/sqt/ Stupid Questions Thread

I just installed Manjaro, and I'm getting started programming. Is there a NotePad equivalent? I was building some extremely rudimentary stuff following a Pong game but LibreOffice Writer, even saving as an .html file, just shits out my script into the browser instead of actually running the game as it was working on my Windows running desktop.

Is there a notepad-esque thing I can pacman, is it buried somewhere in KDE already, or do I have to get an IDE program? If so, what would be the best general purpose one or am I going to have to install something different for every language I learn?

How do I make a single core virtual Ubuntu run multiple threads concurrently instead of sequentially.
I tried giving it a second core but it would only run up to 2 threads at the same time.

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>coding in LibreOffice Writer
what the fuck

There should be a default text editor installed. kate or kwrite probably
You should use emacs though.
Just google "linux text editors" and you'll get a ton of choices

vim, emacs, vscode, xed, notepadqq and many others

On KDE you should have kate or if you want something more like an IDE kdevelop which is kate on steroids.

I found Kate just after posting that, but I searched in the directory and google for words like word, note, etc.

Thanks though, I'll look into emacs

I've been trying to live stream a video playlist to an rtmp server via ffmpeg. It all streams just fine, but when playing back the stream it plays the most recently encoded part of the video. So multiple users starting the stream at different times will be at different timestamps. How can I set this up so it plays to a more consistent time for all viewers?

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after looking more online I learned that low-profile drives like this are susceptible to extreme overheating. I'm planning on using this drive for a LiveUSB Linux portable OS. I'd be willing to sacrifice the low-profile size, but I'm still looking for a reliable 3.0 flash drive that I can use to boot a Linux distro, that wont overheat and wont crap out after a few months. Any suggestions?

Any help is greatly appreciated

Kate is the standby graphical editor in KDE though the harcdcore go with emacs/vim (don't ask which is better).

Geany is pretty good but the Shareware competitor to it is Sublime which is super popular precisely because it is so good and has plugins for everything.

I develop on KDE and I use Sublime for everything and then switch over to a second window with keyboard hotkeys and compile in a terminal.

How do I know if I’m retarded?

I would just look for a reliable brand and fast(er) speeds. Something like: amazon.com/Patriot-128GB-Supersonic-Flash-PEF128GSR2USB/dp/B00SNLGXE0

IQ test.

Is Patriot a reliable brand for flash drives? I've never heard of them.

I use my phone a lot at home but it frequently gets as hot as 30°C. I damaged my previous phone battery when the phone become 35°C hot for just a few minutes.

To cool down the phone I stop using it for a few minutes and place it on a table surface or something with the screen off. But is there a better method to cool down a overhot smartphone or laptop without placing it in a fridge or placing it outside for a short time?

I once placed it on top of a large sheet of aluminum casing from my old computer and it cooled down real fast. What's the best metal surface for chilling hot objects placed on it?

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Patriot puts out solid products in general from what I've seen. They make RAM and SSDs as well.

>Just bought a tablet off of eBay for about £400
>paid with PayPal
>Get an SMS from PayPal asking me to confirm, confirm it
>Payment denied, wrong phone number or some shit

>check ebay orders, says paid
>nothing drawn from bank balance
wtf is going on here

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>I damaged my previous phone battery when the phone become 35°C hot
Huh? Your phone gets damage from being in your pocket? 35 degrees, what the fuck?

It's probably about to get reversed by paypal or something. Better message the seller and ask them to wait a day or two until you sort out paypal's bullshit.

is pic-related a good PMP for the price (£18~)

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>aluminum
Best conductor (of heat, not actually best but pretty good).

Copper works well too, which is why heat sinks are made of it. What you want to do is buy a cheap case/back for your phone, use thermal paste to attach an old CPU heat sink to it and when your phone gets hot, swap the back/case to the heat-sink version and leave it upside down for a few minutes.

Nah I was using the smartphone in bed under the quilt. So it rose to 35°C because the heat was trapped.

linux noob here
how do i install a theme in arch linux w/ gnome (should i change my de? lol)
all i did was do pacman -S numix-gtk-theme to try to test it out, and i'm not sure what to do next

Interesting solution. I might do that. I bought some thermal paste recently.

