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Mr. X April 19th, 2014 6:56 PM

I'm thinking of getting a 750ti to replace the 640 I've got in my other computer, but I'm a bit concerned on the power supply. It's using a 300 w supply. I could swap supplies with this one though, it's a 400w, if I had to though.

Anyway, I think I need to start backing stuff up... like, right now.

http://i.imgur.com/NqYQSHE.jpg

donavannj April 19th, 2014 7:11 PM

I can attest that my new card is pretty quiet.

My ISP is Mediacom. Fortunately, I don't have to deal with Time-Warner or Comcast in my area.

Tsutarja April 19th, 2014 7:33 PM

Ah, Mediacom. I saw a list from GigaOm of all the common ISPs in the United States and it listed their data caps by common tier levels. Not sure if it's just your municipality though, but this article says that Mediacom instates a cap: http://gigaom.com/2013/11/15/data-cap-2013/

Legendary Silke April 19th, 2014 9:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr. X (Post 8206089)
I'm thinking of getting a 750ti to replace the 640 I've got in my other computer, but I'm a bit concerned on the power supply. It's using a 300 w supply. I could swap supplies with this one though, it's a 400w, if I had to though.

Anyway, I think I need to start backing stuff up... like, right now.

http://i.imgur.com/NqYQSHE.jpg

You mean moving stuff out to an external drive. It's not a backup until you have it in at least two different physical drives. (Partitions in the same drive don't count, and so do online storage.)

Looks like you're also going to need a bigger HDD.

Meganium April 19th, 2014 11:43 PM

I was going to make a thread about this but it doesn't really apply to many ISPs soo yeah.

Is anyone aware of the "six strikes" policy? I didn't know this actually exists until I got a "copyright" warning from Time Warner stating that someone was downloading a tremendous amount of illegal content (aka torrents and stuff). I have a feeling my little sister was downloading music without my permission, and I had uninstalled torrent programs from the computer so...maybe that's why??

Has anyone had that similar warning before?

[link]

Oryx April 20th, 2014 3:46 AM

I knew it existed so I've always been careful - especially not to seed. They don't nail you for torrenting unless it's super-popular torrents, but they'll nail you for seeding.

Tsutarja April 20th, 2014 5:16 AM

I've heard of the Six-Strikes policy as well, and it sucks that you got slapped with a strike already, Megan. While it does seem to be a good way to crack down on piracy, I don't really think it's effective at all, really. @[email protected] There are many people in this world that are tech-illiterate and might have an open access point, and then have other people torrenting on that network. Who's going to get busted? Not the downloader, that's for sure.

Also, they can't necessarily nail you on seeding, unless they know what you're seeding. Not all torrents are illegal, and there might be an instance where one seeds something legit and not illegal.

Oryx April 20th, 2014 5:49 AM

Well...I assumed I didn't need to specify that when I'm talking about seeding, I'm talking about seeding illegal things. Obviously. I'm saying that downloading illegal things is very, very unlikely to get you caught, but seeding illegal things is far more likely.

You're right about the strikes though; I could be even more careful and use a Tor browser to find the torrent and a VPN to download it, but I've never been hit by anything so I don't bother.

SS01 April 20th, 2014 7:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Minerva (Post 8206396)
I was going to make a thread about this but it doesn't really apply to many ISPs soo yeah.

Is anyone aware of the "six strikes" policy? I didn't know this actually exists until I got a "copyright" warning from Time Warner stating that someone was downloading a tremendous amount of illegal content (aka torrents and stuff). I have a feeling my little sister was downloading music without my permission, and I had uninstalled torrent programs from the computer so...maybe that's why??

Has anyone had that similar warning before?

[link]

We don't have this in Canada, but I highly recommend a VPN.. Only really effective way to hide yourself. I've had mine for a few months now and its been great. Downloading in Canada is at best legal and at worst a grey area - DMCA notices don't really happen here - but better safe than sorry. Also I can get American netflix/spotify/pandora/everything else we don't have here.

Mr. X April 20th, 2014 8:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Twiggy (Post 8206285)
You mean moving stuff out to an external drive. It's not a backup until you have it in at least two different physical drives. (Partitions in the same drive don't count, and so do online storage.)

Looks like you're also going to need a bigger HDD.

Nah, I do mean backup. Well, eventually. Burn to a dvd first, then copy over to a external. Eventually most of it will make it's way over to my new computer with a 3 tb drive.

I've got a number of spare drives I can use in a enclosure for backups, but I've just kept putting it off. (3 1 TB drives and a 500 gb)

donavannj April 20th, 2014 9:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Terabyte (Post 8206155)
Ah, Mediacom. I saw a list from GigaOm of all the common ISPs in the United States and it listed their data caps by common tier levels. Not sure if it's just your municipality though, but this article says that Mediacom instates a cap: http://gigaom.com/2013/11/15/data-cap-2013/

It's our plan. Ours is the 50/10 plan (50 down, 10 up).

Meganium April 20th, 2014 10:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Terabyte (Post 8206609)
I've heard of the Six-Strikes policy as well, and it sucks that you got slapped with a strike already, Megan. While it does seem to be a good way to crack down on piracy, I don't really think it's effective at all, really. @[email protected] There are many people in this world that are tech-illiterate and might have an open access point, and then have other people torrenting on that network. Who's going to get busted? Not the downloader, that's for sure.

