There is a new Firefox Command Line that allows you to take screenshots.
Press Shift+F2 and write screenshot filename1.png 0 true
Unfortunately for your site I get error..., but nevertheless it's a nice to know feature .
I knew I read about this today
We also have way too many "How to take screenshot of webpage" question
brownouts do generally stress your power supplies, but I wouldn't worry about the actual microelectronics -- for PCs and almost anything with integrated circuits, there's a voltage regulator that can convert some pretty ugly input power into a nice clean feed for the computer
zynic rant: I believe that if "we" or more like you start allowing "appropriate tablet questions" while disencouraging iOS and Android the scope-reduction will become even more ridiculous. If you want to refer them to the sister-sites, We might as well split up SU into windows & linux user dot com and close down SU; and everyone will be referred to the community with their ecosystem.
What the hell would be so bad about having ios, android, os-x as tags here and closing down or redirecting from the sister-sites?
Macs are computers, tablets and smartphones are, it is that simple. — klyonrad2 days ago
well it DOES kind of impact the rest of the world because one of the things where the presidential candidates differ slightly more is on foreign policy
and the executive branch has a ridiculous amount of power in terms of foreign policy decisions these days
Turning that into a poemish/prose-ish narrative: Well-meaning newbie writes meh answer Moderator improves answer Well-meaning newbie gets ANGRY AND PASTES A HUGEURL IN ALL CAPS Moderator rolls back newbie's edit Well-meaning newbie gets REAL ANGRY AND DELETES ENTIRE POST WITH THE EDIT COMMENT OF "ADDED" 599 CHARACTERS
@avirk so does programming... so does... I don't know... driving a fully loaded coach bus down a steep hill and hanging a sharp corner with black ice on the road and going 75 mph
must-watch youtube videos for geeks (just type them into the search bar on youtube): asdfmovie, star wars kid, yeahlamb, tng recuts, dayjoborchestra, indoctrination documentary
your queue is practically empty if your normalized throughput isn't 1, because if you can send data through the uplink faster than the data is being written to the network buffer, you don't need a larger buffer
you only need buffering to prevent packet loss if you are producing data to push into the network buffer when the network buffer is already full and/or filling up because you are producing faster than the network can send the data
but adding the buffering is actually fairly poisonous
easiest way in the world to reproduce the problem which CoDel solves: visit a website with a lot of spare upstream which is geographically located somewhat close to you, and run a speed test or download a huge file over HTTP. while doing that, measure your ping both before starting the download, and during it, to other servers.
note: this is only reproducible if you can truly max out your uplink, where your "uplink" means not the speed of your port, but the maximum actual transmission or receive rate of your connection to the endpoint
so if your connection can download 1024 KB/s and you're only downloading at 990 KB/s, codel does nothing
but if your connection can only download at 1024 KB/s and you're downloading at 1024 KB/s, you will observe the problem without codel, and see it vastly improved with codel.
this is called "{Dad/spouse/son/whoever}, would you stop downloading please?! You're making my Netflix video stutter!!!!" syndrome
@TomWijsman, also, you can enable codel locally on your computer to improve your own system's resilience to maxing out your own uplink (but you can still be impacted by other computers connected to your router or larger ISP network) with Linux mainline 3.5 or later: tc qdisc add dev $INTERFACE root fq_codel where $INTERFACE is for example eth0 or wlan0 or whatever
codel on your own box will prevent your own downloads from driving up your ping (and therefore HTTP responsiveness) on your own browser
the wider the scope of the codel implementation (your home router, ISP, internetworking hub, whatever), the better
You helped me with one, I did the other, and though the third one wasn't working 100% that I expected it to, I turned it in anyways to get some credit.
math is pretty important to get out of the way before you start doing programming, and heck, I'd say that, judging by how much it helped me, you should take a Philosophy department course on the Philosophy of Logic, if available, prior to delving seriously into programming
Your programming assignment is to (a) write an application and (b) write a related test program. Follow these instructions:
Create an application that declares two friends, one allowing read access to data elements, and one allowing write access to elements. Write a test program to test your two friend functions.
