[QUOTE=B!N4RY;52666434]Consumers drive the market, and most consumers today would never even service their computer in any way or form themselves. They'd much prefer a thin and portable computer with a very long battery life.
Since these "full" serviceability requirements only concerns a very tiny fraction of users these days, there's no reason for manufacturers to build laptops around such requirement. Instead they focused on what the mass market is wanting.[/QUOTE]
It's a concern when things go wrong. It's a concern when they see repair bills. It's a concern when they actually have to deal with it, when they could see that instead of spending $1200 for a new laptop they could upgrade their existing machine for $200 and get what they need from it. Look at iPhones, and Apple's war on 3rd party repairs and whatnot. It is disgusting and no one wins there but Apple either with new sales or insane repair bills, but complacency means they continue making things worse. Complacency enables anti-consumer.
Consumers ignoring TCO for sake of marketing, flash and flare, and TCA is a serious problem and any measure that can be taken to work that issue needs to be taken because otherwise we all get fucked. It's very much a two way street.
To be honest - I think this 2015 MBP is probably amongst the best computers I've ever had. Runs WoW well enough to raid with and doesn't complain at all doing my day to day tasks.
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;52666257]I'd still argue the XPS 15 is the pinnacle among all modern laptops[/QUOTE]
But why the hell did Dell only put 2 USB 3 ports and a half speed Thunderbolt 3 port? Everything else about it is pretty good but the IO could have been better.
[QUOTE=garychencool;52666489]But why the hell did Dell only put 2 USB 3 ports and a half speed Thunderbolt 3 port? Everything else about it is pretty good but the IO could have been better.[/QUOTE]
I thought it was 40Gbps, but like only on AC or something.
[QUOTE=elitehakor;52666024]i love hackathons but it's midnight and im sleep deprived we have to demo in 14 hours and we are nowhere near a demoable state and i want to die[/QUOTE]
Sleep deprivation at midnight. Heh.
[QUOTE=tratzzz;52663534]I just went to Uni and I am not sure what I am even going to study.
Cyber-physical systems? What's that even supposed to be? Hoping to get to know that before I graduate.[/QUOTE]
I know you're probably joking about actually wanting to know what a Cyber-physical system is, but I actually had to dig into that for a small report in uni last year.
imo it's mostly used as a buzzword for connected systems used in manufacturing, the word usually comes up in relation to Industrie 4.0. If you actually want to know more about it it's detailed in [URL="http://www.acatech.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Baumstruktur_nach_Website/Acatech/root/de/Material_fuer_Sonderseiten/Industrie_4.0/Final_report__Industrie_4.0_accessible.pdf"]here.[/URL]
[QUOTE=SuicideZ;52666892]I know you're probably joking about actually wanting to know what a Cyber-physical system is, but I actually had to dig into that for a small report in uni last year.
imo it's mostly used as a buzzword for connected systems used in manufacturing, the word usually comes up in relation to Industrie 4.0. If you actually want to know more about it it's detailed in [URL="http://www.acatech.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Baumstruktur_nach_Website/Acatech/root/de/Material_fuer_Sonderseiten/Industrie_4.0/Final_report__Industrie_4.0_accessible.pdf"]here.[/URL][/QUOTE]
yup, seems to be a lot of IoT and connected/smart systems. CPS seems to have a really wide meaning though. Mostly went to study it due to it including both IT and mechanical things.
[QUOTE=wingless;52666424]And that is what I'm saying is the issue. The more you defend this, the more you let this set in as a reality. The more you create complacency and then no one wins. How is that not a serious issue? Why can we just let things seriously degrade like this? That's not good for anyone. How often do you see people bitch about smartphone batteries being tiny, and then that comment being followed up by people saying they'd accept a thicker phone for the sake of a bigger battery? It's the same shit. Complacency sucks.[/QUOTE]
I get the argument you are making but there are plenty of other reasons to fault modern electronics design
While modularity is a nice thing to have long-term, in the short term consumers don't give an everloving shit as long as they can find better specs for the money and have a thinner, lighter model. Laptop makers won't make something that won't sell.
