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Mine was stuck at 30kbps, but I restarted and deleted the blob file and am now on a solid 100kbps

Just bought AvP 2010 for €5, normally €20. Fucking Steam is really lightening my wallet but hell, I've gotten 4 games already for the average price of 1!

Ugh, you're lucky it's at 60.

My room is so fucking hot. Idles at 70 and peaks at 90-100 sometimes (If I forget to turn on Awesome Mode).

And I'm too lazy to change all my shit around to put my PC in the coolest place.

just reformatted my pc and cleaned all the dust out

the fans sound much quieter now

FFLink wrote:

So lately on my Twitter account, somehow "I" am posting spam ads.

I don't "Tweet", I just stalk famous people whose words I care to hear, so I don't really know if this is normal or if I've been targetted somehow.

I'm very security aware, too, so I'd be pissed if somehow my Twitter account has been compromised as this would be the first of probably hundreds of accounts.

Any help, please?

Dumb question but I have to ask. You're not using a dictionary based password are you? Last I checked Twitter does not protect against brute force attacks. (No lock out after unsuccessful attempts). Foxnewpolitics just got hacked and I suspect that is why.

Uzique wrote:

my processor idles at like 60 degrees but i'm way too lazy to remove it and reseat the heatsink / reapply thermal paste

i think it definitely came loose in transit home, and so needs to have the contact remade. but literally out of all my hardware tasks, dealing with the heatsink is my most troublesome...

Ergh, Especially if you use a stock heat sink.

Those clips are a joke.

FFLink wrote:

No, my own completely unique password combination of numbers and and letters.

I changed it to a new password, anyway.

So far so good...

You might also want to see what apps you have given access to your Twitter account. Could be likely that one of those got hacked.

Uzique wrote:

tazz. wrote:

Uzique wrote:

my processor idles at like 60 degrees but i'm way too lazy to remove it and reseat the heatsink / reapply thermal paste

i think it definitely came loose in transit home, and so needs to have the contact remade. but literally out of all my hardware tasks, dealing with the heatsink is my most troublesome...

Ergh, Especially if you use a stock heat sink.

Those clips are a joke.

nah this is a noctua. but still those annoying clips. any accidental nudge to my tower when i'm sat in my chair and you can guarantee at least 1/2 of the corners will become disloged, making the heatsink fan 25-50% shittier at its job/contact.

Then they're improperly installed.

And if your account was hacked, it might have been paired up with some spamming apps. Again, check your apps list.

noice

I got this 2tb external drive and it started to make strange sounds.
Its like theres an elf with a typewriter in there, typing real slow and short sentences.
*click click click click slide click click click click slide click click click click slide* and so on and on and on.
So it strated doing that and now it stopped working. Pretty fucked up.
Anyone know what it is?

I would really love to be able to recover the files on there. The drive itself isnt that important, it stil has a 1 year warranty i believe.

Kampframmer wrote:

I got this 2tb external drive and it started to make strange sounds.
Its like theres an elf with a typewriter in there, typing real slow and short sentences.
*click click click click slide click click click click slide click click click click slide* and so on and on and on.
So it strated doing that and now it stopped working. Pretty fucked up.
Anyone know what it is?

I would really love to be able to recover the files on there. The drive itself isnt that important, it stil has a 1 year warranty i believe.

clicks of death. this is the platter inside your hard-drive failing. back it up immediately and prepare to say your last goodbyes.

i would say unplug it and save it but i can't even guarantee that would do any benefit. i've unplugged an external when it went into those death-knells before and then it... wouldn't start up again at all. my best advice is to just start backing up all of your stuff any way that you can right now. don't take the hard-drive to a store (removing it and transporting it may just be that little bit too much)... just get a means to copy your data and DO IT. i've had the death clicks loads of times with different hard-drives... sometimes they stumbled on at about 25% performance, super slow, for about 3 months... other times i've had about 2-3 days before it just fails.