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graph
Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts

Beeftweeter posted:

yeah it owns its just a bigger version of the trackpad on your macbook

magic trackpad owns

Beeftweeter posted:

the magic mouse is pretty neat too

stop trolling

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Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

graph posted:

stop trolling

it actually is. my mom bought a new imac but didn't like it so she shipped it to me and while it took a while for me to get used to it its actually pretty good. you can use bettertouchtool to set up new gestures and poo poo for it so its really fairly useful

prefect
Sep 11, 2001

No one, Woodhouse.
No one.




Dead Man’s Band
thanks for the reviews; i have now ordered a magic trackpad, which my brain refuses to stop calling "tragic macpad" -- i saw it referred to that way somewhere, and it's stuck

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

prefect posted:

thanks for the reviews; i have now ordered a magic trackpad, which my brain refuses to stop calling "tragic macpad" -- i saw it referred to that way somewhere, and it's stuck

anybody else think of quake done quick and 'the land that's slack tragic'?

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

prefect posted:

thanks for the reviews; i have now ordered a magic trackpad, which my brain refuses to stop calling "tragic macpad" -- i saw it referred to that way somewhere, and it's stuck

enjoy the experience of controlling your computer by tickling a robot's taint

prefect
Sep 11, 2001

No one, Woodhouse.
No one.




Dead Man’s Band

Stymie posted:

enjoy the experience of controlling your computer by tickling a robot's taint

when i can get a robot to tickle my taint, life will be wonderful

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

prefect posted:

when i can get a robot to tickle my taint, life will be wonderful

pretty sure japanese bidet/toilets will do this

according to the simpsons anyway

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Captain Foo posted:

Yeah here's some deets

“Hello, I‘m definitely not calling from India. Can I take control of your PC?”
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/10/hello-im-definitely-not-calling-from-india-can-i-take-control-of-your-pc/

"I am calling you from Windows": A tech support scammer dials Ars Technica
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/10/i-am-calling-you-from-windows-a-tech-support-scammer-dials-ars-technica/

Troy Hunt: Interview with the man behind Comantra, the “cold call virus scammers”
http://www.troyhunt.com/2012/05/interview-with-man-behind-comantra-cold.html

I just lie to them now and say I dot believe in computers

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

prefect posted:

is the "magic trackpad" any good? i need some kind of additional pointing device for my macbook pro

I just got an intuous pen and touch and it's multi gesture like magic pad but also has pen for drawing and maybe similar price???????!??!

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

Beeftweeter posted:

:cheers:


yeah it owns its just a bigger version of the trackpad on your macbook

the magic mouse is pretty neat too and has gestures and poo poo also

magic mouse is great if you love crippling your wrists. no kinkshaming ofc

theadder
Dec 30, 2011


prefect posted:

thanks for the reviews; i have now ordered a magic trackpad, which my brain refuses to stop calling "tragic macpad" -- i saw it referred to that way somewhere, and it's stuck

this is virtuous except the last bit

Forums Terrorist
Dec 8, 2011

all macs are tragic when stebe's dead

prefect
Sep 11, 2001

No one, Woodhouse.
No one.




Dead Man’s Band

echinopsis posted:

I just got an intuous pen and touch and it's multi gesture like magic pad but also has pen for drawing and maybe similar price???????!??!

i can't draw, and even if i could, my carpal tunnels won't let me hold a pen for more than a couple of minutes :D

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
yeah i cant draw either

was it a total waste of money? idk. i justify it because my son drew this

Panty Saluter
Jan 17, 2004

Making learning fun!
your son....riiiiiiight

Forums Terrorist
Dec 8, 2011

i have a 2007 aluminium imac that's got a hosed os x install, can i put mavericks on it or do i need to go iso hunting

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum

Forums Terrorist posted:

i have a 2007 aluminium imac that's got a hosed os x install, can i put mavericks on it or do i need to go iso hunting
how do you gently caress up an os x install

BangersInMyKnickers
Nov 3, 2004

I have a thing for courageous dongles

Beeftweeter posted:

also i know that CIFS and SMB are the same thing but tomato makes the distinction for some reason :shrug:

