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>> No. 8270 Anonymous
24th February 2010
Wednesday 1:10 am 8270 spacer
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Illicit kit imported into Europe from China operates on the same frequency as GPS satellites to drown out timing signals and confound in-car devices. Because of this in-vehicle systems are unable to either determine their position or report in to vehicle tracking centres in cases where cars or lorries registered with GPS-based tracking technology are stolen.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/23/car_theft_gps_jam/

I like the sound of this GPS-jamming stuff and would quite like to get hold of one to play with. Has anyone managed to get hold of a device?
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>> No. 8308 Anonymous
27th February 2010
Saturday 4:42 pm 8308 spacer
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>>8304

Where can you get those?

I need for a ... school project?

Yeah, that'll do.
>> No. 8309 Anonymous
27th February 2010
Saturday 6:24 pm 8309 spacer
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>>8308

http://www.dealextreme.com/search.dx/search.jammer
>> No. 8313 Anonymous
1st March 2010
Monday 2:08 pm 8313 spacer
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>>8304

Could you make one of these at home?

Out of a walkie talkie or something?
>> No. 8314 Anonymous
1st March 2010
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>>8313
GSM and GPS frequencies are a long way away from the normal 433Mhz radios that you can buy. You need a very good oscilloscope and some other test equipment to knock one of these devices up from scratch. Better to bend something.

You would have more luck I think bastardising something like one of these modules :-

http://www.active-robots.com/products/radio-solutions/sparkfun-eval-boards.shtml

http://www.active-robots.com/products/radio-solutions/sparkfun-gps.shtml

Really not trivial though unless you're fully up with electrickery and radio. Would probably work out much cheaper/easier to try and buy one from China.

Some of the Arduino stuff mentioned on that page (and here by some others) looks really interesting too.
>> No. 8346 Anonymous
8th March 2010
Monday 8:55 pm 8346 spacer
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>>8308

ebay from the usa...

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>> No. 8319 Anonymous
4th March 2010
Thursday 7:08 pm 8319 Geek Porn? recycle
I want to see your insides /g/. At least, your computer's insides.
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>> No. 8336 Anonymous
6th March 2010
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>>8331
http://www.quietpc.com/gb-en-gbp/home

These lads are really good, I have bought stuff from them before. Look up the acoustic foam they sell from Acousti. You can fit it inside your PC to dampen sound. They have specific modules for hard-drives and the like. Pretty cheap as a kit.

I have bought a couple of full-size acoustic racks from them, they are expensive but work very well.
>> No. 8337 Anonymous
6th March 2010
Saturday 12:33 pm 8337 spacer
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>>8335
Dual core E8500 upped from 3.2 to 4.2Ghz.
>> No. 8338 Anonymous
6th March 2010
Saturday 2:06 pm 8338 spacer
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>>8337

I dont see the point in overclocking, puts more stress on the parts.. for a few extra fps gain that you dont really need..
>> No. 8344 Anonymous
8th March 2010
Monday 12:02 am 8344 spacer
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>>8338
You call an extra 1Ghz nothing? You are a hard person to please. Besides, if its FPS you're after, it'll be the GPU that will need the most tweaking.

Also, in case you lads didn't already know...
http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php

This is a little program that monitors and adjusts fan speed to reduce noise and temperature. A must have for people who don't want to fork out for a water cooling system.
>> No. 8345 Anonymous
8th March 2010
Monday 12:22 am 8345 spacer
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>>8344
That's if your motherboard supports in-OS adjustments. And if you've got one you probably have enough cash to spend on a small water cooling system.