Do graphics card prices tend to come down after a card's been discontinued? Looks like the Raedon 6000 line was discontinued, was hoping to pick up a twin for my card at a lower price, but it's still the same as when I bought it (and only $50 less than the comparable model of the 7000 series )
trying to introduce a unit testing framework to a C++ dummy is like trying to teach a 6 year old how to evaluate partial differential equations while also sitting him on your lap and making him learn how to parallel park an SUV
@BenBrocka there are several phases of discontinued: (1) IHV stops making new ASICs; (2) board makers stop churning out new cards using those ASICs; (3) a lot of time passes... (4) drivers stop supporting the hardware, so new OS releases don't support it and bugfixes don't come as often / at all
@BenBrocka, the higher the "number" out of that list that your card has achieved, the cheaper it'll be
Radeon HD4000 at this point should be uber cheap since they're in stage (4)
well if you can't afford a current card (not even a low-end one) you're kind of SOL... you won't really see a substantial price drop for HD6000 until at least HD8000 has been out for a while
and then HD6000 will drop again (substantially, to the point of bargain bins) when the drivers are discontinued
@jtbadn 2 cpp files and an .h file
you're basically making a library, without making a library... but you're going to be declaring your API in the .h file, defining the implementation of it in a .cpp file, and then calling your API, using the .h file, in a second .cpp file
also, since it says "create an application", you might need one more .cpp file that provides an int main() method (note: your cpp file containing the implementation of the API should not have a main() method) as a sort of driver program
so, cpp file one: no `main()`, just implement the actual API functions that do the legwork cpp file two: contains main() and "tests" your API functions cpp file three: contains main() and acts as an "application" that exercises your API functions and provides some kind of console based user interface with `cin` and `cout` .h file: contains only the declarations of your API
the tests that you design should verify that, given a certain input to the functions, you verify that the output (return value) is what you expect
@allquixotic Eh, lame. Not sure if it's worth going for a second card vs replacing the current one then due to the diminishing returns of multiple cards in CrossfireX
@BenBrocka multiple GPUs / SLI / Crossfire is in general a pretty bad proposition for most things, except for GPGPU on embarrassingly parallel workloads
for graphics rendering, the returns are extremely diminishing for the price
@allquixotic So I've heard. It's a tantalizing proposition though, don't throw away your old card, get a second one for less than the price of a new one
I don't think graphics cards have a long enough usable shelf life in terms of being "current", supporting the latest APIs, and having competitive throughput, in order to make an SLI configuration affordable or economical, when you can buy one single high-end current card every two years and have all that you need.
Not sure I'd notice a difference either. My video rendering speed is fast enough, and only in-game slowdown I've ever noticed is in Borderlands 2 in certain areas, and I think that's a bug
the problem is, even though the hardware is old, it was still bloody expensive to produce, so the prices aren't going to drop just because it's old until it's basically ancient technology
the only 3d rendering I've ever seen on the card that doesn't turn out 60 fps is Unigine Heaven benchmark, but that's, erm, a benchmark, not a real game
my display is "120 Hz" too, but I don't think it's 120 Hz 2D... the way it works is, it maxes out at 60 fps for 2D, and uses the extra refresh rate for interleaving the stereoscopic 3d left and right channels
actually mine is 240 Hz (advertised) but I still only see 60 Hz in the monitor properties
@BenBrocka I think around $300-$400? I forget. They're Samsung S23A950D monitors.
@allquixotic I have an Acer that's a 3D monitor that advertises 120Hz, but it can only use that mode in 3D mode... you can only get up to 60Hz in 2D mode, which is lame.
@BenBrocka The prices for these displays dropped quite a bit over a year.
@BenBrocka Most do, these days.
Smaller games, especially 2.5D platformers (like Trine 2), don't play well with Eyefinity (for obvious reasons). But most AAA titles seem to play well with it.
Older games are hit and miss. Sometimes it works by happy coincidence, but obviously they weren't designed to support it.
There is a new Firefox Command Line that allows you to take screenshots.
Press Shift+F2 and write screenshot filename1.png 0 true
Unfortunately for your site I get error..., but nevertheless it's a nice to know feature .
