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>> No. 25210 Anonymous
19th May 2016
Thursday 6:32 pm
25210 Firefox playing silly buggers again
Is it just me?

Something has happened to the upgrade routine recently. Usually I'd click the 'About Firefox' from the main menu and hit 'Check for updates'. Now it simply gives me 'Updates available at mozilla.com/firefox/'. No 'Upgrade to Firefox ${CURRENT_VERSION}'.
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>> No. 25211 Anonymous
19th May 2016
Thursday 7:48 pm
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>>25210
>Is it just me?
Possibly. On both my machines, the latest update (46.0.1) was pointed out via both of the usual routes of About Firefox and the update popup.
>> No. 25212 Anonymous
22nd May 2016
Sunday 9:20 am
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>>25211
Crikey. I don't recall fiddling with about:config on that machine recently, yet it's broken.

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>> No. 25201 Anonymous
8th May 2016
Sunday 6:48 pm
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I've for a long time been pondering starting up a blog. I'm joining an already saturated market but as everybody believes - mine has a special tint.

I've not put any content on it yet but I've set up the layout and design and have some articles / blog posts ready to go up when the time is right.

I don't want to make a living off it nor have thousands read my every update, but a few readers would probably make it a worthwhile hobby.

How do I go about getting an initial readership? Anybody done anything like this before?
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>> No. 25202 Anonymous
8th May 2016
Sunday 6:51 pm
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Get some content then interact with other bloggers. People will see your posts, then if you have anything interesting to say they'll look at your profile and read your blog.
Not complicated.
>> No. 25203 Anonymous
8th May 2016
Sunday 6:57 pm
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>>25202
Everything is easy when you know how...
>> No. 25204 Anonymous
8th May 2016
Sunday 7:23 pm
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>>25203
What about winning the Lotto?
>> No. 25205 Anonymous
8th May 2016
Sunday 7:26 pm
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>>25204
Piss easy. All you have to do is pick the right numbers.
>> No. 25206 Anonymous
8th May 2016
Sunday 7:31 pm
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>>25203
I didn't say it was easy, I said it was simple.

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>> No. 25193 Anonymous
7th May 2016
Saturday 2:07 pm
25193 Personal organising
I don't think I've ever come across an app or bit of software that handles long-term projects, repeating timetables, to-do lists and a calendar together in a satisfactory way.

Currently I use an online spreadsheet for planning my finances, long trips and work-related training on a scale of years, Google calendar for meetings and events on a scale of months/weeks, and an app on my phone which chimes with reminders of routine tasks.

It occurs to me that these things should surely be integrated. What does /g/ use?
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>> No. 25199 Anonymous
8th May 2016
Sunday 5:15 pm
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>>25198
In what sense? Can't say I've had too many major problems with it. The tight integration with Android is the main reason I'd choose it over any other cloud-based calendar.
>> No. 25200 Anonymous
8th May 2016
Sunday 5:55 pm
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Had you asked a couple of years ago, I'd have suggested using Lotus Organiser on desktop. It hadn't been updated for a decade, but IBM finally killed it off around 18 months ago.
>> No. 25207 Anonymous
9th May 2016
Monday 3:03 pm
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>>25196

Ah, that's beautiful. I get all weird over seeing properly organised notes, being that I am genuinely a sad-act that loves stationary. I may treat myself to a black A4 filofax just to hold documents together, soon.

I'm considering trying an app called Jorte, which seems to fit all of my requirements thus far. It's not much to look at, but if it's functional it would be really nice to be able to replace the dozen separate ways of recording things I currently use. Unfortunately it's another regularly paid service rather than a purchasable bit of software.

If this doesn't work, there's a few apps out there that merge Google Tasks and Google Calendar into one interface. Then I can just add a custom calendar on top of my regular one containing my daily routine.

I'll let you both know if it comes together, or if I'm just piddling away my time.
>> No. 25208 Anonymous
10th May 2016
Tuesday 3:15 am
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>>25207
>being that I am genuinely a sad-act that loves stationary. I may treat myself to a black A4 filofax just to hold documents together, soon.

Have you ever been in a Muji? It's like a fucking The North Pole for people like us.

