• CIPWTTKT&GC V43 - WHERE IS MY THINKPAD?
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I just SCP photos onto my server, memes and shitposts get hosted on cubeupload.
[QUOTE=Scratch.;52036478]Doesn't work for me but Australia is Europe [media]https://twitter.com/TheMediaTweets/status/565217780069597184[/media][/QUOTE]That imagine makes me wonder though, if more of the land over here was habitable I wonder what our population would be.
[QUOTE=Reagy;52036836]I'm that person who keeps going "SELF HOST" even though I know theres massive downsides to it. Also saying that I'll take any of your shit if you want to use it [url]https://horobox.co.uk/[/url][/QUOTE] Eh, the only downside with selfhosting is breaking the links in the future, which is still better than most hosts of the past, which all died eventually. At least when you self host they are online as long as you keep your online presence going. And for you it is some control, as you can easily take down old pics you don't want to keep online because they got irrelevant or something like that.
[QUOTE=SEKCobra;52037125]Eh, the only downside with selfhosting is breaking the links in the future, which is still better than most hosts of the past, which all died eventually. At least when you self host they are online as long as you keep your online presence going. And for you it is some control, as you can easily take down old pics you don't want to keep online because they got irrelevant or something like that.[/QUOTE] This is my biggest reason not to, but I keep leaning more and more towards self hosting. Imgur keeps sucking more and more ass, especially on mobile devices. It used to be perfect. You upload the image, and the list of embeds was right on the side. Now it's several steps more, and the app makes it flat out impossible to get embeds without going right back to the site!
[QUOTE=Trekintosh;52037254]This is my biggest reason not to, but I keep leaning more and more towards self hosting. Imgur keeps sucking more and more ass, especially on mobile devices. It used to be perfect. You upload the image, and the list of embeds was right on the side. Now it's several steps more, and the app makes it flat out impossible to get embeds without going right back to the site![/QUOTE] imgur did it right, no more horrible ads, decent albums and hotlinking. What killed it for me was always the quality reduction.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/3VdqNIq.jpg[/IMG] How do I remove all this playback device and input device spam?
[QUOTE=Teddybeer;52037282]Hide unconnected devices in the rightclick menu.[/QUOTE] I don't want them to be hidden I want them removed completely, I had it like that before but I reformatted recently and now it got reset.
[QUOTE=Van-man;52036220]Rebooting between OS' versus virtualization [sp]and he hates virtualbox for a reason other than being owned by Oracle[/sp][/QUOTE] He probably hates it because it's open source
[QUOTE=Levelog;52037312]He probably hates it because it's open source[/QUOTE] Most of it is, few parts ain't (including extension packs). But I can understand having a contingency plan, with Oracle ownership of it and all.
[QUOTE=Van-man;52036220]Rebooting between OS' versus virtualization [sp]and he hates virtualbox for a reason other than being owned by Oracle[/sp][/QUOTE] But (and this is a huge assumption) wouldn't Pentium be using Windows a majority of the time? I'm using Paragon NTFS to have a Windows NTFS Partition (which my Mac Pro auto boots into) and I actually get better performance (on benchmarks) in Windows than in OS X. Haven't used OS X in Months.
[QUOTE=RoboChimp;52037027]That imagine makes me wonder though, if more of the land over here was habitable I wonder what our population would be.[/QUOTE] the dutch would have kept it hitler probably would have won the war
[QUOTE=Scratch.;52037440]the dutch would have kept it hitler probably would have won the war[/QUOTE]I agree with the first thing, but not the second.
