Experiences with non-techies

[daniellearmouth]

34 minutes ago, BurgerBum said:

Ａｓｒｏｃｋ　Ｈ９７　Ａｎｎｉｖｅｒｓａｉｒｙ　ＡＴＸ　ＬＧＡ１１５０

that font. tell me now. i need it. i also need a 'classy' looking super pixely font. but bleh.

Just add the Microsoft IME keyboard settings for Japanese and switch to that.

[BurgerBum]

2 minutes ago, daniellearmouth said:

Just add the Microsoft IME keyboard settings for Japanese and switch to that.

wat

[daniellearmouth]

Just now, BurgerBum said:

wat

Go onto Control Panel, find the region settings, and in the keyboard settings add the Japanese settings.

 

Settings.

[BurgerBum]

1 minute ago, daniellearmouth said:

Go onto Control Panel, find the region settings, and in the keyboard settings add the Japanese settings.

 

Settings.

-oh-

already got that i'm a dummy cause its 5 30 am. 

....shit now i'm using british layout and thats not enabled.

compuder. y u du dis.

[DimasRMDO]

12 hours ago, cadabri said:

People who... *Shiver* think macs are always better than pcs

Every time I want to talk, they keep on resisting/cutting me, makes me go like this...

 

I'm not a Mac hater, but uh... This has been in my head for a long time.... I just want to let it out.

[brune67]

copy and pasted from r/talesfromtechsupport. submitted by CMDR_muffy

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I don't know if there's a post limit here or whatever, but this is another story I wanted to share.

Guy came in with a custom built desktop that wouldn't even power on. His two teenage kids were with him and we were all making smalltalk while diagnosing the problem. Did the usual. Firstly checked to make sure the case front panel was properly plugged into the board. No errors there. Maybe it's the PSU? Nope, that's good. Maybe the video card is causing a problem? Nope, still won't power on even with the GPU out.

Hmmm...at this point I'm beginning to think they just forgot to install the risers and destroyed the motherboard. To my surprise, nope. Those were in too. I couldn't figure this out. So decided to do a bench test. Took everything out and just hooked up the bare necessities. Still nothing.

At this point I don't know what else to check...I mean, it can't be the CPU, can it? Surely the CPU isn't bad, in all my time I've only seen a bad CPU once.

Went to pop out the CPU...and I saw something disturbing. The CPU itself was bent. Yes. Bent. There was a huge dent right down the die lid, like someone took it and tried to snap it in half. What the hell? I took the CPU out and the mating pins on the socket were all bent out of shape, well beyond simply bending them back.

Me: Okay. Who did this?
Him: Whoa, what happened there?
Me: Whoever installed this CPU did it very wrong and it is also the wrong one. It doesn't even match the socket of this motherboard.
Him: Well my son who picked out the parts and installed them is a computer expert! Are you sure?
Me: They call them zero-insertion force for a reason. This is not zero-insertion force. It looks like he took a sledgehammer to it to get it to fit. This CPU is destroyed, and you won't be able to return it. So you're out $350 on that.
Him: Are you sure?
Me: Yes. You may be able to send the board back if you just tell them you got it like that, but this CPU is beyond saving. Next time, just bring everything here and I will put it together for you.

About a week later he came back with replacement parts, and I installed it all for him and set everything up. Thank goodness. I never got to talk to the supposed "computer expert" son (he wasn't in the store the first time), but if I ever do meet him I think I'm gonna punch him.

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[JoePro87]

4 hours ago, brune67 said:

About a week later he came back with replacement parts, and I installed it all for him and set everything up. Thank goodness. I never got to talk to the supposed "computer expert" son (he wasn't in the store the first time), but if I ever do meet him I think I'm gonna punch him.

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Punch him for me, too, okay?

[brune67]

1 hour ago, JoePro87 said:

Punch him for me, too, okay?

you do realize this wasnt actually me right? that was from reddit.

[DirtyDane]

8 hours ago, BingoFishy said:

Maybe he works on older PCs from time to time.

i do. alot of older shit. im working on a network pro certification at this time and the course still uses them so they are required knowledge for our exams. the course im using is from err let me check i know it needs updated a bit. .... well the videos arent dated anymore. i could have sworn they where. all i know is we are getting updated content on all courses next year, at least i think. this is the service if anyone is curious http://www.testout.com/ i do this alongside highschool at a vocational school. so while i sure as hell dont have as much experience as most people here ive got at least a decent ammount of knowledge. next year im going to keep going even though i graduate this year, and i am trying to figure out which course to go with since i get to pick next year. my choices are windows server(which i dont think i need since to my knowledge linux is far more common for server operating systems but correct me if im wrong), CCNA, or security. im leaning twards cisco since i hear that is incredibly useful. either that or a grammar class since mine sucks.

