youporn is passe
redtube is superior
first with hover thumbs
'76 911S | '14 328xi | '17 GTI | In memoriam: '08 848, '85 944
"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth
Well, it showed up 
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When it comes to Ryan Jenkins, the story ends with me putting him in the wall.
2009 Speed Triple | 2006 DR-Z400SM | 1999 CBR600F4 | 1998 Jeep Cherokee
-Ginger
and wow.
I Am Mike
4 wheels: '01 RAV4 (Formerly '93 Civic CX, '01 S2000, '10 GTI, '09 A4 Avant)
2 wheels: '12 Surly Cross-Check Custom | '14 Trek Madone 2.1 105 | '17 Norco Threshold SL Force 1 | '17 Norco Revolver 9.2 FS | '18 BMC Roadmachine 02 Two | '19 Norco Search XR Steel (Formerly '97 Honda VFR750F, '05 Giant TCR 2, '15 WeThePeople Atlas 24, '10 Scott Scale 29er XT, '11 Cervelo R3 Rival, '12 Ridley X-Fire Red)
No longer onyachin.
booo
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a van is a good guy with a van
what do the 74 buttons all over it do?
Lets see:
The arrows changes the screen orientation (portait vs landscape)
The gear brings up various display adjustment controls
The circle arrow brings up Windows Media center
The DVD, obviously, brings up a DVD app of your choice
Power... is power.
... and the copper looking stripey thing on the other side, aside from being cool looking, is the finger print reader.
I'm not hating on macs by buying this thing... but I got it for an absolute steal, it's everything I was looking for (and more), and sends my bling meter through the roof. One particularly cool thing about the reversible touch screen is that one does not need to contort into strange and unnatural body positions to use the machine anywhere other than a desk. It's not perfect, though.
I should have taken Evan's advice and gotten a bigger hard drive than I did. I've got several 120gig IDE drives that make for enough storage, but I still need to find a good way to manage them for backups AND accesability. I have a USB external adapter but I know that they've been known to cause premature drive failure/wear so it's not something I want to rely on. The fingerprint scanner sucks, too. I've yet to get it to work well enough to use as a log on tool. Oh well, no big loss there. HP shipped the machine with a bunch of "buy this" and "look at all the cool services we shipped with your computer that eat processes for breakfast!" stuff... which I'm sorting out. I've been out of computer for a long time and it's taking me some time to adjust to Vista's removal of the "add or remove programs" feature.
All in all, though, for what I paid, I'm very happy. I'll be putting old Dell Latitude D800 on eBay shortly, so if anybody is interested in a machine with a questionable bios I'll have the link up soon.
*edit*
Yes, Vista's new visualizations are cool. If you highlight a a window name in the Windows toolbar at the bottom you get a small image of what that window looks like.. almost a thumbnail. The alt-tab feature producers a similar result. There is a somewhat redundant feature called "desktop switcher" or "application switcher", or something other PR Junky CommercialCool thing that I'd use they'd use Joe Camel to play up if they could, which again, produces another pseudo-similar result.
When it comes to Ryan Jenkins, the story ends with me putting him in the wall.
2009 Speed Triple | 2006 DR-Z400SM | 1999 CBR600F4 | 1998 Jeep Cherokee
-Ginger
andrew, gimme more details about the dell latitude you're ebaying. i'm very possibly interested
1994 Ford Ranger
2004 Honda S2000
2007 BMW X3
Maengelito Wrote:i'm very possibly interested
Need to monitor your intake manifold temps?
(09-25-2019, 03:18 PM)V1GiLaNtE Wrote: I think you need to see a mental health professional.
Maengelito Wrote:andrew, gimme more details about the dell latitude you're ebaying. i'm very possibly interested
Drop you a line shortly.
When it comes to Ryan Jenkins, the story ends with me putting him in the wall.
