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  1. aaruni

    High Performance Desktop for 2k EUR

    1. What is the purpose of the computer? What all applications and games are you going to run? (Be exact. Which games? Which applications? Avoid the word 'et cetera.' Vague answers like 'gaming' or 'office work' will not work.) Ans: CPU heavy things like code compilation and training some ML...
  2. aaruni

    PC Build for 1500 EUR

    1. What is the purpose of the computer? What all applications and games are you going to run? (Stupid answers like 'gaming' or 'office work' will not work. Be exact. Which games? Which applications? Avoid the word 'et cetera.') Ans: Building a workstation mostly for scientific computing, with...
  3. aaruni

    Laptop Suggestion

    1) What is your budget? (INR or USD) Around 60K INR, willing to extend if need be. 2) What size & weight consideration (if any) would you prefer? Mainstream; 15" - 16" screen 3) What are the primary tasks you will be performing with this notebook? Movies, MS office, etc. Need it to play nice...
  4. aaruni

    Suggest new laptop. ~60k

    1) What is your budget? (INR or USD) Around 60K INR, willing to extend if need be. 2) What size & weight consideration (if any) would you prefer? Mainstream; 15" - 16" screen 3) What are the primary tasks you will be performing with this notebook? Movies, MS office, etc. Need it...
  5. aaruni

    Suggestion for new phone ~10k

    1. Budget? 10k. Hopefully less. Can stretch if required. 2. Display type and size? OLED, 5" 3. Dual sim? Yes 4. Preferred choice of brand? Nil 5. What camera option you want (flash, front facing camera)? Nothing fancy. Should be able to click pictures of class notes with back camera...
  6. aaruni

    New Laptop

    1) What is your budget? (INR or USD) Around 50k INR. 2) What size & weight consideration (if any) would you prefer? 15 inch, but light. 3) What are the primary tasks you will be performing with this notebook? Laptop for college use. Browsing, documents (MS-Office, PDFs, etc), movies, light...
  7. aaruni

    [For Sale] HP Pavilion G6 2303tx

    Model number and details HP Pavilion G6 2303 tx intel core i5 3230m @ 2.6 GHz turbo boost to 3.2GHz (intel HD4000 integrated) AMD Radeon Mobility HD7670m w/ 1 GB VRAM 4GB RAM 500 GB High Performance WD Scorpion Blue (aftermarket installation) 15 inch screen (1366*768) Full sized keyboard...
  8. aaruni

    Config Suggestion : 40K

    1. What is the purpose of the computer? What all applications and games are you going to run? (Stupid answers like 'gaming' or 'office work' will not work. Be exact. Which games? Which applications? Avoid the word 'et cetera.') Ans: Games. Titles like Witcher 2, Dragon Age Inquisition. If...
  9. aaruni

    Digital Ocean much Disappint

    So, last year in around July, I got 100 USD credit for DigitalOcean (via Github Student Developer Pack). I calculated that this will run a 5 USD per month VPS for 20 months (which is quite goddamned cool!). Today, I got a very unexpected email from DigitalOcean saying that they tried charging...
  10. aaruni

    [Buying Advice] TV and compatible Audio System

    I need to purchase a new Full HD TV. From the questionnaire, to the best of my knowledge : 1. Budget? Straight from father : "As reasonable as possible" 2. Display type and size? Type: LCD/LED. Not sure which type is good. Size: 30-40 inch 3. Primary use of...
  11. aaruni

    Bomb Blast in Bangalore

    A low intensity bomb blast from an IED took place in Church Street near M.G Road, Bangalore. Two injured, a woman in critical state, and a man. Source We were just in the area in the late noon.... Damn we were shocked when we switched on the TV to this news.
  12. aaruni

    Woes with dd

    My usage scenario : I had to borrow someone's SD Card for a day, I had to delete stuff on it to make room for my stuff. I decided to take the geeky way out, and instead of just copy-paste to backup, I decided dd was a better option, since, as of my understanding, it makes a bit-by-bit clone...
  13. aaruni

    Blocked P2P Service ?

    Hi, I'm using Hathway Cable Internet in Bangalore, Indiranagar/HAL 3rd Stage region. For a little over a month now, I am unable to access any sort of P2P applications. All the ports come blocked, the log says something similar to "IPv4 DHT Not ready (broken,0 nodes)", and the application cannot...
  14. aaruni

    15th birthday of CS

    On the 19th of June 1999, Counter Strike was released as a GldSrc mod by some very talented people. Someone wanna have an online party to celebrate ? CS 1.6 ?
  15. aaruni

    Switchable GFX Issue

    This is not a buying advice thread, but I couldn't find any better place to post this. @Mods : Please move this to another section, if necessary. I have a HP Pavilion g6 2303tx notebook PC, running Windows 8.1 Pro. The problem here is, that any game which requires DirectX9 doesn't run...
  16. aaruni

    [Query] Laptop for service

    Need to get my laptop (HP-Pavilion-G6) to a service center, the RAM slot seems to be faulty, a tad bit too thin to fit a memory module. Need to get it to a service center the next weekend. Any known malpractices I should be aware of ?
  17. aaruni

    RAM Module Does Not Fit Laptop

    I have HP-Pavillion-G6 2303-tx. I am upgrading the RAM in it, but only one of the slot seems to accept the module. I cannot get the module inserted inside the second slot. I have tried to reverse the seating of my two modules, but neither of them fit in the second slot. They fit in the first...
  18. aaruni

    Thunderbird Backup

    I will be upgrading my HDD and do not want to download all of my backed up email (3GB). Is there a way to back this all up except by taking a backup of ~/.thunderbird/*.default/Mail ? Like something which will produce a big dump, which can then be imported by thunderbird on the new install using...
  19. aaruni

    Stripping Ubuntu

    Ubuntu Linux is a nice distro, but I think its a bit too heavy. Too many things installed. More than I need anyway. Now I know this much, that I can uninstall un-needed packages using apt, but the problem here is, I am not quite sure exactly which packages are un-needed. I run the Ubuntu...
  20. aaruni

    New Rig, strictly hypothetical.

    Yeah, you've read the topic. Its strictly hypothetical, A.K.A, imaginary. I just want to know what components will best serve the purpose of the things I list out, without actually any aim of buying it in near future. Maybe I'll use this thread as a reference in a couple of years while...
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