@allquixotic: see Matrix.

> They reported this to the Windows developers, who disassembled SimCity, stepped through it in a debugger, found the bug, and added special code that checked if SimCity was running, and if it did, ran the memory allocator in a special mode in which you could still use memory after freeing it.

joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost-the-api-war

Ahhhh the days of backwards compat

@Hashim Same SSIDs. Channels don't really matter though I'd go with having them as seperate as possible

basically they're two seperate SSIDs with the same credentials. You just trust your device to pick the stronger one

Its a little dodgy compared to doing it right

@Hashim oh also, if they're routers, turn off DHCP on the second router and connect the first router to a normal not WAN port on the second router

superuser.com/a/104056/10165 I have an answer on that

I picked up a USB powered swamp cooler...

(My air conditioner needs some maintainance and I need a little extra air)

Roomie loves it. I'm kinda like "hmm. This looks like something that if the fan breaks, I can upgrade with a nicer, quieter fan" ;p

> When you try to unify two opposing forces by creating a third alternative, you just end up with three opposing forces. You haven’t unified anything and you haven’t really fixed anything

man, how have times changed

Interestingly, I had only just turned three when this article was published. I think I used the internet for the first time when I was five?

Whoa, mono was a thing back in 2004?

Yup

#justAmericanThings

._.

Not really funny :/

Thank you

:48170667 I guess it makes less sense without the context. It's from a thread where everything is making fun of US culture

But yeah. Inappropriate. Sorry.

It does make less sense without context

So... I tried to make this my gravatar but apparently that's really hard to do on mobile

Yes, that's a floppy drive. Also equipped with 3x FireWire ports and a MIDI sound card.

Eugh. So apparently I have to pay USB 27 per month to access sheet music on this app? Wayyy overpriced, man.

s/USB/USD/ ;p

per month? 0_0

@JourneymanGeek yep, unless I pay upfront for a year, in which case I get 50% off

Still ridiculous

Especially since most of their content is written by unpaid volunteers.

To be fair, the volunteered content is free to access

But it comes without auto-scroll, which makes playing continuously while reading impossible when on a mobile device

And ads. Ugh.

ugh

I've... Never seen this before

The disclaimer thingy

sounds standard for when you turn on untrusted sources

@JourneymanGeek I've seen a warning before

But not the "you agree that you are solely responsible..." bit

ah

Also... Who else would I blame anyway?

Lenovo? Google?

well, yes

many users would do that

I guess. But that's... Kinda pointless. If you're going around downloading malicious apps off the web...

People do these things

but microsoft!

> Sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel is a train

o/

@bwDraco yeah that's two SATA SSDs in RAID-0 :P

@allquixotic hardware RAID?

@rahuldottech yup

@bwDraco do you remember if the newer cpu and motherboard was better than the old?

Oh yes the mb I found is a crosshair I

I'mma look at my rams again

lol just found another motherboard >_<

errr scrap that

just found an entire ocmputer >_<

DDR3, MR3+ cpu

I wonder what it is ;D

@Bob My party has June adults and 0 child, thank you.

june?

@allquixotic @BOB QUIX IS COMMITTING A CRIME!!!

ohhhhhhhhhhh

@rahuldottech No, I'm using an actually good HW RAID controller

storage.microsemi.com/en-us/support/raid/sas_raid/asr-81605zq

it has an SLC non-volatile cache which acts like a battery backup unit of old in terms of its function -- it prevents data loss if the system gets unexpectedly powered off

and the RAID-on-Chip processor can handle 12 Gbps

Bob says the one you have has like 100 Mbps throughput lol

Phenom II X2 555 Processor

For someth9ing I just found ;D notr bad

@allquixotic the one I was considering getting but yeah...

@allquixotic can't be too safe!

Gotta not be liable our crimes, amirite?

@allquixotic So what happens if you state you don't understand?

@rahuldottech twitter.com/tinkertim/status/1076167906763915264

?????!!!!?!?!?!

@allquixotic Could be GDPR compliance, too.

Intel stripping 9th Generation desktop processors of processor graphics? tomshardware.com/news/…

An interesting move that could result in cheaper processors for enthusiasts, and better competitive positioning against the (much cheaper, but somewhat slower) Ryzen Pinnacle Ridge processors, which do not have processor graphics.

And hopefully, alleviate the 14nm shortage by allowing them to sell chips that have perfect processor cores but busted processor graphics.

The drone's back!

> The incredibly complex chip manufacturing process isn't perfect, so many processors come off the production line with defects. Intel can simply disable cores on a chip, instead selling it as a lower-end model, if a defect lands in a core. It stands to reason, then, that selling chips without integrated graphics would allow Intel to sell chips with defects in the graphics units. That would certainly help as Intel grapples with an ongoing shortage of 14nm manufacturing capacity. [...]

@bertieb I've had nothing yet >_<

survey wise

I think this is a much-needed move, given that many, if not most, enthusiasts simply do not need the processor graphics on these chips.

Also, having some completely disabled silicon will improve the chip's thermals and possibly increase overclocking potential.

Yes, there are uses for the processor graphics even in the presence of a discrete graphics card, but most users of an 8C/16T chip aren't going to need it.

and if they need gfx, it's not exactly hard to get a card either

So... finally have an upgrade idea for Astaroth: a fingerprint reader. However, IIRC Windows Hello requires a TPM, and I don't have a TPM on the system. The Demon does technically allow a TPM to be installed on the motherboard, but I'm not sure where to find one that's not an outdated Infineon module with the ROCA vulnerability...

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/…

Hmm... not technically required, but I'm not too willing to do biometric authentication without the proper hardware security to back it the way most implementations do.

Technically, I could enable the firmware-based TPM that the Ryzen processor provides (through the built-in security coprocessor) but that would make replacing the processor problematic.

answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/…

Yeah. The ROCA vulnerability is going to be a problem.

And people are hounding ASUS for an update to the 14-pin Infineon module they make.

And again, I'm not willing to do biometric auth without a TPM.

Fuggedaboutit.

asus.com/us/support/FAQ/1032571

A TPM reset will mean that I'll need to set up Windows Hello again, but at least I don't have to fuss with a discrete TPM. Besides, Stolas (see hp.com/go/envyx360) uses the AMD fTPM for Windows Hello.

walked into some IMF level tech debriefing. Not sure how to walk out.

@rahuldottech that's pretty good actually.

God today was awful.

Wasted the entire day standing in lines at banks.

@rahuldottech Twenty seven flash drives per month?!

I've extracted a slightly obscure archive format, and it hasn't handled the Japanese filenames correctly. How can I retroactively fix the extracted files' filenames? They are like this "Â‚¢ƒgƒ‰ƒ“ƒNƒ_ƒCƒAƒ‹".

@Hiccup does the gibber translate into Japanese font?

It's 2:30am and YT has guided me to the most upsetting 40 minutes of my week.

I mean, yes, that is forced entry :/ it's maddening.

@Hiccup Too broad as it stands. Please ask on the main site.

@Hiccup Some playing around with text encodings in Visual Studio Code (save as Windows 1252, reload as Shift-JIS) returned ﾂいトランクダイアル.

(it even says "Guessed from content")

@bwDraco Nice. This was an encoding issue?

Yup. It's Shift JIS.

This is a whole another world if you go through enough articles.

Gotta go work on trade now. 'Night.

sooooooo. a video.

we've come full circle

Wow, there is a LOT of garbage on SU right now....

howtogeek.com/fyi/…

Actually... this can be useful.