/sqt/ - Stupid Questions Thread

As long as you’re not doing it on purpose, I don’t see any problem. Just don’t intentionally make a frankendebian

well i'm doing it on purpose since i have to get the .debs from the repos. but only when the package isn't available on testing. I assume they will resolve them selves if i run apt upgrade and the packages have been updated?

Hey Jow Forumsuys, I just got this book. Am I going to make it? Concepts aren't too difficult. Just some of the exercises leave me stumped. And I am only in chapter 3.

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A lecturer at college told me that the network is 90% virtualized. How exactly does this work? Is there a server somewhere with VMware open and a thousand machines just waiting for somebody to login?

I'm on win7 trying to get fastcopy to copy a 4GB folder with 256+ character limit-exceeding folders onto an USB stick however it always ends up just copying 1GB or so

How do i force fastcopy to copy ALL the files and folders even with those containing excessively long path names onto said stick

yes. it's called amazon and microsoft

my guess is that it's the minimum required to hit both HDTV requirements (1280x720) and Windows Vista+ requirements (1024x768)
anything less can't be used in windows computers or hdtv's, which covers a lot

Look into Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure.

When you call calloc or malloc you get back the number of elements you wanted, each one the same size you specified AND they're all right next to each other, basically you get an array, right?

I have some downloaded porn on my phone, goes straight to the download folder, and whenever I try to move it to a hidden folder, all the videos disappear, so I just leave them in the folder to be able to watch them

Anyone have any idea why this happens, and how to prevent the files from deleting themselves? Or at the very least somehow hide the videos or the thumbnail from appearing in my pictures gallery?

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if the stick's filesystem is the problem I'd say format the stick to something more recent that support these lengths

How to fix screen tearing on Xubuntu these days? I heard there is no screen tearing because it got fixes these past months but I still get it.

last bumpo of hope

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yes

Did you check with the /dpt/?

what's the problem you have with fflush?
there's fflush_unlocked if the lock taking of fflush is a problem
I'm not sure, but using write and read directly might go around the buffering in the library, so you wouldn't need to flush

I have a strong desktop in my room, and a shitty laptop in the living room

whats the best way to cast/mirror/stream the desktop to the laptop? I don't have wifi

basically I want something like steam link but I have nothing right now. no ethernet cables that arent already in use, no wifi, and I'm trying to be cheap. can I spend $2 on a cat5 cable and just plug the 2 PCs into each other? can I pick up an old $5 router at a yard sale and keep it offline and make it a dedicated streaming network?

What is the VoIP voicemail password for this number 353766803900?

I've manually entered each value from 00-99 but none seem to work

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I found an old dell PC. I believe it's GX270, it has 512mb of ram and Pentium 4 at 2.40Ghz. It's running Windows XP. Question is, should I leave it on XP or install some distro on it?

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never asked /dpt/ since it mostly seems like a place to share and discuss projects and not questions like this. stupid questions just seemed more appropriate, i guess
It's not a problem per se, it works as intended but it just feels wrong to use undefined behaviour to hack out of the problem like that.
We've been writing a small project that requires the user to input several fields in sequence, so if I'm not careful it causes the program to take the wrong input and break everything, hence why we're asked to use it and the reason of my question.
could you also elaborate about writing and reading directly? I'm not really experienced with the language in general so I want to at least pick up good habits early.

Definitely linux. Use lubuntu and you can choose between the DE and openbox at login.

XP if you just want to run some old games on it, otherwise linux

>undefined behaviour
are you talking about calling fflush on an input stream?
I believe glibc actually defines it, it's just not mentioned in any standard
It sounds like you're using it to discard buffered input you haven't read yet, in which case reading/writing directly doesn't help you.
>if I'm not careful it causes the program to take the wrong input
do you mean careful when running the program and inputting data, or that you have to program it carefully to handle unexpected characters in the input stream? if it's the latter you could just be careful and cope with whatever makes your program choke right now

thewindowsclub.com/mirror-windows-10-screen-to-another-device

You just need an ethernet cable connecting the two PCs. You can have the internet connection of the desktop shared to the laptop along the same line, although if the PC is off it'll cut out. Aside from the cheap ethernet cable, you'll probably need to add a second ethernet port to the PC.

My 144Hz monitor shuts off and turns on quickly whenever I launch Premier, Photoshop, and games. Is my GPU dying?

