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[BruceJohnJennerLawso]

Could it be? :lol:



Edit: Just to clarify, look at "our newest orbinaut"

 

[Loru]

Yeah. Against all odds, data loss, 3 burned HDDs, some major and minor bugs, hours of flight tests all that is left to do are 3 sections of manual.

 

[MattBaker]

Some german news website that ridicules itself by writing hourly about some foreign royalty who matter a lot for Germany: "healthy baby born"

How healthy can one be if your ancestors have inbred for centuries?

Although I was for putting the Queen, Charles and William in one Boeing 787 before the birth so they'd have an accident and Harry becomes king.
Because then there'd be a good chance that monarchy stops.

 

[Izack]

Really not a fan, are you? :lol:

 

[Pipcard]

Could it be? :lol:



Edit: Just to clarify, look at "our newest orbinaut"

No, it's not the actual Buzz Aldrin, because I checked his page, and he's from Italy.

 

[Quick_Nick]

That darn media.
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/a...myth-why-we-think-we-need-supplements/277947/

 

[Quick_Nick]

This is the program HP has flashing my BIOS...

The comic sans and poorly-sized 90s clipart do not bode well.

 

[MJR]

You need to immediately cease all service with HP. That picture vaguely reminds me of Towlie off of SouthPark. Hahaha.

 

[Artlav]

Make sure you have a friend with an EEPROM programmer ready...
And what's wrong with comic sans?

 

[Loru]

Make sure you have a friend with an EEPROM programmer ready...
And what's wrong with comic sans?

There is nothing wrong with font other than it looks chidish. I'd just don't use it in software like that.

 

[Artlav]

But it's the only default font that is visibly different than the rest!

 

[Fabri91]

It was originally created for this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5teG6ou8mWU

 

[orb]

---------- Post added 07-22-13 at 01:15 AM ---------- Previous post was 07-21-13 at 01:25 PM ----------

Still accepting bets if the forum will merge this two posts or I'll double post...

That's only 12 hours, 10 minutes between those two. The forum merges subsequent posts of the member if there is 24 hours or less between them.

 

[sorindafabico]

Florianópolis, Brazil, today:

 

[Izack]

This is the program HP has flashing my BIOS...

The comic sans and poorly-sized 90s clipart do not bode well.

Nevermind the fact that the logo screams "I hope you mistake us for Intel and buy our products!" and it looks like a hastily-assembled visual basic program. But hey, looks aren't everything???

 

[Quick_Nick]

Nevermind the fact that the logo screams "I hope you mistake us for Intel and buy our products!" and it looks like a hastily-assembled visual basic program. But hey, looks aren't everything???

It worked anyhow.
I was actually downgrading BIOS because HP made it completely ambiguous which one you should choose, and seems to have settled on f.27, while I've been using the tragically buggy f.29 for the longest time. Even the one I downgraded too has plenty of complaints, but I got reaaally tired of the hanging caused by f.29.
I also just updated my AMD graphics drivers and it looks like I'll have to undo that. Now every so often, my screen decides to come out of sleep with medium brightness and not be able to change brightness. Also, interestingly, it installed the drivers before/without reboot...I wasn't expecting that... so I got every kind of interesting artifact for at least 45 minutes while browsing and watching YouTube.

 

[Spacethingy]

Well, well. My HOSTS file has had the mess made by a virus since 2009. :shifty:
Perhaps my curiosty about Yahoo keeping on 404'ing on me should've gone a bit further...

Comic sans and poorly-sized 90s clipart do not bode well.

That's almost worthy of being in someone's signature... :lol:

 

[Artlav]

On the other end of the spectrum, there is the amiflash from/for Supermicro.
A DOS program that is supposed to be run from a bootable floppy, to upgrade a BIOS on a server blade that does not even boot DOS properly without enabling all of the obscure compatibility options. And you can't avoid the update, since otherwise the SATA controller would continue to exterminate data on each full moon.

It's a nice, no-nonsense tool, and USB-bootable FreeDOS does the job, but still - what were they thinking?

 

[Fabri91]

Funny thing happened recently: a friend's laptop was having problems, and even after a complete wipe of the OS (Windows in this case) it would keep displaying the "installing drivers" windows for a USB drive even after said device was successfully recognised.

Since this problem persisted between complete OS wipes, and having the exact same laptop, I decided to perform an upgrade to the latest BIOS, having performed this procedure two times already on my system (Asus K52Jc, btw).

Well, turns out: if performing a bios upgrade with the built-in utility EZ Flash with the new bios file stored on an NTFS partition, the upgrade might appear to proceed smoothly, while infact mercilessly bricking your motherboard. :dry:

 

[N_Molson]