In my recent trip to Orlando, Florida, we did some shopping at a 24 hour Walmart. It was packed. At 10pm. On a weekday. Seems to be a normal thing here. Meanwhile in Canada, it's quiet 99% of the time except for the weekends.
[QUOTE=garychencool;50956081]In my recent trip to Orlando, Florida, we did some shopping at a 24 hour Walmart. It was packed. At 10pm. On a weekday. Seems to be a normal thing here. Meanwhile in Canada, it's quiet 99% of the time except for the weekends.[/QUOTE]
My nearby Walmart is packed at 3am. but it's also in a kind of... cultural divide. A lot of working class people only have a few hours a week to get stuff they need. So going during normal "peak" hours is actually fine usually.
I've always had a thing for small factor computers, so I decided to splurg $400 on an Intel Compute Stick
[t]http://i.imgur.com/zeVTI9k.jpg[/t]
This thing comes with Windows 10 preloaded, and I was watching HD Netflix while browsing several tabs at once on a 4k monitor. The stick can handle all that concurrently without any hiccups at all.
It's amazing how much computing power is packed into a stick that fits into your hands. All that performance and the stick only needs about 10W to operate on max load.
It's amazing how far technology has come
So how do you use it? It's just an HDMI stick and the rest is Wifi and Bluetooth?
EDIT!!! More testing. So normal "striping" in SS is indeed just basically load balancing. Think Drobo. Lots of 256MB chunks spread everywhere. It's for just capacity management, not performance really from what I can see. So I did indeed force other column striping through Powershell and I hit 300-450MB/s here and there so it seems to be properly be managing that speed. So it functions, and I could in the future just do software RAID10 through SS since the rebuilds would be as fast as a ZFS like thing.
But, that test was using six 100GB VHDX files with three of them on SSD's. So it manages with six drives all striped in 6 columns to be about as fast as a single drive. Lots of odd overhead or maybe they'll perform better as physical disks and not virtual ones.
I did have my computer lock up due to something else and when I booted back in, my drives were gone. The storage space was missing. However, like in the documentation, all the information of the pool is stored on each physical drive. So I went and remounted a single vhdx file and the entire pool popped up with what drives were needed to be added back in. I added them back in the pool became healthy half way in since it had the first "half" of the data. I added the rest, did an optimize. Ran a SH256 on the 100GB test file and it came back fine. Impressed with it.
[QUOTE=Brt5470;50956264]So how do you use it? It's just an HDMI stick and the rest is Wifi and Bluetooth?[/QUOTE]
It's the whole shebang. CPU, RAM, Networking, flash, etc. Has USB ports and power on the sides.
Typically, you plug the stick into an HDMI port, and also plug in a usb power cable. You can use BT keyboards, or you can plug a USB one onto the stick.
At bare minimum, you can just plug in power and that thing will run on its own without anything else. You can use it remotely with Teamviewer or any other remote management software once you've set all that up.
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;50956282]Typically, you plug the stick into an HDMI port, and also plug in a usb power cable. You can use BT keyboards, or you can plug a USB one onto the stick.
At bare minimum, you can just plug in power and that thing will run on its own without anything else. You can use it remotely with Teamviewer or any other remote management software once you've set all that up.[/QUOTE]
They're pretty cute, but you should definitely use a cable for HDMI, there were a bunch of problems with original chromecasts and breaking in the HDMI port, and that thing is gonna be heavier and bigger no doubt.
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;50956282]Typically, you plug the stick into an HDMI port, and also plug in a usb power cable. You can use BT keyboards, or you can plug a USB one onto the stick.
At bare minimum, you can just plug in power and that thing will run on its own without anything else. You can use it remotely with Teamviewer or any other remote management software once you've set all that up.[/QUOTE]
Speaking of which, whats the status on Teamviewer? I got rid of everything TV and moved to chrome remote desktop. But I miss some of TV's features.
[QUOTE=wingless;50956293]They're pretty cute, but you should definitely use a cable for HDMI, there were a bunch of problems with original chromecasts and breaking in the HDMI port, and that thing is gonna be heavier and bigger no doubt.[/QUOTE]
The box comes with a 1ft long HDMI extension cable thankfully. I can't actually plug that stick directly into my monitor anyways :v:
[editline]27th August 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=Brt5470;50956309]Speaking of which, whats the status on Teamviewer?[/QUOTE]
If you're talking about that "security breach", it was never really a problem in the first place. People who supposedly got hacked simply reuses the same passwords that were stolen elsewhere, and also did not enable 2FA for TV.
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;50956335]
If you're talking about that "security breach", it was never really a problem in the first place. [B]People who supposedly got hacked simply reuses the same passwords that were stolen elsewhere, and also did not enable 2FA for TV.[/B][/QUOTE]
That's what TV said in their statement I remember. But I do recall discussions that the 'hack' bypassed the login system. Supposedly 2FA made no difference. I wasn't sure one way or the other, but I wasn't going to risk it compromising my work machine which is why I took it off first.
[QUOTE=Brt5470;50956353]That's what TV said in their statement I remember.
