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posted November 12, 2010 10:35 PM |
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You need to go over your hard drive several times with a large magnet.
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Adrius
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posted November 13, 2010 03:44 PM |
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Edited by Adrius at 15:45, 13 Nov 2010.
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Bad Bak, that's not how you fix your keyboard, that's how you make triforces.
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posted November 13, 2010 05:48 PM |
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posted November 13, 2010 09:14 PM |
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After trying to dry it with a hair dryer, I melted some of the keys.  So now I'm getting a USB keyboard.
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veco
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posted November 13, 2010 09:22 PM |
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I guess you should've done it with the large magnet
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JoonasTo
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posted November 13, 2010 09:26 PM |
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I'll now see everything mvass ever does or says coming from one of those unbelievable idiots in america.
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mvassilev
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posted November 13, 2010 10:38 PM |
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In my defence, I will say that it wasn't entirely my fault. I looked up on the internet and found out that it might happen, so before starting, I asked my friend, "Won't this melt the keys?" And my friend, who has much more experience with computer hardware and actually worked testing electronic parts for heat resistance, said, "No, the people [who made the computer] test it for this kind of thing." So I trusted him and then a couple of keys melted, at which point we stopped.
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Binabik
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posted November 13, 2010 11:01 PM |
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Whoops, when I saw that about using a hair dryer I was going to warn you, but I forgot. A hair dryer is probably a good idea for that, but you would want to use low heat or no heat at all. You wouldn't want it to get more than warm to the touch.
I wouldn't have expected the keys to melt though. I would have more concern about the stuff under them. I don't know what kind of keyboards are in laptops, but if it's one of those membrane types I would be concerned about warpage. I would also be concerned about cracking due to localized expansion and contraction. Some of those copper traces (conductors) can be very thin, so uneven expansion could break them when a more even heating would be fine.
If only the keys are melted and everything else is OK, can you just replace the keys?
BTW, something slightly related I might try with my video card. The card is already bad so it won't hurt to try it. I've read about taking the board and putting it into an oven. I assume the idea is that if there are any bad solder joints the heat might melt the solder enough to reform the joint. It makes sense but I'm not sure if an oven gets hot enough. I don't know the minimum melting temperature of solder (and it depends on the tin/lead ratio) but I think most soldering with a regular soldering iron is around 600-900 degrees F. My oven only goes to 500F and the stuff I've read about this process recommends an even lower temperature.
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posted November 13, 2010 11:53 PM |
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Replacing the keys would be useless, as the keyboard still doesn't work.
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Adrius
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posted November 30, 2010 12:34 AM |
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Yo guys.
I was just about to use the disc cleanup tool when I noticed a weird option, translated it should be "per user queued error reports"
Now normally I'd just ignore it, I ususally just annihilate the temporary files, but this lil' b**** is apparently using up 3,37 GB of memory (!).
Now my instincts said "ANNIHILATE FILES" but my common sense said "google it", and apparently people have had situations where this thingy has accumulated like 100 GB of memory and when they tried to wipe it out it also took like 90% of the rest of the harddrive with it.
Now these reports were pretty old and for Vista, but I still feel that I gotta check if it's ok if I remove these files in Windows 7.
I mean, I have no real problems at all right now so I don't need no error reports (guess I could keep them and send 'em to Microsoft so they can work on a solution... pffffft hahahaaha. Has anyone ever used the "send error report" option?  )
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posted November 30, 2010 12:37 AM |
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Naturally, I've sent like a million reports about cracked games that crashed. That ought to give them something to do at tech support. 
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posted December 01, 2010 09:00 AM |
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3,37GB of memory?
So I assume you are running Vista x86-64, and that it is indeed RAM and not HD we are talking about. How much RAM does your rig have?
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posted December 01, 2010 11:40 AM |
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I tried Linux again - first Ubuntu, then Linux Mint, then Xubuntu. Linux sucks.
That's all.
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del_diablo
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posted December 01, 2010 12:59 PM |
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What mvass, did you run into uncompatible hardware?
That sucks for you, and I feel sorry for you basing your bias on that.
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posted December 01, 2010 01:14 PM |
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No, I ran into the myriad of password prompts. And Wine sucks.
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posted December 01, 2010 03:43 PM |
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You've clearly never tasted a good Pinot Noir, then.
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posted December 01, 2010 04:03 PM |
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So you don't like Linux because it asks for the Password a lot? And also, if you think something "sucks" actually explain why. How does Wine suck? How does Linux suck?
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posted December 01, 2010 07:01 PM |
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Then I made myself root and some programs don't like that. (Not to mention that when I asked the Ubuntu Forums how to do it, they all answered, "NOOO! That's not a Linux thing to do! It's unsafe! Waaah!" instead of actually helping.)
As for Wine, it just doesn't work as well as it should.
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posted December 01, 2010 08:13 PM |
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Root login? Why the snow do you need that?
I think sudo su is suppose to be working, the latest ubuntu even adds in & after each command due a nice sane default setup. Add on that the default enviroment is sane in contrast to Windows.
Sudo even has some flag for it to work like su if you want too(think so at the least).
The only thing I dislike Ubuntu for is the lack of su, but meh, why would you want to use sudo except if you are running make install or fixing hardware problems?
Actually logging in with root? That is really really messy, I think you will find instructions for it on the archwiki if you want.
And yes: The ubuntu community is snowty, really snowty. It works if you are doing some stuff.
So the real question is rather: Why are you running with root?
It is silly and stupid, yes. I have not seen your argument on what you are doing, so I can't call it silly and stupid yet, but going from your behaviour I have seen, I assume you are doing something silly and stupid because you think it works.
I know .rpm allows local package installations, which renders the entire reason to run installers with admin powers more or less not useful, I think apt current lack that, but if you are installing, you are up synaptics, and not the terminal.
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posted December 01, 2010 08:29 PM |
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@Diablo: As I mentioned I'm running Windows 7, 64 bit. And it's harddrive space, not RAM.
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