[Mad Vlad]

(Original post by fnm)
Hi guys-sorry for posting here, but thought it was worth a shot.

Just sold something for the first time on ebay-my account is attached to paypal etc. On the selling tab for the item all the icons are greyed out (understandably) and next to it it says 'send payment details'. So basically I need to send an invoice with my pp address right? Does this mean the buyer wasn't able to pay instantly?

Bit confused-any help appreciated, cheers

You're probably best starting a thread in the "Advice on Everyday Issues" forum.

[fnm]

(Original post by Mad Vlad)
You're probably best starting a thread in the "Advice on Everyday Issues" forum.

Thanks for the help

[ch0llima]

Thank you all for your warm welcomes back <3. However, you may still have some questions so I think it's time to clear things up.

Firstly, I think it probably became apparent quite early on that this was a windup. Which it was. The long and the short is that I decided to take a break from TSR, leaving in such a fashion that would be relevant to the sort of things I do and in a manner which left unanswered questions. Trolololol (Eduard Khil )

However, my "retirement" started to unravel over the course of the past week or two:

1. Besides the usual Anonfag van rides you hear about (h3h3h3 dumb ****s - the best hackers are the ones you've never heard of), there were also CEOP child porn raids in my area quite recently. Under no circumstances did I want anyone getting the wrong end of the stick and thinking I was somehow involved, because that is something I find just as unacceptable as most other sensible people would. If I do ever get raided and v& it would be nothing to do with nonceing.
2. Some nerk decides, in ostensibly amateurish fashion, to help themselves to this here database with its rather interesting password security policy. As 'Paranoia' is my middle name I couldn't possibly leave my password as was and thus came back to change it. In that vein, I'd be interested in knowing who the guilty party is seeing as the nature of the attack would suggest it was fairly carefully planned.

TL;DR - I pretended, perhaps with rather poor judgment, to get v& so I can temporarily leave TSR with a bit of a bang. **** goes down which may lead people to draw false conclusions. TSR gets t3h h4xx0r3d so I come back to change my password and decided to stick around.

So, no vans this time. That said I'd bet 10p that I appear on several watchlists given my area of expertise/interest and some of the other websites (absolutely nothing to do with illegal pornography ) and discussions I engage in.

[Gofre]

(Original post by ch0llima)
TL;DR - I pretended, perhaps with rather poor judgment, to get v& so I can temporarily leave TSR with a bit of a bang. **** goes down which may lead people to draw false conclusions. TSR gets t3h h4xx0r3d so I come back to change my password and decided to stick around.

I have to say, this is very disappointing.

[secretmessages]

(Original post by ch0llima)
Firstly, I think it probably became apparent quite early on that this was a windup.

*bans you*

[Intriguing Alias]

(Original post by ch0llima)
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Ah I should've trusted my gut instinct that you were just going and wanted to wind us up I thought something deeper would've been more exciting though - let myself believe it.

[Gofre]

Turns out I called it

(Original post by Gofre)
Part of me wants to think he's just left TSR and this is an elaborate prank to have us all guessing, like Bilbo at his birthday party in LOTR. Hopefully he's ok either way

[Intriguing Alias]

(Original post by Gofre)
Turns out I called it

+rep


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Just tried using my old mouse (the one my younger brother now uses) rather than my G500 and it's such a painful experience, more so than before. I use it for 10 seconds and it feels like my wrist is about to break.

[SMed]

Is it possible to get free spotify premium? *for educational purposes*

So far I've only seen things that will only give you a premium code generator after some surveys... but they all seem dodgy. *for educational purposes*

Are they legit? *for educational purposes*

[+ polarity -]

http://www.sagernotebook.com/index.p...el_name=NP6110

It looks pretty ugly, but it also looks powerful

[SMed]

I think it looks fine. Fairly understated, especially considering what a lot of computers sold as 'gaming' machines look like.

[Gofre]

I've never understood the concept of gaming netbooks, surely it can't be a particularly enjoyable experience trying to play hardcore titles on an 11" screen, and if you're just going to hook it up to a monitor surely it be smarter to build a more powerful desktop and get a cheap netbook for use on the move

On the subject of gaming machines, there was a 17" Alienware in the Dell tent at Beach Break. Christ those things are enormous it was also quite funny watching my mate, who likes to pretend that he knows what he's talking about, try and convince us that his desktop at home was only marginally worse. I've seen that desktop, it's got a first gen i3, 4GB of RAM and an entry level 512MB GPU. According to him that's all he needs to play Battlefield 3 on max settings

[Dez]

Does anyone know of a site where I could upload a bunch of photos (preferably at reasonable quality), but also would allow me to set up a "feeder account", that can upload extra ones? I'd like to have some way for family members to collate photos from this weekend, so it needs to be as non-techie friendly as possible. Would somewhere like Flickr work? I was considering Dropbox, but I think it'll be too complicated...

