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When I loaded that thing in Chrome, a few images were sparsely scattered around, and the rest filled in sequentially like the world's most pretentious progress bar. It was pretty cool until about 1/4 of the way through, when I realized that there was text and this wasn't an effect; it was the page loading. When the last face loaded, the white "speech bubble" background finally loaded. What a travesty.
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Imagine they thought about it themselves. Would they even make 10%?
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It's a combination of keeping SA off the first page of Google results for bad words (as said) and appeasing advertisers whose stuff is shown to unregistered forums browsers.
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Jan 6, 2011 07:30
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To be fair, once I started monitor shopping, I discovered a reason why Macs actually are superior for artistic work: except for the Macbook, they all come with IPS LCDs (which also explains a bit of the initial Apple Tax). Of course you can get 'em for PCs, too, but for an artiste, a Mac makes the right kind of screen easy to stumble into when you're hamfisting a machine configuration; you can't not get one. Plus Final Cut provides an amount of vendor lock-in, so any serious video house needs at least one Mac. Other than that, well... Apple has an infuriating marketing strategy for schlubs who hang out in SH/SC, but in the end they're just computers.
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Jan 12, 2011 00:23
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Gallant talks to prospective hires and takes their expertise into account when evaluating fitness for a job. Goofus saves 25 cents per week with tiny coffee cups.
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Spermy Smurf posted:Was it me? I did this last week. Was fumbling around with my head above the desk and my arms dangling over the other side, felt a hole with my pinky so I just shoved it in there. Here's the test I've learned: If you can fit your finger in, it's too big for your plug. Don't take this out of context.
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Jan 20, 2011 22:36
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FTE with government benefits? If you stick with that a decade or more, that means pension, doesn't it? Future income is still income. For the short-term, $40k/yr more will probably come out ahead, even with an accountant and your own health insurance. But FTE with government benefits means better health insurance, you probably have to work hard to lose your job if you're competent (and maybe even if you aren't), and a better standard of living when you retire (unless you invest all of the extra of that $40k rather than spend it). Plus all kinds of small civil servant perks and fee waivers.
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Jan 23, 2011 10:53
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I think a new thread would kinda work out. Thread regulars can introduce themselves and summarize their horror stories (under the supervision of a trained psychiatrist), and it'll attract some new blood to post about parents using Internet Explorer because  I'm the family IT guy.E: er, thought I was in poo poo You Come Across Daily for a moment. Even so.
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Jan 27, 2011 04:09
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A ticket came in... We rebooted, but it's not fixed
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Jan 27, 2011 04:54
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Would the new thread be IT professionals-only topics like this thread, or would it nominally allow any computer-related venting like poo poo... does/originally did?
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Jan 27, 2011 17:07
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Farking Bastage posted:This guy really needs to stop. It really boggles my mind that people do this. Really, who says to themselves, "Hey, work/a public place! What a perfect time and place to look at porn/browse hot women looking for sex!"
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Feb 2, 2011 17:37
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Redirect it to this: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=it+administrator+files+sexual+harassment+suit+over+adult+material+in+website+logs  darn, too big for the site's box
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Feb 2, 2011 18:42
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 Pop the drive, check it separately, then if all else fails, don't forget to try oven-reflowing the motherboard. Farking Bastage posted:Anyone else watching the Android Honeycomb demo? I clicked that, and the first thing the guy says is "Hopefully what you saw today was <cool stuff I didn't see>" 
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Feb 2, 2011 19:32
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afflictionwisp posted:Video back-up I'd also look at redundant NAS boxes. There's a made-for-media embedded OS solution called UnRAID. It uses parity to protect all data from a single drive failure, but it does not stripe data, so if there's a second drive failure, all of the remaining disks are still readable. Also check out the NAS megathread. Some of the goons in there build enterprise-level stuff for their torrent servers and can give some good input about reliability, prebuilt appliances, and roll-your-own types. E: quick recommendation, look into a Solaris/OpenIndiana/NexentaStor/FreeBSD box to get at ZFS. It is super flexible, requires low hardware investment compared to hardware RAID, and offers snapshotting and data dedup standard.
