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Tech Support
#31
RE: Tech Support
(February 4, 2015 at 11:02 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: Gotta be careful. If you are downloading programs to install from the internet, almost by rule it will have some extra stuff coming along with it.

...don't have that problem with signed repositories...

Yep. Whenever considering whether I want to download some unknown free software, I look to reviews for signs that there's crapware or malware bundled with it, and I always go to the official website to download it. Never a 3rd party download site. How do you think such sites make money? By being paid to shovel shitware on the unsuspecting, in part.
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#32
RE: Tech Support
I just got this message in my email

Quote:Someone has tried to log into your account on Home Recording with an incorrect password at least 5 times. This person has been prevented from attempting to login to your account for the next 15 minutes.

The person trying to log into your account had the following IP address: 183.207.228.51

I haven't been on that website in maybe two years. Can somebody shine some light on the situation? What am I supposed to do with the IP address?
I can't remember where this verse is from, I think it got removed from canon:

"I don't hang around with mostly men because I'm gay. It's because men are better than women. Better trained, better equipped...better. Just better! I'm not gay."

For context, this is the previous verse:

"Hi Jesus" -robvalue
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#33
RE: Tech Support
Program that IP address into your new Costco Multi-Drone with optional tactical 1kW excimer laser.


They won't do it again.
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#34
RE: Tech Support
Ha! I feel like I'd get caught.

Google says its from China. I'm being targeted by an insidious multi-national cyber crime syndicate called The Virtual Dragons (probably) for my billions, I've reasoned.
I can't remember where this verse is from, I think it got removed from canon:

"I don't hang around with mostly men because I'm gay. It's because men are better than women. Better trained, better equipped...better. Just better! I'm not gay."

For context, this is the previous verse:

"Hi Jesus" -robvalue
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#35
RE: Tech Support
(February 4, 2015 at 6:51 pm)Beccs Wrote: Hit it hard.

Worked for me with an MRI once . . .

Ahhh... "Percussion Engineering"
The meek shall inherit the Earth, the rest of us will fly to the stars.

Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups

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#36
RE: Tech Support
I think "percussive maintenance" is the term Tongue
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition

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#37
RE: Tech Support
In the over the air RF world the proper term is "hammer modulation."
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#38
RE: Tech Support
So the other day I ran '~$ sudo apt-get upgrade' to get the latest LTS from Canonical. Turns out the newest kernel doesn't support the newer Elantech Touchpads fully. The touchpad still works, but annoyingly not second level operations like two finger scrolling and the pressure counts which you can modify so that the touchpad isn't so sensitive or disable while typing. This annoys me very much.

There seems to be no fix, and just now I ran '~$ xinput list' and it seems that synaptics is registering the touchpad as a "Generic PS/2 Mouse."

There seems to be no fix for this as of yet, and I am not experienced enough to modify the kernel or anything like that. I am now installing an even newer kernel that isn't released yet, and we'll see if that works.

Anybody have any other suggestions?
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great

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#39
RE: Tech Support
Did you end up finding a remedy Steel?

Also, just a bump to get the man some help.
I can't remember where this verse is from, I think it got removed from canon:

"I don't hang around with mostly men because I'm gay. It's because men are better than women. Better trained, better equipped...better. Just better! I'm not gay."

For context, this is the previous verse:

"Hi Jesus" -robvalue
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#40
RE: Tech Support
Nope. It was annoying enough that I am using Winblows 8.1. Heinous gayness...

Which reminds me...
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great

PM me your email address to join the Slack chat! I'll give you a taco(or five) if you join! --->There's an app and everything!<---
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