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That's what I was referring to. Instead of relying on the half-dead Win8/RT/Phone ecosystem, why not integrate with Android? This runtime proves it can be done, the greedy bastards just have to pay Google a hefty-enough sum for them to officially include it. You'd think it'd be less work to...

It'll show up that I have three clients active this month, I figured out how to install 7 x64 on here and I took the opportunity. Thank God for backward-compatible hardware.

That's very interesting. Perhaps now I can ditch my aging Galaxy Tab for Clash of Clans? :) This is the kind of app support MS should be baking into Windows. Instead of creating an entirely new ecosystem, why not run off a more mature and diverse ecosystem that already exists? I know that MS...

So, wait. Does that mean they're skipping the 800 series? ...Why, exactly?

Just installed Xubuntu on the laptop. Didn't register at first that F@H would see it as an entirely different machine now. Oh well. Could be worse. I'm keeping this short because I'm typing a 5-page paper for English. Due tomorrow. About halfway done. No procrastination.

Thanks for the tip! I'm not sure if it's folding with the GPU or not, I'll have to check. I'm shutting the GX270 down when I wake up to give it a break. Then, when I get home I turn it on again and let it run all night. Not sure if the laptop is folding with the (admittedly weak) GPU, I'll have...

Good find, Merc. Wish I had that when I reformatted. Then again, I wish M$ made its special OEM version separately available, but then how will they make you buy the recovery media from your OEM and/or pay $$$ for out of warranty repairs? I'm sure that the fiasco involving a reformat of 8.1...

Surprisingly, setting it up under Xubuntu was easier than it was under Windows. Hm. It even corrected my team 0 issue. Also, apparently, I was running an older version of the client on my laptop. Corrected.

Well, a Celeron N2830 w/ Intel HD GFX (not in GPU folding mode to boot) and Pentium 4 2.8 HT w/ Radeon 9550 blows that out of the water, no question! </s> Currently I am figuring out how to make it run under Xubuntu 24/7. Right now I'm installing the x86 debs. What do you mean by registering...

I've been folding consistently for the past couple days (also, looked at the network meter while it was running, it uses less data than browsing even, so I'll be setting up the GX270 to do it round the clock as soon as I get the time) and I'm about 18% through my first project. One thing: why am...

10GB/mo, after that they throttle us. Dad will get supremely pissed off if that happens, so like I said, I scheduled it to run from 2 to 6 AM (when it doesnt count against our limit, presumably they put that in place to allow people to update. apparently they're not as heartless as previously...

Figured out how to schedule it with task scheduler, that is, to start the client at 2:00 AM and stop it at 6:00 AM on weekdays and start it at 2:00 AM and stop it at 9:45AM (allowing for a buffer so it doesn't bleed into our data) on weekends. When I get home, I'll either figure out how to setup...

Huh. Thought my post didn't come through. That's weird.

I've decided to come back to folding as our internet situation is better than before. If I can figure out how to schedule it to run from 2-6 AM, I will. Otherwise I'll have to manually start and stop it, as we still have a limit on our internet. If I can schedule it, through the program or...

I'm going to re-join now that our internet situation isn't as uncertain. Jacob_Turner is me, because I was a dummy and used my real name instead of my username. Bleh. Deal with it. I'm going to start setting my phone alarm (on vibrate, under my pillow) for 2 am so I can get up and start the...

So in order to get Macrium Reflect Free to backup directly to my other (not connected to the internet, about 5 different kinds of nope with an unpatched sp0 Windows 7...) machine, over a null ethernet cable, I finally had to figure out how to mount a network location as a drive. Not as hard as I...

A friend of mine attached his two widescreen monitors to VESA mounts, and then used the mounts to turn them sideways and set them to "Portrait" through the Screen Resolution option. Tall enough for ya? :) Actually, if you set them on top of each other, they are *almost* usable as a single 4:3...

Hmm. I may just ignore that little snippet on my todo list that says to reinstall java so I can get the plug in in SeaMonkey. I bet the desktop RS client uses IE as a runtime, so I don't think I need to worry about it. I imagine it's already installed in my copy of IE, as I've installed java...

I switched to SeaMonkey. Was missing the all-included-ness of Netscape Communicator and Mozilla of old. Plus, it's still compatible with Firefox and all that. And I doubt its UI layout will ever change significantly, as I'm convinced one of the main points of SeaMonkey is to play into nostalgia...

That's just adorable.

The only reason I still use Java is because I still occasionally play Minecraft or Runescape (insert "no life" or "run, escape" joke here). Runescape can run on HTML5, but Minecraft is a whole different ball of wax, being a locally stored application. Wish Mojang would cut the crap and either...

Wow, I, uh, missed the boat on the whole birthday thing. Happy late birthday David. Excuse my clumsiness in social situations.

Great, I get something from this decade and all of a sudden it's irrelevant again... DDR4 releasing as I finally get something with DDR3? Coincidence? I think not.

Update on mine. Got a few more games installed, now all that's left is Goat Simulator and Skyrim. Here you can see Spybot and Avast running in the system tray... they slow down the bootup process so much, sigh. It also seems as though they are keeping the CPU from dynamically underclocking...

I forgot how many here have 4k resolutions, haha. So imagine my surprise when I click on ddrueding's attachment to zoom in a little bit and I am face to face with a single icon. It's interesting how Windows scales on such high resolutions, makes the effective res seem much lower. At least IMO...

