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Tsutarja March 3rd, 2014 6:21 AM

There's wifi all over our campus, but some spots it doesn't function as well as other spots..

Legendary Silke March 3rd, 2014 6:31 AM

The Wi-Fi networks in my university's campus occasionally seem to be stuck timing out.

Sometimes I think the games I'm playing are somewhat CPU-limited... turning up graphics options have negligible effect on performance.

Raine March 3rd, 2014 6:36 AM

Being that I attend a college that focuses mainly on technology, the Wi-Fi networks are generally very efficient and functional majority of the time. I've never had a problem with internet, but they advise us to have an ethernet cable just in case. All my classes have its material posted online, so I'm on it the entire duration I'm at school. One of the benefits of going to this college :P

donavannj March 3rd, 2014 7:01 AM

WiFi at some of the community colleges in the area here is fantastic... as long as there's not 70 other people on it. At others, it's total crap because the buildings they are in are wonderful at blocking radio signals.

Legendary Silke March 3rd, 2014 7:09 AM

I still enjoy myself some nice campus Internet. I just need to remind myself that I really should bring my own Ethernet cables...

donavannj March 3rd, 2014 7:39 AM

Some campuses have mac address lockdowns on their ethernet ports, though. Many around here do this for security reasons, since the ethernet ports are often tied into the administrative side of the school's network.

Legendary Silke March 3rd, 2014 7:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Candy Cane Forest Elf. (Post 8125139)
Some campuses have mac address lockdowns on their ethernet ports, though. Many around here do this for security reasons, since the ethernet ports are often tied into the administrative side of the school's network.

It's pretty cool that mine doesn't... and they have Ethernet ports littered all over :3

donavannj March 3rd, 2014 8:52 AM

I wonder if they're aware of that backdoor and have it there in the event of needing to shutdown the app remotely or at the station itself.

Tsutarja March 3rd, 2014 9:20 AM

http://www.speedtest.net/result/3345470270.png

That's the Wi-Fi speed right now here from the campus library. There's not an ethernet port in sight either. But like Raine, I'll always carry an ethernet cable with me just in case.

donavannj March 3rd, 2014 9:50 AM

Oh mercy. At my technical college, I was at least able to get 4 Mbps to my laptop 3 or 4 years ago. Maybe even higher. A lot of local government agencies here have spent money to get themselves fiber optic rings between their buildings, and given that the college I went to has two campuses in the same county, it's likely they have at least a decent connection and are hopefully not running an MPLS line as the backbone of their WAN.

Though I also chose to sit in the usually empty cafeteria rather than the Student Lounge or the Library. Usually always room there as opposed to at the other two.

donavannj March 3rd, 2014 11:31 AM

That keylogging stuff could get that school in trouble if someone manages to get themselves compromised and blames it on the school.

Wait, they give teachers admin access? That's a disaster waiting to happen.

Alexander Nicholi March 3rd, 2014 8:58 PM

I thought colleges left it up to the student to do what they need to to for classes, without restriction and monitoring. Why are they babying you like high schoolers, Jordan?

My school's Wi-Fi isn't too shabby (although I haven't brought my own PC to do a speed test), and when I connect I always log in with someone else's username and password, ssince I got into some trouble and was put on a watchlist for trying to break their web filter last semester. I can do that since about 80% of students don't change their password from the default (passwordD8), and the username is [email protected]_____.org. I just have to get someone's middle initial and I can use them as a shield for whatever I want to do (which is mostly normal stuff).

Funny thing is, they pay next to zero mind to the majority of students that have a range of no-nos on their school computers, ranging from video games to proxies to even pornography (oh my!). And yet they get on me for being on a message board like PC, and confiscate my laptop for the entire semester over it. Ironic, huh?

Legendary Silke March 4th, 2014 12:06 AM

Maybe I should be glad that I can use my own setup for pretty much everything...

Tsutarja March 4th, 2014 3:37 AM

My college is unfiltered with internet, it's just so ♥♥♥♥ing slow! I can at least use Skype and IRC from my college's internet.

Back then when I was still in elementary/middle/high school, their network could only be browsed on with ports 80 and 443 and the filtering for a majority of the time I went to school was used by Websense. However, my senior year, they switched from Websense to iBoss for filtering, and the latter allowed for staff to login and bypass the filter for sites like Youtube, and the teachers used their computer logins. When iBoss filtering came to be, it had flaws. For the first few days, I was able to browse PC from school, but that eventually got blocked.. but the flaw came to be that I was able to watch Youtube from the iOS app (I didn't have my tablet at the time), but it was filtered in the web browser.

