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[Graknorke]

I am very confused by something my laptop is doing.
It won't recognise or play sound through any ear/headphones I plug into the audio jack. Though it will recongise that something is in there and mute the speakers. I've tried all the usual things; reinstalling drivers, Windows updates, turning it off and back on again, but none of that fixed it. Actually looking at it seems to think that the jack on the side of the laptop is still outputting to the speakers, and I don't know why it would be doing that.

Thing is though, it all works fine when I boot Ubuntu on the same laptop. So it's not a hardware problem.

halp i am not good at computer

[Arx]

Does your computer do two separate volume settings for seaker and headphones? I know mine does.

[Graknorke]

Does your computer do two separate volume settings for seaker and headphones? I know mine does.

I don't think it does, but even if it did, it's just not recognising that there is an audio device in the audio jack. No notification, nothing in the sound section of the control panel, nothing.

[miauw62]

Did you try right-clicking the volume button and then clicking on "Playback Devices" in the menu that pops up?
That's usually where I have to fiddle to make new headphones work.


I need some advice of myself.
I've been setting up a small server for myself with SSH and a webserver.
The problem is that, even though this is just for me, I also want it to be accesible from the internet.

HOWEVER, most of the default ports (HTTP, SSH) seem to be below 1023, and I can only forward ports from 1024 and above on the control panel that my internet provider gives me.
This makes things very annoying because I'll have to tell everyone "you have to type :3000 behind the domain name to connect else it won't work"
Is there any way around this?

[Graknorke]

Did you try right-clicking the volume button and then clicking on "Playback Devices" in the menu that pops up?
That's usually where I have to fiddle to make new headphones work.

Yes, many times. Windows just doesn't register the headphones being plugged in, regardless of which headphones they are (I've tried three).

[Aklyon]

Have you tried restarting to see if windows will pick them up then?
Also, this is the headphone jack, not a microphone jack, right?

[Graknorke]

Have you tried restarting to see if windows will pick them up then?
Also, this is the headphone jack, not a microphone jack, right?

1: Many restarts, no different. Windows still consistently fails to pick up on the headphones
2: Definitely is, although neither one works

EDIT: Okay after reinstalling the audio drivers yet again I can get Windows to acknowledge when I've plugged/unplugged something into the audio jack. Still doesn't detect the device and will try and play through the speakers though.

EDIT2: Okay, Windows is now fixed after reinstalling drivers a whole load more times and running some more Windows updates. I have no idea why it worked this time but hey, I'm not complaining if the magic box decides to work.

[MaximumZero]

Anyone know how much speed I'm going to lose if I go through a VPN? I'm on a 30Mb package now, with 3.6MB peak downloads.

[Karkov]

Depends on the router/switch on the other side, along with wiring and traffic on said wires.  Also dependent upon the encryption used on the VPN tunnel, though that's not too terrible since there's a bunch of VoIP calls made on encrypted tunnels all the time now anyway.

I doubt it will be a very big thing; depends on the amount of security you're wanting to put on there, along with the hardware on the other side.

[BFEL]

So does anyone know if its possible to use gifs as wallpaper/desktop image?

Specifically hours long gifs that usually look just like the unsuspecting persons normal desktop image and then for a few seconds turn into a smile.jpg or similarly creepy image.


I want to make someone think their computer is literally haunted.

[Graknorke]

So does anyone know if its possible to use gifs as wallpaper/desktop image?

Specifically hours long gifs that usually look just like the unsuspecting persons normal desktop image and then for a few seconds turn into a smile.jpg or similarly creepy image.


I want to make someone think their computer is literally haunted.

Well on a cursory search I found this program that claims to be able to set animated gifs as the desktop background, this looks to be a tool from them that does only that as well. The website looks a bit sketchily cheap but you can't expect much from a website for a free thing, and there doesn't seem to be anyone complaining about it being secretly malware so I'd say it's legit.

[Tellemurius]

Depends on the router/switch on the other side, along with wiring and traffic on said wires.  Also dependent upon the encryption used on the VPN tunnel, though that's not too terrible since there's a bunch of VoIP calls made on encrypted tunnels all the time now anyway.

I doubt it will be a very big thing; depends on the amount of security you're wanting to put on there, along with the hardware on the other side.

Be warned though do not use a wireless connection unless you got a beefy wifi. VPNs will crawl if you got a crappy/slow connection.

[MaximumZero]

Depends on the router/switch on the other side, along with wiring and traffic on said wires.  Also dependent upon the encryption used on the VPN tunnel, though that's not too terrible since there's a bunch of VoIP calls made on encrypted tunnels all the time now anyway.

I doubt it will be a very big thing; depends on the amount of security you're wanting to put on there, along with the hardware on the other side.

Be warned though do not use a wireless connection unless you got a beefy wifi. VPNs will crawl if you got a crappy/slow connection.

Am hardlined into 100/1000 router. Should do it.

[Akura]

I have two issues. One, Flash objects(Youtube video, flash games) will not load in Internet Explorer, except for a few things. Youtube and Kongregate definitely do not work.

The other issue is with Chrome and Orbit downloader. Although Orbit works for file downloads in Chrome, none of its bits that download Flash objects work. Orbit apparently doesn't detect anything. Orbit works fine for IE, however, for those few things that do work.

[Aklyon]

Have you updated Flash? (and aren't blocking flash objects with some sort of plugin or activex)