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by BobbinThreadbare
Thu Jan 25, 2018 2:26 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Installing XP these days.
Replies: 21
Views: 3675

Re: Installing XP these days.

I've had great success using VirtualBox for an XP emulator. This is all games of DX6 an earlier or possibly OpenGL prior to 2 (certainly 3).

Anything newer than that and I would expect it to work in modern windows.
by BobbinThreadbare
Thu Jul 13, 2017 1:06 pm
Forum: Networking
Topic: 2.5GBASE-T and 5GBASE-T routers available when?
Replies: 80
Views: 17227

Re: 2.5GBASE-T and 5GBASE-T routers available when?

You don't have to worry about current gen WiFI saturating a 1 GigE link so it's pretty moot anyways.

The easy solution of course would be a dedicated AP also hanging off the 10 Gig switch. Which could easily be just another consumer router (or something like an Unifi AP).
by BobbinThreadbare
Fri Jun 16, 2017 3:45 pm
Forum: Graphics
Topic: How about an Rx 480... for $640
Replies: 129
Views: 16005

Re: How about an Rx 480... for $640

Well, the mining applications are simply using the GPU compute capabilities. In order to make them less attractive to cryptocurrency miners they would need to cripple the GPU compute capabilities somehow, which I imagine they're rather reluctant to do since it would impact other uses of GPU compute...
by BobbinThreadbare
Tue Jun 13, 2017 4:25 pm
Forum: Graphics
Topic: How about an Rx 480... for $640
Replies: 129
Views: 16005

Re: How about an Rx 480... for $640

Manufacturers in general don't care why people buy things even when selling direct to consumers. If they're selling to a retailer at wholesale, then they really don't care. It'd probably be a bigger headache for AMD to try to adjust pricing or somehow discourage miners than it is just to put up wit...
by BobbinThreadbare
Tue Jun 13, 2017 2:56 pm
Forum: Networking
Topic: 2.5GBASE-T and 5GBASE-T routers available when?
Replies: 80
Views: 17227

Re: 2.5GBASE-T and 5GBASE-T routers available when?

You just setup a simple firewall rule that says connections must be initiated from the LAN port, only related packets are allowed back in on the WAN port. No need for DMZ or anything silly like that. There are a lot of customer applications that require the ability to open connections from WAN (thu...
by BobbinThreadbare
Tue Jun 13, 2017 1:09 pm
Forum: Networking
Topic: 2.5GBASE-T and 5GBASE-T routers available when?
Replies: 80
Views: 17227

Re: 2.5GBASE-T and 5GBASE-T routers available when?

Sorry for not using the exactly correct word (I should have said pass instead of route). :P I understand how MACs work, but not many consumers really care how switching/routing is done, only what the effects are locally and how it affects them. For 99.99999% of consumer home networks, there's a sub...
by BobbinThreadbare
Tue Jun 13, 2017 12:08 pm
Forum: Graphics
Topic: How about an Rx 480... for $640
Replies: 129
Views: 16005

Re: How about an Rx 480... for $640

Tulip Mania again. It makes no-sense to buy hardware to mine at this point. All of "easy stuff" is gone now and you will end-up making a net-loss. The worst point is that you cannot "easily" convert those crypotucurrencies over to "USD" which makes it kinda pointless f...
by BobbinThreadbare
Tue Jun 13, 2017 12:06 pm
Forum: Networking
Topic: 2.5GBASE-T and 5GBASE-T routers available when?
Replies: 80
Views: 17227

Re: 2.5GBASE-T and 5GBASE-T routers available when?

You only have to route if you're leaving the subnet (going to the Internet) - dumb switches route between machines on the same subnet without having to hit the router. I knew there was a simple answer my aging brain just hadn't figured out. Like I said, I don't grok the OSI model, so I was having p...
by BobbinThreadbare
Mon Jun 12, 2017 2:26 pm
Forum: Graphics
Topic: How about an Rx 480... for $640
Replies: 129
Views: 16005

Re: How about an Rx 480... for $640

Last week, Newegg on Ebay had a 1080 Ti (Gigabyte non FE edition with 3 fans) for the same price. Is a 4GB Rx 480 really more efficient for mining than a 1080 Ti? I thought GPUs had been replaced by ASICs for mining at this point. That said, I believe GCN is much better for most non-rendering relat...
by BobbinThreadbare
Sat Apr 15, 2017 11:46 am
Forum: Networking
Topic: 2.5GBASE-T and 5GBASE-T routers available when?
Replies: 80
Views: 17227

Re: 2.5GBASE-T and 5GBASE-T routers available when?

