I know a guy who forded an AMD processor into an Intel motherboard. I came over to help with: "The PC I just built isn't working". ... The processor had half the pins bent, it was forced in all crooked and somehow, he got the fan to snap on the motherboard. Once we got a new mobo, I straightened all the bent pins in the processor with pliers and it worked. ... Luckily none of the pins broke of being forced in or when I was straightening them. He also didn't know that there are different socket types.

I have an older PC with Radeon 7900 video card. I have it hooked up as a second monitor to my big screen TV via send HDMI (Display Port to HDMI dongle) and play Steam game from Big Picture. Sound goes to the TV/Receiver. Works perfectly like that in Win 8.1
Upgrade to Windows 10. I have Video but no sound on the TV, tells me that my TV has no audio support. Install different version of the AMD drivers since the newest ones didn't work. At one point some old version worked, it found my TV, it wasn't Generic HDMI device, but LG TV. Sound works... but Fallout 4 crashes. I update the driver from there update tab in Catalyst Control Center... game works. Fault = AMD Drivers

Cortanta doesn't work, when I click on it, it tells me something like "We need to get you setup" then it opens a page to Languages... I see English is picked, I hit the drop down and can't pick anything else... can't figure it out. Look it up... it has to be English (US), for some reason I have it set to English (UK). I live in the US East cost... in windows 8.1 I'm sure it was US English. ... had to find where to add English US language... switch... works. Fault = Microsoft Installed Wrong Langauge.

I have a MacBook Pro 13" ... dual boot system with Windows 8.1. I use it for the most part with an external monitor. Upgrade to Win 10. All seems good, Cortana working off the bat. Plug in my monitor to HDMI port... nothing, no video. Can't switch to it. Windows doesn't detect it, it installed some generic Microsoft Driver. I go and get drivers form Apple and install them, from Intel... no HDMI Video, keeps reverting back to Microsoft driver after restart. Can't switch it manually, nothing I do seems to work. Revert back to 8.1... will try when the big update comes out. Fault = Intel Drivers?

Overall, I am spending way to much time to fight Windows 10 after the upgrade. Everything takes hours to look up, try and fix. Sure not all the problems are from Microsoft. But how hard is for them to write a generic driver to send video and sound to HDMI? Or set a language correctly... and even if they don't, have Cortana tell you that it won't work until you change the language so you shouldn't have to look this up.

I have the "Despecialized Edition" and it's great. You don't want to watch any other version after seeing this one. It's so clear, you can see reflection of the camera and camera man in Vader's Eyes. I'm not sure how close they are to the original, but it looks close enough, from what I remember. They changed way to many things to list here, but the things most people will notice.

- They took out all the special stuff, like extra robots and creatures.
- Took out the windows in cloud city.
- Brought back the song in jabba's palace.
- Brought back the original sarlacc pit.
- Brought back the ending song in Jedi with the original (I hated the new song with flutes)
- Brought back the old Anakin Skywalker as the dead/blue Jedi.
- Vader doesn't scream 'NOOoooo"

I decline updates not only for Apple products, but for many other applications when they are too frequent. Every time I open a PDF document, Adobe Acrobat wants to update. EVERY TIME. I don't use it every day, and when I do use it, it's already out of data...

There is never a good time to update... I've got some stuff copied in memory, I want to create a quick text document and paste it in, open up Notepad++... UPDATE... STFU Notepad++, I'm doing something important now... after your done, you don't go out of your way to update the product. When I cancel the update on Notepad++, when I'm done using it, I don't manually run "Check for updates" or reopen it to update... no it bugs me again the next time I have some important stuff to do and I'll push it off again.

There is no good way to update software on Windows (Not sure about Win10). Every time you want to use some software, it bugs you for an update... you press "Remind me later", you want to do it, but not now, now you have some important stuff to do. What you want is to update all of the software, at once, when it's right for you. But windows doesn't have that.

Ubuntu is great with that. You turn on the PC, go to use a Word Processing software and it doesn't bug you "Hey, Update me NOW!"... no, you print your document. After your done, when it convenient to you, you can "Update All Software" and Ubuntu takes care of everything. It will update everything that needs updating. You don't have to open individual programs and click 'Update' for everyone of them.

I see this as an OS problem. Windows doesn't provide a way for 3ed party software to be auto updated. They update there stuff, and some drivers... All other updates have to happen through individual software. ... people are sick of all the updates all the time. Even if Apple asked to be updated only once a year, Adobe will screw things up with there daily updates, so when Apple asked for an update, you roll your eyes "Not another update... Cancel".

Canceled cable, set this up:

Linux (ubuntu) server setup with raid 5. It runs uTorrent web UI and SickBeard on it's web server. For watching I use Kodi on Amazon Fire TV, Zotac ZBox (one of the cheap ones), a Raspberry PI 2 and a regular PC i5 in the living room. My TV has Netfix and Amazon Prime. ... also running PseudoTV on Kodi.

How it works: You add a show to SickBeard. It knows when new episodes of that show come out. It looks online and finds a torrent of a new episode. Once it finds it, it drops the torrent file in a folder that uTorrent monitors to download. Once uTorrent downloads it, it moves it to 'finished downloads' folder, SickBeard watches that folder and renames that file and moves it to where it needs to be, i.e. /tvShows/The Simpsons/Season 21/ ... then it informs one of the Kodi instances that it added a show... you turn on the TV (and kodi) and your new episode shows up on top as "New Episode"...

Everything is automatic and works very well. Everything is controlled through a browser and you don't really have to log into the server ever...

