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12:55 AM
 
@JourneymanGeek Those things are awesome.
 
lol. I know some dogs who would probably do this all day ;p
 
1:14 AM
@Hennes THe way I opened it doesn't void the warranty I think
it was way to easy to open
just a few philips head screws
I will try again tomorrow with new thermal paste and some luck
 
Remember when @YouPorn tweeted about sponsoring a @DOTA2 or @LeagueOfLegends Team? Me too! Contract is drafted. Deal Coming Soon.
 
wtf, are you sure that should be in here? ;P
 
Go home google now, you are completely drunk
 
ohlol
 
is the INTEL hd 2000 any good?
 
1:22 AM
@Vader At displaying spreadsheets, it's fantastic!
 
what a let down, going from a 580 to a integrated piece of bleeh
what about youtube
 
Yea, Youtube will be fine.
 
Its junk, but better than nothing.
 
Don't expect to be playing any games though
 
1:23 AM
yeah that's fine
should be playing games in the 1st place
 
@Vader: what's wrong with it?
 
@Vader That's the attitude!
 
@JourneymanGeek you tell me
 
Games 1st. Life... what?
 
1:23 AM
cats are funny
 
plays Imperial March
 
Archive starred picture. Interesting how they said that Imagur pics always stay , they have not stayed.
 
only if its uploaded here
 
It stays if it's requested 2 times within 6 motnhs
 
1:25 AM
@Psycogeek Not uploaded into chat, just linked.
 
ahh
 
the possum learn something new
 
That's a racoon. :P
Anyways... My wife is throwing a fit 'cause apparently it's hard to text people with Google Hangouts.
 
Possum sounds good for the next one.
 
hard to tell form the thumbnail
could my driver cause a GPU blackout?
do drivers modify the GPU?
or is it just the OS?
also is it possible to install dirvers too many times? not sure how many times i installed drivers when using linux
 
1:29 AM
@Vader -1 question to broad to answer.
 
if I install a driver on linux
 
@Vader as long as you dont see the mess created back in there, it should not matter.
 
will the windows driver be affected?
well I gtg
I will attempt to fix it tomorrow
 
drivers make minor adjustments to gpus, that are generally not permenent.
 
but could they mess the GPU up?
what if power goes out during driver install?
 
1:33 AM
Potentially you could work hard to destroy a gpu using software.
 
The driver is the middleware between the OS and the GPU. You don't install it to the GPU though.
 
is there any software at all on the GPU that gets modified?
 
software on the GPU would be classed as "firmware"
 
never heard that one
so does firmware change?
 
@Vader Yea
 
1:39 AM
Only when you change the firmware. I do not know if a intel on-die GPU would even have such thing in it?
 
I mean in regard to my 580
 
@Psycogeek You'll probably find that some drivers will include firmware updates if you dig deep enough.
 
@MichaelFrank that is what i would figure, so i was digging to see.
I know places like Rage3D and GUru3D have spent much time discussing messing with a PCI-E type cards firmware, and FLashing specific firmware in both ATI and NVIDIA , so i think the answer is yess.
 
goood enough for me to blame that on mr linux mint
 
no
 
1:43 AM
could the LINUX drivers destroy my GPU?
I mean I used the proprietary ones
not the free drivers
b/c those don't work at all
I actually have to go now
bbt
~
 
Only in specific ways, like to overvolt it and undercool it, things not really attributed to drivers but control of the GPU using the driver as the middleman , like michael said.
 
1:56 AM
(from the archives)
 
@Vader: generally no
 
 
1 hour later…
3:04 AM
TIL: APX is a ballsack of a software to install.
 
0
Q: spyware and hacked by ex... need answers

ninaA year ago I found out that my ex husband had a different network in our house .. it may have been a vpn I'm not sure. Anyhow the night I caught him .. he quickly dragged and and dropped files into some software I remember one note was up. What ever he did ftp'd /exported all tracks and traces of...

Sounds like a job for SE_Relationships :-) because it would take 1/2 a book to describe all the ways that a person in charge of both computers could control it all.
Grab your data , reset the thing back to factory completly, get new husband, carry on :-)
 
fark... what do I flag that as?
 
3:21 AM
" Does anyone have any idea of what some of the things involved were ?" uh yea software , the net , just the usual :-)
Nowdays I cant even see people asking questions like that, when for years they wanted to control everything , and have everything via wireless , all crossing up things eveywhere. So then Skynet arrives and they are like "Who Did This To Me?"
LOL thats what YOU wanted, make up your mind.
"well i do not want it any more" "just leave all the cloud computing, the gps tracking, the tower tracking, the remote desktop , the remote file operations, The google tracking of every action, and remove the rest" :-)
 
Might actually be a duplicate
 
A regular original IPAd did not even have a GPS module in it? It also doesnt have a radio/phone module if i remember right?
 
3:36 AM
it probably has gps
@MichaelFrank: eh, don't you have closevotes yet?
 
