Posts made by MrMazda

If you like Slackware, even though it's not as user friendly as Ubuntu or Linux Mint, there is a version available for the Mac called Slackintosh

@magentas:

MAC!!

It costs more, but it is well worth it.

Did you hear about the new flood of exploits that affect Windows versions before 10, and that the vast majority of people never upgrade?

Macs are constantly upgraded, for free. All patches are free. Whole new versions of the MacOS are free.
When you add all of that up, Mac is cheaper.

With Windows, you have to make an extra effort to upgrade.
With Mac, you would have to make an extra effort to NOT upgrade.

But Macs are WAY more susceptible to viruses and such as compared to say…. Ubuntu

@blackwing:

I truly hope you do not have it - but realize it isn't a "death-sentence". I've been HIV+ since 2006 - and undetectable with no viral-load and no trace of the virus in my system. I have an immensely high CD4 count, and my husband I have been with for 8 years is HIV-. Even IF your next test is positive, you can be healthier living as HIV+ than you ever did when you were negative.

I can confirm this… Overall now, I'm healthier and able to withstand a lot more now than I was before I was diagnosed.

I second gayparha2's motion for Asus… I'm using an Asus right now actually..

Aside from Asus, if you wanna go badass and you want something that's already assembled, you might want to check out Alienware

If they want to be sure of what they're working with, then aside from the ELSA, they'll also want to run what is known as a "Western Blot"… There are two different kinds of tests for the Western Blot... One tests for HIV type 1 (most common within North America), and the other is for HIV type 2 (most common within Africa).

As for living with HIV, I've been dealing with it now since 2009 and I can honestly say that once you get the right medications, there's really nothing to it. As for side effects to the liver, kidneys, etc, I am pleased to say that most of the newer medications have minimal to no impact on these organs.

In terms of living with HIV, this is nothing new to me... So if you need someone to talk to about it or to give you pointers on how to deal with it, don't be a stranger... I'm more than happy to provide whatever assistance that I can. I will tell you this though... No matter how educated you are on the subject, there is NOTHING that can prepare you for when the positive test result comes back (assuming that it does come back positive). I know this from first hand experience. What concerns me though is the "pimples" that you speak of, as this is not usually something associated with HIV. Generally, symptoms of HIV are very much like the symptoms of the flu. This would lead me to believe that there is something else going on in your body, which may not even he HIV related at all. Also, the other thing to take a look at as a "tell-a-tale" sign is to run a CD4/CD8 test. This will measure your absolute CD4 & CD8 levels, saturation, ratio, etc. If these numbers are low (below 700, but even worse below 200), then you may have reason for concern. Most often, newly infected people will have a rather low CD4 count, due to the way that HIV attacks the immune system.

As for proper confirmation, I would strongly recommend the Western Blot, as this will tell you quite quickly what is what, and if it is HIV, will tell you whether you're dealing with Type 1 or Type 2. They both work very much the same way, although there are a few minor differences between them.

Let's be clear here… I have nothing good to say about our Liberal government. In fact, I have lots of nasty things to say about them...

For example, when Kathleen Wynne (the Ontario Premier) stepped in, the cost of a license plate renewal was $63/year. Since she's stepped into power, I'm now about to have to pay a whopping $120 to renew my license plates. To make matters worse, when Kathleen Wynne first came to power, I was paying an average of $75 every 2 months including taxes and delivery for my hydro (electricity) service. Of this rate, only about 20% of it was delivery fees. I have since upgraded all my lighting to LED, and made a number of energy efficient changes designed to reduce this cost, but it's of no use. Thanks to Kathleen Wynne, I now average about $180 PER MONTH in hydro (electricity) usage, about 65% of which is delivery fees. I almost had to declare bankruptcy this past winter because I have electric heat... Next thing I knew, when the cold weather came, BAM!!! Up went the hydro (electric) bill to an average of $900/month... That's more than most people pay for their bloody mortgage... And this is all thanks to our Liberal government being as corrupt as the day is long.

