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Hmm, I wonder how electronics (such as my tablet) do out in the heat. I'll be walking around and touring an old city in Florida and it'll be pretty hot today. :P
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Dota still playable in Windows XP, but that game exist years ago , with source 2 engine, GTS 250 and pentium 4 still playable.
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With Windows 10 fixing all the problems people had with Windows 8 plus more, I see very little reason (besides the inability to buy Windows 10) to stay with XP, especially now that Microsoft has ceased support for it.
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Windows 10 is a massive upgrade from XP and there is definitely a reason they have stopped supporting it, carrying on with XP at this stage is insecure and could cause you problems going forward whether you can get the programs running on it or not :) |
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Your family's PC is an exception to the lifespan of PCs. |
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These days, electronic device tend to have good protection for water, not water proof.
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http://i.imgur.com/ALKmBJ3.png This is actually the fastest I've ever gotten on this. Huzzah for mornings! o: |
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In regards to wearing, oh I know how that is. I have a desktop tower with a motherboard containing a nearly-popped capacitor. I ceased usage of it immediately once I made the discovery.
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This reminds me quite often about integrating Science into this section, it would be more complete and attracting more people to come into this section.
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Sure there are some topics are not fit for this, but if we can try to do maybe there is a result that we could really put Science into this section, because technology and computers are still related to science.
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Oh man you guys, if science becomes a section, I'm going to end up spending all my time there. xD
Although I'm not sure if C&T is the perfect place to do it, it's the closest thing to science we have in the forums. :p |
Alright, so I still have my VPS's VPN, but tonight I decided to set up with an actual VPN provider and it allows for international connections! :P
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Does anyone know of a truly free blogging platform, that isn't tumblr, wordpress, jekyll, hexo, ghost, or any social networks? I have access only to static-content servers and blogging services that provide servers.
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But in all seriousness, why not Wordpress? I find that they're a fairly easy service to use. |
Is using DNS bad?
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90 sites sounds like a bit of a nightmare in its own right. We've got 4 sites and 3 of us in our department (granted, 3 of the sites are 24/7 sites and the 4th site is corporate, and we cover far more than just our ~200 PCs), and even with all our infrastructure in place, that can be crazy. If you had any clout, you could probably force those sites to comply to corporate's rules, but I doubt IT has any teeth in your organization. Quote:
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Also, if you've got the opportunity to mass-image, that'll be your best friend for prepping. Configuring for each site's needs or each PC's individual needs would definitely be a huge pain, though. |
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Last question, is Jailbreaking/Rooting actually bad? I actually see people getting their Phones/Tablets broken after they jailbroke/rooted it. But mine actually works so yeah.
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I currently have my Moto G (under warranty) rooted with Cyanogenmod. If anything goes wrong with the phone, just as long as you know how to revert it back to stock and lock the bootloader, you should be fine with the warranty.
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Which is irreversible and does void warranty (although the 2 phones I have taken back I had no problems with :)) You always run a risk when you hack devices, in many cases it makes them better ofcourse (or nobody would do it) but on rare occasions it's going to cost you a phone. |
That's why I refuse to root my phone. I have insurance on my phone, and if I ever decide to root my android phone, the insurance will be voided and I'm pretty much screwed.
There is always a risk when you do that. You have to know what you're exactly doing to your phone for the operation to run correctly and accurately. |
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Office 2010 on the Core 2 Duos. 2016 on the i5s and on any newly setup laptops. Basically using 2010 on our older refreshes until our license keys run out as well as to keep from being deluged with interface issues people have on 2016, especially since we in IT only started using 2016 ourselves back in January/February.
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We've generally been averse to moving to it, ourselves, with us already having all this internal infrastructure for our email and file shares. |
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Also, while 100/100 is fast, sending 70+ users out to Microsoft's servers for their information versus just using the internal gigabit infrastructure (hell, one of our sites has a 10 gigabit fiber trunk from the main office building to the plant) to local email and DFS file share severs just doesn't make sense. |
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Speaking of monitor colour type, can you actually tune the laptop monitor colour to warmer? Because sometimes when looking at the white screen for long time quite stressing my eyes.
