@DragonLord cable (comcast) here went up in price again, i could sort of see that comming as they increased the speed. now paying ~60$USD instead of ~45$ total.
I have been tempted time and time again to find a cheaper service, that still could cope with the downloading , most of the time i do not mind if downloading is a long term backgrounded thing, as long as it gets done that day :-) or so.
@Psycogeek It's Time Warner Cable here in New York. Thanks to the TWC Maxx upgrades, Everyday Low Price (lowest speed tier, $15 a month) went from 2 Mbps to 3 Mbps.
Our Verizon HSI service really sucks and I'm hoping my family can switch soon.
It's only getting about 768 Kbps and tends to be very unreliable.
The connection goes down on a regular basis and we have to reset the modem at least once every few days.
That is a great price, comcast was trying to buy out Time warner, given it an unprecidented monopoly, which it basically already has in the areas it serves. the monopoly would be country wide then.
You cannot allow the e-mail issue which anyone would have when switching an ISP to effect your "choice". Offline the whole thing from the server, then just change to the new address?
I get 6 e-mails with the cable ISP, and it would be a pain in the butt to change them, and inform people what the new is, but the least problem would be the server, because it is all local . It only stays on the server (as backup) for 30 day, and resides locally. 30 days covers the monthly backup of the whole OS partition , which includes programs and e-mail . but not user file items.
@DragonLord Ohhh the online log-in account stuff , yea i see.
Most of the insecure online log-in (no money involved) i use the throw away online addresses for , like hotmail and gmail.
-Comcast, Time Warner Cable nix $45B merger deal- "Comcast Corp. said Friday that it's ending its $45.2 billion merger agreement with Time Warner Cable, scrapping a giant deal that ran into stiff opposition from consumers and a likely veto from federal regulators."
<pedant> The usa can never be a 3rd world country. The term was used incorrectly to mean a poor country. The First world refers to countries allied with the USA, and the 2nd world was the communist countries. Third world nations were unaligned. You probably mean a failed state </pedant>
@HackToHell ever play dead island , create weapons, beat zombies with it, actually open world with only slightly linear gameplay, Grafics are not realism , not cartoon but much colorfull and visable. Versions of that should be cheap, as it does not review well but it is rather fun.
At least playing 1 of the STALKER series, another underrated but quite open world, that is weak grafics but great gameplay. Shooter
yes both of them you can stop and think at various times
The one i remember most as never thinking , and probably cheaper now, would be Binary Domain all crasy all the time.
I did not like that one much , because I stopped playing one day, started a few days later, and when starting again i had forgot some things and was basically in the middle of an alien war zone. Uhh yea this weapon works like . . .Your Dead Again.
@HackToHell then you would like neither of those 2 , because you spend at least 1/2 your time collecting stuff , crafting and doing milkruns with 50 things trying to kill you.
Yea left4dead is the ultimate in grab a gun and go style.
the Prototype series was much madness too, console game style, more melee based, much oddly different (at first) with the weapons, crasy fast action going on the screen, even if not as much of it is me doing it :-)
Some games it is all about how you want to play and the weapon selection, Rage , another that should be cheap, you could rambo or be more careful. Another one that was unexpectedly more fun. Heck many of the games your either a sharpshooter, or you will run out of ammo and spend time looking for it at least.
Watching movies sometimes , i wonder where they left the ammo crate :-) Blew through that clip didnt ya , and you didnt even have to reload. This comming from having watched at least a few movies where the Hero knows they burned through the 13 bullet clip, and like Clint eastwood, was that 5 or 6 rounds.
So on one side I can understand that 1 man taking down a whole army would need to be pulling behind them a little red wagon with 6 ammo crates , on the other side 1 bullet in that huge alien brain should be doing the job.
ARMA is now fully developed, fps battle simulation, that may very well be too damn realistic to be any real fun. limping back to base with your face shot off from just one bullet.
