If you are in the gaming thread, you can see we've discovered the Steam Tabletop Simulator game. On my new MacBook Air, it heats it up something fierce! Would it be bad to grab an ice pack, and sit my laptop on that, to help cool it down?
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omnis_audis - Jan 23, 2016 3:04:39 pm PST #24743 of 25496
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Gudanov - Feb 10, 2016 4:35:17 am PST #24744 of 25496
Coding and Sleeping
I'm working on fixing a computer for a friend of my MIL. It's an Atom-based HP Mini and OMG is it slow. Anyhow the hard drive was shot, but I'm taking it as an opportunity to replace my laptop's drive with a SSD (I don't need a big drive in my laptop so it doesn't actually cost much) and give them that hard drive which is bigger than the one they had. But holy crap does it forever to restore the system to Windows 7. I've been really spoiled by my home desktop and work computer.
Toddson - Feb 10, 2016 6:51:29 am PST #24745 of 25496
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Well, I broke down and bought a smart phone (the old flip phone having broken down to the point of being unusable).
Now I have to figure out how to use the damn thing. It's a Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime (I went up a step from the cheapest/most basic model). I tried Samsung's website ... they'd help me BUY a phone (redundant, since I already had it in my hot little hands), but when I tried to find out how to USE it ... they produced a 24-page PDF that consisted of legal terminology, health and safety warnings, and ... well, not much else.
Right now, it makes a pretty good paperweight.
Steph L. - Feb 10, 2016 6:56:35 am PST #24746 of 25496
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
A lot of stores where you bought the phone (Best Buy, etc.) have classes on how to use it. Your local library might, too.
Toddson - Feb 10, 2016 6:59:19 am PST #24747 of 25496
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I'm thinking of hitting YouTube ... in my copious spare time. If I could figure out how to get to the internet from the (current paperweight), I could do it from home.
-t - Feb 10, 2016 8:14:54 am PST #24748 of 25496
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
What service do you have on it, Todd? I'm finding User Guides and Quick Starts that are specific to service providers.
Toddson - Feb 10, 2016 1:03:24 pm PST #24749 of 25496
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I'm on T-Mobile (yes, probably not the best, but I've been with them for a good long while). I think it's going to be a long process ... I did manage to make a phone call; got a text and responded to it; added a contact (since almost all mine were wiped out).
-t - Feb 10, 2016 1:21:02 pm PST #24750 of 25496
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
T-mobile has a link to a User Guid that looks actually useful, if that helps at all [link]
If you can't look at that and have something specific in the setup I could look up for you and copy and paste into here, I'd be happy to do that.
Toddson - Feb 11, 2016 10:47:16 am PST #24751 of 25496
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Thanks - I'll take a look.
Typo Boy - Feb 18, 2016 10:35:23 am PST #24752 of 25496
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Not that much time before the free upgrade to Windows 10 expires. One thing that makes me leary is how the "background" download disabled my computer for about a week until it was complete. From what I can see that is the main problem. If there is a way to foreground updates on a fixed schedule that would alleviate a lot of my worries. I'm pretty certain I could have downloaded windows 10 in about six hours if it had been done foreground. It was the background task management that sucked.
In fact, even though I have automatic updates enabled. I make a point of doing "catchup" additional updates once a week to make sure I my computer never downloads large files as a background task.
So upgrade to Windows 10? Or delete the download and recover the disk space, stayping with Windows 7 - at least until MS XPs it.