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_Isaac said:
How do I do that? I'd search for it, but I can't read the results.
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I've never sorted it out under Windows. Mac and Linux boxes do it natively in terminal windows. In a terminal you type:

whois 111.111.111.111 <- Your external IP address

Hit enter and it will return a response that includes the netblock upper and lower limits, contact details for the entity the block is allocated to, and more. Odds are that entity is Taiwanese in your case.
 
_Isaac said:
Why do Yahoo, Bing, and Google all think I'm in Taiwan? This is with IE, Firefox, and Chrome. It's only on my laptop and not on my pc, and I've already run a scan with MSE, which caught nothing. I've googled for a solution, but no luck, and it's really annoying. Any ideas?
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Another option. Since you said it's different between your PC and your laptop I think one of them is going through a proxy.

Try going to http://www.whatismyip.com/ on both your laptop and your PC. Note down the numbers. Go to http://whois.domaintools.com/ and look them up there.

I expect that the two IPs are different from each other. Could you confirm this?

If it does then you need to check your network settings.
Control Panel -> Network and Internet -> Network Connection. Right-click on adapter -> Properties. Check the properties of both Internet Protocol Version 6 as Version 4. Make sure that they are on "Obtain IP address automatically".
 
Could someone tell me how to make a script or whatever for my vbulletin forum?

I'm trying to get rotating browser headers that alot of websites have. What I mean is they usually have their site name then a quote beside it like "Neogaf - "Insert Quote here" - Mozilla Firefox.

I asked this before in this thread and got an answer, but I couldn't figure out how to do it based on what they told me. If someone knows and could provide a step by step tutorial, I would really appreciate it.
 
Do we need the distinction of an actor being a 'character actor'? What kind of actor is there when it comes to tv, film or the stage?
 
Magnus said:
Do we need the distinction of an actor being a 'character actor'? What kind of actor is there when it comes to tv, film or the stage?
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There are basically two types. Your standard star player, who always basically plays themself, but is so charismatic and fun that they get away with it (think Tom Cruise, Harrison Ford, Will Smith). And your character actor, who disappears so fully into a role you might not even recognize them (think Gary Oldman, Ralph Fiennes, Ian McKellen).

It's not a hard line by any means, but it's not just made up either.
 
Does anyone with a background in electrical stuff know what would cause the phones in a house to ring just before the power goes out? I woke up this morning to a phone ringing once, then some really loud sound outside, possibly from one of the transformer boxes, then the power going out for about a minute. I'd imagine there is a lot of AC running in this area to put a strain on the grid, but that probably didn't cause it. The pattern of phone ringing and power going out has happened at least once before too.
 
DarthWoo said:
Does anyone with a background in electrical stuff know what would cause the phones in a house to ring just before the power goes out? I woke up this morning to a phone ringing once, then some really loud sound outside, possibly from one of the transformer boxes, then the power going out for about a minute. I'd imagine there is a lot of AC running in this area to put a strain on the grid, but that probably didn't cause it. The pattern of phone ringing and power going out has happened at least once before too.
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You have a psychic prank-calling you.

I have no idea
 
DarthWoo said:
Does anyone with a background in electrical stuff know what would cause the phones in a house to ring just before the power goes out? I woke up this morning to a phone ringing once, then some really loud sound outside, possibly from one of the transformer boxes, then the power going out for about a minute. I'd imagine there is a lot of AC running in this area to put a strain on the grid, but that probably didn't cause it. The pattern of phone ringing and power going out has happened at least once before too.
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What I think is happening that just before the power goes off a voltage spike happens on the grid (maybe a transformer overloading as you yourself mention). Maaaaaaaaaaaybe through some freak occurence this spike happens at the same frequency/voltage that your phone listens to for it's ringing signal. While this seems the most likely to me, since it happens in a specific pattern, I'm far from an expert in (telephony) electronics.
 
The landline of your phone has its own power.

