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    0x550x42 reacted to EpicGeekonFire in i suck at driving   
    Yeah seriously, its burning out my internal GPU. 
     
    OP it seems you are under a lot of pressure. More practice could always help. After all, practice makes perfect. 
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    0x550x42 got a reaction from 570rmy in Laptop connects to some websites, but not others.   
    Check the firewall exceptions..
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    0x550x42 reacted to HEXiT in Experiences with non-techies   
    Must read.... I borrowed this from a friends post..
    Recently, when I went to McDonald's I saw on the menu that you could have an order of 6, 9 or 12 Chicken McNuggets.
    I asked for a half dozen nuggets.
    'We don't have half dozen nuggets,' said the teenager at the counter.
    'You don't?' I replied.
    'We only have six, nine, or twelve,' was the reply.
    'So I can't order a half dozen nuggets, but I can order six?'
    'That's right.'
    So I shook my head and ordered six McNuggets
    (Unbelievable but sadly true...)
    (Must have been the same one I asked for sweetener,
    and she said they didn't have any, only Splenda and sugar.)
    TWO
    I was checking out at the local Wal-Mart with just a few items and the lady behind me put her things on the belt close to mine. I picked up one of those 'dividers' that they keep by the cash register and placed it between our things so they wouldn't get mixed.
    After the girl had scanned all of my items, she picked up the
    'divider', looking it all over for the bar code so she could scan it.
    Not finding the bar code, she said to me, 'Do you know how much this is?'
    I said to her 'I've changed my mind; I don't think I'll buy that today.'
    She said 'OK,' and I paid her for the things and left.
    She had no clue to what had just happened.
    ( But the lady behind me had a big smirk on her face as I left)
    THREE
    A woman at work was seen putting a credit card into her floppy drive and pulling it out very quickly.
    When I inquired as to what she was doing, she said she was shopping on the Internet and they kept asking for a credit card number, so she was using the ATM 'thingy.'
    (Keep shuddering!!)
    FOUR
    I recently saw a distraught young lady weeping beside her car. 'Do you need some help?' I asked. She replied, 'I knew I should have replaced the battery to this remote door unlocker. Now I can't get into my car. Do you think they (pointing to a distant convenience store) would have a battery to fit this?'
    'Hmmm, I don't know. Do you have an alarm, too?' I asked.
    'No, just this remote thingy,' she answered,
    handing it and the car keys to me. As I
    took the key and manually unlocked the door, I
    replied, 'Why don't you drive over there and
    check about the batteries. It's a long walk....'
    PLEASE just lay down before you hurt yourself !!!
    FIVE
    Several years ago, we had an Intern who was none too swift. One day she was typing and turned to a secretary and said, 'I'm almost out of typing paper. What do I do?' 'Just use paper from the photocopier', the secretary told her. With that, the intern took her last remaining blank piece of paper, put it on the photocopier and proceeded to make five 'blank' copies.
    Brunette, by the way!!
    SIX
    A mother calls 911 very worried asking the dispatcher if she needs to take her kid to the emergency room, the kid had eaten ants. The dispatcher tells her to give the kid some Benadryl and he should be fine, the mother says, 'I just gave him some ant killer......'
    Dispatcher: 'Rush him in to emergency right away'
    Life is tough. It's even tougher if you're Stupid!!!!
    Someone had to remind me, so I'm reminding you too.
    Don't laugh....it is all true...
    my nephew just posted this on his facebook, so i thought i could share it here... number 3 is typical tech noob...
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    0x550x42 reacted to DLM_012 in Experiences with non-techies   
    Nobody has a right to complain about anything if it's in their power to fix it which in her particular case, buy a new computer.
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    0x550x42 reacted to Trommenissen in Experiences with non-techies   
    hmm experiences with non techies?
    well i helped my grandmother find a new laptop for her. When we got the new computer home to her i helped her setting it up and showed her the most important stuff. Later that week she ,called me and told me to "come fix the cup holder" on her computer and then hang up. I figured she was just confused or something considering that she is 76. So i walked to her, when i came in and she showed me her computer, it turned out that she had been using her cd drive for a cup holder for her coffee, she had then managed to spill the coffee over the laptop.
    long story short, don't buy your grandmother a computer with a cd drive, it can end badly.
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    0x550x42 reacted to Sardis in Experiences with non-techies   
    A young friend of mine, who doesn't have much money, is slowly upgrading his rig so I decided that I would give him my old 8800GTX, which is still a beast for how old it is, until he could afford a new card. Anyway I ran this card in a few different systems over the years and it's been a champion and a couple of months after I gave it to him I asked him how it was going and he said that it doesn't work anymore... I remembered that he had a low watt PSU, around 450 watts and he eventually revealed that the PSU only had one six pin PCI-e power cable so he used a single molex to PCI-e adaptor... I told him that was why it broke because molex is never designed to handle the kind of load like PCI-e but he still insists that I gave him a dodgy graphics card. :/
    Also I know a lot of people have horror stories with trying to teach their mothers various things on the computer. I'm a very patient person and not very emotional at all but I've been almost frustrated to the point of tears just trying to explain some of the simplest things to her. I don't know whether it's just because she's from an older generation but she finds it impossible to just sit quietly and watch what I do and copy what I do, she has to start drama over how she doesn't understand and we never explain it properly... in the middle of me explaining it to her... sigh thank goodness I've moved to a different city but I feel bad for my dad now hahaha
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    0x550x42 reacted to rainbrodash666 in Experiences with non-techies   
    oh, oh I have a good one, my sisters "tech master" boyfriend said that minecraft is a huge virus and that it is a problem on their laptop, (it is installed so my niece can play on my server) he says that the connection to my server in installing viruses and keeps uninstalling minecraft, but he never even looks twice at the limewire they use to get music and videos. and they don't even run any antivirus, they uninstalled the free version of avg I put on their laptop because it was a virus too according to him.
