Simon White

I was browsing ebay last night, I was looking for a new Alloy for my car since it’s damaged a little. A while later I started browsing through some computer related stuff, then I managed to get into the Server / Enterprise items.

After a while I found a few low-cost servers. I put an offer in for one of them, but it was rejected with 3 minutes to the listing ending. After that I just paid the full amount for it since it seemed good value.

It’s a HP Proliant DL380 G3 but it didn’t come with any hard drives, which is probably the reason it was the price it was. As soon as I’d purchased it I went looking for drives for it, needless to say SCSI drives are quite expensive, and quite a bit more than the server. I did however manage to find a HP 146GB (10K RPM) for £20 so that was good, or at least in my opinion.

I am looking to get a SCSI to SATA thing so I can put cheaper drives in it, but if it comes to it I’ll find another low price server with a few drives in it to use.

My exams have finished an that’s my first year with University over, it hasn’t been exactly been what I was expecting and a huge change from SERC. If you want an easy way into University, go do a Diploma or a BTEC, with any luck you’ll end up getting Triple Distinction with minimal effort, or at least that seems something similar to what I did.

While it was an easy way into University, it hits you like a brick wall because suddenly you’ve got a ton of stuff going on, although maybe only 3 or 4 modules the work that needs to be done is much more, and you actively have to try and learn the subjects. This might be why I found my Diploma easy because I knew pretty much everything that was on there with the exception of some of the IT Systems Analysis or the Advanced Maths modules.

The exam I sat a few hours ago was a Programming Challenges Practical (Java) which was based entirely on GUI which I’m so glad I spent most of yesterday going over the GUI bits, I didn’t even need the notes that they provided, although saying that it wasn’t exactly hard to be perfectly honest, it was quite similar to a past-paper that had been found.

I’ve tried doing/keeping a blog before, but it never really worked out, so let’s try again or at least for the summer. This might turn into some sort of tumblr-styled blog… Doing that is easier.

Ebay Impulse

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