I need your advice. Please.

[Maggie Green]

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want that!

 

[Red XXX]

Maggie Green[/URL][/B], post: 7668145, member: 346743"]want that!

Sorry this one's for VV :angels:

 

[Harley Spencer]

I teach English as a Foreign language. Would you like some lessons? I have thought of going to america to teach you lot English :tongue:

As a second language? What language do the majority of your students originally speak? I'd bet it'd be difficult if the students were of mixed first languages.

Ok so I guess so that I'm not a total jerk derailing a thread, I'll offer what little bit of two cents I have about laptop advice.

The last laptop I had was an asshole. I can't remember exactly what kind it was, but it wasn't apple or toshiba. Windows XP or something I think? I dunno. Anyway. For the most part it was a nice computer, worked quickly, easy to use. But there were a few times when it wouldn't shut down properly, and I knew this because previously I was listening to music on pandora, I'd shut out of the tab, close the laptop, and it'd still play for a few seconds even after quitting the program AND it being shut. And once, I shut the laptop down completely, not just closing it but completely shutting it down, and when I turned it back on, not only was it still playing music from pandora, but it was blaring the song Fun With Drugs by Velvet Acid Christ at 2am, probably waking up my roommate and his 2 year old son. Uuugh.

Then a good long while later, I accidentally dropped it while fixing the bed. Not good. It still worked after, but made a funny noise every time I opened it. It kept kicking for probably a year after that, but eventually it completely crapped out and would not start up for me. Wah.

That's when I got this MacBook Pro laptop. It's older (on the bottom of the laptop it says 2007), but it was given to me by a friend so I didn't have to pay for it, which was nice. It took me a long while to get accustomed to the different layout and how to work certain programs. It's great that it's still chugging along after 6 years. But now I'm having this same issue with both the mac desktop and laptop where it'll pop up that my startup disk is running out of space, which makes absolutely no sense what-so-freaking-ever because I'm not saving anything to the computers, I'm saving everything to a terabyte portable hard drive on the desktop and another portable hard drive (smaller, but still lots of space) for my laptop. I've used Onyx to clean up the desktop a few times, and it only lasts for like a whopping 30 minutes until it starts popping up on me again.
For my laptop, Onyx just simply isn't working at all, so I'm screwed there. I've told the popup box to stop showing me the message and everything seems to be fine.

A few weeks ago, the desktop just completely froze, so I tried to shut it down but it wouldn't even do that, not even by pressing the button on the computer itself. So I unplugged everything and turned it back on, computer started back up, but then froze again once I got to the use login screen. Wouldn't let me even click a user. My guess is that it was just overheating but... I dunno. It's working now, hasn't froze, but it lags quite a bit.

Oh and also I used to have a regular PC and it didn't even last 2 years before it started giving me the blue screen of death. Grrr.

EDIT: Guess I didn't really give any advice did I? Just kinda ranted about my computer experiences. Sorry.

 

[vodkazvictim]

Just the one

Good idea; that bitch makes me hard and I'd take her every which way.

As a second language? What language do the majority of your students originally speak? I'd bet it'd be difficult if the students were of mixed first languages.

Ok so I guess so that I'm not a total jerk derailing a thread, I'll offer what little bit of two cents I have about laptop advice.

The last laptop I had was an asshole. I can't remember exactly what kind it was, but it wasn't apple or toshiba. Windows XP or something I think? I dunno. Anyway. For the most part it was a nice computer, worked quickly, easy to use. But there were a few times when it wouldn't shut down properly, and I knew this because previously I was listening to music on pandora, I'd shut out of the tab, close the laptop, and it'd still play for a few seconds even after quitting the program AND it being shut. And once, I shut the laptop down completely, not just closing it but completely shutting it down, and when I turned it back on, not only was it still playing music from pandora, but it was blaring the song Fun With Drugs by Velvet Acid Christ at 2am, probably waking up my roommate and his 2 year old son. Uuugh.

