@HackToHell Then the extra desktop space will be worth it. You do not need a gaming monitor; there are reasonably-priced 4K monitors out there for general-purpose use.
@bwDraco hah, the external GPU is only $499 or $599 (I think the latter) - it's a production model RX 580 with a pretty good TB3 enclosure, and they're in stock on the Apple store
@JourneymanGeek I'm not yet sure how big my desk is going to be, I'll check that out and decide between a 24" and 27" I suppose, but everyone has a 2x24"
27-inch, 4K@144Hz, AHVA with quantum dot and direct LED backlighting, 100% sRGB, 99% Adobe RGB (!), 96% DCI-P3 (!!!), 10-bit color HDR, G-SYNC, and Tobii eye-tracking.
Pricing not yet known, but expected to be around US$2,000.
Note that if no monitor is being purchased, I'll be using my existing Acer H226HQL, a low-cost 21.5" e-IPS display currently used as a second monitor for the Dragon. I'd much prefer to have two displays, though.
Two monitors means two separate workspaces. When gaming, the game is on one display while monitoring programs like Task Manager and GPU-Z are on the other.
The Predator 21 X laptop is a striking example of the sort of system that's possible when a computer manufacturer decides to design a product completely without regard to cost.
Uh. @DavidPostill, about your answer... "In any case it is better to use wmic OS get OSArchitecture to get the OS bitness. Remember you could be running Windows 32 on a 64 bit processor." => pretty sure the env var is actually the OS bitness, not the CPU?
one sec, bringing up a test environment
(and realising I don't have an x86 test images on this server)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384274.aspx
AMD64
IA64
x86
Note that this doesn't tell you the architecture of the processor but only of the process with the environment variable. It returns "x86" for a 32 bit process running on 64 bit Windows.
@Rahul2001 wmic OS get OSArchitecture always returns what you need
@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
for /f "usebackq skip=1 tokens=*" %%i in (`wmic OS get OSArchitecture ^| findstr /r /v "^$"`) do (
set "_bits=%%i"
rem remove spaces
set "_bits=!_bits: =!"
)
if "%_bits%" EQU "64-bit" (
rem 64bit OS
set "prog=x64\WinRAR x64.exe"
) else (
rem 32bit OS
set "prog=x86\WinRAR x86.exe"
)
rem do something with %prog%
call %prog%
endlocal
@Rahul2001 Oh, newer laptop than the old you said earlier. Yea that'll run circles around the Pi
@Avery @Rahul2001 That's a terrible example...
> It’s real – the biggest issues are the per core clock speed for rendering pages quickly enough and having enough RAM to deal with some of the corner cases. The Pi3 launch page with 800 comments takes around 7s to render on the Pi 3 (although Supercache means we don’t do it very often, but the odd user gets a slowish experience).
And they can't run a DB on it.
> Unfortunately, the database server still looks out of scope: not enough RAM and not enough I/O.
It can serve a lot of people, but the latency spikes aren't nice
It works but it's not ideal :P
But it's somewhere I would not recommend spending more money when you have a not-very-old laptop you can repurpose, unless the electricity bill is your concern.
@JourneymanGeek Apache 2.4 with Event MPM isn't that bad, but incompatible with mod_php so you'd have to run fcgi anyway :P
For reference, the single-thread sysbench run that took 477.0617 s on the rpi3 takes 46.0569s on a single C2750 (Avoton, Atom) core... and 445.1221s on a single Marvell Armada 370/XP ARMv7 core @ 1.333GHz. That's the Scaleway ARM server. Which has been superseded with a much faster ARMv8-based server now, too, and double the cores for the same price. RPi3 => pretty poor CPU perf, apparently...
so this must be what the "compatibility modes" for Windows do, among other things, and I feel sorry for Wine now
> Changes to the KUSER_SHARED_DATA have come mostly from growing at the end. But there have been changes within the structure, including to move members from one offset to another between builds, no matter that a comment in NTDDK.H says “The layout itself cannot change since this structure has been exported in ntddk, ntifs.h, and nthal.h for some time.” Presenting the structure over a range of versions is certainly not simple! The following sizes are known (with caveats that follow the table):
I'm using CrashPlan right now. I hate it now and I hate the people who made it and everyone who likes those people or their products. What should I use instead?
@OliverSalzburg nevermind; rsync.net isn't an easy to install Windows program
rsync.net's backups are immune to cryptomalware even if you have your rsync.net backups mounted as a local drive or something that would make it very easy for cryptomalware to find and try to encrypt it
because you can't destroy zfs snapshots from your terminal with them
@allquixotic I'm not even referring to the content, I'm referring to the way it keeps taking over the scrolling and scrolling to where it wants to be on the page rather than where I left it
Is running a command ` REG Delete HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\WordWheelQuery /VA /F` on Windows safe? I ask because the answer was posted by a new user: https://superuser.com/a/1228267/598527
@user598527 deleting a random registry key is only safe if you know what the meaning of that registry key is and whether it can be regenerated/recovered in the case of an issue
Lately in The Nineteenth Byte (I know, it's always us), we've been dealing with an issue where one or more users have decided that spamming stars on every recent message is funny. While moderators and room owners can cancel stars on messages, there is no effective way to deal with a determined st...
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384274.aspx
AMD64
IA64
x86
Note that this doesn't tell you the architecture of the processor but only of the process with the environment variable. It returns "x86" for a 32 bit process running on 64 bit Windows.