I think it's a mere coincidence. Someone called you and the power went out; apparently, this happened twice. While the phone line would still have worked, your phone went out because it's probably one of those digital thingies that cannot live on the power that comes through the phone line alone. So it stopped ringing, lacking power.
 
I once read a forum thread about a guy and his girlfriend/wife who drove their jeep through some country in Africa or Europe or South America. The thread was super long and detailed, how they drove past villages where they thought they might get killed. They had to argue with fake customs officials who tried to scam them out of money. They also had a satellite phone so they could call their embassy if they ever got in trouble.

I remember at the beginning of the thread they talked about the jeep they built/outfitted with compartments for money and food and such.

I also remember one specific part where their jeep was stuck so they paid a bunch of kids to help push it out. It took all day. Then the battery died or the axle broke or something. The guy had to walk hours to the nearest town to buy a bicycle or something like that.

I think it was on SomethingAwful but I can't find it. Does anyone know what story I'm talking about?
 
Here's a challenge for you guys.

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On Raekwon's solo album "Only Built 4 Cuban Linx" there's a track called "Spot Rusherz".

At the start of the song there's the usual Wu-Tang skit where they talk about whatever, but there's a song playing in the background. It sounds like U-god is on there, but what's the name of the track they are listening to?
It's been bothering me for a while.
 
Is there a way to enter private chat with people who are on Xbox Live from your PC without being in a Games for Windows Live game?
 
You know when your driving down a straight road on a sunny day and in the distance, you can see like a transparent shimmer on the road, which when you get closer, it goes away. I tend to see them when watching the F1 racing too.

What the hell is that?
 
FUCK I'm pissed off. I'm installing Windows 8 RP to an external hd with Windows To Go. It was assigned drive letter G.

I prepped the exHD via diskpart in cmd. Then i go on to install the WinToGo Win8 on g: via cmd. After 10seconds it says - no more free space available.

The drive has 80GB free, I just formatted it. So I go to G: in cmd. What do I see?

Volume in dive G is System Reserved
WTF

CMD (Command Prompt) set C's System Reserved partition as drive letter G, and gave it preference over the drive actually assigned as G! Now it looks like this:

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The System Reserved partition is ruined, ffffffuuuuuuck. Anyone know how I can recover or reset the (files in this) partition, so I can safely reboot?
 
wolfmat said:
The landline of your phone has its own power.

I think it's a mere coincidence. Someone called you and the power went out; apparently, this happened twice. While the phone line would still have worked, your phone went out because it's probably one of those digital thingies that cannot live on the power that comes through the phone line alone. So it stopped ringing, lacking power.
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Nah, the phone in my room is one of those archaic wired phones with no extra features apart from what I think is a speed-dial that I never use. Actually all the phones on the second floor are of that type.
 
DarthWoo said:
Nah, the phone in my room is one of those archaic wired phones with no extra features apart from what I think is a speed-dial that I never use. Actually all the phones on the second floor are of that type.
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Well, does it have an external power source?

Whatever your phone is, it still might be said coincidence. A landline phone definitely is on a different power grid than everything else.

I've had a couple of outages in my time, with phones that don't need external power. If yours rings when power goes out, then that's something that is specific to your phone. If your landline 5V power or whatever comes through there is tied to your subgrid, then that's something that is specific to your region.

I also might be ignorant of a feature or a grid setup that's totally common where you're from. Maybe ask the company that provides landline if that's to be expected. If it is, I'm slightly amused.
 
Kylehimself said:
Am I the only person who doesn't like Bill Hicks.
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You're legitimately asking if you're the only person on the planet who doesn't? You have to admit that seems statistically unlikely, considering he wasn't exactly a superstar in his time.

Or are you just asking to have several strangers validate your opinion on something? If it makes you feel better then, sure, I don't like him either.

I actually can't remember caring about him one way or the other but I'm happy to provide agreement as a service if it lets you move on with your life.
 