Zet March 4th, 2014 5:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Terabyte (Post 8125279)
http://www.speedtest.net/result/3345470270.png

That's the Wi-Fi speed right now here from the campus library. There's not an ethernet port in sight either. But like Raine, I'll always carry an ethernet cable with me just in case.

Jesus. And I thought we had it bad here in Australia @[email protected]


Quote:

Originally Posted by Terabyte (Post 8126689)
My college is unfiltered with internet, it's just so ♥♥♥♥ing slow! I can at least use Skype and IRC from my college's internet.

Back then when I was still in elementary/middle/high school, their network could only be browsed on with ports 80 and 443 and the filtering for a majority of the time I went to school was used by Websense. However, my senior year, they switched from Websense to iBoss for filtering, and the latter allowed for staff to login and bypass the filter for sites like Youtube, and the teachers used their computer logins. When iBoss filtering came to be, it had flaws. For the first few days, I was able to browse PC from school, but that eventually got blocked.. but the flaw came to be that I was able to watch Youtube from the iOS app (I didn't have my tablet at the time), but it was filtered in the web browser.

The job searching place I go to has websense. It was off 2 weeks ago, and I had the greatest time being able to visit the sites I liked... but last week it was turned back on, and reddit became blocked... kinda, it was listed under hobbies but we could click continue anyway.

donavannj March 4th, 2014 7:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zet (Post 8126818)
Jesus. And I thought we had it bad here in Australia @[email protected]



The job searching place I go to has websense. It was off 2 weeks ago, and I had the greatest time being able to visit the sites I liked... but last week it was turned back on, and reddit became blocked... kinda, it was listed under hobbies but we could click continue anyway.

As if most people go onto Reddit for job hunting, haha. :P

There are several subreddits dedicated to that, though. I'm subscribed to quite a few of them.

Tsutarja March 4th, 2014 2:01 PM

I never even realized reddit had a section for job postings/job hunting, tbh o.o

Of course though my brother always tells me to look around on craigslist for job postings as well

Zet March 4th, 2014 7:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Candy Cane Forest Elf. (Post 8126987)
As if most people go onto Reddit for job hunting, haha. :P

There are several subreddits dedicated to that, though. I'm subscribed to quite a few of them.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Terabyte (Post 8127570)
I never even realized reddit had a section for job postings/job hunting, tbh o.o

Of course though my brother always tells me to look around on craigslist for job postings as well

I don't think Reddit does have job hunting boards. I just go on it because I do my required job searching within 20-40 minutes, and I can't leave until 11am(I get there when it opens at 9am). So sitting around doing nothing gets boring very easily.

donavannj March 4th, 2014 9:06 PM

Occasionally there are recruitments posted up to certain subreddits. Like SysAdmin and some of the other IT ones. The general /r/jobs is a solid place to get advice on questions about interviews and application questions. Substantial US bias in those subreddits, though.

Legendary Silke March 4th, 2014 9:57 PM

Something tells me that I won't be really missing Facebook messaging integration in Windows Phone. I've just switched to the just-released Facebook Messenger. (At least, pretty much everything!)

Morkula March 4th, 2014 10:32 PM

Unlimited data plans are quickly becoming a thing of the past in the US too. I hated to give mine up when I upgraded my phone last time, but I do a fair bit of browsing and don't even come near my cap, so it hasn't been too much of an adjustment. I just try to remember to turn wi-fi on before downloading updates or browsing at home.

Legendary Silke March 4th, 2014 11:00 PM

If I were to sign up for the same plan as I have right now, I'd have only 2 GB of data - a far cry from the 12 GB that I actually got.

Zet March 5th, 2014 12:30 AM

I think you should definitely get a plan with pricing like that @[email protected]

Tsutarja March 5th, 2014 4:45 AM

I don't have a data plan on my phone, but sometimes I wish I did.. and yeah, it's unfortunate that unlimited data is going away slowly in the US.. I'm fortunate that my ISP at home doesn't cap data nor do they have foreseeable plans to do so either.

Cordelia March 5th, 2014 5:12 AM

Yeah I'm boned by my carrier and my ISP with capped data. I have 4GB on my phone and 250GB for my internet... it sucks man. :c

Zet March 5th, 2014 5:16 AM

That's still better than what you can get here in Australia, though one ISP here has a 500GB cap... if you don't care about how terrible their service is.

