@casperOne hah, no. Just make sure you ground yourself (touch some metal on the case) before you start
As you may have glanced over in that blogpost of jeff's i sent you, most of this stuff is reasonably resilient. Just don't rush and don't smash things and you should be OK.
apparently those LGA 1155s are a bit ... finicky, the guy at the store was like use one finger and add it in VERY slowly. I just got the distributor to install it for me
@Bob Number starting at 2, check if another counter (up to the number before the first) is divisible by the second. If it is, it's not prime, so skip and do it again
I'm learning C. I just wanted to do the project for the heck of it, wasn't part of my class
@nhinkle Don't need ivy bridge, they don't have an enthusiast line for ivy bridge
Aight, I'll have to order this tonight. Should I remove the processor from the MOBO and repack it or can I slip the mobo back into the anti static bag and put it in the box?
I originally wanted to only go up to the square root of the number, but I couldn't figure out EASILY how to do modulus division from a double into an integer
I'm trying to write a program to work the CPU. My company has one that does it for Windows, but I want to write one in C so I can use it on Mac or Linux too
@nhinkle Ok, I'm obviously stalled. I'll have to place the order tomorrow when I find what I'm going to get. I'm going to see if I can find a place in NYC that has the cooler I want. And we can continue from there. At least I got the processor and memory in. Let's hope I didn't bork the processor
meanwhile TIL there's a new animation for enter/exiting chat. (open this room in incognito, leave this room from normal window and watch it in incog window!)
I'm currently in stage 2 of 3 of building my home workstation. What this means is that my RAID-0 array of solid state disks will be backed up nightly to a RAID-5 or RAID-6 array of traditional spinning hard disks. However, it recently dawned on me that redundancy is not backup. The main reason fo...
I do not need anything. And what the user needs is not clear. Change something on line 32, with an example of changes on lines 33,34 and 35 and no change on line 32.
How to add string at line number (32) in between 2 words (one known (class) and one unknown (*) ) unteel empty line is found?
say turning something like
//... line 32
class EventA;
class EventB;
class EventC;
//...
into
//... line 32
class API EventA;
class API EventB;
class API EventC;
//...
Wtf, Google changed something with their Exchange Calendar syncing!
I can't manage the the multiple calendars anymore; to get them working for a windows8 laptop. Only some weeks ago it worked;to see all devices and now they only show settings for iOS device. This is an outrage!
These actions might prevent an error like this from happening again:
Download and install updates and device drivers for your computer from Windows Update.
Scan your computer for computer viruses.
Check your hard disk for errors.
...that must be the most uselessly generic advice (from MSDN) I have ever seen for a BSoD
start the driver install somewhere in middle screen is cutff
can VGA switcheroo cause this?turn off dedicated GPU output so when the drivers for radeon are installed the display is switched to that but the pipeline is off?
I almost decided to help you just now because you mentioned "radeon" and "VGA switcheroo", but then I realized I have a ton of work to do; I'm at work; and should do it. :(
A problem I've always had with plugins is finding the correct one, moreso when there's many plugins that accomplish the same thing, whether with the same or different methods.
@Bob this is more true with huge and extremely popular apps like web browsers which have thousands of addons from all different sources
actually, if the core developer of the app makes a bunch of streamlined, well-integrated, clearly separable and distinct plugins, then it becomes less muddled with ones that "kinda" get the job done, or having to choose between 6 different plugins that all do 92% of what you want
@Bob yeah, but you can set some kind of sanity threshold on the requirements for accepting plugins into whatever plugin distribution system you are using
I'm not saying be Apple
I'm saying evaluate the plugins before accepting them into your repository
I decided to install Windows 8 on my home machine this weekend. I've already downloaded the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation iso, however we just got done moving and somewhere in the chaos I've misplaced all my USB drives along with my DVD drive. On top of that, my home PC is the primary source of...
@Bob but yeah, I'm not saying that you should categorically disallow third-party plugins; just that you should vet them before making them part of the official plugin distribution system... of course, if it's open source software, nobody can stop anybody from writing their own plugins or even forking the main app, but if you're reasonable, that's not too likely
the main thing you can avoid, by vetting them, is duplicate plugins that replicate the same or nearly the same functionality
and if you have two plugins that do almost the same thing with their own ups and downs, you can instead integrate the best of both plugins into one streamlined plugin
as a core dev with control over the plugin repository (and source code), you can do things like that
the granularity is definitely going to depend on a lot of things like the scope of the project and whether you want to allow your PDF reader to double as a mail client, web browser, and general purpose canvas for 3d games
you can't really eliminate subjectivity in the feature design process; that's a given
but you have 4 choices as I noted in my post, and three of them are extremely "in your face" to users and are thus more likely to be polarizing, while the fourth and final choice is the most.... diplomatic :)
I think Microsoft did a good job with Windows. It's reasonably easy to use *though that may just be due to familiarity), and usually satisfies power users - not exactly an easy thing to do.
a plugin system is to options like democracy is to government: it's the worst form of options management except for the other choices that've already been tried
I think the "good job" with Windows is mainly owing to familiarity, and also their very careful, hands-on approach to studying how users of various groups react to features and UI
they establish a baseline of features that everyone can live with, and implement those hard-coded (Choice 1)
then they implement a few things that are extremely often desired, but only about 40 - 60% of the time, as options (Choice 3)
then they implement "fringe" things that are needed 1 - 10% of the time as addons/plugins/extensions or let third party vendors handle them
@allquixotic The Notepad++ plugin system is an example of a badly managed one. It's got (reasonably) good plugins, but most tend to add a massive chunk of mostly unnecessary functionality, and searching for a plugin that does what you want is... painful.
the ability to realize those choices, take the appropriate action for each feature, and slot each feature into the most deserving category, is basically informed by hard empirical research
the more data and actual observation you have about what features people want, the more informed you can be when deciding where to slot your features between the four choices
Microsoft is a lot of things, but one thing they're commendably good at is gathering data and processing it
of course, the Office team does a horrid job at that; Office has too many options, period.
it just... has... too... many... options! no other way to describe it!
I want NEED Windows 8 RTM, but sadly don't have MSDN access. Is there any way that I can try out the Windows 8 OS without the costly MSDN access?
