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Bohandas

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Re: The Generic Computer Advice Thread
« Reply #2370 on: February 02, 2016, 11:25:02 pm »
Speaking of optical drive problems:

Can anybody recommend a good free program for WIndows 7 to use to burn data CDs and DVDs?

The DVD burning program built into Windows Explorer is giving me issues (I just gave up after 2 hours of trying to burn my christmas photos to a dvd, followed by the computer refusing to let me clear the burn queue) and I never liked it to begin with and so I'd like to switch to a different program.
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Re: The Generic Computer Advice Thread
« Reply #2371 on: February 03, 2016, 03:15:42 am »
So I have a chromebook (HP) that the school provides for study. I don't know how or why, but I have access to a zip folder named 'DefenseOfMeridorBeta120315.zip'. A google search shows nothing about it on the internet and the readme file in the folder says to run the .rar to play the game (Chromebooks are unable to open .rar files anyway).


I don't recall downloading any game called defense of meridor either. If anyone wants to volunteer their time I can give you the folder to run on a virtual machine, as I'm curious about it while being scared its a virus or malware.
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Re: The Generic Computer Advice Thread
« Reply #2372 on: February 03, 2016, 04:43:08 am »
That sounds fantastically dodgy!

Have you tried submitting it to jotti.org?
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Re: The Generic Computer Advice Thread
« Reply #2373 on: February 03, 2016, 04:51:53 am »
Never knew of Jotti.org, I just submitted the folder and it found nothing.


I am really intrigued, but the only other computer I have is a dedicated gaming computer I do not want infected with a virus, and nothing to run a virtual machine with.
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The military cannot function without tanks and warplanes, therefore the right of the people to keep and bear tanks and warplanes, shall not be infringed.
The military cannot function without ICBMs, therefore the right of the people to keep and bear ICBMs, shall not be infringed.

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« Reply #2374 on: February 03, 2016, 09:48:54 am »
Some bought all the CAD PCs before I could get one, so I've got 2 questions:

A) Which socket should I be looking for in a new motherboard and CPU? Assume that I'm going for Intel, want something with high single-thread performance and want good future-proofing.

B) If I don't play games with really good graphics, is a graphics card even going to do anything for me? At all? I just want a PC that's good for DF.
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Re: The Generic Computer Advice Thread
« Reply #2375 on: February 03, 2016, 10:28:40 am »
If you're primarily looking for DF performance, go to this chart: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html
and go down it until you find something you can afford. I recommend the top i5 (4690 / 4690K), personally.

If the CPU you get includes a GPU, and the motherboard has the appropriate output sockets, if you're not running modern high-demand AAA games you probably don't need a dedicated graphics card.
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Re: The Generic Computer Advice Thread
« Reply #2376 on: February 03, 2016, 01:41:55 pm »
Just remember that intel's K-suffix processors, while overclockable, have no integrated graphics. Make sure you don't grab a motherboard without an HDMI on it either, there are a few marketed to overclockers/gamers on a budget. The integrated graphics should be entirely suitable for web, office, and DF use. However, depending on the sort of CAD you're doing, you might actually want a graphics card. The integrated graphics will probably be fine for wireframe/2D, but complicated 3D meshes can be graphically taxing.
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Re: The Generic Computer Advice Thread
« Reply #2377 on: February 04, 2016, 04:18:30 am »
Just to muddy the water, the i5 4690k I mentioned does have integrated graphics: http://ark.intel.com/products/80811/Intel-Core-i5-4690K-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_90-GHz
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Re: The Generic Computer Advice Thread
« Reply #2378 on: February 04, 2016, 01:25:19 pm »
Quote from: Insanegame27 on February 03, 2016, 03:15:42 am
So I have a chromebook (HP) that the school provides for study. I don't know how or why, but I have access to a zip folder named 'DefenseOfMeridorBeta120315.zip'. A google search shows nothing about it on the internet and the readme file in the folder says to run the .rar to play the game (Chromebooks are unable to open .rar files anyway).


I don't recall downloading any game called defense of meridor either. If anyone wants to volunteer their time I can give you the folder to run on a virtual machine, as I'm curious about it while being scared its a virus or malware.

It's almost certainly the game remake by one of our upstanding forumites.
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Re: The Generic Computer Advice Thread
« Reply #2379 on: February 04, 2016, 01:52:47 pm »
Quote from: Arx on February 04, 2016, 01:25:19 pm
Quote from: Insanegame27 on February 03, 2016, 03:15:42 am
So I have a chromebook (HP) that the school provides for study. I don't know how or why, but I have access to a zip folder named 'DefenseOfMeridorBeta120315.zip'. A google search shows nothing about it on the internet and the readme file in the folder says to run the .rar to play the game (Chromebooks are unable to open .rar files anyway).


I don't recall downloading any game called defense of meridor either. If anyone wants to volunteer their time I can give you the folder to run on a virtual machine, as I'm curious about it while being scared its a virus or malware.

It's almost certainly the game remake by one of our upstanding forumites.


I cannot seem to recall picking it up though.
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The military cannot function without ICBMs, therefore the right of the people to keep and bear ICBMs, shall not be infringed.

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« Reply #2380 on: February 04, 2016, 03:34:12 pm »
You probably didn't, but it's hosted on Google drive, so if you clicked the link that took you to it on google drive while logged in to Google - on whatever device you were on - Google would have remembered it, wouldn't it? It's annoying like that.

(I'm assuming that chromebooks show you your Google drive files along with all the ones you have looked at by other people, which is a thing regular Google drive also likes to do)
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Re: The Generic Computer Advice Thread
« Reply #2381 on: February 05, 2016, 12:36:14 am »
Yeah, that must be it. Thank god it's not a virus.
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The military cannot function without ICBMs, therefore the right of the people to keep and bear ICBMs, shall not be infringed.

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Re: The Generic Computer Advice Thread
« Reply #2382 on: February 08, 2016, 09:02:14 am »
Update on my DVD drive issue.

I opened the case up and changed the SATA cable.
The PC wouldn't run at all.
I plugged the cable into a different SATA slot on the mobo and lo and behold. it works just fine (If a bit loud).

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It works now but... any ideas what might have went wrong? It's not like i was plugging those things upside down... i hope.
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Re: The Generic Computer Advice Thread
« Reply #2383 on: February 08, 2016, 12:18:56 pm »
An uncertain amount of time ago (I have no idea how long it took me to notice, since I often just use the keyboard controls), all embedded Youtube videos started having all the controls be invisible. This is apparently popular, as the only thing I can find is tutorials on how to force your computer to do it. I HATE this (along with nearly every "minimalistic" interface design in the last 10 years) and want it to stop. How do I do so?
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« Reply #2384 on: February 08, 2016, 01:47:32 pm »
Are you talking about the fade in/fade out effect youtube uses?
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