But I do recall discussions that the 'hack' bypassed the login system. [B]Supposedly 2FA made no difference.[/B][/QUOTE]
From what I remembered, all reports of hacked accounts did not have 2FA, except for ~2 unconfirmed cases. Logmein and other similar services were also being attacked at the time, except the Teamviewer drama caused a mass hysteria that buried stories of other "breaches" into oblivion.
Long story short, it's nothing to be paranoid about if you use some common sense with internet security.
OK going to NYC, what do?
Don't ever use the same password, use 2FA and you'll be fine.
[QUOTE=garychencool;50956380]OK going to NYC, what do?[/QUOTE]
check out the eiffel tower
[QUOTE=garychencool;50956380]OK going to NYC, what do?[/QUOTE]
I heard the pizzarias are fantastic.
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;50956389]check out the eiffel tower[/QUOTE]
Google Maps told me to swim across the Atlantic so I don't know if I can manage that much swimming
[QUOTE=garychencool;50956405]Google Maps told me to swim across the Atlantic so I don't know if I can manage that much swimming[/QUOTE]
[url]http://untappedcities.com/2014/03/06/daily-what-theres-an-eiffel-tower-in-nyc/[/url]
[QUOTE=garychencool;50956380]OK going to NYC, what do?[/QUOTE]
come to Rochester instead
we have garbage plates
[QUOTE=Lyokanthrope;50956411]come to Rochester instead
we have garbage plates[/QUOTE]
Or go to Syracuse and get some Hoffman's hotdogs/go to Heids.
Also, go to THE GREAT NEW YORK STATE FAIR. Everyone should go to that at least once. It's the largest fair in the US.
[QUOTE=wingless;50955927]It's worth investigating. Check ebay, you can pick up certain models for cheap. X230's and T430's go for basically nothing on ebay if you keep your eye open. As in, sub $300USD, sometimes less. I love my X230, got a 9 cell battery in it, 16GB DDR3L, i5-3320m, 240GB SSD (but it had a 180GB Intel 520 in it before) in it, cost me next to nothing, even came with an Ultrabase. If I throw on one of the 6 cell slice batteries onto the bottom I can [B]easily[/B] pull 20 hours or so battery life. The only complaint I really have about the thing is the resolution is 1366x768, but it's not [B]too[/B] bad at 12.5" and I still have the IPS display so it at least looks decent (The TN is much less so, so go for IPS if you can). If you're really desperate there is a hack you can do that involves replacing the display with an eDP display, but you lose the displayport on the laptop itself (But ones on a port replicator or ultrabase will work fine) and requires fine soldering
Personally I think the X230 was the last good X series as all the new ones move to stuff like soldered RAM, or single DIMMs, ULV CPUs, removing the thinklight (More useful than you'd think!), non-replacable batteries. Generally going from thin, light, powerful and with brilliant battery life to generic ultrabooks that you can get from any vendor.[/QUOTE]
Is it possible to swap the keyboard from a T420 into a T430?
Chicklet laptop keyboards get me raging even by merely touching it once.
I would've chosen a T420 if it wasn't for no USB 3.0 ...
[QUOTE=Van-man;50956569]Is it possible to swap the keyboard from a T420 into a T430?
Chicklet laptop keyboards get me raging even by merely touching it once.
I would've chosen a T420 if it wasn't for no USB 3.0 ...[/QUOTE]
Yes you can.
Google "Thinkpad t430 classic keyboard mod"
[QUOTE=DuCT;50956606]Yes you can.
Google "Thinkpad t430 classic keyboard mod"[/QUOTE]
Thanks babe, Now I gotta find a decent T430 and one of the better suited T420 keyboards.
[QUOTE=garychencool;50956380]OK going to NYC, what do?[/QUOTE]
Go to the Seinfeld Diner…
Got some content. It's a short one, but one of my teachers thinks current processors have transistor counts in the trillions because the book he has has a single letter typo in the gulftown CPU section under transistor count that says 1.17T instead of 1.17B.
[QUOTE=Lyokanthrope;50956411]come to Rochester instead
we have garbage plates[/QUOTE]
Too bad it is one of those bus tours, also I have others that I know there so I could hit that place up at some point.
welp, after waiting for a month and updating my listing, someone has finally looking forward to buy the damn ps3
Just got an Oculus Rift from my uncle, who wasn't using it - tried to set it up on my ancient hardware to play maybe some Half-Life 2 or whatever I might be able to run on my 6950. Turns out it needs a slightly newer driver than what I can get. I suppose it makes sense (after all it's well below the recommended requirements), but weren't the DKs basically agnostic about your hardware? Seems kinda arbitrary unless I'm missing something. Was pretty excited to at least try it out.
Either way, I'm gonna pass it on to my cousins - they have better hardware, so maybe I'll at least get to put it on there. Probably not gonna watch any porn on it though, that'd get awkward pretty fast.
[QUOTE=Lyokanthrope;50956411]come to Rochester instead
we have garbage plates[/QUOTE]
So I'm in Rochester right now. Turns out the bus went that direction.
Too bad I'm stuck at a stereotypical Asian buffet for lunch.
Intel's mistake was trying to push the Atom into mobile phones.
Intel doesn't have a fucking clue what power gating means. You can't have chips like that, in phones.
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;50957582]Atom had a very similar performance to Core M [/QUOTE]
Since when?
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