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The HDMI output on my GPU stopped working after having previously worked without issues. Taking a look at the HDMI port, I noticed pins 15 and 17 are farther back than the others: There also appears to be a small scratch, seen above pin 17 in this picture. Is there a legitimate reason for the...

Journeyman Geek

12:54 AM

Not really

Ramhound

It sounds like the question should be improved and kept where it is since the current answer would likely be the only answer that qustion recieves if it were migrated

bwDraco

@Ramhound Yeah. I've had games genuinely require the full 11 GB of framebuffer on my 1080 Ti.

Ramhound

I still can't believe how few new cases have 5.25" bays

bwDraco

Graphite 760T?

Three 5.25" bays.

That might be a bit large for your taste, though it seems like you're building a system that's going to cost more than $5,000...

Ramhound

Nothing is to large, but that case, is from 2014

bwDraco

1:05 AM

Yeah. It has two USB 2.0 ports on the front panel, which may require a USB 3.0 to 2.0 adapter (which is how this desktop here is set up)...

Are you planning on getting HEDT (Core X or Ryzen Threadripper), or are you getting Coffee Lake-R 8C/16T?

(USB adapter? because the Ryzen platform is very heavy on USB 3.0 ports.)

Ramhound

I am an intel person

bwDraco

Heck, I have an unused USB 3.1 Gen 2 port and I've thought about adding a front-panel hub before.

Ramhound

So I plan on getting the 8C 16T i9 9900K

bwDraco

Ah.

Are you doing SLI on this build?

Ramhound

If I went with Threadripper I would want the newest gen 32...

No

A single splurge is enough for me :$

bwDraco

1:10 AM

The RTX cards use NVIDIA's datacenter-grade NVLink technology for SLI, which offers a whopping 50 GB/s of bandwidth (up from just 2 GB/s with SLI HB).

Ramhound

I might add another down the line

I think a single RTX 2080 Ti will be fine for now

bwDraco

(the NVLink bridge is $80; not surprised it's expensive because of the sheer bandwidth it needs to handle)

Bob

1:25 AM

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/ipc/…

jesus

why is IPC so hard

Clipboard? wtf.

COM? ouch.

WM_COPYDATA? ... hmm, maybe, but that's still pretty janky

DDE? ...isn't that like deprecated as of 2 decades ago?

File mapping? ewwwww

Mailslot? what on earth is that?!

ok I legit have no idea wtf a mailslot is

pipes... eh. maaaaaybe?

RPC, hell no

sockets... I suppose aren't the worst idea given all the other options

Nick

it's just like human to human communication :D

Ramhound

If somebody has a problem with $80 with $1000-$2,000 GPU setup they have problems

Bob

@Ramhound hm?

Ramhound

$80 SLI bridge is cheap if your hooking it up to RTX cards

Journeyman Geek

yup

Ramhound

1:36 AM

One could argue that it should be included at that price

and/or there be an combo option for a discount

Instead of the CPU/GPU combo currently on newegg

Journeyman Geek

might be - but on the retailer end if they want to sweeten it

Ramhound

primary reason I went with founders edition

Journeyman Geek

I'd guess the number of people who want a dual GPU SLI is a subset of the small number of people who would buy a top end card?

(I still consider the titans the flagship, and the 60s the midrange/bare minimum I will settle for ;p)

also, I'm wondering if the lower end cards will do raytracing too - the high cost might also be yield/die size related too

hmmm

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/08/…

> Microsoft says vaguely that DXR will work with hardware that's currently on the market and that it will have a fallback layer that will let developers experiment with DXR on whatever hardware they have.

bwDraco

1:56 AM

@JourneymanGeek They'll have ray-tracing capability, but it'll be less detailed.

We'll see when the RTX 2060 and kin come out.

As for me... I'm waiting until NVIDIA has 7nm GPUs.

I care more about third-generation Ryzen than this.

Journeyman Geek

Of course you do ;p

bwDraco

;)

Journeyman Geek

Speaking of graphics cards...

LGR - DOOM 3 VOODOO

►

this is hilariously bad

bwDraco

Though the upcoming i9-9900K is almost certainly going to be a monster CPU, and will be by far the best gaming processor yet.

