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Are M-Audio HDH50 headphones considered audiophile Sup Forumsood?

Can I use an ethernet cable to transfer data directly between two PCs?

Yes

>be me
>post in thread
>thread ends
>mfw

I want to upgrade my OS (win 7) from 32-bit to 64-bit, but the guy on youtube who made a video manual on how to upgrade the bits just said that it will wipe out all my data.
Is that true?
If it is true tho, will it also delete my data on D: drive, too, or just C:?
Will I lose muh porn?

Where in the world do I find a "sharpen complex" or "Sharpen complex 2" shader for MPC ? The new version doesn't have any shaders by default and after 30 minutes of googling all I found is forums with people discussing but not sharing the shaders.

tl:dr - Need .hlsl shader for mpc but where ?

If it is not explicitly stated on the box, does my mobo have wifi support? Or will I need to get a card for that? I can scavenge from an old PC I have around here, that as of like 5 years ago had a card that worked on wifi at the time, but I have no idea if it's too outdated or not.

yes, it is true.

You will not need to delete anything on D:

If you're capable to manage multiple game servers properly, you'll have no problem.

If you can't set up a FreeNAS box and some jails properly, do your playerbase and just rent servers someone smarter than you set up, instead.

Is it wise to buy refurbished from Apple?

most of the time you will need a card or some usb ti wireless adapter.

if you're using Windows, check the device manager to see if there's a network adapter there that doesn't have a driver.

Good chance it doesn't have anything though

Threads start autosaging at 310 posts, if the thread's close, just wait for the next one.

Literally just upload your shit to MEGA or use a USB or other external drive.

Not said = not got.

It's a selling point. Nobody wouldn't mention it.

>is it wise to buy ... from apple

Never yes.

Yes. I bought a refurbished MBA a couple years ago. Other than the packaging, you couldn't tell that it was refurbished.

You get the same warranty too. Only problem is the limited inventory

Is there any way to get rid of extra boot options? Just installed a Hackintosh and now I have 15 boot options in my BIOS

thanks, so I should just move all important shit to D?
>MEGA
no idea how to do that, too complicated for me
>USB or other external drive
I don't have money for that shit man

>no idea how to mega
>posted an image
You lie.

...

Arch Linux; WM:I3
Tried to set wallpaper on startup, but doesn't seem to work in either .xinitrc or .i3config
Tried feh and nitrogen both
What I tried:
exec --no-startup-id feh --bg-scale /path/to/picture
sh ~/.fehbg & (launched from xinitrc doesn't work. Didn't try to do it from i3config; .fehbg changes wallpaper when ran from terminal tho)
exec ~/.fehbg &

What could it be? Am I'm doing something wrong?

is there a webm for retards program but for XP?

I don't want to have to use windows 7 to make my memes

yes, you can move whatever the fuck you want to D if you're wiping and reinstalling on C

This is some pretty low level shit. Not sure how you figured out how to post here

Leave shitposts in their old thread to die.

>XP
no

Is there such thing as a best GNU/Linux distro for desktop virtualization? I'm trying to kludge an operating system with poor wifi support onto a C2D laptop with 2 GB of RAM (probably will upgrade to 4 later) and it seems virtualizing it on top of a stripped down GNU/Linux or BSD install is the best option.

fuck

For the love of god upgrade already

Hello is this the thread for stupid questions?

Second post is a legit complaint though. Teaching an user to fish is good intentioned ... but not if you teach them to fish in poisoned waters.

>yes, you can move whatever the fuck you want to D if you're wiping and reinstalling on C
thanks fa m
>This is some pretty low level shit. Not sure how you figured out how to post here
well I'm from Sup Forums and I don't know a single thing about computers 'n shiet, my PC is from 2007 and I have literally no idea what a processor or RAM memory doe for example
so I thought it would be best to ask Sup Forums and this general seemed the closest related to my question

Then say what you're on about. And also what are you on about. Who was directing him to an unverified iso?

