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Offline KMEI

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Re: Post the latest Geek/Nerd stuff that you bought
« Reply #80 on: November 07, 2007, 03:27:08 PM »
Just purchased a SanDisk Sansa E250 2GB without FM/AM-Radio (europe only) for 94 USD including shipping  :heart:

I kinda bought it because my mobile phone wouldn't let me play for more than 8 hours, and do a full recharge each day kinda sucks. This one advertises 20h battery time and after 8h of work the battery wasn't even half-empty.
Or did I get caught by the Goto Maki commercial? Sure, I did actually think of it while browsing Ipod Shuffle which has a higher price (tarded) and that's how I started looking for the Sansa :)

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Re: Post the latest Geek/Nerd stuff that you bought
« Reply #81 on: November 10, 2007, 04:49:41 PM »
Western Digital 1TB (930GB formatted) external HD:




USB/Firewire/eSATA
270 euro (500GB is 120 euro so not to bad)

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Re: Post the latest Geek/Nerd stuff that you bought
« Reply #82 on: November 10, 2007, 05:11:24 PM »
Western Digital 1TB (930GB formatted) external HD:

http://img61.imageshack.us/img61/8229/159687jpghd0.jpg

USB/Firewire/eSATA
270 euro (500GB is 120 euro so not to bad)
:drool: :drool: :drool:

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Re: Post the latest Geek/Nerd stuff that you bought
« Reply #83 on: November 11, 2007, 05:46:51 AM »

W53CA - English Page

Just wanna say, I'm loving this phone..  :inlove:
Chose it for the 5.1mega pixel camera, but I'm finding the other features kick ass aswell..
Imports music straight from CD..
GPS..
Shows 7day weather forecast on the calendar..
Japanese ⇔ English dictionary..
Quote from: Dictionary
fuck - example phrases
Where the fuck is the hammer?

"Mary's mad with you."
"I don't give a fuck."

Oh fuck! The bloody car won't start!
Beautiful  :lol:

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Re: Post the latest Geek/Nerd stuff that you bought
« Reply #84 on: November 11, 2007, 06:03:42 AM »
^ Additional phrase:

'Now where the F*ck can I buy this thing outside of japan'


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Re: Post the latest Geek/Nerd stuff that you bought
« Reply #85 on: November 11, 2007, 06:14:44 AM »
Wow looks like an awesome phone.

Blows anything being released this side of the pacific out of the water.

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Re: Post the latest Geek/Nerd stuff that you bought
« Reply #86 on: November 11, 2007, 06:24:12 AM »
* JFC sees Guchi Jnr's phone and the description of the stuff it can do.

:drool:
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Re: Post the latest Geek/Nerd stuff that you bought
« Reply #87 on: November 12, 2007, 04:41:13 AM »
Just swapped this computer: Athlon X2 3600, 1Gb Ram, 8600gt, 2nd hand everything else, no monitor

For a Playstation 3 60gig version.

XD XD XD

Was a last second deal, I put the PC together in the last 2hours cause the guy wanted it today, (I think he's addicted to WoW)

Anyway now I dunno what to do with this PS3 haha all the games cost so much! T_T Hmm I'll see if it can play my HD videos.
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Re: Post the latest Geek/Nerd stuff that you bought
« Reply #88 on: November 12, 2007, 05:08:31 AM »
^ You can play Blu-Ray on it. :)

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Re: Post the latest Geek/Nerd stuff that you bought
« Reply #89 on: November 12, 2007, 10:47:20 AM »
W53CA stuff

Oh I love this.
But a microSD card is a must.
When I think that I was mad because I couldn't get the G'zOne...  :O

Which color did you get?

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Re: Post the latest Geek/Nerd stuff that you bought
« Reply #90 on: November 12, 2007, 11:04:47 AM »
^ They come built with 100meg of space, which is enough if you keep moving photos over to your PC, but if you don't, then yeah, 100meg won't last too long..

Have you been using the "au Music Port" to move things back and forth?? I've been cleaning up/updating my address book with it...So much faster than trying to do it with the phone..

I was tempted to get the same as yours, but decided to get the "all black".. Two tone just looked a little slapped together..

