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I go on a vacation on another country every year, and I have a internet connection there that I still pay monthly. I live in Japan and torrenting media is starting to be risky and I would like to add something like a seedbox/vpn box that i can access while in Japan, is it possible to do this?

I just reinstalled win7 on this computer and am running into an issue where I have a particular dll (libgcc_s_sjlj-1.dll), but my computer say's it's missing. I was kinda being lazy and just entered all of my old windows files to this computer instead of properly reinstalling some shit.

Anyone know how I can get this to work again?
>Pic related.

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Buy a $5 vps from leaseweb with 5tb of bandwidth per month. Throw a torrent client with a webui and have fun.

Make sure that folder is in your $PATH.

Just started using Ubuntu for the first time today (never used linux before) and needed a music player. Downloaded Amarok and now trying to figure out how to display it as minimal as possible. Something like Musicbee, where if you organize through albums, it'll only show album covers.

Me in the middle

In what would a new router benefit me?
What improvements would i see from upgrading my shitty ISP with locked settings to a real router?
Can i bridge a router from a modem/Router combo using ethernet to WAN?
How important is router cooling outside durability?

Yeah, are they too poor to not get more than one apple rather than sharing? Also blue-hair's tits are showing, she should cover up more

Are there any tools related to Steganography based in Linux and easily available to download?

I kinda remember doing this before. I think I add it on to one of these existing user variables instead of creating a new one. Do you know which one?

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what translator extension for firefox?

Wait, nevermind. I'm dumb. I figured it out; thank you.

>In what would a new router benefit me?
what do you need? why get a new router at all?
>What improvements would i see from upgrading my shitty ISP with locked settings to a real router?
good routers can do proper package QoS if you require it
>Can i bridge a router from a modem/Router combo using ethernet to WAN?
yes you can use a proper router as a bridge between your shitty ISP router and your network
>How important is router cooling outside durability?
its not, its a meme.

How does one mount or work on a ext4 partition in windows?

Because every time i reset it for whatever reason it takes between 2 to 20 minutes for it to connect to internet again.
ISP told me to deal with it, so well, im doing it.

So far planning to buy an Linksys WRT AC1200 even if im not going to use it at its full speed it looks like a reliable router.
I notice it has 2 USB slots, could i connect a HDD/USB to it and use it to share files between all devices connected to the network?

How to avoid getting rusty? My job is technically "software engineer", but I feel stuck doing mundane things that have very little to do with programming. Either that or it's something interesting that isn't moving at all due to 100 dragging feet. Meanwhile interns and newer hires get put on the fun stuff. Not whining, I just worry that one day I'm not gonna know shit and people will wonder how I worked at (X) for a decade.

BTW just to be clear I am very satisfied with my employer, position and supervisors. To reiterate, I am NOT feeling negative about anything at (place).

You won't get rusty, you just won't learn all the new stuff that comes out and you'll be the old guy in the office that gets more respect and pay than everyone else but doesn't understand how to work the label printer.

Any recommendations for a UPS?

APC has never let me down professionaly or at home.

Seconded.

how to make iced coffee?

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1. make coffee
2. make ice
3. combine them

Any way I can listen to my PS3 from my SPDIF output on my computer?
Basically, I need a SPDIF Optical IN on my Windows desktop

How is everyone bulk downloading images from here now? Tried to use wget and all I'm getting is the thumbnails.

Make coffee, put it on those ice cuber plastic things, done.
Or grab coffee and put ice on it.

Refrigerate left over coffee and drink it later.

Is cock.li kill?

what's the difference between a socket and a unit in systemd?

I use Jdownloader 2.

I want to setup a VPN so I can shitpost on my phone. How can I do this?

Can I VPN to a raspberry pi in my house and shitpost that way?

Is there any command line option for Steam to tell it to launch the most recently played game again?

Think this would be useful to have as a shortcut

thumbnail picture names end in s. Images and webms are served from is2.Jow Forums.org/thread/image.format.

This is the wget script I use that keeps getting thumbnails.
wget -P mine -nd -r -l 1 -H -D i.4cdn.org -A png,gif,jpg,jpeg,webm 4chanurl.
So I need to change the i.4cdn.org the is2 line?

How is this created, and how do I make my own?

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Is there a program that will let me monitor what changes are occurring while an installation is happening? For Windows.

My monitor came with this cable. What purpose does it serve?

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does it have a USB hub? probably for that

That did it. Thanks a bunch user!

usb a 3 to usb b 3

recently my external monitor stopped working (I think it was after I ran pacman -Syu)

when I run arandr, the monitor is recognized but when applying the orientation/activating it, it gives me this error.

whilst not having a clue about what i was doing I went through trying to reset xorg configs, rollback stuff, but nothing has worked.

I ended up fucking my xinit or startx stuff pretty bad too.