CIFS is linux-ified SMB and they probably did it wrong

Forums Terrorist
Dec 8, 2011

i don't know, i gave it to my younger brother to play warcrack on when I got my thinkpad

it shows the folder question mark so it can't find the startup disk at least, hoping it's just a quick reinstall that's needed and not a new drive b/c i have no loving idea how to open that bastard up

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

Forums Terrorist posted:

i don't know, i gave it to my younger brother to play warcrack on when I got my thinkpad

it shows the folder question mark so it can't find the startup disk at least, hoping it's just a quick reinstall that's needed and not a new drive b/c i have no loving idea how to open that bastard up

not like you're connected to the largset repository of human knowledge in existence or anything

Forums Terrorist
Dec 8, 2011

ok let me rephrase

i don't care enough about my brother to learn how to open it up and replace the drive

quadpus
May 15, 2004

aaag sheets
you probably just have to wipe and reinstall

Forums Terrorist
Dec 8, 2011

lol nope, booted off usb, opened disk utility and it was showing the hdd as 0 bytes, smart status unknown

rip my old mac

bobbilljim
May 29, 2013

this christmas feels like the very first christmas to me
:shittydog::shittydog::shittydog:

prefect posted:

is the "magic trackpad" any good? i need some kind of additional pointing device for my macbook pro

the trackpad is good if u prefer a trackpad to a mouse, which you shouldnt but if u do w/e

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

bobbilljim posted:

the trackpad is good if u prefer a trackpad to a mouse, which you shouldnt but if u do w/e

There is a guy in my office with this preference and it kinda freaks me out

Corla Plankun
May 8, 2007

improve the lives of everyone
how much computing power do i need to virtualize a hadoop cluster?

i don't care about tflops or anything, i just want to do it as a learning experience because i am sick of not having hadoop on my resume

my school spoiled me with a matlab instance with 128gb of ram so i never had to deal with cluster computing but as it turns out industry people care deeply about the 'doop

edit: the context for this is i am thinking about building a new PC and this might be a target if it is reasonably attainable

graph
Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts

bobbilljim posted:

the trackpad is good if u prefer a trackpad to a mouse, which you shouldnt but if u do w/e

i dont use a mouse at work

thanks magic trackpad

thmgicpad

graph
Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts

Corla Plankun posted:

how much computing power do i need to virtualize a hadoop cluster?

anything better than a p4

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

Fuck the cowboys. Unf. Fuck em hard.
my years-old thinkpad w510 has decided that colorful static is what it wants to display. i can still rdp into it so the display seems to be the only thing broken. is this likely to just be a loose connector that i can fix myself or what

edit: lcd connector was totally covered in dust. apparently i should have opened my laptop up yesterday when i blew the heatsink dust out instead of relying on the vents. woops, i'm dumb.

Malloc Voidstar fucked around with this message at 04:08 on Sep 27, 2014

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum
sure, maybe

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
computers


can't live with them

can't download porn without them

quadpus
May 15, 2004

aaag sheets

Forums Terrorist posted:

lol nope, booted off usb, opened disk utility and it was showing the hdd as 0 bytes, smart status unknown

rip my old mac

try to repartition anyway. we had dozens of laptops come in with the same symptoms after taking student abuse, drives were physically fine.

Panty Saluter
Jan 17, 2004

Making learning fun!

echinopsis posted:

computers


can't live with them

can't download porn without them

Forums Terrorist
Dec 8, 2011

quadpus posted:

try to repartition anyway. we had dozens of laptops come in with the same symptoms after taking student abuse, drives were physically fine.

just tried forcing it with diskutil at the terminal, nope.avi

unless there's a secret mac cj trick to it this is just a dead drive

kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

get meow this wack-ass crystal prison
ha! duped again

quadpus
May 15, 2004

aaag sheets

uncurable mlady posted:

ha! duped again

Swolegoat
Nov 4, 2011
wahts a nonshit router for my personal computer

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum

Swolegoat posted:

wahts a nonshit router for my personal computer
ac66u
ac68u
ac87u

Swolegoat
Nov 4, 2011

anthonypants posted:

ac66u
ac68u
ac87u

please don't be rude

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EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

Swolegoat posted:

please don't be rude

those are correct answers however

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