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On some Dutch gaming forum and someone was asking for assistance on a gaming build. Starts off with:

"Hey, hey. Right now I am gaming on quad core i2"

 

Thought this was kinda funny :P

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It needed to be formally mentioned here:

My sister recently spent 3 hours "trying to install Minecraft" on both of her sons laptops.

 

How exactly one manage to take so long doing that I still do not know.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

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It needed to be formally mentioned here:

My sister recently spent 3 hours "trying to install Minecraft" on both of her sons laptops.

 

How exactly one manage to take so long doing that I still do not know.

What was she doing :o

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What was she doing :o

 

That wasn't far off what my expression was like when I'd found out ( :o / :blink: ). As to what it what that she was doing exactly, well I never did quite get to the bottom of it. I find that the best practice when dealing with family and their IT problems is to stay far away and suddenly become very busy and very unavailable. Unless of course you happen to be a sadist that is...

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

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What was she doing :o

Clicked no on the windows alert, probably.

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What light button? I have had my H440 for 4 months and I have no f*cking clue what you guys are talking about. Does the NZXT logo on the PSU shroud light up? I am pretty sure I am being stupid right now, pls 4give :P

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Sometimes I see threads...Sometimes I want to link them here but I don't think it would be an appropriate thing to do. All I'm going to say is Gen discussion, the OP and "Worse than a 960".

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Sometimes I see threads...Sometimes I want to link them here but I don't think it would be an appropriate thing to do. All I'm going to say is Gen discussion, the OP and "Worse than a 960".

 

Saw that thread title before I refreshed the page to check for notifications.

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When I worked at a moving company I used to set up computer for some of the guys. One guy decided format.exe might be a fun game to play. He was freaking out that he destroyed his computer. 

   This was on talk radio from a tech support guy from compaq in the 90's. A woman called to complain, the coffee cup holder is broke. The guy was confused and he asked if shes sure it is part of her pc. She said yes. He asked her to describe it to him. She said it has a button and it says two x and when she pushes the button the coffee cup holder no longer pops out. He had to transfer her call to another tech cause he was in tears.

I think the funniest thing was the number of IT professionals who dont password protect their pc before the movers show up. Thoses stories I am taking with me to the grave:)

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I thought this was meant to be a happy place. I was wrong.

 

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fuck you dude. xD

jk

 

That wasn't far off what my expression was like when I'd found out ( :o / :blink: ). As to what it what that she was doing exactly, well I never did quite get to the bottom of it. I find that the best practice when dealing with family and their IT problems is to stay far away and suddenly become very busy and very unavailable. Unless of course you happen to be a sadist that is...

you mean masochist? 

a sadist enjoys watching pain... helping idiots is literally self harm. 

Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger, forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart. 
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My sister thought micro computers were made by microsoft...

and super computers are made by Superboner?

Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger, forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart. 
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Back when I was in school I installed Halo CE to the school server and put links to the files on all the computers and the reaction from the principal (who is super anti-gun by the way) was priceless when she walked into the computer lab and every computer was being manned by a kid playing halo. I was never caught.

 

Edit: The non-techie part is that they never quite figured out how to uninstall it and I'm pretty sure that it's still lurking on their servers waiting for a fellow techie to discover and relink the files. That will be a glorious day.

Insert Sarcasm / Raging / Bragging / Inspirational Crap Here.

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Back when I was in school I installed Halo CE to the school server and put links to the files on all the computers and the reaction from the principal (who is super anti-gun by the way) was priceless when she walked into the computer lab and every computer was being manned by a kid playing halo. I was never caught.

Priceless. 

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I have decided to not tell people when i upgrade my computer. Afterall getting this:

 

http://www.pbtech.co.nz/index.php?z=p&p=VGAAS59985&name=Asus-GT610-1GB-GDDR3-SILENT-PCI-E-video-card--VGAD

 

Will do me well in what i do for work..... O.o got told spending $350 on a 960 for my PC was "too much"

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I've bought like three LGA775 motherboards for my core 2 duo e8400 because chipsets.

Insert Sarcasm / Raging / Bragging / Inspirational Crap Here.

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Back when I was in school I installed Halo CE to the school server and put links to the files on all the computers and the reaction from the principal (who is super anti-gun by the way) was priceless when she walked into the computer lab and every computer was being manned by a kid playing halo. I was never caught.

I used to do this with halo and CS 1.6

 

Brang a whole new definition to "pool day" on the days of the swimming carnivals :lol:

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two of my friends recently called me on skype so i could walk them through installing an aio cpu cooler, they fail super hard and one of them thinks that thermal paste is glue so he squirts a shitload on there and FORCES the cooler down on the cpu. (he didnt use any mounting brackets, or well he did but when he pressed the cooler down with all his weigth he bent them to hell and now he is yelling at me bechause i dont know shit about computers and he cant RMA his mobo)

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My motherboard has only one sata cable included. Yay!

I have this problem too, I hate how budget mobos don't have more than two cables with them.

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I have this problem too, I hate how budget mobos don't have more than two cables with them.

Would you rather everyone paid extra (even if most used say two cables)and you got say four SATA cables?  Remember these are BUDGET boards.

SATA cables are cheap for those that need more than supplied .  Cheapest I have seen on Amazon are 67p ( $1.00) mind you at that price they are probably of just adequate quality so I wouldn't hold out many hopes for them .

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today did I see someone using both hands to do Ctrl-c Ctrl-v letting go of the mouse and all, I wanted to facepalm so hard at that moment.

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The teachers use macbook airs at our school

Our guidance counselor has filled up her 256GB SSD with so much...stuff, that her computer has started to delete the little images for the back buttons, trash icon in the dock, etc. She refuses to delete the many blurry picture stuck on her laptop. She refuses to get an external drive. She is confused as to why she can't download things. 

 

And worst of all

 

She got the laptop about a year ago

 

Yes, a year

 

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two of my friends recently called me on skype so i could walk them through installing an aio cpu cooler, they fail super hard and one of them thinks that thermal paste is glue so he squirts a shitload on there and FORCES the cooler down on the cpu. (he didnt use any mounting brackets, or well he did but when he pressed the cooler down with all his weigth he bent them to hell and now he is yelling at me bechause i dont know shit about computers and he cant RMA his mobo)

Lold so hard xD gg bruh

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Didn't know this thread was a thing but here is what happened to me earlier

 

So earlier my brother asked me to install the Microsoft office suite on his laptop.. I went ahead and did it and then he asked if I could install google docs....

yea... you read that right... then I explained the concept of google to him and now he knows.....

 

Yea.....

/facepalm 

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