I did the right thing, scrapped the idea of trying to make it better and built a new computer from the ground up.
Garry putting the subforums at the bottom :v:
[QUOTE=Agent766;29589498]Garry putting the subforums at the bottom :v:[/QUOTE]
Faceraper or Unaustraliapunch fixes this quite nicely.
[QUOTE=Fatal-Error;29589624]Faceraper or Unaustraliapunch fixes this quite nicely.[/QUOTE]
-disregard this post, it decided to start working-
At college, the desktop wallpaper is used to advertise events coming up etc. The current wallpaper is designed in a widescreen format.
Why is this an asshole design move?
The college uses SXGA (1280x1024) monitors...
[QUOTE=Van-man;29588304]And here I buy oldass cars that practically can be fixed with some elbow grease and duct-tape :buddy:[/QUOTE]
And end up spending more money over the long run then just buying a reliable car and taking care of it.
Cars are going to have issues regardless, it is hard to have something with so many moving parts and never have an issue, but as long as you don't abuse your vehicle and drive like an idiot, a car can last you a really long time.
Please ignore my blatant abuse of the comma in that previous sentence.
[QUOTE=Squad;29593238]And end up spending more money over the long run then just buying a reliable car and taking care of it.[/QUOTE]
That's only if you don't do your research.
Don't buy a trashed banger with rust around the wheels arches, because then it IS gonna cost lots of money to keep roadworthy.
Also some car models are cheaper and easier to fix & maintain and lasts longer than others , again do your research.
[QUOTE=gman003-main;29583112]Some companies actually design products that way, to increase sales. Mostly car companies, who have perfected cars that break after 250,001 miles, but I'm sure some computer companies do it too.[/QUOTE]
my mom's car did this
[img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/764206/Screenshots/YOKO-20110503193535.png[/img]
:frog:
("Are you sure you want to close this page?")
that's saved my ass a few times when I click the exit icon instead of the minimize/maximize icon
[QUOTE=horsedrowner;29593707][img_thumb]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/764206/Screenshots/YOKO-20110503193248.png[/img_thumb]
:frog:[/QUOTE]
Why are you using one of many crappy sites to do the image conversion you could do with one of many free and far better programs (Gimp for example)
If you want, I can either find a guide or whip one up for making a .ico with Gimp
[QUOTE=Van-man;29594026]Why are you using one of many crappy sites to do the image conversion you could do with one of many free and far better programs (Gimp for example)
If you want, I can either find a guide or whip one up for making a .ico with Gimp[/QUOTE]
Because I don't like GIMP and I don't know other free programs that can do it. The other site I have used in the past gives me PHP errors instead of an icon.
But I ended up using a PNG as favicon. Adding a line on every PHP page I use isn't as much work as converting the png to an icon. :v:
[QUOTE=Van-man;29593497]That's only if you don't do your research.
Don't buy a trashed banger with rust around the wheels arches, because then it IS gonna cost lots of money to keep roadworthy.
Also some car models are cheaper and easier to fix & maintain and lasts longer than others , again do your research.[/QUOTE]
I hope you didn't take that as a personal attack. I was just talking in general. Most people who buy cheap cars don't research it. They see a car they think looks nice and its cheap so they buy it. After 3 months they change x part. After 6 months they change y part. After 9 months they change z part. Well more often then not they don't change any part and the integrity of the entire car goes to shit because everything on it is bad which puts stress on the other parts.
And yes some cars are a lot cheaper to maintain, but again most people (especially younger people teenage-early 20s) don't realize that the $2,000 used porsche they want to buy is a cool car I guess but it's going to cost you $9,000 over the next 6 months in repairs.
[editline]3rd May 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Red Toaster;29593503]my mom's car did this[/QUOTE]
Common problems on some older Nissans is the Intake manifold gasket cracks after 60,000 miles... Conveniently the warranty is a 60,000 mile warranty.
Not as common in Nissan's as it is in Fords actually.
[QUOTE=gman003-main;29583112]Some companies actually design products that way, to increase sales. Mostly car companies, who have perfected cars that break after 250,001 miles, but I'm sure some computer companies do it too.[/QUOTE]
I've went through 8 Xbox's since they first came out (thank god, all under warranty). And then, I got sick of replacing Xbox's and I bought a PS3 thinking it would be the better option, then the PSN problems began.
[QUOTE=Squad;29594674]Not as common in Nissan's as it is in Fords actually.[/QUOTE]
More common in Fords?
We're a Ford family, my mom has a Ford Explorer from 2008, dad has a heritage edition F-150 from 2006 or so (don't remember the year at all, this is just a guess), and my brother drives my mom's old Freestar from the year they were brand spankin' new.
Before that, dad had a little green Ford Ranger thing and mom had a gold Windstar. Though the Ranger's transmission died after... Like, 5 years of having it and I forgot what happened to the Windstar.
Never heard of mom, dad, or my brother having any gasket issues with that.
Guess we're lucky.
:v:
[QUOTE=Squad;29594674]I hope you didn't take that as a personal attack. I was just talking in general. Most people who buy cheap cars don't research it. They see a car they think looks nice and its cheap so they buy it. After 3 months they change x part. After 6 months they change y part. After 9 months they change z part. Well more often then not they don't change any part and the integrity of the entire car goes to shit because everything on it is bad which puts stress on the other parts.
