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That's my feelings on the matter too. I don't want Trump in office, but I definitely don't want Hillary either. Hillary is a pathological liar, Trump's just an angry old man with who thinks he will actually have absolute power as president. I'd personally prefer it if Sanders made it to the...

Don't most BIOSes use your standard 80x25 character cell sort of thing? Or is that just older ones? I wouldn't know, haven't had one of those special UEFI boards that did anything differently.

My Core 2 Duo is my only laptop, that i3 I tried to fix fell apart some time after I got it. Thermal sensor stopped working right and it would cost more to fix than it was worth. I get what I need out of it.

The problem with that is that I just don't think that's what's going to happen. Convertible devices have , and probably always will, feel gimmicky. Though I guess part of that will be remedied come Windows 10's anniversary update. What I see more potential in, is features like Microsoft's...

I'm not particularly comfortable just slapping my address on a site that anyone can look at, so those who want to send me something can PM me and I'll send it to them.

So last week my desktop finally kicked the bucket after ten years of being a cheaply-made yet reliable little machine. It survived the better part of those ten years in a heavy smoking area. So I do my due diligence and do an autopsy on it... rapid-onset capacitor failure. Damn things popped...

So I downloaded and installed Visual Studio Community 2015. I selected all of the options without paying attention to the space required as I often do, not knowing that it was going to take up 40 GB... I'm considering uninstalling it and reinstalling it with a more conservative featureset but it...

I'm frankly surprised at the sheer usability of HTML5 video on this thing. It stutters a bit trying to do 1080p but that's to be expected from a laptop from ~2007. The screen's only 1280x800 anyway, and 720p plays perfectly fine provided you allow it to buffer. Obviously that says nothing of...

Been toying around with Windows again. I find it hilarious that Windows 10 takes Windows 7 drivers for an Intel GMA950 just fine but does everything short of completely refusing Windows 8.1 drivers for a Radeon HD4650. One odd thing about the GMA950 on 10 is that it immediately tries to...

Since Vivaldi hit its third beta I've been using it for a daily driver. The other day it got it's first official (1.0) release. Above the hood, It's basically a flat version of Opera. Stacking tabs, panels, etc etc. It's basically Chrome under the hood, which is good news for speed and...

I'm required to live on campus for my first year. The money is (afaik) just tuition, which means that I will NEED a job while I'm there. Still haven't talked to the Financial Aid dept., I'm hoping to do that Saturday or next Monday, which is the start of my spring break. I'm half tempted to wait...

I'm assuming. I won't know for certain until I contact the financial aid office on the matter tomorrow.

So my application for college went through reasonably smoothly. Unfortunately I seem to have been too late to sign up for the scholarships I knew I could get, and I thought my FAFSA was flat-out denied but I guess not (I have some grants listed on my Financial Aid report from UofL). The grants...

Nascar's something I will occasionally watch for the crashing. At least I admit it. Boiled peanuts, though... ech. Moon Pies are actually pretty good, although I will admit the chocolate ones suck. I prefer banana.

Had the same thing at school. Apparently not many people like Moon Pies there. More for me, I guess.

Ah, I see what you mean now. Yeah, that is rather odd. Found an interesting little PC Cheaps board. The A31G, it's interesting because it has both PCI-E and AGP. Never thought I would see both on the same board, just one or the other. It's a Socket 754 board, currently outfitted with some kind...

So Diablo II got it's first patch in a good long while, v1.14a. I think this marks the first Blizzard game to get a major patch after the next game in the series releases. Guess who just got this patch as a surprise on his 98SE box when he tried to log on to Battle.net? This update also...

At the time I had never seen a machine that wasn't ACPI-compliant and that didn't do the whole soft-power off thing. Even Dad's old hand-me-down Pentium MMX did that.

I broke out into a fit of laughter every time they got confused. If laughing at it makes you old then it makes me at least as old as you, and we both know that isn't true. I'm younger than most of the "teens" in the video and I know things that would make their heads spin. Kind of puts things...

Makes me wonder if there are any such tools for the 1703FP and SE198WFP. Or am I misunderstanding you, and those will work with any monitor?

After a bit of finagling (I have no floppy disks to boot from) I managed to get the Syntax machine to take a Windows 98SE install. I'm currently installing the unofficial updates and drivers (it uses a SiS 630 series chipset, with 650 graphics and 7012 audio). After reading reviews for the C3...

Same here, except mine has a 4400+ and 2GB RAM. Mine came with Vista.

Finally got a working DVI->VGA converter for my dual-DVI HD4650 so I can use the second monitor again. I could have just gotten another DVI cable (I'm currently out at the moment -- gave my last one to my friend who was trying to get his only monitor working) but the converter was cheaper and at...

Ditto. Will, as for why the upgrade was not for XP as well, I can think of two reasons. One is that XP came mostly on machines that cannot run 10, whether by lack of critical instructions (PIII's, S478 P4's, AXP's, etc) or by way of simply not being able to have the hardware resources to run...

You're right, of course. I do my organizing manually, as I don't need to do it very often. I wonder if there's going to be some kind of successor to Picasa.

