[QUOTE=SEKCobra;51352304]Measuring mains voltage isn't exactly that dangerous if you know how to hold the probes. Shitty chinameters are usually just lumps of plastic with a tiny board and SoC so the isolation towards the user is actually pretty good.
Then again, some more 'reputable' usually depends on where you buy from) chinameters like [B]Uni-T[/B] are cheap as fuck anyway, and when you get a german storebrand you get a chinameter manufactured to spec so I don't know why you'd ever get a real shitty one.
[editline]11th November 2016[/editline]
Just don't put amps in them unless you like plastic in your skin.[/QUOTE]
that's the one i got, not a big selection here :v:
but at least it's sold in a retail store, so it has to be certified
i kinda wanted to get the $66 one but i know i won't use it much, shame the continuity tester was a scrapy one (watched an eevblog video about them)
You got a Uni-T for 10 bucks??
[editline]11th November 2016[/editline]
Oh wow, I've never seen the UT33 before.
[QUOTE=SEKCobra;51353195]You got a Uni-T for 10 bucks??
[editline]11th November 2016[/editline]
Oh wow, I've never seen the UT33 before.[/QUOTE]
no it was like $30, but yeah ut33a
[QUOTE=SEKCobra;51353195]You got a Uni-T for 10 bucks??
[editline]11th November 2016[/editline]
Oh wow, I've never seen the UT33 before.[/QUOTE]
I had the UNI-T UT33C for the longest time. There's no proper input protection on the UT33 series though, not a fan of that.
My main DMM now is the UT139C - cheap as hell, and the protection's a bit better. Also, autoranging + has some useful features (like efield detection and AC RMS current).
[t]https://rp.braxnet.org/scr/1478869738010.png[/t]
and yet again they put more shit padding so you need bigger and bigger resolutions just to see basic stuff, what the fuck is wrong with today's ui designers
[QUOTE=nikomo;51353430]My main DMM now is the UT139C[/QUOTE]
well shit, they had that one too, but ut139a
[QUOTE=Giraffen93;51353461]what the fuck is wrong with today's ui designers[/QUOTE]
Obsession with mobile functionality that gets passed on as a design trait into everything else, which becomes a problem when you don't need excessive padding because the fucking thing isn't going to be used with a touch display.
[QUOTE=Giraffen93;51353461][t]https://rp.braxnet.org/scr/1478869738010.png[/t]
and yet again they put more shit padding so you need bigger and bigger resolutions just to see basic stuff, what the fuck is wrong with today's ui designers
well shit, they had that one too, but ut139a[/QUOTE]
Discord is the same, you have to make the window at least 800px wide or shit just starts getting cut off
It's literally a web app in a chromium frame, why can't they add some responsive css rules
1280x720 on spotify only displays like 7 songs in the playlist + an ad etc.
Cluttered and useless af.
[QUOTE=Teddybeer;51353650]If you display too much information on a screen people might get confused. So now you can get confused while trying to find what the fuck you're looking for behind 90 screens.[/QUOTE]
designers might keep telling themselves that, but i disagree
[t]http://rp.braxnet.org/scr/147887694453176.png[/t]
How much of a bad idea would it be to get a used Cisco WS-C3560E-48PD-SF switch? I've been following an IT course at college for about 3 months now and so far I really like working in Cisco's CLI. Rather than working with Packet Tracer most of the time, I want to do the real deal and get a physical device instead.
Note that the minimum price is 1 euro, and I've placed a bid of 25 euros.
[QUOTE=Merijnwitje;51353947]How much of a bad idea would it be to get a used Cisco WS-C3560E-48PD-SF switch? I've been following an IT course at college for about 3 months now and so far I really like working in Cisco's CLI. Rather than working with Packet Tracer most of the time, I want to do the real deal and get a physical device instead.
Note that the minimum price is 1 euro, and I've placed a bid of 25 euros.[/QUOTE]
If you can get it for cheap, a bit of a lab environment is always a good thing to work with, and really that's a decent switch in general.
Except it may not be a good idea to use it as a daily driver for my bedroom, as I just looked at the spec sheet of it to be greeted with a power consumption of at least 138 Watts :v:
I've also just discussed it with my dad, and he's willing to pay for it after I mentioned I mostly want to do it for my study, which was pretty surprising considering I told him this was entirely my own idea, and optional too.
I've also been talking with a guy I know who is the IT manager of a pretty large company, and he told me the they will be phasing out quite a big batch of Catalyst switches by February or so. It would only cost me 20 bucks for shipping, but it's quite a long wait.
[code]
CISCO_CATALYST_WS-C3550-12-G
CISCO_CATALYST_WS-C2950-SX-24
CISCO_CATALYST_WS-C2950-SX-24
CISCO_CATALYST_WS-C2950-SX-48
CISCO_CATALYST_WS-C3560-48-PS
CISCO_CATALYST_WS-C3550-24-EMI
CISCO_CATALYST_WS-C4506
CISCO_CATALYST_WS-C3560-48-PS
CISCO_CATALYST_WS-C3560-48-PS
CISCO_CATALYST_WS-C3560-48-PS
CISCO_CATALYST_WS-C2960-48TC-L
CISCO_CATALYST_WS-C3560-48-PS
CISCO_CATALYST_WS-C3560-48-PS
[/code]
[QUOTE=Merijnwitje;51354056]Except it may not be a good idea to use it as a daily driver for my bedroom, as I just looked at the spec sheet of it to be greeted with a power consumption of at least 138 Watts :v:
I've also just discussed it with my dad, and he's willing to pay for it after I mentioned I mostly want to do it for my study, which was pretty surprising considering I told him this was entirely my own idea, and optional too.
