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oldmud0

12:06 AM

rip nook that was once perfectly fine

;(

Journeyman Geek

rip?

Just reinstalled the old rom?

oldmud0

old rom had same problem before I reflashed new one

I don't know when it started

I hardly use my nook, it just stays on the charger so it can do BOINC tasks

Journeyman Geek

o0

oldmud0

Maybe in future houses will have a dedicated computer room again

It acts as both heater and computer for all the clients in the house. Latency won't matter with state-of-the-art terabit Ethernet

And networks will become decentralized again, with apps that send family text messages across the home network rather than the cloud

oldmud0

12:48 AM

It seems that many people are getting this problem on the NT at around the same time

bwDraco

2:20 AM

@oldmud0 Terabit Ethernet is in the works. No getting around the need for fibre at this point, though.

Anything above 10GbE, however, is not widely deployed, and the most advanced datacenters use 40GbE more often than not.

100GbE is not yet widely deployed.

Journeyman Geek

You don't typically need more than gigabit for most home use.

And most home/iot devices are wireless anyway.

bwDraco

10GbE is not common in consumer environments, but is widely used in datacenters at this time and is slowly trickling down to the consumer space.

Processing about 140 images from a series of basketball games. An insane amount of CPU time is needed, that I can say.

No wonder why creative professionals often use workstations with insane core counts...

I'm processing images in batch, after hand-adjusting each image for exposure, noise reduction, etc. in RawTherapee.

All CPU cores are running full-bore and have been maxed out for the last 30+ minutes.

I really can't wait for Skylake HEDT to come out...

I just need more cores. sigh

Took about 40 minutes to process everything.

Okay, it was 154 images.

Ramhound

2:56 AM

0

Q: What is causing this Windows 10 blue screen (MEMORY_MANAGEMENT ntoskrnl.exe)?

I'm getting the following blue screen in Windows 10: ================================================== Dump File : 010216-40531-01.dmp Crash Time : 1/2/2016 8:13:36 PM Bug Check String : MEMORY_MANAGEMENT Bug Check Code : 0x0000001a Parameter 1 : 00000000`00041201 Param...

I should vote to close just because he wasted my time putting up the wrong .dmp file......Without the correct information its not answerable.

bwDraco

3:11 AM

Is there a way to get the exact ink percentages from an Epson printer under Windows, like I can under Linux using escputil? The Epson tools don't give exact percentages.

bwDraco

3:23 AM

The best I can do is to open the printer's internal status page in a web browser and read the source code of the HTML page to get the ink level accurate to 2%.

oldmud0

@bwDraco Sounds like a good question to ask.

bwDraco

May 6 '15 at 17:30, by allquixotic

HALP, the cat has a question

This one still cracks me up.

Journeyman Geek

@Ramhound or find the canonical bsod question and close against that.

oldmud0

3:56 AM

0

Q: Compress a usable disk (available space) in windows 7 disk management

Recently I have a problem that I can't compress a usable disk which shows green and available to install Ubuntu OS. The photos show before and after compression for disk E in windows 7. Of course I have used 'dynamic volume converter' to change (C D E disk) to stationary disk but I can't even com...

windows-7 hard-drive partitioning

this question makes no sense

is 'green' really the closest chinese equivalent of tan, translated to english?

and how the heck did he get free partition space after "compressing" the drive

qasdfdsaq

6:21 AM

@bwDraco Meaow?

@bwDraco 100GbE is very widely deployed at the service provider level

All major UK ISPs, as well as the academic backbone has had 100GbE for the better part of this decade.

The larger ISPs have multiple 100GbE rings.

@JourneymanGeek For once I have a usage scenario which isn't just me. Backups.

Backing up a 6Gbps SSD to a NAS... is very much bottlenecked by 1GbE.

Even mobile providers are deploying 100GbE cores now, what with busier masts getting 10GbE backhaul and all

Journeyman Geek

lol

@qasdfdsaq typical

qasdfdsaq

I'm typical?

Naah

(I can never tell which one of my messages you're replying to)

Journeyman Geek

usage scenario

qasdfdsaq

Meh.

