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How safe to use is the testing branch for Ubuntu (****-proposed) ? Are those packages really unstable or did they just not have been reviewed by Canoncial ?

I am working on a script that converts JPG and PNG images into hacked Webm images.

JPG: for %f IN (*.jpg) DO ffmpeg -loop 1 -i "%~nf.jpg" -an -c:v libvpx -qmin 50 -qmax 50 -quality best -threads 4 -t 2 -r 1 "%~nf.webm"

PNG: for %f IN (*.png) DO ffmpeg -loop 1 -i "%~nf.png" -an -c:v libvpx -qmin 16 -qmax 16 -quality best -threads 4 -t 2 -r 1 "%~nf.webm"

Anyway how do I make a single script that will accept both PNG and JPG images?

>hacked Webm

Would using a PCI-e x1 to x16 extender slow down the graphics card if crossfired?

And which would be better, straight connecting a PCI-e x16 riser cable between the slot and the card? Or using the expansion board?

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Here's an example of what I COULD be looking at.

OR:
moddiy.com/products/Premium-Gold-Plated-16x-PCI%2dE-Extension-Shielded-Cable-Riser-(30cm).html

Wanna crossfire 3 cards together, but board only has 6 slots, and I might need the extras, so I wanted to NOT block them with double-highs.

So, for off-mainboard, x1 to x16? Or shielded x16 to x16 riser cable?
Furthermore, is there an x16 to x16 expansion BOARD like the x1 to x16 I showed?

I accidently changed my windows license key while using a key-gen. Now it keeps asking me to activate my copy of windows.

The Magical Jelly Bean only shows me the illegitimate license key, Is there any way to restore or find my original key?

Why not? hiroshima nagasaki won't allow us to upload webp photos anytime soon.

fuck is a "hacked webm"?

Foobarfags, how can I get f2k to have separate UI elements for the "currently playing" playlist and a list of whatever is currently selected?

Why does Google play store white screen on my phone every other day?

Visual of what I'd like to accomplish. I've done a bit of googling but have yet to find a solution

heh?

This one's mine
What do you want to do??

A webm that displays an image instead of a video. Since it retains the massively good compression of VP8 it results in smaller images compared to PNG and JPG. It's especially useful for images of chinese cartoons.

Webm related was 415KB as a PNG. Quality is pretty much the same.

WebP, not sure why people are calling it "hacked webm".

oh that's cool

anyone?

Because it turns a Webm, intended to show a video into a half baked image container. I would honestly love to use Webp and not have to do this but hiro won't allow webp on Sup Forums ever.

Because it's not actually WebP

I'm trying to get winamp-esque playlist/now playing management, as in, a separate UI element for selection and a separate UI element for whatever is currently playlist

i instaled a dds plugin for photoshop cs3 and enabled plugins in preferences, but when i try to open one it says it can't. i restarted photoshop and restarted my computer but neither of those worked.
what do i do?

Upgraded to WIn 10 a few days ago because I'm a clown.

Only real issue I've had (besides XBMC not being supported anymore so need to find another cheap way to stream films) is the audio, audio output worked fine for me (I know a lot of others have had issue with it), but it wasn't detecting any of my microphones that I plugged in (I'd get the pop up from my onboard audio drivers but couldn't actually use them).

Anyway, updating my motherboard's audio drivers seem to have fixed it, I can now plug in mics and use them, but now I can't open the VIA HD Audio Deck program that typically controls things like microphone boosting, noise suppression, etc. (not like I used the effects, but I occasionally used the boost).

Any idea what's going on? Not sure if it's me updating my motherboard's audio drivers that's caused the program not to function, and it's just the restart that fixed my mics not being detected.

I moved into my grandparents house and found out they have two modems, which is why their internet keeps cutting out periodically. They have can't move them because they need the physical ethernet cable in two seperate, far away rooms. One of those rooms is for a home phone they refuse to get rid of despite never using. Can I buy them something like pic/link related and use that in the phone room? Or is that not how phone lines work?

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1 lane isn't enough, 4 is the minimum I would consider

I want to make a MUD in C#, but with the output through a web browser like how IRC is done nowadays. For the front-end stuff, what languages and tools should I be looking at?

