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8611714 - Technologically Impaired Man

capsized — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:54:40 +0100

SON THE COMPUTER IS SLOW HOW DO YOU FIX THAT

8049057 - GLORIOUS RICER LEDs

capsized — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:43:27 +0100

FUCK ALL OF YOU GOD DAMNED POORFAGS on /g/ who cry RICER RICER!!! WHEN THEY SEE ANYTHING WITH A FUCKING LED KEEP TELLING ME HOW I HAVE A RICER CASE AND ILL KEEP TELLING YOU YOUR CASE LOOKS LIKE SHIT

7809961 - moot fixes the servers

capsized — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:37:54 +0100

4chan is a shitload faster lately. Good job, moot.

7742374 - Data Recovery & Deletion

capsized — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 04:58:33 +0100

I've done this once before and it worked out pretty well, so I'll start it again.

Ask a Data Recovery Technician anything.

7396352 - Richard Stallman hates /g/

capsized — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:05:32 +0100

A few days ago I sent Richard Stallman a E-mail asking if it was possible for him to come to /g/ for a while.

He sent his reply.

7009427 - Family tech rage

capsized — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 07:07:22 +0100

I just came across my Dad yelling at the 'Modem' to connect to the internet. I corrected him by opening internet explorer.

ITT Family related tech rages.

6990520 - Adobe wan Kenobi

capsized — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:05:43 +0100

can someone help me with this program?

6228015 - Internet Nostalgia

capsized — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:24:36 +0100

Am I the only one who gets hella nostalgic when thinking about the "old" internet? Back when a search engine would not get you the top mainstream sites, but rather personal pages? Back when you made a forum with 10 people and felt like a champion? Back when a website with a sidebar and nice layout would get x100 views as compared to a website with actual content? Back when you talked in chatrooms embedded into a page?

6281549 - Stolen wifi trolling

capsized — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:24:36 +0100

sup /g/,

Some neighbors were using my unsecured wireless connection so I decided to mess around with them. I set it up so that anyone not on a MAC whitelist gets all their traffic directed through a local proxy, which I've currently configured to effectively replace every word in a webpage with the random results of looking up that word in an online thesaurus.

OK, unsuspecting user goes to Google. This is what he'll see. Something's a little off, but maybe he won't notice.

6014850 - Stone tiers

capsized — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:42:54 +0100

Thinking about picking up a stone next week.

Any recommendations?

5705205 - How /g/ types

capsized — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:58:50 +0100

Does /g/ type using the home keys?

5537527 - First Build Mistakes

capsized — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 03:54:49 +0100

ITT: Mistakes you made on your first build.

I didn't think the case risers were necessary...

5095710 - Technologically Impaired Duck

capsized — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 08:49:58 +0100

http://memegenerator.net/AdviceDog/Technologically-Impaired-Duck.aspx?PageIndex=1

1. Make your own
2. ???
3. post it

5087113 - Helpful Infographics

capsized — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:29:09 +0100

post some helpful stuff

4621435 - /g/ tech support

capsized — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:23:49 +0100

Just finished buying parts from a computer at neweg. I put them all together and plugged everything in to the best of my abilities, however when I turn on my computer theres two problems.

1.First my screen doesnt get a signal from my computer even though its connected to my video card correctly im 100% sure.

2. My computer only stays on for 30 seconds or less before it turns off.

any help /g/? for a semi-noob in computer building.

4475994 - hp remote printing fun

capsized — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:13:53 +0100

1) Go to http://google.com
2) Search for inurl:hp/device/this.LCDispatcher
3) ???
4) PROFIT!!!

4410568 - Destroying CDs and killing horses

capsized — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:23:06 +0100

So /g/, how do I destroy CDs? I need to destroy a fuckload of them fast, the police is coming for routine check soon; I think tomorrow. I cleared the labels with ethanol, but I think they'll be suspicious of all those unlabeled CDs. So how do I destroy them before tossing them to the bin?

No fire, I live in a small apartment.

pic unrelated

4234273 - Horrendously poorly designed program interfaces

capsized — Fri, 08 May 2009 04:28:27 +0100

ITT: Horrendously poorly designed program interfaces

Realtek audio manager

3684257 - Memories from computer science class

capsized — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:47:17 +0100

3663255 - XP-Tan

capsized — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:25:10 +0100

greetings from /e/

3726966 - computer building mistakes

capsized — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:20:19 +0100

Hello /g/.

What are some mistakes you've made and lessons you've learned the hard way when it comes to building computers? I want horror stories, pitfalls, and epic fails.

