[QUOTE=Genericenemy;45807762]I may not even go to Uni personally, about to start the second year of an IT course at college and the writeups and irrelevant shit we learn is already getting on my piss. Another three years of that crap possibly if I go to Uni, think I may get an apprenticeship instead.[/QUOTE]
Problem is I'm in 'Merica where you can't do shit without a degree. It's not so much I don't want to go than I don't even know what I want to [I]do[/I]. They make you pick one degree and career and that's it. I'm equally interested in being a music composer, filmmaker, computer scientist, electrical engineer, architect, and politician.
[QUOTE=Genericenemy;45807762]I may not even go to Uni personally, about to start the second year of an IT course at college and th[B]e writeups and irrelevant shit we learn is already getting on my piss[/B]. Another three years of that crap possibly if I go to Uni, think I may get an apprenticeship instead.[/QUOTE]
The fundamental differences between university and generic colleges is the quality of education you're getting. Universities may require you to take a few irrelevent courses during your first and maybe second year, but for every course you've taken, you get solid knowledge out of them.
I've found I get a hell of a lot more relevant knowledge at my current community college than when I went to a proper university. I've only had one professor that isn't an adjunct professor who currently has a job in-field. It's far more helpful that way.
best office chair under 300?
Pre-ordered a surface a week ago and microsoft somehow managed to lose the order. They can't even find it by ordernumber. They fucked up so bad.
[QUOTE=Oicani Gonzales;45807448]just found out windows does have the energy options thing for desktops
i set it to power saver (instead of high performance) and my pc is much quieter (gpu especially)
this is crazy neat! now to download 15GB at 600kB/s!
[editline]26th August 2014[/editline]
this owns
[t]http://puu.sh/b8ZXb/ff08619895.png[/t][/QUOTE]
You shouldn't be using high performance. Use balanced, then it downclocks according to usage, and you don't have to worry about it.
[QUOTE=altern;45809152]best office chair under 300?[/QUOTE]
The cheapest DxRacer is $320
I'd pay tuition for a private college if it was 100% staffed by working or retired engineers. They're easily the nicest, most effective teachers I've had in HS. Professors a shit.
[QUOTE=Itsamario;45809213]The cheapest DxRacer is $320[/QUOTE]
those things look terrible lol
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;45809031]The fundamental differences between university and generic colleges is the quality of education you're getting. Universities may require you to take a few irrelevent courses during your first and maybe second year, but for every course you've taken, you get solid knowledge out of them.[/QUOTE]
Its not just the quality of education I suppose its also the fact that I'm earning no money from being at college and I feel that the longer I stay in education the more my life gets put on hold. Another year of it feels bad enough let alone three.
[QUOTE=Excalibuurr;45809941]What's a reliable usb flash drive. I'm looking for one with USB 3.0 support, and probably just 32gb, but I'm not sure which brand is the best for this.[/QUOTE]
I've heard some good things about the patriot rage xt
excerpts from my first CITC class.
"yeah so my name is [redacted], i'm working towards getting my associates in computer science. annnd an interesting fact about myself is that i'm also a gamer. like xbox, nintendo, playstation. stuff like that"
"have you heard of the new madden?"
"so class, what is stored on the hard drive?"
"oh, so the BIOS?"
"mmmm no thats stored on the motherboard"
"oh oh wait no thats the kernel?"
"no"
[QUOTE=TonyTheBean;45811124]excerpts from my first CITC class.
"yeah so my name is [redacted], i'm working towards getting my associates in computer science. annnd an interesting fact about myself is that i'm also a gamer. like xbox, nintendo, playstation. stuff like that"
"have you heard of the new madden?"
"so class, what is stored on the hard drive?"
"oh, so the BIOS?"
"mmmm no thats stored on the motherboard"
"oh oh wait no thats the kernel?"
"no"[/QUOTE]
You'll find a majority of fellow compsci majors are like that
So tonight in digital art, we were working more on our little projects. I had already kind of did mine before class really quickly. Basically I have some ballpoint pen drawings we did as an assignment and I did some rotation and blending and mirroring and made like these plasma ball sun things. They look pretty sweet.
But... I have a i7 3770k, 32GB of ram and dual 580's to crank out these things. I can transform 256 50mp layers in like 3 minutes.
The 22ish inch iMac's had like i5's and 8gb of ram. So transforming 32 layers took a few minutes a lone. So I ended up spending the whole class doing what I already did
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The 22ish inch iMac's had like i5's and 8gb of ram. So transforming 32 layers took a few minutes a lone. So I ended up spending the whole class doing what I already did[/QUOTE]
You poor thing :(
Oh my god. The font rendering in Chrome turned into shit somehow. Everything looks just... wrong.
