[QUOTE=pentium;50439375]Unless you want CGA for composite out no such device existed. By the time of VGA most people just bought composite adapters.[/QUOTE]
Right, but those are TV-output over the VGA d-sub. So would an 8-VGA GPU like a Matrox or similar support TV-out over VGA? My alternative is spending $35 per output for a VGA -> Composite adapter plus possibly $10 more per TV for all the ones that require an RF modulator.
websites don't really want me to use ad blocker, so i had to use counter anti-adblock measures
[url]http://gph.is/1t36kKd[/url]
screw it can't embed giphy
[QUOTE=EddieLTU;50441855]websites don't really want me to use ad blocker, so i had to use counter anti-adblock measures
[url]http://gph.is/1t36kKd[/url]
screw it can't embed giphy[/QUOTE]
That's exactly why I only browse SH :v:
[QUOTE=EddieLTU;50441855]websites don't really want me to use ad blocker, so i had to use counter anti-adblock measures
[url]http://gph.is/1t36kKd[/url]
screw it can't embed giphy[/QUOTE]
uBlock Origin has some anti-anti-adblock lists, they've worked really well for me.
I usually just immediately leave the website when it deploys such measures, unless there's something really important there.
So are we sipwikketers going to keep in Hardware and Software, or shall we birth our own sub-forum?
[QUOTE=aurum481;50442010]That's exactly why I only browse SH :v:[/QUOTE]
SH is SHit because most of the comments on threads are 50 line manifestos and trash talking
[QUOTE=Trekintosh;50441249]Right, but those are TV-output over the VGA d-sub. So would an 8-VGA GPU like a Matrox or similar support TV-out over VGA? My alternative is spending $35 per output for a VGA -> Composite adapter plus possibly $10 more per TV for all the ones that require an RF modulator.[/QUOTE]
That I'm aware of there's nothing. Multi-head video systems only became cheap enough around Windows 98 with multi-monitor support was enabled but by then the minimum you were using for a video display was VGA only. If you had a "Multimedia machine the best you were gonna get was RF in and perhaps one composite out. DFP was two more years away and DVI was still a long way off.
Has anybody here taken the Comptia 901 and 902 exams? I have a single shot to take them for free, have no idea what the difficulty could be.
[QUOTE=Levelog;50443253]Those are the new A+ exams, right? I can't imaging it'd be too hard as long as you have a working knowledge of hardware, basic popular software, and by-the-book troubleshooting. Windows knowledge is a must and at least know what OSX and Linux look like/super basic menus of them.[/QUOTE]
Alright, might as well take it today then.
Those are the new A+ exams, right? I can't imaging it'd be too hard as long as you have a working knowledge of hardware, basic popular software, and by-the-book troubleshooting. Windows knowledge is a must and at least know what OSX and Linux look like/super basic menus of them.
[QUOTE=papkee;50439819]I'm about to kill someone.
My modem at this apartment shows perfect upstream and downstream signal. It shows that it's ranged and online. But it's not. I can't access or ping anything. I'm currently directly connected to the modem and it gave me an IP, DNS servers, and everything else. But nothing's getting through. I can't ping anything.
The best part is I can't get support from Comcast either because I'm not the owner of the account, the rental company is. And they're out of the office for the day. Fuck me.
[editline]1st June 2016[/editline]
This is like one of those "you have internet because I say you do" type things, except it's the modem telling me that instead of some Indian guy.[/QUOTE]
I'm weighing my options for moving out and one of my worries is not having direct Coax lines for my own modem and having to deal with the management's non-IT IT covering it.
[QUOTE=Brt5470;50443281]I'm weighing my options for moving out and one of my worries is not having direct Coax lines for my own modem and having to deal with the management's non-IT IT covering it.[/QUOTE]
This is honestly the scariest part of renting to me
Wtf, can you guys not rent an apartment and get your own internet?!
Some apartment complexes provide service. Many however just have existing infrastructure to hook up as usual. Some that provide it themselves ALSO have infrastructure to hook up an outside provider too, they just don't always bring it to your attention. I'd never rent an apartment that only self provided though, I want a handoff in whatever interface you'd like that connects directly to an ISP's equipment and can give me a public IP. I'll handle the rest from there.
[editline]2nd June 2016[/editline]
And no, I'm not going to put your shitty modem/router combo in a pseudo layer 2 bridge mode. Because it's not a real layer 2 bridge.
[QUOTE=SEKCobra;50443553]Wtf, can you guys not rent an apartment and get your own internet?![/QUOTE]
You mean buy a place?
Some apartments have Coax in the room allowing you to setup your own stuff, sometimes it's provided via only Wifi or Ethernet jacks.
