CIPWTTKT&GC v0X12 (v18): Makol can't Computer Very Good - Hardware & Software

[QUOTE=MC3craze;35516832]Are you saying laptops are more ergonomic than desktops?[/QUOTE] For people with bad backs, the option if sitting in a recliner comfortably while using a computer is highly valued. So yes, I believe it would be more ergonomic then a desktop unless the desktop/chair/desk were specially designed for comfort.

[QUOTE=Brt5470;35516391][hd]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvAES6Y9Kfw[/hd][/QUOTE] 2 mlg 4 u 1440 noscope cod smoke weed erday [editline]10th April 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Zeriga;35516903]For people with bad backs, the option if sitting in a recliner comfortably while using a computer is highly valued. So yes, I believe it would be more ergonomic then a desktop unless the desktop/chair/desk were specially designed for comfort.[/QUOTE] You can actually take a car seat and attach it to an office chair stand. all the comfort of the car seat as well as badass.

[QUOTE=Brt5470;35516899]And weight... And power consumption... And heat... And magnets... and environmental concerns...[/QUOTE] Weight, power consumption and heat aren't anything of my concern, my room is normally quite cold, even in summer. I don't understand magnets but ok.

The head of IT at my old school did this, let's just say i'm copying him when i get a job in a tech room. god DAMNIT WINGLESS

[QUOTE='[EG] Pepper;35516904']2 mlg 4 u 1440 noscope cod smoke weed erday [editline]10th April 2012[/editline] You can actually take a car seat and attach it to an office chair stand. all the comfort of the car seat as well as badass.[/QUOTE] Car seats are uncomfortable as hell for me.

[QUOTE=wingless;35516936]Weight, power consumption and heat aren't anything of my concern, my room is normally quite cold, even in summer. I don't understand magnets but ok.[/QUOTE] Magnets divert the electrons and make them hit the wrong phosphor.

[QUOTE=MC3craze;35516979]Magnets divert the electrons and make them hit the wrong phosphor.[/QUOTE] Oh, you're talking about CRTs. Ignore me, I'm just retarded. :doh:

[QUOTE=wingless;35516936]Weight, power consumption and heat aren't anything of my concern, my room is normally quite cold, even in summer. I don't understand magnets but ok.[/QUOTE] CRT's use magnetic fields to scatter electrons at the phosphor cells on the front of the display. I highly doubt that they don't leak quite a large magnetic field.

[QUOTE=Zeriga;35516969]Car seats are uncomfortable as hell for me.[/QUOTE] Even after playing with the back adjustment shit?

[QUOTE='[EG] Pepper;35516991']Even after playing with the back adjustment shit?[/QUOTE] Yep. MUST. LEAN. BACK. FURTHER.

[QUOTE=wingless;35516841]Space is probably going to be a problem for me soon. No matter what with this build, I'm going for a big case, be it the COSMOS II or the 800D. I'm also hoping to get me one of those Achieva Shimian (Cheap 27" 2560x1440 display, amazing value), and I'm going be putting the rig on my desk instead of on the floor like I'm doing now. [editline]11th April 2012[/editline] 'Aint nothing wrong with CRTs, infact they're better than a lot of LCD panels, they draw geometry 1000x better. Only reason they were really dumped is because of LCDs size.[/QUOTE] what do you mean they draw geometry better?

[QUOTE=Shadaez;35517027]what do you mean they draw geometry better?[/QUOTE] Probably means CRTs have better scaling.

[QUOTE=Shadaez;35517027]what do you mean they draw geometry better?[/QUOTE] They draw sharper, clearer, ghost less, scale better.

[QUOTE=wingless;35517138]They draw sharper, clearer, ghost less, scale better.[/QUOTE] not any CRT I've ever used, ghosting all over the place, large amounts of light colours distort the image, among other problems

[QUOTE=Shadaez;35517192]not any CRT I've ever used, ghosting all over the place, large amounts of light colours distort the image, among other problems[/QUOTE] The sony trinitrons dont, they are awesome.

[QUOTE=inconspicious;35517626]The sony trinitrons dont, they are awesome.[/QUOTE] I'd be using one myself if I had the room for one.

