>>25798

I'm no expert, but after a rudimentary Googling, try xnview?

http://www.amacsoft.com/ebook/how-to-convert-ithmb-to-jpeg.html
http://www.xnview.com/en/

>>25799

Nah, it don't work.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2640386?start=0
Did you try this?

>>25777

All computer-based audio has some amount of latency, due to the conversion from analogue to digital and back. An analogue microphone plugged into an ordinary soundcard is likely to have particularly high latency, because soundcards aren't optimised for recording applications. Windows isn't really designed for low-latency audio, so you need to use special ASIO drivers and compatible software to achieve un-noticeably low latency with either a USB microphone or a dedicated audio interface.

I'll add:

Whatever the application you're using the microphone for, you can make a massive improvement to the quality of the recording, just using a few improvised tricks like stockings over a clothes hanger to make a pop-shield, and some towels hung behind you to deaden echoes.

>>25777
>I think you might have to pop down Maplins and just buy whatever cheapest mic they have and hope it's good.

Ok thanks, will do.

Well, I got one off ebay for 6 quid. It works well enough but my voice has gone bad so you'll have to wait a few days to hear my deep sexy tones.

>>25796
My curiosity is genuinely piqued at this point. No, I don't know why either.

>>25789

Yes because in saying that, you do realise its going to now be half the speed. Effectively you are downgrading.

>>25790

It's OK, the new one I'm looking at is twice as fast.

Got it working. I just had to tweak the BIOS a bit.

>>25790
If its striped it'll still only be reading/writing to a single disk at any given time so the speed difference would be negligible.

>>25794

It's scarcely worth debating the speed of spinning rust drives, as they're all pitifully slow. Hard drives are fine for archival storage, but you'd have to be bonkers to use one as a working drive. A basic 120gb SSD costs well under £50 these days.

Oh well, I've wasted 40 quid on a chinese box and a wireless keyboard so I'll see what happens.

>>25764

It'll be a minor ballache to set up, but once you've figured it out you'll be able to watch 3pm football and films that aren't even out yet. Bargain.

>>25761
I'd agree if we were talking about computer monitors, or if you're looking for a TV to use mostly for gaming. But in general, you have to fit the size of the telly to the size and layout of the room - I'm not going to move the telly in my lounge into the middle of the room so that it's closer to the sofas because that would be impractical with the wires and waste a lot of space.

How the fuck do I turn off my amazon prime fire stick thing.

>>25767
Inside the flat a fruity voice was reading out a list of figures which had something to do with the production of macbooks. The voice came from an oblong metal plaque like a dulled mirror which formed part of the surface of the right-hand wall. Winston turned a switch and the voice sank somewhat, though the words were still distinguishable. The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely.

>>25691

>Wasn't there some liar lad on here recently saying that the Chinese were coming out with affordable 1Tb NAND storage any time now?

> Even at commodity prices, the cheapest TLC NAND costs about £200/TB. You can buy a near-flagship phone and a 128gb MicroSD card for less than that.

http://britfa.gs/g/res/25512.html#i25517

http://britfa.gs/g/res/25512.html

This is the twonk who spelled could as 'culd' ffs I was referring to. Make your own mind up, laddo.

http://www.gearbest.com/mp3-mp4-players/pp_373989.html

>>25689
We already have 1Tb cards, you can buy them as 128GB.

The point I am making is that B and b are different, as anyone who has internet should know.

>>25756
That bit / byte misrepresentation with broadband speeds on adverts is such a pricktease.

Although, not as bad as getting confused between 1 mm and 1 Mm.

>>25692

Typos are an arsehole, however I am the cunt who picked up a 1Tb Victorinox flashdrive for 15 quid.

Sage checked.

>>25749
Yep. W540

>>25750
You can almost certainly reprogram or replace the bios chip.

>>25751
Hmm, looks promising, thanks.

