The "Quick Questions that does not Deserve a Thread"...Thread. V4
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what's a good place to download a cool new screensaver or two, and also not give my computer gonorrhea?
The Coolermaster Quickfires are pretty good starter mechs. I currently use a Logitech G710+ with browns.
Anyway.
Are consumer laptops ever going to good again?
Shitty 350 dollar laptops have Pentiums, 768p screens and 4gbs of RAM with 4 hours of battery life.
Battery life is mostly the issue for me.
I can't seem to install Plugins (not extensions) to my Chrome. Plugin installers only install it to Internet Explorer.
[QUOTE=Original User;46040014]The Coolermaster Quickfires are pretty good starter mechs. I currently use a Logitech G710+ with browns.
Anyway.
Are consumer laptops ever going to good again?
Shitty 350 dollar laptops have Pentiums, 768p screens and 4gbs of RAM with 4 hours of battery life.
Battery life is mostly the issue for me.[/QUOTE]
No.
My PSU has been making weird noises while playing games since a while, but today it even started with normal windows use. So I figured, it's time to upgrade.
Now my question is, would it be wise to spend some more money on a Corsair Carbide Series 200R case, that includes a Corsair VS Serie VS650 PSU, or just get a new PSU and a new case later? It'd cost me 110€, however a decent PSU + case would propably be the same in the end.
Also would that Corsair VS650 be enough for a system upgrade later?
[QUOTE=Levelog;46042279]No.[/QUOTE]
wat
[QUOTE=Original User;46042509]wat[/QUOTE]
I don't think they're ever going to get good again.
[QUOTE=Levelog;46042686]I don't think they're ever going to get good again.[/QUOTE]
I don't think they'll be good again either. It's nice being a person who is hardware literate so I know if I get a good deal though.
[QUOTE=Original User;46042763]I don't think they'll be good again either. It's nice being a person who is hardware literate so I know if I get a good deal though.[/QUOTE]
Yeah. It used to be all about advertising and a brand war, but now it seems to be dropping the price as much as humanly possible in the hopes that your average customer who doesn't know any brands just picks up your $300 laptop with an AMD E1 processor.
I just ordered a Zotac GTX 970 from newegg to replace my 670FTW and I'm having mixed thoughts. I know I want to upgrade to 970 or 970sli but is the regular edition Zotac good enough? I can always get a second one later and probably not notice the difference, but i'm not sure if waiting and getting a different brand/edition would be better?
Am I just being paranoid or is there some reason to my nervousness?
[QUOTE=Levelog;46043208]Yeah. It used to be all about advertising and a brand war, but now it seems to be dropping the price as much as humanly possible in the hopes that your average customer who doesn't know any brands just picks up your $300 laptop with an AMD E1 processor.[/QUOTE]
The AMD E1 is a joke. It doesn't follow AMD's belief of MOAR CORES and GHz at all.
And it feels like 1998.
is there reason to be worried after seeing incoming connections to svchost and wininit being blocked by malwarebytes?
I'm interested in upgrading to a GTX970 and I was looking at the prices on different sites and I found that Amazon is over $100 cheaper than the local stores in Australia, even with shipping factored in. The problem is that if I ever needed to send it back for whatever reason it would be quite a bit more complicated to do. I haven't looked into it much but I believe Amazon has a decent returns policy but I think that is only for the first month or so and it is probably not much use unless the graphics card is DOA.
So would I be better of just purchasing it locally for a higher price or would purchasing from Amazon not actually be as much of a problem as I am seeing it as?
I feel it probably comes down to whether I am willing to take a risk or pay to extra to be safe but I'm interested in hearing if anyone can offer any advice.
