/sqt/ - Stupid Questions Thread

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What's the best way to scan multiple video files for corruption?

I need a software (for Windows), or also an online tool, for download and cut youtube video,...i only need a simple one..

something like this
note: only remuxes the file, fast, but i suppose it could miss some kinds of corruption
you could change it to decode the video/audio as well if you wanted to
this should be good enough for things like failed downloads though

for i in *; do ffmpeg -v error -i "$i" -map 0 -c copy -f matroska -y /dev/null 2> "${i%%.*}-error.log"; if [ ! -s "${i%%.*}-error.log" ]; then rm "${i%%.*}-error.log"; fi; done

Freemake

download: youtube-dl
cut: ffmpeg

Thanks, but I need something more simple and for Windows,..it's for a friend.

Do you mean this ? --> freemake.com/

Yes

Advice please!

I previously ordered a mobo from a local vendor, received it as DOA, damaged the socket pins while repacking it to ship it back. Ofcourse they said "pins fucked -> your problem" but well send to MSI and see what happens.

Meanwhile like 6 weeks pass, i buy a replacement myself as i expected getting shafted. Today i get a mail saying "Hey , whats your address, we are shipping you a replacement"

I dont know if its from MSI or they were losing sleep over it and decided to give me a new one anyway, but since i dont need it anymore my question is: Should I ask for a refund/in-store credit or just say thanks and try to sell it online (extra hassle).

tl;dr
Should i ask for refund for a mobo they are giving me as a replacement.

Yeah, I don't really care if it takes a long time to scan, I'd just like a pretty solid way of weeding out shit files. Will that command scan recursive directories and multiple filetypes? Will it be hard to find the errors in the log?

youtube-dl, save as matroska.

Edit with mkvtoolnix.

Use find with -exec for that.

I'm sure you've got some family/friend on a shittier system.

Do the right thing.

>16 svchost
How fucked am I? At this point I might bite the bullet and convert to GNU/Linux

Thanks, I give a look at that

Thanks, but I need something more simple and for Windows,..it's for a friend.

so is it just me or Homeland predicted clinton victory?
is it just me or they create character in show based on alex jones?
Tell me it is not just me pls?

Which program or general search terms would you recommend for finding slightly obscure albums by japanese bands? I've found out about Perfect Dark so far, but there's probably a better way of doing it? Like the japanese equivalent of just searching 'bandname + albumname + blogspot'

Looking for Zazen Boys and Suiseinoboaz discographies btw

>Pic not related
I want to be a Linux user, but I don't know shit about it. Any directions?

I set up a free wireless hotspot on my RT-AC66U running DD-WRT because I'm a vaguely public-spirited individual. It's on its own virtual interface and subnet, and has iptables rules to allow WAN traffic on ports 80 and 443, forward DNS requests to the main router and block everything else.

Is there any way I can set up a proxy server on my main network to take all webpages requested by anyone on the guest network and replace certain words with racial slurs?

Just download a bunch of Distros (Ubuntu, Arch, Elementary whatever), install them to a virtual machine and try them out. Use the one you find most comfy.

Download and install Rufus, download fedora iso. Write it to usb stick
Boot and install fedora.

Need a mail client on Windows that works with Microsoft Exchange. I could use Outlook but I don't really fancy it.

Microsoft makes a distro now

this will do every file in the current folder, recursively
this is a lot slower, as it fully decodes video and audio tracks
this and the previous one deletes empty log files, so only ones with errors in them remain
#!/bin/bash
function check {
logname="$(basename "$1")-error.log"
ffmpeg -v error -i "$1" -allow_raw_vfw 1 -map 0 -c copy -c:v rawvideo -c:a pcm_s16le -f matroska -y /dev/null 2> "$logname"
if [ ! -s "$logname" ]; then rm "$logname"; fi # remove log if empty
}

for i in $(find . -type f); do check "$i"; done

>Thanks, but I need something more simple and for Windows,..it's for a friend.
both youtube-dl and mkvtoolnix and available for windows

Unfortunately that spat out meaningless "Packet mismatch" errors for most of my videos, and failed to detect the one that was half missing

This just randomly produced log files for some of the videos that said "(filename): No such file or directory"

How do I turn off material design on desktop youtube?