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>> No. 8317 Anonymous
3rd March 2010
Wednesday 11:57 pm 8317 spacer
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Dear lads

SSTV - it sounds like an interesting idea, and a potential new hobby/plaything. Has anyone used it before, or had any prior experience/knowledge in this?
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>> No. 8330 Anonymous
5th March 2010
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>>8329
>just geeks twiddling with their equipment.
>> No. 8339 Anonymous
6th March 2010
Saturday 6:04 pm 8339 spacer
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Is this thread here because of the recent Portal hoo-hah?
>> No. 8340 Anonymous
6th March 2010
Saturday 6:06 pm 8340 spacer
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>>8339
I think it's here because a few of us are radiofags.
>> No. 8342 Anonymous
6th March 2010
Saturday 7:49 pm 8342 spacer
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>>8339

OP here, I'll admit being guilty. It does seem quite cool, though.
>> No. 8343 Anonymous
7th March 2010
Sunday 11:51 pm 8343 spacer
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>>8342
What's there to be guilty about? This has to be the best viral ad campaign ever.

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>> No. 8260 Anonymous
22nd February 2010
Monday 1:33 pm 8260 spacer
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I need some techy help lads:

I've just moved into a new place and got the internet set up and I can't seem to download any torrents from Piratebay or similiar sites, if I click the 'download' tab I just get:

The connection was reset



The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading
* The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few
moments.

* If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network
connection.

Message too long. Click here to view the full text.
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>> No. 8273 Anonymous
24th February 2010
Wednesday 6:47 pm 8273 spacer
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Easy way of testing whether they block connections to the tracker or not: give this .txt (http://www.mediafire.com/?krje3yt1n1u) to your client (as a .torrent, of course).

Would make things a lot simpler if this works.
>> No. 8279 Anonymous
25th February 2010
Thursday 11:56 am 8279 spacer
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>>8273

No, doesn't work. I don't know what that proves though.

>>8267
Any chance telling me where I should look?
>> No. 8294 Anonymous
26th February 2010
Friday 2:59 pm 8294 spacer
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>>8279

www.warez-bb.org/
www.projectw.org/index.php
www.xsharex.info/
www.bayw.org/index.php
>> No. 8316 Anonymous
2nd March 2010
Tuesday 8:06 pm 8316 spacer
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>>8260 use a vpn
>> No. 8341 Anonymous
6th March 2010
Saturday 7:22 pm 8341 spacer
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Get a demonoid account.

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>> No. 8315 Anonymous
1st March 2010
Monday 4:07 pm 8315 spacer
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The 2010 CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors is a list of the most widespread and critical programming errors that can lead to serious software vulnerabilities. They are often easy to find, and easy to exploit. They are dangerous because they will frequently allow attackers to completely take over the software, steal data, or prevent the software from working at all.

http://cwe.mitre.org/top25/

Definitely worth a read.

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>> No. 8291 Anonymous
26th February 2010
Friday 1:12 pm 8291 Lasers recycle
I recently purchased a 1mW laser from a UK seller and a 5mW laser from a Chinese seller, the 1mW laser was more powerful than the 5mW laser. I'm not keen on buying Chinese made lasers as a result.

What would be a decent place to buy a more powerful(match lighting, baloon popping) laser from?

<Pic displaying the kinda thing I'm after, a green laser pen using 2xAAA batteries.
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>> No. 8298 Anonymous
26th February 2010
Friday 6:44 pm 8298 spacer
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Why not just buy a cheap normal green laser and disable that little chip inside so you can burn things? If you want to buy one that will burn shit like that they cost a bomb.
>> No. 8299 Anonymous
26th February 2010
Friday 6:56 pm 8299 spacer
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You can use old DVD burner laser diodes to burn stuff usually.

OEM is usually meaning that it probibly wont come in any decent packaging/instructions. Usually used when companies buy them in bulk and the factory will brand them
>> No. 8301 Anonymous
26th February 2010
Friday 8:59 pm 8301 spacer
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>>8298

How do I disable chip?
>> No. 8303 Anonymous
26th February 2010
Friday 11:47 pm 8303 spacer
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>>8301
Soldering iron, look on google/youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/v/Sf3M-_RUSCM
>> No. 8310 Anonymous
28th February 2010
Sunday 1:36 pm 8310 spacer
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>>8297
Excellent if you have plenty of money to burn on something that can also burn money.