Tsutarja March 5th, 2014 7:54 AM

Remember how I was complaining about the slow wifi at my campus? Check out their ethernet speeds from the library:

http://www.speedtest.net/result/3350182800.png

Legendary Silke March 5th, 2014 9:00 AM

I've seen bizarre upload speeds from time to time... It's like nobody is using the bandwidth.

Tsutarja March 5th, 2014 9:29 AM

I honestly don't get though why the wired network is not slow like the wifi network. It's the same, shared network isn't it? Maybe I need to freshen up on my networking knowledge :p

Legendary Silke March 5th, 2014 9:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Terabyte (Post 8128847)
I honestly don't get though why the wired network is not slow like the wifi network. It's the same, shared network isn't it? Maybe I need to freshen up on my networking knowledge :p

Wireless networks can have a bad case of interference, especially on the 2.4 GHz band. (Not many mobile devices support the 5 GHz band.)

Tsutarja March 5th, 2014 3:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Twiggy (Post 8128849)
Wireless networks can have a bad case of interference, especially on the 2.4 GHz band. (Not many mobile devices support the 5 GHz band.)

Is there a way to check on what band is being used for the wifi then? It wouldn't surprise me if it was 2.4GHz if it's that slow.

donavannj March 5th, 2014 8:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Terabyte (Post 8129375)
Is there a way to check on what band is being used for the wifi then? It wouldn't surprise me if it was 2.4GHz if it's that slow.

To my knowledge, there's no way to do this in Windows itself. If you can get to the wireless access point's administration page, you could check it there, but most access points default to the 2.4GHz frequency. Changing the frequency to 5GHz can cause a mess with any wireless landline handsets, though, since those usually use the 5GHz or 6GHz frequency.

Legendary Silke March 5th, 2014 10:24 PM

Microsoft is teasing DirectX 12.

Interestingly, Qualcomm is on-board. (They exclusively do mobile GPUs)

Omicron March 5th, 2014 10:52 PM

I'm very pleased with my ISP. We have no cap and the download speed is always over 45Mb/s. The only downside is that the upload speed never gets above 2Mb/s, staying most of the time at around 1.6Mbp/s.

http://i.imgur.com/bzUhGhI.png

Tsutarja March 6th, 2014 12:09 PM

Sometimes it makes me wonder why ISPs provide weird speeds like that.. some have fast downloads and slow uploads while other ISPs have slow downloads and fast downloads.

Tsutarja March 6th, 2014 1:00 PM

Yeah, my speeds are fairly identical to one another, and we have fiber optics. However, many cable ISPs also have fiber optic technology as well, yet a common thing I notice with cable ISPs in the USA is that they tend to have good download speeds with atrocious upload speeds.

Omicron March 6th, 2014 3:04 PM

It is strange indeed. We have companies that already have identical upload and download speeds through fiber optic, but they aren't so popular because they don't offer TV services.

Tsutarja March 7th, 2014 4:58 AM

So I've been noticing that my phone has been appearing as a wifi network on my laptop in Windows 8. However, can it share the network if it's just wifi only or would it pull from my data?

I assume it's bluetooth tethering though, because my phone and my laptop are paired via bluetooth.

Legendary Silke March 7th, 2014 5:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Terabyte (Post 8131710)
So I've been noticing that my phone has been appearing as a wifi network on my laptop in Windows 8. However, can it share the network if it's just wifi only or would it pull from my data?

I assume it's bluetooth tethering though, because my phone and my laptop are paired via bluetooth.

Congratulations on discovering a little-known feature of Windows Phone 8 :P (That's Bluetooth tethering. There's also Wi-Fi tethering...)

Tsutarja March 7th, 2014 11:15 AM

Sometimes I feel with my new laptop I want to dual boot some Linux with it, but I'm not really sure to what distro I should use if I wanted to do that.

Cordelia March 7th, 2014 12:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Terabyte (Post 8132054)
Sometimes I feel with my new laptop I want to dual boot some Linux with it, but I'm not really sure to what distro I should use if I wanted to do that.

Since you're not too experienced, I'd recommend Ubuntu or Mint, tbh.

Alexander Nicholi March 7th, 2014 3:08 PM

For some reason, Debian-based distros always bothered me. I don't really have experience with other distros, so I wouldn't know what you should get unless you're wanting to run a shell-based web server (in which case I'd recommend CentOS 5 x64). Sorry D:

donavannj March 7th, 2014 3:14 PM

Fedora was snappier than Ubuntu when I used them for classes, but Ubuntu resembles Windows significantly more than Fedora.

