| brolin_empey | Hurrian_: https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-G41MT-S2PT-rev-11#sp Any chance of having more than 8 GiB total main memory with this model of Socket T motherboard? It uses G41 with two DDR3 DIMM sockets instead of Q35 with four DDR2 DIMM sockets like on the Asus motherboard I currently use. I found this Gigabyte motherboard for sale on eBay while seeking a Socket T motherboard with all solid capacitors that I can still buy because at my office we now | 01:04 |
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| brolin_empey | have Yet Another Asus P5E-VM DO motherboard that has partially failed due to at least one bulging electrolytic capacitor. | 01:04 |
| brolin_empey | Hurrian_: I should check if I can still buy an LGA1366 motherboard with all solid capacitors. | 01:06 |
| Hurrian_ | brolin_empey: you need to find memory that uses at most 128Mbit x 8 chips, DDR3 was really finicky on those old chipsets | 01:19 |
| Hurrian_ | also, most single-socket LGA1366 boards did come with all-solid caps - it's an overclocking focused socket, and companies loved advertising that you paid a premium for it on the box | 01:21 |
| brolin_empey | Hurrian_: OK. | 01:30 |
| Hurrian_ | If you can get your hands on a dual socket LGA1366 with all-solid caps, or at least have brown (Nichicon) electrolytics, you can load them up with a ridiculous amount of DDR3 ECC RAM and use them for a loooooooooong time. | 01:32 |
| Hurrian_ | I've got 18x 16GB DDR3 ECC since I got it cheap about a year ago on ebay - looks like companies were dumping old servers en masse | 01:34 |
| brolin_empey | Hurrian_: I have already been using Socket T motherboards for close to a decade by now but the Asus motherboards keep having electrolytic capacitors fail. My Dell Socket T motherboard is still reliable after almost a decade, though. | 07:35 |
| brolin_empey | Hurrian_: I do not know if the answer was implied by your previous answer but is there any chance of using more than 8 GiB of main memory with that Gigabyte Socket T motherboard I found? I guess I should finally upgrade to LGA1366 or later + DDR3 or later if the cost is low by now. I have not recently checked offers. | 07:39 |
| brolin_empey | On a smartphone with an FM radio receiver that uses the headphones cord as an antenna, can a cord with 3.5-mm TRS plugs on both ends used to connect the smartphone to loudspeakers be used instead of corded headphones for the antenna? | 07:48 |
| brolin_empey | I would test it myself but I think the N900 is the only handheld computer with an integrated FM radio receiver that I have; trying to use the N900 is an exercise in frustration and patience. | 07:50 |
| sparre | I think it could. | 08:37 |
| sparre | I may have such a cord (and some loose loudspeakers) at home. I'll take a look and give it a try, if I can find the bits. | 08:38 |
| brolin_empey | sparre: OK, thank you. I do not need to know but I was curious. | 08:58 |
| Hurrian_ | brolin_empey: if you have an 8GB DIMM made of 128Mx8 modules, it may be possible | 11:10 |
| Hurrian_ | they are typically large unlike the small packages used for later DIMMs | 11:10 |
| Hurrian_ | but I'm not sure if 8GB DIMMs were ever made with those old 128x8 dram modules | 11:11 |
| brolin_empey | Hurrian_: OK. I guess that I should finally upgrade to LGA1366 or later if I will finally upgrade to DDR3 or later. | 11:53 |
| brolin_empey | Hurrian_: Where are you geographically? In Europe? | 11:54 |
| Hurrian_ | brolin_empey: I'm in the Philippines. I get my ebay crap shipped to a relative in the USA and pick it up when I drop by there | 11:55 |
| brolin_empey | Hurrian_: OK, so you are close to Taiwan, where most of the x86 motherboard companies are. | 11:58 |
| Hurrian_ | yeah, but hardware prices are amazingly expensive in Taiwan, went there December last year | 11:59 |
| Hurrian_ | it's utterly ridiculous, I can get the average board shipped from the US to my house in the Philippines using DHL cheaper than if I walk into a store in Taipei | 11:59 |
| brolin_empey | At one point Nokia had some of their customer service agents in the Philippines, in 2010 I think. | 12:02 |
| Hurrian_ | yep, it's a business process outsourcing (esp. contact center) hotbed right now, lots of foreign investment coming in that way, but that industry will be utterly brutalized if Google Duplex-style AI really takes off | 12:04 |
