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Amazon credit, or at least that's all I've ever used it for since it's so easy. It just shows up in your Amazon account as available funds. There may be a cash back option if you go through Chase.

I posted it in some thread (apparently not this one), but the Amazon Visa is the way to go if you use amazon in any non-trivial capacity. 5% back on Amazon Prime purchases, 3% back on non prime amazon, 2% restaurant, gas and grocery and 1% on everything else. I literally use it for everything...

My contract is up for recompete this year and I honestly hope another company gets it. Most people take pay cuts when this happens but Im pretty sure I can get a raise. Plus the company that I'm thinking is likely to win has much better benefits. If I don't get a raise then it's time to jump...

I might play. 1 million percent casual though. Don't even know if I'd endeavor to do an open world raid this time around. I did enjoy the static experience though so I'd be down to do that again with the right people.

That integrity checker was largely bullshit from what I can tell. I decompiled it and saw nothing aside from it corrupting some packets when you connected to a server he had hard coded causing it to crash the game. That's why I was able to just substitute an older checker (that had no hard coded...

Sounds like it's getting set to "Text" rather than "JSON":

Best bet is to find the same drive model on ebay or something (make sure it is the exact same), and swap the platters from your drive over to the new working one. Youtube has lots of videos detailing how to do it. I did this a few years back with one of my wife's computers and was able to...

Digging the Amon amarth. The nenia cover is awesome, should post that one. I think it's my favorite instrumental of all time.

My oldest son was in underwear by 2.5. He started peeing in the toilet pretty much full time right before his 2nd birthday and pooping took a few more months. My youngest is 2 now and will use the toilet when he feels like it (i.e. when you are really fucking busy and can't really fuck around...

That was me like 7 years ago. No metronome so don't judge the messed up timing heh.

Doesn't 23andme do all that pseudo scientific gene analysis stuff though? I used to work with a dude who had made all sorts of self diagnoses on himself based on a bunch of that gene analysis stuff and I think I recall him mentioning 23andme. The family tree stuff isn't life impacting in any...

It's more about who the customer is than the actual contracting company. I've mostly worked directly with military at their sites so I've gotten to build some cool shit and go to some cool places. It's a trade off though, my day-to-day satisfaction is high but I sacrifice in other places like...

Telecommuting is a no go for those of us who work on classified networks. It's an option I also miss but it could be a hassle at my last job.Tech and creative companies tend to get it, but with most other places it just seems to fly over their heads. You either get managers who inherently hate...

Most of the places I've worked you either have to do the whole doctors note thing if you are sick more than 2 days in a row or they don't delineate sick from vacation (it's all PTO) in which case no one wants to use more sick than they have to. In either case you wind up with most people just...

I heard an old dude hacking up a lung bitching today because he wouldn't of gotten sick had everyone else stayed home. Yet here he is. Would be sweet if all employers actually gave you adequate PTO to stay home the full week you supposedly need to be non-contagious. But no one does and the ones...

Your router usually has a parental controls feature built in. Generally based off of openDNS which isn't all that great. I use piHole and add my own list of sites to it. If you tell your kids no youtube, an empty DNS entry to googlevideo.com will ensure that they won't be watching any videos...

Open a regular cmd window, then type 'runas /netonly /user:<username> cmd' replace <username> with your admin user (or just your name if you are the admin) it will prompt for password and then give you an admin prompt. Then you should be able to do sfc /scannow.

My contract is paid up until June so I'm good unless the shutdown lasts that long... but then we got bigger problems than my job :eek:

Tried switching monitor cables or messing with resolution yet? I see a lot of people saying it solved that specific error:

I would think the scaling is actually better for those (very small) few who pick up the game and start from scratch. At least now you get a decently cohesive single player game until you hit 110. If anything, the real shit slog starts at 100 as you'll probably spend as much or more time actually...

Levelling is way more cohesive now, that's for sure. I have had a few quests get fucked up and just completely dye out on me. I also finished up the last chapter in Hillsbrad and didn't get the achievement. I think it's because I'm permanently bugged from another quest that disguised me as an...