My desktop is already 7, only because games and such things are forcing me to use it

on my laptop I've found some older flash based games I play (e.g. haxball.com) brake down for whatever reason with newer editions of flash, easiest thing to do is just use XP, and I liked XP more because there aren't problems with permissions and randomly upgrading to 10/installing shit

i just want to convert my memes to WEBM DAMMIT

had to use a free webm converter

streamable.com/8e7a

Maybe you shouldn't do what you're attempting to do

as a safety precaution, remove the D drive after backing up everything on it, just in case

nah man I'm set straight to my goal, I want to play wolfenstein TNO tonight
besides I'm high af so I trust my skills
>remove the D drive
oh shite how do I do that?
how does a D drive look like?

This should help, since you don't know what your drives look like
wikihow.com/Unmount-a-Drive

So I want to dual boot linux and I have two HDDs (C: and E:)
So I move everything important to to E: ,then create a new partition on C:?
Would I be able to open files on E: with both windows and linux?

Is this stupid?
>primary: linux laptop, all casual stuff (web, music, typing) covered but cosy and customised to my liking easier than windows
>secondary: windows desktop for specialist software like games, backups, etc

Someone in the last thread told him to use one of the isos that didn't have an official checksum on MSDN.

That's a keeper. Good luck clean installing windows Mr. "I don't know what a D drive looks like" I'ma laugh tommorrow when you come in all "hur dur guys I'm high and my computer wont turn on"

ph-tc14pe backplate won't screw into LGA 2011 on a X99A
Am I retarded? What am I doing wrong?

Quote the post

...

>X99A
>Am I retarded?

fug, maybe I just skip the backplate entirely?
>phanteks.com/assets/manuals/PH-TC14PE-manual-English.pdf
I've never installed one like that. hmm

Laptop should be dualboot.

Yeah, and that one was german. Hence the joke.

Why? Maybe i've been lucky but I've never encountered a situation where I needed another OS on it.

Also does jordan still post here?

How do i ensure static isn't a problem while I'm building? I'm working on a carpeted floor.

It's German so there's no official checksum? What?

Plus the German doesn't matter since Ultimate has language packs.

Wristband. And use a table

Touch a screw in the case when you start.
Use the box to build the parts.
A wood table.
Dont go around in socks or touch your bed.

The joke was that op wasn't going to use german. The real suggestion was that he use the 'U' release

Yes it will, just create a partition where you can save your porn and also reinstall your OS

While telling him to avoid the u version is retarded, you are also retarded
The u version is just updated with a hotfix
support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2534111

I know this. It was not a good joke, but he was answered in the end.

Why didn't you just tell him to go for the English ultimate sp1 x64 u version?

Can I crossfire a Radeon R9 200 series with an MSI GeForce GTX 1060?

Is it a bad idea to have my case resting on a towel? My screwdrivers are all insulated by the way.

Sit near a metal radiator or some other metal-cased appliance that's plugged in, and touch the metal before you start and every time you make any particularly large movements.

Also don't put your components on top of the anti-static bags they came in.

Yes.

Just put it over the table.
Build the motherboard and parts over the box the motherboard came with.

No.

Also you've never been in a more appropriate thread.

There is no table feasibly available.

Cause it was kind of fun watching him spin his wheels. Like 4 people got to mock him for thinking he should download x86. I figure if we're saving people all this time googling we should get some lulz every now and then.

Is there any difference in power management between win8.1 and 10? i.e. does one get longer battery life on a laptop?

Another room then?
Desk? something flat?

Just dont build it on the floor or your bed.

The desk I have is not able to handle the weight of the case. It is not a nice desk.

Buying a low-budget laptop. What brand should I get?

Also, can an i3 handle 10bit 1080p movies?

Actually, there is a table I can feasibly move it to. It is quite a distance and I will need to move it back. Is being moved safe once the build is complete?

Yes, as there won't be a large potential difference between the components.

Truth be told, harming something with static is 1:1000000 anyway. I'd be interested to see someone build a PC while rubbing balloons to see what's up.

