Author Topic: W-H-I-Y-L - boom shake-shake shake the-room. (Read 3699675 times)

Colonol Dekker · **Reply #29000 on:** January 30, 2015, 12:52:03 am

Does anyone have any experience of R4 cards for the 3ds?

That Man · **Reply #29001 on:** January 30, 2015, 02:27:23 am

Major assignment due for university class in eight hours.

I haven't started yet.

Let's do this.

Edit: And the entire class was just given an extension until next Friday.

Klaustrophobia · **Reply #29002 on:** January 30, 2015, 03:28:37 pm

Received award thingy and a navy coin for some unspecified good deed at work. Seriously, my boss that gave it to me couldn't really tell me what it was for other than generally "good job supporting," and I can' recall doing anything particularly noteworthy. In fact I thought things were kinda going to hell around me. I'm pretty sure I also hold the project record for being (more often than not indirectly) involved in the most officially written up problems.

Also received my qualification plaque from a year ago. Said boss started a slow clap. Then I called him gay and went home. Because I'm on third shift and it was turnover time.

Colonol Dekker · **Reply #29003 on:** January 31, 2015, 01:24:21 am

How to make an alcohol stove - Tornado Cask Stove…: http://youtu.be/uYzjApGP1eI

This appears to be awesome.

deathspeed · **Reply #29004 on:** January 31, 2015, 09:32:55 pm

So about a year ago the wife's Compaq laptop stopped booting - no splash screen, no beeps, not even the screen backlight coming on at all. I eventually noticed that the LEDs next to Caps Lock and Num Lock were flashing, so I thought maybe they were trying to tell me something. After some research, I found that it was telling me "CPU not functional." So after some additional research about compatibility, I got a new CPU, upgrading from the Sempron M120 to a Turion II Ultra M600 in the process. After tearing the whole thing down to get at the CPU and correctly putting it back together, I got the same result. Disgusted, I put it aside, planning to eventually remove the hard drive and sell what was left for parts.

So today, I finally got around to preparing the Ebay listing. First I tried powering it up again, to confirm which code it was flashing, but this time it indicated "BIOS corruption failure". Huh. So I followed the steps to recover the BIOS from the EFI partition, but now the lights just flashed continuously. Giving up again, I opened the bottom cover to see how much RAM was installed, and I saw that the upper stick was not fully seated. Huh (again). I seated it fully, then tried again, but now it was back to the CPU code. On a whim, I removed it completely and holy $#!+, it booted! It ran horribly slow with only 2 GB, and I wasn't sure if it was a fluke that it even booted, so I backed up everything before doing anything else. Then I started swapping sticks from another laptop being parted out, and eventually got it to boot reliably with one of the original 2 GB sticks and a 1 GB stick from the other laptop.

I'd still like to get another 2 GB stick, but right now the wife is just happy that she has a functioning laptop again, so I am happy, too.

Mobius · **Reply #29005 on:** February 01, 2015, 10:57:49 am

Published my 50th article on a newspaper.

Klaustrophobia · **Reply #29006 on:** February 01, 2015, 12:31:30 pm

the power connector on my laptop is crapping out. i don't think i can fix this one. guess i better start looking harder for an acceptable replacement.

Mongoose · **Reply #29007 on:** February 01, 2015, 01:56:13 pm

Had a dream that FS2 had some additional ridiculously-awesome character-based cutscenes and missions, one of which involved a Sathanas tearing up an entire fleet, another being on a primarily-Vasudan planet where a Sathanas was looming over the horizon (that part legit scared the **** out of me). There was also something about helping clear rubble on said planet after the attack, with one of those fun shooting-the-**** scenes with other pilots. That's about all I can remember, but it was one of those dreams where you wind up totally bummed after you figure out it wasn't real.