What the fuck am I doing wrong?

try cd-ing to the f:/sources directory first

I need a mic that meets the following criteria
>sub £50
>on amazon
>hardware mute button

You right-click in the "Playlist" module and create a new list. Activate it, add songs to your list, and then you can switch between lists?

hmmm, do you know where I could get a riser board that will do that? It would have to be a maximum of 4-slots high, though, because it would be going under a server board. So, the server would be on top, and whatever I connect to off-board cards to will have to fit like that.

I could do 2 singles, but if there's some kinda small backplane that is like, maybe and x[whatever], x16, x[whatever], x16 or something, that'd also work.

However, where's the jury stand on straight-up connecting to a riser CABLE?

No dice.

Nevermind, think I may have fixed it.

I unplugged the microphone that was suddenly working again and the drivers disconnected my headphones and wouldn't pick them up, restarting wouldn't fix it, so I opened the device manager and found an audio driver there and let the wizard up-date it.

One restart later and it seems to be all up and running, suddenly have my effects (boost, beamforming, etc. Like I said I don't really use them but I want them to be there just so I know my drivers are working). Can unplug/plug everything in and it doesn't fuck everything up.

Kind of pisses me off that either Microsoft/VIA (if that's even the company's name) hasn't sorted their Win 10 drivers out yet, though. This should all be done automatically on updating to Win 10.

Recommend me a software for capturing screen on video and adding text

at the same time?
OBS

XSplit.

not this, it's shit.

Do you know of any? Or would using a shielded CABLE be good enough?

I was also looking at something like this
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What about connecting a shielded cable TO this?
Is it any safer? Basically, I'm just concerned that using a cable on its own might not be as safe as sticking the graphics cards onto a riser card...

is there any worry, or no?

Are intel 4600 graphics okay for new games?

I don't really create or use specific playlists, I just wanted one for what I have selected and what I have now playing, I figured it though. But thanks for being a qt and trying to help me user

For anyone in the future ever trying to do this, I used the ESPlaylist component. If you right click, it lets you lock a specific element/module/whatever to a specific playlist, in my case "now playing" and "currently selected"

Does anyone have any suggestions for vertical side-monitors?

I probably have no need for some UHD shit, right?

How important is RAM speed?

pretty important if you want to open your programs faster.

RAM speed relates directly to how fast you can get the program from memory to the processor's cache.
In other words, slower memory loads instructions to the processor slower than does faster memory.

However, it also depends on what you're doing and how fast you need it to go. The fastest memory available is expensive as fuck, so it's good to find a balance.
In other words, if your memory runs 1600MHz or higher, you're probably good. And if you got like 2133MHz, don't even bother going for Overclocked (OC) 3300, because it raises the price like 5 times or some bullshit.

On the other hand, the generation of the RAM is EVEN more important. 800MHz DDR4 runs about the same amount of data as 1600 MHz DDR3, because DDR means double-data-rate. Every generation, the rate of data doubles, so with 800MHz DDR4, you have half the SPEED of data transfer, but TWICE the VOLUME as 1600 MHz DDR3

hmmm, sorry I wasn't much help then. I'm not sure I've actually tried to do what you were suggesting, because I normally used only default list and opened individual songs.

However, now that I've tried it, I think I'll see how these playlists actually do for me.

Not him, but thanks for the nice explanation.

no

I have recently installed fedora and i want to create a live usb with debian.

When i try to liveusb-creator or simply copying the iso image to the usb stick it won't show as an option when i hit f12 and try to change boot options.

What am i doing wrong?

Is there a way to find out the install date of a linux distro?

That's a good question, but is there even a way to do that on Windows?

For Windows, I assume it MIGHT be in the registry, but I'm not entirely familiar with what Linux uses in place of a registry to store data of that nature.

What's the latest Sup Forums approved laptop that's at least 1080p?

I need something that can run YouTube and Microsoft Office. That's it. Should I just stick with a Chinkpad?

Open a terminal and do this:

# List all your block storage devices and find the name of your USB flash drive. It will be something like /dev/sdc
lsblk

dd if=[Path to ISO] of=[Path to USB flash drive]

# For example "dd if=/home/nigger/Downloads/debian.iso of=/dev/sdc"
# Just make sure your block device is correct because if you write to the wrong drive you're going to overwrite your data on that drive permanently.


