Computer Questions Not Worth Their Own Thread II

Any alternatives to getting a new HD? Is uninstalling unimportant windows updates an option?

New HD's may be in-expensive, but it doesn't take away the fact that I'm flat flat FLAAAAAT broke. :p
 
Replacing a laptop HD should be very easy. RAM/HD/Battery are usually the three panels on the bottom of a laptop you can open up. Its as simple as plug an play essentially.

What is your current laptops HD size? Is there nothing you could consider storing on the External, so you could at least move your gaming into the internal?
 
Replacing a laptop HD should be very easy. RAM/HD/Battery are usually the three panels on the bottom of a laptop you can open up. Its as simple as plug an play essentially.

What is your current laptops HD size? Is there nothing you could consider storing on the External, so you could at least move your gaming into the internal?
137 gigs, w/ 18-20 gb free for the internal. 465 gb, w/ 218 gb free for the external.

What type of I/O interface are you using to connect your external HDD to your laptop's mobo?
USB y cable. Both the main cable and the power source one are plugged into the computer.
 
I'm looking for back up utility. I want to back up a specific folder (like the documents folder) and have the back up encrypted and stored on another folder (dropbox). I know this questions was asked earlier in this thread but I just can't find it.
 
Okay, so my HDD that I had recovered from my dead laptop and now use as an external, has all of a sudden, started to randomly reset its connection to my working laptop, triggering the autoplay dialogs to pop up; and since I have no choice but to play my games from it due to involuntary lack of space on the internal, the games, naturally, are crashing, and since it's happening literally every 10 minutes or so, it's nearly impossible to play them.

Any ideas?

What laptop are you using?

If the internal drive is a sata, then you will need another sata. If it is an older ide, then you may be out of luck.

Newegg has 500 GB or 320 GB (which may be too small) For around 50 USD. To swap drives you can download cloning software which is designed to make a bootable exact copy of your current drive. You can then swap drives.

Does the external from the other computer still have the OS on it? Have you considered that it was the drive going bad instead of something else that was a problem? Which computer is the newest?
 
What laptop are you using?

If the internal drive is a sata, then you will need another sata. If it is an older ide, then you may be out of luck.

Newegg has 500 GB or 320 GB (which may be too small) For around 50 USD. To swap drives you can download cloning software which is designed to make a bootable exact copy of your current drive. You can then swap drives.

Does the external from the other computer still have the OS on it? Have you considered that it was the drive going bad instead of something else that was a problem? Which computer is the newest?
The external still has the OS on it, yes. The other laptop was the newer one, an HP HDX model built in 2009. This one I'm using now is an HP Pavillion model built in 2008. The HDX, the one that died, went because the motherboard overheated during a game of Sims 3, because I forgot to turn on the cooling stand after I got back from out of town. :(

The internal HD is this, according to dxdiag:
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Disk & DVD/CD-ROM Drives
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Drive: C:
Free Space: 23.7 GB
Total Space: 140.7 GB
File System: NTFS
Model: ST9160821AS ATA Device

An additional question: If I tell Windows to "safely remove" (the "Eject" option doesn't appear on the drop-down menu) the drive (or any other drive, such as a flash drive), and it persistently tells me it refuses to do so because it is being used or such crap, even though I closed all applications that actually were using it, and it still resisted unplugging. How do I figure out what's making it refuse to eject?
 
How to "call" a specific function to do its action inside its class? How about, how to call a function outside its own class? Java-language noob here :)!
 
How to "call" a specific function to do its action inside its class? How about, how to call a function outside its own class? Java-language noob here :)!

I am not 100% sure what you are asking, but I will give it a go. If outside an objects class you would call its function with:

objectName.functionName();

within the class you would call:

this.functionName();

or just

functionName();

I think those 2 are synonymous, but off the top of my head I cannot be sure.
 
How to "call" a specific function to do its action inside its class? How about, how to call a function outside its own class? Java-language noob here :)!

