Anybody around?

ugh. Looks like I won't be

is getting dragged along grocery shopping.

I have a question about programming competitions, it is really dumb (probably)

I have been solving project euler problems since the beginning of the vacation (all my programming began this vacation)

But I want to do problems for competitions

My problem isn't with designing the algorithms, I don't know how to read off the information they give me at the beginning

they call it case testes or something like that (in project euler they give you the problem in text and you give them a numeric result), but in programming contests you have to send the program

Does anyone know where I can learn how to make the program read the info and send it out?

In one of the programs the user wrote this: InputStream in = System.in;

and in the other one he just called the scanner

directly

he said

sc.nextBigInteger();

n=sc.nextBigInteger();

I don't understand why he needed to do the inputstram thing in one program and not in the other

he was using java7

Upgrade almost complete...

...and we're at the Start screen.

(cc @JourneymanGeek)

Running the first set of Windows updates.

@Jorge you either read from and write to files, or do the same with stdin and stdout

Every competition is different

And every language does I/O differently

49 (!) updates to install.

No crashes so far.

Looks like the repair-install did the trick, but system usability remains to be seen

Some Visual Studio tools seem to have been removed when I updated from Win 8 to 8.1 :/

And Repair install is taking a bloody long time :/

Woo I get unlimited OneDrive storage with Office 365 :P

hm

wonder how much stuff you can upload before they actually complain

"lol unlimited storage didn't mean 560 terabytes, you can stop now please"

Bleh VS setup is at configuring your system, this might take a while

For an hour now .-.

@allquixotic how was that show you were going to see? The Last Ship wasn't it?

omg sold a recipe @ 10$ in the steam market :O

0_0

roar

uh

Not many newbies do this great a job on their first post...

@DragonLord Is this one good? amazon.com/gp/product/B004XC6GJ0/…

@Boris_yo This is the modem I'd suggest: amazon.com/ARRIS-Motorola-SurfBoard-SB6141-DOCSIS/dp/B00AJHDZSI

Newegg: newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16825390001

A bit more expensive, but can handle higher speeds

@DragonLord: That's the one wirecutter likes too IIRC

And surfboards tend to be rock solid in general

@DragonLord What is the reason you do not recommend first one? Speeds only? And why is it said that if it comes in brown box - return to Amazon or merchant immediately!

Brown box = ISP supplied

sigh

Not sure what slammed 5 TB of writes on my SSD

Might be the defrag service getting confused

It's been disabled

@DragonLord Should be free file and registry monitor by SysInternals be able to do that. I mean if you set it running for 2 days or so, save the log and analyse to see what is eating writes. Sort by SDD usages or something...

@JourneymanGeek Brown box in terms of color or any modem supplied by ISP is called so?

hanselman.com/blog/…

Fragmentation is too high

I'm running a free-space defrag right now

Hopefully, this will help compact the drive

A few hundred GB of writes can't hurt at this point if it helps prevent errors from occurring

Drive's rated for 150 TB over ten years, and it has almost half a year of writes on it

(The 150 TB limit is only a warranty limit; it's closer to 600+ TB; besides, these were sequential writes and write amplification has been very low)

hi

happy new year.

I have a question, but I am not sure whether it is on-topic on this site, or it is previously asked here.

Then ask ;)

On my computer, I have huge number of presentation files, paper files, word files, ebooks, programming files,etc.

I am looking for a software to easilly organize them

I tried to name them appropriately

but I can not easilly find the content I want

Windows/Linux/Mac?

windows

You can always try asking on softwarerecs.stackexchange.com but I would signup for OneDrive (Skydrive) and neatly sort documents there (and backup is done), while programming files into VisualStudio sollution then backup them on visualstudio.com (version control system)

Cool thing about onedrive is Office Online, you can edit documents on the fly, all you need is internet access

Is it's searchability better than storing my files on my laptop's hard drive?

It is same, Onedrive integrates with your machine, so you have local copy which is automatically synced to cloud (same as with Dropbox)

But you know, I am looking for a software which helps me better find my files...

I have many pdf files for papers and ebooks

@DragonLord Free space defrag? TRIM optimization?

I have tried to name them so precisely but I still can not find the ones I need...

@EnthusiasticStudent Advanced Search in Windows Explorer can search file content

How can I do it?

I do not remember, let me check ;p

Oh, which windows? 7? 8?

7

(Also, I would be happy to hear if you have solutions for linux too, because I have recently started linux and I want to learn it too)

Gah, apparently in Win7 search in content is hidden wikihow.com/Make-Windows-7-Search-File-Contents , on Win8 it is in ribbon

For plain text files (source core, txt) you can use astrogrep.sourceforge.net

@PTwr have you seen zotero?

@EnthusiasticStudent never heard of it, but I somehow managed to have my files neatly sorted (can't say same about my room tho)

It is a software for referencing papers

it's nice feature is that you can link your file to it's name in this software

when you click on the name, you will see the author's name, abstract, publication data, etc.

and when you double click on it, the linked file will be open

if I find something like this, it would be the best

Just tested running the Windows Drive Optimizer to perform free space consolidation on the SSD—it wrote several hundred megabytes a second without actually meaningfully moving data or reducing fragmentation

@EnthusiasticStudent I never required such software so I do not know any, I guess it is time for you to ask on softwarerecs.stackexchange.com (And remember, do backups!)

@PTwr yes... backup is important. thanks for your time.

cya

Finally finished updating after five batches of updates and numerous reboots

Is it suspicious for a three+ year old laptop HDD to be in perfect state after intense usage in non-perfect environment (bed, bus, car, forest) and even few meetings with ground while powered on (and probably working)? SMART is all clear, surface in perfect shape, over 1700 hours uptime (that's two years). It all looks too lucky, even stationary PC's get badsectors from normal use after all.

Geh, SMART G-Sense records 0 hits, and I even have one lid hinge damaged from quick transfer from table to floor

@DragonLord have you fixed the lappy then?

Seems to be working now

@PTwr I'd just say you're lucky. In my experience, HDDs break when they want, not when you abuse them.

@PTwr I have a hard drive that has been making suspicious noises for years, and is still working fine...

@fefrei All I hear from mine is steady swooosh of spinning plates and occasional head parking (quite loud one). Backups are up to date so lets see how long luck will last

@PTwr Since you have backups, they probably won't break for a long time. :-)

@fefrei yeah, they always break day after your backup dies ;p

Don't we all love Murphy?

Is any Windows 8.1 expert around? Notifications aren't working for my account, and it's driving me nuts...

I an 8.1 expert in not using metro gui ;p

Its performance is horrible without SSD

Maybe you hid notifications? You can undo it from that ugly bar with power button on right side of screen in Settings

@PTwr That probably won't suffice :-), if you still want to take a look: superuser.com/questions/860015

@PTwr I just switched from an old HDD laptop with 8.1 to a new one with SSD - the difference is dramatic.

I have 8.1 on SSD at workplace, finally metro search is not freezing up

@PTwr There, it says Turned off by Group Policy. I'm pretty sure it isn't, and in the settings app, I don't see the corresponding Some settings are managed by your system administrator.

@fefrei I can't even find how to get to notification settings, I guess I won't be of much use

@PTwr Too bad. Thanks, still. (By the way, it's Charms -> Settings -> Change PC Settings -> Search and Apps -> Notifications.)

By the time I downloaded visual studio, extracted the RAR, and then installed it, it almost took up 20GB... my little 120GB ssd didn't like that

""Suspicious software was then installed to recover the photos but they didn't work, and one contained malware! "" I still wonder why google in thier great and mighty wizdom of controlling things that show up in the search, still ends up with a full page of pure Trash , when a person tries to find tools to fix a computer?

Be that, recovery software, what a program items is, or if it is a virus or not, and general "fix your PC" crap that completly invades the google search pages, when google claims to show the "better" things. Yet some little dink page made by a real tech, that has a real answer in it, is lost out on page 51 of the search.

I'm totally pissed the Windows defragmenter slammed 5 TB of writes on my SSD

I've turned off the schedule so this doesn't happen again

If and when it requires real defragmentation, I'll use Defraggler

This is only because of a limitation in Shadow Copy with highly fragmented volumes, but Windows just did it wrong

Oh, well...

At least the warranty goes to 150 TB, and I know there's at least 600 TB of host write endurance available

(Raw NAND endurance is about 3 PB)

@Boris_yo: it might be a plain white box. Assume if it dosen't look like the box in the amazon listing, its not retail.