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Oliver Salzburg

00:28

@MichaelFrank But I'm in the north! It's also been like this for quite some time. Never really found the source of it and my content doesn't look very SG-centric either :\

Looks more PG-centric. If you know what I mean

Michael Frank

Eh, the north is only the north until the lines change.

Oliver Salzburg

:D

Michael Frank

01:22

Anyone know how I can extract the video from here? maoritelevision.com/news/national/…

Bob

@MichaelFrank video ripper 2017? :P

<video id="video-player_html5_api" data-account="1614493167001" data-player="r1IDOA4s" data-embed="default" data-video-id="5265641720001" class="vjs-tech" playsinline="" preload="auto" poster="http://brightcove04.o.brightcove.com/1614493167001/1614493167001_5265658705001_5265641720001-vs.jpg?pubId=1614493167001&amp;videoId=5265641720001" src="blob:maoritelevision.com/…;

blobs are fun

I wonder if that means it's using MSE

http://www.maoritelevision.com/d631e22d-2796-45e6-98cf-808903b28630"

10

Q: How to download video with blob url?

I am trying to download video with src url blob:https%3A//www.youtube.com/23aea5c8-9ae2-40dc-9417-e675ea99b386. Is there a process that can be followed to download all this type of videos?

download

Michael Frank

@Bob That could be useful... Thanks :)

Rich Manson

01:53

@Ramhound @Ramhound You can say that and I know the history may only show one thing but why would it say 195 at the top of a SU page next to you profile link and badges if a person never had 195. Evidently it was 195 for a few minute. I am just saying I know what it saw before a refresh. I am not crazy even though some may think so :P

I was just wondering why it would say 195 and then 185 after a refresh and not show that in the history.

Now I have to figure out who pinged me 3-4 time almost an hor ago but son't see any messages

Ramhound

@RichManson no idea but you don't have the reputation gains for 195 so you didn't lose 10 points; you had 88 points and lost 2 points; you'll have to accept that.

Rich Manson

I was just saying before it could have been an up vote and then someone had second thoughts and changed their mind and reversed it.. That's the only thing I think it could have been.Is that not possible?

I don't even know why that conversation was painful LOL I was just being inquisitive and trying to understand how the math works. I am sure working of the site are talked about in meta.

Journeyman Geek

02:35

hm

Dad's new phone is in

annnnd the app for transferring data over dosen't work with gingerbread

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Unreasonable expectations :P

If Gingerbread's Google backup still works you could consider going that way

long as you don't care about privacy of course

Journeyman Geek

Carbonite seems to work

ah, done

@Bob dosen't do SMSes

allquixotic

02:56

why don't you do SMS, @Bob? whhhyyyyyyy? I just want to text you, but @JourneymanGeek says you don't do SMS.

Bob

:(

Rahul2001

@Bob Cuz international SMS costs are like the most unreasonable thing on earth... :P

Journeyman Geek

lol

Migrated my dad's phone. Waiting for activation to happen

Bob

@Rahul2001 actually they're pretty cheap on my plan

'course, 250B of text should probably be free, but eh

Journeyman Geek

Carbonite will backup, but the online transfer options are 4.0 and better

so shoved it on an SD card and moved em

allquixotic

02:59

@Bob unlimited talk and text area common here now

Rahul2001

@JourneymanGeek That what I always do...

Journeyman Geek

@Rahul2001 My dad's phone is old

Bob

@allquixotic not international, though?

Rahul2001

@JourneymanGeek But new enough to have an SD slot, right?

Journeyman Geek

@Rahul2001 lots of new phones have no SD slot

Michael Frank

03:02

@Rahul2001 It'd be super old to have an SD card slot. ;)

Rahul2001

@JourneymanGeek But OTG!

@MichaelFrank s/to have/to not have/

Journeyman Geek

@Rahul2001 that was plan... E

Michael Frank

SD Card.

Rahul2001

@JourneymanGeek lol

allquixotic

Code Monkey

►

Journeyman Geek

03:04

@MichaelFrank lots of modern phones don't have em

erf

Phone company has an online activation thing for a simcard

I don't know if it worked

since the bloody thing just throws me into another generic support page instead of useful feedback

Rahul2001

@MichaelFrank Uh, I was talking about micro SD cards...