[QUOTE=SEKCobra;52037261]imgur did it right, no more horrible ads, decent albums and hotlinking. What killed it for me was always the quality reduction.[/QUOTE] Photobucket was fucking king from startup to around 2008. You registered, you clicked UPLOAD, you selected what you wanted to resize to if you were going to upload an unnecessarily large image (it recommended 1024x768 but you could choose whatever you wanted) and the non-paying member storage space and monthly bandwidth was :ok:. Albums were displayed in thumbnail view with one-click embed links tuned to what you wanted (<img>, [img], direct links etc.) Then around 2008 they started messing with free user bandwidth. I switched to paying $50 a year for unlimited bandwidth and something like 20gb of photo space. The one-click embed links became a flash object that popped up when you put your mouse over the thumbnail. Then they refreshed the site around 2012/2013 and the UI changed completely. Upload became drag and drop. A tool was added so you could download your entire library to keep a local copy (without the folder structure you might have though) Then they moved more of the UI into flash. Then the ability to upload images larger than 1024x768 was removed. Then direct links would load the image as part of the site. Then they began clamping down on the types of embed tags you could use. Then they made it pointless to be a paying member because free users got near-unlimited bandwidth, so I stopped paying. Then they started putting ads on pages for people not logged in. Then they started putting flash-popups on pages for people not logged in. Then they changed folder arrangement so images were not listed by date uploaded, but date timestamped, so I was uploading shit and it would instantly nest itself 15 pages back. More recently I've been having issues with images either stalling on upload, completely failing to upload or saying they failed but showing up on a page refresh. Now I'm getting complaints some images just don't load at all on forums. I've said it before. If it wasn't for the fact they've never broken links on over 10 years of images, I'd be switching about now. Meanwhile I got a friend who has discovered he can get remote X on his Symbolics Ivory through Windows 10. Now he can code LISP from the luxury of the bus on the way home from work. [t]https://i.imgur.com/imoDald.png[/t]
[QUOTE=pentium;52037698] I've said it before. If it wasn't for the fact they've never broken links on over 10 years of images, I'd be switching about now.[/QUOTE] That's a really weak reason to stay to be honest.
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;52037705]That's a really weak reason to stay to be honest.[/QUOTE] It's a Wizdom of the Ancients kind of thing. A picture speaks a thousand words.
I was using Photobucket in 2008. I hated it then and I hate it now. Prior to that it was Imageshack for me, or because I hadn't known any better, Google Sites storage.
Oh yeah I used imageshack too at one point, but they kinda went the same route as photobucket so there's that
In theory, how high can they make the density of an LTO tape, what's the limit?
[QUOTE=RoboChimp;52037747]In theory, how high can they make the density of an LTO tape, what's the limit?[/QUOTE] In theory you can have a tape of infinite length holding infinite symbols, effectively creating a physical Turing Machine.
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;52037757]In theory you can have a tape of infinite length holding infinite symbols, effectively creating a physical Turing Machine.[/QUOTE]Which could fit in the LTO cartridge, not a tape with infinite length or whatever. They're up to 6 TB with the current version, with the current room in the cartridge, how much data can they get on these things?
I've been having trouble on finding a naming scheme for all my servers. I finally decided to name them after Starcraft factions. [img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/142033683547684864/297416214106472449/unknown.png[/img] Protoss factions will be my networking equipment and servers, Terran facitons will be my eventual NAS, and Zerg factions will be one of the servers I have for VMs.
[QUOTE=RoboChimp;52037747]In theory, how high can they make the density of an LTO tape, what's the limit?[/QUOTE] No limit necessarily, as the format improves each time with different methods. There's far too many variables to consider like material, progress in other industries (related to working with certain materials), magnetic precision, software, etc. Realistically the only thing they won't change is the size of the cartridge itself for a factor of reasons, biggest being compatibility with older tapes. So, really there's no good answer to the question.
[QUOTE=wingless;52037996]No limit necessarily, as the format improves each time with different methods. There's far too many variables to consider like material, progress in other industries (related to working with certain materials), magnetic precision, software, etc. Realistically the only thing they won't change is the size of the cartridge itself for a factor of reasons, biggest being compatibility with older tapes. So, really there's no good answer to the question.[/QUOTE]I was just wondering if they'd could hit a brick wall like with HDDs and turbulence.
