 worth of Amazon vouchers.....a piffling sum compared to the inconvenience they have caused and the time, effort and expense i have wasted in chasing them for their inefficiencies.


Guess what? ...........one final kick in the teeth from their inept customer service dept. in Sheffield..... " they will arrive by post and will take several weeks to arrive"
When i was told this i quizzed the operative a bit as to her definition of "several" Turns out in sheffield several means two, so i said to her "so you mean a couple of weeks" i.e. a couple is two. No she said it will take several weeks......................i then gave her my definition of "several"

couple..........2
few.................3/ 4 or 5
several...........6/7 or 8

so i then asked her....which will it be? 2 or 8 ?

it all got a bit confusing for her at that point as she couldnt answer my question. As i always do, i asked her " if you were a customer would you be happy with that as an answer?" she then got a bit flabbergasted and kept repeating " i dont know " so i took her name , which seemed to upset her . I then asked to speak to a manager in the building ( i named 4 of them) and she denied knowing any of them


My parting shot was. " i'm not sure if i mentioned it but....i record all calls for training purposes".......

These are all the people i have spoken to by chat, email or phone at samsung sheffield.

Rhiannon
Rubeena
Liam twice
Mo
Anan
Neil
Niamh
Immie
Sonia
Anrar 4 times
Ryan
Maria
Alex
Abigail
Farah



So, in summary


the phone worked properly for 3 months....when they lost it ,it took 8 weeks for them to supply a replacement and it could be anything up to 8 weeks before we receive the vouchers.

I could be really rude about them now but im going to leave it with this--------------- samsung customer service dept. especially the " alternate resolutions" department are a bunch of wankers and despite liking their products i will not be buying any more of them.

Any member here has my permission to punch me in the face if i ever buy another samsung product.

If you did make a voice recording id make a video, document every step and upload it to YouTube. Not just to show how poor the customer service was but also to show how not to customer service

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

I'm not alone

https://www.complaintsdepartment.co.uk/samsung-uk/

 

[Tatty_Two]

You need to do some digging and see if you can come up with an e mail address for one of Samsung's most senior people in UK or Europe, I am talking Director level upwards and let them know the history of your daughters case, you never know they might give you some free shares!

If that fails, lets rub a bit of dirt on our faces, stick a balaclava over our heads and go up to Sheffield for some pyrotechnic action

In a similar but much less painful vein, my youngest daughter who is a self employed IT Infrastructure and Systems consultant has a Samsung S6 Edge (I think that's what they are called) that she uses for her company work, she did a firmware upgrade (notification on phone) on Saturday and the phone broke, never got past the Samsung landing screen on startup afterwards, on checking the warranty she found that she missed it by 4 days, she was not happy to say the least, she spoke to Samsung on the off chance that they may be helpful, especially as it was their own firmware that caused the issue, I presume it could have also been Sheffield, they were not going to play nice at all, so she spoke to O2 who she has the contract with and 2 business days later she had a brand new phone on her doorstep.