Advice on beating the heat...

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@NFM

What sort of temps are we talking here? 35+°C?

Try and steer clear of evaporative cooling (the ones you put water/ice in) unless of course you enjoy the smell of mildew and the presence of mould on your walls and curtains. You can buy portable refrigerated A/C units, but they are tad more expensive than a wall mount or split system. Just go for it, a sumner without A/C (in Australia anyway) can be quite unbearable.

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NoFastMem wrote:

You can say "@TPG", everyone else does, hehe. :-)

Will do :-D

Hmm. I haven't actually measured the temperature. If I had to guess I'd say it's in the upper twenties inside, but I don't have a sense of temperature, so to speak, since I've never really paid attention to weather forecasts and things. So I really don't know. I just know it's too hot. :-D

Dude, upper twenties is great weather, in Melbourne, the inside of a house without A/C can quite easily hit a temp of around 45°C on a really hot day :-o

Since my flat is rented a portable unit is really the only way to go (I'm having trouble convincing the landlord even to let me replace the manky old kitchen cupboard.) I saw one for £150, which isn't so bad but they didn't take my card... Bummer.

Landlords can be real arse's at the best of times, too bad there isn't any way of getting back at them without loosing your bond.

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Cyberus wrote:

Adam (cool name btw ;-)*)...

Well said :-D :-D :-D

I've thought to myself in the past that the deposit you put on the place may be 'returnable', but really is just the landlord's retirement fund anyway!  :-o Might as well trash it....

Suppose your right, you can't go out for a decent drink with less than a $100 these days, so the fun you have trashing it, may indeed be well worth it :lol:

I've just moved into this place, the idea was (how anal does this sound...) to take photos of the place and burn em onto CD and send them to the landlord soon, right at the start of the tenancy...

Sounds more like paranoia to me ;-)

@ Chris

I was just thinking, this thread isn't geeky enough dammit, this is meant to be a computer geek forum....so....
Why not connect loads of old CPU fans together? :-D

What, something like this.

*sure I've said the same thing before

You have, but it doesn't hurt to say it again :-)

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Cyberus wrote:

Notice how he says he's going to put another PSU in there to run the fans...but wait, what if for some reason the PSU needs cooling? Then you'll need to run another PSU's worth of fans, but how will you power it??? With another PSU, of course. Which will mean that you'll need more fans, but where are you going to get the power? With a PSU, but then of course you'll need more fans, which will require another PSU, and then

Ok,ok, I'm tired its almost 7am and I've lost a whole night to Day of Defeat... :-(

Holy gob shite :-o :-o :-o

Well, I kinda lost a whole day of work to a.org :lol: