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Stupid questions thread, for stupid questions.
QTDDTOTT.
Use a search engine faggot.

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Is x265 widespread yet? Do I have to worry about compatibility issues?

In terms of piracy it's pretty much the standard now for 4K releases, becoming more common for regular HD too, released alongside the regular H.264. To play them smoothly you'll either need hardware decode (AMD Fury/RX 4xx and newer, nvidia 1xxx/some 9xx series, Intel 7xxx series) or a reasonably quick CPU, especially for 4K.

certain sites (like codepen) dont load at all on my normal chrome, but in incognito they load instantly.

restarts dont help and the only addons i have are ublock origin and adblock plus

wtf?

trying to uninstall the native runtime version of Steam but it says it includes over 100 packages. Is that normal?

Not using arch but note they are all lib32 ones, if you main system is x64 I can imagine that nothing else is using those libs.
In saying that on debian steam runtime isn't packaged seperately so idk

I asked in the other thread, but hopefully someone will know here.

I don't have a secondary PCI-E slot anymore due to my fuckup but I want to use a second GPU for BOINC. Can I use the risers that miners use? Would that work? I really don't want to buy a new mobo for an FX8320 and I dont want to upgrade yet...

Ok, my systeam is x64 so that makes sense.

So long as the job doesn't need to move a lot of data back and forward to the card that's fine.

I'm at page 20 of SICP in Arch Linux and is boring af.

Does Stallman speaks truth saying this is the better way to get into programming?

God damn me

the best way to start programming is

mooc.fi/english.html

complete first course, then do

freecodecamp.org/map

up to "algorithms"

and then do

learnpythonthehardway.org/

at that point youll have a good foundation and you need to decide what sub-field you want to do to invest more time in

That's what I'm getting a lot of conflicting data about.. I giwss I'll give it a shot and see, what's the worst that can happen, a bottleneck?

Ok it seems good, thanks!

Yep.

How do I encode artist and album into opus?

...

Well that's certainly preferable to buying a new mobo. Any brand I should get/avoid or is chinkshit fine?

Chinkshit is fine.

Can I use a VPN on a router that is being used a switch? So
computer > router VPN > access point > modem > isp > VPN?
And then all traffic going through the switch gets on the VPN? But traffic going through the AP is normal?

I have an RX580
I got another RX480 for free, will I have to reinstall drivers or can I just plug it into the second PCI-E?

Just plug it in. Then be disappointed with the crossfire performance.

not going to crossfire but to power another monitor
I don't play any games that would benefit from crossfire

prices = {
"banana" : 4,
"apple" : 2,
"orange" : 1.5,
"pear" : 3,
}
stock = {
"banana" : 6,
"apple" : 0,
"orange" : 32,
"pear" : 15,
}
total = 0
for key in prices:
print key
print "price: %s" % prices[key]
print "stock: %s" % stock[key]
for key in prices:
print key
print "total: %s" % prices[key]*stock[key]
total = total + prices[key]*stock[key]
print "Total: %s" % total

Results in this fucked output:
orange
price: 1.5
stock: 32
pear
price: 3
stock: 15
banana
price: 4
stock: 6
apple
price: 2
stock: 0
orange
total: 1.5total: 1.5total: 1.5total: 1.5total: 1.5total: 1.5total: 1.5total: 1.5total: 1.5total: 1.5total: 1.5total: 1.5total: 1.5total: 1.5total: 1.5total: 1.5total: 1.5total: 1.5total: 1.5total: 1.5total: 1.5total: 1.5total: 1.5total: 1.5total: 1.5total: 1.5total: 1.5total: 1.5total: 1.5total: 1.5total: 1.5total: 1.5
pear
total: 3total: 3total: 3total: 3total: 3total: 3total: 3total: 3total: 3total: 3total: 3total: 3total: 3total: 3total: 3
banana
total: 4total: 4total: 4total: 4total: 4total: 4
apple

Total: 117.0

What the hell I'm doing wrong? I just want to print
Total price: price of fruit*stock of fruit
Example from Codeacademy

How to monitor hdd health on linux?

What are the chances of me getting doxed from me starting my own facebook meme page?

I need a new computer case. Which ones don't look like ass? I hate how everything needs to be tempered glass, mesh, and LEDs. What happened to the days of classy cases like Lian Li? I know the Fractal R5 is a good option, what else is there?

print "total: %s" % prices[key]*stock[key]

is the same as

print ("total: %s" % prices[key])*stock[key]

put parenthesis around prices[key]*stock[key]

do vps work?
is tunnelbear a meme?

YouTube automatically pauses when I press play on my Android phone. Wtf is that about?

>do vps work?
huh? Of course they do, thousands of business use them everyday.

Lian Li still exists.

Would a nice center channel speaker work as a makeshift sound bar for a TV? I have a Polk Series 1 center, and I can get the toslink -> analog converter for cheaper than just getting a sound bar. For it's use, getting good audio isn't worth it, I just need stuff that doesn't reverberate in the TV when it hits certain notes.

