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wolrah posted:Back on the LCDs at non-native resolutions thing, one of my customers is the worst offender I've ever seen for this. She has a Dell 30" (you know, 2560x1600 monster panel) which she runs at 1280x960. Not even 1280x800, which would scale cleanly and just be a waste of a good panel instead of distorted and looking like rear end. This screen is positioned 3 feet from where she sits, and she can't be older than early 30s, so it's not like the old farts who use 800x600 on 20" screens (my grandma is an offender there). I've seen a 30" Dell at 1024x768. No poo poo. I set it to the lowest-res widescreen and asked if they liked it, and thankfully they agreed. I then started bumping it up, asking whether or not it was better. I felt like an eye doctor. I think they stayed with my first change. Preinstalled OEM crap. I work in a small computer store, and I hate having to tell people that the first time they start up their brand new computer, they'll have to wait 15 loving minutes. Fortunately, most people buy a dedicated video card with their tower, so I can clean all that crap out and install the card. People who use the wrong words. Why is everything 'downloading'? "I downloaded this file to this CDR." "I want this computer crashed out." Apparently that means having Windows reinstalled. "I got this computer trojan horse worm virus spyware." Yes, I'm sure you did. Another great one: "My Internet stopped working." "Alright, let's check it out." Fire it up, plug the network cable in, ipconfig gives me a valid address, I can ping google, but any browser instantly throws a cannot connect page. Aha! I then reach for my Norton-hunting gun (Norton removal tool) and it instantly starts working. Christ, blocking the entire Internet is not the correct way an 'Internet Security' suite should work. This happens daily. Laptop keyboards that have Fn in the very left bottom corner. No sir, that location is reserved for Ctrl. Also, Toshiba keyboards that have the Windows key at the top. Dell desktops that have no PS2 ports. Guess what always works, really works well, and doesn't require drivers: PS2 ports. USB keyboards are handy and all, but we have a ton of PS2 KVMs, and motherboards without them piss me off. Computers of people who smoke: Dear god, take two handfulls of mud and smear them around the insides of your computer. Then make it smell like rear end.
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taiyoko posted:Where can I get this wonderful Norton-hunting gun? I need one to purge my parents' computer of the evil. ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/engli.../removal_tools/ Norton removal tool.exe Replace it with AVG 8.0 and install with code:Lum posted:sledgehammer with "Norton Hammer" written on it I am so doing that tomorrow.
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HPL posted:Opera 9.5 is turning out nicely, but that thing where you go to the next page if you hit the space bar while at the bottom of a page is starting to annoy me. Preferences | Advanced | Shortcuts | Edit keyboard setup | Search for 'fast' | Delete the line beginning with 'Space' I like that feature sometimes. Here on the forums it actually takes you to the last page, last time I checked.
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| # ¿ May 22, 2008 17:45 |
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angrygoatface posted:I had a teacher insist once that "Links-keys" routers were the worst because the signal doesn't go through walls. You mean Lin-skiis? My Fox Fire never works on Linskiis routers. 
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hyperborean posted:deluded He's talking about diluting thinking. Clearly you need a more potent liquid medium. 
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| # ¿ May 26, 2008 22:34 |
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HPL posted:I call the middle mouse button the "magical mystery button" when I'm using Opera because god only knows exactly what it's designed for. Sometimes it'll do what I want it to do, sometimes it'll send me off to some crazy random web site, sometimes it'll do something else. Open links in background tab, not on links gives the scrolly thing. I've never noticed any diffrent behavior.
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| # ¿ May 28, 2008 05:42 |
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The Gunslinger posted:Another thing I've seen some local competition do is tell a customer they need a GeForce 8800 type card, order it then keep it for themselves and let the guy run on integrated video. drat that's low. I always just ask the customer if they'll be playing games made in the last three years. No gives them a recommendation to stick with integrated, yes gives one of a 8600 GT or 9600 GT. If they brought their machine in, I'll install it while they wait for 20 bucks.
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| # ¿ May 28, 2008 18:01 |
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Autoupdating programs. Please explain this to me: Why does a program require a multi-megabyte program running at ANY given time just as an updater service? If I wanted to write something like this, it would be this: *Next update time = 12:30 PM June 13 2008 # This gets updated every time the update succeeds *Is it past Next update time? # that is, was the computer off during the scheduled time? **sleep 5 minutes **Check for new updates **Update if necessary **Reset Next update time for 1 week from now *Not next update time? **Sleep for the number of minutes until Next update time **Check for new updates **Update if necessary **Reset Next update time for 1 week from now Then, the issue is how it notifies you. Firefox's autoupdater isn't bad, I love Digsby's, and anything made by adobe makes me want to murder goats.
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MrMoo posted:I love that it can install the updates on shutdown, I wish Ubuntu did that. With the monstrosity of dependences that Firefox, Thunderbird, and OOO.o have acquired they seem impossible to update at run time without failing miserably on some basic task after a background update. sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && shutdown -t 0 #? talk show ghost posted:Back to the bitching though. What is the deal with the vista device manager. For the first 10 seconds of adding a device, it looks like a brand new wizard but then when it inevitably cannot find the driver online Best luck I've had with Windows Update drivers are old modems and audio cards. Like really old.
