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If PNG is unavailable you still shouldn't use JPEG for screenshots (unless they're saved as lossless), you should use GIF and just deal with the loss of colors.
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OMGLOLetcetc posted:I just had to look up Windows 98 drivers for my flash drive so I could use it on a users computer. This is why it's good to keep around a mini-cdr with the universal USB drivers for Windows 98.
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| # ¿ Jun 24, 2009 18:43 |
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sm800 posted:a Westell 6100, but didn't realize that it needed to be in bridge mode I have a Westell 6100 and absolutely hate it because the only way to use a wireless router with it is to put it in bridge mode, and that permanently locks me out from the modem's web interface!
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| # ¿ Jul 29, 2009 02:34 |
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:I think there was a Canon inkjet back in the late 90s that had an option where you could pull the print head and replace it with a scanning head - but I could be remembering wrong. That existed, but the first was the Thundrscan for the Apple II/Macintosh & the Imagewriter printer.
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| # ¿ Jul 31, 2009 00:25 |
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Puck42 posted:Speaking of Windows screen shots, any idea why Windows doesn't automatically compress it into a png? Because print screen just dumps the screen to the clipboard, not a file. Now, Paint and snipping tool have both defaulted to PNG since Vista.
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| # ¿ Aug 13, 2009 23:07 |
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thelightguy posted:But what would SysRq do? These are important questions. Hires your sister out as a whore.
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| # ¿ Sep 24, 2009 00:34 |
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sm8000 posted:Haven't found it in Chicago. You can apparently get it on USA 3000 airline flights from and to Chicago though.
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| # ¿ Oct 10, 2009 19:14 |
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sm8000 posted:What do you do for someone who bought a netbook with Ubuntu preinstalled? Most people who buy those return them to the store...
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| # ¿ Oct 17, 2009 05:29 |
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When my parents were in high school/college in the 70s/80s, the rule was papers typed on a typewriter were double space after period, and later, papers typed on a home computer were single space after period. When I was in middle school/high school in the 90s/2000s the rule was one space after a period always, though I don't think anyone ever had a typewriter around to worry about.
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| # ¿ Oct 20, 2009 18:01 |
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Print it out, fax it, and scan the fax with OCR software. That way you get the feeling of your users. 
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| # ¿ Jan 2, 2010 01:02 |
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sfwarlock posted:I kind of want a legit copy of Win95 and/or 3.1. I like doing strange things with Virtualbox. 3.11 for $20 http://www.google.com/product_url?q...&hl=en&sa=title
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| # ¿ Jan 30, 2010 01:47 |
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TheRealLuquado posted:Would love to but she had been using Vista on her old machine (the one she kicked) for a couple years and everything ran fine on it. Sigh. You know, if you turn on small task bar icons, and enable combine when taskbar full or never combine, 7 looks almost exactly like Vista.
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| # ¿ Feb 10, 2010 00:21 |
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rscott posted:something like that would be overkill, we only need one ISA slot for the workstation, but I'll definitely look into seeing if they make smaller ones. These aren't cheap, but you can get ATX motherboards that support Pentium 4s or Core Duo or Core 2 Duo Quad-core that also have ISA slots available. http://www.cyberresearch.com/store/...isa-slots-mobo/ They come with the CPU, some RAM, and a Windows license. Their cheapest motherboard is $545 with a 2.5 GHz Celeron, and that comes with no RAM or Windows license, so you have to provide your own - it's $645 with 1 gigabyte of PC3200 SDRAM added though. Or you can go for a 3 ghz quad core Core 2 Duo system with 8 GB of RAM and two ISA slots which should last you forever, and it costs $2045. fishmech fucked around with this message at Mar 12, 2010 around 21:05 |
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Space Gopher posted:Yeah, and these days sixty cents will buy you two text messages (320 bytes of what would otherwise be wasted bandwidth), 12 kilobytes of data bandwidth, or about a minute's worth of voice calling (several hundred kB). Telecommunications pricing has always been a hosed-up game of customer wallet extraction. Erm, more like 4 text messages, which is 56o bytes (texts are 160 7-bit characters which is 140 bytes), 60 kilobytes of data, or 2.4 minutes of voice calling which is about 288 kilobytes. These hold true for AT&T and Verizon at least, it sounds like whatever carrier you have is a real dick about fees.
