/sqt/ Stupid Questions Thread

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My cousin posted on facebook that she has 2 laptops for sale. An HP and a Samsung. Considering getting the Samsung, as my PC is great, but I could definitely use the mobility. Asked her about the specs, and her husband replied to me with all the info. Having a hard time finding it on google though. Can someone help? I'm trying to see how much I could get one for new instead of used before I ask about a price.

copypasta of the guy's comment:
Samsung NC-RC512 running Windows 7 64 bit with 6GB of RAM and an Intel I7 processor @2GHz and a 692GB hard drive with a full keyboard (includes number pad) includes a CD/DVD slot, new battery, 2 USB 3.0 slots, HDMI, VGA, and 2 USB 2.0 slots, built in webcam, headphone and microphone slots.

the NC-RC512 is what's getting me. Google keeps asking "did you mean 'NP-RC512'" but when I click that it shows me a bunch of other brands and shit. She has no pictures to go off of.

How can I push a proxy URL via DHCP? I'm using OpenWrt.

What's the easiest way on windows to convert all the files in a directory with ffmpeg?
I've got ~8300 files to convert. I will need to traverse the whole directory tree in the end (probably with a python script, since other things need to be automated too), but converting a few specific directories is enough for now.

Re-asking

@echo off
for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('dir *.aac /B') do (
ffmpeg -i "%%~na.aac" "%%~na.mp3"
)

What would happen if I tried to install my smartphone OS on my laptop? Why can't I just download shit like apps on my laptop and connect my smart phone to it with a USB and use them in unison? I thought windows 8 was trying to doing that shit with tablets

I bought a used Xeon E3-1290v2 (Ivy Bridge, LGA1155, no integrated gpu), but it won't even post, no image on the screen (dvi-d connection). No beeps.

Fans on cpu, gpu and psu spin.
Sometimes they stop right away 2 seconds after I turn the pc on and sometimes they won't stop spinning unless I hold the power button for quite a bit - 10 + seconds

Ofcourse I updated the motherboard BIOS to the last one(~2014) and removed the cmos battery just before testing the new cpu...

I reseated the cpu once before trying out the old i3 cpu I was using before which booted right away. No scratching on the backside of the Xeon except a very thin shallow mark on three(3) and the little dot on the inside.
I'm typing on the pc right now.

Motherboard is a really cheaply made Asus H61.
On the CPU support list it has an Intel Xeon E3-1230 "since BIOS 0203" which is older than the one I have now.


Any suggestions? Or is the cpu dead? I didn't try removing the ram sticks or using the jumper itself to clear the real time clock (rtc) ram for the cmos (since I couldnt find the thing without a manual, though I did remove the battery)

This works for some of it, but not all. I guess I should have been more specific.
There are two different file types, with the occasional instance of two files with the same name but different extension. Both need to be converted.
As is, the original extension is replaced, making that not work. How would I go about fixing that (adding on the new extension, not replacing it)?

>discover transfering files over LAN is fucking f a s t
>mine is only 4 mb/s
>buy gigabit ethernet card for pc
>buy laptop with gigabit ethernet port
>buy router with gigabit LAN speeds
>get ethernet cables of unknown speeds
>9 mb/s
HOW DO I BENCHMARK ETHERNET CABLES

@echo off
for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('dir * /B') do (
ffmpeg -i "%%a" "%%a.mp3"
)

Thanks

probably using old cat5 cables, you want cat5e or cat6 for gigabit

WHEN WILL GPU AND RAM PRICES FUCKING DROP!?!? last year they said it would drop early this year, and now they are higher then ever...

i dont suppose someone would be able to write a quick user script for yande.re which lets me drag images into folders instead of right clicking and saving the image

Can I use protonmail with mobile apps like aquamail?

Logging in and letting it do the auto setup returns errors.

Check your RAM

Could keep going up for another year or two.

Sometimes vim shows expandable sections, can I have them expanded automatically everytime?

I know HTTPS Everywhere is a good thing, but can someone explain to me what it does?

Is it safe to install a deb package? I usually only install packages from the repos.
I don't use any kind of ppa neither but I want to install the mega.nz client.
Can it mess my system?

To people who work in (all male) tech environments. How do you meet / get used to talking to women?

I feel like I really shot myself in the foot by not being around any females on the everyday.

When a website has both HTTP and HTTPS available, it forces the browser to use HTTPS instead.
Most modern websites will do this even without the addon these days

Placebo.
Almost every major site has cloudflare no so there is no point but protecting yourself from skids.

Is it not one of these ebay.com/p/Samsung-NP-RC512-S02US-15-6-LED-Intel-Core-i7-2630QM-BluRay-nVIDIA-Notebook-NP-RC512-S02US/133472946

How do i make soft subtitles into hard subtitles? i want to watch a movie on my TV but it doesn't detect the subtitle file.

MKVtoolnix should do the job perfectly.

It involves recoding the file which can take more time than the movie is long and usually reduces the quality. It's cheaper and easier to use an HDMI cable to hook up a computer (or a tablet or even a phone for that matter) to your tv.

this should be your first choice. some tvs don't recognize separate files but read them from an mkv file easily.

Only name your movie file with one word - NO spaces. You could use underscore (my player requires me to do this to .mkv files unlike .mp4 files )

Make sure the subtitle is in ansi format. Most importantly make sure to try a subtitle that is default english only (no special characters / different alphabet letters anywhere as that might trigger it to skip sentences or it entirely)

Name the file and subtitle the same, again with no spaces. (maybe this is not needed)

what is the easiest way to cut a mp4 file? it has a length of 54 seconds and i need just 10 seconds out of it. file should be in mp4 or avi after the process.
should be the fastest and simplest way possible.
win7 machine and i will never need to do this again.

already found a solution. vlc player can do this if someone is interested

webmretard then convert it with ffmpeg to mp4

Can I compile Linux (and GNU pieces) on Windows?

>easiest way
>have to download and learn to use 2 programs from a command line interface

kill yourself

What's the easiest thing to make and post on github that's good for putting on a resume?

webmretards ain't a cli tho
and it's just ffmpeg -i a.webm a.mp4 for the latter

Why is it a C program is defined as
int main(int argc, char *argv[]){
return -1
}

Becomes 255 when evaluated (on Linux)
I know people might not have that many error types they terminate with, but why is it a signed int when the system cast it to an unsigned char?

And ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -ss 00:00:00 -to 00:00:11 -c copy
For the first part.

Because encrypting your traffic and cdn/anti-dns/websec are exactly the same fucking thing dickshit.

Linux error codes are 8 bits, so the possible values you can return as errors are {0..255}. Computers store everything as bits, the only difference between floats, signed, and unsigned is a matter of interpretation. Unsigned integers just take the binary values normally, signed integers use a method called 2's complement to represent positive and negative integers. So, for an 8 bit value you'll have 1 sign bit and 7 data bits. They use 2's complement because it heavily simplifies the hardware and prevents the occurrence of +/- 0. 2's complement is very simple, the negative version of a number is simply every bit inverted, plus one. So, in your case -1 works like this.

-(00000001) -> 11111110 + 00000001 = 11111111

Linux interprets this number as an unsigned 8 bit integer rather than a signed one, so it just says it's 255 instead of -1.

won't it failed to cut it properly since it can only cut on keyframes or something?

Is there a working version of appchan or something for the current version of greasemonkey/firefox?

download handbrake, select your video, select start and end time and maybe a quality preset then click go

What did appchan do?

HTTPS encrypts the traffic between you and the server. The client and the server negotiate the crypto suite to be used and do key exchange. This is why the server has to have a valid cert (and why your browser squawks that “this site may not be secure” when it finds a self-signed cert). The cert is to show that the server’s asymmetric key pair can be trusted. If the client accepts the cert, it uses the public key to encrypt a symmetric key, compatible with the agreed upon crypto suite, and send it to the server. Then the normal traffic takes place being encrypted with that symmetric key. The reason for all this is that symmetric key encryption is a lot faster, but requires a shared secret (the key), hence the key exchange using asymmetric keys.

I haven't upgraded my PC in like 5 years. I had a 3rd gen core i5. I program and play vidya with the most intensive I have being ARK. Should I get an 8th gen i7 or is there better value in a Ryzen 7 1700x? I'll probably upgrade again in 3 years next time and I know fuckall about overclocking. Help a retard out.

you can use ffmpeg, something on the line of
ffmpeg -i input.mkv -c copy -vf subtitles="/path/to/input.mkv" output.mkv

Why is my phone having an unstable battery usage? for example:
It takes 30mins for the battery from 70% to 65%.
But takes like 5mins for 65-60%.

whats wrong with just using the protonmail app?

security patches affected intel cpu performances so you should check latest benchmarks and see the differences. ignore old benchmarks

Why won't my sound play? There's no headphones or anything plugged, I had headphones plugged in earlier for the first time (they didn't work) and now I have no sound. Speakers are built in because it's a TV and nothing on Windows is muted so I can't think of any reason why they won't work.

Check your output device.

I did, it said my NVIDIA output isn't plugged in and all options for it are greyed out, but in properties it's says it's enabled. I just pulled the HDMI lead out and put it back in and now it's working, but it still says the same thing about the NVIDIA output.

I am on 3rd year of software job.
I am want to learn so many things but job work keep me busy with repetitive schedule, basically
>maintain code base
>add new features
>talk to customer about new features
>refactor code so they product don't break with new features
>attend meeting on how to suck customer's dick
>8-5 spent like this for 3 years.
Although I learned a lot but that's nowhere near the amount of varied skills are present in computer science to be developed.
One of my goal is to learn everything. Be able to develop software for any platform and manifest real life problems into software.

How long does it take? With and without 8-5 job?

I had to hard restart my computer after freezing and now it's stuck in non-post restart loop. What the fuck do I do?

Is NordVPN any good? What's a better alternative?

This problem's been pissing me off for months now. I can't play mp4 videos embedded in websites in Firefox.
I always have to refresh the page and then the video plays. Then refresh again if I want to watch another one either on the same page or another.
It does this on both my laptop and desktop PC so I suspect it's got something to do with Firefox rather than codecs or drivers but I might be wrong.

I guess you are getting short-circuits.

I dont into SSDs at all, over the years ive updated all my pc parts other than my harddrive

Hwoever, ive heard good things and was looking to get one, mainly to put games on.

Is it as simple as that? you just copy or install the game on it and thats it?

So it gets past POST and then restarts while loading the OS? If that's the case your bootloader is probably just fucked. You can find recovery disks that will repair the bootloader, but your files are probably still all there. If it's failing before POST then it's probably a hardware issue, like the RAM is flaking out or there's a short somewhere.

It's the same as an HDD from your perspective. As long as it's SATA it will operate basically the same. There's some other things involved to specifically optimize SSDs like TRIM but the OS will probably handle that for you. Unless you get one of the NVMe ones it should be exactly the same as formatting a new HDD. The only difference with SSDs is that it's much more difficult to recover the data when they fail.

I'd also guess RAM issue, because I switched RAM bios settings earlier before the problem begun.

>from prev thread, Sup Forums issues
Every time opening a new thread it's blinding.
ff58, happens with a def prof [and no hosts],
also tried:
#333 bg colour for about:blank/newtab/home
starting ff with gtk dark variant

i downloaded Windows 10 LTSB and ran some debotnetting script from Sup Forums wiki, and now the updates always fucking fail.
i waste five minutes of my life daily because it always tries to update and it fails and it keeps going like that forever.
how do i either disable the updates at all or fucking perform the update?
it's frustrating as hell.

Can't you turn off automatic updates and use download.wsusoffline.net/ to update it?

What's a good specialisation for CS? My degree offers to split off from standard CS but I'm not too sure. How does CS with digital forensics sound

uninstall linux and use microsoft windows

any other clover users getting error posting messages?

