• CIPWTTKT&GC V43 - WHERE IS MY THINKPAD?
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The laptop came with a Win7 SP1 install, so I booted it up and ran Furmark on it to test the battery. I was installing Firefox etc., and the battery estimate showed 4 hours. I started up Furmark with the battery at like 92%, it ran for 20-25 minutes and ran out of juice. For an i5-2540M with an HD3000, that honestly doesn't sound that bad with a meh battery. I'm pretty sure that's a full voltage CPU. It's honestly probably a bit better than the battery in my Edge E325 right now. I got this bloody thing for about 130€ total, what a god damn deal. Came with battery and charger, a lot better than a lot of the other options I was looking at.
Dad's friend gave his old laptop to me, to salvage and whatnot. It was some dv-series HP laptop with a motherboard issue, no point to even think of repairing it. And it had a dead battery. After trying to get the battery case apart and then just smashing it, I found out it seemed to have a really nice controller board, seemed to check every cells voltage and so on, but all the cells were at 2.4v. Not surprised at all that the battery was dead, but I haven't seen that dead. After an hour of charging or so 2 of them got up to 3.6v but I didn't want to leave them unsupervised so I didn't continue charging them, just in case.
When you get a lithium battery go undervoltage, the anode will start dissolving into the electrolyte. Then when you charge it, it'll precipitate out of the electrolyte again, but not necessarily back on the anode, so now you've got random anode material (probably copper) floating in your battery, which will probably cause a short circuit. The cathode also suffers somehow but I'm not exactly clear on what happens there.
[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;52155997][video=youtube;hZRL8luuPb8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZRL8luuPb8[/video] puts the switches in upside down doesn't think to just swap vcc and ground on the switches, leaves them upside down 8-bit guy please[/QUOTE] This pooped up on my YouTube feed, and honestly seemed kinda informative and understandable for someone who has basically no understanding of electronics
AD last night didn't go very well. Well, it went fine, but I made the mistake of running it on the wrong machine. I also applied for work and we talked about AD, so I need to crash course again, even if it's Level 1 shit
So it would seem that updating 35 Windows Phone based PDAs over 3G in bum fuck nowhere takes a really long time. Not helped by the fact that for about 10 of them only one could be on at a time due to limited battery supply, and required a physical button press on their end 1000km away to initiate remote control. And the guy who was pressing buttons went to the pub for lunch because it's right next door and was gone for hours. Population of 100 in that town.
According to their site, we should have heard of them.
[QUOTE=Scratch.;52156293]AD last night didn't go very well. Well, it went fine, but I made the mistake of running it on the wrong machine. I also applied for work and we talked about AD, so I need to crash course again, even if it's Level 1 shit[/QUOTE] I can throw you a link to my OneNote if you want some elaborate notes on how to configure stuff. [editline]27th April 2017[/editline] I got three notebooks, one for configuring Windows Server, one for administering Windows Server, and one for the advanced functions.
[QUOTE=01271;52154508]We use a closed source system to manage our site. Today, we got an update and it removes passwords from our session cookies. Yay! But not all is well. We have a replacement system thst creates session ids and all it does is create a random series of letters (20 alpha) We already had 3 collisions of people accessing each others' accounts.[/QUOTE] Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo Today he replaced the string with microtime().
[QUOTE=01271;52156935]Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo Today he replaced the string with microtime().[/QUOTE] One day maybe they'll learn to use a large bit-size secure random string.
[QUOTE=Teddybeer;52156949]Apparently I now own a cheap as shit DSi. So what do I do with it.[/QUOTE] Nothing
[QUOTE=Teddybeer;52156949]Apparently I now own a cheap as shit DSi. So what do I do with it.[/QUOTE] Play awesome DS games. There are many to choose from.
[QUOTE=01271;52156935]Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo Today he replaced the string with microtime().[/QUOTE] Yes, hello HR I'd like to report an abuse on the company systems
[QUOTE=01271;52156935]Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo Today he replaced the string with microtime().[/QUOTE] Obviously you just need to archive every cookie that's generated and cache the session IDs and check for collisions there. You know, for security.