Michael Frank

@Rahul2001 Nooo, you all were talking about SD cards :P

Rahul2001

@MichaelFrank In today's day and age, micro automatically gets prefixed to "SD"

Michael Frank

But what If I'm a photog?

Rahul2001

@JourneymanGeek I never got that to work when I went to Australia... They needed a permanent address, I tried the hotel's, but it never actually worked :P

Journeyman Geek

03:12

@Rahul2001 they want a id number, the phone number and IMSI number on the sim card

Rahul2001

@JourneymanGeek Bah... I'd just go to the store and ask the guys to activate it while buying the SIM

Journeyman Geek

@Rahul2001 we got 30 dollars off the price of the phone for buying it online ;p

else that's what we normally do

Bob

03:33

@allquixotic that the Jonathon Coulton song?

(can't see yt at work :P)

Journeyman Geek

03:48

yup

with a video

allquixotic

@Bob mhm

Bob

@allquixotic code monkey get up; get coffee

...I forgot the rest

that thumbnail is different from what I remember though

Journeyman Geek

"go for boring meeting, with boring manager rob..."

allquixotic

04:30

WHOA

I accidentally leaned my hand too hard on my touchpad and accidentally discovered force touch

now I'm trying it everywhere and it's awesome

Journeyman Geek

lol

XKCD

05:09

Maybe if I spin it back and forth really fast I can do some kind of pulse-width modulation.

2

djsmiley2k

07:35

/me wibbles

Boris_yo

07:47

@JourneymanGeek RAW? Mmmmm... Better than JPG but heavy though...

Journeyman Geek

Research and Analysis Wing

;p

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek Interesting. Nylon braided versus normal cable? Which affects resistance? Thought of getting this one but reports are that some people noticed slow charge. Could be raw materials differ from batch to batch.

amazon.com/dp/B01F9RH0R4

djsmiley2k

nylon braiding should only make the cable stronger/more resistant to stretching

it shoudln't affect the electrical properties of it

Boris_yo

And what's with all these lightning cables getting burned>

Journeyman Geek

@Boris_yo braided cables are a little more wear resistant in theory

Boris_yo

07:56

And fraying too...

I noticed many lightning cables get bent soon, fray and break down at the connector plug.

djsmiley2k

Why do apple connections always so crap

from wire's into plugs

they seem to go for the thinnest possible cables, and so they just break

Bob

08:18

@JourneymanGeek ...and here I thought he was asking about electrical resistance...

Journeyman Geek

@Bob >_>

Mental filter

Psycogeek

08:30

@Boris_yo With Great Power comes Great Responsibility :-)

Burgi

08:49

morning

Journeyman Geek

Woof

Psycogeek

well I am on my search to find the correct mobile trailer thing. and so far i discovered . . . . nobody makes one. It is unbelievable the arrays of things that fall apart , or dont even work on the 1st day with these RVs.

How outraged would you be, if you drive 100 miles and found that more than 5 screws fell out of your vehicle?

And time, has made things worse. there are way more reports of crappy workmanship in the later years 2016 - 17

Burgi

@Psycogeek american built, what do you expect?

Psycogeek

There I am all ready to install my computer, and solar and batteries, but i think it is more like the first 6mo i will be just fixing crap

kid you not the first one i walked into, the (bathroom) door wouldnt re-close after opening. Sales dude says "needs adjusting"

Top it off, even though most of them have "dealers" across the whole country, very few of them will do ANY warrenty service for a trailer they did not Sell . It is sooo bad, that the manufactures themselves stated that you cannot rely on thier own dealers to do so.

DavidPostill

@Psycogeek So what fell off that nobody makes anymore?

Burgi

09:03

dinosaurs

Psycogeek

When the manufacture basically absolves the dealers of the practice, they only end up encouraging them. If it was my company , i would be telling the dealers instead they will lose thier authorisation , and no more "fronted" trailers for you.

So there you are in a RV that will cruise across the country, but for the first few months, you need to cling to the dealer you bought it from, going nowhere, just having them fix it over and again.