Journeyman Geek

@bwDraco you gotta look at it in another way though

AMD's scaring Intel and nvidia hard enough that... they're doing new things.

bwDraco

2:03 AM

And nowhere is this more evident than Intel producing mainstream 6C (and soon 8C) processors after doing no more than 4C for more than a decade.

Journeyman Geek

The core i9 HEDT was clearly a reaction to threadripper. The core i9 mainstream... I have no idea. I actually think its a upnumbered core i7

bwDraco

AMD calls this the "Ryzen Effect".

This is why we need competition.

Journeyman Geek

and all this is the effects of it

Now if Via would suddenly pop up again... ;p

bwDraco

I highly doubt it. Via's focused on embedded systems.

Journeyman Geek

(yes, they have processors allegedly for the chinese market cause patents but...)

bwDraco

2:07 AM

Now, AMD seriously needs to remain minimally competitive somewhere in the GPU market. They need to come out with more compelling mainstream GPUs. They may not be able to compete with the RTX 20 Series, but I want something that performs like a GTX 1060 or even a GTX 1070 at lower cost.

At the far low end, we have Raven Ridge, and as the proud owner of a Raven Ridge-powered laptop, AMD's outdone itself there.

But something like the Vega 48 I proposed earlier would be a great way to target the mainstream gamer looking for a superior, high-frame-rate 1080p gaming experience.

(start here: chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/118?m=46289385#46289385)

1080p144 monitors with FreeSync are easy to find and affordable these days. AMD producing a GPU that's faster and more efficient than the RX 580 to go with them would be a great idea.

4 GB of HBM2 can go a long way with the High-Bandwidth Cache Controller.

@JourneymanGeek It is not fully enabled. The RTX 2080 Ti has 34 of 36 SMs enabled (assuming 128 CUDA cores to an SM; this may have changed).

Journeyman Geek

@bwDraco erm, think lower

bwDraco

Like I said... there is still some room for improvement on the 12FFN process.

Journeyman Geek

would the 2060 be a RTX or GTX?

or heck, even the 50s downwards

bwDraco

I would be surprised if NVIDIA dropped ray-tracing capability at that level.

It need not be at the highest level of detail. Raytracing can be done at a lower level of detail in combination with conventional rasterization techniques.

Bob

bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-08/…

> Long Island Iced Tea Corp., now called Long Blockchain Corp.

lol.

Journeyman Geek

2:26 AM

Oh I read about that a while ago

Even before the kodak blockchain malarchy

bwDraco

2:40 AM

Clearly, OnePlus is getting serious about selling their phones here.

(these kinds of big banner ads are not cheap)

Dog

dpreview.com/articles/1977264339/…

I think I found my solution for reading transmitter antenna labels

Dog

3:05 AM

Ooh apparently we're getting a rocket launch site in the UK

overexchange

3:23 AM

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Q: RHEL - How to admin Syslog-NG by a non-root user?

Installed Syslog-NG as root, because the syslog-NG and its dependency packages like Eventlog is supposed to be installed in custom folder /app/syslog-ng. But, going further, we would like a non-root user to configure Syslog server(*.conf) and start & stop Syslog-NG It would be fine to give sudo...

linux rhel not-root-user syslog-ng

Migrated query to super user as shown below...

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Q: Rhel - How to create non root user, to administrate app installed by root?

Installed Syslog-NG as root, because the syslog-NG and its dependency packages like Eventlog is supposed to be installed in custom folder /app/syslog-ng. But, going further, we would like a non-root user to configure Syslog server(*.conf) and start & stop Syslog-NG It would be fine to give sudo...

linux root administration sudoers syslog

Journeyman Geek

sooo....

There's a bit of a channel tradition - that we don't typically encourage people just popping in and throwing their questions here for attention.

If its something you know is of interest to people here, especially specific ones, its probably alright.

But folks coming in here just to link a question is something we discourage cause we kinda don't want that old IRC thing where people would constantly be asking questions rather than, well... talking

You wouldn't know this, but its something to take note of in future.

Dog

3:41 AM

But I only ever read questions that get posted in here

Journeyman Geek

Front page, dog. dog, front page.