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what os do cute boys use

thanks. but the desktop is windows, and the laptop is macos/linux. will this work? if it comes to it I'll just install Windows on the laptop

I don't know much about creating torrents. I'm using Transmission. How can I create a torrent so that only people clicking the magnet link can have access to it ? And how can I obtain this magnet link ? Do I need to add public trackers and/or upload it to a specific host (tpb, etc...) ?

Yeah i thought this was the problem, that particular stick has something diff on it

Just gonna try the other ones out first

MacOS and GNU/Linux

Can u guys recommend me a decent router that isn't a botnet?

Use my server as webserver, file storage and vpn server. What to host?

You mean what OS?
Centos

Right so how would I go about switching between speakers and headphones without having to reach down there and physically unplug one of the 2? There's no real need to turn the headphones off at any point, I've managed to get them playing at the same time now but Windows recognizes them both as the same audio device. The speakers' power switch is also down there so that's no better, than unplugging it, if anything I could just turn the volume on the speakers all the way down but ideally I'd want to be able to switch via software alone. I've also been thinking about how I could make the PC turn on/off the speakers along with itself but that might be more of a /diy/ question.

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I mean, what good services you can recommend for me to host on my server.

How do i convert epub reliably to pdf? No "Online converters" pls

I would like to learn programming. How do I get started?

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Unironically FritzBox

download FASM and learn that thoroughly, then you'll be ready for anything

I use logitech speakers which have a built-in headphone jack with analog PWM adjustement on the side

You just unplug the fuckers and the sound directly switches

You can use the balance for speakers in windows 7 control panel for it too which is neat

ComputerCraft mod for Minecraft

I say that ironically but that's exactly how I accidentally got myself into programming so for all I know it might not actually be a terrible idea

Lua is in my experience still one of the most retard friendly languages out there

print ("Hello world!") end

yes that works

I can't be fucked to crawl under my desk to unplug that shit every damn time, my speakers don't have that kind of functionality

I started with a book called automate the boring stuff.

>are you talking about calling fflush on an input stream?
yeah, I was talking mainly about fflush(stdin) and how everyone gives me a weird look when i use it
>I believe glibc actually defines it, it's just not mentioned in any standard
neat, first time I've heard of this. gonna look into it.
>do you mean careful when running the program and inputting data, or that you have to program it carefully to handle unexpected characters in the input stream?
the former, i meant that after a couple of inputs the buffer gets full, so the next instances where the user gets prompted to input something, it automatically fills it in instead of just letting the user do his thing. hence why we are given to use fflush(stdin)
I'm not sure how to explain my situation well since I'm not that well versed in C yet, and the reason I'm being so autistic about it is that we're looking for it to be as portable as possible, since our prof. uses windows, one of our members use freeBSD and two of us use different linux distros.

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Isn't that an assembler? That sounds super difficult.

my man page for fflush just says " The standards do not specify the behavior for input streams. Most other implementations behave the same as Linux.", which doesn't help much.
check this SO question (stackoverflow.com/questions/7898215/how-to-clear-input-buffer-in-c), you might find something there
if you're using scanf you might also be interested in c-faq.com/stdio/scanfprobs.html

That sounds like a good start.

What are you nvidia control panel settings? Also is there a 2019 list of w7 updates are okay to instal? there is nothing recent on the web.

Interesting, will look into it. Thanks for the help user!

My mic stopped working 1 month ago.
My phone is Samsung J3 2017. It doesn't work in Voice Recorder, nor in phone calls.
Is there something I can do except send it to the service?
Like troubleshooting, device analysis etc.?

The title bar and close/minimize/maximize buttons of my xfce windows is not being changed when I change my theme. Anyone can help me? I've already tried resetting all xfce4 settings, reinstalling them all but nothing happened.

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Not much you should fuck with, unless you have a specific reason to.

Depends on what you're trying to avoid. Windows 10 forced upgrades aren't a thing anymore, and the update blocking on newer processors is better fixed by just using the tool. As far as breaking shit, all the fucked up updates get pulled pretty soon anyway, so just don't get anything from "optional" updates.

Solved it. Turns out there's a different configs for window titles.

What's the cheapest computer I could reasonably make with a RTX 2070?

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Android app question:
Best email app?
Best note taking app? (is evernote good or something else that rescpects my freedom?)
Best file explorer?

I just installed LineageOS. Installing F-droid and yalp now. Any recommendations for fresh install?

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Can somebody expalin me the difference between Primary Partition and Extended Partition? So far the only information what I have found is that you can create 4 primary partitions and one of them can be extended partition where you can create a lot of logic partitions. I have read also that there is no much difference now, but I'm learning theory now and I want to just understand it, because this explanation that you can have 4 primary partiions and extended partitions can have unlimited amout of logic partitions is not enough for me.

>have an LG G5
>LED screen
>"burn in" on the home screen today from tinder, burn in doesn't appear on other screens or when other apps are open

Explanation please

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I'm working on setting up a server as part of a school project and I am almost done. Just need to figure out the last part, which is "only letting all ports necessary open while closing the other ones"
This is a Linux server by the way. Aside from system specific ports, the server uses 20, 23, 25, 42, 80, 110, 143, 220, 443, 993 and 995 at minimum obviously. But what other ports are completely necessary to run the system?
and are there any simple way of closing all other ports in a simple command?

Do you need all those ports open? What services are you running?
Also
>23
CLOSE IT RIGHT THE FUCK NOW
Telnet is super insecure. It sends everything in the clear including all commands you type and even PASSWORDS.
You need to SHUT DOWN telnet access and set up SSH. For your own good.

Can I mount an ITX board in a BTX case without doing additional mods to it?

Really want to buy an old XPS 700 case for my storage server, but really don't want to find out it doesnt work as they are still expensive

1. Why does Jow Forums convert to this mobile looking style whenever I halve the size of my browser windows?
2. Is it possible to prevent this from happening?

I can't replicate this, but there are media queries in CSS stylesheets to switch to a mobile friendly css.
You could disable it by setting a minimum width in the viewport meta tag using a userscript.
Something like document.querySelector('meta[name="viewport"]').setAttribute('content', 'width=1200'); should do.

It's a school project, running a server on a local network. So I don't really care whatever happens to it, no personal info there

The server does the following:
it has its own DNS at IP 10.200.10.3, GW at 10.200.10.1, www at 10.200.10.3 and mail at 10.200.10.4

DNS is supposed to allow queries, you should be able to access it with SSH, you can view the html webpage by searching www.myserver.d3.local, you should be able to send with SMTP and receive with IMAP and POP3, and probably have the secured variants of them available too

That's why those ports are used. Other than that, I don't know which ones are neccesary.

Is that a camera app that doesn't save to google photos? Like if I want a photo to not be uploaded how would I do that?

ports are only open if a service/program has opened them (kill the program, close the port)
use lsof -i to see what ports are open and what process is responsible

How come older processors cant use newer instruction sets

I suppose that should work. Through greasemonkey or whatever.
Though along those lines, shouln't it be possible to just straight up block the yotsubluemobile css in ublock or something?
You can block css stuff with ublock, can't you? I guess my filter is incorrect somehow.

Oh, that might be much simpler.
I was under the impression that the media queries were all embedded into the normal styles and not an extra one.

it's CentOS 7 so I don't think that works

Why were S-expressions favored in the development of lisp over M-expressions?

Because newer instruction sets often include commands for things the hardware physically cannot do. You could write a translation layer, but no one wants to

Void fremnds pls help.

I added devmon & to my .xinitrc file but it doesn't seem to work, but it does when I run it on my terminal emulator? What I'm doing wrong?

I'm use Void btw.
Context: I'm trying to setup Udevil, no systemd.

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Best GPU for playing Minecraft and overwatch for $200-$250 US?

Anything special about your screen? Both of those games run fine on dinosaur cards.

Nope just plain old 1080p 60hz

what's the best way to stream content from a pc to an android phone without paying for something like plex?

Remote or local?

over a local network

This is the reccomended card for those settings

amazon.com/EVGA-GeForce-Support-Graphics-03G-P4-6153-KR/dp/B07F4GGWL1

Linux or windows. On Linux install I install Apache and link the HTML dir to the directory with all the videofiles. Go to the address in a web browser and copy the video link location. Through into vlc in open network stream and there you go.

Any reason to go with a 1050ti?

currently running windows on my desktop but could give that an attempt from a laptop. Any idea for w10 methods?

If you have python installed, just go the directory on Windows were your videos are, just type python3 -m http.server and you do the same thing vlc. Sorry I don't know much about windows.

cheers for your help

The ram on the 1050 actually makes it better in some instances. Next step up should probably be Rx 580

is my HDD dying?

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Is now a good time to buy a new processor or will some new stuff get announced relatively soon?

Ok. I am kind of having some trouble.
How in the world do I block an entire css style, as opposed to individual css elements within a style?

What's a good alternative to microsoft office?

Libre office