/Sqt/ - Stupid Questions Thread

Post your stupid questions that don't deserve their own thread here. REDIRECT anyone who posts stupid questions or tech support threads outside of this thread here. Also, try using google before asking.

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bought an ATX motherboard, installed in a non-atx case with 4 instead of 6 standoffs.

Works fine. Should i be worried about shorts or anything that would affect the functionality of the pc if its missing one standoff at the bottom?

my non-atx case can only allow for one of the two on the ATX mobo

What's the difference between USB 2.0 and USB 3.0?

3.0 is wayyyyyyyyyyy faster. How fast? Count the "y"s in "way" and that's how fast buddo.

So I set up a vhost on an IRC network but when I wanted to see if it was working, it still showed my IP after /whois'ing myself. Does that only happen if I do it to myself? I thought a vhost was supposed to stop the IP from showing up.

pic related

What is TCP/IP? The explanations on Google are filled with technical jargons that I don't understand!

>last Sunday
>Spilled milk on my Toshiba satellite e100
>Immediately hold power and shut it off (within 5 secs)
>Then immediately turned it upside down to prevent milk from seeping further
>An hour later, open up keyboard to see if there is any milk to wipe there
>The connectors (the plastic bits that hold the ribbon on the circuit board) both fall off
(Dont know if I broke them atm or they were already shit)
>Painstakingly try to place ribbons back into their place and hold them there as I surgically placed the connectors back using tweezers
>Leave laptop to dry further

I just turned the thing on tonight and although the computer starts up and the touchpad works, the keyboard seems to be dead. Caps lock light doesn't even turn on.

Either the milk fucked up my keyboard or my keyboard ribbons are not connected properly back into the circuit boars. Does this look right to you guys? Does anything look off?

Did ssds get thinner in the past few years? Picked up a kingston one and its uber thin

perhaps your laptop is lactose intolerant

let's not cry over spilled milk, friend

Hi, a long time ago I found a really good resource on Sup Forums to install win7, but I've since lost the information.

Essentially it was a download for win7Prof as well as a really good crack for it, mostly if anyone knows where to download win7, and maybe knows the name of the crack and where to get it?

Sorry for being so vague and useless. I seem to have lost the USB I used for fresh install hence the questions.

been a while since I've been to Sup Forums

I remember there being a bunch of file hosts run by kind anons, if those are still around can I get some links?

What are the odds of me actually getting a job with no diploma and self-learning how to code?

Prove yourself boy

I've been shilled emacs all week long and I'm considering giving it a try.
Coming from the vim world, emacs appears to be a clusterfuck to me.
What's a good way to get started?

> emacs is so modular you just make it the way you want.
> just use evil mode :^)
> look at all these plugins that will make your life easier !!! Use them all!

I want a lean approach and don't fall in "I have no idea what I'm doing" state.

I'm applying for internships and i have 75+ bookmarked in chrome. I want to export them all to a spreadsheet where I can then organize them so I know which ones I've applied. Any ideas? I tried exporting to HTML but I'm not sure how to get it formatted correctly so that each link is a CSV

I have a asus c200(intel N2830 2.16ghz, 2gb ram, integrated graphics) running gallium/ubuntu. Looking at buying a 21.5" ips monitor, 1920x1080 resolution. Is it going to be compatible with my specs? Do I need to worry about drivers? How will it affect performance? Will I be able to watch netflix?

Is there anything wrong with the steelseries sensei mouse?

you could just open the HTML file in chrome and use js in the console. I threw this together in about 30 seconds:

var r='name,url\n';var d=document.getElementsByTagName('a');for(var i=0;i

I'd use vanilla emacs for awhile until you're comfortable. do the built in tutorial a couple times and maybe try to learn elisp. thats what I did and found that I don't actually need that many plugins. I came from vim and have never used any of the plugins that try to make emacs more vim friendly. I think thats dumb, just use vim if you want vim.

BUmp for this

It's a collection of standardized networking protocols that make up what is known as the internet. TCP/IP is "internet" in normie speak.

Is that a made up quote?

"internet" is normie speak for TCP/IP, I mean. It's the protocols that makes the internet possible.

also, bump

My VPN busted at some point while I was torrenting, but I don't know whether or not my torrent client was operating at the time of the leak. I wasn't seeding anything copyrighted at the time, or I don't think I did, but I'm not sure. Does deluge keep a log file even after a reboot? How likely is it that the DCMA people were looking while I leaked? How long until I get my letter? How long until I can relax? How can I know if I got popped? Will they cut off service?

Should I wait for CES to get a gaming oriented monitor?

No you don't

How do I stop my hand from getting cold when using my keyboard and mouse

Fap

I'm on a R9-280X and a shitty FX-6300. Should I upgrade? I mainly game and i can play basicly everything on high at about 40-60 FPS I bought this pc 2 years ago on a tight budget.

stick your hand down your pants, till it's warm then warm the other one.

few months ago there were a lot of threads talking about a new decentralised, anonymous (encrypted ?) network or something.. I don't remember exactly what it was. Anyone remember it ?