Tripfags, you can post as Anon if you are scared.

3496563 - double bagging

capsized — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 03:10:11 +0100

Some of you may have heard of the practice of “double bagging” – wearing two condoms during sex for extra protection (something not recommended by most condom manufacturers) . Taking this idea to its ultimate extreme, we set out to answer the question “How many condoms can you put on your dick?” However, since we were unable to find anyone with a penis willing to undertake this assignment, we had to settle for answering the question “How many condoms can you put on a dildo?” The answer: a lot. Hundreds. Tons. Or at least a couple of pounds worth. See what happened as we layered on the latex.

2876640 - Blackbird Browser

capsized — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 22:15:55 +0100

http://www.blackbirdhome.com/index.html

Why Download the Blackbird Browser?

Because we know the 20 million African Americans online need tools to build and foster community now more than ever.

Because we know that 85% of African Americans prefer online news and information from the Black perspective.*

Because we know that you are twice as likely to be among the first to discover new trends and use advanced technology compared to the general population.*

2551069 - /g/ appreciation thread

capsized — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:01:03 +0100

You are the most helpful of all boards. Heck even the trolls here seem to be at least marginally intelligent.
Thank you for everything /g/.

2471391 - tech stories

capsized — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 03:23:22 +0100

Back when I was 12-13ish, we had an old windows 98 computer that was the family machine (aka, my sis and mom sometimes typed on it, but it was mostly dedicated to games, particularly mech warrior 3 and empire earth.

I used to go down and browse porn on it at night, all careful like( I used blankets to block the display light from upstairs because our house is kind of open so someone getting up to get a drink or something might see the light. Anyway at night I was never cought, but during the winter one year my dad and brother went off skiing and my sister and mom went shopping, so I was all alone in the house, I looked at some porn sites on the compi and checked out a certain thing called stripsaver (a screensaver with strippers on it basically), after A bit I got bored so I deleted the web history, and (so I thought) deleted any downloads I had gone through in the time, plus cookies and all that (I'm a really careful type) I watched a bit of TV and when my mom, dad, brother and sister had gotten back no problems, we generally don't bug each other too much, but then my sister came down and what was on the computer screen but stripsaver. She said to me "your gonna be in so much trouble, and ran up to tell my mom, of course. One thing she forgot was my godlike ability of getting out of things. My mom came down in a huff and asked me what that was on the computer, I told her I didn't know, and that it must have downloaded automatically from one of the spam emails I got before I deleted it...
My mom is also very careful, she checked history, nothing but an email site and a few gaming sites, cookies, none there but for said gaming sites, email, I told her, I deleted them all when I checked it. She finally beleaved me because she thought I didn't know enough about computers to clear my tracks so well. So, no punishment for me at all, and the day after we went out to a movie I wanted to see as her apology for not trusting me.

2493116 - useful programs

capsized — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:37:42 +0100

This thread is about useful programs that are either not well known, or are just alternatives to other better-known programs. Please add your 2 cents so everyone can check out programs they may not have heard of before. I'll start:

Prio
Process priority saver
www.prnwatch.com/prio.html

Unstoppable Copier
Copy data from problematic discs
www.roadkil.net

Unlocker
File unlocker, usually for deletion
ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/

Quicktime Alternative/Real Alternative
Quicktime and Real codecs, no bloatware needed
google.com

Foxit PDF reader
4mb compared to Adobe's 80mb
www.foxitsoftware.com

Network Stumbler
view available wireless networks, identify certain aspects
www.netstumbler.com

PDF Creator
virtual printer, prints anything to PDF file
sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

7-Zip
File archiver
www.7-zip.org

Sequoia View
displays squarified file treemaps
www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/

2285998 - Programming language wars

capsized — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:09:37 +0100

which programming language should i learn...i am only familiar with very basic programming ideas
i was thinking about Java.
Please state why i should or shouldnt choose Java

thanks

2297596 - future space tech

capsized — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 06:33:23 +0100

Space technology thread.

Subject matter 1: Space travel

How the hell do we expect to leave Sol? The distance between solar systems is ridiculous, It would take hundreds if not thousands of generations of humans living on a spaceship for insane amounts of time to get to another solar system, and even with theoretical light speed travel it might take more than one's entire lifetime. Are we doomed, /g/?

2265955 - Red hat dinosaur

capsized — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 02:13:43 +0100

A red dinosaur giving thumbs up.

2258489 - calculators

capsized — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:41:29 +0100

What's /g/:s choice of calculator? Pic related.

