[X] My Assistant

This morning, I found my computer out of session.
My first thought was: what if someone managed to remote-connect to my computer? (Maybe I should turn off that thing when I don't use it (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/mellow.gif) )

But it's ok, it's just that despite seeing the date of blocking Windows Update coming soon, I failed to reenable it manually, so it did its shit during the night, and rebooted without permission.
It had been years since I experienced an auto-reboot of Win10, but it's still around heh (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

edit: oh yeah, somehow quality and trust of H@H went unaffected, but it wasn't easy to get it started (it failed the initial connection test and stopped working 2 or 3 times, before a rer-run passed)

Pretty funny how you still use it despite constantly posting about troubles it's giving you.

Pretty funny how you still use it despite constantly posting about troubles it's giving you.

That's because with Linux, I would get locked out of a destroyed system, and thus not have the ability to post about anything (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

That's because with Linux, I would get locked out of a destroyed system, and thus not have the ability to post about anything (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

I've had the same installs on my desktop and laptop for the last seven years.

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Edited to avoid double posting
This xkcd comic was one of the better ones of late (imo).
(IMG:[imgs.xkcd.com] https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/faraday_tour.png)

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The real-time clock battery in my powerbook G4 died a week or two ago. I wrote a one-liner script to synchronize its time with one of the other computers on my LAN.

CODE

#! /bin/sh
sudo date -s "$(ssh <user@address, port, etc> date)"

I use public key authentication so the only password prompt is for the 'sudo.' That might skew the clock a tiny bit behind, but it's better than my laptop thinking it's 1969. Anyway, I can always just run that script as root and not get a password prompt.
The powerbook uses a no longer available rechargeable coin cell, so I'll just scrape by with this until I feel like looking for a suitable replacement. I think I know one that will work, although the solder tabs aren't oriented correctly. Shouldn't be a huge issue; at least it has soldering tabs and I don't have to spot weld or sand-and-solder to a battery. A bigger issue is that it costs $12 plus shipping, and since it's a lithium ion battery digikey won't ship it by USPS, which means more expensive shipping.
I'll probably order it at the same time as a load of other stuff I've been accumulating in a cart there for about three months so far. I have several other old things awaiting parts that I don't need so desperately as to be in a huge rush.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Aug 5 2020, 00:33

Yay. ImageGlass developer will continue to work on the Win32 version of the image viewer, with all new v8.0 slated for release next year. (With GPU HW Acceleration support perhaps? That is the feature gave the once great FastPictureViewer its speed boost) The UWP version is only scheduled for release in 2022.

GPU accelerated image viewer to improve speed

Lol.
I use an image editor written in Python on a PowerBook G4 (single CPU core, 1.33GHz). We must have very different standards.
I notice decode time with some very large images.

I doubt my newer intel-based laptop (from 2010) would be able to actually do decoding in the GPU, unless there's some library I don't know of that does it in an off-screen FBO in OpenGL 2.x (old-school, horrible GPGPU). So a program that did it in GPU would likely be useless to me. My only machine with a passable GPU by today's standards has a CPU beefy enough that it renders the point of GPU decoding moot.

I've always been disappointed that there's been zero effort to get somewhat more modern things like OpenCL working on it.

If you just mean 'resizing the images to fit the window,' then yeah, that would be handy and probably even workable on my laptops using OpenGL 2.x. No idea how good or bad I could get the resampler to look, though. And it would be annoying to do because mcomix already has it implemented totally differently and I have just slightly more than zero experience with OpenGL.

No idea if I am smart enough to do it, but it'd be fun to try to get resizing done in hardware in mcomix. Might make that a project, assuming it's not using some hardware-assisted library for it already. I'll have to figure out exactly what the code's doing before I jump in with PyOpenGL.

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I just found a beautifully awful old set of scripts I wrote for dumping comics off tapas.io.
Basically it consists of a bookmarklet you click after loading up a bunch of pages on the site that sends an XMLHttpRequest and a shell script that makes 'ncat' (basically a version of netcat) listen on a port for the request. The request consists of a list of URL's found on the page by javascript DOM queries, and the output of ncat is piped into 'xargs wget'. The nice thing about this is that the images will be downloaded in the correct page order, meaning that their modification times on the filesystem will be sequential. So to re-order the filenames so they are in the correct series, you just start incrementing up from the earliest modification date as the first page.

I'll have to try it again sometime soon and see if it still works or if I'll have to update my bookmarklet. There's a comic called "Trash Knight" I need to get back to sometime. I'll probably test it on that.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Aug 5 2020, 03:46

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O8VzuX89MY

Video discusses last generation of cards fail rates.


Its a bit annoying that the highest fail rates were on the top cards for both AMD and Nvidia.

DHL was able to find my apartment, and delivered a day early. Color me impressed.
I guess it's just fedex that is a failure, and that's unfortunate because Rock Auto and ebay parts vendors are moving to them more heavily. Bought used struts, and shifted around part selections to even be able to get non-fedex shipping (ie so I'll get the item instead of it being dumped in a random spot in the village).
New rear-upper-rearward control arms cause they needed pulled anyway, and balljoints were meh with rusted studs. Used struts from a car with half the miles and none of the rust (part out vehicle from texas). Was going to dobrear-upper-forward control arms as well, but those are much harder to pull and much more critical to the alignment. Couldn't feel any slack in their ball joints.

I've never used imageglass, i wonder if it's better then acdsee.

DHL was able to find my apartment, and delivered a day early. Color me impressed.
I guess it's just fedex that is a failure, and that's unfortunate because Rock Auto and ebay parts vendors are moving to them more heavily.

