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  1. If you have chrome installed (it is preinstalled on the school computers @ my school) visit folding.stanford.edu/nacl
  2. This made me LOL so much Basically, we have laptops at school with completely overkill processors (core i7), terrible battery life, not enough ram, and a puny hard drive (the lack of SSD kills me). Soooo, what I do is as soon as I finish my work (so I have enough battery to get it done), I fold @ 100%, using the nacl client. I then plug it in, set it so closing the screen doesn't turn it on suspend, lock the screen and fold. Now that's all well and good, but I convinced all my friends, and even the librarian to set it up. I'm either doing that on the school laptops, pulling the back of it and inspecting, or turning my friend's screen off, or crashing their computer with ~400 calculators open if they fail to comply to my folding requests. Forcing people to donate computational power to charity, it normally works.
  3. Hmm. That makes sense. I just think that it works better in Australia, because GST (Good and Services Tax) is standardised at 10% all throughout the country, and it is ALWAYS included in prices. I personally think it's quite a bit better for people who travel and that sort of thing. Not to mention (slightly off topic) we have virtually indestructable notes "bills".
  4. I personally think that it's not particularly decent for a company to be advertising prices without tax. In Australia, the tax is always included in the prices, and if it is not, the company is sued by the ACCC. I think that that system works better, it is much less confusing.
  5. I got a decent one for 640 AUD not long ago: Core i5 3337U, NVidia 710M, 750GB HDD, 8GB RAM etc. Also this doesn't belong in hot deals, it belongs in mobile devices. It may look like I only have like 10 posts, but my main was lost in the forum breach.
  6. @Guggy lol I got a notification for you "mentioning" me
  7. Thanks so much for your help. This fixed the problem, and I replied to you earlier, but my internet dropped out, sorry about that. Thankyou.
  8. Do you know how I can do that? Thanks a ton for that suggestion, more help than 2 hours of googeling. When I do that, it brings up the projection menu, but immediately closes itself due to all of the "clicking" on the touch screen. Do you know how to stop this?
  9. OnePlus one, OnePlus two if you can afford it. If you have problems with invites, get it off ebay. All of the sellers are legit from what I've seen.
  10. Hey LTT My screen in the bottom left corner cracked (thanks to a combination of me and my cat) and made the touch screen occasionally ghost touch, so I disabled the touch screen driver. Then the crack spread tons, but it didn't matter because the driver disabled. Allright, so windows decided to automatically update itself while I had my PC on during school, and then for some reason it re-enabled the driver (**** you windows 10). The screen is spazing out, with 10 touches always on it at random places, and then it is jumping around. I managed to log in once, when it stopped for an interval for about 2 seconds, but in three days of on-off trying it, up to 20 mins at a time, I have not had another opportunity like that one. I cannot log in, the only way I can restart is force-power-off and switch back on (which I have tried around 30 times) and it still doesn't fix the problem. There is no disable touch screen button on the keyboard. I've devoted TONS of time configuring, organising files, not to mention money upgrading the laptop, and I don't have a desktop, so I am free of a computer at the moment. It is an acer laptop, v5 i think, not sure on the exact model. Some suggestions I have found is to restart into safe mode, but IDK how to do that considering that it is one of those laptops where you cannot access the bios unless you do custom stuff with the bootloader. I have no ideas, my dad has no ideas, my friends have no ideas (other than to install linux, but I can't see that working either). I'm really stuck, ANY help is really appreciated, and I need this laptop to be working soon. If you have anything to say, any questions, any potential solutions, PLEASE leave a comment. Thanks, Ben
  11. "Even if there was on the Samsung phones, they were always 5 months late and after that, no more updates." That's the most major part. If you get a respectable device such as a nexus one, then you get software updates really regularly. At least it isn't the iPhone, my mum's iPhone 5 downloaded iOS 9 on mobile data. Seriously, mobile data, without her asking it to and without her clicking accept or whatever it is. Also, everyone, would you recommend the OnePlus One or the Asus ZenFone 2?
  12. If you can spend $750, get this http://www.amazon.com/Dell-Inspiron-i7559-763BLK-Full-HD-GeForce/dp/B015PYYDMQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1448783403&sr=8-1&keywords=dell+laptop+960m
  13. Hey LTT I'm wondering whether to buy a ZenFone 2 or a OnePlus One. I have heard extremely good things about them both. Here are the prices for me where I can get them in Australia ZenFone 2 2GB RAM 16GB storage: $300 ZenFone 2 4GB RAM 32GB storage: $350 ZenFone 2 4GB RAM 64GB storage: $450 OnePlus One 3GB RAM 16GB storage $400 OnePlus One 3GB RAM 64GB storage $450 Also, what capacity do you think would be worth it, and would I see a difference in the RAM bump on the ZenFone? Thanks EDIT: Can you also please recommend what phone to get in Australia, in Australian dollars around that price range if you select "none of these"? Thanks
  14. I'm an extreme newcomer to this forum, and a fairly new person when it comes down to the Youtube channel. My PC journey is as follows. I was doing an activity at school (I was in yr 7 at that stage) and some yr 10s were looking at this website that had cool products on it. I went home and looked at it, because it had a ton of products on it. Near the bottom of that webpage, I saw a link to the SCAN tardis computer, and I immediately wanted one. There were just a few problems: It was a UK site and I'm in Australia, it wasn't using "fourth generation" processors, and finally, it just cost a ton of money, even for the pentium . Since I knew that we had to do a personal project in yr 9 anyway, I decided to build one myself, and build a custom case with it.version I researched computer parts extremely thoroughly, reading online guides to build computers. My original planned build included a highish end AMD processor and a 7750 / 7790 depending whether I had to get my parts from Australia or whether I could get them from the US (I was limited to ITX sized cards). I later decided on the lowest end haswell i5. Later, after stumbling around on Youtube, I found a video of Linus' rant on the r7 240. I liked him as a tech reviewer (?) straight away. Now i'm subscribed to 5 channels: one of my friend's, Linus Tech Tips, Techquickie, Channel Superfun and Linus Cat Tips. Probably the happiest moment of this year for me was Linus mentioning me in the most recent WAN show (mentioning the mistake that i corrected with AMD's naming scheme. If I had a million dollars lying around, I would donate it to Linus for creating all the great videos that I know everyone loves (including the people trolling Linus by hitting dislike. How else do you explain them?)
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