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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by kyrathaba on September 23, 2012, 08:32 AM »
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by kyrathaba on September 23, 2012, 08:25 AM »
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by kyrathaba on September 23, 2012, 08:24 AM »
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by kyrathaba on September 23, 2012, 08:22 AM »
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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?
« Last post by kyrathaba on September 22, 2012, 07:25 PM »
Since we seem to have gotten off on programming languages, here's my pipedream: a freeware software writing IDE that has the elegance of C# with its breadth of functions, produces fairly compact executables that are truly portable (such as with AutoIt).
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Living Room / Re: Is my pen-drive performing okay?
« Last post by kyrathaba on September 22, 2012, 11:21 AM »
2^20 = 1048576 bits (not bytes) ?
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Living Room / Re: Is my pen-drive performing okay?
« Last post by kyrathaba on September 22, 2012, 11:11 AM »
@SKA:  ^ I've replaced my earlier screenshot with one that has red circles drawn around the areas of interest...
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Living Room / Re: Is my pen-drive performing okay?
« Last post by kyrathaba on September 22, 2012, 10:43 AM »
So, like, in the following screenshot of a backup I've got running, the MiB means mega-bits, not mega-bytes, right?

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Living Room / Re: Is my pen-drive performing okay?
« Last post by kyrathaba on September 22, 2012, 09:29 AM »
Arrrgggghhhh! I want this stuff standardized!
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Living Room / Re: A Unified theory of Superman's Powers
« Last post by kyrathaba on September 22, 2012, 09:26 AM »
It seems that the whole thing being rather tongue-in-cheek serious, the crude drawings only add to the humor -- for me, at least.
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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?
« Last post by kyrathaba on September 22, 2012, 09:20 AM »
pHp - which (from my admittedly limited experience with it so far) has to be the single most sloppy, poorly implemented, and sprawling of any scripting language.

+1. When I used PHP for my online Hangman Scoreboard in NANY 2011, it was nightmarish. I kept thinking, I am just so novice a coder that this stuff seems difficult, or is this stuff that ugly?
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Living Room / Re: Is my pen-drive performing okay?
« Last post by kyrathaba on September 22, 2012, 09:16 AM »
it would look like they're misleading us then?

Either that, or they're like me, and just confused  ;D
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Living Room / Re: Is my pen-drive performing okay?
« Last post by kyrathaba on September 22, 2012, 09:04 AM »
that's a gigabit, isnt it?

The gigabit has the unit symbol Gbit or Gb

The packaging text indicates GB, not Gb.

Here's a scan of the packaging text from the 32GB card (I've drawn attention to the area in question by circling it in red):

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Living Room / Re: Is my pen-drive performing okay?
« Last post by kyrathaba on September 22, 2012, 08:51 AM »
Heh, confusing stuff... so the storage vendors using 10^(3n) system is why the 32GB microSDHC card I bought says on the packaging:

1 GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes

rather than what I was given to understand, which is that:

1 GB = 1024 x 1024 x 1024 bytes
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Living Room / Re: Is my pen-drive performing okay?
« Last post by kyrathaba on September 22, 2012, 08:09 AM »
So have I been correct in my understanding of the following, or is it only correct depending on who you talk to?

1 Kb = 1024 bytes
1 Mb = 1024 Kb
1 GB = 1024 Mb
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Living Room / Re: Is my pen-drive performing okay?
« Last post by kyrathaba on September 22, 2012, 07:50 AM »
I have an AutoIt script I wrote that syncs my pendrives to:

(1) a 500 GB external Memorex drive
(2) a location on my C:\ drive
(3) my Dropbox (sensitive stuff on the pendrive is encrypted)
(4) my SkyDrive (see #3)
(5) a location on my wife's laptop via our home network (if her laptop is actively connected to the network)
(6) a location on my secondary desktop-PC via our home network)

Additionally, I occasionally FTP backups to my DC space.
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Living Room / Re: Is my pen-drive performing okay?
« Last post by kyrathaba on September 22, 2012, 07:40 AM »
Also: never use those drives for primary storage of anything. They go flaky without warning.

Absolutely. I backup (2 x weekly, to multiple locations) my pendrive that I use at work.

Can you explain to me the difference between mbits, MiB, MB, etc, and how to convert amongst them?  I know the basic conversions (think I'm accurate on these):

1 Kb = 1024 bytes
1 Mb = 1024 Kb
1 GB = 1024 Mb

But I don't understand the mbits, MiB, MB differences.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Automatically move files around tip (use your synchronizer program)
« Last post by kyrathaba on September 21, 2012, 07:20 PM »
And, 40hz, I note that ptubes has quite a low memory footprint when idle:

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General Software Discussion / Re: Automatically move files around tip (use your synchronizer program)
« Last post by kyrathaba on September 21, 2012, 07:16 AM »
@40hz: thanks for the Pneumatic Tubes link. Awesome program!
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Developer's Corner / Re: A Bonehead Programming "Bug"
« Last post by kyrathaba on September 20, 2012, 07:27 PM »
@OP: Heh, you've only done that twice? I'm sure I've done it several times  :P
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Living Room / Re: Is my pen-drive performing okay?
« Last post by kyrathaba on September 20, 2012, 07:08 AM »
Should this be moved to another area? Just wanting feedback on this device, because I'm considering ordering a couple more.
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Living Room / Is my pen-drive performing okay?
« Last post by kyrathaba on September 18, 2012, 09:34 PM »
I have a 16 Gb Sandisk Cruzer pen-drive, on which I have a suite of portable apps, plus many docs I use at my place of work.

I'm just wondering if the following benchmarking results I got are decent. I know it's not gonna perform like a USB 3.0 device, because it ain't (it's 2.0).

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^ results from Flashbench Benchmarking portable app

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^ results from Roadkil's Disk Speed portable app
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Living Room / Re: SpammerScammer
« Last post by kyrathaba on September 18, 2012, 08:37 PM »
These aggravating text-messages all come from the same number, 323-284-2743. They all start with "Alert:" and then there follows some brief message...

... "Luke B. requested Nintendo 64 w/ games & accessories near Kansas City, MO."

or

..."Lucas requested Junk Car near Lawrence, KS."


and the text-messages each end with "Can you help?"
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Living Room / Re: SpammerScammer
« Last post by kyrathaba on September 17, 2012, 07:00 PM »
Speaking of spam, anyone had trouble with spam text-messages being sent to your cell #? If so, were you able to make it stop and how?
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Living Room / Re: Shit Apple Fanatics Say
« Last post by kyrathaba on September 16, 2012, 08:20 PM »
The cost for two of the above Wine II's was comparable to the cost of a single smartphone, and saved us the extra $$$ monthly on data.  Now, it'd be different if I had something with decent screen real-estate (a tablet maybe), but I just can't see shelling out the extra dinero for a data plan for a phone with a screen that makes using that data plan a pain.
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