It's Personal...

RobbyPants · Post by **RobbyPants** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 7:28 pm

Is it possible to void the check and then get him a new one? If so, it seems like you'd have all of your bases covered.

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Tue Feb 01, 2011 1:06 am

Does anyone know what voodoo to perform on windows 7 to make it amplify the volume of things? I have headphones I connect to the computer directly, so all i have is the integrated ability to set volume maximums, which quiet things don't tend to reach anyway.

CatharzGodfoot · Post by **CatharzGodfoot** » Tue Feb 01, 2011 4:41 am

name_here wrote:Does anyone know what voodoo to perform on windows 7 to make it amplify the volume of things? I have headphones I connect to the computer directly, so all i have is the integrated ability to set volume maximums, which quiet things don't tend to reach anyway.

1) Control Panel -> Hardware & Sound -> Sound -> Playback -> Properties -> Levels -> adjust volume.

2) Control Panel -> Hardware & Sound -> Adjust System Volume -> adjust volume.

3) System Tray -> Sound -> adjust volume.

Daiba · Post by **Daiba** » Tue Feb 01, 2011 3:53 pm

RobbyPants wrote:Is it possible to void the check and then get him a new one? If so, it seems like you'd have all of your bases covered.

The check number and amount from the carbon, then call or go to your bank and have it canceled. If you're with BoA (yes, I know they're evil vampires preying on America), you can do this very conveniently via online banking.

Edit: I understand that this wasn't necessarily what was asked - just thought I'd throw this out there for people who haven't experienced the process.

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Tue Feb 01, 2011 5:35 pm

Does anyone who has actually used windows 7 home edition have a suggestion?

The problem, you see, is that those just set volume MAXIMUMS, which is not what I was asking for.

CatharzGodfoot · Post by **CatharzGodfoot** » Tue Feb 01, 2011 5:57 pm

name_here wrote:Does anyone who has actually used windows 7 home edition have a suggestion?

The problem, you see, is that those just set volume MAXIMUMS, which is not what I was asking for.

It's hard to believe that Microsoft would make Win 7 Home and Pro so different. Maybe you're just over-thinking this.

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Tue Feb 01, 2011 7:00 pm

Maybe I've left those set to 100% since ever and know what the fuck I be talking about.

EDIT: For the edification of those of you with operating systems that have interfaces which are not shit, here is a picture

The green bar is the volume. The thingy you look at and say, "oh hey, the volume control is right there, he's just an idiot" is how high the volume is allowed to be, and if it exceeds that the excess green bar is greyed out. I moved it back to 100% afterward, no change in volume.

Incidentally, I'm still having that creative commons search engine problem, because the assholes at firefox have removed all other search engines from the toolbar except answers.com and their "add a search engine" thing just adds search engine enhancers, which don't fix the problem. I blame having downloaded the 4.0 beta, which apparently changed my nice functional non-beta version too.

ubernoob · Post by **ubernoob** » Tue Feb 01, 2011 9:52 pm

Doom · Post by **Doom** » Tue Feb 01, 2011 10:12 pm

Just miserable crap cold gray rain here in La.

RobbyPants · Post by **RobbyPants** » Tue Feb 01, 2011 11:22 pm

We're about a couple of hours away from some huge blizzard. I don't know if it's going to be as bad as they're making it out to be, but I took the day off tomorrow, so I don't really care.

tzor · Post by **tzor** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 12:52 am

I'll probably work from home again. Bytes flying across the world. The most stable VPN in my company is the "London" node, so I'm going from Long Island to London and then through the internal network back to New York. I'm really glad the speed of light is fast.

(Note one of the reasons why the London node is so stable is that the people in London use their networks for their phones and the London node doesn't support the phone, so they have to connect to New York. Naturally they get to go online five hours before I do.)

RobbyPants · Post by **RobbyPants** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 12:51 pm

If I had a laptop at work, I would have. Most everyone else in my group does, so I think they're all working from home today anyway.

Still, a day off is nice. If I were working at home, I'd be doing so while watching my wife and daughter play, because my wife's a teacher, so she has the day off anyway. It'd be hard to get anything done.

tzor · Post by **tzor** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 4:06 pm

Well, after trying to find the sewer grates for fifteen minutes, I got lazy and decided to call the town. The show is packed up three feet over the grates and we already have a one foot lake on the street in front of my driveway and it's growing. If it overflows it's going down my driveway unti it reaches the pile of snow at the end and then funnel into the basement and the garrage. Since I'm at the bottom of the neighborhood hill and the temperature in this (now) rainstorm is going to be in the 40's I expect a lot of water to roll down the street.

