Who turns there computers off, and why?

[krishon]

lol, tony has a good point there

[Blade]

there are people who use liquid nitrogen to cool their computers....

[AsianSensation]

really? isn't liquid nitrogen expensive? and how hot do they expect their computer to be?

I'd understand if it was a mainframe computer or whatnot, but a PC?

[Corybu]

Back to the main question... lol.

I turn my comp on standby, just so its not draining off excess current, and so that I dont have to go through startup whenever I want to use it.

(Has anyone here noticed that after a few months, an xp computer can take anywhere from 30 seconds to 10 mins to boot up? Why is this? And how the hell do I fix it?)

Sometimes Ill completly shut it down, just to hopfully increase performance a bit.

I leave it on siometimes too like if im on Kazaa. (To raise user rating, or to download movies and whatnot)

Its usually on standby though.

And my girlfriends power supply got fried in a storm. She thought it was the whole comp, and didnt know untill she got the PS fixed. Shes on a surge protector and everything...

And did you guys know that a surge protecter gets less effiecnt every time it takes a surge?

[Tony]

Corybu wrote:

if im on Kazaa. (To raise user rating

you do know there's kazaa lite, dont you?

its kazaa - spyware + functionality + lvl 1000 user rating

[Corybu]

Is it always 1000 user rating?

Mine is 1000 anyways, lol.

And the spyware is already on my comp, so im not too worried.

I have Gain though... Grrrr @ Gator... it came with my DivX player...

Anyone know a good non-spyware one thats also free?

I dont want gator on my comp. Stupid popups...

[Blade]

if i were you.....
1. get rid of kazaa
2. get adaware/spybot and use it to get rid of all the spyware
3. get kazaa lite

because you do know that when you uninstall most software it doesnt get rid of the spyware that comes with it

[Mazer]

Corybu wrote:

I have Gain though... Grrrr @ Gator... it came with my DivX player...

Anyone know a good non-spyware one thats also free?

dude, do a google search on xvid. it's from the makers of divx and it's better and free.

[Corybu]

Mazer wrote:

dude, do a google search on xvid. it's from the makers of divx and it's better and free.

Thank you

Ill do it right now.

And ill get kazaa lite.

Thanks everyone.

[Corybu]

ok...

I am not even going to pretend to know what to do with this XviD thing...

Its source code apparently... What the hell do I do? lol.

[Mazer]

yeah... uh.. not sure. i remember having a hell of a time trying to find it in the first place. try a search for xvid codecs or xvid codec download and see what you can find.

[Blade]

umm... absoutly EVERYTHING you need for making movies, encoding movies, playing movies can be found at one simple site....

http://divx-digest.com

all the divx, xvid, and other codecs you've never heard of can be found here...

[Homer_simpson]

i turned off my computer at nights for the past too weaks cuz i had no internet=no webserver=no downloads!
stupid rogers!!!!

[Blade]

= no spam

[Corybu]

What is up with Rogers?

Homer, are you getting a "Ip conflict error", by any chance?

My Gf and her mom are on Rogers, and theyve been having troubles connecting for the last week or so. Whats up with that?

They can load a webpage, but it takes about 20 mins, they can connect to The Dark Age Of Camelot games though... I think it may be something port related.... Do games connect on port 80 (Thats the HTTP port, I believe)?

Somethings odd at rogers, and they wont provide tech support for anyone using a linksys router (which my gf and her mom are on).

Let me know if you get yours fixed, and how, and if you get that error.