My atypical use is copying 1TB of media content up and down to that NAS while in a rush to catch a plane to Singapore

But backing up a desktop with one or more drives, or one or more SSDs isn't that atypical anymore tbh.

Though I'm not sure to what extent cloud storage/backups is taking over NAS

qasdfdsaq

7:20 AM

Yay Google Calendar has magically joined my Air Asia and British Airways bookings

Yay for ~~artificial intelligence~~ intrusive analysis of all my emails.

Journeyman Geek

8:07 AM

@qasdfdsaq or of you google something that looks remotely like a flight number

allquixotic

8:43 AM

I almost got stuck staring at a fish

3

Journeyman Geek

9:32 AM

Actually, never mind. You people shouldn't have to read that garbage

Bob

9:45 AM

o.o

Journeyman Geek

10:00 AM

(crappy article confusing silicon photonics. the data use of streamed video and various other garbage)

silicon photonics is cool but hardly new

jokerdino

I wouldn't have read if you didn't delete.

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Oh. Only over a week late.

Journeyman Geek

ooh

the guild chest lets you share items between charecters

Bob

O_O

Does that mean I can't get the guild clothing on my first character now? :P

at this rate you're going to finish half the story before we manage to get back together :P

at least you'll be prepared

Journeyman Geek

restarted so I can be completist ;p

also using the halfling paladin

Bob

10:12 AM

@JourneymanGeek wait, we missed something?

Journeyman Geek

My main char did

and the chef! With the white liquid!

Bob

The... Chef...

I'm confused :P

Journeyman Geek

;p

in the starting area

Bob

10:25 AM

Ohhh

Dammit

Journeyman Geek

also seems you lose skills you pick up when you restart? Maybe

and the other guys level to you

HackToHell

11:36 AM

wtf

7 Gamers, 1 CPU - Ultimate Virtualized Gaming Build Log

►

Bob

@JourneymanGeek skills?

Journeyman Geek

11:58 AM

Spells?

Bob

12:47 PM

@JourneymanGeek abilities?

Journeyman Geek

That.

@HackToHell would be cheaper to build 7 PCs :p

Hennes

1:07 PM

Still pondering my new play PC...

ordered with a curious mix of very good and ultra cheap

E.g. a SSD which is not any faster than spining rust.

But a motherboard with Alpine ridge (and hopefully emeulated 10Gb/sec ethernet once I get a second device with thunderbolt3)

Crucial BX200 - 240GB CT240BX200SSD1 - EUR 69.80
Samsung SM951 - NVMe - 256GB, € 167,90
100 euro more between a poor disk and a great one. Or posed differenty, 3x the price

Bob

1:54 PM

source

DavidPostill

2:27 PM

-1

Q: REPEATING TEXT IN EXCEL

I HAVE TO CREATE NEW EXCEL FILE REGULARLY WITH "ADDRESS" IN ONE OF THE COLUMNS. IS THERE ANY WAY BY WHICH I CAN EASILY ENTER ADDRESS WITH JUST WRITING 2 OR 3 INITIALS. THERE ARE 2 COLUMNS DATE & ADDRESS. I HAVE TO CREATE THIS FILE CONTAINING PRODUCT DISPATCHED DAILY TO FOLLOWING ADDRESS. CONTENT...

microsoft-excel

jiggunjer

I wonder how noticable the differences between SSDs are.

DavidPostill

MY EYES HURT :/

jiggunjer

Fixed it :)

crap forgot the title

Journeyman Geek

@jiggunjer and the code blocks

Hennes

Aye. The budget (BX) one is SLOW in capitatal letters.
But it has a very small SLC cache which should make it 'feel fast' in normal use.
COpy a few ISO's and it falls to sub HDD speeds though

Journeyman Geek

2:40 PM

@DavidPostill I can find two different ways of doing what he wants to do

Both trivial, and off dummies.com since I have no copies of excel at the moment

jiggunjer

and why would (thunderbolt/USB) ethernet emulation be preferable over a normal NIC?

