/baw/ - General Discussion

Any good suggestions for free and reliable antivirus?

>>394738
If you're technically minded (have NoScript and such installed, keep your system updated, don't open random attachments, etc.): Microsoft Security Essentials
If you're not (or are doing this for a relative): Avast! or Avira, though both can be naggy.

>>394738
Also consider getting MalwareBytes too.

>>394751

Seconding this and >>394742

Any good alternative for Avast! out there?
Avast! can get obnoxious from time to time.

>>394779
Avira is about as obnoxious, perhaps a bit less. I don't know that there's any other free real-time virus programs, though there are a number of free scan-ad-hoc programs.

>>394785
Aren't concealed weapons illegal?

>>394783
>>394785
I'm lazy, tell me why this should be scary.

>>394786
Depends on the state. Some states allow open carry and concealed carry (Texas), some states allow concealed carry but not open carry (Colorado; a Sherriff told my mom they don't allow open carry because they don't want to deal with people calling the police just 'cause someone is walking around with a gun), and I'm sure some state does the opposite. Some large cities have stricter laws than the state.

>>394787
Smaller than your phone, fits to the curve of your body, print-less, doesn't show up on x-ray and barely registers on metal detector, 6+1 .380 ACP.

Super small guns have always made sacrifices that compromised effectiveness, this doesn't, at all.

>>394788
If my finger is meant to be able to pull the trigger, I don't think it's smaller than my phone.

Pretty neat gun though. Very thin.

>>394788

Tiki...no gun can legally be undetectable by metal detector, and the steel barrel, firing pin, and springs, brass casings, and lead/copper bullets will all show on an X-ray. This is not the mythical Glock 6, this is a six plus one shot .380 subcompact (not at all new) made by a company infamous for quality control issues. All it has is a gimmick. Not printing is all a matter of the right weapon and clothes. If you're big enough, have the right holster in the right place, and youre in a parka, you can carry a super redhawk and not print.

The person who came up with the concept that all computer parts should just have some arbitrary fucking numbers in their name deserves to get shot. How the fuck is a 3930K better than a 4790K and then the 5820K is somehow better than both of those? Make some fucking sense you assholes!

>>394806
I've been saving up to get a gaming rig and yeah, it's not easy picking out parts.

>>394806

Pretty sure they're trying to deliberately confuse you so you'll fuck up and buy something inferior for more money than it's worth.

Also: http://www.logicalincrements.com/ is your friend.

>>394847
Funny to think that site started as a /g/ infographic.

>>394848

There have been a few 4chan guides that spunoff into full sites. It's interesting what can happen when people who aren't shitposters put work in.

>>394847
Should have mentioned that in the OP post, since I used it to get an idea what parts to look.

Was Google down for a second or was I crazy?

Is Google Down right now or am I crazy?

>>395001
I didn't notice anything.

Speaking of Google...
http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/12/are-you-robot-introducing-no-captcha.html

>>395016
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
//youtube.com/watch?v=_CYu2tbkgF4

And now Youtube doesn't like loading, either due to Pale Moon, or NoScript despite temporarily allowing youtube.com and ytimg.com. Embedded it's working, but on the Youtube page it stays a black rectangle.

That's all on Youtube, shit is broked right now.

>>395369
Well not captcha isn't loading for me either. This might actually get me to stop sing 4chan just because I can't post.

>>395383
>not
*now

After years of having an old flip phone I've finally been thrustted into the future as I got a smartphone for Christmas. Is there anywhere I can find some decent wallpapers for it? The ones on the phone are a bit lack luster.

Got a Wacom tablet this Christmas, will try to sketch stuff with it and put more art up.

>>395610
Nice!
What sortof stuff are you drawing, mate?

>>395605
4chan's /wg/ usually has a smartphone thread IIRC. Either way, they have lots of resources in the sticky.

Alright so my antivirus says I might have a worm, but Malwarebytes isn't finding it. Am I in trouble?

