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I got a pair of Jaybird bluetooth headphones that I have paired with my laptop and Android phone. Problem is that when I reset my laptop or switch to my phone, it is impossible for me to reconnect my headphones to my laptop without completely disconnecting and repairing it with my computer.
Love these headphones, but this process is a huge pain in the ass. How the fuck do I keep my bluetooth headphones from becoming "disconnected" every time my machine resets or I need to switch to my phone? Why does it say "paired" in bluetooth settings yet "disconnected" in the audio settings?
Let's assume all devices have the latest bluetooth technology.
I have Razer Blade laptop. Cool shit to do with it as far as programs and simple stuff someone stupid like me could do. Im new to using windows (8.1) so help me out
What issues have firefox with using custom bitmap fonts while having hardware acceleratioon enabled?
I'm trying to get some fonts with stylish but it just don't apply it if I have Hardware Acceleration turned on.
PS: Tried to google it, I couldn't find a thing.
As I said in last thread
>computer powers on
>fans spin
>no post
>no beeps from motherboard speaker
I've tried breadboarding from igpu only, no ram, etc and narrowed the issue to mobo or processor. How do I tell between which is it?
What's a good brand for a 6-8tb external hard drive?
Are Seagate good?
what's the most effective way of figuring out what's slowing the fuck out of my PC (from logging in to actually responding when I try to open something)
I already disabled everything I do not require on startup and ran different cleaners.
Why the fuck is it using my integrated graphics?
How do I switch it to my actual graphics card
Can anyone help root my tablet? It's a Chuwi Hi8
I successfully rooted it with Kingo tethered but deceided to do a factory reset then root, but now following the same procedure it fails to get root. Any ideas?
Is there a performance gap between the Intel Core 2 Duo G3 and the Core i-series G1?
I am trying to decide whether a laptop with the latter one is worth a price increase varying between 50% and 100%.
I tried to finally update my ATT Samsung Galaxy S4 to lollipop from 4.4.2. I flashed an NB1 tar file and now the phone can only boot into recovery mode. I tried wiping the cache and a complete data reset, but it still keeps booting into recovery. Is there anyway to save my phone by flashing something with odin? I honestly don't know what I'm doing.
I'm using Firefox 22.0 and Java seems to be disabled due to a security hole. 4chanX doesn't seem to be working. Does 4chanX require Java?
>>52037440
From what episode is that screen of Hank Hill from?
>>52037640
I don't know the episode number but it's the one where Buck says the Emu market plummited, he gives Hank the gun, says something about insurance, and tells him to make it look like heart attacks
I run win8.1 pro
Recently it became somewhat slow, like after restart it boots up and I try to run task manager, TM loads but also freezes/does not refresh for about 10 seconds, I can switch tabs but it just wont refresh, if I try to close it the ui dissapears but window border does not, some other programs act in similar fashion (like foobar, or if I try to open network manager it literally takes 20 seconds for the window to open), but ff and other programs load instantly
I have cheap tier plextor msata ssd, disk managent says its in good health but I suspect otherwise.
>>52037689
Oh yeah the emu episode. Watching the show again recently.
>>52037761
I'm watching the episode where Leanne gets out of jail right now
>>52037805
Cool. Seasons 2-6 are my favourite. I have distain for the rest. But rewatching the show recently, I have a new appreciate for season 13. Not that it compares to the earlier material, but there are things to be appreciated in there.
>>52037399
don't know
>>52037847
I love the whole series but yeah, the earlier seasons were better and they pulled the last season together well. It's my favourite show
Without resorting to TPB, where can I get a Windows 7 .iso? I already checked the Wiki and it takes me to Microsoft's site where I need to put in a product key in order to download the .iso.
Anyone got a copypasta or link for rooting/ricing my android? Sony Xperia M2
The main reason I'm doing it is because I heard that when I root it, I can put apps on the SD card.
I literally have no fucking space on the internal storage and it wont let me transfer.
>>52037959
Oh shit. I have the same phone.
I'm going to add another question -- how do you downgrade from 4.3 to 4.2or4.1? Using OS X.
>>52037934
Search google for digital river windows 7, also I download windows from ms site without entering any keys
>>52037285
Remove CPU and see what kind of response the mobo gives. If it turns on with no indication of anything It might be a faulty CPU
Also can I have a pic of guts? I might spot something you did not
>>52037399
bios if it's laptop. If it's desktop reply to me
Server:
-Power is on
-Connection refused over ssh
-Doesn't show any life when connected to keyboard and screen
-Fan goes steadily
-Happens every now and then (sometimes it shuts down after a while unless the power is unplugged and plugged back in)
-Persistent over newly installed OS
-Hardware watchdog never kicks in
Power supply issue? Or motherboard?
Oh, and the logs are empty when it boots back up again, showing a clear time-gap.
How best to backup/restore a KVM guest? The guest's made on a qcow2 image.
Why does Linus tech tips only employ Asians? Are they running some kind of a immigration scheme?
So my 212 EVO's Fan just staring being really fucking loud after all this years I tried everything to save it but It's just keep going insane.
Can I just buy any 12MM Fan and just replace it? I'm correctly using the shitty Rear fan, as replacement seems working but I want something not shit
>>52036836
so some broken ribs and a concussion?
I am writing a shell script but this line will not work correctly because the console perceives it as a command. I could put key names instead of minuses and it would work but I need to draw strings from a file and i cannot modify it by hand.
so what do i do?
xdotool type "-athereisnoneedtobesosadkummykenny1-"
Hey /g/, I just accidentally my OnePlus One's microusb port, and it's wiggly as fuck and is probably going to stop working within a month or so. I guess I'm going to try to send it in to the chinks and get it fixed.
Does anyone have any experience with 1+ customer support?
>>52038364
Its horrible
>>52038069
its desktop
What is a good browser to use only for porn? Firefox is shit now and Chrome is my main browser.
>>52038544
You have your video cable plugged into onboard when it should be GPU
I own a Asus Vivotab note 8 and well...