You know what I really, really hate? You're playing a game where everyone has to have the game loaded for the match to start, and then one fucking douchebag plays on an underclocked Commodore 64 running Windows 7 in QEMU [editline]11th April 2012[/editline] Apparently the entire team has SSDs except for me, now I feel like the dickhead.

Man, multi-threaded programs are complicated. So I'm trying to figure out what the deal is with that load testing app I co-wrote (it had been originally made by a co-worker, but I made some significant changes and essentially took charge of it). The concept was pretty simple: A main thread starts up about a bajillion worker threads, all of them sharing just a single AtomicInteger for inter-thread communication. The worker threads check the AtomicInteger. If above zero, they decrement it, then issue off an HTTP request to the server, calling a web service that would ultimately insert data into the database. If at zero, they sleep for some random period. The main thread will, every so often, increase the AtomicInteger to let the threads go back to spamming the server with traffic. It would also update a display, showing essentially "how big is the AtomicInteger?", so I could visually see when it started overflowing, and see it clear the backlog. Now, there were a lot of variables to allow me to tweak the level of traffic. The most important, from my testing, was the refresh interval - how often does the main thread add to the AtomicInteger? At 100 times per second, it would keep up with about 150 transactions/second. But at 1000 times per second, it would handle nearly 700 transactions/second. Or rather, it would report that it was keeping up with it. No other variable had that kind of effect. Number of threads? As long as it was over the number of transactions needed, it was fine. Amount of variance in the flow (the difference between 90-110 per second, and 50-150 per second)? Marginal. After the... issues yesterday, I decided to check something. I logged into the database server, and ran a query to see "how many transactions were run for each second?" Out of several *hours* of this tool running, with various settings, not once had it actually written more than 80 in one second. My tool was somehow misreporting the actual number run by nearly 1000%. And, to make it worse, we'd just made "600 transactions per second" a rather significant part of the marketing. FUCK. I still don't know exactly why (I knew there was a "minor" possible race condition in the decrement bit, but I figured it would, if anything, make it run more transactions than it reported, not vice versa. Long story short, I rewrote the load test tool, then we all rewrote some pretty major sections of the server, then we all did some server tweaking, and eventually we got up to 350 transactions/second. As confirmed by the actual contents of the database this time.

[QUOTE=wingless;35517665]I'd be using one myself if I had the room for one.[/QUOTE] Mines been retired to the basement. My server doesnt need it anyway... I have an IBM pc to use as a console :v:

[QUOTE=gman003-main;35518480]Man, multi-threaded programs are complicated. So I'm trying to figure out what the deal is with that load testing app I co-wrote (it had been originally made by a co-worker, but I made some significant changes and essentially took charge of it). The concept was pretty simple: A main thread starts up about a bajillion worker threads, all of them sharing just a single AtomicInteger for inter-thread communication. The worker threads check the AtomicInteger. If above zero, they decrement it, then issue off an HTTP request to the server, calling a web service that would ultimately insert data into the database. If at zero, they sleep for some random period. The main thread will, every so often, increase the AtomicInteger to let the threads go back to spamming the server with traffic. It would also update a display, showing essentially "how big is the AtomicInteger?", so I could visually see when it started overflowing, and see it clear the backlog. Now, there were a lot of variables to allow me to tweak the level of traffic. The most important, from my testing, was the refresh interval - how often does the main thread add to the AtomicInteger? At 100 times per second, it would keep up with about 150 transactions/second. But at 1000 times per second, it would handle nearly 700 transactions/second. Or rather, it would report that it was keeping up with it. No other variable had that kind of effect. Number of threads? As long as it was over the number of transactions needed, it was fine. Amount of variance in the flow (the difference between 90-110 per second, and 50-150 per second)? Marginal. After the... issues yesterday, I decided to check something. I logged into the database server, and ran a query to see "how many transactions were run for each second?" Out of several *hours* of this tool running, with various settings, not once had it actually written more than 80 in one second. My tool was somehow misreporting the actual number run by nearly 1000%. And, to make it worse, we'd just made "600 transactions per second" a rather significant part of the marketing. FUCK. I still don't know exactly why (I knew there was a "minor" possible race condition in the decrement bit, but I figured it would, if anything, make it run more transactions than it reported, not vice versa. Long story short, I rewrote the load test tool, then we all rewrote some pretty major sections of the server, then we all did some server tweaking, and eventually we got up to 350 transactions/second. As confirmed by the actual contents of the database this time.[/QUOTE] Is that a bird?, a plane? no, it's what you just said flying over my head.

