[QUOTE=gman003-main;50879800]Probably not, but it might be a decent upgrade path for old (pre-M.2) computers. Or it might just be a weird useless idea, like most of my random thoughts.
And does SATA Express have power coming from the host-side connector? There's an entire generation of motherboards with SATAe ports that will otherwise never be used. It's PCIe internally, which avoids the bottleneck, and normal PCIe connectors provide power.[/QUOTE]
SataExpress is really odd. No, I don't believe it supplies power host side. You use a separate adapter thing to inject power into the connector. But my understanding is that it's two Sata ports and then a PCIe connection supplying I think two 2.0 lanes on the left which then basically takes over supplying 10Gbps. Meanwhile the Sataports are unused for actually transferring data, but are covered up. I don't get the point. Why make SataExpress this stupidly large connector when 80% of it is unused. And PCIe doesn't run through the storage system like for RAID so it seems pointless.
[QUOTE=Brt5470;50880987]SataExpress is really odd. No, I don't believe it supplies power host side. You use a separate adapter thing to inject power into the connector. But my understanding is that it's two Sata ports and then a PCIe connection supplying I think two 2.0 lanes on the left which then basically takes over supplying 10Gbps. Meanwhile the Sataports are unused for actually transferring data, but are covered up. I don't get the point. Why make SataExpress this stupidly large connector when 80% of it is unused. And PCIe doesn't run through the storage system like for RAID so it seems pointless.[/QUOTE]
I couldn't find any actual pinouts for SATAe (which is why I asked if anyone knew about power pins for it), but from what I can tell, when it's in PCIe mode, it sends a PCIe signal over the 2xSATA data pins instead of SATA signals.
Then again, I also don't think anyone ever actually made a SATAe drive, so the whole thing's kind of pointless.
[QUOTE=gman003-main;50881521]I couldn't find any actual pinouts for SATAe (which is why I asked if anyone knew about power pins for it), but from what I can tell, when it's in PCIe mode, it sends a PCIe signal over the 2xSATA data pins instead of SATA signals.
Then again, I also don't think anyone ever actually made a SATAe drive, so the whole thing's kind of pointless.[/QUOTE]
Maybe that's true, but given the design it seems odd that the pins on the left connector wouldn't bring PCIe. It is only two lanes afterall.
[t]http://cdn.wccftech.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/SATA-Express.jpg[/t]
I mean, it makes sense that if you stack two 6Gbps ports together you'd get ~12Gbps. But then it also uses PCIe lanes as well which should override the need for the Sata in the first place. It's a strange standard.
[QUOTE=Brt5470;50882092]Maybe that's true, but given the design it seems odd that the pins on the left connector wouldn't bring PCIe. It is only two lanes afterall.
[t]http://cdn.wccftech.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/SATA-Express.jpg[/t]
I mean, it makes sense that if you stack two 6Gbps ports together you'd get ~12Gbps. But then it also uses PCIe lanes as well which should override the need for the Sata in the first place. It's a strange standard.[/QUOTE]
Again, this is all according to my weak understanding of the subject, but the idea was to make a connector that was somewhat backwards-compatible with SATA. You have a SATAe chipset, hooked up to (usually?) two SATAe ports (each carrying 2 PCIe lanes when in express mode) that can also function as four SATA ports, if you don't have SATAe drives.
I'd say I'm pretty muc h officially moved now, PC is set up and internet is working [IMG]http://www.speedtest.net/result/5551663430.png[/IMG]
[QUOTE=chipsnapper2;50415926][highlight]Please kindly keep your Speedtest stuff to yourself, nobody wants it shitting up the thread[/highlight][/QUOTE]
Back in the days of speedtests spawning an internet speed dickwaving contest I would have agreed but the one off "we just went from <slow speed> to <fast speed> and I'm super excited" posts are ok in my book
I still think an upload that's 10% your download speed is gay af
[QUOTE=Warship;50884489]I still think an upload that's 10% your download speed is gay af[/QUOTE]
Yeah, but gotta keep them business products attractive somehow. Also there's technical reasons with DSL because of how it's set up.
Just ordered my first 3D print. Estimate says delivery on August 17-19, I wonder if they'll actually do that - I got the free shipping instead of overnight. Maybe they have a location in Finland.