Then a good long while later, I accidentally dropped it while fixing the bed. Not good. It still worked after, but made a funny noise every time I opened it. It kept kicking for probably a year after that, but eventually it completely crapped out and would not start up for me. Wah.

That's when I got this MacBook Pro laptop. It's older (on the bottom of the laptop it says 2007), but it was given to me by a friend so I didn't have to pay for it, which was nice. It took me a long while to get accustomed to the different layout and how to work certain programs. It's great that it's still chugging along after 6 years. But now I'm having this same issue with both the mac desktop and laptop where it'll pop up that my startup disk is running out of space, which makes absolutely no sense what-so-freaking-ever because I'm not saving anything to the computers, I'm saving everything to a terabyte portable hard drive on the desktop and another portable hard drive (smaller, but still lots of space) for my laptop. I've used Onyx to clean up the desktop a few times, and it only lasts for like a whopping 30 minutes until it starts popping up on me again.
For my laptop, Onyx just simply isn't working at all, so I'm screwed there. I've told the popup box to stop showing me the message and everything seems to be fine.

A few weeks ago, the desktop just completely froze, so I tried to shut it down but it wouldn't even do that, not even by pressing the button on the computer itself. So I unplugged everything and turned it back on, computer started back up, but then froze again once I got to the use login screen. Wouldn't let me even click a user. My guess is that it was just overheating but... I dunno. It's working now, hasn't froze, but it lags quite a bit.

Oh and also I used to have a regular PC and it didn't even last 2 years before it started giving me the blue screen of death. Grrr.

EDIT: Guess I didn't really give any advice did I? Just kinda ranted about my computer experiences. Sorry.

I get all sorts from all over the world. I like that.
Nah it's useful. It also makes me feeling better for being so useless with tech myself

 

[Rey C.]

CNET: Best laptops

 

[lurkingdirk]

Here is some sincere advice:

Get rid of your computer and never log into the internet again.

 

[Harley Spencer]

Here is some sincere advice:

Get rid of your computer and never log into the internet again.

Actually I was kinda thinking about something like that the other day, how many problems occurring with computers are due to the internet. Hit the wrong button, download the wrong content, use unsafe programs, visit unsafe websites, etc. and bam, your computer is now screwed unless you have the tech smarts to figure it out and fix it.
So if we never used the internet, we'd be much more safe.

But no way am I going without the internet! So, since pretty much everyone who has a computer uses the internet is prone to potential problems with no matter what type of computer you have.

 

[lurkingdirk]

Perfect for a man of your intellect:

 

[HappyHapyJoyJoy]

Perfect for a man of your intellect:

Hey man, the Commodores fucking rocked, don't make fun of them!

Actually I was kinda thinking about something like that the other day, how many problems occurring with computers are due to the internet. Hit the wrong button, download the wrong content, use unsafe programs, visit unsafe websites, etc. and bam, your computer is now screwed unless you have the tech smarts to figure it out and fix it.
So if we never used the internet, we'd be much more safe.

The problem isn't really the Internet though, it's all the assholes out there. Viruses exist because someone made them. Remove the assholes and 99% of the problem is solved.

 

[lurkingdirk]

Hey man, the Commodores fucking rocked, don't make fun of them!

I wasn't making fun! I had one, too. Full set up. Cost about 6 times as much as my current lap top. crazy.

 

[HappyHapyJoyJoy]

I wasn't making fun! I had one, too. Full set up. Cost about 6 times as much as my current lap top. crazy.

It sounded like you were suggesting they were stupid.

But obviously they couldn't be, because they could run awesome games like Mail Order Monsters!

 

[luis1972]

Be smart, please!

 

[vodkazvictim]

Here is some sincere advice:

Get rid of your computer and never log into the internet again.

I will do that.
And you will regret it because you will miss me.

Perfect for a man of your intellect:

Remember Cannon Fodder?
BEST.
GAME.
EVAR!

Be smart, please!