>>25747
I will give this a try, thanks for the informative post. My only fear is like what happened to >>25748 getting stuck with a bad deal and having to mess about sending it back or trying to fix it.

Are there some general tips to avoid the hassle? I suppose when using ebay its just a case of checking the seller reputation and not dwelling too much on bad luck.

>>25753

>Are there some general tips to avoid the hassle?

Buy from a large, professional refurbisher that offers a full warranty. I've bought a lot of kit from this kind of outfit and they've been no bother at all. Look for the "eBay Premium Service" badge - these sellers get discounted fees and preferential placement in search results, but they have to maintain extremely high levels of customer satisfaction.

Look for listings that include a phone number, a VAT number, an address that's a proper commercial premises. Look for a full and accurate description, with an explanation of their product grading. Ask a question before you buy - the promptness and quality of the reply will tell you a lot about the seller.

Here's an example of a confidence-inspiring listing from a real business:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Dell-OptiPlex-980-Tower-PC-Core-i5-3-33GHz-4GB-Ram-500GB-HDD-Win-10-WiFi-/182388964653

Versus a shit listing from someone who's obviously selling stuff out of their garage:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Dell-Optiplex-3010-Tower-PC-Intel-Core-i5-3470-3-2-GHz-4GB-500GB-HDD-HDMI-/252681918859

Pirate bay

emu paradise

The problem with Amazon is that the "sold by Amazon" and "fulfilled by Amazon" products go on the same shelf in the warehouse. There's no separation of stock, so it just takes one dodgy third-party seller to fuck it up for everyone.

Tesco are doing a Sandisk Extreme 64GB stick for £22 with free delivery. I take it that a sequential write speed of 190MB/s counts as "decent"?

http://www.tesco.com/direct/sandisk-extreme-usb-30-flash-drive-up-to-245mbs-read/530-6946.prd?skuId=394-0062

>>25737
I would never have thought of Tesco, of all places. That's perfect, cheers mate.

>>25739
Every little helps.

Here it is in action!

function addThreeNums(a, b, c) { return a + b + c; } var addOneTwo = curry(addThreeNums, [1, 2]); console.log(addOneTwo(3)); // 6

>>25730

Yeah, like this. You don't need the first slice.

function curry(fn, presets) { return function() { return fn.apply(null, presets.concat([].slice.call(arguments, 0))); }; }

function curry(fn, presets, binding) { return function() { return fn.apply(binding, presets.concat([].slice.call(arguments, 0))); }; }

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/218025/what-is-the-difference-between-currying-and-partial-application

>>25724
Looks interesting, tell us more.

>>25725
Not the OP, but I've heard a little about these before.
Same basic principle as the raspberry pi, but with an x86 chip capable of running windows, and with an onboard arduino.

Lattepanda single-board computer running Windows 10. I am building a pocket computer and looking for something closer to a real motherboard than a Raspberry PI. Would appreciate input from people that have used one before.

>>25727
They're fairly new and I don't think there's that many people around with experience of them yet. You might be better off looking towards the makerspace community for advice.

Are you building this to make practical use out of it, or just for the sake of building it? If it's the former, it might be worth looking at the GPD handhelds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C51mkucrnc

>>25728
Thanks. I was not aware of that, for some reason. Something like the Pandora could be perfect, depending on the specs.

>>25707
This. As long as the cable is up to spec it'll be fine. It's not like the days of PS/2 where if you stick a 3m extension on the end your mouse lags to fuck.

>>25708

>it's just a dumb cable that carries digital signals

A cable might be a few bits of wire, but it's far from dumb. Everything from wire gauge to the quality of the contacts to the number of twists per inch in the pairs will affect signal integrity. A huge amount of engineering goes into a good cable. Try hooking up a Wifi antenna with a bit of bell wire or running gigabit ethernet over Cat3, see how you get on.

Any cable meeting the HDMI High Speed specification should work at anything from 720p to 4k. In practice, most cheap cables aren't certified and have never been properly tested - the cable manufacturer just cloned someone else's cable and hoped for the best.

