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Journeyman Geek

00:02

,,, oh dear god

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Q: Laptop doesn't recognize operating system after being punched

My laptop was annoying me and I punched it. My mistake. Now, when I turn it on, it enters in something called "Aptio Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 2012 American Megatrends, Inc." It's a blue and white menu. Not sure of its proper name. I think it doesn't recognize the windows or hard drive becau...

Michael Frank

Yea...

DragonLord

@Paul That time is the sum of CPU time on all processor cores

Michael Frank

@CanadianLuke so, it turns out the VBGenius has already figured out how to pull all the diskdrive models AND run the script.

I feel like that should be "has figured out how to run the script AND pulled all the diskdrive models already."

allquixotic

01:13

@BenRichards heh. asked a SO question about porting to OpenGL ES, and apparently it's going to require a lot of rewriting of your code, and pushing most stuff you want to do on the GPU into shaders

Journeyman Geek

01:43

moo

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Anonymous

would there be any improvements in doing integer math in the GPU vs CPU?

Michael Frank

02:14

@Bob just had a situation similar to your strip man... I wanted to figure out what touch did. Then I remember you and decided I would just look it up at home. ;)

Bob

heh

@allquixotic probably going to abandon debian

netinst gave me gnome3, which was horribly unresponsive on 256 MB of RAM

I mean, it kinda works on 512... but that's a bit much for just a term emulator

Michael Frank

02:44

"The West struggled to find a way to get Russia to back down, but with little beyond already threatened diplomatic and economic sanctions, global markets fell sharply over the prospect of violent upheaval in the heart of Europe. "

Well... no shit? They can barely get their own government to agree on any one topic, what makes them think they'll get Russia to just up and turn around on an obviously very well planned occupation.

They being The US.

allquixotic

02:55

@PatoSáinz it's not about the type of math but the quantity, and how much data-dependency there is

Anonymous

@allquixotic english please

allquixotic

the type of math that's usually done on the GPU is the type where you need a lot of math operations done in a very short period of time, and most of the results don't depend on any of the other results, so it can all be done at once

if there are too many results that can only be calculated after some other result, forming a long chain of result dependencies, the CPU does it better

Bob

@allquixotic also, memory requirements

(for gpu processing)

Anonymous

@allquixotic let's say, fizzbuzz

Anonymous

would a CUDA fizzbuzz be better?

Bob

02:58

fiwhaa

Anonymous

@Bob u wot m8

allquixotic

@PatoSáinz well, probably not, because there's too much control flow

also, the purpose of fizzbuzz isn't for performance, it's to demonstrate a concept.... if you extended it to say the first 10,000,000,000,000 integers, you might be able to split it up into little groups of integers and have each group worked on independently by a shader core, in which case you may get higher performance due to the raw throughput of a GPU

that's assuming you have a GPU installed that gets a higher TFLOPS rating than your CPU, so, something like a Tesla card, or a HD7970, or a GTX680, or maybe slightly weaker, but nothing mainstream, since those tend to be much weaker

point is, it's a lot easier algorithmically to realize the total throughput of your CPU; all you have to do is split up the work so that each hw thread is occupied... control flow isn't much of an impedance to a CPU since a huge portion of its logic is dedicated to branch prediction and so forth... but to use the total throughput of a GPU takes very careful algorithm design

Bob

03:25

@allquixotic you'd have a bit of trouble storing the results/extracting the results, though

Boris_yo

03:38

Anyone understands microwave ovens? I have noticed that spinning glass plate started to become very hot after cooking for over 6 minutes. Recently the plate has cracked in two. This is not normal, is it?

Could it be it absorbs the most radiation or there's something with direction where radiation goes? Could it be concentrating it on plate only?

Michael Frank

...no. Definitely not.

allquixotic

@Boris_yo if the glass plate has water on it, the microwaves will heat that water to boiling point (212 F) after which it'll evaporate; I doubt 212 F is enough to crack a glass plate that's meant to have hot stuff sit on it...

on the other hand, any microwave energy hitting the glass should just reflect off

imperfections or small fractures on the surface of the glass can sometimes cause it to absorb energy, which you can sometimes notice with mugs.... a new mug's hangle might not get hot when you heat its contents, but an older mug's handle might get too hot to touch

generally you want glass or cookware to be smooth on all surfaces to increase the chance of reflection

Boris_yo

@allquixotic Recently placed glass bowl with food on it. I heard cracks going on while cooking. After cooking I have noticed circular crack hole in once specific place of glass plate. I think glass of bowl cracked and some parts of it merged with microwave's glass plate...

Bob

@allquixotic reflect off? really? I thought glass was mostly permeable to ~2.4GHz EMR

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Bob

03:49

!!help test1

ChatBot John Cavil

@Bob test1: User-taught command: <>!! test

Bob

huh

@allquixotic Cavil is getting close to 100 rep :P

Michael Frank

Is that by mistake?

Bob

@MichaelFrank Nah, he needed some rep to be able to post on chat, so allquixotic answered a question or two as him

it accumulated rep over time

Michael Frank

AHh yes, of course.

Well, home time for me. Fingers crossed I don't get into another car crash. :<

woo, WoW: Mist of Pandaria Collector's Edition is mine :D only $40 as well.

Will go nicely with my collection.

Psycogeek

04:18

@Boris_yo That happens here with plate items that are from china, because of the lead in them. If there is a lot of food or other stuff to adsorb the energy they are fine, and only heat a little.