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    0x550x42 reacted to Carter in Experiences with non-techies   
    I have a sort of funny story:
    My grandad has a laptop and doesn't really know much about computers (only how to go on the Internet and to play steam games). He had norton on it that kept telling him to backup his hdd, so ha called up my auntie to sort it out for him. It turns out that what she actually did was somehow tell norton to back up his c:/ drive, to the c:/ drive! When I highlighted this to her, explaining that it was completely pointless, she just shrugged and told me he had plenty of space... Crazy!
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    0x550x42 reacted to BenHTBDT in Experiences with non-techies   
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    0x550x42 reacted to DigiKing in Experiences with non-techies   
    Some guy at school: Xbox has such better graphics and stuff than pc.
    Me: then why is a pc usually more expensive?
    guy: i dunno... A controller is better for fps anyway.
    me: but it's less accurate and turning is slower, among other things.
    guy: yeah but it levels the playing field for everybody. Multiplayer games are more fair then.
    me: and some pc gamers don't use a keyboard and mouse?
    guy: well, no but...
    Some other guy: I built my own computer for 2000$. It can play crysis 1 on maximum.
    Me: so can my $700 laptop.
    I recently overheard a best buy geek squad guy tell some dude he should use vga on his pc for best results.
    NOOOOOOOO!!!
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    0x550x42 reacted to brav3st in Experiences with non-techies   
    I also made the mistake to start doing computer stuff for my friends and family. Everyone i've ever helped now thinks that i'm their personal support guy for everything. My top 5:
    5)
    Friend bought a SSD and installed it (he's not that of a noob). Still asked me why it wasn't reading with 450MB/s as promised, so i asked him if he used the fast sata-port on his board (labeled blue). He told me that he used the blue one, so i drove over to him, just to see that be had his HDD in the fast port and his SSD in the slow one.
    4)
    My mother told me that she wants a new computer, so i asked her if i should build her one. She said no and went to "Saturn" (like best-buy but in germany) and got a complete system there. She payed about 800$ for a system with an i3, a gtx 540, 4 gigs of ram and 500 gigs of harddrive space....
    3)
    A friend of mine made a steam account with a fake e-mail-adress. After buying 3 games with his pay-pal-account for ~120$ he restarted his computer, just to realize that he couldn't play the games because his mail was fake and he couldn't get into his steam-account anymore.
    2)
    After i built a computer for a friend of mine, he started complaining about the system bluescreening all the time. While checking his rig, i realized that he had removed the cpu-cooler (out of curiousity) and cleaned off the thermal paste because he thought it was dirty. So obviously his cpu got too hot and made his pc crash every time he booted up. Because he tried to boot up his system uncountable times, his 300$ i7 was broken too. Good job on that.
    1)
    My ex-girlfriend got a macbook pro. She turned it on for the first time and played around a while, after about 10 minutes she asked me where the Internet Explorer is because she wanted to surf the interwebz. I lol'd.
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    0x550x42 reacted to rhyseyness in Experiences with non-techies   
    My mum feels the need to turn off my wireless network at night because she fears "The waves will affect her brain."
    ...apparently only when she's sleeping too
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    0x550x42 reacted to Glaith in Experiences with non-techies   
    OR when they double click on the single click link, its not just a normal double click its a lift ur index finger perfectly straight the double click in a slow perfect motion. haha
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    0x550x42 reacted to Bob in Experiences with non-techies   
    If any one ever goes to that site they should have all of their internets taken away.
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    0x550x42 reacted to cluelessgenius in Home Automation   
    im actually really planning on doing this kinda thing. i got a raspberry pi lying around ill get some sensors soon and start with a simple clap-on function for waking my pc when i get home but ultimatly im planning on controlling windows blinds, lights, heating and room fan. also maybe have the coffe ready when i get home would be nice i love how as a software developer i already have the knowledge to do all that it just need a little money. 
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    0x550x42 got a reaction from Toddwjp in [C++] Recommended Books / Other Resources   
    C++ by Sumita Das
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    0x550x42 got a reaction from Vexstrillus in Good Java Books/eBooks?   
    Java 2 - The Complete Reference by Herbert Schildt
    You can pick a free PDF on google and it is the most detailed book I have ever come across..
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    0x550x42 got a reaction from -TesseracT- in I liked more the task manager of Win7   
    Is this what you want..?
     

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    0x550x42 reacted to EMENCII in I liked more the task manager of Win7   
    Love you guys <3
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    0x550x42 got a reaction from EMENCII in I liked more the task manager of Win7   
    Is this what you want..?
     

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    0x550x42 got a reaction from Albatross in Windows 7 Image   
    I'm not sure about the windows image part, But you can sign-in with your google account in chrome and everything gets synced as it was on the previous machine...
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    0x550x42 got a reaction from Albatross in Windows 7 Image   
    You can create one real quick, It's the best way to do what you are trying to do, without any hassle..
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    0x550x42 got a reaction from dadasmithywinkle in Time for linux   
    I tried switching to Linux once but ended up frustrated...
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    0x550x42 got a reaction from TheKDub in Time for linux   
    I tried switching to Linux once but ended up frustrated...
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    I tried switching to Linux once but ended up frustrated...
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