Have you checked what the programs thinks the worm is? I had one that kept pulling up a pirated game's file (which turned out to be a non-issue)

It says that the source file can't be found and that it doesn't exist.

>>395676
It was a firefox cache file I think.

I left my iPod in my pocket for two minutes and now it's trying to add an image number to my contacts list.

Okay anons, I need some help.

My boyfriend is not good with computers. He went to download a game and ended up with lots of adware/unwanted stuff. I got most of it cleaned up but once in a while when he searches in the Chrome top bar he still gets a search redirect called "Looksafe" that brings up Yahoo. It's random as to when it will redirect to it--sometimes it won't for hours, sometimes it will do it 10x in a row.

I have run CCleaner to get rid of any visible programs, disable start-up options and etc. I have done Malwarebytes as well as Hitman Pro, which both found stuff I missed (registry keys and system32 stuff) but after rebooting and run again could not find anything else. I have fixed Chrome's settings. I have uninstalled and re-installed Chrome a few times, thinking it may have been something attached to Chrome's files. I've mainly been working on bleepingcomputer's guides so I'm sure I've left off something that I've done before.

I don't know what else to do. I was considering Combofix, but after reading some warnings it got me nervous and I'm scared to do it now. Any suggestions?

>>395731
There's always backing up files that you're fairly sure have nothing bad on them and reformatting.

>>395731
If it's just happening in Chrome (have you tested with IE/FF?), it could just be one of those add-ons that gets bought up by a spam company and converted into a spam app. If it's recent it wouldn't have been caught by the various cleaner programs. Check the Extensions (Settings > Extensions) and remove as much as possible, even if it looks innocent.

You can also try running Hijack This, though you have to know what to look for and nuke yourself from the results, and I've had success with Ad-aware in the past but it looks like it's turned into a regular anti-virus program? I suppose you can still give it a shot.

>>395750
I'll consider this if all else fails. The only things he has on his computer right now are wallpapers and games (mostly Steam) so it's not like it would be a huge effort but I'd rather do that as a last resort.

>>395758
Haven't tested IE. I'll see if it affects that as well. Extensions were all cleaned. The only one I had left was Adblock Plus which I uninstalled before uninstalling Chrome and then reinstalled later.

I tried Adaware. It picked up some things but not everything. It used to be my go-to for cleaning up so it was one of the first things I tried.

I'll try Hijack This as well.

I'm not going to see him again until Thursday but I'll let you guys know how it goes. Thank you both!!

Other ideas:
>Check the startup programs in msconfig for anything unfamiliar
Don't trust it, though, as a good virus/malware will fuck with it and make it look ok. (Hijack This looks at startup programs, too, so this isn't that necessary.)
>Boot into safemode w/ networking (after the BIOS splash screen disappears, mash F8 like the Fist of the North Star)
Check if it still happens. If not, then the problem is likely another program intercepting the Port 80 traffic. If so, then it's either the browser itself or a really deep malware. This is also the best way to run Hijack this or any other anti-malware program, as that makes it less likely for the malware to interfere. Also checking startup/installed programs/etc. in safemode is best.
>Use Process Explorer to check for weird programs running
Download Process Explorer (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx) on a known-good computer and burn it to a CD, which I think you can run it from to keep whatever-it-is from altering the program on storage (if not, you can copy it to the desktop.) This gives you a deeper look than Task Manager does, and you can use it to see what is hiding in svchost.exe (which does a lot of services in multiple instances.) Again, look up anything that seems weird, especially if appears when you do a search in Chrome. Speaking of...
>Look at installed Services
Sometimes virii/malware mimics a Service, so look up anything you're unfamiliar in the Services (through Control Panel > Administration, or Win+R > services.msc). There are a lot of things that look vague/questionable but are legit, so I wouldn't do this unless everything else comes up negative and you still don't want to scrub the drive.

