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That's a pretty neat trick, since AFAIK, Brawler deleted his Twitter account...


It means the OP of the emoticon is braindead.

You shore haf a funnee way oh spellin City Oh Heros, mistur...

Pop is the sound a balloon makes when it breaks. It is not, never has been, and never will be, Soda. And no, there is no Soda Pop, either.

The only acceptable terms are Soda, or the brand name. If you come to me and ask for a pop, I'm gonna pop ya. >.>

Also: The only buggy that exists is when something is wrong with a program's code, or that thing your dive over dunes. Otherwise, it's a shopping cart, or a cart. It's also not a basket. When asked for a buggy, I respond with, "We have shopping carts <location>". When asked for a basket, I direct them to the little hand baskets.

Stupid people don't like me. But that's OK, because I hate them.


All them damed Canadans living up in Canadia are crazy go nuts. Probably why I like 'em, eh?

Didn't that already happen?

Aww, c'mon!! I just got a fresh bag of marshmallows!!

SATA stands for Serial ATA. ATA is Advanced Technology Attachment. Sometimes, it's better to keep things as initials.

Anyway, it lets you transfer data faster, with less wires needed.

The RPM in 7200 RPM is Revolutions Per Minute. The Hard Disk Drive (HDD) contains a stack of platters, and electromagnents read and write the data from and to the platters. In 60 seconds, the platters rotate 360 degress 7,200 times.

Someone waaaaay smarter than I should be around shortly to explain more.

The Vet/Purchased/Freebie slots are linked to the in-game store. When that server goes down, any opened and unused slot beyond the 12th becomes locked, because the client can't verify the unlocked status of said slot.

The good news is that when the in-game store server comes back online, you get your slots unlocked. It's extra good when you consider that more often that not, when this happens on the Training Room, you have to delete characters until you have 11 or less, and then re-"purchase"* all of your slots.

* Fortunatly, the Training Room's in-game store isn't connected to your Master Account, so you can buy all that stuff willy nilly for free. Except for Going Rogue. That one WILL charge you.

Little bit of an update on this.

They showed up this morning, so I went to work, operating on my computer. I read the support page for my compy that shows how to replace the PSU one more time before I powered down and got to work.

It was really very easy. Unplug everything first, of course. Take off the side panel, disconnect the connections from the PSU to the MoBo, CPU, HDD, and DVD. Unscrew the four screws holding the PSU in the case. Press the little release latch, and pop out the old PSU. Stick the new PSU in the slot, screw it in, connect the MoBo, CPU, DVD, and HDD. Stick in the new vidja card, and connect it to the PSU. Put the side panel back on, plug everything back in, flip the switch on the PSU to on, and press the power button on my case.

Here we go!!

...

Nothing. Absolutly nothing. It was the exact same nothing that happens when you unplug the power cord for something, and then try to turn it on.

I removed the vidja card to see if maybe that was causing some issue. Still nothing. I left it out, and unplugged, then replugged the 4 connectors (MoBo, CPU, DVD, and HDD). Nothing again. Tried a different outlet, in a different room. An avalanche of nothing.

I got on The Wife™'s compy, and went to OCZ's website. Checked their FAQ, and like my compy, got nothing. Same thing with the tech support forums. I was drowning in a sea of nothing.

I found an 800 number to call for support, so I called it, and told the tech guy what happened. He had me unplug the MoBo conenctor, take a paperclip, and use it as a jumper. The paperclip did not want to play nice, and got all bent out of shape. I finally stuck it to it, and stuck it into the proper holes, plugged the cord into the PSU, flipped the switch to on, and before I even pressed the power button on my case, the fan on the PSU started to spin.

Tech Dude on the phone said that the MoBo was the problem. Son of an *** weasel monkey poo flinging porcupine ******!! I said, "Great. I guess the PSU fried my motherboard.". He did the only thing he could, and asked if there was anything else he could help me with. I said no, and he told me to have a good day. I couldn't be mad at him. None of it was his fault. **** happens.

But I generally don't know when to quit. So, I took the new PSU out of my case, and stuck my old one back in.

And my computer booted up. Hmm... it seems the MoBo isn't dead after all...

I called OCZ Tech Support back, got a different Tech Dude, and told him what had happened, including my prior call. He said that the jumper test isn't 100% conclusive, and that if you can test with another PSU and have it start, then it's a faulty PSU.

I'm going to be setting up an RMA for the PSU. Hopefully, when the new one gets here, everything will work as it should.

I enjoy modern technology, but we always have issues like this. I suppose I should count it as a blessing. As long as I have issues, it means modern technonlgy still likes me.