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Ghoulish Delight · 04-05-2011, 02:42 PM

Epilogue to the computer video problem I was having: The new hdmi cable predictably did nothing. So I was going to install the other video adapter I had. But the huge heat sink it's got wouldn't fit in the new box, which is a slim-line case. Sigh. So I found a good price on another adapter that had a smaller heat sink and came with a bracket to fit in a slim case. Awesome. That showed up yesterday...and the bracket for the slim case mounts 180 degrees from the way I need it to mount to fit in this case

So I just installed it without the bracket. Not ideal, but it works. And the problem I was having is solved. Hooray.

Meanwhile...

Twitter is doing weird sh*t to me.

Every 4th or 5th time I load the home page, there's a bunch of random crap in the timeline from people I don't follow (most often it seems to be a bunch of Spanish-language soccer related stuff, but I've also seen random celeb account sh*t like snooki, KimKardashian, JustiBieber show up). They are not retweets from people I am following, they go away if I refresh the page, and I don't see them from my mobile app, just the home page from a web browser (both firefox and IE).

This is a screenshot, the last few tweets you can see on the bottom are supposed to be there, everything above that is crap, and went away after I refreshed the page.

Really annoying.

Alex · 04-05-2011, 04:08 PM

Felicia Day tweeted something similar earlier today about random stuff in her timeline. Haven't seen it myself but must be a Twitter bug.

Ghoulish Delight · 04-05-2011, 04:53 PM

Twitter was down for a while, now it's back and it doesn't seem to be happening anymore. I guess Felicia Day and I have some pull.

Bornieo: Fully Loaded · 04-10-2011, 02:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Moonliner

Windows 7? It sounds like some process running wild. Start task manager (ctrl-alt-del) click on "processes s" and then CPU. See if some task keeps coming and going.

So it's doing it again. Seems I have 93 process's going on. Any idea how to weed these?

Ghoulish Delight · 04-10-2011, 07:49 PM

Like Moonie said, click on the "CPU" column in task manager. It will give you a continual update of what process is using the most CPU at any moment. Watch it for a while and see if you can spot a particular process or two that regularly pops to the top of the list (other than the "System Idle Process" which goes to the top when nothing is using the processor).

BarTopDancer · 04-10-2011, 08:38 PM

I have this speaker system. The right rear speaker is broken (clip to hold the speaker wires in place snapped. I cannot find a replacement for the exact model. However, I found this speaker that looks identical.

Question is: will it work?

Kevy Baby · 04-10-2011, 08:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

Question is: will it work?

While I can't be 100% certain, I feel 99% certain that it will work. There is nothing spcial about either one that would be a barrier to success.

BarTopDancer · 04-10-2011, 08:51 PM

Thanks. That is what I was seeing as well. The system is old and nothing fancy either. I think the difference in the two models are in the receiver since all the speakers look the same.

Kevy Baby · 04-10-2011, 09:05 PM

Or you could just get a pair of these

Kevy Baby · 09-25-2012, 04:25 PM

Okay, I just got this second email and need to check.

Last week I received an email with the subject of "For Kevin" and the name that showed as the sender was my sister. The body of the email said "Hey Kevin" and included a link. Stupid me clicked the link and it was just a spam of course (I have run one virus scan and am running another right now to confirm). The email address from last week was a Yahoo address that I do not know.

I received a second email today with the same basic format (showing as coming from a friend, but with a Yahoo UK email address). Since this is now the second one, I am wondering if I am infected somehow that isn't showing up on scans. The reason I am wondering about this is that it is showing as coming from people I know.

DSLExtreme (the email account this is coming through) uses GMail as the email service, but I do not keep an address book online (and the names are being populated before it arrives in my inbox).

Any ideas out there?

