@DragonLord Isn't that how all software patent lawsuits start? I work for x and developed y. Ooops, I used my x computer to write a bit of code for y and now they own it. sadface
No wonder why Clang has such wonderful diagnostics.
The only physical Apple product I own is a Mini DisplayPort to VGA adapter, and that's only because my laptop has no VGA port.
Then again, I'm not really an Apple fan.
The Apple UX is nothing short of stunning, but others are quickly catching up.
(in terms of ease of use, elegance, etc.)
Apple's main technical advantage is their vertical integration: Mac, iPhone, and iPad are designed to have their hardware and software work together. The result is maximum efficiency and performance.
It's the reason Android seems so inefficient in comparison.
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12:59 AM
@JourneymanGeek meh just webkit, clang/llvm and what they forked of Mach... not that good
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@DragonLord I don't know, that's up to who implements the drivers in Android, that's the only variable part between Androids (other than good or awful OEM UIs... but then there's rooting. I used to have an iPod Touch 4 with Cydia and a good theme and good CLI programs but god it was a hassle for the jailbreakers in comparison with what it takes to root an Android phone)
Samsung devices are a bit less hackable but that's because they're trying to appeal to the high-security corporate market.
They're tamper-evident, but intentionally not super tamper-resistant.
(the latter is partly determined by carriers—carrier-unlocked phones are usually bootloader-unlockable)
Android smartphones are usually reasonably hackable these days.
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1:07 AM
@DragonLord you're right with tamper-evident... it even shows a counter at bootup with the amount of times an unofficial ROM has been flashed (of course it's circumventable but it's a good feature for those who are security-conscious)
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There's basically no economic advantage for selling locked Android phones
Apple's need for a user-friendly compiler is really the only reason Clang has such great diagnostics.
That's why I say Clang is "Designed by Apple in California".
Because Apple takes UX very, very seriously.
Not necessarily the rest of LLVM, but other parts of the toolchain show some Apple influence.
The Fix-it hints provided by Clang are very much an Apple product.
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1:23 AM
meh GCC has learned a lot from Clang and their errors aren't that obtuse either (when I think about compiler UX I think errors and output... not cli flags)
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also I think that apple and clang "ease-of-use" is just a coincidence, not cause-and-effect (maybe it is because Clang could learn from others' mistakes)
Don't get me wrong. I have three compiler toolchains on this machine. I'm in the process of phasing out Visual Studio and Visual C++ in favor of Mingw-w64 GCC and NetBeans, with Clang as a secondary compiler.
@Bob Hmm. I have a strategy for how to get the best results out of my upgrade.
I'm going to uninstall as many things as I can stand prior to upgrading, especially things that I know have some kind of a kernel module or driver, then reinstall them after upgrading.
I'll probably leave most/all games installed, and bog standard stuff like browsers, and anything that has egregiously restrictive licensing like hard-capped activations.
The /etc/init.d/networking restart command has been disabled in 14.04.
To restart your interfaces you have to use:
sudo ifdown eth0 && sudo ifdown eth1 && sudo ifup eth0 && sudo ifup eth1
I found an explanation for this here - http://askubuntu.com/questions/230698/how-to-restart-the-networkin...
@Bob so I succeeded on installing ubuntu on flash drive and set to boot GRUB through ESP of the flash drive
@Bob This is okay but I just wanted to go a bit further and test my understanding. Now I know that the 'bootia32.efi' is the file that loads the GRUB or GRUB itself, I decided to place this file in the ESP of the original drive where the windows boot manager is also located.
@Bob However, even if I made a UEFI entry pointing towards the 'bootia32.efi' in the original drive ESP, it would not execute properly and just boot windows.
> It's fairly clear on what the \EFI\BOOT\BOOTxxx.EFI files are all about. They are the fallback default if nothing is configured in the Boot Manager. Normally, however, something will be configured in the Boot Manager.
