/sqt/ Stupid Question Thread

tell your desktop environment to handle power management, for xfce install xfce4-power-manager and manage through control panel

What's an easy way to make a window pop up that says "Never ever clean up the temporary files, that screws up autocad, you meathead!" appear whenever I open a spybot s&d window?

I am bringing an old computer back to life, but it's not booting into BIOS. I get fan spin but nothing else.

any ideas?

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I don't even have a DE I'm just using a window manager to keep it as lightweight as possible. is there like an Xorg config that would keep the display on?

cute drawing of me

have you cut out every face in every rustle doujin

Any UK university anons here? Was thinking of getting a laptop to take with me but not sure what. Should I be looking for 14" and under or is there enough room for more and laptop use will be just notes wont it so I could get away with arch?

if you're running xscreensaver (pic related) then run xscreensaver-demo and configure the power options, if not run something like:
xset s off -dpms
or read wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Display_Power_Management_Signaling
but if something else is responsible for the blanking this likely won't work

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Inspect the motherboard for defects, and maybe the power supply for pins reading the wrong voltage. It might also just be that it is booting, but the graphics output or processor is fried.

try either using igpu or a dedicated gpu
if no leds work on the motherboard and ^ doesn't work it's likely the mobo that's fucked
you can also try only using one stick of ram and trying it in different slots
also try to remove everything that isn't essential to booting to bios

Why are there still cmos batteries in current year?

>Terrarium TV is kill

What is a good alternative now?

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HW clock

volatile memory is useful for things like bios settings where incorrectly configuring something can lead to a soft lock, and real time clocks need constant power
it's not always an option to sync the clocks with the internet on boot

Can I setup programs to use specific audio outputs simultaneously? For example Music plaer on my speakers and VLC on TV speakers.
windowsfag btw

What's the difference between manipulation and friendliness?
People really like the persona I adopt in public, but it's not like me at all.
I recently considered that I may have gotten my job because of this. In reality I'm miserable, but acting that way only makes people avoid you.
Pretending is hard but it gives me practical benefits.
Is this manipulation or is this just how you're expected to be in society?
I really don't like it either way.

>traced meme

let's just say I theoretically wanted to track my own car as though I was in some sort of spy movie and wanted something that would Mount quickly and easily magnetically under the car frame, does anyone have a suggestion I could buy easily off of Amazon? I'll show you a couple of examples but I'm seeing mixed reviews and some sort of thing where you need to buy a SIM card to go along with it I'm not sure about this whole class of item

amazon.com/Vehicles-ABLEGRID-Magnetic-Tracking-Motorcycle/dp/B0769JBPC1?SubscriptionId=AKIAINYWQL7SPW7D7JCA&tag=aboutcom02lifewire-20&linkCode=sp1&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B0769JBPC1&ascsubtag=4158961|google.com|||47,40,34,50,10|1|

amazon.com/Spy-Tec-STI-GL300-Portable/dp/B00JG8KCLO?psc=1&SubscriptionId=AKIAINYWQL7SPW7D7JCA&tag=aboutcom02lifewire-20&linkCode=sp1&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00JG8KCLO&ascsubtag=4158961|google.com|||47,40,34,50,10|1|

Nah, this is probably the last one.

leave ur phone in it

>traced deleted meme

What does this even mean? I don't understand 'traced' faggots. Manga doesn't look anything like a real person. You retards need to spend more time in public with real people, away from your computers. You have social disorders bordering on mental illnesses. Seek help, please.

Let's say I wanted to do that but be able to trace it from my phone from outside of the car you know like if someone took the car from me? Kind of like an externally mounted lojack that responded to the smartphone

Use another phone.

just ask ur girl who shes cucking you with

He doesn't want to spoil the surprise.

What's the best PDF reader to view pages side-by-side like a book? I'm a macfag and Preview doesn't seem to have that option

pic related as example in word

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I'm doing a cs + math double major, how's the whole data science meme?
I can get a postgrad in machine learning and statistics but I'm not sure about the potential risks and benefits of this kind of career, keep in mind my worst fear is to end up as a code monkey.

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The NSA is hiring.

I have an MSI gtx 970 and it came with a little MSI app that can put it in "OverClock" mode.

For the last few months if I don't put it into this OC mode then pretty soon my computer will black screen and restart when I try to run anything remotely intensive.

Any thoughts what might be causing that and why the OC mode would fix it?

kickass torrents

user...

