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Rhyno posted:Not seeing anything. There's a bunch of dry adhesive so it probably fell off. There are ways to recovery the key from the registry. It's been a while, but do some googleing.
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Rhyno posted:Don't I need a product key for that? If there's a recovery partition, boot to that. It'll plug in the OEM key for you (or should). Otherwise, it should also be on the license sticker on the bottom if it's still legible. Finally, you can run a license key decoder/finder like Magical Jelly Bean before you flatten and reinstall and it'll give you the license for any installed software it recognizes in addition to Windows (like Office, etc.).
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nm posted:There are ways to recovery the key from the registry. It's been a while, but do some googleing. Magnus Praeda posted:Magical Jelly Bean If it's still on its factory install (i.e. hasn't been reinstalled by his mom), this won't work. The key they're installed with at the factory is a bulk key that requires a special certificate that the OEM keeps control over. It's different than the unique key that (should be) stuck to the bottom, which works with regular media.
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Mar 5, 2015 06:59
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Fucknag posted:I had midterms today, finished the Statics test in half an hour, Physics 2 in just over an hour. Always second to get up to hand in paper.
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Raluek posted:If it's still on its factory install (i.e. hasn't been reinstalled by his mom), this won't work. The key they're installed with at the factory is a bulk key that requires a special certificate that the OEM keeps control over. It's different than the unique key that (should be) stuck to the bottom, which works with regular media. The sticker was in the bag! Too bad it won't validate. I keep getting an error message. Edit: Haha! It was a Q not an O! Rhyno fucked around with this message at 07:12 on Mar 5, 2015 |
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Mar 5, 2015 07:05
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ilkhan posted:Almost every test from kindergarten up I'm the first one to finish.
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Rhyno posted:The sticker was in the bag! Maybe your disc is for the wrong version? Home/Pro/Enterprise/Ultimate etc.
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Mar 5, 2015 07:12
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ilkhan posted:Almost every test from kindergarten up I'm the first one to finish. I've been actively forcing myself not to do this. Knowing your poo poo is not a bad thing, dammit! Why is self esteem such a hard thing?
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Mar 5, 2015 07:14
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Fucknag posted:I've been actively forcing myself not to do this. Knowing your poo poo is not a bad thing, dammit! Because society is loving stupid and for the most part we've been conditioned that intelligence and in-depth knowledge of a subject are undesirable and you should instead focus on being dumb and pretty?
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Fucknag posted:I've been actively forcing myself not to do this. Knowing your poo poo is not a bad thing, dammit! I finally got over this during the Bar Exam. The second day is multiple choice, and multiple choice is like my only skill (This is also how i got into college and law school. Actually knowing poo poo is overrated). So, after the AM session I got done with hours to spare. I start looking around and no one had moved. I reviewed every question. Looked around again. Made sure I didn't mess up my bubbles. Said gently caress it and spent an hour and a half at a coffee shop. Got home really early after PM session. I passed. Unfortunately, that was my last multiple choice test ever. 
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Mar 5, 2015 07:32
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Goddamnit, came to post Magical Jelly Bean. My laptop doesn't have a sticker at all for some reason. No idea why, but as far as I can tell it never got one from the factory. There's a recovery tool that will either burn DVDs, or make an image on a flash drive; I need to make an image on a flash drive and create an ISO from it. Then keep it on Dropbox. Holy shitballs it's snowing pretty good. Took me a good 10 minutes just to get in the car (doors were frozen shut), then another 15 to chip away at the ice on the windshield and back window. And over a half hour round trip to Whataburger. I might have done a few donuts on the way though.  First time I've ever seen the upshift light come on in reverse. My back plate was completely readable when I left the house. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 07:59 on Mar 5, 2015 |
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Raluek posted:If it's still on its factory install (i.e. hasn't been reinstalled by his mom), this won't work. The key they're installed with at the factory is a bulk key that requires a special certificate that the OEM keeps control over. It's different than the unique key that (should be) stuck to the bottom, which works with regular media. For future reference the certificate is called the SLIC and you can export them (along with the key) so that you can then flatten and reinstall the os. You then install the cert and activate with the OEM key. We supply loads of hp machines and always flatten them first. Every hp device we have done over the last 12 months has used the same OEM windows license key (you have to export them as you no longer get a sticker) and the same SLIC.
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Mar 5, 2015 07:37
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Fucknag posted:I've been actively forcing myself not to do this. Knowing your poo poo is not a bad thing, dammit! And never did homework, which surprisingly CAN gently caress you over in college.