If it's outside it's class, my guess is you're missing an import statement. For example, suppose I want to use the Civ3Scenario class I created from inside my Civ3ScenarioEditor class. It might look like this:

Code:
package quintillus.civ3editor;

import quintillus.civ3editor.Civ3Scenario;

public class Civ3ScenarioEditor
{
    public static void main(String[]args)
    {
        File file = new File("C:\Civilization III\Conquests\Conquests\02 Rise of Rome.biq");
        //the below two lines will not work without the import line above
        Civ3Scenario scenario = new Civ3Scenario(file);
        scenario.import();
        //to call a function within the same class, the import statement is not required
        doSomethingAwesome();
    }

    private static void doSomethingAwesome();
    {
        System.out.println("Awesome stuff!");
    }
}

Where Civ3Scenario could look something like this:

Code:
package quintillus.civ3editor;

public class Civ3Scenario
{
    private File file;

    public Civ3Scenario(File file)
    {
        this.file = file;
    }

    public void import()
    {
        //do whatever's necessary to import the file
    }
}

Made-up code, but should be conceptually correct. I think you probably need an additional import java.io.File to get it to compile. In the editor I use, I can have it automatically import other files as needed, only asking me when there is ambiguity, so a lot of that is streamlined.
 
If I'd like to use my TV as a monitor, is HDMI the way to go or could it be done wireless?
 
Quality would most times be better with HDMI as HD is quite bandwidth intensive and HDMI has lower latency but if you just browsing the web it shouldn't matter, watching movies is a bit iffy, playing games *can* be a pain if you don't have a capable router.

If it comes to text you would really do better with a monitor, TVs aren't "tweaked" for text so the quality will be poor in contrast to a dedicate monitor.
 
I am not 100% sure what you are asking, but I will give it a go. If outside an objects class you would call its function with:

objectName.functionName();

within the class you would call:

this.functionName();

or just

functionName();

I think those 2 are synonymous, but off the top of my head I cannot be sure.
OK, thanks a lot guys :)! I have another question too. So.. How to "format" a String- variable? Example: "int i ... i = 0". Is it like: "String a ... a = hello cfc!"...or what? And oh, its Java what I'm talking about again :)!
 
OK, thanks a lot guys :)! I have another question too. So.. How to "format" a String- variable? Example: "int i ... i = 0". Is it like: "String a ... a = hello cfc!"...or what? And oh, its Java what I'm talking about again :)!

Again I am not sure what you are after. Do you want to create a String (which is an object) with the content "hello cfc!"? Then you just:

String a = "hello cfc!"

Do you want to create a string variable with content from the logic in the program? There are many ways, one way may look like:

Code:
        boolean coming = true;
        String name = "cfc";
        int howSupprisedAmI = 2;
        StringBuilder formatedStringBuilder = new StringBuilder();
        if(coming) {
            formatedStringBuilder.append("hello ");
        } else {
            formatedStringBuilder.append("goodbye ");
        }
        formatedStringBuilder.append(name);
        switch(howSupprisedAmI) {
            case 1:
                formatedStringBuilder.append(".");
                break;
            case 2:
                formatedStringBuilder.append("!");
                break;
            case 3:
                formatedStringBuilder.append("!!!!!????!!!!");
                break;
            default:
                formatedStringBuilder.append("?");
                break;
        }
        String formatedString = formatedStringBuilder.toString();
 
Yes! Thanks Samson! You guys here are so insanely fast! It is really worth it to ask something in this thread :D!! And the reason why you may find my questions weird is probably that my english sklls still need some practice, especially when it comes to programming words. They don't teach that stuff in school... Back to business. I just got confused about should I use ""- marks (like in System.out.println stuff), or not (like in int = 1). Thanks :)!
 
Yes! Thanks Samson! You guys here are so insanely fast! It is really worth it to ask something in this thread :D!! And the reason why you may find my questions weird is probably that my english sklls still need some practice, especially when it comes to programming words. They don't teach that stuff in school... Back to business. I just got confused about should I use ""- marks (like in System.out.println stuff), or not (like in int = 1). Thanks :)!

I have to admit that I THINK the "" marks are a little unclear. What they really mean is "Take the characters between them, create a String object, and set the string object to hold these characters. The line:

String a = "hello cfc!";

is synonymous with:

String a = new String("hello cfc!");

Which may make it a little clearer what is going on. Note that you cannot write:

int a = new int(1);

Because int is a primative type, and in many ways behaves differently to the other 7 primative types, byte, short, int, long, float, double, char, boolean. String is an object, and behaves like everything else in java. That is one of the gotcha's of java.
 
What are you using it from?

It could be done wireless, but if you're hooking it up to a stationary PC, figure out a way to run the cable.
Stationary PC. I was considering trying the Steam Big Picture feature. I've got a good router connected to all, via fibre to the pc, the rest wireless. TV in another room.... :confused:
That Steambox Valve is developing seems like an excellent idea imo...
 
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