Regarding the hard freezes we were discussing a while back, I think I actually fixed my issue. I was combing through freeze threads on tom's hardware for the thousandth time and came across one where the dude's symptoms matched mine and he was able to fix it by upping the RAM voltage in the...

I found some thread where people are saying that lowering resolution (can raise it back after a successful launch) and/or switching from a DVI to HDMI cable has solved the issue. I see a lot of examples of people having this problem with a DVI cable and swapping to HDMI or DP is fixing it.

Try and get the account info from him some how some way. I bet he registered it through some wack ass company like Go Daddy who will turn around and re-register it to themselves and charge you a premium to get it back.

I'm definitely with you on Windows and DirectX being the problem. You're going to hate hearing this lol, but with Windows 10 there is no standalone DirectX installation (it's integrated with the OS) so the only thing you can do is either repair or reinstall Windows or fuck around with older...

Well I meant it more in the sense that it's a fun hobby but not something I would be in the position to do or even desire to do as my soul source of income. I'm way too risk averse regarding my family anyway. If I were single with no kids it might be a different story but the fact is that the...

Started an undead warlock. Between Tirisfall and Silverpine got lvl 30. The experience is very similar to recent xpacs where you just follow the quests. Nothing special really, but it is my first undead so I'm enjoying the content I haven't seen.

At this point you're best bet is probably boot from your win10 disk or recovery partition and running the Windows repair. From an admin command prompt you can also try typing 'sfc /scannow' and see if it repairs anything. If all that fails, then reinstalling completely would be the last resort...

I've played lots and lots of poker in casinos (probably more than online) and I love it a lot. Which is why I'd never make it a job. The one thing I do want to do one day is get into the Main Event and see how far I could go. I came real close in a 75 dollar satellite for a seat in the main...

I've played wow and eq1 on 4g with no issues before. It was actually faster than the hotel wifi. This was on verizon though so can't say how well T-Mobile will do as I never hear anything good about T-Mobile. I'd imagine if the 4g is strong wherever you are at it should be ok.

That same error is plastered all over the EA and BF forums for all kinds of graphics cards. It sounds like a game bug to me. DirectX Error: FindClosestMatchingMode - Answer HQ

With my youngest I have a camera that I can speak through in his room. I straight up tell him to go back to sleep through the camera and he usually listens. I've been really fortunate with the sleeping though, both of my kids have slept great for the most part. Have you tried giving him a...

I haven't shaved in 10+ years. Mine grows thicker on the right side and more "out" where as the left side hugs my face a lot nicer. So I have to try and thin the right side a little so it matches the left. Sometimes I fuck it up and have to trim the whole thing with like a #3 guard on the razor...

You shouldn't need to edit policy to turn off Windows driver updates. The first link I posted previously shows how to do it from control panel. You should also be able to press win key + r then type devmgmt.msc and then under display adapter in the device tree click your card and change the...

My comment wasn't in response to anyone in particular (I quoted Cad though) just a comment. I don't even think I mentioned biting in my original response. Maybe it was his kid, I read it as the son's friend got bit and his son played with the dog the next day. Doesn't really matter, neck should...

You didn't even reply to that guy, and I don't think it was his son that got bit... It was definitely his duty though to snap the neck.

We will save another 20 pages of neck snapping savagery and just say yes. We all agree that if the dog is seriously attacking kids (or anyone) it has to go. The disagreement came in over the vague definition of "breaking skin." I proposed that if "breaking skin" is all it takes, then maybe you...

Yeah wormie's advice is good for your background. I'd honestly recommend the same thing. To answer your question though and provide more detail, the system admin field is real bloated in the middle so most people probably make 60-80k. I'm currently a "system integration engineer," which is in...

What do you actually want to do within the IT space though? Everyone sort of spoke on software dev, but your skills would probably better qualify you for system admin jobs where scripting is big and shared code is not. Of course the ceiling is much lower so while you can make OK money, it's...