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Mr Crucial posted:loving this: This only happens to me when I'm using the touchpad on my laptop. Since I figured that out, I'm more careful with my fingers and it happens a lot less. My grief is for installers that run from CD, but won't run or install correctly if you copy the CD to your hard drive and run setup from there. My boss showed me that if you map the folder as a drive it will work, since the installer is expecting to be in the root of its drive.
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Rock Tumbler posted:Humorously, last time I was at Target I saw Nod32 in a jewel case on the same shelf as Ringtone Studio and all the Valu-Soft games. Micro Center sells NOD32 in retail boxes.
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Lum posted:Now I have a small rant, hoping someone will know the answer. I just got a new work laptop with XP Pro and Office 2007. Of course I've set XP to use the "Windows Classic" theme, but in Office I only have 3 choices, "Garish Blue", "Nice-ish silver with unreadable text" or "loving ugly black but at least the text is readable". It looks ridiculous next to all my other apps, is there no way to make it look like standard windows apps. There is a third party "Classic Menus" app for Office 07 that will make it look like Office 03, Google it.
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| # ¿ Jun 10, 2008 18:00 |
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Chris Knight posted:People who do this instead of taking a whole 10 seconds and providing an actual link. Boo loving hoo. If I knew more info I'd post it. I happened to be working for a living at the moment of my post and couldn't spend much time on it. Besides, the sum total of my exposure to said app is uninstalling it from one computer a couple of months ago. I don't even use Office 07.
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| # ¿ Jun 11, 2008 00:25 |
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Probably already mentioned, but since I ran into it today I'll bring it up: Manufacturer's wireless config software. Can't remember whose software I was trying to figure out today, but once I turned it off and used the Windows config, all was well.
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| # ¿ Jun 23, 2008 23:27 |
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For some reason Gmail has started double-spacing emails I compose. Anyone else having this happen? I'll type a line of text here, and then when I hit the Enter key, the next line starts here. Which means when I close a letter,it comes out looking something like: Best regards, sm8000
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| # ¿ Jun 25, 2008 13:14 |
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Rock Tumbler posted:So do you just not bother to split the tracks because it's not very hard Yeah, I'm pretty sure it can be done with free software.
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| # ¿ Jun 28, 2008 04:58 |
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Just found a new one that I realize has been around for a while. I have dual monitors. Right now I have a Youtube video playing on the secondary, in IE7. I have it in full screen mode. If I click anywhere in the first (e.g. to click in the search field of Google in Opera), I lose the full screen playback.
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| # ¿ Jul 1, 2008 00:08 |
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Howcome every time I click on a Youtube link it opens the video at nl.youtube.com? I don't speak Dutch.
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| # ¿ Jul 5, 2008 21:27 |
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Sweevo posted:Mine even still has an option for controlling the A20 signal - something not needed since the 386-era. Itanium systems have Gate A20 in its BIOS.
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| # ¿ Jul 11, 2008 13:44 |
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USB devices working in DOS-like environments and the BIOS are a function not only of the BIOS providing that capability, but also of the devices being made with PS/2 emulation, as far as I understand. The best way to fix your gripe is to not only notify the makers of inconsiderate hardware, but also to vote with your wallet and buy stuff that works like it should. There is plenty of USB gear out there that will work as you please. USB zealots? Are you loving serious?
