[QUOTE=Giraffen93;44464966]disgusting[/QUOTE]
sorry, i don't know codec installs.
So I did that computer build for my family today. Bitfenix Shinobi, i3 4330, 260X, and so on. As usual for any build, I missed a few parts - the DVD drive from the old computer turned out to be IDE, so I needed a replacement for that to even get Windows installed, and the monitor only came with a VGA cable so I needed to get a DVI cable. Further, the mouse had a broken scroll wheel, so a new one of those was also in order. Since I really wanted to finish the job today, I went to the local Best Buy to get it rather than go online.
Online, it would have cost like $35, maybe $40 if it wasn't free shipping. Guess how much it turned out to be.
Eighty
Fucking
Dollars.
The DVI cable alone was fifteen - for literally the only plain DVI cable in the store, 2m long. I tried to price-match online and the stupid cashier didn't seem to think DVI cables existed since she kept typing "dvi to hdmi cable". Amazon had it for $0.99, but since it "didn't ship from Amazon" they refused to price-match it. The DVD drive was $40 - twice what the going rate is online. Only the mouse was reasonably priced - it was the cheapest one there, $15.
I expected it to be more expensive than online, obviously, but that was pretty ridiculous. At least it wasn't a Blu-ray drive - those were literally $120-$150 for an internal reader (not even burner).
On the bright side, it's probably the best build I've ever done in terms of build quality. Nice airflow, quiet as hell, everything is secure and solid. And it all booted literally on my first try. Glad to know that my skills are in good shape, since I'll probably be doing a new high-end build for myself soon (probably going to wait for GM110, since it's reportedly going to be out this summer).
[QUOTE=PredGD;44465478]thing with windows as I've noticed is that a lot of people turn off UAC. might save you some annoyance, but if something happens you're very much at risk. run something unwanted once, and it can do whatever it wants to without you knowing[/QUOTE]
Most of them probably wouldn't be doing that if MS didn't make it paranoid about every little thing in Vista.
[QUOTE=elevate;44465567]Lately I've been considering solely using Linux when I want to enter sensitive information online. I might be getting a little paranoid.[/QUOTE]
A little bit, but if it's really sensitive there's nothing wrong with that.
[QUOTE=elevate;44465567]Lately I've been considering solely using Linux when I want to enter sensitive information online. I might be getting a little paranoid.[/QUOTE]
Nah, thats a pretty good thing to be doing.
So I got a free computer today. A Dell Dimension 5150. Nothing really special, Prescott P4, 256 MB of DDR2 (pathetic, since my Pentium II had half that stock), but eh, its free. Plug it in and it doesn't turn on. Literally no power period, except for a brief second, the power light turns green and the fans try to turn on when I plug it in, but immediately powers off. Pressing the power button does nothing. Motherboard standby light is steady green though.
Figure that maybe the power button is bad as I have no idea what's normal for these. Maybe a power supply. When I open it up, I take a good hard look and see this:
[t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14575796/Phots/IMG_20140405_223739.jpg[/t]
Mmmm, brown.
[t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14575796/Phots/IMG_20140405_223833.jpg[/t]
Take a look at the LPC pins on the left. Some good ol greenage. I think this computer sat in a very humid area for far too long and it looks like there's some corrosion that appears all over the mobo.
I might try swapping the power supply from the GX 270 to see if I can coax any life out of it, if the power supply is just bad. Otherwise, its off for scrap. But hey, its not a pure loss. I will get a 80 GB SATA HDD out of it (which appears to work) for the GX 270.
[QUOTE=lavacano;44461335]I didn't even know -update and so forth were ever considered valid[/QUOTE]
I found out -[Command] was never a thing. I was confused because in Linux it's [Program] -[Argument].
So remember the Sony Vaio that I upgraded to Windows 7 and can't get some of the windows drivers working because it's for Vista even though it said it was for Windows 7? I might as well say fuck it and slap Windows 8 on it. But then again, the tech support I'd have to give would increase exponentially.
[QUOTE=garychencool;44466415]So remember the Sony Vaio that I upgraded to Windows 7 and can't get some of the windows drivers working because it's for Vista even though it said it was for Windows 7? I might as well say fuck it and slap Windows 8 on it. But then again, the tech support I'd have to give would increase exponentially.[/QUOTE]
Install Classic Shell.