Celeron N3060 & 256 Gt M.2 SSD
or
N4200 (passively cooled) & 128 Gt EMMC?

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Even without a spare back/case or paste, you could do worse than just stick a heatsick on the battery or the hottest part of the case. Wire the heat-sink fan into USB or find some old molex cables that you can run into a PC to power it, it should work well enough just like that. I bet there are vids on youtube about it.

Cheers.

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Don't know about Clip Jam specifically, but if it's anything like Clip Sport then I wouldn't recommend it unless you can't afford anything more expensive or only care for the additional space via microSDHC card.

In my previous house, I was downloading movies and games from torrent sites without a care in the world.
I'm in a new house now though with a new internet provider.
Before I start downloading shit should I buy a VPN or should I not worry about this shit at all?

I've been getting these "Critical security alert" messages from Google saying this

>Sign-in attempt was blocked
>[email protected]
>Someone just used your password to try to sign in to your account. Google blocked them, but you should check what happened.

but they're sending it to my Microsoft email account so how would they be using my password to logon to Google? Which password should I worry about being compromised here?

edit: Oh, I tried "reset your password" for this hotmail account on Google and it let me do so? I honestly don't know why this account exists though... But whatever.

Whats the best way to prevent files from degrading?
My current hard drives are old and files like mp3 are starting to degrade.

That should work.

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Put them on another drive.

If you're seeing major file corruption like that in many files then the drive is on death's door and probably shouldn't be used anymore.

Any SharePoint 2013 people about?

I'm trying to get a solution to work, but get the below error when using it. I'd just like to know if this error is an OOTB SP error, or if it's coming from the app itself:

"A problem was encountered deserializing a stored configuration value. This could indicate that you have an old version of configuration data stored by the configuration manager. "

most of my hard drives are backed up, but all my hard drives are old as fuck and some of them have dead sectors.
im paranoid af since they have been slowing down and sometimes not even reading at all.

Yeah, you can always do a surface scan or something but I think if the amount of bad sectors is obviously accelerating in a way that you're seeing rampant corruption in files that were previously okay then you should probably just consider the drive done and use something else

Depends on your country and ISP. Try to research and see if they regularly take people to court. Here in Canada, Bell will send out cease and desist notices but will never actually take you to court.

Sure, but don't get the rubberized waterproof one. It's prone to having the casing come off. It's only bound by a bit of adhesive, and I had mine snap off.

I was presented with the option of taking either a Cisco networking class or Java Programming for a course equivalency at my local college. I have networking knowledge already, but at the same time, I'm not sure how useful Java will be for me. I'll be working in Information Security. I'm not an aspiring programmer.

Would Java Programming be something I'd benefit from learning? I've taken an Intro to Programming class, and I had no trouble with it. I can probably learn it just fine, but I don't know how much utility it would serve. I'm learning SQL now, but I don't believe they're that similar. Anyway, is Java worth shit, or should I pass on it?

Can anything be 'salvaged' from an xbox 360? I've already taken out the hard drive but just wanted to ask about other things before I throw it out

>but they're sending it to my Microsoft email account so how would they be using my password to logon to Google? Which password should I worry about being compromised here?

Sounds like spam/scam/phishing but it's possible that you set that live.com account as your gmail recovery email address. More likely the former though.

>Cisco networking
There's good money in Cisco certified jobs, couldn't hurt for someone doing infosec as a career.

what youre looking for is 'asynchronous'. There should be some docs on that on w/e language youre in.

Hard drives are usually all I keep. You may be able to rip out the DVD drive but most of my computers don't even have DVD drives because you can do mostly everything with USB sticks now.

what's the best way to archive my shit? i have got lots of 15 year old CDs that I have to take care of.

nvm, forgot the -re flag at the beginning.

Are there any alternatives to skype? It's microsoft so it's shit I guess but I don't even really know

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thanks user

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what's the difference between while and for? why someone prefer while over for. generally? I was looking at a bash script and whatever I would have done with for the author did with while (does this even make sense?)