FedEx Ground uses contractor companies for most of its deliveries in my area just like how Amazon used to for most of its deliveries. The contractor delivery companies can be under pressure to deliver on the scheduled time or face reduction in collected fees from their hiring firm FedEx. As a result, I've had what I considered to be strange deliveries such as the emailed message saying package was delivered to my porch as scheduled by FedEx, yet the package doesn't appear until later that evening or even the next day. I've had deliveries appear even at night. When the FedEx contractor (white non-fedex markings) delivery van pulls up to toss the package at my porch with a thump before they run off, it shows it's after midnite and they are still delivering. The worst FedEx Ground delivery (contractor) case I've experienced had the package marked as delivered on monday, but it was actually delivered wednesday morning.

I think some of these FedEx contractors bite off more than they can chew just to have enough routes to be profitable, but if the quantity of packages peaks for some reason, they fall desperately behind. I am guessing that the contractors refuse to get penalized by FedEx for late delivery or the route driver refuses to be penalized for being slow, so they mark the package as delivered on time although the package remains in their possession. I've not reported them yet, because I want to keep delivery costs low for FedEx. But I can see why USPS can't price compete against such cost cutting practices. Unlike FedEx contractors, if the USPS lies on its delivery, it becomes a law violation, thus USPS delivery costs remain high as they cannot take shortcuts to reduce costs.

One advantage of late deliveries or 3AM deliveries is that the package thieves don't get to steal my packages before I get to them.

Oh, it's more just that fedex seems to have no concept of where my apartmemt is in the village. Less than half get delivered correctly. Most of those I never find, but sometimes I'll find one days after. I see actual fedex vans in the area, and never noticed anything unmarked delivering.

This post has been edited by Wayward_Vagabond: Aug 5 2020, 17:11

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O8VzuX89MY

Video discusses last generation of cards fail rates.
Its a bit annoying that the highest fail rates were on the top cards for both AMD and Nvidia.

TL;DR: Turns out higher heat kills things faster.
I didn't even watch it, i'm just assuming that's what its conclusion is.

GTX 750 Ti still puttering along; running 24/7 since 2015. Currently the temperature (according to nvidia-smi) is 27°C (80°F). Room temperature is 74°F (23°C). My CPU runs hotter, it's currently at around 50°C under moderate load and about 30-35°C idle.
Motherboard's CPU temperature sensor says the package is about 44°C. Stock intel cooler for Ivy Bridge (the one with a copper slug).

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Aug 5 2020, 21:31

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O8VzuX89MY

Video discusses last generation of cards fail rates.
Its a bit annoying that the highest fail rates were on the top cards for both AMD and Nvidia.

High failure rates of Powercolor Red Devil is absurd, considering how much premium have to be paid to own one. XFX's Thicc Ultra II is unsurprising. There are reviews on YT criticizing its design.

I've never used imageglass, i wonder if it's better then acdsee.

Can't say it'll meet your requirements. I liked ImgageGlass because it lets me scroll through an entire folder images with a mouse wheel. Just like FastPictureViewer (development stalled from end of 2017, promise of v2.0 unfulfilled). Albeit the latter is a lot faster.

We must have very different standards.

Sure, ok.

This post has been edited by loli-hujan86: Aug 6 2020, 02:40

... fedex seems to have no concept of where my apartment is in the village.
Less than half get delivered correctly.

Maybe time to troubleshoot the problem?
Have you ever tried pretending to be a delivery person trying to deliver a package to your address?
Is the path of the signage to your door confusing or subject to interpretation? Your address signage doesn't have one of those "7" that looks like a "1" does it?
Is there a pattern to the incorrect deliveries such as late evening deliveries (in the dark) end up at the same neighbor's address instead of yours?

The ones I do find are rarely in the same spot, and I know via an undeliverable exception they posted once that they tried to deliver a thing on the entire opposite side of the village; A festival blocked that road, but not the route to my apartment. And they're literally the only courier minus a couple of doordash drivers (whom I actually left some instructions for, that were not read, and they just sorta gave up) that can't find me.
I can't seem to find any info for how to fix an address with them- all I find is changing where it's being sent to, not that fedex can't grok what the physical address means. I've tried to deal with this before, and also attempted to refuse things preemptively and their phone system is entirely worthless, and the actual reps can't do that much.

Just learned of a South Korean company that made passive CPU coolers exclusively. That is one monstrous of a cooler. NoFan might have a better chance of staying in business had they tried to diversify. Passive cooling should've have been made only one of their product portfolios rather than being the sole basis of their business. From 2013 until their shutdown just recently, they only made and sold two different CPU coolers.

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This post has been edited by loli-hujan86: Aug 6 2020, 08:13

Just learned of a South Korean company that made passive CPU coolers exclusively. That is one monstrous of a cooler. NoFan might have a better chance of staying in business had they tried to diversify. Passive cooling should've have been made only one of their product portfolios rather than being the sole basis of their business. From 2013 until their shutdown just recently, they only made and sold two different CPU coolers.

(IMG:[eteknix-eteknixltd.netdna-ssl.com] https://eteknix-eteknixltd.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Mounted_1.jpg) (IMG:[eteknix-eteknixltd.netdna-ssl.com] https://eteknix-eteknixltd.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Mounted_3.jpg)

To use a cpu with such a huge crown, you must look the part:

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To use a cpu with such a huge crown, you must look the part:

work

Hydrogen split achieved.


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Just learned of a South Korean company that made passive CPU coolers exclusively. That is one monstrous of a cooler. NoFan might have a better chance of staying in business had they tried to diversify. Passive cooling should've have been made only one of their product portfolios rather than being the sole basis of their business. From 2013 until their shutdown just recently, they only made and sold two different CPU coolers.

Nothing like a cooler that covers half the slots on a µATX board.