Hiatus March 7th, 2014 3:27 PM

I always wanted to give Elementary OS a try, but never managed to get past installation. When it came to that, it always gave me a black screen. I asked for help in Ubuntu forums, but none of their suggestions seemed to have worked, though. :( I don't know, my laptop probably just isn't compatible.

Tsutarja March 7th, 2014 3:37 PM

I opted out of dual-booting for now, to be honest. I don't really think I'd use a Linux install as often as I think I would, and I just don't feel like dealing with partitioning either :p

On the other hand, a hackintosh is something I'd like to try one of these days.

Zet March 7th, 2014 3:45 PM

A hackintosh would infinitely be better than dual booting linux :P

Hiatus March 7th, 2014 8:18 PM

I'd try installing Hackintosh, but none of my laptops seem to have what it takes for it, sadly. ): I do have one of those old iBook (well, it's in new condition), though, so thankfully, I'm still able to keep up with the world of Mac. Sort of.

Legendary Silke March 7th, 2014 10:31 PM

Trying to install Linux natively on a laptop is pretty much asking for lots of research :P

Hackintoshes do not sound too good on a laptop, either.

Alexander Nicholi March 7th, 2014 10:44 PM

Here's an interesting comparison I found on the three major OSes.

http://alex.twigzone.net/i/compareos.png



I think I'm in between the Linux and Windows POVs in regard to all three.

Tsutarja March 8th, 2014 4:29 AM

I've never really even tried a hackintosh before, to be honest, but I've always wanted to haha

Sometimes I wish though that virtual machines could run as smooth as possible, even when it comes to putting in higher specs for them.

Cordelia March 8th, 2014 4:32 AM

Ugh, be careful with hackintoshes. One mistyped statement and you've wiped your hard drive completely!

Tsutarja March 8th, 2014 4:56 AM

^ And that right there is why I would try it on a salvaged PC first before anything else :p

I have an old laptop from 2008 lying around in my room I could use haha

Zet March 8th, 2014 4:59 AM

Well if you're nervous about doing a hackintosh, you can always try it in a VM first.

Tsutarja March 8th, 2014 6:59 AM

Ugh, why is my USB 3.0 external HDD transferring at 27Mb/s? It's a Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 1TB model, if anyone's curious. Does Seagate provide USB 3.0 drivers, or is my cable perhaps messed up?

Legendary Silke March 8th, 2014 9:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Terabyte (Post 8133344)
Ugh, why is my USB 3.0 external HDD transferring at 27Mb/s? It's a Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 1TB model, if anyone's curious. Does Seagate provide USB 3.0 drivers, or is my cable perhaps messed up?

What cable are you using? (USB 3.0 cables should have the end connecting to the HDD have extra connectors.)

Also, although I've seen my external HDD achieving speeds in excess of 130 MB/s, that's for the best case performance - long sequential read of a single file at the beginning of the disk. How filled is the disk? What are you copying?

Tsutarja March 8th, 2014 10:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Twiggy (Post 8133460)
What cable are you using? (USB 3.0 cables should have the end connecting to the HDD have extra connectors.)

Also, although I've seen my external HDD achieving speeds in excess of 130 MB/s, that's for the best case performance - long sequential read of a single file at the beginning of the disk. How filled is the disk? What are you copying?

I was copying a .vdi file over to my laptop from my desktop for VirtualBox.. and it's about half full as well. Attached is a picture of what the connectors look like.

Legendary Silke March 8th, 2014 11:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Terabyte (Post 8133569)
I was copying a .vdi file over to my laptop from my desktop for VirtualBox.. and it's about half full as well. Attached is a picture of what the connectors look like.

Looks odd. Try unplugging the HDD, and then plug it in again. Perform the same operation again - sometimes, a device might connect as USB 2.0 if the connection on the PC side detects the device before the five extra USB 3.0 pins make contact.

Tsutarja March 8th, 2014 6:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Twiggy (Post 8133629)
Looks odd. Try unplugging the HDD, and then plug it in again. Perform the same operation again - sometimes, a device might connect as USB 2.0 if the connection on the PC side detects the device before the five extra USB 3.0 pins make contact.

I've tried doing that and still so far no luck :/

Meganium March 8th, 2014 6:47 PM

I'd love to try other Linux distros. :3 Only ones I know atm are Ubuntu, Jolicloud, and Zorin. Zorin seems to be my favorite over Ubuntu, actually...but Ubuntu is like...eye candy. *__*

edit: OK HOW DID I GET TO THIS PAGE WOW.