"So someone high level at least compared to u knowledge of it helped him " uhh no, there is an app for that :-) all of that.
 
@Psycogeek A-GPS most likely.
@JourneymanGeek Uuhh... I thought I did. Maybe I don't?
I haven't answered a question on SU for a while tbh... Don't have the time at work... don't really want to be working at home. :P
 
oh, not yet
 
3:52 AM
@MichaelFrank yes that is what the wiki says 1st gen a-GPS and sencors Wi-fi. 3rd gen cellular models also. The Minis both wit cell and sounding mostly like phablets.
 
4:05 AM
This title sounds dangerous!
0
Q: How to monitor free space and automatically delete oldest files on Linux?

Jason RI have a software application that continually writes files to disk at high speed. Each file is modest in size (less than 10 MB or so), but they are created every 1-2 seconds underneath a specified parent directory, say, /data/. That directory might look like: /data /data/subdir1 /d...

0
A: Detect which songs in folder have a siren sound

XavierjazzI would say, "No".........................

 
@MichaelFrank I hate when that happens in the car :-) I know they are not after ME, but i have to move out of the way still.
 
4:20 AM
@Psycogeek Yeah, there's this ad on the radio at the moment about property investment that has a cop car in the background. It's super annoying.
 
4:50 AM
superuser.com/questions/788836/… <--- confimed by the user that the duplicate solutioned the problem, so it could be flagged as a dupe safely.
 
5:18 AM
heh. I wasn't very happy with my headset ... so... I ended up setting up my SM57 (that's a proper big mic) on my desktop
 
Bob
o.O
I actually rather like my headset mic.
 
@JourneymanGeek as in happy with the sound via the mic ?
 
oh, general comfort
@Bob: was using my phone headset
I don't do earbuds
 
Bob
O_O
(Dell refurb)
@JourneymanGeek Oh those.
 
I probably would buy a better one, but I'm rushed
 
Bob
5:24 AM
I'm still using that Logitech clearchat one, despite the padding all wearing away :P
It's a good mic for gaming.
Doesn't sound like you're eating it.
 
lol
this is a great mic.
 
Bob
That actually looks pretty damn good.
 
just wish it was 599 for refurb of that spec
 
6:30 AM
gawker.com/… "A teenager in Kentucky was hospitalized and treated for burns after participating in a "fire challenge," a teen craze sweeping the nation in which you pour alcohol on yourself and light it on fire. "
 
 
6 hours later…
12:52 PM
Wow, quiet house this morning
 
Bob
1:36 PM
@ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ damn, you broke the 6 hour streak :P
 
lol
I was out
second last SMFC ;p
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek South Melbourne Football Club?
 
State Mandated Fitness Class
 
Bob
Ah.
 
I'll probably start on Allegedly Voluntary SMFC next month
(so I have two classes less in total, but those cheap bastards can avoid paying me for 10 of the 18 I need to do)
 
Bob
1:39 PM
Just ordered these two
 
ugh mic seems to work fine
I was futzing with speech recognition but apparently it dosen't understand me.
 
1:55 PM
@Bob wow, 100$ for a 2 TB drive
 
Bob
@HackToHell Actually pretty expensive.
 
A TB is 62$ here
And that drive is shock resistant.
 
Bob
@HackToHell The 1TB version of this is also about $65.
 
I have an interview today ;p
 
1:59 PM
Hmm external ones cost 20$ more
 
Oddly not nervious considering I'm completely unprepared ;p
 
@JourneymanGeek God luck ! woof it
For what kind of post ?
 
service engineer.
So, I get paid for what I do on SU anyway ;p
haven't really asked the details, This is probably the craziest month ever,
^ this
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek Mongo? Wesley? :P
 
yup ;p
 
Bob
2:03 PM
You're a developer now? :P
 
No ;p
however he seems to think my skillset might be useful there, and my timezone
 
Bob
Timezone looksl ike it would be perfect. But if you're going to be supporting devs in their use of your product... you might wanna pick up at least a bit more programming knowledge
 
Bob
You've been putting that off for too long :P
 
Yeah, I sorta know a bit
but meh, something like this might help ;p
The whole deep end of the pool school of learning?
and I do have some database skills.
rusty a little, but I get it more than I do code proper
 
Bob
2:12 PM
Huh.
Amazon didn't ask for a CVV when I entered a new card number.
Interesting.
 
2:24 PM
@JourneymanGeek nothing smells worse than a rusty dog.
or was that "wet" ;-D
 
@ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ: If your dog is rusty, you clearly don't have a real dog.
 