Personally I have never been led wrong by IrfanView on Windows and gPicView or Ristretto on Linux. I manually sort by date. The big thing about IrfanView for me in the beginning was that it actually displays animated GIFs properly. Now I suppose I use it more out of habit and the fact that it...

I think they'd be AMD-only if they're single-sided 2GB modules?

My theory is that it refused to POST because the board doesn't support it, not because the chip is bad. However, without another board to test with, I have no concrete evidence of that.

Pins got bent back to where they should be. A couple more broke off, looking at the datasheet I think they're just redundant ground pins. Board refuses to POST with the 630 in. Figures. Have the 4400+ back where it belongs. But because I don't know for certain that the 630 will work and I have...

Honestly I think the only reason MS didn't extend the upgrade offer to users of Vista as well is because they are so few in number and have had almost nine years to upgrade now and still haven't.

True, but I'm just not as comfortable as you are using a machine as a bare board. I don't have the open table space for laying out the pieces, I've got to have SOMETHING to secure that stuff to. Found my x4 630... gonna have to spend a couple hours tonight bending pins back the way they should...

If I took one of the boards, I'd have to have the case to go with it. I have no full ATX cases at the ready, though I have a couple mATX cases. The chip I wont need, because the board supposedly supports AM3/AM2+ chips (with the caveat that the system bus speed downgrades from HT3.0(5200MT/s) to...

It just feels rather sluggish in general. I can't really put it into words, it makes me feel like the whole thing is... bloated. You're probably right about the board. It seems rather hit-or-miss. I don't want to get something only to have it not work correctly or at all. You make a fair point...

It's... well, it's much slower than I was expecting from any sort of dual-core machine. Honestly, this feels slower than a Pentium D, and almost as bad as one of the old dual-core Atoms. I'd compare the two but I don't have any suitable motherboards for my Pentium D 820 CPU. As for how I know...

A barely 3-week-old install of Xubuntu 64-bit. I have 2 GB of DDR2-667 RAM. I know going from a 4400+ to a 4600+ or so is only going to do a little bit, but isn't there a much bigger gap between the 4400+ and something on the order of the mid 5000+ models? Or am I placing too much weight on the...

Regular old AM2, otherwise I have an AM2+ capable Athlon II x4 630 chip I could use. I just need something that you can spare, this 4400+ is glacially slow, much slower in comparison to even the Athlon II X2 230 I put together from scrap for my uncle. Part of that has to do with it being of a...

If anyone here has any socket AM2 CPUs could they send me a PM? I'm in somewhat desperate need of an upgrade.

For what it's worth, I have a nearly identical machine spec-wise (mine's a Toshiba and has a Turion 64 X2 Ultra ZM-80) and it idles at about the same temps. It's a fight to keep them under 90C when it's under significant load. Like Merc said, however, it's just going to be slow no matter what...

Noted. Thanks for clearing that up, in all seriousness. Honestly I'm wondering why they don't have an official *buntu build? Everything I'm seeing is telling me to either use the official Linux tarball or use a PPA that hasn't even had the index updated for Wily. EDIT: Well, this is somewhat...

You can install Win10 with the 7 key directly now, is my understanding of the matter.

Is there much that Pale Moon does that classic theme restorer on pure Firefox can't? Right now I have it set up to look pretty much like Pale Moon, without the big toolbar buttons, mine are all tiny courtesy of the MicroFox theme.

Ech. I have experience with all those things too. Even the well building part, though that didn't go according to plan when we tried it. Wireless up-link to the internet: HughesNet. Ech. Nope, not doing that again. I'd rather have an ISDN connection or an expensive cellular hotspot than...

If you do any 3D gaming from this decade you're probably better off with the HD7770. If not, the integrated graphics are more efficient.

Oh, but there is. Zorin, for one, aims to be a clone of Windows in regards to the UI if memory serves me correctly, or at least as close as you can get Linux to that ideal. Plenty of prepackaged Linux distros have the primary aim of making Linux easy to use for the common person, and Ubuntu is...

I watched The Force Awakens with my (now ex, long drawn out story that frankly I don't feel up to relating) girlfriend back in the beginning of January. I liked it, but it was clear that it was mostly a set up for the events of the next movie.

I'm not certain about how to get into a single-user mode, but I do know that all the *buntus and the things that base off them in essence heavily restrict access to the root user.

Throwing in my two cents. On my laptop I'm using Arch x86_64, but honestly it was a pain to install and an even bigger pain to get everything working properly in. I still haven't finished with that over two weeks later, that's how big of a pain it is. Repository convenience with Yaourt be...

I was, once upon a time. It worked well enough. I didn't care so much about the privacy thing, after all, I do use Facebook, but the whole "download a whole new build of the OS instead of regular updates" thing got old the first time it happened.

It seems they're taking the "any attention is good attention" route. I haven't heard a single good thing about them or Windows 10 for quite a while. As for me, I'm wondering who they're going to screw over next. They're certainly generating an awful lot of interest in Linux. Of course, Linux...

So I just made the connection that the Redhill computer information site was run by Tannin. I've read so much of that site in the past couple years.