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

This kid is a terrible pirate and can't hide it. [editline]05:03PM[/editline] [QUOTE=Yeojsav;23348882]VB2010 is free...[/QUOTE] Express. The studio version isn't. only way you can get that is if you get the suite with is minimus $2000 aud. Fucking idiot.

I've flagged that camtasia video for copyright reasons :3: [editline]08:13AM[/editline] Wait no I didn't, I don't think it worked... I had to choose "Infringes my copyright -> Other legal claim" but obviously that's wrong... Dammit, why isn't there a simple "Copyrighted content" option?

-snip- Nevermind.

Was that really necessary?

I don't remember if I posted this before, but here goes: A friend of mine keeps insisting that his PC is slow (slow loading times, slow bootup and so on) because "I just started it, so it's still cold and it needs to warm up :downs:" (and he's sure he's right).

[QUOTE=limulus54;23348106]nope, sounds like a fanboy to me. and you have to admit, opera seems to generate quite a few of those.[/QUOTE] nope sounds like the article is correct

Firefox's find UI sucks. [editline]11:14AM[/editline] [QUOTE]@xTMHxPRODUCTIONSx hahaha did you get Express or the cheap n00b-ass $2000 version. Real men get MSDN unlimited. Oh holy shit you did work a bit off you have VB.net express! ahaha fuckin n00b. AND YOU USE NORTON! LMFAO! HOLY FUCK YOUR DUMB[/QUOTE] Sunk to his level

[QUOTE=Yeojsav;23349418]He just said VB fucking idiot.[/QUOTE] Oh, it took me a second but that fucking idiot was towards that kid not you, sorry.

(from the discussion about flash/SSDs a few pages back)hmm, im not sure about it, but someone told me the flash memory cells in usb sticks wear out after awhile. been thinking it for a while, is it true or have i been bullshitted by some moron? does it apply to SSDs?

[QUOTE=Mattk50;23353024](from the discussion about flash/SSDs a few pages back)hmm, im not sure about it, but someone told me the flash memory cells in usb sticks wear out after awhile. been thinking it for a while, is it true or have i been bullshitted by some moron? does it apply to SSDs?[/QUOTE] It applies to all flash storage.

[QUOTE=waxrock;23350981]nope sounds like the article is correct[/QUOTE] in that FF has a shitty find ui, yeah sure. but I wouldn't say opera has the best. of course, this is all a matter of opinion. but calling opera "the gold standard" sounds pretty fanboyish to me.

[QUOTE=codenamecueball;23351027]Firefox's find UI sucks. [editline]11:14AM[/editline] Sunk to his level[/QUOTE] It's ok.

Woop! :D I finally convinced my parents to let me uninstall the horrific beast that is Norton and install Avira and ZoneAlarm firewall on the family PC, feels good man.

[QUOTE=Andaeeee;23355172]Woop! :D I finally convinced my parents to let me uninstall the horrific beast that is Norton and install Avira and ZoneAlarm firewall on the family PC, feels good man.[/QUOTE] Since my mother was fine with paying for security, I told her to go with a 3 pack of NOD32 for the computers owned by my two brothers and then her computer... No virus problems at all :D My brothers somehow managed to find malware that destroyed AVG, so I'm pretty surprised they got this far.

[QUOTE=broo20;23348087]So, he's pointing out something that is [I]correct[/I] and you don't like/believe what he's saying, so he is a dumbass and a "fandboy"[/QUOTE] Sorry about the misspelling, it was 3AM over here. I call him a fanboy because there are two things he points out that Opera does: 1. It dims the page (I will admit, it's nice and Firefox doesn't do it). 2. It highlights all occurrences of the term being searched for. The problem I have with this is that Firefox CAN highlight everything. There's a checkbox right on the damn find bar that enables that, but obviously he chose to ignore that fact and put Opera up on a pedestal with its "golden standard". He also neglected to put Safari up for comparison, which in my opinion has the best find of all. [url]http://cl.ly/1dvg[/url] [IMG]http://cl.ly/1dvg[/IMG]

My vice principal (also my math teacher) called me down to the office because they were having "computer issues". They accidentally made a sub-bullet and liked the way it looked, but couldn't repeat what they did. They fiddled with it for 10 minutes, I just walked over and hit Tab. :smug:

[QUOTE=Onlyonebowman;23339991][url]http://www.youtube.com/user/xTMHxPRODUCTIONSx[/url] Try not to rage, this kid started a comment war on on of my old video's from 2007.[/QUOTE] I go on his page and notice that his background and text are both black, I can tell this is going to end well. Edit: "How to get sony vegas 9 free" I see IE :colbert: Norton :psypop:

Guys remember, don't mess with him, he's a 12 year old l33t haxxor, he'll make a generator to hack your cumpuert.