They'll never know.
[QUOTE=WhiteHusky;44466436]Install Classic Shell.
They'll never know.[/QUOTE]
Sweet.
I just hope the drivers won't be like fuck you, go back to Windows 7 (or worse, Vista).
3+ year old laptop. Running Windows 7 on it was pretty good so far. I wonder how much faster it would be with Windows 8. Really hope the drivers won't explode on this old thing.
[QUOTE=garychencool;44466460]Sweet.
I just hope the drivers won't be like fuck you, go back to Windows 7 (or worse, Vista).
3+ year old laptop. Running Windows 7 on it was pretty good so far. I wonder how much faster it would be with Windows 8. Really hope the drivers won't explode on this old thing.[/QUOTE]
You might have to be afraid of them running Metro apps, so making sure that the defaults are the normal desktop apps will suffice.
Yay, bullshitting people that Windows never changed.
[editline]6th April 2014[/editline]
The best kind of tech support.
[QUOTE=WhiteHusky;44466239]I found out -[Command] was never a thing. I was confused because in Linux it's [Program] -[Argument].[/QUOTE]
That's actually still the case. You still specify arguments that way. However, when you specify the command (like install, search, etc) its just a word in apt-get. The (-) arguments are for modifying that command. For example if you just wanted to download packages with apt-get (but not install them), its:
apt-get -d install <package_name>
Well I streamed about 2 hours of GRID on hitbox at 3 and 4mbps at 60fps and it's almost perfectly smooth and 0 dropped frames. 30fps just is skippy for some reason and Hitbox is much more accepting of my video feed unfortunately.
Got my old D.A.T. Recorder out. Still works, I like it when old stuff still works.
Bloody hell, DAT.
Still in use by some big name local acts over here. Not unusual to get a request for a DAT player.
In the process transferring stuff from the Dell to an external drive.
It's all fun and games when the laptop is beeping occasionally, never figured out why it was doing that. It was time my mom and dad swapped the machine for a desktop which will be faster.
[QUOTE=Tezzanator92;44468056]Bloody hell, DAT.
Still in use by some big name local acts over here. Not unusual to get a request for a DAT player.[/QUOTE]I wouldn't recommend it for critical recording, just transferring archives and mucking about. The mechanical elements of them are a bit temperamental and the caps are aging as most of the DAT machines were made in the 1990s.
By what should I choose the digitizer I am going to buy from Ebay?
Or somebody please help me choose a working S5830i digitizer. Shipping fucks the price up, that's bad.
also got the old ones refunded too, yai.
Cool I get flak from doing so. What the fuck.
Sure they don't want a new PC but that piece of shit Fujitsu is OLD. I can't fix the fucker. So I spend the last hour offering them other stuff but they refuse. Oh well so much for supporting them, I ain't gonna do shit for them if they don't want new things set up for them. It's like polishing a turd over and over, that Dell isn't gonna last, and neither is the Fujitsu so where is the logic?
So, i'm digging my way through an Acer Travelmate 512DX (woo Win98 sticker) for reasons, and it's making me a bit sad looking at my much more modern HP Probook. On the old laptop i'v been able to get the screen and keyboard loose in about 3 minutes, and battery, hdd, cd drive, memory and wifi adapter can be removed within seconds from various hatches
Compare to the probook where it's 2 hrs of cursing to get the HDD out, among plastic screwsm gue and plastic interior partitions
Why can't more modern laptops have this, or at least just hatches for HDD / RAM. It feels like all the non thinkpad / older compaq ones i see just go for the smooth bottom, annoying repair look
/end rant
In other news, i now have a space Travelmate screen sitting around. Might be useful (although probably not)
[QUOTE=Demache;44466183]So I got a free computer today. A Dell Dimension 5150. Nothing really special, Prescott P4, 256 MB of DDR2 (pathetic, since my Pentium II had half that stock), but eh, its free. Plug it in and it doesn't turn on. Literally no power period, except for a brief second, the power light turns green and the fans try to turn on when I plug it in, but immediately powers off. Pressing the power button does nothing. Motherboard standby light is steady green though.