P.S. Stationery. Stationary is standing still in awe of the beautiful range of tiny pots and folders Muji sell.
>> No. 25209 Anonymous
10th May 2016
Tuesday 1:29 pm
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>>25208

I used to work for MUJI for a long time. I think every third customer would be commenting on how they love the stationery. Funnily enough, we once had a sign that read '10% Off Stationary Storage'.

In case you're interested, here's a lot of it used to make a model of Tokyo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uxc4uLlOM

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>> No. 25116 Anonymous
21st April 2016
Thursday 9:49 pm
25116 fucks sake google
You cheeky cunts.
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>> No. 25157 Anonymous
23rd April 2016
Saturday 8:26 pm
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>> No. 25158 Anonymous
23rd April 2016
Saturday 9:00 pm
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>>25157

Please don't, that's almost as embarrassing as the autism comment above. Just stop.
>> No. 25159 Anonymous
24th April 2016
Sunday 12:50 am
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>>25158
Haven't you heard, accusing someone of autism is the new go-to comment when you realise that you are way out of your depth on a subject.
>> No. 25160 Anonymous
24th April 2016
Sunday 6:32 pm
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>>25156
Browser is the new Java™.
>> No. 25161 Anonymous
24th April 2016
Sunday 7:46 pm
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>>25160

Browser is the new VT100.

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>> No. 25101 Anonymous
16th April 2016
Saturday 5:17 pm
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I want to try presenting and regularly updating information using a 3D model of earth (see the attached amazing rendering). I have two ideas, the first being a website featuring a movable globe, with clickable points that I could customise and regularly change, bringing up a little article I've written for that time period.

The problem is that I have precisely fuckall knowledge of HTML, HTML5, javascript, website design/hosting, or WebGL. I have considered sticking something like the following plugin on a Wordpress site, though the coder doesn't provide installation support:
http://codecanyon.net/item/earth-viewer-3d-globe/2283700

I also found similar projects called Planetaryjs and WebGL Earth:
http://planetaryjs.com/examples/rotating.html
http://examples.webglearth.com/examples/animation.html

My second idea is to use some sort of animation software and regularly produce videos for YouTube featuring a model which spins to the point I want, shows the corresponding article header and an overlaid link, then moves on to the next location. I imagine it would be possible using software like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDwRI4LH4_I

Assuming I'm just looking for the quickest point from A to B so I can start putting up my information, which should I try? Are there more practical methods I'm missing? I'm looking for the presentation to be as minimal as possible, and ideally as close to my picture as possible.
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>> No. 25105 Anonymous
16th April 2016
Saturday 10:40 pm
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>>25104

You can post a job description and freelancers will bid for the job, like a reverse auction. Avoid the lowest bids, choose someone with decent feedback, don't be afraid of hiring someone from Umbongostan. Define your project requirements as clearly and concisely as possible - clear requirements keep costs low and reduce risk.
>> No. 28080 Anonymous
27th February 2022
Sunday 10:27 pm
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I wrote this post nearly 6 years ago, yet I still have this idea at the back of my head.

I now have the disposable income to at least take on a project like this. Could I still use Upwork for this, or have the places to hire someone for creating a website like this changed?
>> No. 28081 Anonymous
28th February 2022
Monday 1:59 pm
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>>28080
I'd say upwork is probably the best out there at the moment.
>> No. 28082 Anonymous
1st March 2022
Tuesday 12:22 am
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>>28080
Six years and you still haven't learnt how to do it yourself?
>> No. 28083 Anonymous
3rd March 2022
Thursday 3:27 pm
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>>28082

I can truly say I haven't had the time to learn any kind of web design or coding in the last six years.

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>> No. 24982 Anonymous
1st February 2016
Monday 7:45 am
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I doubt that any of you are using Microsoft Edge (which sounds like a gay porno) but just on the off chance...

http://betanews.com/2016/01/30/stop-using-microsoft-edges-inprivate-mode-if-you-value-your-privacy/

> investigations of the browser have resulted in revealing that websites visited in private mode are also stored in the browser’s WebCache file.

>NOTE: The Container_n table stores web history. There a field named 'Flag' will be available. A website visited in the private mode will have a flag value as '8'.
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>> No. 25096 Anonymous
15th April 2016
Friday 1:16 am
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>>25093>>25094>>25095
Real men do and look at whatever the fuck they want online knowing that the guardians and gatekeepers are as human and fallible as they are and ignore the failed power games of the former reality. Not behind seven Boxxxys, making and learning their own morality and trusting in the Universe.
>> No. 25097 Anonymous
15th April 2016
Friday 2:37 am
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>>25094

How depressing is it that I was using one of them in 1999?

