Computer Questions Not Worth Their Own Thread II

So in other news, I was offline for the last day or so because I spilled a full cup of tea over my laptop. As it turns out, the computer survived and once dried out, seems to be working fine.
 
OK this is really about my wife's website but I like a snappy title.

About 1.1 yr ago my wife started a business and bought a hosting service package (2 yrs) plus domain name (1 yr) from Total Internet Solutions. Having received crappy attitude from a high-up person at TIS, she wanted to switch hosters after 1 year. She requested the EPP code which would allow her to go to the new hoster immediately. They refused. First question: is that legal?

They said she could renew with them, or cancel the remaining year of prepaid hosting-service (no refund) and allow the domain to expire. She said, fine, cancel. So, the first year is over, and the domain has not expired. It is full of random ads. The WHOIS info on it says:

Registrar: TUCOWS.COM CO.
[...]
Name Server: DNS102.TOTALINTERNETSOLUTIONS.COM
Name Server: DNS103.TOTALINTERNETSOLUTIONS.COM
Status: ok
Updated Date: 19-sep-2012
Creation Date: 19-aug-2011
Expiration Date: 19-aug-2013
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So, we filed an online complaint at tucows.com. Second question: can we expect a resolution in our favor?

Thank you in advance oh mighty wizards of internetdom.

--------UPDATE-------------
So, shortly after I wrote the above, we got an email from tucows.com: total victory! :woohoo:
 
My phone's acting weird lately. Yesterday, it told me that the MicroSD card was empty or loose or not connected or something, and just now, i was tethering for internet, and all of a sudden, the internet stopped working -- again -- , and I put it on flight mode for a minute, and then my music (on the computer) stopped playing, but I didn't notice it until after I unplugged it from the computer in frustration, and then noticed my music came back on. On top of that, for the past couple months, I have to reset the smartphone's wireless card two or three times a day (flight mode for a full minute) every single day because its internet crapped out *again*.

Plus, sometimes I turn it off for the night, it instead decides to re-boot instead.

So, why is my smartphone being a douche? :mad:

(Samsung Galaxy S II)
 
PlutonianEmpire said:
My phone's acting weird lately. Yesterday, it told me that the MicroSD card was empty or loose or not connected or something, and just now, i was tethering for internet, and all of a sudden, the internet stopped working -- again -- , and I put it on flight mode for a minute, and then my music (on the computer) stopped playing, but I didn't notice it until after I unplugged it from the computer in frustration, and then noticed my music came back on. On top of that, for the past couple months, I have to reset the smartphone's wireless card two or three times a day (flight mode for a full minute) every single day because its internet crapped out *again*.

Plus, sometimes I turn it off for the night, it instead decides to re-boot instead.

So, why is my smartphone being a douche? :mad:

(Samsung Galaxy S II)
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Because it's old, no joke. Smartphones don't age well and start to get wonky after a couple of years. My friends phone would randomly reset itself in the middle of calls and such.

My phone all of a sudden quit updating apps and won't install new ones. Unfortunately, I uninstalled my email app b/c it wouldn't update, and that's how I found out my phone won't install new apps.:mad:
 
Are there any real benefits in gaming in 16 GBs ram over having 8 GBs?

Is it predictable that once it will have benefit, the am3+ type processors and/or ddr3 will be obsolete?
 
Atticus said:
Are there any real benefits in gaming in 16 GBs ram over having 8 GBs?

Is it predictable that once it will have benefit, the am3+ type processors and/or ddr3 will be obsolete?
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No. There is only a benefit if a game uses more than 8 GBs, which none do. Most if not all games are still made to be 32 bit, which on Windows is restricted to 2-4GB. There is some benefit to having 4GB, but for gaming I would not recommend more than that.

I don't think that will change very soon, but it's easy to predict when am3+ and ddr3 will be obsolete. So yes, those technologies will probably be obsolete before 16GB is useful for gaming.
 
Well there's a compatibility barrier to using more than 4 GB. Also, using a lot of memory is slow because it cannot be cached, so there is incentive to use less memory. So for games at least 4GB should remain the maximum for a while.
 
Not exactly uncommon to use more than 4GB on a system in general. I've not even accessed a page file, swap drive, whatever (HDD) since installing 8GB of RAM so my system is always at its speed peak.

Currently I'm using roughly 4.6GB of RAM (some is inactive but says it's in use anyway) and if I only had 4GB there'd be some page filing going on.
 
Never.

Well actually desktops might be redundant in another two or three decades, since lappies will be so powerful, but they'll still be around.
 
YouTube's being a jerk. So ... well, unless plans go through just fine, Im gonna just host the videos myself. So ... um, how do I go about turning these MKV files into something with a player? Um...
Edit: Think I got it
 
Atticus said:
Are there any real benefits in gaming in 16 GBs ram over having 8 GBs?

Is it predictable that once it will have benefit, the am3+ type processors and/or ddr3 will be obsolete?
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The main benefit of extra RAM above an beyond about 6 GB is for multi-tasking or if you have crappy security programs running in the background.

But for gaming the options are pretty much to either not be obsessed with 3D games, or track your GPU options mainly and match those to a minimally supporting CPU and RAM.

CPUs power and the mobo's FSB speed is a greater limit on the computer's performance than whether or not you maximize the amount of RAM that a modern CPU can address. And then if you are a 3D gamer like most PC gamers are, then your GPU is probably the greatest limit on the CPU performance with games, once you have a 'minimal' level of CPU power and RAM (e.g. 6 GB Ram and a multi-core CPU that runs at about 4 Ghz). Basically 3D graphics provide the most computing power of the components in a 3D application, followed by multi-threading (which is not as common as it could be and mostly dual-core limited at the moment, from what I've read). The exception would be non-gaming 3D applications if they are optimized for quad-core or higher number of cores.

I'm not sure about the future of DDR3 RAM (which is actually SDRAM), although it's logical to think that SSDs will decrease the consumer demand for loading up on volatile RAM memory in favor of SSDs. They're probably still be demand for several GB of some variety of SDRAM ram in the future---e.g. DDR4 next year. It's not really practical to predict if DDR3 with massive amounts of GB will be somehow supported by gaming programmers to be better than say 6 GB of DDR3. The answer is probably no, excepting some fringe indie game project. Mainstream game development tends to track more to improvements in the GPU and CPU than RAM size.
 
Can a quad-core processor utilize code for dual-core multithreading?
 
PlutonianEmpire said:
Will desktop computers and laptops go extinct in the near future (eg, maybe in about 5-10 years)?
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No. What may obsolete the current desktop model is "mainframes", ie. new technologies (probably quantum computing) that cannot fit on a desktop but have enough power to support many users. Then many people may have dumb terminals and not a real desktop. Until that time some people will want as much power as their money can buy, and that will be in the desktop rather than the tablet or phone. This will not happen in 5 or 10 years though.
 
How can you tell how many cores a program uses?
 
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