Maybe it dipped a little bit from Elon, but China banning crypto was a way bigger deal. And yea, it dipped to like 25k or so but back to 40 now. It's definitely volatile as hell. Has been that way for years.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/c...ss-2021-05-18/

I was sure he gave the specs but it must be in another thread. I remember asking him about the CPU.
Jesus Christ this is the most boring thing I have read in weeks, and I'm reading about the processes that go on inside the Sun! :rolleyes: God I hate ****ing bitcoin. One day it will be revealed it was all some big scam started by that Nigerian prince.
Hilarious! I can go one slightly better. I spent hours with my mate on the phone, trying to figure out why my PC suddenly had no sound. We went though all sorts of adjustments of the parameters of the soundcard, and it turned out I HAD NOT TURNED MY AMP ON! Man was I embarrassed!

You know you can just buy a lightbulb, right?

It's nice to know I have a rent free place in your head if mother ever kicks me out.

It's not that you're dumb it's that you make absolutely no sense.

Alright maybe you're a little dumb.

lmao Mindy bless

How many Mindfulnesses does it take to change a light bulb?

None: it just needed to be turned on. :)

This thread is awesome!!

Why? It's just a thread for people with computer issues. If it wasn't you, I would have assumed this was a pointless post by a newbie trying to get to fifteen posts so they could spam their trash. You can do better.

Lol are you somehow new to the phenomenon that is Dude111?

No I know about him, but he's acting like he's only just found the forum. I know: anyone who buys eight-tracks, you gotta cut them some slack, but still...

He also perpetually acts like he just discovered organic whole chocolate milk. Don't try to rationalise the mystery of the dude.

He just discovered brown milk. What the **** is that?

lol who am I, the resident expert on Dude111's life?

When you want to drink chocolate milk in public, you have to put it in a brown milk container so the cops can't catch you without tasting or testing the milk themselves. It's too rigorous and there are already enough people drinking straight from the chocolate milk boxes for them to bother.

Chocolate milk: the Forbidden Fruit of drinks

Something wrong with good old white milk, boy? :laughing:

Damn did that guy get banned for being positive?

He had AIDS?

Maybe he asked for a ban? His last posts aren't ban worthy in the least bit, unless maybe a mod deleted some. Really puzzling.

I think it was requested by Dude112, who was pissed off that this guy had taken his identity. Can't blame him I guess... ;)

TH blamed him for necrobumping a topic.
That was his last post. I blame him.

Dude111 just became Dude187d.

He was murdered? :eek:

dude86'ed

Dude looked like a lady...

Hey Dude, Don't Call Me Dude.

Anyone used ssh from Windows to Linux and know much about perms? The problem I am having is writing to a network folder. My process was failing on file creation so I tried cp from the command line. The strange thing is the first try creates the file but leaves it empty and fails. If I try again with the empty file already there it is then able to write to it. Any ideas what might cause an issue like that?

Are you trying to copy the file from a Windows machine to a disparate Linux machine (VM or otherwise)? In that case, I'm guessing you're using something like pscp to do the copy?

have you tried making the path that you're writing to completely open in terms of permissions? e.g. chmod 777 /path/to/folder - it's possible that the issue could be coming from permissions on the folders that are parents to your target directory.

Have you messed around with the setuid/setgid bits?

This isn't an NFS share you're writing to, is it?

What kind of process do you have that's writing to this location? Is it a program? PHP? Python or something? Bash script set up as a cron job? For some reason, I remember having an issue very similar to this, with a PHP program doing a SFTP transfer using PHPSECLIB - not sure if it's at all related (I think it was a permissions issue), but if you haven't figured it out by now, I'll try to dig through my notes for ya. Let me know.

I had a thread about this somewhere but my quick lazy search hasn't turned it up, and like Homer says, the lesson is, never try.

So anyway, Plankton has been helping me to try to pick the best laptop I can, and I've been driving him nuts I'm sure (talk about "Screaming at an Empty Canvas", huh?) ;) so I'm appealing to you guys.

Ideally, opinions from anyone who has had, or has, a laptop, the purchase of which they either regretted or did not, would be most welcome. Every brand I research I get good and bad (often really threatening/warningly bad) reviews, and I don't know what to do.

So it's basically this: do you, have you, any preference for, or do you or have you owned a Dell, HP, Acer, Asus or Lenovo laptop? I'm not asking for specs, as I know what I want and can afford. It's more about the reliability. I know nobody can stop your laptop from having problems and nobody can predict if it's going to give you hassle or anything, but stories or advice from those who have, or have had, any of the above brands (or others) and how it worked/has worked out would be helpful.

Thanks.
TH

Just get a Banana Jr 6000.