If the price I saw is correct, it's expensive. Is it worth compared to one of their 40€ mouse ? I don't think.

hdd & ssd size are standardised

I want to copy some weeb music, but the filenames ended being garbled. I know changing locale and language might fix this, but as I looked it up, it doesn't have Japan/Japanese as one of its option. What do?

Should I buy a 4k TV or a 1080p 3d TV?

I installed TempleOS. How do I play the gaymes?

none of them. A 1080p TV

>start pc
>gpu fan makes a horrible whirring noise
>like an old fan-cooled vhs camera
>sound clears after the board temps get up to idle
so i'm guessing my fan bearing is fucked, this wont have any adverse effects though right?

Best compiler for C?

Torrentz is kill.

Where do you guys go to look for torrents?

My remote teamviewer machine stopped responding overnight.
It still shows up in the Contacts menu and I can still try to reach it, but every time it gets stuck on connecting and every time I get a waitforconnectfailed error saying "Partner did not connect to router".
I've been using TV no problem for the last 3 days before this, and I have it on good authority the remote desktop is still up, its screen locked.
What could have caused this?

Why? I can either get a 4k or a 3d 1080p in my budget.

Wtf is a compiler?

3D is useless.
4k is a question of content. Maybe they improved the availability and programs on the TV are actually in 4k, but it wasn't the case for a long time.

you'll use the 3d twice, once when you get it to see how good it is then once again months later when you remember about it
then the batteries in your glasses will run out and you'll chuck them

qBittorrent search engine just works for me.

no

Posting in /sqt/ from here Sup Forums I need some help

Today I was trying to install aircrack, reaver etc on my ubuntu 14.04 install that my laptop came with, everything was fine ,but after rebooting the enable wifi option was gryed out, looked around internet and rfkill unblock and editing a config file didn't help, it says hard blocked = yes in rfkill list, even after sudo unblock commands

So I went to bios to see if they were enabled and hit load defaults button, but now every time I restart I get only Dell Recovery and hitting that th ubuntu logo loads for long after I get ubuntu lsf shell or something,

I contacted Dell and they said to put HDD priority in first and select Legacy in Boot List option, after that rebooting says "no boot device found" so they said the ubuntu is corrupted, and I gotta reinstall

Is there anything I can do to fix this?

install windows

Basically, is a piece of software intended to convert a syntax-oriented code (like C or java) to machine code, to be executed on a system.

You and server admins will always be able to see your actual host in /whois information.

Find your own warez.

Contribute to an open source project. You don't even have to put which project you worked on so long as you can talk about what you did in an interview.

You don't need drivers for monitors. You should be fine on performance unless you try to run games at 1080p.

You'll start getting overheats when under load. Fucked fan bearings don't let the fan spin as well as it should.

Subtitles doesn't show on the screenshots I take with mpc-hc, is there a way to do it?

I just 'stole' a computer from work which has the key for Win 7 pro oa/oem key stuck on the side, will I be able to use it for a fresh install? The disk is fucked but I got an iso off the web.
>tl;dr can an oem key only be activated once?

I can hear my harddrive grinding. It's going to die.
I have an external drive. How to best back-up everything?
Drag files over? Disk image?
Recommend me a program please, windows back-up keeps failing.

How can I become at least half the icon that 愛してるさわこ !BE/4wes0mE, the smartest and most important poster on Sup Forums, is?
Please recommend any books or learning material.

Any OS with voice recognition?

I have three of them

1) I am trying to move towards more privacy online and I'd like to delete my facebook account for that reason. Will Facebook save my data anyway and just stop associating it with a profile? Or will the data be wiped out too?

2)Same question, now concerning an Apple ID.

3)What steps can I take to leave less fingerprints with an iPhone? Would using a VPN help? My main concerns is that they can link my email address to my Apple ID, and then my Apple ID to my phone.

Anyone know why my EM algorithm implementation doesnt work?
I know it's shit but it should work right?
Problem is both gaussians converge to the same mean and variance for some reason.
Murphy's notation btw. Not homework, I want to classify some shitposts and other texts in the future.
import numpy as np

npa = numpy.array
data = npa([0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14])
n = length(data)
n_steps = 5
mu = npa([0, 15])
sigma = npa([1, 1])
r_ik = np.zeros((2,N))
for j in range(n_steps):

# E-step
r_ik[0, :] = pi_k[0]*normpdf(data, mu[0], sigma[0])
r_ik[1, :] = pi_k[1]*normpdf(data, mu[1], sigma[1])
r_ik = np.divide(r_ik, sum(r_ik))

# M-step
r_k = [sum(r_ik[0,:]), sum(r_ik[1,:])]
pi_k = np.divide(r_k, N)
mu = npa([np.divide(sum(r_ik[0,:]*data), r_k[0]),
np.divide(sum(r_ik[1,:]*data), r_k[1])])

sigma = npa([sum(r_ik[0,:]*(data-mu[0])*np.transpose(data-mu[0]))/r_k[0],
sum(r_ik[1,:]*(data-mu[1])*np.transpose(data-mu[1]))/r_k[1]])

you need to be a trifag like him for that. books cant' help you

I have a laptop with a single 3GB RAM stick, and 32bit Windows 7. If I were to put a second 3GB RAM stick, should I switch to a 64bit OS to see any improvements?