See also watched tags (which I don't use much) and apparently custom question filtering (coming in 6-8 weeks)

William

Anyone have any recommendations for doing a software hardware remapping of keyboard keys?

I type on dvorak on my laptop and essentially want to plug in like an andruino that remaps the characters

Dog

@JourneymanGeek SE Chat IS my front page

Journeyman Geek

erm

software or hardware?

@William wouldn't really work like that

you'd need something that 'speaks' usb HID if you wanted to do it with a generic keyboard, or a keyboard you can hardware remap (which is actually not uncommon) or a keyboard you can software remap (which is thankfully common)

William

keyghost.com/qido

hmm I need a device that translates it because I am unfortunately reluctant to switch keyboards

Journeyman Geek

3:54 AM

seee

You'd need something that 'speaks' usb HID if you wanted to do it with a generic keyboard,

which is what this is ;p

if its a laptop keyboard, eh, there's gotta be something or you can go mad with AHK?

or switch layouts and... just type

William

@JourneymanGeek I am on a mac

that is the problem

yeah ahk works perfect on windwos

on mac its a pain in the but

I did this several years ago and because mac switched how it works internally

I have to redo the karkabiner configs

and I hate using mac except for occasional things

the best idea I have been able to come up with

is quite literally control the mouse and keyboard through a windows computer

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Another day, another GrowlToToast update :P

Journeyman Geek

oh maaaan

@Bob I need to fix up the linux box at some point, get all the downloads done and rebuild it ;p

William

the dvorak isn't the issue

its the modifier keys on the mac

Journeyman Geek

@William ahh. at zis point, I think SU or SR would be of more help than chat

William

4:01 AM

SR?

stackoverflow?

Journeyman Geek

software recommendations

William

yeah I want that rabbit whole with macs and they basically said vnc

Journeyman Geek

hmm

If you just need keyboard and mouse...

what was that called

synergy might work

there's old open source versions still floating around

Bob

@JourneymanGeek It does non-English now! :P

Journeyman Geek

0_0

lol

Bob

4:06 AM

github.com/BobVul/GrowlToToast/issues/24

Journeyman Geek

once I get over my current bout of mehness ;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Also, the new installer has one more step (plugin install) than I'd like but otherwise it's turning out to be pretty solid :D

shit

I should've made 2.0.3 2.1 instead

how2version

bit late now lol

Journeyman Geek

@Bob which is slightly funny considering the state of non development of GFW

Bob

@JourneymanGeek lol I had to work around one of their bugs already

stray nul characters are bad

Journeyman Geek

I'm debating moving the notification system to matrix

navi can handle the linux end

Bob

4:08 AM

I don't know how this became my most popular github project, but ... here we are :P

Journeyman Geek

now, if I had something that would toast the contents of a message on matrix to windows, no need for replies... ;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM :P

(tbh Toaster could probably be reused and/or split into its own project)

Journeyman Geek

Advantages would be 1) This will work fairly securely outside a lan

2) matrix is under active development, and we're not working with a dead project forking an old FOSS version of a ... I don't even know if growl on mac is still a thing...

Bob

otoh I cbf figuring out the matrix protocol :P

Journeyman Geek

@Bob wouldn't need to?

there's libraries for .net

William

4:11 AM

Synergy is a really good idea thank you

night guys. We are living in the matrix.

Bob

@JourneymanGeek you'd need some understanding of the protocol even if you use third party libs

Journeyman Geek

ah

Bob

the nitty gritty syntax details aren't as important as the general flow

Journeyman Geek

Oh well ;p

Bob

if you have no idea when a mesage comes through, how to react, etc., you can't do much

that's assuming any lib is a fairly thin wrapper... if it's heavily abstracted, that just shifts the requirement to understanding the lib

Journeyman Geek

4:17 AM

anyway, I still need to set up the download box again, finish up downloading my TV show backlog, and rebuilding the thing

Bob

lol

bwDraco

5:54 AM

Jon Stewart Finds a Home for Brooklyn’s Lost Subway Goats nyti.ms/2N3JFrx lol

Two very baaaaad boys.

