• CIPWTTKT&GC V43 - WHERE IS MY THINKPAD?
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[QUOTE=Van-man;52280629]Soldering iron and a sacrificial sata power extender cable.[/QUOTE] Return it as a material defect, simple as that.
[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] C is simple enough that you can get away with only a text editor, at least for simple programs. All I had was vim and gcc when I learned it. Same with assembly. Object oriented is where it starts getting a bit masochistic.
[QUOTE=Demache;52280834]C is simple enough that you can get away with only a text editor, at least for simple programs. All I had was vim and gcc when I learned it. Same with assembly. Object oriented is where it starts getting a bit masochistic.[/QUOTE] Had to do Notepad++ and MinGW for C++ at uni and it was only tolerable because the tasks were so fucking simple that you only had to edit the single file. Do python exclusively in vim because vim is great. Even for Hexchat plugins on Windows I still SSH into Bash on Ubuntu™ on Windows® and use vim.
[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] As mentioned above you could easily beat regular text encoding. But you might as well just use compression.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/2WWB6GF.jpg[/t] This is cable braiding, right?
[QUOTE=tratzzz;52281500][t]http://i.imgur.com/2WWB6GF.jpg[/t] This is cable braiding, right?[/QUOTE] Use the +5V line for powering a buttload of WS2812B LED's
[QUOTE=Demache;52280834]C is simple enough that you can get away with only a text editor, at least for simple programs. All I had was vim and gcc when I learned it. Same with assembly. Object oriented is where it starts getting a bit masochistic.[/QUOTE] I think a good/easy/visual debugger is useful (probably essential) in learning (a) systems (programming language.) (And and STL/Compiler in a debug mode that can do some extra range checks for you is also probably a better way to spend your time, rather then trying to recover from a broken stack or some shit like that) Tbf, i am not really sure what the world outside of gdb for gcc compatible debuggers looks like.
[QUOTE=Van-man;52281521]Use the +5V line for powering a buttload of WS2812B LED's[/QUOTE] I really don't need that much light in my room. I should change my blue LED bar to an RGB one but I would rather power it from a solid state PSU instead of having a fan whirr at all times.
[QUOTE=TrafficMan;52179577]Nice, chrome is now hijacking the programmable media keys I have on my G930 when it's the active window meaning I can't control fb2k while using it :poot:[/QUOTE] This fixed itself for a while, but is now back Can Chrome please fuck off
[QUOTE=Demache;52280834]C is simple enough that you can get away with only a text editor, at least for simple programs. All I had was vim and gcc when I learned it. Same with assembly. Object oriented is where it starts getting a bit masochistic.[/QUOTE] All the university computers have Visual Studio installed though, which would've helped debugging my terrible C code. This was the kind of teacher that would take off marks from your in class assignments if he even saw VS open though. I was also briefly in his C++ course. He hated the standard string class and would only accept assignments using character arrays.
I mean I totally understand where your teacher is coming from. C++ is "grotesquely disgusting" in some ways, in the words of Terry Davis :v: Too much abstraction for my tastes. Was it an intro course or something where you're expected to be experienced? He's probably a Linux programmer but the schools won't let him use Linux live USBs.
People keep saying they do not believe I am running Windows 10 because I keep jumping between operating systems. :cry:
Oh my god I just found about [URL="https://www.bitlbee.org"]bitlbee[/URL] and it's amazing Solved all my modern chat fragmentation problems
Should I try out Ubuntu on Windows or just stick to a typical VM? I made a new Ryzen build so Hackintosh isn't a (good) option, but I don't really want to dual boot Linux just for my programming stuff.
[QUOTE=LennyPenny;52284908]Oh my god I just found about [URL="https://www.bitlbee.org"]bitlbee[/URL] and it's amazing Solved all my modern chat fragmentation problems[/QUOTE] This looks like a terrible version of Pidgin. Guess it's got the early 2000s looks going for it, though.
[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;52284987]Should I try out Ubuntu on Windows or just stick to a typical VM? I made a new Ryzen build so Hackintosh isn't a (good) option, but I don't really want to dual boot Linux just for my programming stuff.[/QUOTE] IMO Ubuntu on Windows is REALLY good. Is it perfect? No! But it is much, much better than cygwin and msys2. What it boils down to is: Do you need hardware access ie. sound, gpu or some other removable hardware? If the answer is "Yes", then Ubuntu on Windows is not for you. If you on the other hand only need standard stuff that could be done over SSH, then Ubuntu on Windows should be all you need. At least it is to me. Just be aware that they recently improved it a lot, but I think this improvement was included in Creators update. Also you will be stuck on Ubuntu 16.10 for now until the next major Ubuntu on Windows update hits.
