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djsmiley2k

12:00 AM

rofl, the moment everything goes quiet in the server room.

Journeyman Geek

12:24 AM

@BenN thanks

bwDraco

1:26 AM

My laptop's GPU is overheating in a matter of seconds under AotS. Is something wrong?

No other game I've played has caused this before.

allquixotic

@bwDraco unsurprising; games that fully utilize the GPU are relatively rare, and most laptops aren't designed to handle 100% GPU load for extended periods

bwDraco

I'm also seeing power throttling, which usually only happens under certain gaming workloads involving extremely high polycounts.

I've never seen this happen under DOOM (in Vulkan mode), either.

It can overheat, but only after several minutes.

Ambient temperature is playing a role here, but to see the GPU declock to well below normal clock speeds is a sign of trouble...

(an example workload with "extremely high polycounts" would be FurMark, though this is just a torture test program)

Bob

Eh. AotS is a GPU benchmark disguised as a game.

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bwDraco

Well, a cutting-edge 64-bit heavily-multithreaded DX12 RTS engine designed to handle thousands of units at once is a rather unusual workload...

Modern GPUs are designed for a certain mix of polygon drawing, texture mapping, etc. They're not designed with the expectation that all of the resources in the chip will be utilized all at once, because this never happens with any real-world game.

This is why FurMark has a reputation for destroying graphics cards.

Apparently, AotS is closer to a GPU power virus than most other games.

With about 200-300 units, my laptop's i7 is loafing while the GPU is greatly overloaded.

djsmiley2k

2:28 AM

I recall my 6600GT getting upto 98C before I freaked and returned it (that was a desktop GPU)

that was about the time i started moving awa from desktop gaming infact, I blame Gigabyte lol

Journeyman Geek

3:11 AM

Oo

djsmiley2k

3:45 AM

hi @JourneymanGeek

Journeyman Geek

hi

djsmiley2k

4:03 AM

Anything itneresting going on? isn't it quite late now?

after all it's 4am here...

Journeyman Geek

4:17 AM

noonish

just got back from the dog park

djsmiley2k

wow someone is angry or something

@djsmiley2k: Using Java(-applets) for an update has nothing to do with so called ease of usability. It is a variation of insanity - nothing more, nothing less. — zx485 2 mins ago

Journeyman Geek

Ash seems to have a crush ;p

djsmiley2k

aww hehe

4 legged, or 2?

Journeyman Geek

Little poodle.

Looks like half a mop. The other half is strange

he just sits there watching her ;p

djsmiley2k

lol

Psycogeek

4:20 AM

@JourneymanGeek just sits there? my dog would be all up on that.

Journeyman Geek

@Psycogeek I know right?

Psycogeek

NFB = Nose Follows Butt

Journeyman Geek

Just sits there

Its like he's shy.

Psycogeek

undoubtedly scheming to go behind the bleachers when nobody is lookin' .

My dog is still trying to get at that bag with a few (fast food) fries in it.

Is no wonder why when I am not there, the whole place gets tore up, just trying to get at the leftovers. Meat seaking Missile.

djsmiley2k

The thing that kills it the fastes is when you use it and keep it plugged in into a power source even tough it is fully charged. — RamonRobben 6 hours ago

Is this really still true?

I can't believe it is, but I hear it a lot

hey up @Psycogeek

Psycogeek

4:31 AM

@djsmiley2k tis better not to charge li-ion battery to full, but it is completely within specs to charge it full and leave it that way.

djsmiley2k

so why does the batter firmware not just charge to 95% and never higher?

Psycogeek

So ifn' say you have a laptop that will stop charging at 80or90% you can preserve it "better" but more effect is the orignal quality of the battery.
To think of it easy, overcharging any rolled electrolyte cell , including capacitors over voltage, causes them to "gas" the "spec" is below that, but it is still kinder to treat the battery better than that. It is generally a waste of time.

It does not do a lot of extra saving of the battery , to First charge it fully , then to lower it again just to treat it nicer.
When it comes to the High end, it is reaching the high end that can do the most "wear" of the battery. once there and the charge properly stops, its a done deal.

If you want to do "storage" just to keep the battery around, but not using it, charge it to ~50% and store it out of the laptops heat.