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>> No. 8098 Anonymous
9th February 2010
Tuesday 8:15 pm 8098 spacer
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I thought this was a nice HTML 5 demo. Haven't seen many others.

http://mugtug.com/sketchpad/

Any more?
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>> No. 8107 Anonymous
10th February 2010
Wednesday 10:41 am 8107 spacer
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>>8098
www.youtube.com/html5
>> No. 8261 Anonymous
22nd February 2010
Monday 2:46 pm 8261 spacer
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>>8098

Nice!

I'm into web design and all that as a hobby more than anything, pretty nifty with html and css and graphics etc, but I don't know exactly what HTML5 is, so, what is it? I apologise for being too lazy to use the google search engine.
>> No. 8307 Anonymous
27th February 2010
Saturday 6:59 am 8307 spacer
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>>8261
HTML5 is still being specified, but when finished it will be the new version of HTML that all browsers will eventually (more or less as usual) implement.

There is an interesting article on the politics behind it here

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/feb/26/berners-lee-html5-adobe-argument

One way of describing HTML5 is to say that it's a Flash killer.

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>> No. 8296 Anonymous
26th February 2010
Friday 6:09 pm 8296 spacer
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Lads, this is strange.

Firefox let's me in fine, but Sleipnir isn't on the list.

Help?

inb4 just use firefox.
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>> No. 8300 Anonymous
26th February 2010
Friday 6:57 pm 8300 spacer
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Sleipnir must be blocked on the server
>> No. 8305 Anonymous
27th February 2010
Saturday 4:31 am 8305 spacer
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Never tested with sleipnir, there is no specific block for any browser. It must be doing something the castle doesn't like.
>> No. 8312 Anonymous
28th February 2010
Sunday 8:00 pm 8312 spacer
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403? maybe anti-ddos/anti-crawler on server

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>> No. 8289 Anonymous
25th February 2010
Thursday 10:48 pm 8289 spacer
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Evening /g/uys.
Would any of you happen to know if there is any huge differences between the nForce 980a and the nForce 780a chipset? I'm struggling to decide on which motherboard to buy, The greatly more expensive 980a, or the Slightly older, but cheaper 780a. I'd be extremely grateful if anybody could render any assistance on the matter.

Here are the offending items,
nforce 780, http://tiny.cc/oxU5h
nforce 980, http://tiny.cc/8Cfd9
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>> No. 8290 Anonymous
26th February 2010
Friday 2:15 am 8290 spacer
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>>8289
Can't see that much difference between them. The more expensive one seems to do HD/1080p but that's about it.

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>> No. 8193 Anonymous
16th February 2010
Tuesday 5:50 pm 8193 spacer
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So anyone in here want a cheap dedicated server? my host is selling some older ones of pretty cheap..

DELL SC1425 XEON Single CPU @ 3.0GHz - 1U SERVER
1GB (2GB Available + £20.00/One off)
160GB Hard Drive
Windows 2003 Server License Included (Linux Available Minus £20.00)
Purchase Price: £80.00/One Off
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>> No. 8281 Anonymous
25th February 2010
Thursday 1:25 pm 8281 spacer
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>>8280

It's actually not bad, depending on what you're doing. For gaming servers it's pretty much essential, for obvious reasons, and for Exchange pushes and all that too. I ran a website on Win server 2003 for years out of laziness and I never had any problems, though I did feel a little dirty.
>> No. 8282 Anonymous
25th February 2010
Thursday 1:40 pm 8282 spacer
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>>8280

I use server2003, but then its mainly used for gameservers/voip.. and a webserver..

It does the job
>> No. 8284 Anonymous
25th February 2010
Thursday 1:55 pm 8284 spacer
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>>8280
Netcraft confirms it.
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2010/02/22/february_2010_web_server_survey.html
>> No. 8285 Anonymous
25th February 2010
Thursday 2:07 pm 8285 spacer
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>>8284

I don't think I'm surprised. I would guess too that a large chunk of the Apache results are running on Win Server too, that's what I did. (unless I am misunderstanding the categories)

I can only imagine how many millions of people who run Windows computers and suddenly decide they want a website and control over it, but don't want to learn anything too new and fancy, must rent a Windows box.
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25th February 2010
Thursday 6:00 pm 8286 spacer
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>>8280
People do but nobody is impressed by it.

