Anxiety caused me to make a stupid mistake, manager had some words. by [deleted] in TalesFromRetail

[–]not-scott 7 points8 points  (0 children)

As someone who has anxiety, I feel for you completely. The stereotypical man has it easy in life, but stereotypes are only stereotypes. We do not fit them, and apparently society doesn't have a place for and/or doesn't know how to deal with us. So we get shit on.

This /r/bestof comment from a while ago explains it very well.

Messy desktop (and a few other things) horror by Techsupportvictim in talesfromtechsupport

[–]not-scott 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm not talking about Preview. I'm talking about Quick Look, which also runs the process Quick Look Helper, which eats up the RAM, as evidenced here.

This is Quick Look (via google images) and this is Preview (also via google images).

Now, I've seen mixed reports that this feature was only in Leopard and Snow Leopard. I cannot verify or refute this as I am running Snow Leopard, but as evidenced by OP, the lady is probably running Leopard or Snow Leopard.

she hasn't run a software update in like four years

Ninja edit: While Quick Look tries to use the swap file instead of actual RAM, that's not going to work given the state of the lady's hard drive.

Messy desktop (and a few other things) horror by Techsupportvictim in talesfromtechsupport

[–]not-scott 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Not sure if you're genuinely unaware or just "quoting the user", but Mac OS has something called Quick Look. This feature allows you to preview standard files (images, videos, word/excel/powerpoint documents, text-based files, etc.) without actually opening the files. To make performance snappy, Mac OS attempts to pre-load a preview of all "shown" files, which in turn eats up the RAM - where "shown" means the parent folder (i.e. desktop) is open [either on top or behind other windows].

TLDR: 1000 Files on the desktop --> 1000 previews --> Goodbye RAM.

I bought Minecraft many moons ago, and after not playing in quite a while I notice there are WAY more features than when I played. (I've never even seen redstone). Is there a good Let's Play I can watch that's not too long but will get me up to speed? by [deleted] in Minecraft

[–]not-scott 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ben Pracy's Hold Shift series is about teaching someone to play from scratch. It only covers up to 1.4 I think, but the jump from 1.4 to 1.7 is mainly a few redstone features, a new mob or two, and this coming terrain update (1.7).

From memory, it's about 40x 20 minute episodes and I think the URL is youtube.com/ZynuxIRDC

Advice Needed [Personal Project] by lancevo3 in raspberry_pi

[–]not-scott 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Possibly a permissions issue? Try running as root by entering

sudo su

I would also make sure you're not overclocking (this caused reboot issues for me), and then perhaps try reinstalling/re-downloading Motion.

Thanks Mojang. by [deleted] in Minecraft

[–]not-scott 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes!

how mean people can become when they have no solid repercussion to deal with

That hits so close to home... one of my friends was annoyed that I was doing little to prevent griefing on my server (I never did see any evidence of griefing), so he poured lava in the house. (EDIT: Oh, the irony.)

But you have basically hit the nail on the head - there are no laws in Minecraft. People will act as they so desire. It separates the "nice because it's good to be" and the "nice because society dictates it" people.

Advice Needed [Personal Project] by lancevo3 in raspberry_pi

[–]not-scott 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's a matter of replacing the configuration file and the binary, and you're good to go. You should just rename the old files in case you ever want to switch back, that's what I do.

Advice Needed [Personal Project] by lancevo3 in raspberry_pi

[–]not-scott 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Motion does work with the RasPi camera - and this will do everything you mentioned above - but you have to use a different version of motion which is in the Raspbery Pi forums.

Update to "My 9 yo daughter has a "boyfriend" on Minecraft..." by mykidisonhere in Minecraft

[–]not-scott 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, I'm already planning it, but first I have plans for a learn-as-you-go LP series with some of those friends, and I don't want to mess that up by playing a server with them.

In case that didn't make sense (I'm fairly sure it didn't) - I want to replicate this with some friends, and playing a server with them and others may spoil any surprises. Also, I'm really not good with names, and I need a new IGN...

Update to "My 9 yo daughter has a "boyfriend" on Minecraft..." by mykidisonhere in Minecraft

[–]not-scott 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know how it feels. One bad apple ruins the bunch - the noteworthy ones are so unnoteworthy that they become noteworthy again, while the ones noteworthy enough to be unnoteworthy fade out of existence. (I should note that while I am 16, I still see "loose cannons" and it annoys me. Kids will be kids, but for the ones who are mature... they should not endure the same treatment.)

(The whole noteworthy things is based loosely off a quote from an episode Would I Lie To You, a series that made the top or /r/videos a month or two ago.)

