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[Iduno]

I need a web hosting site quick for school, and not for very long.

Few details, and they didn't provide you with the hosting you need? Sounds like "pranks/lies", and therefore I fully support the endeavor.

It sounds like most web hosts allow for month-to-month hosting. I also assume some are overpriced, and others are "overpriced at any price."

[gimlet]

If you know how to set it up yourself, I would look on lowendtalk/lowendbox, for something like that the absolute lowest spec box would work, so even if you get unlucky with a  terrible service you're only out literally a couple bucks...

[Jopax]

So my old HDD finally up and died, well, the windows partition did anyways. Got a new HDD after a week of fucking with online shops. Reinstalled windows and it's working fine, I'm just having one issue with getting the data from the old HDD onto the new one. It's something to do with windows I think, basically it stops detecting the externally connected drives after two attempts or so. I've tried both the old HDD and a spare external disk on the desktop PC and they're both working fine. Once I connect them to the laptop however it detects them at first, loses connection once or twice and just stops detecting them all together until I connect them to the desktop PC.

It might be a shitty cable but I'm not sure anymore. If it were just the shitty drive then the external one would be working fine.

[anewaname]

How are you connecting the old HDD to the laptop, and how is the HDD being powered? If being powered by the laptop, it might not provide enough power for the HDD to spin up.

Is the old HDD for a laptop or a desktop?

[Iduno]

About a week (?) ago someone posted a registry edit to fix Steam's stupid settings/privilege escalation bug. Anyone have that?

[scourge728]

Steam rolled out an update to fix it

[wierd]

In the beta channel anyway.

I dunno if they rolled it out in mainline yet.  Regardless, its just an ACL.  I can put the instructions again, since I'm the one that coughed it up in the first place.

[Iduno]

I can put the instructions again, since I'm the one that coughed it up in the first place.

That would be great. I tried looking through your old posts, but I'm having trouble finding it.

[wierd]

Sure.  It was in Tech News.

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=160107.msg8008518#msg8008518

The spoiler contains helpful images.  Win7 based instructions.  It's slightly different for win10.

There's a slight error on the picture instructions though-- BE SURE TO UNCHECK DELETE PERMISSION. It's not arrowed in the instructions.

[scourge728]

Unless I'm somehow in the beta for steam, I'm pretty sure the fix is in the main one now, considering I saw it or something like it on one of those restart to install update things steam likes to do

[wierd]

Correct-- I am looking at the changelog.

Steam Client Update Released
Client Update - Valve
A new Steam client has been released and will be automatically downloaded.

General

    Fixed library drop-down menu no longer displaying after changing the library filter


Steam Input

    Fixed Xbox controllers showing up twice on Mac OS X
    Removed guide button emulation using the back or start button, except when using Steam Remote Play. This feature was causing some issues with some fightsticks and retro controllers and will be re-enabled for locally connected controllers in the future.


Steam Windows Service

    Fixed privilege escalation exploit using symbolic links in Windows registry

[Iduno]

Cool. Thank you anyway.

[wierd]

Looks like there's another steam 0day.  Give me a bit to look into the problem.

[Akura]

Looking to set up for VR gaming in the moderate future - by the end of the year. So far everything is looking good. I would need to replace my graphics card(currently a GTX 750ti), and get Windows 10(I don't want to, but...). I'm pretty sure my power supply(610w) can handle a GTX 1060. Only concern is it fitting inside my case, but it probably would. Actual physical space in my room is actually pretty decent, despite having a smaller room than my last house.

Any recommendations for the actual VR headset? I've heard good thing about the Occulus Rift-S.

[wierd]

Sadly I dont.   I learned my lesson the hard way a long time ago.

(I used to own a VFX-1 headset, waaaaaaaay back in the 90s. even when I was very young, I learned that my eyes have VERY different focal depths, and the strain of using a display that close was just unbearable. My eyes are EVEN WORSE now. So, I don't even bother with VR. While the displays inside are lightyears ahead of what the VFX1 had inside it, the principles are the same: Adjustable optics for each eye, to attempt to compensate for the close proximity of the display. when I had finished adjusting the optics to where I could actually see anything in the FX1, I had one eyepiece absurdly long, and the other absurdly short. It was very uncomfortable to wear, and the eyestrain was unbearable. I am in no hurry to repeat that experience.)