Computer illiterate people who think they know things V5 = I FLICK PSU VOLTAGE SWITCH - Hardware & Software

[QUOTE=Mike!;24278064]This kid in my grade got a nice pair of sennheiser headphones (I'm guessing around $60+) He's a snowboarder fag who buys stuff so he can be noticed. So i bought like a $15 pair of skullcandys on amazon and traded them to him. He acted as though i got ripped off[/QUOTE] Nice!

Normally I disapprove of taking advantage of dumb people because they don't know better, but I say, well played.

[QUOTE=Mike!;24278064]This kid in my grade got a nice pair of sennheiser headphones (I'm guessing around $60+) He's a snowboarder fag who buys stuff so he can be noticed. So i bought like a $15 pair of skullcandys on amazon and traded them to him. He acted as though i got ripped off[/QUOTE] At my school guy traded a newer, larger storage ipod touch for a worse one that was jailbroken. The guy then went home and jailbroke his new, better ipod. Ironically the same guy (not the one who got ripped off) thought you stick on a processor like a sticker and that it's not under a cooling unit of some kind.

I once traded my 4GB iPod Nano 3rd gen for an 8GB 1st gen iPod Touch. The kid and his parents both thought he was getting a better deal. I had it for about 2 months until the kid's parents found out how much it was worth. Because he was from my church, I was obligated to give it back, but the kid still thought HE was ripping ME off.

[QUOTE=Tools;24272838]Drugs Mowing laws [B]Law book too big to run over with lawnmower[/B] Asking parents for monthly money [B]too poor[/B] Dress up as a homeless person and beg for money [B]Not enough old clothes[/B] Sell lemonade [B]God forgot to give me my lemons[/B] Sell old computer [B]I broke them all accidentally[/B] Selling yourself [B]too ugly :saddowns:[/B] Sell things in general[B]Already tried this[/B] [/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Epic Lul;24279067][/QUOTE] this has to do with computer illiteracy how?

[QUOTE=Sonicfan574;24276703]:techno:[/QUOTE] on a totally related note, I can breeze through the most complicated Linux OSes, Gentoo, Arch, etc. without even consulting any documentation, but it takes me ages to get certain things working on Windows, especially XP and earlier: I had a hell of a time trying to figure out how to get audio working a few weeks ago on XP Home. Linux generally just works out of the box. Installing drivers is something a baby could do on Linux, on Windows it takes a lot of going to the manufacturer's site to get anything working properly.

[QUOTE=ButtsexV2;24279393]on a totally related note, I can breeze through the most complicated Linux OSes, Gentoo, Arch, etc. without even consulting any documentation, but it takes me ages to get certain things working on Windows, especially XP and earlier: I had a hell of a time trying to figure out how to get audio working a few weeks ago on XP Home. Linux generally just works out of the box. Installing drivers is something a baby could do on Linux, on Windows it takes a lot of going to the manufacturer's site to get anything working properly.[/QUOTE] Really? Windows is piss easy to use. Much easier than a mac for sure, but I don't use and don't care for linux so I couldn't comment on its ease of use. You're probably better on linux because you're used to it. Also 7 is a breeze.

The reason for that, Buttsex. is because in the 90's and early 2000's. it was widely accepted only mostly tech-literates and otherwise adult people were using OS's. They only started getting majorly dumbed-down around ME/XP SP2. [editline]03:00AM[/editline] also holy shit this thread is still widely active.

Glad to see you back.

I have a lulzy comment. When i was ordering a bioshock Big Daddy figure, my stepdad didn't even know our Postcode... I know it off by heart. :v: That and last night he woke me up saying my "computer was giving off a warning light"... ..It was the infra-red sensor on the bottom of my mouse reflecting off the case..

[QUOTE=ButtsexV2;24279393]on a totally related note, I can breeze through the most complicated Linux OSes, Gentoo, Arch, etc. without even consulting any documentation, but it takes me ages to get certain things working on Windows, especially XP and earlier: I had a hell of a time trying to figure out how to get audio working a few weeks ago on XP Home. Linux generally just works out of the box. Installing drivers is something a baby could do on Linux, on Windows it takes a lot of going to the manufacturer's site to get anything working properly.[/QUOTE] My experience has been totally the opposite.

[QUOTE=DOG-GY;24279450]Really? Windows is piss easy to use. Much easier than a mac for sure, but I don't use and don't care for linux so I couldn't comment on its ease of use. You're probably better on linux because you're used to it. Also 7 is a breeze.[/QUOTE] Well... it's piss easy in linux, I think it's easier than windows, but that's just me. all you do to find your driver is sudo yum search radeon or sudo apt-get search radeon i think find it sudo yum install <package name listed> I don't know exactly if apt-get is different than yum, i'm a fedorafag fyi, I haven't used ubuntu yet but i plan on it.