Also, if you want to try Chrome again, make sure to get the full installer from another, known-clean computer, as if you try to download it from his computer the malware might intercept and inject its own installer to make you think you're getting a clean one.

>>395809
And then I embarrassingly link to the wrong video, not that I didn't want to mention both anyway.
Actual Qbo/Macintosh/Sniper Joe/QT video here: //youtube.com/watch?v=3N1Q8oFpX1Y

>>395810
>where did you go
>there you are
>don't shoot, it's me!
>I don't blame you...

>>395809
>>395810
The future is so close I can taste it. I believe we will see space colonization in our life time.

So here's this channel I've been watching today that's nothing but weird gadget advertisements.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUi4aspUAMcEG5ZEdnOrBQg

There's some audio issues with it at times, and a few of the products are dumb, but they at least tend to seem pretty science fiction-ish. And if you get that dumb light thing, I suggest you mount it on the wall *after* you wash your hands, not before.

I had no idea Wikipedia had a actual main contents page?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Contents

My laptop screen just flashed black and returned to normal. Should I be concerned?

>>396174
Can't hurt to run a scan. Is your video driver set to auto-update? If so, that could have been it, though it would be a poor auto-update implementation.

>>396174

A computer doing something weird once is usually not a cause for concern. If it keeps happening, get worried.

Does anyone use Suddenlink? Is it any good?

>>396190
I heard they monitor your stuff.

Did youtube stop doing the grey out watched thing?

I present to you a video summarizing the current state of computer technology development:
//youtube.com/watch?v=DubSq757DTI

Just asking: the free version of Malwarebytes is any good?

>>396585

Yus.

http://twister.net.co/
Haven't tried this yet, but it sounds nice.

I found out Radioshack is closing a bunch of their stores. Now is the time to buy marked down stuff.
I got a Snowball and a french phone adapter.

>>397297
My local store went out of business a few months ago, I got so much stuff. I felt a little bad for being so happy they were closing, though...

>>397297
>>397298
//youtube.com/watch?v=3FCioWz7aps

>>397301
I approve of this very much.

>>397298
>>I felt a little bad for being so happy they were closing, though...

What you felt was happiness toward getting a good deal, not on the fact that the store is closing.
I've been to a few store auctions and felt the same way you did. Happy about a deal, sad about the end of something.
As far as I know not ALL of the store locations are closing. I've spoken to a Radioshack guy where I live and he said that one store in the next town is staying open. So maybe there are others.
My regret is that I never learned how to soder those boards together to make a blinking light or a robot.
I'd would have liked to have learned how to do that.

Got new fans for my computer. The old fans had more or less become useless, so airflow in the case was bad and my CPU/GPU fans would spin as though trying to reach orbit before. These are so quiet and nice, plus they have LEDs for some ambient lighting.

Really should get a splitter to connect both fans already. Also, dust the case out. Maybe get my hands on a bellows for that, instead of getting canned air. Also, currently learning Pure Data, though Javascript is probably something I should practice again.

Hmm, I can't connect to Lainchan via 3DS because of an SSL error. Probably using an outdated version, maybe Heartbleed vulnerable.

Got myself a new rig, but thought myself real clever by trying to install my old SSD in it. Turns out that shit doesn't work. And now I'm kinda torn, since I lost my Windows 7 disc. Should I buy a new one or risk pirating it and upgrade to 10 when the time comes?

>>398590
If you still have the Win7 key, I think you can download an official ISO from Microsoft's website.

And do you still have the old PC? Put the SSD back in that one and create a Restore Disk. It will allow you to do a "restore" that should, IIRC, make it possible to reset drivers etc. when run in the new PC.

My computer is available to upgrade to Windows 10.
...Should I?

>>398592
Yes, unlike the mess that was Windows 8, 10 is great.

It's seven with convenience features stolen from Linux basically.

Getting a new PC just feels so fucking good, you guys.