Journeyman Geek

I made this ;p

Psycogeek

It is all part of chinas plan to kill all stupid cheap americans and take over the expansive continent, so i am wondering how you ended up with em :-)

@JourneymanGeek they let you have a dog in jail? :-)

Bob

!! s/you have//

ChatBot John Cavil

@Bob @JourneymanGeek they let a dog in jail? :-) (source)

Journeyman Geek

@Psycogeek: we bought over the little bit of space in front of our apartment and put a grill there

and we have spare leashes in case of rain and stuff

Bob

04:27

rather amusing list: linux.com/news/software/applications/…

Michael Frank

05:02

That screenshot of Bodhi is awful!

Psycogeek

Lol, google your so dumb, do you really think your going to squeeze out my real name anyways ?

Journeyman Geek

ahh I see.

@Psycogeek: I've had mail address to journeyman geek before ;p

Psycogeek

@JourneymanGeek this is the second round of rejection, it was holding for some time.

Bob

@MichaelFrank hm?

Psycogeek

They know everything else about me, including where i live, everything i buy and sell, everything i have ever said , everything i have ever searched for. That should be sufficient to keep thier 200Billion dollers. My name is the only thing i got left, they got everything else.

Bob

05:14

@Psycogeek Here's a name: "Fuck Off"

Journeyman Geek

heh

@Psycogeek: I have someone who's using my realname as a username on SR.SE

presumably as a troll

Psycogeek

@JourneymanGeek and could one assume who that troll probably is?

Journeyman Geek

oh its clear who he is.

Its just bloody amusing to see all his questions downvoted without any intervention whatsoever.

Michael Frank

@Bob In that list you posted. The screenshot they use for the "Most beautiful Linux" is really not beautiful.

Journeyman Geek

heh, it uses e17

someone obviously didn't theme it pretty well cause the enlightenment window managers DO tend to be beautiful

Psycogeek

05:18

@Bob They foiled my plans again. I had the whole world signed in as "Guest" with the password "FreePass" and suddenly a human noticed :-)

Bob

eww, updating to debian jessie brought in something that looks like the unity launcher

so much for lightweight

@Psycogeek really quite annoying how they try all those stupid things to enforce a "real name"

1. why the hell do you (they) care?

2. it is well known in programming that you cannot know what format someone's name takes

nor what words are in there

trying to whitelist names like "John" is just plain stupid

kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/…

Psycogeek

Thats it the Klingon empire. ahh, i will just be William Shatner thats a real name :-)

(now it is under review) hey I can just keep changing it , i dont use the dang goople+ anyways.

If i get rejected enough times they will say "your never comming back here again" I will say "you Promise?" :-)

Eight O. Nine, wonder if that would fly . I will appeal and tell them my parents were not really creative, just ask my sister Two.

Journeyman Geek

05:52

just set your name to John P Smith.

P stands for Psudonymn ;p

Also, my legal name, and the way I write my name are inverted

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Hm?

That in India too?

I know China and Japan tend to say the family name before the given name.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: my legal name is <Father's first name> <My name>

I use it the other way around.

I have no idea why its like that. My nephew's name is the correct way I think

Bob

huh

Journeyman Geek

of course, I've occationally joked about getting a name change

Psycogeek

@JourneymanGeek which one :-)

Journeyman Geek

05:58

which one what?

Psycogeek

Which name would you change? Aka disowning family.

To parents that is like a divorce :-)

Oh yea there is a link for that too wikihow.com/Disown-Your-Family

Hmm , i might be able to find a way to Disown Google+ if i look hard enough.

The restraining order might mean i would have to stay 300 feet from my own phone.

Michael Frank

Why would Ubuntu suddenly stop recognising left-click on more than one mouse? :S

Psycogeek

@MichaelFrank did you turn it off then on again? :-)

Michael Frank

I just turned the PC on.

Journeyman Geek

@Psycogeek: I'd just switch the order ;p

Psycogeek

06:17

@MichaelFrank do you got utilities running? remote app (like for htpc) , macros, hotkey utilities? Is it switched for lefties? switch it for lefties anyways and see if the right one doesnt work too?

That would provide more of a clue that it was a software issue.

Is there any other input device connected anywhere ? or even wireless or remoted or anything?

Michael Frank

06:52

There hasn't been a software change in months. We hardly use the PC. I plugged the mouse in and turned it on. Right click works perfectly, left click doesn't.

Bob

08:32

> The original RA did not support TCP/IP, IPX only

O.O

1996

seriously, IPX-only in 1996?

Bob

09:18

wut

amirunningxp.com

Michael Frank

I predict SO many users at work are going to see something like this and freak out.

Bob

@JourneymanGeek should try with his OS/2 :D

(and send the screenshot to @allquixotic)

Michael Frank

@JourneymanGeek I tried this, didn't work.

Journeyman Geek

09:39

@Bob: absa-fucking-lutely

oh dear god

jokerdino

@Bob are they checking if the OS is older than XP?

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: its... broken

@allquixotic ^^^

jokerdino

lol

Journeyman Geek

I'm sorry. A mere png could not begin to show how horrifically broken that was

Psycogeek

10:12

@Bob sure and the world ended after 2012 , just like xp will end and become virus infested waste pile in 2014.

Journeyman Geek

@jokerdino: I think they are just checking for xp

Psycogeek

Windows XP is a 12 year old operating system. That works pretty damn good, and had less features and less bugs , less complications and less holes. If you would toss out your good wife after 12 years of bliss, then why are you still using XP :-)

(do it for the kids)

same computer, same monitor, side by side.

Bob

@JourneymanGeek hehe

I love how you're supposed to type javascript: into the address bar just to view error details.

Journeyman Geek

10:29

I should probably try it

blah , pastebin dosen't work off os/2

oh

opera

pastebin.com/Bk65fMc7

have fun

Bob

@JourneymanGeek lol

try/catch/throw were reserved but not implemented, it seems

Psycogeek