The USB port is completely fucked.
I can't find anywhere online how to fix it and now that I can't charge it im fucked.
Is there anywhere the does these kind of repairs as my warranty is completely gone.
Or do I just buy a new one?
>>52038180
yes
>>52038649
You buy a new one.
The USB port is usually attached to the PCB (in my experience) and is cheaper to buy a new one then to replace
>>52038676
So just re solder the USB port?
>>52038684
If you think it's that easy don't let me stop you
Another thread sparked my interest ( >>52035330) and I was wondering about graphics cards in relation to vram.
Say I want to play modded Skyrim with 2k+ textures, and character mods, and ENB after-effects, the works. Wouldn't having 8GB VRAM make all of that run exceptionally well?
Currently running on a 680 GTX with only 2GB of VRAM, and pains me to get 24 - 35 FPS.
>>52038690
Well I can't really find the PCB to replace the whole board.
I haven't really taken a good look inside the thing as I really hate repairs on phones and tablets.
I have plenty of soldering experience however.
>>52038694
Get the 8GB version. If you upgrade to CF in the future and have two of these, you'll be glad you got the 8GB version
>>52036836
how the heck can I get my asus keyboard to turn it's leds on at boot on arch? i'm tired to press Fn+Num8 4 times.
>>52038709
Well you may have a tiny bit of luck. I found this article of a guy with a similar problem to you
http://forum.tabletpcreview.com/threads/asus-vivotab-note-8-usb-broken-heres-how-to-fix.64205/page-2
And the USB port is separate from the mainboard. If you can somehow find a replacement part you can fix it. Maybe a broken note 8 on eBay and you can use it for parts.
the best adblocker for android?
>>52037075
Try installing your laptop's official bluetooth drivers
that fixed it for me but I ended up removing the drivers and just dealing with it because the 30%+ cpu usage the shitty "suite" causes isn't worth it
>>52038593
ah I see so just switch it then?
>>52038963
yes
A 1TB seagate hard drive is fine, right? As long as I don't go 1.5 or more?
I'm getting conflicting information between sources on where the files for a local configuration for mpd should be located. Should they be located in ~/.mpd, in an mpd subfolder under ~/.config, or one of these, but having the configuration file be .mpdconf outside of the directory?
>>52038982
What? There's nothing wrong with Seagate
>>52038982
Your size is good, the brand is the problem. Don't go with Seagate, they have a relatively high rate of failure. A Western Digital or Hitachi hdd will fair much better.
>>52038747
no ideas, guys?
>>52038967
Alright
>>52039055
sauce
>>52039055
You are so full of shit
And don't post your bullshit picture, just fuck off
>>52038982
>Listening to the jews
You know better than that
How to frontend for 'media center even my dad can use' / 'emulation machine' easy? I buy pic related for this feat
>>52036836
Is there a website where i can practice for my CS classes, like a bunch of exam prep questions and all that.
I don't exclusively mean programming either, but also stuff like Calculus and Algebra, Logic and Logic algorithms, Software Engineering questions (maybe multiple choice questions or something), database, and all that jazz
>>52039023
man mpd.conf gives the order which mpd looks for a local configuration file. It will look for ~/.config/mpd/mpd.conf first, then ~/.mpdconf, and lastly ~/.mpd/mpd.conf. Assuming you want to go with the more traditional option, go with a subdirectory under config
Anyone got any experience with hyperSLI.
I have a Intel P45 which doesn't nativelly support SLI, but I could get another identical Nvidia card for free.
is it worth it?
Since this board is largely consumer elec/t/ronics, I'll ask here. What's a good budget monitor with good blacks? My current monitor doesn't do blacks well, and I can't play horror games with no proper blacks. By "budget" I mean <200 USD.
>>52038046
Sorry I was out. I don't think mobos turn on with no CPU. And I've put it together like 4 times now but probably similar each time. Here.
If I were to buy another HDD, I would have 4 hard drives, two of them 2TB. Should I consider running anything in RAID, and is it worth the price for a personal computer? I'd just be backing up volumes of music, video, and some images.
>>52037569
Yup, find the factory image of a 4.4.4 version for your model and glad it through Odin.
>>52037934
Get it from tpb and check the hash.
>>52038364
Heard it sucks.
>>52038871
Adaway, with the red bird logo.
>>52039646
Look into raids, their super convenient for managing a lot of space, but if you don't think you could handle recovering from a failed drive just stick with individual drives.
>>52039688
Well, the drives already have data on them, so I would have to buy an additional drive for RAID. I guess it's ultimately up to me whether or not it's worth it. I'll take more time to think about it. Are 3TB HDDs worth purchasing, or are they too likely to fail?
>>52038046
>>52039617
Well apparently it does turn on but it won't post or beep without CPU so that won't help.
Looking to sell my old PSU. Is there a way to test that it works properly besides installing it in my PC again? I admit it's kind of lazy, but I figured I'd ask.
PC started hanging randomly a week ago.
Since then I've Intel Burn tested it for an hour and it was stable, prime95 for about 3 hours, furmark for 1h,memtest 10h, tried with another GPU.
I also replaced the HDD because I needed to get a new one anyway and reinstalled windows a couple of times.
They grow more frequent after each fresh install of windows I believe.
Also after memtesting it froze right after booting.
What the fuck is wrong with my PC and why is it doing this to me on the holidays?
The pc is 4 months old(fx 8300 on a gigabyte ga970 ud3p,8gb of ram in single channel).
I just installed Media Player Classic in my XP. I began to associate different kinds of files with it, but now they have no icon. What to do?
>>52039726
You buy a tester
>>52039714
Just don't buy shit, caviar black is still the gold standard as far as I know, I'm sure someone here can correct me if not. Haven't bought a hard drive in a while.
