!! s/Microsoft Surface/Razer Blade/

@allquixotic @CanadianLuke For a non-cheap (i.e. well-built) PC device that isn't a Mac, look at the Razer Blade series. (source)

@djsmiley2k 9*99**32269966+3

0.

Hmm... That was my kids.

@djsmiley2k I know one that tests if it it's gone bad, but not why / how.

It's badblocks, part of the e2fsprogs package (or e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net)

A bit like scandisk but for SD cards. IIRC it has both destructive and non-destructive tests.

(Hm. It's not only for SD cards. It's that I've ever only used it for SD cards).

If you're already trying to format it, I assume you have no important data on it. So go for the destructive test.

!!tell 45652820 eval 9*99*32269966+3

@MichaelFrank 42

what really? no

!!eval 0-1

@allquixotic 42

lol, I did that, I remember, to keep people from crashing the bot with JS

This is why we cannot have nice things JS Eval

lol, GDPR Cat could totally be Operant Conditioning Cat - my RL cat is suffering from some serious operant conditioning right now. she's laying on the floor of my spare room because she thinks that doing so will result in her getting treats

@allquixotic heh...

currently we're giving ash cough meds.

Apparently much like his human, he's so laid back he hates being mellow... and keeps trying to spit it

so we're having to put a bib on him, cover his lower muzzle, wrestle and squirt it

he loves getting cleaned up though, we found a bag of babywipes from my nephew's baby stuff

82 upvotes on my reddit write-up on the Razer Blade 15

@allquixotic Details?

reddit.com/r/razer/comments/8yr8ot/…

Hi, I want to get/download all the pdf files a sub-directories of an index of site constitute . e.g vedicreserve.mum.edu/index_of_vedic_literature.htm.

what tool should work? httrack, uget....

or looking for a way that can fetch link to the all pdfs.

httrack might work.

hmm

that needs some poking. And maybe a SR.SE question ;)

how to accomplish this with httrack?

the tricky thing is working out how deep you need to go

and ugh, I've not played with it recently

oh. ok. I think I should ping someone who use httrack.

or get as close to an answer as possible, then ask a question.

ok; on SU?

Where's the PDFs? They seem a few levels deep?

MOAR REDDIT reddit.com/r/razer/comments/8yzo1h/…

Yes, one level deep; e.g if you click on Aitareya Aranyak or Aranyak, you'll see the list of pdf at the bottom.

which is something you might need to mention in a question ;)

I'd go with SR here since there may be better tools than httrack for the problem, even if SU is bigger

@Pandya I've used it in the past

Not the very advanced features, but still

@rahuldottech I've tried with setting option to get pdfs only and it worked.

> My dream is total convergence (one laptop for everything, no desktop).

:)

@allquixotic psshht.

@Pandya :)

@ThatBrazilianGuy oh yeah didn't think of trying bad blocks

tbh i've not tried anything yet, not even put it in the computer to see

> fdisk: cannot open /dev/sdf: No medium found

Weird

word

is the disk even there? ;p

@rahuldottech hah

I'd miss being under the hood too much

@JourneymanGeek define being 'there' ?

it's in the slot, yes

xD

is it detected?

is it visible in /dev/?

why's it appearing as 2 disks

k that's weird

i think this be fooky

hmm

lsblk?

Not showing there

it's like it appears and immediately fails/disappears again

that smells fishy

like its dying

yup

Hehe. I have two answers on Super User HNQs :)

?:O

@JourneymanGeek It's a quote from what @allq said

I realized that I NEVER use the right shift key. Like, ever.

@Pandya I've had success with a combination of curl, xargs and grep. But I had to customize it for the specific link structure of a site.

@Pandya wget -r -l2 -A.pdf http://vedicreserve.mum.edu/index_of_vedic_literature.htm

Fetches all links on that pages, then fetches all the PDFs linked to from those sub-pages.

friend is now finalising his build, au.pcpartpicker.com/list/h9VdFt (prices inaccurate, total cost $2300 w/ sales). opinions? @bwDraco?

The only major change I'd suggest is the CPU cooler. Can he go with a Noctua NH-D15 or a liquid cooler?

@bwDraco I think the idea there was something cheap

I know both of these are more expensive options but they'd provide better performance and lower noise.

I'll pass on the suggestion, but the 2x price probably won't be worth it for him

@bwDraco true, but even the 212 beats Intel stock by a wide margin :P

@bwDraco He's also considering a MA620P for $15 more

tbh coolers aren't something I've looked much into other than making the Noctua (U14S) vs liquid decision myself last year

Then again, the Hyper 212X is essentially a proven design that works.

Some storage benchmarks after applying a BIOS/UEFI firmware update to Astaroth (which uses an AMD Ryzen processor), adding Spectre mitigations. The benchmark results are surprising, with both benchmark results being markedly better. Old result first, new result second:

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Get-SpeculationControlSettings
Speculation control settings for CVE-2017-5715 [branch target injection]
For more information about the output below, please refer to support.microsoft.com/en-in/help/4074629
AMD CPU detected: mitigations for branch target injection on AMD CPUs have additional registry settings for this mitigation, please refer to FAQ #15 at portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-us/security-guidance/advisory/…

Hardware support for branch target injection mitigation is present: True

I wonder if this performance improvement is due to the SSD having had its firmware updated?

Of note was that while CrystalDiskMark was found to be CPU-bound, Anvil's Storage Utilities was not.

In any case... Spectre patches have no meaningful impact on the storage performance of AMD Ryzen systems.

@Bob I need to start planning soon ;)

I still have no idea what to design for

So this is how Gnome checks for network connectivity!

@ThatBrazilianGuy not that different from how windows does it

@Bob A chocolate bar would probably beat the Intel stock cooler tbh.

lol

@Bob Seems like a fairly gaming specialised build. I hope he's nothing like you with keeping 3000 tabs open, because it won't be very good at much else than gaming.

@RegularGDPR gaming focused, yea, but should handle most other things just fine

@JourneymanGeek indeed

What a strange day. I've answered three questions and all of them immediately went HNQ :)

Trying out Amazon Prime Video... click documentaries...

> 450,000 years ago our ancestors descended from the heavens to engineer the first human beings. To us they were Giants ruling as Gods. Now new evidence and scientific research acknowledges their existence on Earth and also reveals they will return.

u wot

oh look there's another one

> Researchers reveal the presence of a supreme interdimensional intelligence that has been manipulating mankind for centuries. Interviews with experiencers and alien abductees expose a sinister agenda behind the alien presence on Earth.

I have no words

@Bob Wot? U no believe? ;)

Hmm]

I've never checked it for documentries before

WTF? Now 4 questions I wrote answers to have gone HNQ today!

:O

Shame it's repcapped?

Exactly. I repcapped mid afternoon :)

Of course it seems that there are only ever 2 Super User questions in the HNQ at any one time. The other 2 have dropped off ...