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New Robotics Forum
Boards.ie has created another forum in the past week or so; the Robotics forum.
Car trouble and honest mechanics
So the car was misfiring on one cylinder and it’d done 100,000km+ so I thought it was time for a good solid service. And obviously that means a citroen garage where they’re used to seeing citroen cars coming in and doing this sort of thing, thinks me, and goes into Gowan Motors with my little car.
Some of you are already facepalming. Wait for it, it gets better.
An Garda Siochana seek to implement website blocking without legislation or oversight
As caught by Digital Rights Ireland, the Gardai are seeking – without public debate or legislation – by private contact with ISPs, to introduce website blocking in Ireland in the name of preventing child pornography. Which is what studies abroad show it patently does not do – it’s not preventing child abuse, it’s implementing “See no Evil”.
New Gaming Rig, Part Two – Unboxing and Assembly
There’s something terribly nice about a box full of stuff 
Scan got the parts to me right on time so Thursday night was to be assembly night, with the goal of getting to a working POST by the end. So out came the boxcutter and I started unpacking…
So here are all the components, less the CPU which is hiding off to one side, just out of shot:
Looking at the case first of all (nice solid construction on this…):
The assembly went relatively smoothly, though it did take a few hours, mainly because I wasn’t really pushing myself. The PSU went in first, then the DVD drive and the hard drive, then the motherboard pillars went in and then the motherboard, then the graphics card, then some swearing, out came the graphics card and the hard drive was moved two bays down so the graphics card didn’t poke it, then the graphics card went in, then more swearing, the motherboard came off its pillars so I could pull it back an inch to fit the I/O facia panel, then back goes the motherboard and in goes the CPU and then I assemble the CPU heatsink/cooler assembly and lots of swearing and poking later, it’s latched onto the mounting lugs. I’m rather paranoid about those lugs not being sufficient in a tower configuration – some tiewrapping is due there I think just in case. After all this, it was wiring time.
The less said about wiring time, the better, but put it this way:
Eventually, everything was where I wanted it, with everything plugged in, screwed on, clipped, latched, tiewrapped, twisted, pushed, poked, pulled, prodded, bent and scrunched as appropriate.
It won’t be winning any build awards for neatness, but it’s in, it’s secure, and it’s tidy enough. So … Read the rest