I bought a second hand 2.5 hard drive yesterday, the disk in question is a Seagate st320lt007 thin hd. I asked the seller for smart captures and he complied, nothing was wrong. When I got it first thing I did was ran recuva for any interesting shit and it got stuck halfway, after that I rechecked smart data and found attributes C5 - Current Pending Sector Count and C6 - Uncorrectable Sector Count at a raw value of 8, while smart data said it was 100 with a thresold of 0 so acording to the disk its alright, there were no reasigned sectors according to attribute 05.
So I decided to run clean all in diskpart, It took a little less than an hour with no errors reported. I rechecked smart again and attributes c5 and c6 were back to a raw value of 0. Crystaldisk info marks it as good. But now the attribute BB - Reported Uncorrectable Errors has a raw value of 240, and 1 in smart data with 0 being the threshold. Im filling it with junk data with h2testw and veryfing it, seems stable, not running hot and no more C4, C5, C6 or reallocated sectors
Should I keep using it? It seems it had spent 3 years without running judging by what recuva found. I bought it only as an auxiliar drive for whatever shit I could need like temporaly moving large files around.
Also I though Uncorrectable Sector Count wasnt supposed to change, could it be the drive just needed a ´refresh´?
I'm building a new PC after several years. Is there any reason to buy a i5 over a i3 with multi threading if I don't plan on 4k gaming?
>>52039813
I'm pretty sure you need an i5 for 1080p gaming.
Some games won't even run on an i3 anymore because they need 4 real cores
Can you move USB 3.0 ports from one case/motherboard to another?
>>52039810
I found this. mmmm
>>52039813
Depends on the game and performance level you're going for.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrKChA3Iabg
>>52039810
Probably just marking off the damaged sectors that accumulated over the three years. It should be okay for the most part
Will Windows 10 have any compatibility issues with a 980 Ti?
>>52039931
What?
>>52039931
no they stay on whatever they came with, you can wire USB ports to a different motherboard if it supports it tho
Can I sli a zotac 980ti amp with a 700 watt 80+bronze power supply?
also got 3 120mm fans, h60i cpu cooler, 8 gb of ram, 3 tb toshiba hard drive, 256 adata ssd card. gayman led keyboard and a mouse. And an overclocked i5-4670k (4GHz)
What are the possible causes of a laptop where only the power/light indicators turn on?
Screen won't display anything and fan isn't spinning, but I can hear some kind of electric sound coming from near the power button
I'm getting a $2,000+ PC soon, but I've never actually built one before. Is there any good guides/videos out there that goes through the process well? I don't want to fuck up anything since I spent a good amount of money on all the parts.
>>52040116
unlikely
/g/ I need tech support help on Windows tablets/laptops
I've currently got an Asus T100, it's a tablet, has an Intel Atom processor and for a while I've pretty much been using it as my primary device. I'm on a Computing/Engineering course though and think it's time to upgrade to something that will hopefully suffice for that course and handle more intensive tasks as well as some vidya, even if it is on lower settings
My budget is probably around £600, but I've been out of the tablet and latop loop for so long I really don't know where to look. Ideally I'd want something around 13" but no smaller than 10.1" and fanless, because I've grown accustomed to a small form factor and it'd be nice if it functioned as a tablet as well
I've had a look at the Asus T300 Chi and it seems pretty damn good, but the reportedly poor battery life (I'd prefer around 7 or 8 hours at least) and lack of a proper USB port put me off. I'd be fine with something like the Lenovo Yoga, but I just don't know what's what.
Any help?
TL;DR want a capable 2 in 1 Windows machine/ultrabook for around £600 with decent battery life
>>52040169
>>52040116
I'm pretty sure it can boot but it won't handle any sort of load or OC
>>52039848
>>52039981
Thanks senpai, after looking at the games needing 4 cores I think I'll go with the i3 and upgrade should anything I want to play comes out.
Why does my speccy only show
>R9 200 series
For my 290X? I set up all drivers correctly, and the card works fine in games but it's name is never correctly detected
>>52040184
Used Yoga 2 Pro
If the host OS is compromissed by malwares, the VM OS is automatically compromissed, too?
For example, if I run some Linux distro on Win10. Can MS (or a keylogger) collect data of my VM usage?
>>52037266
Shamless bump. Can't figure what's going on.
>>52040441
Why don't you download a safe keylogger and find out yourself?
>>52040441
stupid answer to your stupid question
yes
Is MSI H81M-P33 good? In what situation would you or would you not buy it? It's between $30-40 at the moment.
>>52040486
You know the answer, give me this desu.
https://thepiratebay.mn/torrent/8849649/Coheed_and_Cambria_-_The_Afterman_[Deluxe_Live_Set]_2013_320kbps
I want this torrent but it has no seeds and it won't download any of it.
I have access to two computers. Is that enough to spark life into it?
>>52037623
>Firefox 22.0
Update, you retard.
>>52040531
That's not how torrents work m8
>>52040531
>I have access to two computers. Is that enough to spark life into it?
I don't know what that has to do with someone else seeding it for you.
>>52040531
Bitlord m8?
I just installed Windows on my Thinkpad X200s over Xubuntu for a variety of minor reasons. It actually works amazingly, save for one thing. If I type certain words too quickly like "around", it will beep. It didn't do this in Linux. What setting is doing this and how do I turn it off?
>>52040543
I have one seeder and peer in swarm 7 minutes in and nothing.
What can I do to download these files?
>>52040549
I'm using bitlord.
>>52040547
Forgive my ignorance but I thought that torrents worked the more people were seeding it and if you don't have anyone seeding it it won't download
>>52040592
You have to have the torrent downloaded to be able to seed
right now those 2 computers are just leechers
>>52040592
Dude, someone has to be seeding it for you to be downloading it. Seeding means they have all the files within the torrent available and are giving you the opportunity to download it from them. If no one is seeding at all, and there are no leechers, you are not downloading anything. Using two computers to connect to nothing will still get you nothing.
>>52040601
Gotcha.
So unless I can get the uploader or someone who downloaded it to start seeding I'm screwed?
