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Team Fail said:
My crap tablet has an Intel Atom and it's taking Windows 10 fairly decently. It does lock up from time to time when web browsing, but it's mostly because Chrome is a memory whore. Edge actually runs better on it.
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The worse part is that has to be on Windows (as my numbers are not that high on GNU/Linux), and is probably counting the system. I just watched my RAM metre drop from closing 47 tabs (a heavy coding session) in Firefox down a mere 300MiB in Linux, so the numbers for FF make sense to me when skewed for OS bloat. Take what you will of that – MS is likely taking advantage of parts of their system in a way that no one else would know how or care to do. It's their OS, after all.

Then again, trading RAM for speed kind of makes sense. It's what Chrome does, Edge just took it a step further. The more you store in memory the (theoretically) less you have to compute. Nothing too special other than holding a niche really.
 
This is a question you probably don't get often but since my problem originated on the Pokecommunity forums I'd thought I'd ask it here;

Does anyone know how to successfully download things from Mediafire? Every time I hit the download button the page refreshes. I've tried deleting my Mediafire cookies but it hasn't worked.

I apologize in advance if this question isn't appropriate for this thread, but I have no where else to turn.
 
Nick said:
The worse part is that has to be on Windows (as my numbers are not that high on GNU/Linux), and is probably counting the system. I just watched my RAM metre drop from closing 47 tabs (a heavy coding session) in Firefox down a mere 300MiB in Linux, so the numbers for FF make sense to me when skewed for OS bloat.
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Can confirm. Closing Firefox after a normal session (20+ tabs) only frees about 500mb of RAM on my system. I've never encountered an issue with RAM or slowing down due to Firefox unless it was some particularly Javascript intensive webapp, which is why I can never understand complaints about its supposed "bloat".
 
Touched said:
Can confirm. Closing Firefox after a normal session (20+ tabs) only frees about 500mb of RAM on my system. I've never encountered an issue with RAM or slowing down due to Firefox unless it was some particularly Javascript intensive webapp, which is why I can never understand complaints about its supposed "bloat".
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Mmm hmm. I also don't get about Firefox being "bloated" since it appears to be not that.

Though, not having working multi-process is both a good and bad thing. Good since RAM usage is lower, bad since anything that goes wrong will take everything else down with it.

Come to think about it, I think most apps will be smart and use less system memory if it finds itself in a low-memory situation. Usually.
 
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I bought a new mouse tonight (since my old one was giving in), and lo and behold...it has a blue laser to it! I didn't even realize they made mice with that color laser.
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Oh a laser! Cool!

True laser mice (such as mine here) are totally invisible. Neat blue optics though.

Now that a paying job is on the platter in addition to my volunteer job... I'm going to be buying a lot of things, mostly tech. Hopefully I won't get too bored out of my mind at work and the money'll be worth it enough, because... computer builds!

I had the initial thought to just straight up buy my Skylake build before Christmas, but then I decided that'd be really spoiling... so I may put together the old build I originally wanted with the Core i3-4370 and 750 Ti. I also had the side thought of maxing out the hardware in Tyre here (my C2Q slim tower) with a GT 740, 530 Series SSD, USB 3 card, and possibly even a Blu-Ray drive... not that I'd ever use it, but it does add a good amount of resale value plus it's destined to be our living room entertainment PC once I have a desktop besides it.

I have this really strange desire to collect an inventory of PC parts for no valid reason whatsoever. I tell myself it'd make startup for a business easier, but when the heck am I going to be doing that? Years from now at least.
 
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Don't be so sour, I didn't mean it like that. :P

Anyone here use Git or GitHub? I'm finally managing a real-deal project on there.
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Exhausting, week sorry. XD

I like github! I don't have an account there or any projects but the way that libraries are organized is very neat and the fact that they have an algorithm to compress libraries into a zip file is neat, too.
 
Tsutarja said:
Exhausting, week sorry. XD

I like github! I don't have an account there or any projects but the way that libraries are organized is very neat and the fact that they have an algorithm to compress libraries into a zip file is neat, too.
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You should at least register there so you can fork stuff! It's always neat to be able to fool around with the source code for big-time software.

There's a few projects I'm working on. The biggest is Sapphire, a PokéScript editor, but besides that there's also vPatch (formerly Violet UPS) that's going to be a universal cross-platform ROM patcher, and Sevenstone, a cross-platform ROM picture data editor.
 
Mmm!

I'm now on my desktop now. Managed to squeeze in a GTX 970 (ASUS Strix GTX 970), 16 GB of overclocked RAM (Kingston HyperX Savage DDR3-1866 CL9), and a Z97 chipset motherboard (ASUS Z97-PRO GAMER -mostly for the other features and the aesthetics) to the original build. Quite a bit more expensive, but, hey, it's also really snappy.

Also, the 2 TB WD Black sure makes SSDs make no sense. Just saying.
 
I still have my desktop, but it's rarely used anymore since my laptop's specs are far more advanced than my PC, even my first laptop that I'm currently using is faster.

