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12:07 AM
"As it stands, AMD's best GPU; the Radeon R9 290X, has its memory frequency hitting around 5-6GHz, while NVIDIA's enjoys things a little higher, at 7GHz. SK Hynix's new chips increase the frequency up to 8GHz, in 4Gb chips
http://www.tweaktown.com/news/41165/sk-hynix-begins-shipping-its-next-gen-8ghz-gddr5-hbm-memory/index.html
so it will barely keep up with the new 4K resolutions ?
 
 
2 hours later…
2:04 AM
I can hear this music playing in the background... It's making me feel like I could be a Cylon. o.O
 
2:37 AM
Is it by the watchtower?
 
@JourneymanGeek Sadly it's not. :(
But I can't tell where it's coming from lol
 
ugh, forgot my hoodie today
 
3:44 AM
Is it cold there? It is like 78*F here (california) this week already
 
Airconditioner is turned down low ;p
 
oh
 
And I (and everyone at work) is recovering from the flu
 
 
2 hours later…
5:24 AM
If your sick, i expect to see a few really detailed answers, that are perfectally done, and you (later) do not even know how you did it :-) Don't be wasting this oppertunity
 
lol
Alas, I'm not sick enough ;p
(also, took a foul tasting herbal brew, rather than decongestant.)
 
5:46 AM
How about this one? superuser.com/questions/890025/… Flying PI Wi-Fi
 
6:27 AM
because my start button is diamond and my LEDs are colored with rubies and sapphires
 
rofl. Its directional too
 
yes.. I can't tell if trolling or serious
reddit comments - "You get a noticeably richer FFT profile from free range capacitors"
 
Sadly?
People believe this shit
 
I know :(
 
(amusingly, you can probably get an entire audio setup that's probably kickass as hell for just the cost of the cable. Probably including the room treatment ;p
 
6:40 AM
amusingly, I get actual interference on my Blue Yeti microphone even though its connection to my computer is digital (USB)... I think when it's laid over other wires it conducts small amounts of electricity up into the microphone's analog parts, which causes the interference, not anything to do with the cable itself
 
the cable is decent and has a ferrite core on it
but yeah, something is picking up noise
 
sure its not clipping?
 
yeah it's not
 
Wierd
Would mean shielding somewhere's a bit naff
(then again, I have a 'good' cable for my audio stuff... but its just a random one that came with a old modem)
 
6:45 AM
Nasty DC-DC power conversion stuff? Take it apart :-) Wee Feex.
 
And my next external sound card won't support it
(its likely mini/micro, since it'll be a DAC, not a big recording/playback box)
 
""Any solid material adjacent to a conductor is actually part of an imperfect circuit. Wire insulation and circuit board materials all absorb energy (loss). Some of this energy is stored and then later released as distortion. Solid High-Density Polyethylene Insulation ensures critical signal-pair geometry while minimizing insulation-induced phase distortion. "" Well then why didnt they use Diamonds . or at least glass fibers. damn cheapskates.
 
speaking of expensive cables and audiophiles, imgur.com/r/cableporn/KakDkvh
 
Yeah
man, seeing these cable jobs make me feel embarssed over how my cabling looks ;p
 
"All audio cables are directional. The correct direction is determined by listening to every batch of metal conductors used in every AudioQuest audio cable. Arrows are clearly marked on the connectors " the hard part is getting the electrons to follow the arrows :-) that is where the real money is
 
6:53 AM
Did you see the picture I took yesterday?
 
can't remember if I fdid
 
don't feel bad about your wiring =p
 
ahh, yeah
 
(Dream sound card - One of these jdslabs.com/products/48/o2-odac-combo )
 
6:58 AM
It's the yellow one , yea that one .
 
With setups like that, colours are functional. And you label both ends
 
setups like which?
 
If you're putting out a ton of cables?
You colour code and label them. You also put in more than you need when setting up, cause pulling cables again is a pain ;p
 
my net is only like 10 cables, and they are all color coded somehow.
I still do not know where they go as they dissapear behind stuff , but they all different colors :-)
the cable company , that raised my rates &#%$^# Has Wi-Fi set-up in the area too I guess i am Paying for it , like it or not.. just have to use a browser to log-in. Beings i am now paying enough to connect the neighborhood, I am wondering if i cant sub-let the wi-fi part
Get DragonLord to start a StarBucks out on the sidewalk :-)
free wi-fi with every $20 cup-o-java
 
7:16 AM
mine's whatever cables I have spare. Tempted to replace em all with flat ones of the same colour ;p
 
superuser.com/questions/890067/… <--- getting migrate flags, not worthy of migrate. Do I follow the lead and select migrate 3 flags, or go with Off-topic 1 flag?
 
