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Is assembly the same language on all platforms? For example, if I learn assembly can I program both game boys and PCs?

What is a free adblocker for iOS that also offers in app block?

What's a good website to download high resolution album covers?

Sup Forums

So a guy gave me his old computer to re-purpose it as some browsing and light use thread, and his HDD has like 30GB of files he wants, like 7GB of photos in a folder. He only has laptops, and I'm not sure if his one has enough room.

Can I mail that fucking shit via Gmail? Can I send 5GB of files via Gmail? He doesn't even want his HDD because he can't get access to it anyway.

I guess this shows how desktops are still useful, is there a way you can access an internal HDD with a laptop? Some weird SATA-USB adapter shit?

Why do Indians go for quantity over quality when they talk shit?

Assembly is processor dependent, it will be slightly different on different processors.

you can get usb enclosures for sata drives, sure.

How does Sup Forums know so many Indian names?

Put it on a

No, definitely not. Every CPU type has a different ISA, instruction set architecture. Assembly is basically using a CPUs ISA to manipulate it registers and memory mapped devices.
There are simple ISAs like motorola and mips and complicated onse like x86.
This is the whole reason C was created as a "high level" programming language. So a program could be portable across machines.

Several individuals have one name they default to.

Are ex-miner graphics cards considered shit because they damage the card itself or is it just because it fucks up fans?

Going to be getting a new router and modem. For router was thinking the Netgear Nighthawk AC2300 or the AC2600.

What's a good modem? I really don't know much about this stuff. I see that Amazon recommends the CM500 or CM700. Thoughts?

Sorry if I sound like a retard, just want opinions before purchasing.

This If he doesn't live near you and you are worried about CIA niggers intercepting you mail and fapping to his nudes put them in a veracrypt container befare mailing it.

is high 60's/low 70's degrees C normal for a laptop with 20 or so tabs open, steam, and a torrent client running?

I'm trying to install siji on Manjaro. I have the pcf in ~/.local/share/fonts/misc

xlsfonts | grep siji prints out:

-wuncon-siji-medium-r-normal--0-0-75-75-c-0-iso10646-1
-wuncon-siji-medium-r-normal--10-100-75-75-c-80-iso10646-1

However, fc-list | grep siji lists nothing.

I've done fc-cache -fv and it fontconfig still cant see it. Not sure why this would happen.

About how much life did I take out of my FX-8350 if I left it on with this attached but no power to fan for about 30 seconds? It smelled nicely toasty in there afterward but nowhere near burnt, and the heatsink was hot to the touch on the top fin.

>slightly

Maybe, but it's not doing your battery ANY favors. Consider a cooling mat.

I set a BIOS startup password on my laptop before flashing it with Libreboot and didn't realize that setting a password also encrypted my hard drive. Now when I try to boot from the drive, either with the flashed laptop or with a different laptop, it asks me for the BIOS startup password, even on laptop which never had it set.

Therefore I can't access the files on my hard drive. Anyone have any suggestions on what I should do? Not sure how to revert to the original BIOS on the laptop since I didn't get the chance to finalize the Libreboot flash (due to not being able to access the hard drive).

Little to none. Most can run several minutes with a heatsink but no fan and they automatically shut off if extremely overheated.

Maybe the font name is Siji, not siji.
fc-list | grep -i siji

No luck there.

Should've said i tried using grep on fc-list with the path to /misc as well.

If that wasn't odd enough

fc-cache -fv | grep ~/.local/share/fonts/misc

/home/landrevj/.local/share/fonts/misc: caching, new cache contents: 1 fonts, 0 dirs

fc-list | grep misc
*nothing*

is there any laptops like the lemote around (besides thinkpads)? i want something small, low powered and preferably all open-source

Check a couple of points in your fontconfig setup (usually in /etc/fonts/conf.d, dunno about arch):
is fontconfig set up to disable bitmap fonts?
is ~/.local/share/fonts/misc in your fontconfig configuration anywhere?

Thank you. Didn't know fontconfig did that by default.

sudo rm /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf

fc-cache -fv | grep ~/.local/share/fonts/misc

/home/landrevj/.local/share/fonts/misc/siji.pcf: Wuncon Siji:style=Regular

can i safely eat a two year old bag of sour patch kids
unopened

honda-tech.com/forums/general-discussion-debate-40/one-year-old-sour-patch-kids-wwhtd-2298071/

A 2m USB cable isn't supposed to work for data right ?

will 4gb + 8gb ram always work or do i need to make sure something matches between them or something in my BIOS?

Phew, thanks user.

