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I did. Honestly I should get rid of it, I don't have Skype on anything anymore or at the least I never use it these days.

So it's basically "Jumping Through Hoops: The Game." But I love it. Something about the atmosphere is so utterly charming that it's kept me entranced for more than about a half hour at a time, which is more than I can say about just about anything these days.

Yeah Lunar, it probably will. They have to force people onto the latest and greatest some way or another, and what better way than to force people onto older tech if using older OSes?

I'm on the full version but I am experiencing some odd performance issues in several older games that worked fine even in the previews. I'm going to try the new Windows 10 driver nVidia made available to me just a couple hours ago (release date is exactly 7/29) and see if maybe that fixes it.

So apparently sub-$100 brand-new 1080p displays are a thing now. Newegg in particular has several from several manufacturers, and Amazon has a notable entry from Acer. Of course, these are all 21.5" or less in size, but at the distances I'm viewing a monitor from (that is, 1 foot or less due to...

I just got the new King's Quest on Steam. It hasn't even started downloading yet, but I'll let you guys know what I think of it once it's finished downloading and I've had a few hours to kick it around. Full disclosure: I have never played any of the series. I have heard countless times that...

What's a normal load temperature for you guys? I.E. while folding? My core temp only gets up to 69C, and hovers somewhere in the 30C range while mostly idle. Meanwhile my graphics card always seems to run hot -- it's idling at about 55C right now. I've heard somewhere that as long as it doesn't...

Yeah, I'm with everyone else here on wanting it at a much bigger size. Given I recently cleared off my desk/table/workbench and now have over half of it free even with a 17" monitor and a slimline tower sitting there. I could definitely use a bigger monitor.

I'll give it the good ol' college try but I'm not expecting wonders.

His family doctor had him on 2 medicines (meloxicam and baclofen) for rheumatoid arthritis, each of which can cause ulcers on their own. We didn't know this until after all this. Add in all the recent stress and it's a wonder it wasn't even worse.

All that's left to do now is heal. I moved back upstairs so I can get him whatever he might need. He can walk and all that, but he's not particularly steady so he's using a walker for the time being. Hopefully once he gets off this liquid diet he can put all that weight he lost back on. A...

So I think we can say both my RAM and CPU are good. Both just ran at 100% utilization for 6 days straight (folding) while I stayed in the hospital with dad, who had developed a perforated ulcer. We just got home today, all is about as well as you could expect.

Wow, am I a dumbass. I found the Otterbox I wanted. Canceled the other orders. Sadly I can no longer buy my precious keyboard. Oh well, I'll just find something else.

I use a resolution of 1280x1024 which is the largest that my Dell UltraSharp 1703FP (Goodwill find for about $10, excellent condition and picture quality and it also has the special swivel base and the USB hub) will handle. Also, got a bit more money today. Bought a couple of cases for my Moto...

Got my card. I can play almost anything at 60fps now. Now I understand why people like 60fps so much.

I decided to go for it. And thus all of my funds but twenty dollars I have in cash were exhausted. Could have done a lot worse by my estimate.

Thanks a bunch Striker! I really appreciate it. The money came in earlier than I thought it would by far -- but it's 150 dollars spread across two cards. So getting a new graphics card really isn't in the question unless I want something on the lower end like a GT730. That's still a significant...

I can't say I've really stress tested this yet, unless you can count leaving it on for hours at a time doing nothing (I unexpectedly had more than a few errands to run yesterday) as stress testing it. It still works fine, and right now I'm copying my personal files back to my freshly-NTFS...

So, while cleaning an old layer of thermal paste from the top of a CPU to put another layer on, I accidentally bent a couple pins on it. I reminded myself to stay calm, and grabbed a pair of needle-nose pliers. I know, using a sledgehammer for cracking an egg, yada yada... anyway, I bent them...

I'm looking into picking up one of these from amazon because they're currently very cheap (less than forty dollars on amazon ATM) and my birthday is quickly approaching. I've recently migrated to a CM11-ified Droid X for my phone -- but it is very clearly showing its age and some oddities with...

Congrats Joe! I know I have a long way to go before I get close to anyone else's post count.

We can only get 3mbps down/ 768kbps up DSL where I live now. It's significantly slower than HughesNet, but leaps and bounds more reliable. I wouldn't mind if they ran cable internet or fiber out this far from town, but I know it's probably never going to happen. We're lucky to have DSL, from...

I don't much care for cars either. My priorities are, in order: - Safety - Affordability - Gas mileage (where applicable)/range

I've only noticed that under Linux. Under Windows, it renders perfectly for me. I don't have anything running OSX so I couldn't try that.