Every single google hit is about how to turn it on

I have no direct connection on qBittorrent, so I can't download shit. I have tried multiple ports, but failed. How can I fix this?

What is better Firefox alternative?

What software takes off cover art of some song/album in highest possible quality?

install gentoo

is there really any other use for programming in C other than for embedded systems?

I am a retard. I struggle with simple shit such as understanding functions and for loops in Python and Java. Are there any sites out there that cater to complete dumbshits like me to explain these things in really obvious ways? I'm trying grasp Python presently, so something about that would be great.

my bad, didn't test with spaces in paths/files

try this
#!/bin/bash
function check {
logname="$(basename "$1")-error.log"
ffmpeg -v error -i "$1" -allow_raw_vfw 1 -map 0 -c copy -c:v rawvideo -c:a pcm_s16le -f matroska -y /dev/null 2>"$logname"

Same boat (though I'm a bit further);
I recommend getting a few books, doing the Codeacademy AND Learn Python the hard way courses AND using the SoloLearn app (that's for android, dunno what else there is). Each of those starts at 0, meaning you'll go through a few different ways of learning the language, thus solidifying the core concepts first. I can up my personal collection of Python books too if you want, though they're all available for free online.

Is there some sort of software that, to put it this way, takes a screenshot of music? Like something that can record whatever is being played, from say a videogame, a movie or a song on a website?

you can do this with OBS, record with desktop audio unmuted. though doing this will always result in re-encoding and won't sound as good as the source, it's better to rip the source.

I'm making a simple Go Fish game in C# using .NET

should I store the player's hand server side, or just keep it client side? what is better practice

Dude, oh my god you're a fucking magician. I thought I was never going to find something that actually worked without having to dig through endless pages of log files every time. Fucking thank you.


It's not critical, but is there a way to exclude the error that looks like "[(filename)] Packet mismatch (20 digit number)? About 2/3 of my videos produce it, and it doesn't seem to affect their quality. It's not to hard to spot the difference because their log files end up being a few bytes vs megabytes for the actually fucked up files. I was just curious if there's an easy workaround

Yeah, that's what I've been doing. I've found SoloLearn to be a bit shit and Python for Non-Programmers to be pretty good. I can't use Learn Python the Hard Way because I chose to learn Python 3 and I haven't tried Code Academy.

But, yes, if you have any good recommendations for Python 3, I'd like to know them.

I use Free Antivirus for my Win10 PC. Just let it search for viruses and it found 19 of them. Pretty surprising as I always watch out of what I'm downloading. I don't know if these are real viruses or maybe just some data that the tool confuses as a virus.

However, I haven't noticed any problems with my PC. So if these a real viruses what are they doing? Could they be trojans or shit like that? Should I change all my passwords?

What is "free antivirus"?

give this a shot
filters out lines containing "Packet mismatch" before writing to log
#!/bin/bash
function check {
logname="$(basename "$1")-error.log"
ffmpeg -v error -i "$1" -allow_raw_vfw 1 -map 0 -c copy -c:v rawvideo -c:a pcm_s16le -f matroska -y /dev/null 2>&1 "$logname"
if [ ! -s "$logname" ]; then rm "$logname"; fi # remove log if empty
}

find . -type f | while read i; do echo "$i"; check "$i"; done

I meant Avira Free Antivirus, sorry.

I was just reading about those 19 files and they are not viruses but PUA (Potentially Unwanted Applications) called FusionCore.ME.2 for example. Not sure what that is, gonna do some more research

On my raspberry when I, for example, restart the SSH server the console will echo something like "Restarting SSH server... [OK]". On a debian install on a PC it doesn't tell me anything at all. How do I enable these messages?

