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

i like foobar2k but i also seriously enjoy arranging things both digital and irl so it may not be for everyone

# ? Aug 21, 2015 19:15

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# ? May 13, 2024 21:49

SO DEMANDING: Dec 27, 2003

cmykjester posted:

iTunes for Windows is a piece of poo poo that causes a runaway disnoted process on my PC.

What's a good program to play music on Windows?

i unironically use foobar2000

i set it up 6-7 years ago have havent touched it since, suits my needs and works 4 me

# ? Aug 21, 2015 19:16

Nintendo Kid: Aug 4, 2011; by Smythe

cmykjester posted:

iTunes for Windows is a piece of poo poo that causes a runaway disnoted process on my PC.

What's a good program to play music on Windows?

winamp or zune

# ? Aug 21, 2015 21:50

Heresiarch: Oct 6, 2005; Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that no single book is. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.

i unironically use google music because it's free, it works well enough, it's got apps for ios too, and if i need to i can just redownload my entire collection and go back to being a foobar sperg

use whatever works for you and if anybody gives you poo poo because they made different choices, gently caress 'em

# ? Aug 21, 2015 22:58

maniacdevnull: Apr 18, 2007; FOUR CUBIC FRAMES
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Heresiarch posted:

use whatever works for you and if anybody gives you poo poo because they made different choices, gently caress 'em

haha nice fake post

# ? Aug 21, 2015 23:00

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

Try out musicbee, it's a pretty good looking and functional player. I switched to it after getting annoyed with foobar.

# ? Aug 21, 2015 23:09

Raluek: Nov 3, 2006; WUT.

i have a centos box that boots from a usb drive. when i first set it up, i used some cheapy $7 thumb drive. predictably, the boot partition got all fuckered because of the cheap drive. so i bought a class 10 kingston micro-sdhc and a usb adapter for it, thinking this would get me higher quality flash media. after a few weeks of use, the nmbd service failed to start normally, so i would ssh into it by ip and restart the service every time i would boot the machine. after months of this, apparently now nmbd is completely unable to start. im going to start chasing the reason for this, but i kind of feel like maybe the boot media is failing again? is this reasonable? two times in a row? is there another reasonable cause for this sort of degredation? the box is a fileserver, so it pretty much just gets turned on, remotely accessed, then turned back off. nothing on the boot partition really gets altered.

i hope i dont have to put another spinny disk in this thing, lol

# ? Aug 22, 2015 00:21

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

why would a cheap drive cause the boot partition to fail

# ? Aug 22, 2015 03:30

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A Wheezy Steampunk posted:

i like foobar2k but i also seriously enjoy arranging things both digital and irl so it may not be for everyone

Your a media janitor irl soooooo

# ? Aug 22, 2015 04:55

theflyingexecutive: Apr 22, 2007

anyone have an m2x5 screw they'd send me for a buck or w/e? I just need one and ordering a 24 pack seems wasteful to me

# ? Aug 22, 2015 05:04

Raluek: Nov 3, 2006; WUT.

anthonypants posted:

why would a cheap drive cause the boot partition to fail

because hte boot partition is on said cheap flash media. it's a fileserver with 4 conventional hard drives, with the os (centos 7) on the flash drive/micro-sdhc card

# ? Aug 22, 2015 06:42

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

Raluek posted:

because hte boot partition is on said cheap flash media. it's a fileserver with 4 conventional hard drives, with the os (centos 7) on the flash drive/micro-sdhc card

perhaps you could test the drive to see if its working properly

# ? Aug 22, 2015 07:09

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

Raluek posted:

because hte boot partition is on said cheap flash media. it's a fileserver with 4 conventional hard drives, with the os (centos 7) on the flash drive/micro-sdhc card

if by "cheap" you mean that it says it's a 128GB flash card and it's actually like 4GB, then yes, you need a better storage device

are you actually using that usb device as an os, or are you using it like a livecd and keeping the os in ram? because if you use it like a livecd you can write-protect the disk. and you don't need a lot of ram for a fileserver

or, hey, since it's a file server, you have storage on this server, you can just use a tiny portion of your disks to put a loving OS onto without having to justify needless bullshit

anthonypants fucked around with this message at 07:45 on Aug 22, 2015

# ? Aug 22, 2015 07:33

Raluek: Nov 3, 2006; WUT.

bobbilljim posted:

perhaps you could test the drive to see if its working properly

well i mean fsck has no problems with it

anthonypants posted:

if by "cheap" you mean that it says it's a 128GB flash card and it's actually like 4GB, then yes, you need a better storage device

are you actually using that usb device as an os, or are you using it like a livecd and keeping the os in ram? because if you use it like a livecd you can write-protect the disk. and you don't need a lot of ram for a fileserver

or, hey, since it's a file server, you have storage on this server, you can just use a tiny portion of your disks to put a loving OS onto without having to justify needless bullshit

nah its just a normal centos install, not set up as a "live" thing. yeah i could make a small partition on the raid itself, i just liked the idea of separation of concerns between system and data; i was figuring i could just throw a $15 usb storage device at it and not have my OS on the raid. welp i guess not.

