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Splash Wave
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Zoe said:
This:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0042TYYI4/?tag=neogaf0e-20
Many of the reviews refer to adding a 2GB stick.
parrotbeak
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Is there a description for a psychological condition where a person insists on apologizing for things that no one thinks is their fault while regularly denying responsibility for things that they really are responsible for?
weekend_warrior
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Hasan said:
Took me about a week to reach 300 posts, and I don't spam. I don't think I do anyway.
Is there any decent free cataloguing software available? I'm particularly interested in gaming catalogues, since I'm frequently losing track of what games I own, what I have finished, etc. The ability to pull info from Live, PSN, Steam, etc would be a plus, but not a necessity.
If not - how do you guys keep track of your backlog other than opening your gaming chest?
If not - how do you guys keep track of your backlog other than opening your gaming chest?
B.K. said:
Usually just by installing the official video card drivers from Nvidia/ATI's website. Or by going into BIOS and setting the intial graphics card startup or whatever it's called from PCI to PCI-E or PCIEX something along those lines.
When you install a new card and it gets detected by windows it should be automatic, but sometimes you will need to install the latest graphics drivers for the card.
crazy monkey
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weekend_warrior said:
except in creepy thread
Jason's Ultimatum
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EDIT-Someone helped me.
Theres always stuff in movies/tv/anime about robots and/or AI actually developing a conscious or doing things beyond what they were programmed for.
Have there been any actual real life cases of this happening? I dont care how miniscule it might be, Im just curious.
Watching battlestar galactica got me thinking about it more.
Have there been any actual real life cases of this happening? I dont care how miniscule it might be, Im just curious.
Watching battlestar galactica got me thinking about it more.
TacticalFox88
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Honestly, it's theoretically possible, but in reality it's not likely at all. No A.I can act outside it's programming unless an outside force reprograms it.Salaadin said:
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Not sure if this is stupid or right for this thread, but I'm all about consolidation and this thread works wonders.
My new question:
Why is NeoGAF still this popular?
Message forums were going strong from (for me, age 34) 1996ish, at least in a mainstream headed direction, peaking I'd say in 2008.
I was the admin on one of the big action sports sites, and owned the duties of policing it, keeping it school and work safe. Keeping people in the right forum, not flaming each other - the basic stuff. Around 26,000 users. I finally gave up because the only thing that was happening is people would post something awful, I'd remove it, then I'd get blasted. I hung it up. Just too much douchebaggery. I then started a more niche site - its message board base went to 1000 in about a year. A few days ago, the Bigger of the 2, aka not mine - the 26000 one site's forum members basically declared itself dead (I am no longer working for them, by the way).
Really, I could give a flying fartbag about the huge amount of niche sites anymore and this site, NeoGAF, is the only one I post to anymore, or really spend any kind of time on. I find it so odd. And its mostly in here, Off Topic, though I am a gamer, have all 3 consoles, etc.
What is it about this site that's kept it so active? Careful, correct policing? Careful, correct moderation - leaning on the strict side more or less? Smarter base of users than other communities? What is the magic ingredient (aside from me)? Kidding.
I just find that this is the only place I can go and get some seriously good conversations happening. I have no idea what the past 5 years have become for this site - I'd guess a little dip due to other social media options, but not much. This one is still so crazy busy all the time. I'm happy about that, but I'd love to hear why you folks think this still works.
My new question:
Why is NeoGAF still this popular?
Message forums were going strong from (for me, age 34) 1996ish, at least in a mainstream headed direction, peaking I'd say in 2008.
I was the admin on one of the big action sports sites, and owned the duties of policing it, keeping it school and work safe. Keeping people in the right forum, not flaming each other - the basic stuff. Around 26,000 users. I finally gave up because the only thing that was happening is people would post something awful, I'd remove it, then I'd get blasted. I hung it up. Just too much douchebaggery. I then started a more niche site - its message board base went to 1000 in about a year. A few days ago, the Bigger of the 2, aka not mine - the 26000 one site's forum members basically declared itself dead (I am no longer working for them, by the way).
Really, I could give a flying fartbag about the huge amount of niche sites anymore and this site, NeoGAF, is the only one I post to anymore, or really spend any kind of time on. I find it so odd. And its mostly in here, Off Topic, though I am a gamer, have all 3 consoles, etc.
What is it about this site that's kept it so active? Careful, correct policing? Careful, correct moderation - leaning on the strict side more or less? Smarter base of users than other communities? What is the magic ingredient (aside from me)? Kidding.