I've moved most of my steam library to a NAS system. A RAID5 with spinning disks can max out gigabit, would be interesting to see how much faster it could go.
by BobbinThreadbare
Fri Dec 30, 2016 10:05 pm
Forum: Linux, Unix, and Assorted Madness
Topic: Linux Mythbusting
Replies: 76
Views: 10124

Re: Linux Mythbusting

I guess so.  In the end, I see many more *nix (Mac and Linux mostily) users blindly entering passwords because they trust that the system is safe.  It only takes one bad entry to own the machine. That said, I'm not going to type in my password when all of the sudden my system asks me for my passwor...
by BobbinThreadbare
Fri Dec 30, 2016 9:40 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: My ISP's Complimentary Web Space is Off the Charts
Replies: 10
Views: 1961

Re: My ISP's Complimentary Web Space is Off the Charts

Is there a reason you're looking for web hosting as opposed to image or file hosting?

It sounds like dropbox or a number of free image hosts would let you share photos much more easily.
by BobbinThreadbare
Sat Dec 03, 2016 11:44 pm
Forum: Linux, Unix, and Assorted Madness
Topic: Linux Mythbusting
Replies: 76
Views: 10124

Re: Linux Mythbusting

Hahaha that proof is quite ironic. The scan in that video found stuff in .dll and .exe files, those are obviously windows files. Either some stuff he just had lying around or part of one of those lame ports that just uses wine and launches a windows binary through it. To clarify afaik "linux d...
by BobbinThreadbare
Tue Sep 13, 2016 9:12 am
Forum: Networking
Topic: Is there a point in using SFP over just normal RJ45 for gigabit?
Replies: 22
Views: 33761

Re: Is there a point in using SFP over just normal RJ45 for gigabit?

In addition to the advantages listed, fiber doesn't conduct electricity (very well). So for outside runs that makes it's resistant to lightning strikes. At the ISP I work for, we used to have come buildings connected with Cat5, and every big storm meant like a 1/3 chance at the cable and switchport ...
by BobbinThreadbare
Thu Sep 08, 2016 3:59 pm
Forum: Linux, Unix, and Assorted Madness
Topic: AMD CPU power management in Kubuntu 14.04
Replies: 52
Views: 7452

Re: AMD CPU power management in Kubuntu 14.04

That's some cool work, but I think dropping to powersave might be excessive. Conservative is going to keep your cores at low frequencies already. Yeah, perhaps; and it did add the complication of needing to monitor load average to accommodate CPU-intensive background jobs. However, there was one sp...
by BobbinThreadbare
Thu Sep 08, 2016 9:15 am
Forum: Linux, Unix, and Assorted Madness
Topic: AMD CPU power management in Kubuntu 14.04
Replies: 52
Views: 7452

Re: AMD CPU power management in Kubuntu 14.04

That's some cool work, but I think dropping to powersave might be excessive. Conservative is going to keep your cores at low frequencies already.
by BobbinThreadbare
Fri Sep 02, 2016 11:50 pm
Forum: Linux, Unix, and Assorted Madness
Topic: AMD CPU power management in Kubuntu 14.04
Replies: 52
Views: 7452

Re: AMD CPU power management in Kubuntu 14.04

I'm curious to see how mixing governors goes.

Keep us posted.
by BobbinThreadbare
Mon Aug 29, 2016 12:00 pm
Forum: Linux, Unix, and Assorted Madness
Topic: AMD CPU power management in Kubuntu 14.04
Replies: 52
Views: 7452

Re: AMD CPU power management in Kubuntu 14.04

So I guess the obvious thing to do would be switch to the conservative governor?
by BobbinThreadbare
Sun Aug 28, 2016 10:32 pm
Forum: Linux, Unix, and Assorted Madness
Topic: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Replies: 60
Views: 9827

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

That could be a DNS problem. What's the specific error message you get from the browser? Try using the nslookup CLI tool to see if the problem is with the DNS lookup, and/or try hitting a few sites that aren't working by using their numerical IP address instead of their name. Edit: If you've never ...
by BobbinThreadbare
Wed Aug 24, 2016 10:53 am
Forum: Linux, Unix, and Assorted Madness
Topic: New Linux users should read this.
Replies: 101
Views: 15398

Re: New Linux users should read this.