Furthermore, Intel doesn't make socketed mobile CPUs anymore and plenty of laptop makers have standardized on the big bottom cover held on by 5 screws.
Also, if you open up something like an X1 carbon (5-6 screws for the bottom cover), you can immediately get at replacing everything including two I/O daughterboards, the battery and the DC jack. There are still some "modular" ones out there, just that ribbon cables and micro connectors are the rage now (and kind of a necessity considering increased pin counts).
I sometimes wonder what it would have been like if the built in to the keyboard computer design had carried on, like if the consumer variety AMIGA had continued on a similar path to the Mac, it would probably be x86 now. But would the built into the keyboard design have continued like the Mac's built into the monitor design?
[QUOTE=tratzzz;52666946]yup, seems to be a lot of IoT and connected/smart systems. CPS seems to have a really wide meaning though. Mostly went to study it due to it including both IT and mechanical things.[/QUOTE]
Is the study actually called CPS? I'm doing Mechatronics which is somewhat similar I guess.
[QUOTE=SuicideZ;52667215]Is the study actually called CPS? I'm doing Mechatronics which is somewhat similar I guess.[/QUOTE]
yup: [url]https://www.ttu.ee/institutes/tartu-college/studying-6/academic-programmes/[/url]
Thought about going into mechatronics but it was in a bigger city (Tallinn) but CPS engineering was in Tartu (I had an apartment there and it is more of an uni city) and it seems to be more specific than mechatronics.
A few of my classmates went to study mechatronics too (same school, different city), we'll see in the end of the year who has a better education. The CPS curriculum just got changed, it was created 3 years ago and now it got a refresh, was 4 years, now it is 3.5 and so on. They added some required subjects and removed others etc. Seems to have a lot of practical lessons over just studying theory.
[QUOTE=tratzzz;52667230]yup: [url]https://www.ttu.ee/institutes/tartu-college/studying-6/academic-programmes/[/url]
Thought about going into mechatronics but it was in a bigger city (Tallinn) but CPS engineering was in Tartu (I had an apartment there and it is more of an uni city) and it seems to be more specific than mechatronics.
A few of my classmates went to study mechatronics too (same school, different city), we'll see in the end of the year who has a better education. The CPS curriculum just got changed, it was created 3 years ago and now it got a refresh, was 4 years, now it is 3.5 and so on. They added some required subjects and removed others etc. Seems to have a lot of practical lessons over just studying theory.[/QUOTE]
Seems cool enough, it looks like it has more focus on the IT side than my study. For me it was either this or something like Mechanical Engineering / Electrical Engineering, but those barely contain the Control Engineering that Mechatronics has, which interests me alot.
You'll probably be fine though, most engineering degrees will get you a job in no time.
Had to retire my old Asus RT-N66U for a BT Homehub. Not too pleased but I'm moving out to university on Saturday and there isn't really much I can do if the Wi-Fi isn't working well enough for them and the fact I have to attach a five pence piece to keep the power button down. Better to remove it now than find a "fix" that makes it even worse.
[QUOTE=Brt5470;52666539]I thought it was 40Gbps, but like only on AC or something.[/QUOTE]
IIRC it was 20Gbps regardless of being on AC power or not.
[QUOTE=DrTaxi;52666091]What if the real demo was the friends you [del]lost[/del] made along the way[/QUOTE]
I genuinely have never been more angry at a person right now
Especially when said person broke a big part of the project i was working on and tried to imply it’s my fault
So I launched my new portfolio a few weeks ago ([URL="http://jalict.com"]http://jalict.com[/URL])
I googled my name today to look for just SEO crap and ranking. But found this website [URL="http://jfh.dk"]http://jfh.dk[/URL] which is a complete mirror of my website. I have no association with jfh whatever it is. But I saw it was hosted here in Denmark.