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Oh god more USB/PS2 discussion... Forgive me, these are copy/pasted from elsewhere. But I trust these words and their source: quote:"The PS/2 port is on the legacy keyboard controller, which is an 8 MHz, 8-bit, entirely PIO-driven ISA device. Yes ISA. Even in today's systems. How that should be in any way faster than the bus-mastering, beyond-PCI bandwidth device that is the USB root hub completely escapes me." I should think also that the USB controller brings its own brain, and any CPU cycles used for it are executed much faster than what PS/2 hardware can do. quote:"Besides, USB is the much faster connection as far as packet handling, bus bandwidth and interrupt latency are concerned. This should be noticeable with a quality [mouse/keyboard]" quote:"USB is better - it's a modern controller on a fast chipset connection, unlike the PS/2 mouse port which is on the ancient keyboard controller, an 8-bit ISA device that needs to be polled very oftenly for smooth operation. On USB, it's smooth without eating too much into system bus bandwidth." quote:"The PS/2 mouse port is actually the AUXiliary port of the legacy keyboard controller, the oldest and slowest piece of silicon in the entire PC. Data travelling there travels all busses all the way down to the remains of 8-bit ISA (!) maintained for the KBC alone, blocking all other system activity meanwhile. And the KBC isn't a bus mastering device either, meaning you need the CPU to poll the controller at a high frequency for smooth mouse operation. On top of that, the people who patented the PS/2 controller get royalties everytime a motherboard is built with it. So the sooner we can eliminate those ports and their corresponding chips, the cheaper our motherboards will become. Why do you think OEMs like Dell, HP, etc. are hardly putting them on at all anymore?
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| # ¿ Jul 16, 2008 05:15 |
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People who don't click the Apply button bug the poo poo out of me.
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| # ¿ Jul 17, 2008 23:32 |
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Opening Add/Remove Programs and finding every version of Java since 1.4 installed.
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| # ¿ Jul 23, 2008 20:43 |
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I've used Outlook Express for years, and it has never failed to show two of each new message (in my Hotmail) every time I start it up. The duplicates go away if I go into other folders or accounts and then come back to my inbox. But even when it only shows one of each new message after that (I auto-send/receive every ten minutes), the number of total messages counts up by two for every one new message. That is, if I'm at 100 messages and a new one arrives, I'll only see one but OE will say I have 102 total.
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| # ¿ Jul 24, 2008 00:39 |
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Nybble posted:3 graphics cards? Do they draw a third of the screen each? And I thought you could only do them in pairs? Triple SLI came out recently.
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| # ¿ Jul 25, 2008 19:15 |
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Sniep posted:What about resolutions that are not easily divisible by 3? Like 1280x1024 --- (1024/3)=341⅓ I don't know, I'm still using AGP. 2640x1024 - figure that one out.
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Skulk posted:Something that annoys me is when I download drivers for a customer (or even for myself sometimes) and the default file names are retarded. How about HP/Compaq? Everything is named SP12345. I rename them all.
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| # ¿ Aug 7, 2008 23:48 |
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ctfmon.exe
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| # ¿ Aug 13, 2008 15:22 |
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Casao posted:That, and bringing up as many error messages I can and pasting them into Word documents. You should embed the Windows 'warning' sound into them too.
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| # ¿ Aug 19, 2008 17:58 |
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Is there a way to have Opera not play animated gifs at about warp 3? Because if there isn't, then it is poo poo that I come across daily that pisses me off.
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| # ¿ Aug 20, 2008 01:44 |
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Casao posted:Yeah, don't use an out dated copy of Opera. I'm on 9.51.
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| # ¿ Aug 20, 2008 02:08 |
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Sizzlechest posted:IE limits animated gif playback to 10ms intervals. Firefox and Opera allows any value if it's specified. I've seen some gifs that are too fast because the author assumed 1ms works fine by testing it in IE only. This is probably what's happening to me, I noticed some gifs aren't maniacally insane.
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| # ¿ Aug 20, 2008 05:17 |
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This doesn't piss me off as much as amuse me: Me: "Okay, you see the tower? Push in the power button and count to five, it will turn off." They: "Okay, onetwothreefourfive... nothing." (they release the button) Me: "Let's try this again, push it in and one... two... three... four... five. Is it off now?" They: "Yup" Me: "Yeah, you have to count real seconds." I know the standard is four seconds, I tell people five in case they count slightly fast. Lately, I've been getting people that count waaay too fast.
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| # ¿ Aug 28, 2008 19:07 |
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I call mine a charger, in casual conversation.
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| # ¿ Sep 1, 2008 00:28 |
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Transformator? 