>deleted IMG
What was it

what? kat and tpb are same tier

piratebay is never really down anyways

just try any of the million domain names it has

a distinction needs to be made between 'faking it until you make it' and manipulation, the former is usually a legitimate strategy to get over things like anxiety or imposter syndrome and to build confidence in individuals whereas the latter is a tactic that abusers use and is usually accompanied by things like suspicion, jealousy, anger issues, emotional instability, etc, and involves lying/cheating/getting people to do things for you that they wouldn't normally do

if you're genuinely having anxiety/self doubt issues you can fall into the trap of thinking you're abusing others, and whatever the case may be this is prime territory for talking to a psychiatrist to work out your issues before you end up destroying relationships or yourself

an issue overclockers often face is that degrading hardware needs more voltage to sustain the same clockspeed and the reverse can be true, less clock speed for the same voltage
chances are your card has degraded enough that the stock settings aren't good enough and the default overclock mode has more of a buffer that it's not having these issues
instead of sticking it in overclock mode you could also try reducing the clockspeeds a little, also try to figure out if it's the memory of the main clock as reducing the memory bandwidth usually isn't a huge deal

manga o-face
rbt.asia/g/thread/67576611/#67576611

How is
./script filename.txt
Different to
bash filename.txt
Am I close when I think "./" is execute "script" in CWD using the default shell? If yes...why doesn't it work?
echo $SHELL
/bin/bash

I tried that and yeah no out from VGA or hdmi from the mobo.

yeah I tried moving the RAM into each different slot and nothing. I took everything off but the motherboard, CPU, and a single RAM stick. I'll try swapping motherboards

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Reflecting on this, I think self destruction is the right choice after all. It's the only safe bet. I appreciate the sincerity.

I didn't actually know that about the clock speed, that explains a lot

thanks user, appreciate it

>image
I don't know how many other people do this but for years me and a friend used to register paintings in the room as "guests" to have a backdoor for guests to use.

>user I need you to go into my room, hold my painting up to the webcam and it will unlock, then email me these files

I'm glad to see the recognition is still this bad over 10 years later.

A simple batch script replacing the spybot start menu entry, with a pause command and warning msg before launching said program?

Well the implication is he traces real images, said images being child pornography

Prove it.

This is a particularly cruel accusation as the evidence, even if it existed, could never be requested by people seeking the truth.

Play devil's advocate for me, Jow Forums. If the IME is not a backdoor, why does Intel
>not explain what it actually fucking does?
>not offer a tool for end users to disable it?
>allow vendors to disable it if it's supposedly necessary for normal function?
>include a killswitch in the IME if it's truly harmless?
Not b8ing. I genuinely want to know what the fuck they're thinking. I have yet to hear any arguments against it being a backdoor that don't start with "That's just a crazy conspiracy theory but I'm not gonna explain why".

>implying you can only trace "real" imagese

It is a backdoor though.
Intel doesn't even document all the instructions their chipsets can do.
It's a feature.

Yesterday the half of the monitor got a distorted stripe/fringe, it appears even if I disconnect the cable to the CPU. It even follow the movements of the arrow.
Also the lines change from seconds of violet to second of green. The monitor have ~2 years of life
Can someone tell if this have a solution or should just buy another monitor?

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From last sqt

I accidently deleted it and left that out because I didn't feel like typing all of that again. I'm actually surprised you caught that, and thank you for doing so.

I was pretty much thinking of going the whole 9 yards and going through every preventative measure to keep this thing from overheating. Along the way I was curious about this thermal pad thing I saw on LTT. Thanks for your input.

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Does anyone know a good alternative to Stardock Fences? Fences is really slugging up my desktop even when nothing else is running.

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Is it possible, without any programming knowledge to write my own shit, to get a Linux distro installed on my PS3? Almost throwing it out since I don't use it often, so I thought it could be neat if I could install some distribution of gahnoo plus loonicks desu fampai qts

Not booting into bios can have a lot of causes, most common are ram failures and psu problems

I need a laptop for 1-1.5k for networking classes and to play tekken 7. I'd like something 12-15 inches (ideally 13-14). What do my options look like?

Should I learn to use spacemacs efficiently, or should I just use eclipse with the vim wrapper plugin?

When downloading images in a firefox based browser or any other one, is the image stored on the hard drive or ram? I don't mean the save file download, but to load a webpage.
For example when I load a thread, and open images, then close them, they don't have to be downloaded again, but are they downloaded to the hard drive? For that matter is the whole page downloaded to the hard drive, and loaded into ram when necessary or just directly downloaded into the ram?

Back to the threads and thumbnails and stuff, i observed that when i open an image, then close it, and refresh the page the image is still loaded. Wouldn't this eat up a hell of a lot of ram? Is there a way to clear them without leaving the page. I frequent slow boards and like having a lot of threads open and not having to open them to check for new replies, 40+ tabs +youtube and i never turn off my computer, so it adds up after a certain amount of time (current uptime is almost a week). Waterfox hogged generally 2,5 gigs of ram, i switched to palemoon, it's more acceptable here.

You can generally assume that any modern 86x processor is somewhat "backdoored". In general though intel doesn't have to answer to anyone, and they prefer to keep most of what they do private and outside of the risk of scrutiny and duplication. They don't want to share the secret formula or risk having exploits discovered on previously released hardware. You can't just issue a patch when this shit is found, as evidenced by the ongoing clusterfuck that is speculative execution.

They're not alone though. Processors are generally a black box

youtube.com/watch?v=KrksBdWcZgQ

They're in ram. Your browser has an adjustable cache size in the settings menu.

