/sqt/ Stupid Question Thread.

why are you here and not on /pol/?

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I have an Acer 5744 laptop with shit 15.6" 1366x768 LED LCD screen.
I've been looking to upgrade it, and found some generic 15.6 WUXGA 1920x1080 screens that appear to have the same connector in the same general location as the Acer.
See pic related. Left is my LCD screen, right is the closest one I could find. The connector is the same 40 pin, but its not in the exact same location. I dont know if it closer, or farther from the source. I might need a new ribbon cable, and I'm sure those are all proprietary.

I cant find any info if these models ever came with an upgraded display

I have not tested the VGA output resolution, but with an HDMI dongle I have no issues outputting 1080p to my TV.

Will that screen work on this laptop?

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>>58462808
Why are you here and not in reddit?
Fuck off fagit

I have a 6600K OCed to 4.1 GHz. How well could I run 1440p desktop tasks and maybe a bit of Minecraft with Optifine shaders on Skylake integrated graphics?

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>>58462808
Bait

My RAM makes a high pitched noise when things are loaded into it, is this normal?

>>58462885
Depends on your graphics card.

>>58462400
>>58462430

I ran chkdsk and it "found no problems"
I don't know what to do now

>>58462967
Try loading a game from a different hard disk if you have one available. If you can't get it to reproduce the crash then it's your hard disk, if it still crashes it's probably some firmware issue (update drivers etc.) rather than a hardware issue.
I would expect to see blue screens and boot issues with a hardware problem.

Best OS for running Steam and playing games?

>>58462929
what the fuck

>>58462967
post your speccy so we can see what hardware you have.

>>58463051
Windows 10
DX12 support and it's what PC games are developed for.

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>>58462929
Yes, this is called coil whine, and its not your RAM, its either caps, or coils.

You can apply a special paste over the coils to reduce their noise. I have no idea what the stuff is called, someone else here can chime in.

make sure you dont have blown caps

>>58463053
>>58463084
It really does sound like it's coming from the RAM, but everything I've found says it's either PSU or HDD and I only have an SSD in at the moment.
Assuming it's the PSU, is this a worry? It's a brand new EVGA 550W G2 that brags about 100% Japanese capacitors and a 7 year warranty.

Should i go free win10 or pay for win7?
No, no windows installed, so i don't have 8 or any version.

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can someone help me understand the difference between "personal' and "organization"

im on personal now but i dont understand who would need the organization one? the descriptions sound almost the same?

>>58463110
It might be my graphics card which is also new. I guess I can live with it having read up on coil whine.

Thanks guys.

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>>58463110
RAM doesnt have any components on it that can whine.

There are a bunch of capacitors, and coils around your RAM slots that will make this noise.

Get a mechanics stethoscope, or use a metal rod with a non-conductive tip, put it to your ear and find the exact spot where the noise is coming from

>>58463153
You can get sued by them for using it commercially on a personal license.

Do HDMI switches cause any input lag or drop in quality?

>>58463141
Free Win 10 isn't an option unless you have an old Win7/8 product key or currently use 7/8 and upgrade through the assistive tech offer.

>>58463187
Never question my methods of obtaining shit.

>>58463187
By the way, it's win10 ultimate edition.
I guess best option is to downgrade, right?

What's the best anti-virus recommended?

>>58463223
I've heard good things about malwarebytes, but as long as you're not downloading bangbabes.exe you should be fine

>>58463058
Windows 8.1
6600k w/ 4.1ghz OC
Gtx980
16gb of 2133mhz ram, dual channel
single WD Blue 1000gb
msi z170 m5 mobo

>>58462950
>Skylake integrated graphics

>>58463396
Run memtest86+
run a harddrive test such as DFT, or whatever WD offers.
You should really upgrad to an SSD.


Turn off your OC, and see if you still have the same issues.

you can also try running sfc /scannow if checkdisk found nothing

What phone apps do normies use?

Is Gigabyte a bad manufacturer for GPUs? Is it better or worse than MSI?

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WHAT THE FUCK

https://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Wireless-Number-Pad-N305/dp/B0034XRDU0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1484286913&sr=8-1&keywords=N305
> wireless number pad
> rubber dome
> proprietary bluetooth
> $399.95

WHAT THE FUCK

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>>58462765

>>58463538
>life at a glancea
>glancea

>>58463491
> Goyimtech

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>>58463461
pls respond

>>58463461
>>58463565
Gigabyte is a very respectable manufacturer. They are up there with Asus, and Corsair.

>>58463461
i've got a gigabyte gpu
rx460
runs fine so far

>>58463570
>>58463571
Thanks guys. Is MSI on the same level?

>>58463580
MSI has always been low/budget tier.

>>58463461
When I built my PC I used all Gigabyte, and Corsair parts.

I started with a GTX 470 from Gigabyte that burned out after a few years, they replaced it with a GTX480 that also went bad. I had it replaced under warranty, sold it, and bought a reference 480 for the same amount.

No issue with their mobo, and I've always used Gigabyte for my PC build.

I no longer go anything but reference when it comes to video cards, they are generally better, and easier to upgrade heatsinks because the VRAM layout hasnt been fucked with

>>58462885
>I have a 6600K OCed to 4.1 GHz. How well could I run 1440p desktop tasks and maybe a bit of Minecraft with Optifine shaders on Skylake integrated graphics?
What is your render distance, what shaders. Also go ask Minecraft related forums.

>>58463570
Since when did Corsair make GPUs?
>>58463580
I would say:
Asus > Gigabyte > MSI > Asrock > everything else

Thinking of getting a 144Hz monitor.

I've been eyeing the Asus MG248Q and the BenQ ZOWIE xL2411, both roughly at the same prices. Which one should I grab?

I'm using a 480.

>>58463682
480 wont ever get frame rates anywhere near that
I run GTX 480 in SLI, and the best I can do is around 75.

I would honestly wait until a 4k monitor comes out that can do 144Hz with no compromise, and then build yourself a new PC.

>>58463635
Corsair RAM, and PSU. Gigabyte board, and GPU

>>58463712
I don't plan on getting anything for the next 3 -5 years. I just want a relatively cheap 144hz for my card.

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>Manga on E-reader
What's the best file type?
Where's the best place to get it?

I currently use an android tablet with the manga rock app that downloads from multiple sources. I can get the files from the tablet but it's a pain.

My monitor, the 34UM68-P, only has freesync via the DisplayPort, but there is no port for it on the monitor itself.