Tsutarja March 8th, 2014 7:30 PM

I tried out Ubuntu 13.10 and it's just pretty much full of bloatware at this point. I remember back when I first tried Ubuntu, it was version 8.04, and it didn't have all the bloatware like Amazon stuff when installed from stock, nor did it bother me at all about signing up for an ubuntu.com account.

Zet March 8th, 2014 7:44 PM

I recommend people to use Mint over Ubuntu whenever they think about trying Linux.

Tsutarja March 8th, 2014 7:59 PM

Elementary OS isn't a bad one to use either, as I've used it and it's relatively bloatware-free. How about CentOS though? Is that a good one to play around with? I enjoy working with the gnome environment for some odd reason, which is what CentOS is currently built off of.

Alexander Nicholi March 8th, 2014 8:02 PM

So I got a bunch of money for my birthday. Intel Core i3 @ 3.5 GHz is in the bag from my aunt, I have $160 saved from allowance (if my mother goes halves), and $70 I got from my father and stepmother in cash.

I'm thinking of blowing the allowance on the 120GB Samsung SSD I was wanting, and take the $70 and buy the case. The case is going take at least 1 2.5", 1 5.25", and 1 3.5", and has to have USB 3 connectors. What would you guys recommend I do?

Hiatus March 8th, 2014 9:02 PM

Elementary OS is definitely amazing. Their interface does look similar to OS X, yeah, but I see nothing wrong with that. In-fact, I personally find it to be a lot better-looking. d: Though, it would have been nice if they included a dark version of their theme. Arch Linux's a pretty good distro, too, but never managed to get it installed; for me, it was too confusing.

Legendary Silke March 9th, 2014 5:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alex (Post 8134315)
So I got a bunch of money for my birthday. Intel Core i3 @ 3.5 GHz is in the bag from my aunt, I have $160 saved from allowance (if my mother goes halves), and $70 I got from my father and stepmother in cash.

I'm thinking of blowing the allowance on the 120GB Samsung SSD I was wanting, and take the $70 and buy the case. The case is going take at least 1 2.5", 1 5.25", and 1 3.5", and has to have USB 3 connectors. What would you guys recommend I do?

$160 for a 120 GB SSD = overpriced

Look for a better SSD deal, or get a SSHD. Or, heck, get a 32 GB SSD and a HDD of your choice and set them up for cache-based SSD use.

Tsutarja March 9th, 2014 6:07 AM

Hmm, because I had a spare copy of it, I just decided to put Windows Vista to use in a VirtualBox VM out of pure boredem.. I assigned it 2 CPUs, 2048MB RAM (2GB), and 256MB VRAM. I know it's probably not going to be smooth, but it'll probably be smoother than the Vista VM on my desktop lol

Alexander Nicholi March 9th, 2014 10:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Twiggy (Post 8134814)
$160 for a 120 GB SSD = overpriced

Look for a better SSD deal, or get a SSHD. Or, heck, get a 32 GB SSD and a HDD of your choice and set them up for cache-based SSD use.

I'm not saying that I'm spending the whole $160 on it. And you trying to get me to use SSHDs over SSDs is like me trying to get you to use Firefox over IE. :P

Legendary Silke March 9th, 2014 10:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alex (Post 8135157)
I'm not saying that I'm spending the whole $160 on it. And you trying to get me to use SSHDs over SSDs is like me trying to get you to use Firefox over IE. :P

"Blowing the allowance" does sound like you're spending the whole $160, so sorry about that.

Either way, an SSD is the way to go if you want speed at all costs. (If I were you, though, I'd rather see that your system also has some sort of HDD to go along with it. Try to figure out what's the best combination for you. Remember, even a 8 GB cache can do wonders to system responsiveness - I can only imagine how much it would be if it were 32 GB or higher.)

Check this out, by the way. SanDisk has a cache SSD that's about as plug-and-play as you can get.

Alexander Nicholi March 9th, 2014 10:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Twiggy (Post 8135173)
"Blowing the allowance" does sound like you're spending the whole $160, so sorry about that.

Either way, an SSD is the way to go if you want speed at all costs. (If I were you, though, I'd rather see that your system also has some sort of HDD to go along with it. Try to figure out what's the best combination for you. Remember, even a 8 GB cache can do wonders to system responsiveness - I can only imagine how much it would be if it were 32 GB or higher.)

Check this out, by the way. SanDisk has a cache SSD that's about as plug-and-play as you can get.

