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>inb4 windows10
Fuck it, i need for shit and stuff:
My problem is twofold:
1) i can't seem to be able to use the right click file->properties->open with->choose program to actually SET A FUCKING DEFAULT, i managed to get it working for Notepad++ through extensive fuckery but i'd like to not have to repeat the experience for every single file
2) I also managed to get 7z to open a tar.gz, problem, the icon looks like pic related, i'd like it to be the 7z icon, how to without downloading extra stuff possibly?

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bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/erratic-windows-10-bug-breaks-changing-of-default-file-associations/

That just tells me "no fix yet, sorry"

Exactly.

At least a way to change the icon?

Do I need a ramdisk in 2018 on windows?

nah, probably not

i need to install SP1 on my W7 but i want to avoid any patches like telemetry. i once saw a list of what to not install. also does chewWGA works on SP1 and if not which activator would Jow Forums recommend?

find some registry expert who will write the proper registry fixes for file associacions, which then you can set on autostart so the registry will be updated every time you start your OS

Are sites able to track users' sexual orientation? I've seen those porn site infographics that show "Women's top searches" but I'm always suspicious because I think lesbian/bi women are more likely to go to porn sites. I'm curious what kind of porn straight women watch, although I know it's rare for them to watch porn.

Is this monitor a meme or is it any good?

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Well Pornhub actually does have a field for "Interested in", so yeah they can track that.

(Not that user)
I'm assuming that what you say is a thing you can put in your profile, with a registered account.
Most porn consumers probably don't have an account, much less a properly set-up one.
So if you make statistics from that data, you are already looking at a very specific demographic (people who consume lots of porn in a hobby-like manner). It is not very rigorous to consider the results a representation of the average masturbator.

Why do all monitors have bezels? Even the """""bezel-less""""" monitors just replace the bezel with a black glass border. Why can't we have edge-to-edge screens?

How are you going to mount it in to the frame without supporting the front edges of the monitor?

Can't they support it from the back?

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The monitor is on the back....

Is it too l8 to get into datasci

my pc is broken, fx 6350, when i use all cores temps go too high and it shuts down, already tried underclocking but it happens even on 3ghz settings, any idea what could it be? cant compile shit if i use -j or even install sims from fitgirl. also thinking about upgrading to something newer, whats the cheap modern cpu? worth buying second hand? any recommendations? no intel shit pls

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check your cooler and thermal paste. improper mounting/sloppy paste application = high temps.

buy cheap ryzen

How could one get good 5ghz wifi coverage in brick and mortar house on a budget?
What will be better one good long range ap like Ubqt Unifi AP AC LR or 3-4 cheap Xiaomi 3G routers in every room?

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just bought an extern 8tb hd but usb 3 is too slow for what I need. can I simply disassemble the drive and put it directly into my pc?

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anyone?

depends on the circuit board installed on it. most hard drives should have normal sata but some manufacturers install only boards with usb ports

How many cute computer-programmer traps are there out west

Winlet here. Out of Babun, Cygwin and WSL, which shell works best with Cmder?

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Just how fucking much voltage do I put on my dd4 ram to make it stable?
It's such a small ass OC, from 2400 to 2666mhz. Yet it's still not stable when adding 0.110v. The hell?
I know for sure it's not my CPU at all (an R1600) since it's stable as fuck with the default ram speed.

What's the point of a sound card?

Absolutely nothing. A cheap ass dac + amp combo will have a much better sound quality simply because the chips will be outside of the case, not to mention the huge benefit of having a physical volume knob.

Check the timings. You usually have to raise them too, along the voltage. Which can translate in a loss of performance, so you have to carefully benchmark different configurations. With CPU you might be able to push OCs as much as the temperatures allow you, but it does not work the same with RAM. All to the max is not necessarily the best you can get in terms of performance..

What's a good cheap webcam that just werkz on Linux?

So I just got a new ISP (LTE Broadband) and whatever small modem/router they gave me is configured weird and I don't know how to fix it. When trying to connect via Ethernet, Windows gives back pic related. I feel like it should be shoe on head retarded easy to fix but I'm at a loss.

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Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920
not sure whether that's in your "cheap" range, but it should just werk even on freetard kernels. It's 1080p too.

just finished comp sci exam

does real life legitimately use system context diagrams or dfds?

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forgot to mention but I haven't seen pic related for ages so thanks for reminding me OP

my stupid question:
how do i put a win xp installer iso on a blank external?
im swapping an HDD for an SSD but i dont know how to put windows on it to boot. I have the iso installer that i've used as a virtual machine setup but i dont know how to use it in the real world.
ive never done it so im unsure.

You can't just "put it on the drive" You have to flash to a USB or burn to a CD. I don't know if there's any specific weirdness you have to do for Windows, but I imagine it works the same way as anything else. You use something like Rufus to put it on a flash drive, boot off the flash drive, and then install the OS to the SSD from there.
Try this:
rufus.ie/en_IE.html

hes a cute boy

Thanks., I'll try going higher clock with just a bit more timings

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ask no questions tell no lies, user

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Anyone familiar with instaloader? How can I update 3 profiles at once? Do I really need to update one by one?

Somehow a screw on my gf's laptop is completely stripped despite her never opening it. It's a cheap piece of shit so I'm not surprised that they used bad screws or some shit like that. Is there any recommended way to get this fucker out without snapping the motherboard?

How do I make qbittorent download each torrent in sequential order and first and last pieces first automatically?

my hdd keeps randomly peeking. how do i fix it?

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Trying to repair my corrupted Sandisk SD microsd. I used a program to find bad sectors, but repairing them won't work.
I also tried cleaning it with diskpart but I get a cyclic redundancy error every time. I read that I should create a new partition with the specific bad sectors only and hide it, but I don't know how to do that.
I could get another for cheap but this has become more of a challenge to me than anything.

any tips?

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You can use the batch mode but its currently broken since the facebook scandal. You can only load 200 pieces of media per 3 hours.Instaloader does not store what media it was downloading so you have to start from the beginning and download what you already have. Currently the developer doesn't seem to know how to or dosent want to fix this issue.

whats the best podcast solution for Win10?

Where the fuck should I buy components for my DIY electronics projects? My dumb ass doesn't know where to get the best deals.

digikey.com/

>right click torrent
>download in sequential order
done
superuser.com/questions/668562/how-to-download-files-in-torrents-sequentially

Note that you probably shouldn't do this. Bittorrent isn't made for sequential, and even the link above says as much

When is hiro going to support vpx9 or webp?

my cpu time in black ops 4 hovers around 10-20 is this good or bad ?

Are Android Pie custom ROMs stable yet? I want to try Pie on my Nexus 5X, but I'm not sure if the ROMs on XDA are better than something like the upcoming LineageOS 16.0.

Damn that sucks. 4kstogram still working for me without any limits but I want to get rid of proprietary software.

Lineage is bloat.
Honestly stock rooted rom + custom kernel is all you really need.

Hello CS anons, some networking questions. Im trying to implement a port knocking protocol and I just want to be sure I understand the theory behind it.

So I:

1) Have a server that listens on multiple ports

2) if the same client address tries to connect to the closed ports in the correct sequence, determined by the server, then it opens the main port and allows connections to the server
-question here, does this mean the server allows only the client that made the knock sequence or does this mean anyone with a history is allowed in or is everyone allowed in?

Well Google isn't going to develop Pie for the Nexus 5X, so I have to go the custom ROM route if I want Pie. I'm just seeing more Pie ROMs on XDA for my device, and I'm wondering about their stability over LOS.

This seems to be the stock pixel 9.1
forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-5x/development/pixelexperience-nexus-5x-t3861437

Check if there are other roms that provide the stock rom without all that bloat built in to it

> I'm wondering about their stability over LOS.
They'd be the same, they are all based on AOSP or AICP,just with layers and layers of "features" thrown in to the mix. The more "features" you have the most unstable its going to be.

Most I've seen are based on AOSP. I'm just worried because the first custom Pie ROM I tried was one based on the Pixel 2's stock firmware. I don't know if I was being retarded or something, but I ran into this fatal bug in the ROM and had problems with TWRP not being able to decrypt my data partition. That experience kind of scared me off custom ROMs except LOS, so I don't know if I should try other Pie ROMs.

>problems with TWRP not being able to decrypt my data partition.
That was a TWRP problem in 3.3.1? i think it was.But twrp can now decrypt with 3.2.3
As long as you can boot recovery you can fix it

Usually just the client that sent the knock sequence because it's basically the same as a plaintext password, but any of those could be called port knocking.

I got the amazon prime free month thing in the american version of the website but if I go to my country's version I don't have it despite being logged in.
What jew magic trick is this? Is this how it's suppose to be?

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Octopart for price search. In the States it's going to be Arrow, Digikey, Mouser, or Newark like 98% of the time.

Well, for my device, the latest TWRP version is 3.2.3. But to be more specific about what happened, I tried to switch back to LOS 15.1 after encountering that bug. The problem was that I would get this error screen (pic related) every time I rebooted my phone. I tried going back to stock, but still encountered it. That's why I was scared and wasn't sure if it was a bug with the ROM or TWRP or what.

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>3-4 cheap Xiaomi 3G routers
This assuming you have the backhaul. If you don't, you may as well just have one router with good 2.4GHz.

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I was running Windows 10 on my laptop with a 500GB hdd. I rolled back to Windows 7, installed onto a new ssd with the old hdd as the secondary drive and I upped the ram from 8GB to 16GB. My issue is when I try to watch a video, either on youtube or locally there's occasionally a delay before the video will start playing. On youtube the video will need to buffer up to a certain point whereas when I was using Windows 10 the video would always instantly start. Same thing when playing a video in vlc, occasionally there's a couple of seconds of delay before the video will begin where there was no delay at all on Windows 10. I'm using the same browser on both operating systems.

Is this an issue with the video drivers?

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I have a script that makes use of MongoDB which I'm having weird problems with.

Whenever the function `initializeUnorderedBulkOp()` is called, and it has been called in say, the last ~5 minutes, it'll return `undefined`. But if the function is called and I've just restarted my PC, or at other times seemingly randomly, it just werks.

Where is the documentation around how I'm supposed to handle this? It's obviously not a connection issue I don't think, but I don't know what it could be - and documentation is VERY sparse from what I can find. Pls help

I want to use cloud-based sync services but want to encrypt everything myself on my end such that the cloud service never even knows the original exists. I can't use something like TrueCrypt of Vericrypt because then every time I change one file it will upload a 10 GB file to the cloud and I don't have that kind of bandwidth. Is there such a thing as something that creates a file system that does per-file encryption such that when I change 1 file, it only changes 1 (or possibly 2) file on t the physical system? Maybe this can't be entirely secure because if each file were encrypted independent of each other then you have the whole "pattern repetition" thing, but "sufficiently obscure" is good enough for my purposes (in case, if worse comes to worse, I suppose a simple cipher would do).

I doubt it'll be much better over SATA.
t. someone running a few different external 3.0 hard drives over both SATA & USB.
I have 2 exact same Seagate models, and while it may be margin of error, the SATA one has slightly better random 4k read/write

Uh, may be your kit is shit, or what the other user said. I've got a 2400 CL16 kit running at 2660 CL14 with pretty boring sub-timings. Stock voltage, too.

what the fuck is going on?
>download a game normaly
>mostly 2mb/s download speed
>download a game via an android emulator right now

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>Your passwords are stored in the key4.db and logins.json files
How safe is built-in password manager of Firefox? Or is it inferior to offline password managers even while using a master password?

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Bout to buy myself an ultrawide monitor. Wondering if any of you bros have an experience with both the 34 inch 3440x1440 and the 38 inch 3840x1600.

Can get a quality 1440p for 550-600 but going up the the 38 in runs about 800-900.

Is that extra real estate at 38 3840x1600 worth the money or is the 34 incher the sweet spot?

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without a master password the passwords may as well be plaintext - although there's nothing horribly wrong with this if your computer is fairly secure
with a master password the password to the encryption key is your master password + salt on a single (maybe?) iteration hash, this is.. quite insecure if your password is weak, if your password is moderately strong however like a 6-7+ word diceware password it might be considered secure enough
an offline password manager *should* have a much stronger encryption method (i.e., more iterations) which will make it a superior choice if your concern is someone brute forcing your password fine after they've hacked you, however the utility of an offline password manager is secure password generation and not necessarily secure password storage - if someone has access to your computer they can do a lot more immediate harm than copying your password database and trying to brute force it

the hashing algorithm for firefox's master password is sha1 also, forgot to mention that

Not sure if this is better suited for pcbg or here but I was wondering if someone could explain cache to me on a processor. How important is cache, what should I expect in a current generation CPU, etc.

Are used computer safe? Even if they have been declared safe by DOD standards?

I know that but how do I do it automatically wothout the need to right-click each torrent?

Any idea when Microsoft will come out with the next surface book? I was thinking about picking up the surface book 2 but I don't want to grab it if a new one is right around the corner.

Never.

Do any of you know what the basics of a program that adjusts the values of 4 numbers and assures that they multiply to within a specific range are?

I taught myself C over the past few months. I feel pretty comfortable with all the topics covered in the K&R.
Is it realistic for me to try to get work with these skills alone? If so, where should I look?

Usually yes, however format the hard drive if the seller didn't already and install a new OS.

I have a project in my statistics class where I have to gather data and perform statistical analysis on it (hypothesis testing or regression analysis). What are some good Jow Forums related topics and how can I go about collecting data?

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It's a critical part of the CPU. Without enough of it at the right speeds it can affect performance significantly. Imagine a brilliant physicist working like crazy on a whiteboard. He can edit his work on there 10x faster than anything else around him, so if it was a tiny whiteboard and he ran out of space and had to use a notebook with a pencil and eraser, it would slow his work way the fuck down.

That said, it's a lot like GPUs in that the amount of onboard storage is usually pretty well matched to the processing power anyway, so most of the time it's better to just look at the overall performance of the unit. You don't really gain anything by paying for a huge expensive whiteboard if you've got a slow ass dude writing on it.

Is an i5 6500 going to bottleneck a 580 8gb at 1080p?

Where can I sleep for free without needing to provide any money?

maybe

during the day? public buses. at night? sneak into some classrooms on a college campus. if you're gay, use grindr to find people who can host and stay at their house.

join a monastery

put the monitor on the front then, jeez

What's the difference between using a hdmi or display port

How come California is always on fire

>connect PC to 4K smart TV via HDMI
>works fine
>play maximized/fullscreen programs (except MPC-HC)
>works fine
>play maximized MPC-HC
>works fine
>play fullscreen MPC-HC
>random glitches where the screen has green, purple, and black squares flash for like .3 seconds on the TV screen and return to normal, repeating every 8 or so seconds
What do bros? I can't watch anime like this. It's not a problem with a loose cable because it's definitely in there, and is only a problem when playing fullscreen MPC-HC.

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HELP!

There is a HUGE storm going on right now, I want to turn off my computer but it has a huge update

Is there a way I can shutdown WITHOUT updating so I don't risk the power going out during the update and fucking everything up?

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So I went to Xiaomi eu to get the miui 10 for the Mi 8 SE, they say too use TWRP, but TWRP doesn't have Mi 8 SE version, what do I do to install the custom ROM then?

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I remember a long time ago - maybe 2008 or so, Firefox had a project to make turn a website into an executable (it was just a cut down version of firefox designed to browse since websites)

I can't remember what it was called though.
Does anyone remember - also does anything like it exist today?

cache can make some lower clocked xeons perform better than higher clocked desktop processors
most modern desktop processors, especially from intel, have had barely cache improvements the past couple of years, the 2500k from 2011 had 6m and the 7700k from q1 2017 had 8m, it's only with the 8700k and 9700k that desktop processors have broken the 10m barrier with them both having 12m cache - you get improvements going from say 15m to 25m cache, not increments of 2-3m cache a generation

there's a handful of attacks you have to be wary of like bad bios but they're very niche and nobody who has the skills to do this would do this for somebody they're not targetting
100% format the drive and reinstall whatever operating system it came with though

if you can find an entry level job that accepts c you might be able to blag it if you have other non-c development skills but don't get your hopes up for now, keep working on hobby projects and reading more books

no, they're fairly evenly matched

your car/vehicle in a parking lot, couch surfing

nothing outside of ideological reasons, they sometimes leapfrog between one having a 'better' spec but there's no definitive winner
hdmi is proprietary and is a shitty connector but it's the only connectors modern tvs use aside from vga so it's not going anywhere, displayport is the superior open spec but it's fairly niche

forest fires are a natural part of the ecosystem and by preventing forest fires you're just creating more tinder for the next fire that happens
bad forest management is the cause of some of the larger fires

try mpc/vlc as a troubleshooting step

I can get an X1 Carbon HDR, 8550U, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD, WWAN, with full warranty, for €1800. Good deal or avoid? Or is buying one retarded anyway and I should just get an XPS 13 like everyone else?

close as many running programs as you can get away with, make sure nothing is writing to disk, pull the plug
or do something like this: make sure the desktop has focus by clicking any empty area of the desktop or pressing Windows+D on your keyboard. Then, press Alt+F4 to access the Shut Down Windows dialog box. To shut down without installing updates, select “Shut down” from the drop-down list.
You can also shut down your PC immediately from the login screen. Press Windows+L to lock the screen, or log out. Then, in the lower-right corner of the login screen, click the power button and select “Shut down” from the popup menu. The PC will shut down without installing updates.