@Psycogeek Not an actual migration path, just a custom off-topic close reason, so no danger of migration. Vote to close as off-topic, without selecting the custom reason.
 
@DragonLord wait , what? it showed some SE site people were picking to migrate? no migrate for beta?
 
If it's a crap question in real danger of migration, I'd use a custom mod attention flag and perhaps ping whatever mod is available in chat.
@Psycogeek It's a custom off-topic close reason.
 
ok but could it have actually achieved a migrate that way? Or needs mod attention?
 
7:24 AM
The community by itself cannot migrate to an arbitrary site. If you want to migrate a question to a site for which there is no community migration path, raise a custom mod attention flag.
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A: How should my flagging change when I gain the ability to vote to close?

DMA57361 1: … is off topic and should be migrated to a site for which there is a migration path? Vote to close as off-topic as "belongs on another site". 2: … is off topic and should be migrated to a site not listed in the vote-to-close dialog? Vote to close as off-topic and flag for ♦ moderato...

 
7:40 AM
i get it.
Got it , good, Good night.
 
8:21 AM
yay, troubleshot something by reading a pythion script ;p
 
 
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11:38 AM
 
12:25 PM
I have two issues which don't seem connected to each other (one is related to the computer: hdd, ram or psu failing, and the second one most probably to the network), but both started happening roughly at the same time. Is it okay if I ask two questions on the site?
 
1:00 PM
hmm
I'd do that, but mention /link the question with the other issues ?
tho, the former is more likely to have a dupe than the latter
 
I've searched, haven't found anything
could be that everything is failing
 
That's less likely
What's the symptoms?
 
hard disk spinning down, sometimes during boot, sometimes while in use, KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR every time I start up Windows 8, 8.1 or 10. I put RAM in another slot this morning, and it seems to work for now
everything started when I got new GPU
Thermal Master (Cooler Master brand if I got it right) PSU, claims to produce 500W
 
hm
whocrashed is a pretty nice tool for translating a BSOD into plain speak
 
oh, and, pc crashed twice while I was playing civ5, with red and black stripes over the screen, but that was a while ago
 
1:05 PM
What was the old GPU and what's the new one?
 
the old one was Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6450, the new one is MSI AMD Radeon r7 260
 
hm. Someone might smack me with a newspaper for saying this, but might be drivers as well ;p
 
the bsod didn't occur on win7 (I ran that one for a while, but I had some issues with drivers), and Ubuntu boots fine
 
which makes it sound a little more like drivers
I tend to favour nvidia so, not too sure on that
but yeah, install whocrashed, get it to crash, and see what it has to say
 
I got the new ones from the site :/
and wait, gpu drivers spinning down hdd, wtf?
 
1:08 PM
hm
or ram
And for that I'd try memcheck x86+
PSU's the hard one
And I've never heard of thermal master being a cooler master brand
AAAH. Or the hard drive tomshardware.com/faq/id-1653301/… ...
yeah, this one is a doozie ;p
 
Bob
hm
ok, reconsidering the laptop
hmmm
The W230SS is replaced by the W230SD... main difference is GTX 960M > 860M.
But my preferred reseller doesn't have it, and the other one would cost ~$200 more
also considering a lightweight 15.6" Clevo
I need to make a decision in the next couple hours :\
Any suggestions? @JourneymanGeek/@allquixotic/@DragonLord?
(sorry about the mass-ping...)
 
@Bob: Well, I tend to go newer where I can. I suppose the newer model also has a newer processor?
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek No, same proc. i7-4710MQ
It's a socketed proc
 
I don't have that case, but the label on psu seems similar enough
 
1:13 PM
hm
 
sorry for the delay, the network issue kicked in
 
no worries
 
Bob
also not totally sold on the QHD screen at 13"... a 1920x1080 might be sufficient
 
I can't run the WhoCrashed, it says: "The procedure entry point SymGetDiaSession could not be located in the dll C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\dbgeng.dll
 
1:14 PM
0_0
 
btw I'm quite sure it's System32, not SYSTEM32
 
It should pull in what it needs...
ugh.
Your system seems very broken :/
 
wait I'll create System32 for it, just to see is that a problem :p
 
naw, windows isn't case sensitive
 
Bob
Also, on SSDs... Hm. Plextor vs Crucial
 
1:16 PM
then I don't know
 
Bob
I have zero experience with either :P
 
oh, it's known win8.1 error
 
1:37 PM
@CanadianLuke Woof?!
 
woof‽
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek At 13.3", would you go for 3200x1800 glossy or 1920x1080 matte? :P
(~$50 difference, but say they cost the same)
 