I've also been talking with a guy I know who is the IT manager of a pretty large company, and he told me the they will be phasing out quite a big batch of Catalyst switches by February or so. It would only cost me 20 bucks for shipping, but it's quite a long wait.
[code]
CISCO_CATALYST_WS-C3550-12-G
CISCO_CATALYST_WS-C2950-SX-24
CISCO_CATALYST_WS-C2950-SX-24
CISCO_CATALYST_WS-C2950-SX-48
CISCO_CATALYST_WS-C3560-48-PS
CISCO_CATALYST_WS-C3550-24-EMI
CISCO_CATALYST_WS-C4506
CISCO_CATALYST_WS-C3560-48-PS
CISCO_CATALYST_WS-C3560-48-PS
CISCO_CATALYST_WS-C3560-48-PS
CISCO_CATALYST_WS-C2960-48TC-L
CISCO_CATALYST_WS-C3560-48-PS
CISCO_CATALYST_WS-C3560-48-PS
[/code][/QUOTE]
Oh absolutely, that's not a thing you're gonna run in your bedroom all the time. But not necessarily for the power. It's going to be the single loudest piece of equipment you own. Guarantee it.
So apparently the lift off distance is a lot lower on Zowie mice
Looks like I spent some money to return this in vain..
[QUOTE=garychencool;51350011]For some reason, anything HDMI audio related isn't detected on Windows. It was working literally 2 days ago but it decided to shit the bed. I've tried reinstalling the audio drivers, plugging the HDMI into the actual laptop itself instead of the dock, but nope. Windows 10 refuses to detect it and I can't even push audio through it. Like what the fuck Windows. Or whatever the hell is causing it. Rebooting doesn't do anything, cold rebooting doesn't do anything. Like what the shit.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/4hOctaU.png[/t][/QUOTE]
My R9 280X has decided to do the same exact thing. I've tried everything short or reinstalling Windows 7.
And of course this happens as soon as I move and can use my PC with Kodi on my TV.
[QUOTE=DuCT;51355017]My R9 280X has decided to do the same exact thing. I've tried everything short or reinstalling Windows 7.
And of course this happens as soon as I move and can use my PC with Kodi on my TV.[/QUOTE]
The laptop has a Nvidia Quadro M1000M so you'd expect the Quadro line to not act weird like this..
[QUOTE=garychencool;51355213]The laptop has a Nvidia Quadro M1000M so you'd expect the Quadro line to not act weird like this..[/QUOTE]
You would however expect Windows to just randomly nuke itself to death, though.
[QUOTE=nikomo;51355443]You would however expect Windows to just randomly nuke itself to death, though.[/QUOTE]
It's tradition.
You don't have to worry about sound over HDMI breaking in Linux because it doesn't work in the first place.
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;51355504]You have no idea how many times Windows has killed my Nvidia drivers and then straight up refuses to accept a clean install of said drivers with out me having to re-install Windows.
3 TIMES.[/QUOTE]
Ugh, time to reinstall Windows..
I don't understand what you guys are doing that requires so many reinstalls throughout the years.
I've been using an installation that has been upgrade from 7 to 8 to 8.1 and now to 10 over the years without needing any reinstalls at all. Everything is still working great
My windows install has lasted through 3 laptops and it's still going strong.
[QUOTE=Giraffen93;51353836]designers might keep telling themselves that, but i disagree
[t]http://rp.braxnet.org/scr/147887694453176.png[/t][/QUOTE]
foobar2k ui is excellent.
[t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30252378/foobark2k.PNG[/t]
My Fedora install has lasted through 3 laptops and 2 desktops.
[QUOTE=Levelog;51355507]You don't have to worry about sound over HDMI breaking in Linux because it doesn't work in the first place.[/QUOTE]
It does work for me, but not without prior configuration. I had to download the pulseaudio control panel to switch out my onboard for HDMI. Why it doesn't output in both is beyond me.
Best thing you can ever waste space on is right after you've done an install and you've updated everything, added drivers and set various applications with the login settings you like, make a snapshot image.
Then every so often when things shit the bed you just reload the snapshot.
[QUOTE=ZotoHostInc;51356709]Setup your website today with ZOTO Host & experience the speed, scalability & performance.[/QUOTE]
I mean obviously since they were advertising on Facepunch they are full of shit but anyway:
[t]https://helifreak.duckdns.org/image/20161112013309971.png[/t]
vs
[t]https://helifreak.duckdns.org/image/20161112013331967.png[/t]
~$108
~12x the SSD, 12x the RAM, 50% more cores at higher clocks, 500 mbps guaranteed bandwidth compared to 100 mbps for $5 less per month. Cheap they said. Fuck off.
My ISP says they are coming next weekend to install a new modem.
We just got this fiber modem. What the hell are they doing now?
[QUOTE=pentium;51356278]Best thing you can ever waste space on is right after you've done an install and you've updated everything, added drivers and set various applications with the login settings you like, make a snapshot image.
Then every so often when things shit the bed you just reload the snapshot.[/QUOTE]
Sysprep it and now its hardware agnostic. You have your very own custom Windows "distro". Get really fancy and use answer files to skip half the stuff in MS OOBE.
On a related note, I found out the procedure for imaging machines of the IT team we inherited. They take a random "working" machine of the same model off the floor, and then clone its hard drive to the destination machine. Then they change the computer name, environment variables and such.
They do not have a known "clean" image at all.
I mean it works in the literal sense, but so does inbreeding. I don't want inbred Windows installs. That's changing ASAP.
I have reinstalled Windows on my Surface and waited for hours but it is STILL stuck on "Checking for updates..." I am starting to suspect that Microsoft is blocking updates for Surface Pro 3 with Windows 8.1, unless that may be rather far-fetched. My desktop with 8.1 finishes updating in 10 seconds.
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