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How come some things get softer when you heat them, and some things get harder when you heat them?

This is literally blowing my mind.

Can I connect a RGB led strip on a RGBW pin header?

What is the diference between dlna and ftp?
I set up ftp for usb hdd connected to my router. FTP download speed is horrible probably because router's cpu cant handle it. Will i get better speed from dlna?

Is there a way to make VLC recognize a click to the video area as play/pause like MPC does?

Dlna is for media streaming, ftp is for transferring entire files

Most things transfer from solid to liquid as the atoms in them become excited by the heat. Your dick becomes harder because the neurons in your brain are reacting to the heat of the cooch.

To kick off this thread,
I have a very nice question

I picked up some large speakers recently
Like, they have an RCA jack

They are 8ohm, and thus I am worried about what will happen if I plug them into my motherboard's integrated audio. It is my understanding that that is far too little impedance and will work like a "short".

But what I'm wondering is

my motherboard has 7.1 audio

And if you attach power sources in parallel, they share the load

so would hooking up a 3-way splitter to the Front, Rear, and Side jacks, to merge them into one Omni Jack with 3x the regular per-port amperage, be enough to power 8ohm speakers?

You retarded or something?
they are passive speakers and need amp

output from your PC will go in to the amp

but I don't have an amp because I'm a cheap nigger

And my question is

Yes, my mobo's Line Out jack doesn't provide enough juice for passive speakers

BUT

does it provide ⅓ of the juice required?

Because if so, it stands to reason that combining all 3 jacks would provide the juice required (since amps in parallel sum)

No. You need an amp.

So does that mean i won't be able to mount that hdd on my pc in a way that allows me to download torrents directly onto it?

Ya, if FTP doesn't work

what gets harder

Which Linux distro is good and """"stable"""" for everyday use?

ubuntu

What subwoofer should I pair with my Marantz HD660 speakers?

The bass and overall sound quality are very good, but it kind of drops off on some songs with very low pitched bass.

youtube.com/watch?v=PMd9eYXT0mM

The really low frequencies in this song are a good example.

Thank you for your time.

>pic related, speakers and receiver

buy lepai for $25
or smsl for $60

Lepai is fire hazard and buzzes. DTA-1 is better.

What is this

A magnetic anti theft device

Cool, but this shouldn't be outside? It was sealed. And how this works? It's a chip inside or something?

Why would you stick an alarm device on the outside? It's a piece of metal that causes a disturbance in the magnetic field when you're leaving a store unless it's disabled

Nope. I tried it. can't do it in win7 without additional software.

eggs.

I've already seen some outside. Anyway, thanks.

Since AM4 is coming out soon, is there going to be a price drop on am3+ cpus?

I don't want to do a full upgrade yet, but probably plan on upgrading my 6300fx

How do I make ncmpcpp default to library view instead of playlist view?

>update nvidia drivers through hardware manager
>windows says to restart pc
>restart
>windows 10 stuck in boot up forever

Apparently Windows 10 removed fucking bootup options/safe mode? What the fuck am I supposed to do now?

That just means they're too lazy to secure it better or that the store that needs to protect it adds their own later in the manufacturing process

Force a safemode startup. That's with terminal in the installation medium.

Unless it's not an EFI partition. If it's MBR then press f8 or something on reboot.

I have no installation medium. Do I need to burn a windows 10 disk?

this is what happens when you fuck up your variable scope.

Is there something like a 4chanX for Twitter? Specifically, something that can filter tweets.

recipes.howstuffworks.com/menus/question616.htm

Yes, or make a bootable USB stick. UEFI windows 10 either disables the f8 menu or it boots too fast to notice the key press.

With the lepai the amp itself is fine, it's the shitty power bricks that cause the buzzing

Whats a good browser to use? I am currently using Firefox, is Palefox or Waterfox any good?

>Apparently Windows 10 removed fucking bootup options/safe mode?

After 3 failed boots in a row, it should give you the option for safe mode.

Barring that, toss in your installation media and access it from there.

memes
join the botnet and use Chrome

All Firefox forks are pretty much the same. Depending on what bugs you about it, you may want to consider switching to some Chromium build. Or Opera.

trudat, hold the power button if it hangs for 3 bootups

I didn't see any build threads so I figured I'd ask here.

I'm saving up to build a new computer since my current one is ~5 years old and has multiple hardware failures. I know everything that I plan on getting except for the case. I was hoping Sup Forums would give me some recommendations.

Here's what I'm looking for.
-As dust/cat hair free as possible.
-As quiet as possible using multiple additional air fans.
-Mid to full tower.
-No doors/panels to move on the front to turn it on or to access the optical drive/front IO
-Has no tempered glass panel, those are a meme and just a gimmick to increase the price.
-Cable management is a plus but not required, I'll be getting a modular PSU.

I give zero shits about how it looks. I want a functional, quiet, cool machine. Thanks for any input.

