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 Re: Gumby's How To Not Suck At The Internet Tutorial  [Re: citricacidx]
#9688545 - 01/27/09 03:01 PM (4 years, 3 months ago) |
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Maybe your computer just sucks  My firefox opens up almost as soon as I click it.
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Re: Gumby's How To Not Suck At The Internet Tutorial [Re: Az0th]
#9688562 - 01/27/09 03:03 PM (4 years, 3 months ago) |
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my comp is on the way out, but it still have a 2Ghz Dual Core with 2 gigs of DDR2 ram and my harddrive has about 20GB free.
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Re: Gumby's How To Not Suck At The Internet Tutorial [Re: citricacidx]
#9688613 - 01/27/09 03:11 PM (4 years, 3 months ago) |
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Gumby - I do similar work, I work in the IT department for a company and also do computer repair and whatnot. You forgot to mention something I find to be very important and lately I have been seeing this WAAAY to often.
Your antivirus program is the ONLY THING that will tell you that you are infected. Your spyware/adware programs are the ONLY PROGRAMS that will tell you that you are infected with malware. Theres this new shit going around... Antivirus 2009, 2008 was bad too. If you get popups from anything else saying "oh hey! youre infected! click this button to clean up!" or some shit like that, dont do it! You have to be a fool if you do. And... if you are infected w/ that, Malwarebytes is a greate program to use to remove it. Just run it 2 or 3 times and it should be all clear.
But please, avoid clicking those stupid things. It's been getting more and more popular because they really do look legitimate. But again, only YOUR programs will be telling you these things. If you use AVG... only listen to AVG popups.
OK, just had to mention that. Gumby if you want to add that to the first post so people see it immediately thats cool (if you find this advice appropriate).
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Re: Gumby's How To Not Suck At The Internet Tutorial [Re: Platinum]
#9688896 - 01/27/09 03:53 PM (4 years, 3 months ago) |
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Gumby: I had an old friend who didn't want to throw away his old computer when he got his new one, so instead of trashing it, he slaved it to the new computer to help with processing. I think it took a while for him to do, and it seemed fairly hard. Anyways I was thinking about doing this at some point, would you know anything about this, or be able to point me in the right direction?
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Re: Gumby's How To Not Suck At The Internet Tutorial [Re: Acaterpillar]
#9689030 - 01/27/09 04:23 PM (4 years, 3 months ago) |
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^^ it's actually very simple. It's just a jumper setting. On the back of a hard drive there are usually pins (# of pins varies based on kind of hard drive) and on 2 of the pins is a little plastic piece that can come out. Putting this little plastic piece on the correct pins will result in the changing of your hard drive from master to slave. On the front of the hard drive usually, it will tell you how you want the jumper positioned to assign it slave. Just change the jumper setting, and plug it in. Check the bios on bootup to ensure that the computer is seeing the hard drive as slave.
if you need better directions just ask. it's really not that hard he probably just didnt know what the fuck he was doing.
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Re: Gumby's How To Not Suck At The Internet Tutorial [Re: Platinum]
#9689117 - 01/27/09 04:37 PM (4 years, 3 months ago) |
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Platinum: I think he's talking about distributed processing via multiple processors. I knew some kids at Emory who got a grant from the school to do some distributed processing project. It was very complex and this was 4 years ago... I don't remember a single thing about it.
Also, I'll add that tip to the first post. Good idea.
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Re: Gumby's How To Not Suck At The Internet Tutorial [Re: Gumby]
#9689135 - 01/27/09 04:42 PM (4 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yeah Gumby got what I was saying. What you told me to do, Platinum, would simply link my two hardrives together so I could have access to both at once, correct?
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Re: Gumby's How To Not Suck At The Internet Tutorial [Re: Acaterpillar]
#9691629 - 01/27/09 11:35 PM (4 years, 3 months ago) |
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oh yeah my fault. I saw slave and assumed hard drive. guess i should read the entire post before replying. my bad man.
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Re: Gumby's How To Not Suck At The Internet Tutorial [Re: Gumby]
#9691649 - 01/27/09 11:39 PM (4 years, 3 months ago) |
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I like how a "computer tech" is just someone who knows the basics about computers lol.
I know more about my shit then any other "computer tech" I've ever met,
and I don't even try to, I just pick things up as I go.
Ehh..
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Re: Gumby's How To Not Suck At The Internet Tutorial [Re: Platinum]
#9691781 - 01/27/09 11:59 PM (4 years, 3 months ago) |
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Great post with lots of good info
I will be working on my PC tomorrow using some of the programs mentioned.