[editline]27th August 2014[/editline]
DirectWrite support in version 37. That explains everything.
go to about:flags and turn off directwrite
[editline]26th August 2014[/editline]
wow okay fine be that way
the computers we use for computer science are the best computers (besides the servers) in the school. HP somethings with a xeon 2xxx (didn't pay that much attention), 8gb's of ram, along with dell keyboards and a wacom monitor.
I really hope Windows 9 will feature font rendering, thats not ugly as fuck.
When I was in HS, each school I went to had different kind of computer. First it was ancient 2.2 Ghz Pentium 4(non HT) Dells with 512mb of RAM and 16 meg AGP GeForce 2 MX's. Then it was some Sandy Bridge i3's with 2Gb of RAM, then it was Ivy Bridge i7 HP's with 8GB of RAM and GT 540's. The only ones that were any real trouble were those Pentium 4's, they were so infested(that school didn't have a hardware firewall like the others) and constantly needed to be reinstalled. I'm glad I never have to deal with school computers again.
Oh yeah, Cisco's CCNA stuff, Microsoft IT Academy, how to use Linux (command line) and business stuff. I think I chose the right education.
so i just sipped a wicket here
used teamviewer to change some router stuff on a remote box I don't have physical access to and did ipconfig /release
that went about as well as I expected
[QUOTE=Trekintosh;45812834]When I was in HS, each school I went to had different kind of computer. First it was ancient 2.2 Ghz Pentium 4(non HT) Dells with 512mb of RAM and 16 meg AGP GeForce 2 MX's. Then it was some Sandy Bridge i3's with 2Gb of RAM, then it was Ivy Bridge i7 HP's with 8GB of RAM and GT 540's. The only ones that were any real trouble were those Pentium 4's, they were so infested(that school didn't have a hardware firewall like the others) and constantly needed to be reinstalled. I'm glad I never have to deal with school computers again.[/QUOTE]
When I was in School, I sometimes used a laptop with 1GB RAM, Pentium M and 80GB HDD, running a minimal Debian. Was actually not too bad.
With the exception of the CAD and CNC labs, every computer was a p4 or older when I went to school
[QUOTE=Itsamario;45809213]The cheapest DxRacer is $320[/QUOTE]
My friend was looking at a DxRacer on Ebay for £400, found him a knockoff on Amazon for £70 and he hasn't complained.
[QUOTE=PollytheParrot;45812875]so i just sipped a wicket here
used teamviewer to change some router stuff on a remote box I don't have physical access to and did ipconfig /release
that went about as well as I expected[/QUOTE]
I once changed some SSH settings on one of my servers, restarted SSH Service and closed the connection....
Had to call Datacenter at 2AM to get it running again. :/
I like to have physical access, but due to the TOS of the ISP and the limited DL and UL, I'd rather have my servers externally hosted.
Mmhh dat 300mbit DL 100mbit UL. Can't really compare that to a home connection.
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;45813122]Theirs a TOS against server hosting? Never ever heard of this.[/QUOTE]
Some ISPs restrict you from hosting servers on residential connections because they want you to pay for the infinitely more expensive business plans
I'm guessing they wouldn't notice until you started using a considerable amount of traffic
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;45813137]It seems dumb because most folks who host from their residential connections. Their doing it non profitable and they aren't receiving any money at all for the server and they're hosting it cause they want their friends on it and its most likely private.[/QUOTE]
If it's for profit or non-profit does not really matter. You signed a contract that legally prohibits you from hosting any server services on their consumer line.
In reality, ISP's don't really pursue the people who do so, unless it's an extreme case.
It's in most ISP contracts for them as a protection measure. Nothing unusual.
[QUOTE=PollytheParrot;45812875]so i just sipped a wicket here
used teamviewer to change some router stuff on a remote box I don't have physical access to and did ipconfig /release
that went about as well as I expected[/QUOTE]
I did worse today. I was reconfiguring IPs on our render farm machines for a new expansion while a major render was in process. Now it's no problem at all to reconfigure render node's IP, it just flunks it's current job chunk and resubscribes to the manager to get the job reassigned to it. Since the job chunks are usually 2 to 12 frames, the interruption is marginal. So I was using TightVNC, going to each machine one at a time, opening up network settings, etc, business as usual. Then I get to the last machine on the list and change its IP and about a minute afterwards I start getting complaints from the render monkeys. I accidentally took down the Backburner manager computer.
Now for those who don't know, Backburner is Autodesk's native distributed rendering manager, letting you control basically any Autodesk application that actually does rendering. The two big ones that you might know are Maya and 3DS Max. Now it's not actually a very [I]good[/I] manager, but it is free, and it does work. However, if you happen to take the manager down while the nodes are in the middle of their tasks, Bad Things happen, usually a corrupted scene file when the machines end their tasks and try to save. Basically I just corrupted all the scene files of our extremely important Maya project by disrupting the Backburner manager. Fortunately we strictly discipline versioning so nobody lost more than 10 minutes of work, and all the frames are saved as they're rendered, but still very embarrassing.
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