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[Thief^]

It may not even have been hacked. Email lacks a way to reliably determine who sent a message (domain can be verified if it has a permitted servers list in DNS, but it's not required) so it's possible a spammer put your address as the "from" without even having access to your account. The receiving server would then often bounce it back to you because it doesn't know that you're not the sender.

Sometimes spammers actually bounce emails intentionally because some spam filters ignore bounce emails (even though it wasn't really you that sent the message!).

[Sinistar]

Also, if you got the messages of undelivered messages - did you check the sentbox if such messages were sent in the first place? Ok, theoretically they could be and then the person who did that just emptied the sentbox but sounds more like a some sort of scam to me. But that's just my 5☼.

[crazysheep]

Since my new housemates moved in, I've been running into a weird issue where my LAN connection mysteriously drops out and is unable to reconnect to the home network. The little network icon on the taskbar goes from "connecting" -> "identifying network" -> "no network connection" -> "connecting", and then loops forever until I do something about it.

So far I've only managed to find a temporary fix for this problem, which is to reset TCP/IP using netsh commands, but I'm wondering if there's a more permanent fix to the problem short of evicting the housemates from the network.

[Tellemurius]

Since my new housemates moved in, I've been running into a weird issue where my LAN connection mysteriously drops out and is unable to reconnect to the home network. The little network icon on the taskbar goes from "connecting" -> "identifying network" -> "no network connection" -> "connecting", and then loops forever until I do something about it.

So far I've only managed to find a temporary fix for this problem, which is to reset TCP/IP using netsh commands, but I'm wondering if there's a more permanent fix to the problem short of evicting the housemates from the network.

They might be overloading your router due to the increase of bandwidth usage. What is your router brand and model.

[crazysheep]

We're using a TP-Link TD-W8960N router. Bandwidth usage is being controlled with a rules list atm.

[Tellemurius]

We're using a TP-Link TD-W8960N router. Bandwidth usage is being controlled with a rules list atm.

Its a DSL modem and the model is about 5 years old now. TP-Link I found have been hit and miss, my buddy has one of their newer routers and we can barely get any range off of them for the wifi, to put for an example my small ASUS AP unit outputs a farther range for half the size. Looking at your model reviews people some have complained that it runs hot and have to reboot it for better speeds.

I would recommend a replacement unit, if you got this from your ISP request a warranty. Otherwise I would look into getting a modem and a router. Two units are better as they are less likely to get hot from the combination plus its alot easier to diagnose issues.

[Sonlirain]

Ok so i woke up one day with the idea for a game... and i'm actually thinking about changing that idea into reality.
However i have little to no programming/coding knowledge and exacly 0 experience in game making (what a suprise).

I will probably use Unity because hey it's free and rather powerful but... can someone (preferably with some experience but anyones opinion is welcome) give me an idea what to do after i wrote down the "design document"?
Like what programing language i should pick up ETC. because i feel completely lost.

[Aklyon]

If you're going to use unity, you should check what languages unity uses.

[Rose]

Unity uses C#, mainly, though it also uses javascript and a python copy, but they're crap. You only ever have to use C#.

As for what to do with your design document, start by breaking it up into very small pieces that you can work on getting working independently.

Like, if it's a racer, start with getting a working car that you can drive around, even if it looks like a box.

[crazysheep]

I would recommend a replacement unit, if you got this from your ISP request a warranty. Otherwise I would look into getting a modem and a router. Two units are better as they are less likely to get hot from the combination plus its alot easier to diagnose issues.

Thanks, I'll let my landlord know and see what we can do about it.

[Thief^]

Also consider UE4. It's also free, comes with some nice templates to help you knock something together quickly. It uses C++ (via the free visual studio community edition) and a visual programming language (think of a flowchart) called blueprint.

[Sonlirain]

Ok thanks for the input. I think i'll stick to Unity for the time being and start working on my ability to do something in C# that's not copy pasting and hoping for the best.

[miauw62]

One of my friends has a computer that was refurbished from a server, with as a consequence that he has no graphics card, and is forced to use software rendering.
I'm looking for a cheap, decent graphics card so we can play vidya together, any recommendations?

[Tellemurius]

One of my friends has a computer that was refurbished from a server, with as a consequence that he has no graphics card, and is forced to use software rendering.
I'm looking for a cheap, decent graphics card so we can play vidya together, any recommendations?

AMD and Nvidia both dumped their cheap cards so if you need to play gaems I recommend bottom level $70<

[Thief^]

I don't know how cheap you need to go, but the nVidia GTX 750 is a fantastic little card. Randomly it's not the same chip design as the other 700-series cards (Maxwell vs Kepler) - it's actually closer to the brand new 900-series (Maxwell v2). As a result it's very quiet, runs very cool and is surprisingly powerful - it's arguably better than the 760.