What anime is this from? Shes perfect.

If the standard stack size in Unix is 8MB, does this mean that running every program has a baked-in 8MB memory overhead?

At least.

>do vps work?
Yes really well, they're used by several thousands a day
>is tunnelbear a meme?
Yes, they don't allow torrenting, go with a different VPN

So even running top is potentially allocating 8MB of memory?
Can that be changed when compiling?

Bump

8MB virtual memory, not necessarily physical

Asre you the user that was ram golfing a few days ago?

Pretty sure that's half the people on this board.

Nonon Jakuzure from Kill la Kill.

Is there a way I can take advantage of my esata port on my t410, like an esata to usb 3.0 adapter/converter?

Would the cheapest possible domain be enough to host my own email service?

please help me installed debian on kaby lake XPS 13 onegaishimasu
non-free drivers???
touchpad not worked in installation only keyboard
no wifi
arch is easier than this wtf

How do I stop Adobe Media Encoder / Photoshop from creating a metric fuckton of autosaves / backups?

I want to reencode a few videos from .mp4 to H.265, with the source clip and new clip in a folder, and afterwards I can just delete the source clip, but I've noticed Adobe likes to create A LOT of temp files in the Appdata folder. How do I stop it from doing that?

you can't host anything with just a domain, you also need a server

I have need for moar SATA ports in my fileserver. I'm aware I could buy a PCI-E card to give me a couple of extra ports, but I also happen to have a spare motherboard and CPU lying around that would also give me more ports, as well as massively improve performance.
So, how well does FreeBSD handle major component changes like this? I've performed massive mobo/cpu changes (AMD to Intel) on Linux before just fine, but it doesn't hurt to ask.

Bonus question: my root fs is mounted using absolute device paths in my fstab, so I'll update that to use labels instead. Things is, I can't see any files in /dev/ufs or /dev/label. Am I correct in thinking these devices don't show up once the partitions they reference are mounted in multi-user mode, and will only be viewable in single-user mode without mounting the disk? All partitions were labeled during install.

use ffmpeg

i hate dumb people with better hardware/more money than me.

i doubt i am more money then you
i was given it for university by university for being poor

Does it take long to boot a virtual machine for linux or windows?

Can't. My job requires me to use Adobe suite, and the only problem I have is the backups/autosaves in the appdata folder. Having to delete them every time is annoying, and I can't exactly use ffmpeg for thousands of clips.

>and I can't exactly use ffmpeg for thousands of clips.
why not?

Should I use Windows 8 or some flavor of Ubuntu?
I'm seeing literally no benefit from switching to Ubuntu because Windows can do the same and I don't need to go through the trouble of installing. Other than the looks, can I have some reasons on why I should switch? I'll judge my decision with those.

I still hate you. Enable nonfree (as in libre) packages. Add `non-free` to your sources.list, apt update, then install drivers

Yes
Do whatever but shutup about it.

is there much of a difference between brands of ram in terms of quality? is 2400 mhz ram from corsair much the same as 2400 mhz ram from team alpha?

Because the company I work for is a Fortune 500 company, and the way that ffmpeg handles
some codecs fall into legally gray area that my project head would rather not deal with.

Check the ram timings. Some have fancy fins.

>firewall & routing
>shorewall / iptables
So I find myself in a situation where masquerading isnt acceptable. I have a virtual bridge with out a real interface and a second real lan that I am very restrictive with.
Doing stuff like "drop bridge bridge" doesn't work while masquerading and the machines can still ping, ssh, hack each other.. not all of them are supposed to be able to do this. All but a handful of them should be completely blind asto what else is in the network, let alone sit there and brute force the others ssh..

Is it an acceptable solution to just dnat fucking everything to where it suposed to go? How much would this affect network speeds realistically?

thank you

>I work for is a Fortune 500 company
And you can't get them to pay for the licensing from the consortiums to support your workflow? LARPer detected.

Don't use NATs for security your fucking brainlet.

Guys should I install win7 and get 2 more years of support or install win8.1 with a startmenu program and get 6 more years.

The project I'm on is already over-budget so paying to use ffmpeg is out of the question since we already use Adobe shit.

Id host the server obv

Then maybe suggest a way to connect these different zones/interfaces to the net/wan

from home? you might want to check with your ISP that they allow hosting on port 25, a lot block it as a spam reducing measure

is there much of a difference between brands of ram in terms of quality? is 2400 mhz ram from corsair much the same as 2400 mhz ram from team alpha?

The main difference is in the actual producer of the memory; eg samsung vs hynix, etc. Beyond that it's more of "what they've added" in terms of heat sinks or RGB (lol). So, broadly speaking, no.