Hi guys, I had to restore a pc of a friend completely infested by viruses, I did a recovery (there's something in the F11 boot menu for that with HP), there's by default McAfee, but it seems to slower the pc, and anyway he managed to get all those virus with it anyway. So what should I get on his pc to protect him besides telling him to be more careful? I'm thinking of just making him use windows defender, and spybot S&D
@barlop wow people had been using the word "repair install" so i just applied that word, if it doesnt have it ??? I always before called it a "Lapped Install" to install over the present system, and I will do it right from the GUI While in windows itself, just clicking icons. But ya see now i have been using the words repair install, which is the same thing.
I think you just run setup, and pick the partition the os is already on. With a full clone image i only ever would do that 2 times in the life of the OS version, so i canot be sure all the steps. I can tell you it is fully possible to install right on top of your old system partition, and not lose registry , programs or user file items. It will Repair a broken operating system, then you just finish up by insuring all the undates are done.
Back in XP i had done that one time also, when (dllhell) removing some subsystem packages removed the originals, so i had broke the original parts and pieces by agressive uninstalling. Did that same thing then, just ran the setuo, picked SomeThing (i forget wehat) and lapped the install right over the functional system. . . . then sombody told me about the repair install, and i think i used that method one time.
I think the idea here is MS would not want to be party to destroying your system and loosing your files, so like installing any other program, you just dont format.
If accidentally running setup off the disk destroyed everything, we may have heard of a few people doing that.
Instead they accidentally also format , which is a given.
How does it differ from installing any other program? it does the install while out of the system, the system that it is, which it couldnt do while it is runnning. but the install breakout is to ramdisk and spare holes on the hard drive (wont effect what is there), the install is to where you point it. Because of those other stupid unnessisary partitions , like system (the boot stuff) and recover, we had always formatted First before installing the OS, anyway, so I was in the pattern to not format during the OS install.
Yes you cant by that name, using the XP method maybe, but there are tutorials for doing it too, where they apply that name, but it is indeed again a Lapped Install.
But i am telling you next time you have a borked up system, and it wasnt cause by virus infection (remember i am saying stuff/programs there do not change) try installing right over the top of the one there, and see if it unborks it.
Well that is where my clone comes in, i have 2 clones so to speak, because I do not want to type stuff into a command line. So i can hop over to the second disk with a clone of that system. And if all else fails i could put the image clone back on. So There is no no-boot situation for me ever. I just hop (boot menu) to the other one, and can still do the gui thing.
But given a no-boot situation, you can still boot to the CD? you can "re-Install" using the cd? then attempt to install over the same partition without formatting.
We would do such things all the time for a program that is messing up, winders IS in all essence just a bunch of programs.
@Psycogeek There Is no repair installation from the CD that oyu can boot off of. You can boot off the CD but there is no repair installation. If you think there is you're welcome to post an answer with screenshots showing it
A repair-install (in-place upgrade to same version) solved the problem. I haven't had any more crashes of this sort since, although extensive work was needed to bring the system up to date again.
I was never able to determine the precise cause of the crashes.
@Psycogeek and i'm saying there is no repair installation bootable from the CD even going by another name. If you find there is, then you're welcome to answer with screenshots showing it!
I do not think what you said is incorrect. sevenforum would be a great place to get a tutroal on it sevenforums.com/tutorials/3413-repair-install.html , as you can see they "install now" right over the top, not "repair"
•A System Restore did not help fix your Windows 7. •There is no other easier option left that can fix your Windows 7. •You DO NOT want to do a Clean reinstall of Windows 7. •You DO want to preserve your user accounts, data, programs, and system drivers.
I also have the SP1 version of the CD, I did not realise there was any issue with that, other than having to re-do updates. When Lapped Installing with XP, i certannly had to do the updates again, but all My Stuff and programs stayed.
I think 4gb was the max you could have on a system then, and 2gb was a sensible amount that you didn't really regret till the whole system was obsolete ;p
I see that you are running inside VMware:
Hypervisor vendor: VMware
You should check how much memory you are allocating to each guest. If you are allocating more memory than the host has (overcommitment), and the host is running out of memory, it'll start ballooning - basically, it'll star...
need to know what your budget is; what kind of software you run (games? if so how recent / high-end? development stuff? virtual machines? lots of multitask?); and your full current specs -- best way to give us your specs would be to upload a Speccy profile (see here)
and if you're not in the US, also need to know what country you're in, since that affects availability of products and prices
Sure thing, will do the Speccy profile and get all the other informations
Speccy: http://speccy.piriform.com/results/OjylA6vAJ2zxG1362So32nL I have a small budget, around $400 The main software I run are games, not high-ended ones. I live in Brazil, so the availability might be affected
I mainly play League of Legends, Counter Strike, some platform games and Minecraft. Would love more FPS for CS and Minecraft.