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Re: Post the latest Geek/Nerd stuff that you bought
« Reply #91 on: November 12, 2007, 11:34:52 AM »
IMO, Music Port sucks when moving data to/from the phone but it's ok for the rest. (but it's a bit annoying that I have to convert all my audio files to m4a just for it to recognize them and that it will convert them again for DRM)

When I went to the TMS, I managed to take about 170 pics and 12 movies before it switched to extension mode, so a microSD is a must for me. It's 2GB so that I don't have to remove it so often but I prefer to just put the card in the PC directly and move everything without Music Port.
It's great but if you take a lot of pictures it shows it's (few) weaknesses. Must have a new camera for christmas - the old one can't compete with the phone...

I had an all grey boring Motorola before so I wanted a change.

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Re: Post the latest Geek/Nerd stuff that you bought
« Reply #92 on: November 12, 2007, 12:33:19 PM »
Not using mine for music at all, but had to give it a try, since it was there..  :D  (Always have my ipod with me) And was pretty happy how it went.. Used the latest "RIZE" single, the CDDB (gracenote) found it straight away, and the program ripped it straight from the disc.. Had to put the cover art on myself..

You don't need to move the microSD card to the pc, you can set the phone to "mass storage" and access it via the usb connection, which will save you pulling it out all the time..
Settings -> User Support -> Data Comm

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Re: Post the latest Geek/Nerd stuff that you bought
« Reply #93 on: November 12, 2007, 01:53:07 PM »
Oh, that's a thousand times better, thanks! I can just keep the media stand connected to the pc and create a shortcut on the standby screen.
(Maybe I should give the manual another chance but I suck at reading japanese...)

I tried ripping from a CD and it worked fine. Still sucks if I want to listen to stuff that I only have as (downloaded) files...
Usually I don't use it for music as well but since microSD cards are cheap and I always have the phone with me, I like that I can use it as a camera or music player as well if I forgot the others at home.

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Re: Post the latest Geek/Nerd stuff that you bought
« Reply #94 on: November 12, 2007, 02:00:09 PM »
(Maybe I should give the manual another chance but I suck at reading japanese...)
You could always download the English one..
http://www.au.kddi.com/torisetsu/pdf/w53ca/w53ca_basic_e.pdf

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Re: Post the latest Geek/Nerd stuff that you bought
« Reply #95 on: November 12, 2007, 11:47:42 PM »
They gave me a copy of that when I got the phone but it's really just basic information and doesn't cover advanced features.
I guess I should just stop complaining and see it as a good exercise to read the full manual.  XD

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Re: Post the latest Geek/Nerd stuff that you bought
« Reply #96 on: November 26, 2007, 02:47:45 PM »
Computer upgrade time after 3 years.  Maybe I'll get to play the games I have without lag now  :lol:


GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3L LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128059


Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz 4M shared L2 Cache CPU
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115003


G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Memory
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231098

Came out to about $370.  Not bad for being so much better than what I have now (AMD 64 4000+ CPU, 2GB DDR333 RAM, ASUS A8N5X Mobo, but I got all of this when it first came out)
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Re: Post the latest Geek/Nerd stuff that you bought
« Reply #97 on: November 27, 2007, 07:44:00 AM »
Good stuff there LaJon!

Those motherboards are really good! We run them in our games machines in the Internet Cafe at work and you can overclock really easily with them.

If you wanna set your ram timings manually, you gotta go ctrl+F1 when you're in the main page of the bios, then that unlocks the options in the menu where you change all the stuff like FSB and multiplyer (i forgot what the menu is called but you'll find it). I clocked an e4300 up to 3Ghz with default vcore on one of those boards. They're good!
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Re: Post the latest Geek/Nerd stuff that you bought
« Reply #98 on: November 27, 2007, 07:54:47 AM »
Good stuff there LaJon!

Those motherboards are really good! We run them in our games machines in the Internet Cafe at work and you can overclock really easily with them.

If you wanna set your ram timings manually, you gotta go ctrl+F1 when you're in the main page of the bios, then that unlocks the options in the menu where you change all the stuff like FSB and multiplyer (i forgot what the menu is called but you'll find it). I clocked an e4300 up to 3Ghz with default vcore on one of those boards. They're good!

Yeah, I'm definitely interested in overlocking with that mobo/cpu combo, but I've never done overlocking before.  What's safe for stock heatsink/fan? Or would it be worth it to grab a better one like a Zalman?

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Re: Post the latest Geek/Nerd stuff that you bought
« Reply #99 on: November 27, 2007, 08:30:28 AM »
You might be able to clock it up to 2.8-3ghz without having to change the core voltage. When you start changing the core voltage, that's when you need to look at better cooling.

Tomorrow I'll see if I can take some pics of the bios and settings for you and guide you through overclocking your chip. :D

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