>>52040621
Correct
you could try getting the same torrent from different sites
maybe one has a tracker with active seeders
Does anyone have any idea why this is happening?
>want to switch from using computer speakers to headset
>have both plugged in and it defaults to the computer speakers
>unplug the speakers to switch to using the headset
>if I'm in a game or in some other programs that produce audio, it won't automatically swap the audio between the speakers and the headset when the speakers are plugged or unplugged
Am I overlooking something or doing something wrong?
Does anyone still have the list of Windows 7 updates to remove?
Can cans eat raw chicken?
I'm going to be building a PC for the first time tomorrow. I've watched some videos, but I was going to use the Build a PC guide on the wiki step by step to make sure I was on the right track. Is that sufficient or can anyone recommend something better?
>>52040971
Just look up a script called Aegis. Removes all that crap for you. https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Windows_7 has a link, but search around and you can find a newer version
>>52040993
Don't forget standoffs
what desktop cpu is equivalent for a i7-6700HQ purely in performance power?
Trying to do a comparison on a laptop and a custom computer but I don't know what to compare the mobile cpu to on a desktop
Hey guys when I was best buy today I was messing around on some of their laptops, and I used the site can you run it to see if it could run some games I wanted to play.
The laptop had a quad core 1.6ghz processor, and the game required 2.4ghz. It had passed the inspection however saying I have a "1.6ghz processor / rated 2.9ghz. I assume this meant that with the quad core it read 1.6 as a functiong 2.9?
It was a 500 dollar laptop and I just want to be able to run Crusader Kings II and dolphin emulator on my school laptop.
>>52041135
Like an i3-6100
https://strawpoll.me/6358284
I own a Thinkpad T420 and I asked this over in /tpg/ but I reckon it's a stupid enough question anyhow:
On a wireless connection I get some stuttering in online games while I don't have any on a wired connection.
I have a Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6250 AGN for my network card, is there some sort of driver I should use to fix this or would I be better off replacing it?
test
>>52041218
If your laptop only has a Centrino the whole thing is garbage. Phones are better than that
>>52041177
https://www-ssl.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/turbo-boost/turbo-boost-technology.html
>>52041177
Because I got dubsdubs can I make one more post for this question.
>>52041254
>overclocking to play crusader kings II 2.4 for 4+ hours.
Would the laptop survive this?
>>52041234
The processor is an i7 but I don't know much about network cards so maybe a Centrino is garbage just like the Centrino processors.
Thank you for your thoughtful answer though.
>>52041289
If it is an i7 then there's hope. Find out what kind of wifi card it uses and find an ac dual band to increase wifi performance.
>>52041271
It's not overclocking. Did you even read the link I posted? Anyway, yes the laptop is designed for 2.9Ghz it will be fine.
I have a WRT54GS v5 that I would like to use to experiment with custom firmware. Should I use Tomato, pfSense, or OpenWRT?
My main goals: learning about what I can do with custom firmware.
>>52041177
>Hey guys when I was best buy today
>when I was best buy today
Fuck I missed the singularity
>>52041313
So it appears my router is not supported by Tomato and pfSense. That narrows things down.
>>52036836
What are the rules of ram upgrading? If I have 8 gb and I was 16, do I have to buy the same brand of ram? Do I have to buy the exact same model? Or do I straight up have to scrap my current sticks and buy 16?
>>52041415
>If I have 8 gb and I was 16
reported
if i want to download the html of a webpage without the css but not spend time deleting the css how would i do that
>>52041372
how about zeroshell?
>>52041517
Want
>>52041557
>Wanting 16 year olds
reported again
>>52041557
>>52041563
Okay I'll stop fucking with you. You cna throw in any brand and model any amount of GBc any frequency you want. The only thing you need to take note of is if your current RAM runs at ie 1600Mhz and you put in 1333Mhz your bios will downclock all sticks to match the lowest common speed, 1333Mhz. You can create bottlenecks so beware
So I chose Python as my very first language, and I've been using it for a few months now
But after lurking this board I'm thinking if I should stay with it and if I should keep investing time and energy into it. I've heard that Python is great for "creating quick prototypes of what you want to make" but not good for bigger projects. Is this true? Should I switch over to some other language now that I understand the basics and essential concepts of programming in general?
>>52041601
I have shitty 30 dollar G.SKILL 1600 stuff, I'll probably buy another set for skyrim becuase the mods are having me trouble.
my HDD is making a whirling noise, almost grinding noise every time im accessing something on it.
my os and programs are on an SSD and I use the HDD for media files.
When I do something with a file like unzip a torrent it will make the noise until it's done extracting or like right now it made the noise for one second when i started playing an album, not during the whole album but just for a second into the first song playing.
is this normal or is my HDD killing itself?
I don't remember hearing the noise before or maybe i just never noticed it.
>>52041752
a quiet 'grinding' noise is normal for HDDs when they're being used
What's that book with the lambda that /g/ obsesses over?
How expensive are those devices for old people that help to hear?
Im trying to get one for my father and i don't like to scream him so he can listen normally.
>>52042088
>>52041625
Nah, Blender was made in Python and it's a complete application.
It's good to learn another language though just for making your own quicker functions (any programming language will do).
>>52042096
Like buying headphones, they come in all prices but you get what you pay for
>>52042108
Cheers. I'll check out a new language but will keep Python as my main thing. I've become really comfortable with it.
>>52039617
Do the Z87 mobos require an 8-pin cable to power the CPU? Because it looks like you have all 8 pins for the CPU to PSU stuck in there. On Z97 you only need to stick in one 4-pin cable on that 8-pin slot.
>>52042117
I see, i hope $100 is enough for good quality ones and another pair.