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Mar 5, 2015 07:39
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some texas redneck posted:The most memorable is when I had taken a bunch of Adderall the night before an exam, studied all night with some breaks, went to campus at 5am, studied my rear end off, had the test at 8:00, walked out at 8:20, and I was the only person to get a 100. On the final, it was the same, except I was the 2nd person out. Tomarse posted:For future reference the certificate is called the SLIC and you can export them (along with the key) so that you can then flatten and reinstall the os. You then install the cert and activate with the OEM key. This is neat, how do you do it? Or what do I google for a writeup?
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Mar 5, 2015 08:06
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mafoose posted:At Northwestern, abusing adderall like that, even if you had a prescription for it, was an academic code violation and would get you kicked out of the school. At U of A(Z), when I was attending, had no such wording in their academic code, and abuse of this and other prescription drugs was rampant, especially with the frats. I did this for one paper when I was studying abroad in Tasmania. I procrastinated way too long and one of my friends was into pills, so I bought a few off him. I stayed up for about 36 hours straight. I wrote some weird poo poo on my blog for the first 30 hours or so before I finally started working.
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Mar 5, 2015 08:18
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mafoose posted:
Sorry it's a Facebook note thing not a proper webpage but this write up covers it: https://m.facebook.com/notes/tharin...151361974083659 It's pretty simple. Just backup the key and license using that utility and then put them both back in after with slmgr
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Mar 5, 2015 08:22
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 What is all this white poo poo on my driveway?  I've been home for almost an hour, and my car has about an inch on the windshield again.
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Mar 5, 2015 08:40
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Looks like a plane muleing coke blew up above your house.
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Mar 5, 2015 08:42
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Raluek posted:Maybe your disc is for the wrong version? Home/Pro/Enterprise/Ultimate etc. One last thing, I seriously thought it would purge everything but during installation it said "all old files will be in a Windows.Old folder" or some nonsense. That is all useless to a 5 year old, I can just delete it without doing any harm to the new install right?
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I've been drying out in hospital for a few days, so I'm soon going to be off to buy some gin and tonic water. I had a huge stabbing pain in the centre of my chest, moving across slightly to my right where the gall bladder and liver is. It doubled me over in pain for a day so I went to the hospital. Two Drs said it might be gall stones, another said it may be pancreatitis (I never saw that dr again), and the others lost interest after an ultrasound scan says no stones or problem with gall bladder and the pain level went down (but new pains started up lower down and my guts became tender) I was discharged with no known cause, they never did a CT scan. Two days on a saline drip and nil by mouth, and a breakfast later to check for nausea and a letter saying they couldn't find anything except probably a dodgey liver(I knew my liver must dodgey but it usually doesn't cause that much pain and then go away by itself), so I guess it was pancreatitis. Man, the people in hospital are all hosed up. First ward they put me in, one guy had a blocked up pooper and a chance of bowel cancer causing it, this guy was crying for a double dose of painkillers every 3 hours. Another guy had diabetes, a heart attack in 2000, kidney transfer 2008, stroke 2013 and keeps getting abscesses in his groin. Then the other ward they moved me into was all guys recovering from head/neurosurgery, and they were all kinds of hosed up and big whiners. Fo3 fucked around with this message at 09:00 on Mar 5, 2015 |
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Rhyno posted:One last thing, I seriously thought it would purge everything but during installation it said "all old files will be in a Windows.Old folder" or some nonsense. That is all useless to a 5 year old, I can just delete it without doing any harm to the new install right? It only removes it all if you choose to format the disk or wipe the partitions during install Yes, you can just delete it - though I'd be tempted to flatten it again (and this time with a format) to make sure it had wiped out all trace of the old install. I think it leaves poo poo elsewhere too.
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Tomarse posted:It only removes it all if you choose to format the disk or wipe the partitions during install I swear it didn't give me that option but I don't ever do this poo poo so I probably missed it.
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Rhyno posted:I swear it didn't give me that option but I don't ever do this poo poo so I probably missed it. When it asks you where to install, and you select "Local Disk (C:\)" or whatever, there are options at the bottom of the screen (perhaps hidden under "advanced" or something) to erase the partition. Do that, and tell it to install into the unpartitioned space, and let it create the partition for you. This is assuming you booted from your install media, rather than running it from within the old OS. Tomarse posted:For future reference the certificate is called the SLIC and you can export them (along with the key) so that you can then flatten and reinstall the os. You then install the cert and activate with the OEM key. Whoa, that's cool as hell. Does it work in XP? I wish I knew this when I was working at the local computer shop. Would have saved a few customers who lost their keys. That's slick! 