Which if not setup right is just a big security show
Thankfully my apartment has its own hookups and every room has its own coax connection which gives you a lot of flexibility. There's inbuilt ethernet ports too so you can jack your router into the wall next to the coax which connects to all of the other ethernet ports.
Unfortunately their positioning sucks so I'm still stuck using wifi, but I mean all of my computers support 5GHz and the router's like 20 feet away in direct LOS so I can't even tell anyway.
Wow what a shitshow. Here everyone has their own internet unless it's some special shelter or some shit.
[QUOTE=SEKCobra;50443662]Wow what a shitshow. Here everyone has their own internet unless it's some special shelter or some shit.[/QUOTE]
That's USUALLY the case here. But sometimes apartments and places are simply listed as "HighSpeed Wireless Internet available" And no mention of anything else.
Well, my dedicated server's iLO started pissing out these error messages and it won't power up:
[QUOTE]Server Blade Enclosure Inadequate Power To Power On: Not Enough Power[/QUOTE]
Fucking datacenters, am I right?
(I hope my fucking data is safe, but I had a gut feeling that something was going to go wrong and I started backing up yesterday anyway.)
Hmm. I wonder why our PoE unifi wasn't working right on this run.
[T]http://i.imgur.com/prAggrq.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;50445000]Make whoever did that come back out and fix it.[/QUOTE]
Someone the old owners hired most likely.
[editline]2nd June 2016[/editline]
Already ran an new line. It was right at the edge of 300ft up on a hot ass roof.
I don't typically deal with networking stuff (if that's even what it is) - what am I looking at in that photo? I assume those things freehanging off the wire is bad?
IT TURNS OUT THAT HDMI -> DISPLAYPORT ADAPTERS DONT WORK BUT THEY STILL SELL THEM ANYWAY
thats all
So OC Communications tech came out on behalf of comcast, and this guy has experience. We were talking and he used to do all the pole work in bucket trucks and running lines to homes. He was from California but all the contractors are forced to do 30day shifts in Florida by comcast. He said Florida basically is in a zone where it's not old enough to have had renovated infrastructure already, and too new to have new infrastructure put in. So florida mainly is just a bunch of run down lines and old equipment.
Anyways, a year ago, alittle after they put in that return amp, some crew randomly came out and ran a RG11 cable under our lawn to the other side of the house. So after 30-40minutes of being in the attic looking to redo a drop, I remembered this and told him and that ended up being a great solution.
Basically over the last few hours, I worked with him to run that cable directly into my room to feed the modem as a dedicated High Quality line out to the tap. So the modem is on it's own tap line and the TV's and such are on the old connection.
Because all the connections and cable from the modem to the tap are brand new comcast installed, I'm getting nearly perfect stats across the board with no amp. Took about 4-5 hours total, and I even took over drilling into the wall, but we got it.
I'll be checking my connection over the next few days and let em know. I got the number of the tech because he was interested to see if the problem was gone. Hope so.
Comcast support really is so much better than 5 years ago. Especially on twitter. I did my best to tell their support how good the technician was. Least I could do.
[QUOTE=ifaux;50445477]IT TURNS OUT THAT HDMI -> DISPLAYPORT ADAPTERS DONT WORK BUT THEY STILL SELL THEM ANYWAY
thats all[/QUOTE]
Is this active vs passive adapters?
[editline]2nd June 2016[/editline]
Can a passive adapter like that even work? HDMI is 19 pins, DP is 20
[QUOTE=TrafficMan;50445524]Is this active vs passive adapters?
[editline]2nd June 2016[/editline]
Can a passive adapter like that even work? HDMI is 19 pins, DP is 20[/QUOTE]
HDMI/DP conversion has to be active. They're neither eletrically or mechanically compatible
All the air conditioners at work are broken and we're at the top half of of 90 degrees today.
[QUOTE=Brt5470;50443281]I'm weighing my options for moving out and one of my worries is not having direct Coax lines for my own modem and having to deal with the management's non-IT IT covering it.[/QUOTE]
I've got direct coax right to my desk but I can't get a new modem because I'll have to activate it. That requires the account information which I obviously don't have.
I rent an apartment and I have two cable outlets in my living room, along with two phone jacks, one cable out let and phone jack in my room and one cable outlet in my brothers room.
[editline]2nd June 2016[/editline]
I've honestly never heard of anyone having to get their internet through the landlord, and I used to get my internet through a package deal with my complex.
[QUOTE=Del91;50445763]I rent n apartment and I have two cable outlets in my living room, along with two phone jacks, one cable out let and phone jack in my room and one cable outlet in my brothers room.[/QUOTE]
That doesn't mean anything for getting internet through them. Many apartment complexes serve in house cable via QAM modules to the rooms and it's not a single apartment connection that you can put internet through.
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