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Why did all my friends abandon me

If have a file server on my LAN, but connect to it using an external domain through a public, does it route my uploads through some other external servers first? Or is the system smart enough to realize it is a local server?

it says if i remove the account it'll remove all of my contacts and messages. what do?

*public DNS

would you recommend the WD red, black or something else if i don't use it 24/7, just as a media storage device and for torrenting (but not 24/7)? i'm looking for the best reliability (and perhaps the better warranty), don't care if the performance is mediocre.

WD black seems louder than red and i do care about noise, but that 5 year warranty tho?? i bought my seagate in 2012 so a 5 year warranty would have covered it

do you reckon a 5-7 platter 6-8 TB drive like WD Black WD6001FZWX 128MB 6TB, WD Red WD60EFRX 64MB 6TB or WD Red WD80EFZX 128MB 8TB would be sensible from a reliability standpoint? the 6-8 TB WD drives still shouldn't have crazy failure rates like the seagate drives?

1. What can user actually benefit when Mega tell its users download via client instead of browser
2. How to use Microsoft Office IME 2010 on Win8/10? Win8/10 come with higher version of same software so direct attempt to install Office IME 2010 onto those OSs would result in error, but the newer version preinstalled on the two OSs are missing some functionality. See answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-desktop/when-will-the-cantonese-input-method-be-available/9eb2d03c-e326-4eb6-9f72-c1320e32102b for further detail.
3.My mobile operator banned VPN usage as they think using VPN enable tethering. How to browse Japan-only site via their network Without changing to other operators/plans [for cost reason]?
5.How to prevent sites/apps does not support my language setting zh-HK fall back to zh instead of zh-Hant? Especially on mobile Android devices where you can only pick one language as system language.
6.How to represent a document with a mixture of two different languages with IETF language tag (e.g. en-GB-Latn)? Note that the two language is snot used side by side, instead they are used in a fashion like "Watashi's favourite keitai manufacturer wa Apple desu."
7.When Win8's dwm.exe (desktop window manager?) killed itself due to lack of memory, and then using taskmgr > start new task > dwm.exe give no response, how to restart the process?
8.I heard that Symbian were once opensource half decades ago, why no one port that to other phones?
9.How do I keep multiple (3/+) IC cards in my wallet and prevent them from interfering each other while still allow them to work when I tap them onto individual card's reader?
10.How to post on Japanese sites like 2ch outside Japan without buying their pass? They block foreign IP and also vpn
13.Is there any tools that can allow mass upload of pictures in a folder onto a mediawiki-based wikifarm via interfaces provided by mediawiki? I don't have the right to access its database directly by FTP/etc.

How do I determine if two flac files audio are exactly the same if the tags have been changed

14. For Nokia N1 tablet, it use USB type C connector but only support upto the speed that is equivalent to USB 2.0. Which pins have been actually wired in the tablet's socket?
15. As Apple are still releasing new source codes for Darwin OS, do they have any actual value nowadays?
16. I have a few Android 2.1-2.3 devices stuck in infinite boot loop, including LG E720 and Sharp 007sh, how to resolve the problem? I read that it's possible to use recovery but i can't seems to find a recovery for 007sh.
17. My mom's phone (Xiaomi Redmi original edition running Anddoid - MIUI) keep getting tons of force close without changing any setting beforehand. Local phone shop ppl said it is because of a virus and the only way to deal with it is to wipe the phone. Is there any method to stop those force close from happening and get the contact info out? They are neither stored on sim card nor synced to cloud. The current status of the phone make it impossible to access any menu in the phone.
18.How to enable dual access across different 3G mobile network on a dual sim android phone?
19.Are computer with iNAND storage better than traditional HDD?
20.would it be possible for unicode to define a character like tab but with a fixed width and make others adopt it?

convert them to wav and compare?

Remove the tags completely, then compare.

To the user that helped me in this post ()... Interestingly enough, changing the statement within the "while" check made the error go away and now the program works perfectly.

Here's the new code, if anyone's interested
#include
#include
#include

using namespace std;

int main(int argc, const char * argv[]) {

std::ofstream outputFile("/Users/ricardoiglesias/Desktop/DemoFile.txt");
std::ifstream inputFile("/Users/ricardoiglesias/Desktop/NEWListOfPokemon.txt");

int pokeNumArray [718];
string pokeNameArray[718]; //718 entries

int counter = 0;
if(inputFile)
{
while(inputFile >> pokeNumArray[counter] >> pokeNameArray[counter])
{
outputFile

already tried converting to wav and the tags came with it

I figured it out metaflac.exe comes with a --show-md5sum switch

What's the first type of coding I should learn, and why should I learn coding at all?