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Feb 2, 2011 20:37
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Something like "The mail virus scanner sent a message to the person who sent me an old e-mail I opened to review its attachment. I noticed this because I received an 'Out of Office' message from him in response, but it could be happening more often," for the first part, and "When I open an e-mail, it seems to be put at the top of my e-mail index in my Blackberry" for the second. But I could easily be giving a dolt too much credit.
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NeuralSpark posted:"We've been hearing the fans on the server in the next room for a while now" It's like a smoker and a dog exploded in there.
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Feb 4, 2011 17:31
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Your problem is you're buying a computer from Best Buy.
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Pretty much anywhere else, though it's rough to buy any brand-name computer from a brick and mortar because they are very low-margin yet expensive to stock and take up a lot of space. That leads to a lot of old models, small selections, and poor prices. Just about the only retailers I'd consider buying a computer from are the Apple Store and Micro Center. Really, a manufacturer's website or an e-tailer like Amazon or Newegg is going to get you a better experience, and you won't get hammered with 95% profit 5% utility extended warranty offers. The proportion is more 90%/10%  (plus they're easier to ignore if that's your thing).Not having to stock shelves for retail, e-tailers can provide more models for finer market segmentation, or a manufacturer can give you build-to-order options if that kind of thing floats your boat. This means you have more options and the shiniest tech, and you will probably get a better price. Plus you get the POWER OF THE INTERNET for looking at pro and buyer reviews, which can answer questions about build quality, long-term reliability, and other quirks. And, say, the Laptop Dicussion sticky thread here in SH/SC.
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And I approve it, -oove it.
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Cock Democracy posted:Yeah, we did. I guess our writers didn't know what it really means either. Perhaps he saw it defined in the plural and sans capitalization without bothering to check the origin of the word (Merriam-Webster offers a definition of it uncapitalized). So... quite a SNAFF-uss.
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How widespread is AFS, anyway? It was used at my school, but that wasn't too surprising. I had no idea it was possibly used elsewhere.
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Astral_Bane posted:At least you didn't have to physically open up her computer to find rotting rat inside that had been feeding on the rice and beans she some how managed to leave in there when trying to fix it herself... The rats corpse was fused with the heat sink on the CPU. I'll have to pull some pictures when I get back to work. Please NMS it before you post 
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Simple strategy is to include "Cost of a major fuckup" when costing out alternatives, showing how much time and money picking up the pieces really wastes.
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TheGopher posted:Correct response was: "Get a job hippy." Well, some people fall back on routine to deal with grief, especially if they're still in shock about it. Just make sure he's not showing no signs at all of being affected, or he may pop like an overripe grape hit with a brick, emotionally speaking.
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enotnert posted:I'm serious, if one more grad student doesn't understand "no" to getting dual displays, I'm just gonna start locking their accounts and telling them to purchase their own machine, handle their own backups, and handle their own support. If they get a virus and blocked from the network, they can pay the $100 re-activation fee. Just curious, is there room for compromise if they provide their own second monitor, say only if they can explain the main difference between DVI and VGA during an unexpected phone call? Or can't the machines handle dual displays? Because from my undergrad work, I can understand dual displays being loving invaluable, especially if you don't already have a big display and Windows 7/a desktop manager that allows area snapping. So even if there's no budget and they're the lowest on the totem pole, they're doing the poo poo work for folks like Professor iPad, who get to take most of the credit.
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Doctor Zero posted:They don't. They just figure it out by the information on the network traffic and some kind of geolocation service. From some of the EULAs I've skimmed, I think Google-connected smartphones (Android, possibly iPhones as well, since they have a lot of Google native apps) with actual GPS will occasionally report 1) their GPS location and 2) what SSIDs are in the area, and I'd imagine that's along with noting the IP of any currently-connected WiFi network from which the data comes, which can then be hooked into conventional geolocation services/databases. It sometimes gets my current (U.S.-based) location confused with Canada, but it's learning.
