Situation:

Customer: “JESUS CHRIST, I turned on my PC and it said “Inaccessible Boot Device”, Lord Have mercy what am I going to do.”

Nester-san says:

Gentle Reader bear in mind this 10 Years of Company data, in mutiple report formats, Govt audit level quantity and quality NOT ARCHIVED

After getting system back up, SMART Diag says EVERYTHING THAT IS POSSIBLE TO BE WRONG is wrong with the disk, and it is generated errors by the minute.

Nester-san says:

I have a Disk that crashed to point of clicking and clanging, I “Low Level Formated” it for laughs nine years ago (which took a week LITERALLY) , and it then passed a 45 Day SMART DIAG check without failure. It has been in usage since then. So for this Disk to be behaving like this, it is so FUX0R3d

I translated “YOU R GONNA GET PWNED BY HD CRASH” into english.

Customer: “Is it still under warranty ? ”

Me: “Dell says no, but you can back up your Data and I can install another HD for you.”

Customer: “So, I would have to pay for a HD?”

Me: “Yes, they are cheap, under $5500″

Customer: “I will wait and see what happens.”

WHILE WE HAD CONVERSATION SMART DIAG SOFTWARE WAS POPPING UP LIKE EVERY 10 SECONDS TO REPORT HD FAILURE RATES INCREASING.

A WHA DO THEM GOD ?

Posted by cyberpunk - mobile:
tonight I was working on a personal web development project. to which I made many alterations. some how I accidentally clicked the right mouse button and rolled the scroll wheel. at first I was like shit this div is screwed. it allows scrolling. rolling the mouse wheel a bit more I noticed it was more of a zoom effect. I proceeded to test it in google image search and it worked. so now u can zoom images by ight clicking and rolling the scroll wheel. sweet functionality right there.good stuff firefox. lets see the big blue e try that.

#%@#$%@#$%@#$%@#$%@$%@$%#% M$
Windows 2000 Server, which is a SERVER OS, built to stay up forever requires you to do the following when adding a second CPU.
1: Put in CPU
2: Change ACPI to Multiprocessor via driver.

Reboot.

Windows XP, which came out later…..
REPAIR INSTALLATION….
The L33ten sayeth: Manually rip out multiprocessor hal from XP cd and change urself. reboot.
M$ Sayeth: No…Repair Install.

Portrait of a Nester-san three days later…..^&$^$#^&#$^%#%@#$%@.
(Whispering madly to himself, while boxen hangs at dreaded 34 Minute Mark)

Oh, for those who dont know, the 34 minute mark in the setup is when XP detects your hardware, and attempts to load drivers….What it can’t load or find, it don’t skip like a smart OS.

NO, the POS Just sits like an idiot grinning it’s fool head off.

M$ Says: To Fix, just reboot each time it happens, it will eventually skip the hardware and then you can continue.

MI RASSCLAAT….

3 Fucking Days of Reboots to get your OS to install three files about 256 Kb in size ?
Why do they do everything ass backwards ?

Article: 828267 at M$ site is your friend…

The clinic is open!

Yes thats right we are back! Despite numerous hacks, tens of thousands of fake posts and a site owner, designer, programmer and maintainer (ie me) who has completely forgotten about the very existence of this site for the past year we have returned!

This is a site dedicated to the ancient art of the argument. Whether you are looking for a heated debate on politics, God or the meaning of life, or want to shout at someone for no better reason than it feels good, this is the place to do it.
Why are we here?

How many times were you told to stop arguing as a kid? How often have you had to avoid arguing with a moron just because that moron is your boss? Day after day potential arguments are being snuffed out before they can even begin and I say enough!

Fight for your right to argue! Arguments and debates are vital social tools, we need these skills if we are to be succesful in virtually any walk of life so dont hold back any longer. Argue, debate, dispute, quibble, bicker, contend…you know you want to.

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Oh yeahhhhhh. I think I will be a lifetime member.

It’s really is sad when programmers make applications that don’t conform to core principles of programming and databases that don’t conform to saidprinciples of relational database management. Why do this. It makes one persons live easier and creates eternal turmoil and damnation for all those who are punished in the form of working with said kind of system. I believe in being open minded, That developers grow through their career, that applications that i have built before may be scoffed at and deemed as written in the most inefficient manner. but nay.. i say.. Not like this. Recently I have been given the task of working on an international *will remain unnamed website*l and omfg never have i seen more unconventional pragmatic progression of code. Manually maintained unique identifiers @_@, in line configuration switches, NO CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR A CONTENT DRIVEN WEBSITE WHICH RELY ON A DATABASE.
With all that said I’m sure you can understand how annoyed i must feel coming in contact with such an archaic system. I foresee major reverse engineering to move forward in a more efficient and i will not hold my tongue SMARTER manner that the previous developers did.

I’m all for deleting the current system and do a complete remake however it would have to be a phased implementation because the *unnamed website* is in the business of daily releases therefore it cannot go a single day without being functional.

The general moral behind this post is, PLEASE CONFORM TO STANDARDS be it programmatic, database related, how to fold a piece of paper i don’t care. It makes things simpler for everyone in the end.

Xbox 360 For Dummies
Author(s) Duncan Mackenzie

ISBN 0471771805
Release Date 31 January 2006

* Topics covered include hooking up Xbox 360, taking advantage of HDTV and Dolby capabilities, using built-in digital video recording and wireless functions, storing media files, playing music, and displaying photos
* Shows how to have even more fun by taking an Xbox online for massively multiplayer gaming, instant messaging, and more
* Discusses the social potential of the Xbox, which people can use to make new friends, join groups and teams, and even throw fantastic parties
* Includes tips for securing the Xbox from online threats

If you need a book to figure out how to play a console, you are not a dummy, you are a relic of the far distant past…more like cro-retardus man or cro-doltus man or summat.
If had contained useful tips, like best games to use to get ur GF off using the rumble in the controller well then fine …but otherwise ?

Is it just me or is Toms hardware more flash than substance ?

Performance Value For DX10

Darren Polkowski May 17, 2007 10:26
The Fight For The Middle Is About To Begin

A battle is being waged between ATI (AMD’s graphics division) and Nvidia for the working man’s hard earned cash. Looking at the landscape as things stand today, Nvidia has the best DX10 hardware, simply because Nvidia has the only DX10 hardware on the market

——– http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/05/17/performance_value_for_dx10/index.html

Everyone else has benches of ATI DX10 offerings from the 14th of May……Snooze…snoore.

This was Tom’s who were so cutting edge Intel wanted to blacklist them cause they were busting secrets left, right and center. When Tom’s used to talk no dog coulda bark, now it seems like they are a relic of the past.

When they do stuff, they do it right.. They have a DX10 Article that makes my head hurt to read it, but it will give me a nice +10 to L33T.

The cpu guide that they have up is so woefully outdated it is not funny.
Tom’s MAN THE F**K UP…Go back to your roots dude..