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brc64 posted:He's probably talking about Sprint's old SERO employee referral plan that's been horribly abused by goons everywhere. It's not available any longer, but those who were able to get in on it before they took it away are grandfathered in. You can still get like $40 unlimited text/data/voice plans from stuff like MetroPCS but the downside is they tend to almost always be CDMA carriers with no option to use your own phone, and they tend to only have limited coverage areas, wtih most of the country falling into a non-unlimited roaming zone.
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nene posted:He's in his early 20s, and swears blind he's never used floppies. Maybe his parents never bought a computer until the iMac came out and he went to schools using exclusively no-floppy Macs?
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| # ¿ Mar 17, 2010 02:32 |
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Space Gopher posted:Last time I checked (although it's been a while), if I run over my AT&T dumbphone plan limits, I pay 30 cents per text message, 50 cents per minute of voice time, and five cents per kilobyte of data. Of course, those prices are basically incentives to buy a bigger plan than you actually need so there's no chance of running into horrific overage pricing, but it's the only easy way I know of to get firm cost-per-x numbers. Oh, I just used the pay as you go plan numbers. Never overflowed my voice minutes and I got unlimited texts - no data plan though but if I do data its 1 penny per kilobyte. I'm using AT&T too.
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| # ¿ Mar 17, 2010 04:51 |
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CitizenKain posted:Having someone keep company property when fired is strange to me though. Who is that attached to a work laptop to want to hold onto it. The same people who put all their personal pictures and poo poo on it because it's "theirs".
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| # ¿ Mar 19, 2010 18:40 |
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Bob Cthulhu posted:How desperate do you have to get before you eat a hot dog out of a vending machine? I'm fairly certain I've never been that hungry before. Most machines like that the hot dogs are filled into the machine daily. Its no worse than eating 7-11 hot dogs, the only difference is instead of having some teenager pull it out of the heater thing, the machine does it.
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| # ¿ Mar 21, 2010 05:32 |
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Ensign Expendable posted:Oh, so that's what that was. I thought that it was weird that this virus was showing none of the symptoms that it should have shown. Took out all of our computers as well, except the on Mac and mine, which is Win2K. Why are you still using Windows 2000 when they're going to end all support for it in under 4 months?
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| # ¿ Apr 21, 2010 23:22 |
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TheRealLuquado posted:it is a laptop keyboard. Laptop keyboards are about $15-$20.
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| # ¿ May 17, 2010 02:43 |
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ImperialGuard posted:Well, isn't it super-unsafe compared to most modern browsers? Opera and Safari for Windows are both far more insecure recently.
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| # ¿ May 22, 2010 07:39 |
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Bob Cthulhu posted:That's the thing, I can't figure out where they're doing it at. Their fingerprint is supposed to take care of all of the domain-related stuff. "Hello help desk? I lost all of my fingerprints in a freak acid accident"
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| # ¿ May 31, 2010 22:18 |
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Delta-Wye posted:a lot more poisonous updates lately - for instance, Office Compatiblity Pack Service Pack 2 totally breaks the compatibility pack on windows 2000 - thanks for that extensive testing Microsoft! Microsoft is frankly not going to care whether a security update breaks an optional program on an OS that'll be dead in about 40 days.
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rolleyes posted:Well I used the method I posted to install 7 on my netbook so I know it works. Just dumping the files on the stick like you said only works if you don't need to boot from the USB stick, so, for example, if you were running an upgrade install and starting it from within windows. Booting from the USB stick requires running another program to make the drive bootable - perhaps you had already made your USB stick bootable from doing something else?
