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Sup /g/? So I got pic related from my cousin for free. Bench testing I hooked up power, generic pcie graphics card, random stick of generic ddr3, and an athlon ii x4 CPU.
I get the green standby power led, but if I hit the power switch or short the two pins, nothing happens. Nothing at all.
I've tried an athlon ii x4 630 and a 640. As well as an fx8350. Identical results. Nothing at all happens.
Any ideas?
And I forgot to mention, it's an Asus sabertooth 990fx r2.0 motherboard.
>>53889859
Try it without the GPU, and a different RAM module.
>>53889874
No change.
Here's what I have for setup.
Fixing up an old Vostro 200.
What should I do to this old prebuilt?
I am upgrading the CPU from a Pentium D to a Core 2 Duo, and also looking for a cheap 4GB kit.
What would you guys do with it?
If you have no use for it, sell it.
>>53889840
Scrap it for parts. Cheap prebuilt desktops aren't built to a high enough standard to bother with desu
>>53889854
I wanted to get something out of it. I am not gonna make much money from it, so I might as well keep it as a memory of these older times.
So how long until the guvment starts crying because muh """"""""""terrorists"""""""""" can send each other encrypted messages, and basically all 1 billion of Whatsapp users can too, and there's FUCKING NOTHING they can do about it but cry about muh national """security"""?
What is the purpose of WhatsApp exactly? It works just like the texts you so nd from your phone. I have no idea how its so popular or how its functional
>>53889596
It costs no extra fees if you are using WiFi or have a mobile internet flat.
It can send multimedia content
It supports multichats / broadcasts
>>53889596
It's way more functional and convenient than texting, and it's not tied to a texting plan/package.
Do you refer to the internet as the "information superhighway"? I do and it drives my boss up the wall.
No, because I find ways to amuse myself that don't require me to be obnoxious to other people.
Do you refer to annoying someone as driving them up the wall? I do and it really drives some guys nuts.
>>53889578
let me just get my rooty-tooty sit-and-scooty
Do you believe Facebook/Whatsapp? Is it safe to start using? I mean, it's still closed source so I guess we'll never really know.
https://whispersystems.org/blog/whatsapp-complete/
anything to do with facebook is a privacy invasion.
>>53889550
That's what I mean, don't they make their money from mining your message content for data? Wouldn't this kill their business model.
>>53889680
it would if normies actually gave a shit
How can i add my own fonts to this phone?
If theres a way to do it without rooting the phone, that would be great - i still have a warranty
Model?
>>53889503
Lg g stylo
>>53889350
have you tried just manually exploring the files on the phone through settings or an app? there might be a fonts folder somewhere, hidden or not. otherwise youre probably going to have to root.
Why should I get a home server, /g/?
I don't game and only watch the occasional movie on my PC. I love Linux and I've been using it for 8 years, I just need some arguments to justify wasting my money on a server. They're cool as fuck, I just need some justification
pic semi-related
I just did it because everyone else on /g/ does.
>>53889335
My home server is my old desktop with a new hard drive. It's nice for torrenting and hosting video game servers.
This is exactly what an RPi is for. Attach a powered USB external drive enclosure and you've got a cheap silent server.
Was playing a song on soundcloud when the sound distorted and the screen had pic related pattern on it for a few seconds before screen went black.
Now whenever I restart it this odd pattern remains and when I log in it goes to black.
I can however log in through safe mode ok and everything seems to be functioning normally.
I dont know much about computer's but is it safe to say its a graphics card issue? My graphics card has been giving me issues for months basically it will constantly overheat and shut off my computer after playing games for 20+ min no matter what I try to keep it cool, or what settings i change.
if it is a graphics card issue wouldn't that mean that the same problem would happen in safe mode? or does safe mode not utalize the gfx card? again i am very limited in my technical knowledge and am wondering if anyone could help me.
Also if its the gfx card is it possible that it would distort the shit out of my sound?
The song I was listening to at the time this happened turned into the weirdest sounds I have ever heard, it actually scared the shit out of me.
>>53889298
>>>/wsr/
read the fucking sticky
>>53889298
it's likely that this is a graphics card issue
try switching drivers, cleaning the dust off it, and in the worst case you'll have to perform a reflow on the card using a heat gun or an oven
So actually in safe mode it makes a similar messed up pattern. Can anyone please tell me what might be causing this? I dont know what else to do.
So I want to create a new Google/Gmail account for private use. Professionally I use an emailadress with my full name, but since my full name is unique I don't want to disclose that much private info in my daily Google activity or in every mail I send.
