just managed to get my very first steam account back! [IMG]http://i.somethingawful.com/forumsystem/emoticons/emot-toot.gif[/IMG]
wasn't as old as I thought, early 2008. still pretty surreal to log into my account to see that someone else has been using it and hasn't been logged into since 2009
[t]http://i.cubeupload.com/znUKdV.png[/t]
Is the account still in good standing?
[QUOTE=pentium;45752793]Is the account still in good standing?[/QUOTE]
surprisingly, yeah. would have expected it to be VAC banned after it was hjiacked
[QUOTE=Khub;45749003][img]http://i.imgur.com/EMdpkxG.png[/img]
Too slow and too useless.
"Hello, my Valve store order is in 'Pending PayPal Authorization' status. The payment went through. What's the problem?"
"Hello, your order is in 'Pending PayPal Authorization' status. Please ask PayPal what's wrong with a successfully completed transaction."
After a while, the store order status changed to 'Cancelled'. I didn't get my money back and now it's sure I'm not getting the item either. I'm giving them time until 26th (45 days since transaction), then I'm raising a dispute.[/QUOTE]
Honestly I think PayPal ate your money, not Valve.
I've had absolutely zero problems paying for things with Valve's storefronts (both Steam and physical merch), and I've only used PayPal like once on either of those. Steam's support is kind of crap yes, but the money always hits and transacts successfully on my bank card (minus some occasional slowness because it's a credit transaction). Meanwhile, PayPal has a known history of eating people's money in various ways.
Flagdog says you're from the Czech Republic, and I don't know if that's accurate, and if it is I don't know what it's like in that country, but if you can, try not using PayPal in the future.
[QUOTE=TrafficMan;45750089][sp]Be careful it doesn't decapitate you[/sp][/QUOTE]
Too soon?
(even though they probably recorded it months in advance and just waited for the moment to release it...)
yeah, paypal is garbage. avoid it whenever possible because they can take your money whenever they like and there's not much you can do about it
Which is why you just use it as a pass through for your bank account.
I use PayPal for hardware trading, but that's about it.
[img]http://puu.sh/b1pZ0/42afb0ec9f.png[/img]
u fuckin wot
captcha on /g/ is getting silly
[QUOTE=lavacano;45753294]Honestly I think PayPal ate your money, not Valve.
I've had absolutely zero problems paying for things with Valve's storefronts (both Steam and physical merch), and I've only used PayPal like once on either of those. Steam's support is kind of crap yes, but the money always hits and transacts successfully on my bank card (minus some occasional slowness because it's a credit transaction). Meanwhile, PayPal has a known history of eating people's money in various ways.
Flagdog says you're from the Czech Republic, and I don't know if that's accurate, and if it is I don't know what it's like in that country, but if you can, try not using PayPal in the future.[/QUOTE]
I'll just flat out do not buy stuff if my only option is paypal. I don't even care any more. Nothing is worth it.
[editline]21st August 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=Levelog;45754712]I use PayPal for hardware trading, but that's about it.[/QUOTE]
I just get people to send me amazon gift cards for things, especially selling items in games.
I'm always buying shit there anyways, and it's incredibly easy. Give me that code, I give you the shit. Thank you, please come again.
[QUOTE=Zephyrs;45755344]I'll just flat out not buy stuff if my only option is paypal. I don't even care any more. Nothing is worth it.
[editline]21st August 2014[/editline]
I just get people to send me amazon gift cards for things, especially selling items in games.
I'm always buying shit there anyways, and it's incredibly easy. Give me that code, I give you the shit. Thank you, please come again.[/QUOTE]
Some of the sites I trade on require something with authenticated accounts like PayPal is though. And I had a bunch of trouble authenticating my Amazon Payments account and gave up.
In those cases, I get someone I know to do the trade for me, and let them take a cut if they want.
Some of them have gotten burned. I never have, and it's worth a slight cut not to have to even consider the bullshit.
Just replaced my old server in datacenter with a new one.
I went from:
6 Core AMD 3GHz -> 8 Core AMD 4GHz
12GB RAM -> 24GB RAM
1TB software Raid 1 -> 2x2TB Hardware Raid 1
1TB Traffic -> 2TB Traffic
Debian 6 -> Windows Server 2012R2
And the best thing is that this is actually cheaper than what I paid for my old Server.
Time to find some beefy shit I could host on it.