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>> No. 8214 Anonymous
17th February 2010
Wednesday 9:25 pm 8214 spacer
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Hey /g/uys,
One of my 1GB 667mhz DDR2 RAM sticks fucked up recently, so I decided I may as well go all out and ordered 4GB (2x2GB) of OCZ 800mhz DDR2 RAM knowing that it would work as I checked in Everest and installed Windows 7 x64. But everything wasn't so easy, on installing the new RAM I couldn't boot much at all, the screen remained off and the disk drive was making a strange sound. On replacing my old RAM the same thing happened again, but everything was normal after resetting the BIOS.

I know nothing else is wrong with my PC as it's had some diagnostic done down at a local shop. I've altered my BIOS settings to suite the new RAM, it was previously on auto so I didn't think it would make much of a difference, and it didn't.

Currently doing alright on 1GB of RAM and Windows 7 x64, I've done some basic troubleshooting (Taking out PCI devices, swapping RAM around, taking disk drive out and apart) but my knowledge only goes so far.

tl;dr Installing 4GB 800mhz RAM, previously had 2GB 667mhz, not booting. How can I sort this one out?
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>> No. 8255 Anonymous
21st February 2010
Sunday 10:00 pm 8255 spacer
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>>8234
I am doing so on my desktop machine and can even play Bioshock 2 flawlessly on it, my graphics card is also a Sapphire HD 2600XT, technology doesn't go obsolete as quick as people think.
>> No. 8257 Anonymous
21st February 2010
Sunday 10:15 pm 8257 spacer
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>>8255
I wasn't implying 'technology becomes obsolete', rather 'Microsoft becomes more incapable of streamlining their OS'.
>> No. 8272 Anonymous
24th February 2010
Wednesday 3:33 pm 8272 spacer
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Windows 7 seems to perform similarly to XP when it comes to system hardware, don't get it confused with it's fat retarded brother Vista.
>> No. 8277 Anonymous
25th February 2010
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>>8214 OP i had the same problem. It's probably to do with voltage, seriously. I couldnt work it out when I got the new ram, but then i realised the default bios ram voltage was under the recommended, sorted it out in a giffy.
>> No. 8293 Anonymous
26th February 2010
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>>8277

Nope.
Found out it was one of my slots. Bad times.

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>> No. 8241 Anonymous
21st February 2010
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First of all can I please ask that this doesn't turn into a hurr durr fest, I trust that we are all mature enough to just discuss the topic or say nothing at all.

The problem I have is this: I really want to keep using Ubuntu but I am being forced back to Windows.

I have been using a P4 3.0 but I want to use that for my studio so my only option is to use a P4 2.4 with generally lower specs all round. I used to be able to play full screen flash like Iplayer with no problem but on this shitter machine it's too jerky in Ubuntu.

However, in XP it plays flawlessly.

Now obviously the logical thing to do is to use XP but I just don't want to. I know the hardware is capable so I just need to make Linux work properly. Now I have tried various other distros but all of them left me thinking "fuck this, Ubuntu is just better".

What to do ladmates? Oh I have tried different flash plugins with no success.
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>> No. 8266 Anonymous
23rd February 2010
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>>8265
What's wrong with grub2 exactly?
Unless looking nicer and being faster is classed as wrecking your system?
>> No. 8268 Anonymous
23rd February 2010
Tuesday 5:29 pm 8268 spacer
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>>8266

