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After months of work, chanelqueen17 has created a gorgeous scene of Alice and Oz from Pandora Hearts, using scans that didn't even feature both characters together. Even after spending so much time on matching the details of the characters to their new looks, chanelqueen17 didn't stop there and went all out on the background too! This wallpaper definitely needs to be seen!
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~honokatsukiyomi
16 seconds ago
Good for you:)
~Loleta
1 minute ago
*Sighs* I feel a little bit better after eating breakfast really fast.
~honokatsukiyomi
2 minutes ago
Desu
`akiranyo
3 minutes ago
Hi fluffy hair boy :P
*moutonzare
5 minutes ago
Hi akiranyo ^^
~honokatsukiyomi
6 minutes ago
Cant speak i mean
~sawada-dono
6 minutes ago
Thaaaaanx
`akiranyo
7 minutes ago
Finally home, yeah.
~honokatsukiyomi
12 minutes ago
<---*coughing**sore throat**can speak* nah~mute lol
~Loleta
23 minutes ago
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www.lookanddiscover.com
10 months 3 weeks ago
"OK, I give up. Inner mechanics of hard drives is not important for this thread and no matter ho much I dislike it format is a solution for this problem. "View
www.lookanddiscover.com
10 months 3 weeks ago
"Just few hours ago you called me "boy", now you're calling me "god". I must say, that's an interesting development :-)
I think I need your definition of "use".
How often do you change electrical wires in your home? I would also like to know what happens to them when you use them, do they sublimate or do the change into to same nonconductig material?
How do you know that it's not just winsched.exe?
winsched.exe can do this.
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www.lookanddiscover.com
10 months 3 weeks ago
"I just realized that I wrote some things that may have multiple meanings and I was not aware of it at the time of writing, so if I by any chance have offended someone I would like to apologize because it was not my intention.By changing the orientation of spins of electrons. See Electron magnetic dipole moment.
I'm sorry but this is quantum mechanics and you cant apply classical mechanics here.
Yes, but I'm quite sure that speech is not the cause. Same as writing is not cause of disk failures.
I'm sorry I was little off-topic here, I absolutely agree with you that once you touch it it's gone forever, I just wanted to point out that format is not the ultimate tool for this task.
1) It's quite possible that there never was any pest. Just think about it. The best way how to avoid detection by anti-virus is not to behave like a virus, just place one file into startup folder and hope that nobody will notice.
2) when we are unable to see the pest isn't it good idea to cure the symptoms see what happens and then decide if it's necessary to destroy everything?
Don't give up so easily, those windows utilities are generally very user friendly.
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www.lookanddiscover.com
10 months 3 weeks ago
"Mechanical parts wear with use. Whats so mechanical about changing polarity? It's true that you HDD is spinning when writing and that spinning is damaging it but it's also spinning when reading or when doing nothing.
Do you talk a lot? because when you needlessly talk you are using your brain and in the end you will die, I know that it's not fair but it's true, the number of words we can say is limited same as number of bits that can be written to your disk. :-(
Paranoia can help sometimes, but in my opinion wisdom is much better. It's important to think before you open that strange hyperlink you've got in that email.
Actually there is. If your virus is in the boot record than format won't help you."
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www.lookanddiscover.com
10 months 3 weeks ago
"So tho correct procedure is to first destroy the virus with some sophisticated tool and than remove winsched.exe by pressing key with label "Del".
But we are unable to find the virus which may mean that the beast is hiding really well or it's just not the anymore and I thing the best way how to determine which of those two options is true is to delete winsched.exe and see if it reappears again.
I'm not sure if shred can actually harm your HDD, it can do a lot of damage to flash memory but normal HDD won't die from lot of writing (I use the same swap partition for more than two years now and it's still fine). But the truth is that simple dd is more than you'll ever need unless your enemy is NSA or Mossad (see "The Great Zero Challenge" for more information)."
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www.lookanddiscover.com
10 months 4 weeks ago
"You are right as always, but I would guess that this trojan can be taken care of by any anti-virus and it may even have been already removed. But winsched.exe will most likely not be recognized s a virus, because it doesn't behave like a virus. Sure, it may not work but you will have to remove it anyway then why not to do it now?"View
www.lookanddiscover.com
10 months 4 weeks ago
"I must say that your solution looks very complicated but unfortunately t will not help :-( . But "The Big Wheel" told me that only working solution for this problem is to delete all files named "winsched.exe" from your system and especially from folder "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup""View
www.lookanddiscover.com
10 months 4 weeks ago
"I've just visited www.lookanddiscover.com and it looks like spammer, nothing dangerous here (except possibly that flash logo which I can't see becase I have no flash), if it is really a virus, you probably got it from some spam, but it's possible that it's isolated in your browser and rest of your system is safe. I suggest to reinstall your browser, delete your default profile, or try to create new windows user, but if your current user account has administrator rights than you should really listen to ^hatesyou because she has lot of experience with this ;-)"View
Linux / BSD / GNU topic
1 year 3 months ago
"Yes, but have you ever tried LaTeX under windows? It's also problem to find good window manager or shell (I hate explorer) and worst of all is their package-manager.