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Raluek posted:When it asks you where to install, and you select "Local Disk (C:\)" or whatever, there are options at the bottom of the screen (perhaps hidden under "advanced" or something) to erase the partition. Do that, and tell it to install into the unpartitioned space, and let it create the partition for you. This is assuming you booted from your install media, rather than running it from within the old OS. No. It's been a while since i did anything to XP, but I think for XP you have to use a proper OEM disk (or build one) Since I had to work this out the other day too - If you have a windows 8/8.1 preinstalled machine and want the key, it is in the BIOS: http://www.nextofwindows.com/how-to-retrieve-windows-8-oem-product-key-from-bios/. It usually pulls it automatically and activates unless you are trying to install a slightly different version of windows than it came with in which case you can pull the key out and enter it manually!
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Goddamn, thanks for that. I was wondering why my laptop didn't have a sticker. Neat that it has the key built into the BIOS, though it's getting 8.1 Pro soon. And it matches the key Magical Jelly Bean yanked out of its rear end.
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Mar 5, 2015 10:26
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Don't bother with 8.1. If you've got a valid license for 7 or 8 you can get a cop of 10 as soon as it releases. I've been using it at work, and it's a ton better than any flavor of 8.
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It shipped with 8.1 Home. I need 8.1 Pro to run Windows Media Center. And there's also no way to use WMC in 10. So no live TV without setting up a TV server, and even then I won't be able to watch premium channels.
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Fo3 posted:I've been drying out in hospital for a few days, so I'm soon going to be off to buy some gin and tonic water. Pancreatitis is when the pancreas basically tried to eat itself isn't it?  Hope it's nothing lasting bud.
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ilkhan posted:I also basically never study and got 90%+ grades. hosed me in both high school and college. Well, community college. I was hoping college would be more about showing what you know via testing, homework can go gently caress itself. I went to a private middle school where everything was about the test, the presentation, or the report. Homework was optional and only existed to help you learn the material. loving loved that poo poo.
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Supposed to have orientation at "school" today. DART is running reduced service - a day pass for buses/trains is $5, vs over $12 in tolls round trip on top of gas (35 miles each way). The train stations north of Dallas are running buses instead of trains, so I'm looking at a 3+ hour trip each way via bus to train to bus to walking. And I have zero interest in driving in this poo poo. I can handle snow and ice fine, but everyone is either doing 5 mph or 70 mph, there's no middle ground (beyond the 70 mph brotrucks discovering how immovable power poles are). The furnace also seems to have packed it in. It's in the 50s in the house, and when the furnace tries to start, I can hear the exhaust fan on it start up, then start smelling gas, then I hear the exhaust fan shut off. Have to flip the breaker off/on (or go in the attic and flip the switch off/on) to get the furnace to even try again. Went up in the attic, the ignitor isn't doing anything. I can get it to light if I time it just right and use a match, and it'll run until it gets up to 65 inside the house.  e: just talked to DART's call center, the train I need to get to orientation isn't running at all. They stated they can't promise any service on that line until this evening. Even if they could, they're not running any trains outside of Dallas proper, so I'd have to catch a shuttle bus to a station inside of Dallas, which easily adds an extra 30 minutes to the 1.5 hour trip. It's a 45 minute drive on dry roads, plus ~$12 in tolls (round trip), on top of gas (probably $6-8 round trip). Plus another shuttle to finish the trip on the other train (I'd normally have to switch to another train halfway through the trip, but seeing as that train isn't even running today, that entire leg would be on a bus, so I figure at least another 45 minutes extra). trouser chili posted:hosed me in both high school and college. Well, community college. I was hoping college would be more about showing what you know via testing, homework can go gently caress itself. I went to a private middle school where everything was about the test, the presentation, or the report. Homework was optional and only existed to help you learn the material. loving loved that poo poo. You just described my high school. I got hosed HARD when I actually went to college, I had absolutely zero study skills whatsoever. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 14:57 on Mar 5, 2015 |
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Adiabatic posted:Aaaaaaaaaaaaand single. Adiabatic posted:Appreciate the sentiments, but it was a mutual and pretty easy breakup, despite us going steady for like 3 years now. Sometimes no matter how much work you put in there's just not enough there. Thelonious posted:Business trips own for small town hicks like me. Spent the day loving around fleet farm, cabelas, harbor freight and northern tool. Tommychu posted:I was that guy a lot, but post-exam anxiety (whatever the sort) is easily shed at the campus bar. Temp is right on the borderline for snow/ice/rain. Keeps switching back and forth every time I look outside. Was just rain on the way in but the temperature is only supposed to drop from what it is now. Drive home should be fun fun meaning slow as poo poo and terrible.