I love when you use Tor and all the ads are in German or some other central European country. I got a 3 minute pop-ish song for kids parties ad in Dutch

My connection keeps shutting off and on and it's driving me fucking crazy. Every 5 minutes it cuts out and comes back after another 5 minutes, and Win7 says the DNS server just isn't responding. I called our ISP and they replaced our router, but that didn't help, nor does resetting the damn thing. Called them again and they said they'd send someone out, but that never happened.

>>399365
You don't happen to have the router located somewhere that is quite warm, do you?

>>399367
No.

>>399365
Try changing your DNS settings http://www.howtogeek.com/164981/how-to-switch-to-opendns-or-google-dns-to-speed-up-web-browsing/
I changed to the Google one years ago when I was having connection issues every day because of my ISP.

>>399370
That sortof works, but now it takes like 10 minutes to reconnect every time I restart my machine.

>>399371
Nevermind, it doesn't work at all. Even after switching to Google DNS I have the same problem. Connection switches on and off every 5 minutes.

>>399371
Do other machines using the same connection have the same problem?

>>399392
Yup.

Dear Windows 10,
fucking stop calling software apps. This is not a fucking phone.
With best regards,
anon

>>399549
Blame apple. They popularized and standardized it.

Even their OSX programs are called apps.

>>399549

I hate this too, but I'm pretty sure that linguistic ship has sailed.

>have a pretty good midrange rig now
>oh hey, all my games are running at a solid 80+ FPS and I've got a big new empty hard drive, maybe I can try recording some webms
>framerate tanks to <20
Goddamn. No wonder all those Youtubers have like $6k+ machines.

Okay... what program is that?
//youtube.com/watch?v=uuGqlEG2yjY

>>399579
Wow, you really are barely out of highschool.

>>399582
I never finished the Special Software Highschool, so you are right on that front.

>>399590
I am stupid as fuck. Thanks.

>>399590
I remember that program!

Earlier, I tried installing MegaSYNCH because I use Mega links so much and they had a song written about then once so why not? But then the installer was super dumb restarted explorer.exe under the admin account I used the installer with, so I cancelled the installation and restarted explorer. Later I rebooted for updates.

More recently (today), I moved an image from one account on my computer to another and noticed my main and admin accounts were giving password hints when i never set them to do that. They were arbitrary things like -1 for the admin and a string of four numbers/letters for the main one, which has nothing to do with my actual passwords? When I reset for an update again soon after the hints disappeared. I think at some point I should consider changing my account passwords.

Microsoft has literally the worst tech support ever holy fucking shit.

Do other languages have translated coding languages, or do they have to learn commands in English?

>>400037
English for most of them, especially lower level ones that expect ASCII. There's programming language made by people with other native languages, like Ruby, but even there keywords are English. Only exception I know of is http://animalnewyork.com/2013/arabic-programming-language-at-eyebeam-%D9%82%D9%84%D8%A8-opens-the-world/

/g/ is talking about an imgur exploit right now. idk shit, but it involves /r/4chan, 8chan and imgur. Also, conspiracies and pokemon.

Advice: don't open 8chan swfs or imgur links. it is unknown how many are exploited.

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2984889/windows-pcs/lenovo-collects-usage-data-on-thinkpad-thinkcentre-and-thinkstation-pcs.html

Nice job. I was going to install Linux on my next computer just because I want to use something as a server, but I don't think it'll be from Lenovo.

TL;DR problem solved, happy

Well, I use TrueCrypt (the loli-ish stuff on /pco/ is a very dark grey area where I live) and one of the folders was one with a hidden volume (basically it makes one "fake" encrypted folder with one password and a "real" encrypted folder behind it. Yeah, I was young and paranoid) and spent ten minutes trying to remember the password to the real archive, since I left vague clues in a notepad file. (60 char password)

Then I decided to change it to a simpler password, before realising that was also my password for the fake archive, so when I type in the real password, it comes up with the fake archive instead.
So I freaked out a bit, but then thought about it and realised than they both still existed, but the fake one opened first. So I changed the password and luckily only the fake half changed, and the real half kept the same password. So I'm really happy!