2009 Speed Triple | 2006 DR-Z400SM | 1999 CBR600F4 | 1998 Jeep Cherokee
-Ginger
Well, I'm months in and I'm so-so. I'm non-complaint with Vista, it is what it is. I'm relatively happy with my component selection, too. As a tool, this machine works very well. It's not quite the blingtastic-awesome box I had in mind... but things rarely measure up.
The display only views properly from a very narrow angle-range and it's not -that- great. It's definitely a step up from my last machine, though, and far beyond passable. I'm constantly getting display driver updates from HP and they always fail... I can't get the NVidia drivers directly, though, because they don't include special button functionality. Lame.
But... I submitted a warrantly claim to HP today. You'll see that I bought the laptop in September and that it is now only January. The hinge has a half inch of slop in it. That really aggravates me. A techie friend of mine says it's relatively normal on aging laptops - I say that's a shit excuse. If you can't make something that lasts more than 6 months (as a laptop) then it isn't ready for release. This machine is probably extra-prone because it's a single hinge with a large range of motion... but I can't imagine it's THAT hard to make one that doesn't royally suck. I'll keep the warranty claim status posted here.
When it comes to Ryan Jenkins, the story ends with me putting him in the wall.
2009 Speed Triple | 2006 DR-Z400SM | 1999 CBR600F4 | 1998 Jeep Cherokee
-Ginger
IBTshouldaboughtamac
(09-25-2019, 03:18 PM)V1GiLaNtE Wrote: I think you need to see a mental health professional.
Well, I got an email from Tech support this morning. It was half from-a-person, half-not. It seemed copy-pasted from a variety of documents, but sent by a specific individual.. that's comforting, I guess.
They're going to send me a box with packing material and a prepaid shipping label for warranty care. The initial email evaluation suggests that this should be a warrantied repair, but I won't have final confirmation until their people actually look at the box.
Since this will probably happen again after the repair, I'll probably sell it. I don't want a computer that turns to junk after 6 months.
When it comes to Ryan Jenkins, the story ends with me putting him in the wall.
2009 Speed Triple | 2006 DR-Z400SM | 1999 CBR600F4 | 1998 Jeep Cherokee
-Ginger
hp laptops suck, sorry, that's 0/2 for them now.
hp servers suck as well, they're 0/2 with me as well.
I Am Mike
4 wheels: '01 RAV4 (Formerly '93 Civic CX, '01 S2000, '10 GTI, '09 A4 Avant)
2 wheels: '12 Surly Cross-Check Custom | '14 Trek Madone 2.1 105 | '17 Norco Threshold SL Force 1 | '17 Norco Revolver 9.2 FS | '18 BMC Roadmachine 02 Two | '19 Norco Search XR Steel (Formerly '97 Honda VFR750F, '05 Giant TCR 2, '15 WeThePeople Atlas 24, '10 Scott Scale 29er XT, '11 Cervelo R3 Rival, '12 Ridley X-Fire Red)
No longer onyachin.
But, but... evan says you're WRONG! :lol:
(09-25-2019, 03:18 PM)V1GiLaNtE Wrote: I think you need to see a mental health professional.
HP = suck
'76 911S | '14 328xi | '17 GTI | In memoriam: '08 848, '85 944
"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth
heh. 0/2? we're running over 100 HP servers right now just on this project. but hey, Mikey RulesÔäó to the resuce.
and like I said, my hp work laptop is the best ive had by far, Ive had every brand, and I beat the shit out of them. Buy what you want, I give not a shit.
You have enough of a shit to post a rebuttal.
'76 911S | '14 328xi | '17 GTI | In memoriam: '08 848, '85 944
"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth
Apoc Wrote:You have enough of a shit to post a rebuttal. I have enough of a shit?
No, I dropped my shit this morning. On your sister's chest.
I'm pretty sure she doesn't have a need for a second, inferior laptop.
'76 911S | '14 328xi | '17 GTI | In memoriam: '08 848, '85 944
"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth
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