I just find that this is the only place I can go and get some seriously good conversations happening. I have no idea what the past 5 years have become for this site - I'd guess a little dip due to other social media options, but not much. This one is still so crazy busy all the time. I'm happy about that, but I'd love to hear why you folks think this still works.
JumpJeff84
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For me, it's the heavily moderated aspect playing a definite part. Also, the registration process weeds out a lot of crap.
It's just got its own feel. Like you, I'm 34 years old. Also a gamer, though I don't really post on the gaming side too much. For the most part the demographic here is pretty liberal, athiest, intelligent, youngish...all things that sit okay with me.
It's just got its own feel. Like you, I'm 34 years old. Also a gamer, though I don't really post on the gaming side too much. For the most part the demographic here is pretty liberal, athiest, intelligent, youngish...all things that sit okay with me.
TacticalFox88
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awesomeapproved said:
It's honestly the members. Sure, EVERYONE, has their idiotic moments, but for the most part GAF is smarter than the average joe. Evilore set up ingenious ways for the site to be managed and not be filled with morons.
1)Registration. Right off the BAT you have to have a non-free email so no yahoo, gmail, etc. Most people only have one. So once your banned it's really tough to circumvent.
2(Strict moderation. They're not dictators, but they will not allow bullshit. Most of them are pretty fair and good to talk too, when you have questions.
3)Three Forums. Generic Gaming forum, Off Topic for literally everything else. Community forum can only be seen by members who's accounts have been approved. This way no "outsider" can join in on GAF private online matches.
4)Junior members can't create threads until after a certain time period. It's a trial run to see if you can handle being on GAF. You're not allowed to be a blatant fanboy on GAF unless your subtle about it.
5)Diversity. Literally everyone knows a little something about SOMETHING. If you have a question, you can bet your ass someone on GAF has genuine knowledge of it.
Schmattakopf
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I think people underestimate this. Having tons of separate forums is such a stupid and unproductive thing.TacticalFox88 said:
weekend_warrior
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I think the most important part is the registration requirements keep out the spammers, the little kids, and the people who make one random thread and are never seen again. Basically keeping the forum from drowning in idiots and idiot threads.
EYEL1NER
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I've got a quick computer question.
I have in my possession two sketchy laptops and a dodgy terabyte external HDD.
Soon I will be getting a new notebook, but until then, this is what I have to deal with.
Now, one laptop is my primary computer and has some HDD issues, among other problems with unknown causes. The other comp and HDD were given to me because they were inop due to malware.
My numero uno laptop just almost gave me a heart attack. I was on it, closed it for a while, then opened the screen and tried to awaken it out of sleep, but nothing happened. After a couple restarts and unplugs of cables/HDD, the only thing I was getting was it would power up, then no sound could be heard from fans/HDD/anything for about 10 seconds, then the fans would kick back on. Nothing would appear on the display though and I didn't even know if there was power to the display.
So after this happens, I get to thinking, "I want to back everything up to this external HDD. Can I just pop the HDD out and put it in the other laptop? Or are notebook HDDs not universal sizes?" Now, while I do need that answer for future information, at the moment I am looking for something else.
My main laptop started working again while I was on the other laptop. So now that it is up and I'm using it, I want to back everything up. What I need to know is what is the best way of doing that? I am sure there are programs that would be good, but my computer really does not like installing things. If I open my computer, can I just copy the C: Drive onto my external? I mean, everything is on the HDD right? Be it iTunes songs, my Firefox bookmarks, whatever. Would that not work or is there an easier better way? It's only a 70GB HDD and I have hundreds of gigs available to me on the external.
I apologize for going way into too much detail for something so simple that I could probably google, but I thought of this thread when I booted up my browser and the lengthy post with TMI is just my style of telling stories.
I appreciate any help or answers.
I have in my possession two sketchy laptops and a dodgy terabyte external HDD.
Soon I will be getting a new notebook, but until then, this is what I have to deal with.
Now, one laptop is my primary computer and has some HDD issues, among other problems with unknown causes. The other comp and HDD were given to me because they were inop due to malware.
My numero uno laptop just almost gave me a heart attack. I was on it, closed it for a while, then opened the screen and tried to awaken it out of sleep, but nothing happened. After a couple restarts and unplugs of cables/HDD, the only thing I was getting was it would power up, then no sound could be heard from fans/HDD/anything for about 10 seconds, then the fans would kick back on. Nothing would appear on the display though and I didn't even know if there was power to the display.
So after this happens, I get to thinking, "I want to back everything up to this external HDD. Can I just pop the HDD out and put it in the other laptop? Or are notebook HDDs not universal sizes?" Now, while I do need that answer for future information, at the moment I am looking for something else.