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I've been struggling, quite literally, with this all day.
I have a shitty Flatron L1751S monitor that yesterday started showing horizontal flickering lines, and it freaked me the fuck out when it started making noises as the lines got worse last night.
I changed the VGA cable, first with a generic American Net VGA cable I bought on a rush but that failed so I bought a harder cable from a friend that according to him came with a monitor he bought long ago, and now the lines are gone but the keyboard and mouse went to shit and I have to fucking stomp on the keys to write and the mouse dies constantly.
What the fuck is happening?

Just as a show of how shit the keyboard is, I wrote this question again normaly without pushing hard under.

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>Wathfse?

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Have you tried restarting? randr went full retard on me a couple months ago for no apparent reason and restarting unfucked it.

I almost forgot. My video card is an NVIDIA GeForce GT 730.

I don't know how to restart randr all my shit is fucked because i tried getting things back to default. how do I restart it?

I meant restarting the whole machine. Turn it off and turn it on again.

Are there any intermediate books for machine learning? I got down the basics of python but the specialized books are way too complicated for my puny brain to understand.

I've done that about 100 times since it stopped working.

Yes, change i.4cdn.org to is2.Jow Forums.org. You might want to use a script to avoid getting thumbnails. Here's what I use.
curl4chan()
{
clear

thread=$(printf "$1" | awk -F'/' '{print $4}')
let count=0

for i in $(curl -sSL $1 | egrep -io 'is2\.Jow Forums\.org/'$thread'/[[:digit:]]+\.(webm|gif|jpg|jpeg|png)')
do
[[ -f ${i##*/} ]] &&
continue
let "count++"
printf "[*] Found a new file: #$count\n"
curlthis $i
clear
done

if [[ $count = 0 ]]; then
die No new files.
return 1
fi

echo Update: $count new files fetched.
}

Just found some old speakers in storage, they obviously need a clean. But what do I plug them into to get them to work with my laptop or phone though so I can test them out, thanks anons.

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Recently started getting this on my spotify acc. It's like the desktop app just wipes the whole page clean for some reason, also when i listen to a playlist it doesn't appear there anymore either

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My PC freezes after about 30 seconds after signing in. It started about a week ago, where restarting the PC a few times would fix it.
A user in a previous thread said I should format my hard drive and install a fresh windows. Is that the only solution I got? Would changing the boot drive to a new ssd fix the problem?

Adapters that swap it to a 3.5mm jack are cheap. The two standards are electrically compatible.

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You should probably hope that's the solution. Other possibilities could be your CPU, RAM, or PSU.

Your HDD sounds damaged.
Download Crystaldisk info.
Post a screenshot here.

>Would changing the boot drive to a new ssd fix the problem?
Yes.

Thank you

How would I move windows to the ssd if I can't even use my computer for 30 seconds? Do I have to buy a new key?
CPU, ram, and psu are all brand new. Only thing that isn't is my GPU and hdd

By using Linux or a bootable rescue tool.
Do you have time to check your PC right now?
You could start rescuing your archives right now if you want, based on how damaged is your HDD it could take minutes.

For now, download Linux Mint cinnamon and Rufus in another computer, this way you can use your computer from a USB instead a HDD.
No, you don't need to install Linux, all will be done from the USB.
Linux Mint is Linux for retards, great for those who have never used Linux before or not interested in using it more than once for something.

Have you turned off fast boot in the settings?

So download linux mint on a USB then use the usb as the boot drive?
From there I can put my windows 10 on a new ssd?
Never used fast boot so it's always been off

What kind of internet connection do you have their? Is it like a cell phone modem or do you have a vacation house/apartment there. Because if you have power and internet in your vacation place year around then you could build a cheap home server (just any decent computer really) and use it as a seedbox or vpn server.

Could clear you boot using msconfig, maybe it's a piece of software causing the issue.

You will have to reinstall Windows on the new SSD.
And transfer your files using Linux.
>Why when i can just plug both drives
Because how the whole Windows File ownership thing works.

Your current windows install died because your HDD got damaged, you cant exactly just copy and paste your current windows install that easy, if it was one that was working correctly then yeah, all you had to do is run Clonezilla from a USB but this is not your case.

Still before doing all that you should check what Linux reports about your HDD status, if its fine and windows is just damaged then all you have to do is reinstall, but if not then you will have to get another drive.

You might want a different music player, amarok is pretty old and I don't think it's developed anymore. If you want something KDE/QT then you could try clementine if you aren't using KDE then you could try deadbeef, rythmbox, and whatever else you can find. There are a ton of music players and I'm sure you can find one that does album oriented ui.

The short answer is you don't. The long answer is you might find some long-lost abandoned program that can maybe mount an ext4 partition as an ext3 partition. Your best hope might be WSL but I doubt it.

no

A unit file generally represents a running service like apache or samba while a socket listens on a port and starts the appropriate service when it gets a request. Sockets let you have a service "available" but not actually running by having systemd start it on demand when users make connections.

Yes. It's not too hard to setup an openvpn server and there are a bunch of guides online.

I remember doing this a long time ago using imagemagicks convert tool but I can't remember the exact command. You might find it if you search around with imagemagick as a keyword.