My friend was selling off some of his unused ubiquti AP's from a recent install he did. I picked up two because the price was so good.
$50 a piece for a new in-box AP AC LR is too good to pass up.
Why the fuck are these packet tracer activities using serial links? It's gigabit from the routers to the pcs but between the routers and the internet it's all serial.
Does serial actually have some benefit I'm not seeing to make up for it being a fucking megabit?
[QUOTE=helifreak;50886741]Why the fuck are these packet tracer activities using serial links? It's gigabit from the routers to the pcs but between the routers and the internet it's all serial.
Does serial actually have some benefit I'm not seeing to make up for it being a fucking megabit?[/QUOTE]
I'm guessing that's the standard physical setup for Cisco labs. When I was in college, the routers used in the Cisco labs had two Ethernet ports and a few serial ports. I want to say it still allows you to play around with things like Frame Relay. In a lab environment, you'll be pushing pings, RADIUS and maybe a web GUI over your test network, so the serial ports have more than enough throughput for that.
I wonder if Logitech will make a new version of the G13 game board. It's been around for like 6 years now and it's frequently on sale every month.
[QUOTE=garychencool;50886804]I wonder if Logitech will make a new version of the G13 game board. It's been around for like 6 years now and it's frequently on sale every month.[/QUOTE]
When something goes on sale frequently, it means no one wants it.
The G13 is a niche product, so I doubt they'll waste money on a refresh.
[editline]14th August 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;50887129]Just bought a Surface RT
please roast me family[/QUOTE]
You're an idiot
I've got a CS:GO beta build, dated 30 November 2011
It's crashing fairly early on, what can I do? I've tried everything.
Funnily enough Steam knows and reports I'm in actual CS:GO :v:
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;50887130]When something goes on sale frequently, it means no one wants it.
The G13 is a niche product, so I doubt they'll waste money on a refresh.
[/QUOTE]
If anything, they could update it with mechanical switches and do what Razer did with their gameboard. Either that or it's not their priority.
It is a niche product, I like it for video editing but would get excited for a new version with better everything.
[QUOTE=SEKCobra;50884524]Yeah, but gotta keep them business products attractive somehow. Also there's technical reasons with DSL because of how it's set up.[/QUOTE]
Cable too. You can only bond so many channels and most modems have more downstream than upstream channels.
Fucking printers.
Just had a toner cartridge explode. So now I need to gut my printer to clean it out, and I can't print any black until I get a replacement cartridge. Not going to pay 3-4 times the price for one from staples either.
NSA's (The Equation Group's) malware leaked.
[url]https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/765210977625370624[/url]
Archive for the GitHub page: [url]http://archive.is/cXz4C[/url]
Some of the malware has definitely been seen somewhere out in the world, since Windows Defender just got very upset with me.
This is gonna get interesting.
Holy crap USA, what the fuck is going on with your coin? I just found some and didn't really understand what's so weird about them until I had to google what a dime is. Then I realized, you don't have numbers on your coin. You have to read the ocin or know it by the feel, no easy looking at one side of it and understanding that it is $0.01, $0.10 or $0.25
[editline]16th August 2016[/editline]
The 5 cent coin has the "FIVE CENT" in a really small font. Holy crap guys how do your old people pay in coins, do they take a few hours or what?
[QUOTE=tratzzz;50891307]Holy crap USA, what the fuck is going on with your coin? I just found some and didn't really understand what's so weird about them until I had to google what a dime is. Then I realized, you don't have numbers on your coin. You have to read the ocin or know it by the feel, no easy looking at one side of it and understanding that it is $0.01, $0.10 or $0.25[/QUOTE]
The different sizes are because they historically were made of different metals. Pennies and half-pennies were copper, nickels through dollars were silver, and another set of coins for $2.50 to $10 were in gold, with each coin of the same metal having a weight exactly proportional to its value. So a ten-cent dime was silver, 1/10th the weight of the dollar coin; a 25-cent coin was 1/4th the weight of the silver dollar. And the three metals were obviously different. So that's why the dime is small - it was the smallest denomination of silver. And then at some point, Big Nickel decided the five-cent coin should be a nickel-copper blend, and that's why the nickel is larger than the dime.