| brolin_empey | Hurrian_: Are you from the Philippines? | 12:12 |
| Hurrian_ | Yep. | 12:12 |
| * brolin_empey has to look up Google Duplex. | 12:13 | |
| brolin_empey | Apparently I cannot use Google Assistant thanks to Samsung disabling the in-place upgrade function of my Android OS 4.4 installation because I have “modified” my Galaxy Note 3, so I am stuck with Android OS 4.4 . I never really used these virtual assistants on my own computer, though, because they seem like a gimmick that I do not need. | 12:24 |
| Hurrian_ | brolin_empey: assuming you're willing to modify your device, and you have a Snapdragon model Note 3, it's pretty well supported by LineageOS | 12:26 |
| Hurrian_ | you can update to the very newest version of Android, performance will probably be about the same or faster than Samsung's garbage flavor of Android | 12:26 |
| brolin_empey | Hurrian_: I used to use CyanogenMod 11, based on Android OS 4.4, but my CyanogenMod installation broke by itself when it tried installing months of application updates at once so I reverted to my backup of the Android OS 4.4 installation from Samsung from before I installed CyanogenMod. Almost everything I have wanted to use on Android still works with 4.4 . termux is one of the few exceptions but I wanted it so I could run CPython on Android. I found a | 12:31 |
| brolin_empey | different application to run CPython on Android OS 4.4 but this application broke on its own too. | 12:31 |
| brolin_empey | That does not matter, though, because I wanted CPython to use as a calculator but I can use Mathdroid for that purpose. | 12:33 |
| brolin_empey | It is 03:33 here, I should be asleep but my sleep-wake pattern is broken Yet Again, sigh. | 12:34 |
| brolin_empey | Anyway, yes, I have a Snapdragon-based Galaxy Note 3. I disagree that the Android OS from Samsung is garbage although I do dislike some practices of Samsung involving the Android OS. | 12:36 |
| brolin_empey | I want something like the Galaxy Note 3 but with the integrated hardware keyboard of the Nokia C6-00. | 12:38 |
| Hurrian_ | yeah, Samsung's theming of Android back in those versions was ridiculous | 12:40 |
| Hurrian_ | it was some sort of blue-green everywhere | 12:40 |
| KotCzarny | oh fun, elinux.org wiki is broken | 15:38 |
| KotCzarny | MediaWiki 1.31 requires at least PHP version 7.0.0 or HHVM version 3.18.5, you are using PHP 5.6.37. | 15:38 |
| KotCzarny | ;) | 15:38 |
| bencoh | :( | 16:34 |
| bencoh | I wonder who maintains it :/ | 16:35 |
| Wizzup | presumably they updated to a newer mediawiki, so they will also update php | 16:35 |
| bencoh | ah :) | 16:35 |
| bencoh | right, I thought it was the other way around | 16:35 |
| sicelo | cutenews (rss reader doesn't do https feed). anyone still has osso-rss-reader? does it do https? | 16:44 |
| bencoh | sicelo: I'd rather try fixing cutenews tbh | 17:04 |
| bencoh | do you get any error? | 17:04 |
| sicelo | you know, i've complained about https for ages on cutenews, but just now, i was able to add gitlab issues | 17:13 |
| sicelo | *shrug* | 17:13 |
| sicelo | i guess i should try other https feeds and do proper testing | 17:15 |
| bencoh | sicelo: is it specific to cutenews, or a generic qt/ssl issue? | 17:17 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | >>On a smartphone with an FM radio receiver that uses the headphones cord as an antenna, can a cord with 3.5-mm TRS plugs on both ends used to connect the smartphone to loudspeakers be used instead of corded headphones for the antenna?<< yes | 17:26 |
| sicelo | bencoh: i havd tried (in the past) a number of https feeds and all of them failed. in fact, i only have http feeds on my N900 as a result. but i never investigated further and just thought cutenews didn't support https by design. but now i see that perhaps there was something not right, either malformed feeds and/or TLS versions our qt doesn't support. so not a cutenews problem directly | 17:52 |
| bencoh | I'd suppose so, yeah | 18:07 |
| bencoh | Hmm, I see you already asked about that 10months ago :/ | 18:07 |
| bencoh | I wonder if marxian still works on his apps | 18:08 |
| bencoh | hmm, wtf is there a "qhttpserver" in cutenews code | 18:09 |
| sixwheeledbeast | Tested if running on a desktop has same problems? | 18:59 |
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