Why are you running arandr as root? Are you logged in as root? You shouldn't do that. Also you could try using arandr save as script feature then run the xrandr script it generates and try removing stuff from the script until it works right.

I think you have two unrelated problems dude. Unless you accidentally loosened your keyboard and mouse cables while fucking with your monitor cables. Worst case you have a broken motherboard, but you probably just have some dying peripherals.

spygeeks.com/product/porn-detection-stick/
What the fuck is this supposed to be?
How would such a device work?
Why does this exist?
What the fuck

Its a MD5 file checker, a scam.

>What the fuck is this supposed to be?
Snake oil to squeeze money out of anti-porn nutjobs.
>How would such a device work?
Probably just does a keyword search for things like "porn", "titties", and "linux source code" and deletes files things like that in their titles. Or it has a bunch of checksums of popular porn images and it compares your files to those checksums.
>Why does this exist?
Overprotective mommies and other anti-porn nutjobs have excessive amounts of cash that scammers really want to get their hands on.

I didn't explained it all that well because the keyboard was killing me.
When I use the cable that gives me the fucked up image, the keyboard and mouse work fine but when I use the cable that gives me good image then the keyboard and mouse are fucked up.

That just shouldn't happen. Are you using a wireless keyboard and mouse? Because the only way I could think of that happening is that your good cable isn't shielded well and is shitting out an extreme amount of em interference.

Beyerdynamic DT770 32ohm and P8Z77 v-pro mobo.
>put headphones in computer
>have crackling
>put headphones in ipod classic
>not only is the crackling gone but it sounds like angels are fingering my ears in comparison
I've had the DT770's for about a year now, before these I had ATH-A700x's, the Beyer's sounded like a downgrade since I got them but I thought it was just my preference for a neutral sound stage and the fact that they were new, so I just grew accustomed to them and thought I was just remembering the A700x's wrongly.

Is it possible for the components of the motherboard to degrade and have an impact on sound quality? I feel retarded for asking that, but it's that or I'm a literal retard that shouldn't have ears to begin with.

I think that might be what is happening.
Is there any solution or a way to know I'm buying a quality VGA cable?

>Are you using a wireless keyboard and mouse?
I'm not. Both are wired.

If you aren't using a wireless mouse or keyboard then you probably aren't getting em interference. Have you checked if your keyboard and mouse cables are loose? Are you sure your keyboard and mouse actually work right? Have you tried plugging your stuff into a different computer to see if your computer is the problem? You should try all of those things so you can figure out where the problem is coming from.

Yeah, I haven't tested the keyboard and mouse yet but I doubt it's their fault because they work just fine with the bad cable.

I'll try anyways with my old rickety laptop.

I just reset my PC and installed windows again. PC works fine so far. Thanks for the advice though everyone

Okay, my laptop (Asus Eee PC R101) doesn't recognize the keyboard but the mouse works fine. I don't have any more computers to test.
As I said, I think it's very likely that the AVG cable is doing something to the peripherals.

Is it a good idea to try to learn Android app development without knowing Java? I've seen books on Android app development marketed such that you don't need to have seen a single line of code before and you can still develop apps. This isn't for school or anything; I just want to try developing Android apps.

Did you try plugging the monitor into the laptop as well to see if the problem happens with the monitor and the new cable on a different computer? You should try that to see if it is actually a problem with the VGA cable or if it's a problem with your computer.

Is there a good place to torrent audiobooks and ebooks? I can never find alot on piratebay even if theyre popular

>audibooks
idunno, depends on the topic. like education or whatnot
>ebooks
libgen.io or irc bookz

I had already tested the old cable on my laptop and it worked fine, save for the horizontal lines.
The new cable is really fucking weird, though. First, the image on the laptop doesn't disappear when connected but remains and copies the resolution it takes on automatically when connected into the laptop; another thing is that it disables the laptop's mousepad. Also, the same image/signal appears on both screens.

Tried to reinstall the client?
My PC client is acting weird too sometimes deleting or forgetting all kinds of histories and settings while the site and mobile runs perfectly fine

Yes they can get damaged and impact the sound quality
Try getting a soundcard or dac or whatever

Well I guess you should get a different new cable then. It seems like your cable and monitor have gone totally insane.

I might just get a new monitor that doesn't need a VGA instead, that Amerigan Net cable burned me on trying.
Shit's baffling.

Testing the periphericals while connected to a tv through a HDMI cable as I write this. It works perfectly.
I really hoped it could be fixed but yeah, I think I'll just get a new monitor.

Pic related. If you can't find them there, you could always try buying e-books from Amazon, cracking the DRM, and returning them.

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Where can I buy a t60 shell ?

I have a wacom tablet that I had stored away for a while, and I want to start using it again. However, I can't find the original DVI cable that came with it. The socket for it is DVI-I, but will a DVI-D to miniDP cable work?

What are some recommended VPNs? I am interested solely for piracy and don’t want any Comcast letters. I am located in the US if that matters.

Do linux drivers for AMD GPUs still suck?

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