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The tits sticking up are too tall for a 4U tower server chassis.
I figured cutting them off would let all the magic cold smoke out.

The tits sticking up are too tall for a 4U tower server chassis.
I figured cutting them off would let all the magic cold smoke out.

Yes if you cut the nipples off the heat sink unfortunately the heat pipes won't be effective.


*weirdly I feel like I had this exact conversation with someone back in 2008*

With one core running at full-tilt and the rest near-idle (running zopflipng), with the fans on in a constant state (though not at full-blast), temps level out at about 55°C on the CPU package temperature sensor using my stock cooler. This is on an older Intel CPU (Ivy Bridge) with a 69W TDP.

`sensors` reports that my fans are running at 2265 RPM, but I know that can't be accurate because I'm daisy-chaining fans of two different sizes together on that connector (two 80mm fans for exhaust and one 120mm fan for intake).

The other fan connector on my motherboard is hooked up to a 120mm fan running constantly at full-tilt inside my PSU, since I replaced its fan when it went bad (sleeve bearing fan mounted horizontally; boo) with a dual-ball-bearing one from a Best Buy. That one reports that it's running at 2109 RPM, which might be correct since it's the only fan on that connector.

55°C is not bad, if its running below 70°C

I just overpaid for some gamecube controller thumbstick cap replacements on ebay; there's a guy upstairs who I know has a bad controller too though so I might just charge him $8-$10 or something to fix his after mine are done to help lessen the impact. Being the idiot that I am, I paid something like $4.50 per cap.

By cap, I mean the entire plastic piece that fits on top of the potentiometer box. Not just the rubber part. My old reliable controller got a split in the rubber pad the other day and started cutting into my thumb while I was playing Melee. I already had another controller that had gone bad, so it was the straw that broke the camel's back. I swapped one of my remaining acceptable OEM caps onto my favorite controller and am just waiting for the new parts to arrive now for comparison. They'll probably be fine, but chinese copy products often amaze me with their badness so we'll see how these are.

I already gifted one of my good controllers to my brother, so I don't have any spares anymore (in fact, for four-player games, someone is always forced to use my wavebird at present. That's only annoying because of the lack of rumble and because it's missing the battery door on the rear so the batteries fall out if you hit it a little hard. Also the battery contact pieces have some corrosion from the previous owner leaving alkalines in it that I can never get completely off so it keeps coming back every few months of use).

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Nov 28 2020, 14:15

Been a few hours, so new post.

Just built a newer version of seamonkey for my laptop. Now it supports WebP. So that's good, I guess.

Since I build with '-march=westmere' for my laptop (for that tiny possible potential performance boost), I'm now doing a second build with '-march=ivybridge' for my desktop.

I suppose they actually make official 64-bit linux builds these days (they didn't around 5 years ago; just 32-bit ones), but habits die hard. Also when I built it for my Powerbook I actually did need to build from sources.

As a side note, newer versions of Gecko require nodejs as part of their build system, and nodejs doesn't build for PPC 32-bit, meaning I can't upgrade my seamonkey build on it due to them both: a) using javascript in their build system and b) not even using their own Javascript core in their own build system.

It's quite possible I could generate some files from another machine and then hack at the build environment to make it accept those pre-made ones, but I really don't want to put more work into it after how long it took to get the cross-compiled browser working and stable last time around.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Nov 28 2020, 19:25

Not just the rubber part. My old reliable controller got a split in the rubber pad the other day and started cutting into my thumb

I was waiting for another MacGyver post from you about how you fixed the problem by repurposing rubber and plastics from something else. Like I sliced up the old toothbrush handle and epoxied that onto the potentiometer gimbal. Then I cut out a piece of colorful dense rubbery material from your Nike Road Warrior to serve as the button cap for your game warrior weapon.

How to treat my ear better iunder heave fan noise

Ah , slower connect make you feel it get stuck but actually didin't


This post has been edited by POTATO47784: Nov 29 2020, 14:21

I was waiting for another MacGyver post from you about how you fixed the problem by repurposing rubber and plastics from something else. Like I sliced up the old toothbrush handle and epoxied that onto the potentiometer gimbal. Then I cut out a piece of colorful dense rubbery material from your Nike Road Warrior to serve as the button cap for your game warrior weapon.

I share controllers with other people or maybe I'd have tried something like that.

What is Twitch's business plan? They have banned their top streamer again.

is that like three big streamers gone? Weird.

Twitch is trying their best to kill their platform, but people keep using it.
Was hoping to find a BF/CM deal on hardrives, but none are to be found. I'd like 4x 4TB drives to setup as a raid.
Eddy: Nope, no new drives for me, save for a 1TB MX500 I got at normal price.

This post has been edited by Wayward_Vagabond: Dec 1 2020, 18:59

Dubs. Funfact: Supermicro has at least 3 permutations of 80mm internal fan cradle that look identical unless you inspect them very close. Ended up ordering the ones that Supermicro says fit, directly from them. For some reason, 3rd party vendors charge more for that fan used than the OEM charges some jack-off for a new one.

Was hoping to find a BF/CM deal on hardrives, but none are to be found. I'd like 4x 4TB drives to setup as a raid.
Eddy: Nope, no new drives for me, save for a 1TB MX500 I got at normal price.

I found better deals with rebates before BF/CM this year. I was expecting awesome deals but they weren't as good as leading up to the sales.

What is Twitch's business plan? They have banned their top streamer again.

If they make it easy for people (or companies) to complain about those who post items, then there will always be a lot of complaints. Complaint material doesn't need to be from the DMCA company because a competing twitch channel might tip off the copyright holder that certain twitch streamers could be in violation. Kicking the chair out from under a competing twitch stream can be worth it.