I went into whois and found the following information
[code]
jfh.dk
Status Aktivt
Oprettet 26. december 2012
IDN jfh.dk
Registrant
Bruger-id XA789-DK
Navn X-CITE ApS
Adresse Østre Alle 6
Postnr. og by 9530 Støvring
Land Danmark
Telefonnr. +45 60 64 10 04
Fuldmægtig
Bruger-id XA789-DK
Navn X-CITE ApS
Adresse Østre Alle 6
Postnr. og by 9530 Støvring
Land Danmark
Telefonnr. +45 60 64 10 04
Navneservere
ns1.unoeuro.com UA1074-DK
ns2.unoeuro.com UA1074-DK
ns3.unoeuro.com UA1074-DK
[/code]
I googled X-CITE ApS and found their [URL="http://x-cite.dk/"]website[/URL].
It is some kind of online marketing company and hosting of websites. But I have NO IDEA who they are.
Should I contact them? Should I just ignore them? I just think it is super weird that someone would mirror my site as it is pretty much just my portfolio.
[QUOTE=Jalict;52667963]So I launched my new portfolio a few weeks ago ([URL="http://jalict.com"]http://jalict.com[/URL])
I googled my name today to look for just SEO crap and ranking. But found this website [URL="http://jfh.dk"]http://jfh.dk[/URL] which is a complete mirror of my website. I have no association with jfh whatever it is. But I saw it was hosted here in Denmark.
I went into whois and found the following information
[code]
jfh.dk
Status Aktivt
Oprettet 26. december 2012
IDN jfh.dk
Registrant
Bruger-id XA789-DK
Navn X-CITE ApS
Adresse Østre Alle 6
Postnr. og by 9530 Støvring
Land Danmark
Telefonnr. +45 60 64 10 04
Fuldmægtig
Bruger-id XA789-DK
Navn X-CITE ApS
Adresse Østre Alle 6
Postnr. og by 9530 Støvring
Land Danmark
Telefonnr. +45 60 64 10 04
Navneservere
ns1.unoeuro.com UA1074-DK
ns2.unoeuro.com UA1074-DK
ns3.unoeuro.com UA1074-DK
[/code]
I googled X-CITE ApS and found their [URL="http://x-cite.dk/"]website[/URL].
It is some kind of online marketing company and hosting of websites. But I have NO IDEA who they are.
Should I contact them? Should I just ignore them? I just think it is super weird that someone would mirror my site as it is pretty much just my portfolio.[/QUOTE]
Contact can't hurt, but realistically what this likely is, is that is a dead domain and for their site they used the same IP as you have, and by the looks of it, it is a rented machine IP. So they probably shut down that site, domain is still up but untouched, and you inherited their old IP from the host with their domain still pointing to it. Easiest solution here is honestly to enforce SSL, that way if someone tries to view the site from that domain they'll get a name mismatch.
It's simply a DNS entry pointing to your server, not a mirror. Really, your server shouldn't even serve to that name but depending on what kinda server you are using to host your site either your shared hoster is ass or you just didn't properly configure your apache server to have a seperate default web. Considering how much info your server blurts out and the fact that you don't have SSL even turned on, I'm guessing you set up apache on a VPS without knowing what you are doing?
Like wingless said, you probably just got assigned an IP that that company had before you by HostHatch. Setup a proper default web (Or no default web) and you don't have to worry about random DNS entries affecting your SEO.
[editline]10th September 2017[/editline]
Damn, that's cheap as fuck: [IMG]http://img.s-c.pw/2017-09-10_22-36-39.png[/IMG]
[QUOTE=SEKCobra;52668138]It's simply a DNS entry pointing to your server, not a mirror. Really, your server shouldn't even serve to that name but depending on what kinda server you are using to host your site either your shared hoster is ass or you just didn't properly configure your apache server to have a seperate default web. Considering how much info your server blurts out and the fact that you don't have SSL even turned on, I'm guessing you set up apache on a VPS without knowing what you are doing?
Like wingless said, you probably just got assigned an IP that that company had before you by HostHatch. Setup a proper default web (Or no default web) and you don't have to worry about random DNS entries affecting your SEO.
[editline]10th September 2017[/editline]
Damn, that's cheap as fuck: [IMG]http://img.s-c.pw/2017-09-10_22-36-39.png[/IMG][/QUOTE]
Not really.