And yes some cars are a lot cheaper to maintain, but again most people (especially younger people teenage-early 20s) don't realize that the $2,000 used porsche they want to buy is a cool car I guess but it's going to cost you $9,000 over the next 6 months in repairs.[/QUOTE]
True though, I usually buy econoboxes that are common and mass produced on a large scale, so it's easy to find into about typical faults on them + easier and cheaper to find parts.
Also, teenagers don't belong behind the wheel in a sportscar.
I did lots of stupid shit in a puny Suzuki Alto that would've easily have killed me if it went wrong, imagine me in a 200+ hp car.
[QUOTE=Sourcegamer8;29595249]I've went through 8 Xbox's since they first came out (thank god, all under warranty). And then, I got sick of replacing Xbox's and I bought a PS3 thinking it would be the better option, then the PSN problems began.[/QUOTE]
Buy Apple.
[QUOTE=Sourcegamer8;29595249]I've went through 8 Xbox's since they first came out (thank god, all under warranty). And then, I got sick of replacing Xbox's and I bought a PS3 thinking it would be the better option, then the PSN problems began.[/QUOTE]
Still have my original Xbox with me, alive and well.
I once had a game, back in the day of like 8 CDs that took 40 minutes to install, and then you had to put the first CD back in to play it.
Whelp, I ran it, installed it, and then tried playing it. I wondered how stupid/pissed off the devs were, so I clicked "Decline" on "Do you agree to the TOS?"
It uninstalled the game.
FUCKING ESX
it corrupted 3 of my windows 7 ISO's + a server ISO
FUCK!
[QUOTE=JohnEdwards;29599352]FUCKING ESX
it corrupted 3 of my windows 7 ISO's + a server ISO
FUCK![/QUOTE]
Weren't you praising it not too long ago?
Or was that ESXi
[QUOTE=Van-man;29599622]Weren't you praising it not too long ago?
Or was that ESXi[/QUOTE]
I use ESXi, the only difference between ESX/ESXi is ram usage 32mb (esxi) and 128mb (esx) and community support vs vmware support.
Just a bit annoying how it accessing the ISO will corrupt it sometimes, the fix is send make copies
I still love it it curbstops Xen/Citrix, I just wish it was as stream lined as Workstation is
[QUOTE=SuperDuperScoot;29596471]More common in Fords?
We're a Ford family, my mom has a Ford Explorer from 2008, dad has a heritage edition F-150 from 2006 or so (don't remember the year at all, this is just a guess), and my brother drives my mom's old Freestar from the year they were brand spankin' new.
Before that, dad had a little green Ford Ranger thing and mom had a gold Windstar. Though the Ranger's transmission died after... Like, 5 years of having it and I forgot what happened to the Freestar.
Never heard of mom, dad, or my brother having any gasket issues with that.
Guess we're lucky.
:v:[/QUOTE]
Ford Escort 1992 Wagon, goddamn motherfucking tank. Only changed the gas pump last year. :smug:
Just wondering, what is ESXI and what is it used for?
[QUOTE='[EG] Pepper;29600450']Just wondering, what would you use ESXI for and what is its benefits?[/QUOTE]
short form:
Esxi can install onto a flash drive and run a hypervisor on 32mb ram, which is good if you have low resources and you need X servers but only have one physical. Basically it can divide the hardware up for more than one OS running on it simultaneously, more effiecently.
ESX is the older less supported verision but you can dig under the hood more as it is essentially a redhat distro running a hypervisor, but consumes a bit more ram (around 100megs) and uses a bit more CPU, but you can do things like enable SSH by yourself and not use vsphere. Why you would not want to use vsphere because it is free anyways is beyond me..
mostly it is tomato vs tamato is the VMware virtualization field, most people just use esxi just cause.
longer form:
[url]http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/esxi-and-esx/compare.html[/url]
^has pictures
[QUOTE=JohnEdwards;29600568]short form:
Esxi can install onto a flash drive and run a hypervisor on 32mb ram, which is good if you have low resources and you need X servers but only have one physical. Basically it can divide the hardware up for more than one OS running on it simultaneously, more effiecently.
ESX is the older less supported verision but you can dig under the hood more as it is essentially a redhat distro running a hypervisor, but consumes a bit more ram (around 100megs) and uses a bit more CPU, but you can do things like enable SSH by yourself and not use vsphere. Why you would not want to use vsphere because it is free anyways is beyond me..
mostly it is tomato vs tamato is the VMware virtualization field, most people just use esxi just cause.
longer form:
[url]http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/esxi-and-esx/compare.html[/url]
^has pictures[/QUOTE]
so its like an OS dedicated to something like virtualbox?
does it work with windows 7?
[QUOTE='[EG] Pepper;29600781']so its like an OS dedicated to something like virtualbox?[/QUOTE]
Yep, but in my experience it's [B]VERY[/B] picky about non-enterprise grade hardware.
[QUOTE=horsedrowner;29593707][img_thumb]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/764206/Screenshots/YOKO-20110503193248.png[/img_thumb]
:frog:[/QUOTE]
Why are you using IE 8
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