Also, Kathleen Wynne is also responsible for merging the 5% GST (federal tax) with the 8% PST (provincial tax) to create a 13% HST, which increased the cost of a number of things by 8%, including the price of gas and the labour that you pay your mechanic. To make matters worse, they then introduced the cap and trade, along with a carbon tax. Collectively, between all their fuckery, they raised the price of gasoline (among other things) from the average of $0.890/L ($3.364/gal) up to the whopping $1.219/L ($4.608/gal) that I had to pay yesterday to fill my gas tank. In short, our liberal government is driving us farther and farther into debt, with no regard for anything but their own pocket books... I have NOTHING nice to say about our Liberal government, and even more not nice things to say about our former conservative government.... Just sayin'

Not really, considering that if it doesn't fall under softcore, it would fall under one of the other categories.

You may also wanna have a look at Everything You Need To Disable in Windows 10

It is truly shocking some of what Microsoft has put into their newest versions of Windows… It really is.

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: The system puked on you  :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

In all seriousness though, this is a known thing. The view NFO thing was taken down for a couple of reasons… One of them I'm not entirely sure of the exact details on, but it had to do with security. The other was because people were posing .torrent files into the NFO part, and thus directly exposing their passkey, even without having to download the actual torrent.

I'm not sure as to when (or even if) this will be fixed.

Not really… I'm out in the boonies in the bush out in the sticks, so the only way that I can get 1080p HD is to get not one, but THREE oldschool ADSL2+ COPPER DSL lines (Not even FTTN) and bond them together using MLPPP. Given the cost of being able to get a fast enough speed to be able to stream 1080p HD as it is, I can't say that I'm really looking forward to 4K or higher resolution because I simply do not have the internet link speed to handle it.

Sorry to chime in so late… There are one of two things that can cause this...

Thing #1... If the torrent is originally uploaded with 10 or more pictures, the system will automatically lock it so that no further pictures can be added, even if the total number is below the 20something that you can have as the maximum.

Thing #2... If someone else found your torrent and uploaded pictures, until those pictures are either approved or rejected, those additional slots are considered taken. If the pictures are approved, they would be appear and be visible to everyone, and if the pictures are rejected, then the upload pictures option will appear and work again.

Generally speaking, yes… This is correct.

If you get a mod like me however, and I happen to stumble across your post, I will also do it by forum request, but not all mods will do it out of the forum.

The original uploader is only notified of Reseed Requests if their torrent client has reported that it has downloaded it in full from the tracker. Whether this has happened or not will depend entirely on whether you seeded the torrent correctly in the first place. If you did, then you would not be notified. If however the original uploader registered with the tracker as a leecher, then their name would be added to the list, and as long as they are not #121 or higher on that list AND their account is still active, they would then get a notice also.

Or just abandon Windows all together like I did and switch to Ubuntu…. It's free

I've started changing everything over to Kodi on the most part now. I find in Linux (at least with my hardware configuration), it usually plays most videos flawlessly. There's the odd video that it doesn't like, but as long as it's not WMV format, VLC takes care of it quite nicely.

One thing I will say is that anything that is Windows 10 based needs to be gone over with a fine toothed comb. There is actually a keylogger built into it, among a number of creepy spy things that are enabled by Microsoft by default. This ranges anywhere from WiFi password sharing, to exchange of personal information. It's really creepy what they collect by default.

Also, no matter what virus software that you are using, I am a huge advocate of also running Spy Bot Search & Destroy from safer-networking.org as it looks for different kinds of threats to your computer that most ordinary virus software does now, however it does not get the kind of stuff that most antivirus software does. This is why I recommend using it in addition to a virus software.

I see that you have a good upload speed…

I'm about to help you by going through the torrents that you have in your profile and putting 156 hours on some of them (mostly the unpopular ones). This should help you to get that in check a little faster, as it usually brings a lot of traffic to these torrents. Please check your downloaded torrent list carefully.

Yes… We had a server outage. The specifics on what broke or how is not currently known to the staff as of yet, however we did experience a server outage due to something breaking.

I think the problem is that you're using Windows XP, which doesn't have the greatest of UTF-8 support, and instead, forces the Windows-ISO character set encoding, which does not support this character. It is the little triangular arrows that are most commonly associated with a recycling bin logo. In your case, your system seems to display this as an unknown character with the generic code box, rather than the proper character.