# ? Aug 22, 2015 08:20

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

that "'live' thing" is taking an iso and burning that onto a usb disk

# ? Aug 22, 2015 08:33

Raluek: Nov 3, 2006; WUT.

anthonypants posted:

that "'live' thing" is taking an iso and burning that onto a usb disk

yea but it would be missing packages i want and configuration etc. so i would have to unfreeze it, make changes, then repack the disk image and it all seems like way too much of a hassle

# ? Aug 22, 2015 09:00

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

Raluek posted:

yea but it would be missing packages i want and configuration etc. so i would have to unfreeze it, make changes, then repack the disk image and it all seems like way too much of a hassle

lol

# ? Aug 22, 2015 09:05

Siljmonster: Dec 16, 2005; by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Dodoman posted:

Try out musicbee, it's a pretty good looking and functional player. I switched to it after getting annoyed with foobar.

you tried to skin it didnt you

# ? Aug 22, 2015 09:15

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

my iPad charger stopped working:angry:

# ? Aug 23, 2015 00:18

obstipator: Nov 8, 2009; by FactsAreUseless

I dont normally use nosql bc i tried it out for a while and it was loving garbage, but I've finally run across a database structure that is much better suited for it; very graph-like. I have a very hierarchical tree like structure starting w/ a single root node and making tons of leaves w/ more leaves, dividing into a million different structs, which then reference other leaves from other branches. what db should i use for this?? mongo cant handle it bc it has a limit for doc size. This db struct is probs going to be about 3gb as a bigass tree and idk what nosql trends have grown to be actually useful products. I originally tried to put it in a huge json string and just load it into mem when i want to browse it, but js caps string lengths to like 150mb or something and doesnt let u use up as much mem as u want for regular objects. buffers are the only way to bypass those mem limits. so im p sure any javascript based db's are not going to work

# ? Aug 29, 2015 18:03

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

obstipator posted:

I dont normally use nosql bc i tried it out for a while and it was loving garbage, but I've finally run across a database structure that is much better suited for it; very graph-like. I have a very hierarchical tree like structure starting w/ a single root node and making tons of leaves w/ more leaves, dividing into a million different structs, which then reference other leaves from other branches. what db should i use for this?? mongo cant handle it bc it has a limit for doc size. This db struct is probs going to be about 3gb as a bigass tree and idk what nosql trends have grown to be actually useful products. I originally tried to put it in a huge json string and just load it into mem when i want to browse it, but js caps string lengths to like 150mb or something and doesnt let u use up as much mem as u want for regular objects. buffers are the only way to bypass those mem limits. so im p sure any javascript based db's are not going to work

# ? Aug 29, 2015 18:14

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

obstipator posted:

I dont normally use nosql bc i tried it out for a while and it was loving garbage, but I've finally run across a database structure that is much better suited for it; very graph-like. I have a very hierarchical tree like structure starting w/ a single root node and making tons of leaves w/ more leaves, dividing into a million different structs, which then reference other leaves from other branches. what db should i use for this?? mongo cant handle it bc it has a limit for doc size. This db struct is probs going to be about 3gb as a bigass tree and idk what nosql trends have grown to be actually useful products. I originally tried to put it in a huge json string and just load it into mem when i want to browse it, but js caps string lengths to like 150mb or something and doesnt let u use up as much mem as u want for regular objects. buffers are the only way to bypass those mem limits. so im p sure any javascript based db's are not going to work

# ? Aug 30, 2015 00:35

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

obstipator posted:

I dont normally use nosql bc i tried it out for a while and it was loving garbage, but I've finally run across a database structure that is much better suited for it; very graph-like.

realtalk though: mongo is garbage, since you have a graph you want to store maybe check out a graph database like neo4j

# ? Aug 30, 2015 00:36

obstipator: Nov 8, 2009; by FactsAreUseless

Cocoa Crispies posted:

realtalk though: mongo is garbage, since you have a graph you want to store maybe check out a graph database like neo4j

neato, thanks

# ? Sep 1, 2015 01:21

Stymie: Jan 9, 2001; by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

is there a good tool to wipe a hard drive that doesn't involve booting from a cd?

i know dban is the standard, but i just have no desire to boot from a disc

# ? Sep 2, 2015 05:48

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

Stymie posted:

is there a good tool to wipe a hard drive that doesn't involve booting from a cd?

i know dban is the standard, but i just have no desire to boot from a disc

a really big magnet

# ? Sep 2, 2015 06:10

CrazyLittle: Sep 11, 2001; Clapping Larry

anthonypants posted:

a really big magnet

carbide drill bit

# ? Sep 2, 2015 07:41

cowboy beepboop: Feb 24, 2001

Stymie posted:

is there a good tool to wipe a hard drive that doesn't involve booting from a cd?

i know dban is the standard, but i just have no desire to boot from a disc

a different drive to your os, right? why not just format

# ? Sep 2, 2015 09:22

spankmeister: Jun 15, 2008

Stymie posted:

is there a good tool to wipe a hard drive that doesn't involve booting from a cd?

i know dban is the standard, but i just have no desire to boot from a disc

boot dban from an usb

# ? Sep 2, 2015 09:30

spankmeister: Jun 15, 2008

you can just dd the iso to the usb stick and it will work

# ? Sep 2, 2015 09:31

prefect: Sep 11, 2001; No one, Woodhouse.
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cmykjester posted:

iTunes for Windows is a piece of poo poo that causes a runaway disnoted process on my PC.

What's a good program to play music on Windows?

itunes for windows has stopped downloading new episodes of subscribed podcasts for some reason. it's a piece of poo poo

# ? Sep 2, 2015 13:10

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# ? Sep 2, 2015 13:37

Lightbulb Out: Apr 28, 2006; slack jawed yokel

prefect posted:

itunes for windows has stopped downloading new episodes of subscribed podcasts for some reason. it's a piece of poo poo

i have the opposite problem where it just downloads all the old podcasts available for download even though i've marked them as played. mark them as played, delete them, it will redownload all of them as unplayed.

# ? Sep 2, 2015 14:25

ahmeni: May 1, 2005; It's one continuous form where hardware and software function in perfect unison, creating a new generation of iPhone that's better by any measure.; Grimey Drawer