Computer Questions Not Worth Their Own Thread II

[Loppan Torkel]

http://www.cbs.com/shows/star_trek_the_next_generation/

I don't torrent and I'm too cheap to buy old star trek episodes. Thanks though.

 

[Samson]

"The video you have requested is not available for your geographic region"

I thought you had to pay for IP-blocking services.
Is it possible to circumvent this by using some kind of incognito mode in Firefox? If so - where do I activate it?

You cannot do it in firefox. You could try and do it by using a proxy, there are some free ones available.

 

[Zelig]

I've got several hundred GBs of old star trek episodes, I can email them to you if you like.

 

[Loppan Torkel]

I really appreciate the offer, but I'm done with downloading. I can pay for it, if I really want it.. I'm just not there yet. Seeing it directly on CBS would've been convenient and cheap enough for me.

 

[Zelig]

I don't really get people who bother with region-lock bypassing in general - from the point of view of CBS you're an equally dirty pirate whether you bypass region locking or just torrent their stuff.

 

[Loppan Torkel]

Yea, probably. It's probably a sake of convenience. Since there's no easy way to see it from CBS, I just won't see it for some while. I've rented the 1st and half the 2nd season of TNG, but the service ended this summer. It's as I've said, I have no problem spending a bit of cash for it, but it's not worth that much to me. I'll wait and see if I find a decent deal.

It's still annoying with the region blocking. They already have it out for free and people can and do torrent it.

 

[Mise]

IMO the only reason to un-region block is if you want to watch something live, e.g. a sports game that isn't on any of the TV channels in your country but is available online. Like during the olympics, a lot of people used region unblocking services to watch on BBC iPlayer.

 

[Quintillus]

Region unblocking can also be nice if you want to buy something but it isn't available for sale in your country. It's kind of annoying when you want to give a business money but they don't want to take it because you don't live near them. This tends to happen in music when it's only licensed in certain countries, so the only way to buy it (other than flying to where it's sold in CD form) is to region unblock.

The other use case I see for it is simplicity when traveling abroad for extended periods of time. So, for example, I used it while studying abroad in Europe so I could continue patronizing some U.S. services that weren't available where I was. Some of them I could've used in Europe as well, but it was simpler to just connect via VPN, buy in USD, and pay with my U.S. debit card without any currency conversions or concerns about fees.

But I don't think it would be worth paying for. I just connected to my university's network, since it was free, and I had to connect to it occasionally anyway.

 

[dutchfire]

For example, electrons around an atom have angular momentum; they spin. Fast. They also have a probability cloud around the atom. If that cloud were or even something on the same order of magnitude were spinning, at the speeds electrons are measured to spin at, the speed of the outer edge would be faster than light.

That doesn't really answer the question to be honest. You seem to be arguing that electrons are not classical rigid bodies with a large size, but that doesn't mean they don't have a large size, it just means they're not classical rigid bodies. Which is not surprising.

Charge particles do have mass, and they do travel slower. Much slower. Electrons in a copper wire travel at about 1 meter per hour. But charge itself travels at the speed of light. Which makes sense given that light is vibration in the EM field.

Uhm, what? I suppose you mean that the effect of charge travels at the speed of light, not charge itself.

 

[Souron]

That doesn't really answer the question to be honest. You seem to be arguing that electrons are not classical rigid bodies with a large size, but that doesn't mean they don't have a large size, it just means they're not classical rigid bodies. Which is not surprising.

I'm saying that they are not very similar to an object near in size to their probability cloud. And I'm saying that the Standard Model says they are most like points. You're right I'm not making a full on defense of that particular part of the standard model.

Uhm, what? I suppose you mean that the effect of charge travels at the speed of light, not charge itself.

Yeah basically.

To be precise, it's the speed of light in the medium in question, which is always less than the speed of light in a vacuum.

 

[Mr.WorldWide]

Might I suggest http://forums.civfanatics.com/forumdisplay.php?f=283 ?

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I have a portable hard drive hooked up to my computer via USB. Every time my computer starts up it wants to check the drive for errors. There is always a hop up, every single time and it doesn't give me the option to 'always perform this action'.

I don't think anything is wrong with the drive and I don't want to scan it. How do I stop the pop up?

Do not tell me not to turn off my computer.

 

[Souron]

I have a portable hard drive hooked up to my computer via USB. Every time my computer starts up it wants to check the drive for errors. There is always a hop up, every single time and it doesn't give me the option to 'always perform this action'.

I don't think anything is wrong with the drive and I don't want to scan it. How do I stop the pop up?

Do not tell me not to turn off my computer.

What does the pop up look like?

Have you allowed it to check the drive at least once?

 

[hobbsyoyo]

It's just a box with two options, check the drive or do nothing. Usually these kind of boxes have an option to 'always do the checked option' but this one doesn't. I will try and get a screenie later.

I haven't let it check the drive becaise I am afraid it may screw things up. The drive works perfectly - no issues. So I don't want the computer to check it, find issues that may not really be a problem and erase bb's tuff while trhing to fix it. It's my main back-up drive and it also is a primary storage place for some files. I am going to back it up soon to dvd storage as a fail safe, then I will let the drive be checked.

 

[Samson]

Most of the time at the moment I have a proccess running on my desktop machine that is using 1 core. The proccess is called gvfsd-sftp. Does anyone know what it does, and what I should do about it? I am running the latest ubuntu, 3.8.0-26-generic #38-Ubuntu. Top looks like:

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
3780 myname 20 0 274m 2344 1756 S 100.1 0.0 11214:37 gvfsd-sftp

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Is there any way to access a Windows PC desktop over a Windows laptop?

Also, say I access my PC over a laptop, would I easily be able to play games from my PC desktop on my laptop? Assuming bandwidth isn't a bottleneck itself, does my laptop have to have comparable graphical rendering capabilities as my PC to make it worthwhile?

 

[Zelig]

Yes, it's possible: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/06/remotefx/

They mention a couple competing technologies at the end of the article.

You'll need pretty hefty hardware specs in the desktop, and I wouldn't bother unless you've got either wired gigabit or 802.11ac wireless.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Thank you.

 

[Zelig]

I feel like there might be an easier way, a roommate of mine rigged up something like this on his desktop back in ~2008 (before any of the mentioned technologies were available) so someone on a laptop could multiplay Supreme Commander with him at the same time as he played on the desktop - I'll hit him up and see what he did.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Thanks dude. I was looking at built-in Windows options and there seems to be some sort of remote access capability, but I'm not sure how robust it is.