Edited April 11, 2016 by DirtyDane

[DirtyDane]

6 hours ago, daniellearmouth said:

Just add the Microsoft IME keyboard settings for Japanese and switch to that.

hes right although you gotta switch it to caps and type in a weird way all lower case letters need to have shift held down since caps lock will let you do this.

[DebatED Nothing]

27 minutes ago, DirtyDane said:

i do. alot of older shit 

Fair enough

[MDPS]

@DirtyDane How'd you get a custom font like that? I can't use any but the included ones. Also, to keep this relevant, there's this guy I know who's definitely not me who doesn't know how to add a custom font. Haha what a loser.

[DirtyDane]

1 minute ago, MDPS said:

@DirtyDane How'd you get a custom font like that? I can't use any but the included ones. Also, to keep this relevant, there's this guy I know who's definitely not me who doesn't know how to add a custom font. Haha what a loser.

its not a custom font within windows (if its 7 i dont remember the steps off the top of my head) on windows 10 you can go into settings>time&language>Regieon&language>add a language   i added the japanese language to my system. once you do that on your taskbar there will be the letters ENG click those to bring up a list of languages on the system, select japanese. once you do that click in a field that you can enter text and again in the task bar click the  A and make sure it changes to a i beleive it is hiragana character. that will set your keyboard to use hiragana katakana and kanji but to write in english with that weird font. you will want to hit caps lock and hold shift while typing. pressing the space bar will often bring up a list of possible text (since thats how you shorten things down to kanji or more relevant characters. you will want to hit enter if the cursor moves to the beginning of the word you typed. then you can hit space

sorry that was kinda a mess as an explanation but i hope it made some sense

 

[JoePro87]

4 hours ago, brune67 said:

you do realize this wasnt actually me right? that was from reddit.

I don't care. Find him. Punch him.

[BingoFishy]

36 minutes ago, DirtyDane said:

its not a custom font within windows (if its 7 i dont remember the steps off the top of my head) on windows 10 you can go into settings>time&language>Regieon&language>add a language   i added the japanese language to my system. once you do that on your taskbar there will be the letters ENG click those to bring up a list of languages on the system, select japanese. once you do that click in a field that you can enter text and again in the task bar click the  A and make sure it changes to a i beleive it is hiragana character. that will set your keyboard to use hiragana katakana and kanji but to write in english with that weird font. you will want to hit caps lock and hold shift while typing. pressing the space bar will often bring up a list of possible text (since thats how you shorten things down to kanji or more relevant characters. you will want to hit enter if the cursor moves to the beginning of the word you typed. then you can hit space

sorry that was kinda a mess as an explanation but i hope it made some sense

 

On topic please.

[Unhelpful]

7 minutes ago, BingoFishy said:

On topic please.

I don't recommend policing telling people to stay on topic in somebody elses thread unless it's serious derailing, leave that luxury to a topics creator. People are allowed to have conversations. 

 

Besides, even mods have been known to de-rail  this is a community first.

[BingoFishy]

9 minutes ago, JoeyDM said:

I don't recommend policing telling people to stay on topic in somebody elses thread unless it's serious derailing, leave that luxury to a topics creator. People are allowed to have conversations. 

 

Besides, even mods have been known to de-rail  this is a community first.

I know. But conversations are for PMs.

[DirtyDane]

5 minutes ago, BingoFishy said:

I know. But conversations are for PMs.

it was one post i dont think its a big deal besides isnt discussing derailing topics off topic. 

you could have just as easilly PMed me about staying on topic

Edited April 12, 2016 by DirtyDane

[BingoFishy]

Just now, DirtyDane said:

it was one post i dont think its a big deal besides isnt discussing derailing topics off topic. 

It is. But it also was 4-5 posts.

Don't forget the HDD weight debate.

[DirtyDane]

3 minutes ago, BingoFishy said:

It is. But it also was 4-5 posts.

