Climb aboard my pony now you've been thrown.

[reddragdiva]

Yes, I am having a marvellous holiday, thank you.

Down the Dev on Wednesday night with arkady and barbedwirekiss. Lots of Queen Adreena fans in. Pop punk is good.

I saw Arkady off on the train to Wales this morning. Liz and I have tom_pusscat for the weekend, which should deal with our mouse problem.

I bought redcountess a pony on Wednesday. Apex AD-1100, thirty quid from Dixon's, possibly the most generic DVD player I have ever seen. Dixon's are less idyllic than many on price, but warranty repairs, if needed, will be considerably less hassle than we would have had with our Ronin P80H, recently deceased. If any geek out there wants a DVD player to fiddle with, abuse or strip down, it's yours for the fetching — if you can get the door mechanism to work, you will have yourself a working player.

(The Apex's remote appears to come from the same factory as our Goodman's GDB-3 Freeview box. I'm not surprised by this.)

In further geek news, Liz's laptop has finally died — it can't see the hard disk at all. I suspect a broken motherboard trace. So I'm now in search of spare parts for the Thinkpad 560X, or a dead one to cannibalise. We did get six months out of it for fifty quid. And another hundred on bits and bobs for it ...

I have two more Compaq AP400s here. I have uses for both of them. (Stack 'em on the one I already have, use two for FreeBSD and one for Red Hat Enterprise.) What I don't have is hard disks. We plan to hit Tottenham Court Road some time soon — what's the sweet spot for gigabytes per quid of late?

Comments

[grumpy-sysadmin.livejournal.com]

Can't help you with the 5xx series, but I've got a stack of 760s (I bought three extras for spare parts; they were cheap as a bulk deal on eBay while I was a student). There's that whole transatlantic shipping thing, though.

Note that XF86 4 really doesn't like the graphics chipset, last I checked.

[bramsmits.livejournal.com]

Sweet spot for per gig seems to be 160G ATA. SATA is slightly more expensive (about 10 euro), SCSI is outrageously more expensive. 120G drives seem to be just as expensive as 160G, but go bigger and the price starts rising rapidly. 160GB can be had for 99 euro including tax here in .nl, and that's high-street shops. I think I could find lower prices if I shopped around a bit, although shipping costs would probably cancel out any savings.