• CIPWTTKT&GC V43 - WHERE IS MY THINKPAD?
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[QUOTE=helifreak;52289930]Why the fuck would Google not enforce security standards.[/QUOTE] It does. You just get a warning with the option to proceed anyway. Firefox is the only browser that goes out of its way to really inconvenience you if certificates are fucky. [editline]30th May 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=Forumaster;52288675]Why the fuck would anyone wait until the last minute to update the certs?[/QUOTE] More common than you would think. A client of ours didn't update their store website until 5 hours after the certs expired. I got lots of emails in the middle of the night from employees (that take calls for them through the same site) being confused that the site had an error message about expired certs in all of their browsers (no shit). I'm guessing that the honestly just forget. :v:
Just installed that Archlinux for WSL thing. Damn thats actually really nice. I wonder if that + [url]https://github.com/mintty/wsltty[/url] Will be able to replace MSYS2 for most of my terminal things. Atleast now I have access to up-to-date packages, which is nice.
Today I found out that fidget spinners are responsible for breaking backoffice export for a client two weeks ago. So they raise an issue today because exports from our system to their back office software hadn't ran for a while and when they ran it manually it gave the error that a column length restriction (13 chars) was violated. Dumped some data where the barcodes were too long out of the DB into excel to show them, asked how they wanted to proceed and went on with other shit. There's some back and forth and I get back to them that it was fidget spinners that broke it with a lovely 14 character barcode, the rest of the products had no sales so they didn't affect it. Although now I have to unfuck it and I'm not really looking forward to it.
This is going to be sweet when I get my DisplayPort to HDMI adapter. [t]http://i.imgur.com/xrMRTzz.jpg[/t] I might have to get a longer HDMI cable than that though.
That reminds me, I need to get a display port cable. My new GPU doesn't have mini DP like my old card so my old cables don't work.
Lets do something really reckless. Lets build a smart home system around Windows 98. [IMG]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer%20related/IMG_7442.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer%20related/IMG_7458.jpg[/IMG] Lets see, a passively cooled Celeron 500 with 384mb ram. Intel ethernet, multiport serial for external component attachment (relays, X10, A/D converters), dedicated double head video card and two more serial ports for touchscreens and we'll toss in a paired Sound Blaster Vibra and 3Com data/fax/voice modem for the hell of it. Now what should I use for an interface.
[QUOTE=pentium;52290905]Lets do something really reckless. Lets build a smart home system around Windows 98. [IMG]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer%20related/IMG_7442.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer%20related/IMG_7458.jpg[/IMG] Lets see, a passively cooled Celeron 500 with 384mb ram. Intel ethernet, multiport serial for external component attachment (relays, X10, A/D converters), dedicated double head video card and two more serial ports for touchscreens and we'll toss in a paired Sound Blaster Vibra and 3Com data/fax/voice modem for the hell of it. Now what should I use for an interface.[/QUOTE] Touchscreen CRT like a Oldsmobile Trofeo or that IBM house of the future.
[QUOTE=helifreak;52290448]Today I found out that fidget spinners are responsible for breaking backoffice export for a client two weeks ago. So they raise an issue today because exports from our system to their back office software hadn't ran for a while and when they ran it manually it gave the error that a column length restriction (13 chars) was violated. Dumped some data where the barcodes were too long out of the DB into excel to show them, asked how they wanted to proceed and went on with other shit. There's some back and forth and I get back to them that it was fidget spinners that broke it with a lovely 14 character barcode, the rest of the products had no sales so they didn't affect it. Although now I have to unfuck it and I'm not really looking forward to it.[/QUOTE] Well bumping one column length shouldn't be to hard should it?
I kinda want to get a mortgage to get a 18core SkylakeX and x299 now.
[QUOTE=Brt5470;52291205]I kinda want to get a mortgage to get a 18core SkylakeX and x299 now.[/QUOTE] First line of Intel HEDT CPUs where the heat spreader isn't soldered. They recommend watercooling only.