@Bob However, even if I made a UEFI entry pointing towards the 'bootia32.efi' in the original drive ESP, it would not execute properly and just boot windows.
How did you make this entry?
@do_os That doesn't say which bootloader it actually is.
There's a bunch of different bootloaders it could really be.
@do_os Problem is, you basically copied a random bootloader. You have no guarantee that it's actually GRUB. And you don't know what configuration or other supporting files it needs...
@Bob they should give out some sort of global prize for anyone who can type all that shit out correct (without C&P) and have it, and all the parameters correct in one move.
How about we call it, the "shakespear monkey" prize based on the idea that giving 10,000 monkies a keyboard 1 of them might get 2 words of a shakespear play correct.
but still the new entry doesn't boot up properly and slips to windows boot.. I guess there's something wrong with bootia32.efi...
@Bob if GRUB efi file is not damaged. Then it shouldn't slip to windows boot manager right? Even if there is no grub.cfg, it should at least load GRUB with command line interface...
oh, in the early stages when I was still struggling with ubuntu install i found that bootia32.efi without grub.cfg gave me command line interface and not a menu
Oh yea it IS a conspiracy :-) Apparently windows media center will not exist in windows 10 (so it is claimed) and on or about July 20th 2015 thousands of people program guides crapped out, and it takes some total BS to get it working again.
You see there are still many many people using WMC for thier TVPC computers, the ones that just work forever , dont really get viruses , dont really need (conspiracy) updates breaking thier system.
Rather odd isnt it that these computer not subjected to the shananigans of the usual updates, are in thier own problem pile, while not the end of the world, and still operational , highly inconvienient thier "TvGuide" doesnt work, and the average fix time , is the same as the average (f--it) update to the new win10 time.
Will i lose that piece of hardwares functionality ? While the whole universe of MS tells me that i will loose nothing? It wouldnt be the first time now would it.
Will complaining or sending in LOL bug reports to microsft change anything? Nope, even after loosing about 17 features total added to the microsoft systems , only 1 lone feature has even got a reprive the Start menu :-) the only one i didnt actually use, although I do like that it is there.
"Windows Media Player will be removed when you upgrade to Windows 10." I think they mean center digitaltrends.com/computing/… the alternative software for keeping the hardware one would have that actually works, because i was using some of it , is $100. I only stopped using some of that expencive junk because of windows 7 obsoleting it at least temporarily.
@Bob: I spent half a day trying to workaround installing an OS with no keyboard. Then I got fed up, plugged my main keyboard in, and got it working immediately
well that is 2 awards i have to give out today :-)
How about "Hacker Tracker" award ?
The hacker tracker award is given out to anyone who goes through 2 hours of bullcrap reading cryptic logs and strings of computerised gobelitygook , to discover something, , , they did not really need to know.
I received a plain text email saying:
Bob would like to recall the message, "Bob's message".
(name and subject changed of course!)
I assume that Bob is also using Microsoft Outlook. I am happy to permit the recall, as his message was sent in error. But the e-mail is plain text and has no b...
I never heard of re-calling an e-mail :-) Ooops lets get that back. I wonder if something like that can be used to Test random e-mail addresses? If the person allows re-call, then the spammer knows it was a valid address?
Unless i know who had sent it, I sure as heck would not respond, i do not even allow recieved reciepts to be shot off, from anyone. And this user indicates "it was sent in error" Yea like the Spam messages that are designed to look like they were going to someone else.
"the nice thing to do would be to allow the recall" the secure thing to do would be to Delete both , and if it was someone you know tell them it is done.
@Bob Because I have several programs that are very restrictive about re-activations. That, and I have things set up "just the way I want them", and have done some really effective cleanup lately so that it runs about as efficiently as a clean install. Plus it will take a lot less time to uninstall 5-10 programs then reinstall them, than to reinstall everything.
aka Beacon (thats what they be calling it in wi-fi)
Things should only talk when I initiate it (static and all) so i can tell Heaven from hell, blue skies - - - youtu.be/1tGO1Y4FGpI?t=99 did we exchange . . .