Is there a way to make say 7z, read from a file which has passwords in it,which is then read by 7z,and provides passwords to the command if it finds one.
Something similar to this:
alias 7z x='7z x -p$FILE *.7z'

learn real programming with java it's literally the best and most popular programming language

there's not much use in learning it if you're not interested in it but you should give it a try, if you're not very smart it teaches you how to think in a certain way (youtube.com/watch?v=mCDkxUbalCw) and you could use your skills to create software

WD Black or WD Red for a silent PC? Can somebody who has owned both tell me if there is a noticeable difference between the two when it comes the performance and noise?

Pic related are my specs right now, and I want to keep it as quiet as possible

Trying to record on a Sony D6C using my desktops line out. Could someone amazon me a cable that would work well? Ill take some shitty pictures of the D6C if you want too

i'm , haven't owned either, but i read that WD red is quiter since it spins at a lower rpm and has anti vibration technology which makes it quieter and more suitable for a multi-drive setup like in a NAS. WD black has better performance though and a longer warranty (5 years vs 3)

Well i know all that, i've just been reading conflicting reviews and shit about how loud the Blacks are/aren't and how fast the Reds are/aren't so I just wanted to hear from someone who has experience with both. but thanks anyway

grab 16gb ddr3-2400mhz

>black red
red is shit, use blue for quiet and black for performance,but honestly, both wont be louder then your exhaust fan.

If you're using the apu on the cpu, you could go down to a 500W easily.

Thank you very much. I will definitely look into that.

usually people aren't very sensitive to noise so i wouldn't take the reviews too seriously unless it's by some specialist website like silentpcreview. since you're going for a silent pc i'd recommend the WD red. my hunch is the performance wouldn't be too bad at all, you could look at benchmarks or rely on the SSD for anything performance critical.

hey Sup Forums, I am new to PC building and I have a question. What are "reference cards" (gpu)? Should I wait until non-reference versions of the new nvidia cards are released? Is it a bad idea to buy a reference card?

how long does it usually take for "non-reference" cards to be released?

those are the specs of the pc i already have. I plan on adding a second stick of ram when i need it and getting a 1070 or 1080 when i can afford it.

but anyway, i've heard that the blues aren't very reliable, is that true? also is the increased warranty on the blacks worth it over the blue?

How the fuck do you shuffle songs properly in Musicbee? The shuffle button on the bottom straight up doesnt work. Why does this have to be so difficult?

Reference design is the blower type cooler where it has a single fan and a vent at the rear of the card, they provide less than optimal cooling and little room for overclocking

Non-reference models of the new nvidia cards are already out

You're most likely only seeing the vocal consumers who are crying RAPE.
Any drive can fail at any given time. It could die 1 second in to being plugged in or 10 years down he road.

Red is shit,blue and black are basically the same,the same rpm, one us just at a higher density, meaning less thrashing of the head=less noise

Then don't use musicbee

>Western Digicuck
Did you attend synagogue today?

everyone here shills for it though.

some drives fail more often than others

Oh well in that case I guess you have to use it.

I haven't paid any attention to amd CPUs since I got a 2500k. About to buy a 6600k, is there any reason I shouldn't? Is there anything from AMD that I should consider?

>Is there anything from AMD that I should consider?
no

Greens are shit. Reds atre good for continous use like NAS or streaming (fewer head parks). It'd be shit as an OS drive. Get the Black or a cheap ssd

Best free VPN for windows? Looking for something that is fast and doesn't require a lot of setup

>free
You're not gonna get anything good for free. $5, then you're getting somewhere.

What are some occurrences that could result in cache chip failure? I've got a dual 1GHz G4 module reporting that the backside L3 cache has taken a shit, probably going to try heatgunning it tonight, but if that doesn't work, is there anything else I can do?

what about HGST for a non-continuous use drive? they seem to be even more reliable than WD

backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-stats-q1-2016/

Main differences between T-SQL and other flavors of SQL?

Hey Sup Forums, it's this guy () again, and I'm running into a similar error ("Thread 1: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (code = 1, address = 0xffffffe8) ")

From the looks of it, it seems to me that there's something not right with how I'm doing the outputFile operation. When I replace outputFile with "cout", the code runs as expected, but I don't know what's causing the error with the outputFile

