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tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 14 Mar 2006, 11:37

Classic Grim.
Show him 2 pictures of Christy Chung and he'll ask who's the girl in the second pic.

Keung · Post by **Keung** » 14 Mar 2006, 11:48

Lmao, you guys. That's me

However I am amazed that I'm being told I look like Bruce.

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 14 Mar 2006, 14:30

You don't look anything like Bruce or Fu Sheng, that's just Grim being Grim. He was dropped on his head as a child you know... a lot.

P.S. Slipknot suck ass! 8)

Keung · Post by **Keung** » 14 Mar 2006, 14:51

Markgway wrote:P.S. Slipknot suck ass! 8)

Oi oi oi! Not true! :x

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 14 Mar 2006, 14:54

Markgway wrote:You don't look anything like Bruce or Fu Sheng, that's just Grim being Grim. He was dropped on his head as a child you know... a lot.

P.S. Slipknot suck ass! 8)

@ Mark, hey!

How the fuck was I supposed to know what Levi looks like?!

Sorry, I really couldnt tell from the photo (black and white).

Yi-Long · Post by **Yi-Long** » 14 Mar 2006, 14:57

grim_tales wrote:
Markgway wrote:You don't look anything like Bruce or Fu Sheng, that's just Grim being Grim. He was dropped on his head as a child you know... a lot.

P.S. Slipknot suck ass! 8)

@ Mark, hey! How the fuck was I supposed to know what Levi looks like?!

Sorry, I really couldnt tell from the photo (black and white).

What? You're eyes magically drop to a -10 when a picture isnt in color? Wow... that's amazing.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 14 Mar 2006, 14:59

I couldnt tell it who it was OK, we all make mistakes

Me more than most I admit, but still. I couldnt quite recognise who it was in the avitar.

Yi-Long · Post by **Yi-Long** » 14 Mar 2006, 15:09

Ok ok ... I'll never bring it up again

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 14 Mar 2006, 15:10

LOL @ the new avitar though!

Keung · Post by **Keung** » 14 Mar 2006, 15:29

Avatar changed so there's no more confusion over my identity. :mrgreen:

Yi-Long · Post by **Yi-Long** » 14 Mar 2006, 15:32

Keung94 wrote:Avatar changed so there's no more confusion over my identity. :mrgreen:

Wow Keung... you're right... you look nothing like Bruce Lee or Fu Sheng...
You look more like an asian male version of Condoleeza Rize, who is angry and ready to kick ass! Wow...

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 14 Mar 2006, 15:49

Who's that in your avatar now Keung?

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 14 Mar 2006, 15:50

Keung94 wrote:Avatar changed so there's no more confusion over my identity. :mrgreen:

That looks nothing like Bruce Lee or Fu Sheng. Phew!!

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 15 Mar 2006, 02:04

The avatar is of Tony Jaa, right?

BTW Slipknot indeed do suck major ass. Piece of shit nu-metal band who applied the nu-metal cliche of having a whole posse of band members. They have like 2 or 3 drummers if I recall. It's like the Wu Tang Clan:- get 10,000 rappers in a room, surely at least two of them will be good.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 15 Mar 2006, 12:28

That dashboard idea looks very cluttered IMO. You can get similar programs for Windows and to me it's always meant clutter.

Yi-Long wrote:Ow, I totally agree about all the windows versions prior to XP being pretty shitty and unstable. XP, for me at least, has worked absolutely fine though

Not true it's just XP was the first to be marketed at the home market.

Business' have had rock solid NT (of which 2000 and XP are based upon) for 10 years, maybe more.

Windows 2000 (out 2 years before XP) was supposed to be XP but Microsoft decided at the last minute it was to early to release a very different OS on the home world.

When Windows XP came out they were able to finally kill off the 95 OS.

Yi-Long wrote:You have a mac? you poor bastard.

There's nothing wrong with Apple Macs. They aren't much different to Windows really.

Just a different way of doing the same thing.

Kurgan wrote:Hey, it was a voluntary choice. I've been messing about with Windows since 3.11, and I fancied something that didn't go on holiday everytime I wanted to do something a little complicated.

Not true. They're as flaky or stable as you want to make them.

Since the days of Windows NT Windows has been very stable. Windows 2000 finally merged the stability with the user friendliness of Windows 95. Windows NT is far from user friendly.

Tom2681 wrote:My desktop in night-mode :

Still no virus checker

I worry what would happen if you put a CD/DVD/USB Stick in which had a virus/spyware. Good bye Tom's data is what would happen.

A firewall is naff all use against virus'/spyware on CD/DVD/USB Stick.