I'm likely going to get a 3TB external HDD for media storage, and leave my internal SSD for the system and program files.

Also, I was leaning towards an acutal SSD that was Samsung, not SanDisk.

Tsutarja March 9th, 2014 12:07 PM

Sometimes I think I need an SSD for my desktop, but I'm not too sure if it'd be the bet thing for me to have. There have been times where my computer freezes up, but sometimes I blame the hard drive only because it freezes up for maybe a second or two, and that's it. However, the hard drive in my desktop is also only 2 and 3/4 years old.

Omicron March 9th, 2014 12:36 PM

My brother's HDDs, both of them, just died. :/

I need to replace mine ASAP. Both are over 5 years old now.

Hiatus March 9th, 2014 3:11 PM

I've never had anything like that happen to me before, thankfully. :] How do HDDs die, anyway?

Zet March 9th, 2014 4:04 PM

I think you should give this a read for which harddrives you should consider buying: http://blog.backblaze.com/2014/01/21/what-hard-drive-should-i-buy/

Tsutarja March 9th, 2014 5:03 PM

Hmm, the hard drive in my desktop is a Seagate model, and it's definitely past the 36-month survival period, since it's been in operation since July 2012 lol.. but it's also only 500GB, and not 1TB.

Alexander Nicholi March 9th, 2014 7:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zet (Post 8135717)
I think you should give this a read for which harddrives you should consider buying: http://blog.backblaze.com/2014/01/21/what-hard-drive-should-i-buy/

In short, Seagate sucks. Thanks for posting this, as I was thinking of getting an external Seagate HDD. I think I'll stick with WD or Hitachi :D

I don't know if I shared this, but nonetheless I'll go ahead. Last Christmas I got a 1.5TB WD MyBook Essential HDD. After a few hours of owning it I stupidly dropped it on the floor and my guess is that the platters shattered. The problem I have with this is that I had a 320GB WD MyBook that I got in 2008, of which the drive well outlasted its casing and never once had drive failures of any sort (until I accidentally magnetized it). I lost count as to how many times I dropped it, and at one point I just peeled off the casing and put it on my desk.

It bothers me that some cheap plastic has better shock resistance than an important data medium that I spent $120 on for it to break within four hours of getting it in the mail.

Legendary Silke March 9th, 2014 9:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alex (Post 8135210)
I'm likely going to get a 3TB external HDD for media storage, and leave my internal SSD for the system and program files.

Also, I was leaning towards an acutal SSD that was Samsung, not SanDisk.

I've always thought of a split solution like that as a bit of a kludge. Wouldn't it be nice for the average user to not have to care about where the data has to go? Let the software/drive firmware decided what goes to where. Usually, it's very efficient - when you go with cache-based solution, the only thing you're probably missing are sequential read/write speeds of an SSD.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Terabyte (Post 8135370)
Sometimes I think I need an SSD for my desktop, but I'm not too sure if it'd be the bet thing for me to have. There have been times where my computer freezes up, but sometimes I blame the hard drive only because it freezes up for maybe a second or two, and that's it. However, the hard drive in my desktop is also only 2 and 3/4 years old.

HDDs tend to choke when subjected to a flood of non-sequential IO, but most of the time, the OS has a mitigation plan in the form of in-memory cache. For Windows, there'd be some form of caching since... the 16-bit* days (I think 3.1 did something), but the real improvements in prefetching data really came in Vista.

* Strictly speaking, the Enhanced Mode 3.x kernels are 32-bit, even if it's not NT 3.x. Depending on your system configuration, it might be likely that the only 16-bit apps running on a Windows 3.x machine are Win16 apps!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zet (Post 8135717)
I think you should give this a read for which harddrives you should consider buying: http://blog.backblaze.com/2014/01/21/what-hard-drive-should-i-buy/

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alex (Post 8136011)
In short, Seagate sucks. Thanks for posting this, as I was thinking of getting an external Seagate HDD. I think I'll stick with WD or Hitachi :D

Just remember that not hard disk drives are the same - what works for a given company isn't necessarily the same for others. Backblaze are using consumer drives in a corporate environment - that alone gives me some doubts about the statistics, even though it might be a good indicator for a given drive make.

Quite possibly the most important thing is that most drives should still be alive by the three-year point. Also, judging from the comments:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Charles Burns
It looks like exactly one model/size of Seagate had a high failure rate, and the rest did not. That's actually believable, because every hard drive company has bad models from time to time. Western Digital had the Expert and several models of Raptor. IBM/Hitachi had the 75GXP. Perhaps Seagate's is the ST31500341AS (doesn't that just roll off the tongue).
This does not mean that you should avoid Seagate anymore than you should avoid any other manufacturer for their bad runs.