@Bob I got a Sandisk 128 GB Micro SDXC for my Galaxy S5. It's nice. :D ... That said, I now have portable HDD envy re: your 2 TB vs. my 500.
not that I use it often...
 
lol
@ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ: I have one of the copies of my music on a portable HDD
 
I hate the anemic 16 GB storage of the S5's internal NAND -- probably the cruddiest feature of the entire phone. Hell even my lowballed Droid Maxx had 32 GB internal o_O
 
(I have 3 copies total, one on a ghetto nas one on my desktop)
 
2:26 PM
I've been moving as much as possible to the SDXC. especially Spotify's offline cache, because that was burning a hole in the NAND
 
@ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ: I have an external card reader for my Moto G ;p
Same reason actually, google music's cache takes up a lot of room
 
@JourneymanGeek that... er... but... ah... THAT'S NOT ELEGANT!!! having some thing hanging out of the... just... !!no
2
 
I don't have space to install apps ._.
 
it's like "oh, my laptop doesn't have enough storage, so I'll just tote around an external HDD!" !!no. upgrade.
 
My /data partition is just 1 GB
 
2:27 PM
@ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ: I do that ;p
 
soooo inelegant -_-
 
Oh, meh, when the right phone comes around and I have the money ;p
 
@ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ Remove the eMMC in your S5 and replace it
:P
 
2:28 PM
> rip
!!no
 
I don't "rip" things
also, wouldn't ripping it out and replacing it, require a firmware update?
 
@ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ Doesn't the kernel hold the emmc driver in android
 
pretty sure those eMMCs have specifics about them that has to go into the firmware
 
I suppose the preloader has to be updated
 
2:30 PM
I'd have to root and unlock, basically. I think there may be a root, but there's definitely no BL unlock for my phone
nobody's figured out how to do it, anyway
 
Bleh can't find the preloader code
Stupid mediatek not releasing source and all
 
Bob
@ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ I actually currently have a 1TB one :P
Got the new one mostly cause... well, ruggedised.
 
> $CUSTOM_MEMORYDEVICE_H_NAME = "mediatek/custom/$PROJECT/preloader/inc/custom_MemoryDevice.h";
And /preloader is missing -_-
 
Bob
@ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ I... kinda do that.
Not really for lack of HDD space. More because the internal HDD gets thrashed to death if I try to run a VM off it.
So VMs run off the external.
It works. Well enough.
 
@Bob heh... I've got spare resources out the wazzoo on my desktop now :P strangely enough, with the RAID card's Write Cache disabled (for data safety), I was getting pathetic performance in VMware Workstation running Windows Server 2008 R2 and doing installations and updates in the guest... I turned on Write Cache and it flew
worse, the saturation of the VM was starting to increase disk queue length on the host somewhat, which made it difficult to play games while updating :P
/firstworldproblems
write caching -> VMware updates the .vmdk file, calls sync(), and the RAID card's SDRAM says "kay, got it! ;-)" until it batches a bunch of writes together, then it pushes them all at once to the disks
no write caching -> VMware updates the .vmdk, calls sync(), and the RAID card takes that one little write (maybe just changing one .dll or something) and causes the disk heads to move on all four disks
 
Bob
2:41 PM
@ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ I'm talking laptop. I have plenty of storage HDDs on the desktop :P
 
that seems to be the general problem with hardware RAID: you absolutely must either have extremely stable power, or a UPS, or a BBU, or one of those fancy new RAID cards with a built-in micro-SSD as the cache... if you have none of the above, and you disable write cache to be safe, dithering around within the innards of a single large file (like a VM disk) causes horrible performance
especially when the hypervisor tries to sync every goddamn change to the physical media
I just decide to be the crazy-haired mad scientist and disable write caching anyway, with only the "very stable power"
 
Bob
@ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ Why no UPS?
 
anyone know if this card can run on x4 PCIe 3.0? that's the only slot I can fit it in without bringing my second GPU down to x4 by putting it in the third x16 slot
 
Bob
> Bus System Interface

x8 PCIe 3.0
 
my current 6405E uses 1x 2.0.
R9 280X gets x16 3.0.
HD 7970 gets x8 3.0.
I have a 4x 2.0 and a 16x 2.0 slot.
If I stick something in the 16x 2.0 slot that tries to take 8x, *all* my GPUs only get x4 :/
 
Bob
2:48 PM
@ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ You're probably better off contacting them directly.
For a $400-$800 card, they'd better be willing to answer a question.
> For product questions, email us at adaptecsales@pmc-sierra.com or call 1-800-442-7274 / 408-957-7274
 
man
my webcam REALLY sucks
 
Bob
!! s/my webcam/all webcams/
 
@Bob all webcams REALLY sucks (source)
 
Bob
!! s/sucks/suck/
 
@Bob @Bob all webcams REALLY suck (source) (source)
 
2:58 PM
heh. it's sad that the camera on my phone can shoot way better video than most webcams, even Logitech ones selling at $90
 
actually...
 
$150 (after subsidy and refund) for LTE flagship smartphone with powerful SoC, tons of features, and an expensive battery pack
$90 for a shitty camera on a stick with a USB plugin
 
I could use my phone frontal camera
ironic thing is, I have a few hundred dollars of audio gear... and a camera I pulled from the spares box...
 

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