Tweeted by NYCTSubway on August 20, 2018 at 3:33 PM in reply to NYCTSubway

djsmiley2k

7:06 AM

@Dog wuuuuuuuuuuut

Journeyman Geek

\o/

The headband covers I bought work on both my FA003TI and my M50x \o/

Burgi

7:52 AM

morning

@Dog that's old news

djsmiley2k

9:21 AM

is it?!

/me wants infos

Burgi

@djsmiley2k bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44841123

july

rahuldottech

9:52 AM

o/

Pseudohuman

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rahuldottech

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Pseudohuman

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rahuldottech

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Pseudohuman

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rahuldottech

9:53 AM

@Pseudohuman help

Pseudohuman

@rahuldottech I do not understand.

rahuldottech

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Pseudohuman

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rahuldottech

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rahuldottech

9:55 AM

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Pseudohuman

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@Pseudohuman lenny

9:56 AM

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rahuldottech

Wtf

NOTHING MAKES SENSE

Journeyman Geek

It's @JennaSloan's bot and we have no idea why it is here :p

rahuldottech

@JourneymanGeek clearly

@Pseudohuman longliverussia

Pseudohuman

@rahuldottech I do not understand.

djsmiley2k

9:57 AM

well this is cool

eyewire.org

rahuldottech

!!is @Pseudohuman not broken?

ChatBot John Cavil

@rahuldottech But of course

Pseudohuman

@rahuldottech I do not understand.

ChatBot John Cavil

@rahuldottech Doubtfully

Burgi

dude can you find somewhere else to test your bot?

bertieb

10:06 AM

Halp no internet

Any DSL gurus know what 'timeout waiting for PADO packets' is likely to signify?

A bit of phone googling says it's something about not getting a reply from past the street fibre cabinet

There's an unanswered SU question about it too

bertieb

10:35 AM

On phone to tech support- guy I got seems knowledgeable and on the ball, which is great for front line home internet tech support!

djsmiley2k

10:49 AM

@bertieb The exchange hates you.

Basically your router sent the PADI, and it never recieved the PADO

Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet

The Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE) is a network protocol for encapsulating PPP frames inside Ethernet frames. It appeared in 1999, in the context of the boom of DSL as the solution for tunneling packets over the DSL connection to the ISP's IP network, and from there to the rest of the Internet. A 2005 networking book noted that "Most DSL providers use PPPoE, which provides authentication, encryption, and compression." Typical use of PPPoE involves leveraging the PPP facilities for authenticating the user with a username and password, predominately via the PAP protocol and less often...

bertieb

Poor bertie Billy-no-mates

Apparently there is a "major incident" at my cabinet

And it should be repaired in one and a half hours ago

Totally unlike BT to breach a repair estimate~

Going to take a wander and see if I can find the cab

In the meantime, cat:

..wait, no image upload on mobile?

Bleh, fails even when I request desktop site

djsmiley2k

@bertieb give it a good kick

The cabinet, not the cat.

bertieb

Lol

Either that, or the BT engineer... XD

Found the engineering team! (2 of them)

Must be pretty major to have two on the job

(One to swear and one to supervise)

Burgi

11:15 AM

@bertieb is it raining?

normally its water ingress into the cab

bertieb

@Burgi Nope, might have been at 4AM when my connection went down tho!

Burgi

have a wander down the street and see if the BT engineers are using a sponge to mop up the water from the bottom of the cab

bertieb

Hehe! If I could post an image I'd show you what they're doing

Could always ask them

But don't want to bother them when they're working on getting me (and other folks maybe) back online

rahuldottech

@JourneymanGeek I need some quick advice. I need to run a win7 VM (I need a 32-bit environment for some software) I have an ISO, but I need a recommendation for the most lightweight VM software

Journeyman Geek

11:53 AM

@rahuldottech eh. Most of them are heavyish. I just tend to run virtualbox

rahuldottech

@JourneymanGeek I'm on a heavily metered network

Journeyman Geek

Most of the other stuff is expensive (vmware player is no longer a thing IIRC) or won't run on windows

rahuldottech

Can't afford a large download

Journeyman Geek

qemu is tiny but its performance is crap

rahuldottech