Possible Status bug?

1 year 3 months ago

"Sure, I was a senior member before the switch. I'd like to have the old status back please. Thanks for your help."
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Possible Status bug?

1 year 3 months ago

"Am I allowed to put in a request to have it changed back? Or is only Bantam able to do that? I sent him a private message about this (changing of the status, not about the submission queue) not too long ago, but I guess he's too busy at the moment."
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Possible Status bug?

1 year 3 months ago

"About 5 hours ago, I uploaded a wallpaper. Everything was normal, and the "your image has been accepted" little notification guy at top came out as well. Everything was all cool. Then, my DSL connection went out. In my confusion, (yes, I was confused indeed), I saw that I still had the same amount of wallpapers, that no new wallpaper had appeared on the front page, etc etc. I waited 10 minutes, and still no change. So naturally, I thought that due to my internet connection breakage, that I hadn't actually submitted anything. Thus I uploaded another copy of my wallpaper. I thought to myself, "meh", and walked away. Had dinner, watched TV, etc.

So here's the thing.

About 20 minutes ago, I got an AP bot message saying "blah blah...double upload", which, yes, I did upload the wallpaper twice. But the problem is, why did my wallpaper end up in the moderation queue in the first place? I've been a senior member for a good amount of time now, so this shouldn't happen, right? I'm guessing the reason might be related to this:

About a week ago, I donated a small amount of money to AP, thus the status "Donating Member". Maybe the system recognizes me as a regular donating member now?

Hypothetically, I could test my theory by uploading a pile of stuff, but I'd rather not do that...

Thanks."
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Server Move

1 year 4 months ago

"How much more is the server upgraded gonna cost per month?"
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what do you think about bleach?

1 year 4 months ago

"

GG"
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What are they waiting...

1 year 10 months ago

"Well, as an anime series, I think it blows lol. But for some reason, I must say that I am nevertheless a fan of the Shana series...not because that it's a good anime, but rather, there's entertainment value and "fan appreciation" in it..."
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[Anime Discussion] Romeo x Juliet

1 year 10 months ago

"Well, it's a pretty decent studio gonzo productions, so in terms of quality, it's top notch. But it fails as a love story I think...it just didn't have the punch I was expecting. It would, however, be better off named 'Final Fantasy' or something like that...because it seemed more like FF than Romeo and Juliet."
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Smoking question

1 year 11 months ago

"Actually, I was watching the Darker than Black anime (around episode...5, I think?)

But near the beginning, the character November mentions that a cigarette, when inhaled directly contains, i think, 5-65 [insert appropriate unit of measurement here...] of nitrosamines, but when exhaled afterwards, contains about 600 [units of above chemical]. I was just curious to the more technical circumstances to this.

I've been trying to look this up on google and wikipedia, but can somebody shed some more light on why exhaled smoke contains more of this chemical?"
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Girls with short hair

2 years 1 week ago

"Yeah, for all practical purposes short > long hair by a long shot, but I was always a pretty wicked fanatic for girls with long hair ;)"
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Sauce on image

2 years 1 month ago

"Whoa i only looked at this thread because of the 4chan reference, but the picture looks like it could be anything, eh? like all of the other random stuff that 4chan has >_<"
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My lunch

2 years 1 month ago

"Haha this is cute. i want a lunch like that >_<"
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I gayed myself....

2 years 4 months ago

"Live linux....i asked a friend and he said something about knoppix. can anyone tell me more about that?"
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I gayed myself....

2 years 4 months ago

"Okay, I was in a state of delusion one day, but here's what I did...

On my laptop (which was working fine), I right clicked the C drive icon, hit properties, hit the 'compress disk' option. About a minute or two into the compression, I hit cancel. Everything was fine. Then I restarted my laptop...

Now, after the initial Dell screen (I have an Inspiron 6000), I get a message saying:

error message

BOOTMGR is compressed.

Press ctrl+alt+del to reboot

I've tried reinstalling windows (I have a vista DVD), but because I still need the files on my computer, I didn't completely format my hard drive. Basically, reinstalling the new windows over the old one didn't fix the compressed bootmgr problem.

Now, what I want to know: if I can't boot up my computer, is there any way that I can retrieve my files? Because if I can do that, I can just format my hard drive and reinstall windows from scratch.

So if anyone has any idea how I can get the data off my hard drive, I greatly appreciate any suggestions.

Thank you so much."
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Cheating In Your Exams

2 years 7 months ago

"Okay, first thing: I believe cheating is ethically and morally wrong.

