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Life Advice / Re: The Generic Computer Advice Thread
« on: February 28, 2015, 04:16:19 am »
If your restore disk doesn't work, you can generally find OEM (e.g. Dell) versions of a windows disk on pirate sites, and then use the windows license key from the sticker on the PC (sometimes under the battery), which results in a genuine install.

If you do replace the hard disk I'd highly recommend reinstalling windows on the new disk rather than trying to clone the failing disk. You can use the above to possibly get a genuine install again!

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General Discussion / Re: if self.isCoder(): post() #Programming Thread
« on: February 28, 2015, 04:08:49 am »
Quote from: Mephisto on February 27, 2015, 08:51:03 pm
You ever have to figure out what "SET thing=%otherthing:~-6%" does without having access to a Windows command prompt? I did, and it required some careful Googling.
I'm going to guess, strip off the last 6 characters of otherthing and assign that to thing?

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Life Advice / Re: Decomposing Rodents
« on: February 27, 2015, 12:34:15 pm »
Wait, are you in Britain? If so, complain to the local council (specifically, the environmental health department). You shouldn't have any problems with your friend not having paid his TV license or car tax, as those are both handled by two separate other government bodies (the BBC for TV licensing and the DVLA for car stuff).

Rotting animal corpses is likely a health hazard and once the council health department steps in the landlord has to either fix the problem or get criminal prosecution brought against them. If you have to be moved out temporarily, the landlord has to pay for that too! :)

We have good tenant protection law in the UK.

For more information, contact the Citizens Advice Bureau, they help with stuff like this all the time.

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Life Advice / Re: Car Noises
« on: February 27, 2015, 12:14:33 pm »
Bearing or CV joint, most likely.

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General Discussion / Re: if self.isCoder(): post() #Programming Thread
« on: February 24, 2015, 09:16:39 am »
Most aren't at all intimidating and pretty much give you step-by-step instructions in the associated reference stuff.

I should give implementing diffie-hellman key exchange a go.

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Life Advice / Re: The Generic Computer Advice Thread
« on: February 23, 2015, 08:21:42 am »
Possibly something's broken in your system that causes everything to go bad when a Windows update is installed? Hibernate doesn't install updates, so wouldn't be affected. This also means that you're wide open to viruses, btw, as most Windows updates are security updates. Get your Windows install repaired, seriously.

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Life Advice / Re: Higher end GPU + lower end SSD, or lower end GPU + higher end SSD?
« on: February 23, 2015, 02:36:03 am »
As long as the case airflow is ok (gfx cooler and PSU both of the "extractor" type, i.e. blows air out the back of the case), you may not need case fans. Did you plug a fan in backwards? It sounds a little like you shorted something.

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Life Advice / Re: The Generic Computer Advice Thread
« on: February 22, 2015, 03:10:51 am »
Have you tried powering it from AC without the battery? That'll tell you whether it's a broken battery. Alternatively, if moisture got in it could be a fuse in either the laptop or the charger that blew when you tried to turn it on. The fuse may or may not be replaceable, you'd have to google that one.

Most electronics can survive very low temperatures.

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Life Advice / Re: The Generic Computer Advice Thread
« on: February 20, 2015, 04:49:22 pm »
I don't have the instructions to hand, but perhaps try "bridging" the Ethernet and WiFi together on the laptop instead.

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Life Advice / Re: Higher end GPU + lower end SSD, or lower end GPU + higher end SSD?
« on: February 20, 2015, 05:59:57 am »
The GTX 970 is an amazing card, and only draws slightly more power than your old GPU (145W max vs 130W max). It's highly unlikely your PSU would be able to power one and not the other.

SSD-wise, I highly recommend the Samsung 840 EVO. It's the previous generation Samsung SSD, so it's not insanely priced, and it's hellish fast. Generally you don't need a massive one, I have the 120GB one in my pc as a system drive and it's not even full. Just use it for stuff that needs really fast loading times, like windows, some programs and DF :) (but not your downloads folder, or video collection, etc)

That said, pretty much any SSD is a night and day upgrade over a traditional spinning disk. Even more so in a laptop! (got an old 60GB SSD from the company I work for as a laptop upgrade, oh god wow)

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Life Advice / Re: set computer to updatebios. now it seems stuck. what do?
« on: February 17, 2015, 05:01:33 am »
Stuck in what way?

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Life Advice / Re: The Generic Computer Advice Thread
« on: February 16, 2015, 03:50:52 pm »
Quote from: ShadowHammer on February 16, 2015, 03:44:50 pm
I'm back again, as it turns out my previous problem is not fixed after all.
Run windows repair using a windows install disk. Something's clearly hosed.

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Life Advice / Re: The Generic Computer Advice Thread
« on: February 16, 2015, 02:42:14 pm »
You shouldn't need to reboot, but you may need to restart explorer and any running programs. The easiest way to do that is to log off/on.

Edit: if you only need PATH to propogate to one program (eg a cmd.exe window) you should just be able to restart that one program.

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Life Advice / Re: The Generic Computer Advice Thread
« on: February 16, 2015, 01:01:26 pm »
That sounds like the drive is failing to me, although it's also possible you've used an overly-restrictive filesystem on an external drive (permissions and a drive that's moved between pcs generally don't mix).

What filesystem is the drive formatted with?

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Life Advice / Re: The Generic Computer Advice Thread
« on: February 14, 2015, 02:53:30 am »
I'm running the 10 preview on my laptop, and it's already awesome, although still in flux design-wise. I wouldn't recommend putting it on main PC just yet, but it'll probably be stable as anything on launch. There are most likely few changes under-the-hood, it's more likely almost entirely the UI that's changed. That's been mostly true for the past few Windows releases, the major version has been "6" since Vista (8.1 is actually 6.3).

Edit: Also, it's worth knowing that "mainstream" support for Windows 7 has ended already. It's only getting security updates from now on, and as such definitely won't be getting Direct X 12.

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