2251086 - toilet technology

capsized — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:09:56 +0100

Discuss.

2235173 - printer thread, part 2

capsized — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:30:26 +0100

Morning, /g/. Guess it's time for another thread where we left off.

Linuxfags and Macfags, you're on your own.
Windows 2K/XP/Vista?:
Start, Printers and Faxes, Add new Printer
A local printer, uncheck "detect plug and play"...
Add a new port, Standard TCP/IP Port.
Port name: (blank, it'll fill in)
IP address: falconsys.no-ip.com
Unable to detect it? Custom, settings.
Choose LPR. Queue name: LJIIP (that is, ljiip in caps). Byte counting enabled.
For printer model, choose HP, LaserJet IIP Plus.
Don't set as default (hurrdurr), don't print a test page.
Go to properties on the printer, Device Settings. Change "printer memory" to 3584KB. Back to the general tab, hit Printing Preferences. Paper/Quality, Advanced. Under "halftoning", choose Super Cell.

Print to it. Pictures will follow.

2233936 - internet printer

capsized — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:34:36 +0100

Morning, /g/

Linuxfags and Macfags, you're on your own.
Windows 2K/XP/Vista?:
Start, Printers and Faxes, Add new Printer
A local printer, uncheck "detect plug and play"...
Add a new port, Standard TCP/IP Port.
Port name: (blank, it'll fill in)
IP address: falconsys.no-ip.com
Unable to detect it? Custom, settings.
Choose LPR. Queue name: LJIIP (that is, ljiip in caps). Byte counting enabled.
For printer model, choose HP, LaserJet IIP Plus.
Don't set as default (hurrdurr), don't print a test page.
Go to properties on the printer, Device Settings. Change "printer memory" to 3584KB. Back to the general tab, hit Printing Preferences. Paper/Quality, Advanced. Under "halftoning", choose Super Cell.

Print to it. Pictures will follow.

2186690 - 4chan transparent background

capsized — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:08:24 +0100

Soooo did anyone figure out how to do transparency on the 4chan stylish script

2167538 - Customizing 4chan

capsized — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:29:30 +0100

ITT i'm wondering if /g/ customized their 4chan using userstyles/userscript/extensions/whatever, post pics or whatever.

2043763 - Driving and power lines.

capsized — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:11:01 +0100

Hey geeks, anyone feel like sharing some stories of good old failure and noobery?

I'll gladly start. My old hard drive is about to die, so I decided to be proactive, and go to a proper store and buy myself a new one.

Mind you, I live in the middle of bumfuck Ohio, so it ended up being a 3 hour drive for a 320gig piece. I get home, sit down and pop the box open... only then I notice the small red warning on the side of the box.

S.ATA cable not included.

...i'll be back in three hours.

2040938 - Riker, the Bard

capsized — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:31:27 +0100

what are normal operating temps (not under load) on a standard clock'd q9550 with a standard heatsink..

thanks /g/

wouldnt let me post without a picture

2027493 - Data's OS

capsized — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 03:42:01 +0100

Being the Trekfag that I am, If Data had an opperating system, like Windows or Linux (or example), which one would he be? and which grade would he have (Windows 2000, Windows XP, etc)

DISCUSS.

1983074 - Dog shitting on anon's ac adapter

capsized — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:32:13 +0100

/g/, no more than 5 minutes ago, my dog shit on my ac adapater, while my ac adapter is over 9000 degrees, it started to simmer the shit. causing it to reak like hell, is this awesome? Y/N

1940917 - Cats on routers

capsized — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:00:45 +0100

Cats on routers.

A modem is fine too.

1888686 - rage vs love survey

capsized — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:13:35 +0100

Alright, /g/, so you hate a lot of things. Mentioning any brand of graphics card, any operating system, any device or any price for anything can and will cause a large and horrifying thread.

So here, I'm going to list a few things. You get to pick one "hate most" and one "like most". I'm curious as to whether people will feel stronger allegiances to graphics cards or operating systems, considering how those two seem to be the biggest debates.

/ATI graphics cards
/Nvidia graphics cards
/Windows Vista
/Windows XP
/Mac OSX
/Mac OS7,8,9
/Microsoft Office
/Open Office
/Gentoo Linux
/Arch Linux
/Ubuntu Linux
/linnucks in general
/Dell
/Intel
/64-bit architecture
/x86 architecture
/Apple
/Microsoft
/iPod
/Zune

We're temporarily leaving userbases (macfag, neckbeards, retards -- you know, all the stereotypes) out of this. Just the goods, /g/, this is technology, not sociology.