Is there an alternative?

>>58463807
your card wont be able to hit even a good fraction of that refresh rate in games

it will be fine for watching movies, and shit. that's about it

>>58463949
>34UM68-P
Meant the 22mp68vq.

>>58463949
Then it doesn't support freesync.

>>58463949
>>58464005
Nevermind, it might have it via the HDMI port, but I don't have a long enough wire to test it out. I'll have to grab a longer one tomorrow.
http://www.lg.com/uk/monitors/lg-22MP68VQ-P

>get ipod classic
>no album art on album scroll

NOOOOOOO HOW WILL I IDENTIFY MY WEEBSHIT

>>58463807
Would it still be fine if I didn't play on max settings just to get the max 144?

I also do play a lot of older games.

>>58464115
buy one locally, test it out,a nd return it if you dont like it

I finished putting together a new computer and I am trying to install Windows 7 onto it. The hard drive is brand new and detected.

The error I am getting says that it is missing a required CD/DVD drive device driver and will not install Windows 7 unless it's installed. I am running the installation from a USB drive. I tried putting in the motherboard disc, but it didn't bring up anything. Then I tried multiple solutions I googled online such as using only the USB 2.0 port, switching multiple USB ports, and trying to install the drivers downloaded online and placed on a USB, but nothing is working.

Why can't I get it to work? It's very frustrating to deal with something like this on a new computer.

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Where the FUCK is the Windows download for Transmission-QT? I'm literally too drunk to find it atm.

does anyone use a voice recorder for college classes?

any recommended android apps for doing so?

>>58464188
You need to use the media creation tool to install Windows 7 off a USB stick, otherwise it wont really work.

>>58464189
Bump! Wtf happened to the softtonic? Why can't we download this anymore?

>>58464259
dunno but both the qtwin and the official windows version have dissapeared

>>58464255
I used Rufus to make the bootable usb, but I'll look into the media creation tool to see if it can get past this block. Thanks.

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>>58464189
>>58464259
>>58464315

>>58464392
Thanks, give link pls

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Anyone ever buy off of superbiiz? Reason why I'm asking is bc the asus strix 1060 is the cheapest I can find on that site compared to others

anyone has a legit working link for daz loader?

first google result infected me with lots of malware :^)

>>58464438
get it from mydigitallife

>>58464438
https://www.dropbox.com/s/csbey2jxt29f9xl/Windows%20Loader.zip?dl=0

>>58464491
>?dl=0

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Why won't this remove? Isn't -r supposed to remove directories and their contents?

>>58464496
Who gives a shit.

It used to be on Firefox I could open a bunch of videos in tabs and they would only start autoplaying once I focused the tab. What mistake have I made to where now they autoplay before I focus the tab/how do I turn this back on?

>>58464507
try

sudo rm -rf /

>>58464336
rufus works well. but there are a few options that need to be right otherwise it wont work.

try hitting ignore when it gives you those errors, they are sometimes happen

>>58464590
Thanks, that worked

>>58464601
your wellcome

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>>58464601

I got a stupid question. why did none of you fuckers tell me uget was good and that it integrates with chrome with an addon? chromes' built in download manager sucks ass and it's been one of my few gripes about it

windowsfags, you know how the bar turns from blue to red when a storage device doesn't have enough memory?
is this an accurate depiction?
because I am putting files onto my external harddrives and wondering if it's ok to pack it in until literally right before the bars turn red

>>58464471
>>58464491
thanks

>>58464629
You're fine. Red just indicates that the drive is running low on space, not necessarily that it's completely out.

>>58464752
I should add that you can safely pack the drive until it's full, and windows will inform you when there's no more room.

>>58464752
i'm not talking about running out of space
i'm talking about the amount of free space you're supposed to leave on a storage device for it to function properly
which is what i'm assuming the red bar indicates, and i'm just curious as to how they decide when to turn red, is it like a certain percentage of space?
and more importantly, how accurate is it

>>58464815
>function properly
This is does exist

can someone tell me what is the difference between these two RX 480 MSI model? They look almost identical.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16814137032

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814137049


Which one is better? Or it the same but with different fans?

>>58464815
That's really only relevant for a system drive, and only to a certain extent. For pure storage drives, no harm or effect on performance will come from low space. The bar turning red is just an advisory thing, to warn you that your space is running low and you -may- want to do something about it at some point. But even on a system drive, the bar turning red doesn't mean your system's going to stop functioning properly.

I'm trying to redirect all pages from my old site to my new site but I'm having trouble.

Right now www.old-site.com redirects just fine, but www.old-site.com/anything does not. What am I doing wrong?

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^old\-site\.com(.*)$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.old\-site\.com(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/www\.mynewsite\.com\/landing\-page\/" [R=301,L]

>>58464884
The red one has a slightly higher stock boost clock

What is a small linux distro that I can use as a live cd to save shit from a hard drive that wont boot before I reinstall windows?

I really just want to move wow to my second hdd because its 40 gb and I have potato internet.

>>58463141
pirate whichever version you prefer, use kmspico if the copy you get isn't already activated.

>>58463223
CommonSense(TM)
malwarebytes is good, avast is ok if you don't mind their occasional ads to upgrade from the free version

>>58464894
hmm are you sure about that mate?
i read the free space has to do with moving and deleting, and renaming files as well
all shit that tends to happen on a storage device

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How do I not be Australian?

>>58465125
change your dns you fucking mong

>>58465125
Stand on your head.

kingston or corsair for ddr3 ram?
also is 1300Mhz bad thing what about the CL number and timing?

Speaking of ram, is 2x4gb or 1x8gb generally better?

>>58465180
1300 is ok for ddr3, kingston vs corsair doesn't matter. lower CL is better. if you're comparing sets, divide your CL by frequency, the lower result is better (gives effective latency)

>>58465193
2x4 is better, but uses up more slots obv. if you're planning on upgrading to 16, make sure you would have enough slots to do so (so if you are, and have 2 slots, go for 1x8)

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Lenovo Ideapad, i5 qc at 2.3gHz, 8gb ram, GTX 950M, windows 10, and I'm getting this fucking issue with damn near every current-era game I try to run on it...

What the fuck? Am I retarded? Google doesn't help much with this shit. Lord knows I've updated all my driver software.

>>58465228
>windows 10

>>58465241
le meme xDDDD

Can you use poker hands as a metaphor to complement someone's achievement. For example, "anon congrats on the project, you've really dealt a royal flush this time". Does this sound stupid?