>Are there any alternatives to skype? It's microsoft so it's shit I guess but I don't even really know
Google Talk works surprisingly well, even over vpn.

You probably want Slack though.

>what's the difference between while and for?
They can of course be used to perform the exact same thing, but while checks if a condition is true each loop - for initializes a loop counter at the start, checks to see if the counter has reached some value before each loop, and then normally adds 1 to the loop count right before continuing on with executing the code in the loop.

while is often used when you don't know how many times you'll be looping. For example if you want to loop until the user enters a specific value. For is used when you know how many times you'll be looping, for example until you reach the last value in an array.

What wrote. Additionally, when we're talking about bash scripts, for loops have a few pitfalls that can be avoided with while loops. E.g. if you want to echo the numbers 1 to 10, you'd normally use:
for i in {1..10}; do echo $i; done
But if you want to echo 1 to a number specified by a variable, the following would not work:
read number
for i in {1..$number}; do echo $i; done
Instead you'd have to use
read number
for (( i = 1; i

Brainlet here, I know very little programming, html css vba , some php java..

I have an MS Access database with forms and shit. I want to open that up or reproduce it so that I can read and write database records via a webpage, being able to style it as I want. This webpage doesn't have to be on the internet, but to be used locally by 5 computers connected through a network.

What do you recommend? A step by step guide would be simply amazing

I Google it but there are millions of routes and I'm pretty lost. Some are really outdated or without much resources. I'm trying to set this up through ms sql but I'm also new at this and not understanding how the thing works. I think I'm wasting my time with some attempts and installing shit I don't need. There must be a more intuitive way, no?

Thanks

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do you have multple passwords for each thing? do you have three or less passwords with varying degrees of safety so that you can remember them all? do you write your passwords on paper? is it something easy to remember with added numbers and caps, or do you generate them randomly?

what is best practice when it comes to this in your opinion?

I know I can connect 3 pin system fan into 4 pin header, but can I connect 4 pin fan into 3 header?

I have a unique password for every login. I don't know the password, it gets autofilled from my password safe.
The safe file has a long password and is synced to my server where I can access it from anywhere.

This way I only need to remember one password.
And if a page leaks their passwords only that specific one is compromised.

It takes a while to get used to and set everything up, but once all pages have their own password there's not much to do.

Most of my accounts have a unique password. I usually choose a password that, in combination with my username, results in a sentence, which I can easily remember. Additionally I try to substitute words with numbers whenever possible and add special characters at the end. Also my username is usually written in English, while my password isn't.

Don't have to answer this, just wanted to bitch
>A program that has a bunch of different versions available for all sorts of OSs
>Installing the Windows version
>Watching it install
>It's unpacking thousands of tiny little files for its libraries
>Starts rivaling the extent of my Jow Forums picture folders
Why do they do this? NTFS is fucking garbage at keeping track of all of these little shits, why don't they at least pack them into uncompressed container files that the program can read?

And allocation size is going to mean it eats up significantly more disk space than it needs.
It would be worse on linux, inodes are a budget feature if you're on an AWS volume or something.

Because it's not a priority.
People rather spent time fixing bugs/adding features than spending time to speed up install a few seconds on a single OS.

>install speed
That's not the issue, I probably wouldn't have noticed if not for the install peeking out from under my shitposting browser. It's extra filesystem clutter being used for files the user may never want to interact with directly.

Does anyone have the pastebin link to installing Windows 7 or Windows 10? I need to help someone with their computer, but I do not have access to the link to get the stuff I need.

what can i do with my laptops old psu? probably has some lose contact. safe to repair it by myself and use it again or should i just throw it away (already got a repalcement).

Press alt+f4 to open the iq test

>do you have multple passwords for each thing?
Yes, and everyone should too

>do you have three or less passwords with varying degrees of safety so that you can remember them all?
Check the video, it shows how you can increase safety of a password to the point where it's basically uncrackable (currently) and you can remember it fairly easy.

