Your technology confessions: What have you never told anyone?

[poofyhairguy]

I think the Russians deserve the space-race award, not the USA.

They started the race, we finished it.

 

[OCGuy]

I made it to 77 spins on m3atspin before I questioned everything about my life up until that point.

 

[pontifex]

I've never sent a text message. Ever.

we're talking just over phone right? not sure if IM counts? if so, add me to that list.

 

[pontifex]

Right. Because nobody was productive before the advent of cell phones. People know how to reach me. Where and when I like, not them.

exactly, i have no need for cell texting at my job. we all sit at desks and use IM or email if we don't use the phone to call each other.

 

[pontifex]

I never paid for Tapatalk HD (tablet version). I got the beta and I'm still using it.

It's free now, and I don't get it. unless i'm doing something wrong, it sucks. you can;t find what you need. you can;t search for a forum, you have to scroll through the entire list to find it.

 

[OCGuy]

On a 36.6k modem when I was 13 I finished...using the Pac Bell.... before Netscape had loaded below Tiffany Amber Thiesen's boob cleavage.

 

[pontifex]

I once sent a poorly functioning coffee maker to our ITS department through inter office mail. It had a note on it that read "This is broken. Please fix." - just to see what would happen.

and?

 

[William Gaatjes]

I have used an Android phone for over 2 years without mobile data.

I have done the same. After my 2 year provider contract expired, i took a lower price contract with a 1GB data bundle. I am still using a 3 year old htc desire, which still works great, only drawback is the small internal FLASH memory. Only 150MB for user applications. And i have not yet figured out how to root it to the last unofficial android update.

 

[rudeguy]

I have done the same. After my 2 year provider contract expired, i took a lower price contract with a 1GB data bundle. I am still using a 3 year old htc desire, which still works great, only drawback is the small internal FLASH memory. Only 150MB for user applications. And i have not yet figured out how to root it to the last unofficial android update.

let me know if you want help...that's kind of my thing

 

[William Gaatjes]

let me know if you want help...that's kind of my thing

Thank you. I first need to make sure i have a backup phone, but that is not such a big problem, that can be any gsm compatible with my provider.
My question would be, how do i figure out what handy apps from htc i want to install after the official update of android2.3 (Gingerbread).
From wiki :

HTC has released a software update to upgrade the Desire to Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). Originally, they planned to do this in June 2011.[27][28] On 14 June 2011, HTC announced via Facebook that there would be no Gingerbread update for the HTC Desire, citing memory constraints. This is because HTC had been unable to fit both Gingerbread and HTC Sense together in the phone's 250 MB system partition.[29] However, on 15 June, they released a statement saying the Desire would receive the Gingerbread update, with the possibility of some apps being cut.[30] The update was finally released for download from HTC's developer website[31] on 1 August 2011, and is not available as an over-the-air update.

How would i find out what app i need to install manually to get the basic functionality back ?
I need to make a list of all the programs i use and 3/4 of the official htc apps can be removed because i never use them. But i do not know what names these apps have. And how will i know my phone is still safe and secure ?

 

[Perknose]

You have never been mad? Never had a rage fit?

There is anger, there is even rage, and then there is spectacularly destructive, near psychotic rage while brandishing a machete.

She has not picked a fight since.

Because of her fear of provoking you to physical violence? Are you seriously satisfied with this chain of events? Mission accomplished?

Or is there more to this story you haven't divulged, wherein she threatened to call the cops on you and then file for divorce, and you got down on your knees and begged her forgiveness while solemnly promising never to cross that boundary of acceptable adult behavior ever again?

 

[rudeguy]

Thank you. I first need to make sure i have a backup phone, but that is not such a big problem, that can be any gsm compatible with my provider.
My question would be, how do i figure out what handy apps from htc i want to install after the official update of android2.3 (Gingerbread).
From wiki :



How would i find out what app i need to install manually to get the basic functionality back ?
I need to make a list of all the programs i use and 3/4 of the official htc apps can be removed because i never use them. But i do not know what names these apps have. And how will i know my phone is still safe and secure ?

You don't have to lose any stock apps if you don't want to. It looks like there are a few stock rooted 2.3 ROMs for your phone. Looks like there is even a one click root program so you can keep everything stock and just have root. That is what I do and I prefer it to custom ROMs.

One click root:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=788044

Stock rooted are towards the bottom of the 2nd page but there are tons of custom ROMs if you want to get more up to date:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=809328

If you decide to go with a non stock ROM, you can always download the HTC app's APK and sideload it. Also you for sure want to check out apps2SD so you can have basically unlimited storage for your apps.

