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When a monitor simply states HDMI & DP in its output, I should just assume they are both version 1.0 from now on. Just because the manufacturing date on the label is 2012 doesn't mean the manufacturer has gone through the trouble of updating the ports to 1.3 & 1.2 respectively. After all, it makes no business sense in adding support for DVD-Audio, DTS-HD/Dolby TrueHD bitstream, DeepColor or so much bandwidth on an 8-bit IPS monitor aimed squarely for the business and professionals market.

This post has been edited by hujan86: Sep 25 2016, 13:07

[news.softpedia.com] Microsoft Blames Wikipedia for Putting Melbourne in the Wrong Hemisphere

it’s a little surprising to see a company the size of Microsoft relying on a service such as Wikipedia

The correct way to it write is" "it’s idiotic that a company the size of Microsoft relied on a service such as Wikipedia"

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The easy removable fan feature that Sapphire heavily touted in its GPU products is just a marketing gimmick as standard RMA procedure doesn't allow for shipping out just the fans. Moreover, if one wants to clean the heatsink of dust, he/she needs to remove the entire fan shroud, not just the fans. As such, removable fans is pointless.

After finished configuring my modem's settings, this came to my mind: It's odd that many offices adjacent to my workplace had their wireless modems/router configured to use the weak WEP encryption scheme rather than WPA/WPA2.

This post has been edited by hujan86: Oct 2 2016, 02:27

offices adjacent to my workplace had their wireless modems/router configured to use the weak WEP encryption scheme rather than WPA/WPA2.

You need to tell me where you work, I love "free" internet hotspots. If I ever want to do some black hat work I'll know where to connect.

offices adjacent to my workplace had their wireless modems/router configured to use the weak WEP encryption scheme rather than WPA/WPA2.

You need to tell me where you work, I love "free" internet hotspots. If I ever want to do some black hat work I'll know where to connect.

Chances are, you won't even need to break the WEP. Walk or exercise around the neighborhood and set your device to attempt to break into any modems/routers you find via telnet ports using default passwords and you'll even get root access (yes, UID 0) when it succeeds. (I know, facepalm moment right?) Couple of the operators in my area seem to be oblivious to the fact that there's often another user/s that come on preloaded on a router when they buy from any store.

Then again, WEP breaking is always fun to do as long as there's users around using the network. That attack vector's a classic. Even more fun when you find a high elevation point and set up a Yagi-Uda antenna and signal amplifier with an Atheros chipset card around sunset.

This post has been edited by chriseras: Oct 2 2016, 22:13

Say, is gaining access to a router something that's easy to do?

I mean the part where you can change its settings, I managed to connect to my neighbors' wifi but never really bothered with that part since they don't use the default password.

Chances are, you won't even need to break the WEP. Walk or exercise around the neighborhood and set your device to attempt to break into any modems/routers you find via telnet ports using default passwords and you'll even get root access (yes, UID 0) when it succeeds. (I know, facepalm moment right?) Couple of the operators in my area seem to be oblivious to the fact that there's often another user/s that come on preloaded on a router when they buy from any store.

I thought that the ISPs where I live were bad, Heh.

(Also, I'll answer that PM, I promise)

Say, is gaining access to a router something that's easy to do?

I mean the part where you can change its settings, I managed to connect to my neighbors' wifi but never really bothered with that part since they don't use the default password.

Breaking into a single specific router is pretty hard. 95% of routers/APs are well configured and pretty difficult to get anything from. But when you look at the stats:

On my street (about 300 yards) there are >60 SSIDs. Given that only 95% of routers are well configured, at least 3 SSIDs on my street are trivial to break in.

DirectWrite is one of most heinous crimes ever committed against font rendering and general legibility

this is interesting, something nice to read so far

If on-board audio solutions, audio peripheral/equipment manufacturers isn't on board in universally adopting digital connectors, be it USB Type-C or Lightning or Thunderbolt,I don't see the 3.5mm jack is going to go away any soon.

Has anyone use soundcloud before?
Can I use it as a audio cdn?

You know, do something like:

<audio id="fx">
<source src="soundcloud.com/xxx" type="audio/mpeg">
</audio>

Edit:
Just figured out my answer.
Also, found this [clyp.it] https://clyp.it/ instead that explicitly allows me to do what the thing I want to do.

This post has been edited by LOL50015: Oct 7 2016, 16:28

It's unbelievable that some gaming-grade mobos released in 2015 still uses Realtek ALC892 which have existed since as early as 2010.

DirectWrite is one of most heinous crimes ever committed against font rendering and general legibility

How is it a "crime"?

General answer: crappy anti-aliasing, terrible support for Asian characters, pretty much need re-calibration for each different monitor, can look like shit on big displays
Personal answer: it just looks like shit to me. Left is DirectWrite, right is good ol' GDI

General answer: crappy anti-aliasing, terrible support for Asian characters, pretty much need re-calibration for each different monitor, can look like shit on big displays
Personal answer: it just looks like shit to me. Left is DirectWrite, right is good ol' GDI

You're bummed that Chrome removed the GDI font rendering, aren't you?

Pretty much.

MacType recently got updated and can now be hooked into DirectWrite to somehow improve the cancer-inducing font rendering, but of course the Chrome/ium devs had to go full pant-on-heads retarded and decided to use DirectWrite in a non-standard way by applying an additional custom font sharpening algorithm, meaning its font rendering continues to look like utter crap no matter what.

Because why keep things simple when you can just make your users miserable.

Can anyone confirm to me transmission signal won't degrade even the slightest bit over a HDMI cable more than 2m long? There's a HDMI cable for sale at the nearest PC store to my workplace. The brand is ULT-Unite, claims to support 1.4 specifications, has Ethernet feature and is 3m in length.

Can anyone confirm to me transmission signal won't degrade even the slightest bit over a HDMI cable more than 2m long? There's a HDMI cable for sale at the nearest PC store to my workplace. The brand is ULT-Unite, claims to support 1.4 specifications, has Ethernet feature and is 3m in length.

I never had trouble coming from my 3m cable (if trouble there was, it would come from somewhere else).But mine may be simpler than your (ethernet feature ???)

(ethernet feature ???)

It did say "With Ethernet" on the box.

This post has been edited by hujan86: Oct 10 2016, 23:35