Journeyman Geek

@jiggunjer 10Gbps NICs are uncommon and pricy

tbolt would just need a cable

I'm guessing we're just starting to see 10Gbps hit the mainstream, but its going to be quite a while before you can get reasonably priced switches and such

Hennes

Not unlike gigabit in the past

I remember my main server, with 10, 100, 25 (atm) and 2x 1GB NICs

Journeyman Geek

Hennes

the old 10 was still ISA (A NE2000
The 100 was a 3com 905B cyclone.
The 25 was an atm card
And the gigabit was a cheap dual copper card directly connectint to two other gbit capable servers. (because heck yes, a gbit NIC was expensive)

Journeyman Geek

2:49 PM

:I

We're at that situation now

you can buy a desktop board with 10gbps copper

but seperate cards are pricy

and likewise, you'd need a business grade switch

Hennes

If it works I just need a PCI-e to thunderbolt3 card for the old PC :)

Journeyman Geek

yup

tereško

4:21 PM

halp

I need to pick a linux distro

something that's good for gaming and does not suck

allquixotic

@tereško no Linux distro can overcome the fact that many games do not run acceptably well on Wine and have no Linux port, but if you're willing to accept that fact, I personally have had a good experience with the latest stable release of Ubuntu, just recently in fact... awesome for KSP, and even runs SWTOR well in Wine

tereško

I know

allquixotic

though if you don't have a modern Nvidia card there's really no point in trying

tereško

I will jsut be setting up a secondary system why my primary SSDs go throught warranty

HackToHell

@JourneymanGeek lol yeah

Bob

4:31 PM

@allquixotic hey. Hope that didn't go too late for you

Pity this is basically impossible on weekdays

tereško

4:54 PM

I think I will just install Arch

oldmud0

5:35 PM

@tereško arch is a little bit different from debian, meaning a lot

I actually had trouble setting it up for first time use, maybe I overthinked it

But for my next computer, I will choose Arch instead of win10

Microsoft has totally disregarded a user experience fit for power users lately.

tereško

6:10 PM

@oldmud0 I wouldn't want to touch Debian with a 10ft pole

qasdfdsaq

Debian is...

... Well I work with one of the developers on it. He's a very vocal supporter of Debian.

@JourneymanGeek Yeah, I'm still counting on Thunderbolt becoming more widespread this year, hopefully making 10GbE cheap and ubiquitous in the home environment

@JourneymanGeek Well, no. At least not comparably spec'ed

Arguably some components are way overkill on that build, but my gaming PC runs about £2.5k and is inferior in a number of ways.

oldmud0

6:26 PM

was apple's naming of the lightning cable intended to sabotage intel's marketing of thunderbolt?

I think yes.

qasdfdsaq

No

Though it's quite ironic that Lightning is slower than USB.

And frankly, Apple has been the only people marketing Thunderbolt for, well, ever.

Anonymous

@tereško what's wrong with debian?

Anonymous

@oldmud0 I love the new built-in "tiling WM-esque" keyboard shortcuts Win10 brought, the Win+X menu introduced in Win8 and there's still all the useful administrative stuff (group policy editor, resmon/perfmon, etc)

Anonymous

I think they've done well... of course it's not as power-user oriented as linux but it's not bad

qasdfdsaq

@PatoSáinz I hate that they took away the Win X menu and replaced it for no reason

Anonymous

6:34 PM

@qasdfdsaq was there a WinX menu before Win8?

qasdfdsaq

Yes,

Anonymous

what did it do

qasdfdsaq

Mobility Centre.

And frankly, given I use the right click start menu about 10x more often than the left click one, they should really just swap them.

First thing I do on any new Windows 8.x install... Remove EVERYTHING in the default start menu and replace as needed with things I actually use.

Anonymous

@qasdfdsaq same here: weather, finance, etc... useless crap

Anonymous

@qasdfdsaq there's a shortcut for the mobility center in the new Win+X menu

qasdfdsaq

6:37 PM

Win 10 is marginally less useless in that respect, it has all apps, explorer, and settings.