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| # ¿ Jun 20, 2010 18:31 |
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Heintron posted:Someone just called me to raise a ticket regarding a malfunctioning toilet... Inform him that you only work on those Japanese toilets that have enough electronic gizmos in them that they can talk to you and clean your rear end automatically.
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| # ¿ Jun 22, 2010 14:28 |
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IT Guy posted:To add to this kind of. Bing works just as well as google.
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| # ¿ Jul 2, 2010 19:46 |
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captkirk posted:Which makes the people's opinions about bing being better very strange. Also, I would rather not support Microsoft being in the search engine market. Bing has a better image search and shopping search system than Google has. And uh, why are you so concerned about Microsoft being in the search market? They have been since 1996.
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| # ¿ Jul 2, 2010 19:52 |
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IT Guy posted:Right, I'm not arguing this, I'm arguing about computer illiterate users having opinions about brands. If they can't figure out why their folder disappeared after dragging it into another folder, they shouldn't get to have opinions about things like Bing being better than Google because I'm willing to bet 99% of the time the user is just repeating something they've heard from their friend who is "good with computers". Actually they probably like it better because of those commercials they have on TV. That's generally how the non-savvy determine what's good.
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Now search Bing for the name and artist for a song and click one of the play buttons.
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| # ¿ Jul 3, 2010 19:42 |
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Guy Axlerod posted:Lucky for who? Well they have over 150,000 regualr old post offices, each must have at least a few computers on the net in them, and then you have the administration offices, the devices the mailmen carry in their delivery trucks and poo poo...
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| # ¿ Jul 7, 2010 23:06 |
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If you need a copy of Windows 3.11 you can buy a year of Technet and get that as well as a bunch of other Windows versions.
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| # ¿ Jul 29, 2010 21:45 |
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Daveh posted:In the town my friend lives in there is a street called South Street North which always makes me Heh if you think that's confusing: "Yeah that's right meet me at the corner of North 200 West and West 200 North!" Not that I've ever been to Utah but I was giving someone directions earlier through Utah and saw this.
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whenever I see it.
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It would be nice if internet connections were rated in multiples of 1x cd speed (which is 1.2 megabits per second by the way).
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| # ¿ Aug 2, 2010 21:32 |
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mobn posted:Streets like that usually change their name once they curve to the point where they're on a different orientation. It's still stupid to have an intersection like North 100 West and West 100 North.
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| # ¿ Aug 2, 2010 22:13 |
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mobn posted:They're just formatting it weird. Most streets in large cities are split into north and south for ease of finding. For example, the corner of North 1st St. and East 12th Ave. All the streets in that city, besides Center and Main, are named 100, 200, 300 etc. It's really dumb. And the numbers repeat on each side such that there's the corner or North 100 West and West 100 North as well as South 100 West and West 100 South and the other two that are slightly less confusing. I mean I guess you like having 50 North West and West North streets but that's your own problem. this is just silly: 
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mobn posted:Those 100, 200, 300 etc. aren't "names", that's just the block number. You've never head someone say something like "oh, he lives on the 2100 block of West"? Well I did link to the city on Google Maps a few posts before, so I had assumed you'd seen it. And sure it makes sense in a way, but you'd be better off only applying North and South to the east-west routes and East and West to the north-south ones, it's the fact that all those routes have both a North/South and a East/West applied to them that makes it retarded. Truex posted:Christ, somebody came to work drunk that day. But Mormons don't drink! 
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| # ¿ Aug 2, 2010 23:20 |
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sfwarlock posted:Run darin's boot and nuke, and then tell her you've reinstalled all company software. 
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loving magic everywhere in this MUTCD.
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yaoi prophet posted:Argh, there's a name for these kinds of things but I forgot what it is. Wrong-way multiplex.
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