The Official Happiness Thread

CabooseJr · Post by **CabooseJr** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 11:36 am

Jordan wrote:Every computer at my school has WoW and HL2 and all that good stuff on it. I hate the kids that play in the back while I'm trying to learn (ie: Facebook).

Lucky, our school has them blocked.

Yodel · Post by **Yodel** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 11:42 am

Far Cry 2 came in the mail! And I didn't expect to get it until Tuesday!

Oh joy, o rapture unforeseen!

Ragdoll · Post by **Ragdoll** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 11:45 am

CabooseJr wrote:
Jordan wrote:Every computer at my school has WoW and HL2 and all that good stuff on it. I hate the kids that play in the back while I'm trying to learn (ie: Facebook).
Lucky, our school has them blocked.

The computers in my school block just about everything.

xbox · Post by **xbox** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 11:47 am

I now have 1337 posts.

Cryticfarm · Post by **Cryticfarm** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 11:49 am

CabooseJr wrote:
Jordan wrote:Every computer at my school has WoW and HL2 and all that good stuff on it. I hate the kids that play in the back while I'm trying to learn (ie: Facebook).
Lucky, our school has them blocked.

I would be surprised if our school computers would even run HL2.

turk645 · Post by **turk645** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 12:29 pm

Senior and junior year I would constantly run steam on the computers from my external HDD. XD yay for third period study hall.

shadowkhas · Post by **shadowkhas** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 1:15 pm

O joyful day.
Had a brief lunch with Bill Allred from Radio From Hell, and Apple has just made me happy.

G.I.R. · Post by **G.I.R.** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 1:32 pm

I was sort of wary on buying Dead Space, Fable 2, and Far Cry 2; but so far, I love them all. I will be gaemin for a long time without getting bored. Also, Monday night = Fallout 3 Midnight Madness @ teh bestest Best Buy EVAR. Aaaaaand I take my ACT tomorrow!

bibbit · Post by **bibbit** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 1:44 pm

Rice-A-Roni are winner.

CompKronos · Post by **CompKronos** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 2:11 pm

bibbit wrote:Rice-A-Roni are winner.

Chef Boyardee Mac 'N' Cheeze is win.

also land grab over bibbit's sig? *grabs mac-n-cheese*

shadowkhas · Post by **shadowkhas** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 2:58 pm

G.I.R. wrote:Aaaaaand I take my ACT tomorrow!

Good luck on that!

sneakyn8 · Post by **sneakyn8** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 3:06 pm

im getting some special tea vodka and sweet lemon teaon monday

ScottyGEE · Post by **ScottyGEE** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 6:20 pm

Who knew that restarting your computer made it run so much more efficiently?

I didn't...Until now.

Samusaaron3 · Post by **Samusaaron3** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 6:26 pm

ScottyGEE wrote:Who knew that restarting your computer made it run so much more efficiently?

I didn't...Until now.

It depends on the computer

DrXThirst · Post by **DrXThirst** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 6:36 pm

ScottyGEE wrote:Who knew that restarting your computer made it run so much more efficiently?

I didn't...Until now.

If you're running windows, you know about the Run > MSConfig thing, right?

EDIT: Saw V was pretty good.

It was like 90% flashbacks, with about a 10% story of it's own, though.

(Highlight text in quote for spoiler...)

ScottyGEE · Post by **ScottyGEE** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 6:42 pm

DrXThirst wrote:
ScottyGEE wrote:Who knew that restarting your computer made it run so much more efficiently?

I didn't...Until now.
If you're running windows, you know about the Run > MSConfig thing, right?

EDIT: Saw V was pretty good. It was like 90% flashbacks, with about a 10% story of it's own, though.

I didn't. I don't see too much benefit from it...I suppose its got a few more things in the one place rather than task manager and windows defender (though both have more detail). Thanks anyway.

I lost interest in Saw after I...watched 3. All it seemed they were doing was increasing gore factor and crap. I don't care for that. I liked the story in the first one and the feeling that what happened there could happen to you. Sequels lost that for me.

DrXThirst · Post by **DrXThirst** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 7:09 pm

Well, if you do it right, then it has very many benefits for your computer. You're freeing your computer from having to run lots of programs. I know you've already pushed it away, but let me elaborate my standing a little more. If you go to the "Services" tab, and then check the "Hide All Microsoft Services" button, then click "Disable All", that will disable all of the services that start up on your computer that really don't do anything for your computer but slow it down. An example would be the "iTunesHelper.exe" that I see in many people's Task Manager listings. It doesn't do anything, and I noticed that if you disable it, then start up iTunes and plug in your iPod, it never starts up. I don't know what it does, other than add a process to your list. Next, if you click the "Startup" tab, and then click "Disable All", then you will stop all of your programs from starting up from the second you hit the power button. My startup time is currently 13 seconds, because I've disabled almost everything on my computer on startup. My computer is also extremely fast, because it's only running the programs that I want it to run (Mostly FF, and AIM) and nothing else. It really does help, you should try it.

Oh, and I agree with the Saw thing, except for the fact that all of the movies are carrying on the story line but they have many twists and turns. I just don't like how right now, they're putting one out every Halloween, so they have an inability to finish what the previous movie showed, do flashbacks, and make the current movie have a story of it's own. It seems as if all of the movies now are just answering questions from the movie previous to the one you're watching.

Sorry about the huge walls of text, so here's a tl;dr:
1.) It works, read the paragraph. Extremely beneficial.
2.) Saw movies coming out too fast.

Veegie · Post by **Veegie** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 7:19 pm

So since it was too long to read, you summarized by telling us to read it.
Ok.

DrXThirst · Post by **DrXThirst** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 7:35 pm

In the time it took you to post that, you could've read it. Tural says so.

ScottyGEE · Post by **ScottyGEE** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 7:53 pm

@DXT
Rather than me talking about how task manager and windows defender do the job better, I'll say this: I'm using windows Vista. I find that windows defender provides a much more detailed solution to startup programs and that task manager is very quick to open to check on services (since I always have task manager running) rather than having to search for msconfig (though that doesn't take long)