>That's not how digital signals work, there isn't a continuous linear degadation like with analogue signals - either it works, or you start dropping bits and it doesn't.

The effects of a bad cable can be quite subtle. Dropped frames and intermittent HDCP errors creep in long before the connection fails completely. The fact that your monitor isn't saying "no signal" doesn't mean that the cable is working properly. There are adequate and inadequate cables, but there are also marginal cables that just about work when everything is going well. You turn on your tumble drier, the EM noise floor goes up by 10dB and suddenly your TV is cutting out.

>>25711
Regardless of the engineering complexity, the point is that a cable has no concept of different versions of HDMI signal.

>>25712

Versions, no. Data rates, yes. I said "suitable cable", i.e. one capable of reliably operating at the necessary data rate. 4k is far more demanding than 1080p and requires a considerably higher quality cable. That doesn't have to be a stupidly expensive cable, but if you try and use some poundshop cheapie with a 4k monitor you're in for a world of pain.

>>25713
So long as it's high speed it'll be fine.

Continuing to get away with it lads. Every time a new problem is put in front of me I say "Of course I can do that, I'll have it done by X time" when what I'm thinking is "How the fuck am I going to do this by X time?!". Haven't missed a deadline once.

>>25693
I had some advice from a fairly successful entrepreneur which was to do exactly what you're doing. Companies will ask him or his business if they can do something and they just say yes then just work out how to. Seems a bit obvious in retrospect.

>>25694
Yes, I'm going to take this approach in the future. It makes sense.

Well, the work is pretty much finished (I've finally blown through the budget they had set aside for the e-commerce side of things). I knew this was coming up soon so was a nice bloke and wrote a load of scripts for the server to look after itself, do daily checks for load problems and sort it if so, and a bunch of other stuff the last guy didn't do like make sure the server/database sets itself up again if it has to be rebooted.

There's some talk of work being thrown my way regarding the promotions/sales aspect of it, with a nice (20%) commission on any sales. Which I suspect they will need, because the site doesn't even show up in google yet if you google the website name. I'm pretty good with SEO as well, and they know this.

First "proper" tech job I've had, and I fell into it by accident. Perfect work for me, think I might look into doing this more.

>>25694

At my work people hate our CEO. He comes into the office, tells us to do something, and everyone starts complaining that what he's asking is impossible, and of course he ignores this and says do it anyway.
Usually it turns out that he's actually right, it is possible and gets done on time.

>>25695
Good work lad.

>>25658
I'm on wifi. Do you think soundproofing would work? Or is the wavelength such that heat insulation would be better?

>>25659

Put tinfoil on all your walls to block out interference. Make sure to cover your windows.

>>25652
You're having a laugh right?

Maybe you could try directly accessing the twitter API with cURL requests before converting the images to ASCII art. Just definitely don't try using a sensible modern browser instead of what looks like fucking Netscape.

OP I sincerely hope you break your own computer.

>>25624
I don't have them in the house. Disgusting things.

After a year in storage, the print heads are probably clogged.

Unless you regularly print photos, I'd always recommend a cheap laser printer. They use powdered toner just like a photocopier, which has an indefinite shelf life. Laser printers have no print heads to clog and they don't constantly waste expensive ink on self-cleaning cycles. You don't get colour printing, but that doesn't matter if you're just printing forms or work documents.

A decent laser printer with Ethernet and Wi-Fi costs less than £50, including a starter toner cartridge. If you need one with a scanner, that'll cost you £70. That's a greater up-front cost than an inkjet, but it'll pay for itself very quickly. Knock-off toner cartridges cost £18, last for ~2500 pages and work faultlessly.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dell-210-AEHG-DELL-Laser-Printers/dp/B00YBZFQDG/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dell-210-AEHF-DELL-Laser-Printers/dp/B00YBZFKJG/