04/28 - Taeyang Thursday!

[cassius]

Off topic but with what I've read on here today that's difficult to do - anyway, I dug out an elderly Windows 7 Toshiba computer this evening to see if I could get it to work. It turned on, IE came up and I found Windows defender and ran that, got rid of a virus, it said it found only one. I tried going places but it didn't want to go to too many, and it won't download any virus protection - just says it can't move to the site. I've got upgrade running now as it hasn't been upgraded since 2011. Once the upgrades are in place will that help the poor old fellow or will it still stumble along? It has 6/memory and 500/ hard drive. Is it best to keep fussing with it or should I do a factory restore and see if that fixes it? There's nothing on it I need, just wanted to see if it would work. Thanks for any advice, feel free to PM me.

 

[Jerami]

shit posting takes no effort or thought... writing a response to a blog requires effort

Not always.

This is a well written blog post. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I thought it was concise and am posting it to social media. I specifically liked the beginning bit.

 

[Aydiarose]

Off topic but with what I've read on here today that's difficult to do - anyway, I dug out an elderly Windows 7 Toshiba computer this evening to see if I could get it to work. It turned on, IE came up and I found Windows defender and ran that, got rid of a virus, it said it found only one. I tried going places but it didn't want to go to too many, and it won't download any virus protection - just says it can't move to the site. I've got upgrade running now as it hasn't been upgraded since 2011. Once the upgrades are in place will that help the poor old fellow or will it still stumble along? It has 6/memory and 500/ hard drive. Is it best to keep fussing with it or should I do a factory restore and see if that fixes it? There's nothing on it I need, just wanted to see if it would work. Thanks for any advice, feel free to PM me.

make sure you install all required updates and check the 'optional' ones as well... sometimes theres some not so optional ones in there. After all that if it doesn't work you'll probably want to factory reset.

 

[Pleco]

shit posting takes no effort or thought... writing a response to a blog requires effort

I can vouch for this.

 

[thedorchannel]

Title: Read and comment on a blog post by an athlete: 04/28/2016 | PANDA Requester: Peter Azuolas [A2PY4RAFKKBZIJ] (TO) TO Ratings: ★★★★★ 0.00 Communicativity ★★★★★ 2.60 Generosity ★★★★★ 5.00 Fairness ★★★★★ 3.33 Promptness Number of Reviews: 7 | TOS Flags: 0 Submit a new TO review Description: Write a comment on this post Time: 15 minutes HITs Available: 7 Reward: $0.50 Qualifications: Total approved HITs is greater than 50

 

[LightningLord]

I only got 3 blog post hits :'(
My laziness got the best of me again.

 

[cassius]

make sure you install all required updates and check the 'optional' ones as well... sometimes theres some not so optional ones in there. After all that if it doesn't work you'll probably want to factory reset.

Thanks. That's what I thought and am trying to do now. I put the thing away because it was failing and I'd already sent it back to Toshiba once for repairs. But I've learned a bit about fixing computers since so just thought for the heck of it, I'd try it again. It has a huge screen for a laptop and would be useful for watching movies and such. I don't want to use it for important stuff.

 

[thedorchannel]

shit posting takes no effort or thought... writing a response to a blog requires effort

it all depends on the topics. These were about sports that I follow, so the stuff I wrote about was stuff I already thought about prior to the hit being posted.

 

[Aydiarose]

I only got 3 blog post hits :'(
My laziness got the best of me again.

I got none

 

[Bigbore]

got 3 rejections out of the 182 short a9s i did, was a cruddy a9 batch lol

 

[Aydiarose]

Thanks. That's what I thought and am trying to do now. I put the thing away because it was failing and I'd already sent it back to Toshiba once for repairs. But I've learned a bit about fixing computers since so just thought for the heck of it, I'd try it again. It has a huge screen for a laptop and would be useful for watching movies and such. I don't want to use it for important stuff.

do a google search and see if theres a windows store near you. You can take it to them and they'll refresh it and remove viruses for free. Takes about two days.

 

[Pleco]

got 3 rejections out of the 182 short a9s i did, was a cruddy a9 batch lol

Didn't most of them have the actual item in the picture?