I'm paying $12 a quarter for 4GB, 4TB transfer, 50 GB SSD, and 4 cores.
It runs an IRC server.
I'm talking about the plan I posted, I didn't look at their other offerings. That plan is dirt cheap even tho it offers very little.
[QUOTE=fishyfish777;52667017]I get the argument you are making but there are plenty of other reasons to fault modern electronics design
While modularity is a nice thing to have long-term, in the short term[B] consumers don't give an everloving shit [/B]as long as they can find better specs for the money and have a thinner, lighter model. Laptop makers won't make something that won't sell.
Furthermore, Intel doesn't make socketed mobile CPUs anymore and plenty of laptop makers have standardized on the big bottom cover held on by 5 screws.
Also, if you open up something like an X1 carbon (5-6 screws for the bottom cover), you can immediately get at replacing everything including two I/O daughterboards, the battery and the DC jack. There are still some "modular" ones out there, just that ribbon cables and micro connectors are the rage now (and kind of a necessity considering increased pin counts).[/QUOTE]
Remember everyone, the average consumer isn't as tech savvy as you'd think. They tend to go stores and ask employees for advice on what to buy, based on their needs, wants and budget. Serviceability is probably the last thing on an average consumers list for electronics and other things they buy.
It's really only the more tech savvy people, or people with past experiences with laptops who would care about these details.
I'm pretty sure if I asked myself 10 years ago what I wanted in a laptop, I'd have no clue about anything and would just focus on the price tag.
[QUOTE=SEKCobra;52668178]I'm talking about the plan I posted, I didn't look at their other offerings. That plan is dirt cheap even tho it offers very little.[/QUOTE]
Here's dirt cheap.
[t]https://www.helifreak.club/image/20170910205450519.png[/t]
2x vCPU**
**10MHz
But damn, that is cheap indeed.
New f.lux seems to just apply a vignette filter on my screen (by default at least). Still helps with eyestrain but getting the tint to the usual orange seems to be a bit hidden.
Also found my old Wii. Thinking about using it/homebrewing it but I only have 1 remote and nobody really sells them anymore. I can get complete systems for like 50€ but I only want a few wiimotes to play with. Or it may be more useful to just let my laptop run Dolphin...
Wiimotes are cheap and plentiful as fuck on eBay, but I'm guessing the situation is different for you in your country then.
[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;52668303]Wiimotes are cheap and plentiful as fuck on eBay, but I'm guessing the situation is different for you in your country then.[/QUOTE]
Hell, you can still find them in stores brand-new in-box without looking hard. I'm pretty sure the Target still has them.
Couldn't even find a Dualshock 3 in stores anymore. Only DS4. There were Xbox One and Xbox 360 both though. Store prices are pretty high though imo, at 50-70€.
There are some resellers selling ebay chinese clones of Wiimotes and they pretty much just pocket some money and set the postal address to your home. Saw a 15€ Wii console with no remotes on sale etc.
Probably the best chance to get a controller for a reasonable price over here is from either from friends or to luck out on some listing.
[editline]11th September 2017[/editline]
In other news: the first semester seems to be really easy, a lot of basic or introductionary courses and I just passed Academic English with the first test, meaning no more lessons for this semester. The only graded course is Mathematical Analysis and I hope I can nail that.
[QUOTE=tratzzz;52668220]New f.lux seems to just apply a vignette filter on my screen (by default at least). Still helps with eyestrain but getting the tint to the usual orange seems to be a bit hidden.
Also found my old Wii. Thinking about using it/homebrewing it but I only have 1 remote and nobody really sells them anymore. I can get complete systems for like 50€ but I only want a few wiimotes to play with. Or it may be more useful to just let my laptop run Dolphin...[/QUOTE]
Dump the NAND, and use Cleanrip to rip disks. A USB sensor bar running is enough for both machines (No need to switch them for each device, it sends no input to either). Playing Wii games in high resolution is a sight to behold imo. Most games rigs should be able to handle Dolphin just fine.
I should really migrate my TS server to one of those. I've migrated all other roles off that 10/month droplet so it's really a waste.
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