The TPU UK Clubhouse

[FreedomEclipse]

Somewhere stored i got a couple of AMD Mobile cpu's
will have to find and identify them.
will pm you with details when i have them

For free, any time. To pay for one, nah. They're too old for modern OSes and programs. I have a dual core in my netbook (a Celeron N4020) which at least knows modern instruction sets, has a TDP of 6 W, and its iGPU can do hardware decode.

With that said, the biggest problem with old laptops is usually the battery.

Edit: Oh wait, I see you actually want one of these CPUs! Sorry, I misread your post. Good luck and keep us updated.

Yeah. Those old CPUs are completely junk but I just want something to play around with. I see a lot of them CPUs for £16-20 on ebay but this laptop aint worth that sort of investment.

I also have a Acer Aspire 5920G here with a Core 2 Duo in it and while i could upgrade the CPU to a later model. the 8600GS in it is on its way out. Those MXM boards on ebay are also expensive

I think Dorset sent me some DDR2 SO-DIMMs for this old Acer a while back though at 4GB its still very restrictive with todays software.

 

[Space Lynx]

Red squirrels: Vaccine call to save animal from killer pox

Only a vaccine can stop deadly disease from wiping out red squirrels in Wales, warn campaigners.

www.bbc.com

80% of red squirrels in Wales died over winter due to a new pox of some kind...

calls for a vaccine to save the rest...

this makes me unbelievably sad... CRISPR advances can't come soon enough, viruses and bacteria have interrupted life for too long.

 

[d1nky]

Who remembers me??

 

[Tatty_Two]

Who remembers me??

Of course ................ welcome back

 

[d1nky]

Of course ................ welcome back

Thank you. It's been a while. Isn't life very 'life'....

This is like a nostalgia moment for me atm... just looking at my old HWBOT subs. Those were the days in my early 20's!

Hope life has treated everyone well.

 

[Space Lynx]

Thank you. It's been a while. Isn't life very 'life'....

This is like a nostalgia moment for me atm... just looking at my old HWBOT subs. Those were the days in my early 20's!

Hope life has treated everyone well.

do you know anyone that hires Americans and sponsors them for work visas? life would be treating me very well if you do, cause I am trying to get back to my fiance in the UK.

 

[d1nky]

do you know anyone that hires Americans and sponsors them for work visas? life would be treating me very well if you do, cause I am trying to get back to my fiance in the UK.

Wish I could help...........

I'm this long out of the game.....

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Small heads up. A local charity shop down here has an Alienware backpack for £50 or £55. I think it's the 'orion' that retails for around £100

Looks to be in good condition. I personally don't want it but I can pick it up and have it shipped if anyone wants it. More pictures to follow when I go there tomorrow

Hit me up in the pms if interested

 

[d1nky]

I literally just sold my alienware laptop too, would of loved it.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Terrible photo but heres the bag:

Unfortunately I had no Idea about the Crosshatching going on. I think thats just a reflection of the floor outside. The bag is Indeed black but definitely not worth the asking price unless you are a serious ride or die DELL/Alienware fanboy.

If it had been £50 it might have been worth considering. I blame the bad picture on the staff. They changed the front of store display. Last visit it was right at the front. Now they stuffed it into a corner.

I have no idea how they came to the £183 RRP. that is just fucking mental...

Meanwhile on amazon - brand new...

 

[the54thvoid]

I am getting so fucked off with Virgin Media. I'm meant to be on about 350/35. And when it works, it's fast enough. But of late it's been a terrible service. Ball-breakingly bad. Wife works from home and her calls just drop. About to check out Sky - they were always 99.9% with the service. I'd rate Virgin right now at 75%.

Worse was that it interrupted Picard - bastards.

 

[d1nky]

I am getting so fucked off with Virgin Media. I'm meant to be on about 350/35. And when it works, it's fast enough. But of late it's been a terrible service. Ball-breakingly bad. Wife works from home and her calls just drop. About to check out Sky - they were always 99.9% with the service. I'd rate Virgin right now at 75%.

Worse was that it interrupted Picard - bastards.

I used virgin for years and it was rock solid in Bournemouth. Now with Sky (non-fiber) and it's ok for the area. Probably down once a month for hours tbf.

 

[Tatty_Two]

I have had both, mainly Sky who I am with currently but did 3 years with Virgin once they installed fibre in my area, left them because of price hikes and a lack of negotiation on the prices, Sky has been good to me but the key thing I am finding is there are deals to be had with them ATM (my contract expired last month) and they were going to almost double the cost, spoke to them and I am paying slightly less than I was before, seems during a "cost of living crisis" lots of people probably ditch their TV packages as non essential and Sky are desperate to keep people ...... or so it seems at least.

 

[Space Lynx]

everyone I know in the UK uses Jurassic Fibre

Empowering The South West With Ultrafast Broadband | Jurassic Fibre

Whether you’re connecting with customers or loved ones, feel empowered with ultrafast fibre broadband from Jurassic Fibre. Discover more here.

jurassic-fibre.com

not sure if its available everywhere or not.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

everyone I know in the UK uses Jurassic Fibre

Empowering The South West With Ultrafast Broadband | Jurassic Fibre

Whether you’re connecting with customers or loved ones, feel empowered with ultrafast fibre broadband from Jurassic Fibre. Discover more here.

jurassic-fibre.com

not sure if its available everywhere or not.