Also, they can't necessarily nail you on seeding, unless they know what you're seeding. Not all torrents are illegal, and there might be an instance where one seeds something legit and not illegal.

I do understand what they're coming from. Piracy rates have gone high nowadays and I'm actually okay with it. It's a step forward to combat torrenting/piracy so that way it'll pester us to actually spend money on legit downloads.

Tsutarja April 21st, 2014 6:40 AM

So now my college is apparently blocking traffic on ports other than the standard ones. I can't use IRC from the network anymore as all of my clients throw a "CONNECTION REFUSED" error at my face. I wonder what prompted them to change this?

Tsutarja April 21st, 2014 7:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Team Fail (Post 8208428)
It's probably because they're trying to get all the traffic into the standard ports so they can filter it more efficiently and try to block what activity they don't like.

I still find it really funny that our school filters the student-accessible WLAN access points, but the guest access points aren't filtered at all.

Hmm, I wonder why then. But essentially, no web traffic is filtered at all if you use ports 80 and 443.

Alexander Nicholi April 21st, 2014 5:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Terabyte (Post 8208331)
So now my college is apparently blocking traffic on ports other than the standard ones. I can't use IRC from the network anymore as all of my clients throw a "CONNECTION REFUSED" error at my face. I wonder what prompted them to change this?

Eh, that's one of the things that's always made me want to get one of those mobile hotspot things. Lets me have internet my way anywhere without dealing with public networks that wear enough protection to investigate a meth lab. :3

Hiatus April 22nd, 2014 2:10 PM

I'm able to set up Internet hot-spot right from my phone, but it drains a lot of my battery, though, so I always need to keep it plugged into the charger when using that. Seriously wish it weren't like this. ):

Tsutarja April 22nd, 2014 3:30 PM

I tried using a friend's phone at school to use a hotspot with so that I didn't have to deal with my school's slow wifi the other day, but too bad his carrier had locked the option to do so >_<

Oryx April 22nd, 2014 3:37 PM

I've considering rooting my phone just for that purpose, but my data plan isn't that high so I'd probably just kill it by making it a hotspot. I have a ton of patience for slow internet, so it wouldn't be an issue to just use free internet instead.

Alexander Nicholi April 23rd, 2014 7:00 AM

Yeah, I tried many a time to root my Samsung Galaxy Reverb but none of the available options seemed to work. I'm not about to pay a bunch of extra money each month so they can flip a switch on my phone, lol. Not to mention the additional costs of paying for a reasonable data cap for PC internet usage… no thanks. :P

I'm actually wanting to get a 4G mobile hotspot thing from Verizon to use with my computer, since I really hate how archaic home Wi-Fi is for someone who's always on the go. :/

Legendary Silke April 23rd, 2014 7:23 AM

As for me, I'm using Nokia Software Updater to flash the old Windows Phone 8.0 + Lumia Black OS-firmware combination to my Lumia 525, as I find 8.1 to lack polish for now.

twocows April 23rd, 2014 12:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Terabyte (Post 8208331)
So now my college is apparently blocking traffic on ports other than the standard ones. I can't use IRC from the network anymore as all of my clients throw a "CONNECTION REFUSED" error at my face. I wonder what prompted them to change this?

Our university did that almost the entire time I was there. Mostly, it was a security measure. They really don't care unless they get in trouble for it, but if someone turns your machine into a zombie and they get a message from the police saying that you're part of a botnet that did X illegal activity, that causes them problems. IRC is actually one of the more common ways for this to happen, since there are a lot of unsavory folks on some IRC networks and you can easily reveal a lot of information about your computer and your connection unintentionally over IRC.

Stuff like this is usually just a blanket measure since it's easier to just block everything than to deal with individual cases. The only real good way to deal with it (at least if it's as strict as I'm guessing it is) is by tunneling, and that requires a reliable, unrestricted off-site computer, and it's probably going to introduce a bit of lag unless it's well set-up. It's also pretty complicated to set up and probably not worth it.

For IRC, just learn to like Mibbit or web IRC for networks that don't allow Mibbit.

Tsutarja April 23rd, 2014 1:46 PM

Hmm, didn't think of that. However, I did discover a few more things about this flaw today. Firstly, it must be the particular IP or something.. because the IP is different than before the incident started to occur. Secondly, this is a somewhat serious problem, as I'm not able to search the school's library directory anymore. The school's library directory uses traffic on port 8891, and with those new measures in effect, I cannot seem to connect to that.

I feel like placing a call to the school's IT department, but I'm not sure if it'd be something to complain about.. especially with the library database issue.

Alexander Nicholi April 24th, 2014 4:56 PM

That's probably their tech department forgetting to clean up after themselves, i.e. forgetting to unblock necessary school-specific ports in their haste to disable everything but 80 and 443. :P

Legendary Silke April 24th, 2014 10:34 PM

I guess Microsoft wasn't kidding when they said that the Preview for Developers is a Preview. Sometimes, it pays to be patient and enjoy stability. I don't believe in moving too fast when it comes to software these days.

Tsutarja April 26th, 2014 8:21 AM

I'm still waiting for Windows Phone 8.1 to come to my phone. I also don't want to really want to download it while it's under closed review to developers because of bugs, which was why I wanted to install Windows 8.1 Update 1 as well.

Speaking of 8.1 Update 1, something in my laptop got corrupt recently and I had to reinstall Windows 8.1 Update 1 to it the other day when I did a system restore.


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