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A friend wanted to trade me his Satellite C655, specs detailed in my signature. He wanted the HDMI and USB 3.0 ports that were provided on my machine that I didn't utilize, and I wanted his obviously faster CPU. The RAM is a bit slower than I'd like, but I figure it really doesn't matter too...

The saddest thing of all? CNet's been like this for at least the last 5 years.

Yeah, except the Linux version only has 1 GB of RAM and 8GB of storage. And it comes with Ubuntu, which is decidedly NOT light enough to run on such a small amount of RAM or even such a small amount of storage. It'd be very cramped, to say the least. Now, if it came with something like...

I was referring to the flash drive that he might have been using, which I do often see formatted in NTFS these days. I remember taking my old 1 and 2GB flash drives and formatting them in NTFS (they came to me in FAT32) to get a little extra space. Remember, these were 1 and 2GB flash drives...

That seems like the best course of action, although you may end up with the data sitting on a useless host if you can't get it off there in some form, whether it be using floppies, a LAN, CD-Rs, or even USB drives. Windows 98 has a generic driver available for USB mass storage devices, however...

In the past three days with NaCl I have roughly tripled a point count that I spent a couple months getting with fahclient. Of course, points aren't so much the issue here for me, but getting WUs in and out in a timely manner is -- I don't always remember to leave this on overnight and so I may...

Well, about three and a half hours and a couple of headaches later, I have a working system again! Everything went fine, mostly. The first headache was just waiting for it to complete and my system to be able to leave the live environment. Well, I actually hit one minor snag. I didn't end up...

I tend to do 2.5x, just to be safe. Though I might just get rid of the partition entirely, and resize my root partition while I'm at it. I really wish I had the foresight to make this all one big partition, and I might still be able to yet, by copying the data from it and editing my fstab so...

Yeah, I think we can say my issues have been sorted out -- I went to bed at about 3 AM (terrible sleeping habits, I know, please don't give me the lecture) and woke up at around noon to being about 2000 points richer. Is it 'richer'? I don't know. I had 2000 more points now than I did when I...

Well, I'm happy that you have what you need, but I don't think I'm going to need 32GB for at least another five years. Even 8GB is more or less a luxury for me. I've never used more than half of it in normal use, which leads me to ask myself just why I spent $70 on the upgrade. I have not...

Well that's just not fair at all! I upgraded my Celeron Satellite C55 to 8GB RAM and a 240GB Kingston SSDNow 300. No new battery here, though -- I get about four hours off of my current one and a larger one won't do me much good. I was in awe of just how much snappier it is -- previously, it...

It'd be great if I could reliably get WUs - it finished that last one, and has been stuck on trying to get another one for the past couple of hours.

Thanks for the link. I didn't think there would be, but just to be sure I tuned the search to a more general model, the c55-b series. Nothing notable there. But I imagine that if I look hard enough (especially now that I know the exact dimensions of my screen and what connector it uses) I can...

Probably because my name isn't Ross Ndeek, it's Jacob Turner. No, I do not play baseball, and frankly sports in general do not capture my interest in the slightest. Very useful and entertaining information, by the way. I'm finding it hard to believe that you came up with such detailed profiles...

What'd be especially great is if there was an interest for panel upgrades in laptops. You can bet that if I could find a 1080p 15.6" panel for my laptop, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

Good to know. :-D

Thanks for the support guys. timwhit: I just got the NaCl client working, and holy crap is it quick. It's roundabout the only reason I put Chrome on my computer, but in case I need an alternate browser I installed Eversync on both Firefox and Chrome so I can sync my bookmarks between the two...

No such Option "TouchpadOff" entry can be found in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf, and none of the other files exist. Getting a loaner drive may or may not be an option sometime next week, but I'm banking on a 'no'.

According to /var/log/Xorg.0.log, it's ignoring touch events. Why would it do that? In every single mouse control panel, it lists itself as enabled. Hmm... Oh, and I misread the size of the IMG -- it's 512 bytes, not KB. I am using GRUB to boot.

Tried it. The ISO has a file in it called "Bootable_HardDisk.img" with a size of 512k, and nothing else even though the ISO is almost 30MB. No dice. My BIOS does NOT provide the option to upgrade from within itself. Chewy: I did read that article. The flashrom utility will not work with my...

Well. That's certainly something. At least I'm not getting laughed at here. The sad thing is that while using my Intel HD would certainly be faster than using my CPU, it doesn't recognize it as a GPU. Another thing that would really help would be if it used more than 50% of my CPU when at full...

Good laugh, but seriously, does using GPU over CPU folding lead to that drastic of an increase? Or do you guys just have a bunch of machines running it at once? Because I can't compete with that -- I tried getting F@H running on my FreeNAS server to fill up its spare CPU cycles and gave up. I...