Klaustrophobia · **Reply #29008 on:** February 02, 2015, 02:07:52 pm

Confirmed the problem is in fact the connector and not the cord by causing a nice little pop and arc inside my laptop. Power was definitely making it that far. Now until I find a new one that isn't ****, I get single runs on the battery while having to balance/wedge the cord in a very exact position to recharge between uses. Will try to break it open even further later, saw hints on the interwebz that there might be a screw I can tighten down that you have to take the mainboard out to access. In the meantime, starting backups and cursory searches for decent laptops.

Anyone bought one recently that isn't crap? Hell at this point I might even take one with windows 8 on it.

Klaustrophobia · **Reply #29009 on:** February 02, 2015, 03:09:38 pm

currently browsing from my 3ds. if this is what mobile internet is like, i have no goddamn idea how smartphones succeeded. this is terribad.

FireSpawn · **Reply #29010 on:** February 02, 2015, 04:26:00 pm

R.I.P Monty Oum, I really enjoyed his works and it's a shame that it was by some random off-chance that he met his end....Damn.

AdmiralRalwood · **Reply #29011 on:** February 02, 2015, 04:41:08 pm

Quote from: FireSpawn on February 02, 2015, 04:26:00 pm

R.I.P Monty Oum, I really enjoyed his works and it's a shame that it was by some random off-chance that he met his end....Damn.

...Wow.

Sololop · **Reply #29012 on:** February 02, 2015, 05:32:34 pm

Sigh

Mongoose · **Reply #29013 on:** February 02, 2015, 07:10:12 pm

Quote from: FireSpawn on February 02, 2015, 04:26:00 pm

R.I.P Monty Oum, I really enjoyed his works and it's a shame that it was by some random off-chance that he met his end....Damn.

I never really watched any of his work beyond Haloid, but that's a terrible way to go.

That Man · **Reply #29014 on:** February 03, 2015, 01:23:06 am

Quote from: FireSpawn on February 02, 2015, 04:26:00 pm

R.I.P Monty Oum, I really enjoyed his works and it's a shame that it was by some random off-chance that he met his end....Damn.

What? Oh, my frig...I can barely believe this. Rest in peace, Monty. You were a phenomenally creative person.

Sololop · **Reply #29015 on:** February 03, 2015, 02:22:55 am

A good friend of mine has started a retro gaming review channel. I think he's not doing a bad job and if you're interested in some silly fun you can check his channel out here: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCKqG2xr13D1m4AZzgfqrBLA

As for my life, I'm waiting to hear back if work really wants me in today because I told them I'm not even capable of leaving my parking lot

Klaustrophobia · **Reply #29016 on:** February 03, 2015, 04:24:17 pm

And now my desktop has been hit by some really resilient adware. Goddamnit I'm about to be completely out of internet.

deathspeed · **Reply #29017 on:** February 03, 2015, 09:43:07 pm

Quote from: Klaustrophobia on February 03, 2015, 04:24:17 pm

And now my desktop has been hit by some really resilient adware. Goddamnit I'm about to be completely out of internet.

Register at the techspot.com forums, and post a new thread in the Virus and Malware Removal forum. They have helped me several times, and pointed me to tools that I never would have found on my own (or wouldn't have known what to do with them anyway). Good luck!!

Klaustrophobia · **Reply #29018 on:** February 04, 2015, 07:49:33 am

I think I got it. I'm almost positive the stuff is actually gone, but the entry in add/remove programs remains. It used to throw an error when trying to uninstall it, now it does absolutely nothing after having been nuked by several malware programs. I think I can use CCleaner to get rid of that entry now, and a registry scan should get rid of any traces of it there if all the files and processes have in fact been killed. The locations identified for the particular program via google are empty.

I've used the Major Geeks malware forum before. Their people and the tools they built took care of it easily. But you absolutely MUST follow their detailed, customized directions for you. Their tools are not for you to use on your own.

BirdofPrey · **Reply #29019 on:** February 04, 2015, 11:17:48 am

I'm sorry mjn Love your advice but when you tell someone what they want can probably be done in MS Paint all I can say is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYbetvkPA6I

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