In case you haven't noticed, America is really bad at taking care of small details. We should honestly have ditched every coin but the quarter by now, but we've still got all of those nonsense coins. We still haven't figured out the metric system, we still have the Electoral College, and all of that.
We make up for it on the big-picture stuff. Want to break the trenches on the Western Front? Done. Want to put a man on the moon? No problem. We're the kind of country that can build a revolutionary, world-class highway system just in case the Soviets invade and we need to shuffle Army divisions around, and then cheap out on maintaining it for fifty years.
[QUOTE=tratzzz;50891307]The 5 cent coin has the "FIVE CENT" in a really small font. Holy crap guys how do your old people pay in coins, do they take a few hours or what?[/QUOTE]
Nobody pays in exact change in America. Even old people - the ones who are lazy just use a credit card, the ones who deliberately try to slow everything down write checks. Almost every cash register in the country has a "take a penny, leave a penny" bowl to at least round to the nearest five cents. When people do pay cash, they just use paper money, and get change back which gets dumped in a jar and forgotten.
[QUOTE=tratzzz;50891307]Holy crap USA, what the fuck is going on with your coin? I just found some and didn't really understand what's so weird about them until I had to google what a dime is. Then I realized, you don't have numbers on your coin. You have to read the ocin or know it by the feel, no easy looking at one side of it and understanding that it is $0.01, $0.10 or $0.25
[editline]16th August 2016[/editline]
The 5 cent coin has the "FIVE CENT" in a really small font. Holy crap guys how do your old people pay in coins, do they take a few hours or what?[/QUOTE]
They all have very distinct diameters and thickness. You'll be able to identify them pretty quick based on those physical sizes.
That's it. I'm done.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/SzkF2eG.png[/t]
My current 6 year old Win7 install has become too sick, there's no cure at this point. I think it's time to put you down, old boy.
[QUOTE=tratzzz;50891307]Holy crap USA, what the fuck is going on with your coin? I just found some and didn't really understand what's so weird about them until I had to google what a dime is. Then I realized, you don't have numbers on your coin. You have to read the ocin or know it by the feel, no easy looking at one side of it and understanding that it is $0.01, $0.10 or $0.25
[editline]16th August 2016[/editline]
The 5 cent coin has the "FIVE CENT" in a really small font. Holy crap guys how do your old people pay in coins, do they take a few hours or what?[/QUOTE]
I literally cannot remember the last time I handed anyone a coin
[editline]15th August 2016[/editline]
Is anyone else getting these mysterious 47 second voice messages from spam accounts on skype? I've gotten 3 in the past two weeks
[QUOTE=Zephyrs;50890782]Fucking printers.
Just had a toner cartridge explode. So now I need to gut my printer to clean it out, and I can't print any black until I get a replacement cartridge. Not going to pay 3-4 times the price for one from staples either.[/QUOTE]
As an offset printing press operator i can assure you inkjets are the worst
[QUOTE=TrafficMan;50892038]I literally cannot remember the last time I handed anyone a coin
[editline]15th August 2016[/editline]
Is anyone else getting these mysterious 47 second voice messages from spam accounts on skype? I've gotten 3 in the past two weeks[/QUOTE]
I've actually gotten one, yeah. I was really confused. Never listened to it, though - I pretty much avoid Skype because of all of the spam.
I murdered skype because it kept updating regardless of what i wanted it to.
And skype would occasionally get so insulted, by a small handful of games, if i started one of them, that it would fuck audio drivers sideways.
[QUOTE=tratzzz;50891307]Holy crap USA, what the fuck is going on with your coin? I just found some and didn't really understand what's so weird about them until I had to google what a dime is. Then I realized, you don't have numbers on your coin. You have to read the ocin or know it by the feel, no easy looking at one side of it and understanding that it is $0.01, $0.10 or $0.25
[editline]16th August 2016[/editline]
The 5 cent coin has the "FIVE CENT" in a really small font. Holy crap guys how do your old people pay in coins, do they take a few hours or what?[/QUOTE]
The correct way to use your coins is to gather a shitload of them and then take them to a bank or a Coinstar machine for cash.
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