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Spontaneously?
Post details.
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Pretty much. It was on, then bam, nothing. No power, picture, anything. I honestly have no idea what happened.
I took out the hard drive and RAM and threw the rest away (other than the battery, as it requires different disposal steps)
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Throw the RAM as well - or put it up on FleaBay - sound like a massive spike on something, to take out that much. Trouble is, even if the ran is working, chances are it's damaged and will be intermittent or fail later.
I've had PSU failures before fry PCs, and you can't trust anything that "survived".
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Good advice, Griff.
I want to know what naughty video he was watching that made it overheat like that!
Will Rogers never met me.
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Must have been a hot lady! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I was building something in VS 2013.
I tested the HDD and all systems are green. There is a power surge protection circuit between the drive and the motherboard, so the drive didn't get hit.
I will likely get rid of the RAM, as I don't really need it.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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I stopped buying anything Sony after opening up a newish stereo amplifier and finding 1950's era electronics inside...all shiny and nice on the outside, total crap on the inside.
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This seems that way as well.
Not sure what I will get next, but definitely not a Dell (Hell?) nor a Toshiba.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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The electronics were like World War II surplus or something...crazy.
No, I wouldn't get a Dell...stay away from Lenovo as well.
Maybe Asus or HP?
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I'm currently using my dad's old Asus, and so far it works perfectly fine. I have heard many good things about Asus, so I will look into what they have.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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I always get an Asus motherboard when I build a desktop box...always been happy with them. Also have an Asus tablet which works great too.
(no, I don't work for Asus or get promotional money from them 
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DaveX86 wrote: I always get an Asus motherboard when I build a desktop box...always been happy with them.
Same here. I recommend them highly. I never spend more than $60 or $70 on the mb for a home pc, and they've all been from Asus.
My habit began years ago when they were the only mob that made both desktop motherboards and laptops.
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One of my friends has an Asus, and it had an issue a month after the warranty expired, yet Asus still fixed it for free.
I have also heard good things about Asus' Customer Support team.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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I've always found their stuff to be very good. The list of installed crapware on it is basically of zero length, too. It's a 'dual-license' machine, so it came with Win7 installed and a Win8 disc included - unbeatable!
Yup, I suspect they're more than clever enough to know that good-will costs far less than it's worth. I hear good stuff about the MBs made by the company they spun-off years ago, too - ASRock. No idea about their customer support though.
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon
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I risk getting run out of town for suggesting this, but how about a Macbook?
They are really well built, great for running Windows on, and the customer service is incredible. I don't think any of the other manufacturers even come close!
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Too expensive. I tried a Mac before, but never really got used to it. I have an iPad Air, but that is the only thing from Apple I will ever get.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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When you say 50s era electronics, it didn't have vacuum tubes in it, did it?
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon
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Almost! I would actually like vacuum tubes...they always have better sound than transistors. Alas, no vacuum tubes.
I meant more the circuit board and hardware.
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Ah. I figured it was probably a stretch since it was just Sony, but one never does know. I considered mentioning the difference in the sound, but like I just said - one never does know. :grins:
I was just looking at some amps the other day, but at $700 for 10+10 rms as a diy kit, I think there's a few other things I need first!
Yeah, can't stand the pcbs some mobs use - they're not even glass fibre for heaven's sake.
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon
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Yeah, the printed circuit board was terrible...I could have made something better than that
These days I just use a nice set of Audio Technica headphones and a nice headphone amp...was tired of people complaining about the noise
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And done so with a dalo pen I'll bet!
DaveX86 wrote: nice set of Audio Technica headphones
Ha! And here I was considering pointing out the difference in sound between transistors and valves.
DaveX86 wrote: was tired of people complaining about the noise
Good-taste it seems, is like common-sense - not universal.
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon
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I've been using Typescript over the past couple of days to build a new AngularJS app, and waow!
It is amazing!
If you work a lot with Javascript, and you haven't had a chance to play with Typescript, please check it out.
That is all!
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I've been curious about Typescript, but have some colleagues that are against it based on what they know. Can you elaborate more on the "waow" factors, and arguments that you might make to someone who is skeptical or outright against using it?
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Sure.
Well, first of all I am working with a .net back-end, so doing all of my coding in Visual Studio (2015 RC). Visual Studio 2015 + ReSharper + Web Essentials which provides a really nice environment for working with Typescript.
For my API, server side, I am using ServiceStack. ServiceStack have created a Visual Studio plugin to generate a DTO in Typescript based on your API. You write your API, run this program, and you have an interface for every Request and Response object in your API.
There is a Typescript project called DefinitelyTyped. It provides type definitions for all of the frameworks I am using, which for this project are:
- AngularJS
- Angular UI Router
- Angular UI Directives for Bootstrap
- AngularJS Toastr
This means that you can write your client side code in Typescript, and everything is strongly typed. Here is an AngularJS service I wrote earlier today in Typescript:
import CreateAdjustmentRequest = JobManager.Model.CreateAdjustmentRequest;
import AdjustmentResponse = JobManager.Model.AdjustmentResponse;
import HttpPromise = angular.IHttpPromise;
import GetAdjustmentRequest = JobManager.Model.GetAdjustmentRequest;
import GetAdjustmentsRequest = JobManager.Model.GetAdjustmentsRequest;
import UpdateAdjustmentRequest = JobManager.Model.UpdateAdjustmentRequest;
import DeleteAdjustmentRequest = JobManager.Model.DeleteAdjustmentRequest;
export class AdjustmentService {
httpService: angular.IHttpService;
constructor(httpService: angular.IHttpService) { this.httpService = httpService; }
getAdjustment(request: GetAdjustmentRequest):HttpPromise<AdjustmentResponse> {
return this.httpService.get('/adjustments/' + request.Id);
}
getAdjustments(request: GetAdjustmentsRequest): HttpPromise<AdjustmentResponse[]> {
return this.httpService.get('/adjustments/all/' + request.JobId);
}
createAdjustment(request: CreateAdjustmentRequest): HttpPromise<AdjustmentResponse> {
return this.httpService.post('/adjustments/create', request);
}
updateAdjustment(request: UpdateAdjustmentRequest): HttpPromise<AdjustmentResponse> {
return this.httpService.post('/adjustments/' + request.Id, request);
}
deleteAdjustment(request: DeleteAdjustmentRequest): HttpPromise<boolean> {
return this.httpService.delete('/adjustments/' + request.Id);
}
}
(() => angular.module('JobManager').service('AdjustmentService', ['$http', (http: angular.IHttpService) => {
return new AdjustmentService(http);
}]))();
How nice is that? You have all sorts of niceties from C# such as generics and lambda expressions, and everything you see is strongly typed. The colon syntax on method arguments is used to assign a type to an object. If you don't use this, then it's similar to a dynamic object in C#, and will compile no matter what you do. The colon syntax on a method itself is used to specify which type of object the method returns.
IHttpService comes from the AngularJS DefinitelyTyped library. The requests and responses have been generated by ServiceStack, based on the C# classes used. If you get anything wrong, then the project doesn't build and you can catch errors at compile time as opposed to run time.
Loving it all so far!
One of the core developers of Typescript is Anders Hejlsberg, who was also one of the core developers of C#. AngularJS 2 is build on TypeScript! This is a collaboration between Microsoft on Google, which is insanely cool! Asana is built with Typescript, as are a bunch of major SPA's.[^]
I'm not writing any more Javascript if I can avoid it.
modified 26-Jun-15 16:34pm.
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