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[Shadowlord]

Loose cable is best hardware problem. 

I've had a few PSU failures, they tended to manifest as an inability to power on, or shutting down a second after powering on, iirc.

[nogoodnames]

What's a decent, free, easy to use video recording program? I just need something that can record voice and a screen capture.

[Aklyon]

What's a decent, free, easy to use video recording program? I just need something that can record voice and a screen capture.

I've heard OBS be called at least two of those.

[Sonlirain]

OBS is great free and relatively easy to use.
Plus you can tell it to noisegate the microphone so it won't record breathing keystrokes and the like.

Then you have Raptr/Gaming evolved and plays.tv but that's more of a game session recorder and the voice through it is... eh. Mostly drowned out by game audio yet somehow managing to make your breathing sound much louder than you talking.

Just as example of what you can expect from those 2 and a relatively cheap microphone.
Plays.tv recording.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M0ToMC3cCM

OBS recording
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzhlT-KE-UI

[Sappho]

Yeah, I use OBS. It's set by default to record in low quality (for streaming) but you can record in high quality if you do this: https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/how-to-make-high-quality-local-recordings.16/

In other news, I have a Microsoft Word question. I'm using Word 2013 to write recording scripts for work. We have a very particular format for the scripts which I have to follow, and it's all done in tables. Right now, I'm making a recording script based on a comic script which I also wrote. This is the easy part, or at least it should be: copy each line of dialogue from the comic to the recording script. Easy peasy, right? Wrong. Every time I copy a line into the table, it formats it completely differently than everything else. It changes the font to Liberation Serif and the size to something larger than what I'm using. Seems to be some kind of Microsoft default. Here's the thing: in both of the documents, the entire document is formatted to Calibri 11. This is the default set in my copy of Word. The "normal" template is Calibri, NOT Liberation Serif. When I copy text normally from one document to another, it keeps the formatting the way I have it, but when I copy into a table, it changes it all. I have to manually go through with the format painter and change each line (I can't just do it for the whole document because the names of the characters are formatted differently).

Anyone have any idea why this is happening? I've tried pasting and telling it to keep the formatting of the source, but it ignores that. I've tried telling it to just paste plain text, and it still changes the font. Where the hell is this font coming from, and how do I keep this from happening? It's really irritating.

[Sonlirain]

I'm not a word power user but... maybe the tables are set to Serif for whatever reason?
As in whatever you put into them it's going to be serif.
That's just my guess but it might be worth checking out.

[Sappho]

Okay but... where would that setting be? I've checked all the styles and none of them have serifs. I don't see any table-specific settings in terms of text formatting. I'm hoping there is one somewhere, otherwise I may be stuck with it this way...

[TheBiggerFish]

Tell it to keep text only or merge formatting instead of copy source formatting, there should be a menu when you paste.

[Sappho]

Yeah, I already tried all those options. It works fine outside of tables, but inside of tables, it still gives me 12-point Liberation Serif no matter what option i choose.

[TheBiggerFish]

Thennnnnn I have no clue.

[Insanegame27]

I may have a problem here. My family has left to go on holiday, leaving me home alone for a little bit with my Aunty. Before they left, my stepdad told me that he had 'buddied' up my PC to his work laptop so that if he wants he can check up on me. He told me that if he catches me playing games then I'm in lots of trouble. I don't know if he was bluffing me or not, but I know that he can set computers up so that he can see what the other is doing from the other end. I searched through my files for any programs I didn't recognise (I found one, a Kyocera) and uninstalled it.


I doubt that that would do the job though, I don't know what processes to look for in Task Manager. Short of taking the computer offline, is there any way I can get around this, or better, show him something else using multiple screens?

[Flying Dice]

Kyocera does appear to be monitoring software.

I'd solve the issue by moving stepdad.cwk to the recycle bin and then deleting it forever.

[Insanegame27]

I uninstalled the Kyocera thingy. I know the admin password for my PC, so that's a thing. I just don't know whether uninstalling it worked or not, I'm considering opening a school assignment and asking his opinion on it since he says he could see it. If he can't get through to my screen then I did something right, right?

[Reudh]

Kyocera is a printer brand, if I recall.

[Sensei]

According to their website, Kyocera makes all kinda of crap, including printers and copiers. Whatever software you had was probably related to a printer, and not monitoring software.