• CIPWTTKT&GC V41 - I understood some words
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[QUOTE=helifreak;51237228]Better kill the people who made blu ray standards then because that only supports 16:9 and 4:3 so basically every movie ever released on blu ray has hard coded black bars.[/QUOTE] For the longest time, I had a Standard def cable box plugged into an HDTV and so many different TV channels would manipulate the 16:9 image in so many different ways. They could crop it so the 4:3 image is filled. They could size it so you get the letter boxing. They could crop it in a bit so there's less of a letter box but the very left and right stuff is gone. But you still get most of the image in general. They could also do a bit of cropping and squeezing to get a middle ground for people with 4:3 and 16:9 TVs, that when it gets viewed, whether the signal is stretched or not, it will still look ok and not terrible. Oh and my HDTV was obviously 16:9 so I set it to stretch that 4:3 image to 16:9 making everything look so fat.
How can a HDD just decide to format itself and become unallocated after a simple restart? [editline]21st October 2016[/editline] Is it because my format yesterday got the "couldn't complete" error? Did that mean it queued up a format for when I restart? This is kind of inconvenient because I had JUST downloaded ~150GB of stuff to it.
My favourite aspect ratio fuckery is what russian TV channels do with old shows. The shows are 16:9, but with gray bars on the top/bottom to make it 4:3. They then add black bars to the side so it becomes 16:9 again. :v:
[QUOTE=paul simon;51237908]How can a HDD just decide to format itself and become unallocated after a simple restart?[/QUOTE] It didn't "decide to format itself". The hard drive's MBR/allocation tables got corrupted
this was on live television [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/GbaBFac.jpg[/IMG] [sp]non genuine windows[/sp] and that hypocrite was talking about torrents and copyright
Essentially means you haven't input a license yet.
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;51238142]It didn't "decide to format itself". The hard drive's MBR/allocation tables got corrupted[/QUOTE] How does that happen, and what does it mean for the drive?
[QUOTE=paul simon;51239081]How does that happen, and what does it mean for the drive?[/QUOTE] Hard to say. It could be a fault in software, hardware or both.
[QUOTE=paul simon;51239081]How does that happen, and what does it mean for the drive?[/QUOTE] I've had it happen. It was...embarrassing. The machine I was working on I typically used for floppy image generation and duplication. In one half-awake instance I typed [B]FORMAT C:[/B] instead of [B]FORMAT A:[/B] but quickly used [B]CTRL C[/B] and that seemed to stop the format and windows kept chugging away with repeated reboots until about a year later when I ran a disk cleanup, at which point because basically the whole disk was marked as "deallocated" from the aborted format it proceeded to purge almost every file out of the machine. Once it finished Windows began to lose its mind and on reboot the drive's contents and MBR was gone. :suicide:
Once I accidentally formatted my brother's boot partition while trying to format a usb stick. What threw me for a loop was his machine continued to function, rebooting several times, for 2 weeks, before literally shitting itself. Luckily the span of time was long enough that [I]nobody suspected it was me.[/I]
PSA: OpenDNS (208.67.222.222, 208.67.220.220) has a decent cache and still resolves hostnames affected by the Dyn DDoS.
Just experienced 4K for the first time; then proceeded to shove my laptop's 970m straight into it. Skyrim at 4K is straight up beautiful. (Even on a non-calibrated Samsung 40" HDR TV)
Having to mess with someone else's php systems is awful. [editline]21st October 2016[/editline] Doubly so when I've never touched php in my life :v:
The feeling when github is down, but you aren't affected by this because you selfhost your own gitlab. Selfhosting all my stuff really was a great idea, and really paid off over the years.
[QUOTE=DrTaxi;51240116]PSA: OpenDNS (208.67.222.222, 208.67.220.220) has a decent cache and still resolves hostnames affected by the Dyn DDoS.[/QUOTE] tbh that's just as bad, you're not supposed to keep caching for that long
[QUOTE=LordCrypto;51240302]tbh that's just as bad, you're not supposed to keep caching for that long[/QUOTE] They only return cached responses after the TTL has elapsed if they (erroneously, not due to record erasure) can't get fresh ones. They call this SmartCache™
[QUOTE=DrTaxi;51240332]They only return cached responses after the TTL has elapsed if they (erroneously, not due to record erasure) can't get fresh ones. They call this SmartCache™[/QUOTE] [url]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12762398[/url]
Now my source of Synthwave has gone, those bastards have gone too far.
