Thread: Modern technology SUUUUCCCKKSS!!!!!

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computers I love. Engines I love.
yet why is it I despise computerized engines?

Originally Posted by rspears

Dave, your lines about grandkids made me cringe. A grandson was here over his "winter break" and grandma told him he could play some games on the 'puter. I assumed that meant those resident on the hard drive, but the next I knew he was saying he could not get one to work right, and it had some new screen - it was the security warning that the program being executed was contaminated Luckily he had stopped at the warning, but when I looked he had about forty windows open with stupid on-line games. We shut down, initiated full system scans and talked about why we could not just open files indiscriminantly.... In one ear and out the other, I'm sure.

The nice part with GC - mom and dad finally get to take them home. I love them - but .......

And the spam - two just popped in from their little gifts to me, but those aren't too bad as long as I don't open them and do another contamination

Dave i will raise you 10", got a 32" wide screen here

Originally Posted by IC2

Oh yeah - my new monitor - a 22 inch flat screen TV. I can watch the boob tube or switch it to being a monitor. Nice part, it was cheaper then a monitor by a fair amount and a lot better picture. I even tried the PC on the 42", but that was a bit too much

Originally Posted by roadster32

Dave i will raise you 10", got a 32" wide screen here

Steve - Is that so you can sit in your favorite recliner and 'surf'??? Great idea!!

I'm banned to the office Dave

Originally Posted by IC2

Steve - Is that so you can sit in your favorite recliner and 'surf'??? Great idea!!

deeproots you and i are the same. I love building computers and cars. as long as my car does not have a computer.

Originally Posted by jyardgirl

deeproots you and i are the same. I love building computers and cars. as long as my car does not have a computer.

I learnt about computers years ago and build my own, Its an awful lot cheaper
Once you understand them they are pretty straight forward.

Originally Posted by roadster32

Once you understand them they are pretty straight forward.

Yeah, I've heard that said about women too...............................still don't believe it.........

Miracles are pretty easy Bob, however impossible is beyond me

Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter

Yeah, I've heard that said about women too...............................still don't believe it.........

it is alot cheaper roadster. and i can build it for exactly what i want it to do. not a big gamer but i do alot with video and using my tv as a secondary monitor.

Building a computer is too simple and cheap vs buying a POS loaded with low end parts and bloatware from Dell or others. You need only a few parts, screw the mobo in the case then locate and plug everything else in the case that you want. I just did a rebuild with everything new but the case and the 3.5" floppy and it was less then $300 and it is one step below a gamers 'puter. Yeah, you do need to make sure everything is compatible, but that only takes a few hours to bring yourself up to speed. Most of my stuff comes from Newegg with a few items from AMAZON or Tiger if their prices are lots less. Nice thing with Newegg is that many of their items are free shipping and AMAZON if it's over $25. Someday - I'll try an OS besides XP, but Microsoft hasn't done anything better for me yet, but so far 7 sounds pretty stable - maybe next year I'll update

I also use newegg. great prices. I am running windows 7 64 bit pro. When i first installed it i was not happy with flash and java. but they have since updated their software so that i can run it on 64 bit. My son runs vista and i hate it. So far win 7 has been very stable and easy to use.

Vista is the preverbial lemon of the microsoft line, sort of like Meleniun, but shoved out before the bugs were worked out. 7 does seem to work well so far! XP is still a great system.

Dave when you talked about the grand kids, it reminded me of when I was a teacher at an after school learning center, where we had a computer lab. Oh the problems those kids did with the computers, but nothing like the little tykes in San Jose at HP. My company had made a deal with HP, and decided to send me to their school/daycare where these little computer geniuses had locked the Teachers out of their computers and created colorful icons on the desk top making fun of the teachers. I had one kid trying to get at a computer I had just cleaned up. I installed a parental control/ password software to keep the kids out of the system files etc. This one kid was determined to get the password. The teacher was such an idiot, that with in 5 minutes she told the kid the password inadvertently. I changed it immediately and found a smarter soul to entrust the program. I was there for 8 hours pulling gum out of cd drives, paper clips out of floppy drives, and erasing obscinaties from desk tops. They called a week later and wanted me to come back. I declined.

the motherboard in my computer went out a week or so go. I built the computer in december 2008 with what was then good parts ( Asus mobo ect... ), but now, it's outdated to the point, I can't just replace the mobo and put it back togther. it is still fast enough to be ' in date ' ( AMD Athlon x2 6000+ ) but it is the old 125w chip, and the mobo's that can support over 95w are few and far between and expensive. also the ram I have is DDR2, and those mobo's are a bit hard to find/ more expensive than DDR3..

So when I get around to it, I will build a new computer. I'm going to get a case with better airflow also. current case only vents the front from underneath the face, which I was never impressed with.. along with that, a more current motherboard, but I'll probably go with a biostar this time. I have used them with success in the past. Athlon x3 3.0 GHZ ( can't remember model number ) and I will unlock the 4th core, and use my Hard drives, vid card, power supply, DVD and digital fan controller.

back when I was in high school, I used to try to outsmart the computer techs ( nice guys, but out of there league a bit. they were hardware guys ).. always fun to play with the registry. just put shutdown.exe in a run command, and they had something to fix.. at first they were convinced it was a virus, but then realized it was a tech savy student but never figured out who it was..