Not recognising hibernating Windows partitions, corrupting an hfs+ volume, and refusing to be removed under Ubuntu 9 are all features I class as system wrecking.
>> No. 8274 Anonymous
24th February 2010
Wednesday 8:06 pm 8274 spacer
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OP here. I've tried Swiftfox, Mint and everything else I could think of and have admitted defeat. What I have decided to do is use Ubuntu 8.04 for most things except iplayer streaming for which I will boot into XP. Most things are available for iplayer-dl and the mp4 files it gets play fine.
>> No. 8275 Anonymous
24th February 2010
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I don't know if this is relevant but I saw a story in the past few days that said the BBC had recently enabled content protection on its streams, something you can only access through the Adobe-based native plug-in. At the moment, none of the open-source streaming tools can connect to the Beeb because of this apparently.

ah here it is, good old Reg.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/24/iplayer_xbmc_adobe_swf_verification/
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24th February 2010
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>>8275
That shouldn't be a problem, I don't think there is a disto out there which doesn't use or make the actual adobe flash drivers available.

I'm using 10.0.45.2 and iplayer works fine for me.
Also fine in chromium which I believe doesn't use adobe plugin, certainly not 10.0.45.2 because that only works with firefox and seamonkey.

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>> No. 8226 Anonymous
18th February 2010
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I have recently gained a preference for long monitors. They're rather handy, but not without flaws. At the moment I am using an LG something (the model number is largely irrelevant) on a third party adjustable monitor arm for my rotating needs.

The thing is that this monitor, and just about every other monitor I have seen since, is not meant to be used on its side - the viewing angles for a monitor from the top and bottom are never a priority, and since in my world the top and bottom is actually left and right, it makes for a poor viewing angle - even looking head on can create contrast problems - this site, for example, looks far darker on one side than the other.

I realise this is because of the way these monitors are built. I come here for advice in the hope that one of you also practices the alternative orientation, and has a far greater knowledge of it than me. Are there any monitors built for portrait mode out there? Or at least ones that are ostensibly designed to work both ways - or would that be too much of a compromise?

Thanks lads and ladettes - googling doesn't seem much help on this matter but if I'm just not looking hard enough I apologise.
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>> No. 8237 Anonymous
20th February 2010
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I remember reading in a gaming magazine that the coders in some Japanese dev have screens like this, as it's easier to code with, so I'm certain that they actually exist.

I'll have a look around.
>> No. 8238 Anonymous
20th February 2010
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Apple had screens like this for typists and such over a decade ago at the least. I remember seeing CRT models. It's possible other brands had them too.
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20th February 2010
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>>8237

http://www.red-onions.co.uk/product_info.php?language=en&currency=GBP&products_id=90820
>> No. 8249 Anonymous
21st February 2010
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>>8239
Coding on an 82" monitor?
>> No. 8251 Anonymous
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>>8249

At least its designed for portrait

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>> No. 8217 Anonymous
18th February 2010
Thursday 1:47 pm 8217 I need your help /g/ recycle
OK,

I'm trying to install icecast2 server onto my macbook.

I have installed Xcode with the UNIX dev kit and I have installed macports.

Macports is apparently finding the stuff it needs, but I'm getting an error on the build. (First off it wasn't finding the compiler, but I went and added to the path in .profile and it's finding gcc fine now)

The error is
can't read "build.cmd": Failed to locate 'make' in path


Anyone got any ideas?
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>> No. 8218 Anonymous
18th February 2010
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>>8217
You have to add the location of make to your path, as you did with gcc. It's apparently included with the Xcode Tools.

http://developer.apple.com/Mac/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/gnumake.1.html
>> No. 8219 Anonymous
18th February 2010
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>>8218

yeah, apparently looking in /Developer/usr/bin there's a make alias which points to gnumake... but /Developer/usr/bin is where gcc also resides and is what I had to add to the path to make it find the compiler.

I am confus.
>> No. 8220 Anonymous
18th February 2010
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Sounds to me like your XCode isn't installed right. You shouldn't need to do any of that stuff. I don't know about icecast2 server, but does it have a configure script you need to run first?
>> No. 8224 Anonymous
18th February 2010
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>>8220

I got it to work after doing a reinstall of Xcode.

though now I can't get any server status info on the localhost web interface page, despite the error console showing the thing is working (to an extent - traktor won't connect to it)

blergh

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