Burakki Tsuki March 10th, 2014 8:45 AM

I feel that I've become spoiled with my SSD. I use it for my OS and most used applications. I love the way it starts right up and never has pauses like traditional HD will. I have a 2TB I use for Steam games and media and it's pretty annoying it always has to start up every time I get something off it. I'm sure there is an application to make the drive spin all the time but I don't wanna wear it out.

I never had issues with Seagate in the past, but now I have a Hitachi HD and Samsung SSD. Want to get another SSD or two in the future and look to use the Hitachi for backups via external hookup.

Tsutarja March 10th, 2014 11:33 AM

If there's a hard drive manufacturer I'd avoid, it'd be Western Digital. I got a 1TB external HDD, specifically a MyBook Essential External HDD, and I did a stupid thing by uninstalling the software from it. Only problem is that the software for it locked the drive up when I uninstalled it, and I was unable to recover the data I had on it.

Tsutarja March 11th, 2014 4:41 AM

I'm not necessarily shunning WD as being a bad brand, but they really need to factor in what could happen if someone deleted their software from an external hard drive.

Also, back to Zet's link, can I just say how much irony it is that the hard drive that's in my desktop now replaced a dying Samsung HDD? My desktop used to belong to my parents back from 2008-2012, and I discovered it was dying because the OS install became corrupt and Linux wouldn't work on it at all either.

Legendary Silke March 11th, 2014 5:37 AM

Am I weird for never formatting the Seagate external HDD ever?

On another topic, I'm using Windows 8.1 again on my laptop. Looks like all the driver issues are gone for me, and I'm enjoying ridiculous boot times and memory usage at idle, to boot. (Think 2-3 seconds after POST, and 1 GB)

Tsutarja March 11th, 2014 5:42 AM

I like Windows 8's boot time. Since I have Teamviewer, I can see on my clients whenever my laptop comes on, and that's usually 2-3 seconds after I power the laptop on.

Also, I've experienced the wifi problem with Windows 8.1 once, but it's not as problematic of a problem as I thought it would be.

Legendary Silke March 11th, 2014 6:23 AM

The fun part is probably the laptop managing to boot to the lock screen before the spinning platters spin up completely.

Zet March 11th, 2014 6:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Terabyte (Post 8138313)
I like Windows 8's boot time. Since I have Teamviewer, I can see on my clients whenever my laptop comes on, and that's usually 2-3 seconds after I power the laptop on.

Also, I've experienced the wifi problem with Windows 8.1 once, but it's not as problematic of a problem as I thought it would be.

I love W8's boot and shutdown time. I keep forgetting that it's almost instantaneous. With W7 I used to have enough time to go to the kitchen and get something, and come back before it got to the login screen.

destinedjagold March 11th, 2014 6:39 PM

First, apologies if this is the wrong section to ask this, but...
Question: I have a 3DS and PKMN X, and have been uploading wifi battles on YouTube, but, YT is being a pain in the neck, stating that my videos matched third party content...
I have legitimately bought the 3DS and PKMN X. Should I file a dispute or just leave it be?
Honestly, I feel like YT is holding back my freedom of uploading my videos, 'cause, y'know, I bought the goddamn thing! Why am I not allowed to post it online?

And on an unrelated question...
My PC at home currently only has 1GB RAM, and Windows 7 doesn't seem to like that. =/
I live in a third-world country, so yeah, I'm poor. :P
So I'm planning on upgrading soonish when I manage to save up again. :3

Anyway, I have a ASRock N68C-GS FX motherboard, and I plan to buy a new RAM, at least 2 to 4 GB. What RAM (brand, specs, whatever) would be good for my motherboard?

Zet March 11th, 2014 6:59 PM

Definitely file a dispute. Nintendo has been taking down anything with their content(because of people making money from them).

I did a quick google search on your motherboard + ram and found this result:

Quote:

That board is a bit of an oddity. You can use 2 sticks of DDR2 memory in the yellow slots OR 2 sticks of DDR3 memory in the blue slots. In either case, it will only accept a total of 8GB. You can't use both DDR2 and DDR3 at the same time. See page 17 of your manual.