You already have two of them, you don't need another one. ;-)
You set root password during installation and if you don't remember it you can change it prim single user mode.
In FreeBSD there is second "root account" named "toor", it has no password so you must set one if you want to use it. It's recommended to do so, because in FreeBSD the default shell is csh (/bin/csh) but most people prefer bash which is in '/usr/bin/bash' that means it's on different slice than '/', so if you set bash as roots shell and something goes wrong, you are kaput. But if you set bash as toors shell and something goes wrong, you still have root with csh."
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Linux / BSD / GNU topic
1 year 3 months ago
"Thank you very much. This is the piece of software I always wanted but I was to lazy to write it myself ^_^. Finally I can install anything I want without burning CD.
Enable legacy USB keyboard/mouse support in your BIOS."
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Linux / BSD / GNU topic
1 year 4 months ago
"Same for me, but problem is that most BFU don't know how to boot from CD-ROM and they also have this strange believe that all software must be installed by running some .exe file.
They probably don't know it's possible to delete them. :-)
But it would be hard to find some user for it. I mean, .exe installer for Ubuntu is great idea, because Ubuntu is linux for users, but when you have somebody who is afraid to use fdisk it's not good idea to give him Gentoo or Debian."
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Linux / BSD / GNU topic
1 year 4 months ago
"Root file-system IS ext3, only difference from normal Ubuntu installation is that / is mounted over loopback and it uses GRUB 2. The real disadvantage is that you cant delete windows partition once you install it.
That's what I always wanted, the only thing I need now is .exe installer for Gentoo :->"
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Linux / BSD / GNU topic
1 year 5 months ago
"I would say that you need to reconfgure your BIOS and set it to not to search for hard drive and boot from CD-ROM."
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Notebook Ram
1 year 7 months ago
"I think that best is to buy two 1GB modules :-) , it's sort of "final" upgrade so you won't need to by more RAM next year. ;-)
No, brand is not so important but make sure that the new RAM has same frequency and latency as the old one.
Kingston or Corsair, but if you don't want to over clock it, then almost anything is OK.
Yes, by 0.1 % . :-> But the truth is, it's certainly not slower, so if the price is similar it's better to buy two modules rather than one.
Who knows? It may work OK, but it may also do something very "funny", like restart you PC every five minutes. It's better not to combine two different modules even if they have same parameters because even different number of memory chips can cause a big troble.
It feels like waste of space to leave it in, because you can have another 1GB module there."
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Laptop Battery Life
1 year 8 months ago
"That is correct.
That is half correct. It can deliver it all but not as fast as you would like to. So if you play Doom it can give you, lets say 20% because you're draining power too fast, but if you are taking it slowly enaugh, like when you do
echo "mem" > /sys/power/state:-) , it can still give you 90%."View
Laptop Battery Life
1 year 8 months ago
"OK, my mistake.
But I guess this is just software problem, right?
Lithium batteries don't loose capacity, they're aging. Its true that they're aging faster when kept in hot places but I guess this should not be problem unless you have poorly constructed laptop with battery placed near the CPU."
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Laptop Battery Life
1 year 8 months ago
"It's called suspend2ram in Linux, I don't know how they call it in windows but it's that state when only you RAM id powered and rest of your laptop is turned off.
Lithium batteries don't have memory effect, so this will most likely not help. :-(
Only if you have some kind of strange or stupid laptop, I think that it's not recommended to recharge your battery when it's 95% charged but almost all laptops can prevent this and there are also laptops with not-removable battery so I think this is just a myth (please correct me if I'm wrong) "
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Laptop Battery Life
1 year 8 months ago
"It is absolutely normal for battery to dye after two years and it doesn't matter if you were using it or not. And its probably not completely dead, it's just incapable of providing enough power to run your notebook and it still might be possible to use your battery when your laptop is in state of hibernation."View
Router Connection Problems
1 year 8 months ago
"Did you tried different wi-fi channel? It's possible that someone near you is using the same channel as you."View
Don't you use Microsoft?