USB high-speed is specified up to 5m. Super speed is recommended up to 3m

I'm about to buy a new motherboard and CPU.
I currently have my desktop setup to dual boot windows 10 and arch linux. Will I have to reinstall either of those OSs after swapping the parts?

this?

Are there any addons or apps which allow which will allow me to create a ghost account on Youtube, where I can subscribe to channels and create playlists but without being directly tied to the Youtube system?

Yeah. Write the url of vids down in a txt file on your desktop.

In SQL, how do I use multiple INSERT statements to add data to the same row?

is something like this in existence
an add on or something that means if you right click on an online video you can choose to save it?
if not, what's the closest thing to this senario?
thanks guys

flashgot.
Just click on the little icon in your toolbar thingy at it'll detect any videos playing and let you download them.

Should I throw out my graphics card and motherboard box? Or are they kinda important and I should keep them or just chuck them?

much appreciated mayne

Looking to buy a mouse. Where can I track down the latest autism information about flawless sensors and such?

Can somebody help me pls
TY

Just go with the g502 unless you have some specific needs that a different mouse specializes in.

It's recommended to keep them mainly because if you ever want to sell the parts you can say you have the original packaging.

Why would you do that when you can use one INSERT with multiple VALUES?
=> insert into users (name) values ('m00t'), ('takuya'), ('uematsu');
INSERT 0 3

>disclaimer: mySQL doesn't speak real SQL

Assuming Firefox, FlashGot works but I seem to remember it's a bit obnoxious, don't recall how or why. DownloadHelper is pretty good at it, also transcodes, and is slightly less obnoxious.

the Sup Forums archive

I'm guessing I shouldn't keep the Styrofoam because it would age pretty badly?

Nevermind, thanks for the reply though.

How would I update a cell that contains a string by concatenating a string to it?

Pseudocode:
column1row1text = 'abc'
UPDATE `table1` SET `column1` = column1row1text + 'newtext' WHERE `id` = 0;
result: column1row1text = 'abcnewtext'

Currently heavily invested in VMware for our company. Anything else that's better with better support?

Why can I never receive help from IRC channels? I'm always ignored despite asking well thought out and documented questions.

Does FX 8320 bottle neck the RX480
If it does how can I make my pc better
Horrid on server games
Does good on games like CSGO and Overwatch and Diablo 3 ._ .

UPDATE `table` SET `col` = `col` + 'suffix' WHERE `shit` = TRUE

Doesn't work:
UPDATE `table` SET `col` = 'a' + 'b' WHERE `id` = 0;

Nevermind, I used this function: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/functions/concat-transact-sql

Whoops, my bad, the correct operator for string concatenation is ||.

I have a laptop with a 1st gen i3 and 4GB of DDR3 RAM. GPU is integrated. I know for a fact that I can replace both the RAM and the CPU, but is it worth doing? If so, will any old i5/i7 work? Can I upgrade my RAM to DDR4?

How to fix this problem: The program can't start because D3DCOMPILER_47.dl

thanks also
what is transcoding though?

Converting video/audio to a different format.

It must be a 1st gen i5/i7 dual core with integrated graphics. The quad core ones without integrated are a different socket. Not worth changing really. No DDR4, the CPU is DDR3 only.

>It must be a 1st gen i5/i7 dual core with integrated graphics. The quad core ones without integrated are a different socket. Not worth changing really. No DDR4, the CPU is DDR3 only.
Thanks for the answer. Still might boost the i3 to a first gen i5 or i7, just to eliminate the hang on startup.

That's not going to help with startup times in any meaningful way. More important would be upgrading storage to an SSD.

Already have one.

Then more RAM is only sensible upgrade other than ditching the entire machine.

What would be acceptable for Linux Mint? Would 8GB DDR3 Ram do it, or should I go for 16GB?

>Already have one.
Then why are you experienced hangups on startup? Do you have lots of programs loading at start

Just whatever Linux Mint does naturally (so no, I don't think so). It could be that I have encrypted the drive AND my home folder, though.

Depends what you're doing. For normie stuff 8GB's more than enough. Most likely that'll be the max the system can handle anyway.

Can somebody explain how asymmetric encryption works?

It's a shitposting machine. No gaming or anything. After startup, Mint runs like a dream. It's just getting there. I log in, and the background appears for like 15 seconds, and then it disappears, and then reappears with the icons and menu bar.

If people don't already know the answers they only respond with meme answers to meme questions. Note the people who come into this thread with obscure, but will presented problems vs the people that come in here with obscure problems with no supporting info. The latter get told to install gentoo and the former are ignore.