AM3 won't slot any of the newer APUs, though -- I was going to suggest going with a current-gen APU, which would smoke a 6670 even with on-chip graphics, plus the CPU would be worlds faster
CPU usage is kept in check with "normal" games because the game rules don't even allow a very high number of objects to exist at one time, by placing hard caps on units, number of players, number of things you can build / throw out / use
@Kerooker "new computer" implies you're going to buy a new case, new hard disks, etc... which is totally unnecessary if you're on a strict budget, and almost certainly more expensive than upgrading a few parts
I remember Jimmy Hoffa raving about how excellent his Haswell Pentium (or was it Ivy?) was... only 2 cores, but with HT, and very high single threaded perf for gaming
@allquixotic Normally min-rec for good CS:GO perf is an i5. Not sure how much difference that is, though - I find many players (even those commenting on specs) appear to simply carry a lot of misconceptions onwards :\
Everyone's learning the same old "facts" that everyone knows is true...
But pretty sure Minecraft can make sure of multiple cores effectively.
And IIRC CS does too, to an extent.
Not sure about LoL, but that doesn't strike me as a particularly intensive game?
well if we're looking at US prices and dealing in USD, I think it would be possible to keep the DDR3-1333, and switch out an AMD mobo for an Intel mobo, (hopefully) keep the PSU, and grab an i3 Haswell, a cheap Haswell mobo, and maybe a little Maxwell GPU
@Bob definitely not
I don't even know if his $400 budget is in USD or if that's in Brazil's currency
@Kerooker Are you looking to buy local, or can you get parts overseas? That might be an easy way to save a bit, based on what @ThatBrazilianGuy says...
do you have a PSu to support a hot wattsucking video card? otherwise the other $100 could replace the PSU also (300$ usd for a completly usable video card)
yes, but the one they suggest in the article should be enough
Here's a shopping list: Intel Pentium G3258 ASRock H81M-DGS Sapphire Radeon R9 270X (I think you can afford the "X", not the regular 270!) EVGA 430W power supply
@studiohack you just need to understand what drives the OS can see
I'm not going to play a guessing game as to what the drives may be called, but try parted /dev/sda, parted /dev/sdb, etc. until you find it, and then run print in the parted command line
@studiohack it's not about ease; it's about knowing what nomenclature your OS uses for creating the disk block nodes, which depends a lot on your kernel version, settings, etc. -- but as a blind shot in the dark, you can check the subdirectories of /dev/disk to possibly find it if it's not /dev/sdb or something
in short, fdisk and parted will look for the "first" drive in your system (set more or less arbitrarily by the BIOS or UEFI firmware) and default to that if you don't run them with any other parameters
so you should be looking for commands or file names under /dev that suggest that something else besides just the "first" disk is there
back in the old days (and slax COULD apply here, since slax is ancient by design) they addressed IDE disks as /dev/hd followed by a letter: a, b, c, etc.
recent kernels address both IDE and SATA disks as /dev/sd followed by a letter
but there are equivalent links to those drives under /dev/disk (again, assuming a kernel from the last 5 years or so) that address them by different methods, like UUID, volume label, etc.
if /dev/disk doesn't exist then you have a truly antiquated kernel, or one that's been configured not to do that
A repair-install (in-place upgrade to same version) solved the problem. I haven't had any more crashes of this sort since, although extensive work was needed to bring the system up to date again.
I was never able to determine the precise cause of the crashes.
I see that you are running inside VMware:
Hypervisor vendor: VMware
You should check how much memory you are allocating to each guest. If you are allocating more memory than the host has (overcommitment), and the host is running out of memory, it'll start ballooning - basically, it'll star...