#include
#include
#include

using namespace std;

int main(int argc, const char * argv[]) {

std::ifstream inputFile("/Users/ricardoiglesias/Desktop/DemoFile.txt");

std::ofstream outputFile("/Users/ricardoiglesias/Desktop/SortedListOfPokemon.txt");

const int SIZE = 718;
string pokeStringArray[718]; //718 entries
int sortedIndex;
char sortChar = 'A';
string tempIndexString = "";

int counter = 0;
if(inputFile)
{
while(std::getline(inputFile, pokeStringArray[counter]))
{
counter++;
}
}
//Attempt to create a radix sort
while(sortChar < 'Z')
{

for(int i = sortedIndex; i < 718; i++)
{
if(pokeStringArray[i].at(0) == sortChar)
{
//Switches the positions of the sortedIndex'th term with the i'th term

tempIndexString = pokeStringArray[sortedIndex];
pokeStringArray[sortedIndex] = pokeStringArray[i];
pokeStringArray[i] = tempIndexString;

sortedIndex++;
}
}
cout

Wait for zen

nice meme

yes nice meme

>da joos
stay delusional

zen will be weak as shit, it'll have nothing on intel skylake

except for it wont be inflated in price by over 100 jew dollars

it'll have easily more than $100 worth of lower performance

lol sure it will

if something costs xx% less but has yy% lower performance, it's certainly not a better buy for anyone who actually needs the higher performance

zen will certainly be weaker than the best offerings from intel

How come there is so many different kinds of toothpaste that all promise different things, but if you look at the active ingredients it's always the same?

there are many variables, some make your breath smell nicer, some make your teeth look whiter, some are gentle and protect your teeth from erosion, some might be better against bacteria

just go with one (or two - one in the morning and another in the evening) you like

I know, but how come the active ingredients are always the same?

the main ingredients could still be in different proportions and they could have completely different additional ingredients. like bread is mainly made of flour but there are many different kinds of bread

how do i get emacs minimap-mode to change font size? is this not possible in console?

Do you guys enable 2 factor authentication on all your accounts? Do you use SMS, app or physical token?
I'm having a hard time finding this useful and safe.

They cant give away their recipe. They use the same chemicals but in different amounts. They dont have to report how much of each is in the product, just what is in it

i might get a HGST deskstar NAS 4 TB drive but it's really hard to decide. it only has a 3 year warranty but the price per GB is good and based on backblaze stats and reviews they seem super reliable (hard to know which specific part number is good though but hopefully all of them are good). i'd prefer a 6 TB drive but it seems safer to go with a more proven 4 TB drive so i don't fall into the same trap as i did with the 3 TB seagate drive. is a NAS drive like this unsuitable for torrenting though? anyone here using HGST drives?

What current laptops are competing with the FHD, 960m XPS 15?
I know of the Razer Blade and Zenbook Pro

What are the best tablets to get? Should I get something I can put a full OS on like a surface? Seems like that would be a good option. I have money I need to spend.

So basically I got a new PC with a Gigabyte Z77-D3H mobo.
This thing is seriously giving me issues; plugging in a network card in either of the PCI slots causes my PC to completely freeze (sometimes before boot even).
Same thing happens if I use all 4 RAM slots, so I have to resort to using a single dual channel.
All these components used to work fine, I've tried multiple different brands, frequencies etc of RAM and it makes no difference, my PC just eats shit within ~1 minute of turning it on, no matter what

What the fuck do I do? Is this manageable? Do I just fuck it and get a new mobo? I can cope okay with a USB network adapter and 2x4GB RAM but it makes me feel like such a cuck and I need to get this shit out of my life. Help me senpaitachi

ah, i could get a 4 TB HGST MegaScale DC 4000.B HMS5C4040BLE640

0 failures on HMS5C4040BLE640, 0.57% annual failure rate on HMS5C4040ALE640

compare against WD red 6 TB WD60EFRFX which so far has a 5.31% annual failure rate... holy shit i might have dodged a bullet there

backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-stats-q1-2016/

Is there a way to have my torrents running while my computer is in sleep/hibernation mode?

No, not at all.
Also might be of worth.

What's a program I can test javascript code on?

Your opinions/experiences pls: My only idea is trying a BIOS update.

No, but there are routers that run torrent.

What kind of router?

As Xbox technical support, I talk to one person a day at least that fucks over their microsoft account because of this.

Probably due to negligence, I'm sure -- but still.

basically a high end router that's more or less a computer and a router combined

I think the ones who are supported by OpenWRT and have some kind of storage. Pretty sure my TP-Link 842nd with OpenWRT can do it, but I've never tried it/don't need it.
IIRC, the Belkin N600 comes from the factory with a torrent client.

How do they fuck it over?

Not really.

For some reason my mkvs no longer work with the KCP is anyone else having this issue?

The second step of the verification is to a cell phone that is no longer in service and is unable to receive a text.

When this is the case, the password can't be reset, the account can't be escalated for a password reset etiher and you've lost all your purchases, gamerscore / achievements and what not.