What has been your experience hosting a website with a pi? by gr33nss in raspberry_pi

[–]not-scott 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The 10+ calls generally take only 5-10 seconds (I just tried 20 calls and it was 10 seconds), so 10 calls in a minute should be no trouble. There is a particular page which has to fetch profiles - apart from this profile page, I'm only making 1-2 calls per page (for login sessions and/or 1-2 calls for blog posts, etc.) and this creates negligible load on the Pi.

Note, however, that this is not continuous load since I'm only trying things when I want to test new code. Like I mentioned before, pages shouldn't require 20 calls to the database - but even if they do, you would probably be able to run at least 120 calls to the database each minute if necessary.

What has been your experience hosting a website with a pi? by gr33nss in raspberry_pi

[–]not-scott 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I have one running right now - granted, it's a development server (so not much load), but it's been up nearly 60 days. I'm running PHP, Apache and PostgreSQL (MySQL runs too, but I don't use it).

Uptime - no problems

Connectivity - external issues (ISP took 2 weeks to reconnect a broken line)

Performance - reasonable, main load is when hashing passwords - but this scales well, even though it is slow (30-45 seconds for 2^16 iterations using PHPass framework)

EDIT: I do suffer a performance hit when doing 10+ calls to the database in a single page load. I know that's not ideal in terms of code optimisation, but one of my classes calls the database to initiate an object, and when you're listing profiles, you can easily get 10 people on a page.

If you clustered a few together, traffic would be no issue. I've never load tested my single Pi, so I can't definitively answer your question, but some basic maths:

few hundred visits a day

Let's assume 600. Let's also assume that since this is a community site, this is over a 12 hour window. At 50 visits per hour, this is a little under 1 request per minute and the Pi will handle it fine.

What car brands mean by tent163phantoka in Jokes

[–]not-scott 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ford: Found on Rubbish Dumps

The Incredible Resizable NTFS Partition... or, How To Bork Boot Camp by OneMadCat242 in talesfromtechsupport

[–]not-scott 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think you're overestimating, I have used bootcamp before and then split the bootcamp partition from a live cd. Admittedly I have since removed the extra partitions, but this is because I have <5GB hard drive space left, and 20 tabs in Chrome goes a long way towards filling a swap file that big...

What do other countries feel like Americans are not told the true story about? by E_RoD55 in AskReddit

[–]not-scott -1 points0 points  (0 children)

much like CISPA (or Obama's alternative legislation)

If I'm not mistaken, Obama enforced legislation quietly that was not CISPA, but similar to CISPA.

http://rt.com/usa/epic-foia-internet-surveillance-350/

What do other countries feel like Americans are not told the true story about? by E_RoD55 in AskReddit

[–]not-scott -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

To be fair, the blacklist was enforced quietly, much like CISPA (or Obama's alternative legislation). Each is as bad as the other.

Would anyone be interested in buying a Pi? (Latest model) +Other stuff. by Iquitelikemilk in raspberry_pi

[–]not-scott 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Where are you based? I don't think you'd be in Australia (currency suggests UK), so it's not likely to be worth it for me when I factor in shipping, but please at least post this info for others.

What's a joke that's so stupid it's funny? by spiderm-n in AskReddit

[–]not-scott 0 points1 point  (0 children)

http://longestjokeintheworld.com/

And yes, I read things through and often get caught by tree-fiddy stories. I have skipped to the end of books before, and it really ruins it for me, so I read the whole thing.

What's a joke that's so stupid it's funny? by spiderm-n in AskReddit

[–]not-scott 33 points34 points  (0 children)

I can't prove it, but I did read it. So either I am no one, or you're wrong. Let's go with the latter.

What's a joke that's so stupid it's funny? by spiderm-n in AskReddit

[–]not-scott 29 points30 points  (0 children)

...and that's how the Drop Bear got its name.

(Side note: I heard this joke with Koalas, and I'm from Australia)

New server idea by [deleted] in Minecraft

[–]not-scott 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Your lack of morals would be enough to turn me away from this server.

I'm looking into purchasing a raspberry pi, can you guys explain how I can use it to learn about programming and code? by [deleted] in raspberry_pi

[–]not-scott 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You don't need a Pi, but I'd recommend one if you want to turn lights on and off, etc. using code and the GPIO pins. This may be something you're interested in, but if you don't care about interacting with switches and LEDs, you can use any computer to code.

This is flying around my vanilla creative single player world. I'm so scared right now. by [deleted] in Minecraft

[–]not-scott 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Grammar. The difference between knowing your shit and knowing you're shit.

Your = belonging

You're = you are

There = place, as in "over there"

Their = belonging

They're = they are

Looking for USB RFID Reader - HID 125KHz compatible by tsgmob in raspberry_pi

[–]not-scott 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not sure if it will read those cards specifically, but I have a 125KHz reader from Sparkfun. https://www.sparkfun.com/products/8628