I glued the cap that came with my Displayport adapter to the bottom of my thinkpad so I could keep the adapter attached to the laptop at all times. Not exactly as elegant of a solution as I had originally tried (soldering it internally to an eDP line and creating a new port entirely), but oh well :v: I'm using [URL="http://m.ebay.com/itm/DisplayPort-DP-Male-to-HDMI-Female-Adapter-Cable-Converter-for-Dell-HP-Laptop-LR-/182134956569?txnId=1647221584008"]this one[/URL] btw it works great.
Yep the great thing about Dual Mode DP is that you can use cheap as shit media changers with no issue generally
All the display devices I end up hooking my laptop up to are either new enough to have DP, or old or otherwise backwards compatible so they also have VGA.
[QUOTE=Levelog;52291652]Yep the great thing about Dual Mode DP is that you can use cheap as shit media changers with no issue generally[/QUOTE] I actually got one from Monoprice that causes flickering on the screen and the audio cuts in and out. That cheapy smaller one works way better.
My T61 meme machine arrived and it works perfectly, except the bios says Computrace is on it, am I fucked? There's no passwords preventing me from changing anything on the bios but it's still concerning to me.
[QUOTE=nikomo;52291325]First line of Intel HEDT CPUs where the heat spreader isn't soldered. They recommend watercooling only.[/QUOTE] People bring this stuff up but I remember when people kept saying the IVB IHS weren't soldered and were super hot and my 3770k at the same clocks and voltage ran about the same or cooler than my Sandybridge 2600k. So I don't really buy it, atleast not to the extremes the community says.
[QUOTE=Mike16112;52292107]My T61 meme machine arrived and it works perfectly, except the bios says Computrace is on it, am I fucked? There's no passwords preventing me from changing anything on the bios but it's still concerning to me.[/QUOTE] Isn't computrace a thing for computer theft? Original owner probably just forgot to turn it off before selling it.
[QUOTE=Mike16112;52292107]My T61 meme machine arrived and it works perfectly, except the bios says Computrace is on it, am I fucked? There's no passwords preventing me from changing anything on the bios but it's still concerning to me.[/QUOTE] uhh mods? i don't think its safe to associate with Mike16112 anymore.
[QUOTE=LennyPenny;52291024]Well bumping one column length shouldn't be to hard should it?[/QUOTE] We don't run their backoffice and changing the database schema for another company's software is not going to go down well.
[QUOTE=Brt5470;52292173]People bring this stuff up but I remember when people kept saying the IVB IHS weren't soldered and were super hot and my 3770k at the same clocks and voltage ran about the same or cooler than my Sandybridge 2600k. So I don't really buy it, atleast not to the extremes the community says.[/QUOTE] It's just a lot of luck of the draw. The IHS not being soldered means it has to be glued. Glue goes down unevenly. Sometimes this causes pockets that heat up, sometimes it doesn't. [editline]30th May 2017[/editline] And Intel isn't going to give two shits if you get one with heat issues. Their answer to 7700k owners was "overclock less"
So does anyone have any idea who the i5-7640X or i7-7740X is supposed to be for? The performance increase over the 7600K/7700K is negligible. 100MHz does not justify buying a high-priced LGA2011 motherboard. I've seen claims it's a competitive-overclocking chip, but that seems odd because, IIRC, most LGA2011 boards aren't designed for that sort of overclocking. Is it just a dumb way to make use of the pile of 7700s with borked GPUs that Intel must have accumulated? I thought that at first, but wouldn't it be more profitable to sell them for the normal socket at a discount, for budget-minded gamers? Making motherboards compatible with these tiny 16-lane, dual-channel processors must be a bitch and a half, I don't think Intel would do that without some decent reason. Are they trying to trick people into adopting LGA2011? Like, buy a motherboard and a "cheap" processor now, upgrade to an 8-core or 10-core later?