Speaking of heat, that is not nice to the battery at all, but try and explain it to all modern mobile equiptment, cause heck half these phones think the battery IS the heat sink :-)

So a laptop that (user selectably) charges to lower voltages , like say 4.1 or 4.0 or whatever percentage they want to label that, it stays far away from the break-down state of the battery. This is good. specially when the user can have thier cake and eat it too. if they are about to need mobile power, there is nothing wrong with fully charging it.

djsmiley2k

5:01 AM

hah

linus media group...

petabyte project, ok nice... get 40+ drives from seagate etc...

seemingly all from the same batch...

Journeyman Geek

5:47 AM

lol

djsmiley2k

6:37 AM

@JourneymanGeek what could possibly go wrong ;)

Journeyman Geek

@djsmiley2k that's suprisingly common

djsmiley2k

yah sadly

Fred Mcgiff

7:50 AM

Anyone ever split a VHD and VMDK of size +125 GB into 8 GB files a peace? Utility/tool for recommend doing this?

Rahul2001

8:04 AM

I just got another call from an old classmate asking me to implement his startup idea... :/

Journeyman Geek

8:17 AM

@FredMcgiff ehh. After the fact... No. This might be a good question for software recommendations if it's about software or su if it's about the process

Fred Mcgiff

8:52 AM

@JourneymanGeek i used an tool called HJsplit but takes for ever and seems like zip from rar or rar fails

Journeyman Geek

wait

You mean for split archives?

Fred Mcgiff

yea spliting a file like vmdk thats 125 GB into 8 GB parts

i did use HJsplit but it took for ever, i did test it afterwards and it did sucessful join the files into a 125 single file

i see 7 zip has the option to do tar and wim achrives

Journeyman Geek

and, platform...

yup

Fred Mcgiff

windows

Journeyman Geek

but 7zip is what I'd use

Fred Mcgiff

8:56 AM

what type of file

i tried zip and they fail should i jsut use the 7zip file

Journeyman Geek

yup

Fred Mcgiff

trying again thanks for feedback i apperciate it

Isaac

9:50 AM

hey, anyone up? im having some issue with nginx turning a GET request into a POST request

Journeyman Geek

10:17 AM

Hi @TomWijsman LTNS

Tom Wijsman

10:47 AM

@JourneymanGeek I'm here everyday :)

Rahul2001

11:06 AM

Hello!

DavidPostill

11:17 AM

Hello!

Journeyman Geek

11:29 AM

superuser.com/questions/1182924/… ._.

Bob

@JourneymanGeek lol. wrong words but close enough

Journeyman Geek

@Bob more like..

!!what

ChatBot John Cavil

Burgi

i'm dying of hangoveritis :(

Journeyman Geek

bites burgi

Burgi

11:37 AM

~~ow!~~ i just got the joke

Journeyman Geek

Woof ;p

Burgi

you should have bit me last night

DavidPostill

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Eh. It's not something most people will notice/need, but it actually does make a difference. On most mice.

It's the same reason some people prefer interrupt-driven PS/2 mice.

@Burgi I don't really want to start an argument in the comments, but... seriously? The practical gain is lower latency.

That is the practical gain.

Burgi

i still don't understand why you want to

Bob

11:48 AM

@Burgi Because, perhaps, some people who may or may not be playing twitch games would like to minimise unnecessary imput latency.

Or maybe someone just feels like it.

It's like asking what the practical gain of a 75 Hz display over a 60 Hz display is.

Burgi

i'll think about it but seems silly to me

Bob

@Burgi Just because you personally might not care or notice a difference does not mean no one does.

(Personally... I don't really notice either. But, eh, my reaction times were always shit anyway.)

Burgi

maybe i need to go away and curl up in a dark hole

Bob

o.O

Mokubai

As an owner of a gaming mouse, it does make a difference. It can reduce what feels like "jumpiness" between positions and make for a smoother experience, especially when you are trying to lead a moving enemy

Burgi

11:55 AM

18 mins ago, by Burgi

i'm dying of hangoveritis :(

Bob

@Mokubai Yea... I did say it varies by person - mine can toggle 125/500/1000. I can't specifically say it's smoother, but it actually moves faster on the same DPI setting - almost as if 125 drops some readings...

Mokubai

You might not be able to see every mouse movement as the framerate is much lower, but oversampling of this type can reduce error or jitter in positional sampling making the movement smoother

Bob

But, yea, I don't have any hard evidence for perceived smoothness (which may or may not differ from absolute smoothness)

Mokubai

Likewise, I can't prove it, but the theory is that sampling more often reduces the jumps beteen mouse positions. While you might have the same error per sample, you are averaging out the error by using more samples, hence slightly smoother.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob ah. So its plausible its psycosomatic ;p

Mokubai

12:01 PM

Depends a lot on the error in the sensor used

Journeyman Geek

I tend to assume the people who designed my hardware are usually smart enough to get the most out of it ;p

Mokubai

But yeah, above a certain completely indefinable point it is probably the same as changing to optical cables with gold plated connector locks.