Don't forget the HDD weight debate.

but that was related to the discussion as a non techie would beleive one and not the other. and i made one post on it. in response to a question directed at me.... look lets just both move on from it i dont think either of us will get anywhere if we keep going back and fourth on this

[Fgtfv567]

On 4/10/2016 at 0:11 PM, Godlygamer23 said:

I guess it's a normal thing for 4th graders to swear nowadays? 

4th? Damn. I started swearing in 6th grade

On 4/10/2016 at 0:05 PM, NunoLava1998 said:

I know a lot about hardware. I could do it, but i don't know how to do yet. But i'll be doing it in July. I have already bought 3 parts for that: An i3-4160, 8 GB of HyperX Fury DDR3-1600 1x8GB RAM and the GA-H81M-S1 motherboard (revision 2.1). I haven't builded a computer yet. But i swear, it took a lot of frustation and convincing to build a computer. 

I'm glad there are lot of kids that are doing more with computers than just downloading apps on their phone like you. Stick around the forums more and try r/pcmr.

20 hours ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Once in school in the lab, one of my friends called me over because the CD drive wasn't working properly.  I managed to pry the thing open and realized someone had stolen the elastic band that makes it work.  I took the spare out of my pocket and installed it and the drive worked.  He didn't question why I had a spare CD drive elastic in my pocket.  He knows better  

He might not question it, but I will.

Why do you have a CD elastic drive in your pocket? Is there a rampant amount of CD drive vandalism going at your school?

18 hours ago, DirtyDane said:

i carry a flashdrive, ifixit, vga cable, hmdi cable, straight through cat 5, crossover, rollover, keyboard, mouse, usb 2.0 hub, microusb, lightning cable (friends of mine have iphones), and like a bunch of other shit i never use more than once a month but always comes in handy when working on things

Do you have a backpack that you carry around? Jesus that's a lot of shit to carry around with you

13 hours ago, BurgerBum said:

Ａｓｒｏｃｋ　Ｈ９７　Ａｎｎｉｖｅｒｓａｉｒｙ　ＡＴＸ　ＬＧＡ１１５０

that font. tell me now. i need it. i also need a 'classy' looking super pixely font. but bleh.

 

 

anybutt, my mom put a DVD in her laptop upside down refusing to listen to me that the image is not the data. for her ignoring someone she actually pays to help her with tech, i'm going to install 10 on her laptop without her knowing.

oh and change her password too. hue.

Oh don't worry! Microsoft has you covered there! You don't have to lift a finger, their servers will handle it just by adding a few lines of code!

8 hours ago, brune67 said:

copy and pasted from r/talesfromtechsupport. submitted by CMDR_muffy

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I don't know if there's a post limit here or whatever, but this is another story I wanted to share.

Guy came in with a custom built desktop that wouldn't even power on. His two teenage kids were with him and we were all making smalltalk while diagnosing the problem. Did the usual. Firstly checked to make sure the case front panel was properly plugged into the board. No errors there. Maybe it's the PSU? Nope, that's good. Maybe the video card is causing a problem? Nope, still won't power on even with the GPU out.

Hmmm...at this point I'm beginning to think they just forgot to install the risers and destroyed the motherboard. To my surprise, nope. Those were in too. I couldn't figure this out. So decided to do a bench test. Took everything out and just hooked up the bare necessities. Still nothing.

At this point I don't know what else to check...I mean, it can't be the CPU, can it? Surely the CPU isn't bad, in all my time I've only seen a bad CPU once.

Went to pop out the CPU...and I saw something disturbing. The CPU itself was bent. Yes. Bent. There was a huge dent right down the die lid, like someone took it and tried to snap it in half. What the hell? I took the CPU out and the mating pins on the socket were all bent out of shape, well beyond simply bending them back.

Me: Okay. Who did this?
Him: Whoa, what happened there?
Me: Whoever installed this CPU did it very wrong and it is also the wrong one. It doesn't even match the socket of this motherboard.
Him: Well my son who picked out the parts and installed them is a computer expert! Are you sure?
Me: They call them zero-insertion force for a reason. This is not zero-insertion force. It looks like he took a sledgehammer to it to get it to fit. This CPU is destroyed, and you won't be able to return it. So you're out $350 on that.
Him: Are you sure?
Me: Yes. You may be able to send the board back if you just tell them you got it like that, but this CPU is beyond saving. Next time, just bring everything here and I will put it together for you.

