A thread for boring computer questions.

Is multi-threading generally more efficient than multi-tasking (running multiple instances of the same process)? I am running a program that in the latest version is supposed to run multi-threaded if multiple cores are available. A version that does not run multi-threaded was already installed on a server that I was eventually allowed to use for the task. I am wondering if it is worth asking the system administrator if the latest version could be installed.

Generally a program which can take advantage of multiple cores will be able to do more in less time (assuming that the program can run multiple tasks in parallel), so yes, multi-threading is better.

I have both an iPhone and am Android tablet. The phone has 4G data; the tablet does not.

Is there any way to transfer files directly from iOS to Android without using the Internet, possibly via WiFi or Bluetooth? I mean, there must be SOME way... Right?

Also, the phone does not tether because AT&T blows

You'll need to download an app but apparently: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/smartphones/send-files-between-android-and-ios-with-fast-file-transfer/

I saw that but that's only Android -> iOS

I've started using the free Microsoft Office Online: it has Word, Excel, and a bunch of other worthy stuff, but all I care about is music storage (15 GB free). Thinking about paid (the cheapest, $1.99 monthly for 100 GB), but will see how it goes for a while. Anybody use it for that, any problems? How does it compare with Google's Drive re music storage?

I hope it won't think promo package zips are boots.

Is there any way to transfer files directly from iOS to Android without using the Internet, possibly via WiFi or Bluetooth? I mean, there must be SOME way... Right?

I think that if you use Dropbox across two devices on the same wi-fi network, it skips the internet when syncing, but I'm not 100% on that.

Oh, yeah, here you go:

https://www.dropbox.com/help/137

sry i meant like wifi directly btwn the two devices, not using a separate wifi network

like if I'm on a bus or something

Ah. This seems to do that:

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/send-anywhere-file-transfer/id596642855?mt=8

Actually, I'm not sure it does. I will end my unhelpful Googling now.

xp when you say music storage, do you mean streaming OTG? Or cloud archiving? If the former, then Google Music is fantastic. You can upload 20k songs into the cloud and stream them anywhere, for free. I use it all the time, can't recommend it highly enough,

Thanks for the tip on GM! But mainly I meant cloud archiving.

dumb computer question: would it be possible/reasonable to build a laptop with two power sockets, one on each side? because this would revolutionize everything for me

power jack probably the better choice of word there

I've never heard of such a thing, no idea if it's possible, ever been done before, etc.

yeah i don't think it exists (yet!!) just wondering if it would be an awful idea hardware-wise

I don't know enough about electricity to tell you it'd be dangerous or difficult, so I assume the reason it doesn't exist is that you're the first person to ever want it.

it would make things much easier for people like me who spend 90% of their time lying down on different couches and beds

get an iPad tbh

Wait a couple years for wireless power transmission

hope you like that wireless power when it's burning a hole thru yr abdomen

dumb computer question: would it be possible/reasonable to build a laptop with two power sockets, one on each side? because this would revolutionize everything for me

― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Friday, October 3, 2014 4:00 PM Bookmark Flag Post

No

xp

Pretty sure I've irradiated most of my insides from being a computer jock for so long.

You know how on a PC you can upload an image found online to Facebook, etc. by copying the image's URL and pasting that URL in the address bar when searching for a file to upload? Can that be done w/ a Mac somehow?

not generally. save the image by dragging it to your desktop or whatever then upload it like a regular file.

I am looking at ILX using Chrome on Mac OSX, updated my Flash today and now there's just white space instead of a YT embed, can anybody advise on how to get them back?

1. Somebody help MaresNest (or maybe try this thread would be better for that Q Ideas for ILX)

2. Recommendation for a good file search tool for a Windows 7 computer?

3. Is there a "favorite hoodjadoojas" (sp??) thread for windows? (I guess I could search but I'm using Zing so I can't right now.)

Thanks!

PS: a 3-legged dog just woofed at me like it wanted to play.

Jesse the built in search function in Win 7 is p decent esp if your drive is indexed. Are you having probs with it?

Don't know if this is related, but Youtube just changed its default display platform from Flash to HTML5

http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/27/7926001/youtube-drops-flash-for-html5-video-default

chrome uses its own built-in copy of flash so i don't think updating flash should fuck with it? i also think youtube has maybe been serving HTML5 video to chrome as default for a while now

Thanks for your help guys.

I figured it out, I typed 'about;plugins' in Chrome and got the list up in screen, a quick disable/enable of the Flash did the trick.

Damn I could have answered that one, had that problem recently as well.

Handy to bookmark that plug in location, I can't see it in the options.

loved http://www.voidtools.com/ for years re win filesearch

be careful of having two things indexing and being a drag if ur set up's getting on

Looking for a solution to this

Somehow u-torrent seems to have reconfigured itself in such a way that instead of downloading audio files in folders thus separating the downloads into whatever live recording they came as they just come down as files stripped of the folders. I can't see what you would need to reconfigure to get it back to the way it was up until yesterday where it had the separating folders.
Subsequently I have several live sets in a larger folder all jumbled up, sorted by the numerical part of their title so I have a load of 1s from different sets, a load of 2s from different sets etc.

Looks like i somehow had automatically update u-torrent ticked on the preferences box and maybe this has the thing needing to be reconfigured since it is possibly a new version of u-torrent but I've never come across an update leading to this. I also don't think I would normally leave an automatically update box ticked if I was aware of it. So am further wondering if I did leave it unticked or bowed to continual notification previously that there were new updates which would probably bug me too, especially if they were happenning with any great frequency.

Jesse the built in search function in Win 7 is p decent esp if your drive is indexed. Are you having probs with it?

IIRC, it was not feasible to index the voluminous files on my work's networked drives, which is where I do most of my searching. Plus it doesn't do very advanced searching.

Also it arbitrarily returns "no results" sometimes but then later does find results.

Thanks, rtc. I will check that out.

I tried out some free file search tool, which worked well, but it seemed pretty shady, so I uninstalled it.

What the fuck our firm needs is a case/document management application, but without leadership they'll never spend the money (especially when the principal partner prioritizes the firm paying his country club dues, lease on his 6-series BMW, and "lending" him mortgage payments. Sorry, is this not the bitching about co-workers thread?)

Stevolende, when you open up a new torrent, the dialogue box will have a checkbox that you can click that preserves folders. It's easy to miss, though IIRC it should be on by default.

Stevolande there's also a way to change a folder display in Windows Explorer where it just shows all the files in all the subfolders jumbled together, maybe it's that? It happens when Arrange By is set to Name instead of Folder

Jesse I've always been under the impression that searching for files on a network drive is just fucked no matter what and there's really nothing to be done. Maybe tell yr company that your established IT friend says you should get a doc mgmt system

Or just put them in a SharePoint document library lol

fpd u

sry just tryin to share pointers here

u have an oversharepointing problem imo

Look dude instead of pointing fingers why don't we just try to share the burden here and leverage a deplorable solution

Stevie D otm, get a goddamn DMS.

Like I can tell you from exp that ppl regularly call in to try to find missing Outlook PSTs or shit they accidentally moved to another folder and a network drive search usually takes like 5-10 minutes, it just sucks no matter what you do

the inelegant solution i've found is to use an indexer like locate32 - unfortunately this means it has to scan the network drive all the time (or every day or whatever) to stay up to date