Just out of curiousity I wanted to see if it was available in my area. THEY WOULDNT TELL ME and asked me to register my details so a sales rep could call me back.

Im guessing the answer is 'No' they arent available in my area.

 

[the54thvoid]

everyone I know in the UK uses Jurassic Fibre

Empowering The South West With Ultrafast Broadband | Jurassic Fibre

Whether you’re connecting with customers or loved ones, feel empowered with ultrafast fibre broadband from Jurassic Fibre. Discover more here.

jurassic-fibre.com

not sure if its available everywhere or not.

You appear to know the members of a small village.

Seriously though, this is only available in the lower SW of England. It services a very small number of UK's population.

 

[d1nky]

everyone I know in the UK uses Jurassic Fibre

Definitely southwest mainly. The companies growing quite well tbf.

That's a good point @Tatty_Two made, when you call them up saying you're leaving they do their best to keep you.

 

[AusWolf]

everyone I know in the UK uses Jurassic Fibre

Empowering The South West With Ultrafast Broadband | Jurassic Fibre

Whether you’re connecting with customers or loved ones, feel empowered with ultrafast fibre broadband from Jurassic Fibre. Discover more here.

jurassic-fibre.com

not sure if its available everywhere or not.

I'm not with that company, but my connection is certainly jurassic. I've got 40 Mbps max with TalkTalk... and that's the fastest available in my area. At least it's stable, though.

 

[kurosagi01]

Virgin media has always been a hit and miss when I was living with my parents, i'm on BT now in my own home at 500mbps package since I work from home and the internet is the most used thing in the house so I needed decent speed.
I know one of my friend who is based in Stoke or York I can't remember, one company based in that area offers 1gbps speed, I don't think other area in the UK with the exception maybe London offer 1gbps speed?
Vodafone offers 910mbps depending on your area and one of my friend is on that and he hasn't had any problems so far.

 

[d1nky]

I'm just having a little look into speeds and reliability etc.

"Plusnet has the lowest fault levels according to Ofcom"
Also EE fibre has the lowest volume of compaints.

In all fairness, i'm sure you can test each out and cancel within X amount of days.

source - google and https://www.choose.co.uk/broadband/guide/most-reliable-broadband/

 

[TotallyRandomPerson]

Question for the room :
I use 123-reg for email/hosting, but they've just told me they're about to change their email hosting and (in the name of "improving the service") remove the very-useful email "catch-all" forwarding feature for the domain. Can anyone recommend a webhosting/email service that supports catchall-forwarding and that they also have a nice time using?

Also, Virgin is soo strange area-to-area, they're fine for me, always have been, but then utter total crap somewhere else. Bring on the fibre-competition.

Thanks for any tips.

 

[d1nky]

I use 123-reg for email/hosting, but they've just told me they're about to change their email hosting and (in the name of "improving the service") remove the very-useful email "catch-all" forwarding feature for the domain. Can anyone recommend a webhosting/email service that supports catchall-forwarding and that they also have a nice time using?

I use Godaddy for web domain hosting, they're good. Also provide catch all, i've only ever used the single email forwarding tho.

Google workspace/domains has a pretty decent email forwarding system, and catch all. But pricier.

 

[Space Lynx]

it is official, sadly I won't be visiting England this year. I tried every which way, but prices are just insane now, for flights + airbnb + etc

I just want to be with my friends and relatives there... sucks so bad. hopefully next year. I miss Sainsburys food...

nothing to do this summer, so I need to decide, do I get out of my comfort zone, go on a hike/airbnb in USA parts I never been to (no car so I am limited...)? or do I sit at home and game/read all summer...

I have no teaching contracts for the summer, so completely free (sadly)

 

[FreedomEclipse]

I'm just having a little look into speeds and reliability etc.

"Plusnet has the lowest fault levels according to Ofcom"
Also EE fibre has the lowest volume of compaints.

In all fairness, i'm sure you can test each out and cancel within X amount of days.

source - google and https://www.choose.co.uk/broadband/guide/most-reliable-broadband/

Im on plusnet. For the most part they have been pretty decent but once in a while they'll have an outage at 12.15am (ALWAYS at 12.15am...) that could last anywhere between 5mins to when i give up and wake up the next morning.

 

[AusWolf]

it is official, sadly I won't be visiting England this year. I tried every which way, but prices are just insane now, for flights + airbnb + etc

I just want to be with my friends and relatives there... sucks so bad. hopefully next year. I miss Sainsburys food...

nothing to do this summer, so I need to decide, do I get out of my comfort zone, go on a hike/airbnb in USA parts I never been to (no car so I am limited...)? or do I sit at home and game/read all summer...

I have no teaching contracts for the summer, so completely free (sadly)

Bummer.

On the plus side, I've heard Amtrak has some nice cross-country services running. Not the same as visiting friends, though.