I also use Freeram XP to free up ram, once in a while it slows me down while it is freeing the ram but other than that, its all good.
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Re: Gumby's How To Not Suck At The Internet Tutorial [Re: Gumby]
#9691944 - 01/28/09 12:28 AM (4 years, 3 months ago) |
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the best way to fix yur comp is to start deleting shit in the win/sys.32 folder
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Re: Gumby's How To Not Suck At The Internet Tutorial [Re: mick]
#9691952 - 01/28/09 12:30 AM (4 years, 3 months ago) |
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This thread should be stickied
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Re: Gumby's How To Not Suck At The Internet Tutorial [Re: mick]
#9691954 - 01/28/09 12:30 AM (4 years, 3 months ago) |
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Dude what the fuck did you just make me do man. 
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Re: Gumby's How To Not Suck At The Internet Tutorial [Re: Az0th]
#9692390 - 01/28/09 02:08 AM (4 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
Shroomism said:
Optimize Firefox
That'll make it faster than Chrome.
That shit turned my FireFox into IE. WTF?? Now Google Chrome looks even better to me.
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Re: Gumby's How To Not Suck At The Internet Tutorial [Re: citricacidx]
#9692429 - 01/28/09 02:15 AM (4 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
citricacidx said:
Quote:
Shroomism said:
Optimize Firefox
That'll make it faster than Chrome.
That shit turned my FireFox into IE. WTF?? Now Google Chrome looks even better to me.
I officially give you a "suck at the internet" award.
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Re: Gumby's How To Not Suck At The Internet Tutorial [Re: niteowl]
#9692430 - 01/28/09 02:16 AM (4 years, 3 months ago) |
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This thread should be stickied
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Re: Gumby's How To Not Suck At The Internet Tutorial [Re: Gumby]
#9692470 - 01/28/09 02:23 AM (4 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
Gumby said:
Quote:
citricacidx said:
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Shroomism said:
Optimize Firefox
That'll make it faster than Chrome.
That shit turned my FireFox into IE. WTF?? Now Google Chrome looks even better to me.
I officially give you a "suck at the internet" award.
I do no such thing. Google Chrome is running swimmingly and FireFox hangs if theres more than 3 pages open, and that only happened after making those changes. So now i'm just gonna have to back track and undo them.
[Edit] Surprise surprise. reset all those tweaks back to default, and now the browser is running well again.
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Re: Gumby's How To Not Suck At The Internet Tutorial [Re: Gumby]
#12306177 - 03/31/10 04:31 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Just bumping this thread to update with a problem fix that I found.
Lately while I've been typing the letters will just stop appearing on the screen then it will catch up really fast, so basically typing lag. All YouTube videos I watched would play fine for a couple of seconds then the video would freeze up for about 10-30 seconds while the audio kept playing.
I tried deleting my Firefox profile and creating a new one. Nothing. I uninstalled then reinstalled FireFox... Nothing. I was starting to get fucking pissed.
I was at wits end. I had Googled the living shit out of the problems and found nothing. Then I realized something. I hadn't cleared my cache in like 4 or 5 months and I had installed some new addons for FireFox. I uninstalled the FoxyTunes and Skype addons and cleared my cache.
Once I restarted FF I went straight to YouTube and loaded up a graphics intensive video and played it. It worked flawlessly. I had been having the same problem on my netbook so I booted it up and removed the Skype addon and cleared the cache. Problem solved on the netbook too.
Just wanted to share that info for you guys in case anyone is having the same problem.
I'm not sure if it was the Skype addon or my cache being too full, but alls I know is I can watch YouTube vids and type regularly in Firefox now.
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Re: Gumby's How To Not Suck At The Internet Tutorial [Re: Gumby]
#12306192 - 03/31/10 04:35 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Anything you can do about my video card crapping out on me? I can watch flash videos and streaming videos fine (youtube, spankwire, etc), but if i play something that's on my harddrive after a little bit the video card heats up and BSoD. It doesn't even get that hot, usually it turns off around 51-52C which is nothing. This thing used to be able to reach 70 fine when I played vidja games on it.
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Re: Gumby's How To Not Suck At The Internet Tutorial [Re: citricacidx]
#12306209 - 03/31/10 04:39 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Just sounds like it's crapping out. Try opening up yer puter and dusting off the heat sync of the card with some compressed air. Actually, fuck that, just dust out the whole machine. I do that to mine every 4 months or so. Make sure all your fans are working, including the one on the vid card if it has one (or 5, like some new vid cards do).
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