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RE: OT Things to ponder
Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2016 11:40 am
by Lecivius
Back to pondering ( there is, after all, another thread for this...topic [;)] )
RE: OT Things to ponder
Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2016 12:25 pm
by Anthropoid
Everything you never wanted to know about Counsellor Troi's Cleavage . . . highlight: had Roddenberry stuck with his original idea, the Troi character would have
had a whole lot of cleavage. Originally, creator Gene Roddenberry imagined Troi as "a four-breasted, oversexed hermaphrodite." Writer Dorothea "DC" Fontana convinced him to change the character. Fontana wrote,
"I honestly believe you will offend most women, and maybe a lot of men with this character. Besides, how are you going to arrange those four provocatively shaped breasts? Four in a row? They had better be small. Two banks of two? Do you know how much trouble women have with the normal number—keeping them out of the way of things, I mean. Four straight up and down? Don’t be silly."
In the end, they decided to give her a standard cleavage, but kept the eye candy.
RE: OT Things to ponder
Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2016 12:54 pm
by MakeeLearn
What if.....
RE: OT Things to ponder
Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2016 1:49 pm
by geofflambert
ORIGINAL: Lecivius
Back to pondering ( there is, after all, another thread for this...topic [;)] )
Snatched Defeat from the Jaws of Victory.
RE: OT Things to ponder
Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2016 2:43 pm
by BBfanboy
ORIGINAL: geofflambert
*** This thread is temporarily interrupted for an emergency announcement ***
Does anyone know what this is? This yellow line is bouncing back and forth in the central third of my screen like it's being scanned.
I must've hit something I shouldn't have. It doesn't matter if I'm online or not or on screensaver, it's always happening
How do I get rid of this?
*** We now return you to your regularly scheduled content. Please interrupt with an emergency answer ***
Looks like a video card or driver problem to me. Try changing the video resolution on your desktop and then change it back again.
RE: OT Things to ponder
Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2016 2:48 pm
by geofflambert
I've got a bunch of goofy things happening on my computer lately. Who or what would block iexplorer from graphics hardware?
Google Chrome? This is the second time it happened and it took awhile for me to get a cursor back, open taskmanager, select iexplorer and kill it. Any ideas?
RE: OT Things to ponder
Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2016 2:48 pm
by warspite1
ORIGINAL: Lecivius
Back to pondering ( there is, after all, another thread for this...topic [;)] )
warspite1
Well said sir [:)]. Sadly for some peeps the GD forum is too scary to venture forth into. Glad to see some of you aren't afraid of the dark and pop in once in a while to support the Australian Beauties thread amongst others [8D]
RE: OT Things to ponder
Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2016 2:49 pm
by geofflambert
The other time there was, as in this case, 21 of these messages before it stopped.
RE: OT Things to ponder
Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2016 2:59 pm
by Lecivius
Stupid (but obvious question), what happens when you reboot & come back with no applications running?
RE: OT Things to ponder
Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2016 3:02 pm
by geofflambert
ORIGINAL: BBfanboy
Looks like a video card or driver problem to me. Try changing the video resolution on your desktop and then change it back again.
Just tried that, had no effect whatever. By the way, you may have noticed from my other post that like the cursor, my screenshot program ignores the yellow oscillating line.
RE: OT Things to ponder
Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2016 3:07 pm
by geofflambert
ORIGINAL: warspite1
ORIGINAL: Lecivius
Back to pondering ( there is, after all, another thread for this...topic [;)] )
warspite1
Well said sir [:)]. Sadly for some peeps the GD forum is too scary to venture forth into. Glad to see some of you aren't afraid of the dark and pop in once in a while to support the Australian Beauties thread amongst others [8D]
This forum is bad enough. If I went to that other one I'd never have time to get up. I'd have to sit on a chamber pot. [:(]
RE: OT Things to ponder
Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2016 3:08 pm
by geofflambert
I think I could manage that with my bathrobe on. Maybe I'll try that.
RE: OT Things to ponder
Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2016 3:13 pm
by MakeeLearn
as asked
Lots of startups ?
RE: OT Things to ponder
Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2016 3:14 pm
by geofflambert
yes.
RE: OT Things to ponder
Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2016 3:15 pm
by MakeeLearn
start turning off unneeded programs
RE: OT Things to ponder
Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2016 3:16 pm
by BBfanboy
ORIGINAL: geofflambert
ORIGINAL: BBfanboy
Looks like a video card or driver problem to me. Try changing the video resolution on your desktop and then change it back again.
Just tried that, had no effect whatever. By the way, you may have noticed from my other post that like the cursor, my screenshot program ignores the yellow oscillating line.
Looks like a virus to me. Better post the question in the Tech Forum. That info on blocked graphics access is interesting.
If you prefer IE but also have Google Chrome installed, the conflict between them may be an issue. I would uninstall Google Chrome and make sure IE was set as the default browser. I am using Win 7 so I do not know if Win 10 handles these things in the same way.
RE: OT Things to ponder
Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2016 3:17 pm
by Anthropoid
Other silly things to consider:
1. Run whatever 'security' app you have installed
2. Defrag your machine (delete your caches [the browsers, the Win folders, that sort of thing])
3. If all else fails, revert to a previous image of the system/apps with El "Systemo Restoro Fabuloso"
RE: OT Things to ponder
Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2016 3:18 pm
by MakeeLearn
RE: OT Things to ponder
Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2016 3:19 pm
by szmike
which graphics card do you have?
I'd try resetting driver to default settings
RE: OT Things to ponder
Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2016 3:27 pm
by Lecivius
Before resetting drivers or messing with the OS,
1) Disconnect your LAN cable
2) Reboot into a 'clean' OS. Does the problem persist?
3) CNTRL-ALT-Delete, check to make sure no applications other than Task Manager are running. If so, you have been had...
4) If not, go to Applications, ensure only system applications and applications under your login are running
5) Keep an eye on Network to ensure no application keeps trying to go active. If so, you have been had.
6) You are disconnected fron the LAN, so disable your AV program. Does that help?
From here on, it can get a little complicated [:(]