/sqt/ - Stupid Questions General

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Now be kind and answer me.

Which DataVac should I purchase:

ESD Safe Electric Duster ED-500ESD

or

Pro Series MDV-1BA

?

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subgraph.com/vega/download/
support.google.com/earth/answer/6327779?hl=en
cupfighter.net/2009/06/powershell-comparing-version-numbers
mywot.com/en/scorecard/www.totalav.com
crucial.com/usa/en/ct102464bf160b)
downloadcenter.intel.com/product/98909/Intel-HD-Graphics-630
exo.com.ar/content/nice-sl-c1443h
lifewire.com/free-driver-updater-tools-2619206
tomshardware.com/answers/id-1859845/ddr3-ddr3l-slots.html
differencebetween.com/difference-between-ddr3-and-vs-ddr3l/
skyscanner.net/news/tips/uk-flight-ban-laptops-tablets-how-will-this-affect-travel-plans/
imgur.com/a/Ly6Yd
twitter.com/AnonBabble

Should I buy Vega?

You can download it for free:

subgraph.com/vega/download/

What is the best WYSIWYG HTML editor?

I use camtasia because it just works, and I can screen record BUT apparently on a mac it doesn't record audio. Why is this?

Why can't I find a screen recording software for mac that allows me to record in system sound?

How do I find out which wireless card works for my laptop?

I bought a laptop in 2012, but without a wireless adapter. Now I want to buy a wireless card (rather than an USB dongle), but I have no clue how I find a compatible one that both works and fits in.
The manufacturer lists a few, but it has been 5 years now, surely there's something better by now, right?

My chipset seems to be:
intel(r) 7 series/c216

So my Pc wouldn't post, it ended up working again after I took the ram out and put it back in the same slots. Any idea what could have caused it to not work, or is this just shit that happens sometimes?

Oh, wow, technology has come so far. I didn't think you could download GPU's yet, only RAM

>living in a country with connection speeds so 3rd world you can't download a new gpu

Which laptop?

First, find out if your laptop has a BIOS whitelist, and if it does, can it be removed. If it does then you can only use the range of cards that the manufacturer used, sometimes even needing the particular variant with their part number.

If no or removable whitelist, you can use anything that fits the same slot, which for you is most likely half mini PCIe, an Intel 7260 is gpod, dual band WiFi 802.11ac, has bluetooth too, reasonably cheap.

I have a fuckton of .zip files

They contain folders with some other files on them. I want to take every single zip file in that folder and make it so there's no folders inside, just the files. As in, no folder structure.

Is it possible to do this with any program?

I've been trying to update my MBP for weeks. App store asks me for my apple ID password before downloading updates, but it's stuck in a loop and won't accept the password, just keeps asking for the passwords. It's definitely the right password, I can sign in to the apple ID site

Any ideas? I've tried signing out of icloud etc, making sure Safari cookies are enabled.

>Which laptop?
It's a brand only sold in Germany:
XMG A701

It's based on the:
Clevo W170HR

>trying to register on PayPal
>asks me for my date of birth
>tells me to input it in DD/MM/YYYY format
>won't accept anything higher than 12 for the first two digits

What in the absolute fuck is a huge company like PayPal doing making mistakes like these? How the fuck do I register without risking not being able to connect my cards due to the dates not aligning?

>Intel 7260
I think the manufacturer doesn't use whitelists, since he's really lenient in letting users open and maintain the laptops, so I'll just get the Intel 7260.

Thank you.

is the input of type date?
if so, then your browser started supporting its native date picker and shows you your localized date format instead of paypals one.

I didn't even think to check the HTML. So the data format is MMDDYYYY but the placeholder text is DDMMYYYY, could this mean I should be fine inputting MMDDYYYY?

Do i get the Samsung s8+ or the Huawei p10+ for my next phone?

>input type tel
paypal dun goofed.

based on the regex the first one is month, second is day.

I've found a guy on a forum who had the same issue a year ago, but no replies, I've messaged him to ask about his experience since then just in case, but I'll end up inputting month/day/year anyway. Thanks for the help famalam.

From where does Apple and Google get there satellite images?