Your cell phone is never secure, so hacking it won't make it not secure. The NSA, your carrier, Google and probably 100 other places can get whatever information they want whenever they want it.

 

[shortylickens]

I took it up the butt for a video card.

 

[tHa ShIzNiT]

I think WoW is the best game ever made, although I hate it because of the community and people playing it. You simply can't play the game *unless* you're hardcore. If not, you'll fall behind all the other nerds and can't play with your buddies anymore. Also, women will not sleep with you.

I agree. WoW is the best game ever made. I wish I could still play it. I think about it all the time, but the toll it takes on your body and your life in general keeps me away. I still might resub again soon though.

 

[Texashiker]

Because of her fear of provoking you to physical violence? Are you seriously satisfied with this chain of events? Mission accomplished?

That happened 10 years ago, and there has been no violence in the relationship.

It was a bad time in my life. I was in the middle of a divorce with my ex-wife and child custody fight. Sometimes conditions are just right for things to go wrong.

Or is there more to this story you haven't divulged, wherein she threatened to call the cops on you and then file for divorce, and you got down on your knees and begged her forgiveness while solemnly promising never to cross that boundary of acceptable adult behavior ever again?

No cops were called, nothing like that.

I am on 20 mg lexapro daily, it helps take the edge off.


Another confession, my wife has more tech toys than I do. She gets a new smart phone every year and has a tablet and laptop. She knows more about the newest tech toys than I do.

 

[DigDog]

i bought a macintosh computer once, thinking it would be a great machine.

 

[highland145]

I am on 20 mg lexapro daily, it helps take the edge off.

My wife, the counselor, thought I was depressed so sent me to the Dr and that's what he gave me. 1. I gained 30+lbs and 2. I wasn't depressed but I was still an asshole.

 

[Perknose]

I wasn't depressed but I was still an asshole.

I sense a promising pharmacological opportunity. I can just see the TV commercials now:

[Scene of guy loudly berating his wife for buttering his toast . . . on the wrong side! He storms out of the kitchen, kicking their puppy on the way out.]

Cut to the present:

"Hi, I'm Bob. I used to be a major asshole. Then my doctor suggested I try AssBgone. Just one pill daily, and I'm a new man. My wife and kids have started speaking to me again, and you rarely see my name in the Police Blotter news anymore. Even our dog has stopped hiding in the pantry when I come home.

AssBgone. When taken with a complete cessation of listening to Fox News, it can make you welcome at parties again!"

 

[OCGuy]

I sense a promising pharmacological opportunity. I can just see the TV commercials now:

[Scene of guy loudly berating his wife for buttering his toast . . . on the wrong side! He storms out of the kitchen, kicking their puppy on the way out.]

Cut to the present:

"Hi, I'm Bob. I used to be a major asshole. Then my doctor suggested I try AssBgone. Just one pill daily, and I'm a new man. My wife and kids have started speaking to me again, and you rarely see my name in the Police Blotter news anymore. Even our dog has stopped hiding in the pantry when I come home.

AssBgone. When taken with a complete cessation of listening to Fox News, it can make you welcome at parties again!"

"Side effects may include a propensity towards violence, cruelty to animals, sudden rage towards anything smaller than you, and anal seepage"

 

[vshah]

the voodoo2/3 thing - some people used to have a v3 and v2, utilizing the passthrough on the voodoo2. Some games at the time wouldn't work on v3 and required the presence of a v2 or even a v1 to work.
the cards weren't running in SLI though.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Aside from the people affected, my friend wanted me to install some software on her computer. I decided to clean up her cabling (external) too and in the process I had to unplug her external HD. Somehow the power plug for the HD was the SAME as the S-Video plug of a graphics card. I looked at it and I said yeah, that goes into the graphics card... and then poof. Graphics card died.

She didn't trust me and brought in one of her computer repair friends who said "Wow this is a Dell, so you're screwed." Likely proprietary card, proprietary motherboard plugs, proprietary everything. I was like uhh that's an AGP card right there. Pretty standard. I'll swap it out. He was partially right in that the damage could've affected more, but he kept scaring us with proprietary saying the whole thing had to be replaced. I pointed it out to him that this was a standard ATX PSU and you can judge by the motherboard connectors too, and that even if the damage is more than I expect, we can likely replace things 1 by 1.