>>58465409
Sounds a bit weird depending on the context but you could do a lot worse

>>58465255
Exactly. You fell for the meme.

>>58465409
Sounds random xD rather than achieved.

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Which will freeze faster? Same bottle and amount of water in each, sitting in a freezer full of cold air.

>>58465409
You can do it but unless they did something really amazing and unexpected I think it will sound forced. It's not something you should say for just some regular ordinary thing.

>>58463159
>>58463084
I learned something today, so it was worth getting out of bed. Well, sitting up in bed anyway.

Thanks (You)

Noticed a clicking sound when I try to read from my SSD lately, but SMART data says it's fine and haven't noticed any decrease in speed. Should I worry?

If Linux is supposedly SO much better than Windows, then how come hardly any of my games will work without a retarded amount of workarounds and fiddling?

When i watch movies on my laptop (connected via hdmi to a samsung lcd tv) i notice that when camara moves side to side you get something like screen tearing, but its not (i don't know how to describe it in a different way). Would a higher refresh rate on my monitors (tv's) fix that or is it because it's filmed with 25 frames per second?

>>58465507
because people who develop those games develop only for windows

>>58465517
But why would they do that if Linux is supposedly so much better?

>>58465475
#2 because of two reasons:

1. air is more susceptible to heat loss, so the air cools down, and because the water exposed to the air in the bottle has a higher surface area than #1, it freezes_slightly_ faster

2. colder air is heavier, so it'll sit at the lowest point in any chamber; since the whole bottle in #2 sits lower in the freezer than #1 (in which only the bottom sits lower) #2 will freeze a little bit faster

This is all theory though, in practice in a home environment you'll most likely never notice the difference.

>>58465524
because there isn't much people using linux so it isn't economical to rewrite a game so only a few hundred people can buy it. And people don't use linux because they are retarded or they just can't

>>58465540
But surely if it were better more people would use it wouldn't they? It doesn't make any sense that the vast majority of users would knowingly choose an inferior option.

How can i proof that i know c++? Online and for free.

>>58465546
Microsoft has a monopole.. Every one who want's to make money on software production has to make it work for wondows... or they don't ern anything.. windows was here first and therefore people got used to it.
nuclear tehnology is better for producing electricity but still over 50% of the WORLDS power comes from coal, contributing to global warming

>>58465575
Yeah but nuclear power has legitimate risks associated with it. A coal plant isn't going to go haywire and pollute the whole world's oceans.

>>58465546
The majority isn't always right. You have to realize that at some point.

Would you let the majority make decisions for you? Say, any decision in your life, you have people vote on them. Following your logic, the majority would surely pick the best alternative/course of action, right? That's not realistic.

People are dumb. People are selfish. People are lazy. And most of all, for the sake of being "one of them", people will do as the person next to them. Herd mentality is part of being human, and it is a way to maintain ourselves in a social group. Since everyone's using Windows, to go out of the group's way and use something else is defying your nature and you'd need a reason to do so.

>>58465569
Create some program/library and put it on Github and other public git services. It doesn't need to be innovative, new or anything. It just needs to be C++.

>>58465582
>People are dumb. People are selfish. People are lazy.
I don't believe that. Some people are dumb, selfish, and lazy, but I think that the average person is at least as intelligent and well-intentioned as I am. Just because our opinions might differ sometimes does not make the rest of people stupid. It is only narcissism to think you are the only one who can see the truth among a herd of thoughtless sheep.

>>58465582
>Create some program/library and put it on Github and other public git services. It doesn't need to be innovative, new or anything. It just needs to be C++.
And what about certifications?

>>58465581
thats true... but it's just killing us slowly... no difference

>>58465599
Well it's not like there's no happy medium in between. People are slowly transitioning into other fuel sources, but it's a slow process. We can't just tear down all the coal plants and put up thousands of new nuclear ones overnight, it would be a disaster.

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can reactOS replace W7?

>>58465581
u can always make nuclear plants safer and get rid off nuclear waste by launching it to space

>>58465609
Do you know how much it costs to launch stuff into space? Cost that is directly proportional to the weight of the stuff you intend to launch? In no way is that a reasonable way to dispose of waste.

>>58465604
Sure

>>58465587
I never claimed to be some sort of enlightened being, or that GNU/Linux users and whatnot are such.

The average person is well intentioned, I'll agree with that, but go back to "would you let the majority choose this for you?", and think about how most people see their own interests as more important than yours.

I'm not saying that's bad, I'm a moral nihilist. This is just to prove a point.

>Some people are dumb, selfish and lazy.
Selfishness is natural. So is laziness. Now think about the state of education worldwide and you'll see that even if well-intentioned, people can make mistakes. Misunderstandings are a thing. The majority just isn't reliable.

>>58465592
Don't know any, sorry.

Why can't Linux developers just include analogous functions for everything Windows has so that Windows programs can run natively without the need for shit like WINE?

>>58465601
i red somewhere that china has recently invested billions into new coal power plants... they will be functional for at least 50 years... people don't care.. they do what is cheaper not better

>>58462808
Fuck off

>>58465617
yes I know. do you know the price for destroying our ecosistem with all the fumes we release?

>>58465619
am i being meme'd?

>>58465627
Why would you want to ruin Linux with Windows NT shit?

>>58462765
Is Freesync worth it for 1080p 60Hz Monitor?

I'm not sure how it works, but usually I see it with 120-144hz Monitors

>>58465713
Does your monitor support a dynamic refresh rate?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeSync

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Some questions regarding internal HDDs and HDD enclosures

1. Does all internal HDD require external power supply when plugged to enclosure?
Or only 2.5" doesn't need to?

2. All laptops uses 2.5" HDD right?
The only difference is height?

3. Would getting HDD enclosure for internal HDDs better than bettering external HDDs? Price and durability wise I mean?

Finally do you recommend this?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=0VN-0003-000H3
Or is there better options?

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Need an USB stick for a live OS. Which one should I choose? Which brand? Is SanDisk alright? Kingston? Want a 16GB stick if it influences anything.

>>58465646
Sure

Should I get a router that can insert a 4G sim card? How different would it be different from creating a personal hotspot with a phone?

>>58465484
SSDs have no moving parts so that's pretty fucking unusual.

>>58462765
Anyone else had trouble renewing their 4chan pass?
I'm on a vpn and using firefox with ublock origin and noscript. Both disabled when renewing though.