@DavidPostill people have reported the screws falling off the body, the frame, and the leveling jacks.

even at the dealers with new trailers, you can find at least one thing that is already broken looking.

and the workers at the dealer? youd'a think they would be busy fixing anything. instead they are on the computer and reading the newspaper until the next Sucker arrives.

the sucker being me of course :-) but when I came in looking like a homeless person, they would barely give me the time of day. Tomorrow i will put on a Suit and shave, and still have the same money, and the difference in how i will be treated would probably make me 1mill views on YousaTube

And the prices, 2 dealers 100miles apart, one of them trying to sell the same New trailer for 36K while another is trying to unload the same thing at 23K

within the first 5 minutes , they had already lied 5 times.

He was actually rambling on (about pricing) telling me it will cost more if i have the Standard features of the trailer??? WTF . I could see options (even added before it gets to the dealer) costing more. But this idiot was trying to jack me up for standard items that do come with it, while i am reading the brochure (in front of him) for what was optional.

RV dealers make Used Car dealers look like angels :-) and I have had some red faced yelling used car dealers already (over fraud fees).

get this, they want $500 to show you how to use the trailer. no problem i can read a manuel, and I dont need instructions anyway. Oh it is mandatory.

it takes less than 1 hour to do that.

I am trying to get Away from people like that. With it needing constant service, i will instead be marrying them :-)

I really do not know what to do anymore. there are no other good options, as the 2 dogs are un-welcome in much of the apartments and motels around here. The portable office, movable home thing was the key to leaving this house with my tools , animals and brain intact.

Journeyman Geek

09:37

er. I hate to suggest this but...

but a less than shitty, cheapish one and fix it up? ;p

Cause that's what I sometimes do with computers.

Psycogeek

yup

which adds this weird one.
some RV parks do not allow trailers over 10 years old. which should be 100% illegal HUD discrimination etc, that you can sue over if that was "housing"

I assume it is so people like ME dont move in :-)

'twould be fun to do the Suit test there too. show up with my magic (cheap) suitcoat on and coller shirt, might even toss on a tie, and watch them break all the rules for me. Then 10 minutes later switch back into my casual.

and break the dogs out :-) who let the dogs out, who ,who

djsmiley2k

lol yup

wifes grandma had to sell her caravan

Burgi

09:55

@djsmiley2k does she like dags?

djsmiley2k

lol she likes big ones

D:

but that was becxause it was 'too old' and didn't fit with the colour scheme of the rest of the site o_O

Psycogeek

ahh

So these are the kind of people who would toss your grandmother out.

djsmiley2k

11:48

yeah

Loooovely people xD

Uses powershell <hint hint @DavidPostill>

theregister.co.uk/2017/02/08/hidden_malware_menaces_enterprises

DavidPostill

@djsmiley2k ??

djsmiley2k

'Kaspersky Lab experts report that the attacks harness widely available penetration-testing and administration tools as well as the PowerShell framework for task automation in Windows. Malicious code resides only in memory, they say.'

You taken a new role up on the side? ;)

wait, you are the powershell guru right? D:

now I'm thinking it's @BenN xD

Who was looking for a thermal camera too, might of been @bwDraco ?

hackaday.com/2017/02/08/…

noitsbecky

12:09

!!caaaaaaaaaaat2

ChatBot John Cavil

@noitsbecky That didn't make much sense. Maybe you meant: caaaaaaaaaat, caaaaaaaaat, caaaaaaaat2

noitsbecky

!!caaaaaaaat2

ChatBot John Cavil

Oliver Salzburg

!!stfu

ChatBot John Cavil

@OliverSalzburg That didn't make much sense. Use the !!/help command to learn more.

noitsbecky

12:09

Stuff you too!

Wait...

DavidPostill

@djsmiley2k Yep. I'm the batch file guru :)

djsmiley2k

!!justshipit

ChatBot John Cavil

@djsmiley2k That didn't make much sense. Use the !!/help command to learn more.

Rahul2001

Yay! Bot is alive!

!!is it good to be back?

ChatBot John Cavil

@Rahul2001 Indeed

Rahul2001

12:16

:D

djsmiley2k

:D

Burgi

12:52

i can never get output buffering to work

Burgi

13:06

because thats how it works!