[Ape Gone Insane]

(Original post by Dez)
Does anyone know of a site where I could upload a bunch of photos (preferably at reasonable quality), but also would allow me to set up a "feeder account", that can upload extra ones? I'd like to have some way for family members to collate photos from this weekend, so it needs to be as non-techie friendly as possible. Would somewhere like Flickr work? I was considering Dropbox, but I think it'll be too complicated...

As far as my experience with Flickr goes, there's an unique email that you can send photos to and it will upload them straight to your photostream - if attaching/embedding images through email counts as non-techie friendly.

[Mad Vlad]

(Original post by ch0llima)
Thank you all for your warm welcomes back <3. However, you may still have some questions so I think it's time to clear things up.

Firstly, I think it probably became apparent quite early on that this was a windup. Which it was. The long and the short is that I decided to take a break from TSR, leaving in such a fashion that would be relevant to the sort of things I do and in a manner which left unanswered questions. Trolololol (Eduard Khil )

However, my "retirement" started to unravel over the course of the past week or two:

1. Besides the usual Anonfag van rides you hear about (h3h3h3 dumb ****s - the best hackers are the ones you've never heard of), there were also CEOP child porn raids in my area quite recently. Under no circumstances did I want anyone getting the wrong end of the stick and thinking I was somehow involved, because that is something I find just as unacceptable as most other sensible people would. If I do ever get raided and v& it would be nothing to do with nonceing.
2. Some nerk decides, in ostensibly amateurish fashion, to help themselves to this here database with its rather interesting password security policy. As 'Paranoia' is my middle name I couldn't possibly leave my password as was and thus came back to change it. In that vein, I'd be interested in knowing who the guilty party is seeing as the nature of the attack would suggest it was fairly carefully planned.

TL;DR - I pretended, perhaps with rather poor judgment, to get v& so I can temporarily leave TSR with a bit of a bang. **** goes down which may lead people to draw false conclusions. TSR gets t3h h4xx0r3d so I come back to change my password and decided to stick around.

So, no vans this time. That said I'd bet 10p that I appear on several watchlists given my area of expertise/interest and some of the other websites (absolutely nothing to do with illegal pornography ) and discussions I engage in.

This is pretty elaborate. Glad you're back though

[H.C. Chinaski]

(Original post by Dez)
Does anyone know of a site where I could upload a bunch of photos (preferably at reasonable quality), but also would allow me to set up a "feeder account", that can upload extra ones? I'd like to have some way for family members to collate photos from this weekend, so it needs to be as non-techie friendly as possible. Would somewhere like Flickr work? I was considering Dropbox, but I think it'll be too complicated...

I would use publc folder on dropbox, Picasaweb would also do the trick.

[tface]

(Original post by Dez)
Does anyone know of a site where I could upload a bunch of photos (preferably at reasonable quality), but also would allow me to set up a "feeder account", that can upload extra ones? I'd like to have some way for family members to collate photos from this weekend, so it needs to be as non-techie friendly as possible. Would somewhere like Flickr work? I was considering Dropbox, but I think it'll be too complicated...

If you set up a shared folder on dropbox on their computer (if that is too tech for them) then you can just tell them to drag the files into the specific folder, and then upload them onto Flickr or something yourself.

[+ polarity -]

Do you think they'll ever make SkyDrive faster? When I upload things from my browser it's pretty quick, but atm I'm backing up my documents to a SkyDrive folder that's being treated as a network drive, and it's done 18% (of 10.6 GB) since 02:20). I've been looking for solutions and haven't found any, it seems not even a really fast connection helps.

[Intriguing Alias]

(Original post by Gofre)
I've never understood the concept of gaming netbooks, surely it can't be a particularly enjoyable experience trying to play hardcore titles on an 11" screen, and if you're just going to hook it up to a monitor surely it be smarter to build a more powerful desktop and get a cheap netbook for use on the move

On the subject of gaming machines, there was a 17" Alienware in the Dell tent at Beach Break. Christ those things are enormous it was also quite funny watching my mate, who likes to pretend that he knows what he's talking about, try and convince us that his desktop at home was only marginally worse. I've seen that desktop, it's got a first gen i3, 4GB of RAM and an entry level 512MB GPU. According to him that's all he needs to play Battlefield 3 on max settings

I can only see it being useful for people who are so addicted to gaming that whenever they sit down they need to have a Battlefield 3 (or whatever) fix. But yeah - those people aren't exactly healthy.

[SMed]

Was way overdo trying to get a Virgin upgrade. Was on 10mb broadband, now on 30mb. But also got cheaper phone deal and tivo and I'm paying about £12 less than before. It's a good idea to phone these people once a year and try to get more out of them.