Paddy's hardware restructuring thread!

[Paddy]

still on hold...

[Paddy]

Now they are claiming that they cant get involved as the transaction was through Western Union, despite the bank reassuring me otherwise... still on hold

[schmosef]

I hate it when sh*t like that happens. Good luck Paddy.

[ZokesPro]

Ah crap. If it all goes down the crapper, is there still a way you can get your money back?

Good luck Paddy, hope it all goes well.

[VJ]

Hope it all turns out fine...
(but you have confirmed the reason why I don't use eBay... )


Jörg

[Paddy]

The bank are cotradicting themselves. Good job the calls are recorded
They will phone me back on Tuesday after I get back from Bavaria

[Fat Tone]

I've used that before with an insurance company: "If you check back on your recording of our last conversation you'll find..." and they instantly capitulated.

[Paddy]

we shall see
I need to go and find my beer drinking hat...

[gt40]

now that's something!
a hat that drinks beer

[Paddy]

[Fat Tone]

now that's something!
a hat that drinks beer

Just as long as it's not MY beer

[Fat Tone]

Hope you had a good trip

Any news on the beer or laptop money?

[Paddy]

Hello!
Sorry for the delay in replying it's been hectic here.
Yeah, back safe and sound - just in from a weekend away in London.
Munich was fun although expensive. I bet the prices tripple everyyear at Oktoberfest. Still the weisbier was very good indeed. I even managed to get arrested only once!

In any case, it seems that the laptop has taken a bit of a back seat. The bank are insisting that they are not obliged to cover the insurance, but they probably will as I have been misinformed. I am still waiting to hear back from them.

As far as the rest of the hardware goes, I am uncertain as to how to proceed.

My server is working beautifully, but doesn't suppor the IDE RAID array that I had planned.
I am starting to realise that perhaps the best way forward would be to sell the server and replace it with something cheap. I have the SCSI and IDE drives / RAID controller, so I could sell the server and buy a cheap CPU/mobo/ram/case. I have seen the ProLiants going on ebay for ~£150, so I guess that's my budget if that's how I am going to proceed.

As far as the desktop goes, I'd like to replace it with a laptop, but my finances probably arn't going to stretch that far at the moment. I will keep the desktop for now and have a think about it later. I've checked on ebay and it certainly isn't worth selling.

What cpu/ram/mobo/rack mountable case can you recommend for a web/AV server?

[Paddy]

still no reply from the bank...
any advice on the above query?

[Fat Tone]

start another thread?