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lostonearth35
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16 Oct 2016, 1:06 am
Ever notice that when you're a kid you're told you should share things but when you're an adult no ever tells you to, you can be totally selfish and get away with it? 
And am I the only one who sees something wrong with telling kids they should share everything? Hey kids, share your drinking straws and your passwords! Share your toys with that kid who breaks and destroys everything they touch! Share your hard candy with babies who cares that it's a choking hazard for them? Share your boyfriends/girlfriends when you're older! 
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16 Oct 2016, 2:02 am
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16 Oct 2016, 6:13 am
16 Oct 2016, 10:00 am
dcj123 wrote:
DataB4 wrote:
Why did you deal with all those virtualization headaches anyway?
To be a Linux purist and because I love Arch Linux and hate Windows. It allows me to play anything that was meant for Windows on Linux. So I can be Arch Linux user and do some Doom 4 in my spare time. Also so I can use my gaming rigs power, which more then enough for most games, for tasks over the network. I can use my gaming rig as a data server and a gaming rig at the same time. With isolated cores I can even do more stuff while gaming.
Very cool. It sounds like your gaming rig can perform the tasks of two or three computers then.
dcj123 wrote:
Emulation and virtualization are both virtual environments and the difference is kind of dependent on context. In typical use, emulators recreate things on a chip set level, meaning its emulating hardware. Virtualization is more or less the same but in the context of a hypervisors and virtual machines, it rarely emulates things to such a precise hardware level. Thus things like PCI Passthrough, you are passing through real hardware to the virtual environment. Emulation is generally refers to different architecture, I don't have to emulate a processor in a virtual machine as the software I am vrtualizating is already programmed to run on the computer anyway. That is not always true with emulation so emulation is kind of different in that regard.
To apply what you said, the architecture or hardware needs to be the same for the software to run, so you use emulation when you don't have compatible architecture for the operating system or software you want, right?
CockneyRebel wrote:
I had a fine metallic marker in my hand this afternoon while I was window shopping in Opus, this afternoon. I was testing the pen out and I didn't know what to draw, so I drew a swastika on the black testing shelf. I didn't mean anything bad by it. I guess I wanted to draw something that was different.
That symbol used to have some other meaning, didn't it? Before the Nazis made it abhorrent? What did it mean before?
lostonearth35 wrote:
Ever notice that when you're a kid you're told you should share things but when you're an adult no ever tells you to, you can be totally selfish and get away with it?
And am I the only one who sees something wrong with telling kids they should share everything? Hey kids, share your drinking straws and your passwords! Share your toys with that kid who breaks and destroys everything they touch! Share your hard candy with babies who cares that it's a choking hazard for them? Share your boyfriends/girlfriends when you're older!
And am I the only one who sees something wrong with telling kids they should share everything? Hey kids, share your drinking straws and your passwords! Share your toys with that kid who breaks and destroys everything they touch! Share your hard candy with babies who cares that it's a choking hazard for them? Share your boyfriends/girlfriends when you're older!
I like this post. It made me smile and made me think at the same time.
As a little kid, I went a step beyond sharing and tried to give one of my toys away, don't remember which one. All I remember clearly is that my mother was upset. I didn't really understand why, as I believed it was my toy. I thought I could do whatever I wanted with my own possessions. I learned this wasn't the case when my mother said no, she bought it for me. The toy was mine, yet not mine, just like she could arrange my bedroom however she saw fit. The room was mine, but yet, not mine. So complex for a little kid, LOL.
16 Oct 2016, 10:14 am
DataB4 wrote:
dcj123 wrote:
DataB4 wrote:
Why did you deal with all those virtualization headaches anyway?
To be a Linux purist and because I love Arch Linux and hate Windows. It allows me to play anything that was meant for Windows on Linux. So I can be Arch Linux user and do some Doom 4 in my spare time. Also so I can use my gaming rigs power, which more then enough for most games, for tasks over the network. I can use my gaming rig as a data server and a gaming rig at the same time. With isolated cores I can even do more stuff while gaming.
Very cool. It sounds like your gaming rig can perform the tasks of two or three computers then.
dcj123 wrote:
Emulation and virtualization are both virtual environments and the difference is kind of dependent on context. In typical use, emulators recreate things on a chip set level, meaning its emulating hardware. Virtualization is more or less the same but in the context of a hypervisors and virtual machines, it rarely emulates things to such a precise hardware level. Thus things like PCI Passthrough, you are passing through real hardware to the virtual environment. Emulation is generally refers to different architecture, I don't have to emulate a processor in a virtual machine as the software I am vrtualizating is already programmed to run on the computer anyway. That is not always true with emulation so emulation is kind of different in that regard.
To apply what you said, the architecture or hardware needs to be the same for the software to run, so you use emulation when you don't have compatible architecture for the operating system or software you want, right?
CockneyRebel wrote:
I had a fine metallic marker in my hand this afternoon while I was window shopping in Opus, this afternoon. I was testing the pen out and I didn't know what to draw, so I drew a swastika on the black testing shelf. I didn't mean anything bad by it. I guess I wanted to draw something that was different.
That symbol used to have some other meaning, didn't it? Before the Nazis made it abhorrent? What did it mean before?
lostonearth35 wrote:
Ever notice that when you're a kid you're told you should share things but when you're an adult no ever tells you to, you can be totally selfish and get away with it?
And am I the only one who sees something wrong with telling kids they should share everything? Hey kids, share your drinking straws and your passwords! Share your toys with that kid who breaks and destroys everything they touch! Share your hard candy with babies who cares that it's a choking hazard for them? Share your boyfriends/girlfriends when you're older!