DavidPostill

@Burgi too broad :)

Burgi

@DavidPostill don't worry about it, i'm writing a onetime script to generate SQL for a big import job

i've already spent too long faffing about with it

allquixotic

@djsmiley2k Apple's USB-C cables are quite a lot thicker than their lightning cables. Might be because they have to be to not instantly catch on fire; after all, a USB-C cable can in theory power a full-fat laptop, as they do on the new MBP. Also, third-party MFi-certified (Apple-blessed) lightning cables can have some appreciable heft to them (see: Belkin 3m lightning to USB-A cable).

Belkin's lightning cables are so good, in fact, that they're my preferred vendor of all Apple proprietary cables now, over Apple themselves

Burgi

13:42

the outbuffer was to show the queries as they were generated rather than just at the end

Burgi

14:01

ugh!

there are no cheap flats :(

allquixotic

@Burgi maybe you should look for 3D V-HOUSES instead; I hear they're much more space-efficient

Burgi

i don't think they are compatible with the UK infrastructure

Journeyman Geek

14:20

What a strange day

I'm sitting on 150 rep on SF on what felt like a thinly disguised rant ;p

djsmiley2k

@Burgi flush();objflush();someotherkindaflush();

Burgi

yeah didn't work

djsmiley2k

14:39

is it more than 1k in th buffer?

i'm presuming php too

Burgi

no and yes in that order

djsmiley2k

that's why then

oh appently that's a ie/safari thing

oh and ob_flush first

Burgi

its not a massive issue

djsmiley2k

hehe

you read through the comments on php.net/manual/en/function.flush.php ?

Burgi

its a onetime script

the IIS one piqued my interest but this is a quick and dirty script

Bob

15:06

@allquixotic Nah, the USB-C cable can ID itself as not supporting higher currents.

Also, "power a full-fat laptop" are usually higher voltage while maintaining a low-ish current.

Rahul2001

@allquixotic Bah, solution to all cable problems: Don't use Apple...

Rahul2001

15:34

It's sad that I have a fake ID, but not enough facial hair to actually use it...

Burgi

15:52

er...?

Rahul2001

@Burgi I don't actually look like I'm 18 :P

Burgi

thats the point of fake id...

DavidPostill

@Rahul2001 Well what do you expect if you submit a photoshopped image of you with a beard? Or do you have IDs without photos?

Rahul2001

@DavidPostill The IDs only have a pic and the date of birth, so I can say that I got the ID a few years go... The photo is unedited

noitsbecky

16:32

Derp

That Brazilian Guy

Burp

djsmiley2k

16:56

you got real id then?

Burgi

thanks microsoft

djsmiley2k

dev-books.com

lul

bwDraco

wccftech.com/… (rumor)

Ryzen 4C/8T die will be slightly smaller than the comparable Kaby Lake part. The exact die size numbers are rather questionable, though.

It appears AMD has sacrificed some vector processing capability for a chip that's cheaper to manufacture.

noitsbecky

17:20

Hey there.

Nice face.

bwDraco

@noitsbecky Hello :)

Boris_yo

17:35

@Psycogeek And Anker know that!

I have iPad Mini with original Apple lightning cable. FRYS has a deal where Kanex 6 feet is sold at $6.95

Do I need additional cable?

Provided Apple cables break and fray ...

djsmiley2k

yey a new what if finally

Boris_yo

I am not in US which is mainly I asked.

Or maybe add another $6 to get nylon braided one...

allquixotic

@bwDraco you hear about the upcoming Kaby Lake CPUs that will have an on-die Radeon iGPU?

best of both worlds for gaming... the best serial perf (I doubt Ryzen will beat even Haswell) and the best on-die GPU, assuming it's based on Polaris 10 or a cut-down Vega

Adam

I'm really looking forward to Ryzen

bwDraco

@allquixotic Yup.

Mokubai

17:52

@Adam is that a really posh dried grape?

defalt

18:05

i've set up a dual band wifi router for my clients but they say that the 5GHz SSID interface doesn't show up in their laptops..does it mean that their wifi adapter don't support 5GHz band?

does a wifi adapter have to be dual band to support 5GHz band?

on my laptop there are 2 different interface, one for 2.4 GHz and the another is 5GHz..is it somehow possible that i can combine both the interface to act as one and let the wifi router choose to send/receive traffic on either of the bands automatically?

i'm not able to understand my clients' problem..i checked that their wifi adapter is b/g/n and n is dual band so they must catch 5GHz band but it doesn't appear

Hennes

Yes and no

Burgi

updated the adapter drivers?

defalt

they are updated

Burgi

the earlier n adapters don't see 5GHz

defalt

@Hennes yes for which question and no for which one?