That will write the contents of the ISO directly to your flash drive. Since Linux ISOs are almost all hybrid ISOs, it will be bootable without any extra work on your part. Just make sure that if your PC has UEFI that you disable Secure Boot.

Depends on your budget. To be honest, I'd look for an ultrabook because it's really nice to have a lightweight low-profile device. Most people here are destitute level poor and stick with used Thinkpads that are old, large, heavy, and have shit battery life.

The reason I'm asking is because apparently my pc throttles 8 gig sticks down to 1333MHz.

So I was wondering if I should go through the trouble of exchanging the 1 8 gig stick for two 4 gig sticks which will run at 1600 MHz.

Just go into your bios and manually set the correct speed

Hmmm.
Well, that'd be a pretty good idea in a few senses. You'll then be running in dual-channel mode, most likely.

However, do you know WHY it's throttling? Is the RAM you have compatible with your board AND processor?
If your processor and/or board only supports up to 1333, then it won't run faster.
However, I don't know why you're not using the full capacity of your board anyway. My laptop only SUPPORTS 8GB, but I'd go higher if I could.

I have an HP and from what I can tell after searching a little bit, it just doesn't like 8 gig sticks.

The 4 gig sticks are running at 1600, so I know it can support it.

I'm upgrading from 10 to 18 gigs, although if I do the 2 stick setup I'll only get 16 gigs.

Am I banned?

my tv finally gave out, Sup Forums. what are some Sup Forums approved TVs preferably with 3 hdmi and at least 1 composite?

This method requires that you created the partition during the installation.

sudo tune2fs -l /dev/sdXY | grep 'created' (replace XY with partition containing Linux)

If you don't know which one Linux is installed on, you can do inxi -p

Please use man for any command you're unfamiliar with to make sure you understand what it does.

On Windows you can just do systeminfo. It's stored in the registry somewhere but unless you changed it manually it'll be correct.

Why don't you join the kool kids klub and not own a tv? Do you need it for netflix and chill?

Thanks user.

Is there any application firewall for Linux? All I could find was something from 2014 but I don't really want to use something that is no longer being developed.

So my cousins reinstalled my grandma's heatsink but I don't think they did it properly. When you log in you instantly get a 0x51 stop error, and a strange thump/drop sound comes from inside when it boots up/shuts down. Any idea what that drop noise might be coming from? I'm guessing it's coming from the heatsink. There's nothing in the optical drive so it can't be that.

I'm not finding anything useful for this 0x51 error either. How can I confirm that the heatsink was properly installed?

iptables?

So I decided to fire up some old buggy piece of ubisoft trash to check if my GPU was working good after a few months of no games.

And suddenly it starts smelling a bit funny. Definitely sort of different. I have headphones on but I can definitely hear a literal helicopter in my room. Really quick I just close the game.

Since the game seemed to run at a pretty high temperature (I have a 280x, the ASUS TOP edición which has slightly higher clocks) which steps should I take to prevent this from overheating and burning my house down? I probably can manually turn the fans higher but then I would become deaf. Maybe it's a case of bad cooling? Maybe it's a case of a bad... case? Cause I touched the case and that thing was warm enough to be concerned about. Is there anything I can buy for under 60 bucks that will completely solve this issue?

I just got Chromecast 2. It's great, but why is the quality on casted photos a disaster? The difference is obviously not simply due to the larger pixels on the TV.

Even by filtering those tripfags the post is still here, hidden, but here.
Is there a way to make the post completely disappear ?

Can someone for the love of God please tell me why windows 7 keeps shitting the bed when it's left on for a long time? My main pc is windows 7 and used for encoding, general use, gaming etc. It gets turned off everyday. Shuts down quick
Boots even quicker.