>>52042185
They do iirc.
hey /b/ i have a problem i bought a pair of headphones that are usb im tring to play music from a jack so i have a jack input and a usb output im using ubuntu and id like to have a program that can play the jack input live to my usb headset thanks
>>52036836
hey /g/ i have a problem i bought a pair of headphones that are usb im tring to play music from a jack so i have a jack input and a usb output im using ubuntu and id like to have a program that can play the jack input live to my usb headset thanks
>those days when all your shit just keeps failing
As pic explains, I'm an idiot so speak slowly.
Minor question leading to larger one:
I'm connecting my bluetooth headphones to my PC to see if the crackly effect that I dislike when using them with my phone is a problem of the headphones or my phone's bluetooth.
>Do bluetooth headphones in general just not sound to clear or is it something I can fix with either new phone or new headphones?
Larger question: When I connect them to my PC (Windows 8.1) they will play sound from it but it sounds like awful phone call quality and I can hear everything I'm doing because of the headphones mic. So basically my PC thinks I want to connect the mic too.
>How do I tell it these are just bluetooth headphones not some shit headset for calls? Can't find a way to tell Windows what this is.
Make sense? Pls help...
![aaron-monitors[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/ihEgcVx.jpg "aaron-monitors[1].jpg")
>>52036836
Trying to learn more about programming in general.
There's plenty of sites out there that give tutorials and walk you through the coding process by giving you simple problems to solve and having you create the code itself.
Are there any Youtube channels or video series that let you watch someone who is really skilled at coding go through the process?
I'd like to see what it's like to actually be a good programmer, sitting at a desk and working on a project, seeing what programs they use, what resources they have, etc etc.
Does that make any sense?
How do I choose a decent router? I'm fucked for downloads because Australia but I still transfer a lot of stuff between computers on my local network.
>>52042185
Yes, requires all 8 for z87-g45.
is there any reason to have more than 12gb ram for a vidya/facebook machine
>>52043196
No, you could get away with 8 unless you want to heavily mod things.
Is there a good app for android that blocks youtube ads?
Considering doing comptia certifications: network+ and Linux+. Has anyone here done comptia or other ccertifications? those that have, is it worth it?
>>52042906
Just one bump on this.
How many IP addresses do typical VPNs usually have?
What would be a cheap setup for twitch streaming? Not for games, for creative. I would like to run 2 webcams, and keep the video silky smooth. I have a case,a 660, and other peripherals. I guess the real question is what is the lowest processor I could get away with. How taxing is just streaming two web cams at 1080?
Is there any way of getting SteelSeries engine to work on Linux?
What could i do with a Dell latitude D505?
My uncle got a new laptop and he gifted me his old one, i have no need for a new one but im not trashing it.
Im so installing linux on this because 256MB Ram and barely enough IGPU and probably dead HDD.
Hell, the USB im going to use haves more space than the actual HDD.
>>52043365
I3+Z97 MSI PC Mate would be more than enough.
I'm able to install another OS on a completely a separate disk drive without it fucking with anything else, right? I can just keep it on there, but boot it up by selecting the drive in the boot menu if I want.
>>52043491
Depends on the OS. A lot will install a bootloader to the primary drive automactically. If you install on the secondary drive by disconnecting the primary drive, you should be good to go.
wget dl.4players.de/ts/releases/3.0.15/TeamSpeak3-Client-linux_amd64-3.0.15.run
sudo chmod +x TeamSpeak3-Client-linux_amd64-3.0.15.run
./TeamSpeak3-Client-linux_amd64-3.0.15.run
cd TeamSpeak3-Client-linux_amd64/
./ts3client_runscript.sh
doesnt seem to want to work, literally ever
what am i doing wrong
>>52043512
What about Windows 8.1? Say I have 7 installed on my current "C" drive, but install 8.1 on another one like "F". Will that bug things up?
>>52043535
Probably. The windows installer will see that you have another version installed so it will go ahead and update the bootloader for you. 8.1 and 7 use a different bootloader by default so it will be annoying to boot 7. You'll have to fully load 8.1 and then reboot to load 7.
Like I said, you could just disconnect the hard drive that has windows 7 so when you install 8.1, it doesn't modify anything and then just choose which drive to boot in the boot menu.
>>52043416
You can install gentoo
Can i plug my PC straight into an adsl socket upstairs while the modem is downstairs somewhere. What do I need to do. Ive just always had my modem next to my PC so ive never know anything else.
>>52043585
Will both loaders try to boot up each time to where I'd have to choose each time on start up?
>>52043628
I was thinking about puppy linux actually.
>>52043682
If you install both OS on the same time, one loader is going to see the other loader and try and chainload it for you. If you disconnect the primary drive (that already has an os) and install another os on a secondary physical drive, then you can use your boot menu as a boot loader and just go straight into the os on the particular drive. Multiple OS can exist at the same time without messing with eachother. Only during install do they usually poke and prod.
>>52043711
All right, that's all I needed to know. Downloaded 8.1 for a friend, and kind of want to try it myself. Not a big fan of using VMs so I'll just try to install it and see what happens. Thanks a lot!
Is there a config file for Links (terminal based web browser) where I can change bg/fg colors for the menus? I accidently changed the colors both to white using the gui and now my menus are unusable, and I can't change them because the color menu is white on white.
I have a wamp server running. What should I use it for?
>>52043516
Try downloading the latest verson? Or is there a reason you need an older version?
You can download it from the web here:
https://www.teamspeak.com/downloads
Then just chmod and execute it like you tried before.
>>52036836
This might be more a question for /diy/, but I'm working on creating a small box/ panel of switches and buttons for various controls and functions in the game Elite: Dangerous with an arduino or raspberry pi. I was hoping to have it do stuff like activate landing gear or scroll through the menus so I can use the keyboard/mouse to fly. It's more for immersion that for being useful, but I guess I just basically need to map the program to various keyboard buttons so that when I flip a switch it 'presses' the button. Can someone help me get started with this? I don't have much experience with using either, and I was hoping this would be a good starter project
>>52043968
Just buy a shitty keyboard and connect the keys to buttons on your control panel. I forget the name but there's a program that lets you have 2 keyboards and use one as a macro board. Probably the simplest solution but if you want to learn microcontrollers then do it your way.
