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Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
3:42 AM
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A: Should I use an antistatic wrist strap when changing the RAM on my laptop?

Tom MannsOkay I'm not an electrician but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night. When I open a lap top case I wrap a bare end of a 6 ft scrap of wire around my pinkey, then i wrap a 2 inch piece of duct tape arond the pinky so the bare wire is touchig at least an in of skin,then the other end aro...

this is just... whut?
 
DragonLord
DragonLord
4:05 AM
@JourneymanGeek: 1000th helpful flag waiting to be cleared!
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A: Why is my Wi-Fi connection speed much slower than a wired connection?

SashaTry to change channel in wireless settings of router. It works for me...

Big milestone
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
5:03 AM
@DragonLord 1205 to catching up with me ;p
 
 
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Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
11:53 AM
Super quiet weekend O O
 
Bob
Bob
!!tell 18741259 tumbleweed
 
ChatBot John Cavil
ChatBot John Cavil
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
Pretty much :p
 
Awal Garg
Awal Garg
12:55 PM
Hello
Where can i download the evaluation version of Windows 8.1 "Standard" x64 edition?
 
HackToHell
HackToHell
Torrent
Check md5
 
Awal Garg
Awal Garg
1:28 PM
@HackToHell would that be the official iso?
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
There isn't one
Official eval versions are enterprise
 
 
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allquixotic
allquixotic
2:35 PM
@JourneymanGeek I've been gaming.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
;p
Good reason
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
The only productive thing I've done this weekend is I took a Basotect sponge and cleaned a lot of the surfaces that I frequently touch on my walls and bed and stuff, to get a lot of the grime off.
I couldn't stand it anymore because it was so gross
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
2:54 PM
ahh
has been doing a bit of research for the interview ;p
 
 
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Psycogeek
Psycogeek
5:05 PM
Just playing a video game "getting your ass kicked II" for slow learners :-) for those who did not catch-on the first time.
 
 
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Psycogeek
Psycogeek
6:24 PM
How you know your gamer dead meat:
1) Your players are getting themselves shot, because they realised there was morphine in the med kits, because you used them to much.
2) Your in a war , but your players act like they are in SIMS3 at the beach
3) you have the best armour , but the bad guys shoot right through it
4) You just paid $40,000 and it took 5 days to make that weapon, 5 minutes after disembarkation, the player drops it and runs away.
 
DragonLord
DragonLord
sigh my cup of coffee is bitter as heck today
Must be overextracted
I'm using Vietnamese-style coffee and preparation
(I usually just make myself a cup of instant coffee)
 
Bob
Bob
7:22 PM
 
 
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ChrisF
ChrisF
10:05 PM
I'm looking to buy a quiet/silent PC for the living room to use for catch up TV (and other things). What would be a good price?
 
Psycogeek
Psycogeek
10:33 PM
$500 ? is that a good price? you know they have media boxes, for the most part they suck, but they are for playing media, and they are less than $200 usually
Like WD makes one called WD live, and there is stuff like "popcorn hour" a friend of mine likes that, although i have never even seen one. They have android computer sticks that plug-in via HDMI, and even phones now will hook up a HDMI and play a media. Kill 2 birds with one Wallet, get primo phone and have media playback device too.
 
Psycogeek
Psycogeek
10:50 PM
There are TVs that will play standard mpeg and divx/xvid easily via a USB flash stick , plus the "smart tv" which is more about connecting to the web. and DVD+7.1 sound systems (again what codec) that will take a stick, and play that the same way it plays the dvd.
(these two are not as likely to play the newer codecs, but really new stuff may start doing so)
 
Bob
Bob
@ChrisF Depends what capabilities you require.
On the basic end, a Raspberry Pi is about $35. Under $50 including all peripherals.
Then you have things like NUCs, which run $300 at the low end, $400 including all required components.
You could also find a very cheap desktop for $300-$400, though that might be a bit noiser and will use more power.
That's on the general computing side.
@Psycogeek has already suggested some dedicated media devices.
Personally, I'd stay far away from them.
No flexibility. Something went wrong? Too bad.
Want to play an obscure codec? Too bad.
 
Psycogeek
Psycogeek
@Bob and converting itself to be compatable sucks too.
 
ChrisF
ChrisF
11:07 PM
@Bob Got a Pi - it doesn't seem to be powerful enough (or I'm doing something wrong)
I'm thinking of running Ubuntu on a silent PC. I can get one for £300.
But as I haven't done this before I didn't know whether that was a good price or not.
Seems like it's not a rip-off. So I may well order that.
 
ChrisF
ChrisF
11:20 PM
That price includes a Blu-ray drive so I get two devices for the price of one!
The other thing it has is an Ethernet port which is a good thing because my Wi-Fi sucks in the part of the room where it'll live.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
11:47 PM
@ChrisF: I'd SERIOUSLY recommend a bay trail based nuc/brix
~300 sounds about right, but god, hardware in the UK is still overpriced.
 
Psycogeek
Psycogeek
superuser.com/questions/844093/… <--- see there are people out there with worse looking desktops/themes than mine :-)
 
Bob
Bob
@Psycogeek MY EYES
IT BURNS
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
Technically
his theme is fine
its his wallpaper
 

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