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What's a good mini computer to use as server?
Currently running a raspi 1 & 2, but they're not powerful enough. Any better alternatives?
GPIO is obviously unneccesary.
I have Sup Forums x with Oneechan, but how do I get the threadwatcher window to stay persistent and in the right-hand column like how I see on some setups?
Is there an adapter for this SSD?
mz-ntd1280/000
I need it to become an mSATA so that I can connect it to my Maximus Gene V mPCIe combo thing.
I'm so confused by all these specifications and shit. I found this:
ebay.com
But when I read this part:
>About Mini PCIe SSD interface standard:
I become dizzy and want to puke.
my pc froze while gaymen and when I restarted there was no sound. it says nothing is plugged in. all drivers are up to date and devices working properly. NVidia hd ports 0-4 not plugged in. tried different speakers no luck. is it the gpu ? its a 970
I have LG F60 smartshiet and i cant play 360 vids with accelerometer only with the fingering mode. Helpme please
Just realised my GPU is coil whining, is it something to be worried about other than the fact that it's noisy?
How do I edit a movie so it takes exactly 1hour to display it in its entirety?
Preferrably on Linux
I wish whoever thought that OpenXML is a good idea dies a painful death.
What is easier to hack between a server of a website or a personal computer?
Assume both run Linux.
What are the main disadvantages to a small flash drive (like left in pic related) compared to a regular sized one (like the right one) other than speed?
Are the small ones less durable and more prone to breaking (and fail sooner), or they're the same?
Easier to loose?
I'm writing a simple Chrome extension that records and displays some stats about your browsing habits. Is there a way to prevent the user from modifying the local storage?
Yeah, I guess, but I'm interested to know about the technical differences.
runs hotter than the larger one
the tiny ones are great if you plan on leaving it plugged in for a while and rarely have it unplugged from a device. They are a lot easier to lose and don't wok well with keychains, so get the larger one if you plan on carrying it around not plugged in.
desu didn't even know there were technical differences. Did you say they are slower?
They should last about the same time. The only thing I'd be concerned with is if the enclosure design is pleasing and useful to me, and if the read/write speeds are sufficient.
Not a question unless your raised your pitch on the word 'death'
Some are, but maybe there are some super fast ones I don't know about.
The top tier ones with the maximum performance are always full-sized.
Also the storage capacity, but that's kind of obvious.
If I wanted to have this for offline viewing, do I need to download pages or database?
How do I grab my own backup of the installgentoo wiki? I am at the download page but am not sure which files to grab or, if I were to grab the most 3 recent ones (7/20) how I would go about viewing them?
>Also the storage capacity
The one in your pic is 64GB, do people really need that much space on a USB stick these days?
Kind of a newbie at C++, and haven't really learned to use external libraries... I have the ImageMagick source code (I want to work with images), but I have no idea how to implement them into XCode
You could probably use wget to download them, doesn't it work to just click on them though?
Sometimes my keyboard keys will act like they're jammed, as if I were pressing them. Physically, they're normal, but when I'm playing games, they act like they're being pressed.
Also, they'll randomly fail when I press them, not sending the signal to the computer.
I'm using a brand-new HP laptop, so I was thinking that it could be a software problem, but it could be?
Can somebody help my understand the following three lines of x86 assembly?
40112b: 79 44 jns 0x401171
40116f: d2 65 f5 shlb %cl,-0xb(%ebp)
401172: 30 53 e7 xor %dl,-0x19(%ebx)
As you can see the jns instruction jumps to address 0x401171. That address however is the last byte of the instruction at 0x40116f. What will happen during execution? Will it be skipped (or executed as a nop instruction) or is there an instruction encoded as part of some fancy optimization?
I highly doubt there is an instruction there, but jumping to a byte too early just seem wrong to me. This happens multiple times throughout the executable sometimes it's one byte other times two or three bytes early.
Also i assume that the disassembler didn't know the following instruction and i have to replace it manually?
4010cd: da ea (bad)
It depends on what you use them for.
Some people need to carry large project files which used to require carrying hard drives and now only need a small flash drive in a pocket.
Some might need to carry some sort of library and large sizes are often lifechanging.
Also we're discussing the difference between them, so while it may not necessarily be a significant difference in our use of them, it's still worth mentioning.
I bought a used Galaxy S5 SM-G900F
What's the easiest way to root this?