What drive brand and model comes on the Intenso 5TB Retail kit?

>can an oem key only be activated once?
yeah, except if you edit out the registry for it

what does this mean??? What do i do?

...

I have vim 7-*, how the fuck do I upgrade to version 8 ?
I've tried apt-get update, apt-get upgrade vim, load of shit happened in the terminal, and when I launch it I still have version 7 ...

I need it for Nvim-R

please tell me this isn't a real thing

It's probably real.
The laptop shown in the image is an Acer which means it belongs to a poor person who can't afford a MacBook Pro, probably a bum. It's cold out there in the winter.

Your distro didn't update it in the repos yet.
Build from source or add a ppa you trust that has it

Yes.

Put your trip back on.

you have one bad sector and one maybe bad sector. Nothing to worry about at this stage. Continue monitoring your disk on a daily basis.

If more bad sectors start to appear, get HDD sentinel and do a read-write-read test on the whole disk.

1. your acc will be removed from the site, but will remain on their servers. I heard you can write them a real letter asking them to delete all of the data they have about you.
2. not sure, probably it's deleted for good
3. don't use an iphone if you care about online privacy.

TestDisk

for the best results, use it from a live loonix distro. Ubuntu, anything.

use a renderer that includes subtitles.

torrentz2.eu
,
check the languages/advanced tabs and install asian fonts. your filenames are probably fine you just don't have fonts to display the runes. Don't use japanese locale.

didn't edit anything

I have a Toshiba Satellite C50-B and 1 Column of keys haven't worked since I got it (7ujm) and 1 USB Port used to work now, stopped.

>1) I am trying to move towards more privacy online and I'd like to delete my facebook account for that reason. Will Facebook save my data anyway and just stop associating it with a profile? Or will the data be wiped out too?
That's a hard subject.
Technically deleting your account won't delete the data they have about you. You have to ask them officially and I don't remember if they do it for all the people or if it's related to the laws of your country.

Even if they said they deleted your data, you can't be sure about it.

I remember a guy that asked facebook everything they had about him and they actually gave him. He deleted his account and yet they kept everything.


If I remember correctly, according what people post on facebook, the photographies, all the sharing button on other websites etc. Facebook tries to make a profile of the people that doesn't have an account.

>2
Apple might not be as big as Facebook since they don't only rely of selling your life, but the problem is more about the government (see prism)

first time AyyyMD user. whiich one of these should I download? I just want the newest drivers, I don't want to bloatware shit.

Should i get a 1050 or a 460? Can a 1050 emulate ps2 well? What about 460?

Emulation is primarily a CPU task

How do i uninstall the new radeon drivers thing? I think 12.01(?) was the best)(catalyat) as the new one removed heaps of useful features like the display center that let you adjust up and down scaling

Really? My 8350 steuggled with it

>torrentz2.eu
Wow. Are they not worried of getting taken down too? What did they do different?

Because emulators are generally single threaded and the 8350 has a bunch of slow cores.

What are the shortcuts \rf and \rq ? What should I press

Best way to mount a GNU+Linux directory as a network drive in Windows over the Internet? I've heard Samba isn't the best for non-LAN things.

>use a renderer that includes subtitles
What does that mean?

what's a good firewall for windows?

I wish I could block everything and allow certain programs only. Can do that on android but not on this pos.

Yes you can lmao

Plus use commonsense 2017

Are there any console multiplexers for Windows that can span multiple monitors running at different resolutions? I'm using ConEmu right now and it has problems trying to do that while in full screen mode. Obviously I could just run a separate instance for each monitor, but then I can't swap between panes using hotkeys.

is use winsshfs with some library

Anyone?
Did I give too little information?

to be fair I was looking for the option on the advanced settings windows, though it was on the main one.

still wish to know about other firewalls though

Either use a subtitle renderer like xyVSfilter that embeds subtitles into the video before it goes to the video renderer versus xySubfilter that the video renderer like madVR add after processing the video.

Need to buy a power adapter kit and need to choose of the 3
TP-LINK TL-PA2010
TotoLink PL200
TP-LINK TL-PA4010
They are the same price which one?

Should i buy windows 8? What are the risks with using the license avoider?

im looking for a good scheduling program

What cool things can I do with a VPS?

sounds like you are looking for comodo

Thanks. Should I use any codec pack? What difference does it makes compared to vanilla mpc-hc? I literally have no idea about this kind of stuff.

What is the name of that program that finds massive files on your drives and represent them as colored boxes of different sizes?

why is Yify bad?
SpaceSniffer?