Figure that maybe the power button is bad as I have no idea what's normal for these. Maybe a power supply. When I open it up, I take a good hard look and see this:
[t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14575796/Phots/IMG_20140405_223739.jpg[/t]
Mmmm, brown.
[t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14575796/Phots/IMG_20140405_223833.jpg[/t]
Take a look at the LPC pins on the left. Some good ol greenage. I think this computer sat in a very humid area for far too long and it looks like there's some corrosion that appears all over the mobo.
I might try swapping the power supply from the GX 270 to see if I can coax any life out of it, if the power supply is just bad. Otherwise, its off for scrap. But hey, its not a pure loss. I will get a 80 GB SATA HDD out of it (which appears to work) for the GX 270.[/QUOTE]
The power up for split second is some dell test thing, if that goes and works then you can rule out PSU.
I'd look at the power button and wiring imo.
I like those type of PCs, wish we had BTX instead of ATX.
UK Question:
Has anybody had any experience with Plusnet (versus BT) as a broadband provider?
[QUOTE=BreenIsALie;44468958]So, i'm digging my way through an Acer Travelmate 512DX (woo Win98 sticker) for reasons, and it's making me a bit sad looking at my much more modern HP Probook. On the old laptop i'v been able to get the screen and keyboard loose in about 3 minutes, and battery, hdd, cd drive, memory and wifi adapter can be removed within seconds from various hatches
Compare to the probook where it's 2 hrs of cursing to get the HDD out, among plastic screwsm gue and plastic interior partitions
Why can't more modern laptops have this, or at least just hatches for HDD / RAM. It feels like all the non thinkpad / older compaq ones i see just go for the smooth bottom, annoying repair look
/end rant
In other news, i now have a space Travelmate screen sitting around. Might be useful (although probably not)[/QUOTE]
Harder to fix yourself = more money for the manufacturer for them to fix it (or you just give up and buy a new laptop)
[QUOTE=Dorkslayz;44469177]UK Question:
Has anybody had any experience with Plusnet (versus BT) as a broadband provider?[/QUOTE]
They should have exactly the same service as BT since they're actually a subsidiary of BT themselves. We've had issues with Plusnet, but mostly issues with my brother's NAS drive on the router they supplied us with.
[QUOTE=tanktan38;44464378]Bitdefender.
Speaking of it, they're giving away free 6 months: [url]http://www.bitdefender.com/media/html/malwaretips/[/url][/QUOTE]
just tried BitDefender
it just deleted all of my C++ projects and a few other random files because it thought they were trojans. no thanks
24 hours after I started ripping stuff I've wasted 300gb of storage space. By comparison I've been on Steam four years and only got to about 550gb.
Edit:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/EE8SBAh.png[/img]
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;44468137]could be a weird plug in error
tried different twitch servers?[/QUOTE]
The recording performance is local, still trying to figure it out. As far as streaming itself, I've tried all US servers, they all still suck ass.
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;44470768]Hmm. Don't have issues with streaming to US servers.
As for recording if it's stuttering, it's either bad integration with the plugin and said game(as it hooks it self into the game to actually display onto OBS) or your HDD is being thrashed at.
Although I highly doubt any of this. You took it to OBS forums?[/QUOTE]
I haven't posted on the forums yet, was going to try rolling back my video drivers.
I tried GRID, Torchlight, CS:GO, 3089 and a few others which have hooked perfectly in the past.
[QUOTE=Soleeedus;44470499]just tried BitDefender
it just deleted all of my C++ projects and a few other random files because it thought they were trojans. no thanks[/QUOTE]
No backups?
I made an email account on my server ages ago, and subscribed it to the Linux kernel mailing list, and then I forgot about it.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/Yk1rPuF.png[/img]
Should probably take care of these at some point.
[QUOTE=nikomo;44471415]I made an email account on my server ages ago, and subscribed it to the Linux kernel mailing list, and then I forgot about it.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/Yk1rPuF.png[/img]
Should probably take care of these at some point.[/QUOTE]
At work, I subscribed to the arch mailing list years ago.
I am now one of the persons with the most emails in the mailbox.
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