Am I dumb for wanting to buy a new case? I want to upgrade my storage and my case only supports 3 hard drives and any more kills the airflow since it was designed really shitty. Are there any other alternatives that are under $200?

>Am I dumb for wanting to buy a new case?
not really, since you have a decent reason for wanting to do so

I want to [spoiler]buy[/spoiler] a Windows 7 license for a new second build.

Should I go for professional or ultimate?
Where's the best place to get a license cheap without getting scammed?

Regards,

Is there a good tutorial out there to learn how to do diagrammatic modeling in LaTeX?

Or should I just give up and use yed and import the diagram I make to LaTeX?

Is it worth it to also/instead learn how to make graphs and shit in LaTeX?

y the fuck would you buy Windows.

Microsoft Toolkit

Are there any VPNs not blocked by 4chin?

Where are they located? Generally for PUPs I'd just run adwcleaner and let it kill whatever it finds, unless there's a program you just can't live without

For windows is there a text editor that supports a transparent background, but opaque foreground?

Wanting to put up scenic backgrounds/noise and have that as the backdrop to the text while I brainstorm

Uh, most cases are below 200 dollars. You can buy a case and a cheap NAS with that, if the problem is storage.

I use the computer for work and university with a shitton of other expensive uni-licensed products, I don't really want to run a pirated install.

I need some help with android phones since I don't use them but my family does, hope you guys can help;

1)I'd like to remove their gmail and keep it gappless, is there a way to get whatsapp updated without the play store?
It's the only app they downloaded from there

2)To remove the apps pre-installed on the phone without rooting, should I remove the updates first and then deactivate it?

3)This happened to a member of my family only.
He had sync on for photos, video, contacts and others but I checked his google account and nothing is there (album, google photos, contacts). Do they still have them or should he have to run the app and log in from it in other for the sync to actully start?
If that's not the case, what happened and why is it empty?


pls help, I don't need a smartphone cause I have no friends so I know pretty much nothing about them.
I'm really worried about the last one, I should be the one protecting them from this shit.

YMMV but I installed arch on a laptop that I only used for personal use, accidently overwrote my windows partition, and just stuck with it for two and a half years. Made it my dedicated go-to for anything I didn't expressly need for work and learned through thousands of google searches.
I feel more comfortable with the platform, even if I still have a deep seated fear of repartitioning.

>it's better to rip the source.
Yeah I tried that but my knowledge is lmited to "look at the website's source code then ctrl f usual media formats like mpr or avi", which doesn't give any results in this case. And the song isn't on youtube either

1) WhatsApp can be downloaded from their site directly: whatsapp.com/android/

2) Yes, although that's not possible for all apps.

3) Wrong google account? all pictures should be at photos.google.com Dunno about this.

4) Get friends and a smartphone. (gappsless if you scared about privacy.)

Recently I read a bit about VPN services. I'm not torrenting anything or do illegal stuff on the internet. Is it still recommended to buy a VPN? The only shady things I do is watching porn or sometimes kill time on Sup Forums or Sup Forums but I don't know if that could lead me to any troubles in future.

Everyone watches porn.

So, no.

Just be careful what you search for. And just don't openly be against Hillary because they will sell you out. kthx

Direct hit! Pretty sure that was the best answer I ever got on this thread. The depths of my video folder shall now be cleansed by the white light of ffmpeg. May the gods of fortune smile upon you.

Server side, anything you don't want a client to theoretically have access to should be server side. If it grows in scope you may have to consider whether it's more important to have fast responses or less secure data.

Here

What's the difference between a Product key and license? The vendors put "this is not a license" in the disclaimer and ramble about calling microsoft support with the code or some shit.

This sucks what the fuck

I need help on a project euler problem...

In what combination of operators (+, -, *, /) will the numbers {1, 2, 5, 8} evaluate to the number 44?

