Hey computer geeks....

LooseGoose wrote:Get OpenOffice.   I ditched MSOffice for it years ago.

Quit lining that fucking Bill Gate's pockets.

The Pantry wrote:

LooseGoose wrote:Get OpenOffice.   I ditched MSOffice for it years ago.

Quit lining that fucking Bill Gate's pockets.

Not sure but doubt OO has an Access equivalent. If they do it's probably not fully compatible.

tGreenWay wrote:Just buy a 3 ft.long m-to-m cable (get the most expensive from Best Buy--it's the best) and attach it to your new laptop. Then attach the other M end to the other new laptop you bought from BB that has office in it. It's kind of like scissor in for dudes, but it works. Your welcome.

Rocinante wrote:IF you just got a new windows laptop, you should be able to get Office 365 across all devices for a year free.

Robert J Sakimano wrote:

tGreenWay wrote:Just buy a 3 ft.long m-to-m cable (get the most expensive from Best Buy--it's the best) and attach it to your new laptop. Then attach the other M end to the other new laptop you bought from BB that has office in it. It's kind of like scissor in for dudes, but it works. Your welcome.

seems like buying it at Best Buy would imply that it's the best buy.

LooseGoose wrote:Get OpenOffice.   I ditched MSOffice for it years ago.

Quit lining that fucking Bill Gate's pockets.

The Pantry wrote:Work computer misery the last few days. Month-old Dell XPS (Windows 7) BSOD'd a couple times the first day things started going south. Started getting black screens of death (would just black out then try to reboot itself, which it could not without a hard boot) yesterday. Our IT guy got with Dell support and ran diagnostics overnight to no conclusion. Agreed they would run more diagnostics at a later time.

Thing black-screened a few times this morning, one time with me away from the desk. Became unusable so I left work early this afternoon.

Use to do IT at an old place. IT not part of my job at the current place...no admin rights. Told our IT guy I think it's the video card (AMD Radeon R9) when shit first started, because I had experienced similar issues with a Dell workstation years back. Shook his head "no" and said he needed to check error logs.

Admitted this morning he now thinks it's the graphics card, but Dell thinking it might be the MB and is dragging the issue out.

JMO but have never had good luck with AMD components (same with HP stuff, except for printers/plotters). One guy in the office has the same Dell XPS and runs the same software, except his has an equivalent nVidia graphics card. His runs perfectly.

AMD stuff may work okay for gamers, but is complete shit for solid modeling software.

I know: "Weird rant, nerd bro"

CORNER BLITZ wrote:LibreOffice > openoffice

Robert J Sakimano wrote:

tGreenWay wrote:Just buy a 3 ft.long m-to-m cable (get the most expensive from Best Buy--it's the best) and attach it to your new laptop. Then attach the other M end to the other new laptop you bought from BB that has office in it. It's kind of like scissor in for dudes, but it works. Your welcome.

seems like buying it at Best Buy would imply that it's the best buy.

tGreenWay wrote:

Robert J Sakimano wrote:seems like buying it at Best Buy would imply that it's the best buy.

Late response: Not just a Best Buy, but the best, because it's the most expensive.

The Pantry wrote:There's probably a way to set it back to factory default with a paper clip

The Pantry wrote:There's probably a way to set it back to factory default with a paper clip

Rocinante wrote:Oh that was serious? I guess I know I could reset it, but I didn't want to if I didn't have to. I thought maybe there was a less cumbersome way to do it. Setup will take a while.

InTenSity wrote:Is the password on the router itself?

Floyd Robertson wrote:The admin password for the router interface can be different than the password you chose for the SSID, unless you explicitly changed the admin password. Like some routers out of the box have admin for the user and admin for the password. Check the documentation, unless you're sure you changed it.

Rocinante wrote:

Floyd Robertson wrote:The admin password for the router interface can be different than the password you chose for the SSID, unless you explicitly changed the admin password. Like some routers out of the box have admin for the user and admin for the password. Check the documentation, unless you're sure you changed it.

I considered this, but even if it's true, it still wouldn't explain why I can't connect new devices with the access password that's working for the devices connected now. I will check to see if I can get in to the router dashboard with other passwords. I'm fairly certain I know it, but it's worth a try. Thanks.

Floyd Robertson wrote:

Rocinante wrote:

I considered this, but even if it's true, it still wouldn't explain why I can't connect new devices with the access password that's working for the devices connected now. I will check to see if I can get in to the router dashboard with other passwords. I'm fairly certain I know it, but it's worth a try. Thanks.

Sometimes there is a default setting that limits the number of connectable devices. If the factory setting is 5, and you're trying to connect a 6th device, you don't really get a nice warning that tells you what the problem is.

tTy wrote:I just got a new laptop. I had Office on my old one, which still works, but it is getting dated. Is there a way to move it to my new lapper, or am I going to have to figure out how to steal it somehow?


Primarily just want Excel and Access.... Errything else can lick ma bawz...