Journeyman Geek

I'm making a couple of assumptions - that network latency, and brain-hand-system latency >>> mouse latency

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Uh. That's the other one. Latency. 8ms to 1ms is quite significant, especially when your network latency is 1ms (LAN).

Mokubai

the hand to eye latency in what you see on screen is entirely local, but having a smoother local viewport (better mouse) can mean that you are better at aligning a shot

Journeyman Geek

12:06 PM

assuming that helps latency

Bob

It's not something you'll notice on its own; it's far below human perception.

Journeyman Geek

I suppose though I don't competitively game ;p

Bob

But given two opponents with identical human reaction times, identical computers, etc... it can come down to a tiny difference.

@Mokubai It's more ... say... network latency is the same, processing is the same, screen is the same, let's assume human (eye, brain, nerves) is the same or very nearly so... the time it takes to register a mouse move/click could have an impact. highly, highly unlikely... but it's there.

Mokubai

Likewise I I think it probably does make a difference, a small one, but it is there.

Bob

I'm never gonna blame the mouse for being too slow and causing me to lose (the <0.1% of the time that miiiiiight happen), but it's also something I'll take if it's available...

Journeyman Geek

12:12 PM

lol

If I lose, its cause the other guy ~~cheated~~ is better than me ;p

DavidPostill

That didn't quite work and I can't edit it :/

ChatBot John Cavil

@DavidPostill If I lose, its cause the other ~~guy~~ dog ~~cheated~~ is better than me ;p (source)

Journeyman Geek

lol

DavidPostill

That didn't quite work and I can't edit it :/

Journeyman Geek

Dog's don't cheat. They arn't cheetahs

@DavidPostill better?

DavidPostill

12:19 PM

@JourneymanGeek Thx ;p

Journeyman Geek

hm

on one hand, it isn't a great question

on the other hand, I can't find any mention of this service outside people panicing about MS spying on them

0

Q: WAP Push Message Routing Service

Can you, please, share some knowledge about the Windows 10 service mentioned in the title? Is it only a spying service or there are some other uses for developers/users? What exactly WAP means? Is the reference to the well known mobile techonlogy to push content on headsets only coincidental?

blackviper has it listed in his individual services page with no details

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Oh yea, as far as nonsupported: most mice are happy to report much faster than at 125 Hz... so, it usually works out fine.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob unless it dosen't, then you blame your mouse overheating ;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek It's not like 1kHz is particularly fast for even the simplest micro -_-

Oliver Salzburg

12:41 PM

It is time to process more CD/DVDs into usable data again!

That is today's pile

Journeyman Geek

Oo

Oliver Salzburg

Yes, I own a legit copy of VB5

Bob

@OliverSalzburg Ooh, memorex :P

do they still exist?

Oliver Salzburg

That Memorex disc is a "backup" of VB6, nice

The German version

This is where I keep the good stuff apparently

DavidPostill

1:30 PM

spam, spam, spam

Burgi

1:45 PM

a large glass of water, a shower and a little nap and i am 80% back to being human again

@OliverSalzburg do you write all your CD labels in english?

Oliver Salzburg

@Burgi In general, yes. But not all of those are labeled by me

Burgi

fair enough

@DavidPostill the onebox has grabbed the spam URL

DavidPostill

@Burgi Oops.

→ 1 message moved to Trash

Burgi

3:25 PM

is ultima 4 any good?

Hennes

3:44 PM

No idea, the last I played was Ultima 1

ON a C64

Though apparently I did once buy Ultima iV for GOG

Ultima VI Special Edition Cassette Side 1.mp3
oh right. Audio once came on a tape in a holder called a cassette

Burgi

4:06 PM

i've got ultima 4 for free on GOG

djsmiley2k

4:19 PM

/me looks in

'mornin' yall

Ben N

Good morning!

djsmiley2k

well i just got up so it's morning for me :P

vc fsrxbe

Rahul2001

5:01 PM

Hm... I wonder how @arda is doing...

DavidPostill

5:13 PM

This is not a site to advise you how to run a business and make money. — DavidPostill 23 secs ago

bwDraco

5:57 PM

@OliverSalzburg Realms of the Haunting?

bwDraco

Welp, managed to fix that stupid ADF noise on my HP OJP8630. Turns out the plastic housing of the ADF mechanism can get warped causing it to rub against the gears inside.