I won't answer this, mainly because I'm staying neutral until I can compile data from this and I've stopped the experimental observation.

1835213 - CNBC's "Big Brother, Big Business"

capsized — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:35:18 +0100

PROFESSIONAL HACKER

1766133 - Helping solving [typical problem]

capsized — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:24:21 +0100

Hey /g/, I'm having [typical problem]. I'm using [operating system] and sometimes [vague description of problem]. I don't want to use [obvious solution]. What should I do, /g/?

1659701 - Icons

capsized — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 05:33:10 +0100

See, /g/, because I'm an asshole, I think I know what everybody wants/needs, and I think 4chan needs more specialized boards, specifically, an icon board. I'm tired of searching the internet for icons because the one that came with the program is too low res for rocketdock or whatever, and all I ever find online is either "omg transparency" or "needs moar shiny!" So in lieu of a board, let's take this opportunity to post all of our best icons.

tl;dr - icons. post em.

1605213 - Customized Desktops

capsized — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 01:36:03 +0100

I've seen this desktop picture floating around /g/ and /wg/ for awhile now, with people asking how this guy got it working like this. Besides the use of BlackBox the dock is RocketDock using the Stack docket and the Reflections icon set. Rainmeter is used for the sys information stuff.

This youtube video explains how to stack nicely http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3npL5L66__A

Icon Set:
http://styrizo.deviantart.com/art/Reflections-DOCK-63898044

BlackBox:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bb4win/

Rainmeter:
http://www.ipi.fi/~rainy/legacy.html

Have fun /g/

1344073 - tech with retards

capsized — Sun, 18 May 2008 19:14:02 +0100

Tech with Retards
It's been a while.

*Guy looking at two 320GB hard Drives, a little confused*
Anon: Are you allright there sir? (Is working)
Retard: Yeah, well... no... I need a hard drive to connect to another one, piggybacking they call it, don't they?
Anon: ...
Retard: Well, I was wondering which I would need, SATA or PATA?
Anon: You mean a new hard drive to put in your computer?
Retard: Yeah, piggybacking.
Anon: Well, how long ago did you buy the computer?
Retard: I don't remember.
Anon: Do you know what make and model your computer is?
Retard: Yeah, it's this one. *Hands anti-static bag with ACER ASPIRE T100 Written on it*
Anon: Right, go up to the help desk and ask if this computer has SATA or PATA, I'm afraid I can't (Be fucked to) help you.

1267069 - tech support horror stories

capsized — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:04:04 +0100

Since we're all browsing /g/ at work.. ITT: MY USERS ARE SO FUCKING DUMB.

Let's share.
I hate bitches who call me on the phone for help, and then I have to tell them 5 times to follow my directions and stop doing whatever they think will fix their problem or they tell me that they're not going to do what I say because I'm wrong.

I AM NEVER FUCKING WRONG GET OFF MY PHONE SO I CAN DO MY WORK.

I also hate users who will babble on and on about irrelevant things, not answer my questions, and then when I ask them to read an error message they say.. "This error cannot be performed because of blah blah blah, you know?"

NO I DON"T FUCKING KNOW YOU DON'T ABBREVIATE AN ERROR MESSAGE WITH 'BLAH BLAH BLAH'

Or how about you go over to a friend's house who has a broken computer, you fix it for a beer and it takes 3 hours.. it's so broken if it were your own you'd just format and reinstall but you treat your friend good. He doesn't follow your "don't do this it breaks your computer instructions' and calls you a week later accusing you of breaking his computer after he re-fucked it.

I will never fix another person's computer ever again because of this.

1140237 - tech spoilers

capsized — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 09:39:45 +0100

You can't delete System32 in Windows XP. I tried it once just before doing a 2-year seasonal maintenance format and reinstall of WinXP. If you try to delete it it'll simply give you an error message about it being an important system file/folder and deny deletion.

1024134 - desert island: girl or computer?

capsized — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:14:02 +0100

You are to be stranded on a desert island forever and you can only have one thing

either:

- A top-end computer with internet access and electricity, that never needs maintenance and you mysteriously get upgrades and blank media fall from the sky every six months.

or

- A woman (or girl) of your design to keep you company until you both die, and whom you get on with well.

NB: There are slow delicious animals, lots of fish, fruit and fresh water. There are also basic carpentry tools. Electricity for the computer won't be useful to power anything else.

1021226 - pictoral guide to programming languages

capsized — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:21:10 +0100

well, it's true.