So how the hell do you come up with a non-dorky sounding email-adress? [email protected] just isn't cool anymore.
And most shit's taken too.
How have you guys solved this? Ideas?
JoshBro420BIF
I just use my first name backwards.
i use the first syllables from my first name and last name
What laptop do you recommend for a 50 years old man?
Cheap, fast and easy to use
Used T420
>>53889282
Thinkpad or a chromebook
Lenovo G50 with the A10 APU.
Post your system tray/Notification area for lintards
>>53889281
go watch k-on and aiura
>>53889291
Look, I started downloading the tiny anime you listed but honestly it's gonna take a thousand years, easy
So I need to make a decision, go with the traditional CS degree or do a what seems easier "Computer Application Development" degree. The CS is clearly more theory heavy and the other is more applied teaching you programming technologies, as I'm sure you all could've figured out.
I'm currently taking a Discrete Mathematics class and doing fairly well, but I took a Computer Architecture and Organisation class at a big University (I don't attend anymore, now I go to a state College) and I sucked at it (it's known as the worst or second worse course for the degree at the U of Minnesota for CSCI), and by sucked I mean I got a 60% final grade. Given the class setting may have not been ideal for me (first and only semester at a University), but I'm wondering if I struggled with that class will I struggle in the future doing classes like Operating Systems or Parallel and Distributed Algorithms?
This Discrete Math seems fairly simple, and I've done a typical Algorithms and Data Structures class and got an A.
Am I stressing over the difficulty of these upper division theory courses too much? Any advice is very welcome, Thank you.
So TL;DR- is the CSCI B.S. the harder but more worth it degree than the applied one?
side note: I'm not 100% sure what I want to be as a developer specifically, I'd like to work in tech and not working for a business developing their in house business apps. (or i'd love a gig in gaming if an opportunity ever reveals itself).
and one more question to go along with this: Does one degree or the other really matter when you have development experience? Will a big company like Google or Amazon care once you have a legit portfolio? Some people laugh at applied degrees, but 5 years into a professional career I can't imagine it being as big of a deal. So wouldn't an easier degree to get your feet into the door be ideal?
>>53889155
Honest answer as someone in their thirties and working?
Do the Computer Application Development degree.
Computer science is not software development, and if that's what you want to get into, you should tailor your degree accordingly.
Those types of degrees (Computer Application Development, Computing and Information Systems, even SE degrees) came about because of the absolute shortage of qualified applicants for dev positions coming out of Comp Sci programs across the country.
Computer Science is fundamentally a mathematics degree at its core, not a dev oriented degree. The 'recent grad can't do fizz buzz, yadda yadda' that every blog, white paper, and magazine article has mentioned for the last decade is a reflection of this.
The 'applied' degrees will prove much more useful to you in your working career (unless you envision yourself in a heavily theory oriented job; of which there aren't many) and all things considered equal, the candidates for promotion that have some background in things like project management, software lifestyle planning, etc tend to have an advantage over their less business qualified, not theory qualified counter parts.
An awful lot of good CS 'types' end up bottlenecked career wise, which is why they end up with title bumps and become the 'Senior Technical Lead, Senior Integration Engineer ' lifers. They can never go management track, they just have to keep getting 'promoted' within their own institutional sandbox kingdom.
Exceptions to all rules of course, but that's my experience.
The well rounded candidate who does the mundane, non ground breaking day to day work equally well as the less well rounded theory expert will have the career advantage.
>>53889850
Phone post mixed it up, pardon me
Should be:
>.... over their less business qualified, more theory qualified counter parts.
TV sales declined, so the powers that be said "This can't be the end". They say that the VR push is happening because they want another piece of plastic to sell, not because it's good or will ever have a Killer App. This is why the consumers are pissed - no raison d'etre, just another unit shoved down our throats like the Wii.
Thoughts?
>>53889120
>consumers are pissed
Source?
>>53889120
>shoved down our throats
What a manchild. You dont have to participate in the latest fad.
>>53889265
of course you do. I've already been dragged by my uncle into trying his oculus cv1, oculds dk1, gear vr, and 90s vr. Its like when star wars teh force awakens came out and you got dragged into watching it / buying a ticket even though you know its bad
Just need some help finding a good programming language to learn so i can make some money and help pay for college.
i recommend hindi
>>53889085
>>53889085
meth. do meth. deal meth. produce meth.
>>5388910
How does one make money with Hindi
Why am I unable to allocate the other half?
>>53889036
Use diskpart
>>53889055
Is it the same thing as gparted?
Would be better if I could just use the whole 4TB at once.
>2 TB
Maybe mbr?
Also stop using crippled tools