I've moved away from home, and there's a DNS block on Facepunch under the category "Forum/message board, games". I set up a VPN on my server to prepare, yet it somehow still blocks me at times. it usually works, but sometimes it blocks me still. I'm connected, my IP says I'm situated where my server is. how come it still blocks me? it's OpenDNS blocking it
[QUOTE=PredGD;46046792]I've moved away from home, and there's a DNS block on Facepunch under the category "Forum/message board, games". I set up a VPN on my server to prepare, yet it somehow still blocks me at times. it usually works, but sometimes it blocks me still. I'm connected, my IP says I'm situated where my server is. how come it still blocks me? it's OpenDNS blocking it[/QUOTE]
I'm guessing you've moved into some really restrictive dorm or rental property? I'm not sure there's much you can do other than try to convince your landlord or residence attendant to change the settings. I have to wonder if they don't have it configured to block VPNs as well.
[QUOTE=woolio1;46047841]I'm guessing you've moved into some really restrictive dorm or rental property? I'm not sure there's much you can do other than try to convince your landlord or residence attendant to change the settings. I have to wonder if they don't have it configured to block VPNs as well.[/QUOTE]
it was actually surprisingly easy to get around. I must have forgotten to set my VPN to take care of DNS requests, so after changing it manually to use Google's DNS servers I'm no longer blocked
[QUOTE=PredGD;46047867]it was actually surprisingly easy to get around. I must have forgotten to set my VPN to take care of DNS requests, so after changing it manually to use Google's DNS servers I'm no longer blocked[/QUOTE]
Well there you go.
I do want to know what kind of home you're paying for that has these restrictions, though... Considering you're paying for it, Internet and all.
[QUOTE=woolio1;46047918]Well there you go.
I do want to know what kind of home you're paying for that has these restrictions, though... Considering you're paying for it, Internet and all.[/QUOTE]
I'm not paying, I'm at a mental care home for the time being [IMG]http://fi.somethingawful.com/images/smilies/frown.gif[/IMG]
About to buy new laptop: ASUS Zenbook.
Going to do lots of programming, video editing, graphical applications and other heavy-duty stuff.
What would be the best choice in this series? The only real demand I have is a dedicated GPU.
Currently looking at UX32LN or UX32VD
After getting a 7.1 surround headphones Chrome gives a really quiet sound from both Flash and HTML5 content. I have tried different shortcut flags and the only one that worked was [I]--try-supported-channel-layout[/I], but it makes sound stop working completely in a couple of minutes.
I have no problems with Firefox and IE11.
[QUOTE=PredGD;46047981]I'm not paying, I'm at a mental care home for the time being [IMG]http://fi.somethingawful.com/images/smilies/frown.gif[/IMG][/QUOTE]
Oh... Sorry to hear that, then. Best of luck out there.
Anyone knows MySQL clients with SSH tunneling that (unlike HeidiSQL) actually work?
Most of the answers I find are for linux (and even OSX).
[QUOTE=Coment;46050642]Anyone knows MySQL clients with SSH tunneling that (unlike HeidiSQL) actually work?
Most of the answers I find are for linux (and even OSX).[/QUOTE]
MySQL Workbench? Or do you only want a CLI client, not an IDE?
So I'll ask again, how do I fix my 16gb flashdrive that is stuck at 32mb storage?
[QUOTE=Original User;46050774]So I'll ask again, how do I fix my 16gb flashdrive that is stuck at 32mb storage?[/QUOTE]
Depends on why it's doing that... could be failing. If it was some sort of strange partition problem you may be able to solve it via fdisk commands.
[QUOTE=Levelog;46050800]Depends on why it's doing that... could be failing. If it was some sort of strange partition problem you may be able to solve it via fdisk commands.[/QUOTE]
I put Arch on it, then formatted it. The drive is very new.
Help?
[QUOTE=Original User;46051005]I put Arch on it, then formatted it. The drive is very new.
Help?[/QUOTE]
Use Windows Disk Manager and see what it says about the drive. You may have some weird unallocated space or something. That generally can happen when you burn OS's to thumbdrives.
Thanks! I looked up disk partition and erased partition 1.
Time to load it up with some shit.
[QUOTE=Original User;46052660]Thanks! I looked up disk partition and erased partition 1.
Time to load it up with some shit.[/QUOTE]
Yeah I thought I posted a link to stuff like that but I guess I didn't. Happens when an OS makes a partition allocated for persistent changes.
Windows 8.1 worth the update space?
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