I click "Pay with Card..." then Firefox hits a bunch of stripe urls then says 'stopped'.

I've been having a problem for a few days now. The home WiFi I have (orange livebox) works fine with all my devices (phone, laptop etc.) except for my PC, and it says it was blocked by a family member, even though it wasn't. Could it be that the service provider blocked my PC? Wouldn't they have to notify me if they do so and justify it? And if not, what else could be the source of the problem?

>>58465409
you and the other 3 dudes who replied to this are autistic
no you can't use that
ever

>>58465546
For something to be popular it needs to be good enough, not good. Musicians don't listen to Disney ""artists"" and film buffs aren't happy with Hollywood blockbusters and gourmet chefs don't eat at McDonalds, but on average those things are the most popular because most people care only about their own passions and will accept mediocrity elsewhere.

So ask yourself punk, are you a filthy casual or a self-respecting technologist? Do you want good or are you willing to settle for good enough?

>>58465851
pay with btc then

>>58465479
yeah but my doubt was mostly related to how i should say they gained it. Since turning of cards is not something you produce but are rather given. Uh.. yeah

>>58465880
it is autistic

>>58465874
>using your ISP's router
enjoy your botnet.

Yeah they could block it, but more likely someone on your network is fucking with you. Does your PC have AIDS? Have you checked the router's settings? Try a factory reset on the router anyway. Or change MAC address.

>>58465894
>pay with btc then
a) I don't have any btc
b) it's still via Stripe and Stripe never loads

>>58465808
It wouldn't drain your battery as much I guess. Personal hotspots are an old, dead meme though, just use your phone.

>>58465902
non autistic bro here
can confirm that's why it doesn't work
and if we're being autistic about autism "you've really dealt a royal flush this time" means they're the fucking dealer
i would suggest staying away from metaphors completely, or asking a nonautistic bro in your life for help with them if you absolutely need to

>>58465937
Thanks anon. Do you think it's worth a try to reinstall my PC? Also how do you change a Mac address? I thought that was permanent.

What's the difference between my motherboard storage controller dying and the hdd itself dying?

My hdd disappears after reboots

I can't boot dban on my desktop despite having secure boot disabled, so is there any way for me to write zeros to my hard disk?

>>58465782
Anything works.
As long as it mounts as removable storage device.

>>58465957
the idea is to make an autistic metaphor which is technically not unsuitable, not to appear non-autistic

>>58465228
>0xc000007b

so the error code might be ERROR_INVALID_NAME - "The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect."

good luck finding out what the problem is

backup files and reinstall is the easy solution

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So, I recently bought an Android phone and installed twitter on it. I keep getting these daily notifications called "New Highlights" which I'm not interested in, isn't there a way to deactivate these? I literally deactivated all mobile notifications on twitter, but unfortunately it didn't work.

>>58465959
>>58465959
If you can change it (depends on the driver, you can do it easily in Linux but I'm assuming you're a winfag), you'll be able to do it here:
http://www.wikihow.com/Change-a-Computer%27s-Mac-Address-in-Windows

Just change the last digit to something else, that way it won't change the manufacturer or model details.

Reinstall your PC if you believe that some faggot has hacked you and is fucking with you by messing up your router settings. Otherwise just log into your router on your phone and remove your PC from the blacklist, or if it's not in there find the reset button/pin and factory reset your router. Make sure you have your ISP username/password to hand if you hard reset your router or you might have to call your ISP to get back online.

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Very soopid question

I have file shredder for windows 7 and i shredded a usb and its stuff was still there the question is i had loli on my hdd and deleted them normally if i shred my hdd will it be like the usb where i still have my stuff but the stuff i deleted is permamnatly gone?

I know its stupid

>>58466058
Thank you

>>58464797
On a non-flash disk, if you do that then you'll fragment new files to fuck and there will be an IOPS massacre when reading from or writing to those files.

>>58464815
It's a heuristic (guess) rather than a fixed limit. It represents how NTFS filesystems and tools perform under low-space conditions. Like if you try to allocate a large file but only have tiny gaps between files to store it in, then the file will be fragmented and your disk will need to do many more reads to pull it back off the disk. Best performance on an HDD is to read sequentially, so there's a de-fragmenter that moves the files about. But the defragger needs space in which to work, and is slow/ineffective if there's not enough space or its too heavily fragmented.

As the other anon said, if a system disk fills up you risk not being able to write to critical OS files, which might leave your machine in a bad way. On your user profile disk, you could end up fucking programs up for your user if you run out of space when writing their settings to your home dir.

>>58464815
Oh and yeah mine goes red when I have <100GB left so it must be 10%.

haven't updated win 7 on a laptop since 08.10.2015

49 updates and I need a guide of what to install and avoid

>>58466019
oopsies
maybe i'm the one who's autistic
say "wow did you just flop quad A's? cuz u just aced it!!"

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>>58465750
1. Some 2.5" disks are hungry. Some USB ports can't provide enough power. You can get a double-ended USB cable for those ones, it attaches to two USB ports and pulls power from both. All 3.5" external caddies need external power supply.

2. All recent ones yeah. And no, the disk size is smaller in all dimensions. pic related

3. If you want durability/speed you can get better disks and put them in an external enclosure. If you want the best price then buy 3.5" external enclosures with disks inside, even if you don't want the enclosures. For some reason (probably bulk buying reasons) it's cheaper to get a random 3.5" disk in an enclosure than it is to buy the disk itself.

>>58464059

Please respond

>>58466114
hmm ok
and so if I'm using an external hd for storage, the defragmenter is the only factor?
is defragmenter efficiency based on percentage of free space, or just the total

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Porn sites are gone from my sources list in bing video search. Please help.

>>58466067
The only surefire way to remove all trace of images is to first delete the files and anything referring to them from the filesystem, then secondly to write over the space so that they can't be undeleted.

On Windows you've got cached thumbnails, links in your history and god-knows what else. Your best option is to clean reinstall Windows and then fill up the disk with big files, or use a program that does that. On Linux just delete the files, clear your thumbnail cache and then run BleachBit.

Try not being such a fucking filthy pedo in future.

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>>58466180
>double-ended USB cable
Like pic related? How will it handle data? or do you mean on only supply power?
Also regarding 2.5" HDD being hungry, does it apply to laptop HDD?

Thanks for replying.

