'No Stupid Questions' (NSQ) Internet & Technology Edition

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Strange Rope Hero said:
By DOS do you mean the command prompt, or MS-DOS.
If it's MS-DOS, any program can delete your hard drive's MBR.
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Beyond that. If it's actual factual MS-DOS (or 9x) on an era-appropriate machine, a program could wipe your BIOS.

CIH (computer virus) - Wikipedia

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Popping in a DOS boot disk and typing "fdisk /cmbr" is a lot easier than desoldering and breadboarding ancient ROM chips.
 
Windows deleted my files, photos and videos from my Downloads folder. How do I get it back? I have been looking at data recovery software but it's all stuff you need to pay for. Is their anything that's free?
 
I have been trying for years, to find a solution to the EDID incorrectly reading an LG monitor's physical size.
As yet I haven't come across anything that isn't a balls up of instructions and 'maybe'.
The latest that I came across yesterday, put a command in the xorg.conf.d file that says something about not reading the EDID.
I have dual monitors, it reads the ViewSonic monitor correctly. Anyone have any ideas?
 
annoyingfuck said:
I have been trying for years, to find a solution to the EDID incorrectly reading an LG monitor's physical size.
As yet I haven't come across anything that isn't a balls up of instructions and 'maybe'.
The latest that I came across yesterday, put a command in the xorg.conf.d file that says something about not reading the EDID.
I have dual monitors, it reads the ViewSonic monitor correctly. Anyone have any ideas?
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I assume when you say physical size, you're talking about actual resolution, not how large the thing says it is? If it is the later then respect your troll.

I haven't had to screw around with anything like this since back in the day when resolution availability was controlled by modelines in your XFree86.config, but a look around did turn up this discussion on the Ubuntu kernel development mailing list from one of their senior kernel devs talking about a patch to allow overrides of the EDID.

Apparently, as part of the direct 'DRM' drivers that are used for most modern graphics interfaces on Linux, they use something called 'KMS' (Kernel Mode Setting) that means that responsibility for understanding what resolutions are available has actually jumped into the kernel.

You could maybe have a look around along these lines, see if anything like this has made it into the kernel.. or if you're really game, see if the patch that the Ubuntu guy created can be adapted to the current state of the relevant upstream code.
https://web.archive.org/web/2019121...ATCH-0-1-EDID-override-support-td4649437.html

Or to keep it simple, if xrandr lets you add new modelines, then just put some xrandr instructions in a script and have it run when you login.
https://web.archive.org/web/20150111023631/https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2008395
 
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Is there a good premade solution that provides a dynamic feed of messages that users can input, in an info dashboard/TV friendly format via HTTP(S) in a monolithic, extremely lightweight package? LDAP authentication would be preferable for delegating ACLs to make/edit/delete messages; but any kind of user control beyond a single admin would work.

I'm trying my hardest to not actually have to engineer something.
 
Could anyone convince me to not purchase a Microsoft Go? Far as I can tell it has all that would suit my needs.
 
I want to buy a decent gaming rig. However, I literally don't know what any of the specs mean other than "expensive is better HURRRR". Can someone give me a quick rundown on what the numbers mean on processors and graphics cards? Specifically, how do I tell a good one from a bad one? I understand hard drive, and that solid state drives are faster (I think?), and I understand what "memory" means, that's what they call RAM now for some reason.

Basically, I used to know computers 20 years ago but I don't know what the hell I'm looking at. I'm looking for something to play games on, but I'm not 100% stuck on having the best settings on the newest games, I just want them to run smoothly. (my current computer is a 9 year old laptop which is literally being held together with tape)
 
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JektheDumbass said:
I want to buy a decent gaming rig. However, I literally don't know what any of the specs mean other than "expensive is better HURRRR". Can someone give me a quick rundown on what the numbers mean on processors and graphics cards? Specifically, how do I tell a good one from a bad one? I understand hard drive, and that solid state drives are faster (I think?), and I understand what "memory" means, that's what they call RAM now for some reason.

Basically, I used to know computers 20 years ago but I don't know what the hell I'm looking at. I'm looking for something to play games on, but I'm not 100% stuck on having the best settings on the newest games, I just want them to run smoothly. (my current computer is a 9 year old laptop which is literally being held together with tape)
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I'd say you should look on YouTube for a budget build from a respectable channel using first or second gen AMD Ryzen processors.

You might want to look at Ryzen APUs, as they package the GPU, so you don't have to buy a separate one.

I do not recommend Intel CPUs or third gen Ryzen, due to some implementation and security issues, and relative price-to-performance problems.
 
Depending on your budget you could easily build one yourself using a generated build off PcPartPicker

Build Guides

pcpartpicker.com pcpartpicker.com

Or if you don't mind spending a bit extra you could go with a prebuilt from iBuyPower which actually have decent prices but still include a markup.
 
ZMOT said:
like? just curious, didn't really follow stuff after I upgraded.
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Well, Intel has a bunch of security issues in the CPU implementation, and new ones keep being discovered, so that's why I don't suggest buying from them.

www.tomshardware.com

Intel vs AMD Processor Security: Who Makes the Safest CPUs?

Who has the most secure processors, AMD or Intel?
www.tomshardware.com www.tomshardware.com

Ryzen gen three had an RDRAND bug, but I'd suggest you do your own research.
 
How do I archive entire twitter feeds of a specific cow? Linuxfag, minored in CS.
 
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