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[old.Tohtori]

/commits ritual suicide to attone for heinous sin...

LEt's just bank this post for future use shall we

 

[Scouse]

Wait for it:

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxuldlw0c6A&feature=youtu.be

 

[Moriath]

So, I'm moving out of halls tomorrow.

I'll miss be able to walk around my flat naked all day

I remember that day. But now 20 years on I have a house I can walk stark bollock naked around when I like. Grin

 

[Bodhi]

After a couple of days use Windows 8.1 isn't actually too bad, in fact I'd go as far as to say the desktop side of things is lovely, and an improvement on 7 (I'm thinking Task Manager, File Copying). It's just a shame it goes so horribly wrong when you hit the Start button :/

 

[soze]

You can change the options so you never see the tiles and you just get a full page application list. It really is nothing to worry about.

 

[Ch3tan]

Yep, I use 8.1 at work and will at home when I rebuild.

 

[caLLous]

Not sure tbh, I'm still on 7. 8.1 looks better than 8 but I don't like things like MS making it more difficult to just have a local account without any online connections. Will everything run ok in 8.1 that runs in 7? Can I make it so I *never* have to look at that start screen and so I can rely solely on traditional programs and not "apps"?

 

[caLLous]

And...



Ah, the internet...

 

[soze]

Not sure tbh, I'm still on 7. 8.1 looks better than 8 but I don't like things like MS making it more difficult to just have a local account without any online connections. Will everything run ok in 8.1 that runs in 7? Can I make it so I *never* have to look at that start screen and so I can rely solely on traditional programs and not "apps"?

Yes. You can still pick a local account it just makes you log into any MS apps with a MS account. You can tell Windows to take you straight to the desktop and to show the App List rather than Metro which means the only time you see it is when you want to. As for application compatibility I have not found one that does not work yet but it will depend on your applications.

 

[caLLous]

All mainstream stuff... Adobe, some AutoCAD etc plus games. I want it to be completely offline, I don't want "SkyDrive integration" or any of that shite. If I can completely ignore the start screen and "apps" and exist offline in it then I will give it a shot.

 

[Zarjazz]

M$ only get every other version of Windows right. They make big changes, fuck it up but don't admit they made a mistake, and then somehow in the next release it's suddenly usable.

ME -> XP
Vista -> Win 7
Win 8.x -> Win 9 (out 2015)

 

[soze]

M$ only get every other version of Windows right. They make big changes, fuck it up but don't admit they made a mistake, and then somehow in the next release it's suddenly usable.

ME -> XP
Vista -> Win 7
Win 8.x -> Win 9 (out 2015)

I think people went into Windows 8 expecting this and that is why people hate it sometimes for no real reason that can't be sorted by using and tweaking it. I certainly would not downgrade a PC that came with it. Nor would I upgrade from 7 at full price.

 

[DaGaffer]

Decks are out of fashion apparently, but I don't want to cut the grass.

Anyone thought about a false lawn?


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-M4G9HyVRI

We have one in the place we're currently renting while we look for somewhere to buy, its horrible. It doesn't feel nice and it takes ages to dry out after rain (its like a sodden carpet).

 

[Scouse]

The Grand Budapest Hotel is now available on various bearded, long-haired, eye-patched, anti-establishment content-distribution platforms.

I suggest you pick it up asap, before a later purchace to support this sort of thing.

 

[Chilly]

It's a hilarious film.

 

[Madmaxx]

I dunno about the text but the image it self made me chuckle, she really hooked her foot around to

 

[Syri]

I think people went into Windows 8 expecting this and that is why people hate it sometimes for no real reason that can't be sorted by using and tweaking it. I certainly would not downgrade a PC that came with it. Nor would I upgrade from 7 at full price.

I'm a bit undecided on this. On one side, Windows 8 is indeed solid and quick, and it does bring a few new things to the table. On the other hand though, it really shouldn't be necessary to do quite so much tweaking to make it usable. A lot of the problems can indeed be solved with settings and, in the case of the start menu, applications (I'm using classic shell for a start menu), but there are a lot of irritations all the same.
I actually found Windows 8.1 to be more irritating though, to the point I reinstalled to go back to 8.0. I didn't sign in with a microsoft account, so 8.1 meant I lost access to skydrive, oops, sorry, onedrive. I also didn't like that it moved documents, pictures etc to be listed in the computer entry, or This PC as it was renamed (luckily you can rename it back). There's a registry setting you can delete to remove those shortcuts, but every so often they just came back. So in the end, when I decided to increase my SSD space, I just went back to 8.0. It's a lot easier to make it act more like 7 for the things I want, and I still get the performance gains and other bits 8 got right. It just feels a bit bad that you should have to do so much just to make an OS usable as you want it.

 

[Job]

Anyway, there's no future in desktop OS's, virused to buggery, you're better off with a chrome book so Google can know everything about you , then sell it to advertisers and get their servers hacked once a year by Russian mafia.
Goes off to buy an encyclopedia and a pen

 

[Raven]

Not had a virus in years on my PC...

But then I don't look at dodgy websites or run suspicious .exe files.

 

[TdC]

dem kids eh

http://www.koat.com/news/police-teen-vandals-call-cops-on-themselves/26323800#!URNr5

 

[Job]

The Ostendo holographic 3D chip for smartphones..does anyone know how it actually works?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolo...-Star-Wars-3D-holograms-within-two-years.html

 

[Scouse]

dem kids eh

At Uni a mate of mine came out of a snooker hall at about 9:30pm to go home only to find that someone was being assaulted in nearby public bogs.

Had steel toecapped DM's on and a snooker cue in my hand. The guys we stopped doing the assault tried to say the guy they were assaulting was gay and had made a pass at them in the bogs, so they were only "teaching him a lesson".

I'm a tall lad, so's my mate, I had a snooker queue and for some reason although I'm soft as shite they must have been scared - they volunteered to call the cops on themselves, and I policed 'em as they did it

 

[Mabs]

exciting stuff just down the end of my road

http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co....homes-evacuated-in-otley-bomb-scare-1-6656994

 

[CorNokZ]

Homeless guy came up to me on the train and asked for change. Gave him very little as it was all I had, but my bag was full of beer and asked if he would like one. He replied: "I don't drink. Life is hard enough as it is"

*gulp*

 

[Olgaline]

 

[Edmond]

The Grand Budapest Hotel is now available on various bearded, long-haired, eye-patched, anti-establishment content-distribution platforms.

I suggest you pick it up asap, before a later purchace to support this sort of thing.

Funny that, I brought it down last night

 

[old.user4556]

http://www.androidheadlines.com/2014/06/watches-porn-android-ios-users.html

"73% of the traffic goes to Safari on the iPad, leaving a 13.6% that goes to Chrome being used on both iPad and Android tablets. With phones, it’s a little less surprising with Safari on iPhone coming in at 38.2%, Android’s browser coming in at 29.4%, and 18% for Chrome"

Clear proof that iPhone users are wankers.

 

[caLLous]

They also masturbate a lot.

 

[Edmond]

Just had new gas and leccy meters put in with a smart meter to monitor it all. I have been out at work the last few days and getting back only for the monitor to tell me I have used 50% of my daily budget

I'm trying to work out what is using all the power, so this morning I shut the pc down before I left and now it say I have used 8 %.

Does the pc really use that much power, because its never turned of due to all the seedin....umm...special tasks it has to do in the day

 

[Edmond]

They also masturbate a lot.

Yes...yes we do