Anonymous

and most of the functionality there is redundant by the media keys in any notebook

qasdfdsaq

@PatoSáinz Yeah except before Win 8 I didn't have to go through the menu at all

None of my notebooks have any buttons for 5 out of the 8 functions in there, nor any of the 3 I use the most

Anonymous

qasdfdsaq

Huh what's MPC-BE

Anonymous

it's like VLC but with a couple of good filters and decoders for making low-res movies look better

qasdfdsaq

6:40 PM

What's the BE stand for

Anonymous

black edition

qasdfdsaq

Lol

Lol, alt+printscreen on the start menu... cuts it off halfway across

Nice one Microsoft.

Another one for the bug reports....

Anonymous

hahahaha

qasdfdsaq

First there was MP, then there was MPC, then there was MPC-HC, then there was MPC-BE

What next, MP-Ultra-C-ExtremeZZZ-Elite-Black-Pro-Gold-Edition?

Anonymous

@qasdfdsaq yea it's kinda stupid and overkill

qasdfdsaq

6:44 PM

Anyway, i have mobility centre pinned to the taskbar now, since Win+X is one step further

bwDraco

@qasdfdsaq: One of the biggest issues with going past 100 Gbps is that PC internal data rates can't even go much faster than that. PCIe 3.0 x16 is limited to about 126 Gbps.

Tom Wijsman

qasdfdsaq

Granted, the shortcuts in the new Win+X menu are all very useful, but that doesn't make up from the fact it was stupid to remove them from the main start menu in the first place

Anonymous

@TomWijsman I see you don't even use tiles in your start menu

qasdfdsaq

@bwDraco I don't see PCs getting 100Gbps anytime soon anyway. 100Gbps is mainly for core/backhaul networks. Individual machines... meh.

Mine's a touchscreen tablet hybrid, so having big buttons (tiles) is handy

@bwDraco Though PCIe 4 is on the horizon.

Anonymous

6:46 PM

now, I don't see much use for the search button in the taskbar if you have Win+S

Tom Wijsman

@PatoSáinz Yeah, indeed.

qasdfdsaq

As is Intel's whatdjamecallit...

bwDraco

@qasdfdsaq That's still not fast enough for even 400 GbE.

qasdfdsaq

Intel OmniPath

bwDraco

@qasdfdsaq That's an HPC interconnect.

qasdfdsaq

6:48 PM

@bwDraco And?

That just means it's faster than Ethernet. Still carries IP traffic just fine...

IPoIB is pretty damn snazzy.

Seth

if a friend and I were going to build a CCNA lab on a budget, does anyone have any recommendations? As a start we can currently get a Cisco 1800 series router and Catalyst WS-C2950-24 Switch for $45.

qasdfdsaq

We use 40Gbps HPC interconnects as a general-purpose networking system...

It's cheaper than 10GbE.

OPA... we'll see once it actually reaches the market

Given high throughput Ethernet networks are trying to implement various functionality from HPC interconnects for "general purpose networking" systems I don't see it as a drawback

Anyway, need to sleep. Long way to drive tomorrow.

bwDraco

I'd rather not get an old model router or switch.

I guess I'll go the expensive way. Cisco 2901 router, Cisco Catalyst 2960-XR switch.

...and I'll need a rack to put the hardware in.

That will probably be together with two rackmount servers as the host machines.

That's going to be about $6000 in equipment.

The question is whether Mother is willing to pay this much money just for a cert...

Anonymous

fucking cert industry, they are so bloody expensive for people without huge companies behind paying for training

bwDraco

$6000+ in hardware for a cert whose exams are no more than $300 per attempt might not be worth it.

Anonymous

7:00 PM

I'd love to take the RHCSA exam but here in Chile it's expensive, and I'm on a student's budget

bwDraco

That's probably enough hardware to get to the CCNP level but there's really no substitute for experience in a production environment.

Seth

@bwDraco I'm not sure if that was in reply to me or the other conversation but.. there is absolutely no way we can afford new equipment. It's either do it all in packet tracer (eww) or buy some used stuff..

Anonymous

@bwDraco nope there's not

bwDraco

To go past CCNA, you're really supposed to have experience in production.

I'll talk with my friends in the college's networking office and see what I can do about this.

bwDraco

7:25 PM

Guess it's time to start saving up and see what I can do to get started in the field.

bwDraco

7:36 PM

I guess being an IT pro is expensive...