Stupid noobish question but I'd like to get an IRC client and don't quite know which one to go for. Different clients can connect to each other right?

I've heard a lot of them are basically the same but I'd still like to know if there are any specific recommendations. Right now I'm looking at HydraIRC.

>>401435

IRC is a protocol; whatever client you use to connect to an IRC server doesn't matter. Go with whichever client feels "right" to you.

>>401435
Rizon is an online one, but I assume you know about it already.
I used Xchat 2 (aka Ychat) which is a free version of Xchat. It's alright.

Also, what the last post said.

>>401436
Thanks.

Only two more weeks until I get proper internet. I'm so excited. No more 3-5 days of downloading for games on Steam.

As mentioned at the start of this thread I was trying to get a new PC for about $2000 dollars but I'm kinda whistling in the dark here, does anyone know a good way to check compatibility, it's really annoying.

Motherboard = Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P = $122
Ram = Corsair Dominator Platinum 16GB 1866MHzSpecs = $240
Videocard = GeForce GTX 980 = $700
Solid State Drive = Samsung 850 EVO or PRO based on advice $269
Medium Tower 700 Waterbed + Chassis = Corsair Graphite 780T PC $260
Processor = AMD FD8350FRHKBOX FX-8350 FX-Series 8-Core Black Edition $239.00
$1830


This is what I'm looking at thus far, if you've got any suggestions I'd be extremely happy to hear them, please mind the $2000 limit.

>>401681
Specifically I'm looking to game and stream.

>>401681
for concerns if they'll work well together run it through here. https://pcpartpicker.com/

For now that looks solid as the zone for current ram is 1866 and anything more than that is getting fractional increases. In a few years I'd say a full Desktop Replacement Laptop could do you for a good number of years.

I say wait on that as Nvidia is just now putting unlocked full 980s into laptops and I think it'll be about two or three years till they get all the kinks worked out as far as cooling goes and the pascal release doesn't look like it'll be here for at least another six months or so.

I'm thinking design based too heavily around what users do most often at the expense of making it harder to perform the unexpected can be likened to food designed around the substances most common in the human diet while ignoring essential trace nutrients.

>>401696
Fair enough, I think it'll turn out fine either way.

http://bgr.com/2015/10/15/adobe-flash-player-security-vulnerability-warning/
Better get rid of that shit fast.

>>401720
Done! I have the official uninstaller ready for cases like this.

Flash Patch may be out. Its on the adobe website someplace.

>>401751

Fuck Flash. The sooner it's dead, the better.

>>401754
I'm tec illiterate. Why is flash bad?

>>401757
It's sluggish, bloated, and causes way more trouble than it's worth with all its vulnerabilities and exploits.

>>401758

And it crashes more often than a NASCAR driver.

//youtube.com/watch?v=p30Ivw7hzhM

Explosion Simulation at a haunted house that I thought was cool.

Now that I've got my superfast new internet, I'm having a hard time finding places that even provide enough download speed to fully use it. Even Steam caps my download at 6MB/s. Weirdly enough, the highest I've gotten so far was 8.8 on PSN, which I thought was supposed to be notoriously slow.

>>402281
They will probably pay off the Adblock guys and/or threaten legal action if they don't disable it while on Youtube. Same thing for the downloading videos thing, they might threaten to take those sites down. I don't understand the music thing though.

>>402286

If they were able/interested in doing that, they would have done so years ago.

//youtube.com/watch?v=g2ZPw9UKfdM

>"You must restart to apply these changes" shows up when I didn't change anything but had just switched accounts
>shows up again when I switch back
This is not reassuring.

So, is Windows 7 ruined? I heard about Microsoft updating 7 and 8 with their spooky Windows 10 shit. I recently reinstalled from my recovery drive, and somehow it auto-updated and rewrote over my original, 2011 version. I've manually removed/switched off the features, but I'm seriously contemplating installing Gentoo now.

