The Techies Thread

[geisha]

my victorinox swissmemory usb/knifey thinger arrived today

oh my. now i'm not normally 'techie' by any stretch of the imagination. but i want!!

how much and where from!?

[Adam Brown]

What the fuck is wrong with my floppy disc drive!

I have two computers, let's call them A and B.

I'll put a floppy disc into A, copy some files onto it, and when I put the disc into B it says the disc is blank.
So I take the disc back to A, put it in the floppy drive, and the files appear fine once again.

The weird thing is I can do it in reverse (copy files from B onto A using a floppy disc) but for some reason not from A to B.

I'm using WinXP pro on both.

[GoOsH]

What the fuck is wrong with my floppy disc drive!

I have two computers, let's call them A and B.

I'll put a floppy disc into A, copy some files onto it, and when I put the disc into B it says the disc is blank.
So I take the disc back to A, put it in the floppy drive, and the files appear fine once again.

The weird thing is I can do it in reverse (copy files from B onto A using a floppy disc) but for some reason not from A to B.

I'm using WinXP pro on both.

I didn't think they made floppy disks anymore? Crazy!

[Huebor]

I had my first problem with IBM tech support EVER yesterday.

I told them their support was worse than Dell's Asian Call Centre.

Now they're sending me rebuild CDs so I can re-image my laptop properly and get rid of all the shit that was on there for free.

[geisha]

these asian call centres are a fucking joke.

[GrandMaster]

Why we're going free

Opera has removed the banners, found within our browser, and the licensing fee. Opera's growth, due to tremendous worldwide customer support, has made today's milestone an achievable goal

YEAH!!

now its definitely better than firefox!

can its settings be managed by group policy?

[Splat_man]

dont know

dont particularly care either :P

still > firefox

haha freaky! i just came into this thread to post this!

i use opera at home and firefox at work, well my only reason for using firefox at work is that its free
well now that opera is free its installed, and i have to say that on this slushbox it renders pages a fair bit quicker


yeah!

[frogman]

I used to use opera, but switched over to firefox.

I probably wouldn't have switched if opera could render webbanking pages properly.

Plus firefox has better plug ins. SALR > *.*

[Splat_man]

i can understand what you mean about the plugins froggy, but the thing i like about opera is that you dont need any plugins, it just works straight out of the exe

i find firefox pretty much unusable until you install at least 2 or 3 plugins

[frogman]

i can understand what you mean about the plugins froggy, but the thing i like about opera is that you dont need any plugins, it just works straight out of the exe

i find firefox pretty much unusable until you install at least 2 or 3 plugins

the only thing firefox misses is mouse guestures. Opera made me addicted to those.

though i have noticed more and more that pop ups are getting through firefoxes filters.

maybe I will give opera another shot.

[Static]

though i have noticed more and more that pop ups are getting through firefoxes filters.

the 1.5 beta addresses this

[ASYLUM]

i've been using firefox for a good while now and like it an awful lot, can't imagine how i did without it before.

however now that Opera is free i think i'll give it another try, kinda forgot about that little one for a while

[GrandMaster]

SALR > *.*

ken oath
if only someone was smrt enough to make TSLR life would be complete.

[hot chips with mayo]

the only thing firefox misses is mouse guestures. .

I have mouse gestures with firefox
fully customisable

http://optimoz.mozdev.org/gestures/

[Static]

I have mouse gestures with firefox
fully customisable

http://optimoz.mozdev.org/gestures/

fukn \m/!!!!

cheers 4 dat

[frogman]

I have mouse gestures with firefox
fully customisable

http://optimoz.mozdev.org/gestures/

Oh, i have them in firefox. The first plugin I got. Though I have some shitty little homebrew that only does a handful. I only use 4 on a regular basis, so I dont need to upgrade.

If I ever reinstall, I will be using that one.

[hot chips with mayo]

I have right->down set to go to TS couch with this code:

var d = window._content.document;
d.location='http://www.teknoscape.com.au/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=6';

and left->down set to go to the scene

pretty handy

draws trails on the screen as you do the gesture too if you want, which looks pretty cool

[Facter]

hey, you guys that have BT, slksk and limewire - someone find me a copy of Daddy Cool Eagle Rock - my boss is after it and I cant blooyd get out past the firewalls here to search.

[Fluteloop]

how much webspace do iinet give you on adsl2 lite plans ?

[Gilbert Grape]

30mb is standard on all the BB2 residential plans I think.

[J-Ed]

hey, you guys that have BT, slksk and limewire - someone find me a copy of Daddy Cool Eagle Rock - my boss is after it and I cant blooyd get out past the firewalls here to search.

..if you still need it pm me and i can sort something out

[Facter]

30mb is standard on all the BB2 residential plans I think.

shouldnt you be working?

[flaunt]

psp update... someone found an exploit in the v2.0, and ran homebrew s/w.. w00t
heres how it was done:
http://www.ps2nfo.com/modules.php?na...&threadid=5469

[Adam Brown]

I think i've asked this before, but here we go again anyway:

Is there any way of making a functional duplicate of a master hard-drive? I've just bought myself a larger hard drive and I don't want to go through the hassle of re-installing everything from scratch, I just want to copy everything over and then use the new drive instead of the old.

I understand it's not as simple as just copying *.* from one drive to the next, but that's as far as I've gotten.

