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Don't forget to remove the GPS, microphone and camera.

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>>58697720
and the laser

>>58697720
yeah definitely, then I'll just use some earbuds with a built in mic for talking

>>58697578
Should I get an XFX 480 to replace my two 670s while I wait for Vega?

Will we ever see a 4870 value card again?

>>58698237
Not until AMD pulls their finger out. NVIDIA will keep pushing for higher prices.

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>>58697542
samefag

>>58697542
Use a host file to block the google captcha and stop wasting time here whining when you could be practicing.

You go to school to learn

>>58697513
You can drop out

>>58697513
Nothing because I guarantee you're going to wash out.

The "lol I play vidya so [insert I.T. / comp. sci. degree] is for me, even though I don't know what I'm signing up for" types always do. Always.

Just get a business degree or something.

>>58697513
Layer 7 WAN optimisation. Human Aided Machine Learning. Object storage software. Cross-device user authentication and tracking.

>>58697489
I've been doing that for 15 years. Just always buy two harddrives instead of one, and keep one as backup. Every 5 year or so you can consolidate your smaller drives on one bigger one + backup. You can dump your smaller drives at your friends/parents house as an offsite third backup.

Your second challenge after ensuring you have proper backup is to account for bit flips. Over the span of 60 years, and with storage media density increasing, you will experience bit rot. You need to have a system in place to 1) be able to detect it and 2) be able to recover from it. Personally I split-rar my files with parity and recovery records, which also automatically generate checksums for the files. I also use a machine with ECC ram. It's much easier than dicking around with zfs etc.

>>58697599

Would you mind walking me through your anti-bitrot precautions a little more? I have a lot of stuff to learn I think.

>>58697698

1/?

When you put trillions of bits on a hard drive, they won't stay like that forever. Despite S.M.A.R.T., if you're unlucky, bits can change in such a way that the the error won't even be detected. Over the span of a life time, this will happen a lot of times with your data.

So how would you even know if it had happened? One way you would notice is if it happened in the header of your file, then it would be corrupt and what ever program you're trying to open the file in, will tell you it's corrupt. But if you have a lot of files, you can't manually check that each of your files are not damaged by opening them. Further more, it could happen in the data part of your file, in which case it could only partially damage the file and in such a way that it wouldn't be detectable to the naked eye, for instance a pixel in an image could change color, or a number or letter could change from 0 to 1 of from a to k, etc.

So obviously you need away to know if your files get corrupted. One way you could do that is to generate a checksum for each file. Then, when you want to make sure your files haven't changed, you run a program that will generate a new checksum for all your files, and compare the old checksum with the new one. If the checksums don't match, the file have been corrupted.

But this is a pain in the butt to do.

When you archive files in a WinRar archive, the program creates checksums for all the blocks of data using something called CRC, and if the archive gets damaged by say a bit flip, you will get a CRC error when you try to extract the archive. So in this case, an archived file is a good way to detect bit rot so you can do something about it.

So let's say you have an old dustry winrar archive that gives you a CRC error when you try to extract the files inside. If you have a backup of the archive which haven't been corrupted, you can extract the files from backup.

>>58697469
>trusting the Logitech(TM) Botnet(R)
get a $5 mousepad ya dummie

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>>58697469
>not using an old Dell mouse
you're legit mentally challenged if you prefer anything else, gaming mouses and other bloat shit is garbage, it doesn't feel good on the palm either, probably requires a special proprietary driver just to work

>>58697498
thought I was the only one lmao
stole mine from my schools computer lab on the last day there...

do your own homework, Pajeet

>>58697275

I actually came here before when I was learning Python and /g/ was very helpful and set me on the right track. I have looked up using if statements and I just do not get how to do it.

If (condition) {
Code
} else if (another condition) {
Code
} else if (third condition) {
Code
} else { //this happens of none of the above conditions pass
Code
}

>>58697256
Debian.

>>58697256
I don't use Debian myself for a desktop OS but Ive had experience with it in the past and use it on servers, so ive gotta ask why not just use Debian testing ?

Install Antergos.

I like the design. I like the OS as well.

I don't like the rest. The fact this thing is dated, and they killed the line of mac pros. That now they won't release anything powerful, and they'll just focus on offering the same system with 1 or 2 tweaks or improvements every year, maybe 4 or 5 problems with it. Notice how they didn't even bother with changing the design between El Cap and Sierra.

The rest from Apple is just garbage to be honest.

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Mac's had a reputation for being superior at multimedia work for a reason: their PPC architecture and close relations to giants like Adobe meant Mac Pros were better at multitasking and the general compute work involved with multimedia.

Back then they actually offered something unique as, to the best of my knowledge, it was the only way to get PPC hardware in a consumer desktop. The switch to x86 is where they stopped offering something genuinely functionally superior and really started hammering the marketing shit and focusing on aesthetics as basically the key selling point. I'm not saying PPC would've stayed relevant forever as it was clearly on its way out at that point anyway, but that was pretty much their only trump card.

Pic related is an AIO water cooler used in a G5 Mac Pro. That's right, fags, Apple did it first.

That generation of Mac Pros were easily the best looking workstations out there.

>>58697071
echo $MEMES

>>58697071
Anyone know anything about HLSL? I have an array, say {0, 1, 2, 3, ...}. If I access the array directly with array[0], the value returned is as expected, 0. However, if I use an integer whose value prints to 0, say array[index], I get a nonsensical value. What gives? I've been tearing my hair out for weeks trying to figure this out.

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Reminder

Linux iso and a VM.

All files are binary files, how you interpret the bytes is completely up to you (or to a program). An interpretation is called a format. Hence you can have the same file that can be (interpreted) in different formats. In this case, there's a jpg-file (with some seeming random garbage at the bottom) but it's also a zip-file.

The technique is a form of steganography. Many moons ago anons would share stuff on imageboards like that, mostly books. It's completely unsecure however, anyone who knows to look for it can find (write a script to detect) it.

>>58696876
>encryption
Its not encryption

>>58696962
My bad, i wasn't sure as to what it was called exactly, so i used the first word i thought of to describe it.

> disallow shampoo on planes
> allow explosive phone batteries on planes

fucking genius

Apple is always perfecting technologies that other companies pioneer.

iTODDLERS ON SUICIDE WATCH

damn look at the nose on the guy with the green jacket!

a god

>>58696757
It looks like he's making fun of the little guy in the green jacket for being gay by bumping finger-cocks together saying "it just doesn't work, there's no hole!"

Stop installing your pirated games in Program Files and you won't need admin privileges to fuck with files there.

Besides replacing those files is not the risk factor here. If it's going to fuck you up it would have be when you launch their installer.exe/crack.exe

Also don't allow your pirated software to connect to the internet.

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>>58696723
"Igor. The plan is proceeding as expected. Just as you said it would."

>>58696723
Are you getting it from their topsite?

Because god knows the last group I saw to sign their releases was DAMN.