@JourneymanGeek ¿El Woofo?
 
tough
I prefer matte ;p
But I'd lean towards pixel density
tho, depends on the sort of matte, thinkpad mattes screens seem shaper than the one on my stream, despite lower pixel density
soooo
prolly the glossy
 
Bob
lol
@JourneymanGeek Definitely. I can't decide :(
 
1:46 PM
lol
 
Bob
Thing is, the higher res would be bad for power consumption and gaming too
 
@Bob: True
 
Bob
And at 13" 1920x1080 is already a pretty high density
And I do prefer matte
 
Then go matte ;p
 
Bob
but I seem to be falling into the trap of "BIG NUMBERS!!!! :D" :\
@JourneymanGeek My last two laptops were both glossy
It wasn't too bad :P
 
1:47 PM
(heh. I'm tempted to get the 27 inch dell rather than the 24 inch. Its ~100 dollars more)
 
Bob
Desktop screen is matte
@JourneymanGeek Well, physical size does make a difference.
 
All my screens except the bare panel are matte
 
Bob
High res? Not so much, at that density...
 
@Bob: yeah, and time to affordability is not much more
 
Bob
Also, I think @Psycogeek was the one who raised the good point that DPI scaling on Windows still has issues.
 
1:48 PM
Should be fixed on windows 10, and I'll likely go dual screen anyway
 
Bob
2
Q: Hot network questions sidebar does not show some favicons in Firefox on a high DPI display

BobI'm currently on a high-resolution display, using Firefox 34.0.5 on Windows 8.1 with display (Windows DPI) scaling set to 150%. This seems to cause favicons to not show up for some sites in the hot network questions list: This seems to only affect those favicons more than ~4050px down the spr...

@JourneymanGeek Oh, Windows itself handles that just fine. Applications, on the other hand...
 
@Bob: Plausibly
(but I'm not pulling the trigger till I have enough bones buried ;p)
and if I change my mind, I'll just end up upgrading my audio setup
 
Bob
lol
 
So I just found out the cute intern is a gamer girl
 
1:57 PM
She's wearing a pink dress and playing a pink Nintendo DS
Actually the DS is mine (yes, I onw a pink DS, don't ask me why), she was looking bored with nothing to do because someone else was using her PC, so I lent her the console. She immediately became so excited about Pokemon and Mario and is playing and making all these noises while she plays
As a side effect, it was really effective in making her stop interrupting the other trainee that's coding beside her
 
lol
I was thinking of buying a DS to play on the train
(bought a netbook, and chat with you people instead ;p)
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek The other thing I need to consider is if I should just change entirely to a different laptop... Iris Pro vs 860M...
 
@Bob: That's entirely dependant on your needs.
 
My friend had a 3DS, but it was stolen. I read the other day it is possible to buy a classic GBA for $30 at gamestop. It's something unthinkable here :(
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek Well of course :P
 
2:06 PM
My wierd desire for a razer blade aside, I probably would do fine with integrated graphics on my laptop
(hell, I've never owned a laptop with a 'proper' gpu. Its always intel)
 
Bob
But they're pretty close performance-wise: videocardbenchmark.net/…
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy: ugh
 
@JourneymanGeek Ugh what?
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy: that it got stolen?
(old gameboys were well loved in the army)
 
I remember back in 1998, when gameboys were nothing new, a friend from school lent me one (a classick, brick-sized B&W) with a Kirby game, it was amazing at the time :P
@JourneymanGeek I've never been in the army
I managed to escape it ;P
 
2:11 PM
(no, not me ;p)
tho, amusingly that's the same rank I held/hold ;p
 
Hmmmm.... Suspicious.
 
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Now that you mention it, nobody's ever seen Ash and @JourneymanGeek at the same time.
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2:21 PM
Some would say they are often seen at the same time
 
@JourneymanClarkKent
 
;p
(damn, that's a splitting image)
 
2:49 PM
o/
got my Steelseries H Wireless at work.... works like a charm, full duplex... can listen and speak on a phone call :)
the phone is cabled to the base station with 3.5mm and a Y cable, so I can't take my phone with me if I need to walk around, but I can walk to a neighboring cube with the headset on my head and still listen in
better than bluetooth with random shotgun sounds though
 
Bob
hm
two issues left
960M vs 860M... :S
and the damn thing is 3cm thick... urk
 
3:14 PM
27
Q: Is it correct to say Person A is the "spitting image" or the "splitting image" of Person B?

