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What's on your mind?; Your daily crap.
Topic Started: Jul 29 2010, 05:18 AM (64,030 Views)
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Post whatever is on your mind at the moment. It doesn't matter what, just post it!
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Guys!! Help! Look, on my task bar, this icon keeps flashing every after approximately 2 minutes! It appears for a fractions of a second and poof, disappears!!! This has been going on for past 3 days! Virus? Recognize it??? I tried system virus scan, nothing! What should I do?? :( :'(
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Have you tried forcing it to close with ye olde Ctrl-Alt-Del?

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I love how many Americans call any major sporting event for "The Game", like they assume that anyone will know what particular sporting event they are talking about.

In most situations, we do. When I'm doing marching band in the fall (which I am finally done with, thank goodness), my parents and I automatically assume "game" means football (or rather, American football) and "contest" means marching band contest.
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Jan 3 2013, 08:57 PM
Guys!! Help! Look, on my task bar, this icon keeps flashing every after approximately 2 minutes! It appears for a fractions of a second and poof, disappears!!! This has been going on for past 3 days! Virus? Recognize it??? I tried system virus scan, nothing! What should I do?? :( :'(
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That's clearly looking like a camera and a scanner in front of a toothed wheel, so I guess it is related to hardware installation of Windows. Have a look at the system logs. Press windows-key + R and enter eventvwr. If the task is legit, you can probably find something about it there.
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I just checked the event viewer and havent found much info pointing to this thingy.. However, in task manager, I had a look at the processes and when this little thingy appears, I have "LiveUpd.exe" running for a sec. An update failing maybe.
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Jan 3 2013, 09:19 PM
Have you tried forcing it to close with ye olde Ctrl-Alt-Del?

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I love how many Americans call any major sporting event for "The Game", like they assume that anyone will know what particular sporting event they are talking about.

In most situations, we do. When I'm doing marching band in the fall (which I am finally done with, thank goodness), my parents and I automatically assume "game" means football (or rather, American football) and "contest" means marching band contest.
Well yea of course, when they talk to others who knows what they're talking about.
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Nazle
Jan 3 2013, 09:54 PM
I just checked the event viewer and havent found much info pointing to this thingy.. However, in task manager, I had a look at the processes and when this little thingy appears, I have "LiveUpd.exe" running for a sec. An update failing maybe.
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Well, then search for that file on your HDD and see what software it belongs to. Uninstalling that should get rid of it. If you fear it might be a virus you can also upload the file to virustotal.com to have it checked.
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Nazle
Jan 3 2013, 09:54 PM
I just checked the event viewer and havent found much info pointing to this thingy.. However, in task manager, I had a look at the processes and when this little thingy appears, I have "LiveUpd.exe" running for a sec. An update failing maybe.
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What is liveupd.exe
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Lol when people say "The Game", they're usually talking about the one that was just on. It's really common sesne here in the states. If there's 2 baseball games on at the same time, one with Texas, the other game with Colorado I'am not going to talk to somebody in Sweden about it. :D

When we say "The Game" it's usually with people like friends that know what they're talking about.
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My brother just built a new computer and gave me his old one as a combination birthday/graduation/Christmas present. This is the one with 15 GB of RAM (due to the 6 DIMM slots this is actually possible), a 2.66 GHz 1st gen i7-920, and an EVGA Super-Superclocked Plus NVidia GTX 460. Still a very respectable gaming machine by any standard, and the massive amounts of RAM make it useful for programming, 3D modeling, and other things. His new monster only has 8 GB of RAM, but the RAM is faster (and hardly any game uses 8 GB). He also stuffed a 3.4 GHz i5-3570K (which, for gaming, due to the underwhelming use of the i7's Hyperthreading capability, is literally like one or two frames slower than a 3.5 GHz i7-3770K on modern games) into it, along with an EVGA FTW Edition GTX 670 2 GB. He also installed Windows on a solid state drive, so it boots in almost no time at all.

In other words, in some applications his old computer might perform better (heavy duty computer rendering), but the new one chews through Far Cry 3 and Metro 2033 at max settings with no problems.
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I'm not sure if this is fake, but it looks pretty awesome.
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Jan 5 2013, 07:12 AM
I'm not sure if this is fake, but it looks pretty awesome.
The Wii U might just explode if that was real. :P
Nintendo promised an "HD console," so they did the same thing with the Wii U they did with the Wii: they took current-generation hardware, stuffed it inside a shiny box with a fancy gimmick (although, the Wii U's gamepad does seem more promising than the Wiimote), and proceeded to claim it as a "next-gen" console. If you look up specs on the Wii U, it barely squeaks past the 360 (sort of like the original Wii barely squeaked past the Xbox). The extra RAM is a bonus, but the reportedly low clock cycle (Nintendo has not officially released this, but reports believe it to be around 1.24 GHz) for a CPU built on a potentially outdated architecture is just dumb. And I have no faith in the GPU. Nintendo's surprising lack of detail regarding the specifications of the Wii U make me skeptical of its power.
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Jan 5 2013, 10:16 AM
Magnar
Jan 5 2013, 07:12 AM
I'm not sure if this is fake, but it looks pretty awesome.
The Wii U might just explode if that was real. :P
Nintendo promised an "HD console," so they did the same thing with the Wii U they did with the Wii: they took current-generation hardware, stuffed it inside a shiny box with a fancy gimmick (although, the Wii U's gamepad does seem more promising than the Wiimote), and proceeded to claim it as a "next-gen" console. If you look up specs on the Wii U, it barely squeaks past the 360 (sort of like the original Wii barely squeaked past the Xbox). The extra RAM is a bonus, but the reportedly low clock cycle (Nintendo has not officially released this, but reports believe it to be around 1.24 GHz) for a CPU built on a potentially outdated architecture is just dumb. And I have no faith in the GPU. Nintendo's surprising lack of detail regarding the specifications of the Wii U make me skeptical of its power.
We're not a bit overly critical now are we? Have you even tried the WiiU gamepad? I think it's an awesome concept.
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Jan 5 2013, 05:09 AM
My brother just built a new computer and gave me his old one as a combination birthday/graduation/Christmas present. This is the one with 15 GB of RAM (due to the 6 DIMM slots this is actually possible), a 2.66 GHz 1st gen i7-920, and an EVGA Super-Superclocked Plus NVidia GTX 460. Still a very respectable gaming machine by any standard, and the massive amounts of RAM make it useful for programming, 3D modeling, and other things. His new monster only has 8 GB of RAM, but the RAM is faster (and hardly any game uses 8 GB). He also stuffed a 3.4 GHz i5-3570K (which, for gaming, due to the underwhelming use of the i7's Hyperthreading capability, is literally like one or two frames slower than a 3.5 GHz i7-3770K on modern games) into it, along with an EVGA FTW Edition GTX 670 2 GB. He also installed Windows on a solid state drive, so it boots in almost no time at all.

In other words, in some applications his old computer might perform better (heavy duty computer rendering), but the new one chews through Far Cry 3 and Metro 2033 at max settings with no problems.
I can play any game on highest quality on my first gen i5. Unless he uses his PC for stuff like video rendering upgrading the CPU (and thus the whole computer) is just a waste of money.

Though, it is fun to build a new computer.
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The real reason he did it is because he had the money at the time and I'm going to be leaving home fairly soon. I plan on majoring in computer science (along with continuing gaming), so a cheap computer probably won't cut it.
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Not been on here for a while :O

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