I'm so unbearably close to coming up with the solution (literally an "off-by-one" error), I just need some extra help on this... I'm just stuck on how you could possibly get 44 from {1, 2, 5, 8}

It's unlikely that you'll ever need anything exclusive to ultimate. Kinguin offers super cheap keys. You shouldn't have any problems, and even if you did it's so cheap you could buy two keys and still come out ahead.

To answer your other question, keys are a means of activating a product, and just because you can activate a product, doesn't mean you're legally entitled to it.

Just fyi:
pastebin.com/smjvLZN4

Pretty fast reply, thanks.

>1)
I'll just remove the gmail under Account > Google, is that enough?
Also what happens to the app/s downloaded under that account once you remove it and delete the account, they uninstall automatically?
As for whatapp, all their conversations should still be there once I install the app again since they are stored on their servers, right?

>3) Wrong google account? all pictures should be at photos.google.com Dunno about this.
I checked the gmail tied to the phone. Nothing was there and I felt relieved, but then I started getting paranoid.
Is there even a way to forward synced data to another account?

>4)
At the moment I'm more concerned about my family's privacy, they trust me.
Thanks again.

1)
Removing the Google account is not enough. Google services will still be running.

Whatsapp doesn't keep messages on their servers. Most backups are actually done via Google Drive. However, if you don't uninstall the messages will stay.

'Disabling the playstore' will keep the Apps, I don't even know if it's possible to do.

3) No way to forward synced data, no way that I know of at least. Maybe try see if syncing is enabled for pictures and contacts in settings. If enabled go to the google photos app, and try and look for options to sync folders.

Removing the playstore doesn't remove individual apps, although some require accounts to work. But you should be aware that it's all tied in pretty deeply, and if you try outright disabling apps it can cause a lot of issues. When people talk about going "GAPPSless", they mean installing a custom rom that doesn't include them in the first place. The google runs deep.

why is bf1 maxing out my CPU Usage? 6700k

its not done this till recently

Check to make sure it isn't just BF1.EXE (or whatever its called) You could have some background tasks eating shit up.

how do I transfer files from my old (dead) SSD to a brand new samsung 850 evo?

by restoring from your backup
you can't get files off a dead drive, it's dead

Well if it's dead you can't access the files now can you? Certainly not with consumer-grade data recovery solutions.

Is it "dead" as in you just can't boot to it, or dead as in you can't get a live cd to even notice it?

How can I mess with a SATA port to be faulty but not completely break it?

For what purpose?

Plug and unplug 51 times

when I try to boot it just gets stuck at either the login screen or the progress bar with the apple logo. I did a hardware diagnostic which told me that the drive is the source of the problem. Can I use another computer and connect both the SDDs to drag the files from one to another or is this too simple?

I don't understand what I need to do then.
If I delete an account, if they actually delete it I don't know, it says I'll lose the apps which I'm fine with, since there are alternatives.
I guess I can't just keep the phone without a mail tied to it and just disable all gapps including google play service then?
The only phone I remember the name of at the moment is a galaxy s 3 neo, can it go legit gappless?

>3)
It's disabled now, before disabling it there was a message under the option stating when the last sync took place but I can't see anything in the account, not even contacts
I googled the "problem" and there were many people complaing about it not syncing, but it seems like a different issue, like it was stuck and synced only some of them
The fact that google could have picture of my family and I can't even see them disturbs me greatly

If the drive is still at least partially working and there's no encryption in play, then yes, you should be able to pop it in another PC and copy the files over sata. If the OS you use doesn't recognize the filesystem, you might have to install a special tool to see the contents.

forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3-neo/orig-development/rom-cyanogenmod-13-0-s3-neo-t3500919

Thanks a lot man!
What kind of tool are you referring to?

