The Ticking Time-Out: psychoticragemonkey

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14th-August-2011, 21:57
Kouen Hasuki

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Originally Posted by Inferno.

The Mac has officially made you its bitch. :ignore:

The Mac wears the trousers in there relationship ill wager too :wacko:
14th-August-2011, 21:57
Cosmic

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Originally Posted by Shardnax

:lol

All touchpads are crappy.

They are.

Except for the ones you get on Macs.

:wacko:
14th-August-2011, 21:58
Cosmic

Seriously not kidding, the ones on MacBooks are so good I even got a Magic Trackpad for the iMac. It's the only decent touchpad I've ever used.
14th-August-2011, 21:59
Slacker Magician

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Originally Posted by Cosmic

They are.

Especially the ones you get on Macs.

:wacko:

:wacko:
14th-August-2011, 22:00
Slacker Magician

What was giving you trouble during the XP installation?
14th-August-2011, 22:00
Inferno.

Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers, come at me bro.

Killer Instinct plays like ass on this D-pad. :(
14th-August-2011, 22:01
Nemkoon

Geez...
playing Dead Frontier is making EP lag.
14th-August-2011, 22:01
Slacker Magician

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Originally Posted by Inferno.

Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers, come at me bro.

Killer Instinct plays like ass on this D-pad. :(

Is it anything like the 360 d-pad? The 360 d-pad is a piece of crap.
14th-August-2011, 22:03
Yip Yip

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Originally Posted by Inferno.

That's what the 4GB CF card is for my dear. :wacko:

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Originally Posted by Jackhammer

There were no such things in my day. :ignore:

"I laid out memory so the bottom 640K was general purpose RAM and the upper 384 I reserved for video and ROM, and things like that. That is why they talk about the 640K limit. It is actually a limit, not of the software, in any way, shape, or form, it is the limit of the microprocessor. That thing generates addresses, 20-bits addresses, that only can address a megabyte of memory. And, therefore, all the applications are tied to that limit. It was ten times what we had before." ~ Bill Gay
14th-August-2011, 22:12
Cosmic

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Originally Posted by Shardnax

What was giving you trouble during the XP installation?

I got it installed alright but I had go on the hunt for tools to make a bootable USB drive. First of all the restore disc that came with the computer wouldn't boot from a USB stick, so I dug out my old XP disc and used that. That started to install OK, but it decided the USB drive was C:\ and the actual hard drive partition was D:\ and wouldn't let me change it. Then it would't accept the license key printed on the bottom of the computer. Then when it FINALLY installed it whined that "XP SP3 files have been replaced by unrecognised versions, system stability blah security blah blah, please insert XP SP3 setup CD" and wouldn't accept either the USB stick or the original untouched SP3 installation ISO.

All XP needs is an official tool to make a bootable USB drive. That's literally all it needs and anyone could have it installed and running in the space of 20 minutes. Microsoft should provide it, you shouldn't have to hunt for tutorials and tools and God knows what. Netbooks have been around for at least five years now. None of them have optical disc drives, yet all the recovery software is included on a DVD. It's ridiculous. Maybe it's easier with Windows 7, I don't know, but it's crazy that you have to jump through that many hoops to get XP installed on a netbook in 2011. Now compare that to the new version of OS X, which can either be installed straight from USB or - get this - will soon be able to connect to the internet, download itself and start installing if you boot up in recovery mode.
14th-August-2011, 22:17
Dr Mario

Gods damnit.

What kind of moron steals a bag of climbing chalk?
14th-August-2011, 22:18
Slacker Magician

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Originally Posted by Cosmic

I got it installed alright but I had go on the hunt for tools to make a bootable USB drive. First of all the restore disc that came with the computer wouldn't boot from a USB stick, so I dug out my old XP disc and used that. That started to install OK, but it decided the USB drive was C:\ and the actual hard drive partition was D:\ and wouldn't let me change it. Then it would't accept the license key printed on the bottom of the computer. Then when it FINALLY installed it whined that "XP SP3 files have been replaced by unrecognised versions, system stability blah security blah blah, please insert XP SP3 setup CD" and wouldn't accept either the USB stick or the original untouched SP3 installation ISO.

All XP needs is an official tool to make a bootable USB drive. That's literally all it needs and anyone could have it installed and running in the space of 20 minutes. Microsoft should provide it, you shouldn't have to hunt for tutorials and tools and God knows what. Netbooks have been around for at least five years now. None of them have optical disc drives, yet all the recovery software is included on a DVD. It's ridiculous. Maybe it's easier with Windows 7, I don't know, but it's crazy that you have to jump through that many hoops to get XP installed on a netbook in 2011. Now compare that to the new version of OS X, which can either be installed straight from USB or - get this - will soon be able to connect to the internet, download itself and start installing if you boot up in recovery mode.

XP is two versions back, they'll never make an official USB install tool for it. Windows 7 has an official tool.

WinToFlash is what I used when I installed XP.
http://wintoflash.com/overview/en/
14th-August-2011, 22:19
Nemkoon

Oreo's and milk. :drool:
14th-August-2011, 22:19
Slacker Magician

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Originally Posted by Dr Mario

Gods damnit.

What kind of moron steals a bag of climbing chalk?

The really dumb kind.
14th-August-2011, 22:20
Sprung

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Originally Posted by Shardnax

Frame rate is at the top of the window, what is it?

Around 30 or so.