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;p
 
;p
meh
dogs don't spit anyway ;p
 
and birds don't swallow, so they have to raise their heads in order to drink water
 
so do RA regulars own every possible model of the Samsung 850 Pro? @DragonLord @MichaelFrank -- I have the 128 GB and the 1 TB; DL has the 512; anyone have the 256?
 
@allquixotic You work in a dilbertesque cube-farm? :/
It would be quite hard for me to get used to that
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy No; the classic Dilbert cartoons were conceived before the suits started so-called "open plan" offices, which basically means you get about half the area of a normal cube
@ThatBrazilianGuy I would kill for that much personal space and that much visual protection (walls)
I have two walls and about 150 degrees of my back open to a hallway where people frequently stand around and talk to their coworkers 6-8 hours of the day
 
3:20 PM
@allquixotic Wait, what? Bureacratic culture and manglment are so evil they get to twist math and geometry so removing the cubicles gets you less space?!
 
Bob
@allquixotic Nope. 250 EVO mSATA though :P
Hm. $2000 gets me a Clevo W230SS. $3000 gets me a Dell XPS 15.
The XPS has a better screen (touch, glass cover), is 15" (vs 13"), longer battery life (11hrs vs ~4hrs + 4hrs) and is thinner (2cm vs 3cm).
But costs more and has 1 yr warranty (vs 3 yrs). Also 750M vs 860M, but that's close anyway.
Oh, storage is different too but they're kinda equal...ish.
 
@allquixotic I might get one in future ;p
 
Bob
Hm. Decisions, decisions...
 
I have a 840
 
Bob
Pay more for the thinner one with a better screen and battery? Or go for the cheaper option? :P
Both seem to be pretty easy to open up. Actually, the Dell manual is better than the Clevo one.
Not as good as the HP manuals :P
 
3:29 PM
@Bob you've been laptop shopping for a long time :P why the rush to order now?
 
yay got my RAM
Now have 8 gb of it B-)
 
Bob
@allquixotic cause old one is probably failing... display glitched out last week
I can't choose... someone decide for me! :P
 
!!should Bob buy the Clevo or should he buy the Dell
 
@allquixotic Bob should buy the Clevo
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Bob
3:31 PM
!!ok
 
Cavil has spoken
 
@Bob That didn't make much sense. Use the !!/help command to learn more.
 
Bob
:(
@allquixotic Well ok then :D
 
@allquixotic This is where I sit all day. But I also get to hear lots of coworkers talking to each other 8hs a day.
 
3:32 PM
Or hear them having long personal phonecalls
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy You can MOVE YOUR CHAIR and still be within your own personal office space?
if I move my chair even 1 inch, I am out in the hallway.
 
@allquixotic I can literally rotate my chair in 360 degrees while going "wheeeee"
 
Bob
@allquixotic ...wow
 
probably has nicer chairs than all of ya
 
Bob
I guess you could technically call my workplace cubicles. plenty of space though.
@JourneymanGeek I like my chair! :P
 
3:34 PM
My workplace is a series of rooms with desks tho
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy I can also hear coworkers discussing religion and saying all gay people should burn in Hell, and having an annoying ringtone in repeat for 2min, and when I complain they tell me to shut the f@#$ up and go $%#$ myself. (Yes, that happened)
 
Bob
^ @allquixotic's face after reading that
2
 
lol
(Its a herman miller)
@ThatBrazilianGuy My workplace is fairly quiet, unless people walk in panicy ;p
I think we have these
 
Bob
shrug dunno about brand, but we have some kind of mesh chair
looks a lot like these actually => thehumansolution.com/ergocraft-eco8-8-mesh-chair.html
 
@JourneymanGeek Here's not terribly noisy, but it's a quite big office that combines 3 or 4 different departments in the same area, with just thin half-"walls" (wooden plaques actually) dividing the space inbetween.
> people walk in panicy
 
3:40 PM
lol
 
They go all "INTERNET IS DAWN HAAAALP"?
 
happened today.
Kiiinda
"I HAVE AN IMPORTANT CALL IN 2 MINUTES AND EVERYTHING IS BRRRROOOOKEEENNN"
2
and its a mac, and I'm not very good with macs
 
Bob
wait, no, that's not it. only the back is mesh, not the seat
shrug close enough
 
/me has an important meal in 2 minutes.
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy 11:44?
 
3:43 PM
It's 12:44 now. DST has ended.
And I can have my lunch whenever I want :p
 
speak for yourself. it's 11:44 here. ;p
 
oh
this is my desk ;p
 
@JourneymanGeek Sega? You name your machines after game studios?
 
lol
wierdly? no
 
lol green terminals :D
 
3:45 PM
there's apparently a place in malaysia called sega
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek I swear the monitor on the left is the same one I used at home up till 2011
 
@Bob: Might be
;p
 
Bob
Wait, are they the same? The left and right ones look different :S
 
they're both the same model tho
 
Bob
3:46 PM
Anyway, the base looks identical, as do the buttons :P
it's a 16:10, right?
 
we have a ton of them spare
I theeenk so
 
@JourneymanGeek Also, that eletric wire, you place your legs paws there?
 