>>52044010
That's a good idea too, actually. Aren't there some keyboards that only have like 4 or 5 buttons on them? That would probably be optimal
>>52044062
You can buy a separate numberpad, cheap ones are $5, if it's a rubber dome just scrape the black contact stuff away and solder to what's underneath
![img-card-topology-front[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/emJSB50.png "img-card-topology-front[1].png")
Is there a way to inconspicuously get something printed on a PKI card? Or maybe I can do it somehow with a normal printer?
I dont think I can just go down to my local copy place and have them print it for me, they may get all weird.
I have a bunch of flac albums, and I've come into an iPad. Is there an app I can use to play the files over the network from my windows PC?
>>52044756
Just convert to ALAC
>>52044786
I really don't want to. Some of it is 24/96, and I'm not especially fond of apple/itunes anyway...
>>52043752
Good work, anon.
>>52037934
http://0bin.net/paste/8eIx0EPgKLUtdtpJ#RhahYIVWRPd68jwZEKd3dDR+uJ2l9QeTFuwMp-Ra9T5
>>52038320
-- before the string to stop it from taking any more options
>>52036836
Is there a homescreen for Android that has a vertical scrolling layout? Kinda like windows phone in terms of how it scrolls.
>overclock my cpu
>using it for a month with no problem
>suddenly today it fails to boot
>have to load default to boot successfully
>completely fails to boot using the old overclock settings
How does this work?
>>52045065
That depends, did you inadvertently cook it?
I'm looking through a bunch of laser printers in an online shop and noticed something peculiar:
Some of the cheap models have a "monthly print capacity" in their specs, for example 2000 pages. wtf is this supposed to mean? At say 20 pages/min you should be able to print 2k pages in less than 2 hours, theoretically.
I imagine it's technically possible to lock the printer after x pages for y days, and I know that some companies actually produce devices with such artificial limits (for example a company I used to work for produces gas sensors and offers cheap evaluation versions where the firmware would only allow x readings per day and shut down completely after y readings so that customers wouldn't be able to 'abuse' them for real applications and never buy the full price models). But I never heard that they do it with printers - do they?
How likely is it that files on my drive are being altered after they are copied to it? not during transfer from one drive to another?
just enough bits to corrupt a video at a certain point? Anyone ever heard of something like this?
>>52045600
I've experienced artifacts in sound/video files due to hdd fragmentation many years ago - but I think this shouldn't be any issue nowadays, and it occured during transfer, not after the files were sitting there for a while. Data decay like you describe it shouldn't happen and is a sign that something is wrong... could be a virus fucking up your media files, could be your hdd starting to fail, could be your drivers, faulty RAM,... plenty possibilities, but either way it should never happen under normal circumstances (inb4 rotational velocidensity)
I'm writing a program in java that needs a 3D array in the form of :String[][][]
Due to the way the input is formed I'm forced to create a 1D array and fill it with 2D arrays of varying sizes.
I've tried creating the 1D array and filling it with the 2D arrays as I was creating them from the input file, but it failed to compile leaving this error:error: incompatible types: String[][] cannot be converted to String
Any help would be appreciated.
>>52045698
I got a issue. files are ending up corrupted on a 3 TB external USB drive of mine. I ran a FULL sector scan with Partiton Wizard Free, it took like a day and a half. I have been creating checksums of all files I download and copy there from now on and I have caught corruption during transfers but I had a file on there that checked out fine. I noticed today just now that it was not matching the md5. I redownloaded the same exact file and copied it over and now the hash file on the external disk matches the brand new copied file. I'm trying to figure this shit out.
>>52045737
There is no way you actually need a 3D array of strings.
alright. i built my new pc, got mint running. its ALMOST where i need it to be. i go grab the $40 logitech speakers i had lying around and plug them in. no sound. what do i do?
Where should i put the bootloader?
raid0 win8 + mint
>>52045785
You were right, thanks.
>>52045803
turn up volume
install drivers
or something weird and confusing
PC started hanging randomly a week ago.
Since then I've Intel Burn tested it for an hour and it was stable, prime95 for about 3 hours, furmark for 1h,memtest 10h, tried with another GPU.
I also replaced the HDD because I needed to get a new one anyway and reinstalled windows a couple of times.
They grow more frequent after each fresh install of windows I believe.
Also after memtesting it froze right after booting.
What the fuck is wrong with my PC and why is it doing this to me on the holidays?
The pc is 4 months old(fx 8300 on a gigabyte ga970 ud3p,8gb of ram in single channel).
>>52045892
have you looked at temps? wha'ts idle and what's max?
about to buy a thinkpad x220 with a sandy i5, I have a sandy dual core i7, are they the same socket? can I put my i7 in the x220?
I would have asked in tpg, but it looks pretty dead over there
>>52038364
Who's this semen demon?
Looking for cpu upgrade for my old system (amd athlon x4 630)
Thinking A8-7600 with A88XM-E, any better choice with the same budget? ( <$170)
Mainly for browsing and hosting a little VM for testing thing, need 1080P onboard.
>>52046001
what does the rest of your system look like? what don't you like about the CPu you have now? have you considered an SSD?
>>52045486
I used to sell these printers so that means I actually know nothing about them and I'm pulling this info out of my ass, but I believe that means duty cycle. You can print more but if you print substantially more than that it may invalidate your warranty and or cause premature wear on the machine and break down.
If anything, the only that will stop after 2000 pages in a month would be your warranty and probably your toner cartridge.
Do you really expect to print that much?
>>52045933
I'm pretty sure the temp reader is fucked cause i had idles of mid 20s and even 14* some days ago, the load temps are like 40-45.
GPU is 32 idle 70 after 1h of furmark .
>>52046130
Board: M2N68-AM PLUS
Ram:8GB
HDD: 4
PSU: Corsair 550W
GPU: SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 7750 LP
My 7750 broken, it is fine, i have another gaming desktop. But the board cannot make 1080 resolution (too old) plus one cpu core is missing recently.