Hennes

18:19

To use the 2.4GHz band the card needs to support 2.4GHz.
To use the 5GHz band the card needs to support 2.4GHz.

Most card with a5GHz radio support both, the the practical answer is probably "Yes, need to be dual".

Sorry, slow typer here.

Burgi

is the 5GHz network on a different SSID?

Hennes

I always put them on a different SSID so it was easier for me to see what I was using.

defalt

yes diffrent SSID which they are unable to see and diffrent password

Hennes

I think that if you name both radio's the same SSID with the same key then they might switch easier

But the easy question should be: which laptop and which wireless card do they have.

defalt

they can't even see the 5GHz interface

Hennes

18:22

If it is a pre 2009 laptop then they probably only to .B and .G in the 2.4GHz bands

Ditto for a cheap .N card.

(N can use 2.4 and 5, and some N cards only do 2.4)

Burgi

my cheap N card can only do 2.4

defalt

according to this article lifewire.com/dual-band-wireless-networking-explained-818279 n is a combination of a and b which makes it dual band so it must support n wifi adapter and their wifi adapter is b/g/n

Hennes

But asuming that the AP is broadcasting on 5GHz (check the AP or snoop with inSIDDer. And also detecable if you have a 5GHz connection) then either:
1) The other laptop does no support 5Ghz
2) Or support a different standard (maybe only .a for a very old card)
3) or it is configured not to use it

defalt

what's the point of n if it can support only 2.4..it was designed to combined a and b to make it dual band

Burgi

N was in draft for AGES so loads of kit was launched without the full spec

Hennes

18:24

Aye.

My Dell (feb 2009) shipped with draft N

I spent Eur 29 to replace with with a modern .ac card.

defalt

i can see and connect with 5GHz because my wifi adapter is dual band "ac"

Hennes

So the AP is broadcasting/using it.

Which means the fault is with the other clients.

defalt

one of my client has laptop purchased in 2013..his phone can see but laptop can't

Burgi

this is close to "ask on the main site" terrority

might be a cheap adapter in the laptop

Hennes

Ask the client for his wireless card model.

defalt

18:27

well my question involves discussion so it may not fit in main site

Burgi

yeah the make and model of the laptops is needed at this point

Hennes

Start, run, devmgmt.msc, open network might do it.

Burgi

do your best when framing the question

Hennes

Uhm, assuming windows though. What OS do they run?

defalt

tell me one thing if a wifi adapter is b+g+n..does it make it dual band?

windows 10

Hennes

18:29

No. I still think there is 2.4GHz only N

so:
b -> 2.4
g -> 2.4
n> at least 2.4
Known: only 2.4 safely known

defalt

it's weird..i've read that "a" was 5GHz and "b" was 2.4..they were old so they were combined to make them dual band. Then latest model "ac" is invented which is better than "n"

Hennes

Where did you read that they combined them.

IEEE 802.11n-2009

IEEE 802.11n-2009, commonly shortened to 802.11n, is a wireless-networking standard that uses multiple antennas to increase data rates. Sometimes referred to as MIMO, which stands for "multiple input and multiple output", it is an amendment to the IEEE 802.11-2007 wireless-networking standard. Its purpose is to improve network throughput over the two previous standards—802.11a and 802.11g—with a significant increase in the maximum net data rate from 54 Mbit/s to 600 Mbit/s (slightly higher gross bit rate including for example error-correction codes, and slightly lower maximum throughput) with the...

DavidPostill

hmm

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Q: Random characters showing up on second computer

When I compose an email and type letters on one computer it also shows up in a completely different program on another computer...Ie...I am typing a not and all of a sudden I get random characters showing up coming from another computer using email. How can I stop this?

networking

Hennes

.a is slow 5Ghz (OLD OLD OLD OLD)
.b (and .g and..) was 2.4GHz

.n can to 5Ghz, but I do not see that it must speak the .a protocol. Just the same bands.

noitsbecky

@Hennes It doesn't have to but usually can\

defalt

18:33

ok so n is b+g?

