I don't know what to do, I am on the 3rd reinstall of the OS already. I want it to be clean, i want it to be overly secure, i want it to be small, and i want it to be fast, and i want to trace the installation. but there is all these THINGS :-) Cant put IE11 on straight up because it takes 5 other hotfixes first.
SP1 was installed but showed up in the update anyway. and so far i have got 4 update errors, 3 of which are not even in the help.
This is a horrid thing to do to a person re-install, i would rather spend a week in guantonimo
I must be getting reall desperate, because installing windows 8 (or is it 9 now) is looking like a possible option.
@HackToHell on laptop? i would think it would be nice to have a 1920 type screen on a 15-17" laptop because heck they have that on the Phablet phones now.
It might be overkill to have a 4K screen because of the total machine power of the smaller platform (meaning 720 might have been better for the phones even)
But it would not be overkill to make sure that a 4K external monitor would be supported in the long run, when the price of them and the availability gets better.
if the ONLY gpu is the onboard gpu and there is no extree Nivida or Amd grafics chip, then it would be really good to insure that the on-die gpu is one of the much better ones for sure.
Managed to scare off a particularly tough warchief by using distract and blowing up a grog container, chased him down, killed him, and accidentally combokilled a low level captain I didn't even know.
it's sooooo funny to hear some of my USAian coworkers and customer folks ineptly pronouncing Indian names... they aren't afraid to correct me because I'm an underling, but they won't correct the customer :D
@JourneymanGeek i hate bosses :-) what about the creation of minions? can you do the ensnare the minds of the enemy and enlist them in your fight thing yet? or is that the basis for much of the fighting?
@JourneymanGeek in this all or nothing battling, are you often going back to a save, restarting at a checkpoint, or just increased struggle to complete? Meaning when things go to heck, do you have to repeat the same stuff again.
so if they did not kill me before , they certannly will now :-) sounds like a good plan to solution the second time around , the player is much better and knows what to expect scenario.
When windows is set to automated install of updates, do they just glob in as massive piles of updates, or does it do it in order (of like time) and in pieces?
I have at times installed the updates in order first of 2012 second 2012 first 6mo of 2013 etc, because when they gloobed in many of them failed (chicken and egg problem) So I am wondering if I let the machine do it, if it would do it in order better its self?
If anyone needs some viruses or evil programs tested, or how a "normal" system would work, now is the time. before i toss this stuff again.
i can even see the advertisements now :-)
@allquixotic like how is that latests update of the AMD GPU catalyst driver software set doing? Are you sticking with that version? no problems with it?
if it's guaranteed 1 GB (they make room for it so you'll never get a Disk Full error due to the disk being overprovisioned), and the webserver and CPU aren't overprovisioned, and the network utilization isn't near saturation, $49/year could be somewhat reasonable
if it's overprovisioned then that's a ripoff
it's cheaper than renting a heavy utilization micro instance from EC2 for a year
it was kind of bloody and violent, but it had sort of a happy ending... I mean all the crew are alive and they have managed to recover from their injuries
2/3 of the crew have piloted airplanes in general aviation after recovering (but they can't fly commercially)
it impresses me how airplanes are able to exceed their "designed" limits by so much and not break up -- during the struggle, the first officer put the plane in a dive with the engines at takeoff speed (almost full power), and almost broke the sound barrier. in an old DC-10!
the "designed" tolerances are basically what they expect the plane to handle on a normal basis for years, but in a pinch, they can handle much, much more -- the bets are hedged heavily in favor of worst case scenarios
it landed extremely heavy with way too much fuel on board, an injured captain, coming in too fast, after having nearly broken the sound barrier, and ripples started to form on the elevators because of the stresses
the age that some of the airline jets are is amasing, if peoples cars are that old they toss em. or (like the airlines) have done constant maintainces and repairs even before needed, and drive them like glass (cept for the insane takeoffs)
Good news everyone! Yesterday there was a wind storm and the lights in the house slowly flickered off - then on - then off again. The UPS kicked in when it happened! Knew it was a worthwhile investment.
@HackToHell As far as I know, an end user is not required by any standard in law to check if an assembled device contains a genuine FTDI part. While I understand the counterfeiting problem, this is not an appropriate solution. The EULA won't provide any protection as the user is not presented with it at driver installation time, so users can simply claim they never agreed to it.
It's okay if the driver displayed a message stating that the device contains a counterfeit part and refused to work with the device. Permanently disabling the device at the hardware level is not okay.
End users are not responsible for what goes inside their assembled devices.
I just traced the install of .NET 4.5 , in the uninstaller the trace shows 500 pages of human readable changes to the system, both file items and registry entries. This being a new record, for bloody messes.
what is that they say about when the "machines" make thier own coding, and can create themselves, we would lose control. Well i can assure you no human is hand writing all this Shi.| going into the registry anymore. it is done by the machine (as coded).
There was also one I read somewhere where some guy pushed his aircraft beyond design limits (needle on dial), to avoid a crash. It might've been on that thread.
Hey, got an MS Word question that probably doesn't fit any of the SE sites.
Does anyone know why Word has so many features specifically tailored for Japanese? It's very useful to me as a Japanese student, but why did Microsoft cater for Japanese as opposed to Chinese, Burmese, Arabic, Greek etc.?
Can I hack into someone's computer if I know the MAC address of his modem and his public IP address?
Is this possible? What kind of stuff would I be able to access?
Oliver, I guess you've gone now. Any one else used office 365? I have already read that it does create .ost files, but, I'm a little lost as to how much of the email data is stored there?