>>58466224
Hmm will take that in mind but still does it wipe my hard drive or just the already delted files also i deleted my cache rhumbnails ccleaner and encrypted the disk

>>58466211
time to defragment is a function of the number of fragmented file blocks, and the free, unfragmented space in which is has to work. It'll need several times the space of the largest fragmented file in order to work efficiently. The closer you get to full and the longer you stay there, the more fragmented it will get.

>>58466243
Yeah that's the one I have. One of them is a dud and will only provide power, the other does power and data. Not sure about power requirements but I know that an SSD uses less power than a mechanical disk, so I assume that some 2.5" HDDs are more efficient than others. My old Gigabyte laptop's USB ports couldn't power an external HDD without the splitter, my current one can, my old Dell XPS could. I haven't actually measured the power drain or looked at the specs though. If the port is underpowered it'll just make a clicking noise as it fails to spin up.

>>58466252
Encrypting the disk ought to do it. I'd personally fill it up to the brim just to make sure though.

>>58463110
My evga 650 started getting coil whine after a few months. They swapped it, no hassle. Had a great experience with their customer support. Can you vocaroo the sound and share it with us.

>>58466291
Thanks.
I have acquired around 10 internal HDDs, and I thought I'd use them instead collecting dust.
I thought of getting a rack, but enclosure is more portable.

>>58466258
hmm ok
thanks for your posts, very informative
but this doesn't help me too much desu
I get how it works now but I still have no idea how much space I should be leaving free
I'll just go with the red bar probably

>>58466347
If your disk starts slowing down because you've been a slob and been adding and removing files from a full disk for months, then just move all the shit off it and back on again, and take notice of the red bar in future.

>>58465949
It's actually for home use. My phone is dogshit but it's the only way to connect my desktop to the internet. I would plug my phone in and pretend I have broadband.

The phone's cellular seems to be unstable and would occasionally lose signal, so I'm wondering if I could simply skip buying a new router and just buy a new phone instead.

>>58466369
good idea hadn't thought of that
but I'm more worried about the disc breaking or malfunctioning than slowing down
y'know, loss of files, irreparable damage
shit like that

Would it be possible to rename a file or two to prevent a hard disk being bootable, with the next in order to be tried?
I wish to change the boot order of my hard disks without altering anything in the BIOS because my computer goes nuts when I do.

If so, which file is it?

>>58465228
>>58466025
Might be able to see what file fails to open using Process Monitor. Could give a clue to what needs removing/reinstalling (I bet it's graphics drivers)

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645

>>58465988
If it's your controller then the disk will work in another machine.

>>58462820
you will probably need a diffrent cable to connect 1080p screen too which is usually a biggest problem.
I tried replacing my 768p screen with 900p one in my thinkpad, and ended up ordering those cables from china

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>>58466402
relevant but probably won't be useful to the anon with the problems
http://www.rohitab.com/apimonitor

>>58463491
> proprietary bluetooth
It's not using Bluetooth

>>58466423
Nice, I'll have a play with that. Thanks

>>58466398
no.
but you can install a boot manager like grub and have a selection which to boot from.

GTX 970 has recently started making this "grinding" style noise. I isolated it and it's the left fan of the GPU. It was extremely loud earlier, but ~5-6 hours later it's quieted down (Likely due to my fans themselves being very low speed idle). I got the card in December of 2014, so it's only very slightly out of warranty.

Should I contact MSI about an RMA (3 week turnaround I'm assuming) or just fix them myself? I found the fans for ~$30 online, but I've never dabbled in replacing a GPU fan but can't imagine it'd be super difficult.

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How to find out Windows activation key?
I've got two laptops with Windows 8.1 & 10 pre-installed.
And I though if installing something else on them but I might want to get windows back on them in the future.

>>58466479
Laptops are generally tied to the OEM of the motherboard for Windows. If all else fails, just pirate them.

Is there a building guide for a mini pc with decent specs?
Enough for Photoshop/music and video editing and light 3d rendering. I have a budget of around $500

>>58466491
>tied to the OEM of the motherboard
What if I wanted to replace the mobo?

>>58465629
I watched a doc that said china opens a coal burning plant every week

>>58466479
produkey
if it's on the motherboard you need some other program, I don't remember the name

>>58466502
license would be invalidated

>>58466502
You'd have to do another install and activation of Windows, no way around it.

>>58464954
lubuntu LTS is still supported and fits on CD

>>58466460
I'm using Windows on both boots (7 and 10).

>>58466510
>>58466522
Great.
Will creating recover drive help?

http://www.howtogeek.com/131907/how-to-create-and-use-a-recovery-drive-or-system-repair-disc-in-windows-8/

Even if there's no recovery partition?

>>58464954
Puppy linux.
~200 MB.

>>58465125
Got the same sort of shit here in the UK so I use a VPN. As other anon said, change DNS to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. If that doesn't work then VPN

just ran a virus scan and it came back with this

Registry Keys: 1
PUP.Optional.Distromatic, HKU\S-1-5-21-1913337929-2623755997-453899701-1002\SOFTWARE\Distromatic, , [db916a119216b87e05f8efcdaa5621df],

what the fuck is that

>>58466501
I5 6600K
GPU would be something around a 1060/used 970/RX470 etc. Shopping used comes with risk but can net you cheap things. Go all the way down to a like, 960 or 280X for cheaper but still decent.
Stock cooler should do, Hyper 212 EVO otherwise.
MOBO is based on your needs, same for case. PSU is mostly whatever but around $40-50
RAM is just whatever high-speed 8GB, though consider 16GB if you do heavy art/editing.

This is closer to $600 than anything (Possibly like $650). Downgrade the GPU a bit if need be and stick to 8GB. You're mainly after a good CPU with those needs in mind.

>>58466479
Magical Jelly Bean.

>>58466648
Unwanted program

>>58466650
>>58466501
Oh, you mean an ACTUAL mini PC. My bad.
>>58466548
Won't do anything. If the mobo doesn't match exactly, the computer will refuse to validate the license. It's much easier to just pirate Windows.

>>58466659
Yeah but what actually is it
what does it do
how'd it get there
how do i know it's not a false positive
if it's legit malware i need to know how it got there in the first place or else i'm only solving half the problem

>>58465524
Because their potential customers are on Windows. You're asking why games are only developed on a platform that 90% of PC owners use.

>>58466663
>If the mobo doesn't match exactly
I mean if I make a recover disk, then wipe the HDD and install something else on it.
Will the recovery drive restore the windows OS?