I have a windows 7 SP1 re-install disk that's copyrighted 2011, so I'll have to go through 5 years worth of updates which can take hours. What are those two recommended updates that will speed up updating significantly?
support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3102810
support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3138612
You might also consider downloading the "convenience rollup" which is basically a SP2
Alright, thank you guys.
Is there a good, reliable way to activate windows 10 without paying?
There's 1 week left for the free upgrade, and I won't have my new PC by then. I've been using daz botnet for years with 0 issues.
Turn on "Persistent Thread Watcher" in the Sup Forums X settings and move it to the right-hand column.
Nigger Wangblows 7, upgrade to Wangblows 10.
Oh, wait, nevermind.
Use KMSpico.
refer to the second line of my post thanks
Thanks very much. Should I just use custom CSS to make it the full width of the column from Oneechan?
I asked this previously but was just told to ask on a forum I didn't want to bother to register for, so reposting.
Can I use a PSU I purchase in bongland here in America?
It says it has "Full Range Auto Voltage Detection Design 100V~240V"
So the voltage difference shouldn't be an issue, right?
PSU in question: overclockers.co.uk
Yes.
Use the windows 10 tool by the daz people. Or buy a cheap key from kinguin. Or just leave it unactivated. It's pretty much exactly the same except for disabling one of the links to personalization.
DON'T use kmspico. That shit's riddled with malware. They should start putting psa's about it at the top of every sqt
Are there any good standard bluray players out there?
Not the "streaming" or "app" ones?
Ive have a Sony BDP-BX370 and a Samsung BD-JM57C both have serious crippling software issues.
Luckily i got them at costco and returned them.
I have a Roku, I dont need the half assed streaming apps on a bluray player.
I just need a basic but reliable blu ray player, and the shitty software in these 80$ streaming ones is awful
Great, thank you lad. Always wanted a Super Flower.
It should work fine.
Most PSUs have a little red switch to change from 110 to 220v, so the majority work in both place.
Im guessing since it says "auto volt detection" there isnt a manual switch for it.
Is VLC a viable Blu ray player? Are there any good free ones if your system didn't come with anything?
refer to plz
huh, I've been told the exact opposite about kmspico and daz in another thread.
nice almost sexes though.
VLC supposedly has metadata-editing features, right?
If I open a file and change some of them, a "save metadata" button will appear and the metadata will be saved when I close the window (as shown by the new title displayed as the file title), but when I close VLC and reopen it, the file still has the old metadata.
Does VLC only change the metadata for that specific session, or it should change it on the file itself (and somehow it's not working for me)?
Alternatively, is there a decent freeware program for Windows that allows me to do this?
Thanbks in advange.
> DON'T use kmspico. That shit's riddled with malware.
Do you have any proofs?
I bought an external USB bluray drive for my grandmother.
VLC plays discs perfectly fine in windows 10.
I couldnt get the autorun settings to work, but running from VLC was fine
There has been malware versions of Dazloaders put out
Im betting this guy just got a nasty version from a bad source
KMSpico has been great for a long time
That would be the way to do it.
so I got a question about domain scope for umatrix. Let's just say for example I'm on google (It's just an example) and I can do global, google.com, and www.google.com. What would be the difference between setting it to google.com and www.google.com?
used ps3 ?
It should be noted that kmspico has to keep running on your computer, it's not a one and done thing. It basically gets you a 180 day trial of windows and keeps refreshing that trial. Both programs have bad sources, and it would be very difficult to determine if either had trojans in them.
the dark blue (the last option) is the exact domain
the light blue (middle option) is the main domain, so everything under google.com like mail.google.com, images.google.com, maps.google.com etc, including google.com itself
Does Microsoft Toolkit work? It worked for activating MS Office just fine, and I noticed it has options for other software, too...
vlc can't edit webm metadata, you can use ffmpeg instead
Okay, so if I want to only apply settings to the specific site I'm on, I use the last option, rather than the middle option?
yeah
>ffmpeg
Is there something like that, but with a GUI for special education kids like me?
alright awesome, I'll make sure to do some reading on how domains and subdomains work with extenions like noscript or umatrix.
don't use noscript and umatrix together, umatrix replaces noscript
I'm not using noscript, I just brought it up because I used to use it and it does domains a bit differently than umatrix works. Plus TBB still uses noscript.
What the fuck does the ./ in ./configure stand for?
Is it a command? what does it do? because ./configure isn't a command in itself, so what does the ./ do?
A dot slash is a dot followed immediately by a forward slash ( ./ ). It is used in Linux and Unix to execute a compiled program in the current directory.
