The Ethernet port in my uni room stopped working, so I opened a ticket.
3 days later a tech comes around, tests it, and tells me it's been disabled from the switchboard because the connected device is infected by Wanna Decryptor.
Since I dual boot up-to-date Windows 10, I got confused as hell, then it hits me.
I intentionally went on the sinkholed domain while reading about the ransomware, but it came up with a network firewall warning that it was blocked. They probably assumed it was an infection.
Now they want me to bring my [i]tower[/i] PC 2km to the IT office, to prove it's not infected.
It's Stardew Valley for me until after exams, I guess :v:
Played some Assetto Corsa online and I saw a guy spin out after I passed him, so I opened up the replay after the lap to figure out if I caused it.
The camera is anchored on my car, you can see the other guy to the left. I know for sure I didn't touch him before I started passing him.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/5nXmMCR.jpg[/t]
I don't know, the jury's still out.
I'm not sure if I should gamble with this [URL="http://www.ebay.com/itm/232339533854?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT#viTabs"]T61[/URL], the seller has it listed as 'for parts" but the picture shows it working just fine, it just needs a OS. I'm going to guess by the fact the item specifics are in caps that he doesn't know what he's doing,
[QUOTE=Mike16112;52277930]I'm not sure if I should gamble with this [URL="http://www.ebay.com/itm/232339533854?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT#viTabs"]T61[/URL], the seller has it listed as 'for parts" but the picture shows it working just fine, it just needs a OS. I'm going to guess by the fact the item specifics are in caps that he doesn't know what he's doing,[/QUOTE]
I'd take the gamble for $50
[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;52277959]I'd take the gamble for $50[/QUOTE]
Bought, gonna pair it with the ssd I bought a few days ago.
God damn, $60 laptops that come with i5's and Windows 10 pro?
[QUOTE=Del91;52278299]God damn, $60 laptops that come with i5's and Windows 10 pro?[/QUOTE]
No, one with a C2D and a 4:3 screen. Even more if it has the IBM logo since that adds value believe it or not.
No I saw this one
[url]http://r.ebay.com/KNSajl[/url]
[B]Edit:[/b]
Ahh it's open bidding, up to $71 now
Oh shit I think that Thinkpad I bought has the faulty Nvidia graphics, hope it isn't "as is" due to a melted gpu.
[QUOTE=Mike16112;52278640]Oh shit I think that Thinkpad I bought has the faulty Nvidia graphics, hope it isn't "as is" due to a melted gpu.[/QUOTE]
IIRC it should have both Intel GMA AND Nvidia ya? Should just need to disable the Nvidia card in BIOS. The fact that the BIOS screen is visible suggests as much.
[editline]26th May 2017[/editline]
I really wish you could buy like, those ultra tiny GeForce GPUs they put on the Tegra tablets in a super tiny PCIe x1 form factor or even better on an ExpressCard. That would be fuckin' awesome for an easy way to add dedicated graphics to old Thinkpads compatible with Win10.
[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;52278677]IIRC it should have both Intel GMA AND Nvidia ya? Should just need to disable the Nvidia card in BIOS. The fact that the BIOS screen is visible suggests as much.[/QUOTE]
I'll look into that, it just scares me because those things apparently are garenteed to fail at some point.
[QUOTE=Mike16112;52278684]I'll look into that, it just scares me because those things apparently are garenteed to fail at some point.[/QUOTE]
I mean, so is all computer hardware :v:
[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;52278713]I mean, so is all computer hardware :v:[/QUOTE]
Still don't failures being described as "when" and not "if"
If I was to buy another Thinkpad, I would buy a newer one that has actual USB 3 ports on it. Expresscard to USB cards aren't that amazing.
[editline]26th May 2017[/editline]
Also I'm at an airport bar right now with my X201T and I look silly with this hunk of Lenovo engineering.
Seems like there's a strong thinkpad elite going on here
[t]https://dl2.pushbulletusercontent.com/CSv8kjix6KQE2AsyJzb9YE5A4px9paKL/IMG_20170527_014607.jpg[/t]
Need to get this fucker going again
[editline]27th May 2017[/editline]
The bezels were decades ahead of their time
I have one of those USB 3.0 ExpressCards coming right now. Taking forever but I don't exactly need it so it doesn't matter when it arrives.
Upgrades to laptop so far: original 6-cell to 9-cell battery, Bluetooth 4.0 daughterboard from an X230, internal 3G modem, Intel ME removed.
The X220 is like the perfect size and weight for using on the john, by the way, in case anyone was wondering. Don't ask me how I know.
Bought a new USB3 card for my server. Installed it, and snapped off the SATA power :disgust:
[QUOTE=Brt5470;52279268]Bought a new USB3 card for my server. Installed it, and snapped off the SATA power :disgust:[/QUOTE]
how the fuck did you do this
I was plugging a right angle power connector in and pushed it too hard on one side and it rotated and the plastic case broke off. Pins still are there though.