[QUOTE=Onlyonebowman;23348291][img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/538535/Pictures/Cumpuetr.PNG[/img] Fresh off the youtube comments[/QUOTE] If that comment was a book I would buy it. And use it to clean up my cat's litterbox.

Pentium 4 at 2.6ghz... Schools, taking overclocking way too far. :iceburn: The computers were from a long time ago, when 3.2ghz stock didn't exist, and neither did 2.6ghz stock didn't either.

My friend told me that he had a virus before, and it was a little alien like dude running around on his taskbar it was hard to not laugh yes it sounds incredibly fake; i bet he was just trying to fool me Poor attempt none the less

[QUOTE=slinkman;23357771]I go on his page and notice that his background and text are both black, I can tell this is going to end well. Edit: "How to get sony vegas 9 free" I see IE :colbert: Norton :psypop:[/QUOTE] On the topic of torrents. Why does keygens always have to have annoying music? [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Hinting warez" - birkett))[/highlight]

[QUOTE=Fatfatfatty;23360636]On the topic of torrents. Why does keygens always have to have annoying music?[/QUOTE] You mean [B]AWESOME[/B] music? Don't hate the 8 (bit) !

[QUOTE=Fatfatfatty;23360636]On the topic of torrents. Why does keygens always have to have annoying music?[/QUOTE] To scare the piss out of you when you're trying to do shit discretely.

[QUOTE=Agent Texas;23359731]Pentium 4 at 2.6ghz... Schools, taking overclocking way too far. :iceburn:[/QUOTE] 2.6 Ghz is the fastest stock speed for a P4.

[QUOTE=Onyx3173;23363119]2.6 Ghz is the fastest stock speed for a P4.[/QUOTE] I had a stock 3.2GHz.... The actual fastest one is a 3.8 P4HT.

...i've never come this close to wanting to physically grapple a man stronger than me and snap his neck at the speed of light before.. But i want to now. I went for a dump and when i returned, the internet had gone out. I checked everyone's computers. Yep. I turned off the router. My stepdad instinctively (metaphorically) put on his retardo-lander costume and assisted me. I turned off the router and he was like "NO NO NO ITS JUST THE WIRES AT THE BACK" and continued to press every wire fifteen times while i went upstairs and laid on my bed to calm down. I returned and turned it back on, Nope. So i decided to try and switch the ADSL/Phone line connector. My stepdad went "ITS NOT THAT IT'S THE KNOBS([I]stop right there. HE CAN'T. CALL. A WIRE. A WIRE.[/I]) AT THE BACK" And he went "ITS NOT THE COMPUTER ITS PROBABLY YOUR TOWER" At that point i just broke and shouted "It's always me isn't it. Always fucking me" And walked out the back door. Doing so i threw the ADSL connector onto the floor in a fucking rage. I realized why my brother refuses to help them. I was called back inside by my mother who went "We're not changing routers, it's not the router, let him fix it." I tried to explain it isn't the fucking router but it was worthless and she told me to let him fix it so i slammed the door and stomped off. i laid down on my bed to calm down. Thrice my stepdad came up and explained that he knows how to fix everything and he's god's gift to computers. I decided 2 things. I wouldn't make him a card for his birthday on friday nor would i ever help him again. I went back down and checked my brother's PC. bingo. fixed. I walked in to get patro-fucking-nized by him "It's on now it wasn't the router it was the knobs at the back. probably your tower. you have a loose connection" And more bullshit. so i walked off. pissed. I explained to my mother who went "only he knows how to fix it" and i went "No he doesn't" And tried to explain how the internet likes to fail and return at odd times. and that he didn't fix it. and she kept going "But he did." until i gave up. I returned to my computer to find the ape-handed bastard had knocked out my keyboard and mouse simeltaneously in his ham-fisted attempt to plug my internet in properly. TL;DR: Read the fucking story.