I'm looking at my partitions on xubuntu and I don't see my windows partition. I also can't switch to it. Where did it go? I'm positive I didn't delete it.
I think it's /dev/sda1 because it says it's bootable, but it's not mounted and it won't mount.

look at `lsblk` or `sudo fdisk -l` for something more verbose.

What are some really durable headphones that won't break down too quick?

Over the ear studio headphones

Considering win7 is still the most popular desktop OS people will likely come up with alternative security solutions

Hell there are even people still using XP today with no issues

Alright Sup Forumsents, I screwed up. It's a doosie.

>download SCPtoolkit to use a PS3 controller on muh PC to replace MotionJoy/Better DS3
>one uninstall later and the usb ports for my external HDDs are read as controllers and do not show up as hard drives, thus i cannot access them
>did a system restore to before i installed the shitty app, nothing changed

My wireless mouse uses USB too and I wasn't able to use that either but I fixed that. I go in Device Manager and fuck around, but it doesn't change a thing. I am this close - to just buying a new CPU and mobo tomorrow because I was going to do it down the line anyway. Completely screwed up almost every single one of my USB ports, don't use SCP, it's untested garbage.

... Dude

Yeah and: any suggestions?

Looking for a laptop work school work that has good battery. Gaming is a plus if possible but not a big issue if not.

I owned a Thinkpad a long time ago and loved how light it was. I could upgrade the ram and hd later but kinda bummed with the lack of number pad.

T420
Processor Type
Intel Core i5 2nd Gen.
Storage Type
HDD (Hard Disk Drive)
Operating System
Windows 10
SSD Capacity
4GB
Hard Drive Capacity
320GB
Processor Speed
2.50GHz


Acer Aspire E15. Looks to have average 6-8 hour battery. I can update the ram and hd too.
7th Generation Intel Core i3-7100U Processor (2.4GHz, 3MB L3 cache)
15.6" Full HD Widescreen ComfyView LED-backlit Display supporting Acer ColorBlast technology
4GB DDR4 Memory, 1TB 5400RPM HDD
Up to 12-hours Battery Life

If you can afford it, just get another hdd/ssd, it's a lot less of a hassle.

W-What? Getting another HDD and then ... what, copying the old data onto it then mounting that is less hassle than just mounting the current partition?

Why is there a discrepancy between sorting by date in irfanview and Windows explorer in 7? The latest image is the same for both, but the oldest according to explorer is 179/1140 images for irfanview, then 943, 245, 319, 243, 210, 251, 239...

Is there any reason for this at all?

Having two independent hdd's for each operation system instead of having one partitioned hdd. Windows and Linux don't always play nice with each other and can be a pain to setup, I find it easier to install each on individual drives. I can't really help you on recovering partitions. Maybe post a screencap of gparted.

what part of a hard drive stores paths and filenames?

A path IS the filename. A program like mv doesn't actually move any data unless you specified a different filesystem for the target, it just renames the file.

Are trackballs worth it?

I was eyeing the Elecom index finger operated trackball and they have a bigger one now.

I want it, but I can't justify the purchase just for trackball fetishism. Please, Sup Forums, tell me what to do.

amazon.com/ELECOM-Wireless-Trackball-Mouse-Ergonomic/dp/B0735584RM/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1503820306&sr=8-2&keywords=elecom

just tell me the name of thepart that stores those

I don't mean to get bullied for my taste in porn (even though it might make you not help me anyway) but I finally have proof of batches of saved images being resorted when browsing them in the android image viewer QuickPic.

I don't browse Sup Forums but it was the only NSFW random board with a site archive I knew of I think, so I posted the screenshot there: i.4cdn.org/pol/1503820753005.png

Is this due to QuickPic, or does this inevitably happen if a single android folder has many images? I sort by date, but these were all resaved with false, new dates. Thanks for any insight if anyone offers despite the porn...

I have no idea what you're asking. The metadata?

How do the length Sup Forums bans work? Do they just get longer and longer or does the mod choose how long to ban for how do they fucking work?

>I find it easier to install each on individual drives
That is because you are a brainlet ;(

there's no "part of the hard drive", but rather part of the filesystem, the metadata
exactly what and how metadata is stored depends on which filesystem you're talking about
for example, FAT* stores this in the File Allocation Table (hence "FAT")
ntfs stores this is the MFT (master file table)
etc

>making things harder for myself makes me intelligent
Whatever makes you feel better my dude
>;(
Kill yourself

if you have no idea then you don't know. what I'm asking is easy to understand

How do I set -e to default? Alias doesn't count

I want to make it so that whenever I close an active tab, it takes me to the tab that was previously active. Can I do this in Firefox?

Currently there seems to be little logic as to which tab it'll display if you close your current tab.

Is this a good laptop for school and light gaming (RoR,minecraft,dwarf fort)?
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updated guide to disable some of the telemetry/debloat/debotnet a fresh install of windows 8.1? asking for a friend

posting on chrome btw