>>58466679
Distromatic, some browser extension.

>>58466683
If it has the recovery partition then it should. Are you trying to swap HDD's or what?

Buy a USB/SATA cable/HDD enclosure for the new drive, mount it to the laptop as an external, then clone your current HDD to the "new" one plugged in via external. Should keep everything as-is

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Is there a distro that boots into malware scanner?

Can someone tell me why awk length of the string of concatenated $1s and ", " gives 18? Does it counts bytes, not chars or something?

Beth 4.00 0
Dan 3.75 0
Kathy 4.00 10
Mark 5.00 20
Mary 5.50 22
Susie 4.25 18

{ print tolower(substr($1, 1, 1)) }
{ names = names tolower(substr($1, 1, 1)) substr($1, 2) ", " }
{ names = substr(names, 1, length($names)*2-1) }
END { print names }

Everytime I change my BIOS settings my computer won't boot and gives out the BIOS "insufficient power" beeps, it will do this once or twice before restarting itself normally.
I then see a message that says it was a fault due to overclocking, with a core speed of 2.93GHz - however I am not aware of any overclocking having been done and the speed reports as 2.80GHz in speccy/cpu-z (i7 930).

Once the computer has successfully passed this stage it is fine and no further issues occur.
Should this be something that concerns me? My motherboard has dual bios.

>>58466717
>swap HDD
No swapping what so ever.
>Backstory
I've got two laptops with genuine Windows 8.1/10 respectively.
And I plan to install GNU/Linux on them.
But in the future in case I want to sell them, I'd prefer to give them back with their original OS.

I doubt recovery partition was installed on those, do I need to recreate it?

Is Fenrir a cool name

>>58466762
Furry/10

>>58466702
but what the hell is distromatic?
google barely comes up with any results

>>58466756
Oh, that. In that case yes. Just keep a recovery partition on them and you'll be able to system restore at any time.

>>58466789
https://www.distromatic.com/

you probably clicked next a few times on an installer without reading and installed some toolbar.

>>58466793
hmmm
There's no recover partition.
Is it hidden?

>>58466825
Probably, they usually are. Check the built-in backup partition tool in Windows, make one if nothing is there.

>>58466800
well I use firefox
if i had the distromatic toolbar it would show up in my add ons tab right?
because i checked my add ons and there isn't a single item that I didn't willingly install myself

also yeah i saw the distromatic site pop up but desu i'm kinda scared to click on it

>>58466825
>There's no recover partition.
>Is it hidden?
They're usually hidden but you can see hidden partitions in Windows disk management.

If you either installed or trialled an upgrade to Win10 then it probably nuked the recovery partition. Win10 upgrade is helpful like that.

>>58466849
>if i had the distromatic toolbar it would show up in my add ons tab right?
It's probably an IE extension.

>>58466847
>>58466853
>make one if nothing is there.
How ?

Have a 2500K, overlocked to 4.6 GHz offset +/- 25 mV, LLC 3.
Have been running AIDA64 for about an hour now and no issues. Should I try to increase the clock? what values should I start looking into if I want to push it any further ?

>>58466967
run prime95 for 12 hours before increasing anything.

>>58466871
checked explorer and chrome
nothing

>>58466881
>>58466881
Should be a built in feature of your laptop's software, somewhere. If not, Google is your friend.

>>58462820

I think a bump from 1366x768 to 1920x1080 may be too much for the rest of the hardware to handle.

How do I access my own files on another hard disk? It tells me I don't have permission.

>>58467062
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753659(v=ws.11).aspx

Best paid VPN in the EU?

>>58467070
I tried something like that and it pops up with an error for folders like Roaming, AppData, My Music etc. with "Failed to enumerate objecits in the container. Access is denied".

>>58467077

What do you guys think about NordVPN?

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So i'm trying to get my onedrive set back up and i keep running into this problem. It tells me to sign in with the other account, which doesn't have a name or anything just "", and when i try to unlink the accounts it does not give me the option.

I already tried resetting it, didn't work. How can i fix this?

>>58467083
>Failed to enumerate objecits in the container. Access is denied
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/fix-failed-to-enumerate-objects-in-the-container

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How do I make it? These are not the original size because I resized the image for a file size limit.

>>58467113
how do you make what?

>>58467113
How do I explain? Like I have connect my laptop and the monitor with a HDMI cable and I have chosen Monitor Display + Built In Display. I want to make the wallpapers fit the both screens. On display 1 the wallpapers is fitting to the screen, but on display 2 the wallpaper is kinda zoomed in and I don't want it be.
SAME FITTING ON SCREEN

>>58467175
meant to reply to you
>>58467127

>>58467175
set the wallpaper setting from fill to fit

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>>58462765
Is there a way to check when i downloaded something from the net for the first time?
What i mean is neither creation date nor modified date are correct in windows file properties. Maybe there is a way to tell outside the windows environment.

>>58467208
Try 'date aquired'

>>58467193
I think there should be options for seperate options.
Seperate settings for Monitor 1 and seperate settings for Monitor 2 should be a thing. It's a pity that the wallpaper settings apply for all monitors

>>58467102
Excellent that worked. Thank you very much.

Alright so everybody has heard about the giuliani incident, I've got a question tho, the article says something about an "exposed cms login" what exactly do they mean by that? That the login to the CMS is available from outside the intranet? or do they mean the administration login is accesible by adding /admin to the end?

How do I bypass "You must install new browser" script on chiru.no?

>>58467417
with what browser do you get the message?

>>58467446
SeaMonkey 2.40

So i learned html, php and the mysql stuff.
Now i want to host a Site through a DigitalOcean Server:
What's the best course on Udemy or Book to learn NGINX and Ubuntu or CentOS hosting?

>>58467456
anon....why

>>58467466
why what?

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>>58467232
I checked all dates in this"choose details" window. Looks like it won't work. I was just curious in what order i downloaded my music albums, how my music taste progressed. So it is nothing important. I wonder where older dates come from. bottom folder shows files i ripped from archive that came with videogame i installed from CD disk. I guess date was created by game dev team or when "original copy" was created for disc factory.

>>58467417
Just install chrome. Works for me. *Le smug pajeet face*

>>58467476
>Just install chrome.
I thought that is stupid questions thread, not stupid answers thread.

>>58467417
it's there for a reason, your browser doesn't support whatever they'll do.
so even if you prevent the message, nothing would happen.