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| # ¿ Sep 1, 2008 04:41 |
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At my college, the computer lab PCs were using really nice Intellimouse opticals. They started to get stolen, and sometimes replaced with crappy two-button non-scroll wheeled ball mice. The solution ended up being the mice cables locked to a handle on the back of each case with a padlock small enough that the connector couldn't be pulled through.
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| # ¿ Sep 5, 2008 21:29 |
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friend of the family Goku posted:I went back to XP 32-bit just so I wouldn't have to put up with Vista's loving autofetch using all of my 8gb of RAM. You're using 7.5GB of RAM in a 32-bit OS?
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Rosoboronexport posted:Sorry to derail, but is the placement wrong (at the end, furthest away from system files) or is the idea just plain silly? You might want to do a surface scan or some kind of HD diagnostic, you could have a bad sector or the like in your swap partition.
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| # ¿ Oct 22, 2008 15:07 |
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brc64 posted:Here's one that I run into from time-to-time... non-blank IE homepages on terminal servers-- or even better, getting redirected to Microsoft's "you need to upgrade to IE7" page regardless of what you're home page is set at. There's nothing I love more than sitting there waiting for my remote desktop screen to render the pretty marketing photos on Microsoft's website over a slow remote connection. I have the same gripe for PCs whose homepage is set to yahoo.com, pretty much anything I remote into I set the homepage to google.com for this reason. I also hate how if I launch IE7 on my home PC, which opens on my secondary monitor, it repeatedly steals focus despite my trying to work in something else in that monitor (e.g. Winamp). Why can't IE be a good little app and open in the background like everything else?
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| # ¿ Oct 22, 2008 17:38 |
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Midelne posted:There really is a certain ironic sense of completion to it. Put another two minutes into it to make it meaningful.
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Midelne posted:Yep. They gave it to the programmer. His first official act was to assign me to migrate a server while he went out to lunch because "the print drivers were confusing". gently caress these guys, get the hell out of there.
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| # ¿ Nov 12, 2008 22:40 |
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Spazz posted:I've lost faith in our education system. Here's the text of a ticket that I receivied today. (I work at a school) receivied
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You must be a glutton for punishment if you're willing to stay for that crap. Seriously, get the gently caress out now and stop  -ing
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Good for you, Midelne, I'm glad you're pulling the trigger. You're gonna feel a hell of a lot better once you're out of there.
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| # ¿ Nov 21, 2008 14:53 |
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Midelne, don't go in Monday or any more. Not unless they offer you Rod's job. They're just stalling so someone can build up a case against you. GTFO.
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| # ¿ Nov 21, 2008 19:15 |
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amerrykan posted:I wish search were up, so I could find all of your posts across the forums and compile them into a single thread. I mean, how often does an SH/SC thread get goldmined? Here's all his posts in this thread alone: http://forums.somethingawful.com/sh...26&userid=28872
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| # ¿ Nov 22, 2008 02:38 |
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Midelne posted:That was so not the thing to read right before I went to bed on a work night. I'd managed to forget most of that. Documentation 
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| # ¿ Nov 24, 2008 14:42 |
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This is an almost weekly occurance. I work in a small IT consulting company (two people) and our biggest client owns a chain of stores, with locations in IL, WI, MO and CA. When employees show up to start their shift, they punch in on a designated computer. The punches are then collected overnight with a polling program on a server at store chain's corporate. Whenever a punch computer is replaced or rebuilt, or if a store decides to make another computer the punch computer, the punches come in indicating they came from an unauthorized computer. We can fix this by moving the PC to the right IP address. The payroll officer there keeps describing what she wants done as "updating the program with the new IP address." We have both told her at times that the program is NEVER updated (it's a big pain in the rear end), instead the computer is moved to the right address. She did it again today. In my inbox this makes five times in almost two months. Probably more in my boss's inbox. 
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brc64 posted:My other favorite is servers with IE6 that get redirected to the colorful "Upgrade to IE7" page regardless of the default homepage setting. At least it's not as bad as MSN, though. I get that on computers running 2000, and even NT 4.0 Casao posted:If it's a server or something you own/use your own account for, just set homepage to about :blank. Most computers I touch in a support capacity get their homepages set to Google.
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