EvaUnit02 wrote:The avatar is of Tony Jaa, right?

Yes

Tom2681 wrote:Show him 2 pictures of Christy Chung and he'll ask who's the girl in the second pic.

ROFL

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 15 Mar 2006, 12:44

Still no virus checker
I worry what would happen if you put a CD/DVD/USB Stick in which had a virus/spyware.

No worries mate. All my important data is saved from one disk to the other everytime I start my PC.

+I've got dozens of backup discs.

I've been attacked by viruses before and never lost anything. No need for an AV software. Hell I had to format last week because of a spyware and still didn't lose anything.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 15 Mar 2006, 12:55

If you install software from CD and it infects the data on your backup (I presume it's always plugged in) then a fat lot of good it is.

I've been attacked by viruses before and never lost anything.

You've been lucky. No offence but I think you're living in cloud cocoo land.

Besides a decent virus checker/spyware app. uses very little system resources.

Tom2681 wrote:Hell I had to format last week because of a spyware and still didn't lose anything.

That's what System Restore is for??? Don't tell me you've disabled it?

I use Norton GoBack which is a suped up version of SR, tis very good.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 15 Mar 2006, 14:00

If you install software from CD and it infects the data on your backup

Viruses usually infect programs and system files. I don't care about those (it would only take me about 2 hours to reinstall everything).
Viruses rarely attack passive data like MP3s and videos (especially if they're not in "my documents").

No offence but I think you're living in cloud cocoo land.

None taken.

In 2003-2004 I had Norton AV. In three virus attacks, Norton died 3 times and couldn't erase the virus.

a decent virus checker/spyware app. uses very little system resources.

Don't care. If a virus attacks and is stopped by the AV, I'll still format the drive just to be on the safe side anyway.

That's what System Restore is for??? Don't tell me you've disabled it?

Do you know how much space SR uses ??

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Bottom-line is:
If a spyware infects my PC -> Format, Reinstall. (120 minutes)
If a virus infects my PC -> Format, Reinstall, copy data from backup DVDs. (150 minutes)
If everything is fine -> Format and reinstall every 2 months anyway (PCs work better when they're light on programs).

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 15 Mar 2006, 14:12

There's a serious lack of Ayumi in this thread:

Mordib · Post by **Mordib** » 15 Mar 2006, 14:48

iu get the impression some of you are using pretty crazy resolutions. do you change the resolution to suite your backdrop or do you really like having to squint at your icons?

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 15 Mar 2006, 14:50

1152x864 on a 19" screen for me.
Resized to 800x600 for the screenshot of course.

Kurgan · Post by **Kurgan** » 15 Mar 2006, 18:12

bradavon wrote:That dashboard idea looks very cluttered IMO. You can get similar programs for Windows and to me it's always meant clutter.

It's only as cluttered as you make it

Ayumi's fit, by the way.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 15 Mar 2006, 19:51

Tom2681 wrote:Viruses rarely attack passive data like MP3s and videos (especially if they're not in "my documents").

I don't think that's even possible but Word documents and Excel files can get affected.

That said macro virus' aren't powerful at all.

Tom2681 wrote:Do you know how much space SR uses ??

LOTS but the days of worrying about disk space are long gone.

Tom2681 wrote:If everything is fine -> Format and reinstall every 2 months anyway (PCs work better when they're light on programs).

That seems really excessive. I do so every 1-2 years, when it needs it really.

It would take me MUCH longer than 2 hours however I must use much more apps than you.

Tom2681 wrote:1152x864 on a 19" screen for me.

Man your shortcuts must be huge.

I have:

At home - 1280x1024 on a 17"
At work - 1152x864 on a 17"

Oddly 1280x1024 at work looks really small which makes no sense as they're both 17" monitors and both TFT.

Annoyingly the monitor at work doesn't really support 1152x864 and because of this it makes window fonts look really cack. I've had to set them to bold (which looks odd) to get around this.

1024x768 looks fine but then everything is huge.

It's all very much in people's heads, most people I know like 17" at 1024x768 and moan when I try to change it. The sharpness is completely gone at this resolution too.

My Mum did but I politely ignored her and she soon got used to it.

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 15 Mar 2006, 20:02

Viruses killed my last PC.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 15 Mar 2006, 20:06

And my Mum's.

I kept telling her she needs a virus checker but as it was a work pc she said "it's up to work I don't want to touch it".

She then left the job and kept the pc, later on a virus killed all her e-mails which included all her deceased boyfriend's e-mails (RIP).

I was able to retrieve her documents but not e-mails. She now has a virus checker (ZoneAlarm Internet Security to be precise, VERY good) and I run off backups.