I was on another forum and someone was having trouble connecting their DS to their wireless for multiplayer games. After some back and forth I ended up telling them they would have to change the security type of their router or buy a Wi-fi Adapter from Nintendo. For those that don't know these things look like a USB stick, they plug into your computer and use your internet connection to create a wireless network for the DS. After looking up what the adapter was he asked if he installed the drivers for it would his USB mouse connector work the same way. For some reason he kept going back to thinking they were the same thing, no matter how much I tried to explain otherwise. In fact, at one point, he was convinced that if he changed some of the hardware of a USB mouse connector he could turn it into a Wi-fi adapter. At that point he began mentioning how he was, "good with computers". I could quote his posts all day but I'll only stick in a few of my favorites. [QUOTE]I'm looking up wireless usb adapters that are cheap. I can easily rig an ordinary wireless usb adaptor to work with my DSLite, but I'm wondering, would my DS connect to the thing that my mouse uses if I install the right drivers.... Hmmm[/QUOTE][QUOTE]I rig my computer to work everyday and when it screws up I have to rig it to work again, and i have to fix my mom's computer when it doesn't work, I can make things work[/QUOTE][QUOTE]Then I can easily get one of my old mouse connectors and change the hardware easily and solve my problems[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Comrade General;23363643]:words:[/QUOTE] Damn... just reading that made me angry I feel for you man, I really do. Must be hell living with someone like that

[QUOTE=Comrade General;23363643]...i've never come this close to wanting to physically grapple a man stronger than me and snap his neck at the speed of light before.. But i want to now. I went for a dump and when i returned, the internet had gone out. I checked everyone's computers. Yep. I turned off the router. My stepdad instinctively (metaphorically) put on his retardo-lander costume and assisted me. I turned off the router and he was like "NO NO NO ITS JUST THE WIRES AT THE BACK" and continued to press every wire fifteen times while i went upstairs and laid on my bed to calm down. I returned and turned it back on, Nope. So i decided to try and switch the ADSL/Phone line connector. My stepdad went "ITS NOT THAT IT'S THE KNOBS([I]stop right there. HE CAN'T. CALL. A WIRE. A WIRE.[/I]) AT THE BACK" And he went "ITS NOT THE COMPUTER ITS PROBABLY YOUR TOWER" At that point i just broke and shouted "It's always me isn't it. Always fucking me" And walked out the back door. Doing so i threw the ADSL connector onto the floor in a fucking rage. I realized why my brother refuses to help them. I was called back inside by my mother who went "We're not changing routers, it's not the router, let him fix it." I tried to explain it isn't the fucking router but it was worthless and she told me to let him fix it so i slammed the door and stomped off. i laid down on my bed to calm down. Thrice my stepdad came up and explained that he knows how to fix everything and he's god's gift to computers. I decided 2 things. I wouldn't make him a card for his birthday on friday nor would i ever help him again. I went back down and checked my brother's PC. bingo. fixed. I walked in to get patro-fucking-nized by him "It's on now it wasn't the router it was the knobs at the back. probably your tower. you have a loose connection" And more bullshit. so i walked off. pissed. I explained to my mother who went "only he knows how to fix it" and i went "No he doesn't" And tried to explain how the internet likes to fail and return at odd times. and that he didn't fix it. and she kept going "But he did." until i gave up. I returned to my computer to find the ape-handed bastard had knocked out my keyboard and mouse simeltaneously in his ham-fisted attempt to plug my internet in properly. TL;DR: Read the fucking story.[/QUOTE] If your mom won't listen just confront your stepdad. Tell his he doesn't know jack shit and if he says he does question him about stuff. Obviously your word is not enough you need to bring proof. Also, I am terribly sorry for you. This has to be so much of a pain in the ass. Oh one thing, you might not want to do what I suggested. If you get him pissed I don't know what might happen. I think the best way is to simply remove his false pride away from him and then get in charge of all the shit. You might just want and go talk to him. You don't need to turn the situation into a drama shitfest. Diplomacy can solve this. If you are to do this, don't do it now. You are pissed nothing good is gonna come out of it. Ohh and please don't take this as me trying to parent you. That's not my intention, I'm just bringing suggestions. Good luck with that...