Anonymous

8:00 PM

@bwDraco try getting old cisco equipment from ebay

Anonymous

they're really cheap sometimes

bwDraco

1 hour ago, by bwDraco

I'd rather not get an old model router or switch.

I know this sounds silly.

Anonymous

@bwDraco oh. why?

bwDraco

Rather not be out-of-date on the technology.

Anonymous

@bwDraco but what if you find something not deprecated so it has a recent IOS and a featureset from this decade?

Anonymous

8:03 PM

you'd be out of date on hardware but not software

bwDraco

Was thinking about the IOS version, too, but I don't want EOL equipment.

duzzy

Isn't the software what matters most?

bwDraco

I guess I'll have to pick a reasonably current model that is still current.

As I understand it, IOS licenses are supplied with and tied to the hardware.

I'll see what's out there. Not a fan of eBay, though.

Anonymous

@bwDraco it's like the cliche site for cheap old IT equipment

Anonymous

if not, try craigslist

duzzy

8:08 PM

Yeah, try something local like craigslist, too.

Maybe even just ask.

A company gave me a few old catalyst 3500 switches and an ASA 5505 because they just didn't want it anymore.

Anonymous

Yea, even small business have lots of unplugged equipment they just don't remember they have anymore (assuming the sysadmin there didn't already take them home ;) )

bwDraco

Might be a good ideal to pursue the Linux path: training.linuxfoundation.org/sysadmin-evolution

(I already have some Linux admin experience behind me)

Not as advanced as @allquixotic et al. but have been managing a Linux server in the cloud for some time

Anonymous

well yea the LF has some certs

duzzy

I want to get some Linux experience. My job is lame.

Anonymous

but if you are seeking something of professional significance, get a Red Hat cert

bwDraco

10:06 PM

The router suddenly glitched on me while sending a photo to a network printer.

It seemed to be broadcasting the AP just fine, but there was absolutely no connectivity until I reset the router.

Anonymous

@bwDraco what a shame it's digital, not analog... you would have seen some amazing glitch art coming out of the printer

bwDraco

10:55 PM

-1

A: Why won't Windows use the other CPU cores?

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rotfl

Bob

@bwDraco IMO better to just delete without asking "what's the point", etc.

The obvious answer is "to get a reaction", and you're providing one by commenting.

DavidPostill

Hmm

Dec 31 '15 at 19:00, by qasdfdsaq

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Looks similar to me ;)

OP edited the question ;)

Clearly deranged ...

bwDraco

Troll image, not editing it in.

DavidPostill

@bwDraco You can't anyway. Question has gone away ...

bwDraco

The answer is still there. As a 10k user, you should still be able to submit edits.

If only...

Dec 3 '15 at 13:43, by DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek OK. I think I'm one of the more "level-headed" posters here, so was thinking I could also help out when things get a bit heated! ;)

That's my New Year's resolution. I'm going to fast-track changes to my personality to fix this issue once and for all.

I tend to be brash and impulsive.

I'm going to fix this once and for all.

Dec 5 '15 at 2:56, by bwDraco

Be advised that at this time, if I were granted room owner privileges, it is likely I will simply revoke them from myself.

This still holds until I am 100% confident that I'm ready.

bwDraco

11:21 PM

Dec 4 '15 at 10:14, by Journeyman Geek

@bwDraco I don't practice. I don't think about the greater good. I just have fun

Well, I guess I'm here for the wrong reason.

I am about to log out of Stack Exchange.

See you in a few weeks/months/years...

Dec 4 '15 at 10:15, by bwDraco

@JourneymanGeek Well, I guess I'm here for the wrong reason. Perhaps I should just retire from Stack Exchange altogether?

Journeyman Geek

11:45 PM

@qasdfdsaq What's MPC-BE?

DavidPostill

!!google MPC-BE

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Journeyman Geek

@tereško steam runs on ubuntu, and there's a way to run it on fedora. Fedora and Ubuntu also tend to have the best graphics support

@DavidPostill maaaybe I asked the wrong question. I might have asked "why should I run this over HC?"

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