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| # ¿ Jun 11, 2008 22:24 |
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Oddhair posted:keyboard short-cuts for the language bar seem to reactivate themselves It seemed to me that Windows would randomly switch the layout back and forth, untill I learned that "ctrl+shift" would toggle them. Wtf? I use that all the time for Ctrl+shift+tab. I changed it, and it's helped a lot Casao posted:Well, QWERTY was kinda designed for mechanical typewriters. The two theories are to slow down typing (thus making it less likely to jam) or to put commonly used letter pairs apart from one another so it goes back and forth between one side and the other. quote:That said, all tests basically come out saying QWERTY and DVORAK end up being roughly the same speed, and the hassle of using your unique and special keyboard makes using any computer but your own a major annoyance. I can type in both now, major preference on the Dvorak. I like it for its comfort, not necessarily speed.
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| # ¿ Jun 12, 2008 05:39 |
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hyperborean posted:scotch tape and a black magic marker I tried that on my Asus laptop, and it was still too bright. Why do I need two power lights? Electrical tape go. The SANDCRAWLER Dells (XPS 720 whatever) have LEDs above the back panel of the motherboard, so you can see where to plug stuff in in the dark. I thought it was a good idea.
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| # ¿ Jun 26, 2008 04:58 |
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Rogue Istari posted:my school's computer lab runs Deep Freeze Our's too. We did new images about every semester, and I'm the one who figured out how to copy over polished profiles, so that people weren't nagged by 'FRESHLY INSTALLED' programs. However, because our networking department were a bunch of loving assholes, they wouldn't let us have a deep freeze server. So, you guessed it, some poor dumb-gently caress student (me) got paid $9.50/hour to go to every individual computer with the new image and hit each computer one by one, then go in, change the computer name, and lock DF back down again. Jesus christ. Fortunately, we had our own OU, and we got to select what WU from our WSUS server we wanted, so there were no rebooting issues. SRed13 posted:Whoever pointed me to the hirens disc and Unknown Device Identifier( http://www.zhangduo.com/udi.html ) was a saint. I've been using Unknown Devices for a long time and really liked it. I have an updated pci copy here (zip) My shop recently bought a subscription to http://driveragent.com , and it's a loving godsend. I am so lazy with drivers now, it's great. I no longer dread the driver part of a new install. Also, an nLited CD with the Driverpack LAN is gorgeous.
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| # ¿ Jul 11, 2008 09:07 |
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Nybble posted:Add/Remove Programs Ccleaner has an uninstall part that runs much faster that the Windows one.
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| # ¿ Jul 19, 2008 05:01 |
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OneEightHundred posted:If we're going to go there, then using QWERTY should be pissing everybody off. Qwerty does piss me off. I have to use it at work (client computers) and it's inane. aoeu forever!
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such a nice boy posted:It opens docx files. It's slow and crashy, but it will open them. Now that's what I like to hear! Seriously, I wish there was a good office suite that wasn't Microsoft Office. I've been trying to use Google Docs, and it's pretty good. Nice to be able to access it from any computer, publish, and collaborate.
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appregator posted:edit: Oh also this thing automatically logs you out after half an hour. Not half an hour of inactivity, half an hour. So this happens all drat day. You have to log in 16 times a day? 
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| # ¿ Aug 20, 2008 04:09 |
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Without cleartype on LCDs, text looks jagged and stupid. Afterwards, smooth. It's not designed to work on CRTs. And yes, some people just don't like it.
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The Fool posted:One of my co-workers has this keyboard. He can touchtype dvorak. Supposedly the key layout is more efficient(not the dvorak part, the funky key placement part). He's a goon, maybe he'll come by a talk up his keyboard. So, this keyboard. I own one, and I like it a lot. I imagine you all are hating on it for two main reasons: Its Dvorakness and its layout. Layout: Their thought behind it is "Why are keyboard key columns at an angle?" Because typewriters had levers. Great. Why are computer keyboards still angled? Muscle memory. After about a half hour of typing on the typematrix, your fingers get used to it and it feels a lot more comfortable. Having the enter and backspace in the center with your most powerful fingers is awesome too, but also has an adjustment period. The hardest thing to adjust to was hitting backspace instead of 'y' and enter instead of 'b' because of the straightened columns. As to it having a Dvorak button, it's because 99.99% of all computers in the US have Qwerty layouts, and changing the layout in Windows sucks. It only changes on a per-application basis unless you make it default and relog, and by default, ctrl+shift changes the layout (and it turns out I ctrl+shift+tab in my browser all the time). Instead, I can just hit fn+Dvorak and type away. Also this means I don't have to add/remove/forget to remove the Dvorak layout inside Windows on coworkers/client's computers and piss them off. They get really really mad, it's pretty funny. As to why I type Dvorak: I think it's more comfortable, and I like to be a unique snowflake. I can touchtype in Qwerty also, it's just not as comfortable, and I'm not quite as fast or accurate. Fake edit:  Real edit:  Click here for the full 598x800 image. DevastatorIIC fucked around with this message at Oct 22, 2010 around 21:31 |
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