Annoying Questions I'd Like Answered...

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Fri Aug 01, 2014 8:43 pm

Stop eating cornflakes. :þ

Chamomile · Post by **Chamomile** » Sat Aug 02, 2014 12:21 am

Prak_Anima wrote:You can also-
1- Open corn flakes
2- Empty commercial bag into freezer bag
3- Place freezer bag back into cereal box.

In a recent visit to a tropical region of the world, I found it was common to store cereal in the fridge.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sat Aug 02, 2014 12:24 am

That seems counter productive...

fectin · Post by **fectin** » Sat Aug 02, 2014 12:41 am

Colder air holds less water.

Occluded Sun · Post by **Occluded Sun** » Sat Aug 02, 2014 4:38 pm

And if you're going to pour cold milk all over it, the temperature of the flakes seems almost immaterial.

virgil · Post by **virgil** » Thu Aug 07, 2014 7:55 pm

Sunday, I ended up doing something like this during a major traffic jam

The guy I blocked apparently suffers from road rage. He followed me after I got off the highway and to my home. I parked in view of my neighbors who like to hang outside until 11pm. I think nothing of it after that, since he didn't drive into the apartment's parking lot in view of anyone. I admit the stupidity in driving home and not even getting his license plate number.

Tuesday morning, I head out to my car, and the passenger window's been busted. Door unopened and only whatever could be grabbed from the window was taken (a $5 MP3 player, $3 in coins, a $2 mini-flashlight, and a couple crappy power cords). No other vehicle was touched, and my wife suspects it was Mr Road Rage making a visit, and advises that I park elsewhere in the complex for a while.

What are the chances of this actually being something done by Mr Rage? What are the chances of him making a return visit?

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Thu Aug 07, 2014 7:58 pm

Given that nothing valuable was taken, odds are pretty good it was someone with a crazy and stupid vendetta, so unless you have a stalker ex it probably was the guy. Pretty much no way of knowing if he might come back.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Thu Aug 07, 2014 10:24 pm

I'd put in a police report just so you can have a paper trail on this person.

Count Arioch the 28th · Mon Aug 11, 2014 8:04 am

Is anyone else having to reboot their computer every day because their sound stops working, or is it just me?

Also, anyone having problems with chrome locking up their computers so bad that you have to cut the power to get it to do anything? I've noticed both of these since last windows 8 update.

erik · Post by **erik** » Mon Aug 11, 2014 11:37 am

Count Arioch the 28th wrote:Is anyone else having to reboot their computer every day because their sound stops working, or is it just me?

Also, anyone having problems with chrome locking up their computers so bad that you have to cut the power to get it to do anything? I've noticed both of these since last windows 8 update.

Yep. Window 8 Dell laptop of my wife's. I've refused to go to 8.1 for now. Dunno if updating that would solve this problem.

I found I can go into sleep mode and come back (which is a fair sight faster than rebooting) and that does the trick. Has been going on a few weeks and I couldn't find an answer back when it first happened so I've just been dealing... mostly because I rarely use that computer.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Mon Aug 11, 2014 6:52 pm

seriously, i had to work on a relic of a computer complete with isa port, agp, windumb 98 and a graphics card held together by cable ties . . and i'd still rather work with that than windumb8 <.<

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 1:26 am

When I bought my new laptop, one of the requirements was "Windows 7, not 8".

erik · Post by **erik** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 1:44 am

This was a gift for my wife from her parents when she started taking classes to be able to take the CPA test (an accountant thing). I guess their requirement was that it be cheap and win8 was mandatory with the cheap stuff.

I had to download a start bar mod and alter a bunch of settings but I did finally make it an acceptable machine where you barely know it is Win8 instead of 7. Until this audio issue anyway. It was a pain when the hard drive failed in the first year and I had to redo all my tweaking. I had forgotten how horrific it was before I massaged it into being a real computer. In fact once again I have forgotten most of the 10 or so things I had to do. I think it wrote down a guide to follow for next time. Just don't remember where I stored it.

In other computer news I finally shelled out dough to upgrade out olde MacBook to a SSD. Will be installing it this week when it arrives. I am hoping in addition to the much needed extra space it massively cuts down on the heat generated and speeds things up too. Dunno if it will speed up web stuff. Hope springs eternal. Speed boost (and battery life) is gravy after to the first two concerns.

Ideally this will stave off need to buy a new poorer for a couple more years and thus be well worth it.

radthemad4 · Post by **radthemad4** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 3:07 am

If she doesn't use Windows specific stuff all the time, you could try installing a Linux Distro on the side. Linux Mint 17 xfce worked wonders for my crappy old Windows XP netbook (e.g. the mouse doesn't lag when using Mint).

