Are you suggesting that you would overclock a Nook?Quote:
Originally Posted by Taosaur
:P
All my gadget lust is after music gear. Particularly a MIDI controller or recording gear.
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Are you suggesting that you would overclock a Nook?Quote:
Originally Posted by Taosaur
:P
All my gadget lust is after music gear. Particularly a MIDI controller or recording gear.
If you continue reading, you'll find that I have overclocked a Nook (Color--as in the baby tablet, not the e-ink reader), from stock 800Mhz to 1.3Ghz max, and am running a more advanced (and complete) Android build than what comes in the box. Many of the people picking up NCs aren't doing so for the stock functionality, but because the hardware is capable of much much more and there's an active community of programmers taking advantage of that potential and sharing their work. Even a lot of people who do get the NC just because it's an e-reader with a great color screen end up rooting, dual-booting or replacing the OS before long, when they start to get an inkling of how much more the machine could do (and let's face it, how many more free apps they could have :P ).Quote:
Originally Posted by Supernova
The only thing it's lacking that would really open it up is USB hosting, which by all accounts should be possible, but no one's made much progress with it. There is bluetooth for peripherals, and of course WiFi for remote access to storage, but like a lot of people I already have a lot of USB gadgets, and not much bluetooth.
I meant more that they sound like a jet engine.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loaf
Not to bring up ghosts here :P but I HATE that answer. you know how many people I get saying that a day? you know the number of viruses that just hide.. and don't show anything noticeable? Christ I can put a keylogger on your computer, you'd never notice. but behide the scenes, I'm taking your usernames, passwords, and credit cards numbers.Quote:
Originally Posted by LikesToTrip
I've been running numerous windows installs for the past 4 years, each with antivirus software.Quote:
Originally Posted by OldSparta
NEVER gotten a virus more than a couple keyloggers that I eradicated.
Better?
Thats not the point though.... People bitch and complain when they suddenly get their credit stolen or their computer crashes, and then they brag that they don't have an anti-virus. I see at least a few people a month who come is saying they don't have an anti-virus, and suddenly there data is gone, or something fuck stupid like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by JussiKala
Lol that's exactly what I said. He didn't respond to it though. My guess is he installed an anti-virus program and realised he had thousands of viruses lol
Nah, I didn't respond because it wasn't worth my time. I actually haven't been using that install because the HDD is failing. ~3.7k bad sectors at the moment. Just for shits n giggles I'll scan it though just to prove my point. Post back with the results in a bit.Quote:
Originally Posted by tommo
So responding to his post wasn't worth your time but responding to this one AND scanning your hard drive is...Quote:
Originally Posted by LikesToTrip
Yerp, cause now there are multiple people I'm proving a point to rather than just one. And I'm kind of curious if I will be able to install a program and run a scan with so many bad sectors. I've already been getting input/output errors when copying files.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spartiate
Viruses tend to do that.... :shadewink::cheeky:
Yes, viruses are capable of causing physical damage -_-'Quote:
Originally Posted by tommo
Well it was at 26% when I went to bed last night, and it had found 8 tracking cookies (oh noez!). However, in the middle of the night it decided to to an automatic update, and now it hangs after the login screen. I'm assuming it installed the updates onto a cluster of bad sectors and that fucked everything up. Guess it's finally time to trash it....
hirens 10.5 + CD = HDD regenerators :PQuote:
Originally Posted by LikesToTrip
Well, it was half a joke. But they can. An obvious one would be to overheat the CPU.Quote:
Originally Posted by LikesToTrip
Holy crap, what did I start in here?
I want a MacBook Pro because I do a lot of photography, and a lot of work in Photoshop. My main OS is Ubuntu, but WINE sucks at running Photoshop, so I need either Windows 7 or Mac OSX. I loathe Windows 7. Absolutely loathe it. Ubuntu has spoiled me. I'm not even sure I like OSX that much better, but it's sexy,and I'm only going to use it for Photoshop and other CS5 programs.
Of course, I'm broke and jobless right now, so I'm just dreaming.
What's wrong with windows 7 btw? I'm fine with any OS, just as long as I know how to customize it a little.
If you hate the W7 taskbar, you can make it just like the vista one by right clicking it, clicking properties, ticking small icons and choosing don't group from the drop down menu. Now you have the vista taskbar... in 7
Lol, I've never once heard of anyone wanting Windows 7 to be more like Vista. I'm fond of W7, though. It's the first Windows OS that surprises me more often with how easy and smooth it is to do things than how many hoops I need to jump through to do them.Quote:
Originally Posted by JussiKala
I've got it on dual boot and it confused the shit out of me when I first used it.
I spose I got used to the mac layout without pretty much everything I need right across the bottom.
But I also went in to IE7 and there was no taskbar up the top. Who the hell sets that as a default?
Haven't really used it enough yet to know if the layout is useful or not. The start menu just seems cluttered and weird.
I had pretty much the same experience using OSX on my old boss's Macbook. Most likely it was just lack of familiarity and the different aesthetic--more of a hand-holding "You don't want to do that, Dave" approach overall.
I find it easy to organize all the different spaces in W7: I use my taskbar for frequent-use or quick-reference apps and maybe one game (currently Starcraft 2), my Start Menu for games (pinned) and recent apps, which is handy for short-term projects that don't necessarily need a place on the taskbar, and the desktop for things I want staring me in the face. Start menu search functionality also negates the use for a task launcher, and the the Explorer link in the task bar is outstanding for navigating files and folders.
in os x it's just all about QuickSilver. Bottom task bar became obsolete after that. Also, I just cmd+tab around to all my open apps, don't really like the spaces feature.
For open apps it's alt+tab, which is also much improved in W7 over previous versions.
Try running Photoshop with playonLinuxQuote:
Originally Posted by Man of Steel
Everything. I'm probably just biased and accustomed to Linux these days, but take networking, for instance. In Ubuntu, I click Network Manager, sign into a network, and it remembers it forever. In Windows, half the time I get no connectivity, and have to jump through twenty hoops to figure out why I get no connectivity. It's a pain.Quote:
Originally Posted by JussiKala
I just dislike Windows. I'm a Linux guy.
Looking into it now, thanks!Quote:
Originally Posted by OldSparta
Yeah. Windows fails on networking. It's fine if you are only connecting through wired and don't plan on hosting any servers.
AH! This! +1!Quote:
Originally Posted by Man of Steel
This happens all the time on Windows and Mac too.
If someone can solve this problem they will be a millionaire. Maybe, I really don't know.
But I'd be very grateful.
Wireless seems to be even harder to get working properly. I've never done anything with it but there's two
computer nerds in my house and it still fucks up all the time.