What are these things on the end of some old graphics cards?

I'm constantly going back and forth between "form over function and "function over form" with my computer.

>form:
>windowed side panel
>LED lighting
>minimal hard drives
>silence focused components
>modular power supply
>other gaymery shit

>function
>big ass windowless chassi
>a bunch of hard drives
>no LED lighting
>good components but not focused on silence
>non-modular power supply


Which one should i permanently choose?

shes fat
shes round
she bounces on the ground

its ya mum

its ya mummmm!!!

I know ActionScript3, C++ and Java.
What other language should I learn?

On a scale from Vista to 7, how shit is Windows 8.1? Not trying to update but just want to know.

something functional

you'll be able to see your as3/c++/java code from a different angle

still very usable compared to 10

speed holes

Sounds like maybe you need :help folding and modelines.
If I wasn't just getting into this stuff myself, I might try to explain it.

How do I unplug my headset from my cpu?

Some programs written in C# are fucking up in my PC. They show an error message (just the error ID number) when they start up. How can I repair whatever C# needs to run properly?

Pretty decent once you replace the start menu. Ironically vista and 8 have both undergone a similar set of improvements since their release, so neither is nearly as bad as when they came out. You sometimes see instances of vista still around on isolated business networks, and it actually takes you a bit to notice it's not 7.

Use a mic plug to push it out from the inside. Baka.

Before I'll try to make a new thread;

Any free windows store applications to take notes with a pen (surface clone) on a pdf file with an option to save?

Also as it's a tablet are there any doc editors that don't leave trash in registry and windows folders? From store or to work from a pendrive

t. retard idiot

>microsoft store
>need to fucking login with a microsoft online account to your entire computer to access it

What is the Adobe-less and less convoluted way to add and/or modify text in a PDF file?

But that's ok? I'm logged in for one note and calendar synch anyways? You can use any email even an empty throwaway Gmail.

I've been using qubes os on my laptop but recently heard about subgraph OS how do they compare?

what's this bbs posting thing? why would you restrict access to it?

my fresh install of win10 is having shutdowns/restarts when putting it under some amount of load or when I try to install drivers. Can't figure out why. Tried a bunch of power related fixes, no dice.

Should my 2.4GHz and 5GHz wifi have the same SSID? Should they have the same password?

I want to switch browsers, but I'm too lazy to build the binaries.
Should I settle for prebuild ones for Ungoogled Chromium (ver 55) or just the standalone for Iridium (ver 62)?

Could one you guys help me downgrade a package on Ubuntu? Specifically Nautilus. 3.26 doesn't fucking open VLC or sometimes any app when double clicking or right clicking to open things. It just will refresh the window and make my cursor loading.

I want to go back to 3.14.03 and I have the .deb but don't know how to make it replace the current version.

sudo apt remove that-package
sudo dpkg -i the-file.deb

Is there a way on musicbee to switch to a full screen mode which only displays the album cover of whatever is currently playing? All the options in view are visualizer stuff with rhythmic waves but I can't find this simple option.

what's the min IQ I should be to use (well) a Linux OS?

it is! Thank you very much.

Preparing to unpack .../nautilus_3.18.4.is.3.14.3-0ubuntu4_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking nautilus (1:3.18.4.is.3.14.3-0ubuntu4) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of nautilus:
nautilus depends on libtracker-sparql-1.0-0 (>= 0.10.0); however:
Package libtracker-sparql-1.0-0 is not installed.
nautilus depends on session-migration; however:
Package session-migration is not installed.
nautilus depends on nautilus-data (

as invisible and silent as possible. get a chassis with filters for the air intakes, so it doesn't get filled up with dust.

this stupid FUCKING END OF LIFE BULLSHIT FORCING ME TO UPDATE

I THOUGHT LINUX WAS SUPPOSED TO JUST WORK


all because i wanted to fucking install exfat utils and i couldn't because my ubuntu was EOL

please bare with me, stupid question for stupid questions thread:

what programming languages can you use on browsers? I mean other than javascript