Are there any other minimal Linux distros that are easy to install? Only one I can think of is Ubuntu Minimal. I just want some thing that doesn't come with 'bloat' but I'm also too dumb for Arch and Gentoo.

install d3dcompiler_47.dll

I can't get a DS4 to work (with USB or via bluetooth) in Linux Mint. Even with big picture mode enabled on Steam. Any easy work around, or should I just bite the bullet and get a Steam Controller?

It doing this ever useful?

private int x {get; set;}

Youtube audio on Firefox doesn't work unless Self Destructing Cookies is installed (doesn't even have to be enabled). I removed it and now the audio is back to not working.

What in the name of fuck is going on here?

is*

I have a serious issue with performance with my year-old PC

Every single game I play will have a huge lag spike that lasts for 5 minutes, runs 60fps again for another 2, and then back to huge lag spike. I use a 750Ti meme card, an i5-6400, a z170 and 8GB of ddr3 ram. Pic related is how bad it gets with the Dolphin emulator

I do not believe this is a heat issue because all my components are at 40-60C. I don't even play heavy games or anything like that. Just emulators and last gen games

Any ideas on wat do? Something i should check?

Try running it from a clean slate.

sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/firefox#TOC-Test-Firefox-with-a-clean-slate

How can I use a PI with python to control a motor to tell it when to start or stop? Is there a kit with a small motor that can teach the basics or theory behind it?

Is 75 Celsius too hot for an amd a8-7650k CPU?
Only when under load.
I read it's not life-threatening, but will definitely decrease the life span. What do you guys think?

Wrong screenshot

hard disk or ram

Also dolphin is not exactly reliable as far as perf goes

I'm trying to port foward my router, and i have it set up correctly on my router, however when i try to check on canyouseeme.org it doesnt work. Not, the thing is that i have a combo router/modem that puts out one network, while the router that im trying to use is just a solo router thats putting out its own network. It should work still though, right?

Try to create swap partition.

That's pretty bad. Though Ive never seen an A8 cpu less than that with load. Including mine.

Assuming your setup is like
mdm-----rtr----pc
Then you have to set the modem to forward the port to your router and set you router to forward it to your pc.

The fact dolphin, of all things, is lagging is why I posted it, but I did try other games before which ended up not loading to begin with now. It's not much of a difference, but I did get a shot of skullgirls

My sources tell me that's a Linux thing. I'm on W7 (I'm not the smartest with this kind of stuff so correct me if I'm wrong)

How can i batch convert m4a to mp3 with ffmpeg? Every guide i have tried to follow is not working.
ffmpeg -i filename.m4a filename.mp3
Above works for a single file, but i have over 100 files so it really isnt an opttion.

If it works in the clean slate, how does it help me? I imagine when I load my original profile back the problem will still be there?

Just a noob asking for clarification. Also, I'm on Mac if that changes anything with respect to Terminal commands

swap file on windows is called pagefile

My old PC has 2x2gb DDR3 RAM. Should I just say screw it and buy 2x4gb or cheap out and put another 2x2? Lga 1156 if it matters. Not sure if I could source this cheaper than $35 for 2x2 of crucial.

Would dual channel 2x4 run better than 4x2? Does it even matter?

Where do we stand in terms of BBQ technology?

Not really a stupid question but what's the best modem/router for me
>needs to be VDSL/fibre ready
>attainable in bumfuck australia
>wireless, but doesn't need to be crazy good
>gigabit wired connection
That's really it. Preferably something under 150AUD, 100 would be awesome.

How do I block chromecast or just block others on a network from seeing me? I got a new tv and saw a play on tv thing for the first time on youtube and it shocked me it could find my tv when there shouldn't be anything linking the two for it to find

It should have a setting. Pretty sure chromecast just broadcasts over mdns or something.

There should be but whenever I use chrome and go on google it's there, haven't seen a solution to it when searching, I guess I just need to stop using chrome

Recently, there was a power outage in my area. Apparently, some guy crashed into power lines. I was using my pc during this time, and it did turn off and on probably three times. I unplugged the outlet and replugged and turned the pc on when power was back in my house. Power died again, shutting off my pc only once this time.
I was playing Overwatch a couple minutes ago and my pc randomly froze, which it never does in any game. I restarted it and tried overwatch again. I was just in the menus when my pc restarted for some reason.
Is there a problem here guys?
I was playing Overwatch fine AFTER the outage. There's only now problems.

Try playing another game? OW went buggy as fuck for me after an update and I was getting 10fps or less with a 1060 6GB on medium settings.

Is there a way to move my shit over to chocolatey without wiping all configuration files and other files like plugins and stuff?

This worked for a good half hour and now it's back. Tried the same games as I did before the pagefile mod. Any ideal fixes? Fixes that solve the issue for good?