It seems that Google's stellite images are older than thats of Apple's.

What browser handles large amount of mostly inactive tabs well? I've been using firefox for years but honestly it just feels like molasses

I've got 32gb of ram so don't care too much about ram usage

What distro of Linux should I use for art, music and video production?

multiple sources, they won't say.
support.google.com/earth/answer/6327779?hl=en

>music
Arch. If youre up to the challange, you can tweak it to sub 5ms. Its not easy. If youre not that technical, then stick with windows. ASIO4ALL isnt compatible with Linux in the way it is on windows. Plus reaper has grown in leaps and bounds, and you can find cracks for logic everywhere.

I too use ff and find it only struggles when i want to close 30 or 40 tabs at once, or reopen then. otherwise keeping fuckloads open isnt an issue. I too am on the 32gb time.

there are private companies that sell satellite images to corporations, specifically DOD. they dont capture their own images.

>Huawei p10+
a quick google says this is dual sim. that catches my attention. is that a feature youll use? otherwise samsung, waterproofing.

reset the pass. sign out of your iphone/ipad.

not without first extracting every single zip. best off writing a script to extract, put the contents of the each sub folder into the main folder of that zip, delete the folders, recompress, delete the remainder.

ive been building for almost 20 years and i dont know why the fuck it does this either. its been a magic solution since ddr1.

OSX technically it's unix still, and if you've already used debian, OSX is really easy to get down. Go get yourself a mac mini, their like 100 on amazon if you can.

I do music user and I would recommend doing it on windows cause installing it all on it will just be easier with VSTs and editing.

What's the best filesystem for a backup drive?

NTFS is kinda tedious to debug when something happens to the drive since you have to get on windows to chkdsk every damn time something stupid happens.

Is ext4 a good idea? Or is there something else other than NTFS and FAT32?

Thanks.

I see, that explain why satellite image is different between Apple's maps and Google's map.
How often do these get updated?
Every year or so? or it depends on the area?

BTRFS or Ext4

Is Adobe's Creative Cloud supposed to function like cloud storage for your e.g. photo library? Or am I supposed to keep all of my photos elsewhere, such as Onedrive, which is where Lightroom currently references them from.

I own Intel Pentium 2020M proccessor in my laptop.
Is it a good idea to overclock it? How many %?

Nice I'll check what BTRFS is, but does it have file limitations like FAT32 has where you can't put a file that exceeds 4GB?

Also, hardware cloning (offline cloning) is the same thing as any hard drive, correct?

Depends what you mean by updated. The companies who take the images? Who fucking knows. The army base I am based at has a global map that is 11 years old now. Which means half of the fucking base isnt on it, because its too old. That company still exists though, so I know its a legit thing. Fucked if I can remembr it now.

>full Adobe Creative Cloud membership or a single app membership 20 GB of storage.
>Creative Cloud Photography embership, a trial product, or a free membership 2 GB of storage

its in a laptop, so the answer is no it is not. run speccy on it and look at how much hotter than your desktop it sits at just idling.

btrfs
Btrfs is a GPL-licensed experimental copy-on-write file system for Linux. Development began at Oracle Corporation in 2007. It is still in heavy development and marked as unstable. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs

Which protocols to share computing resources over a network exist?
Like literally "download more RAM and CPU" meme.

>2GB
I guess not then. Maybe it's for quick syncing and sharing? Thanks.

powershell

want to compare versions
found an article but I dont understand it
whats up with
[version]$V1

I only encountered square brackets in arrays/lists like in many other languages
here it feels like some kind of operant/parameter thingie

anyone got some insight in to this?
heres the article
cupfighter.net/2009/06/powershell-comparing-version-numbers

sorry? you want to create a server cluster? iscsi/fibre channel is whats used most commonly for full blown servers

I have an ELK stack running in docker containers on a VM
I can curl stuff into elastic search and it shows up on kibana
logstash pipeline succesfully reads files and writes stuff to stdout
But Logstash fails to get data into ES

Whats the trick to it? I read something about enabling/disabling xpack security, adding and removing authentification, but curl works fine without any of it

Does installing ungoogled chromium alongside chrome on Windows interfere with anything?