Anyway I buy a new GeForce 4200 or something like that and her system worked just fine after that. It was embarrassing because I was a 2nd year in college without a car, so I had to solicit someone for a ride to Fry's 30 minutes away and get ripped off. Too bad no Amazon prime back then. Dumb error in retrospect.

I've also done stupid things like pay for some stupid iPhone freemium game (Megapolis) while drunk.

I've also downloaded a Backstreet Boys MP3 once and it was a .vbs file. I knew to delete it and somehow instead of single clicking to delete, I double clicked it and my system went poof. Combine that with the fact that the disk had bad sectors nad it was one hell of a recovery job.

I once paid Frys to install a graphics card because my parents thought I screwed up the computer, so they told me to take it to Frys and get it fixed. They just confirmed that the card I bought was incompatible (softwarewise) and advised me to get a different card. A Voodoo 3.

 

[Ns1]

Aside from the people affected, my friend wanted me to install some software on her computer. I decided to clean up her cabling (external) too and in the process I had to unplug her external HD. Somehow the power plug for the HD was the SAME as the S-Video plug of a graphics card. I looked at it and I said yeah, that goes into the graphics card... and then poof. Graphics card died.

She didn't trust me and brought in one of her computer repair friends who said "Wow this is a Dell, so you're screwed." Likely proprietary card, proprietary motherboard plugs, proprietary everything. I was like uhh that's an AGP card right there. Pretty standard. I'll swap it out. He was partially right in that the damage could've affected more, but he kept scaring us with proprietary saying the whole thing had to be replaced. I pointed it out to him that this was a standard ATX PSU and you can judge by the motherboard connectors too, and that even if the damage is more than I expect, we can likely replace things 1 by 1.

Anyway I buy a new GeForce 4200 or something like that and her system worked just fine after that. It was embarrassing because I was a 2nd year in college without a car, so I had to solicit someone for a ride to Fry's 30 minutes away and get ripped off. Too bad no Amazon prime back then.

hope you did this first:

This isn't me but a good friend of mine was the manager of a computer repair place in a college town. Every time a cute girl brought in a broken computer to be repaired the first thing he did was scan the hard drive for nude pics..

 

[highland145]

Comes with a fast acting counter agent. Perfect for when the in laws show up unexpectedly or the wife's visa bill comes in.

*If your stance of dominance lasts for more than 4 hours....eff them, you are dominant.

 

[rudeguy]

"Side effects may include a propensity towards violence, cruelty to animals, sudden rage towards anything smaller than you, and anal seepage"

one of the best marketing slogans ever!

http://www.cspinet.org/new/flaynal.html

 

[Ichinisan]

Aside from the people affected, my friend wanted me to install some software on her computer. I decided to clean up her cabling (external) too and in the process I had to unplug her external HD. Somehow the power plug for the HD was the SAME as the S-Video plug of a graphics card. I looked at it and I said yeah, that goes into the graphics card... and then poof. Graphics card died.

She didn't trust me and brought in one of her computer repair friends who said "Wow this is a Dell, so you're screwed." Likely proprietary card, proprietary motherboard plugs, proprietary everything. I was like uhh that's an AGP card right there. Pretty standard. I'll swap it out. He was partially right in that the damage could've affected more, but he kept scaring us with proprietary saying the whole thing had to be replaced. I pointed it out to him that this was a standard ATX PSU and you can judge by the motherboard connectors too, and that even if the damage is more than I expect, we can likely replace things 1 by 1.

Anyway I buy a new GeForce 4200 or something like that and her system worked just fine after that. It was embarrassing because I was a 2nd year in college without a car, so I had to solicit someone for a ride to Fry's 30 minutes away and get ripped off. Too bad no Amazon prime back then. Dumb error in retrospect.

I've also done stupid things like pay for some stupid iPhone freemium game (Megapolis) while drunk.

I've also downloaded a Backstreet Boys MP3 once and it was a .vbs file. I knew to delete it and somehow instead of single clicking to delete, I double clicked it and my system went poof. Combine that with the fact that the disk had bad sectors nad it was one hell of a recovery job.

I once paid Frys to install a graphics card because my parents thought I screwed up the computer, so they told me to take it to Frys and get it fixed. They just confirmed that the card I bought was incompatible (softwarewise) and advised me to get a different card. A Voodoo 3.

I've seen those HDD enclosures that use an S-Video connector to carry power. I don't really blame you, but I still would have wondered why she was using S-Video output (if she was using VIVO for input, there would be more than 4 pins on the cord) and I probably would have followed the cord to see what it led to before plugging it in. Still...that could have happened to any of us.