[QUOTE=Zephyrs;38179619]Just google for win 7 digital download.
MS uses some website called digital river. Those are their official isos.[/QUOTE]
300 kB/s?
nah
Gotta love Ciscos educational images, This one on computer security :v:
[IMG]http://i50.tinypic.com/25pny44.png[/IMG]
beautiful
who the fuck puts a Tesla coil next to any electronic equipment
these people deserve rootkits
Just watched a bit of the Windows 8/Surface launch thingy, it was pretty cool. They even gave out free surfaces to some of the people in the audience :c
[QUOTE=Warship;38180373]Just watched a bit of the Windows 8/Surface launch thingy, it was pretty cool. They even gave out free surfaces to some of the people in the audience :c[/QUOTE]
Isn't that usually looked down upon? They got shit for doing that with xboxes during an E3, or something.
did they throw boxes at the audience or was it a "look under your seats" kinda thing
Why would they be looked down upon for?
Are people really that jealous that a very select few people got a free surface?
How likely is it that the people were randomly chosen on the spot
[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;38180582]Why would they be looked down upon for?
[B]Are people really that jealous that a very select few people got a free surface?[/B][/QUOTE]
Yes
Me included
[QUOTE=latin_geek;38180557]Isn't that usually looked down upon? They got shit for doing that with xboxes during an E3, or something.
did they throw boxes at the audience or was it a "look under your seats" kinda thing[/QUOTE]
Well, the Surface presentation guy just walked down the stage and was like "I can see you'd really like to have a Surface, here you go :) "
what a cunt I also really want a surface and he didn't giv me 1!!
[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;38180582]Why would they be looked down upon for?
Are people really that jealous that a very select few people got a free surface?[/QUOTE]
people thought it was basically bribing
Giving your reviewers the product as a gift would make them overlook some faults, apparently
Microsoft? more like microshit!!! companies shouldent give away free things its unfair!
Yeah I'd bet $5 that the "lucky audience members" were planted there and they didn't actually give anything away.
They probably gave them away so the people that did get them can review them and possibly share the reviews.
I think it'd be fair to gift away stuff the following way:
Give it to them to review, and when the review is published, tell them to keep it.
[QUOTE=VistaPOWA;38180864]I think it'd be fair to gift away stuff the following way:
Give it to them to review, and when the review is published, tell them to keep it.[/QUOTE]
freeusipad.com
-snip-
So, Windows is developed so that the mouse process is the one with the highest priority, right? So that it would always feel smooth etc.
Why is that sometimes, when everything else is completely frozen, sound still works? Like, when you had music playing, music keeps playing. Or ambient music in games etc.
Because the sound processor keeps working with its last commandset.
[QUOTE=VistaPOWA;38180163]300 kB/s?
nah[/QUOTE]
No idea how you are getting that.
On a university connection I've pulled a solid 25 MB/s off the digital river servers.
my max is 1.5 MB/s now :((
Windows 8 is installed now really nice.
Just use this Windows 8 upgrade assistant
[url]http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=262205[/url]
There you get to pay etc.
working with windows is fucking soul destroying - I reinstalled 8 on my new SSD and I keep getting an 'unidentified network' error with no explanation why so I can't connect to the internet and I've got no fucking idea what's causing it
god damn it I think Steam's alternator went bad or something
took like five tries to get it to actually start up
When i installed from win7 i got a blue screen so i did a format on my ssd and installed it with my usb3 stick.
With windows it's always some bullshit you never thought of causing the problem; I'm redownloading the ISO I got from dreamspark as well as one from TPB (perfectly legal;the ISOS are available free anyway). I doubt it's that though since I used the same disk to install W8 onto my laptop and it works perfectly - might be something with my mobo's ethernet thing, but I was using the RTM before and it worked fine
[editline]26th October 2012[/editline]
seriously if it's a bad ethernet port after all these years of using it I'll slit my own throat
[editline]26th October 2012[/editline]
seriously I'm burning ubuntu to a livecd now; if my ethernet works under ubuntu but not under W8 there's gonna be a shooting at microsoft HQ
[editline]26th October 2012[/editline]
basically both my options consist of me buying a new ethernet card and then slitting my throat - there's no way I can be fucked installing drivers for more than the 10 or so hours I've already spent troubleshooting
[editline]26th October 2012[/editline]
welp troubleshooted it to the point where I'm pretty fucking sure my NIC's died, which is weird since it's on my motherboard and everything else works fine and has done for like 4 years
oh well, better go to a shop tomorrow and buy a PCI one :/
I'm really hating that my mom forced me to pick a Dell laptop as a graduation present. Because now it's shitting all over the place.
First it was shutting down in the middle of playing Garry's Mod after it received the huge update which also shipped it with it's own engine.
I figured that the new engine was just too much for it since I didn't have any issues before the update.
But now it's shutting down from [I]drawing in PSE 8.[/I]
This last time it was shut down, temperatures weren't exceeding 130-140F/54-60C.
Browsing through the event viewer, it is indeed a thermal trigger. "ACPI thermal zone ACPI\ThermalZone\THM_ has been enumerated." ([url=http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itprogeneral/thread/539b1c50-82d1-4622-8017-235d8ca6ae24]The messages in this post are very similar to the events I'm reading[/url])
And then following after that are events relating to hardware shutting down, I think.
In my experience thermal triggers are usually set off at around 200F or 95C... So far from Speedfan logs (after comparing with HWmonitor, it's scarily accurate this time around so don't say anything) it hasn't even reached 90C.
So something that isn't being picked up by any temperature monitoring programs really is overheating, or there's a defective sensor causing false reading spikes and triggering it to shut down.
If I'm wrong about any of this, someone please enlighten me because I'm only guessing all of this from Googling the shit out of everything.
Damn Scoot, you have the world's worst luck with laptops.
I, on the other hand, only had a bit of driver problems with my laptop after installing windows 8. But now it works alright, I just need to wait for the ~official~ windows 8 drivers from Asus.
Getting my copy of Windows 8 tomorrow morning.
yay for free things
[img]http://i.imgur.com/E6HvL.png[/img]
SOON.
(I live in Bristol)
Sorry, you need to Log In to post a reply to this thread.