Found how to use that DSR thing of nvidia.
But since (according to HWMonitor) it at time pushed all my CPU around 100°C (limit of what can be measured), and my GPU around 90°C and 101% of power use, maybe I should stop using it...maybe.

Spoiler text - Highlight to read...

The thing is, I just have min/max values, so maybe it could be harmless brief spikes

This post has been edited by uareader: Dec 1 2020, 23:51

DSR is marginal improvements at best, and can also be worse if textures are getting stretched more and then resampled downwards again.

Apparently, PCMCIA 802.11N 5ghz cards (sorry, "CardBus PC Cards") actually exist. I think I might get one for my Latitude D610; I'm planning to use it for some old games and visual novels in XP, but copying files to it from my other machines is a bit slow unless I'm connected via ethernet (it uses 802.11g), and my new router has spoiled me.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Dec 2 2020, 12:17

Apparently, PCMCIA 802.11N 5ghz cards (sorry, "CardBus PC Cards") actually exist. I think I might get one for my Latitude D610; I'm planning to use it for some old games and visual novels in XP, but copying files to it from my other machines is a bit slow unless I'm connected via ethernet (it uses 802.11g), and my new router has spoiled me.

Just make sure the drivers support XP and not vista only.


edit: I probably shouldn't post stuff from reports.

This post has been edited by EsotericSatire: Dec 2 2020, 14:31

Just make sure the drivers support XP and not vista only.

I checked already; looks like we're probably good there.

edit: I probably shouldn't post stuff from reports.

whoopsie.

I think I have it all set up/updated now, but it's kinda hard to tell when MS killed off automatic updates. I'm not sure if I'm safe to do the POSReady ones, either, because apparently some of those updates have minimum CPU requirements that are higher than the minimum requirements for XP when it launched. I think my Pentium M 740 is probably okay, but I'm just not sure.

Found an old .bat script I wrote to force XP's start menu to sort alphabetically without me doing tons of dragging.

CODE

@echo off
REG DELETE "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MenuOrder\Start Menu2\Programs" /f
taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
start explorer
@echo on

So primitive.

I just got my ancient Cygwin install upgraded to the last release that supported XP. Seamonkey, too. And I dug up and installed that patch for AppLocale that disables that dumb warning message whenever you use it. And I:

• Dug up the ExFAT driver and SHA-256 certificate processing updates that M$ tried to kill off and removed from their servers.
• Dug up IE8 (couldn't find an easy link to an installer for it from M$).
• Dug up that patched library for installing Windows Media Player 11 without WGA (totally unnecessary; I hate WMP almost as much as WGA. I have a valid XP license anyways, but I just don't want WGA on my system. It was a fun challenge to find some of this old shit no one cares about anymore but which I remembered).
• Got OpenVPN working (although I'm not going to be networking this much more). Had to find a special driver version to make it work.
• Copied the old-style Program Manager off my WinXP "SP0" installation CD (the program manager got removed and replaced with a stub in SP2).
• Copied over Monmusu Quest.

I might finally build that USB DAC thing I'd thought of making before. TI sells a pretty simple-to-solder chip (as far as surface-mount goes) that can do 48khz, and pretty much anything can have less line noise than the built-in headphone jack on the D610, even if it's laid out by someone who knows nothing about DAC's (it really is that bad). The chip in question is ancient (from around 2003, at the very latest; it was originally a Burr-Brown design), so I have no doubt there's XP drivers for it.

Just made an absolutely horrid autohotkey script to counteract the huge volume increase on the volume buttons on my keyboard. On the lower end of the grade, it's much more noticeable, so in order to somewhat "linearise" things on the lower end of the scale I did something really stupid that required the least thought/critical thinking/math about the problem.

CODE

Gui +LastFound
hWnd := WinExist()
DllCall( "RegisterShellHookWindow", UInt,hWnd )
MsgNum := DllCall( "RegisterWindowMessage", Str,"SHELLHOOK" )
OnMessage( MsgNum, "ShellMessage" )
Return;                                                 // End of Auto-Execute Section //
isMin := 0
isMax := 0
ShellMessage( wParam,lParam ) {
; tooltip,% wParam "-" lParam>>16
  global isMin
  global isMax
  If ( wParam == 12 );  HSHELL_APPCOMMAND := 12
  {
    HiWord:=lParam>>16
    if(HiWord == 9);voldown
    {
      isMin -= 1
      if(isMin < 0)
      {
        isMin := 0
      }
    }
    if(HiWord == 10);volup
    {
      if(isMin <= 1)
      {
        SoundGet,curMasterVol
        if(curMasterVol < 10)
        {
          SoundSet,(-3.5 + (isMin))
        }
      }
      if(isMin < 3)
      {
        isMin += 1
      }
    }
  }
}

I also bound different keys that I'll probably use way more often; namely ctrl-alt-left and ctrl-alt-right.

CODE

^!Left::
SoundSet,-0.1;Down a teensy bit
return
^!Right::
SoundSet,+0.1;Up a teensy bit
return

…Now back to Monmusu Quest. Still feels fresh. I went so long without playing it a while back that I'd forgotten about 95% of the story. It was great. I still don't care for any of the losses, but I just save scum to avoid them to be honest.

…I missed being able to drag the taskbar down in windows. Auto-hide isn't the same because it'll come back and annoy you if your mouse drifts too low. I still think XP got the UI best of any version (possibly bar Win2K). Vista looked really pretty, but had quite a few regressions as well.

Almost none of this shit I've been doing in XP is even applicable on later versions; I'd say that I've spent probably three hours total using Windows 10 since it came out (all on public machines). Something like 25% of the habits I had in XP and 7 seem to work fine, and for the rest i just use the command line because it's quicker than finding where they're hiding the same old shit now.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Dec 2 2020, 21:19