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Computer Questions Not Worth Their Own Thread II
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aimeeandbeatles
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Why do spammers seem to think repeatedly hitting me with the same spam multiple times is going to make me buy Viagra from them? Or are the spammers just stupid?
Because it only takes a handful of people to actually buy their product in order for them to turn a profit. They can afford to send out millions, if not billions, of emails and get, say, a dozen orders, and still make money.
Lord Emsworth
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It is not about you, personally. It is about somebody - anybody - who bites.
aimeeandbeatles
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Yeah but why bother sending the same one to a person multiple times?
Forgive me, I thought you understood that it was an automated process sending out the emails from a mailer, not some guy sitting at a keyboard typing them out.
What would be the easiest (and possibly cheapest) legal way to install Civ 4 on a laptop with no CD/DVD-drive? Desktop with it is available.
Steam? D2D? Check those out.
For the sake of this discussion we'll assume that he's referring to the CD drive on the desktop, with Civ4 on disc. Since he doesn't have a disc drive on the laptop, he'd either need to find an external drive, or go to some place like D2D or Steam and buy it for download there.
Aren't there other options that don't involve re-purchasing? What about installing to the desktop and copying the installed folder to the laptop? Time-consuming, but it might work. Or, copying the contents of the CD to a folder on the desktop, copying that folder to the laptop via USB, and then executing the installation program on the laptop?
ParadigmShifter
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Can you share a DVD drive over the network? That would be the easiest way if you can.
Sorry for being obscure, I got civ4 discs and a DVD drive in a desktop. I don't want to buy same game twice.
Is it possible? If it were, then pirating wouldn't be very hard.
I'm gonna google a while how to share a drive in a network and come back after ntoicing that I don't understand it.
Is it possible? If it were, then pirating wouldn't be very hard.
I'm gonna google a while how to share a drive in a network and come back after ntoicing that I don't understand it.
aimeeandbeatles
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Ive done this when certain CDs that were scratched didn't work with my extra-fast drive. It works quite well, although they werent DRMd or nothin. Kinda tricky to set up with two operating systems though Ive noticed
aimeeandbeatles
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I was reading my server logs and noticed something interested. A user was browsing my site. It appeared to be the same user, but the last quartet (I don't think I used the right word) of the IP changed every time they clicked a new page. What would cause this?
PeteAtoms
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Considering tabbed browsing in most internet browsers, is there a way that websites can detect whether or not it is an active tab or a background one?
aimeeandbeatles
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Is there any way to block a specific user from your site if they use proxies? With this whole troll-lawyer thing I tried banning the first IP but they came back with another and then another.
Indeed, it did. Runs like new right now, although me having a gas oven I'm unused to, I probably overheated it, so the plastic case started to melt a bit.
I actually had to break off a little part so the fan could move freely.
Yeah, I thought leaving this one as backup card... so anyone feel qualified to give a good advice?But as you're saying, if you're into new games with the latest-greatest graphics it's probably a good excuse to upgrade.
I currently have:
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7500 @ 2.93GHz
2 GB Corsair DDR2 RAM
and said GeForce 8800 GTX
With games like Shogun 2:TW and Skyrim in mind, would there be a point in upgrading the video card without it being a total overkill?
aimeeandbeatles
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Is this why the same spammer sent me 10 identical emails in 1 minute?
Got a problem, pick up a Trojan,
downloaded malwarebites and scan and removed Trojan using a different account on the computer.
Now when I start up on the formerly infected account it still will not run IE or Firefox or my wireless modem program, maybe all .exe files but those are the three I tried. It runs fine on my wife's account but will not run on mine.
any advise?
downloaded malwarebites and scan and removed Trojan using a different account on the computer.
Now when I start up on the formerly infected account it still will not run IE or Firefox or my wireless modem program, maybe all .exe files but those are the three I tried. It runs fine on my wife's account but will not run on mine.
any advise?