My main laptop started working again while I was on the other laptop. So now that it is up and I'm using it, I want to back everything up. What I need to know is what is the best way of doing that? I am sure there are programs that would be good, but my computer really does not like installing things. If I open my computer, can I just copy the C: Drive onto my external? I mean, everything is on the HDD right? Be it iTunes songs, my Firefox bookmarks, whatever. Would that not work or is there an easier better way? It's only a 70GB HDD and I have hundreds of gigs available to me on the external.
I apologize for going way into too much detail for something so simple that I could probably google, but I thought of this thread when I booted up my browser and the lengthy post with TMI is just my style of telling stories.
I appreciate any help or answers.
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EYEL1NER said:
Fella its too much detail and not enough detail at the same time. I would so love to be able to help you but for one thing, this sounds very Googleable. I can't tell if you mean you'd be looking to format & reinstall the OS, or what. Second, it's so confusing overall that I almost need a chart. If you are asking if you can just swap out computer 1's drive into computer 2, I have found that between the registries and small discrepancies in the hardware, this just doesn't work. You might get it running, but you'd be peppered with errors non stop.
If you're just talking about dumping the warp core and will get what you need from it later, yes you can get a laptop drive enclosure, get the thing running and move C:, but it's messy and you'll be copying a lot of stuff you don't need. Yeah this is too confusing man. With 2 wobbly computers, you should right now go get an external drive and save what you can. It sounds like neither machine will be alive for much longer.
EYEL1NER
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Sorry about my post. I had just gotten over being terrified that I had lost all of my stuff, that my hdd had died or something.awesomeapproved said:
Case one was something I was wondering, something I might have tried to do in the future. So if it won't really work too well, then okay. I didn't know if it would or not. The second computer wasn't really too important to what I was asking though, it mainly concerned the XHDD and computer 1.
I do have an external HDD, a 1TB drive that I mentioned that was given to me with the 2nd computer.
My main question was could I just copy C: from Computer 1 to the external HDD. I mean, I know that there would be a ton of unnecessary stuff on there, but if it would be possible, then I would rather do that than go through every folder looking for files I wanted to save. Just save everything and sort through it later.
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Ok ok.
Yes, you can copy it. Can't move it, but you should be able to copy C: to another drive. That was the "dump the warp core, save everything now, sift later" scenario I meant. So I was close.... I've done that. I had to run the drive as a slave and copy that way but thank god it saved my ass.
Not sure what modern versions of windows will do when it had active temp files and stuff being written to C: WHILE you copy to a USB drive. If you have any way to start in safe mode, I'd do it that way. If safe mode disables USB ports (don't think so, but I think 95/98 disabled everything but keyboard and mouse while in safe mode) shut down as many processes as possible so the thing doesn't throw a dialog box every time it sees "~Tempfilexyztlmnop_12345 is in use, copy?" You might have to kind of babysit it, but it's sounding like you've got a good chance at saving your data.
You said even your backup drive was crap too. 2 dying laptops and a dodgy hard drive. Man go out and get a good drive. You have to. I do the whole 2 TB backups on site, 1 TB remote, 1TB portable that I sync up every few weeks. I am a psycho about that. If I were you I would seriously move that data to a good place and have some peace.
Yes, you can copy it. Can't move it, but you should be able to copy C: to another drive. That was the "dump the warp core, save everything now, sift later" scenario I meant. So I was close.... I've done that. I had to run the drive as a slave and copy that way but thank god it saved my ass.
Not sure what modern versions of windows will do when it had active temp files and stuff being written to C: WHILE you copy to a USB drive. If you have any way to start in safe mode, I'd do it that way. If safe mode disables USB ports (don't think so, but I think 95/98 disabled everything but keyboard and mouse while in safe mode) shut down as many processes as possible so the thing doesn't throw a dialog box every time it sees "~Tempfilexyztlmnop_12345 is in use, copy?" You might have to kind of babysit it, but it's sounding like you've got a good chance at saving your data.
You said even your backup drive was crap too. 2 dying laptops and a dodgy hard drive. Man go out and get a good drive. You have to. I do the whole 2 TB backups on site, 1 TB remote, 1TB portable that I sync up every few weeks. I am a psycho about that. If I were you I would seriously move that data to a good place and have some peace.
This is not a stupid question (I think), but it's not like I can make my own thread about this. Yesterday, in the evening, around 8PM, I drank 2 cups of black coffee (I have a reason, but I don't know why I drank it in the evening.) and it is now 11:40 the next day. I didn't sleep all night, haven't slept since I last woke 23 hours ago.
Sometimes, I stay up all night when I'm with friends and such, but I never felt tired at all this time, even now.
