The problem: Cable box in living room. Ethernet to my computer, younger kid’s computer, TV setup. No worries. Wi-Fi upstairs (older kid’s computer, Kindle Fires in bedroom), no worries. Basement has terrible reception. Wife needs good reception for work.
Assume I am not drilling a hole in the ceiling to drop an ethernet cable. Take that off the table. What’s my best non-intrusive solution that doesn’t involve moving my wife’s workstation out of the basement?
Specifically: monsters that steal people’s skins and wear them as disguises. I know of a couple examples from folklore, but I could use a few more. I was gonna say, ‘the more disgusting, the better’ – but that’s already baked into the request, isn’t it?
I’ve got one that plugs into analog jacks on the computer – one for the microphone, the other for the speaker. The speaker jack works fine: I can hear the sounds come through, no problem. The problem is the microphone: Skype doesn’t see it, Mumble doesn’t see it, Audible doesn’t see it, Windows 8 itself doesn’t see it. How do I convince the computer to recognize that there’s a microphone there?
Embarrassing, this: I used to have the skills to figure out what computer I’d need to buy – and that’s buy. I’m not building one. I’m not going to spend a month setting it up to get somebody else to build me one, either. I just want to order it and have it sent to me – that met these standards. Or even approximate them:
Recommended System Requirements
Intel CPU Core i7 3770 3,4 GHz
AMD CPU AMD FX-8350 4 GHz
Nvidia GPU GeForce GTX 770
AMD GPU Radeon R9 290
RAM 8GB
OS 64-bit Windows 7 or 64-bit Windows 8 (8.1)
DirectX 11
HDD Space 40 GB
Basically, she needs a good recommendation for a reasonably-priced off the shelf computer (mid three-figures) that will play Dragon Age Inquisition well. She’s not going to build her own, because she’s not into that sort of thing; and she’s not really likely to need anything more graphics intensive for another four, five years. With that in mind, suggestions welcome.
…but apparently I can’t change fonts easily in WordPress. Go figure; you’d think that after mucking about with computers for two-thirds of my life I’d be able to do something that simple…
Specifically, Democratic ones, on this level:
…or, of course, this one:
…had a conference call disrupted all to heck and gone, to the point where I lost all my notes and other reference material. For what it’s worth, the NRCC is pretty bullish about November.
So. Equilibrium disrupted. Must find something to reset brain until lunch arrives. Suggestions?