[QUOTE=LennyPenny;52284908]Oh my god I just found about [URL="https://www.bitlbee.org"]bitlbee[/URL] and it's amazing Solved all my modern chat fragmentation problems[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Vaeh;52285001]This looks like a terrible version of Pidgin. Guess it's got the early 2000s looks going for it, though.[/QUOTE] I solved my problem with Pidgin and various [URL="https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ThirdPartyPlugins#Third-PartyPlugins"]LibPurple plugins[/URL]
Maybe one day someone will hack audio into WSL
[QUOTE=Vaeh;52285001]This looks like a terrible version of Pidgin. Guess it's got the early 2000s looks going for it, though.[/QUOTE] They are very different projects, pidgin is a client that you install, bitlbee is an irc server providing a bridge to the other im services that you can connect to with an irc client of your choosing Bitlbee can make use of the library that pidgin uses as well to get access to all its im services: libpurple (can use the libpurple plugins too) It's just the website that looks outdated, there is no gui for bitlbee and development around it is very active I just connect to bitlbee with my irc client that's very modern~ and flat~ So basically you can achieve the same with either one of them, it's just a subjective choice of which frontend looks/features you prefer [editline]28th May 2017[/editline] The cool thing about it being kind of an irc bouncer is that I never miss messages when my pc is off and have clients for my phone etc
[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;52284987]Should I try out Ubuntu on Windows or just stick to a typical VM? I made a new Ryzen build so Hackintosh isn't a (good) option, but I don't really want to dual boot Linux just for my programming stuff.[/QUOTE] For years i used Headless VMWare + Ubuntu, but they stopped caring about Workstation/Player for a long while until recently? They broke some stuff, and then handed the responsibilities off to the open-vm-tools guys, to provide their guest services. Which left us with really shitty file-share solutions, and putting the dev-tools inside the VM is not a great place to be. Ubuntu on Windows pretty much made that redundant but it's still lacking some features, that some programs get upset about.
[QUOTE=drblah;52285050]IMO Ubuntu on Windows is REALLY good. Is it perfect? No! But it is much, much better than cygwin and msys2. What it boils down to is: Do you need hardware access ie. sound, gpu or some other removable hardware? If the answer is "Yes", then Ubuntu on Windows is not for you. If you on the other hand only need standard stuff that could be done over SSH, then Ubuntu on Windows should be all you need. At least it is to me. Just be aware that they recently improved it a lot, but I think this improvement was included in Creators update. Also you will be stuck on Ubuntu 16.10 for now until the next major Ubuntu on Windows update hits.[/QUOTE] Yeah I wasn't about to bother with cygwin or msys2 in the first place, I would just go for a VM :v: I'll give Ubuntu on Windows a shot. My main gripe is I strongly prefer Manjaro/Arch, but being able to access all the files on my host machine easily is appealing.
[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;52285263]Yeah I wasn't about to bother with cygwin or msys2 in the first place, I would just go for a VM :v: I'll give Ubuntu on Windows a shot. My main gripe is I strongly prefer Manjaro/Arch, but being able to access all the files on my host machine easily is appealing.[/QUOTE] Anything that can run on the 4.4.0 kernel should work, here arch [url]https://github.com/alwsl/alwsl[/url] never tried it myself. Arch is a lot more fun tho when you have a rollback system :D
[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;52285263]Yeah I wasn't about to bother with cygwin or msys2 in the first place, I would just go for a VM :v: I'll give Ubuntu on Windows a shot. My main gripe is I strongly prefer Manjaro/Arch, but being able to access all the files on my host machine easily is appealing.[/QUOTE] You can use other distros, unofficially it can even replace your desktop This man got arch working [url]https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/992[/url]
[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;52284987]Should I try out Ubuntu on Windows or just stick to a typical VM? I made a new Ryzen build so Hackintosh isn't a (good) option, but I don't really want to dual boot Linux just for my programming stuff.[/QUOTE] Still sucks ass but at least you don't have to manually start anything. [code]var ws = new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell"); ws.Run("C:\\Windows\\System32\\bash.exe -c \"/usr/sbin/sshd -D\"", 0);[/code] Put that in a js file with a task to run on start up and you can connect using a proper SSH client instead of that abortion of a metro bash that doesn't even let you use a real IME instead of Microsoft's shitty one.
Oh fuck thanks for Arch tips Definitely gonna try that out
[QUOTE=helifreak;52285436]Still sucks ass but at least you don't have to manually start anything. [code]var ws = new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell"); ws.Run("C:\\Windows\\System32\\bash.exe -c \"/usr/sbin/sshd -D\"", 0);[/code] Put that in a js file with a task to run on start up and you can connect using a proper SSH client instead of that abortion of a metro bash that doesn't even let you use a real IME instead of Microsoft's shitty one.[/QUOTE] I totally forgot that windows has a js api :v:
I've swapped the motherboard on my partner's Thinkpad X220 but it won't power on properly. It turns on and stays on with fan at full but there's no display and no beeps. Tried taking ram out and putting in one stick into one slot at a time but it doesn't even beep when there's no sticks inserted. I've checked the monitor to motherboard cable. Re: thermal compound I cleaned old stuff off with 100% iso and used some noctua stuff that I had leftover from my desktop, maybe I put too much on? Can anyone help? Not gonna disassemble again tonight but I'm thinking I'll probably try applying less thermal paste tomorrow unless you people have any other ideas. [QUOTE][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/61mFMOQ.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/n8NEtYX.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
Looks like enough paste to me.
Thermal paste is fine, as mentioned above. I would check for any loose power connections or connections between motherboards and daughterboards, by unplugging everything, dousing all the components and connectors with electronics cleaner and making sure everything sits nice and snug.
[QUOTE=drblah;52285050]IMO Ubuntu on Windows is REALLY good. Is it perfect? No! But it is much, much better than cygwin and msys2. What it boils down to is: Do you need hardware access ie. sound, gpu or some other removable hardware? If the answer is "Yes", then Ubuntu on Windows is not for you. If you on the other hand only need standard stuff that could be done over SSH, then Ubuntu on Windows should be all you need. At least it is to me. Just be aware that they recently improved it a lot, but I think this improvement was included in Creators update. Also you will be stuck on Ubuntu 16.10 for now until the next major Ubuntu on Windows update hits.[/QUOTE] or smartcard daemon access i still have to use cygwin which makes me sad
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