Computer Questions Not Worth Their Own Thread

[aimeeandbeatles]

I've heard about these little boxes that allow you to plug in the peripherals, and switch them between computers easily. what are these officially called?

 

[Turner]

A/B switches. They're not as common as they used to be, what with networking and all.

 

[Padma]

Sounds like an A/B switch.

Edit: Blast you, Turner!

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

thanks 10chairs

 

[lndm]

Oh, I'm used to calling them a KVM switch (keyboard, video, mouse). I use one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVM_switch

 

[Zelig]

Also commonly known as KVM switches.

edit: I thought the law of averages would protect me from cross-post.

 

[lndm]

Hehe. Do you ever find yourself becoming anxious when you go to hit the submit button? (Don't answer that )

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

There's a lot of crossposting lately.

 

[Cutlass]

There are also USB hubs, now that many peripherals use USB.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Is it true that "kernel panic" is the Linux version of the BSOD?

EDIT: Also, why on YouTube would turning on HQ make the video turn green? I can see the shapes, but it's all green static. when I go back to normal quality, it's fine.

 

[Cutlass]

I would think that is caused by the clip not being up to being expanded. So it's giving your browser bad info.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I would think that is caused by the clip not being up to being expanded. So it's giving your browser bad info.

Thanks. I thought it may have been do with a codec, because I often noticed if I used the wrong codec on a video exported from VirtualDub or Avidemux, the first few seconds would be funny colors and/or froze, then it'd work okay.

 

[Cutlass]

That could be. the millions of codexs needed to play everything on the net is annoying as hell.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I've been considering convincing mom to let me order this (obviously, we need a paypal first) and me self-install in my home computer, just to get used to plugging things in. Is it a good price? (I'll be sure to measure my case fan, first, the 120mm one is 8.99. The reviews are good, they push a lot of air, although tend to be noisy.)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811998108

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

That could be. the millions of codexs needed to play everything on the net is annoying as hell.

I've found ffdshow to be a good video decoder.

 

[Cutlass]

I've been considering convincing mom to let me order this (obviously, we need a paypal first) and me self-install in my home computer, just to get used to plugging things in. Is it a good price? (I'll be sure to measure my case fan, first, the 120mm one is 8.99. The reviews are good, they push a lot of air, although tend to be noisy.)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811998108

Hard to go wrong for $5. But you really don't need something with multi colored lights.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Hard to go wrong for $5. But you really don't need something with multi colored lights.

Well, if you have a choice between a boring looking one and a cool colored one, and they're both the same price and features, what would you go with?

I mean, it's not my main deciding feature.

 

[Cutlass]

I'd go with a review that said it lasted a long time or was quiet.

 

[Zelig]

I've been considering convincing mom to let me order this (obviously, we need a paypal first) and me self-install in my home computer, just to get used to plugging things in. Is it a good price? (I'll be sure to measure my case fan, first, the 120mm one is 8.99. The reviews are good, they push a lot of air, although tend to be noisy.)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811998108

Newegg.com doesn't ship to Canada.

And paypal is brutal, go with some other form of payment.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Well I was thinking also a computer shop around here may be able to order direct from manufacturer, or something. I don't think straight when I'm all doped up on ibuprofen (old injury flared up again)

If you have four rubber pads at the bottom of the case, and one of them falls off, can that increase the noise in the HDD, optical drives and/or fan? I noticed that when pulling it out to send in, just one of those stick-on rubber things, so perhaps the case was rattling a little more than it should have?