David H Wong said:
You're legitimately asking if you're the only person on the planet who doesn't? You have to admit that seems statistically unlikely, considering he wasn't exactly a superstar in his time.

Or are you just asking to have several strangers validate your opinion on something? If it makes you feel better then, sure, I don't like him either.

I actually can't remember caring about him one way or the other but I'm happy to provide agreement as a service if it lets you move on with your life.
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Yes. I was legitimately asking that... No I was being flippant.

Basically I was hoping some people would pick up on what I was asking and would share their opinions on the man.
 
David H Wong said:
You're legitimately asking if you're the only person on the planet who doesn't? You have to admit that seems statistically unlikely, considering he wasn't exactly a superstar in his time.

Or are you just asking to have several strangers validate your opinion on something? If it makes you feel better then, sure, I don't like him either.

I actually can't remember caring about him one way or the other but I'm happy to provide agreement as a service if it lets you move on with your life.
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This is a forum dude, we like to talk about shit. Chill out.
 
What is the name (of the technique) used for double images on 1 image/poster. The one where if you move to the left you see another image than when you move to the right.
 
Aeris1991 said:
I once read a forum thread about a guy and his girlfriend/wife who drove their jeep through some country in Africa or Europe or South America. The thread was super long and detailed, how they drove past villages where they thought they might get killed. They had to argue with fake customs officials who tried to scam them out of money. They also had a satellite phone so they could call their embassy if they ever got in trouble.

I remember at the beginning of the thread they talked about the jeep they built/outfitted with compartments for money and food and such.

I also remember one specific part where their jeep was stuck so they paid a bunch of kids to help push it out. It took all day. Then the battery died or the axle broke or something. The guy had to walk hours to the nearest town to buy a bicycle or something like that.

I think it was on SomethingAwful but I can't find it. Does anyone know what story I'm talking about?
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http://www.expeditionportal.com/for...atic-Republic-of-Congo-Lubumbashi-to-Kinshasa
 
I want to put some files on a USB stick, but then I plug it into my laptop it waits for a moment before something flashes on screen for a second. This then keeps happening over and over until I remove it.

I can't open it or anything so I cant put files on it. What the hell is wrong?
 
CHEEZMO™;39179395 said:
I want to put some files on a USB stick, but then I plug it into my laptop it waits for a moment before something flashes on screen for a second. This then keeps happening over and over until I remove it.

I can't open it or anything so I cant put files on it. What the hell is wrong?
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The usb stick has a short in it, or your pc cannot provide enough power to initialze it. Try another port or pc before you throw it out though just in case. 3/
 
I have my Win7 PC set to automatically enter sleep mode after a half hour. Is there a way to disable that when I'm downloading a program? I switched my settings to "never" while downloading Max Payne 3 because my PC kept going offline, but I'd rather enable a mode that continues to download a program and then sleeps when it has nothing else to do.
 
Gigglepoo said:
I have my Win7 PC set to automatically enter sleep mode after a half hour. Is there a way to disable that when I'm downloading a program? I switched my settings to "never" while downloading Max Payne 3 because my PC kept going offline, but I'd rather enable a mode that continues to download a program and then sleeps when it has nothing else to do.
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Dunno but tell the PC to sleep after so many hours you think the download will be done.
 
I accidentally created an empty folder that ended with a period. Will any problems arise or should I just delete just to be sure? Whats a fast way to erase this folder?
 
Is there a chrome extension that lets you capture an entire web page just as one long image? I'm trying to take a picture of my transcript and every web page capturing extension I use just captures the part that is being shown on my screen (like 1/10 of the thing).
 
Al-ibn Kermit said:
Is there a chrome extension that lets you capture an entire web page just as one long image? I'm trying to take a picture of my transcript and every web page capturing extension I use just captures the part that is being shown on my screen (like 1/10 of the thing).
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Wouldn't a PDF be more useful? There are free PDF creators out there.
 
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