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Just did this -- started the upgrade then cancelled because it was taking too long just to prepare (figuring I'd just do it later). Some time later (enough that I had almost forgotten about it) it's like "Hey, we're about to shove this OS upgrade you decided not to install onto your machine...

I generally don't defer them for that long, just long enough that I can finish/save what I'm doing and restart gracefully.

So the update process has finally made me seriously mad -- it, without any warning, just closed everything and restarted. I had stuff open that I can't get back now because those idiots decided to take that sort of control away from me. So I went into group policy editor and found the policy...

What I have sounds alright to me. I really don't care what I'm using as long as it doesn't have that high pitched whine in the background, it drives me nuts.

I do most of my listening on my laptop, which has some kind of generic HD audio output. I think it's Realtek? Either way, I can't tell too much of a difference even on that. Even that much might just be some kind of placebo effect, but FLACs tend to sound a little cleaner and clearer to me. Not...

I can hear the difference between MP3 and FLAC but if the MP3 is at a high enough bitrate (200kbps+) the difference is negligible to my ears. That's actually a good thing since most of my library is still in MP3. I don't have the space to fit my entire library on my phone in FLAC, as much as I'd...

I'm assuming you're trying to say to rotate the header plug? Did that, still isn't working. Double checked my wiring and it seems sound enough, maybe it's just broken? Either way, he's happy enough just to have everything else working, he doesn't seem to care about having the power LED working...

Today was eventful: Helped a friend turn his very new Dell vomit box into something worth using for gaming. He bought everything before I was conned into helping out, so I had no input on what he purchased. All I can say is thankfully the addon parts he bought weren't crap. This whole thing was...

Same here. I just used IrfanView because Windows's baked-in photo viewer has never failed to suck. Trying Xnview now.

I can say from experience that my T450 is booting perfectly fine from M.2. Electrically though my understanding is that they won't take PCI-E M.2 stuff, only SATA. Also, having my BIOS updated to the latest version may be helping me on that front as well.

With so many marriages ending in divorce, I don't know if I will be getting married at all -- and that's even if I can get far enough with someone that it'd be an option. My dad's marriage lasted nearly six years -- but again, at least some of the years were happy ones... for them anyway.

+1 for Anti-Beacon, it's very comprehensive and it can refresh your immunizations on every bootup if you want it to. Between Anti-Beacon and the fact that I just don't have anything to hide (if they want to look at my computer, they deserve what they get) Windows 10 is actually tolerable for me...

Massive score! Thought I was getting a G3 -- indeed, that's what the listing listed it as -- Nope, G4. 256MB DDR, 800MHz G4, Radeon 9200. All of the promised speed, perhaps a bit more -- and not as many of the failure points. This makes things a whole lot easier.

Whoever said I was going to end up with Gentoo (I think it was Handruin -- but it could have been Chewy as well, I genuinely don't remember) is going to get a laugh out of this. Left with not much to do for the remainder of my summer, I bought up a cheap iBook G3... mostly because it was in...

I have all of my important data backed up to the 1TB HDD of my desktop. Clunky, unrefined, guaranteed to fail? Yes. But it's what I have at the moment, so it'll have to do until I can get ahold of more.

Shouldn't have said anything about my character -- in the game last night, I got wrecked and died so hard there wasn't even a body left. The attack critted, confirmed crit, and I was already at about 1/6th health, ran out of mana healing other people. So I rolled a ranged bard instead, let other...

I've been playing a riff on Pathfinder (Final Fantasy d20) with some friends of mine online using Roll20.net and Myth-Weavers' character sheet hosting. It's pretty fun, but the scheduling is brutal -- I'm trying to get used to going to bed and getting up at a decent time again, and the games...

My great-grandmother and great-uncle always confused me for my dad. Weird, considering my dad was blonde growing up and I have very dark brown hair.

Isn't one of the benefits of a reference design that you can more easily find aftermarket coolers for it, should you need them?

I personally plan on following it. College costs too much for me not to. I only really have one shot at this, I need to make it count.

Typo. But then I figure you already guessed that. :grin: Basically I was all but forced to take fifteen credit hours my first semester (yes, it does go by a semester system here), else I wouldn't graduate on time. I'm actually pretty happy with my final schedule, I should be able to easily...

Metro College isn't going to work out, I have 8AM classes and I'm not capable of running on >4 hours of sleep with any regularity. Went to bed at midnight, orientation went until 11 and then I wanted to grab a pizza. Woke up at 4, the A/C had cut out and I felt like I was suffocating. To...

Orientation started this morning. Most of it is rather boring, speeches and what is probably the usual information. Lunch is easily the highlight of my day so far. An interesting opportunity has been laid before me though, if I work graveyard shift for UPS in their Metropolitan College program...

Diablo 3 can apparently run on a potato now, as I can crank the settings pretty high in 720p on the HD 4400 and still have decent FPS provided I turn 'Low FX' on. I even ran it on the desktop, runs fine there too. I guess the fact that it released in 2012 has something to do with it? It's so...

