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Started by Incineroar April 18th, 2015 7:48 PM
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Alexander Nicholi

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Yeah I was using the terminal for a bit to commit some files. Tried doing it with powershell but got told that something was missing, so I went and got another CLI to commuicate with Git. Thanks for the info, I'll certainly look into it. I'm so not a fan of trying to commit suff through my IDE.
You should download Console2 and use it to skin the Git terminal and also PowerShell. It’s a bit tricky, the solution I found to work on 7 was on Stack Overflow and involved fiddling with some command-line arguments and shortcuts with Console2, but... it’s worth it. Both CMD and PowerShell are uuuuugly.


I’ve found a clean Windows 7 install to take up a massive 14GiB of space. On its 20GiB drive that is certainly not enough for my 11GiB install of VS 2015 C++.

This is honestly just pathetic. After cleaning up unused files my entire Linux install, an install containing 932 packages including CUDA, WINE, LibreOffice, MariaDB, Mono, and GCC... takes up 16GiB altogether. I should remove CUDA lol, I have integrated graphics on this laptop <_<
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You should download Console2 and use it to skin the Git terminal and also PowerShell. It’s a bit tricky, the solution I found to work on 7 was on Stack Overflow and involved fiddling with some command-line arguments and shortcuts with Console2, but... it’s worth it. Both CMD and PowerShell are uuuuugly.


I’ve found a clean Windows 7 install to take up a massive 14GiB of space. On its 20GiB drive that is certainly not enough for my 11GiB install of VS 2015 C++.

This is honestly just pathetic. After cleaning up unused files my entire Linux install, an install containing 932 packages including CUDA, WINE, LibreOffice, MariaDB, Mono, and GCC... takes up 16GiB altogether. I should remove CUDA lol, I have integrated graphics on this laptop <_<
It indeed is, but one should also compare what you'd actually be getting :)

Either way, 20 GB? Ouch! That sounds awfully small for a system drive these days. (It's kind of fun to work with that, though.)

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You should download Console2 and use it to skin the Git terminal and also PowerShell. It’s a bit tricky, the solution I found to work on 7 was on Stack Overflow and involved fiddling with some command-line arguments and shortcuts with Console2, but... it’s worth it. Both CMD and PowerShell are uuuuugly.
I think I've heard someone mention that to me before. I'll definitely check it out! Working with the CMD isn't so bad for me, but PowerShell? What even is the point of it!

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I think I've heard someone mention that to me before. I'll definitely check it out! Working with the CMD isn't so bad for me, but PowerShell? What even is the point of it!
It’s generally a more powerful console for Windows. Advantages it has over CMD are that it can access any drive letter pretty much (and probably network locations), behaves more like Bash in that it doesn't let you run execs in the current directory without .\... it really should be the default for anyone considering console work.



Earlier last night I got my project, Sapphire, to compile for x64 in Visual Studio 2015 as well as GCC 5.2! It’s really rewarding seeing the same exact code work on two vastly different OSes, not to mention a good bit interesting seeing compiler quirks with what they complain about and what they don’t. I also learned that unlike ARM7, x86 bit shifts do not wrap. xD

Either way, 20 GB? Ouch! That sounds awfully small for a system drive these days. (It's kind of fun to work with that, though.)
I’m rather limited when it comes to space on my SSD, and don’t want to use the last 30 GiB or so of my 160GB external drive because I need that space and it’s over USB 2. My laptop does not have USB 3, but my mother says she may be able to drop $50 + change to get me a 1TB 2.5” HDD and a case for it anyway. (I want to run multiple Windows VMs.)
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I plugged in my Dell Venue 8 Pro to charge early this morning and it had no battery. 8 hours later, and it only went to 87%, and this was while it was shut down too. Jeez.

Also, for some reason, when I opened it, this tiny keyboard appeared on the screen while it was charging, and it was shut down, too.

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I’m spending some time here fixing up a C++ INI/Config parser library I found on CodeProject. I’m removing all of the uses of raw pointers, and adding in exceptions to replace sloppy error code holder references (passing a variable by reference to be set in the event something goes wrong, this isn’t C). I think I’m even going to add in some new little functionality, too.

If you take it as-is, the thing supports hashpound-based comments (#), agnosticism to the spaces surrounding the equals sign of a declaration, and nesting! starting with the line name = ( and ending with a ) on its own line, you can nest up to an arbitrary length. This is what I found to be most cool about the library.

Since I’m such a nut for compiled code, I’m going to have it set up as a shared library (a DLL on Windows) and reference it to both save compile time and modularize my application.

It’s such a relief to not have to write this sort of stuff from scratch. ^^‛;
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Just to let everyone know. I found out about this last night. You should turn off p2p updates. You can do it under settings-updates and security-advanced options (under windows update tab)-Choose how updates are delivered once here click the circle for "PCs on Local Network". This will keep people from wasting data.
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I plugged in my Dell Venue 8 Pro to charge early this morning and it had no battery. 8 hours later, and it only went to 87%, and this was while it was shut down too. Jeez.