On the other hand, the commute to work was good. I gave up my snow coat for my raincoat.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Sun Feb 06, 2011 6:51 am

So, I currently have a small hole in my cheek from where I was hit by a springing tree branch. It's not bleeding now and I kept pressure/a bandaid on it until it sealed but for an hour or two there, I could hear air moving through it if I inflated my cheeks (not that I was trying. That's how I found out it had pierced through.)

Anyone know how long it takes something like that to heal?

It's so small I thought it was just a nasty scratch. It's between my lips and chin, and under the left corner of my mouth.

Parthenon · Post by **Parthenon** » Sun Feb 06, 2011 1:50 pm

So its my birthday and my mum gives me a present. Now I don't celebrate my birthday at all so I think its my first actual present in a few years. I open it up and its a magic eye picture jigsaw. As in it looks like a repeating pattern, but if you focus past it/go cross-eyed/etc a 3d image pops out at you. Google image searching "magic eye" or "stereogram" will come up with loads of examples.

Now, heres the thing: I'm not a huge fan of jigsaws. If my mum is doing one I may join in and help while its easy, but I won't go out of my way to start one.

And even worse, I can't see magic eye pictures. At all. It just strains my eyes.

So my mum's just given me a present I won't hugely enjoy, thats useless to me. Guess its just forgotten middle child syndrome. How exactly can I make her not feel like shit for buying me a bad present as her first present in years? Anyone got any tips on stereograms? Maybe I can get one of my brothers to tell me whats there and fake it?

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Mon Feb 07, 2011 3:34 am

So its my birthday and I had almost 15 people call me today to wish me happy birthday. Normally, it's a big thing if I remember my own birthday. I call this the facebook effect. I had aunts and uncles I haven't talked to in months or years call me to wish me happy birthday. It was strange...

Count Arioch the 28th · Mon Feb 07, 2011 6:52 pm

Tomorrow, I speak to someone about what I have to do to transfer to a 4 year college. I have had some really bad advice, but I am pushing ahead and fixing it on the way. My income last year was about 9k and some change, and I'm tired of not having food to eat every day.

Maybe I can get a 15-20k lab tech job somewhere when I finish college. that will at least be slightly better.

Also, I may make another attempt to get food stamps. My hours have gotten cut at work and I won't even be able to live with fasting 2 days a week like I am now. I could go to the local food pantry, but after getting canned and dry goods that were years out of date the last time, I decided that I needed to be more desperate for food than I am now. (I don't know how a charity can get away with giving food that a normal person would throw away to people just because they're poor, but I've discovered most "charity" is basically a laugh.)

RobbyPants · Post by **RobbyPants** » Mon Feb 07, 2011 7:45 pm

That sucks. I have a feeling they would get in trouble if caught, though.

CatharzGodfoot · Post by **CatharzGodfoot** » Mon Feb 07, 2011 8:26 pm

Good luck, Count. The rules for food stamps tend to be pretty awful too, but at least the food (probably) won't be expired.

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 3:37 am

Starting to recover from a rather unpleasant case of Bronchitis. Contemplating watching Osmosis Jones to celebrate.

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 4:14 am

There are church non-profits that sell monthly meals for a low cost. It's just easy prepare meals or frozen meals. But it was damned cheap. I had looked into it like 6 years ago when I got tired of eating only ramen for six months.

ubernoob · Post by **ubernoob** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 9:19 am

RobbyPants · Post by **RobbyPants** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 1:30 pm

Too old to be practical or too old for your personal tastes? Still, that is a nice find.

tzor · Post by **tzor** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 3:10 pm

ubernoob wrote:For the first time in my life, I found a girl that could honestly say intelligence is a turn on. I am shocked and amazed that such a thing exists. A shame she's too old for me.

Wait, if she's too old for you that means she is probably ...

Drat, still too young for me.

Count Arioch the 28th · Tue Feb 08, 2011 8:29 pm

Update on the college thing: I can get in to the 4 year, but I have to retake my lit courses first. Flunking Accounting 101 won't be too problematic, but I need those lit classes.