• CIPWTTKT&GC v 0x15 (v21): Thinkpads are Forever
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Pop in the Windows installation disk, go to recovery and select Repair Windows, and use this thread: [url]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1152047[/url]
the disk doesnt seem to be recognizing there's already an install, just goes right to installation skipping recovery of any sort edit: this is embarrassing. I opened it up after i got the initial error to try to see if there were any loose connections, apparently i'd actually knocked one loose while doing this. its fixed now, thanks.
MSI tech support says I should lubricate my fan bearing, how would I do that? Just pull the main plastic part with the fan blades right off or is there another way?
[QUOTE=benjgvps;38771121]MSI tech support says I should lubricate my fan bearing, how would I do that? Just pull the main plastic part with the fan blades right off or is there another way?[/QUOTE] [img]http://www.endpcnoise.com/e/images/papst_silent_case_fan.jpg[/img] Under the sticker is the bearing. Just one or 2 drops of 3 in 1 oil depending on the size of the fan and then put electrical tape on it.
[QUOTE='[EG] Pepper;38771198'][img]http://www.endpcnoise.com/e/images/papst_silent_case_fan.jpg[/img] Under the sticker is the bearing. Just one or 2 drops of 3 in 1 oil depending on the size of the fan and then put electrical tape on it.[/QUOTE] Crap, so it would probably be on the other side if the cooler. The only way I see the cooler mounted to the card is with 4 screws near the main chip, though I removed those and tried to pull it off, though it felt like it was glued on there or something.
I just realized, I knew that EA would be total dicks with their online services before like a large majority of people. Back when the PS2 was the hottest console on the market, I bought a copy of some Sims game on the PS2, and it was designed to be mostly played online. Now, it was a platinum copy when I bought it, and I think it was used, but it couldn't have been more than a few years old. When I got home with it, I popped it into my PS2, started playing, went to connect to the online service, and got a message that the service had been discontinued. Not sure why that memory hadn't come up before now, in the past couple of years, a thread on Reddit got me thinking about PS2's online services.
[QUOTE=benjgvps;38771328]Crap, so it would probably be on the other side if the cooler. The only way I see the cooler mounted to the card is with 4 screws near the main chip, though I removed those and tried to pull it off, though it felt like it was glued on there or something.[/QUOTE] Might be the thermal paste. What GPU is it? Sometimes you can take the fan off while leaving the actual heatsink still attached. [editline]10th December 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=nikomo;38771344]I just realized, I knew that EA would be total dicks with their online services before like a large majority of people. Back when the PS2 was the hottest console on the market, I bought a copy of some Sims game on the PS2, and it was designed to be mostly played online. Now, it was a platinum copy when I bought it, and I think it was used, but it couldn't have been more than a few years old. When I got home with it, I popped it into my PS2, started playing, went to connect to the online service, and got a message that the service had been discontinued. Not sure why that memory hadn't come up before now, in the past couple of years, a thread on Reddit got me thinking about PS2's online services.[/QUOTE] I heard there are some DNAS servers still up, but i haven't heard of any game servers still up.
well I'm now fucking pissed finally have access to a computer to play PlanetSide 2 with a friend Try to sign in, oh fuck I can't remember what my password was go to reset password get email, click link COOKIES MUST BE ENABLED ...they are enabled. *restarts browser, tries again* COOKIES MUST BE ENABLED. *tries different browser* COOKIES MUST BE ENABLED. dafuq *tries other computer* YOU HAVE REACHED THE PASSWORD RESET LIMIT FOR 24 HRS. TRY AGAIN TOMORROW. god. fucking. damn. it.
[QUOTE='[EG] Pepper;38771345']Might be the thermal paste. What GPU is it? Sometimes you can take the fan off while leaving the actual heatsink still attached.[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127592[/url] Also, the cooling in my case is pretty shitty right now. I need to take out the 200mm fan I bought for it and put the old 120mm fan back in. The reason I contacted tech support was because the fan would make a fairly loud vibrating sound for a few minutes after I start the computer.
I guessed my password AND IT TELLS ME TO RESET MY PASSWORD. [editline]9th December 2012[/editline] sigh figured it out, luckily
So my copy of The Fucking Weather on Chrome [url=http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/city/pages/mb-38_metric_e.html]had a seizure when it saw our -24°C temperature[/url], and it gave me this: [img]http://i.imgur.com/ifhcW.png[/img] [editline]9th December 2012[/editline] Yes, I'm okay despite the -24°C temperature
Hmm, the fucking weather doesn't seem to be working for me.
Me neither. [img]http://i.imgur.com/FVhFy.png[/img]
I can't specify a location more specific than the country I'm in, so it's really pretty useless :v:
Though it is strange that the extension has a ??? display but didn't use it and displayed +122°C instead.