I want to use it as my day to day browser but I still need the botnet for school.

Is Total AV a scam anti-virus?

Use ClamAV

I do, but im asking for a friend (mother in law) who has already subscribed.

Not sure, seems it's new, haven't heard about it.

>mywot.com/en/scorecard/www.totalav.com
implies so, but that means that the site itself is new and the site isn't malicious. Though $50 for a year. Monitor it, see if it doesn't do its job right, then sure.

I'm not sure, let's see some other user.

I am looking os for my old ass netbook.
Specs
İntel atom n270
1 gb ram
any suggestions?

>does it have file limitations like FAT32 has where you can't put a file that exceeds 4GB?
Every filesystem have it's limitation.
I doubt you could afford BTRFS size limitation.

I got a windows 10 laptop with kaby lake. Can I delete windows 10 and reinstall a 7 iso from microsoft? Will 7 be activated?

Slitaz

basically anything besides vista+

7 will not install with a 10 license key, you'd need to get a license key for 7 to do the install.

Also, 7 has no USB 3.0 drivers so most likely the USB ports, maybe touchpad too won't work without installing the driver, which can be tricky. Also there's no integrated graphics driver support, so performance will be shit unless you've got a dedicated GPU in it which you can exclusively switch on, which will make battery life kinda shit, and also isn't possible on a lot of new machines.

that's annoying to hear. will 8/8.1 work any better?

Is there some paid service or method to use i.e wolfram alpha to get all permutations in a textfile seperated by newline asap? (16 characters, A-Z, 0-9; should be only 2,176,782,336 results aka 4GB of data only?) Running algorithms even threaded takes ages on AWS and any root I tested, due to non active split work (one thread checks only a-c etc.)

just write something in python or something to generate them

Thanks
Nah even windows 7 is laggy.

correction of the math, would be 7.958,661,109,946,401e+24, still is there any possibility of getting that ~1.4TB of data?

>Nah even windows 7 is laggy.
7 comes after vista, m8
"vista+" as in vista and any version after it

Hello /sqt/,
I own a T420 which has a HMT351S6CFR8C-H9 4GB DDR3 ram module, and I want to buy another 8GB one.
I came across this one: CT102464BF160B (crucial.com/usa/en/ct102464bf160b)
I know it is a DDR3L. My question is if it will work as a DD3R in sync with the other 4GB module on my T420.
Anybody familiar with this? (I want that 8GB DDR3L because I might get another one in the future to reach a total of 16gigs)

Actually slitaz might be a little too awkward after installing. If it's a decently recent computer, try your hand at xubuntu at least if you don't want one of these small linux OSs

8/8.1 is easier to install since you've got the USB 3 drivers now, but still no integrated graphics drivers, so shit performance and/or shit efficiency.

Clover says I forgot to solve the captcha when starting a new thread but I can reply to threads wtf is this

But what software is required? Or unix can this out of the box? I don't know shit, and this won't be a cluster, more like client - server.

So please, suggest supplementing literature.

>no intel drivers
what do you mean by this? according to downloadcenter.intel.com/product/98909/Intel-HD-Graphics-630 they still support 7 and 8.

Make sure what's the max memory the motherboard can handle first. And make sure that the ram chip you're getting will fit the laptop.

It will work, but if you wanna be OCD, match their MHz

I know it can handle 16GB (2x8GB)
The fishy part is the DD3 & DD3L working together.

So I formated a shitty old pre installed original windows 8 laptop and installed windows 7 instead.

Everything works fine except with one problem, windows can't find the webcam, even if the webcam driver from the manufacturer is installed it doesn't work, I can't find the webcam in "device manager" but there's one unknown device there.

Pic related sorry about the spanish

Also I can't find windows 8 drivers on the manufacturer website, only windows 7 drivers. exo.com.ar/content/nice-sl-c1443h

I only need this computer for the webcam, nothing else and it's the only thing that doesn't work

My bad.
hmm maybe i will install xubuntu thanks.

Oh, I don't know. But I'm pretty sure if it fits the slot, it will work anyway.