Notice the gray strip of plastic above the gears? Apparently, pulling that piece out a bit fixes the problem.

The grinding noise can occur if you put something heavy on the ADF cover, causing the plastic housing to deform (I made the mistake of putting a ream of paper on top).

Boris_yo

6:16 PM

@bwDraco Oh that's no V8 engine...

Buy new external DVD/CD device or buy converter on eBay for existing internal DVD/CD device?

Don't know if there will be issues with controller of that external case (or driver maybe?)

@JourneymanGeek That was 100K dude! Uh when I will get my hands on you...!

... and buy you Advantix treat.

bwDraco

6:47 PM

reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/5w5pta/…

wccftech.com/intel-playing-dirty-undercut-amd-ryzen

I really hope Intel gets sued the moment it tries to lock AMD out of the market again.

These are rumors, but the mere mention of Intel playing dirty to prevent AMD from competing gets me very angry.

Jul 31 '15 at 21:48, by allquixotic

We need to bring these people down to earth, humble them, and make them comply with law. If that means putting a crook CEO behind bars for 5 years, do it. There is absolutely no justification for not doing so.

(in context, that was said of NVIDIA, but the same can be said for Intel)

Michael Frank

7:58 PM

@bwDraco As someone that services very expensive scanners, please don't put heavy things on top of the ADF. D:

We had a site that was having constant feed problems with one of these things:

But whenever we turned up to site the machine would run fine during our testing.

Turns out, the operator would rest his elbow on the corner of the upper pod (the bit with the document output tray), which cause excess pressure on the feed rollers on one side.

We only caught it because we asked him to show us how he scanned something...

bwDraco

@MichaelFrank :P

Wow.

It took me a bunch of power cycles and even a few trips to the printer's service menu to test the ADF and verify that the issue was resolved.

(touch Home-Back-Home-Home [the keys are not lit] to access the engineering menu, then select Service Menu > Service Tests > ADF duplex pick correct output. Put some paper in the ADF and press OK to start the test)

Michael Frank

That's much easier than entering a 20 digit alphanumeric key, specifically generated by Scanner/PC ID pair.

bwDraco

8:13 PM

HP still has a few menu entries designed to be very obscure, though, and several very low-level reports generate obfuscated output like "Pxx Sxxxxx: Pxx Ox" for "Pen Status: Pen Ok" ("pen" refers to the printhead).

I suppose the underlying information is supposed to be a trade secret under NDA...

Burgi

@bwDraco how was the basketball?

bwDraco

@Burgi It was a long day for me, but also exhilarating. My alma mater won both games \o/

Burgi

congrats

did you get an opportunity to practise your social skills?

bwDraco

@Burgi Not really much; was very busy.

Burgi

fair enough

bwDraco

8:17 PM

I did try to talk a bit, though.

I was in the press box most of the time with professional photographers and cameramen.

Burgi

and free snacks?

bwDraco

I'd rather not go into that much detail.

Burgi

did you eat ALL the free snacks? ;)

Michael Frank

> bumped to the homepage by Community♦ 19 hours ago

Burgi

ah ok

Michael Frank

8:20 PM

Got an upvote on an answer from 2014 from this! :D

Burgi

@bwDraco you didn't need to delete that

bwDraco

csidolphins.com/news/2017/2/24/…

csidolphins.com/news/2017/2/25/…

Guess who shot these images? :-)

Burgi

that site is loading really slow for me

yeah that site keeps timing out for me

bwDraco

@Burgi I'm not having trouble loading the CSI Dolphins website. Is there an issue on your end, or perhaps this is a problem somewhere between you and the server?

Ben N

I can load it

Nice pictures :)

bwDraco

8:28 PM

The lighting was the hard part. Unlike the College of Staten Island's Sports and Recreation Center, the Nat Holman Gymnasium was quite poorly lit. It pushed the limits of my camera equipment: the autofocus system had trouble keeping up and I was bumping against ISO limits (with attendant noise).

Burgi

possibly

which Who song does CSI Dolphins have as a theme song?

bwDraco

Consider that I need to hit at least 1/500s shutter speeds to get reasonably sharp images. Mind you, this is wide-open on a professional f/2.8 lens!