Bob
1860x1050?
 
that's the entirety of my work space
 
Bob
3:46 PM
I'd take a photo, but I'm not at work right now :P
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy: naw, there's an amazing amount of space
 
isn't that rat's nest of cables beautiful? :D
it marks me as a geek... ;p
 
Bob
@allquixotic Is that a 5:4 on the left? O_O
 
@Bob the lappy?
 
Bob
@allquixotic The monitor.
It looks more vertical than 4:3...
 
3:48 PM
@allquixotic !!no
 
the lappy is a E6420 with a 1360x768; the left monitor is 1280x1024
 
Bob
@allquixotic So it is! :P
 
the right is 1440x900
 
is my home setup
 
Bob
I can't remember the last time I saw a 5:4
...unless it's the one right next to me that I never use and can't remember the res of O_O
 
3:50 PM
tho, I remounted the little screen
 
all my monitors at home are 16:9 now
 
@Bob: I think phillips still sells em, and isn't the pixel 5:4?
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek Pixel? I'm talking resolution..?
 
the google chrome thing ;p
 
@JourneymanGeek My home setup is a single laptop ;______________;
;________;
 
Bob
3:51 PM
Soo... turns out the one right next to me is 5:4
how the hell did I miss that
it looks less obviously vertical here
 
ahh no, the pixel is 3:2
 
Bob
My desk at home is too messy to take a photo of :(
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy !!kick ThatBrazilianGuy from the geek club || reason = insufficient electronics
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy: I have one other system...
and wem
erm
3 spare ones?
 
!! s/electronics/money/
 
3:52 PM
@ThatBrazilianGuy @ThatBrazilianGuy !!kick ThatBrazilianGuy from the geek club || reason = insufficient money (source)
 
(old laptops , core 2 era)
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek I have entirely too many, most unused :\
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy: I bought most of my current hardware when I was underpaid ;p
@Bob: pondering pulling one out to run haiku on
out of desk space tho ;p
 
Bob
Desktop circa 2011, laptop ~2013, school-issued craptop ~2009 (unused), a pile of tablets ~2014 (three unused one used, two Android two Windows), RPi
 
Bob
3:54 PM
Plus that old P3 box, and that old P4 box
 
desktop circa 2012, laptop circa 2011(?), bay trail brix I bought last august
2 old laptops are core 2 era
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy Meow
 
shared box is 2007, and I can't remember when I bought my atom mini itx
 
Bob
In about a month, that'll be a 2015 laptop and the 2013 one will be unused and/or in for repair and/or given to my brother
 
oh and a rpi
 
Bob
3:55 PM
I need to find a use for those tablets
especially the two extremely shitty Android ones
cost under $100 together
 
Bob
I'm open to suggestions!
 
let's see.... ThinkPad X60, ThinkPad X61, ThinkPad Tablet Slate (ICS), my old laptop that's now mom's - ThinkPad T530, dad's system (which is my old system) with a Core 2 Quad and a Radeon HD5970; Surface Pro 1; Yoga 2 non-Pro; mom's Nexus 7 that used to be mine; mom's Kindle Paperwhite; my Asus SuckPad Scribblature Edition x86 with Windows 8.1; my Note 4; and my current desktop. And about 10 years worth of assorted parts in the basement gathering dust
 
Bob
...as long as they don't involve developing Android apps; I have enough of Java at work tyvm. C# would be nice though
 
> - Old 2008 17" laptop
- Old Duron 800 Mhz + 15" screen (for donation to charity)
- Chromecast
- Raspberry Pi
- Motorola Defy
- Moto G
- 10" shitty tablet
- Xbox
- Wii
- Nintendo DS
- Mini-ITX fileserver
 
3:57 PM
all the systems listed still run and are used at least yearly ;p
 
@allquixotic can I get back to the club?
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy !!invite ThatBrazilianGuy to geek_club || membership_level = initiate || reason = he probably paid $2000 for that Duron
 
Bob
@allquixotic Don't like that Win8 tablet? :P
 
@Bob mehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh dude
so slow
no capa buttons
 
3:59 PM
(Possibly around $700 back in the ancient ice age)
 
Bob
Is it the 1GB one?
 
nah, 2GB
 
@allquixotic: I have R60 and R61(and dad has one), X220 ;p
 
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