If there's a picture, of the ram you're buying, check if the pins, well, the empty pin location matches where the one you have.

try right clicking the unknown device and trying to automatically find the driver. How did you download the driver? Is it an exe for installation or a set of .inf/sys etc files? If it's a collection of files you can probably manually select the driver from your files.

the fuck is this shit

i get all these nice little chink squiggles and then one ugly one

Why not reinstall windows 8 then? Saves more frustration desu senpai.

Also, if you go to the driver settings and check the ID, and look it up, you might find it.

But if I were you, I'd rather use it as windows 8.1, if it has one of these recovery partitions.

I see one beautiful chink character and shitty ones sandwiching it senpai.

It's a DD3, my friend. That's a standard pin-position.
Am I missing something?

Why can't I post on /adv/ using the quick reply box, but I have to use the reply form at the top of the page?

I deleted the recovery partition lel
If I put windows 8 again, windows will find my drivers r-right?

I did that, windows can't find anythng. unkown maker.

Not sure, I really never paid attention to names and all. My work at a computer repair shop was to match the ram when upgrading (lol) so I never bothered. But what I can tell you is whatever matched worked in my experience.

www.ebay.com/itm/300962926867

This one has the same pin position as the one you linked, so I guess as the title has T420 in it, it will fit your laptop.

I mean, if it does not work, you can return it, right?

rip, you can also use some software like Slim Driver and make it find it and update it for you.

Check: lifewire.com/free-driver-updater-tools-2619206

tomshardware.com/answers/id-1859845/ddr3-ddr3l-slots.html

differencebetween.com/difference-between-ddr3-and-vs-ddr3l/

Pls respond

I'm considering taking apart my 5 year old laptop to clean the fans and shit

would applying so good thermal paste offer any improvement over whatever the fuck the manufacturer put in from the factory?

Well, you can make a server and have a program run on that server to use that computer's resources, but you send the files to that server via a website interface to process them?

You don't have to open up your laptop to clean the fan. Just get one of these canned airs and blow it in the fan while holding your laptop upside down. Make sure the laptop is turned off so you don't break the fan while in the process.

Applying new thermal paste won't do anything I think. Unless after clearing dust from the fan is still generating heat specifically where your CPU is, then maybe. But read what the manufacturer recommends, though any thermal paste may work I think.

>You don't have to open up your laptop to clean the fan. Just get one of these canned airs and blow it in the fan while holding your laptop upside down. Make sure the laptop is turned off so you don't break the fan while in the process.
I already partially did that, but the fan is partially blocked by the housing, so it can't fully blow the dust away

>though any thermal paste may work
I'll probably go with Arctic Silver 5, since that's what I use on my desktop

Though, if you really wanna open it up to look inside for fun, go for it. Just make sure where every screw goes if you have never done it before. Take pictures before taking it apart so you don't forget I guess. And be gentle with a little bit of force sometimes. Don't pull on the keyboard for example.

Good luck

Yes, it's like ssh or telnet, but you dont have to do so, cause client machine "thinks" it has i.e. more RAM.

I've had a BenQ XL2411 144hz monitor for about a month and it worked ok, but now I get this one pixel sized horizontal line through the middle of my screen.
I've tried different DVI cables and reinstalled drivers but the only thing that makes the line disappear is to lower the fresh rate to 100hz and under.

Any other anons had this issue before?

Or is my monitor fucked?

Pls help?

sup Sup Forums i have a question regarding the laptop ban from UK to the US and don't feel like asking Sup Forums I'm flying from Europe (Specifically Sweden) to the US to visit family in a couple months and im seeing alot of articles saying that you arent alowed to bring a laptop or electronic device bigger than a smart phone.. I'm flying British Airways btw.
skyscanner.net/news/tips/uk-flight-ban-laptops-tablets-how-will-this-affect-travel-plans/
>'Prohibits any electronic device bigger than 16cm x 9.3cm x 1.5cm'
my question is does this apply to the 2016 macbook given that its dimensions dont exactly follow that criteria specificly its height? (1.31 cm)
I also wanna bring my nintendo switch.. I dont really even care if I cant use my laptop on the flight I just dont want to put it in my checked luggage because I dont want it stolen or lost. Does anyone here have any experience flying internationally recently with electronics ?