. is the current directory
if you run "configure" alone it would look for an application in your $PATH
so ./configure runs the "configure" file in the directory you are currently in
Thanks!
When's the best time to buy parts for a new build? I don't want to go through the trouble of ordering a bunch of shit, building my PC, and then a few months down the road the graphics card I bought becomes cheaper or relatively more obsolete or whatever. Is there a time of year that's best or do companies just release things at random?
there will always be newer stuff.
buy when you need, waiting for technology is nonsense.
Prices are usually lowest around december, but I wouldn't wait for it. I'd go on slickdeals every day or two until your processor is on sale $50 or so below usual, then buy whatever you can that's on sale within a couple of weeks so you're still under warentee if something's doa.
Are ZIM files only compatible with Kiwix? Or would they work with XOWA as well?
I want to be able to use both wikipedia and wiktionary at any given time.
How do I test my android phone's battery health? I bought this off ebay and it came with 0% charge, which I suspect may have caused damaged.
As a general rule if you're buying second hand then you want to buy last generation products after the new generation is announced, and preferably a couple weeks after the new generation comes out, idiots selling their high end, 1 year old GPUs or entire systems will sell for cheap. CPUs and the like don't really see a lot of turn over and aren't far off their new counterparts. If you are buying new it can be advantageous to stagger buying parts a couple weeks apart if it means getting deals, but don't be one of those idiots that has a 290 lying round because they still haven't gotten round to buying the rest of the system. New generation parts are cheapest new around a month and a half after parts hit shelves, the bubble of high demand and low supply has had time to stabilize and is a decent distance from the launch of the next generation.
I want to build a new computer, but it should be able to double as a server. (DNS, file, ...)
What are some necessities for this? iirc you need quite some ram for fileservers.
Or is it better to just cut the budget and build a second for server purposes?
What's the least shit file manager for android?
Also, least shit music player? (is there a good one that can alter playback speed/pitch shifting?)
i need a copy of windows 8.1, but mediacreationtool shits the bed at the start of the download, and for some reason the secure download manager tool cant fucking download my legit copy of windows 8.1 from dreamspark. is there anywhere else i can get a legit copy of windows 8.1?
Any good book to start with some penetration testings? and if you got a link to give me, thanks.
phone screen got soaked and doesn't work anymore. its an old gingerbread phone so i don't mind it dying, but i need some files that were in the phone (not the sd card). when i connect it to the pc it pops up the box asking me if i want it to work as a drive, but i cant touch the option... how can i force it to connect as such, from the computer?
You could go some sort of virtualisation route and devote some system cores and memory to running a server much like Linus has been creaming himself over for the past couple of months, grab a second hand xeon and some extra RAM or grab a server that's getting junked for cheap and throw a GPU into it.
Are stick PC's any good or are they gimmicky shit? How far can you push it preformance-wise?
Non windows fag here, a relative of mine uses windows 10 and i need to disble the graphic card to force his pc to use the integrated card.
Any idea?
the bios should have a setting to do that
I have to do this remotely, and the person in question won't be able to access or navigate the bios, doesn't w10 have a control panel or something?
Is there a comprehensive, or constantly-updating list of updates to avoid for Windows 7? Jewgle returns several year old results and I certainly think the Sup Forums wiki is out of date.
you could have a look at the configuration dialog of the graphics driver, but usually you do this in the bios.
you could try to plug the monitor into the motherboard instead, you'd have to do that anyway if you want to get a picture when disabling the dedicated card.
this might just disable it because nothing is plugged in.
what are you trying to do anyway?
ES file explorer is pretty powerful once you figure it out. Handles network sharing, root access, I've even had it work out flashdrive support on a device that otherwise couldn't recognize them. The free version comes with a little bloat in that you can't turn off the app scanner, otherwise it's golden
is SEASONIC M12II-620 BRONZE good
Torrent it then use the official MSDN checksums
Windows 7 self updated to 10 and video drivers are fucking up like crazy.
I'll have him switch video outputs, thanks.
for what? to power quad gpus? no
You can control the device by hooking up a mouse to its charging port via usb/otg cable. They're like $2, everyone should own 5
where from? piratebay has no vanilla win 8.1 isos
what fucking cuck polutes every single general thread by writing generals in the title post?
you fucking retarded boyo?~!
anyone ? anything ?
What is this type of connector called?
digital river downloads are long gone
its usually called dupont