Anyway, I also want to say that this year (2010), I cut back on drinking soda like coke, so I never got a lot of caffeine. And suddenly, yesterday, 2 cups. I'm just wondering if I should be worried. I've tried lying in bed, closing my eyes, no luck.
Wait it out until I'm tired, or what, GAF?
Sometimes, I stay up all night when I'm with friends and such, but I never felt tired at all this time, even now.
Anyway, I also want to say that this year (2010), I cut back on drinking soda like coke, so I never got a lot of caffeine. And suddenly, yesterday, 2 cups. I'm just wondering if I should be worried. I've tried lying in bed, closing my eyes, no luck.
Wait it out until I'm tired, or what, GAF?
EYEL1NER
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Cool, thanks. Yeah, I am not sure the status of the external HDD. I said it was dodgy because when I got it, it was loaded with keyloggers, trojans, backdoors, just all kinds of spy/ad/malware and viruses. I think I got it cleaned up, but I don't even use it.awesomeapproved said:
My computer did boot back up, so I wouldn't have needed safe mode. But now it is doing it (whatever 'it' is) again and the display isn't working. So I might need to get my hands on a monitor and VGA cable to see if maybe the display or a cable running to it went bad or something (because my hinges are bad and sometimes the top slams shut).
If I can get it up again, I'll just copy C: onto the external and wait until I get a new computer to sift through it all.
Schmattakopf
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It just sounds like your schedule is messed up. I second exercising and I'd wait a bit longer before getting worried.Keyouta said:
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EYEL1NER said:
Ok, then format (low level) the drive on a pc that either you 1) don't care about or 2) is in a lab, locked down like mad and running antivirus. Note that low level formatting a TB drive takes 15 hours or so. Don't format it from one of your 2 Frankenstein/chitty-chitty bang bang laptops though. They could be crawling with stuff too.
How'd you wind up with all these mean-ass pieces of hardware?
Solideliquid
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So I accidentally left my leather Gucci wallet in my pants and washed said pants in the washing machine.
Is my wallet gone? Any ideas?
Is my wallet gone? Any ideas?
Anyone know good places with decent wallets?
Solideliquid
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Orellio said:
What is this I don't even.
Solideliquid
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ok maybe i wasnt clear. my wallet was damaged by the water.
TabletopTictacs
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I was given a £10 AmazonMP3 gift voucher for Christmas - can I use it for anything on Amazon or is it just for music downloads? It says that I can "Use for MP3s and millions of other items at Amazon.co.uk", but it also says "Music downloads for any device".
I'm assuming it's a general Amazon voucher, but I wanted to make sure before I redeem it and have ten pounds to spend which I'll never use.
I'm assuming it's a general Amazon voucher, but I wanted to make sure before I redeem it and have ten pounds to spend which I'll never use.
Dr.Horrible
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What's the best way to rip dvds to avi format so I can put some shows on my ps3?
EYEL1NER
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Like I said, one computer and the external HDD were given to me from a buddy before he left for Korea. He had since gotten a new computer and he used the shitty one for playing music and stuff, watching porn, but he couldn't connect to the internet or anything because it was bogged down with viruses. The external he was given for free when he was deployed to Djibouti and he filled it with hundreds of gigs of movies from the morale drive there. It got loaded down with shit because he had hooked it up to the horrible computer.awesomeapproved said:
My computer is probably clean for the most part. The main thing I think wrong with the two computers is that they are both probably ~7 years old. His might be a bit older. Maybe mine is too?
His computer and the external should be pretty clean now though. Someone in this thread (hell it could have been you, it was a while back) replied to me after a post and recommended I wipe his computer, get it running, then install Avast and Malwarebytes (or something), run those, then hook up the External HDD, and scan it.
The_Reckoning
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Is "2010: Better than expected" proper grammar?
Schmattakopf
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As opposed to what?The_Reckoning said:
The_Reckoning
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I'm not sure really. 2010, pretty cool? I am making a few game pieces out of card stock, with various New Year themed comments written on them. Just wondered if that would work. Thanks for your time.
Guys I really need help on this, please. I'm looking for a free non-signup video chat service, that is super simple.
The one I have tried is Koowy.com but I need something else, the picture is too small there, but everything else is perfect. It needs to be as simple as that, just type in the room name and boom.
Any alternatives with that kind of simplicity would be great. Thanks.
The one I have tried is Koowy.com but I need something else, the picture is too small there, but everything else is perfect. It needs to be as simple as that, just type in the room name and boom.
Any alternatives with that kind of simplicity would be great. Thanks.
Splash Wave
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What's a good, light weight mail client for Windows 7? I'll be running it on a netbook.
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