Hennes

Biggest different I read is:
1) Multiple stream allowed (up to 4)
2) [may] do 5GHz.
3) May do smart things with interference (.ac MUST do these. .n MAY. So not all do)
4) Wide channels (then again. .g .had wide channels)
5) Thoughput can be combined

@defalt No. .N is a superset of .g, which is a superset of .b

noitsbecky

G doesn't have wide channels. N has optional beamforming, AC has mandatory beamforming

Hennes

Beamforming, that was the term I was looking for. Ta

Burgi

@defalt @noitsbecky is our resident wireless comms guru

Hennes

Hmm, I had wide channels. Does that....yes. My old lLinksys is also a pre-N and not a .g.
My error.

Burgi

18:36

she takes holiday snaps of cell towers

Hennes

I rememebered 40MHz being used on the old setup.

defalt

so that's why my clients can't see that interface..their b/g/n wifi card can't see 5GHz band

noitsbecky

There were a few manufacturers with proprietary wide channel extensions on G but that's non-standard and not part of G

Burgi

afk, food

Hennes

LInksys WRT160N, I guess the name should have told me.

noitsbecky

18:37

Derp

Hennes

Same question again: which wireless card do your client have?
All the same? Varied? OUtput of devmgmt.msc?

defalt

it is rallink wireless b/g/n

noitsbecky

b/g/n = 2.4Ghz only

I actually have no idea what this conversation is all about

I'm just butting in to one things I see

Hennes

The lack of a in "b/g/n" indeed is a good hint.

noitsbecky

@defalt Yes

defalt

18:41

@noitsbecky aaah i was looking for this answer..i.ve wasted my money on buying dual band wifi router for them

noitsbecky

@defalt Yes (technically no, but in practice, yes)

@defalt No (technically yes, but in practice, no)

Hennes

The more capable router is still there for when they upgrade in the future.

noitsbecky

@defalt 'n' does not mean dual-band. You have to look at the presence of a/g to determine band support

@defalt Costs them a tenner to get a dual-band wireless card upgrade, and will get far better performance

And what @Hennes said

defalt

.a is missing in their wifi adapter..it is only b/g/n supported

can only 802.11 n see 5GHz band?

noitsbecky

Only if it is a/b/g/n

We've already told you that three times :-|

defalt

18:46

@noitsbecky i get it

since ac is compatible to all a/b/g/n that's the reason only i can see 5GHz interface

i'll let my people know that that's the fault with their b/g/n adapters

noitsbecky

No, AC is only A band.\

That's why it's called AC.

(I like to tell people that but actually that's just a coincidence)

defalt

hehehe

bwDraco

@defalt Not every 802.11n device uses the 5 GHz band. There are lots of cheaper Wi-Fi devices out there that only support 802.11b/g/n on 2.4 GHz. 802.11ac, on the other hand, only uses the 5 GHz band.

defalt

@noitsbecky so ac is a superset of a only

bwDraco

@defalt Not really. 802.11ac uses a very different air interface.

It's more an extension of 5 GHz 802.11n.

Hennes

18:52

nods.

We have a, b, g, n and ac on the market

And a few exotics in the 7GHz band, but not on consumer stuff.

defalt

ac is compatible with all of them..i used to connect it with 2.4GHz band

noitsbecky

@Hennes ad is consumer-y (WiGig) but on 60Ghz

No, AC is impossible on the 2.4Ghz band.

That's what B/G/N is for.

Hennes

I found an affordable .ad card, but no affordabel access points.

bwDraco

There's 60 GHz mmWave tech capable of achieving gigabit speeds, but it has extremely short range (line of sight, signals blocked by a single sheet of drywall).

noitsbecky

Heh. The only ones I know of are in things like the HP WiGig dock

defalt

18:55

oh i forgot..mine is not ac only..mine is dual

bwDraco

Look at the NETGEAR Nighthawk X10.

defalt

does the operator have to pay for using 60GHz band as it doesn't belong to ISM

Hennes

I only recently upgraded to a tplink archer ac2600

noitsbecky

Nope, because 60Ghz is ISM

defalt

@Hennes i upgraded to archer c20

noitsbecky

19:01

Is C20 lower or higher than C7

defalt

@noitsbecky i don't know..when i searched for tp link dual band..archer c20 was on the latest model list

thanks guys for the information..today i faced lot of confusion with a/b/g/n/ac standards

bwDraco

Archer C20 is an entry-level single-stream 802.11ac router. (802.11ac allows up to four streams; the more, the faster.)