>Is being moved safe once the build is complete?
Yes while you build everything correctly.

how do i make a cryptolocker?

You can setup a network between two PCs, the easiest way is just to give them static IPs (like 192.168.1.2 and 192.168.1.3), duckduckgo how to do it on you OS.

Yes, you can move all your stuff to one hard drive (the one Windows is installed on), then install Linux on the other.
Stuff that's on the Windows drive can be read by Linux (but writing to it from Linux might break Windows). Windows however can't read your Linux drive.
If you want to actually share stuff between the systems, you need a third partition, and format it as NTFS.

My earphones broke.
Can i use my wireless earphones (which i use for sports) on my pc using my mobile as WiFi receiver?
PS. I have no WiFi device on my pc, but have a decente smartphone

Crossfire is only between amd products (as is SLI with nvidia)

I don't really need to share,just wondering
I was going to mainly use Linux since I only need Windows for AutoCAD

So I just used Aegisub to create subtitles on Sup Forums's recommendation, it's pretty good thank you very much, what's the best software to "glue" the subs to a video, or as people call it, hardsub? I'm on Win7

Your sentence doesn't make any sense. I'm guessing :
PC --(cable)--> phone --(wifi)--> wireless headphone ?
First :
I don't know any wireless headphone that uses wifi, they all use bluetooth.
Second :
No way to do that.

Anybody know how I can track that strange behavior down?

You can also embed subs in an .mkv, which is way cleaner (allows you to turn off and multiple languages).
Anyway, look into handbrake (handbrake.fr)

Im retard, its bluetooth

Still no can do, no problem on hadware side but as bluetooth dongles cost like 2£$€, nobody did bother to make this complex piece of software.

Do I need to find a converter to convert the .ass subtitle files from Aegisub to .SRT that Handbrake works with?

ffmpeg -i "$file" -c:a copy -vf "subtitles=$file" "done/$file"

What is POSIX, exactly?
Is GNU/Linux POSIX compliant?
What about BSD?

I don't know, I've never used handbrake to do that and never really worked with subtitles, I'm only pointing you in a possible direction.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX

Man, I didn't even had to search for that, only typed "en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX" in my browser.

Do i need to install dx 11 and dx12 manually

To suck dicks ?
No you're fine on you own.

Seriously, that is one vague question.
Most games/steam will install the required version during setup.

Is there a way to set up a watch folder from my RPi to watch my remote seedboxes download folder and queue movies to download from it when they're completed?

Does ffmpeg work with .ass files to put subtitles?

DOES ANYONE KNOW WHO RUNS FIREDEN ARCHIVE?

Seriously I've been trying to get in touch with this guy and no response. Not even the other archives like desustorage knows him

Sup Forumsents, I have a request... my old desktop computer died last year and I've been using a shitty laptop since. I need to buy a desktop again.

A guy I know is selling his HP desktop for $360. Here are the specs:

>Core i5 3.8GHZ
>16GB DDR3
>2TB 7200 RPM HDD
>USB3
>Windows 10 Pro
>MS Office
>DVD R

should I do it? is this a good price? I have no fucking idea :( Thanks.

Yeah just put that in the "subtitles=subs.ass" section
This is for mass converting so replace the $file with the file name you want to use

If you play a 1080p video on a 1440p display would it look better, worse or the same as if it was being played on a 1080p screen?

What if the display was 720p?

It would upscale and it would depend on the source

>mfw my fucking computer

OK, Sup Forums, I need your help and I need it quick.

>begin to play some vidya
>been working perfectly fine the night before, constant 144fps
>today it's stuttery, drops frames often and more despite being on a G-Sync monitor
>look at MSI Afterburner
>Voltage limit goes to 1 and Utilization limit goes to 0 when I'm playing the game
>temperatures in game never go past 60c despite going to 75c the night before

How fucked am I and is there anything I can do to fix this? Here are my specs:

>i5 4690k
>MSI GTX 980 Ti
>16GB of RAM (not the issue)
>Seasonic 660W Platinum Certified PSU