>>402420
You can uninstall the Windows 10 stuff updates and mark the updates as hidden to avoid having them installed. Though I won't blame you for switching to avoid problems we might not even know about.

Great...so now I don't have the key to microsoft office anymore. HP don't have it. Windows don't have it. Can anyone recommend a good free office suite?

>>402556
Open Office seems like the most obvious recommendation here.

>>402572

Yup. I use that and have never missed using MSOffice (mainly Word, but still).

Fuck printers. Nothing but troubles with them. And as an extension of that, fuck places that won't accept e-mail.

>>402556
Google docs! Super reliable. I use em for everything!

>>402638
I do for everything except storing notes that involve formulae. Google sucks at that.

I ended up downloading libre office. It's not as pretty as word, but the price is right.

>>402731
Wait what? What changed?

>>402740
They did make real-time analytics look a lot worse IMO (smaller display for individual videos) but overall not too bad.

I was thinking of maybe getting Flash again, but their downloads page only has the old outdated version. Does Adobe Flash really cost money now?

>>402853
>now
It has for years. Possibly try Macromedia Flash 8 (don't know if free, much less features) or pirate CS6 using the amtlib.dll infinite trial hack or a serial.

>>402855
So..... no official way to get a new version of Flash for free?

>>402859
You mean... the thing for displaying web stuff on your browser?

Or the vector drawing programme people used to make videos on newgrounds?

>>402853
The player is free, the editor is not.
Note that if you jut need something that compiles to Flash, there's Haxe and Swifmill.

>>402861
The player that plays stuff.

>>402866
Ah.

I know it's inbuilt in Chrome (unless something changed), and possibly is in Firefox since I don't recall a separate download. For offline stuff, just open with the browser.

>>402866

The Flash Player plugin has always been free. You’ll need to download the plugin for Firefox (and possibly for Chrome), but that’s a free download and anyone who says otherwise is lying to you.

>>402882
It's the fact Adobe's page has the 2 months old outdated version available only. I can recognize that .dmg anywhere.

Anyone know a good windows alternative to wavtap?

>>403022
Put a headphone splitter in your sound output jack, then use an audio cable to connect one of the outputs to the mic input?

>>403022
Audacity

New computer is an absolute joy, thanks to everyone who helped.

Why do all cracks have a soundtrack? Not complaining, this one is ok.

>>403518
mike?

VLC has the Christmas icon again!

>>403549
... and yet it still forgets the aspect ratio of DVDs when taking screenshots.

>>403551

No, it takes pictures of the video at the size of its source. DVD video's native aspect ratio is 720x480.

Now my speakers decided to stop working. I guess I really do need a new laptop.

>>403551
I just want it to stop resizing whenever I tell it to forget where I am up to. I already sent a bug notice months ago.

Holy fuck Illustrator, I just finished a whole layer of drawing and got it just about right and you crash on me? Why don't you have an autosave feature like Flash?

Now I have to try and recreate a full sized vector drawing from a 180x250 Navigator screenshot I got while it was freezing.

>>403591
That sucks massive donkey balls. Drawing vectors isn't fun. Thank fuck I'm out of art school and rarely have to do that again.

1. Turn on laptop
2. "No bootable device--insert boot disk and press any key."

Fuck. It's dead for good now, right?

>>403783

Uh...maybe. It could just be a loose connection with the hard drive. Or the hard drive could be dead.

I've got a 560Ti and a i5-2400 in my desktop. If I wanted to upgrade it, which would be more effective to replace first?

>>403783
You need to replace the hard drive. Whether or not you can recover date from the old one is irrelevant; you NEED to get a new one immediately.

>sort the my pictures folder by type
>.gif and .jpeg images still mixed as if they were interchangeable
No, computer. No.

>>403850
Make two folders for the different file types?

>>403842

Yeah I know. Might as well get a whole new one. It's been five years. I just don't want to switch to Windows 10 or have to learn Gentoo. Or spend money.