[QUOTE=RoboChimp;52038013]I was just wondering if they'd could hit a brick wall like with HDDs and turbulence.[/QUOTE] I think the biggest brick wall is how thick they can make the tape, right now they're using a basic polyester type tape with metal particles embedded in it. What matters there is how thin they can get the base tape material while maintaining durability and how large the metal particles are while still retaining magnetic sensitivity.
[QUOTE=pentium;52028959]Keep in mind that this is analog HD. It's not as simple as you insert a hi-vision disc in the player and connect component/DVI cabling to your TV. It's the [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_sub-Nyquist_sampling_encoding]MUSE System[/url]. [t]http://www.fahrenbruch.de/Muse/Pioneer%20X0%205.jpg[/t] Even after he bought the player and a movie or two he still needs another converter to adapt MUSE to modern digital HD which is another few hundred dollars. I mean, HD laserdiscs sound cool and all but fucking that kind of a base cost just to set the player up? No thanks.[/QUOTE] Bit late here but I still sort of find it cool, analogue Muse HD systems are literal Blade Runneresque, retro futuristic technology. It shows how different an envisioned reality can end up being.
So for video nerds in here: Yesterday I received a new old stock of a 32GB Maxell P2 card. It's an E series card, so the old firmware on the HVX200 just said "incompatible card", which scared me at first since I didn't know that could happen. Stumbling across a couple of dead links like always when looking up old stuff from close to 10 years ago, I found the firmware. All I had to do was to find an SD card to put it on to update. I tried with a 16GB card first because that's just what was laying around. Nope, the HVX didn't like that. Just freezing as long as the card was put in. Maybe it was trying to work. I tried putting my 256GB card in it, just to see if it would explode. But nah. I struggled to find a small card, but then remembered I had a 2GB in a Zoom Recorder. It worked, but took like 12 minutes to update, even though the update was 18MB, lol. Also the P2 format is weird. Using this piece of ass old program. [t]http://i.imgur.com/LhLJrKK.png[/t]
Japan is famous for their Galápagos syndrome. Repeatedly it's amazed me how they'll take a technology the west has since retired in favor of something new or simply never adopted and just spent the next 20+ years continuing to develop it. The result is something massively incompatible with our concept of a modern standard but it's scary just how well it performs side by side.
[QUOTE=pentium;52037698]Upload became drag and drop.[/QUOTE] Is it bad that back in the day, I had no idea how to embed an image on a forum so I tried dragging and dropping it into my web browser and all that did was open the image in my web browser? This was many years ago and I think Photobucket or Imageshack was what I used.
shamelessly reposting because my post ended up at the bottom at the page -nevermind, see reply-
[QUOTE=Warship;52038402]So for video nerds in here: Yesterday I received a new old stock of a 32GB Maxell P2 card. It's an E series card, so the old firmware on the HVX200 just said "incompatible card", which scared me at first since I didn't know that could happen. Stumbling across a couple of dead links like always when looking up old stuff from close to 10 years ago, I found the firmware. All I had to do was to find an SD card to put it on to update. I tried with a 16GB card first because that's just what was laying around. Nope, the HVX didn't like that. Just freezing as long as the card was put in. Maybe it was trying to work. I tried putting my 256GB card in it, just to see if it would explode. But nah. I struggled to find a small card, but then remembered I had a 2GB in a Zoom Recorder. It worked, but took like 12 minutes to update, even though the update was 18MB, lol. Also the P2 format is weird. Using this piece of ass old program. [t]http://i.imgur.com/LhLJrKK.png[/t][/QUOTE] Fun fact: people still use that [I]P2 Viewer Plus[/I] in 2017 and it was the only real way to view the files and do quick edits without importing it into whatever NLE. It just werks. [editline]31st March 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=Warship;52038624]shamelessly reposting because my post ended up at the bottom at the page[/QUOTE] but why..
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