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1 minute ago, Gonio said:

My dad (used to be a mechanic before retirement) is really at a loss with the pc, just because he is stuborn an refuses to think regarding using the PC. To make it easier I set their mail login page as standard, but every now and then he comes like: It doesn't work. So I say: have you filled out the login/website you want to visit correctly? Yeah. Well let's take a look then... Show me what you did. He types it in.

 

Whats the problem, he doens't press ENTER!!!:(

It's bad enough that that would happen once, but how can you remember to do it sometimes and then forget others!? xD 

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1 hour ago, ShadowTechXTS said:

I took a computer class in 7th grade, they actually had some parts, I also donated broken parts from a Dell prebuilt for display :P 

Itook one computer class, and the professor brought in an old socket 7 board,  and even after a year of teaching people still called the computer the cpu.

 

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1 hour ago, Grimreaper084 said:

My old Graphics teacher said Macs are more stable and don't crash like windows deos when using photoshop.

Resisting the urge to strangle her with a mouse cord was difficult....

Not an Apple Fan, but considering Windows 10. Id say MAC are more stable. Just saying..... LOL. 

I just want to sit back and watch the world burn. 

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2 hours ago, themctipers said:

its for non techie failures

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specs > branding. 

I see , thanks! 

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10 minutes ago, z123killer said:

My digital communications teacher called a computer a cpu.

 

And then I told my friend about it and he said that a computer is a cpu.

 

 

that seems to be a common problem... to the point where they even teach it like that in some places apparently... *facepalm*

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1 hour ago, Donut417 said:

Not an Apple Fan, but considering Windows 10. Id say MAC are more stable. Just saying..... LOL. 

Not the OS, but the hardware and the software on intended devices. :) 

hackentosh runs like a potato and csgo is broke 

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10 minutes ago, themctipers said:

Not the OS, but the hardware and the software on intended devices. :) 

hackentosh runs like a potato and csgo is broke 

os-x is just a hackjob unix , if you want the full nonrestrictive experience get debian or unix 

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55 minutes ago, themctipers said:

Not the OS, but the hardware and the software on intended devices. :) 

hackentosh runs like a potato and csgo is broke 

Hackentosh runs like a potato because Apple never intended any one to build a MAC. Apple only uses select hardware, which they can fine tune MAC OS to use. Plus if I recall Mac OS is a Unix like OS similar to Linux in a lot of ways. Which is why games dont run too good, as there is no DirectX for MAC or Linux. 

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1 hour ago, Space Reptile said:

os-x is just a hackjob unix , if you want the full nonrestrictive experience get debian or unix 

i have w8, msx, yosemite and ubuntu. quad boot!

 

44 minutes ago, Donut417 said:

Hackentosh runs like a potato because Apple never intended any one to build a MAC. Apple only uses select hardware, which they can fine tune MAC OS to use. Plus if I recall Mac OS is a Unix like OS similar to Linux in a lot of ways. Which is why games dont run too good, as there is no DirectX for MAC or Linux. 

i would still expect atleast 60 fps in csgo with lowest settings at 1080p though. 

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Just now, themctipers said:

quad boot!

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I never learned programing in school, only HTML slightly and my hardware lessons were: this is a CPU, this is a motherboard and this is a PCI USB 1 card. Teacher only showed us old hardware. The motherboard that the teacher showed us had AGP, PATA and a serial port. This is a whole year in a nutshell.

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23 hours ago, themctipers said:

hackentosh runs like a potato and csgo is broke 

Well, it depends. Provided you choose the right compatible hardware, it can run even better than a Mac Pro (made one for my friend, runs like a dream)

 

But yeah, gaming is not something you should be trying to do on a mac/hack intosh. Just don't.

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26 minutes ago, Dargenfire said:

Well, it depends. Provided you choose the right compatible hardware, it can run even better than a Mac Pro (made one for my friend, runs like a dream)

 

But yeah, gaming is not something you should be trying to do on a mac/hack intosh. Just don't.

was bored, didn't want to reboot into windows. downloaded csgo and it ran like potato.

 

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I spent about 15 minutes trying to explain the "favourites" system in windows file explorer to my mum the other day. She couldn't wrap her head around the fact that [File X] could be both in the favourites section -and- in My Documents/[Subfolder Y] so in the end I just removed the stuff she had accidentally put in it and "fixed it".

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Also, unrelated note, but I take issue with people saying that referring to a USB storage device as any of "USB" "Pen Drive" "Thumb Drive" "USB Stick" is "non techie" or otherwise ignorant. Those are very widely accepted terms. Same goes for referring to a mobile data allowance as "an amount of 4G/3G/"internet"" that's a common expression, just because you use it doesn't mean you don't know anything about tech.

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On 8/3/2016 at 1:16 PM, Ryan_Vickers said:

no, 25 is like the hottest tolerable temperature.  20 - 22 in the day and 18 for sleeping

Sorry, but 18C for daily operation, and 12C for sleeping. Those are the perfect temps

Nothing to see here, move along

 

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Just now, Riddler356 said:

Sorry, but 18C for daily operation, and 12C for sleeping. Those are the perfect temps

~20/16c is great for me sleeping.

~18 daily for me.

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Just now, themctipers said:

~20/16c is great for me sleeping.

~18 daily for me.

maybe, but come on lower temps are better for the PC. al that sucks is on avg its around 30C in summer here, so i love winter and hate summer.

Nothing to see here, move along

 

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9 minutes ago, Riddler356 said:

maybe, but come on lower temps are better for the PC. al that sucks is on avg its around 30C in summer here, so i love winter and hate summer.

lol it gets even hotter here is canada. Here it was 35ish @themctipers how was the GTA. I heard it was the hottest it was all summer :P I love how we have the biggest temp range in the world. Its loike 80 degrees xD 

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3 minutes ago, Clanscorpia said:

lol it gets even hotter here is canada. Here it was 35ish @themctipers how was the GTA. I heard it was the hottest it was all summer :P I love how we have the biggest temp range in the world. Its loike 80 degrees xD 

I think Oymyakon actually has the greatest range

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Just now, Ryan_Vickers said:

I think Oymyakon actually has the greatest range

On July 28, 2010, Oymyakon recorded a record high temperature of 34.6 °C (94 °F), yielding a temperature range of 102.3 °C (184.1 °F). Verkhoyansk and Yakutsk are the only other places in the world with a temperature amplitude higher than 100 °C (180 °F) Holy shit xD Well considering that was once ever, i'd say we have generally one of the biggest. We get those temps every year. Fucking Canada

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Shucks, it looks like I have what's probably the best school for hardware 'n stuff out of anyone on this thread... Our IT guys are pretty cool, and this year we got a new robotics teacher who's a computer engineering major...

 

Shoot, we even have a club basically dedicated to engineering and stuff... We get to solder stuff together and this year it seems we're gonna get to play around with Arduinos...

 

The only thing missing is a computer hardware class. I swear, there's all sorts of programming classes and science classes but there isn't one computer hardware class.

 

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1 hour ago, Riddler356 said:

Sorry, but 18C for daily operation, and 12C for sleeping. Those are the perfect temps

Do live where I do. My room Stays at a Toasty 90 F (32 C) all summer. Its a tad better in the Winter. But I have had to close the vent for my room and open the Window some times in the Winter. LOL

I just want to sit back and watch the world burn. 

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