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It'd be interesting if laptop screens had built-in color settings, but then that'd probably just jack up the price unnecessarily on many devices since most, if not all GPU control panels allow for color adjustment.
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Been thinking about current generation Intel processors and...
Well, i5s. Two Pentiums duct taped together and given Turbo Boost and most additional CPU features, or i7s without hyper-threading and less cache? Fun to think about it. |
Well, this is why I hate myself. $400 to get my laptop up and wiped and reinstalled (Twice, loosing some files too) and it seems like the problem is probably just a bad fan, which was the case a few years ago, same laptop. I was going to do the 2nd wipe myself, but it would stay on (shut off randomly) or blue-screened before the backups were done. Now I need to buy one, and I'll probably choose to DIY it since shop labor is expensive. Though the fan placement on mine is all the way in, I think I have to take out even the mother board to get to it.
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Not sure if thats possible Tsutarja, though it wasn't $400 in one sum, it was like $220 one time, $180 the other. There was also a $230 screen replacement years back, and forgot how much it cost to get my fan replaced also years back. Now if that was all in a single sum, a new laptop would defiantly be in the realm of possibility, but after paying it, not sure much. I do want a new one though, laptop. I mean a gaming / better desktop then I have now would be nice, but a laptops portability matters. |
Have to download Visual Studio 2012 and Visio 2013 for a class. Oh how fun this will be.
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So, I'm going to butt in with something that's been on my mind lately, and something I'm sure many have had to deal with before: terrible ISPs.
Specifically, my parents have had service from an awful company called Consolidated Communications since we moved into our current home. We had hoped to keep our previous ISP, but unfortunately, Consolidated has a monopoly on our entire area. We've tried to find others, but as we are a little bit in the country, that doesn't seem to be possible. There service has usually ranged from "bad" to "mediocre", though recently has become nearly unusable. This happened fairly recently, after I began doing regular YouTube uploads again, and I feel it is an upload speed issue (speed tests show Download speed of 16mbps but an upload speed of only 0.08mbps). Thoughts? |
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We've been getting DSL from them.
In general, I'm at a point where I find it easier to, each time after I finish editing a few videos, just take my laptop over to my sister's house and just mooch off her service to upload them. |
Unfortunately, DSL is very unstable and not the fastest considering it's coming to be a fairly outdated technology(™). DSL service is delivered over copper lines directly and that in turn doesn't allow for the fastest of connectivity, whereas most broadband connections these days are powered by fiber optics.
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So I've been thinking of making the backup motherboard do something more useful...
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel Pentium G3240 3.1GHz Dual-Core Processor ($51.49 @ SuperBiiz) Motherboard: ASRock B85M-HDS Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (Purchased For $0.00) Memory: Kingston 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($26.99 @ SuperBiiz) Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($47.49 @ OutletPC) Case: Corsair Carbide Series 88R MicroATX Mid Tower Case ($49.99 @ Amazon) Power Supply: Corsair CX 430W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($27.98 @ Newegg) Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer ($17.99 @ SuperBiiz) Total: $221.93 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-05-26 11:34 EDT-0400 (Ignore the pricing information, as I don't live in the USA, but you can use it as a general guideline.) |
I am utterly that the LGK10 isn't making a big splash in the midrange market. While the 410 is a bit dated, it's still a capable processor. Other then that the phone is a gem. Just got it yesterday and I am in love. The build quality is miles ahead of the plastic junk the Samsung J series is made of,maybe that's what it stands for, and UX is such a lightweight easy to use and look at UI. Camera is average, and I love the less saturated colors on the phones screen, nothing is neon and bright. I am an absolute fan of low saturation,so I cannot get the hate for this department. And again,the plastic chassis is phenomenal, such a sturdy phone.