They're only skin-deep though. Besides, if I were to get a Banana I'd have to learn a whole new way of computing, and I'm too old and crotchety to do that at my time of life. My Windows gives me regular updates whether I wants 'em or not, and that's jest how I likes it! :D

My Windows updates me when the sun goes down, and then up again, every single day.

If I look at refurbished - or what they call renewed: makes it sound like these laptops have all had a sudden religious conversion! - I have these choices. Any advice very welcome.


HP EliteBook 850 G3 15.6" FHD, Core i7-6600U 2.6GHz, 16GB RAM, 512GB Solid State Drive, Windows 10 Pro 64Bit, CAM, (RENEWED)

4.6 out of 5 stars 4
EUR679.55 + EUR 31.82 shipping

HP Pavilion 15-EH 15.6 FHD AMD Ryzen 7 4700U 2.0GHz 512GB NVME 16GB DDR4 Webcam Backlit Keyboard Windows 10 Home (Renewed)

3.8 out of 5 stars 5
EUR580.65 + EUR 20.62 shipping

Dell Inspiron 5570 Intel Core i7-8550U FHD 15.6" AMD 530 DVD-RW Windows 10 Pro Platinum Silver (16GB RAM 1TB HDD) (Certified Refurbished)

EUR773.92 + EUR 31.49 shipping


NEW DELL PRECISION M7510 I7 6920HQ 3.8GHZ QUADRO M1000M 2GB 16GB 2133MHZ FHD 1080P 256GB SSD NT0132 (Renewed)

3.8 out of 5 stars 6
EUR601.31 + EUR 29.21 shipping

Dell Precision 5520 15.6" FHD, Core i7-6820HQ 2.7GHz, 16GB RAM, 1TB Solid State Drive, Windows 10 Pro 64Bit, (RENEWED)

EUR645.17 + EUR 30.50 shipping

Dell XPS 13.4" 2-in-1 Touchscreen Laptop, 10th Gen i7-1065G7 CPU, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD (Renewed)

EUR773.92 + EUR 22.62 shipping

Dell Latitude E5580 15.6in Laptop, Core i7-7600U 2.8GHz, 16GB Ram, 256GB SSD, Webcam, Windows 10 Pro 64bit (Renewed)

EUR515.28 + EUR 31.16 shipping

Dell Latitude E5570 Laptop, 15.6 Inch HD Display (Intel Core 6th Generation i7-6600U, 16 GB DDR4, 256 GB SSD) Windows 10 Pro (Renewed)

EUR478.28 + EUR 31.59 shipping

Lenovo IdeaPad 5 15.6" FHD Laptop, AMD Ryzen 7-4700U, Wi-Fi 6, Webcam, Backlit Keyboard, Fingerprint Reader, HDMI, USB-C, Win 10 Home, w/ Tikbot Accessories(16GB RAM | 512GB PCIe SSD)

EUR678.73 + EUR 20.74 shipping
Price dropped 1% (was EUR688.53 when added to List)
Capacity : 16GB RAM | 512GB PCIe SSD

2021 Lenovo IdeaPad 5 Laptop, 15.6" FHD, 8-core AMD Ryzen 7 4700U (>i7-10710U) Upto 4.1 GHz, Wi-Fi 6, Backlit KB, Webcam, Fingerprint, USB-C, HDMI, Win 10 H, 32GB MSD Card (16GB RAM | 512GB PCIe SSD)

2.0 out of 5 stars 1
EUR662.38 + EUR 20.62 shipping
Price dropped 14% (was EUR769.99 when added to List)
Capacity : 16GB RAM | 512GB PCIe SSD

Oh btw my second to last laptop was an HP and went down due to a known issue with a lot of HP laptops where the... CPU (?) had some kind of short that costs hundreds of dollars to fix and even if fixed may very well happen again, so I'd do some extra homework on HP laptops. It's been awhile so I don't remember the specifics but it was only a year or two old and just died.

Thanks Batty. I had heard that HP have a bad name, some of their machines prone to, um, going on fire. I think I'm kind of leaning in a Dell direction at the moment.

I had a Dell laptop before spilling beer on it and nuking it and had no complaints. It was a budget gaming laptop so had some issues with heating but there's generally gonna be some heating issues with gaming laptops especially budget ones (as in making my bedroom hot), but one thing that was kind of annoying was the darkness of the screen. It was... fine, but if a laptop is reviewed as having a dark screen maybe believe them cause people don't generally complain about a dark screen for no reason and it can be an annoying quality of life issue.

The good thing about this is that, though it's a refurbished one, it's to MIL-SPEC, which I'm told is the quality the military demands, so it's unlikely to break if it falls off my lap - unless I happen to be on top of Mount Everest at the time, and I have no plans to be.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B081FZ1TK1...v_ov_lig_dp_it