So I think I'm getting close to getting the new gameplay formulae for Project Horizon to be reasonable. There was seriously a few hours where it was declaring the Celeron G440 the best processor ever made, so this was surprisingly difficult. The basic gist of what I've done is this. CPUs are being mapped to "weapons" - swords, axes, staves, stuff like that. That's been there since what, release 0.0.6? Anyways, the old system just had two attack systems - physical (based on CPU), and magical (based on GPU). And in each, you just had attack strength, defense, speed and accuracy stats. With the stuff I'm doing now, I'm splitting all that up even further. Physical attacks are being broken into slash, stab and blunt, each based on a particular usage. Slash is based on multi-threaded performance. The top pick for this is the Cell 8i (the supercomputer variant of Cell, not the PS3 one). The POWER7 and SPARC T3 also make a strong showing. This is also Bulldozer's relative strength - here, Opterons are neck-and-neck with Xeons, and Fusion/FX kit is matched only by the Core i7 Extremes. Stab is based on single-threaded performance. Naturally, Intel dominates here. It's the Tukwila Itaniums, then Ivy Bridge, then Sandy Bridge. Nobody else even cracks the top hundred (although with 2600+ processors, that's not that much). Once you do get far enough down the list, it's a mix of Intel and AMD for a long ways - the first non-x86. non-IA64 is a POWER7 down at #506. Blunt is based on single-clock-cycle performance. Honestly, I don't expect it to be used much - it's mainly a way to bypass blocking and certain types of armor. I'll probably end up tweaking it more, but right now it prefers the big x86 processors - Westmere-EX, Interlagos, Magny-Cours, etc. Each of these will have their own defense stat as well, based on your storage devices. So your slash-based build might not fare well against certain armor types. There's also Agility, which controls how quickly you attack, and is determined by how much bandwidth the processor gives each core. This was actually the cause of it declaring certain Celerons and Semprons awesome processors a few hours ago, so I basically nerfed it to oblivion. I probably took it a bit too far, but it's good enough for now. You also have block, which controls how much extra defense you get when blocking. This is ruled mainly by your CPU cache, weighted towards the inner caches, so you can get some interesting results. It seems to like POWER6, POWER5, UltraSPARC IV, and Core 2 a lot. There will also be a "counter" stat (an alternative to block - instead of reducing damage taken, you have a *chance* to take zero damage and instead initiate your own attack), and an "accuracy" stat, but I haven't worked much on those yet. And I also want to do something for integrated GPUs, but I don't know what yet. So, what do you think about this? Am I making this sound like a game worth playing?
My girlfriend and I just finished making our own version of the [url=http://technabob.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/portal-mirrors-by-corttana-4.jpg]Portal mirrors.[/url] [t]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1361233/2012-12-09_20-46-14_348.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE=gman003-main;38772091]:words: So, what do you think about this? Am I making this sound like a game worth playing?[/QUOTE] Definitely, once I get my new rig built.
[QUOTE=wickedplayer494;38772223]Definitely, once I get my new rig built.[/QUOTE] It's not like it's anything intensive. Think pokemon style complexity from what I've seen.
[QUOTE=wickedplayer494;38772223]Definitely, once I get my new rig built.[/QUOTE] Just an FYI, the game doesn't actually use your computer's stats as your character's stats. While you probably could make your character use exactly the parts you have in your machine, that wouldn't really be worth it. Especially since everything in-game will appear under a different name - Itaniums are labeled "Titanium Zweihander", Bulldozers are labeled "Enchanter's Longsword", and so on. And if you were talking about the game being too much for your current rig to run, don't. It's a 2D pseudo-16bit game. I used to run it off a thumb drive on shitty school Dells. I'm pretty sure my old Athlon could handle it.
The computers better have their own version of Effort Values, that you have to read from memory somehow, with some external program. [editline]10th December 2012[/editline] This is what happens when you throw ~2000 nerds at a Google Docs spreadsheet: [img]http://i.imgur.com/EX56C.png[/img]
[quote]If you want to implement fault-tolerance on your network, what type of RAID would you use on the drives that contain data? a. 0 b. 3 c. 1 d. 5[/quote] Oh boy more piss poor questions and I'm not even 10 into the 150. EDIT: Oh boy, and the OS equivalent. [quote]If you want to implement fault-tolerance on your network, what type of RAID would you use on the drives that contain the OS and applications?[/quote] And the text gives me not one, not two, but 3 different answers for each of them. Going with raid 5 for the first one and raid 1 for the second one since that's the industry norm.
hey sipwicket I have a question will pointing two devices supplying 5V USB power at each other using a male-to-male adapters damage anything? I don't know how much of this works and I don't think it'd do anything because they share a common +5v and ground but just making sure
dude, you never go male-to-male. the Bible forbids it
[QUOTE=wickedplayer494;38771895]Me neither. [img]http://i.imgur.com/FVhFy.png[/img][/QUOTE] Try an airport code? [img]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/5733962/ShareX/2012-12/2012-12-09_22-05-19.png[/img] (I used CYYZ because it's the only airport code I actually know)
[QUOTE=lavacano;38773684]Try an airport code? [img]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/5733962/ShareX/2012-12/2012-12-09_22-05-19.png[/img] (I used CYYZ because it's the only airport code I actually know)[/QUOTE] how do you not know SEA, im embarassed or LAX
[QUOTE=Amiga OS;38774603][t]http://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/macrack.png[/t] [img]http://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/mac-mini.jpg[/img] Thats a lot of macs.[/QUOTE] jesus christ why
holy crap
[QUOTE=ProWaffle;38774670]jesus christ why[/QUOTE] they're dirt cheap, provide plenty of processing power, are easy to manage, and fit into a 1U rack that whole setup would only cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $85,000 if they paid full retail value for each item
I love timezones, and being a sadistic dick with abusing them. [img]http://i.imgur.com/65jCA.png[/img]
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