My media file server on the other hand, also windows 7, has been on for 2 months. I had a drive die, so I shut the girl down, removed the dead drive, and rebooted. It takes 25minutes just to get to the desktop now. Longer to shutdown. Tried using the repair option on Windows 7. Tells me "the version of Windows you're attempting to repair isnt the same as this version of Windows on this disc"

I'm just going to reinstall this shit show. But what the fuck. How fucking hard is it to have a PC on and idle for weeks? I had my Linux box up for 5 months and it got FASTER as more shit was cached. This is the 2nd time this shit has happened. Is it normal for Windows to require a complete refresh every 2 weeks? Fucking bullshit.

>filters
>>>/reddit/

The Linux kernel has a firewall built in, it's called iptables. If you need a GUI for it, there's Firestarter.

Unfortunately, it doesn't work in the way you probably expect it from Windows firewalls. For example, it doesn't work on an application by application basis and it's fairly difficult to coerce it into working that way.

There's a project called LPFW which may be what you're looking for, but I've never used it.
github.com/themighty1/lpfw

TL;DR it maxes out phones(mostly iphone) who have shit ram and shit cpu.
There was a thread up yesterday.

Turn off stubs.

They are the same? the fuck

wait, saying you will only get 16GB with 2 sticks, but you can get 18GB elsewise doesn't make any sense.
Firstly, it's unusual to have a system that supports RAM amount that isn't SOME power of 2, unless it's 3, 6, or 12 GB. I've never heard of an 18GB system.
It's usually 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 32, 64, 128, and I've once seen a 1TB.
However, if you CAN support 8GB sticks, and you CAN go over 16GB, then you can almost DEFINITELY have 32GB. I don't understand the whole 10GB anyway, 4-4-2? Why not use either 4 4's or 4 8's?

Sorry, but the RAM you're suggesting doesn't make sense. What's in your slots?

That's interesting. I didn't even know about that command.

kek this.
>tfw icucks can't save webms

This is probably a really retarded question but this is the right place to ask it.

So if I buy one stick of 8gb ram and I want to upgrade that to 16 I can just buy another one of those single sticks of 8gb ram right?
Would that be any different than just buying a set of 2 sticks for 8gb each or is that literally just the same?

It's summer in Arizona and my laptop gets pretty hot playing games.
CPUID has my temps at 72 Celsius under full load from Prime95.
Should I not be worried about it?

its the same

actually, come to think of it, I don't get how you have RAM at 2 separate frequencies. They shouldn't be able to run at multiple frequencies simultaneously. If you have 4GB sticks running 1600MHz, but your 8GB stick is running 1333MHz, there's something wrong with your system. They should ALL be running at 1333MHz then...

That's a bit toasty but not enough to damage anything.
If you're really worried about it then try getting some air circulation or making more space around the exhaust.

It's the same, so long as they run at the same frequency.

You could get a single Corsair 8GB, 1600MHz and an HP stick 8GB, 1600MHz and it's the same as 2 Corsairs or 2 HPs, except the quality of the HP might be shit, because everything HP makes is shit. I mean, you can't go RIGHT with HP.

My machine runs Crucials

Should i buy ssd for my old c2d rig? Will it make any difference other than faster boot times?

IDK about core 2 duo. I got an i3 first gen

But SSD is HELLA faster than HDD.
My boot time went from like... 2 mins to boot desktop and like 2-3 more minutes for web down to like 60 seconds from BIOS to web.

Highly recommend. Just make sure you turn off hibernate and pagefile. I also turned off most indexing. and DEFINITELY don't defrag it.
Also, you absolutely MUST (no exception AT ALL) turn off prefetch and superfetch. Those will RAPE the drive, and it'll be dead in like 3-4 months if you don't.

Is the PCI slot supposed to line up perfectly with one of the back connector holes of the case?

I think there is a offset but I want to be sure.

Thats most likely the fable lean.As lon as the screws go in without downard torque its fine

Thanks man, that would really save those precious writes.
Can you also enlighten me on the performance change.

Lol. Fucking gimp.

It SHOULD line up perfectly, unless there's a problem with the board, case, or installation.

programs generally load up in about half the time, boot is like 3-5 times faster, security scans are somewhat faster.
Checking Speccy, though, I don't notice much of a change in heat, although I have a laptop. However, I haven't seen it shoot up into the 50°s like my HDD used to.
Just generally, much faster.
Before I disabled all hibernate features, though, Windows 10 Hybrid Shut Down actually booted my thing up in less than 20 secs.
So, if you don't mind SOME of the extra writing, you can even cut the 1/3 boot time in 1/3.