oh god I was looking at some band sites and dear god they make my eyes bleed [url]https://www.tommyjames.com/[/url] [url]http://www.hermanshermits.com/[/url]

[QUOTE=IdiotStorm;35519246] [url]https://www.tommyjames.com/[/url][/QUOTE] why HTTPS why would you possibly need security for browsing that site

[QUOTE=lavacano;35519774]why HTTPS why would you possibly need security for browsing that site[/QUOTE] Because you can buy their stuff.

[QUOTE=lavacano;35519774]why HTTPS why would you possibly need security for browsing that site[/QUOTE] So no one realizes that it's you browsing that abomination.

[QUOTE='[EG] Pepper;35518783']Is that a bird?, a plane? no, it's what you just said flying over my head.[/QUOTE] Long story short and simple: I write a program to stress-test a database. I fuck some complicated multithreading thing up, it claims to run ten times as fast as it actually does. Big, wrong number gets written into marketing. I realize my code is fuckways, I rewrite it, we get a tenth what we're advertising. Through a lot of work, we get it to actually perform at about half the level we're advertising (which is still enough to run the entire London Metro Area on a single-socket server). TL;DR I'm content Also, I think I figured out what was going on (I'm going off memory here, so I may actually be wrong). The worker threads would read the current "to-do list" value, decrement that, and then assign it to the shared AtomicInteger. That's a non-atomic operation. So it's possible that the code could be run like this: 1) Worker thread copies shared value to local (say, 2) 2) Worker thread decrements local value (1) 3) Main thread reads current shared value (2) 4) Main thread adds to it's local copy (102) 5) Main thread copies local copy back to shared (102) 6) Worker thread copies *its* local back to shared (1) So essentially the main thread's updates were being overwritten by the worker threads, since I was (probably) a dumbass who didn't think about all the implications of having thousands of threads running. That would explain why increasing the update frequency of the program changed it so much...

[QUOTE=FlakTheMighty;35515576]We know it's you, we aren't fucking idiots.[/QUOTE] I am not whoops. As for why I only post from iPhone, thats because as I said in one of my older posts all my stuff was stolen. I currently only have an iPhone and I must make do with that. Honestly, I am not an alt of anyone.

Me: Fuuuuck I just blue screened again. (Raised NB Freq. too much) Friend: Maybe..you should clean your CPU. Me: Wait...whaaaaat? Friend: You know where your hard drive is all in different places and you compact it. Me: You mean defragment? Friend: Yeah! He almost sort of knew what he was saying. Same friend was completely convinced that his macbook ran much better than my gaming desktop and my roommate's old ASUS laptop "because Apple makes better computers". He scored a 700-something with some arbitrary computer score, roommate got a 900 and I got a 1400.

I remember trying to recreate windows in powerpoint when I was like 10. It was hilarious, got permission to do it while in school.

a few pages back somone doubted that there is a server application based on silverlight since the new app-v version isn't under the nda anymore have a look at this: [url]http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/business/archive/2012/04/04/introducing-ue-v-and-app-v-5-0.aspx[/url] also suck it!

[QUOTE=wingless;35515067]Right now what I'm considering doing is running a 360 rad in the top, with 3 Noctua NF-F12's pulling air in, then using a cougar 140 in the back, removing the upper hard drive cage and the fan with it (Not sure on that, would replacing with a quieter fan be better) and using the bottom cages for my drives, perhaps without the fans. Not sure, wanting complete silence with this rig. But I'm considering both the 800D and the COSMOS II, but you seem to hate the COSMOS II, so I'm not sure what to think.[/QUOTE] Why would you pull through a rad into the case? Completely defeats the objective cause the heat is still going to be in the case rather than outside it.