[editline]21st August 2014[/editline]
I feel like a little kid on christmas, unwrapping presents c:
[QUOTE=kaukassus;45755413]Just replaced my old server in datacenter with a new one.
I went from:
6 Core AMD 3GHz -> 8 Core AMD 4GHz
12GB RAM -> 24GB RAM
1TB software Raid 1 -> 2x2TB Hardware Raid 1
1TB Traffic -> 2TB Traffic
Debian 6 -> Windows Server 2012R2
And the best thing is that this is actually cheaper than what I paid for my old Server.
Time to find some beefy shit I could host on it.
[editline]21st August 2014[/editline]
I feel like a little kid on christmas, unwrapping presents c:[/QUOTE]
A payment site that doesn't steal Zephyrs's money?
Oh boy I can now use Hyper-V instead of KVM / XEN
This is truly an amazing change.
Also, My workplace pays the first month (And the second one is free because I ordered tough a promotion), because workplace wants to order the same Server and they want to know how the whole server outsourcing works.
[editline]21st August 2014[/editline]
Oh shit oh shit aparently I get a small VPS free aswell.
:O
[QUOTE=Levelog;45755429]A payment site that doesn't steal Zephyrs's money?[/QUOTE]
What's the story behind this?
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;45755481]What's the story behind this?[/QUOTE]
This page pretty much explains it. Been people talking about PayPal eating their money. Zephyrs was the most recent person to say something about it.
[QUOTE=kaukassus;45750459]Don't tell me you didn't know that.[/QUOTE]
Not sure where I'd be supposed to learn about that, primary school history deals with shit people did, and religious education only covered religions that are still alive.
Not much space for shit that only existed in people's imagination thousands of years ago.
On this week's information security quiz
[img]https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-vlvmp_aWI1g/U_W6r5S4k_I/AAAAAAAAFrM/gD6zaTvfeFg/s0/2014-08-21_19-23-56.png[/img]
[img]http://i.somethingawful.com/forumsystem/emoticons/emot-pseudo.gif[/img]
[editline]21st August 2014[/editline]
[img]https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-mVBaF7EBzQw/U_W_GwBn3OI/AAAAAAAAFrY/skXDEnJi3aY/s0/2014-08-21_19-42-49.png[/img]
You'd really think they'd be better at this, considering they're university lecturers
My current theory is that after you hit around 45, in most cases, your brain will be so specialized to what you do for a living, you end up forgetting about most everything else.
Holy shit, Just had a meeting. I thought it was an ordinary meeting. What I witnessed was 2 hours of intense corporate Shitflinging, name calling and corporations pissing each other in the face on a legal level.
Oh and don't forget the hordes of lawyers sent into battle.
Truly amazing.
[editline]21st August 2014[/editline]
And I'm just sitting here, doing server stuff, and hope I don't get butt bamboozled by some lawyer.
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;45757543]I'd eat some popcorn and just laugh at their shit firing.[/QUOTE]
I got some coffee. That works too, right?
Got nick-picked again by my step dad. He doesn't like it when I leave this thing on overnight or just when I'm generally not using it.
At first, his argument was that it was wasting power. I then explained to him that just because my PSU is 900W doesn't mean it draws that much. Then he switched the concern to "it's the static". For a guy that works in a glass factory, where this type of knowledge is fairly commonplace, he tends to get absent minded about PC's themselves.
if he pays the electricity bills then do what he says
[QUOTE=.Lain;45757731]if he pays the electricity bills then do what he says[/QUOTE]
Same goes with internet. if you don't pay the internet bill. Tough luck if your parent restricts your internet access to certain times.
[QUOTE=.Lain;45757731]if he pays the electricity bills then do what he says[/QUOTE]
Why? He's not in the disposition to believe a single desktop consumes so much power and neither am I. Not unless I were to leave this on for weeks on end, which I wouldn't do, the furthest I go with this still powered on is no more than 2 days.
just put it in sleep
So my company decided to change it's name again.
So uhhh let me just polish my CV, just to be on the safe side....
[QUOTE=.Lain;45757779]just put it in sleep[/QUOTE]
Suppose, although I vaguely remember an issue I had where using this after it had been on sleep mode would just cause a blue screen. Did a reformat when the new hard drive arrived and it was fine since then.
[QUOTE=kaukassus;45757557]I got some coffee. That works too, right?[/QUOTE]
Only if you take small, loud sips and exclamate "Aaaaah..!" after each sip.
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