[D-Dan]

I’ve insisted on PayPal is he wins, which should offer me some protection (for a card that sells for peanuts these days, it’s not a big issue)

More worrying was the other, which had a £100 offer, and whilst I would accept, the guy paid before I had. Nevertheless, after some PayPal faffing about, I’ve transferred the money (after the PP cut) to my bank account, and confirmed it arriving into my account, so I guess I’m posting the 680 out today. Should have upped the postage to £8 or so. It cost a couple of £ more than the Ebay estimate, and I stll have to package.

Nevertheless, still £35 more than CeX would have given me, so I consider it a win.

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[D-Dan]

Except – this is a buyer.

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[D-Dan]

Well, once I fix my PayPal issue, I may just go ahead and order one. Priorities, right?

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[D-Dan]

Never even thought to check. Meanwhile, the offer I was prepared to accept has, apparently, paid. PayPal on the other hand, is not playing ball with adding my bank account, and until I see cold, hard cash, I’m wary. I don’t mind my hand being forced on the sale, as I said, I was happy with it, but this is the more expensive one.

As they say, show me the money. Call in to PP tomorrow morning, I think. Until this is resolved, nothing gets posted.

EDIT: Just checked. 1 positive, and that’s it. Nothing else to tell me about him/her

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[D-Dan]

Whilst I am very much not in favour of a hard brexit – I’m beginning to think it’s either that, or status quo.

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[D-Dan]

keith with the teef wrote:

PSU at the bottom is best imo. Obviously the case must be fitted with excellent dust filters. This is my current case. Cheap and jolly good. http://www.fractal-design.com/home/product/cases/focus-series/focus-g-white

Whilst Fractal design are quite well respected, I don’t need the see through side panels (and, in fact, prefer not to have them)

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[D-Dan]

Tippon wrote:

I bought my first case with the PSU at the bottom, and cable management behind the motherboard, and it wasn’t the easiest build I’ve ever done. I had to forget half of what I know, but it was worth it in the end. https://forumite.co.uk/forums/topic/well-that-was-fun/

It looks like you had a journey. I’m giving myself 1 hour max for the rebuild 🙂

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[D-Dan]

Well, Barnier has already rejected the key point of the Chequers plan (as was expected). More to the point, it isn’t the amendment that he’s rejected, but the original draft on the UK collecting duties for the EU.

I agree with pretty much Bob has to say, and we come from opposing votes on that. Of itself, that tells you what a shi!t storm it’s become.

Weirdly, whilst I remain committed to my principals, I would think harder in the event of a new referendum (that’s not to say I’d change my vote), but clearly, when Major marched us in to the EU, he didn’t read the rules well enough, and didn’t realise that, if it failed, your only options are to stay, or to walk.

There is no middle ground with these highly paid, pensions of gold, and laws that make no sense but are binding eurocrats.

I guess I’d still go with leave, but my position on how may have changed. Whilst I would like to have seen a deal, I’m now of a mind that we walk. No divorce bill, WTO rules, and let the EU come to ask us for a deal. They have exposed themselves for what they are; power mad privileged  who want to maintain that power.

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[D-Dan]

On Linux, ntfs-3g is your friend for NTFS partitions.

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[D-Dan]

It’s nice information, but not quite equal. Linux supports softlinks and hardlinks, but the issue was with mount points. Pretty much any storage, anywhere (local or remote) can be mounted as a local drive in Linux, without setting up links.

Not to be a naysayer – if I was going to use an MS filesystem, it would be NTFS, but it’s still not as complete as, e.g. ext4 (look at permissions – which even NTFS can’t match, for example).

EDIT: NTFS does have one advantage over Linux filesystems (ext4, BTRFS etc.) and that’s that Windows can read them natively.

Of course, Linux can read all of them, with a simple apt-get, or pacman -S etc. depending on your distribution.

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[D-Dan]

I thought the same. They reckon 4 day delivery, so if I order tonight (we can assume that’s tomorrow), by Thursday for delivery, just in time for a rebuild next weekend.

And it gives me a delivery address of “at work”.

Note to self – don’t rebuild on delivery day, or the day after, you will have had beer.

EDIT: Order placed.

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[D-Dan]

The VFM Addict wrote:

Tory party leadership rules require parliament to be sitting for a leadership election to take place. So no matter how many letters are handed in

I didn’t say a leadership election, I said a general election. The polls are showing the Tory’s losing ground rapidly, and with the clusterf@ck that they are making of brexit (meanwhile, ignoring the fact that they are supposed to govern the country, probably because they are too busy fighting with themselves), the rail crisis (and as a regular rail user, I believe that crisis is an apt word), suddenly trying to buy public servants with a pay rise that can only be paid for by more cuts in their respective employments (no new money).

Let’s not forget, possible new taxes (so that they can claim to adherence to their manifesto of no tax increases – simply invent new ones), and particularly those aimed specifically at over 50s (which means the so called silver voters in many cases – possibly some of their best support) whilst continuing cutting taxes for corporates, and letting internationals off almost completely – and this is my field of expertise – will not get them any extra support other than perhaps financial from those same corporate backers.

Don’t even get me started on the £1Bn cash for votes deal, paid for by those same taxpayers.

But at a GE, it’s votes that count, and it’s votes they are sacrificing.

And it’s a GE this country needs. To hell with bad timing, we need this government gone.

EDIT: Full disclosure – I voted leave – but not like this.

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[D-Dan]

Ready to order – having got the Gfx card, I’m going for a MB/CPU/RAM Bundle (including cooler).  This looks OK, and has the required 6 SATA ports. The 1800X looks like a damned fine CPU, and with 16Gb RAM should be ample. When paired with the GTX1060 6Gb, should make rendering much faster.

And at £568, within budget.

Does anyone have experience of the vendor (good or bad)?

EDIT: A new chassis will put me over budget, so that will have to wait a month or two. I could get it at the same time, but I’d rather buy at month end when I know I don’t need the cash, rather than at month start.

https://www.awd-it.co.uk/amd-ryzen-7-1800x-eight-core-4.0ghz-cpu-asus-rog-strix-b350-f-motherboard-bundle.html

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[D-Dan]

I’m honestly surprised she’s managed to last until now without another GE, and I’m not convinced that she will last through the summer recess.

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[D-Dan]

After her performance as home secretary, her lack of judgement in calling the GE, and the dithering to please everyone rather than setting a path, I don’t share your optimism.

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[D-Dan]

In fstab, you reference either /dev/sdXN OR UUID=, not both. Remove the references to /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1 – the lines should start from UUID=.

But honestly, if that’t the contents of /etc/fstab it’s hard to work out exactly what’s going on (I don’t think the forum formatting is helping). Can you perhaps post to pastebin and add a link?

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[D-Dan]

He can’t stick to his threat. He has no jurisdiction whatsoever over the airspace.

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[D-Dan]

It seems like most modern boards have a legacy mode, which should make life easier.

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[D-Dan]

I guess I’m in luck that I have a separate /boot partition, and so converting to fat (I assume fat32) should be easy.

Of course, option 2 (the easier one) is to disable UEFI altogether and revert to BIOS behaviour.

Options seem to be summarised at https://superuser.com/questions/984294/converting-bios-mode-arch-linux-to-uefi

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[D-Dan]

Hate to be the nay sayer, but I believe that using a phone, regardless of how, whilst driving is a big no no. Despite holding a driving licence for more than 30 years, I choose not to drive now, simply because there are too many people on the road not paying attention to the road. Unfortunately, as a pedestrian, I’m still at risk by those same, inconsiderate people.

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