04-05-2011, 02:42 PM	#81
Ghoulish Delight I Floop the Pig Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alternative Swankstyle Posts: 19,348	Epilogue to the computer video problem I was having: The new hdmi cable predictably did nothing. So I was going to install the other video adapter I had. But the huge heat sink it's got wouldn't fit in the new box, which is a slim-line case. Sigh. So I found a good price on another adapter that had a smaller heat sink and came with a bracket to fit in a slim case. Awesome. That showed up yesterday...and the bracket for the slim case mounts 180 degrees from the way I need it to mount to fit in this case So I just installed it without the bracket. Not ideal, but it works. And the problem I was having is solved. Hooray. Meanwhile... Twitter is doing weird sht to me. Every 4th or 5th time I load the home page, there's a bunch of random crap in the timeline from people I don't follow (most often it seems to be a bunch of Spanish-language soccer related stuff, but I've also seen random celeb account sht like snooki, KimKardashian, JustiBieber show up). They are not retweets from people I am following, they go away if I refresh the page, and I don't see them from my mobile app, just the home page from a web browser (both firefox and IE). This is a screenshot, the last few tweets you can see on the bottom are supposed to be there, everything above that is crap, and went away after I refreshed the page. Really annoying. __________________ 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.' -TJ
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04-05-2011, 04:08 PM	#82
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	Felicia Day tweeted something similar earlier today about random stuff in her timeline. Haven't seen it myself but must be a Twitter bug.
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04-05-2011, 04:53 PM	#83
Ghoulish Delight I Floop the Pig Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alternative Swankstyle Posts: 19,348	Twitter was down for a while, now it's back and it doesn't seem to be happening anymore. I guess Felicia Day and I have some pull. __________________ 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.' -TJ
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04-10-2011, 07:49 PM	#85
Ghoulish Delight I Floop the Pig Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alternative Swankstyle Posts: 19,348	Like Moonie said, click on the "CPU" column in task manager. It will give you a continual update of what process is using the most CPU at any moment. Watch it for a while and see if you can spot a particular process or two that regularly pops to the top of the list (other than the "System Idle Process" which goes to the top when nothing is using the processor). __________________ 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.' -TJ
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04-10-2011, 08:38 PM	#86
BarTopDancer Prepping... Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Here, there, everywhere Posts: 11,405	I have this speaker system. The right rear speaker is broken (clip to hold the speaker wires in place snapped. I cannot find a replacement for the exact model. However, I found this speaker that looks identical. Question is: will it work? __________________ Spork is the new MacGyver Postcards From My Edge
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04-10-2011, 08:51 PM	#88
BarTopDancer Prepping... Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Here, there, everywhere Posts: 11,405	Thanks. That is what I was seeing as well. The system is old and nothing fancy either. I think the difference in the two models are in the receiver since all the speakers look the same. __________________ Spork is the new MacGyver Postcards From My Edge
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04-10-2011, 09:05 PM	#89
Kevy Baby Chowder Head Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Yes Posts: 18,500	Or you could just get a pair of these __________________ The thing about quotes on the internet is that you cannot verify their validity. - Abraham Lincoln
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09-25-2012, 04:25 PM	#90
Kevy Baby Chowder Head Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Yes Posts: 18,500	Okay, I just got this second email and need to check. Last week I received an email with the subject of "For Kevin" and the name that showed as the sender was my sister. The body of the email said "Hey Kevin" and included a link. Stupid me clicked the link and it was just a spam of course (I have run one virus scan and am running another right now to confirm). The email address from last week was a Yahoo address that I do not know. I received a second email today with the same basic format (showing as coming from a friend, but with a Yahoo UK email address). Since this is now the second one, I am wondering if I am infected somehow that isn't showing up on scans. The reason I am wondering about this is that it is showing as coming from people I know. DSLExtreme (the email account this is coming through) uses GMail as the email service, but I do not keep an address book online (and the names are being populated before it arrives in my inbox). Any ideas out there? __________________ The thing about quotes on the internet is that you cannot verify their validity. - Abraham Lincoln
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