Really? ... Well then. Anyone know of any widget-type thing for the desktop that doesn't have those security holes? I like to know what day it is... and being able to see my cpu, ram, and hdd usage is nice. Weather info is nice but not entirely essential.

I'm fast getting to the point where as long as it boots up and lets me do what I want to reasonably quickly, I don't care anymore. I'm just so tired of hopping OSes. It seems that Windows is the only real viable solution for all of my needs at the moment. ... OneNote? Pfft, ha. Nope. I'm using...

Your inscreen setup, physical desk setup, specs of your desktops, or some combination of the three. Whatever you feel like. Currently I am not at my desk, but I can show you my inscreen setup. Some places that are empty are like that because I haven't quite finished installing all of my...

Well, I was talking about in-screen setups. But physical desk setups work too!

Can the site handle large amounts of pictures in a single thread? I kind of want to start a "Show us your desktop!" kind of thread, but if the site can't handle it then I guess it's no-go.

I found something pretty useful... I mean, if you like using Gadgets... 8GadgetPack reintroduces the Gadgets feature from Vista and 7 that MS axed from 8+ in favor of Live Tiles. I use it to put a bigger clock and the date on the desktop while my taskbar is set to show small icons, as well as a...

All I do is exercise common sense with a healthy dose of Adblock plus and noscript and cross my fingers. Oh, and MSE, which installed as part of my Windows Update procedure. Haven't had anything pop up on it yet, though I should probably get MBAM, Avast free, and Spybot. In fact, I'll be sure...

Since I now have a USB 3 port, I've been trolling Amazon for a decently-priced, decently-sized USB 3 flash drive. To my surprise, there are 128GB variants priced quite affordably considering their size and speed. A couple are even from Sandisk, Kingston or Corsair. For science, here are some...

I can't order it, I am el broke-o. I can't torrent it, we have limited wi-fi at home and the connections at the college are most definitely monitored. I'll just keep using my KMS activated Pro copy. It's not like much has changed between the base version and Pro. I highly doubt MS really...

I can order a copy of the recovery media. They really want you to make it yourself, using the media already on the computer. If you can't do that, you have to order it. How about no. I'll just find a working Windows 8.1 with Bing iso, thank you very much.

Well. I have good news and bad news. The good news is that I found a really easy way to back up, provided you have another Windows XP+ PC lying around with a reasonably big HDD, and a null ethernet cable or some form of home network. The bad news is that I'm still running an illegal copy of...

I happen to have a 32GB one that I got for my birthday. As I already moved most of my stuff on here from another machine, it... was nowhere near enough. I had to make the backup to another machine using multiple "trips," so to speak, as I had well over 100 GB to transfer. I'm... not thrilled to...

No key in the BIOS, no key anywhere physical. The only place the key was included was in Toshiba's recovery program. It also said it plain as day in the System Properties window, looking back I probably should've looked at that. I ended up putting 8.1 Pro on here and using the KMS activator as...

I decided to say "screw it" and leave Kubuntu on there. I'm so tired of trying to find fix after fix after fix for Windows to no avail. True, with Kubuntu I also have to find fix after fix, but at least I actually can fix my problems with that, If I have to have Windows I can just install my old...

As some of you predicted, I have started to reformat my hard drive with a fresh copy of Windows 8.1. I'm doing it in BIOS mode so I don't have to deal with UEFI. However, I can't seem to grab my key from the BIOS. I've tried RW-Everything, going to the ACPI tab and all that. But it won't load...

I also would like to add to the chorus of Thank yous. I didn't notice a lot of the problems but the new UI was throwing me for every loop possible. I'm not going to bother reposting my posts from that version, I got my point across then I guess.

I have one such lite version, I think they called it "Performance Edition" or some such. I've tried it and I can honestly say I don't like it. It certainly performs faster than XP, and boots faster too. But it strips a lot of the miscellaneous tools and utilities that I happened to like very...

Well, I just ruled out a registry issue. I used scanreg /restore, rebooted, and I'm still getting a protection error. (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

Well, I'm letting ScanDisk run another lap from safe mode. It's much slower running in safe mode, I've noticed. It's been going for about a half hour and it's just short of 10% done. It took all of twenty minutes running it normally. Anything to not have to do yet ANOTHER reinstall... I guess...

Well, FF took the cue from IE, who took it from Chrome... I believe. It's like how all the browsers used their useragents to pretend they were anything but what they were.

I have 98SE installed on ye olde Pentium 4, and I had everything just about set up when I went to defrag... It told me that it encountered an error and to run a Thorough scan on ScanDisk. Okay, so I do that, and defrag again. This time, defrag completes without an issue. I reboot, and I get the...

Must be nice. When we had broadband, the most we could afford was 10 mbps, and I thought that was pretty fast. Heck, we have a 4G hotspot, and I still think THAT'S fast. When I was visiting my uncle a week or so ago, he had (I think) a 30 mbps connection, and I was all like "Woah, now THIS is...

I kind of want a C720. It'd be a nice little upgrade over my T4300. And for a not too terrible price, as I've seen a 16GB model go for $180 new on Amazon, with free shipping to boot. I'd have to upgrade the RAM and replace the storage (or, barring that, putting all my files on external storage)...

Erm, disregard that bit about being unable to use the classic theme properly. Just figured it out. Classic theme restorer has soooo many options it'll make your head spin.

I use a bunch of addons so I don't have to deal with Firefox's latest UI bullcrap, but I agree that I shouldn't have to install a bunch of addons to fix what should already be a choice anyway. And since I installed Windows 8.1 I can't use the classic FF 2.x theme anymore, because it looks weird...