Wanna know should I go for the 4 core i7 7700k cpu and oc it, or should it bite the bullet and go with ryzen 8 core 1700 (with oc of course)? Or should I wait and see if intel release an 8 core "lower price cpu"?

Save your shekels, wait 4 intels next offering.

Don't know if something like that exists user, you can look it up though, I will soon but I will go to bed now.

Check the list of port numbers on wikipedia, it has what each port is for, but you know.

You neglected to mention a use-case. What do you generally do on the computer? If you legitimately ONLY play vidya then the 7700k is fine. If you do literally anything productive, even just installing gentoo, the ryzen is a better choice because you're only making a minimal sacrifice in average FPS. I would personally buy the 1700 and save the money you would have spent on the 7700k's cooling.
My friend flew a month ago and the TSA completely destroyed his t430. Pack them well and just spend the money to ship them. UPS/Fedex will almost certainly be less dangerous than flying with it.
But, what the fuck man, why would they pass a law like that in 2017?

what do you mean they destroyed it though? like they took it apart going thru security or it got fucked up because he put it in his checked luggage and it got smashed?

How often should I back up my HDD/SDD's
What is RAID
How often should I clean my PC tower
What is Linux and why is it so popular here
Are NAS' worth it?

>How often should I back up my HDD/SDD's
often enough that if a drive suddenly dies, you can handle the loss of data since your last backup
>What is RAID
a method of combining disks such that they appear as one disk, there are multiple types, with their own upsides and downsides regarding speed, space, and redundancy
>How often should I clean my PC tower
often enough that dust doesn't build up to the point of being a problem cooling-wise
>What is Linux and why is it so popular here
it's an operating system, free in every sense of the word, it's popular for several reasons
>Are NAS' worth it?
if you understand what they are, you should be able to decide this on your own

I just saw this imgur.com/a/Ly6Yd so it looks like he checked it in
HDD and SSD have something called smart info. It's a read out of the drive's health. SSDs have more space on them than you can use and as the usable sectors fail it enables the unusable ones. This is called provisioning. SMART info will let you see how much is left. For an HDD it will just tell you the general health of the drive.
I don't back up at all because everything could easily be redownloaded. Your back up procedure should be decided by how important the data is. You could buy an extra HDD and put anything that's extremely important on it every week.
RAID is redunant array of inexpensive disks. So RAID0 for example is used for performance. You can take 2 SSDs or HDDs and it will write to and read from them in parallel effectively doubling the speed. There are other configurations for redundancy as well. The wikipedia article should explain it more detail.
You should take canned air to it maybe twice a year,
Linux is an open source operating system that is free as in free beer and free as in freedom. It is popular because it is highly configurable and we can see the source code which makes the privacy nuts feel better.
A NAS is worth it if you want to access stuff from anything connected to your network. So you could like put all your anime on it and watch it from your phone or laptop, etc.

>You neglected to mention a use-case. What do you generally do on the computer?

Ok yeah, only vidya games and light fraps recording/editing. (not Twitch streaming) But your advice makes sense.

>imgur.com/a/Ly6Yd
haha holy shit thats fucked up

What kind of monthly costs I'd be looking at in terms of domain/hosting/etc/idk for a single static page with a few images?

Fuck I'm retarded, I looked at the keyboard and the F10 key has a webcam symbol so I pressed Fn + F10 and it installed the webcam

tfw hotkey botnet

What the hell is a "mechanical" keyboard and how is it any better than the 9.99 USD logitech keyboard they sell at walmart?

Why am i unable to switch capture stream in pulse audio control?

A rubbed dome keyboard has a little rubber dome over a spring under each key.
A mechanical keyboard has a "switch" under each key. You can choose a tactile switch that has a little bump as you push it down or a linear switch that goes straight down. You can pick the "weight' it takes to enable the switch. You can swap out the keycaps. You can treat yourself to a basic mechanical keyboard for like $40 since the patents expired.
tl;dr they feel 1000x better to type on

pic related is a tactile swtich called chery mx blue