The Boredom Thread

[sersoft]

@bob

You say that all laptop batteries are pieces of crap. How about the built-in laptop battery? Have you heard of that? It’s placed inside [COLOR=‘Red’]my anus. It runs for 8 hours and can last 5 years.

fixed that post for you.

[jambo]

Wow sersoft, you’re so funny and cool eh :3

[Collision]

@bob

Here’s a solution to the heating problem of the Macbooks. Use a laptop cooling pad that you place your laptop directly on so that it stays cool. I have used the Belkin Laptop Cooling Pad for this entire day and my Macbook is still cool. Also I rarely use the battery so that is not an issue. You say that all laptop batteries are pieces of crap. How about the built-in laptop battery? Have you heard of that? It’s placed inside the Macbook Pro 17-Inch Laptop. It runs for 8 hours and can last 5 years.

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA

[OldDirtyBastard]

Sersoft, where did you learn such bad words?

[sersoft]

Well I believe I’ve learned them from your biological mother, good sir

But seriously, I wasn’t exactly sober yesterday and that sentence seemed just too ridiculous to ignore.

[bob]

@Lamsey

I saw the bit about “Trust me, I have computer programming friends who know the failures of Vista” and laughed. Vista is by no means perfect, but it is not by any means deserving of all the flak it gets. And if you doubt my credentials in asserting that, I’m just about to graduate with a Master’s in Computer Science and I work for Sun Microsystems (who also make a bloody-good-yet-flawed OS, but in different ways).

So Vista must not be as bad as my friends told me. However, Vista does have certain factual things against it. Windows Vista is a memory hog. Most people say that when choosing which edition to get of Windows Vista, they should get Windows Vista Ultimate. The edition that gets the most complaints is Windows Vista Home Basic. As for my Macbook, games work great on Windows XP with one flaw. I keep on getting a HL2.exe error when I play HL2 mods where Microsoft wants me to send an error report. I found out that if I save games frequently (like I did with the HL2 mod Riot Act), I do not get that error. The problem is solved on my end.

[sersoft]

But it basically means you’ve got a driver conflict somewhere, or a problem in one of the game engine dll’s, it happens on alot of source games, in fact I used to have it alot on my eee pc, but it went away when I installed windows 7.

[Zsub]

@bob

So Vista must not be as bad as my friends told me. However, Vista does have certain factual things against it. Windows Vista is a memory hog. Most people say that when choosing which edition to get of Windows Vista, they should get Windows Vista Ultimate. The edition that gets the most complaints is Windows Vista Home Basic. As for my Macbook, games work great on Windows XP with one flaw. I keep on getting a HL2.exe error when I play HL2 mods where Microsoft wants me to send an error report. I found out that if I save games frequently (like I did with the HL2 mod Riot Act), I do not get that error. The problem is solved on my end.

SO WHY THE FUCK DO YOU HAVE RAM?! FOR IT TO SIT IN YOUR PC UNUSED? OF COURSE YOU DON’T, GODDAMMIT. RAM IS THERE TO BE FUCKING USED, HOW HARD CAN IT BE?

CAPS-LOCK ONLY MAKES IT MORE TRUE

[bob]

@Zsub

SO WHY THE FUCK DO YOU HAVE RAM?! FOR IT TO SIT IN YOUR PC UNUSED? OF COURSE YOU DON’T, GODDAMMIT. RAM IS THERE TO BE FUCKING USED, HOW HARD CAN IT BE?

CAPS-LOCK ONLY MAKES IT MORE TRUE

Okay. Vista uses 15 GB to install the OS where XP uses 5 GB to install itself. It’s no big deal. I’m simply telling you what people have told me. I’ve never used Vista on my own computer but I have used it on my dad’s PC. Vista does have a pretty desktop interface. Vista also has other advantages over XP besides beauty. It has (if you get Windows Vista Home Premium) the Windows Media Center and it has Direct X 10 (which XP does not have). As for my Mac, I can play HL1 games and HL1 mods fine but with the HL2 games and mods, I get the HL2.exe error that according to Sersoft, happens on PC’s too. I am planning to Google and Youtube the HL2.exe error to see if I can find a solution to this problem. I will post the solution if I find one that fixes the problem and I will post it either here or in a separate thread for any PC/Mac users that are having the same problems with Source engine games crashing and Microsoft asking them to send an error report.

P.S. The error in the report describes itself as an HL2 autosave bug that occurs around autosave points.

[sersoft]

XP uses about 1.5gb to install itself…

[Level]

@sersoft

XP uses about 1.5gb to install itself…

After a clean install, after 3 service packs and updates it can be up to 5gb.

[sersoft]

I doubt it, my mom’s laptop only has a 3.8gb hard drive(used to have a 20gb, but it broke), and it’s happily running SP3…

[Siggs]

Sounds like a powerhouse, that laptop :3 Want.
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[Level]

@sersoft

I doubt it, my mom’s laptop only has a 3.8gb hard drive(used to have a 20gb, but it broke), and it’s happily running SP3…

I’ve seen the windows folder get up to 10 gb. Sure that’s not all purely windows stuff, but it can definitely take up that much space.

[Ihranator]

My name is Mister-can’t-ride-on-rainy-days.

[sersoft]

@Level

I’ve seen the windows folder get up to 10 gb. Sure that’s not all purely windows stuff, but it can definitely take up that much space.

sounds like 4gb of internet explorer temp files, 2gb of temporary update files and 2gb of spyware.

[Collision]

@bob

Okay. Vista uses 15 GB to install the OS where XP uses 5 GB to install itself. It’s no big deal. I’m simply telling you what people have told me. I’ve never used Vista on my own computer but I have used it on my dad’s PC. Vista does have a pretty desktop interface. Vista also has other advantages over XP besides beauty. It has (if you get Windows Vista Home Premium) the Windows Media Center and it has Direct X 10 (which XP does not have). As for my Mac, I can play HL1 games and HL1 mods fine but with the HL2 games and mods, I get the HL2.exe error that according to Sersoft, happens on PC’s too. I am planning to Google and Youtube the HL2.exe error to see if I can find a solution to this problem. I will post the solution if I find one that fixes the problem and I will post it either here or in a separate thread for any PC/Mac users that are having the same problems with Source engine games crashing and Microsoft asking them to send an error report.

P.S. The error in the report describes itself as an HL2 autosave bug that occurs around autosave points.

@sersoft

XP uses about 1.5gb to install itself…

@Level

After a clean install, after 3 service packs and updates it can be up to 5gb.

THE OS FOOTPRINT IS RELATIVE TO HDD SIZE.

[Zsub]

@Collision

THE OS FOOTPRINT IS RELATIVE TO HDD SIZE.

Hell no it’s not. It’s relative to how much features you choose to install. I have a Pentium II laptop somewhere where I have tweaked (read: stripped) XP so it only takes about 500 megs of HDD space and is happy with 16 megs of ram. It’s not that hard.

Also, for those of you who don’t yet know… Try installing XP (without any SP’s), then install SP1, then SP2 and then SP3. Your install will have grown noticably. How much, I don’t know, but I estimate it’s somewhere around the gigabyte if not more.

The real way is to slipstream SP’s (and normal updates) into your installation medium so XP will not make those pesky backups of stuff you do not even fucking need.

tl;dr: delete system32, fixes everything

[Collision]

Explain this.

I installed XP on my Mac, when I had it, first time I used a 25GB partition.

It used 4.5GB of it.

Second time I installed, same features, same machine, on a 10GB partition.

3.2GB was used.

[jambo]

The footprint is not relative to the HDD space. I have mine at work on an 80GB drive and it’s only using 3.6GB lol