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Well my laptop finally gave up the ghost a few days ago, lol. Basically it
kept blowing up the mains lead, so, I had to push the boat out and buy a
new computer. I'll post pics when I have the camera set up and so on, but
I'll explain a little bit about it now. It's a desktop, and has a 15.5"
wide screen monitor that's shiny and it uses Windows Vista...I don't know
much more about it, just that it's slightly more powerful than the laptop
(1024MB....I assume that's power or memory or something?...anyway, the
laptop only had 280MB standard, then a further 512MB that I had put in.).
So yeah, that's why I haven't been here much recently...Hopefully I'll be
back on form soon though. Oh, and we couldn't connect it wirelessly because
the router wont work apparently (or so I was told by the nice tech guy in
India....:wink2: :ohcrap:).
Cliffy
I think you need to take computer science 101 Cliff :laughing:
windsonian
Congrats!
So are you gonna stop being such a picture nazi now? lol JP
chris_knows
LOL....Apparently not (I've just edited one in the members' pics thread and
another in a seperate thread....appologies to Mathew!). I'm assuming that's
what you're talking about?
Cliffy
I hope you didn't spend more than $300 on that computer...
Mathew
Yeah, that's what I meant. I was gonna just post a huge pic instead of
reply, but I wasn't sure if it would make sense lol.
chris_knows
Yes I did, lol.....regarding the pics, loading them wasn't an issue, but I
like to see more on my screen than just ONE picture...like some
boarders...or surrounds etc :laughing:
Cliffy
Jeez...post specs NOW.
Mathew
I'm no good with specs....Can you tell me how do I find them within the
computer..I mean, can I look at them on the screen some how without having
to look through a book?
Cliffy
Go start > run
type 'dxdiag' without quotations, then hit enter
press the save all information button
save the txt file
open the txt file, copy and paste it onto here...
Mathew
Thanks. Here it is...
Cliffy
Please include the "display devices" section also...
Mathew
Is this enough?
Cliffy
Thanks. I was just curious. I'm not a huge HP fan, or Dell or any
prepackaged computer companies. You can build it yourself for sooooo much
cheaper. Plus HP makes it nearly impossible to upgrade or modify without
their support.
Mathew
I've never been a whiz with computers..I know the standard stuff about
them, but not much of the technical stuff...All I know at present is that
this one is MUCH faster than my last one! (bear in mind I still have to
fill it with rubbish though, lol)
Cliffy
Yeah but HP has amazing tech support.
chris_knows
I've never used computer tech support in my life. Even when I didn't know
much about computers, I was still always my own tech support :thumbs:
Wait....I did once, when I had a bad router. This foreign sounding woman
was asking me questions that were really stupid, like "is it plugged in?"
duh...then I noticed she was reading off a list from their website, so I
told her she was wasting my time.
Mathew
I've called HP once because of my speakers. I've googled the problem, asked
on many forums, and so on. I emailed HP and within 2 hours, they had
replied with 5 separate methods to fix my computer--varying with taking out
the battery up to some more complex things. Nothing fixed it, and I tried
reinstalling my computer and had the same problem, but at least they were
nice lol.
I've had problems when setting up my router once too, but when I was
setting it up, I read the instructions on the manufacturer's website. I
called them, and the guy told me how to fix it--with some attitude. I think
I've only called tech support 2 or 3 times, and I can't recall one time
it's been someone with an accent, although everyone around me complains
that they have people with terrible English trying to help them.
chris_knows
Thats pretty funny.. Although I think that if anyone wants to maintain
dictatorship of "pictures" then there should be a rule implicitly stating
the size and regulation of pictures, avatars, signatures etc...
I view the internet on a 28" monitor at 1920x1200 (makes finding wallpaper
a real pain in the a**). Someone might think of a 1024x768 image as big but
it wouldn't take up more than 1/4th of my monitor.
This is generally why limits are set in place. I personally feel that I can
drive on the 290 expressway at 120mph, but not everyone can. Thats why the
limit is 55mph.
:2cents:
DSMer
I think it would be good to have them automatically resized, but obviously
we need an admin to do that....I don't see a problem with linking to pics
that are clearly on the large size..It doesn't hurt anyone, afterall! I
will look in to having restrictions noted in the rules, but I don't think
people will pay much attention, especially if like me, they don't know how
the sizes vary, they just see them as small, mediam, large or massive, lol.
Also, I host my photos using Photobucket, they are all resized to a
sensible proportion....don't all hosting sites do this? (Or at least I
think they do....the one below obviously looks larger than normal given the
new monitor...:ohcrap: :laughing: )
Edit: Here's pic of it...it migt interest some people, lol.
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c43/CliffWoods/SSA42774.jpg
Cliffy
Most modern day image hosting sites, such as photobucket, only allow you to
store photos at a certain resolution and size.
DSMer
Yeah, but you have to check it off.
Cliffy, it looks good, but is that a picture of Bob the Builder on your
aquarium? lol
chris_knows
lol...Yeah, well it's actually my 4-yr old Nephew dressed as
Bob....:mrgreen:
Cliffy