Whatever comes up when you google the host OS and the filesystem it needs to read on your SSD

/sci/ is dead so if anyone is good at math can you help me with this we have a urine with 7 balls 4 of them are black and 3 of them are white . the 4 black balls have these 4 numbers : 1,2,2,3 meanwhile the number of the 3 white balls are :1,2,2
so what is possiblity of a Successive draw with returning of 3 balls which have the same number and same colour

>can you do my high school math homework for me
No

I only want to transfer simple files like word documents and powerpoints so I shouldn't need that right?

Also, can I transfer something like Maple 16 or I'd have to buy it again?

Does Windows Server OS work like regular windows, where you can install it and not need to put in a key, it just takes away your wallpaper in 30 days?

0. There are no 3 balls with the same number and colour.

So I was given this Lenovo M71z recently, free of charge. I make videos and edit on my macbook pro (i know im gay or whatever) but am often frustrated with the size of the screen. Is it worth it to use this and just upgrade the ram and etc or should i continue saving for more recent desktop/ monitors?

You're not understanding what a filesystem is. If you're sticking a drive from a mac in another mac it's no problem. If you're sticking it in a PC, then everything on it will probably be complete jibberish to windows. It needs help 'translating' or you won't get one text document off of it. Software like Maple 16 should have a license you can use to redownload it.

figured out it by myself. suck it asshole
lol i said you can return the balls to the urnine if you are interested in the solution. here it is:
(1^3 + 1^3 + 2^2 + 2^2 + 1^3)/7^3

Successive meaning replacing I assume, because there aren't 3 matching colors that also have matching numbers.
1/7 black 1, 2/7 b2, 1/7 b3, 1/7 w1, 2/7 w2
Chance of matching is the same, ditto for third draw, so you get
(1/7)^3*3 + (2/7)^3*2

>lol i said you can return the balls to the urnine
No you didn't.
Also, why do you have balls in fucking urine?

im using postgresSQL and i wanna create a new table

so i choose my database etc and i create an empty table

but i can't edit the code of the table to add more columns etc

i dont want to use the pg's interface at creating the table to add my keys etc, i wanna write them in code

how can i?

windows creation tools

Thunderbird.

port forward your router. google your router model + port forward for instructions.

every fucking ATX case under $100 have 6+ 3.5" slots.
NZXT, Phanteks, Corsair, Fractal.
just go to PCpartpicker and in the left menu you can set minimum numbers for shit.

doesnt matter as long as your programs are licensed.
but if you still want legit, google win 7 pro vs ult and check microsoft's on comparison chart, but in short get Pro if it's cheaper.

if you live in america and dont want your ISP or government to spy on your browser history, yes.

glue some aluminium foil on the pins

not exactly. just use daz loader or mstoolkit to activate.
are you going to run a server?

>not exactly. just use daz loader or mstoolkit to activate.
>are you going to run a server?

Yeah I was hoping it was like W7 and I could just install it and be done with it, it's not like I'm ever gonna look at the wallpaper

yeah you can do that.

Alright Sup Forumsentoomen.

My CPU is a Phenom II X4 965. GPU is GT 640 (shut up). I am going to obviously upgrade the GPU. I was thinking a 1050 Ti 4GB or an RX 470. I am leaning heavily toward the 470.

Any reason to go for the 1050 Ti over it? More reliable....? My buddy at uni (who I just spoke with) is a self-ascribed AMD fanboy and said to go for the AMD.

I need some advice on midrange android phones.
I currently have a Galaxy S 3, rooted and running Ultimamod, but it's finally starting to crash and die on the regular. I don't want to get a top of the line phone, just something that will be noticably better than my current one.

Any advice on what brands to look at and where to buy in the UK?

Ok, I'll look into it.
What about just disconnecting your device from the mail in the meantime? Would it be safe?
I'd just have to update whatsapp manually through the browser here , or should I use whatsapp updater that is on fdroid?
Wish there was a way to know for sure what the fuck happened with the sync though, in you guys opinion do they have them?
I hope not

is it really that fucking hard to search the god damn catalog for before you fucking post?