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A Wheezy Steampunk: Jul 16, 2006; High School Grads Eligible!

i have a machine running windows 7 and i want to do stupid stuff in ubuntu or arch or some kind of linux, what are my vm options? it looks like vmware player can also create vm's (despite the name "player" seeming to imply otherwise?)

# ? Mar 6, 2015 21:44

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# ? May 10, 2024 06:36

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

A Wheezy Steampunk posted:

i have a machine running windows 7 and i want to do stupid stuff in ubuntu or arch or some kind of linux, what are my vm options? it looks like vmware player can also create vm's (despite the name "player" seeming to imply otherwise?)

virtualbox is decent if you don't have a vmware license

# ? Mar 6, 2015 21:50

A Wheezy Steampunk: Jul 16, 2006; High School Grads Eligible!

anthonypants posted:

virtualbox is decent if you don't have a vmware license

i think vmware player is free for personal use but it doesn't look like it has snapshots, is virtualbox worth looking into?

# ? Mar 6, 2015 21:54

Nintendo Kid: Aug 4, 2011; by Smythe

A Wheezy Steampunk posted:

i think vmware player is free for personal use but it doesn't look like it has snapshots, is virtualbox worth looking into?

virtualbox works well enough 4 me

its too bad there's been like no progress on colinux/andlinux x64

# ? Mar 6, 2015 21:57

A Wheezy Steampunk: Jul 16, 2006; High School Grads Eligible!

Nintendo Kid posted:

virtualbox works well enough 4 me

its too bad there's been like no progress on colinux/andlinux x64

okay thanks :tipshat:

# ? Mar 6, 2015 22:01

spankmeister: Jun 15, 2008

virtualbox is fine also KVM with virt-manager is very doable

# ? Mar 6, 2015 23:05

Dans Macabre: Apr 24, 2004

Nintendo Kid posted:

virtualbox works well enough 4 me

its too bad there's been like no progress on colinux/andlinux x64

I'm using virtualbox on my mac pro and I'm not able to do things like resize virtual hard disks. vmware ftw

# ? Mar 8, 2015 08:07

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

NevergirlsOFFICIAL posted:

I'm using virtualbox on my mac pro and I'm not able to do things like resize virtual hard disks. vmware ftw

iirc you need to use the cli to do that

# ? Mar 8, 2015 08:14

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

on windows virtualbox is the best of a bad bunch. on Linux i would deffo use kvm

# ? Mar 8, 2015 12:02

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

I need to reapply the paste on my cpu. I have a noctua nh14s and im hitting hi 60s without overclocking in prime95 (i5 4670k). Are there any gotchas to this hsf? I only used a rice grain of paste last time. Does it need to be spread manually or will it squeeze when the hsf presses down?

# ? Mar 8, 2015 12:27

du -hast: Mar 12, 2003; BEHEAD THOSE WHO INSULT GENTOO

Panty Saluter posted:

I need to reapply the paste on my cpu. I have a noctua nh14s and im hitting hi 60s without overclocking in prime95 (i5 4670k). Are there any gotchas to this hsf? I only used a rice grain of paste last time. Does it need to be spread manually or will it squeeze when the hsf presses down?

while technically you should just be able to just squirt it on and then press the hsf down and not worry about it, i would strongly recommend taking a razor blade or similar and spreading it around. it's unlikely that this is absolutely necessary, but at the same time, i have seen a processor burn out because the heat paste wasn't covering a corner, so ymmv.

# ? Mar 8, 2015 12:32

SYSV Fanfic: Sep 9, 2003; by Pragmatica

When you take the HS off you will be able to see where the paste is.

# ? Mar 8, 2015 12:36

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

SYSV Fanfic posted:

When you take the HS off you will be able to see where the paste is.

This is true too. Now to find my tube of heatsink paste :v:

# ? Mar 8, 2015 12:40

du -hast: Mar 12, 2003; BEHEAD THOSE WHO INSULT GENTOO

look in your mom's rear end in a top hat, i blasted a whole tube of paste in there a couple hours ago

prob shouldnt try to remove it with a razor though fyi hth

# ? Mar 8, 2015 13:15

Dans Macabre: Apr 24, 2004

I never use steam but I had a hankering for rollercoaster tycoon 2 so I got it. How do I make it run in a window (and not full screen)? ALT+enter doesn't work. The game is PC only so I'm on Windows obvi.