>>58467475
why SeaMonkey?
and 2.46 has apparently been released
you could try that if you intend to stick with SeaMonkey

>>58467506
>why SeaMonkey?
It's a decent internet suite which takes less resources than Firefox and it's not chromium-based.

Building a computer. Want water cooling. Is a mid tower like the fractal design r5 big enough, or do i need to go full tower?
Only planning 1 or 2 hardrives.

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>>58467493
>SeaMonkey
But it IS working...

>>58467564
It's also the browser developed by the guys who invented the first firefox. They're still part of mozilla, get a very small amount of money, but almost all of their work is being used in FF.

There where tons of safety issues with FF which have been resolved by the SeaMonkey team also some of the features SeaMonkey has had for eternity get ported over to FF.

It's arguably just a better version of FF which sadly doesn't get updated enough.
(Also it looks like shit)

>>58467458
https://www.nginx.com/oreilly-guide/

Are hard drive letters assigned by which SATA port they're plugged into or is it saved onto C: somewhere?

Asking because I want to unplug the SATA cable from one drive and plug in another but don't want them to have the same path.

>>58467456
I've tried seamonkey 2.46 just for you now, I don't get any message like that.

>>58467621
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_letter_assignment#Order_of_assignment

I'm running Xubuntu add trying to customize some things. I like having the panel set up as a deskbar, but I can't read the date/time because of it. Is there a desktop widget or something I can use to remedy that? I don't know how to install such things on here.

>>58467621
If you're on windows you can assign the drive letter/path yourself.

Press windows key -> Type in "Disk" > Chose diskmanagement (or something like that, I'm on german windows idk the english name).
This will open a new window where you can see your drive (identified by the name)

Right click the name of the volume you want to change and simply chose Change driveletter and paths.

A new window will open where you can assign each partiion of the volume a drive letter you want.

>>58467644
I'm not sure I follow.
A media disk I have is R:, if I unplug this and plug in another disk, will it have the R: label?
Or, if I unplug R: and plug it into a new port on the motherboard, will it retain R:?

>>58467668
Xubuntu has a date/time panel item called Clock.
If you right click a panel and in the context menu go to panel > add new item > type "Clock" in the search bar and chose the first item (simply called clock)

Right click the clock item and go to properties to change the layout etc.

If you set it to R manually and plug it into another port it'll be set to R again if it's available.
Windows remembers the manually set drive letters and the device ID.
The information is not stored on the device though, so plugging it into a different computer will not make it be set to R.

>>58467735
Ok that's great, thank you.

PSU: single rail or multiple?

>>58467838
>PSU: single rail or multiple?
Depends on your computer, read link for further information.
http://www.overclock.net/t/761202/single-rail-vs-multi-rail-explained

>>58467572
>chiru.no
My nigga!

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>>58466718
Anyone?
Is this good?
http://www.avg.com/ww-en/download.prd-arl

>>58468066
There are certain anti virus scanners that can boot into a malware scanner, avg is one of them.
ESET Nod32 can do it too afaik.

Can't tell you if they're good tho, I used both on different occasions, on different machines with different contaminations and they have never solved the problem.

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>>58468086
I need to copy files from external HDD, that's most likely to be infected with malware for windows, to another machine.
I know I can boot any distro to copy those files, then nuke the HDD.
But what if the malware is with those files?
Will it infect the machine on it on, or do I need to be idiot and run it myself?

What's the difference between an M.2 SSD and a SATA SSD? Just speed?

I teach some programming and every year I get a couple of students who will spend an hour or two writing hundreds of lines of (very buggy) code without thinking twice or testing once. Then they try to run it, which ends in a much longer effort to untangle and debug the mess they have wrought.

Various students have different problems and I can assist them with most, help them understand various concepts etc.

But these people I just don't understand and I find it very hard to help them. Why do my comments that it's better to go bit by bit testing along the way not reach them? Those people do it repeatedly even after getting the same spiel from me over and over. Most of them are not even dumb people.

Did anyone on here ever go through such a phase? Can you explain me what went down in your heads?

>>58468133
If the files are infected it will definitely infect the machine.
Common BUSINESS practice is when a machine is infected to nuke the whole system from orbit.

You can never be 100% certain that the files are not infested even if you scan them with anti virus software.

>>58468284
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-2607731/whats-difference-ssd-ssd.html
Short answer: M.2 is faster but the performance / price ratio isn't worth it for most (check link for further details)

>>58468328
Maybe they're not interested in programming?
I had people like that during my IT training and they never learned it, no matter how well you explained it to them. I call those people learning resistant.

They simply did what they always did, you helped them solve the problem and they immediately forget about it.

>>58467403
Anyone who knows an answer to my question btw.?

Thinkpad t420 battery life is shit, what can i get to remedy this? Just got a mini dock series 3 for it, will that better the battery life in any way? Should I buy a battery bay or some shit?

>>58468447
>You can never be 100% certain that the files are not infested even if you scan them with anti virus software.
It's not a business though.
I just need something to clean the old HDD.
Even if it's ~85% accurate.

>>58468453
A docking station has no direct influence on battery life.

Some of the things that affect battery life are:
- Usage
- Load cycles
- Time
- Depending on what sort of battery you have: Temperature

A docking station can be good for your battery because when you put the machine in the docking station the battery will rest and won't be used, thus won't discharge or have any battery running trough it (you can achieve the same by plugging in the power cord into your laptop and taking out the battery).

Only way to improve battery life is to, sadly, buy a new battery.
If you want your battery to last as long as possible ONLY CHARGE when the battery% is between 20-80 and to do full charge cycles, don't interrupt them.

How do I set up for sharing data between a window 7 machine and a Windows 98 machine using a crossover cable?

>>58468447
They weren't really learning resistant in general and some of them were very intelligent.

It's just that their default approach to a problem was to soldier on, write the entire thing in one go as if they were sure it will work, then debug the entire mess at once.

>>58468487
does this mean that the docking station has it's own battery built in that drains instead of my laptop's battery? I'd still consider that to be a win. I know that the docking station needs it's own charger so that would make sense.

>>58463712
Two 480's in sli? Heh... Be careful with that bomb you've got there Ivan.

What processor should I get so I can stream wow at ultra and 1080?

>>58468480
In that case AVG will probably do the trick.
When formatting your HDD use a program that lets you format it with something called zero filling formatting, that way you make sure to format the ENTIRE HDD, not just the used space.