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angryhampster posted:I did this for one paper when I was studying abroad in Tasmania. I procrastinated way too long and one of my friends was into pills, so I bought a few off him. I stayed up for about 36 hours straight. I wrote some weird poo poo on my blog for the first 30 hours or so before I finally started working. My ADHD is bad enough that adderall, up to like a heart attack dose, just makes me a normal person. Even when I was young and dumb and loved cocaine, it just made me feel levelled out. My brain is broken.
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Am I the only person that doesn't have an issue with Win 8.1? I built my first computer back in August, put 8.1 on it and never had an issue. Yeah a few things are different but nothing I couldn't figure out with a minute on Google. I guess I would have preferred just an improved version of 7 without all the stuff made for tablets but it's not a second Vista like I've heard some people say.
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88h88 posted:Pancreatitis is when the pancreas basically tried to eat itself isn't it? Pretty much, the bile from the gall bladder starts eating it. It's a wake up call though. Liver disease is a silent killer, you get cirrhosis, turn yellow and then die all in a short time. Not much warning because the liver doesn't have many nerve cells to transmit intense pain, it just quietly scars/dies and then so do we. The gall bladder and pancreas are pretty good at screaming out in pain though to give a warning shot. Some people as bad as me may die from cirrhosis before they get any pain from the pancreas. The only reason why I said I'm going out for a drink is because the hospital kicked me out and I don't want to quit alcohol cold turkey alone (been drinking daily for 10 years, and extremely for 4 of those years before I went broke), and I had been dry for 3 days cold turkey due to the hospital stay, plus one day before that at home in pain. Going to have a couple of drinks to stave off any serious withdrawals/DTs until I can get some help elsewhere. Kind of really pissed off that I told the hospital everything, they told me nothing. IE, I sneaked a peak at my file and they had the whole alcohol withdrawal monitoring, took stats every few hours, multiple blood tests for liver and pancreas, and all other poo poo (daily injections, and pills of all sorts etc). Then discharged me with a letter saying nothing, no results, no record, no suggested treatment, just "cause unknown." The only way I knew about pancreatitis was one person on the first night saying that's what they suspect. The only thing I know about causes and likely outcomes is what I have googled since I've been home. Oh well, at least it was loving free and I got a breakfast out of it. Fo3 fucked around with this message at 15:38 on Mar 5, 2015 |
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SFH1989 posted:Am I the only person that doesn't have an issue with Win 8.1? I built my first computer back in August, put 8.1 on it and never had an issue. Yeah a few things are different but nothing I couldn't figure out with a minute on Google. I guess I would have preferred just an improved version of 7 without all the stuff made for tablets but it's not a second Vista like I've heard some people say. I actually never had a problem with Vista to be honest, but I only ran it on a decent PC and after SP1 was released so I missed the driver hell people went through. Plus I didn't get my panties in a twist that Windows finally had some halfway decent account security. Trying to smash a mobile and desktop OS together into one product seems dumb as hell to me and I hope MS snap out of it sooner rather than later, but the desktop side of 8/8.1/10 seems competent enough. I just haven't seen one feature I desperately want that could make me jump from 7.
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some texas redneck posted:You just described my high school. I got hosed HARD when I actually went to college, I had absolutely zero study skills whatsoever. Welcome to the club. We meet at the bar. I commented on a friend's Facebook status with "'Anything is a dildo if you're brave enough' - Abraham Lincoln". I then got a message (A MESSAGE) later in the day from some other assbag (not the friend) asking me to change it because it's inappropriate. I laughed and ignored him. He has every right to be offended. I have every right to not give a gently caress.
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There's some kind of Group B film coming out starring Rob Stark. https://vimeo.com/121269783
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I'm not the best at study work, but I can do it. Typically I never really had to, stuff sticks in my brain pretty well. Especially weird and esoteric crap, so I just use the weird and esoteric crap as mnemonics to remember the poo poo I have to. As I am aging this is getting harder though. I've noticed a gradual decline in brain plasticity over the last five years or so. The first time I walked into a room and couldn't remember why I did I was horrified.
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