[flaunt]

yeh ive used 'symantec ghost' to clone a hdd before
(see http://www.bay-wolf.com/ghostclone.htm )
theres a few other tools that will do it for you too

[Gilbert Grape]

shouldnt you be working?

hah! too busy to work

[Facter]

hah! too busy to work

dude, you suck at googling btw - Omega is the LAST book in a four book series

lol

[Gilbert Grape]

Atleast you don't have to wait for the next one to be written

[Gilbert Grape]

Anyone who uses azureus for torrents should check this out http://www.utorrent.com/ .

[PHOBiA]

psp update... someone found an exploit in the v2.0, and ran homebrew s/w.. w00t
heres how it was done:
http://www.ps2nfo.com/modules.php?na...&threadid=5469

This is awesome news. They are very hush about it, obviously don't want to be sued! I might have to update my PSP to version 2 as there seems to be no development for 1.52 !

[Gilbert Grape]

Depends on the games you play. The PDA should emulate any pre-PS1/N64/etc console just fine, but you have to think about the button layout. It's rarely optimal for games in any way, except perhaps old scumm/sci games (monkey island, sam n max, full throttle etc etc). The PDA may be more powerful, but it has to run Windows mobile, etc etc, whereas games on the PSP I imagine have full control over the hardware.

If I were buying either one with games in mind rather than needing an organiser with games as a bonus, I'd go the PSP (one with firmware low enough to be homebrew-compatible), since there are already working emulators for most of the pre-32bit consoles, with the advantage of it being comfortable and easy to play them. I wouldn't buy a PSP yet though, the price should drop significantly in the next 6 months.

[Static]

I'm not gonna buy NOTHING until I can get something that does everything.

phone, pda, mp3s, games, aim, msn messenger..

would be ultra cool if it also had svideo out and played mpeg-4 videos

but it looks like I'm gonna have to wait a lil' while

[PHOBiA]

not a game unit as such no, & sure u cant play playstation games on it, but for around $200 extra you get a fuckload more function!

I bought my psp mainly for games and the support that will come with it.. I was considering the PDA but I played some games on the Axim and really without proper controls it was really cumbersom and not a lot of fun. I'll stick to my PC for the games that will come out for the PDA.

[Facter]

edito.

[PHOBiA]

Working PSP Firmware 2.0 to 1.50 Downgrader!!!


MPH has created a WORKING downgrader from PSP firmware 2.0 to firmware 1.50. This takes advantage of the toc2rta exploit and allows for the full downgrade of firmware 2.0 to firmware 1.50. I have tried this myself and have successfully downgraded from firmware 2.0 to firmware 1.50. Homebrew and UMD games WILL both work after the downgrade.


Hellll mofoyeah!

[Facter]

edito.

[flaunt]

Working PSP Firmware 2.0 to 1.50 Downgrader!!!

Hellll mofoyeah!

PSP ... so hot right now...

have you seen the southpark ep where kenny dies, and gets a golden PSP in heaven? fkn funny..

[Gilbert Grape]

Can one of you go on to xaiw.net for me and tell me wtf is going on?

Apparently my account has been disabled - and I have absolutely no idea why. Ive been on there for ages and have a great ratio....

If someone can go and check my account for me, and also send me the email address of an admin or something, it'd be greatly appreciated - I wouldnt have any idea why something like that would happen.

Have you tried the IRC channel? Osiris may be able to get you in touch with the guy who runs it, I think they work together. I requested my account deleted a month or two ago, so I can't really help beyond that.

[Facter]

Have you tried the IRC channel? Osiris may be able to get you in touch with the guy who runs it, I think they work together. I requested my account deleted a month or two ago, so I can't really help beyond that.

yah, i asked mr osiris....its relaly got me stumped as to why it would be banned - i have a good ratio, power user - no idea, unless i annoyed someone with a comment, but wouldnt i get a warning?

wierd.

checked the IRC # - seriously, WTF is going on here?



* Identd request from 192.116.231.44
* Identd replied: 3532, 6667 : USERID : UNIX : facter
-
-irc.inter.net.il- *** Checking Ident
-
-irc.inter.net.il- *** Found your hostname
-
-irc.inter.net.il- *** Got Ident response
-
Closing Link: 203-59-192-162.dyn.iinet.net.au (*** Banned )
-
* Disconnected


Thy wouldnt have banned an iinet IP would they??? They're not that silly??

[GrandMaster]

wtf is irc.inter.net.il?
try a server in australia.. im assuming the channel is on austnet so try irc.iinet.net.au

[Facter]

wtf is irc.inter.net.il?
try a server in australia.. im assuming the channel is on austnet so try irc.iinet.net.au

edito.

[GrandMaster]

gay my account is disabled too
wtf??

[osiris]

[osiris]

im still waiting on reply to from hitman to my pm bout yer account

ps newgroups own! :P

lol i think he's gonna have quite a few PM's

[Facter]

gay my account is disabled too
wtf??

okay thats really really weird - your ratio was okay as well though wasnt it??? I wonder if someone I invited did something crap and they pruned the whole invite tree??? I think I invited FARQ as well, but he still has access ....

if so, they must die.

:sneaky:

[GrandMaster]

yeh my ratio was like 1.5 - 2 ish

[Facter]

man, this bites - no warning or anything either, im alwyas relaly anal about my ratios, so...meh.

[Facter]

Okay, I found out why - rule #1 about Fight Club - do NOT talk about Fightclub! Especially not on teknoscape!

I didnt know that.

Time to go back and edit some posts - if any of you guys have talked about fight club, i'd do the same.

[GrandMaster]

mines still busted can you pls send a pm fletcho?
my username is grandmaster

[Gilbert Grape]

lol xiaw.net warez lol.