So, I am thinking just upgrade them to fix the problem.
No plan for SSD.
>>52045744
This just happened to me too. I think it may have gotten corrupt in a transfer though and went unnoticed for a few weeks/years. I regularly back up my two drives to each other by just copying all the data from one to the other and vice versa and comparing existing files with pending copies. Somewhere along the line, one of the movies I had encoded ended up shrinking down to 167mb (which would be damn impressive if it played for more than 5 minutes) on one of the two drives during a reorganizational period and I accidentally overwrote the uncorrupted version on the other hard drive because I wasn't actually checking the data (don't hit the yes to all button without actually knowing what all is).
At least I can just rerip and reencode the movie. Oh well.
Maybe a program was accessing the file and the drive got yanked? Like a thumbnailer or media library indexer. Or maybe windows decided to defrag your shit? Idk. I would just assume a software fuckup though and not a hardware error since you can't reproduce the anomaly.
Is it safe if I leave a device connected to a charger for extended periods of times?
>>52045892
Sounds like either a hard drive issue or a power supply issue. Are you using a UPS?
>They grow more frequent after each fresh install of windows I believe.
Sounds like an annoying coincidence. Can you replicate the issue by doing something specific? Does it seem to be a certain time of day that this occurs? Unplug everything that you can, including the 970 if you have integrated, and see if it still hangs. Are you on the latest BIOS?
>>52046212
If it were temp related, it would have powered off and done so during the stress testing, not at random intervals.
>>52046227
Yeah, I'm clueless. I'm assuming it has something to do with the USB connection and also guessing it has something to do with windows updates. I only do security updates now so maybe there is a update that fixes this bug but I don't have it, thinking of going with all updates next to see if shit stops. I also notice that it really only happens with files over 1 GB in size. all smaller files almost always copy fine but when copying batch large files it can end up like 3 out of 10 files corrupted on average.
>>52045973
Unless you have a reflow station, you can't replace one bga chip with another.
And unless I'm mistaken, an x220 has a bga socket. In fact, I believe all intel mobile chips are bga starting with core i chips.
>>52045855
huh.. i did this
http://itsfoss.com/fix-sound-ubuntu-1304-quick-tip/
and nothing happened. may my speakers are just fucking broken
>>52046138
Thanks for your answer, and it sounds pretty reasonable. And yeah, I'm not going to print more than a few hundred pages per year, if even that much. But the description puzzled me because I've never seen it before.
merry christmas /g/
with XMP being a thing, why would I buy RAM that is sold with a higher branded speed? i.e. should I get DDR4-2133 CAS 13, and clock the RAM higher? will I be able to get it to 3000 on a motherboard that supports 3000?
>>52046292
what? the CPU's arent soldered, do you mean the socket will only take an i5?
what do
>>52046256
That's how i lost a tablet coupla days ago.
Left it changing for a week.
>>52046357
step 1: check cables and/or test in another machine
>>52045834
ideas?
should i have a wank or do a poo first?
>>52046387
poo first
shower
then wank
and take it to /b/
>>52046256
Depends on the device/battery. You can easily damage
simple' batteries by overcharging, I almost set my room on fire with recharging batteries for an RC car overnight couple years ago. And you could impact the capacity (of older batteries) with chronic undercharging, some kind of memory effect dunno the physics behind that. With 'modern' stuff like contemporary cellphones you got electronics which are supposed to prevent that, though, and undercharging shouldn't be a problem either nowadays.
>>52046364
Certainly possible, but not generally. I got my old phone hooked up to my PC for maybe half a year now, still werks.
>>52046278
Wait, you're getting multiple files consistently corrupted? Have you checked a checksum immediately after copying (or using one of those fancy file copy programs that does it for you)? Is it only the one hard drive or computer that you copy from? Maybe it's a bad usb cable. Have you checked the SMART data on the external?
If you have time and space for some troubleshooting, I would try and reproduce the exact conditions in which you get corrupt files and try to eliminate one thing at a time. If it was just every now and then, I'd assume just bad luck. If the files are being corrupted during or immediately after copy then that leads me to believe some sort of hardware error but if it's some time later (even if only a few minutes) then it's definitely software fucking your shit.
>>52046315
Yeah, and again, I think it's just marking bull directed at people who are looking for an office printer. They don't want to sell someone a 'home printer' and then have them call up saying that it jammed up after feeding it the fourth ream of paper this week because the printer wasn't designed to handle so much. There is a reason 15,000$ printers exist after all.
>>52046353
BGA means Ball-Grid array. The CPUs using this 'socket' type are soldered directly to the motherboard. If your machine has an actual socketed chip that can be replaced then look up the exact chipset on intel's website and see what other processors that chipset supports. Unless there is a hardcoded restriction in the BIOS (which I wouldn't put past lenovo) then it will work as long as it is one of those chips on the list. If my 7 seconds on google is accurate and if that computer actually has a replaceable cpu then see pic related for compatible processors.
>>52046387
Personally, I'd wank then poo. I wank in the restroom and wanking in poo stank sucks.
>>52046275
I tried a new hard drive and a different GPU, it still hangs. I don't think I can replicate it and I'm on the latest bios update, i'm not using an UPS either.
I think it sometimes crashes after stress tests are over but I can't be sure since it also crashed in-game and when perfectly idle.
The northbridge heatsink is extremely hot to the touch but I don't know if this is a real issue since the only temp going above 50 during stress tests was the GPU
>>52046450
>multiple files consistently corrupted
If I copied 10 large files to the drive about 2 or 3 of them would be corrupted. That's been pretty consistent. small files I haven't seen getting corrupted at all.
I ran memtest yesterday also. It did a full check on my 16 GB of ram. wen't fine. Surface scan of the said USB drive said no errors detected.
