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MrMoo
Sep 14, 2000

I can only hear the 3D audio positioned behind me, is it supposed to work in front as well?

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MrMoo
Sep 14, 2000

The challenge is avoiding crappy Bluetooth stacks, on Windows find something that can uses Microsoft's own stack. TRENDnet seem to have a nice small device for ~US$10 has terrible reviews due to BlueSoleil stack. Newegg.com seems to have more than Amazon but the number of adapters appears to be declining as proprietary radio is back in favour in mouse and keyboard outside of Apple. On PC hardware you find non-Bluetooth devices connect quicker and have longer battery life.

I assume it may be better but Microsoft only started off with basic device support, audio support such as headsets required a third party stack.

This device looks neat if a bit stupid, use your computer keyboard with a smart phone:

http://buffalo.jp/product/peripheral/wireless-adapter/bshsbt04bk/

MrMoo fucked around with this message at 21:43 on Oct 22, 2014

MrMoo
Sep 14, 2000

Try http://www.refurbups.com surprisingly not as bad as one may initially think.

MrMoo
Sep 14, 2000

With modern HDDs though you will not see errors, the firmware on the drive is performing repairs and moving blocks around hence the slow performance. I think theoretically if you keep on performing scans of good sectors and wait for the SMART counters to settle you would have a usable disk. In reality it is likely the disk has attained some borderline state that sectors are randomly failing everywhere and the firmware is going to be working overtime until something serious is lost and it is completely non-functional.

MrMoo
Sep 14, 2000

Jolan posted:

Is there any way to force that SMART counter reset or to make sure it's got failing sectors that it's automatically trying to repair? Just want to be sure before I buy a new drive.

Usually the vendor tools can perform a reset.

MrMoo
Sep 14, 2000

Droo posted:

I am in charge of a small server room at work. The server room has two Liebert DS cooling units and ten server racks. Only 6 out of 10 of the racks are populated.

Does anyone know if it would hurt one of the Liebert DS units to turn it off for extended periods of time? I would normally assume that they are fine, but these stupid things seem so touchy that I am a little worried turning one off for 3 months at a time would actually cause problems.

There are no issues outside of the Liebert's themselves in turning them off - cooling capacity is fine with one unit, sensors are in place, computers are non-critical and would shut off automatically if the other unit fails and they get too hot, etc. I am only worried about the Liebert itself.

Turn them on in rotation: at the end of the day turn the other on, make sure it is happy and turn off the other.

MrMoo
Sep 14, 2000

It is all about the amps, if you want to plug an iPad, iPhone, and webcam into a hub you are going to need external power because the host will not be able to supply enough.

Also, financials, unpowered hubs are by definition cheaper.

MrMoo
Sep 14, 2000

I think pretty much every power brick has this labeled somewhere,

MrMoo
Sep 14, 2000

Windows Home Basic?

MrMoo
Sep 14, 2000

A lot of options depending upon latency requirements, for example digital picture frames can support network access similarly there are various RSS viewing devices. Probably more reliable to use a tablet or a Raspberry Pi in a box.

Then there are just external monitors, there has been for a while USB based DisplayLink. Windows has built in things like Miracast and projection support but very limited support for the later and varied quality for the former.

Even Arduino can be used for a basic RSS text feed:



Hardware tickers are quite expensive and should be avoided these days, I helped NYSE replace their hardware tickers with HDTV's and Ubuntu based Chromium web browser for example.

MrMoo fucked around with this message at 18:03 on Sep 27, 2016

MrMoo
Sep 14, 2000

So closer to the retail eink displays for pricing?



Or maybe just this:


https://www.microframecorp.com/d5120xxxk-2-digit-wireless-take-a-number-display

In HK most of these have changed to PC's with LCD monitors as they're cheaper.


Also just found this which looks quite project worthy:



https://davidgf.net/page/41/e-ink-wifi-display

MrMoo fucked around with this message at 18:19 on Sep 27, 2016

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MrMoo
Sep 14, 2000

Something like https://deepstream.io/ and two Android tablets should be functionality up to par and safe hardware wise.

More cute gadgets:



https://getdisplio.com

MrMoo fucked around with this message at 19:07 on Sep 27, 2016

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