/halp/ - Technical Support

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A few things that might help get those questions answered faster.
Be specific when you are talking about something - "my mp3 player is broken HALP!?"
- What kind of mp3 player, (brand and model)
- What isn't is doing now that it was before (the reason it is "broken")
- What were you doing to it last, right before it broke.. Did you maybe drop it?.. get it a little wet? try to flash the firmware?!

These all help in determining what can be done.
These rules do not just apply to MP3 players.
Just be as specific as possible and don’t leave stuff out, we want to be helpful here, try not to make it a scavenger hunt for clues!
These same rules apply for other situations like “I got a new motherboard and now my computer doesn’t post!”
-old motherboard model
-new motherboard model
-ram (speed)
and any other component you might have in there (most of the other stuff usually won’t matter but list what you know.

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Anonymous 13/03/13(Wed)22:06 No. 20100 ID: 10d6c2

I don't think it's a good idea to ask for /halp/ in the sticky, you should create a new thread for your topic.

Also remember to check the date before posting a reply. For example, if a reply has a stamp of 11/03/02 it means it was made on March 2nd, 2011.

Anonymous 13/05/21(Tue)00:56 No. 20373 ID: 154565 [Reply]

So I tried using KGB to compress lots of video files. But compression level is shit (94.something%). Is there any way to fix this, or is there another better program?

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Anonymous 13/05/23(Thu)04:16 No. 20389 ID: 10d6c2

>>20381
You can transform a 1GB file into a 10MB file, but the videos going to undergo severe reduction in size and/or quality. Say you had a 1GB file that was 1280x720, you could recompress it at reduced quality and set the resolution down to 100x100 and it'll turn that into a 10MB file. It'll look like shit but it'll be 10MB.

x264 is about as tight as you're going to get until x265 (or VP9) is fully mature. Reduce the quality, reduce the resolution, and you can get substantial savings... at the cost of a poorer looking video.

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Anonymous 13/05/23(Thu)11:17 No. 20391 ID: 4ffcde

Yeah, I knew that. Use that to reduce quality and i'll work. The problem: videos that I have are not exactly of high quality and resolotion so they may kook like shit afterwards. Oh well, thanks for the help.

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Anonymous 13/05/23(Thu)22:35 No. 20392 ID: d96242

>>30389
What you've described isn't compression per se but rather converting. With your conversion the quality is lost, with compression you can decompress it back to its original specs.

Torrent not starting Wheels 13/05/20(Mon)07:59 No. 20365 ID: 8c8cfd [Reply]

So I want to download some torrents as some things can only be downloaded. But none of the torrents are starting it says "Connecting to Peers" I tried two different laptops, one of them brand new. I tried utorrent downloader and BitTorrent downloader. It's not starting, both of the laptops used the same wireless network connection. However I did manage to download stuff before using the same connection.
Where to go from here?

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Wheels 13/05/21(Tue)05:19 No. 20375 ID: 8c8cfd

>>20371

Thanks, I randomized my port, but I couldn't figure out the rest.

On a separate note, If I cant get this to work, is there another way to download large files without torrents?

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!UrqL0yeNXI!!RmMQplZQyv 13/05/22(Wed)16:23 No. 20387 ID: 94dd0e

>>20375

Direct download, lol.

Try port 65535 for your torrent client.... works for me using BT 7.8 and had problems with most ports other than 65535.

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Anonymous 13/05/23(Thu)07:26 No. 20390 ID: 7780e9

>>20365
You need to make sure it's a decent sized swarm, and the file isn't fucking ancient too anon. If it's 5 years old w/ one seeder, you'll never get it to connect.

This can be especially frustrating when someone is at like 60% of an AWESOME album you used to have, but can't find anywhere, and no seeder with 100% of the original file gets on.

This has happened to me more times than I care to think about. I get all excited...then, BLAM, stuck at 57% for ages.
It's part of the deal.

Big swarms=happy, fast torrents.

game making in Unity matt+bock 13/05/22(Wed)04:50 No. 20385 ID: ec0b85 [Reply]

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I made a few models in Wings3d, imported them into Unity as Obj files, and now there are faces of the room that are invisible unless they are viewed from the back of the model.
I tried inverting (flipping normals) the model and reuploading, but all it did was mirror the problem on the opposite faces.

Any Idea what's going on here, or how to fix it?

facebook phantom 13/05/20(Mon)12:25 No. 20367 ID: cb9fa8 [Reply]

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Anonymous 13/05/22(Wed)01:19 No. 20384 ID: 01ade7

Insert object > Microsoft Excel Chart > Paste stuff from Excel > edit as you wish

Anonymous 13/05/21(Tue)16:14 No. 20379 ID: dbc5f7 [Reply]

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Hey guys,

So I successfully setup a database which collects data through a php page, and gets displayed on a table on a separate page. However, the table which displays data does
not have any columns, so the data which gets
displayed is in one long column. I used the
"dynamic table" in dreamweaver to display this,
but i'd like it to be set so for example, after
5 database entries displayed, it gets shifted
to column 2.