Here's S.M.A.R.T. info
I've downloaded most of these files recently, and I mean like today and yesterday. I would download 10 files that were big copy them ALL over at the same time, run the hash check and 3 of 10 are corrupted. Since I still have the original downloads on my SSD I just copied the corrupted ones over and bam the full hash check checks out fine.
>>52046527
forgot pic
>>52046521
Can you try a different outlet and maybe a different power supply? Are you in an apartment or house?
Since it doesn't crash during the stress tests, I assume both the motherboard, cpu, and ram are all good. You said you tried a different hard drive, but did you try a different sata cable or different port on the motherboard?
Again, I think it's either storage or power related. That, or peripheral related since it only seems to crash when you are using it. Have you tried linux or something to see if that hangs too?
Also, your northbridge is working properly if it sears the flesh but isn't glowing. Anything else and you have problems.
>>52046527
>>52046581
>6887 power cycles
>5944 hours
Well it's entirely possible it's old age, anon.
Can you consistently get files to corrupt when you copy them? ie copy ten files and each time at least a couple get corrupt. Have you tried a different usb cable? It looks like it's a WD MyBook. You can crack that thing open and hook it up directly to sata ports on your mobo and try that way. I wouldn't try that unless it's out of warranty though. How old is it?
>>52046682
I also switched the sata port on the motherboard when i changed the hard drive yes, I was going to give my power supply to a friend today that has basically the same build so he can use it for a few days and see if it's all good
>>52046704
>>52046682
Also I forgot to note that whenever it crashes my speakers make a screech/thud noise.
CPUid HWmonitor and OCCD gave me really weird voltage readings but they've been like that since I got the thing so I assumed it's normal.
They were like off by quite alot (12v was 8 something, 3.3 was like 2.9 and -12v was something like -4 iirc ).
>>52046682
It's about 3 or 4 years old. I've done HEAVY use of this thing though. I treat it like it's an internal.
What is the typical power cycle and hours count?
I guess I better replace my other ones because the power on counts for those are 18312 and 19193 respectively.
I have not tried a different cable yet, right now I'm trying to still determine if the issue is caused by just copying and since I need to check all these files anyway I'm going to do it as I redownload what I need.
how do you deal with people considering you less technically skilled because of your stunted soft skills?
there seem to be at least several new ad blocking addons/extensions, but ABP is still the most popular.
is there any real reason to change if you aren't bothered by unobtrusive ads (I can't even remember seeing any in the past couple years).
what are the best brands for an SSD, Crucial and Sandisk?
>>52046682
Why do you think it's power related if it doesn't crash under stress ?
>>52046704
Your next steps should be to replace the sata cable, run linux off of a flash drive and shit post for a few hours, install linux to the hard drive and shit post for a few hours, then test power supply.
>>52046732
nigga, wut?
Ok, clear your cmos and don't touch anything else and see if windows still hangs. It sounds like you should contact your mobo manufacturer.
>>52046739
I typically replace my drives after two to four years depending on how I use them. I hope they aren't your only location of data because with the type of drive that they are and age they might be ticking time bombs. Your older drive has been in use for 2 years, 2 months, and 9 days straight if that's power on hours or 6 years, 6 months, and 26 days if you only used it 8 hours a day (including weekends). If that's power cycles and you treat them as internals (meaning no unplug replug and they only power cycle when your computer does) then the math is really simple and you've been using it 52 years. Since that's impossible, I'll assume you unplug and replug multiple times a day and if it's anything like your other drive, I'll have to assume it is power cycled at least 3-5 times a day and thus 9-12 years old. It might be time to replace your drives. On the otherhand, they may be immortal since external enclosures can cook hard drives that are constantly in use.
In otherwords, the MTBF for hard drives in an every day environment is 3-5 years. It sounds like you got your moneys worth.
>>52046927
I don't mean PSU power, I mean mains power. I've seen shitty wiring cause issues, especially if it's an apartment or a really old house.
>>52046961
You might have a point. I do let windows turn it off when it hasn't been used for a while (I can hear it turn back on ALL the time which means it got shut off at some point from nonuse) Should I leave it to always stay on? is on/off cycle worse than just staying on?
Is blue snowball ice a good mic? I want something good for voice chat and gaymin
So I got a new ssd for christmas. Is it possible to unplug my hdd, plug in the ssd, install windows on it and then plug back the hdd with the ssd?
>>52046961
well the sata cable was replaced when i changed the HDD.
What am I supposed to tell the warranty guys if I don't know how to replicate the hang?
>>52046961
>>52047027
Also I didn't clear my cmos yet but I did restore factory settings to the bios, so it has the same stuff it did when I got it out of the box, should I still bother to do it even so?
>>52046845
ublock origin is faster and uses less resources and the dev isn't a scumbag like the new abp devs
>>52046776
work on your soft skills. Fake it 'till you make it. If you can't change your outward appearance, you're SOL since you won't be able to change what people think of you.
Take my advice with a grain of salt though, I'm just some random douchebag on the internet.
>>52046924
I've had a good experience with OCZ, Samsung, and Crucial. Kingston sucks though.
>>52046987
Are they all MyBooks? Because the problem one is a wd green drive which will park the heads after a little bit of inactivity. Not all of the greens do this though and I'm not sure on the specific model numbers that do. If you need the storage space that you get with the externals but are also using them like internals, I recommend just getting some internals and only using the externals for backup.
>>52047027
Ok, fair enough. I'd still try another power plug or power strip and the bootable linux. And as far as the warranty guys go, I'd tell them that you already replaced all other parts with known good replacements and the problem didn't go away therefore it must be the one part you didn't replace. You don't have to lie but you might not want to get too specific. If we can rule out power supply (both internal and external), since we already ruled out hard drive, sata cable and connection, and gpu then all that leaves is motherboard, cpu, and ram. If you have multiple sticks of ram, try just one stick or if you have any alternate whatsoever.
And yes, I'd still try resetting the CMOS. Since they will tell you to try that anyway if you try to RMA anything. Might as well be one step ahead, right?