Yes, you can use either of those pairs of Corsair DDR3 1600MHZ RAM. But only in the blue slots. They won't even fit in the yellow slots. Look close and you'll see the slots' guide pin is in a slightly different position.
source: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/330451-30-asrock-n68c

I took a look at some of the ram mentioned, and found some DDR3 1600MHZ RAM for under $100 on a site I use for computer parts/accessories.

destinedjagold March 11th, 2014 7:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zet (Post 8139296)
Definitely file a dispute. Nintendo has been taking down anything with their content.

I...don't understand.
Are you saying that I should file a dispute so Nintendo won't take it down? o.0
Also, what options should I choose?

Spoiler:
I believe this copyright claim is not valid because:
I own the CD / DVD or bought the song online. - this option takes me nowhere...

I'm not selling the video or making any money from it. - this option takes me nowhere...

I gave credit in the video. - this option takes me nowhere...

The video is my original content and I own all of the rights to it.didn't try this one, 'cause the video's not really my original content, anyway. =/

I have a license or written permission from the proper rights holder to use this material.

My use of the content meets the legal requirements for fair use or fair dealing under applicable copyright laws.

The content is in the public domain or is not eligible for copyright protection.

Zet March 11th, 2014 7:34 PM

You should probably opt for fair use, since Nintendo made the option to share wifi battles.

destinedjagold March 11th, 2014 7:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zet (Post 8139343)
You should probably opt for fair use, since Nintendo made the option to share wifi battles.

Thanks. I'll try it in one of my marked vids and see what happens.

Also, thanks as well for your thoughts on my motherboard. Didn't know it's limited to only 8GB RAM. o.0

Tsutarja March 12th, 2014 8:57 AM

Sometimes I wish there was a way to control the bandwidth on Netflix.. because I dislike how things start out with low quality on Netflix then go up to their full quality after a few seconds. I guess they do that though because of the fact that the movie buffers the whole way.

donavannj March 12th, 2014 10:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Terabyte (Post 8139940)
Sometimes I wish there was a way to control the bandwidth on Netflix.. because I dislike how things start out with low quality on Netflix then go up to their full quality after a few seconds. I guess they do that though because of the fact that the movie buffers the whole way.

It's Netflix's streaming tech. Not much you can do about it. Other than using a 3DS to stream, which only streams in the lower resolutions, iirc. :P

Tsutarja March 12th, 2014 10:37 AM

Of all devices I wouldn't want to watch Netflix on, the 3DS would probably be the first one :P (it's ridiculous enough that they allow for Youtube)

donavannj March 12th, 2014 11:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Terabyte (Post 8140073)
Of all devices I wouldn't want to watch Netflix on, the 3DS would probably be the first one :P (it's ridiculous enough that they allow for Youtube)

Believe it or not, Netflix actually runs better than YouTube on the 3DS!

Tsutarja March 12th, 2014 11:51 AM

Hmm, interesting. Does Netflix on the 3DS have the ability to use profiles?

donavannj March 12th, 2014 11:53 AM

No. It just uses the default profile. Nowhere near fancy enough for anything else. A smartphone is far better for Netflix if you can keep the phone charged.

Hiatus March 12th, 2014 3:08 PM

I've tried Netflix before on my phone and tablet, but not 3DS. Don't think I would ever want to, either, because I bought it only for gaming and nothing else; I wouldn't really expect its quality to be as good as the former two. xD"

Alexander Nicholi March 12th, 2014 5:38 PM

I loved watching YouTube on my phone, specifically the episodes of Pokémon, which is what I spent the entire winter break doing.

I am really pissed that my crappy AMD APU is soldered to my motherboard. Why must you screw me over with a processor that can't even handle smooth scrolling in web browsers while listening to music? WHY!?

Legendary Silke March 12th, 2014 10:17 PM

For one reason or another, turns out a lot of background processes were crashing on the 8.1 installation for some reason. While it doesn't really affect day-to-day use, I'd have reservations using a PC like that.

I went back to 7. Again. I think I'll just use 8.x or 9 with a new PC at this rate...

Tsutarja March 13th, 2014 4:18 AM

I can't remember, but did the laptop originally come with Windows 8.x? If it did, then that's really weird that it's acting up in such a manner.

Zet March 13th, 2014 4:34 AM

If it's still under warranty, contact the manufacturer and see if they can fix whatever is wrong with it.

donavannj March 13th, 2014 5:36 AM

Always RMA before taking drastic measures yourself. Always.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Team Fail (Post 8141112)
Did you hear of the exploit in the YouTube 3DS app that lets you view videos directly on your system?

Never heard of that. Older firmware, I assume?


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