And am I the only one who sees something wrong with telling kids they should share everything? Hey kids, share your drinking straws and your passwords! Share your toys with that kid who breaks and destroys everything they touch! Share your hard candy with babies who cares that it's a choking hazard for them? Share your boyfriends/girlfriends when you're older!
I like this post. It made me smile and made me think at the same time.
As a little kid, I went a step beyond sharing and tried to give one of my toys away, don't remember which one. All I remember clearly is that my mother was upset. I didn't really understand why, as I believed it was my toy. I thought I could do whatever I wanted with my own possessions. I learned this wasn't the case when my mother said no, she bought it for me. The toy was mine, yet not mine, just like she could arrange my bedroom however she saw fit. The room was mine, but yet, not mine. So complex for a little kid, LOL.
Originally a Sanskrit symbol referring to auspiciousness found in Buddhism,Hindusim,Jainism.
16 Oct 2016, 1:11 pm
DataB4 wrote:
dcj123 wrote:
DataB4 wrote:
Why did you deal with all those virtualization headaches anyway?
To be a Linux purist and because I love Arch Linux and hate Windows. It allows me to play anything that was meant for Windows on Linux. So I can be Arch Linux user and do some Doom 4 in my spare time. Also so I can use my gaming rigs power, which more then enough for most games, for tasks over the network. I can use my gaming rig as a data server and a gaming rig at the same time. With isolated cores I can even do more stuff while gaming.
Very cool. It sounds like your gaming rig can perform the tasks of two or three computers then.
Truth is you don't need a nice CPU for gaming, truth is you can game on a tin can if you have a good GPU now days. I have an AMD FX which is frowned upon in the computer world cause Intel's i series has better raw CPU performance. However, it has a crap ton of cores and most games don't even use half the number of cores it has. The Intel i7 and AMD FX are both over kill for a basic gaming rig really.
LinusTechTips on youtube even breaks down just crappy of computer you can game on.
DataB4 wrote:
dcj123 wrote:
Emulation and virtualization are both virtual environments and the difference is kind of dependent on context. In typical use, emulators recreate things on a chip set level, meaning its emulating hardware. Virtualization is more or less the same but in the context of a hypervisors and virtual machines, it rarely emulates things to such a precise hardware level. Thus things like PCI Passthrough, you are passing through real hardware to the virtual environment. Emulation is generally refers to different architecture, I don't have to emulate a processor in a virtual machine as the software I am vrtualizating is already programmed to run on the computer anyway. That is not always true with emulation so emulation is kind of different in that regard.
To apply what you said, the architecture or hardware needs to be the same for the software to run, so you use emulation when you don't have compatible architecture for the operating system or software you want, right?
I was having trouble with my words but yes that is correct. If I want to run a PowerPC on i386 then I need some type of virtual core to get things running and this is going to slow stuff down excessively compared to just passing through hardware. Virtual software still emulates some things but it tries to pass through as much of the actually hardware as possible.
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16 Oct 2016, 1:30 pm
I saw something that made me really happy today. So, I was watching a video that mentioned a toy that's a fairy, when you pull the string on the swan she's standing on, she's sent twirling and flying. I was thinking, "hey, that sounds like my favorite toy from when I was a little kid!" For me, I let this one kid borrow it who was notorious for breaking other kids toys, and guess what? They broke it! But according to the video, they were called 'Sky Dancers' and there was a cartoon that I apparently never even knew about, and my fairy's name was Athena. I looked her up, and below and behold, there was my long lost, broken fairy, just not broken!
16 Oct 2016, 1:32 pm
I've decided to do as much of the renovations myself in the apartment as I can. This will definitely save me money, and I really like the idea. It's a stress reducing idea. A the moment I'm reading up on how to remove old wallpaper Sparkle, (the thing you have on the walls before painting it, I can't find the translation) and then painting, both the walls and the ceiling is also something I can do myself. I can take my time on it, no stress!
16 Oct 2016, 1:48 pm
DCJ, thanks for clarifying, and cool video. Since my computers have mostly used integrated graphics, I wasn't familiar with the awesome power of GPUs until I looked it up just now.
Midnightstar, always cool when toys from childhood make a comeback. If you have any little cousins, maybe get one of those fairies for them if they'd like that.
Froya, that's a great project. Question though: why is it your responsibility to renovate an apartment? Aren't landlords supposed to take care of the bill for that?
16 Oct 2016, 2:00 pm
DataB4 wrote:
DCJ, thanks for clarifying, and cool video. Since my computers have mostly used integrated graphics, I wasn't familiar with the awesome power of GPUs until I looked it up just now.
Since my computers have mostly used integrated graphics, I wasn't familiar with the awesome power of GPUs until I looked it up just now.Integrated graphics are decent unless you are a gamer, a game developer or render graphics in a professional setting. Integrated graphics used to suck even for daily use on older Laptops but they have since lived up the task of basic computing. For youtube, surfing the net and even light gaming such as Minecraft and older games run fine on integrated graphics. My Thinkpad has integrated graphics and its obviously missing a lot of features with OpenGL in addition to crap speed but it runs an impressive library of games that integrated graphics couldn't do in early 2000s.
But yeah nothing is better then a dedicated GPU for gaming. Anything with i5 or FX on it is fine for any use that is not gaming but I would at least get a GTX 7 series card for gaming. I am using a GTX 9 series and I have no complaints. My GTX 770 was a decent card before it blew up, sent it to Asus for repairs and they didn't know how to fix it and flat out told me they didn't know how to fix it and asked me if I would go away if they paid part of a new card lol. I did not take them up on that offer and am no longer an Asus customer. I am currently an MSI customer and I can't recommend for or against MSI at this point. My MSI GTX 980 runs like a dream and is cool and silent so far but it hasn't gone long enough without exploded to impress me.
16 Oct 2016, 2:09 pm