>>403856
You can just install Mint, cause it just werks, and learn to run your Windows apps through Wine.

I plan of getting Manjaro myself, but Mint is so much easier and has better support.

>>403858

I'll have to try that when I get a new hard drive and/or computer. Thanks.

>>403855
That woulnd't change the fact that something which worked before suddenly changed to not working without a good reason.
Looking into it further, apparently having both types set to open in paint.net by default caused it to think I wanted them grouped in a "paintnet files" type.
A tenuous correlation, and though the problem is worked around by having gifs open in a different program I'd prefer software that doesn't expect me to accept such a trend toward making things more presumptuous. Fortunately, there are some projects that aren't going in that direction, so I'll try keep an eye on them.

Turns out I'm not only moving to a better place, but also to an area with better internet coverage. Now I need to decide wether I want 100Mbit/s with no cap for 20 bucks or 200Mbit/s with a monthly cap of 1TB for 25.

>>404053
What on earth
I pay 50 for 20 Mb/s

>>404055
Our Secretary of Transport and Infrastructure here in Germany promised fiber optic internet in the entire country. Looks like he's actually working on it.

>>404055
About the same, no cap. Running internet TV, two laptops and a gaming desktop on it with no lag.

I have no idea what you'd use 100Mbit/s considering most servers couldn't even respond to that fully, that shit is only useful for offices with hundreds of computers.

I think you're confusing bit with byte here.

>>404056
That's cool, something Telecoms in the US were paid to do decades ago. Yea whole lotta progress on that. Hope he keeps those he employs to do it to a strict time table and doesn't let them bullshit.

A really smart guy explaining the whole 4K bullshit:
//youtube.com/watch?v=aOlYYV1fMTs

So this past Christmas, I got a Kano: http://us.kano.me/ It's a little computer thing for teaching children about computery stuff, and I figure it'd be a nice little machine for coding on Linux without haivng to deal with dual booting, virtual machines or whatever. For some reason you can easily break the video settings. For some reaosn there's only the option to flip the display and a menu that combines all the other options into a big list. So to change the resolution you also need to know what refresh rate the monitor has, unless you just leave the setting at "automatic".

I wanted a lower resolution for reading better on the small screen you make with the screen kit, but there was no indication as to what the current refresh rate was. I figured I could just guess, and if I got it wong there'd be somethig to keep the whole computer from being broken. I mean, it is made for children three and up so I don't think it ought to break just from a video setting change. Incidentally, I thought a big thing about Linux was that you don't need to reboot for things, but it makes you reboot to change video settings?

But not only does Kano nee dot reboot to alter video settings, it also just leaves you with a black screen if the settings don't work, leaving you unable to see what you're doing to go into the settinga again to change them back. So this morning I got the Kano to use safe mode by putting a the drive in my desktop and going into a config file.

That made the monitor work at all, but now it won't start the desktop and just keeps rebooting itself after showing the command prompt and running a script in the background that presumably tries to laod the desktop and reboots when it realises it's in safe mode.. So now I'll go looking up information on what else I can try to get this toy to actually work again.

>>404171
>Watch for 2 minutes
Jesus what an asshole.

No matter how many times I check Arch Linux's web site, it's NEVER down. Never.

Good job, people who run it.

>>404742

I wonder how long it’ll take Twitter to ape this.

>computer crashes
>restart
>computer decides to do that long-ass disk check thing
>press any key to abort within 10 seconds
>mash entire keyboard, but the computer doesn't detect the keyboard during that think for some unknown reason
Looks like I'm on mobile for the next hour

>>404742
To better collect analytics.
Specifically, on questions like whether the public actually approves something or just gives it a lot of attention.

>>404755
>>404765
Alright, I think it's fixed now.