 

[Yatagarasu]

Title: Read and comment on a blog post by an athlete: 04/28/2016 | PANDA Requester: Peter Azuolas [A2PY4RAFKKBZIJ] (TO) TO Ratings: ★★★★★ 0.00 Communicativity ★★★★★ 2.60 Generosity ★★★★★ 5.00 Fairness ★★★★★ 3.33 Promptness Number of Reviews: 7 | TOS Flags: 0 Submit a new TO review Description: Write a comment on this post Time: 15 minutes HITs Available: 7 Reward: $0.50 Qualifications: Total approved HITs is greater than 50

Wow, TO says he used to pay $0.02 for these. Caught 5.

 

[cassius]

do a google search and see if theres a windows store near you. You can take it to them and they'll refresh it and remove viruses for free. Takes about two days.

Thanks. I will check that. Defender did say it only found one nasty virus and it also said it got rid of it, but I like the safety of a virus protection program. I run Norton on the other two but not sure I want that on this one with the way Norton likes to chew up space.

 

[aveline]

Title: Social Perceptions - 6 minute survey - psychology study (~ 5 minutes) | PANDA Requester: Survey Studies for Pay [A3LCIQF1AIQ7J1] (TO) TO Ratings: ★★★★★ 3.45 Communicativity ★★★★★ 4.14 Generosity ★★★★★ 4.93 Fairness ★★★★★ 4.84 Promptness Number of Reviews: 110 | TOS Flags: 3 Submit a new TO review Description: In this study, you will read a scenario and respond to questions about it. ~6 minutes. This survey includes qualification questions. Time: 25 minutes HITs Available: 1 Reward: $1.00 Qualifications: Exc: [324263-10977] has not been granted;Total approved HITs is not less than 1000;HIT approval rate (%) is not less than 95;Location is one of: US

 

[Bigbore]

yeah, guess i missed a couple that had them in the corner, some were hard to tell if they were shorts or boxers, but i guess amazon thinks differently.

 

[VGB]

Title: News Article Comment Classification | PANDA Requester: James Block [A1XHZ2PAMMSGI2] (TO) TO Ratings: ★★★★★ 3.09 Communicativity ★★★★★ 3.44 Generosity ★★★★★ 4.15 Fairness ★★★★★ 4.22 Promptness Number of Reviews: 43 | TOS Flags: 0 Submit a new TO review Description: Classify user comments about news articles into several categories Time: 3 hours HITs Available: 3458 Reward: $0.03 Qualifications: Total approved HITs is greater than 100;HIT approval rate (%) is greater than 96;Location is one of: CA, US

they're fixed now

 

[aveline]

Title: News Article Comment Classification | PANDA Requester: James Block [A1XHZ2PAMMSGI2] (TO) TO Ratings: ★★★★★ 3.09 Communicativity ★★★★★ 3.44 Generosity ★★★★★ 4.15 Fairness ★★★★★ 4.22 Promptness Number of Reviews: 43 | TOS Flags: 0 Submit a new TO review Description: Classify user comments about news articles into several categories Time: 3 hours HITs Available: 3458 Reward: $0.03 Qualifications: Total approved HITs is greater than 100;HIT approval rate (%) is greater than 96;Location is one of: CA, US

they're fixed now

Now if only he'd fix that pay a bit so that I don't hate myself as much for doing them.

 

[Aydiarose]

Thanks. I will check that. Defender did say it only found one nasty virus and it also said it got rid of it, but I like the safety of a virus protection program. I run Norton on the other two but not sure I want that on this one with the way Norton likes to chew up space.

depending on your surfing habits you can easily end up with viruses that most scanners will miss entirely or not be able to remove completely. That happened to me once years ago. My only option was a factory reset.

 

[Tribune]

Thanks. I will check that. Defender did say it only found one nasty virus and it also said it got rid of it, but I like the safety of a virus protection program. I run Norton on the other two but not sure I want that on this one with the way Norton likes to chew up space.

The free version of Malwarebytes is lightweight (and fast).

edit: I don't use it to replace Defender, but only as a supplement.