Might have just been a cheap connector.
After my sis got a new laptop, her old one is going to be just doing nothing for now. It does have a 128GB SSD and I am in a need of one.. Her laptop also has a 1TB HDD extra in the ODD bay, but do I have the heart to steal it and put it to the misery of having a HDD while I get the bonus of having my OS boot from SSD instead of a slow HDD?? I [i]could[/i] maybe buy a new SSD and a GPU for my PC but is it worth it when I feel like I won't use it to the max capabilities for now?
The CJK unicode characters got me thinking
if one of these were the international standard, and were given data values significantly lower than what they are currently assigned, if all our words used this, and in terms of how many characters can construct sentace, statement or idea.
what would the chances of this, when stored in data, being smaller than our current methods
[QUOTE=Scratch.;52279329]The CJK unicode characters got me thinking
if one of these were the international standard, and were given data values significantly lower than what they are currently assigned, if all our words used this, and in terms of how many characters can construct sentace, statement or idea.
what would the chances of this, when stored in data, being smaller than our current methods[/QUOTE]
Fair bit less. People can fit whole paragraphs in moonrunes on twitter and plebeian latin languages are struggling to get coherent sentences conveying mildly complex statements. Pretty sure they don't even bother with twitlonger and other such services because there's simply no need with the quantity of shit you can fit in when single characters replace multiple words in English.
[QUOTE=helifreak;52279365]People can fit whole paragraphs in moonrunes on twitter and plebeian latin languages are struggling to get coherent sentences conveying mildly complex statements. Pretty sure they don't even bother with twitlonger and other such services because there's simply no need with the quantity of shit you can fit in when single characters replace multiple words in English.[/QUOTE]
Was exactly part of my train of thought
Card still works. Plugged in two USB3 portable drives just fine.
I got a 128gb SSD today!
[editline]sdfsd[/editline]
....nevermind. It's dead. ;_;
[QUOTE=Scratch.;52279329]The CJK unicode characters got me thinking
if one of these were the international standard, and were given data values significantly lower than what they are currently assigned, if all our words used this, and in terms of how many characters can construct sentace, statement or idea.
what would the chances of this, when stored in data, being smaller than our current methods[/QUOTE]
Are you asking "if we had a character set only encoding CJK ideographs, what size would that character set be?", or "if we used CJK-like logographs to represent English text, what information density would we achieve?"
The former has a pretty simple answer - before Unicode, national character sets in CJK-using countries were pretty much always 16-bit, although Japan had some systems that were variable-length, using 8-bit for hiragana or katakana (syllabaries) and using two bytes for kanji (logographs). The current CJK set can't actually be contained in only 16 bits (it's over 2^16=65536 characters, but only by a bit); Unicode uses multi-byte sequences for a lot of them, up to 4 IIRC. Many of those are for historical versions of the language - if you only need to encode current Chinese/Japanese/Korean logographs, you can do so with 16 bits easily.
The latter has a more complicated answer, but based on English word entropy, we'd be around 11 bits per "character", which is not coincidentally close to the average length of a word multiplied by the average compression ratio of plain text (5.1 characters per word * 30% compression * 8 bits per byte = 12.24 bits per word). A character set would not be so efficient, however. English, being an Indo-European language and thus somewhat inflected (though less so than most), has a very large set of distinct words, on the order of 2^18. Writing systems using logographs are rarely 1:1 symbol:word mappings, many "words" will require multiple glyphs and some glyphs can represent multiple words.
Given that range (11 to 18 bits per character), and computers' preference for powers of two, I can reasonably assume that this alternate version of English would also use 16-bit characters, leaving it on par with CJK.
[QUOTE=Teddybeer;52276549]The wonders of teachers that sort of get stuck teaching and never really take the time to fully adopt to wonderful new developments things these days like CS
S that is pretty standard these days. Fucking spring with summer temperatures is really fucking with my though process. Also help I need to pick a sport or something.[/QUOTE]
My C teacher demanded that we use Notepad++ as our only development environment, as well as use types that aren't consistent between 32bit and 64bit machines.
Surprisingly enough, not a lot people liked his class :v:
[QUOTE=Brt5470;52279283]I was plugging a right angle power connector in and pushed it too hard on one side and it rotated and the plastic case broke off. Pins still are there though.
Might have just been a cheap connector.[/QUOTE]
Soldering iron and a sacrificial sata power extender cable.
[QUOTE=ZestyLemons;52280547]My C teacher demanded that we use Notepad++ as our only development environment, as well as use types that aren't consistent between 32bit and 64bit machines.
Surprisingly enough, not a lot people liked his class :v:[/QUOTE]
Tbh I would never use an IDE for C either
but I also don't use Windows for programming either so
[QUOTE=Brt5470;52279283]I was plugging a right angle power connector in and pushed it too hard on one side and it rotated and the plastic case broke off. Pins still are there though.
Might have just been a cheap connector.[/QUOTE]
Mmm, sounds like fire :v:
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