My feeling with Ubuntu/Mint is that if it happens to like your config/use case (ex. Intel video card, running common stuff like Chrome, etc), you're basically set. If it doesn't, you're in for hell (ex. going to a command line desktop to use vim, install an nvidia driver via text, having to know ho...
by BobbinThreadbare
Fri Aug 12, 2016 2:48 pm
Forum: Processors
Topic: ES ZEN CPU at 2.80 GHz Beats 3.40 GHz Core i5-4670K
Replies: 62
Views: 7750

Re: ES ZEN CPU at 2.80 GHz Beats 3.40 GHz Core i5-4670K

To put a little context into these numbers, Guru3D took both a haswell-era 8-core CPU (the trusty 5960X) and the FX-8370 and downclocked both chips to 3.2 GHz to match the speeds of the purported Zen sample as closely as possible. They also tested with an Rx 480 and the same drivers/AoTS version fr...
by BobbinThreadbare
Tue Aug 02, 2016 4:34 pm
Forum: Linux, Unix, and Assorted Madness
Topic: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Replies: 60
Views: 9827

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Oh man I love the new service status output previous: service apache2 status Apache2 is running (pid 1165). new: service apache2 status ● apache2.service - LSB: Apache2 web server Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/apache2; bad; vendor preset: enabled) Drop-In: /lib/systemd/system/apache2.service.d └─apach...
by BobbinThreadbare
Fri Jul 15, 2016 11:43 am
Forum: Visual Haven
Topic: Finally found it: the all in one HTPC solution
Replies: 48
Views: 13880

Re: Finally found it: the all in one HTPC solution

I've been using a WDTV live and a USB wireless link to watch netflix on Toshiba Regza for quite some time. The TV blew out its tuner and in less than a month, the replacement tuner board I installed. So, I am switching back and forth between Netflix on the WDTV live and one a Zenith DTT901 Digital ...
by BobbinThreadbare
Sat Jun 11, 2016 12:51 am
Forum: Visual Haven
Topic: Finally found it: the all in one HTPC solution
Replies: 48
Views: 13880

Re: Finally found it: the all in one HTPC solution

So there was an update at some point that made accessing side loaded apps about a million times easier (they show up in the recent area and app area now). Good on Amazon. This little box just keeps getting better.
by BobbinThreadbare
Fri May 20, 2016 6:05 pm
Forum: Visual Haven
Topic: Finally found it: the all in one HTPC solution
Replies: 48
Views: 13880

Re: Finally found it: the all in one HTPC solution

Yeah you need either a new FireTV, router (or router port), or cat5 cable. I have had 0 problems with wired disconnections.
by BobbinThreadbare
Fri May 20, 2016 5:37 pm
Forum: Developer's Den
Topic: Learning Python
Replies: 4
Views: 8792

Re: Learning Python

I really like what I've seen of http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/

I found this after already knowing quite a bit and just did a few chapters, but if it holds it's quality, it will be good.
by BobbinThreadbare
Fri May 13, 2016 10:30 am
Forum: General Hardware
Topic: SFF 16 port gigabit switch?
Replies: 48
Views: 8933

Re: SFF 16 port gigabit switch?

Although I'm sure they love the money they get for not letting you DYI, I bet it's more of an insurance thing than anything else. If they start just letting anyone on a construction site and doing what they like, it could/would create huge liability concerns.
by BobbinThreadbare
Tue May 10, 2016 5:51 pm
Forum: Visual Haven
Topic: OLED laptops - Are they coming soon?
Replies: 13
Views: 4318

Re: OLED laptops - Are they coming soon?

I think Dell is launching an Alienware and HP is supposed to update the X360 Spectre with OLED screens. Last I heard it was this "spring" so not sure what actual time frame that means.
by BobbinThreadbare
Mon May 09, 2016 11:37 am
Forum: General Hardware
Topic: SFF 16 port gigabit switch?
Replies: 48
Views: 8933

Re: SFF 16 port gigabit switch?

At $225 per run I'm going to use small switches in each room if there are multiple devices, like the media rooms. It should not cost any extra to do multiple wires in one run (well I guess materials). That said, a few devices sharing 1gbps should be fine too, especially if they're just going to be ...
by BobbinThreadbare
Tue Mar 22, 2016 2:54 pm
Forum: Networking
Topic: FIOS: Buy or rent a router?
Replies: 20
Views: 46899

Re: FIOS: Buy or rent a router?

http://smallnetbulider.com is a great resource for router benchmarks. They can be a bit hard to parse sometimes unfortunately.

Edit: I see someone mentioned this site already (just did a quick scan for urls).
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