noitsbecky

That's N's fault, probably why they went 5Ghz only on AC

defalt

@bwDraco does each stream have diffrent channel?

allquixotic

I've rapidly been phasing out 2.4 GHz only devices from my life

Kindle Paperwhite: now obsolete / replaced by a newer Kindle Oasis with Whispersync 3G, so no longer have to run my hotspot in 2.4 GHz mode for book downloads

Nexus 7: replaced by iPad Pro 9.7"

defalt

19:13

@noitsbecky look at this site trustedreviews.com/opinions/… they say ac adapter is compatible with b/g/n..aren't they wrong?

bwDraco

well, took a closer look. It's actually multiple streams of data encoded in different ways in the same spectrum to increase spectral efficiency. Each stream needs its own antenna.

Spatial multiplexing

Spatial multiplexing (often abbreviated SM or SMX) is a transmission technique in MIMO wireless communication to transmit independent and separately encoded data signals, so-called streams, from each of the multiple transmit antennas. Therefore, the space dimension is reused, or multiplexed, more than one time. If the transmitter is equipped with N t {\displaystyle N_{t}} antennas and the receiver has N r ...

Most 802.11ac client devices from the midrange up support two spatial streams

Burgi

i think you are all wrong and that it uses magic invisible pixies

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Hennes

c2600

noitsbecky

@defalt Most AC cards are AC/a/b/g/n

defalt

@noitsbecky which is what dual band adapter is

noitsbecky

19:23

@defalt No shit sherlock

defalt

those sites should actually mention this..they write half information and let users to learn the other half from somewhere else

Burgi

@defalt all part of the fun

defalt

i just learn that 802.11 n was independently made and work for both 2.4GHz and 5GHz

Burgi

good, there will be a test later

defalt

hehehe

Burgi

19:31

sorry i'm a bit grumpy, i can't get rid of this darn cold

Psycogeek

19:48

todays superuser chat is brought to you by "Spatial Multiplexing" for all your data streaming needs.

djsmiley2k

Had it longer than 5 weeks yet @Burgi?

noitsbecky

20:08

BOOM HEADSHOT

djsmiley2k

orly

Burgi

@djsmiley2k no, only a week

but it is pissing me off

Bob

22:41

hi

allquixotic

hi @Floofer

Paul Vargas

Hello to all!

@allquixotic Do you have some favorite programming language?

@Bob What is that in your (gr)avatar? A cat? A dog?

allquixotic

Tech Support telemarketer gets frustrated when Lenny won't switch on his computer

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Ben N

@PaulVargas I believe it's a fox

Paul Vargas

@BenN Hmm ... Why do you believe that is?

Ben N

22:49

Burgi

23:01

@PaulVargas because it looks like a fox

most "people" here are non-human

@BenN is a sentient PowerShell script for example

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Journeyman Geek

woof?

Burgi

i rest my case your honour

@allquixotic that makes me cringe

allquixotic

23:22

jollyrogertelco.com/product-page/…

Vacation scammer REALLY tries to bond with a robot named Salty Sally

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OH GOD LAUGHING TOO HARD

noitsbecky

23:43

Hi

So the overheating CPU/wonky heatpipe is a widely known issue with these Alienware laptops, and supposedly fixed with later shipping units.

No idea what to do about mine though

Bob

@noitsbecky Return it so they can sell as refurb again? :P

Paul Vargas

@Burgi Okay, thank you for the information.

@noitsbecky Is Alienware of Dell?

Hmm ... It looks like Dell killed to Alienware.

Alienware

Alienware is an American computer hardware subsidiary of Dell. Their products are designed for gaming and can be identified by their alien-themed designs. Alienware was founded in 1996 by Nelson Gonzalez and Alex Aguila. The company's corporate headquarters is located in The Hammocks, in Miami, Florida. == History == === Overview === Established in 1996 as Sakai of Miami, Inc. by Nelson Gonzalez and Alex Aguila, Alienware assembles desktops, notebooks, workstations, and PC gaming consoles. According to employees, the name "Alienware" was chosen because of the founders' fondness for the ...

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