Experiences with non-techies

[Beskamir]

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/345629-florida-middle-school-student-charged-with-felony-hacking-for-changing-desktop-wallpaper/

 

Southern states being retarded as usual. (They were slow to get rid of slavery, they are slow to accept science, they are slow to accept technology, they hate change, etc) Maybe the sun cooked their brains or they are born stupid, idk. It's just depressing to see intelligent people suffering at the hands of morons.

[waggythegeek]

260 SECONDS? Usually ping times out after 1 second. Are you sure you didn't mean milliseconds? Either way that sucks, but still.

LOL ya milliseconds. F**k autocorrect and mobile ltt. Still sucky though. Everyone else in the 50's... Pair that with approximately 20 FPS and you have yourself an unplayable game.

[Boink]

LOL ya milliseconds. F**k autocorrect and mobile ltt. Still sticky though. Everyone else in the 50's... Pair that with approximately 20 FPS and you have yourself an unplayable game.

Okay, that makes a bit more sense. Still sucks though, I consider over 150ms to be unplayable and anything over 100ms to be annoying at best.

[Extingquish]

Okay, that makes a bit more sense. Still sucks though, I consider over 150ms to be unplayable and anything over 100ms to be annoying at best.

When I was on a ferry the ping was 3600ms, I wasn't gaming or anything, but still

[Guest]

When I was on a ferry the ping was 3600ms, I wasn't gaming or anything, but still

When I was on a ferry the download was 0.00mbit ping was 199ms though

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http://imgur.com/TK7uFOm

[FuzzyYellow]

When I was on a ferry the download was 0.00mbit ping was 199ms though

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http://imgur.com/TK7uFOm

wat  :blink:

[Guest]

wat  :blink:

Yep. I think the ferry moved out of signal of the satellite/mobile network that was giving it internet.

[Boink]

Yep. I think the ferry moved out of signal of the satellite/mobile network that was giving it internet.

No, you would have gotten a failed test if that happened. The name of the game here is significant figures and rounding. 

The app rounds to two decimals so what happened is your download speed was 0.004 Mb/s or less and when rounded, displayed as 0.00 Mb/s

It was either that, or:

The Ookla speed test gives the servers time to adjust to the load of the bandwidth test, giving a more accurate result to the speed of your internet connection by reducing potential bottlenecks caused by a VERY slow router or overloaded server somewhere along the line. However, this test only displays the bandwidth of the last packet transaction. So, theoretically if the ferry had lost connection to the network for a very short period at the end of your download test, it may have displayed the result as zero even if the average of the entire test was higher. This is why I think they should average the bandwidth of the last 1/3 of the test, giving time for the servers to adjust, but also providing a more meaningful result.

 

All that said, the second one is just a theory based on what I know about the Ookla speed test, I may be wrong as I have never seen anything more detailed than the information they display on their webpage.

[waggythegeek]

Just tested, on my phone, from a hotel, in Maui. Got better ping then at home. Bad download/upload though.

[Fgtfv567]

What in the actual fuck is that woman doing with that power supply.

First, I think that's a guy with long hair....

Second, Cutting the cables??

Third, he went full retard.

[soup]

What in the actual fuck is that woman doing with that power supply.

Is it a woman?

 

Posed photo showing what not to do?

[mayu]

Yesterday I was my society's maintenance office. And I think 1 of the maintenance guy wanted to plug his mobile charger or something and he asked his supervisor where should he connect that, she pointed to wall socket and asked him to connect it there. Now socket's both ports were in use, 1 with monitor and other with CPU, he just disconnected CPU port and connected his mobile and then was looking at the monitor :wacko: , wondering what happened.

[Ceatra]

-snip-

CPU port?

[zahin]

I have a guy in my school who made an app and somehow won some prizes. Now, he's known as "the most tech savvy person of the school." Just today I saw him take a friend's phone, fire it up and wave it for some seconds. "The camera's good," he said. He didn't even take any photos. I don't know how one can come to such a conclution.

[RedSphyxis]

I have a guy in my school who made an app and somehow won some prizes. Now, he's known as "the most tech savvy person of the school." Just today I saw him take a friend's phone, fire it up and wave it for some seconds. "The camera's good," he said. He didn't even take any photos. I don't know how one can come to such a conclution.

someone really good in programming doesn't mean he's tech savvy. 

 

Being tech savvy leans towards being good with the hardware not the software which might explain you're friend testing the camera's latency rather than taking photos with it.

[zahin]

CPU port?

It's funny. Some people still indicate the whole rig by CPU. I used to. Like 6/7 years back from now.

[zahin]

someone really good in programming doesn't mean he's tech savvy. 

 

Being tech savvy leans towards being good with the hardware not the software which might explain you're friend testing the camera's latency rather than taking photos with it.

I know him. By "the camera's good" he meant it's good. God knows if he has any idea about what latency is. Last week I saw him trying to install a driver on one of my school's computers. He failed miserably. The driver wasn't WHQL certified but it was Windows XP; shouldn't have been a big deal.

[El_indian]

I just saw this video:

 

 

oh dear 

[DimasRMDO]

I just saw this video: https://youtu.be/RFCHfiUWJiw

oh dear 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LjqCoVbZ_g

^ This one

[cesrai]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LjqCoVbZ_g

^ This one

Why did the pump die ??

[DimasRMDO]

Why did the pump die ??

The pump didn't get the coolant, the pump sucked air instead (that's why it died) thus he didn't jump the PSU so the full system came on that's why the CPU overheated. He should have jumped the PSU in the first place so only the pump and the fans turned on.

[mayu]

CPU port?

I mean power cable of case (psu) from the wall, he removed it while PC was on 

[RedSphyxis]

Customer: “My phone is completely dead. I can’t do anything with it”

Me: “Does it have a removable battery?”

Customer: “Yes.”

Me: “Can you please remove it as I need to check the IMEI number?”

Customer: “But that will disconnect the call.”

 

so it's dead eh? lol  :lol:

not mine btw

[Guest]

No, you would have gotten a failed test if that happened. The name of the game here is significant figures and rounding. 

The app rounds to two decimals so what happened is your download speed was 0.004 Mb/s or less and when rounded, displayed as 0.00 Mb/s

It was either that, or:

The Ookla speed test gives the servers time to adjust to the load of the bandwidth test, giving a more accurate result to the speed of your internet connection by reducing potential bottlenecks caused by a VERY slow router or overloaded server somewhere along the line. However, this test only displays the bandwidth of the last packet transaction. So, theoretically if the ferry had lost connection to the network for a very short period at the end of your download test, it may have displayed the result as zero even if the average of the entire test was higher. This is why I think they should average the bandwidth of the last 1/3 of the test, giving time for the servers to adjust, but also providing a more meaningful result.

 

All that said, the second one is just a theory based on what I know about the Ookla speed test, I may be wrong as I have never seen anything more detailed than the information they display on their webpage.

probably a terrible connection overloaded then. I did a test a couple of munites later and it was up to a whopping 0.12 mbit down!

[jayctech]

-SNIP-

I feel like I've seen this or something similar before..