After a few crashes, two different Blue Screens and a little bit of messing around, I have come to the conclusion that the cause was........
a fucking .ogv file from encyclopedia dramatica. it didn't even need to be opened and it still caused fatal crashes after a few minutes of logging on. deleted it and now the computer is running fine

So windows 10. I like that it actually looks like a desktop over 8.1 but before I upgrade what are the ways to defang all of windows 10 intrusive nonsense. This is my work and gaming lappy not the home base Surfer which is staying with 7.

>>404961
>what are the ways to defang all of windows 10 intrusive nonsense
Really, you either need to get over your paranoia or you need to stick with 7. There are ways to turn off some of the features, but Windows 10 is never going to be intrusion-free.

>>405045

>you either need to get over your paranoia or you need to stick with 7

Or install gentoo. Heh.

How about white spots on ips panels? Don't know how it got there but I've got one on the lower left corner of my laptop. I've heard it's caused by pressure from the back panel behind the LEDs

http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/24/microsoft-silences-its-new-a-i-bot-tay-after-twitter-users-teach-it-racism/

There is a lesson here.

>>405054
This old touch-phone has grey spots on the top left. It's water that got in the recently cracked glass. They move a little bit.

>>405481
Haven't they heard of cleverbot before?

>>405481
And here I had just recently written down some of my ideas on chatbot making that were initially centered around exactly that sort of problem. I should go ahead and finish it up, then put it on the internet somehwhere.

Your fortune: Bad Luck

>need to downsize some videos
>have two tools, Freemake converter and Handbrake converter
>Handbrake is excellent, options galore
>Freemake has next to no options, but allows length cropping of videos
I halved the length of a 40 min video using Freemake and the file was larger once completed. Thats how bad the encoding is. I have a shit computer and I'm going for a low file size so some videos are taking an hour in Handbrake.
So if I want to crop and compress a video, I need to convert it in Freemake and then convert it again in Handbrake.


fug

From a porn comic thread:
>"Jpeg is also a lossy filetype, and tends to lose fidelity with subsequent distributions. A 'fresh' jpeg might look fine, but once it's been copied and transfered a few times pixels start to take on the wrong colors and things become blotchy and mishapen."

I don't think its a troll either.

>>406018
Uh...yes?

>>406018
Maybe not an attempt at trolling by that user, but it was made as an easily spread urban legend to troll people.

>>406025
The deception is that it glosses over the part where a jpg only gets blurrier when it's modified and re-saved, rather than each time you move the whole file. A similar troll rumor exists for mp3s which claims that they somehow degrade over time.

If you have any interesting work hosted on a university website, please have a mirror of it somewhere else and have people link to it. because there is an exceedingly high likelyhood that it's going to be removed soon after you're no longer enrolled.

Well, the computer's making noises and freezing every so often. Time to back up everything.

Holy fuck this government education site has shit design

>cant enter custom security question
ok sure
>when you forget your six digit PIN and have to reset, you need to select the correct security question you picked and the answer
If i've forgotten the password, what makes you think I remember the fucking security QUESTION?

>>406144
>using exact percentage to measure volume on YouTube
Just..... why.

Long exposure is the comfiest photography setting.

>>406380
Enjoying the west coast weather?

>>406382
East coast of Australia? It's ok...

Crossfade.io is good technology.
http://crossfade.io/#!/tem1321gvz

>all of /tek/
>this entire fucking thread

There is no valid reason to own a desktop personal computer in this day and age.

If you absolutely need to have a computer, you can use any cloud computing netbook.
If you want to play games or browse the internet, every cellphone has this option, and if you don't like that just use Steam on any cloud computing netbook as well.

The environment is a beautiful thing. Desktops are tools specifically meant designed for obsolescence and environmental destruction. It's unbelievable that people today still think consumers should have an option of buying something that wrecks the planet for the rest of us. You're not a programmer, you're never going to be.

I'm literally screaming with laughter at all you wanna be faux haxxor idiots. you will never be able to hack someone because our police force will stop you.

>>406500
Spoken like a true /g/entooman!