>>25095

You have no idea how giddy I feel to have found someone else who knows about TCP/IP over carrier pigeon here on gs.
>> No. 25098 Anonymous
15th April 2016
Friday 5:47 am
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>>25097
I knew someone who was part of the implementation team. Much fun was had that day, apparently.
>> No. 25099 Anonymous
15th April 2016
Friday 9:17 am
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>>25097

There has to be someone, that's still the fastest connection we can get up North.
>> No. 25100 Anonymous
15th April 2016
Friday 10:24 am
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>>25099
Complete with a mechanical IP stack at the consumer end.

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>> No. 25073 Anonymous
9th April 2016
Saturday 9:28 pm
25073 Monitors
It's been a while since I was up-to-date on what made a decent display (the last time I was buying IPS was the new big thing), and it seems to be difficult to find the sort of information I'm after.

I'm looking for something that's 16:10, 24-28", and would want to expand later with smaller panels in portrait. For the expansion, it needs to have a native resolution that would be easy to match P/L and smaller bezels would be a bonus. (The expansion requirement is making searches difficult.) It needs DVI and multiple HDMI inputs. I don't really do AAA gaming, so standard (60-75) refresh rates will suffice. Budget around £300-400.

Could either of you recommend some decent panels that would fit?
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>> No. 25079 Anonymous
10th April 2016
Sunday 3:53 pm
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>>25077
Your python makes me cry. Why. Why is there a function that is more than a page long on my monitor. And why aren't you using Vim.
>> No. 25080 Anonymous
10th April 2016
Sunday 4:15 pm
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>>25079

It's not my screenshot, I just picked something from Google Images to illustrate the point. My desktop is littered with commercially sensitive stuff. I couldn't be arsed with the faff of taking a screenshot myself.

http://blog.greglturnquist.com/2014/04/39-seiki-4k-monitor-is-great.html
>> No. 25081 Anonymous
10th April 2016
Sunday 5:20 pm
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>>25076

Dell have some monitors with fantastic stands, the one I've just bought can rotate, pivot, switch between landscape and protrait and is height adjustable with a smoothly sprung mechanism. And it has a hoop for the cables to go through.
>> No. 25082 Anonymous
10th April 2016
Sunday 10:03 pm
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>>25081

They're also mostly standardised across the range, and I think they also sell a handy adaptor plate that converts it into a VESA stand.
>> No. 25083 Anonymous
11th April 2016
Monday 12:37 pm
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I'd just like to say that I see what you did there, OP.

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>> No. 24908 Anonymous
1st December 2015
Tuesday 12:01 pm
24908 Yet another find me a phone thead
I need a phone that's around £50-£70 that can use a 128gb SDXC and has wifi. I don't care about the camera or what the phone looks like. Ideally it would be nice to have a long lasting phone that wouldn't break and a decent battery life but I know that these things may have to be sacrificed. Is this even possible?
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>> No. 24996 Anonymous
14th February 2016
Sunday 11:03 pm
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>>24992
The first of January 1970 is the start of unix time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time

Why they chose that date for their Mac thing is anyone's guess.
>> No. 24997 Anonymous
14th February 2016
Sunday 11:35 pm
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Yeah, I get that it'll do some unix fuckery to your iphone, just doesn't seem a particularly convincing or compelling reason for anyone to follow the instructions.
>> No. 24998 Anonymous
14th February 2016
Sunday 11:37 pm
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>>24996

The image is a typical chan prank, along the lines of "the system32 file is a virus, delete it immediately" or "you can charge your iPhone in the microwave".

There's a major bug in iOS that bricks devices if you set the time to the beginning of the Epoch. For some reason the clock underflows, setting the date forward by ~584 billion years. This crashes the bootloader, so the device can't be reflashed in recovery mode.
>> No. 24999 Anonymous
14th February 2016
Sunday 11:47 pm
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>>24998
That's one of the stupidest bugs I've ever heard.
>> No. 25000 Anonymous
15th February 2016
Monday 12:57 am
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>>24997
We're talking about iPhone users here, it doesn't need to be particularly convincing or compelling to work on them.