How can I achieve this?
Thanks

Anonymous 13/05/20(Mon)15:23 No. 20368 ID: dbc5f7 [Reply]

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Hey guys,

So recently I set to create a website, which I thought was pretty simple at first, but ran into a few complicated situations.

Firstly, I needed to create a simple tabled list of names. However, this list of names needs to be wiped every 72 hours. This was annoying and frustrating if i were to keep changing the html code every 72 hours.

So what I instead throught of was to redesign this particular page in php. And what would basically make this easier if the website was just a tabled list to an ordinary viewer, but a person with admin access can login and change or edit the table.

How can I achieve this, and are there any tutorials that you can link me to make this plausible?
Thanks

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Anonymous 13/05/20(Mon)19:23 No. 20370 ID: 10d6c2

I'd say the easier thing to do, at least in terms of keeping it running, would be to stick the data you want into a database, have an admin page that lets you add/remove data from the database, then use php to display the results of a query for your table page.

It's far harder to get running out of the gate of course, since you'll need to understand MySQL or Postgres and queries, inserts, deletes, etc.

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Anonymous 13/05/21(Tue)07:01 No. 20377 ID: dbc5f7

>>20370

Thanks, i'll look into that

Anonymous 13/05/21(Tue)06:07 No. 20376 ID: 30e310 [Reply]

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I have a HTC wildfire s and want to install WildChild v3.3 rom on it, I have the rom in a zip on the sd card. When I go in to recovery on the phone it just comes up with a red exclamation mark.

The phone was a vodaphone but I unlocked the root.

Thanks for any help.

Anonymous 13/05/17(Fri)14:43 No. 20344 ID: 096e26 [Reply]

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Hello 7chan. I have been an internet casual for most of my life but now I am beginning to get serious about internet privacy and protection.

I have just downloaded TOR browser but the inter webs recommends that I also run some proxies as well. I have never "run a proxy" before and my googlefu was weak "buy this proxy service" or "type your URL here, we'll proxy you up bro" (LOL. Anyway, I was hoping you anons could give me some advice on which proxy services you use, any tips or cautionary tales I need to know, general pointers and so forth.

If you guys are wondering, I am curious about accessing hidden wiki and silk road, but wanted to get my econdom ready. Thanks i advance

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Anonymous 13/05/19(Sun)19:44 No. 20362 ID: 448e9b

it doesn't matter which all the public ones are collecting info and man in the middling https.
tor can't easily do that by design it's all you really need.

which is fine and dandy if your not logging into anything.

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Anonymous 13/05/21(Tue)02:06 No. 20374 ID: 5aa128

>>20362
How would you MITM HTTPS, other than by having the user add malicious CAs or pay/force a CA to issue you a fake certificate?

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!UrqL0yeNXI!!RmMQplZQyv 13/05/22(Wed)16:19 No. 20386 ID: 94dd0e

>>20374

This seems relevant:

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/detecting-certificate-authority-compromises-and-web-browser-collusion

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/01/08/the-turktrust-ssl-certificate-fiasco-what-happened-and-what-happens-next/

i think you get the idea.... and it took me 10 seconds to find it.

Anonymous 13/05/18(Sat)23:11 No. 20353 ID: 129b3e [Reply]

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Pic is self explanatory.

using an EVGA nVidia 560 TI with twin fans. One fan blade from each fan has come off.

Can I just keep using it as it is?...maybe underclock the card with rivatuner or lower the rpm? I assume the vibrations from the fan instability would be bad for the GPU. Or could I super glue the fan blades back on?

Also I've emailed EVGA kissing ass to see if they have any suggestions or replacements in stock. I also found the replacement part on eBay, but they are 10 pounds each and I need 2. Also they take up to 25 days to arrive since they are shipped from China. Couldn't find any broken ones on eBay for parts either

Fan: Power Logic DC Brushless fan
Model number: PLD08010S12HH

part:
ebay: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/75mm-VGA-Video-Card-Fan-For-GTX460-2WIN-GTX-560-TI-PLD08010S12HH-177-3-/111072610003

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Anonymous 13/05/19(Sun)19:41 No. 20361 ID: 448e9b

you can use it for a while more it won't hurt anything but it will be the most noisy unpleasant thing ever it's entirly worth 10 for a new fan trust me.

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Anonymous 13/05/20(Mon)09:10 No. 20366 ID: 2b9159

>>20357
Unless you go hulking he-man and attempt to severely torque down the fans, zip ties will work fine for emergency replacement. Just zip them loosely onto the card and/or heat sink.

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Anonymous 13/05/21(Tue)00:55 No. 20372 ID: 129b3e

>>20361

tried gluing and the blades came off within minutes but the fans run fine. when you touch the GPU it does shake very slightly, but otherwise it makes no extra noise.

the temps are higher unfotunately. I think I'll try the ziptie thing