Thank you very much!

has had multiple hardware failures*

It's not dead currently.

>Windows 10
You had it coming
>What the fuck am I supposed to do now?
Install Linux you fucking retard

what does the following C programm do/where/what is the excurity issue and how to exploit it?
Yes, I have not really a clue of the functions in C....
#define _DEFAULT_SOURCE
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include

int a, b;
char correct[0x40];

int main()
{
FILE *fp;
char buf[0x40];
int auth = 0;

setbuf(stdout, NULL);
alarm(M_PI);

srand(time(NULL));
a = rand() % 0x8000, b = rand() % 0x8000;
printf("%#x + %#x = ", a, b);
if (!gets(buf)) exit(1);
if (a + b != strtol(buf, NULL, 0))
exit(0);

if (!(fp = fopen("password.txt", "r"))) exit(1);
if (!fgets(correct, sizeof(correct), fp)) exit(1);
if (*correct && correct[strlen(correct) - 1] == '\n')
correct[strlen(correct) - 1] = 0;
if (fclose(fp)) exit(1);
printf("Password: ");
if (!gets(buf)) exit(1);
if (!strcmp(correct, buf))
auth = 1337;

if (auth ^ 1337)
exit(0);

printf("\x1b[32mCongratulations! You win!\x1b[0m\n");
printf("Submit your prize to {kirschju,jonischk}@sec.in.tum.de:\n ");
execl("/bin/get_flag", "get_flag", NULL);
}

is there a torrent client that lets do the following things:
>is open source
>can work as server with no gui so i can remotely manage it (not necesseray but nice)
>not connect to 0% peers if they dont actually download
>block connecting to peers from a certain region
>has a built in search engine

im using qbittorent currently but the lack of options really perturbes me.

Is using a proxy just a way of using a VPN for one perticular software?

Network-wise, yes. They both 'proxy'. But there are other benefits to VPN as well that proxy services don't provide

How do i make it so that the threads i have watched are carried over between different devices. E.I. watch a thread on a laptop, it appears on the desktop.

I have 2 S4's with broken digitizers i got for free, what do i do with them? I have ADB enabled on them now so I can use vysor and use them on my pc, New screens are at least $100 but idk what use it would have, any suggestions?

What's the reason behind Linux not having a file extension system (.sh, .docx, .txt, .exe)
I mean, there's really no way of telling whether a file myfile is a text file or a binary executable or something else

Think of a proxy like someone holding up a mirror so you can bounce a message off of it. Anybody standing between you and that mirror can clearly see what the message says, and if somebody has a good vantage point they can follow the message back to the mirror and then to you. So it really doesn't provide much protection. A VPN is like the same thing, but the message is encoded between you and mirror guy, and it's usually mixed with lots of other messages from other people so it can't be directly pinned to you on the other end.

`man ncmpcpp`

>storing passwords in plaintext
>"secret" data is stored in plaintext

I'm not sure if there is a C specific bug in there, but these are both BIG no nos.

it is a introductionary challenge, so some (very9 weak spots should be in there
but since I have no clue of C I have problems understanding shit, like what does
gets(buf)
stand for? reding the buffer of those 64 chars and then? how can it evaluate to true/false?

read the documentation
cplusplus.com/reference/cstdio/gets/
>On success, the function returns str.
>If the end-of-file is encountered while attempting to read a character, the eof indicator is set (feof). If this happens before any characters could be read, the pointer returned is a null pointer (and the contents of str remain unchanged).
>If a read error occurs, the error indicator (ferror) is set and a null pointer is also returned (but the contents pointed by str may have changed).

If you're on a UNIX-like OS you can type

man 3 gets


where gets is the function you'd like to learn about. Up will pop the manual page with all the data you'll need.

gets = "get string". It's defined in string.h

How effective would it be to use a random old crt monitor for online shooters, given how high their response time is?

yeah, I am just going through the docs for every function which is - wonder oh wonder - pretty boring and kinda exhausting
but thanks for the tip to get to the manual quick
understanding the code is one part, exploiting the (prolly easier) part...

meant to link this post

Linux determines filetypes by a different means.

File extensions was really more of a DOS imposed thing. Linux is based on Unix, which didn't use extensions in such a manner. Unix predates Microsoft and DOS.

The real question you should be asking is why did DOS decide to place such importance on such a trivial and unreliable means of determining filetypes?

UX - User Experience
Since packages, zip files and whatnots are being passed around like crazy, users needs to easily know what kind of file each file is. Instead of clicking everything hoping to find a text file only to find out that you just executed a delete script.

>Your reflexes are faster than the response times of even the SLOWEST displays.
>Your visual acuity is so amazing that the tiny bit of ghosting caused by even the SLOWEST display affects your aim in some meaningful way.
I want to insult you for thinking this way.
The difference of a few milliseconds isn't going to make you better at games.

i7 6700k or i7 4790k? i look at the specs and it seems that the 4790k overclocks better, but i have no experience with either.