I would be more concerned about purchases of digital content and no longer having access to it.

no, i only use it for banking and payments, but it's safer, just less convenient

outlook.com does it kinda, by requiring it sometimes, but you can disable it e.g. for home devices

in the future, fingerprint sensors will make it both safe and convenient

ITT: Autist not understanding how statistics work

What kind of video card should I be looking at if I'd like to max modern games at 1080p and run a 900p monitor with a youtube video or tab of Sup Forums up at the same time? I had my sights set on the 1070, but I'm told that would be overkill. Meanwhile I'm just waiting for Poolaris.

Installed a new motherboard, migrated Windows 7 using OOBE, attached the disk drives via SATA ports, made sure AHCI was enabled in the BIOS, after all that the disk drives come up as SCSI devices despite the controller being an ATA device. Any ideas?

>My only idea is trying a BIOS update.
Thanks, alas already updates to latest BIOS and still the same shit. Recon I'll just have to upgrade the mobo

I have it on my google account, humble bundle, steam, and a few private trackers. Generally my passwords have 100+ bits of entropy but it's more of a state of mind kind of security. I don't mind the "extra work" because I always have my phone on me so it's no problem.
Only time I had an issue was when I broke my phone and couldn't fix it/get a new one for about a month. Had to contact support for one of the sites to disable 2FA. Felt like a fool but they disabled it for me okay after answering some security Qs so I'm pleased about the process

>No, but there are routers that run torrent.
But you'll still effectively need a NAS for storage of the files, no? So if you turn your PC off, sure a router can run some P2P software but what files does it have available to xfer?

Not trolling. I just started learning javascript TODAY. I'm talking an hour ago.

How do I test the code I'm making?

ok idiot

seagate is getting sued for the failure rates of ST3000DM001 and it's getting tons of bad reviews from customers who had their drives fail, it's clearly not just me who had problems with it

10k+ drives of HMS5C4040ALE640/HMS5C4040BLE640 operating at a combined 900k+ days and only 10 failures, sure seems like it's probably more reliable than WD red that had 6 failures in only 458 drives and 41k days

>WD red
WD red 6 TB

should i minor in cs or networking?

Nevermind. Found a way to do it in chrome

it's a minor who gives a shit

do what you think is fun

cs

There are great jobs and shit jobs in both fields.
CS is more general, and you can land a network-related job with a CS degree, but not the other way around.

try CS and switch to networking if you hate it.

How do I recover the contents of a video download that failed at 99% and is stored in a .avi.part file? (using linux)

i promise you that minoring won't add anything to your CV. either major in the field (getting that extra degree or whatever) *or* alternatively develop a reputation on github/bitbucket/wherever.

>SCSI
>Small Computer System Interface

SCSI is not a literal connector with (X) pins in (THIS) exact config, its a standard. ATA is a set of extended standards designed for HDDs using SCSI defined command sets. SCSI also defines standards for USB HDDs, parallel ports among MANY other things.

ATA/SATA = SCSI

im currently majoring in ME. and i wanted to try out the cs/ce/networking stuff.

sounds like overwhelming majority is for cs tho

Are my toenails too long?

yep

It seems the problem is that you're using a c++ for something other than a meme script

So try it then; go peruse the Open-Source University page (github.com/open-source-society/computer-science) and give one of the early listings a try.

To be brutally honest, a CS or a networking minor means about as much to an employer as a few relevant Coursera/Udacity/EdX certificates, which is to say, not very much.

>wd red
>6 failures
>458 drives
13.1% failure rate

>check bbackblaze
>check drives
>129% in one year
>228% in another
You honestly expect me to take this shit seriously?

ill give it a try.

do you really think its a waste of time? should i just self-learn and take online certs?

>I would be more concerned about purchases of digital content and no longer having access to it.
Agreed.

>no, i only use it for banking and payments, but it's safer, just less convenient
Yeah, I use it for banking too.
>in the future, fingerprint sensors will make it both safe and convenient
I'm looking forward to it, because I don't find SMS and app safe enough. SMS is really unsafe and the app is tied to the device, so if you lose it...

About the router, mine has a USB port, so it could save the files on a pendrive or external HDD.

Want to trade my second small warehouse for a large but keep getting "rockstar servers failed" bullshit, this been going on for long? Or just a recent thing? Really don't want two small warehouses and a large one, especially since one of the small will practically overlap the large one on the map which is annoying.

>claims to know statistics
>doesn't know what annual failure rate means
HGST drives are getting glowing user reviews for their reliability, plenty of people running several drives in their NASes and such, but i guess it's just coincidence and all drives are made equal, doesn't matter if it's manufactured in some shit tier clandestine chink warehouse or a state of the art factory

Do you need a VPN to torrent when you're in Germany? Or is it a rare thing to get fined?

what are good maintenance programs for windows?

I use ccleaner and defraggler. Should I do anything else?