wow fun day, my PSU came in has 80% 5star rating at newegg, johhneyguru aprorved (9.9) EVGA 850w supernova. I am about to install it when i hear a part moving around in it. (when rotated)
So i f---up the warrenty to open it up, and it has been accidentally (or ticked off employee) shorted out. and the box had not been opened that i can tell.
somone crossed up a 70amp wire used as a "fuse" with someof the other components and CHAR was obvious in that corner
the damage looks like something that would not effect actual operation, just maybe some safety stuff. really fine that i was going to use it to find out if MY psu was bad :-) and causing a memory error (that aprentaly i will never fix at this rate).
@Bob I need to get my coworker, who's fluent in Hebrew, to pronounce that for me :P I'm always astonished at how Hebrew words are actually pronounced when said natively (hint: USAians say a lot of it very wrong)
I'm no longer surprised by the phonetics of western European languages, and I've gotten a taste of East Asian languages from learning Japanese, but I have this big gap in knowledge from about central Europe through the middle east and South Asia
@JourneymanGeek well, most of it was mod-edited or deleted, and it was pretty short-lived, but on the plus side, a random mod that rarely/never comes in here saw the flag and came to talk, and did have some nice conversations
and slhck and nhinkle stopped by, which is always a pleasure
that guy got off on the wrong foot with me; whatever, don't care -- but I was more surprised that he was clashing so badly with slhck, since slhck and I don't always see eye to eye, but even when I disagree with him, he's always extremely reasonable and willing to explain his position
just.... how you can go from disagreeing with slhck to having a problem with him is hard for me to fathom... I always end up seeing the wisdom of his ways once he's talked about it for a while
A guest at my house over the weekend stood puzzled next to my driveway. "What is that for?" she asked, pointing to a framework of 2x4s and hardware cloth perched on an old tire amid piles of sand. "Sifter." I said. "For what?" "For sifting gravel." "Why?" "To line walking paths, such as the one y...
Like, in the olden day computers with DOS and stuff, they just showed fixed width letters on the screen...
What functional part of those computers had the job of displaying the physical characters, since (I think) the original operating systems didn't actually have to make each pixel and instead...
@Omen So you've a PhD in atmospheric radiation monitoring? That's awesome. If you're a new PhD, congratulations. If not, good work anyway! Sorry, I love to read profiles.
@JourneymanGeek Well, hopefully this question about edit-appropriateness will get dealt with in a much more civil and productive manner; I really tried to be as nice as possible to avoid any misconceptions...
I don't see the rollback link for this edit.
You should still see an edit link under the question, though -- correct? If you really feel that your original post was better the way it was, you can just edit the question to be the way it was before. That's materially the same as a rollback. If...
Recuva and CCleaner are on the authorized list of applications that can be installed on our customer's network at work. Granted, we tend to use applications that aren't on that list all the time, but it gives us a little warm fuzzy to know that some bean counter specifically blessed those programs. He probably ran McAfee on the installer and said "yep, all good".
I have this one coworker who annoyingly keeps telling all of my other coworkers (especially the newer ones who've hired on recently) that I'm some kind of genius, and I know all this stuff, and I have this and that reputation, blah blah. I'm so sick of it. I hate it that he colors my relationship with new colleagues by starting off with this juvenile "this guy is the shit" type speech.
I asked him to stop and he persists. He reminds me of Jar Jar Binks.
@Omen Speccy can generate a URL that you can post for us to see your specs. Can you find that in the program?
Just make sure it doesn't say anything like a list of your installed programs, if one of those programs happens to be "Omen's Secret Sauce.exe" or something.
@Omen So what do you mean by USB drive? Just making sure I understand completely. Are you plugging in devices into the USB ports, or do you have some kind of card slot...?
@Omen It isn't available to the general public through any kind of directory; it's only visible to the couple of people in this chatroom. And now that it's removed, only users with 10,000 reputation or more can see it, and very very very few of them would even bother to go find your removed message and click it now that it's deleted.
