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« on: June 25, 2010, 08:13:02 AM »
<rant>
you know what annoys me? hardware makers who insist on using proprietary drivers. particularly for networking, since you can't download a driver if you can't get on the internet, so you have to get another computer and put the driver on a flash drive, then install it. my Toshiba laptop has pretty much zero problems with this (except for a nearly-useless FM tuner which Microsoft has no reason to support) but other brands fail badly. my hp desktop has a proprietary video driver, which is annoying but easily fixed, but my sisters dell laptop (which i recently downgraded to win2k, and boy is it fast!) has proprietary network, video and audio drivers. yes, I had to download a file to get the sound to work.
</rant>
so, yeah, just annoys me. has anyone encountered something worse?
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« on: May 28, 2010, 01:33:25 PM »
allright, if any of you have been keeping up with the shoutbox then you probably all know about antispyware soft, the fake antivirus which somehow got installed on my moms computer(I blame EI, but whatever) in summary, it took me a good hour for me to get rid of it, by virtue of the fact that it vetoed the starting of any process not named "iexplore.exe", and IE was disabled so that the only sites it could access were the site of the antivirus (which was for some reason hosted in Australia and not Nigeria or Russia or somewhere like that) and some random porn site, presumably thrown in to convince the user that the machine was actually infected.
anyway, I figured out that if I press ctrl-shift-esc to bring up the task manager before the viral process initialized(which took several seconds) I could locate the process, end it, and delete it (I later lifted a copy from the recycle bin before wiping it out entirely)safe mode didnt work because the process never started in safe mode (duh) which meant I couldnt locate it. (i could have gotten rid of it as a startup process in the control panel, but I would have no way to know which was which)
anyway, this thing is evil
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« on: March 25, 2010, 04:38:25 PM »
okay, after this summer I'll be attending an actual college with an actual dorm, and unfortunately an actual firewall'd network. naturally I want to get certain things, and access certain sites, through this network without the admins knowing exactly what it is. (obviously they might get a little suspicious about my using a single ip or whatever to access encrypted data, but whatever)
so: what would be the best way to accomplish these goals as well as possible, and can you direct me to a site you would recommend for some more in-depth instructions and/or help?
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« on: January 28, 2010, 10:12:05 PM »
for some reason, whenever I search anything on google with firefox under windows, 9 times out of 10 the resulting links redirect to some useless site that also searches for what I just searched for. copying and pasting the link works fine, but when I copy the link directly and paste it I get a link a mile long, and a redirect. does anyone know of an antivirus that can kill this sort of adware? (avast can't do it, and neither can my recently-uninstalled norton)
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« on: December 14, 2009, 07:27:15 PM »
even though screensavers are just eye candy these days, most people still have them. I currently have Electricsheep installed, and tend to switch between it and Matrix_ks, and this one thing that looks like the computer from Star Trek. Anyone else?
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« on: September 16, 2009, 12:38:18 PM »
Okay, so I have vista. I tamed it, don't worry. Anyway, through a fairly long sequence of events I don't want to bother to explain, I obtained two useless .dll files that would not delete. I tried every trick in the book, tried taking ownership(the permissions said I could delete it),tried the command prompt, even the hidden admin account couldn't delete it. It always said I didn't have permission.
But here's the weird thing: I could move them. I could even edit them. I just couldn't delete them.
Weird, I know.
I finally got rid of them by moving them to a flash drive, then formatting it.
anyone hear of anything like this?
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« on: September 14, 2009, 12:56:04 AM »
this may be the stupidest thing I have ever done in my entire life. I was thirteen at he time.
okay, so I found one of thus little nail things at a construction site. the kind that comes in a .22 shell with one end crinkled up and a gunpowder charge at the other end? anyone familiar with that? you hit the back end with some kind of tool, setting off the charge and driving the nail into whatever its on top of.
anyway, I found one. decided to set it off with one of my dads hammers, figured I would drive it into a rock. after getting it lined up and hitting it a few times - unsuccessfully - I figure it's a dud and try to get it open to see whats inside. my tool of choice? the hammer.
after three or four hits it blew. nobody was hurt but I was deaf for a good half minute, and we never found the casing or the nail.
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« on: March 26, 2009, 04:12:14 PM »
Hi. just here for that chatter and maybe some computer help
don't mind me
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