However, that's not the reason why I don't cheat. I mean, if you're caught, you're toast. In high school, that's just getting a 0, but in college, it's immediate expulsion..."
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My room...

2 years 7 months ago

"Dang. you're pretty loaded :)

now if it were me, there'd have to be a .50-in machine gun in there somewhere..."
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exams, exams....haaaaaa......

2 years 7 months ago

"Lol ap exams. i have a couple of those, though they usually turn out to be a LOT easier than my ap classes were.

except for physics and bc calc. there's just way too much crap to know in physics, and calc...well, calc just completely broke and utterly crushed my spirit..."
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Prom night

2 years 7 months ago

"It's not that i dislike having a good time, but i'm not going to prom. i would if there was a girl that a really liked, but there isn't

there's nothing wrong with just going with some friends, but...nah, that's less meaningful...i can hang out with my friends anytime..."
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An interesting discovery (Planet)

2 years 7 months ago

"

puppychow16

Humans should not inhabit another planet... Do we really want to destroy another one that bad?

going along with that idea...

i remember in the movie 'the matrix', agent smith said something like, /humans are different from other species...other creatures breed, use resources, and replenish the resources...humans drain one area completely, then move on to the next...like a virus/

kinda turns out that way quite often, no?"
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AVI codec missing?!!?

2 years 7 months ago

"Thanks! The video plays perfectly fine in windows media player now.

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AVI codec missing?!!?

2 years 7 months ago

"I'm using the newest vlc on windows xp.

My problem is, I shot a couple of AVIs on a digital camcorder, and I transferred them to my computer. However, when I opened the AVI files with either vlc or windows media player, only the sound would stream, and not the video. media player said that codecs were missing, and it proceeded "to acquire codecs", and then it said "codecs acquired". However, there was still no video streaming.

I tried downloading an avi codec pack...didn't work. How many different avi codec packs are there, anywyas?

Also, I was previously able to play other AVI files without a hitch; for some reason, it was only the AVI files that I shot with my camcorder that doesn't work. Note this: I tried playing the camcorder videos on a friends computer, and it worked perfectly fine (he's even more computer illiterate than me, so I couldn't get any help from him).

I'm really confounded by this...some of my avi files work, and some don't? Even though by playing them on my friend's computer, I've confirmed that the file itself is not damaged?

Here is a sample video: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AL0VV04F


Thanks in advance for any help."
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[bug] the subscribe to topic option

2 years 7 months ago

"Now, I know that when you hit the "subscribe to topic" link, it will send you an email everytime there's a reply to the topic. there's no problem there, i receive the email perfectly fine.

here's a copy-and-paste of the email:

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Should probably only be one slash? Small issue and doesn't really impact anything, but a issue fixed is an issue fixed...

I've received several emails that were "subscribe to topic" emails, and they all turned out like that.

Thanks."
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Anti....virus?

2 years 7 months ago

"About the comment from hatesyou a ittle bit up...

i tried that, and it seemed to "fix something", but then it asked me to insert "windows xp disc 2". as far as I know, windows xp only has one disc...."
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Anti....virus?

2 years 7 months ago

"Okay. You edited after I had hit "submit" on my post, so I didn't see it the first time."
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Anti....virus?

2 years 7 months ago

"Alright, I'll try a system restore.
By the way, what is user32.dll supposed to do? My computer itself isn't acting funny at all, though. The only thing abnormal is the occasional startup problem I described earlier. Often, restarting will fix the issue right away (until some time in the future, when it pops up again). I'll probably backup my data...just don't want my computer to suddenly crash beyond repair :(

I've also updated the screenshot in my previous post :)"
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Anti....virus?

2 years 7 months ago

"Aight, exactly. I do in fact want to know why AVG tagged this file as "change". It's also why I'm asking here. AVG doesn't say 'change what'...it just says 'change'. I was hoping if you knew what could possibly happen to user32.dll that might cause something like this...i.e. could another virus have "corrupted" this dll somehow?

Edited for clearer explanation =D
[view screenshot]

Also, since I'm using a laptop, I haven't made any hardware changes, and no driver changes. The only thing that comes to mind is I downloaded an update file for my router via the 192.168...blah blah router config screen (Netgear). However, I downloaded this a good deal before the sporadic bluescreens started showing up.

So you're saying that it's usually not likely for the user32.dll to cause bluescreens? If so, should user32.dll have an error (and I really don't have the money to buy another virus scanner currently...), what should I do with it?

Again, I greatly appreciate your help."
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