1 year 9 months ago
"I guess it's time to join this discussion, so here is my list:systems I don't use:
Windows
I don't think this is operating system any more.
MacOS
It's too much user friendly for me :-)
systems I use:
FreeBSD
This is my favorite OS, I like it because I think it's beautiful, well I can't really tell why but I just like it :-) unfortunately id don't have drivers for all of my hardware so I use Linux more often.
GNU/Linux
This is my main OS, it's not as beautiful as FreeBSD but it has more drivers than any other OS here. My favorite distributions are Gentoo an *Ubuntu but neither is perfect for me.
Solaris
I don't have root account on any solaris system and that solaris server I use is either poorly configured or just naturally slow. So I don't like this one too much.
systems I play with:
Minix3
I heard this one can run well on old hardware, so I installed it on my Pentium 100Mhz , it can boot under 5 second (from bootloader to prompt)
MenuetOS
this one it written in assembly language only, how else would you fit OS with GUI, Email/ftp/http/chess clients and ftp/mp3/http servers to single floppy
ReactOS
There is still hope for win32 platform :-)
Plan9
best OS if you want to write scientific article :-)
haiku
Who said that BeOS is dead?"
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DVD-RW Jammed
1 year 9 months ago
"It might help to turn off "autorun" on your DVD-drive and format that disc but better solution would be to buy new disc."View
Opera lawsuit against Microsoft Internet Explorer
1 year 11 months ago
"Good news, FSFE (Free Software Foundation Europe) is going to support Opera, here is some more info: http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/general/15571/fsfe-supports-new-antitrust-investigation-against-microsoftWho would imagine that Opera and FSF can be on the same side ^_^"
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Opera lawsuit against Microsoft Internet Explorer
1 year 11 months ago
"Actually I think that CD-writer manufactures are paying to have nero bundled with their product, because CD-writer without proper software is just as useless as a modem without browser. And you know that nero is not for free.
Do you have any data which support this theory or is it just a speculation, I think it's still to early to say this.
Sorry, it seems that you are using different distros than I do, because when I last checked there was no Opera in Gentoo, Ubuntu, Debian or Arch install CD (you can install it later but I don't think it's there by default)
It seem that you don't know too much about Linux. ^_^
Or may be you just didn't read that license, if you have opera installed on Linux it should this file: "/opt/opera/share/doc/opera/LICENSE" unless you have it installed somewhere else.
People don't want education, they want a browser and they want it NOW.
Does it mean that opera must sue creators of Lynx because it's bundled with Gentoo install CD and it doesn't pass acid2 test?
Calm down, I'm not talking about you I'm talking about opera and they clearly said something about web standards.
But it's still illegal to remove it"
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Yahoo and Google toolbar want to take over...
1 year 11 months ago
"Google can't translate from/to my language and for Japanese it's better to use more translator and then compare their results. ^_^
And for most of them it's just a meaningless number which have nothing to do with search engine optimization.
If you already have Firefox you can just replace Google tool-bar with other plugins, because there is plugin for everything wat google toolbar can do."
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Opera lawsuit against Microsoft Internet Explorer
1 year 11 months ago
"When I buy a new mother-board there is always CD with drivers and manuals and Adobe Acrobat. When I buy a new monitor there is always CD with drivers and manuals and Adobe Acrobat. When I buy a new CD-writer there is always CD with drivers, manuals. Nero Express and Adobe Acrobat (even OEM versions have those CDs). There is a CD for every piece of hardware in my PC. I think it should not be impossible to add some web browsers to some of them (at least to that CD I got with my network card)
Yes it's true that Opera need to let people know that that there is browser named opera but every advertisement is quite inefficient as log as there is IE in windows and by the way, to sue microsoft is not such a bad advertisement, if find on the front page of their newspapers that some company sued microsoft, some of them might want to try their product and this is the kind of event that can make it to the front page because everything that has something to do with microsoft or Bill Gates will sooner or later make it to the front page of some tabloid.
It seem that you don't know too much about Linux.
Opera is NOT included in majority of Linux distributions because it IS NOT open source
1) Safari is minor browser so it's not so interesting
2) Safari is first browser who passed acid2 so it would be hard to sue them and then say "we are doing this for community"
3) Safari isn't integrated in the kernel of OS X
Actually .odt can only replace .docx ^_~, but the main problem with ODF is that it lacks some abilities which Microsoft desperately needs, for example backward compatibility with "Microsoft Office 97" file format.
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