If you're not doing it on a regular basis, just use a RPi, that's how I flashed the BIOS on my ThinkPad when I tried out coreboot.
Something about this situation seems really familiar.
Now that you mention it, yeah, I think someone went through this same shit before.
Probably me, since I never fixed the thing.
I found unopened CH341A flashers and test clips I got few months back and I've attempted to flash the bios on the dead tablet. Basically found out with several versions of the software and all of the shiny new flashers collecting dust in the box that they're all shit. They couldn't read the bios of any of the 4 mobos I tested them with.
I just need a non-garbo flasher
good old "buy multiple chinese arduinos and hope one has a working ROM to flash others to get them to work" situation you don't have yet.
It's cheaper to buy one known-good arduino than it is to buy multiple chinesium ones.
You can get a USBasp off eBay for literally under 2€, that you can then use to flash whatever you want on a ton of different AVRs. Way simpler than fucking around with programming an Arduino with an Arduino, especially when there's already an ISP header on the Arduino board.
Got a letter from my ISP a few weeks, if not a month ago saying that our infrastructure got upgraded and now you can get better speeds. So, when I had 20/5 connection for 21€ before, now I have 50/10 for 22€. Just had to log in with my granddad-s credentials and make me also one of the authorized persons and now I can manage the stuff I deal with at home.
They also promise that 1G/1G connection is going to be ready for 2019.10.31. Let's see if that's going to be true.
In my apartment I already have a fiber connection at 50/50, don't really require a 100/100 for 2 of us. 50/50 is 22€, 100/100 is 25€, 500/500 is 42€ and 1G/1G is 99€ a month. I have no idea what I would do with these speeds, but if I really want to, I could have that.
Another engineering stopped me the other day while I was working to ask me why I was bundling a bunch of cables together...
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/133677/2604a801-2f27-4aa1-a05f-7fb121cebd1f/received_283499749016354.jpeg
I looked directly to my right and said, "I dunno.."
I totally knew. Whoever put the electric spaghetti in the floor is dead to me. Everyone after the fact who's never done anything to fix it is on the list.
Hoh boy, bet there's some high voltage cables down there too.
There are a few. Luckily most of the dangerous stuff was ran by the original integration team and was ran properly.
Looks like my time at Siemens too, though I didn't run those cables much.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/238785/9d90d580-1202-41f6-bc14-57d99af417f0/DASH_600_K.mp4
Please be at least 50% as good as promised, daddy needs a new processor
I got a 1440p 144hz monitor so that I could future proof and maybe one day afford a PC to output that
Maybe by some miracle this CES will help that happen early
Props if you find some legacy network cabling. At the old Gateway HQ, there were tons of 10BASE2 "thinnet" in a lot of closets just dangling from runs. Plus an old AVAYA phone equipment the size of a refridgerator hanging out that probably hasn't been powered on in 15 years. Its fun finding old stuff like that.
Well today my doctor broke the news to me that I suffer from mild deuteranopia after having some eye tests done, which made me remember that Win10 introduced colorblind mode filter so I tried it out. Actually amazed how much difference it makes. Although I wish it had filter strength slider like WoW has in its accessibility settings, since it's tad bit strong for me.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/209432/802ffc30-2e8c-4440-bdf1-279b1a773c15/image.png
Honestly not being able to do mechanics in a game without a colorblind filter on should have told me already that there's something wrong with me.
Oh believe me, this station was a retrofit from SD to HD so there's plenty of random old shit just sitting about. One of my first projects while here was reducing the amount of redundant networking. They had 5 different lans set-up within this one building because apparently the company network proper couldn't handle doing its job while also transferring video and shit across it between servers. I have it down to 2.5 networks and by the middle/end of spring I hope to have just one company LAN with proper Vlans configured.
I thought that said AYAYA
https://cdn.betterttv.net/emote/58493695987aab42df852e0f/2x
I used to recycle stuff like that at my old job. Old stuff like that is kinda cool but I hated getting it because most of it weighed a ton and was utterly worthless for anything except, like, steel
This feels like the most appropriate place to ask, I've never touched this shit before but I want to set up a private file host were I'll be able to obviously upload, browse and post the stuff I've uploaded. I don't want to upload stuff anymore to mixtape.moe/imgur any more so it feels like something nice to have. I'd appreciate if someone could point me in the right direction.
Cheap and dirty way to do it, get a VPS and do something like this
https://lifehacker.com/5882224/how-to-roll-your-own-awesome-file-sharing-service
If you want the ability to hot-link and embed hosted stuff, you're either going to with your own rolled solution (VPS, Dedi) or using a service like S3 or GCS.
I personally use S3 for almost all of my "static" content, since I can stick it there and not worry about it ever, but price for bandwidth from Amazon isn't great, so if you plan on serving 500GiB+ of data a month, go the VPS route.
Could you use S3 + Cloudflare to reduce the bandwidth?
I was hoping to have a way to quickly embed stuff and possibly have sharex working along side it, where would I need to go from after getting a vps is what I want to know.
Simple setup would be using FTP to transfer files to the VPS (never used sharex but afaik it supports FTP) and then installing and configuring a web server like nginx or apache to serve the actual files from the vps.
Theoretically, but that assumes you get a lot of "hits" from cache, which depending on the situation is a maybe. If my stuff is any indication (I get a mix of image hits, and large zip/7z downloads) then around 40% for images, 30% for video, and 15% for large files. Better than nothing, but not great:
https://s.gvid.me/s/2019/01/08/PoK881.png
You also have to consider CloudFlare will only cache certain filtypes, and up to 512MB. So YMMV. It probably doesn't hurt to stick CloudFlare in front of it, but I like my super scattered and self-managed DNS shit - so it ain't for me.
https://cdn.frankerfacez.com/emoticon/307190/4
Aw yeah.
The oldest guy of the company just brought in a trio of computers he had laying in the attic, "to see if we could use them for anything". You know what that means.
Two Pentium II boxes and an Athlon 64. Between the lot, have some kind of VGA/SVGA card, a sound card (probably Soundblaster clone?), either a 3.5" floppy drive or a Zip drive, andthree dial-up modem cards. And probably a gigabyte of RAM between the lot.
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