[QUOTE=LordCrypto;51240338][url]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12762398[/url][/QUOTE] Well this just fixed the Internet for me. Since apparently Twitter, GitHub and lord knows how many other sites, large and small, can't get their shit together (be it by having redundant DNS providers, or longstanding records) I consider this a net positive.
[QUOTE=ballads;51240333][url]https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1538664[/url] incase anyone didnt know[/QUOTE] Thanks mate, was just trying to load Twitter.
[QUOTE=kaukassus;51240259]Selfhosting all my stuff really was a great idea, and really paid off over the years.[/QUOTE] Until you encounter some kind of hardware/network failure and you realize commercial services hides all those pain away from you
[t]http://rp.braxnet.org/scr/147708113914560.jpg[/t] feels good to be back in the club, after my old one somehow got into the washing machine and the strap broke a couple of years ago, cheaper to buy a new unit instead of a new strap :v:
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;51240523]Until you encounter some kind of hardware/network failure and you realize commercial services hides all those pain away from you[/QUOTE] And then I'll just pull my daily backups from google drive and immediately get access to all my data. Having 1 Backup on the selfhosted environment and 1 on a commercial service IMO is a safe bet, as the chance is pretty low that both Google's Datacenter AND my Local Swiss Datacenter provider go down. And if they do, I also occasionally do offline backups of my important Data (Mainly Source Code and the likes) onto an external Harddisk, in case the world is ending or something. I'm very well aware of the trade-off's of selfhosting. After all, I currently manage multiple Server environments besides my own, and have done so for years, and survived many difficult times and migrations. Of course, not everyone is prepared for the pain parts of selfhosting, or willing to deal with them, which is why commercial services are a viable solution for most people. I did have a Full HW Failure on my personal Server environment, back when I was on Windows Server 2012 with a botched software raid. Good thing I have my entire stack set up and configured using Chef, so I just got a new replacement hardware and got my entire setup back and running in just a few hours with most of the time being spent on waiting for the base server to be setup and access provided to me. Chef (And other Automation alternatives) Really are amazing in this regard. It really is convenient to just execute 1 command, get some coffee and come back to a fully set up and configured environment, as if it never had a HW Failure.
[QUOTE=Giraffen93;51240644][t]http://rp.braxnet.org/scr/147708113914560.jpg[/t] feels good to be back in the club, after my old one somehow got into the washing machine and the strap broke a couple of years ago, cheaper to buy a new unit instead of a new strap :v:[/QUOTE] Terrrorist!
I spent the whole day not knowing there's a massive DDoS going on, since I'm served pretty much everything via European servers, and Google DNS. Google DNS probably caches quite a bit (though they still seem to manage to update any changes I make to domains, almost immediately).
[QUOTE=nikomo;51240806]I spent the whole day not knowing there's a massive DDoS going on, since I'm served pretty much everything via European servers, and Google DNS. Google DNS probably caches quite a bit (though they still seem to manage to update any changes I make to domains, almost immediately).[/QUOTE] I've had issues via Google DNS too.
[QUOTE=nikomo;51240806]I spent the whole day not knowing there's a massive DDoS going on, since I'm served pretty much everything via European servers, and Google DNS. Google DNS probably caches quite a bit (though they still seem to manage to update any changes I make to domains, almost immediately).[/QUOTE] Yeah, I only noticed after trying to play BF1 this evening, and noticed that I couldn't connect to the online servers. After that I tried to look into any, and noticed twitter was also unreachable, then noticed github was also down.
[QUOTE=DrTaxi;51240437]Well this just fixed the Internet for me. Since apparently Twitter, GitHub and lord knows how many other sites, large and small, can't get their shit together (be it by having redundant DNS providers, or longstanding records) I consider this a net positive.[/QUOTE] generally speaking ridiculously long ttl is bad
So I put my laptop to Sleep mode last night and 12 hours later when I want to use it, it's been shutdown for some reason. Ugh.
[QUOTE=Levelog;51237102]Try those videos on my 21:9... [editline]20th October 2016[/editline] I'm tellin' ya guys, 21:9 isn't worth it unless you [I]really[/I] need it.[/QUOTE] I have an LG 29" ultrawide, almost nothing supports it properly. Most games will run at 2560x1080, some have to run 1080p with black boxes on either side (FUCK YOU BLIZZARD) Most issues come up with game UIs and menus, and video content since it's all 16:9. Some game UIs just anchor shit to corners rather than arbitrary points which is a good compromise.
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