Burgi

the tracert fails after two hops

bwDraco

To say that this was challenging was an understatement, but I love a good challenge :)

Burgi

C:\>tracert csidolphins.com

Tracing route to csidolphins.com [206.225.82.135]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    83 ms    36 ms   121 ms  cpc3-stre6-2-0-gw.1-1.cable.virginm.net [80.2.18.1]
  2    92 ms    31 ms    19 ms  bagu-core-2a-xe-235-0.network.virginmedia.net [62.252.69.169]
  3     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  4     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  5     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  6     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  7    84 ms    87 ms    65 ms  nrth-ic-1-ae1-0.network.virginmedia.net [62.254.42.218]

bwDraco

8:32 PM

Might be downtime on the network :(

The #CSIMBB has done it! The men are @CUNYAC Champions once again! They will now await to see who they will play in… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/835382089658875904

Tweeted by CSIDolphins on February 25, 2017 at 6:53 AM

The image in this Tweet? That was also my shot.

It's truly an honor to witness history in the making for my team, to be in the press box and capture it happening right before my eyes. It's not every day you get to do something like this.

That's what makes this job fun.

Burgi

yeah the problem is with my ISP, if i use google translate as a proxy it loads everything except the images

i've reported the DNS issue to them

bwDraco

8:47 PM

(Image in Tweet: Pentax K-3 II with D FA* 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 70mm; 1/500s f/2.8 ISO 10000 [not a typo!])

bwDraco

9:09 PM

Hey @allq

DavidPostill

@bwDraco Why isn't your name on them as the photographer? Nice pictures BTW :)

bwDraco

When you reach the point that you need the 70-200 f/2.8 as a tool to obtain images you couldn't get otherwise you'll understand why they are so popular. If you only buy it because you just have to have the "best" gear you won't. — Michael Clark Feb 23 '13 at 17:02

lol

This was one of those events where the 70-200 was essential.

Michael Frank

9:36 PM

"We have an emergency in the boardroom"

Get in there, someone is trying to present from a Macbook...

Michael Frank

9:48 PM

But we use VGA (still). So I get in there and they're trying to move the presentation via USB and I hear "Oh, yea you need to click Format Drive for it to work" then they try and email the presentation but the guy with the Macbook has 13,555 unread emails in his Mail app, and it crashes every time he launches it.

Fun times.

DavidPostill

@MichaelFrank lol

Michael Frank

I'm sure I'm going to get a "Why don't we have x for Macs?" talk after the meeting.

Oooh, Nokia have finally got on board with Android.

Oliver Salzburg

10:05 PM

@bwDraco Yes

I really liked that game when it came out. But I don't think I ever got the story

Bob

10:26 PM

hi

Ben N

Hi!

djsmiley2k

@Burgi who is it? loadin fine here :O

Also hi, another night shift yey

Oliver Salzburg

I'm having one of those weird bugs again

I'm switching a lot of CD/DVDs right now. And every couple of times, Windows will not refresh the name of the disc and the filesystem

So it appears as if the previous disc is still inserted

When you try to open one of the files, the contents are just random data

Cycle the try once and everything is back to normal

I haven't completely made up my mind yet, but I don't think I like this

The last part of my process today is to put the disc in a shredder. So, "Oh, I already saw this one. No need to copy it." is rather costly

Ben N

10:47 PM

This probably isn't the problem you're running into, but it is interesting: why Explorer ejects the CD after burning it

djsmiley2k

Judism se confuses me, it's like a complete other language (I'm aware...)

@OliverSalzburg ouch

Oliver Salzburg

@BenN Very interesting

djsmiley2k

@BenN well that's.,.... urgly

Oliver Salzburg

Could very well be related

djsmiley2k

for once windows doesn't seem to be at fault

sounds like the drive isn't realising the disk has been removed...

doesn't update the 'meta'data

Oliver Salzburg

10:50 PM

I just thought it would be a Windows thing since I've had this drive for years and never encountered this problem

...with previous versions of Windows on this machine

djsmiley2k

maybe it is, or maybe the drive just started dying

DavidPostill

I occasionally have a similar? problem. I burn a CD, it gets ejected. I put it straight back in and the CD is not recognised... a reboot fixes it. Happens about 1 in 10 or so burns.

Oliver Salzburg

Yeah maybe. Hasn't been used in years and now I'm shoving hundreds of discs through it, one after the other

DavidPostill

@OliverSalzburg Have you tried cleaning the lens?

Oliver Salzburg

@DavidPostill Have you ever tried inserting a different media to reset the cache? As suggested in that article @BenN just posted?

@DavidPostill No

Burgi

10:54 PM

@djsmiley2k virgin media

DavidPostill

@OliverSalzburg No. I will try that next time.