• CIPWTTKT&GC V43 - WHERE IS MY THINKPAD?
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Huh, looks like Steam controller touchpads are a modular self-contained unit, and have nice big pads for an SPI bus on the back. If you can get touch data off the SPI bus and they started selling them separately, they'd be great for DIY projects.
[QUOTE=LennyPenny;51969948]how did you even[/QUOTE] Clean glass is a huge hazard.
[QUOTE=SEKCobra;51970145]Clean glass is a huge hazard.[/QUOTE] That's why I never clean mine at home
[QUOTE=SEKCobra;51970145]Clean glass is a huge hazard.[/QUOTE] My school has glass doors for all classrooms. 0-level classrooms have double doors, with usually only one operated. The main one has a big writing with the classroom on it, like "NOVA 005" at eye level. a senior walked into the closed, other door. How can you learn for 3 years in one school and forget that oh, maybe the glass wall isn't a door. the faceprint was on it for quite a while, still laugh at it sometimes.
[QUOTE=colincooke;51968394]I'm still more concerned as to why're still using Windows XP.[/QUOTE] I have no idea what you are talking about.
Don't know if it's been discussed here yet but Windows will now [URL="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4012982/discusses-an-issue-in-which-you-receive-a-your-pc-uses-a-processor-tha"]refuse to update if you're running 7 or 8.1 on 7th gen Intel or Ryzen hardware[/URL]
I find it's a bit silly to do that to Windows 8.1, but Windows 7 makes sense. It's coming to be 10 years old here soon and Windows 10 is starting to shape up.
[QUOTE=BackSapper;51970875]I find it's a bit silly to do that to Windows 8.1, but Windows 7 makes sense. It's coming to be 10 years old here soon and Windows 10 is starting to shape up.[/QUOTE] I can't shake the feeling that it's just another attempt to push people to 10 where MS can start making money off of them. There's a big difference between Microsoft going "the processor isn't supported so some features may not work, but you're welcome to try" and just unilaterally deciding to basically brick any attempt at installing 7/8.1 [editline]16th March 2017[/editline] But I guess anything to further push their "One Windows (ad revenue)" ecosystem
Name a single feature on Windows 10 that is reliant upon a new instruction set. [QUOTE=BackSapper;51970875]I find it's a bit silly to do that to Windows 8.1, but Windows 7 makes sense. It's coming to be 10 years old here soon and Windows 10 is starting to shape up.[/QUOTE] Windows 7 was promised support into 2020.
I just find it a very Apple thing to do. I can just look at my Mac Pro 1,1. It will run El Capitan no problem but because Apple says so, you cannot install it unless you patch out the part of the installer that whitelists the hardware. You are otherwise forced to buy a newer machine to be "officially" supported which boils down to you have to pay them money. My money is that someone will figure out how the whitelist works within a few months.
Isn't it just automatic updates? Someone will probably come up with a script to download and install the necessary updates manually.
Couldn't you just use WSUS?
[QUOTE=SEKCobra;51970145]Clean glass is a huge hazard.[/QUOTE] Those wind/bug screens are also a huge hazard, especially when you're walking outside and you're wearing sunglasses..
[QUOTE=pentium;51971093]I just find it a very Apple thing to do. I can just look at my Mac Pro 1,1. It will run El Capitan no problem but because Apple says so, you cannot install it unless you patch out the part of the installer that whitelists the hardware. You are otherwise forced to buy a newer machine to be "officially" supported which boils down to you have to pay them money. My money is that someone will figure out how the whitelist works within a few months.[/QUOTE] To be fair, Mac Pro 1,1 is over 10 years old. Apple (or any other tech companies for that matter) don't see the point of maintaining machines that are decade old since they'll literally be wasting a ton of money and development hours that only caters a very small group of users. They simply can't break even in such case. While the hardware *may* run the latest OS X, you'll probably come across issues in later builds due to lack of drivers to support newer features. [editline]16th March 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=Zephyrs;51970942]Name a single feature on Windows 10 that is reliant upon a new instruction set.[/QUOTE] The kernel uses these instructions extensively. The kernel uses the CMPXCHG16b instruction to atomically set pointers and make changes to larger data structures more efficiently. The kernel can also uses PREFETCHW to pre-cache data to spare memory cycles ahead of times when you need to write back data to the memory. While the kernel can get away without using these new instructions, but they provide better performance for kernel operations. Besides, any CPU made within the last >10 years or so support these instructions. You really should be upgrading anyways if you actually lack these instructions.
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;51971519]The kernel uses these instructions extensively. The kernel uses the CMPXCHG16b instruction to atomically set pointers and make changes to larger data structures more efficiently. The kernel can also uses PREFETCHW to pre-cache data to spare memory cycles ahead of times when you need to write back data to the memory. While the kernel can get away without using these new instructions, but they provide better performance for kernel operations.[B] Besides, any CPU made within the last >10 years or so support these instructions.[/B] You really should be upgrading anyways if you actually lack these instructions.[/QUOTE] Exactly.
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;51971519]To be fair, Mac Pro 1,1 is over 10 years old. Apple (or any other tech companies for that matter) don't see the point of maintaining machines that are decade old since they'll literally be wasting a ton of money and development hours that only caters a very small group of users. They simply can't break even in such case.[/quote] Apple doesn't need to give a fuck about what problems people have with their products once they are EOL. They simply EOL their products to announce new machines annually and push profits. How have you not noticed this yet? Microsoft dominates the PC market while not having any control over the hardware which means they can market a new OS all they want but if people don't want to use it they won't so the only way to increase profits is to set arbitrary limits and tell people they can't even TRY to use their older operating systems as it doesn't make them money. Fuck that.
In all fairness, Apple has some incentive to EOL things because their brand image is built around "It just werks". If anything doesn't get caught in initial testing, they will get a lot of shit for it. It's still pretty stupid, but it makes more sense than the arbitrary bullshit Microsoft is doing here.
Honestly I'll probably buy a win10 key with my next upgrade (ryzen) anyway but that still kinda pisses me off
btw, win7 keys still work. I just obviously reinstalled windows 10 and it took my win7 pro OEM key just fine.
[QUOTE=Brt5470;51972073]btw, win7 keys still work. I just obviously reinstalled windows 10 and it took my win7 pro OEM key just fine.[/QUOTE] I'm on Enterprise so I've actually never had any way to get it (legitimately) free
[QUOTE=TrafficMan;51972492]I'm on Enterprise so I've actually never had any way to get it (legitimately) free[/QUOTE] I don't get it. You only have a Windows 7 enterprise key? Or you specifically need enterprise.
He is on Enterprise and therefore can not upgrade.
I was leading up to whether he wanted a windows 7 key, if that was the issue. Or if he specifically needed enterprise features.
He can just use Windows Loader IIRC.
Oz did some small tests on how memory speed and the Windows SMT bug are affecting Ryzen gaming performance [video=youtube;6xIU2h8YMKc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xIU2h8YMKc[/video]
Does Oz have any idea how graphs work?
So a recent evaluation showed that the light in my office is way too dim, it being a historically protected building I only got a shitty tiny window. So somehow me and a coworker managed to convince our boss to get Nanoleaf Aurora. Now I have a RGBW unicorn on the slanted wall next to me :v:
[t]https://www.helifreak.club/image/20170317103650432.png[/t] But that's a mac.
Upgrade your facebookstation
I totally wanted to have our monitoring interact with it, but looks like they haven't released an API yet.
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