[QUOTE=helifreak;52156044][t]https://www.helifreak.club/image/20170427080135103.png[/t] Quality site 10/10 would enable javascript.[/QUOTE] [t]http://i.imgur.com/sp2xSsL.png[/t] (Not on that site, can't remember where I grabbed this screenshot from) [editline]27th April 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=Scratch.;52156293]AD last night didn't go very well. Well, it went fine, but I made the mistake of running it on the wrong machine. I also applied for work and we talked about AD, so I need to crash course again, even if it's Level 1 shit[/QUOTE] My home AD is working well but it's super barebones at the moment. I want to spend some time building it up but I spend so much of my actual work time in AD and GP that I'd rather work on other things when I get home.
[QUOTE=gman003-main;52154831]Seems pretty good to me. I'd prefer to keep the password-complexity requirement but in the form of entropy estimates, not arbitrary rules.[/QUOTE] I can see why they did it tho. In combination with a secure 2FA, a 4 digit pincode would be more secure than a duplicate password.
I was doing a video for a company that has their own font that I wanted to use, couldn't download it anywhere. But then, I noticed that they use this font on their website. Some googling later made me aware that you can press F12 in Chrome, look at the "Network" tab, and after reloading the page, you can see all the files that make up the page. Two fonts were there, but in a file format I've never seen before (woff). Luckily a simple conversion to otf was all I needed. This is the closest thing to a hacker I've ever been.
[QUOTE=Warship;52157421]I was doing a video for a company that has their own font that I wanted to use, couldn't download it anywhere. But then, I noticed that they use this font on their website. Some googling later made me aware that you can press F12 in Chrome, look at the "Network" tab, and after reloading the page, you can see all the files that make up the page. Two fonts were there, but in a file format I've never seen before (woff). Luckily a simple conversion to otf was all I needed. This is the closest thing to a hacker I've ever been.[/QUOTE] I would have just asked them for the font :v:
[QUOTE=tW4r;52156289]This pooped up on my YouTube feed, and honestly seemed kinda informative and understandable for someone who has basically no understanding of electronics[/QUOTE] I wish he had gone over how an 8-bit number equals a character. He totally glossed over how ASCII works as if anybody who has no understanding of electronics would know.
[QUOTE=Teddybeer;52157966]Just need to find a place that doesn't sell it at release prices. Shit like Pokémon Black and White are made of solid gold apparently.[/QUOTE] You're probably SOL on that one specifically but the DS has so many incredibly good games that you'll always be able to find something else.
[QUOTE=Teddybeer;52157966]Just need to find a place that doesn't sell it at release prices. Shit like Pokémon Black and White are made of solid gold apparently.[/QUOTE] Pokemon and Mario games are stupid overpriced in used game stores. Like, fuck off, do you honestly expect me to pay $30 for pokemon white, cartridge only, scratched, probably beaten and hacked, with "EaTHan" scrawled in the back with the metal tip of a mechanical pencil??
It's probably worth going for a flashcard there. Really, it generally is for a dead console.
you could get a flashcart for it
[QUOTE=Teddybeer;52158037]:thatwasfunnyright: $30, 103 euro there mate, for import even.[/QUOTE] AU is no better. Shit sucks for B&W. and it's the one Pokemon game I missed. Frustrating as hell.
I guess OpenVPN setup isn't so hard afterall. Guarantee I'll have forgotten everything the next time I need to set it up though.
For some reason, some web page tabs in Chrome would randomly loose scrolling abilities, unless you drag the scroll bar on the right side of the page. Refreshing the page doesn't fix this.
[QUOTE=helifreak;52158046]I guess OpenVPN setup isn't so hard afterall. Guarantee I'll have forgotten everything the next time I need to set it up though.[/QUOTE] Nah piss easy. I'm still trying to decide between using sslvpn on my sonicwall or openVPN for easier use with my linux machines though
[QUOTE=Teddybeer;52158107]Sort of illegal and now you only can get them here in shady webshops.[/QUOTE] This is how hardware platforms die.
[QUOTE=Van-man;52158128]This is how hardware platforms die.[/QUOTE] Remember the PS Vita? I don't. (yes I know I got homebrew stuff late last year.)
[QUOTE=Van-man;52158128]This is how hardware platforms die.[/QUOTE] No, hardware platform dies when it has no appeals and no exclusive games that stands out. Nintendo platforms has plenty of unique games that keeps its products alive.
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