Gadget Lust Thread

[Supernova]

In any case, CM7 is running way faster than the stock OS even without overclocks, so I'm leaving it as-is. Are you suggesting that you would overclock a Nook? All my gadget lust is after music gear. Particularly a MIDI controller or recording gear.

[Taosaur]

Are you suggesting that you would overclock a Nook? 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 ). 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.

[tommo]

Half of that looks like a fan anyway lol. I meant more that they sound like a jet engine.

[OldNutter]

Only if you suck at life. I've been using Win7 without any antivirus software for over a year now. No malware here. /thread Not to bring up ghosts here 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.

[JussiKala]

Not to bring up ghosts here 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. I've been running numerous windows installs for the past 4 years, each with antivirus software. NEVER gotten a virus more than a couple keyloggers that I eradicated. Better?

[OldNutter]

I've been running numerous windows installs for the past 4 years, each with antivirus software. 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.

[tommo]

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

[LikesToTrip]

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.

[Spartiate]

Nah, I didn't respond because it wasn't worth my time So responding to his post wasn't worth your time but responding to this one AND scanning your hard drive is...

[LikesToTrip]

So responding to his post wasn't worth your time but responding to this one AND scanning your hard drive is... 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.

[tommo]

Viruses tend to do that....

[LikesToTrip]

Viruses tend to do that.... Yes, viruses are capable of causing physical damage -_-' 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....

[OldNutter]

Yes, viruses are capable of causing physical damage -_-' 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

[tommo]

Yes, viruses are capable of causing physical damage -_-' 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.... Well, it was half a joke. But they can. An obvious one would be to overheat the CPU.

[Man of Steel]

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.

[JussiKala]

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

[Taosaur]

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.

[tommo]

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.

[Taosaur]

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.

[Artelis]

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.

[Taosaur]

For open apps it's alt+tab, which is also much improved in W7 over previous versions.

[OldNutter]

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. Try running Photoshop with playonLinux

[Man of Steel]

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 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. I just dislike Windows. I'm a Linux guy. Try running Photoshop with playonLinux Looking into it now, thanks!

[JussiKala]

Yeah. Windows fails on networking. It's fine if you are only connecting through wired and don't plan on hosting any servers.

[tommo]

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. AH! This! +1! 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.