@Omen Do you have any sort of hardware WiFi toggle switch on your laptop? If so, do you know exactly where it is? If not, you may want to make sure that, during the mechanical act of inserting stuff into the USB port(s), you aren't accidentally grabbing the laptop in a way that flips the switch.
@TardisGuy Generally not. It varies per the generation of the motherboard and such, but in general, if you start hooking up too many things in the smaller slots, the x16 slots may fall back to x8 mode. Or if you fill up all of the slots, they may drop to x4.
I've never heard of it being "one or the other" -- in other words, I can't imagine a slot being entirely disabled only because another slot is occupied. Decreased throughput? Yes, for sure. Disabled? No.
To rule out a power issue, all you have to do is connect your USB-powered devices to a powered USB hub (meaning, a USB hub that is connected to the wall to get extra power).
That way, your USB devices will draw minimal -- if any -- power from your laptop.
@Omen You can find them really cheap online, or @Bob might be able to find a place where you can buy one cheap in Australia. Bob's sort of an academic... ish... in Australia, too. He knows your local electronics stores.
@Omen Feel free to hang out here whenever you like. @JourneymanGeek, @Bob and I are pretty active in here. You haven't met Bob yet, but I think you'd like him. Not sure where he is. Probably playing games. Or doing fox things.
Just keep one thing in mind: when it comes to red vs green flavored lollipops, @JourneymanGeek likes green, and I like red. But in reality, the differences are more about your specific tastes and preferences than any real advantage. (I'm talking about AMD Radeon vs Nvidia GeForce)
@JourneymanGeek I can agree with you there! And durability, and battery life is quite good. Just gotta be careful to upgrade the screen. The default screen res and quality of most Thinkpad models is deplorable. Gotta up that to the 1080p one at least.
My main beef with modern ThinkPads is that the base model is extremely stripped down. You look at the base price and go, "Oh, that's cheap! Nice!" .... By the time you make it not suck, you're looking at over $2,000 USD.
@TardisGuy The lack of answer you're experiencing is due to them having called your country's local law enforcement and pointed them at your IP. They have special IP-sniffing dogs: they print out your IP address on paper, let the dog sniff the IP, and follow the dog to your house, with it barking and growling the whole way
@JourneymanGeek I very nearly hit a squirrel on my way home the other day. It stopped right in the middle of the road. I hit my brakes pretty hard and I think it escaped because I didn't feel a bump or see anything left in the road
More likely it hit its head on your bumper, came too with amnesia and accidentally got mixed up in the russian mafia to save a girl whos drug use got her a little too close to some nasty types.
@allquixotic Hm. I need to set up a way for you guys to ping my phone... eh.
@Omen I haven't read the whole convo, but you're looking for a USB hub?
If you want USB 3.0, there's the Mbeat ones at Officeworks. You can find one cheaper online (staticice.com.au is very helpful) and get OW to do their price beat thing.
Unfortunately, those particular hubs seem to have an issue with overheating (extended high throughput can make them bug out a big)
Dick Smith has a 20% off thing on eBay this weekend, so you could look there, but you're looking at at least 1.5x the price of the Mbeat hub even for a USB 2.0 one :\
MSY is also an option if you want cheap and don't mind somewhat crappy customer service (and possibly dodgy quality, depending on the brand... some of their cheaper stuff is more or less ebay-from-China quality)
meh, just grab one, it's a couple dollars difference anyway :\
This site encourages users to try to answer old unanswered questions. I've made several attempts to wade into the 35K+ unanswered questions, but it is like finding a needle in a haystack. From a review of old meta posts, various aspects of this problem have been hashed and rehashed for years. ...
@Omen Just so I get this right, it is only when you plug in a USB device that your Wifi drops? I know I used to get drops when coming out of hibernation but that seems to have stopped.
I don't see the rollback link for this edit.
You should still see an edit link under the question, though -- correct? If you really feel that your original post was better the way it was, you can just edit the question to be the way it was before. That's materially the same as a rollback. If...
This site encourages users to try to answer old unanswered questions. I've made several attempts to wade into the 35K+ unanswered questions, but it is like finding a needle in a haystack. From a review of old meta posts, various aspects of this problem have been hashed and rehashed for years. ...
