I get that with ads on websites all the time now. Oh, your screen resolution is < 1080? Please rotate your device...
--Patrick
[Rant] Tech Whine Like a baby thread
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GasBandit
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That's odd... I just double checked on my laptop (which is using videostream just like a desktop)... and I'm still able to send to my chromecast. I never had to set any flags in chrome to begin with, though...
GasBandit
Staff member
That's absolutely bizarre. I just double checked I had the latest version of chrome, and I do... and it continues to work as usual. Is your desktop on a wireless connection, perhaps? There's a tool that helps if that's the case...
https://github.com/videostream/VideostreamPortFix/releases
Can't you just stream Amazon Prime straight to the Chromecast from the app again now?
GasBandit
Staff member
I've read other people having problems doing it this way. Try this instead -
Instead of launching it from the taskbar, have chrome open a new tab, then hit the "apps" shortcut on the bookmark bar. Videostream for chrome should show up in the list it creates on the new tab, and see if launching it from there behaves better.
GasBandit
Staff member
hrm. Try navigating to chrome://apps
or maybe right click an empty portion of the bookmarks bar and see if the second-to-last opion is apps shortcut.
GasBandit
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I had planned to put my server in the closet of my computer room to help isolate the noise. This plan has backfired. Being shut into a closet means the server warms up that closet PDQ, and the fans get louder and louder and louder as it cools itself with progressively warmer and warmer air. Pretty soon, it can be heard anywhere in the house.
Plan B is to move it out of the closet and sit it on top of a big metal filing cabinet next to the closet. I'm hoping it acts as a sort of extended heat sink, meaning the server won't need to run its fans very hard to stay cool. It'll still be audible in the computer room, which is something I was trying to avoid, but it'll be way less audible than now, in the closet!
Plan B is to move it out of the closet and sit it on top of a big metal filing cabinet next to the closet. I'm hoping it acts as a sort of extended heat sink, meaning the server won't need to run its fans very hard to stay cool. It'll still be audible in the computer room, which is something I was trying to avoid, but it'll be way less audible than now, in the closet!
Could you mount it vertically? Then you'll conscript physics to help you out, as well as making it significantly more difficult for Nibbles to occupy it.
Or you could replace the closet door with some sort of vented baffle so air can get in the bottom and out the top, but sound cannot.
--Patrick
Or you could replace the closet door with some sort of vented baffle so air can get in the bottom and out the top, but sound cannot.
--Patrick
GasBandit
Staff member
My primary platter drive has been in the process of dying for a month or so, but I didn't really have time to properly address it. Last night it finally gave up the ghost. I'm thankful I managed to rescue my HFA2 stuff before it was too late, along with a couple other things, but I've now found I've lost a few things I didn't think of in time - my super-modded skyrim install is gone, and so is my unity development environment and my model ripping tools and my MMD installation. These are all things I can get again, but it will be a pain in the ass to reinstall and set up how I like them... and in the meantime, that means I can't make any more avatars for Beat Saber or VRChat, I can't make any more HFA-based youtube videos, and of course I can't play my customized skyrim (probably ever again, because my save games require the exact combination of mods I was using when they were saved).
It's a real bummer.
It's a real bummer.
None of my pcs even have optical drives anymore.
None of the ones I've built/bought since 2013 do, either (though I keep an external around for ripping).
--Patrick
I have to many drives to talk about in polite company....
Yeah but you're also a super weeb
hey look, what a man and his ultra HD blu-ray drive do in their own home is their own business!
That's why I built a NAS.
Soon I will have everything in one place instead of scattered amongst a bunch of bare drives. And then I can get rid of the bare drives. Or sell them, or something.
--Patrick
Zappit
Staff member
Been working on a paper all day on my laptop, and walked away for a couple hours. I come back, and Windows is running a massive update I kept pushing back. Because apparently it will run it automatically.
Well played, Microsoft. And fuck you.
Seriously, this update screwed up my tower PC, my sister’s laptop, and now it’s coming for mine.
Well played, Microsoft. And fuck you.
Seriously, this update screwed up my tower PC, my sister’s laptop, and now it’s coming for mine.
I updated my laptop to try the stupid Xbox game pass for outer worlds... Boy what a mistake that was.
Finally started on my router build tonight. The last few parts to arrive have been sitting around for weeks. Heck, I bought the CPU back in June...of 2018.