Btw, my dad has been considering for me to get a new PC someday that will be purposed for a video editing powerhouse, so I hope that I'm able to get one for months. I'm still not sure which processor should I go with, though, given the prices and performances...
 
Just got a GTX 960 4GB (Gigabyte G1 Gaming). I would've scraped the money for a GTX 970 but the power consumption seemed to be too much of a ask for my stock PSU and the reported issues with the VRAM seem concerning. Haven't installed it yet, waiting for pin adapters as the current GPU only uses one 6-pin, and my model of the 960 I own requires one 6-pin and one 8-pin.

CPU (i7 870) was also having some thermal problems (would reach 80c easily when playing modern games) so removed the cooler and cleaned it thoroughly. Now I get about 10-15c temperature difference. Might consider disabling hypertherading or outright replacing the cooler. Still better than building a new computer, the i7 870 is plenty fast.
 
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Also, the 2 TB WD Black sure makes SSDs make no sense. Just saying.
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I'd rather have all my terminals run $60 SSDs and invest in a NAS that I can tunnel to from anywhere, honestly. That makes more sense than having more storage than I need isolated in one place.
 
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I'd rather have all my terminals run $60 SSDs and invest in a NAS that I can tunnel to from anywhere, honestly. That makes more sense than having more storage than I need isolated in one place.
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The only problem is that it's a gaming rig, and video games are huge these days. :)

That, and I'll take acceptable performance as a boot drive, especially with 8.1. Not installing 10 right now, at least until it gets a few more CUs.

Personally, when it comes to storage on desktops, there doesn't seem to be "one true combination" as far as I'm concerned. If the drive is decent enough, it will work. An SSD is faster, but there's also pricing concerns, especially when you're at somewhere where SSDs carry a further premium than what you'd expect in the US. Normally, a good 250 GB SSD should be cheaper than the WD Black 1 TB. It isn't here, and it still isn't when compared to the 2 TB model.

So long as you avoid 5400 RPM HDDs... now that's painful. Even a "performance" 7200 RPM HDD like the WD Blacks should provide around 2.1x the performance in everything, despite how the 33% increase in spindle speed might indicate that it's much less than that. It's also about the actuators, motors, cache, and controller, too. Even among 7200 RPM drives you can still find different characteristics. Even in terms of random access times.

The first doubling is also the most obvious when it comes to performance too. Imagine if the times spent on waiting is cut in half. :)
 
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Late to the partayyy but I'm starting to use GitHub now. I had an account for a while and got access to some private depositories thanks to college, so I'm hoping to use it a lot this year for team projects. I already prefer it to the Team Foundation server that I used like maybe twice in the past year? I just wish I knew how to use GitHub more, and more importantly sync the online repositories with the latest version of projects in my IDE. At the moment I'm setting myself up a lil' static subdomain hosted on the site (which I didn't know was a thing until about three days ago). Ofc the design is gonna be horrid since I'm a programmer, and not a graphic artist, but hey, if I can use it as a lil' thing to share some code and write about my current projects, it'll be a nice pet project for me.

Also; trackpads are realllyyyy starting to annoy me. I stg the one on this laptop is like hypersensitive. The right'mouse' button gets clicked when I'm merely moving the mouse, and the touchpad gestures always activate at inopportune times. I'm this much away from disabling the pinch zoom gesture...but I kinda like scrolling with two fingers.
 
LeviathanX said:
Late to the partayyy but I'm starting to use GitHub now. I had an account for a while and got access to some private depositories thanks to college, so I'm hoping to use it a lot this year for team projects. I already prefer it to the Team Foundation server that I used like maybe twice in the past year? I just wish I knew how to use GitHub more, and more importantly sync the online repositories with the latest version of projects in my IDE. At the moment I'm setting myself up a lil' static subdomain hosted on the site (which I didn't know was a thing until about three days ago). Ofc the design is gonna be horrid since I'm a programmer, and not a graphic artist, but hey, if I can use it as a lil' thing to share some code and write about my current projects, it'll be a nice pet project for me.
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If you need more private repos you should use BitBucket. I use it for all my work that I do for clients. The only thing is that it doesn't come with GitHub's extra features like an issue tracker or wiki. So if you can, you might want to set up a GitLab server if you need that extra functionality. As for learning git, Atlassian (BitBucket) has some great training guides. Reading the official git manual doesn't hurt. You should learn the command line interface instead of the IDE interface, because the CLI is more flexible and transferable (you could switch IDE without relearning, use it on the server via ssh for staging and deployment, etc.).
 
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.
 
LeviathanX said:
Also; trackpads are realllyyyy starting to annoy me. I stg the one on this laptop is like hypersensitive. The right'mouse' button gets clicked when I'm merely moving the mouse, and the touchpad gestures always activate at inopportune times. I'm this much away from disabling the pinch zoom gesture...but I kinda like scrolling with two fingers.
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How long have you been using said touchpad for? If it hasn't been long, then honestly I'd say it'd just take time to getting used to, and that's all.

If you want the pinch-zoom feature enabled, then I'd probably disable the two-finger scrolling at the same time that way they don't conflict. However, in the end, it's all up to you on what you want to do. :P
 
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