How do I go about it? I have the BIOS updater launcher running in WINE, and it asks me to choose between three options: 1.) Make a bootable floppy (won't work, BIOS is too large to fit and the launcher bombs out when trying to find a specific executable) 2.) Make a bootable CD-ROM (won't work...

How is it that you guys are getting hundreds of thousands of points a day where I'm getting ~300 a day if I'm lucky? Figured out F@H for Arch/Manjaro, by the way -- I could never get the AUR version to run right in straight Arch for some reason but in Manjaro it works without issue. I'm not...

Yeah, I thought the jump to Windows 7 SP1 was hefty. I was in for quite the shock. Wow, the price seems really nice, even now arguably. I'm kind of regretting asking for a Raspberry Pi, this thing is several times more capable for only roughly twice the price at the time. I bought my RPi in a...

LOL at everyone above. But seriously, as to the browser you could have used on NT 4: Apparently, HTML5 works mostly okayish on Seamonkey 1.1.18/19/20pre on NT4/95/98. Err, scratch HTML5. But everything else should mostly work? I dunno, I dont have a copy of NT4 handy to test.

~3 hours? Pshhh, try three days. Happy holidays, guys. Hope you all had a good one, or many.

Same here. I've actually not been active for a few days. Hope he gets through everything okay.

Chrome's systray icon allows for the stopping of background processes in its right-click menu, or at least it did the last time I installed it (about a month ago). It doesn't give you the option during the install process, to my knowledge. Yes, it's stupid.

Very interesting. I kind of did the same thing -- except I made the jump directly from a SNES to a Gamecube. I got my brother's old hand-me-downs, but his N64 sadly broke before I could get my hands on it. Now I play a lot of older games, mostly by emulation. I still own (most of) the games I...

Thanks for the tip, I was honestly asking the same thing. I mean, not literally, but it was on the back burner.

I'm somewhere around 180 at about 5'9". I've never really worried about my weight, except for that short stretch of time where I was almost "dangerously" underweight. I finally broke 100 lbs. at age 12.

Funny. AVG Free never used to do that to me, although admittedly I did get up close and personal with the settings.I don't remember that ever having been a problem, though. Where'd you get that copy? If it was from cnet, kill it with fire.

That sounds amazing. When we have to give our older dog Rimadyl we wrap it in cheese as well.

Nope. If it was, there wouldn't be a filled DIMM slot and it wouldn't be reporting only one slot as filled. Maybe there's an artifact for a slot on the other side of the board? I dunno. I'm completely baffled. Never had this happen on anything I've had.

I just checked, and I do only have the one slot. Any ideas as to why Task Manager is reporting two?

Not at all what you're thinking, probably. My browser is where my ADHD really shows. I'm using FF 34. It's the king of lesser RAM usage, in my experience. As of right now, I have 23 tabs open, using 467.0MB RAM according to Task Manager. With Chrome I'm pretty sure I'd be using almost 2 GB. I'm...

I am slowly but surely getting fed up with only having 4GB RAM. I would like to be able to use my computer for menial tasks even when I have 20+ tabs open in Firefox, thank you very much. I have it set to save my tabs at shutdown but it's a PITA to get them all loaded again in reasonably short...

The latest preview build (if it's not the latest, then build 9879) breaks T-Clock. It won't even give an indication that it isn't working -- the executable simply fails to execute.

Coug, you've got a stronger will than I do. I pop two Tylenol every time I have a headache, admittedly that's more out of a desire to stop it before it gets worse.

This site is very light on resources and could even be classified as dial-up friendly. I'm pretty sure that's because this is using an older version of vBulletin. All I can say is that this is one of a very small group of sites that don't make me want to kill myself while waiting for them to...

Hope you feel better soon.

I can see how a curved screen can add to the gamer's experience. Most first-person games feel like we have a pair of horse blinders on our faces at all times because we have no semblance of peripheral vision.

Just make it as easy on her as you can, its all you can do. She's had a good run.

So it's your birthday? Now, passed, or soon? In any case, have a good one.

I thought symlinks just looked like the file it referenced to everything, that the FS handled redirection itself? And I wasn't necessarily saying they should've mapped their whole user profile to the network drive, just their Documents directory and perhaps pictures as well, especially since...

There's a small utility included with Windows called mklink. It's a command-line utility that requires admin privileges to run, and it makes a symbolic link to the target. Usage is about what you'd expect, but it defaults to making file links so to make a directory link you have to use the /D...

Oh that was just a dick move, Lenovo. You know better. Go sit in the corner and think about what you have done. Shame on you. Before this I had never even heard of dism. What exactly is it? Because if all it does is automate installs I imagine they could have done the same thing using a script.

8-) I know what you're doing there. I see it.