The 8GB of ECC RAM I thought I had...isn't. So now I gotta make do w/ a different ECC 4GB stick until I resolve that.
The SFX power supply I bought already came with a SFX to ATX adapter included, which means I didn't have to spend an extra $14 after all. Oh well.
--Patrick
The 8GB of ECC RAM I thought I had...isn't. So now I gotta make do w/ a different ECC 4GB stick until I resolve that.
The SFX power supply I bought already came with a SFX to ATX adapter included, which means I didn't have to spend an extra $14 after all. Oh well.
--Patrick
So now that the holiday delays are over, the router box is finally built and is now undergoing overnight MemTest86 burn-in testing before I try to start configuring it tomorrow to be our new edge router.
It sports 32GB ECC RAM, a 120GB SSD RAID-1, a Xeon E3-1275L v3 processor, eight 10/100/1000Base-T ports for me to divvy up, and even a 9th one for OOB IPMI management.
So why is this a whine?
The router box may be using only its integrated Intel VGA graphics, but it has twice as much RAM, 30x the HDD speed, and a 70% faster CPU than my current gaming rig, yet all of that fits within a power budget less than one third that of my gaming rig.
It's not fair.
--Patrick
It sports 32GB ECC RAM, a 120GB SSD RAID-1, a Xeon E3-1275L v3 processor, eight 10/100/1000Base-T ports for me to divvy up, and even a 9th one for OOB IPMI management.
So why is this a whine?
The router box may be using only its integrated Intel VGA graphics, but it has twice as much RAM, 30x the HDD speed, and a 70% faster CPU than my current gaming rig, yet all of that fits within a power budget less than one third that of my gaming rig.
It's not fair.
--Patrick
GasBandit
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I bought a 24 port gigabit switch to wire up the house for ethernet, and to prepare for putting in some security cameras.
I forgot to buy the PoE version >_< ah well, I guess this is only 50 more bucks and the cameras can get by on 100 mbit.
I forgot to buy the PoE version >_< ah well, I guess this is only 50 more bucks and the cameras can get by on 100 mbit.
Ugh.
Installing WinXP from scratch in this day and age is an absolute slog. I couldn't even start without downloading the Ethernet driver on another computer and walking it over, but seems Intel removed it from their site during the great November purge, so I had to hunt all over archive.org until I found an old capture that still had it. And once I got the vendor drivers installed and lit up, I still had to install SP3 before I could get started on the something like 250+ additional updates released afterwards. Did I also mention that Microsoft's update servers will refuse to talk to computers running XP until they've received certain key security updates? So you can't get any updates until you get the updates that enable your computer to get the other updates, but there's no list showing which order they have to run and now it's something like 8hrs later.
I'm so looking forward to finishing this thing so I can go to bed and rest up before I get started on installing Win7tomorrow later today.
--Patrick
Installing WinXP from scratch in this day and age is an absolute slog. I couldn't even start without downloading the Ethernet driver on another computer and walking it over, but seems Intel removed it from their site during the great November purge, so I had to hunt all over archive.org until I found an old capture that still had it. And once I got the vendor drivers installed and lit up, I still had to install SP3 before I could get started on the something like 250+ additional updates released afterwards. Did I also mention that Microsoft's update servers will refuse to talk to computers running XP until they've received certain key security updates? So you can't get any updates until you get the updates that enable your computer to get the other updates, but there's no list showing which order they have to run and now it's something like 8hrs later.
I'm so looking forward to finishing this thing so I can go to bed and rest up before I get started on installing Win7
--Patrick
WHY!?
GasBandit
Staff member
I'm on the road for work this week, in Dallas. I'm sharing a hotel room with the install tech for the job we're on.
He started running a 101 degree fever last night.
So I look forward to not having any techs to reterminate cable or fix rack builds at work today, and coming home to risking infection tonight. And all I can do is hope he gets well enough to come in to work tomorrow or else this job isn't gonna get done on time.
He started running a 101 degree fever last night.
So I look forward to not having any techs to reterminate cable or fix rack builds at work today, and coming home to risking infection tonight. And all I can do is hope he gets well enough to come in to work tomorrow or else this job isn't gonna get done on time.
Because I'm finally moving my main system from a 1TB SATA II boot to a 2TB SATA III boot?
--Patrick