Most 2011 boards on the consumer market are still overbuilt gaming boards. Don't see how it's any more competitive if it's not soldered though. It probably wasn't much work at all though, the memory controller is on the CPU with these, is it not? (I might be crazy here, it's been a long day) It's stupid as hell though.
[QUOTE=gman003-main;52292607]So does anyone have any idea who the i5-7640X or i7-7740X is supposed to be for? The performance increase over the 7600K/7700K is negligible. 100MHz does not justify buying a high-priced LGA2011 motherboard. I've seen claims it's a competitive-overclocking chip, but that seems odd because, IIRC, most LGA2011 boards aren't designed for that sort of overclocking. Is it just a dumb way to make use of the pile of 7700s with borked GPUs that Intel must have accumulated? I thought that at first, but wouldn't it be more profitable to sell them for the normal socket at a discount, for budget-minded gamers? Making motherboards compatible with these tiny 16-lane, dual-channel processors must be a bitch and a half, I don't think Intel would do that without some decent reason. Are they trying to trick people into adopting LGA2011? Like, buy a motherboard and a "cheap" processor now, upgrade to an 8-core or 10-core later?[/QUOTE] 2066 not 2011. And yeah, I've been asking the question for a while. Intel even confirmed it is just standard consumer Kaby Lake dies in the new socket. What's the point? Just trying to push 2066...?
It seems like Intel is throwing out random wacky shit to convince people they're still better than AMD. Which arguably they are, but not enough to justify the higher prices they charge in the opinions of many.
[QUOTE=Brt5470;52289350]Wait for Veg--...oh[/QUOTE] There's always something better on the horizon it seems. Thankfully I can recoup the cost of upgrading by e-coin mining in the meantime. I'm happy with my choice so far.
Do you think maybe Intel made the KB-X chips on the chance that Ryzen was going to beat Intel on clock speeds, so they were trying to get crazy high-clocked chips to reclaim that throne? And now they're releasing them just because they already spent the dev time on it, so why not? Some idiots will buy it. That also fits with the HCC chips on LGA-2066. They probably suspected AMD was going to make a play for higher core counts, but not knowing for sure how big AMD would go, it was necessary to go REALLY high in order to be sure they'd still have the most cores available. All this speculation is predicated on Intel wanting to keep the appearance of always having the "best" chips, even if AMD can win on cost effectiveness (which I don't think is an unreasonable assumption). So it's not necessary anyone even buy these, it's just to keep people thinking "Intel = Quality" so they'll buy an i3 or i5.
[QUOTE=Trekintosh;52290966]Touchscreen CRT like a Oldsmobile Trofeo or that IBM house of the future.[/QUOTE] I legit searched on my lunch break and I can't find anything that would work. Also there'a a lot of small dimension wallmount touchpanels that are a full blown i3 system.
[QUOTE=Trekintosh;52290966]Touchscreen CRT like a Oldsmobile Trofeo or that IBM house of the future.[/QUOTE] I wonder if the Oldsmobile Trofeo is any easier to find than the Buick Reatta.
Those devices are TTL monochrome though. In this application it's too old and simply too hard to find parts for. I just need 9" LCD panels with a touchscreen and mounts flush to the wall like... [img]https://www.electronichouse.com/images/uploads/article_large/Crestron-TPMC9L.jpg[/img] If you want that 80's Smart Home interface (EG: [url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=NUzwukoJzGIC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false]Popular Science, September 1986; page 90[/url] ) You will likely need to design something intentionally minimalist.
Yay Primocache v3 beta is out. Can use L2 for write caching. I could either get a pair of SSD's to mirror and cache with or could just make a virtualdisk with four columns and a 2 way mirror as my write cache. [url]https://www.romexsoftware.com/bbs2/en-us/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=4395[/url] Neat, can't wait for it to be out of beta. Could transform the performance of my server pool.
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