Eikre · Post by **Eikre** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 5:17 am

Here's my Two Step Training Program for Win8; after completing it you will be fully enabled to stop being a reactionary jackass who spends even a fucking second of his day being angry about a computer operating system:

Step 1: Hit winkey-S to bring up a full-system search. Type the thing you want and hit Enter. Stop thinking that the start menu wasn't already obsolete back when they released Windows 7.

Step 2: Right-click the faux- start button they added with win8.1. Use this menu to preform all other system management tasks which are even slightly worth your consideration.

Good luck, have fun.

...You Lost Me · Post by **...You Lost Me** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 7:02 am

^ that pretty much sums up my experiences with Win8.

erik · Post by **erik** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 11:29 am

I cannot eye-roll hard enough at you bizzarely-spelled-Erik.

I haven't gone to 8.1 because I was wary and had read that their changes may fuck up some of the fixes I had already implemented. I got things the way I was okay with and didn't want to rock that boat. Anywho, if you don't understand the utility of a drop-down ready list of frequently used items rather than having to type in search each fucking time then god help you. Pretentious dick.

It's not just the damned start button, and admittedly in my case it is not just Windows 8 but some of the Dell shit too. The system clock by default references a time server that doesn't work (windows). The gestures and sensitivity on the laptop pad are so retarded that they inhibit function (dell). By default it turns off wifi (but makes it appear that it is still on but just "limited") if it ever becomes unplugged, stupid setting (dell, I think).

Laertes · Post by **Laertes** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 12:43 pm

Question to the audience:

While reading right-wing blogs during lunch because I like to laugh at their stupidity and be outraged at their evil, I notice there's a general willingness among the crazy right to accuse things of being "false flag operations." I can only find, after a quick trawl through the web, one actual real-life false flag operation, that being the Lavon affair. As near as I can make out, they don't actually seem to be a real-life thing, just a fever dream of epistemologically-closed wingnuts.

Can anyone name me some actual false flag operations that actually happened in real life or are they just a fictional thing, as I'm coming to suspect?

angelfromanotherpin · Tue Aug 12, 2014 12:46 pm

Wikipedia to the rescue?

DSMatticus · Post by **DSMatticus** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 1:37 pm

Eikre wrote:Step 1: Hit winkey-S to bring up a full-system search. Type the thing you want and hit Enter. Stop thinking that the start menu wasn't already obsolete back when they released Windows 7.

I don't think you ever figured out how to use the start menu. Programs/All Programs isn't the start menu, it's an option on the start menu. You hover over it, and you get a nightmarish list bloated with tons of bullshit you don't care about. If you don't hover over it, you get a customizable list of shortcuts plus some other useful bits - i.e. a collapsible desktop in list form. I have 31 items on that list. It is only two clicks to access any of those items. If you're telling me to replace that list with searching, that's terrible and stupid go fuck yourself. If you're telling me to replace that list with the desktop, I already have the desktop and am using the list instead go fuck yourself. If you're telling me to replace that list with the start screen, the start screen is just another desktop except for tablets go fuck yourself.

But I would also disagree that even All Programs is useless. I wouldn't actually have been able tell you what zip clients this computer has installed off the top of my head, but it took me only a few seconds to figure out that the answer is 7-Zip and WinRAR. That was a fuckton easier than trying to answer that question using a goddamn search.

Windows 8 is really only an improvement for desktop users if they are computer illiterate, but it pisses on anyone who knows what the fuck they're doing - it's accessible at the expense of being functional. Which is what always fucking happens when people try to merge their tablet and desktop UI.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 1:48 pm

The whole anger about Win8 could have been completely avoided if they had put both metro and classic desktop on the dvd and given people a choice which UI they want in installation.

schpeelah · Post by **schpeelah** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 5:12 pm

Classic desktop is already there, only you don't start on it and the Start menu is missing. This could seriously be just an option in Control Panel.

I just use the Classic Start Menu program, which gives me the Start menu and gives me the desktop at start up, skipping the Metro thing entirely.

fectin · Post by **fectin** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 7:32 pm

I'm pretty interested in seeing Eikre's UI research data. Or even his references to accepted consensus standards.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 9:43 pm

I took Eikre's post to be facetiousness. My brother tried to sell me on the greatness of Windows 7's start menu based on the whole search thing. I was completely baffled. He apparently does, in fact, type the name of the program he wants to use in the box every time. I'm sorry... The entire point of a GUI is so that I don't have to type in my program names like some old DOS command. WTF?

But then, I've customized my start menu since Win95 so that programs are actually organized by my intended purpose instead of in one nightmare pile. Photoshop? Yeah, that's going to be under Start -> Programs -> Imaging. Freecell? Start -> Programs -> Games.

ishy · Post by **ishy** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 10:23 pm

I'm running windows 8.1.
First thing I did was download start8, which gives me a start menu and allows me to disable many windows 8 features.
After some registry editing to change my libraries I enjoy windows 8 more than windows 7.