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I loved the link to the simulator Tom, fascinating. Sent from my iPhone On 29 Sep 2011, at 07:30, tom <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 28/09/11 10:58, Adrian Midgley wrote: >> A power supply from a PC should start up when the mains is plugged into it? >> >> It draws a little power from the mains - at least there is a spark >> noise when the lead is shoved in live, but its fan doesn't start up. >> >> There is no voltage on the green lead that I gather is supposed to be >> +5v and driven low to switch it on >> >> Plugs from it are a block of 8 and a block of 24 - ATX isn't it. >> >> >> My room is so quiet at the moment though that I may be in the market >> for a new machine that has less howling fans. Old one is a Dell >> Poweredge 1850 and I use grahics cards in PCI-Express slots. >> >> What does the panel like for hardware these days? >> > I got a 4 core 64 bit AMD jobbie with 4 gig ram that I'm finding hard to utilise > anywhere near fully (other than folding@home) > got that from novatech as a barebones bundle - I use chacher-ng proxy cash so with > a 12meg (small) boot iso for ubuntu I was up an running in less than an hour. > but I'd prefer http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~edsac/ if the winters going to be > another cold one > Tom te tom te tom > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq