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prefect: Sep 11, 2001; No one, Woodhouse.
No one.; Dead Man’s Band

anthonypants posted:

what does /etc/hostname have in it, or does that exist

what distro are you using

/etc/hostname doesn't exist. this is centos 6.5

# ? Sep 10, 2014 20:50

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# ? May 10, 2024 00:44

anthonypants: May 6, 2007; by Nyc_Tattoo; Dinosaur Gum

prefect posted:

/etc/hostname doesn't exist. this is centos 6.5

these instructions should be pretty easy to follow

# ? Sep 10, 2014 23:19

bobbilljim: May 29, 2013; this christmas feels like the very first christmas to me

prefect posted:

/etc/hostname doesn't exist. this is centos 6.5

try "man hostname" for some extra insight if you like

# ? Sep 11, 2014 03:55

LP0 ON FIRE: Jan 25, 2006; _{beep boop}

what would stop me from testing an integer for being set to infinity in obj-c? for some reason it's not working

code:

int infinity = INFINITY;

if(infinity == INFINITY){

NSLog(@"this is infinity");

}

# ? Sep 12, 2014 20:14

Bloody: Mar 3, 2013

possibly the same thing that causes nan comparisons to fail

also typically int INFINITY isnt a thing, INFINITY is only floating-point but idk wtf objc does with their numerics

# ? Sep 12, 2014 20:17

LP0 ON FIRE: Jan 25, 2006; _{beep boop}

ah, you're right. other places where i have stuff set to infinity are floats. i still have lots of integers set to infinity, and it seems to work correctly, but i never have tested if they are set to infinity until now

# ? Sep 12, 2014 20:21

LP0 ON FIRE: Jan 25, 2006; _{beep boop}

i'm going to just update those ints set to infinity sometimes to floats. i was going to test for INT_MAX, but i'm afraid i've been just assuming that those int values were infinity and stayed that way, but were really just a big number

# ? Sep 12, 2014 20:24

cmykJester: Feb 16, 2011; by Nyc_Tattoo

I have a friend who recently had her motherboard blow up (because her idiot friends made her a lovely ricer PC) and I was just wondering how powerful a PC do you actually need for programming? I was under the impression that you could just used any lovely thing for programming classes.

# ? Sep 12, 2014 23:08

Forums Terrorist: Dec 8, 2011

an mba, op

# ? Sep 12, 2014 23:13

Bloody: Mar 3, 2013

a surface pro 3 so you can visual studio

# ? Sep 12, 2014 23:38

My Linux Rig: Mar 27, 2010; Can't post for 6 years!

I'm having a problem with a computers

it's a mac

# ? Sep 12, 2014 23:41

Bloody: Mar 3, 2013

guess its time to a buy a new one

# ? Sep 13, 2014 00:03

Broken Machine: Oct 22, 2010

cmykjester posted:

I have a friend who recently had her motherboard blow up (because her idiot friends made her a lovely ricer PC) and I was just wondering how powerful a PC do you actually need for programming? I was under the impression that you could just used any lovely thing for programming classes.

development environments can be big applications, although even a decent laptop should be okay. Actually compiling large projects can be something where you want a nice fast computer, otherwise it's mostly nice but not necessary.

# ? Sep 13, 2014 00:07

Corla Plankun: May 8, 2007; improve the lives of everyone

cmykjester posted:

I have a friend who recently had her motherboard blow up (because her idiot friends made her a lovely ricer PC) and I was just wondering how powerful a PC do you actually need for programming? I was under the impression that you could just used any lovely thing for programming classes.

it depends on what you are programming but if the answer is not "data mining" or "3d games" you can literally use anything

# ? Sep 13, 2014 00:08

bobbilljim: May 29, 2013; this christmas feels like the very first christmas to me

cmykjester posted:

I have a friend who recently had her motherboard blow up (because her idiot friends made her a lovely ricer PC) and I was just wondering how powerful a PC do you actually need for programming? I was under the impression that you could just used any lovely thing for programming classes.

any decent laptop or whatever works p ok. BUT more importantly u need 2 monitors at least

# ? Sep 13, 2014 00:09

prefect: Sep 11, 2001; No one, Woodhouse.
No one.; Dead Man’s Band

can you bring a macbook in to an apple store and get them to replace the trackpad (or touchpad; whatever it's called)?

# ? Sep 13, 2014 01:55

Nintendo Kid: Aug 4, 2011; by Smythe

prefect posted:

can you bring a macbook in to an apple store and get them to replace the trackpad (or touchpad; whatever it's called)?

yeah but they can never give a good one

# ? Sep 13, 2014 02:28

theadder: Dec 30, 2011

1/5

# ? Sep 13, 2014 02:32

kitten emergency: Jan 13, 2008; get meow this wack-ass crystal prison

theadder posted:

1/5

0.5/5

# ? Sep 13, 2014 02:43

Nintendo Kid: Aug 4, 2011; by Smythe

uncurable mlady posted:

0.5/5

apple's market share in laptops

# ? Sep 13, 2014 02:47

theadder: Dec 30, 2011

uncurable mlady posted:

0.5/5

0/5

Nintendo Kid posted:

apple's market share in laptops

4.5/5

# ? Sep 13, 2014 03:09

LP0 ON FIRE: Jan 25, 2006; _{beep boop}

i'm trying to find that gif animation of that guy talking on a cell phone which morphs into a screen that he crams his face into, all the while getting fatter and fatter

# ? Sep 14, 2014 01:14

oh no blimp issue: Feb 23, 2011

the modem router that virgin supplied me with is a pos, are there any recommendations for a real router so i can just let this thing do modem duty?

also my speakers buzz when gifs are on the screen whats up with that?

# ? Sep 14, 2014 19:45

anthonypants: May 6, 2007; by Nyc_Tattoo; Dinosaur Gum

Awia posted:

the modem router that virgin supplied me with is a pos, are there any recommendations for a real router so i can just let this thing do modem duty?

also my speakers buzz when gifs are on the screen whats up with that?

AC66U, AC68U, AC87U

the other thing is probably bad shielding, hopefully on your speaker/monitor cables. if it's not that then it's bad shielding on your motherboard and lol

anthonypants fucked around with this message at 20:03 on Sep 14, 2014

# ? Sep 14, 2014 20:00

Panty Saluter: Jan 17, 2004; Making learning fun!

Awia posted:

also my speakers buzz when gifs are on the screen whats up with that?

you're sound card and maybe video card are pieces of poo poo

# ? Sep 14, 2014 20:05

oh no blimp issue: Feb 23, 2011

if i have headphones plugged in the front panel they buzz in time with my usb hard drive spinning, its p lols

but the back panel speakers buzz too, i think its the speakers tbh on that front

anthonypants posted:

AC66U, AC68U, AC87U

thank you very much

# ? Sep 14, 2014 20:15

MiniFoo: Dec 25, 2006; ~~METH~~AMPHETAMINE

sometimes i put my computer into sleep mode and it will wake itself up after anywhere from 30 seconds to 30 minutes

it's annoying

# ? Sep 14, 2014 20:18

oh no blimp issue: Feb 23, 2011

MiniFoo posted:

sometimes i put my computer into sleep mode and it will wake itself up after anywhere from 30 seconds to 30 minutes

it's annoying

mine used to do this too, turned out it was my brother sending wake on lan packets from a mobile app

# ? Sep 14, 2014 20:21

MiniFoo: Dec 25, 2006; ~~METH~~AMPHETAMINE

p sure i have wake-on-lan turned off in my bios though

# ? Sep 14, 2014 20:30

anthonypants: May 6, 2007; by Nyc_Tattoo; Dinosaur Gum

do you leave a gamepad or other controller plugged in

# ? Sep 14, 2014 20:44

Panty Saluter: Jan 17, 2004; Making learning fun!

Awia posted:

if i have headphones plugged in the front panel they buzz in time with my usb hard drive spinning, its p lols

but the back panel speakers buzz too, i think its the speakers tbh on that front

i really want one of these even though it's probably stupidly overpriced. cheaper usb dacs seem like a waste of time to me even though electrically they are probably the same. some audiophile habits die hard i guess :tinfoil:

# ? Sep 14, 2014 21:49

Dodoman: Feb 26, 2009; A moment of laxity
A lifetime of regret; Lipstick Apathy

MiniFoo posted:

sometimes i put my computer into sleep mode and it will wake itself up after anywhere from 30 seconds to 30 minutes

it's annoying

some usb device might be waking the computer. there might be bios option to fix that or you can disable devices from waking the pc through windows.

# ? Sep 14, 2014 22:24

MiniFoo: Dec 25, 2006; ~~METH~~AMPHETAMINE

yeah now that i think about it, my 360 controller has some deadzone issues on one of its analog sticks, maybe that's it (i leave it plugged in all the time)

# ? Sep 14, 2014 23:29

oh no blimp issue: Feb 23, 2011

Panty Saluter posted:

i really want one of these even though it's probably stupidly overpriced. cheaper usb dacs seem like a waste of time to me even though electrically they are probably the same. some audiophile habits die hard i guess

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# ? Sep 14, 2014 23:38

anthonypants: May 6, 2007; by Nyc_Tattoo; Dinosaur Gum

MiniFoo posted:

yeah now that i think about it, my 360 controller has some deadzone issues on one of its analog sticks, maybe that's it (i leave it plugged in all the time)

my 360 controller does the same thing :tipshat:

# ? Sep 14, 2014 23:40

Panty Saluter: Jan 17, 2004; Making learning fun!

Awia posted:

AudioQuest DragonFly v1.2: Now With Even Better Sound, Just as Easy to Use, Plus It's More Affordable!

i want 2 bbelieve

# ? Sep 14, 2014 23:48

BangersInMyKnickers: Nov 3, 2004; I have a thing for courageous dongles

MiniFoo posted:

yeah now that i think about it, my 360 controller has some deadzone issues on one of its analog sticks, maybe that's it (i leave it plugged in all the time)

powercfg /lastwake will tell you what device brought the system out of sleep

# ? Sep 16, 2014 18:24

Corla Plankun: May 8, 2007; improve the lives of everyone

how hard is it to put linux on a mac laptop? is it the same amount of janitoring as a normal laptop?

# ? Sep 18, 2014 21:40

Shaggar: Apr 26, 2006

mac laptops come w/ Linux preinstalled

# ? Sep 18, 2014 21:41

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# ? May 10, 2024 00:44

raruler: Oct 5, 2003; “Here lies a toppled god —
His fall was not a small one.
We did but build his pedestal,
A narrow and a tall one.”

Corla Plankun posted:

how hard is it to put linux on a mac laptop? is it the same amount of janitoring as a normal laptop?

assuming we're talking about a modern intel system yes

you can do the EFI route if you want, or the garbage legacy option

why you would despoil a MacBook with slackware is beyond me

# ? Sep 18, 2014 21:42

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