I never create PDFs from pages, so I couldn't tell you. Merc, what rendering problems are you seeing with Chrome? I have never had any issues whatsoever. Not saying I can solve them or anything, just curious as to what's happening.

I am not a fan of the way Chrome handles tabs either. Aaaaand just fixed the tab management. Tab Manager seems to be a lifesaver in this regard. I haven't tested it extensively yet but from what I have done with it, it seems very stable and usable. It's also hosted on GitHub, if for some...

Yes. :grin: Face it old timer, you're stubborn as a mule! :rofl: Personally, I will give just about anything the time of day as long as it isn't gangster rap or modern country. Both of those grate on my nerves like nothing else. If I had to list a favorite album, I would probably say one of...

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/06/heres-how-to-get-windows-10-for-free-even-if-you-dont-have-windows-7-or-8/ And like a goddamn idiot I didn't just stick it out. Eh. I'll just slap it on the testbed PC (Pentium Dual-Core E2200, 2GB RAM, Radeon HD 4670, 250GB HDD) for the...

I will be 16 until July 18th. Then I become... 17. Woooo. Who cares. I didn't care last year, and certainly won't this year. I'm not going to let age stop me from doing what I want to do. Luckily for me I don't want to do anything illegal.

Most of my "What to Watch" page consists of uxwbill, bbishoppcm, The Angry Video Game Nerd, The Game Theorists (MatPat), JonTron, Lazy Game Reviews, and the Gaming Historian.

My first computer was a Pentium MMX 200 with 8MB EDO RAM and Windows 95. The oldest computer I have ever had ahold of was a Commodore 64 with a 1541 floppy drive.

When I said mixing them, I meant mixing the carbonated beverages.

Hey, I resent that remark! Also, I totally do. I have a Pentium II 300 around here somewhere. I run Windows 2000 on it.

Nonono, I don't drink alcohol at all and probably never will. I must have miscommunicated.

I don't watch TV much anymore. I watch a ton of YouTube and will occasionally put my uncle's Netflix subscription to use (I binged my way through Archer about a month ago). If I'm ever living all by myself, I'm probably going to forgo a TV altogether and have a desk and a really comfortable...

Cool. When I get around to setting up a GOG account with actual funds I'll see about grabbing them. They sound like a good way to kill a few afternoons.

I don't think it was built to code, the addon wasn't at least. Remember, this is nothing more than a closed in deck.

It gives me a good laugh too.

I use the same two passwords for everything. It's probably really insecure, but I have nothing that is absolutely mission-critical. Except the StorageForum account, of course. :grin: In all seriousness, when I start doing online banking and stuff like that, I'll need to look into software like...

Finally got the latest build to install and holy crap is it unstable. I went straight back to Arch Linux with my tail between my legs like a scolded dog.

I'd love to find the first two games some time. Never played them but I hear they're really good. I hated the hoops i had to jump through to get 3 running, where New Vegas has given me no issues, even running in WINE admirably on a crappy Intel HD graphics chipset on the Celery laptop I had at...

My aunt's house has an uncooled sun room (converted deck) and without the windows open it can get up to a blistering 150 or so degrees F in there. Highs tend to be around 85 to 90 around here right now.

That new "Sangrita Blast" Mountain Dew is pretty good. Nothing I would want to drink all the time, but it starts off sweet and gives you a refreshingly sour kick in the tastebuds as an aftertaste. See, I'm substituting carbonated beverages for alcohol here. I'm going to keep doing this. Also...

Anyone here excited for Fallout 4? I'm not really excited for anything, mostly because I don't have any hardware capable of running it.

Ah, if only I could even hope to run something on that order.

So I might actually be getting that GTX750Ti for my birthday this year. Can't wait to actually be able to play games, because in 99% of the cases my CPU is not the limiting factor, although a faster one could never hurt. In lieu of throwing my whole system out, this is still going to be used for...

I love Shadow of Mordor. I have a family member who has it on PS4 that was my first experience with it, and it was amaze-balls on that. I got it for my PS3 and had to wait for about four hours for it to download a 1.2GB update (we have 3mb/s down 768k/s up DSL and I limit my speeds so as not to...

I really hope the preview doesn't have a timebomb in it, because I don't have $120 and I don't have an eligible Windows version for upgrading. The latest version of Windows that I have licenses I can use on these machines (OEM licenses for my systems) are Vista. I didn't think through upgrading...

You guys are echoing a personal finance class I took on student loans. Don't worry, I'm not going anywhere near those things. I saw how much trouble they put my stepmother through. They never let her rest after she had to stop working.

Thanks for the advice and support, guys. We made it into Kentucky last night, around 2 AM. We were aiming to avoid the Derby traffic. From your advice, I've decided to instead pursue a degree in computer science as so many of you have. Things are finally looking up. I'm home again.