About a week later he came back with replacement parts, and I installed it all for him and set everything up. Thank goodness. I never got to talk to the supposed "computer expert" son (he wasn't in the store the first time), but if I ever do meet him I think I'm gonna punch him.

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Huh, this CPU and socket are the completely wrong shape! I wonder if I can use a sledgehammer to rebend the shape to its proper socket!

1 hour ago, JoeyDM said:

 

Besides, even mods have been known to de-rail  this is a community first.

I once derailed my own thread by talking about thread derailment...

[Clanscorpia]

2 minutes ago, Fgtfv567 said:

 

I'm glad there are lot of kids that are doing more with computers than just downloading apps on their phone like you. Stick around the forums more and try r/pcmr.

 

There's quite a few young extremely active users like me and @Dan Castellaneta. We definitely do more with PCs than apps. I program, use Arduino's, build PCs and more. Funny how you say phone. Instead of a phone I'm buying a ballin' PC

1 hour ago, DirtyDane said:

but that was related to the discussion as a non techie would beleive one and not the other. and i made one post on it. in response to a question directed at me.... look lets just both move on from it i dont think either of us will get anywhere if we keep going back and fourth on this

When people that have been on the forum for a month thinks he knows exactly how it works

[DirtyDane]

6 minutes ago, Fgtfv567 said:

 

Do you have a backpack that you carry around? Jesus that's a lot of shit to carry around with you

 

actually yes i do. and thats not even all i carry i also carry electrical tape, a usb3.0 cable,over ear headphones, a spare cable for those headphones, a 3.5mm headphone splitter,ticktacks, 5gum, 2 wall outlet chargers for phones, about4 phone cases (for various things normally i go caseless but if im hiking or something i switch to the thicker one etc), 15ft hmdi, a flashdrive with various linux distros, password crackers (for xp vista and 7), ubuntu server (because why the hell not), some antivirus, drive backup/cloners, a spare id tag clip, a wii remote (golden zelda edition) because i like to use it as a mouse on my laptop, 2 3ds units and chargers 1 being the original cosmo black unit the other being my zelda edition 3ds xl, 2 notebooks full of notes on my course, chopsticks, chopsticks (for eating with), a gameboy link cable, gameboy advance, galaxy s3 (secondary phone), rj-45 heads, earbuds (for audio monitoring with my dslr), a car charger(micro usb), and like 20 pens of various types colours and sizes

this is all fitting into a small bag here let me get a picture of the actual bag. and im not joking that i manage to fit all of this into there with the exception of the notebooks which go in my main backpack. OH AND i have an extra grounding strap as well as the rumble motor to a gamecube controller (its a good luck charm dont ask why)

 

 

 

by the way sorry it took me so long to reply i wrote this fast but had to send the image over bluetooth because it wouldnt show up in google drive for me

 

[DirtyDane]

28 minutes ago, Clanscorpia said:

There's quite a few young extremely active users like me and @Dan Castellaneta. We definitely do more with PCs than apps. I program, use Arduino's, build PCs and more. Funny how you say phone. Instead of a phone I'm buying a ballin' PC

When people that have been on the forum for a month thinks he knows exactly how it works

i dont know i think ive been here a little over a month or two and yeah i tend to talk without thinking when its something im really opinionated on. so yeah im with you my stupidity is pretty funny. 

 

anyway im off to finish whatching guilty crown and get a few more episodes of bebop out of the way

Edited April 12, 2016 by DirtyDane
didnt want to flood with new comments

[WkdPaul]

My mom came over this weekend for my daughter's birthday. we had a few activities and I went on Google map to print my mom's trip back home from where we would be later in the day.

 

*I open both screens and go on Google map and moved a few windows around because of some data transfer to and from my NAS I had in the background*

 

my mom see me move windows between the two screens and then asks "why do you have 2 computers?"

ME: "... what do you mean?" (I knew what she meant, I just wanted to make sure)

MOM: "The 2 screens, you have 2 PCs"

ME: "No, the 2 screens are connected to the same PC, look"

*proceeds to move my browser with Google map open from one screen to the other*

MOM: "You can have 2 screens on one computer?"

ME: "Welcome to 20 years ago mom!"

 

BTW, my mom is in her 60's and never had a job where she needed to use a computer, so I was not surprised by the question, I just thought it was funny!