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>> No. 24993 Anonymous
14th February 2016
Sunday 9:37 pm
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So I've fucked up recovery on my phone, I should add it works completely fine right now.

Previously I've rooted it and installed TeamWin onto it. One day last year, Android was bugging me to update. I clicked yes and didn't realise it won't update because I've rooted and installed TeamWinReceoveryProject (TWRP). So the update failed and I thought nothing of it.

So the other day I wanted to make a backup of my phone and tried to get into TWRP only I go into fastboot now and when I select recovery it just reboots. Anyway I can fix this so I have TWRP back?
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>> No. 24994 Anonymous
14th February 2016
Sunday 9:40 pm
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I guess I could try "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img".

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>> No. 24989 Anonymous
5th February 2016
Friday 11:54 pm
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that thread has more than 150 post when you view it. why does it say 150 when clearly it is more than that
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>> No. 24990 Anonymous
6th February 2016
Saturday 12:14 am
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>>>/shed/

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>> No. 24959 Anonymous
23rd January 2016
Saturday 2:08 am
24959 *chan history
I've just been going through some google searches for information on the history of the *chans and imageboards in general. Here are the few of worth that I've turned up.
http://yotsubasociety.org/articles/
http://world2ch.org/wiki/doku.php?id=start
https://github.com/bibanon/bibanon/wiki/2ch-History
Thing is I'm sure I remember better histories being linked to on gs before, I was hoping some of you might remember or know of yet more?
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>> No. 24978 Anonymous
31st January 2016
Sunday 12:28 pm
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>>24977
http://artmeetsscience.co.uk/tapes/
>> No. 24980 Anonymous
31st January 2016
Sunday 1:07 pm
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>>24978
What a treasure trove. Thank you.
>> No. 24981 Anonymous
31st January 2016
Sunday 1:42 pm
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>>24980
You might like this 30GB torrent of '80s sound too.
https://archive.org/details/noise-arch-archive-201110
>material represented includes tape experimentation, industrial, avant-garde, indy, rock, diy, subvertainment and auto-hypnotic materials
>> No. 24983 Anonymous
1st February 2016
Monday 8:24 am
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Warosu is dead, lads, that's a good chunk of *chan history down the drain.
>> No. 24987 Anonymous
2nd February 2016
Tuesday 5:04 pm
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TVTropes have a bit about imageboards too, if you don't mind that place: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Imageboards

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>> No. 23464 Anonymous
15th December 2014
Monday 11:15 pm
23464 Personal email and domain
Gents, I need help. Help with something so basic that I fear you will look down upon me and maybe even laugh.

I want to buy a domain and not host any site but try to use it as a personal email address. You know, like the kind Mike@Mikescoolwebsite.co.uk. I am not sure about the whole procedure. I tried to buy a domain name from godaddy a few minutes ago, and I was under the impression that an email address comes free with the domain name, but apparently that wasn't the case. They had some other extra options where they wanted me to pay £x/mo for an email address.

Also, I tried asking one of my mates, but he was sleeping, and after apologising for waking him up, he told me to buy a domain, and let him host it on his servers, because he will let me have as many email address as I want. I was happy with that, and I told him I will contact him tomorrow. But then I started thinking; since he has the servers, doesn't that mean he can basically look at all my private stuff?

Can someone hold my hand? Please?
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>> No. 24962 Anonymous
24th January 2016
Sunday 7:12 pm
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>>24961

A mate of mine recommended DNSimple. I was about to sign up but then the tight bastard inside me wondered if I couldn't save myself $5 a month by going for some sort of free alternative.

It occurs to me that since my website is non-commercial and intended for local folk, I could just leave it as an IP address and disseminate a tinuyrl or something.

Given that I'm hosting from home, would this represent a security risk of some kind?