Also, for some reason, when I opened it, this tiny keyboard appeared on the screen while it was charging, and it was shut down, too.

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You may want to microwave your RAM and drill holes in your disk platters.

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Alexander Nicholi

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You may want to microwave your RAM and drill holes in your disk platters.
I don’t even wanna know how you know to do that...

Anyway, you should get on IRC. I have a good few questions :)
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That's creepy. You may need a young priest and an old priest.

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tfw you accidentally invent an assembly language trying to come up with ways to improve C++

god my head hurts. and I need to rethink what I’m improving upon, because evidently one doesn’t simply “improve” C++.
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tfw you accidentally invent an assembly language trying to come up with ways to improve C++

god my head hurts. and I need to rethink what I’m improving upon, because evidently one doesn’t simply “improve” C++.
One either loves or hates it. :)

Me? Well... I'm kinda torn.

In the meantime, I guess I'll be doing computer-y things for now.

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One either loves or hates it. :)

Me? Well... I'm kinda torn.
The thing about C++ for me is, I absolutely adore the power, control, and precision it gives me over every aspect of my program. I know exactly what it’s up to, or enough to be happy. There is a massive developer base with libraries for anything worth using, but... despite that, I start to get overwhelmed at how monotonous it can get writing C++ sometimes. So I want to change that.

If you’re interested, you could take a look at this collection of outlines I wrote up about what exactly I want out of my own “acceptable language.” So you’re aware, that thing is just notes – I left out a lot. :P Do note the lack of void and null.

In the meantime, I guess I'll be doing computer-y things for now.
Like what? :)
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The thing about C++ for me is, I absolutely adore the power, control, and precision it gives me over every aspect of my program. I know exactly what it’s up to, or enough to be happy. There is a massive developer base with libraries for anything worth using, but... despite that, I start to get overwhelmed at how monotonous it can get writing C++ sometimes. So I want to change that.

If you’re interested, you could take a look at this collection of outlines I wrote up about what exactly I want out of my own “acceptable language.” So you’re aware, that thing is just notes – I left out a lot. :P Do note the lack of void and null.
Mmm hmm! C++ is a nice tool when you want things to be exactly how you like it.

Me, sometimes, I want that, too, but I do also use C# when I don't need that much power. Usually makes for faster coding in my experience once you get used to it.

Like what? :)
Does running stability tests on my desktop computer count? :)

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Like the new prefixes guys? :P

So I tried Pale Moon on my netbook (and they have a version branded as Atom/XP), and it's still quite resource-intensive. :|

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Like the new prefixes guys? :P

So I tried Pale Moon on my netbook (and they have a version branded as Atom/XP), and it's still quite resource-intensive. :|
What specs are your laptop btw? I think running something even lighter would be better (if there is something like that).

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What specs are your laptop btw? I think running something even lighter would be better (if there is something like that).
I'm not sure off the top of my head, but I'll get back to you when I'm at my netbook tonight. :)

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A netbook sounds like the worst thing to be using
Especially when the CPU has to do everything. :)

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Especially when the CPU has to do everything. :)

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If it's a older netbook, the cpu would probably be complete trash and probably won't be able to do anything more than word processing and web browsing without video streaming. Then again, netbooks were designed to just do these two things and really nothing more. That being said, the bay trail and upcoming cherry trail atom netbooks can defiantly hold there own as a laptop replacement so long as you don't mind using cloud/external storage and have a 3DS handy.

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If it's a older netbook, the cpu would probably be complete trash and probably won't be able to do anything more than word processing and web browsing without video streaming. Then again, netbooks were designed to just do these two things and really nothing more. That being said, the bay trail and upcoming cherry trail atom netbooks can defiantly hold there own as a laptop replacement so long as you don't mind using cloud/external storage and have a 3DS handy.
Sometimes I think it's less of a problem with their CPUs alone, and more of a problem with their CPU + the GPU going to waste on the desktop. Netbooks back then that shipped with Windows 7 Starter couldn't make use of Desktop Window Manager, which offloads most desktop graphics processing to, well, the GPU.

The experience is quite a bit nicer when it's running something that isn't Starter, let alone 8.x or 10.

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Finally got Bumblebee and with that NVIDIA Optimus back running again. Still not quite sure, why exactly it broke in the first place, though, let alone why it took me so long to fix.
Things that can go wrong seems to just do when it comes to device drivers...

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I remember trying to get Bumblebee running on linux on a old alienware computer. Those weren't good times. So happy my current laptop has no discrete graphics; I find playing games on a laptop impractical in the situations i'm in with it anyway.

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I remember playing Team Fortress 2 on my current laptop at lower settings and it was smooth. Although I'm not sure how it'd be now considering I haven't done that in a while. Maybe I should install a game or two from Steam onto my laptop to find out.. hmm.