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Start -> type "network connections"
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I tried to expand the acronym for GIMP and ran out of universe.
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Does Professor iPad ever produce anything? Or could you run Folding@Home on the clusters without anyone being the wiser? You could get a hell of a big meaningless number on the internet with a few of those.
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FISHMANPET posted:On top of that, her mouse cursor is jumping around the screen. That I've actually seen, you're on the left monitor, dragging towards the left, and the cursor jumps to the bottom right of the right screen. I have no idea what that's about, and all my googling leads to idiot home users with lovely laptops, not freshly installed desktops. Open up whereever it is in the desktop properties you set screen resolutions is (from the desktop right-click menu, it's properties in XP and screen resolution in 7, not sure on Vista) and drag the representations of the two monitors around to approximate their physical positions properly. For bookmarks, give her two sticky notes with written instructions: How To Make a Bookmark, and How to Use Google[/whatever resource] to Find Your Dumb Sites. Or possibly "How to Type a URL into the Address Bar and Hit Enter."
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Scikar posted:This works great and then you run a Citrix app and it completely ignores you and spawns windows off the top of your monitor. Windows 7: Winkey + arrow key to pull it in place with Aero Snap, then you can get at the title bar and put it where you want it. Alternatively, right click the program's taskbar entry, select Move, then use the arrow keys to push it around. This won't work in 7 unless you've disabled jump lists, so if you're in 7 and Aero Snap is disabled, just turn Aero Snap back on. VVVV  No matter how many tricks or procedures I find/figure out in Windows' UI, there are always more useful ones to be had.
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Second Sun posted:I had to look that one up. Which reminds me, has anyone else noticed that the quality of google searches has been getting worse? Not really, why? Just your standard "that's too esoteric, not finding anything" now and then; other times it practically reads my mind.
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Dick Trauma posted:I was doing a tech support call for an old dial-up game network and the caller had a grand mal seizure. The soul eater that powers your positive work place is on the fritz. Usually that happens just after you get their money. Seriously, though, sad. 
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Doctor Zero posted:User: I can't open these old documents. I took notes with the word processing Macintosh had at the time. Can you help? Simpletext? I loved that Pipe Organ text-to-speech voice. Dick Trauma posted:I finally have a sick computer to work on. Windows 7 box bluescreens with an iastor.sys error. I can boot into safe mode so I start websurfing for info and notice my searches are all getting redirected. Arrgh. So it has malware of some sort in addition to the Intel Storage Manager system wigging out. Also why the hell does this machine have a RAID controller but only a single non-RAID drive? The most common "storage driver got borked by malware" problem is a TDSS rootkit. Try TDSSKiller and/or GMER before doing other antivirus/antimalware stuff.
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Bobulus posted:Disabling Aero slows down a Windows 7 machine? I mean, I've never tested it, but I would have assumed using a theme without things like transparency would help, at least a little. It moves desktop rendering from the CPU to the GPU, using the convenient, otherwise-idle massively parallel processor to free up a bit of load from the main processor and take the framebuffer out of RAM. So while it is more resource-intensive, it uses underutilized resources and frees up those which, in this case, are scarce.
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Lum posted:gently caressing newbies I thought we got rid of that forum. 
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anticake posted:Cleaned MacProtector off my dad's mini today, just what I wanted to be doing on my weekend. Luckily it is dead simple to get rid of. Somehow it installed with him guaranteeing me he never put in his credentials. He is the only one besides me who even knows what his credentials are. There's a new version that doesn't need credentials as long as the account is an administrator one. Apologize to your dad.
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This is why you make sure your relatives have netbooks with webcams or smartphones with video cameras and Skype apps or something. I once walked my mother and her friend through adding RAM and installing a network card that way. Well, to be fair, both of 'em really make an effort, but still. Live video.
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