[QUOTE=ButtsexV2;24279393]on Windows it takes a lot of going to the manufacturer's site to get anything working properly.[/QUOTE] That's a five second task with Google. And normally hardware comes with the drivers on a CD along with an updater utility. The only thing I've ever had to really fish for drivers for was an M-Audio MIDI to USB thing and that's just because Avid makes terrible drivers. The thing I like about Linux in terms of ease is how you can download and install a program with just the command line or terminal or console or whatever the fuck you call it. Makes me wish Windows still had an actual not-gimped command line interface, this whole not-DOS thing they've done since NT sucks.

I honestly had no idea how linux worked, and I read a small, "Driver Installation Read-Me" on fedora forums. Simpler than going to the AMD website, installing it, being hoarded by the Ask.com menubar, and then having to restart.

[QUOTE=Unreliable;24279672]Well... it's piss easy in linux, I think it's easier than windows, but that's just me. all you do to find your driver is sudo yum search radeon or sudo apt-get search radeon i think find it sudo yum install <package name listed> I don't know exactly if apt-get is different than yum, i'm a fedorafag fyi, I haven't used ubuntu yet but i plan on it.[/QUOTE] You're unreliable

So, watching an episode of The Office. A guy is selling office supplies because they think they're losing their jobs. "400 for the CPU" "done" *Grabs tower and walks away* Thats not a fucking CPU damnit.

[QUOTE=Xenocidebot;24279685]M-Audio MIDI to USB thing[/QUOTE] not gonna lie, I had trouble getting this one working properly in Linux too

The UNO just sucked period anyway. Hell these days I'm hating everything by M-Audio. The monitors are junk, the MIDI interfaces are crap, the plain MIDI keyboards are sticky and unplayable, and the low-end audio interfaces are worse pieces of shit than my Firebox. And not all cheap audio interfaces are inherently bad, look at the Apogee or Focusrite stuff. Thought the Axioms actually seem decent (though fuck that if I'm getting another keyboard it's a Yamaha and that's final), and I might buy a ProFire 610 interface if I decide I'm not in the mood to pay TCE or MOTU markups. What was the problem in Linux, anyway? On XP it was a bunch of hoopla with MS's generic MIDI interface drivers and the first two releases of the actual UNO driver not being compatible with multiple DAWs.

Since when were midi's that common nowadays?

MIDI's still a music industry standard protocol.

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[QUOTE=Sonicfan574;24276703]Linux Shit[/QUOTE] Linux isn't complicated. My friend's dad is not computer literate and he needed a new OS on his computer, I installed linux since he has a habit of getting virii so I said "Well linux would help him with that and he wouldn't even notice a virus even if he did get one on linux." Took me a few minutes to setup and he never had a problem with it. The most trouble he ever had was trying to setup a printer and had some trouble with facebook. [editline]01:58AM[/editline] [QUOTE=Mike!;24277295]Guys i know this is off topic but i just realized all the posts i haven't read in a thread yet are blue on the left.[/QUOTE] Took me almost 5 god damn years to notice that :C

Only about 2 for me :3:

[QUOTE=don868;24283073]Linux isn't complicated. My friend's dad is not computer literate and he needed a new OS on his computer, I installed linux since he has a habit of getting virii so I said "Well linux would help him with that and he wouldn't even notice a virus even if he did get one on linux." Took me a few minutes to setup and he never had a problem with it. The most trouble he ever had was trying to setup a printer and had some trouble with facebook. [editline]01:58AM[/editline] Took me almost 5 god damn years to notice that :C[/QUOTE] Which distro? Also, thanks for making me notice that blue gradient on unread messages. I've been wondering how to tell them from read ones!

[QUOTE=esalaka;24283141]Which distro? Also, thanks for making me notice that blue gradient on unread messages. I've been wondering how to tell them from read ones![/QUOTE] It was either Ubuntu 9 or Ubuntu 10.

[QUOTE=Mike!;24277295]Guys i know this is off topic but i just realized all the posts i haven't read in a thread yet are blue on the left.[/QUOTE] :wtf: [editline]11:07PM[/editline] Same here--about 9 months for me.

[QUOTE=don868;24283185]It was either Ubuntu 9 or Ubuntu 10.[/QUOTE] Protip: that only tells which year it was released. A new Ubuntu version is released bi-yearly, so you installed either 9.04, 9.10 or 10.04. But yeah, installing Ubuntu takes no effort at all. [editline]09:09AM[/editline] Meh 1777 posts

[QUOTE=esalaka;24283220]Protip: that only tells which year it was released. A new Ubuntu version is released bi-yearly, so you installed either 9.04, 9.10 or 10.04. But yeah, installing Ubuntu takes no effort at all.[/QUOTE] It must have been 9.10. And yea it's click, click done.

After using Ubuntu for a while it's really made me question why I never switched before, it's great for everyday browsing and light gaming.