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The Tech Help Thread

Discussion in 'Technical Board' started by rei, Oct 19, 2009.

  1. wexton

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    It stays that way every time i log on. I always have it "offline".
     
  2. mad5427

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    Not sure the best place to put this. Here seems appropriate.

    Does anybody know of a good phone app for creating to do lists, grocery lists, etc. The kicker is I have an android phone and my wife has an iphone and we'd like to get one that is on both platforms and can be updated/added to/subracted from remotely so we are sharing one to do list.

    My google-fu is failing me for some reason on this one. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
     
  3. Celos

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    Wunderlist seems to fit your needs. Also, keep an eye on Any.DO, which is a wonderful app and the iPhone version should release soon.
     
  4. wexton

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    Well i am finally going to bite the bullet and get windows 7, mostly because i want to play BF3.

    I am actually going to get a legit copy of windows, cause i am tired of fucking around with wga and trying to crack it. I am running XP and i am assuming 7 will be like this.

    My question is, what are the differences between Professional and Ultimate?

    This is for my desktop, i will also be looking to upgrade my server sometime in the future. What would you choice and why?
     
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    I have Professional. Here's the feature comparison.

    I don't see much of any reason to spend more for Ultimate unless you absolutely need those few features for "IT professionals." Then again, it's only 20 bucks. It's kind of a who cares, but if you go Professional you won't be missing a thing.
     
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    I am looking to order internet service for my apartment and there are two deals I am considering from the same provider. One allows downloads of 3 Mbps for $34.99/month and the other allows 7.1 Mbps for $39.99/month. Obviously, the latter is the better deal, but I am asking, as a consumer, which would you choose? I ask because I really have no frame of reference to know exactly how fast either of those speeds are. Do I really need that extra 4.1 Mbps? I don't do any music or movie downloading outside of general browsing on youtube or grooveshark. Thanks for your help.
     
  7. rei

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    If you aren't downloading you'd probably be fine, but the 7.1 would still feel smoother if you ever stream (youtube etc) so I'd stick with that.

    To put it in a more basic framework, 3Mbps is a maximum speed of 384 kilobytes per second - which means at peak rates you're looking at about three minutes to download 1 minute of music (approx 1 Megabyte at the relatively low quality 128 bitrate)

    7.1 megabit is around 900 kilobytes per second, which would turn that same minute of music into just over a minute in transfer time.

    For better comparison, most avi rips of non-HD movies are 700 megabytes, which would take 30 hours @ 3mbit, and only 12 at 7mbit.

    Or on general browsing, medium sized images are around 100-300 kb, which would be 1/3 of a second to a second to grab at 3mbit, or a much faster fraction with 7.1

    I'd step up for an extra 5 bucks.
     
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    Wow.

    I mean, math is hard.

    But that's some pretty epic fail right there.
     
  9. rei

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    Remembering units is even harder.
    (THe math is right, the unit is wrong, should be minutes. Even calculated it properly, just for some reason was mentally in the 'minutes/hours mindset instead of 'seconds/minutes')
     
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    My keyboard is borked: some of the keys are different; like the a and the q are switched; as are the w and z; none of the punctuation is in the right spot; which is why I keep typing semicolons instead of commas; and I have to hit shift to get the top numbers to work and none of the symbols on them match up: I have googled this; fiddled with my keyboard and regional and language settings; tried reinstalling the driver; tried unplugging the keyboard to no avail: Although it is an external keyboard on laptop; even when we unplug the external keyboard; the laptop keyboard does the same thing: I suspect my 2 year old reset some kind of setting but fuck if I can figure out which one: any help; PLEASE: This is really; REALLY freaking annoying1111
     
  11. Celos

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    The keyboard layout is switched from qwerty to azerty. Not sure which OS you have. For Win7: <a class="postlink" href="http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Change-the-keyboard-layout-to-AZERTY" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/wind ... -to-AZERTY</a>
     
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    You are beautiful!!!!! I have XP but I googled how to change it back. It tried to get me to go through the regional and language settings but it never gave me the options that the instructions said it should. Crap.

    Poking around a little bit more: left-alt+shift. Fucking left-alt+shift. Bam! Fixed!

    I still wouldn't have known to google that without your help so many thanks to you, Celos!
     
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    I know that in a computer I'm working on - there is a PCI card for plugging in IDE devices. From the device ID (Device ID: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_3B26&SUBSYS_83831043&REV_06\3&11583659&0&FD)
    I can see that it's a 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 2 port SATA IDE Controller or an Ibex Peak 2 port SATA IDE Controller. The drivers are generic, and there's no branding on the card. I want to buy some more of that device or something very similar to it. The vendor who sold us the computer is taking forever to reply to queries, and my google-fu is just finding a bunch of driver downloads and nothing on what the device is actually sold as, or any vendors who carry it.

    Anyone got any ideas?
     
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    That doesnt seem like a device ID, it seems like its the actual chipset ID or something. Is there another place you might be able to find an ID? Somewhere else on the device or in the device manager? When you find it, a good place to get some info on it is here:

    <a class="postlink" href="http://www.pcidatabase.com/index.php" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.pcidatabase.com/index.php</a>
     
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    BSOD, how fucked am I?

     
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    Can you upload that DMP file, or copy the contents of it and paste it here? The DMP file will tell you more specifically what caused the BSOD to occur.

    Does booting into Safe Mode stop it from occurring?
     
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    I just started service with Sprint and am printing out the various rebate and discount forms. I haven't had any trouble doing this, until the last document I needed started printing funny. When I try printing it, it comes out in large font with half the information missing. When I review the page in Print Preview, it looks like it should print out normally. I can't figure out how to fix it, especially since every other form prints out fine. Help?
     
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    You could probably take a screen shot of your desktop and then open the screenshot in MS paint or something and then print it off.
     
  19. Trakiel

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    Anyone have a recommendation for some good video capture/editing software? Specifically I'm looking for something that can capture from two audio sources at once so I can provide live commentary on the same file as the capture.
     
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    Since the (somewhat) recent XBox 360 firmware change, I'm finding that I have to redo my LAN sharing via Media Player from my computer. Everything is still good in Media Player (well, I found that the sharing service was disabled, but I restarted that), but all I'm getting on the XBox end is a code that I'm supposed to enter on the PC end, but I'm finding nowhere to put that code. I vaguely remember such a code from the first time I set it up, but none of the guides I'm finding online have been any help.

    My OS is XP, and I don't want to do this wirelessly; the computer and TV are both right next to the router. Any ideas, or should I just a piece of hardware that's better for this sort of thing? I know the Roku doesn't stream local media, but it looks like there's a few others that might do what I want without Microsoft's bullshit. Thanks!