>>58468495
Here's a detailed step by step guide:
https://techingiteasy.wordpress.com/2010/11/10/extreme-how-to-network-windows-7-and-windows-98/

>>58468497
Is that a IT specific class? Maybe they're not that into programming or something.

>>58468559
The docking station itself has no battery, it requires it's own power cord because if the docking station would draw the power from a single port on your laptop it could fry your mainboard (a dockign station has like.. 5-6 outputs? if all of those draw power from something like a USB port you'll have a bad time)

While your laptop is in the docking station tho it won't draw power from your battery.

>>58468613
Ahh, gotcha. Thanks a lot!

When scroll wheel is useless?

>>58462861
>le reddit is all liberal argument
Seriously go back to /b/

Is Ubuntu really that bad? I just want to do my SQL and better OS than Windows.

>>58468613
>When formatting your HDD use a program that lets you format it with something called zero filling formatting, that way you make sure to format the ENTIRE HDD, not just the used space.
I thought formatting means removing the partition table.
In that case wouldn't dd the drive with zero/random would do the same?

>>58468605
You should be looking at GPUs, not processors

>>58468657
Its processors for this game. More cpu demanding.

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What should my fan set up be with this?

Are the stock fans okay? I got the extra fan in case I needed to switch things around.

I'm thinking having the 1 fan on the left as exhaust and 2 fans on the right as intake.

>>58468799
You always want positive air pressure inside the case, more intake then exhaust.

>>58468912
Alright, so yes to the extra fan.

Would that best be placed on the right alongside the fan that's already there, or on the bottom of the case?

If I want to run Windows 10 in a VM on a Windows 10 machine, can I just use the same MS account on the VM?

can you easily bootleg windows 10 without issues?

>>58469107
No need to do that.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/accessibility/windows10upgrade

Should i get one of these for when im in the army? i get to use my phone once per day and to listen to music when im on the bus to/away from the base. How bad is sound quality on something like that?

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>>58469185
by these i meant nokia 5130, but the image wont post for some reason.

>>58468771
You can stream over your GPU tho depending on which codec you use.
The NVIDIA codec (obviously) uses your GPUs processor to stream and the NCENC (or something like that) codec uses your CPU.

If you want to get serious with streaming I recommend investing in a streaming PC and a capture card, what this does is it will capture the video from your pc you're playing with but use the resourcs from the streaming PC to actually stream them. This his obviously better for you since the second PC only uses it's resources for streaming.

Can't really answer your question tho, I don't stream that much.

>>58468655
Yes, formatting means just removing the partition table and yes, zero/random filling does the same.
Zero fills everything with just that, zeros while random filling fills the spaces with various random data patterns.

>>58469107
You can always the the live media creation tool from windows and upgrade your windows 7 to 10, it's still free.

>>58468962
Wherever you need air flow, you don't want heat to accumulate somewhere. Try to maximize the air flow in your case.

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MacBook Pro 13" mid 2012

Dual core i5

Intel HD 4000


OR

MacBook Pro 15" late 2011

Quad core i7

Radeon 6770M


Same price, what to buy? I'd get the 2011 no question, but I know they can brake any second thanks to Apples shitty GPU job.

>>58469325
Okay thanks for your input. Probably will stream just casually to show friends.

>>58469415
I usually stream in 720p@30fps with:
i5-2500K - 3.3GHz
NVidia GeForce GTX 960
and a 50k broadband connection.

No lags, almost no fragments.

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How do I properly install arch on an SD card?
Can I place root, boot, home, and swap on the SD card or must something go on the main drive of the laptop?

Just installed windows 7 and ran windows loader. Should I update windows or not? I heard that windows have an update that detects piracy.

>>58469485
30 fps sounds crappy imo. I have an i5-4690 and a r9 390. Going to upgrade probably to ryzen

>>58469325
>You can always the the live media creation tool from windows and upgrade your windows 7 to 10, it's still free.
wait really? that shit is still upgradable? I thought it ended last summer

>>58469485
You stream for that machine or steam to that machine? (The i5)
Because 720p at 30FPS seems fucked

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>>58469391
Where do mactoddlers get the false impression that they or their fruity toddler toys are welcome much less belong on a technology board?

I want to start editing music, specifically midi files but I don't know where to start. I use soundfonts for games like System Shock but I want to go more indepth with it and customize it, but I don't know how to do that.

>>58463682
Freesync on the mg248q has a 3 lines pixel shift firmware bug or so and above 120Hz image quality goes to shit horziontal line patterns become visible. Lots of monitors with that or similar patter seem to have that problem though. Google it.

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i need to buy some sata cables that are not shit. which (gaymur) brands would you recommend?

>>58470419
any, there's no difference.

>>58470461
so any ASUS/Gigabyte/etc cable has the same quality as some cheap "made in China"?
if so then all i can do is to buy a new one and pray that it's not bad?

>>58470516
it's a SATA cable, there's no magic behind this or any way to make it better than others.

I want to align a certain site's <body> elements via Greasemonkey, how do I do that?

>>58470540
byt maybe the manufacturing process is better

>>58470602
align where?
get the element, apply stylesheet.

>>58470419
>>58470516
They come in 1.5, 3 and 6Gb/s, that's the only difference. If it's plugged into an SSD make sure you get the 6Gb/s cable.

>>58470616
Unfortunately I know fuck-all about web beyond basic HTML. I just want the body's style to have margin: auto; in it.

So I've watched a video on how CPUs are made.
What makes a CPU model pricier, or different than another one?
For example, what's the difference between an i5 6500 and a 6600, from the productor point of view? Isn't this the same chip with different settings? Isn't this unethical as it would technically be the exact same sillicon?
And going even further, why doesn't an i7 cost the same to produce as an i3? Is it a problem with yields or something?
Same logic applies to GPU.

New thread

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>>58470666
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>>58466421
Is there generic cable I can get that will >>58467057
You really think so? Are laptops hardware locked in to their native resolution? I mean back in the day shitty onboard video cards could do 800x600 and even 1280x1024 at 75Hz

>>58470661

document.querySelector('body').style.margin = 'auto';

>>58470662
Differences in production can push the price up slightly when you need to produce smaller structures, but really the price is 95% profit. The chips cost about $30 to produce.

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>>58470704
Welp, I was trying

document.body.style.margin = auto;

but it didn't work. Thanks a bunch, man.

I want to get a snapshot of a site at a certain time, including html, css, js - not just a screenshot. Anyone know a good python module/library/program for this?

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