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Honestly, I would probably love a Samsung phone if it didn't have the hideous TouchWiz UI.
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Speaking of roots, how the hell does one go about flashing the framework for Xposed on lollipop with TWRP? I read the instructions on XDA forums but I am stumped.
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Just drop in to post some stuff so Zach won't miss me : ).
So, my dad recently want to buy a new Iphone SE to replace his Iphone 4 cuz it's very slow and kills battery. For me, Iphone SE would be a great idea for him but I wonder Apple company about old phones. I mean, old phones like Iphone 4 and 4s still able to run smoothly on some apps but why they still do not support those old fellas? I wish they could just introduce ios that capable to run old device smoothly and continuing support for previous generations of Iphones. |
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Well, you made a good point. Iphone does have a small RAM storage, but remember. Iphone is not a multitasking device, even it has switching apps feature but it just freeze the app and begin to operate other apps. So, the RAM storage is absolutely not affecting the performance.
This makes the phone able to efficiently use more RAM on single app rather than multitasking and also saves small battery life as well. It may multitasks, but only applies on notifications or downloading and installing apps which not affects the performance significantly. |
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Screen Tearing for sure. I'd rather have a smaller Twitter here and there then deal with input lag causing me to lose over and over again because the bosses hitbox was altered 2 seconds earlier then the screen showed mr.
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Sure,technology evolves for that reason, to eliminate issues. If we were talking about a hypothetical no solution ever scenario, screen tearing is the lesser of two evils in the end.
Meanwhile in Android land, Ι hope to god the EU K10 gets Marshmallow. Both the T-Mobile/Sprint variation along with the K430DSY for Asia have Marshmallow out of the box, and I'm sitting here with Lollipop. Even the LG Stylus 2 which is the same phone but with a bigger display and a stylus has the Marshmallow update. But yeah, out of the box Marshmallow for 2/3 of the work bar Europe is some bullshit. Totally unacceptable if it never comes, considering how it already exists. I mean, I bought the phone knowing that it comes with Lollipop, and it's a fairly recent phone only a month on the market, but that month should have been enough or them to give us a room that already exists. And LG has a pretty big branch here in Greece, much like Sony. |
My brother is waiting for his Samsung Galaxy S5 for marshmallow Update, for sure he will be very hyped for this update but he waited for quite a long time to get the update, until now.
Anyways, the not so old S5 is kinda thin comparing to S6 and S7. My brother loves medium size phone like 5 inch S5. It still run smoothly and supports fast charging. The thing is I rarely see people using S5 over here but S6 and S7 are even more popular as well as A7 and A5. Into another topic, I found out that my laptop processor does not need high CPU speed to run games smoothly. At most of the time, the fps seemed to retain at average 45 in the Wicther 3. As I tune into high performance, the fps is still retained the same with 3.13 Ghz of Core i5-6300HQ. Besides, the cpu usage does not affect much with maximum speed and average speed of cpu. This concludes that good processor does not actually needs much power to run the games smoothly |
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Obviously screen tearing is a big headache for me too, not just affecting the smoothness of the graphic motion, it also affects the eye sight too. So, vertical sync is introduced to cope that issue, but it does not do any much about it. But recently technology become better by using triple buffered sync or G-sync by nvidia.
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Oh Windows, why have you many flaws?
I shouldn't have to restart explorer.exe every few days to open my start menu :| |
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Though I guess it does say something if things eventually wedge. |
Anyone heard of Earthtek? I really should get going and get my fan replaced before my laptop crashes again. It seems like I have two options, stock and the mentioned brand. Both say they fit, but there are models that are listed with reviews saying they don't fit. Laptop is way out of warranty. Well its probably the fan. It sounds like a ceiling fan, spinning, kinda sounds like its lightly touching something. And my laptop vibrates.
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Hey everyone, it's time to go on ahead and let this thread wrap up. We've got something big coming up really soon, so stay on the lookout for that! :)
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