I want to mirror 2 identical drives. should i use built in windows mirroring or asus "raidrxpert2"util?

You want RAID1

I'm getting a black screen with sound on both windows and arch. Is this the PSU or is it the GPU

Also, windows event viewer and journalctl have nothing out of the ordinary.

I barely coded Java before and I have an assignment due by the end of the day tomorrow at midnight, I have 5 things to code, probably easy for anyone here but how likely am I to be able to finish the last 4?

>You want RAID1
well, yes, that's obvious, but is there any advantage to using one or another

windows disk mirror / asus amd raidxpert2
thanks

Why is picture deleted?

You're screwed unless you score some adderall, get some divine inspiration from Saint Terry and don't stop working until the deadline

Pic related is an example of one of the problems, am I really fucked?

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how do i, step by step, filter tripfags from the boards?

>buy laptop
>it comes with windows pre installed
>I don't want windows so I paid extra for nothing
Can I transfer that windows to my PC in a manner where it won't beg me to activate windows all the time?

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Ayy lmao, a lobotomized chimp with down syndrome can do that in 15 minutes

stop posting and get to googling and coding already
if you're absolutely clueless at java you've likely failed the assignment, if you can at least read and understand java programs and aren't completely inadept at it you can probably do it if you skip sleep depending on how much of a pain those other assignments are but either way expect a poor grade

maybe try asking for an extension

I took AP CS in HS so they bumped me up to CS II even though I got a 1 on the exam, I have coded a bit of Java because AP CS so I know the basics and am aware of all the concepts the class is teaching but I get confused on the order of where to put things which is my main issue and I suck at hand writing code luckily this doesnt require that, I will get to googling

conspiracy theory + x years = accepted fact

before 9/11, nsa didn't exist and was for crazy conspiracy theorists.

I've started getting consistent memory reference Application Errors on Win10, on startup and when trying to run random programs. Computer also has some issues booting Win10.
Had this happen a few months back and had to fresh install Win10 and restore because my computer couldn't boot after an update, any chance of a fix that doesn't involve doing that again?

Just use the Windows utility.

Mods are fags

NSA has been around for over 50 years.

All browsers default to disk cache enabled, meaning yes they get saved to disk, memory cache is also enabled.

If you use private browsing mode in Chrome or FF, only memory cache is enabled (even for media cache, like streaming youtube or webms). IE private browsing still uses disk cache.

I personally use disk cache disabled (private mode), it is still fast and I have done for years.

>NSA

sure, but it was denied, and anyone talking about it was a "conspiracy theorist," for instance, in the newsmedia. after 9/11
>OF COURSH we have an NSA, why would we not? are you with the terrorists? I find that youngfags don't know this, but just wait--you'll see this happen.

if java then use an ide, preferably intellij or anything other than eclipse
if you like keyboard driven stuff you generally can't go wrong with emacs/vim but they're not worth learning if you don't do it properly

unless that ps3 hasn't had a firmware update in 10+ years you won't be able to install linux on it without jailbreaking which may require hardware modification on your model

Denied by who? They're name is on the signs outside their buildings.

how the fuck do I put this query into sqlalchemy
SELECT *,
ACOS(SIN(RADIANS(41)) * SIN(RADIANS(lat)) + COS(RADIANS(41)) * COS(RADIANS(lat))
* COS(RADIANS(lng - -74))) * 3959 AS distance
FROM postings
ORDER BY distance;

it wasn't always acknowledged faggot, read a goddamned book.

You're referencing a fucking book. Body of Secrets was published in 2001. That's where your meme memory is getting the idea that no one talked about them. People talked about them, no one cared. They weren't overthrowing governments like the CIA. NSA just wasn't very newsworthy. Nobody denied they existed.

1983
amazon.com/Puzzle-Palace-National-Intelligence-Organization/dp/0140067485/

Here i did your assignment. I have no idea about java, never used it I only studied c++ in HS.. The only piece of java code i read and tried to understand is what i copied out from this page java-examples.com/even-odd-number-example
public class FindEvenOrOddNumber {

public static void main(String[] args) {

//create an array of 10 numbers
int n = 1;

for(int i=1; i < 10; i++)
n = n * i;
System.out.println(n + ">CS II assignments");
}
}
}

It was written in 3 minutes in Mousepad(TM)

>Stardock Fences
Nimi places is pretty good

mouse traps are technology too
youtube.com/watch?v=22dOSAcJtHw
which german invention in the video?

Part of it is that they weren't so concerned with domestic spying back then. Their stated purpose and legal allowance was always to keep tabs on foreign threats. They were supposed to be very limited as to what they could do within the US. There were a few key decisions in the early 2000s that radically changed their scope and focus.

How necessary is a CPU cooler? im getting a i7-8700 but dont plan or care about overclocking, is a cpu cooler absolutely necessary or am i ok without one.

I dont think you did it correctly unless I am missing something. I will keep trying to get through these 4-5 problems