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most Rackmount cases support standard atx power supplies and 5.25inch optical drives.

I currently use the first xps 13 generation with the super thin bezels. It has 8gb of ram. I have a 16gb xps15 on its way by the end of the week. I REALLY recommend not getting anything with less than 16gb ram for programming. My current workflow has me regularly using over 8gb ram and waiting while my computer is "frozen" for a minute while it swaps to disk. Obviously there are different types of programming with different requirements, but lots of ultrabooks still ship with 8gb which is kind of a stretch even for non-programmers.

I formatted it with gparted+disks utility but it took no time so I'm sure it only overwrote the partition table. Unfortunately, I can't remember if it was ext4 formatted or not. I just started running recuva on it and at 1% it has found 66775 files so far with an estimated 8 hours remaining (The shallow scan found nothing). Fingers crossed!
Edit: 77653 so far! I am trying not to get my hopes too high as I have no indication of what files it thinks it has found or if they are corrupted or anything, but it's looking up.

I formatted it with gparted+disks utility but it took no time so I'm sure it only overwrote the partition table. Unfortunately, I can't remember if it was ext4 formatted or not. I just started running recuva on it and at 1% it has found 66775 files so far with an estimated 8 hours remaining (The shallow scan found nothing). Fingers crossed!
Edit: 77653 so far! I am trying not to get my hopes too high as I have no indication of what files it thinks it has found or if they are corrupted or anything, but it's looking up.

As others have said, use Recuva to scan the backup drive. If you only performed a format in Windows, the data is likely all there.
 
When Windows performs a "format", it doesn't actually overwrite the data. It just clears the partition tables, etc, so that the drive "thinks" it's empty.
 
The data isn't actually erased until another program (operating system or application, etc) starts to write over the data with new data. This can be actual real files, or in the case of Data Erasing Software, it will overwrite with "random" data that doesn't mean anything.

If you didn't do an extended format then most of the data is probably still there on the external drive.
 
Try scanning with Recuva or another utility and see what it brings up.

The only advice I can offer going forward is that for this (and many other) reasons, a backup drive should be plugged in only to perform the backup, and then removed, and left unplugged most of the time.  Furthermore, when your'e doing that, just focus on doing that.  Don't try to do too many things at once, especially when they all involve moving large amounts of important data around in an unrecoverable fashion.

I was going to copy a live cd iso to a thumbstick, something that I have done so many times before, and accidentally typed the wrong drive and wrote over the first bit of my hard drive. Crap. Oh well, nothing has crashed yet so just make the iso and reinstall, I had just backed up my system to an external hard drive minutes ago anyway so I can recover from that on a fresh install.
 
So I reformat my thumb drive and name it zxcvb because I'm in a rush and finally copy the iso over.
 
I reboot and select my thumb drive at the boot menu, strange, its not a bootable drive. I put the thumbdrive in my GF's pc and its empty, and not named zxcvb... weird. So I do the clone from her PC and put it back in my PC. It Works! great. Install goes smoothly, get to desktop and plug in my external backup drive and my heart falls out of my chest. "what would you like to do with media 'zxcvb'".
 
I had formatted my backup to nothing immediately after backing up my pc, then wiping and reinstalling. everything is gone.
 
This sucks.

Good going there.

Welcome to the world of IT, I'll be your guide,

It took about 1-2 weeks to adjust to gaming on a large screen.
Since more of your vision has moving visuals it makes you dizzy at first.
 
Now it doesn't make me dizzy at all, and using any regular sized 24-27" monitor looks like a kid's toy  not immersive at all.
I guess you could compare it to a regular 24" monitor vs a phone, gaming on a phone is just not immersive in comparison.

Some people have already mentioned it, but if you are getting a solid 60fps you wont notice any difference as when at the monitors refresh rate limit it functions the same as vsync (experience wise, not in terms of how it is technically accomplished). the difference is that if you drop to 59fps, instead of throwing away 29 frames every second and skipping down to 30fps (it displays each frame twice since without adaptive sync the monitor is stuck at 60hz), it just adjusts your monitor to 59hz. essentially a 29 fps improvement. This is about the simplest explanation and skips over lots and over simplifies just about everything but you see the main function of adaptive sync tech.
 
try to play a demanding game at intensive settings where you can get 60fps sometimes but not all the time and you can watch vsync snap back and forth between 30 and 60fps

no, he is mad that he finally understood the simple concept that emails being search that haven't been previously pwned are NOT "data that has been leaked."
 
He realised he was wrong and is now being defensively angry. 
 
All you can do is trust that troy is both: not malicious, and impervious to being hacked.

no, he is mad that he finally understood the simple concept that emails being search that haven't been previously pwned are NOT "data that has been leaked."
 
He realised he was wrong and is now being defensively angry. 
 
All you can do is trust that troy is both: not malicious, and impervious to being hacked.

Not even remotely true. over 45% of the people in the world have working access to the internet, that would make 16% of the entire world "furries."
 