Few things:

SickBeard: I don't really like sickbeard, it does it's job well, but you can't really add new places to look for torrents... what it has built in, is it and now it's not supported anymore. I have it search on kickasstorrents and it'll tell me "haven't found the episode", yet I go there and find it manually. It's not often, but enough so that I'm looking for something new: It also doesn't download data about an episode well enough. Sometimes I have to tell Kodi to update it.
I'm Testing Sonarr and SickRage as candidates for SickBeard replacement. I Installed Sonarr, it runs on Linux through mono. It crashed on me twice when I was doing too many things at once in it... but it looks like a good candidate to switch to. SickRage doesn't look as good, but I haven't really tested them fully.

Fire TV: Kodi on fire TV runs well, but it's a program that runs on the Fire TVs android. You can not turn off Fire TV, it only goes to sleep, and so Kodi needs to be restated once in a while, other wise it get's stupid slow. Once every month?... Settings -> Programs -> Kodi -> Force Stop -> Clear Cache (or something like that). ...

RPi 2: Is a bit slow. It runs well, but not as well as Fire TV. If you don't see Kodi running on the Zotec, you wouldn't complain and think it's fine.

I think the Fire TV is my favorite setup. It runs very well, as good as the Zotec mini PC and the remote is better. For the Zotec and RPi2 i use standard IR remotes. From pressing the button to seeing the selection move, it takes 1/4 a second. It doesn't seem like much, but if you are scrolling through a bunch of shows and click down a bunch of times, with that delay, you don't know where your selection is... nor how many times you clicked. So you go past your selection, and then you have to wait for the selection to catch up to what you pressed on the remote... so you watch things get selected although your not pressing anything... it's fine, you get used to it... however, with Fire TV, it's instant, no delay, no problems. You can hit the down button 5 times in a second and it'll keep up and you don't have to wait for it to catch up.

Interesting. I don't know about all the lightsabers from the movies, but this laser handle doesn't look like any I've seen. Does LucasFilms own the rights to every device that has a handle and a light source? How about a flash light? ... when I was a kid we used to use flashlights to do lightsaber battles with, making whooshing sound with our mouths... had it been George's way, we'd have to pay royalties for it. I like the comment LucasFilms made: "We have demanded that Wicked Lasers immediately cease and desist their infringing activities." INFRINGING? really? because it's a laser with a handle? It's not a real light saber, nor does it look like any from the movies. Shouldn't gun manufacturers go after toy makes? "Hey, that looks like a colt 911... well, it has a trigger and a handle... it doesn't shoot bullets, but it looks like it does... stop your infringing activities!"

I don’t believe that you don’t find this situation funny. I think you are an attention troll. We are laughing at the fact that Darth Vader robbed a bank, not about what the teller felt. Do you disapprove of American Funniest Videos too? When you see a baby on that show, take a few steps and get tripped by a dog do you call them up to protest about baby brutality? Get a life and stop trolling before I call Al Gore and have you kicked off the interwebz. After reading the headlines, everyone is looking through the comments to see:

“I find your lock of cash disturbing”

“Prepare the vault for my arrival” and

“...all too easy... I’m Impressive, most impressive.”

I can see it now:
Back home in mother Russia:
-“Comrade, is that a new laptop? I know we don’t pay you enough to get one”
-“Oh, it was sent back by one of our field agents I’m ‘studying’ it.”
-“Hmmm have the agent send me a 60 inch LCD TV I’ll ‘study’ it at home.”

For me simple MMOs where ruined by Star Wars Galaxies (before they re did it). When I started playing WOW my though was “this is it?”. Kill 10 x for guy in point A, move to point B then C and so on... in between maybe find something to mine but if you miss too much in A and B you can’t mine stuff in C because your skill isn’t good enough. In Galaxies I had houses, factories, and mining operations. User based cities with stores, pets and vehicles. . . WOW did the quests right (in Galaxies quests where a joke) but they took everything else away. They make it too simple. Now all the MMOs that come out are simple because developers thing that’s what people want, because 10 million users can’t be wrong... sure they can. Some of the most popular games are things like bejewel, but that doesn’t mean it’s the only market. Spam sells millions of cans a year, but that doesn't mean it's the best meat product out there. Now most of the games that come out are WOW clones. If I want to play WOW like game, I’d play WOW! . I think a combination of the two world would work. Give us good quests like in WOW, which are easy to find at your own level (I still remember missions in Anarchy Online that to get to them, I had to run through some enemies that would kill me in one shot). But also give use more content like player cities, houses, better mining, player defensible forts. Not sure what else but more than just going from A to B to C. The game should be polished too, WOW did a good job with that. Others seem to think that fixing existing bugs is a waste of time and they should add more new stuff. In Conan there are missions I can’t finish because they are bugged, but they are coming out with expansions. Stop writing new **** for a couple of months and fix some bugs.

This is how/why I quit EVE Online: One day I come home from work. I did some stuff around the house, paid some bills, sat down to play EVE with a though: I turn the game on, get my miner and star mining because I had no money... it takes forever to mine that stuff so in the mean time I started to do some maintenance... when I was paying insurance for my ship I came to a conclusion. I came home from work and paid bills I then logged into a game, went to work and paid bills... maybe the game gets better after you get higher up... but for me it was either mine (boring) or do some transport runs and die 45min into your run, as you come out of some gate and get blown up in one shot... I still think the game has some of the best graphics and user interface ever.

"Sup dog, you in your crib? Think I'm getting a tooth, my milk hole is killing me"