You know what really grinds my gears....

[yeldar2097]

HA! No, it's because my broadband is slower than dial-up -_-

...Your house suffering from a power-outage whilst you're trying to re-kindle the spark between yourself and a certain black box made by Sony.
Subsequently asking your parents what's going on and getting the reply "Yeah the circuit-breakers trip around 5x a day, it's been like this for about a month. You just need to flip them back every time the power goes."

A MONTH?! GET A MAN WITH A TOOLBOX TO COME DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT THEN!

[F.E.I.S.A.R]

Something must be wrong with the circuitry in your house Yeldar. Perhaps OBH can help?(Didn't he take a course in electrician work or something similar?)
So the PS3 keeps getting turned on and off repeatedly?That's bad.

[yeldar2097]

It's all sorted now. The other half of the house still has power so I'm using 24m worth of extension cables to hook up my rig ^_^

[yeldar2097]

Gears....grinding....

[Oryx Crake]

you know that ps3 is seriously messing with you man, threaten it with an axe and maybe it will see reason...

... today however ny gears are grinded by stupid bugs in videogames, just to take an example that I think will be easily recognized here: the final straight on talons junction (R) on WOHD: if you happen to touch the walls at just the right spot here you get catapulted into the air (on phantom way above the stands) loosing you sometimes up to 5 seconds on your otherwise acceptable race time. I'm sure there are many more but, to the point, when these things happen my gears are grinded... grinded indeed.

[icarasDragon]

Poor Yeldar, what sucks even worse that there's insult to injury, Gran Turismo 5 is stuck in there and it is nearing the end of the life-span of and the PS3 Phats out there!

Altough, if you are brave enough and don't have a warranty anymore you can find a few videos on Youtube on opening the PS3, getting the disc out of the tray, and possibly solving your YLOD (Which could be the that the CPU's slipped a bit from the heat)
Also, a early Merry Christmas!
Yeldar's new pressie could possibly be a PS3 Slim maybe?

[stin]

Now, I`m starting to get seriously pissed off right now!!!!, at first, this morning after severe snow, one of a car actually blocked one way and now there is another car who actually blocked my driveway and I can`t get out tomorrow morning for work!!!

It`s fukin shite!

stevie

[Mr Phlanj]

why dont guys i work with have good aim when going for a piss.....and why cant they lift the seat if they have such rubbish aim >.<

[mdhay]

Seems like they need it.

[Mr Phlanj]

HA!

you made my day mate

[SaturnReturn]

I wonder the same at my work too. Also see some nasty stuff when you share toilets with so many people. Based on the things I've seen, I imagine quite a few people have fibre deficiency.

[MegaGeeza22]

Women who flirt when they have a man/husband at home... and then when you dont flirt back they take it personally?

[Dark_Phantom_89]

Computer viruses. Though I think I've managed to get rid of it with some tech savvy know-how.

And before you ask, no I haven't been on any dodgy sites.

[icarasDragon]

What type of viruses DP?
and what anti-virus did you use? (or anti-malware or anti-wares)
grinds my gears a bit too

[Dark_Phantom_89]

It was a Trojan which had infected one of the main drivers that the system needs to remain stable upon start-up. Everytime I logged on a bunch of pop-ups would appear and the Anti-Virus would go crazy. It'd be fine for 2 minutes then go to the blue screen and crash.

So I had to re-boot the computer in Safe Mode which effectively runs the computer with the bare minimum resources that it needs. Because everything else was disabled, the virus couldn't activate so I was able to do a System Restore and effectively go back in time with the computer to before the virus came along.

After that, I was able to log on normally but there were still a few issues and I could tell that the virus was still there. So I proceeded to run the Anti-Virus (McAfee) however it kept turning itself off everytime I tried to run it (the virus was probably doing that.)

So I checked for any updates with the Anti-Virus and installed the new one. This allowed the scanner to stay on and let it do its business. I ran a complete full scan of the computer and 4 hours later the virus was gone. Let's hope that's the end of it and I don't get any more nasty surprises.

[yeldar2097]

Give it a run through with Malwarebytes', finds everything that you never knew you had, then kills it

DP "Dodgy web history" 89

[Challenger #001]

Ugh, I had that same problem with McAfee always crashing and not finding the virus. It got better after I installed AVG and sprayed my computer heavily with that, but it forever ran slow until it got stolen in Brittany.

[Dan Locke]

If antivirus software doesn't work, you can always take the plunge and just edit the registry manually. That's assuming that you know exactly what you're doing, though.

[Harvai]

Ugh, I had that same problem with McAfee always crashing and not finding the virus. It got better after I installed AVG and sprayed my computer heavily with that, but it forever ran slow until it got stolen in Brittany.

That's why I gave Norton the flick. It would sit there and hog all of my system resources basically bringing the thing to a crawl. "You don't need to use your computer, you'd probably run into more viruses that way! By the way, I'm just going to scan now, don't try and stop me, because you can't!"

@ Dan Locke - Deleting System32 is always a good start!

[blackwiggle]

I ditch Nortons for McAfee.
Problems occurring with McAfee [rare for me] are usually related to using FIREFOX with add-on's.
Their was one a while back that I had that had exactly the same problem as you mention, it was a free Adobe Add-on but cause crashes due to a conflict between OS/McAfee/Firefox, had to restore from Safe mode as well.