my choice was easy: I want to overclock, because I have watercooling

@IvoFlipse I'm thinking probably something a bit less extravagant than water cooling, as that's not a very widely used thing

I'll start writing up a blog post for the proposal/request for commentary/suggestions sometime soon

it might take me a little while though since we have final exams next week, so might be a week or two before i get it up there

No rush, im going to sleep on it as well.

OH MY GOSH! I HAVE'NT BEEN IN HERE FOR A WHILE TO SEE THAT THE BLOG HAS THE OFFICIAL STAMP OF APPROVAL FROM JEFF!!!!!!

hahahaha

yes, congrats to you @KronoS

@nhinkle oh man... this just made my day....

is now sitting on cloud nine!

:D

i have to go

l8rs @nhinkle I'm just going to sit here and feel awesome for a little while :P

you do that. you deserve it :)

and then get back to work on another QOtW question for this next week

hey, congratulations @KronoS @IvoFlipse @ThomasMcDonald for the Official™ Stamp of Approval™

@ThomasMcDonald @JeffAtwood's tweet effect ? just 12 visitors ?

aha

the second one is more like it

@ThomasMcDonald ohh

stressing quite heavily, for the brief moment I see. You do have SuperCache right?

@IvoFlipse, if i were to get kingston to send me an SSD (i'm thinking of tweeting them like @Sathya and @KronoS did, but separately from SU), would SU be able to subsidize a 9.5mm optical drive HDD caddy for me to test out running an HDD for files and SSD for the OS and programs? It's something I've always wanted to do, but I've never been able to afford an SSD.

@IvoFlipse something like this, probably ($17 seems fairly cheep, yah?)

amazon.com/Adapter-Compatible-9-5mm-high-SuperDrive-Interface/…

whoaaaa chat has amazon special-link

@nhinkle you didn't know o_0

@Sathya I didn't know what? the amazon thing? no, i've never seen anyone post an amazon link here before ^_^

@ThomasMcDonald cool. any particular reason for looking at optibay? linkage?

if i do this and review it, would you find that helpful?

iirc github gists are also supported

i wonder if there's full documentation of it somewhere

*heads to meta to look*

@ThomasMcDonald looks like the same kind of thing for $80 more, unless i'm missing something

@Sathya thanks

@ThomasMcDonald well i think i'll go with the cheap one if i do this

i'd have to get an SSD from kingston first

i should go tweet them

@Sathya did you just tweet kingston and say "Could I please have an SSD to review"?

@nhinkle well it was more of a sarcatic reply

hah, how so?

> So @KingstonSSDNow is following me, do I get a review copy or something

I wasn't expecting a reply

LOL. nicely done

also, are they any warranty concerns regarding HP with opening it up and replacing the drive?

got a shock when they sent me a DM asking for my email id :D

@nhinkle I think the warranty gets void, didn't check tbh

hmm

i'd like to avoid voiding my warranty

Super Users don't worry about no sissy warranties

:P

right, but see, super users also don't want to have no recourse if their computer has unexpected problems and then won't get fixed and don't personally have the money to just buy a new laptop if the current one goes kaput

@nhinkle yeah I know, I was just kidding.

actually I was just too obessed with fitting the SSSD

so didn't check at all

and it would be just my luck for something to break if i did this

> The warranty on your HP product will not be affected by the installation of a non-HP upgrade/option unless your HP product is damaged as a result of installation and/or operation of a third party option, such damage will not be covered by HP warranty.

h40059.www4.hp.com/warranty/information/faq.php#17

so basically, if i don't screw up installing an SSD, its mere existence is not a problem with regards to warranty

also, from h40059.www4.hp.com/warranty/information/…:

> It is possible to void the warranty on an HP product. Any failure caused by an unsupported or third-party component will not be covered by warranty. Opening a sealed component or sealed product will void the warranty. Examples of sealed components or sealed products include drives, monitors, and many handheld products. Opening the case will not void the warranty on products that are designed to be opened and upgraded, such as desktop or tower computers or servers

@nhinkle aha

nice find!

better keep that bookmarked in case you ever need it, @Sathya ;)

indeed!

> Opening the case will not void the warranty on products that are designed to be opened and upgraded, such as desktop or tower computers or servers

no laptop in that clause, @nhinkle

true @Sathya, but the other documents imply that a laptop should still be fine

true

if i can get an SSD, i will do an HP support chat to double-check and verify with them that it is ok to replace the hdd

hah, you just beat me to it i guess

is there a place where i can access all of the bookmarks i have created on SE chat?

we'll work something out if you get one @nhinkle

@nhinkle yeah

@Sathya where might that be?

@IvoFlipse thanks, i'm going to contact them soon and see what i can get

chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/info/115/…

ah, thanks @Sathya

Hey everyone, esp @KronoS, big congrats on a getting the blog to official status! Nice work :D

I was just wondering whether wordpress uses blogoverflow too, but I guess not yet @ThomasMcDonald

@ThomasMcDonald is there anything you would want to improve the blog or try something for wordpress.blogoverflow?

thanks @DMA57361

thank you! @JeffAtwood

But first I have to make it through my interview with Microsoft, and this week's assignments.

Perhaps spring break I'll get it done

btw @KronoS we should respond to Nathan's tweet, the one about testing Photoshop and importing songs into iTunes

@IvoFlipse I've already started looking into that. I don't have a valid copy of Photoshop though... however I think I can get a copy from the school.

I have found application startup timing benchmarking software. I plan on combining those type of tests with the comparison of the RAID0 vs single drive

but can also do a comparison to the Hybrid as well

@ThomasMcDonald I at first thought you were talking about my response to @IvoFlipse lol... now I realize you mean the traffic

WOW! That makes me super happy

Ah.... so is the Server UK Hosted?

@ThomasMcDonald I'm hoping to come up with a way to get more sites to organize themselves to write blog posts

@IvoFlipse like the other SE site? (fitness :P)

well I'm surely going to do it for that @KronoS

woops, how so?