TL;DW four uncommon and unrelated words in sequence with a symbol in between a word

>do you write your passwords on paper?
My mom does

>is it something easy to remember with added numbers and caps, or do you generate them randomly? what is best practice when it comes to this in your opinion?
If you are serious about your safety use a password manager that encrypts and stores your password locally, and also they can generate random passwords and you are safe also from leakings. In the video it talks also about this.

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Forgot the video ffs
youtube.com/watch?v=3NjQ9b3pgIg

does updating the Intel ME engine slows down your computer?

or is it a bios update/system update that fucks it up?

Can you recommend me a disassembly tool for OS X? I just want to change battery status kext, since this is annoying.
And yes, I don't give a fuck about Appel EULA as they give a fuck about me.

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How the fuck do I take screenshots of huge pages using firefox?
The screenshot tool fucking breaks when I do it and any addons I've tried break too.

I've been using a t9 for the past 12 years, and now my IT job is requiring me to get a 3g/4g smartphone.

I know absolutely nothing about smartphones, but I absolutely hate touch controls and tiny screens. What would be a good cheap phone that would allow me to dock with a computer so I can at least use it like a crappy portable laptop? Are good phone docks even a thing?

What's the most powerful gpu I can buy without causing my i7 4770 (non k) to bottleneck?

[spoiler]Wish I had bought the unlocked 47xx back in 2015[/spoiler]

If you can use chrome just to take the screenshot I recommend Full Page Screen Capture extension, it works amazingly well, fast as fuck and perfect quality screenshot

Thanks brothers, nice video

Kek, I don't need a disassembler, they have a source code for that. No wonder all macs have a puffed battery.

what's a fun thing to do with a 700mhz PowerPC box?

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Well it actually seems like there was a legitimate google account under the live name. (No gmail or anything, just a google account) The security advisor thing did show some nigga trying to logon to it from Long Beach. So I guess one of the following things happened

1) I made the account myself years ago (I have no idea why I would have), using one of my old stock passwords that might have gotten compromised in some other website hack long before I started using password managers & unique random passwords for everything

2) Some scammer made the account under my email for... reasons, I don't have a clue. Is there anything they could gain from this? But in any rate they can't access it now since I've changed the password and any password reset attempts will just go to my email...

>edit:
dude the narwhal bacon is at midnight xDD

use a filesystem with checksumming and duplication support, like btrfs
checksumming for error detection, and duplication for error correction

I'm after a new router becauase my one is crapping out. How is the ASUS RT-AC68U?

Is there any downside to using a power supply that is clearly on the fritz and makes sparks and loud noises at random? The system does still seem to boot with it at least but I'm worried it might not be good long-term

>sparks and loud noises at random
>Is there any downside
depends if you count 'fire risk' as a downside

what loonix do i run that looks like windows 95 or xp

My package manager breaks when I start up my DE, anyone else with similar issues?

I primarily game and want to get a legit a OS. Should I go for Windows 10 or a Linux based OS?

Is there any use at all for a first generation IPAD? A family member gave me one but it's obvious Apple just wants to make them obsolete. Anything neat I can do with it other than use it as an oversized door stop?

only consider linux if you know the games you want to play can be run on it. helps if you're already familiar with linux.
otherwise just >buy windows

can it even stop a door?
maybe a paperweight is a better use, assuming you still use paper

Anyone know why when I boot into ubuntu it duplicates itself on my boot.EFI and eventually if I let it continue long enough my whole system will freeze up before the UEFI splash screen thingy (so I can't even enter my UEFI settings or w/e to fix it) and become completely unbootable?

It can be prevented by using efibootmgr to remove the extra entries before they get too numerous but still a bit puzzlesome.

I'm trying to install this game from mounted ISO and this happens, the setup won't even open. It says Setup.tmp is not responding, what could cause this? Some sort of compatibility/driver issue? The way it's mounted? This doesn't seem to happen to other people as they've been able to install it.

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I have an MP3 player (Fiio X3ii) with a class 10 card (I think it's adata) and I need to transfer all my music over to my laptop.
What's the fastest way: USB cable (probably USB 2.0) or SD card slot?

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I figured it out friends
The SD card slot is about 4x faster than the USB cable (5MB/s vs 20MB/s)

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Mb/s little b is for bits