Also, it's because you people do very weird things... how is that not self apparent?

Unfortunately the bash terminal doesn't have access to the GPU and I need cuda support to run my program. and for whatever reason, Microsoft's cutting edge neural network toolkit (I'm using CNTK) doesn't support powershell. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cognitive-toolkit/setup-windows-binary-script
If you run the .bat from inside powershell it just says
Please execute this script from inside a regular Windows command prompt.  
I was just using more to see inside the file, the problem is that python itself sees the incorrect file contents. any gui based editor (I tried notepad, VScode, VS community) all see the correct file contents.
 
I have been making do by working in vscode and copy pasting the code to a jupyter notebook to execute for now but this is driving me bonkers.

@Dat Guy is on point in this thread.
 
let me repeat what he said.
 
- IDE =/= GUI library
- Qt has a less permissive copyleft license rather than a do what you want open source license.
- tk is a badass gui library
- awesome-* lists on github almost always contain some great stuff (although sometime you have to sort through some crud to get to it)

If they are not just pdf images like from a scanner and they are all a similar format, then its quite easy, you can use pdf2text pipe to awk or sed pipe to php or python and have this done pretty quickly.

Here are some picks, I fully support the idea of doing it on your own hardware just for the sake of learning so I will answer the question as asked.
 
That said, don't expect good reliability or security.
 
Step 1.
 
Register a domain name if you haven't already. I would pick namecheap.com because of their super awesome dynamic DNS (you don't need to pay your internet an arm and a leg for a static IP address)
 
Step 2.
 
Get an unused computer or Raspberry Pi I doubt your 5 page static site will get enough traffic to overwhelm even the meekest desktop build from any time in recent years. Pi's have the advantage of low power draw so factor that in as well.
 
Step 3.
 
Iinstall your favourite flavour of Linux. I prefer  CentOS but whatever floats your boat.
 
Step 4.
 
Pick a webserver. Here are some options and a few points about each one.
 
Apache O'le faithful. Pros A million and one resources online for help. Cons Archaic and confusing configuration NGINX Pros Less Archaic and confusing configuration Cons Free version not fully featured. (Nitpicky but I don't really like them as a company) Caddy Pros Built in markdown translation Automatic SSL certificate Cons Not O'le faithful, its newness means you won't find many stack overflow links or tutorials outside of official documentation. There are more options available but those are what I would check out to start.
 

No its not, its because of network address translation.
 
You only have one external IP address on your router but can have many computers attached to that router. So if someone tries to ssh to your.ip.here:22 the router needs to know what computer it should give that traffic to.
 
The only way to avoid this is to buy another IP address specifically for that individual computer from your ISP.
 
Teamviewer does this by having a moderator in the middle. Every computer with teamviewer knows the address of a separate teamviewer service that handles connecting them. If you wish to replicate this you still have the port forwarding issue with a standard residential connections but now you are forwarding your application specific routing traffic to this new server so it doesn't solve the problem it just moves it to a different step.

I somewhat agree with you on that no one is equally balanced across the front-end back-end split, especially in the end user desktop space. The comic you linked is pretty hilariously accurate, but accepting that means you have to accept that a conceptual stack exists. Its just another word that means "the entire application." a stack built on django is not the same stack as a stack built on laravel.
 
There are some exceptions, if you are writing firmware for a washing machine controller, it is very likely that you ARE a full stack developer for your particular "stack."
 
OP: stack just means what frameworks/languages/tech you make your application out of. I.E. when you create a C# application and you choose between WPF and winforms or whatever they are, that's you choosing your stack.
 
Full Stack Web developers are never really FULL stack except in personal endeavours and understaffed startups. On the other hand, there it is very uncommon in my experience to have anyone (besides designers) be 100% in one 'level' of the stack, the application almost always too tightly coupled for that to happen. The lines are a bit blurry between the levels in most cases.

vim
Although the big E has been tempting me lately. But lisp is so ugly!

It is most definitely good for gaming, sure its not better than the best intel gaming CPU, which would fall into the 'excellent' gaming CPU category, but I hardly think someone who wants the workstation performance of the ryzen who also games would be disappointed in its performance.
 
I am not defending OP who is a bait/troll/fool but lots of people seem to think because ryzen doesn't blow the best intel CPUs out of the water that it is a total flop and not worth buying etc... Its really not bad, just not the best thing since sliced bread

It is most definitely good for gaming, sure its not better than the best intel gaming CPU, which would fall into the 'excellent' gaming CPU category, but I hardly think someone who wants the workstation performance of the ryzen who also games would be disappointed in its performance.
 
I am not defending OP who is a bait/troll/fool but lots of people seem to think because ryzen doesn't blow the best intel CPUs out of the water that it is a total flop and not worth buying etc... Its really not bad, just not the best thing since sliced bread

Case closed everyone, pack it up and head home. Good work everybody.
 
OP's question has been answered (PHP/JS/Java/Python for backend, JS if you want frontend scripting or simply html if you want static information)