Can someone explain to me how DDR4 speeds work? I see the modules available in speeds from 2133 - 4266, but on my motherboard's specs it has an (O.C) after every speed above 2133. Does that mean I have to overclock it to get that speed, and what exactly would I have to overclock? The FSB? If I just put, say a 2666 module in there does that mean the module is just rated for 2666 and will run at 2133 unless overclocked?

That's doing it for users, not the OS.
The real reason that it's such a big deal in DOS is that DOS had 8-character filename limits at the time. So, you didn't get enough characters to meaningfully convey the purpose or type of your files with just their names, therefore, you needed the shorthand expression of such information that filename extensions gives you.

i got locked out of the yahoo email i use for work because i don't know my password (i'm always logged into it but i got randomly logged out today) and i couldn't answer the recovery questions they gave me.
what do i do about this?

6700k. ddr4 and better features than the z97 era. buy a z270 board perhaps and unlock more features.

pcworld.com/article/2887772/how-to-turn-your-old-phone-into-a-basic-pc-for-cheap.html

so my current processor is an i5 4430 with a stock cooler. If i got a 6700k, could I use my current fan for it? is there any difference?

most likely, just dont try to overclock

Oh that's cool, definitely doing that.

No lol. Intel HSF is intothetrash straight away. Buy a $20 cpu cooler and it will drop your temps by 20-30 degrees.

That's just wrong. Use an IPS screen competitively for ten minutes and tell me there's no difference. I don't want to start an argument, I just want to leave my original question open to anyone who has relevant info

Contact support and pray that Amarjeet's script plays in your favor

what

How important are technical writers/persons who do documentation, submit proposals, design documents, etc in the industry? What about textbook writers?

>have BA in education with concentration in writing/linguistics
>went back to school to get MSc in computer science
>every single assignment I submitted, my documentation was singled out for praise
>even if my code was great, they really took note of my writing

I've noticed some torrents come out lately with .exe files. more than normal. I realize this is an old ass trick but has any one EVER run those fake ass .exe files?

I'm not smart enough to do it so I thought someone here has.

However, the acc on the bay seems to be getting it's torrents deleted.

This is from the txt file one comes with
>
>Sup Forums thinks I'm spam
ur spam

I just panicked and submitted my IBM application form without checking for spelling and grammar. Turns out there are three spelling errors in the 1550 word document. How fucked am I?

they prolly wont even notice dude.

Not fucked, just not likely to get hired. 4/5 jobs go to people the hire on word of mouth. If you have to apply, you're already on the verge of being turned down

>modernize - modernise
>liason - liaison
>propsed - proposed

I probably wouldn't have an issue if I'd bought that mechanical keyboard I wanted...

I'm a cs student, how can I make money doing something programming related without having to be an expert or go searching for customers?

It's a summer internship so I doubt there's much word of mouth recruiting going on. To be honest though, I'm submitting right on the deadline anyway so I was probably fucked before I even started.

only say something if they do

I believe transmission can do all that, or you can delve into rtorrent

the first one is just a regional dialect and I bet the recruiter won't even know how to spell liaison correctly. The last one is pretty retarded though, just hope they're willing to forgive one mistake in 1550

dunno the how or why of it but chrome does that for me. don't know for sure about thread watching since I don't use it, but it keeps my spot on thread across devices and recognizes me for my (you)s. just chromium with sync and 4chanx

>Everyone loved my post, so I got mad propsed.

change your email bruh, yahoo mail has been repeatedly compromised so it's not safe for business or anything sensitive. all you can do is recreate your contacts list with a new nonyahoo email and send a mass mail letting people know of your changed address

deluge

well shit. i have so many online accounts linked to that.
guess i'm fucked

>tech internship
college profs generally lock those up for favored students

as long as you've got the passwords for your other online accounts there shouldn't be an issue changing the email associated with it

My Nexus 6P just went from 30% battery to 0% and turned off. I restarted it. Now it's reporting 1% battery but everything is working fine and has been for much longee than my phone would ever run on 1% battery.

So I guess my question is what the fuck?

How can I DELETE the shit in the right side from startup so I can use "Normal startup" without this garbage starting every time?

How can I create a whitelist of sites/domains on windows 10? Kids have some cheap computers for learning stuff and I'm okay with them playing a game as a reward, but they act like the kids they are and play when they are supposed to be working. It's a pain in the ass to get them off without forcing the lids shut.

I understand that I can use my router's main page to block sites but it won't let me block https. There's also the HOST file but I don't want to manually block like 50 domains or whatever.

>steam
t. manchild

whats my best bet for setting up a network consisting of a lot of raid set ups? i want about 20 set ups of raid 1 and a few raid 5.however i also want other raid set ups to be available. this will probably go over 100 disks