@JourneymanGeek eh, those are just parlor hacker's tricks, really. if he really wanted to give that guy some ammo, he would've told him about triple-MMO baryon injection flux bypass sequences executed via phased-field quantum algorithmics
@HackToHell oh my god. That's brilliant! Time to hack somebody... Any volunteers? Unfortunately when attempting to hack my own modem, I accidentaly overestimated the terminal velocity, so it broke :(
@Kristian You can fix it by applying the defenestration tool. Unfortunately, it only runs on Windows ME, so you'll have to install a copy of that first.
> The software engineering approach to Boolean logic is defined not only by the investigation of RAID, but also by the unfortunate need for hash tables. After years of theoretical research into Boolean logic, we validate the understanding of linked lists [2]. We introduce a novel system for the deployment of the World Wide Web, which we call Glove.
@Kristian actually, what they really need is a system analyst, and a 4 year old with a hammer.
We performed a simulation on UC Berkeley's desktop machines to quantify the work of Soviet algorithmist Isaac Newton. With this change, we noted weakened performance degredation. We reduced the popularity of architecture of our mobile telephones to understand DARPA's desktop machines
Well the long story short is my new router didn't fix my issue
It seemed stable for a few days and last night everything just kind of went to hell again
I'm looking for any tips, tricks, tools, etc. for troubleshooting my home network (wireless) problems. I've got a ping -t google.com and a ping -t 192.168.1.1 going basically at all time since I've started seeing the issues and what I've found is that the ping to 192.168.1.1 fails for "large" periods of time (5 seconds to over a minute / hard reboot of router)
I think since you're having wifi problems, and that could be such a broad range of potential issues, eliminating the possibility that it's not wifi-related could be useful -- plug in an ethernet cable and see if it's stable
Also, a hidden-ESSID network might be spewing interference... best to take a look with something like inSSIDer (use an older version, the most recent isn't free)
I've actually had similar issues before, which disappeared after I replaced the card in my laptop. But there's any number of possible causes, with different solutions.
unlikely. when in use, it probably uses 5 GHz unlicensed band
anyway, plugging an ethernet cable into the router and disabling your wifi temporarily on your PC would give you an indication of whether it's purely a wifi problem or if the router itself is getting clogged
So yeah the one thing I know I want to try is that the modem, router, wireless printer, and one of hte phones all sit together on this tiny end table (phone, modem, and router because of the phone jack.... damn dsl) and I want to see if I can spread it out across the room more
And then the other thought I had was if maybe the silly backwards bridge setup I've got going on is giving the router grief
so the problem must either be his computer(s) having bad wifi adapters and/or drivers and/or configuration, or PHY wifi issues (congestion, polarization, whatever), or the router's wifi is buggy (the third one is less likely since the same problem manifests with two separate routers from two separate brands)
what is the lowest common denominator wifi protocol used by your collective devices, @SpartanDonut ? that is, take ALL the active (currently in-use) WiFi clients in your house, as well as your router, and look at the newest supported protocol for each, then take the newest one that's supported by all of them, and tell us that
for an example of what answer I want, my guess would be it's either 802.11g or 802.11n, although it's not impossible that you might answer 802.11ac
@Bob I think the newer protocols have better stuff for cooperating well with other clients on the same network or sharing the same band. that's especially true for ac, but even n improved that significantly over g
if everybody's using 802.11ac, you can literally have multiple separate infrastructure BSSIDs broadcasting on the exact same frequency band and they'll barely notice any increase in latency or packet loss due to it
I had a 2008-2009 era USB Linksys adapter that advertised "Draft N 2.0" spec conformity, but it wreaked havoc on my entire WLAN setup when my phone/tablet/etc were speaking "final N"
Ralink Draft N devices are pretty busted, in my honest opinion -- they behave about as badly as mid-2000s 802.11g devices ("I'm in the same room as this router but I can only get 4 KB/s!")
Ooh, here's another test you can try that doesn't involve plugging in any ethernet cables
turn off ALL of your wifi devices (disable the wifi adapter or shut down the device entirely), then turn on one at a time and try the stability/performance/packet loss tests
if they all work fine individually, then there's an interoperability problem
> What's more, RT-AC68U uses TurboQAM™ technology to upgrade 2.4G Wi-Fi even further to give you unprecedented speeds. At 2.4 GHz, it's 33% faster than generic wireless-N900 routers, reaching 600 Mbps
if one of them sucks even when individually and the rest are fine, then you need to replace the wifi chipset in one of the devices (or get a new device entirely)
I'm the active complainer... the wife complains of slow downs but not disconnects (she's not doing the online gaming I do). and the mother in law claims her TV is fine (roku)
Destiny would have some lag and LoL was unplayable
Rebooted the router and it was fine
Last night rebooting the router seemed to not help much though it's the exact same symptoms
Just a different router now
There was one other coincidental thing (other than playing destiny) that happened around the same time but I can't remember what that is off hand... I know I had thought of it before though
Fair enough - that's at least what I was looking for, the advice I mean
At the very least you've given me some things to look into such as monitoring which devices are connected to the network when problems are the worst, a hint at what type of devices I should be suspectful of, etc.
old devices that don't support the latest protocols (at least the final revision of 802.11n) are a good starting point
in my experience, wifi started sucking a lot less (and becoming much more reliable, even in adverse conditions) as of the release of the final 802.11n devices
before then it was truly rant-worthy just how bad it was
With with USB parts, no name on the cable, logo inside the USB port, and a sticker which might have 20 digits verification code but which tore to pieces when I tried to remove it
Can I hack into someone's computer if I know the MAC address of his modem and his public IP address?
Is this possible? What kind of stuff would I be able to access?