Q: "Your switch is broadcasting packets on port 62976. Why?" A: "Please send us a network traffic trace." Q: "Why would you need a trace to tell me what your device is using the port for?" A: "Oh yeah, we actually use that for device discovery. It can be disabled on some switches." Q: "Okaaaay... So, can it be disabled on this particular switch and, if so, how?" A: "Nope"
mine does that too, but i thought it went all quiet when nothing is being thrown at it. But mine is lame cheap and only 4 port kind, them big serve 20+ port things have all kinds of special features?
Hey, I know I'm perfectly capable of building out a PC on my own, but I'm starting to second-guess whether I'm getting the best deal here. Let me state my use-case, and I welcome help from anyone with good input.
Trying to collect donations from an online gaming community to buy a gaming desktop for one of our members who's struggling financially and has a horrid craptop that doesn't play the games we want to play (well).
They have no desktop parts, so we have to build a full machine. Will probably end up getting a monitor, but let's not talk about that yet.
I want to build them something with a current gen or immediately prior gen AMD or Nvidia GPU, ideally near the high-end -- I want something very close to or identical to the HD 7970 / R9 280X in terms of raw performance, but I don't care if it's Nvidia or AMD.
CPU power is not extremely important, but an i5 is probably a good compromise. Either that or the Pentium anniversary edition, since this will only be for gaming.
8 GB of RAM will do. DDR3. Mobo should be bare minimum. Case and PSU should be bare minimum. Will need about a 1 TB HDD. Can't afford an SSD in the capacities that'd be needed.
Total build price: I'd say $700 is an absolute maximum, but cheaper is definitely better, as long as the GPU performance isn't sacrificed to reach a lower price point.
one could save a lot (and deal with some possible struggles with old parts) if they were to get a preimium sandy or ivy kind of computer some big pocket upgrader was unloading for haswell.
Most of those computer work just as well as, and overlocked with just about the same speeds. but there is always somone paying $$$ to upgrade to the latest, who will try and unload the last fully working one.
I have the 280X as my primary card, and without running in CrossFireX with my second card, it "handles" ARK fairly well at 1080p, but not incredibly well: a lot of the more advanced effects are turned off, and things like shadows (especially shadows...) are turned way down
Are you going to set them up so they never get a job? or set them up so they have a bleeding reason to work to upgrade , just to run everything in Ultra :-)
My system seems to be running some big mystery download. Task Manager attributes this to "Service Host: Local System". The list of Windows updates currently available does not explain this.
@JourneymanGeek I'm not accustomed to lower-end cards being viable, but it appears that, as of now, the GPU market is slightly ahead of the software in terms of requirements, possibly because so many people have old GPUs and would refuse to play games that lag on their old system, so they have to drive down the requirements and/or optimize their engines better
to me 960 sounds like "super ghetto low-end, brah" and I'd nope right out of that
@allquixotic the 960 is freaking amazing if it can do that for 120Watts :-) but i hear it isnt as power saving as all that. Also it is little known that nvidea does not actually create the exact same picture as an AMD. Pulling frames for a only slightly weaker total quality picture render would be a cheap trick, AMD should have though of too :-)
@allquixotic Right the game engine. One game will pull 60fps (locked sync) with only 1/2 load of my gpu, another putting out 95% the same picture will have a 100% load
The /etc/init.d/networking restart command has been disabled in 14.04.
To restart your interfaces you have to use:
sudo ifdown eth0 && sudo ifdown eth1 && sudo ifup eth0 && sudo ifup eth1
I found an explanation for this here - http://askubuntu.com/questions/230698/how-to-restart-the-networkin...
I received a plain text email saying:
Bob would like to recall the message, "Bob's message".
(name and subject changed of course!)
I assume that Bob is also using Microsoft Outlook. I am happy to permit the recall, as his message was sent in error. But the e-mail is plain text and has no b...