Thanks for the reply.
>> No. 24963 Anonymous
24th January 2016
Sunday 8:24 pm
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>>24962
There's a risk of your IP address changing, meaning you'd have to regenerate the links each time, and potentially anyone submitting anything to you (form data, cookies, etc.) could end up sending it to the wrong place when that happens.
>> No. 24964 Anonymous
24th January 2016
Sunday 9:03 pm
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>>24962>>24963

A lot of ISPs offer static IPs for free or for a tiny charge. And such ISPs generally offer much better service than the big providers anyway.
>> No. 24966 Anonymous
24th January 2016
Sunday 10:00 pm
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>>24962

Dynamic DNS is available for free from a number of providers (afraid.org, freedns.io) although I can't vouch for the quality of service. These services will allow you to direct a domain name of your choice to a dynamic IP. They should be fine if you don't need absolute reliability.

If you don't want to spend £5 a year for a .org.uk, there are free domain names available for a few TLDs. There's no catch, but you should be aware that these free TLDs are frequently used by spammers. Email you send from an address with one of these TLDs is highly likely to be filtered as spam. If you aren't planning on running a mailserver, then this won't be a problem.

http://www.freenom.com/en/freeandpaiddomains.html
>> No. 24967 Anonymous
24th January 2016
Sunday 11:01 pm
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>>24964
They're also generally considerably more expensive, and have some other limitations. TANSTAAFL, and all that. You're talking about spending an extra £20 a month to save £5 a year.

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>> No. 24772 Anonymous
3rd November 2015
Tuesday 7:24 am
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I've got a gigabyte mobo ga-x58a-ud3r_v2. With a nvidia gtx geforce 470 in there right now. Will any gtx GPU fit in there?
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>> No. 24954 Anonymous
18th January 2016
Monday 9:38 am
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>>24953
Short version: they'll work, but there won't be much in the way of speed control.
>> No. 24955 Anonymous
18th January 2016
Monday 2:10 pm
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>>24954
The motherboard will be able to monitor the fans though, right? Is there anything useful the motherboard can do with that information, or will it be effectively like plugging them into the PSU?
>> No. 24956 Anonymous
18th January 2016
Monday 2:48 pm
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>>24955

Three pin fans don't support PWM control, so all the motherboard can do is check that the fans are running. You can only get speed control on three pin fans by using a dedicated fan controller. Some controllers (e.g. the NZXT Sentry) include a case temperature sensor and can automatically control fan speed. Cheaper controllers only provide manual control. If you want the fans to run at a slower fixed speed, you can use a simple inline adapter like this:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B007PPHLCS/
>> No. 24957 Anonymous
19th January 2016
Tuesday 12:39 am
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>>24953
Modern motherboards can often vary the voltage on some 3-pin fan headers. Looks like you're in luck with a Asus Z170 Deluxe, from the manual both CPU and Chassis headers support DC control.
>> No. 24958 Anonymous
19th January 2016
Tuesday 9:34 am
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>>24957
Well I don't know what it's doing but even with the two chassis fans, the CPU fan, and the GeForce's fan, it sounds whisper quiet. Maybe I just haven't given my new Skylake much to do yet.

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>> No. 24688 Anonymous
10th September 2015
Thursday 7:36 pm
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This TV appears to have put itself into acid mode. Resetting the colour etc. settings to the default hasn't worked, and neither has the "factory reset" setting in the super-secret service menu. Spoke to two local repair firms - one wouldn't be drawn on what it might be, and the other suggested the panel might be shot, while interpreting random people on the internet suggests that it might just be one of two boards. The OSD colours look a little off, but this may just be because of the transparency. If it maters, onset was sudden.

Any ideas, lads?
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>> No. 24722 Anonymous
12th September 2015
Saturday 10:27 am
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>>24721
The quality of the photos may make it difficult to notice, but the second still on the top row should look like this, and take my word for it that it does on the bottom set.
>> No. 24723 Anonymous
18th September 2015
Friday 12:43 am
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Turned out to be one of the chips on the t-con board. £80 in all.
>> No. 24949 Anonymous
17th January 2016
Sunday 2:32 pm
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>>24723
Elaborate mate.

My TV is dying on me. It looks like OP's picture but the difference is that it becomes okay after a few minutes. Maybe it is a different issue?
>> No. 24950 Anonymous
17th January 2016
Sunday 6:04 pm
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>>24949
>it becomes okay after a few minutes
What happens if you turn it off and immediately back on once it's fixed itself?
>> No. 24951 Anonymous
17th January 2016
Sunday 6:47 pm
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>>24950
It will be fine until the next morning. After waking up and turning it on, it goes mental again.

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