Not the guy you're responding to but would it be worth buying like a 32 GB ssd just to install the OS on?

I recently bought a MSI GTX 980 TI Golden Edition, which has an all-copper cooler.

Now, I know it's probably not the best cooler out there, but I thought cooper was the bee's knees when it came to thermal conductivity.

So why am I hitting 80C when I'm playing Overwatch, other than the fact Overwatch is an un-optimized piece of shit......

I installed a new stick of ram in my laptop. now the boot up time is long, like very long, did i fucked up somewhere?

80c is fine for full load

It's the native Xperia Album app which is to blame it seens

depends on what OS you're using. If it's Windows, no fucking way in hell. I only have like 15GB left on my OS partition (64GB). I also have stuff into my primary Programs partition.

If it's Linux or something ,and you DON'T have bloated shit to install, probably.

But, where the REAL performance boost comes from is the program loading, so you'd WANT to install most programs on an SSD.

As such, if you have both an SSD AND an HDD, I'd recommend OS and system programs on one SSD partition, other programs on another SSD partition, games can be on either the SSD or HDD, but they will be MUCH faster SSD. Like, no fucking lag, especially if you're using SATA 3. I don't even have SATA 3, and it's this much faster. If you got SATA 3, it'll be twice as fast as what I'm getting.

Media can be stored on the HDD. Since I have an old laptop, though, ALL my major stuff is on my SSD. I only have 1 disk drive slot. However, I store a lot of my home made videos on an SD Card.

If you JUST want a slight boost in speed, though, you COULD do that. You may also want to consider an SSHD (Solid State Hybrid Drive), but I'm no expert in those.

You can get a 500GB Samsung EVO for like $155
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It's really not that much of a problem, Sup Forumsroski. The price is definitely worth it, esp since it's not THAT much more than the HDD's you might wanna get

SSDs are the best cost for dollar improvement you can make for an old PC. They are faster than an HDD and they have a much lower latency than an HDD. Instead of having to wait for an HDD to seek across a fragmented platter, your data is just available pretty much instantly.

SSDs are so much faster than old HDDs that sometimes the old hardware will bottleneck them. Older PCs often have SATA I or SATA II, when modern SSDs will fully saturate a SATA III connection. The difference is pretty big there. SATA I is capped at 150 MB/s, SATA II is capped at 300 MB/s, and SATA III is capped at 600 MB/s. Minus around 50MB/s of overhead as well. This means that if you've got a SATA I connection it may not be worth switching to an SSD unless you're desperate for an upgrade. An old HDD will struggle to hit 100 MB/s of read speed, so you could see performance gains that make your computer five times faster at loading data if it supports SATA III.

>precious writes
Write usage isn't an issue in modern SSDs. Generally speaking, you'll need to write the full capacity of the SSD every day for several years before it dies from write wear. By the time your SSD dies you'd be looking for new hardware anyway. And at that point the price of whatever storage capacity you were using would be insignificant. For example, I bought a 120 GB SSD for $200 a few years back. Now those cost like $30 - 40.

Thanks for all that information. Actually I'm on the verge of finalizing my first PC build and I'm currently deciding between a gtx 1070 and the 480. If I get the 480 I'll have enough extra cash to get an ssd and more ram, but I'm going to wait for benchmarks to see the difference between the 2 gpu's. If there's a significant difference in performance then I'll probably go with the 1070 and then get an ssd sometime later when I have more expendable income.

oh yeah, before I go afk for a while, since you mentioned multiple disk drives, you actually COULD keep hibernate, indexing, pagefile, and everything on if you move the pagefiles, hibernate files, and index files to the HDD.
I don't think you can keep the prefetch and superfetch, though. Those I think still need to be turned off.

I'll be outta here for a while, though

Just make sure to check that last part, ok?

Firstly, dust out your case, thoroughly.

If that doesn't help and you're not willing to live with the fan noise you might want to reapply thermal paste on your GPU. Taking off the heat sink is usually a bit involved but it's probably your best long term solution.