# ? Mar 10, 2015 00:27

Wootman: Sep 6, 2014; by XyloJW

NevergirlsOFFICIAL posted:

I never use steam but I had a hankering for rollercoaster tycoon 2 so I got it. How do I make it run in a window (and not full screen)? ALT+enter doesn't work. The game is PC only so I'm on Windows obvi.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=262483822

read this

# ? Mar 10, 2015 00:28

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

du -hast posted:

look in your mom's rear end in a top hat, i blasted a whole tube of paste in there a couple hours ago

prob shouldnt try to remove it with a razor though fyi hth

# ? Mar 10, 2015 00:29

Dans Macabre: Apr 24, 2004

Wootman posted:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=262483822

read this

awesome thanks

# ? Mar 10, 2015 00:49

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

NevergirlsOFFICIAL posted:

awesome thanks

fyi wsgf is a good resource for running old games in higher resolutions and full/windowed modes http://www.wsgf.org/dr/rollercoaster-tycoon

# ? Mar 10, 2015 04:22

A Wheezy Steampunk: Jul 16, 2006; High School Grads Eligible!

so i have msdnaa/dreamspark and i'm getting windows server 2012. is there a way to use two virtualbox VMs to simulate a client/server type of thing so i can simulate active directory for a client pc but all virtualized?

# ? Mar 10, 2015 14:39

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

A Wheezy Steampunk posted:

so i have msdnaa/dreamspark and i'm getting windows server 2012. is there a way to use two virtualbox VMs to simulate a client/server type of thing so i can simulate active directory for a client pc but all virtualized?

yes, just put them on the same virtual network and make sure they're both on at the same time

# ? Mar 10, 2015 14:46

A Wheezy Steampunk: Jul 16, 2006; High School Grads Eligible!

anthonypants posted:

yes, just put them on the same virtual network and make sure they're both on at the same time

cool

# ? Mar 10, 2015 14:54

Shaggar: Apr 26, 2006

A Wheezy Steampunk posted:

so i have msdnaa/dreamspark and i'm getting windows server 2012. is there a way to use two virtualbox VMs to simulate a client/server type of thing so i can simulate active directory for a client pc but all virtualized?

use hyperv on the windows server instead of virtualbox

# ? Mar 10, 2015 18:21

A Wheezy Steampunk: Jul 16, 2006; High School Grads Eligible!

Shaggar posted:

use hyperv on the windows server instead of virtualbox

can i run hyper-v from within virtualbox?

# ? Mar 10, 2015 19:23

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

A Wheezy Steampunk posted:

can i run hyper-v from within virtualbox?

probably not

# ? Mar 10, 2015 23:44

SYSV Fanfic: Sep 9, 2003; by Pragmatica

A Wheezy Steampunk posted:

can i run hyper-v from within virtualbox?

Try and report please.

Or maybe shaggar was saying run server 2012 on hardware and set up more server 2012 vms in hyper-v. Dunno.

# ? Mar 11, 2015 00:18

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

if i paste this

code:

function dateAdd(date, interval, units) {
  var ret = new Date(date); //don't change original date
  switch(interval.toLowerCase()) {
    case 'year'   :  ret.setFullYear(ret.getFullYear() + units);  break;
    case 'quarter':  ret.setMonth(ret.getMonth() + 3*units);  break;
    case 'month'  :  ret.setMonth(ret.getMonth() + units);  break;
    case 'week'   :  ret.setDate(ret.getDate() + 7*units);  break;
    case 'day'    :  ret.setDate(ret.getDate() + units);  break;
    case 'hour'   :  ret.setTime(ret.getTime() + units*3600000);  break;
    case 'minute' :  ret.setTime(ret.getTime() + units*60000);  break;
    case 'second' :  ret.setTime(ret.getTime() + units*1000);  break;
    default       :  ret = undefined;  break;
  }
  return ret;
};

into the console and then paste

code:

        // These will eventually come from config json
    var configStartday  = 1 // Monday
    var configCalWidth  = 5 // No Weekends
    var configCalLength = 3 // Three weeks at a time
var startDate = new Date(Date.now());
    console.log("Now: " + startDate)
    startDate.setDate(startDate.getDate()-startDate.getDay()+configStartday)
    console.log("Start date: " + startDate)
    var endDate = dateAdd(startDate, 7*configCalLength, 'day')
    console.log("End date: " + endDate)

chrome can't get past var endDate = dateAdd(startDate, 7*configCalLength, 'day') because "TypeError: undefined is not a function"

what is going on here? I really hate and don't-understand js so don't assume anything about this example

# ? Mar 11, 2015 05:04

SYSV Fanfic: Sep 9, 2003; by Pragmatica

This is why I use lynx.

# ? Mar 11, 2015 05:10

SYSV Fanfic: Sep 9, 2003; by Pragmatica

lol I don't know what I am doing.

SYSV Fanfic fucked around with this message at 05:18 on Mar 11, 2015

# ? Mar 11, 2015 05:16

Shaggar: Apr 26, 2006

Corla Plankun posted:

if i paste this

code:

function dateAdd(date, interval, units) {
  var ret = new Date(date); //don't change original date
  switch(interval.toLowerCase()) {
    case 'year'   :  ret.setFullYear(ret.getFullYear() + units);  break;
    case 'quarter':  ret.setMonth(ret.getMonth() + 3*units);  break;
    case 'month'  :  ret.setMonth(ret.getMonth() + units);  break;
    case 'week'   :  ret.setDate(ret.getDate() + 7*units);  break;
    case 'day'    :  ret.setDate(ret.getDate() + units);  break;
    case 'hour'   :  ret.setTime(ret.getTime() + units*3600000);  break;
    case 'minute' :  ret.setTime(ret.getTime() + units*60000);  break;
    case 'second' :  ret.setTime(ret.getTime() + units*1000);  break;
    default       :  ret = undefined;  break;
  }
  return ret;
};

into the console and then paste

code:

        // These will eventually come from config json
    var configStartday  = 1 // Monday
    var configCalWidth  = 5 // No Weekends
    var configCalLength = 3 // Three weeks at a time
var startDate = new Date(Date.now());
    console.log("Now: " + startDate)
    startDate.setDate(startDate.getDate()-startDate.getDay()+configStartday)
    console.log("Start date: " + startDate)
    var endDate = dateAdd(startDate, 7*configCalLength, 'day')
    console.log("End date: " + endDate)

should be endDate = dateAdd(startDate, 'day', 7*configCalLength)

interval is the second parameter so your switch is falling to the default which returns undefined.

# ? Mar 11, 2015 05:33

Shaggar: Apr 26, 2006

loving owned by dynamic types

# ? Mar 11, 2015 05:34

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

loving owned by rolling your own date/time library

# ? Mar 11, 2015 06:44

spankmeister: Jun 15, 2008

never, ever, ever roll your own datetime library

# ? Mar 11, 2015 10:40

A Wheezy Steampunk: Jul 16, 2006; High School Grads Eligible!

SYSV Fanfic posted:

Try and report please.

maybe i will!

# ? Mar 11, 2015 14:05

A Wheezy Steampunk: Jul 16, 2006; High School Grads Eligible!

i thought about asking this in the radio thread but that seems to be mostly hams so i'll try here:

I got an atsc tv tuner but when I do a channel scan with that, it doesn't pick up any stations. it's just the dinky little default antenna, so is it more likely that I'm not picking anything up because I live in a rural area or is it more likely that something is misconfigured and the software isn't communicating with the device properly? (I don't know much about the range of atsc tv signals.)

# ? Mar 11, 2015 14:12

Cocoa Crispies: Jul 20, 2001; Vehicular Manslaughter!; Pillbug

A Wheezy Steampunk posted:

i thought about asking this in the radio thread but that seems to be mostly hams so i'll try here:

I got an atsc tv tuner but when I do a channel scan with that, it doesn't pick up any stations. it's just the dinky little default antenna, so is it more likely that I'm not picking anything up because I live in a rural area or is it more likely that something is misconfigured and the software isn't communicating with the device properly? (I don't know much about the range of atsc tv signals.)

check out antenna web and see what direction and distance the local stations are

you might need a better antenna too

# ? Mar 11, 2015 14:14