Assuming this isn't MS rigging the results like with Windows 10 adoption, this might just be a compelling reason to go to Edge. Vivaldi is not very nice to my battery, using something like 30% of my CPU just sitting with YouTube open. Edge still looks more like a toy than a browser though, and I...

I wonder how much lower we can go without being completely unable to go any lower.

I looked at the guy running Doom 4 on an HD 4600, at 720p (I think you can take it down to 800x600 minimum, so not that much lower) at the lowest settings he was getting unplayable framerates, like 20 just in the menu. No thanks. Not paying sixty dollars for a slideshow. I can play most older...

I'm kind of sad that the new Doom doesn't seem to be playable on an HD 4400 even with all the bells and whistles turned completely off, but honestly looking at gameplay footage I think I prefer the Brutal Doom mod in GZDoom anyway. It at least doesn't require a supercomputer...

When we were on HughesNet the speed was fine, 12mbps at least, but the latency was horrible, something like 4000 or so. I would often ping out of loading web pages and an IRC chat was nearly impossible to stay connected to. But the thing that peeved me off most about it was that they had the...

Figured out why my internet connection sucks so bad. Our plan is advertised as 3mbps down, 768kbps up -- pretty much standard DSL speeds, right? Except we got maybe half of that on a good day. Looked at their brag sheet and in fine print under the big 3mbps... "Burst speed only. Normal...

Was looking at open world driving games today. Test Drive Unlimited (2007) or Unlimited 2 (2011) would have been my first pick except they run SecroROM BS on PC and not only does that dog not hunt on Windows 10, period, I also oppose SecuROM in it's entirety. No torrenting around here, small...

"Supported Operating Systems : Windows 98 / 98SE / ME / 2000 / XP / 2003 / Vista / 7 / 8 / 10, each 32-bit and 64-bit, Mono (Linux, Mac OS X, BSD, ...)." That's a pretty wide range of support. I can understand still supporting XP and Server 2003, but why still support 98? That's been out of...

Thanks! This is pretty much what I was after.

Anyone know of a way to control SpeedStep? I want to stay in the lowest frequency possible while the CPU usage is from 0-20%, kick up to mid range from 20-50%, and go full throttle from 50-100%. This is more for temp reasons than power reasons, given the Thinkpad barely sips that as it is. But...

How would a CPU with a drilled in hole open anything? I figured by key fob he meant something to get a better grip on your keys with? A handle or something? Like a keychain, only with an actual use? Shaddap, I'm sleepy. :-P It didn't occur to me that he might have modified the junk CPUs...

I use some old broken 30-pin SIMMs for key fobs, myself.

I ordered the extended battery for the Thinkpad, should arrive sometime this month. I had a bit of sticker shock, though -- the thing cost almost $75! I guess it's worth it, coming directly from Lenovo... I don't know why, but I've been collecting CPUs for a while. Right now I have: an...

On second thought it would probably be easier to install to the hard drive and then use the M.2 SSD for caching purposes. I heard of a piece of software that does that -- Fnet Hybridisk? Has anyone used that here?

I have an awful, terrible idea about the T450. This is purely hypothetical, in the event that I do ever get the drives needed, but I wonder if this will work. If I were to clone a Windows install to the M.2 SSD and then install GRUB to an HDD (that I would have upgraded to either 1 or 2 TB to...

Chrome 51 has the new material design UI. Can't decide if I like it or not.

Funny, it's usually AMD I associate with breaking games with driver updates.

I also appreciated the card. The 42mm M.2 slot is kinda crappy I guess but if I play my cards right I won't need to upgrade the storage at all, the 840 Evo blows my old Kingston drive out of the water... and I thought that thing was fast! Yeah, the T460 is pretty pricey at this point, I...

University of Louisville, and I'm sure they'd like Windows much better than Linux to be perfectly honest. I thought the first semester was spent doing core classes like English and some form of math?

A lot of the reviews I looked at for this cite the screen and sound quality as cons. As a first impression, coming off of my nc6400, the screen is nice, bright and colorful. The res is no better but no worse than the nc6400, and the sound actually has depth, stereo separation and some bass...

Gentoo is way beyond even me. Arch is a PITA like nothing else, so if (and that's a big if) I use Linux on it, it will likely be Xubuntu or some other Ubuntu variant. No, despite my misgivings with Windows 10, I will be using it on this machine, with Anti-Beacon and Classic Shell of course.

Just got the ThinkPad today. I think it's actually last generation's model -- it's got an i5 4300U! Still about twice as fast as anything else I have. Thank you so much, everyone!

For me restarting the whole machine always fixes such issues. I have them all the time, sometimes an older DX9 game like Asheron's Call or Oblivion craps out and then I can't start it back up without a restart.

Sorry about the slow response time. My school blocks SF as part of their "forums" rules and I don't get home until 4:30 - 5:00 PM, and my phone gets crap reception in there due to it being an almost entirely cinderblock and brick building. Usually I can get around it by remoting into my desktop...

This I/O shield cutting thing is going way too slowly for my liking. I blame it on having to use a battery operated dremel. It charges in three hours, is drained in less than 10 minutes. I have it maybe halfway done now.

I can handle hearing puking, even seeing puke, but I can't handle smelling it.