Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote: Imagine something wrote a tricky program that swapped the files in the cache folder so as misdirect you to a dangerous website... :) Disconnect from the Internet, now. There, you're "safe".

Looks like Ryzen has got Intel's complacent bowels unblocked. They are bringing out an "i9" with 12 cores. But AMD will be competing with "Threadripper" a 16-core beast. Unfortunately, it seems that will use the 4000-pins server socket. So I can't see it being cheap.

I'm looking to upgrade my 6 years old machine as it feels a little long in the tooth when doing things like video re-encoding from x.264 to x.265 (w/ Handbrake, most is only 720p but a few are 1080p and it takes like 19h to do ONE 2.3GB 1080p movie)(the example is Space Battleship Yamato ep01,...

This is a bit off topic, but I have a question that should benefit from answers here. My main computer is usually turned on shortly after I get up in the morning and not shut down until just before I go to bed at night. I've also been turning off the monitor, but am wondering if it would be...

On Fri, 16 Jun 2017 22:56:28 +0800, "Mr. Man-wai Chang" wrote: | | Come on, everyone is still Micro$oft Office to do their business, right? No. I use LibreOffice. It's free and totally satisfies my office needs. Besides, we're not a Communist country. They are the...

One week after it first hit, researchers are getting a better handle on how the WannaCry ransomware spread so quickly — and judging from the early figures, the story seems to be almost entirely about Windows 7. According to data released today by Kaspersky Lab, roughly 98 percent of the...

A CPU is a CPU is a CPU is a CPU. https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2017/05/epyc_amd.jpg And that's a CPU. Now imagine an after-market CPU cooler/fan(s), e.g. fins and attached heat-wick to a pad to fit it. Most go on a presumption for a base marginally to exceed the CPU...

still on socket 2066, but will cost 2 kilo-dollars tech specs on Intel website still a bit thin, like TDP and max frequency

Full story: http://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/09/toshiba-flash-business-sale-broadcom-seen-as-preferred-buyer.html Broadcom is seen as the preferred buyer for Toshiba's flash business, sources told CNBC on Friday. But the Japanese government is trying to put together a group that will keep the...

Ran into a new one (unrelated to new 8/core build). Mouse went haywire in Windows. Checked mouse, its USB connections (cleaned usb ports), restored OS serval times, reset BIOS. Lots of power on/offs. Still a no go. Mad mouse on the loose, totally beserk, dangerously so, with Windows OS...

Plunk. Take a 10-yr-old vacuum cleaner, empty the dust canister, and stick in new electronics into that filth. That's what my case in part feels like now with a new MB/CPU/MEM. I really should tear it down, also, when removing the stock CPU cooler, eventually for installing the Hyper's (a...

I have an Adaptec ISA bus SCSI controller with an FDC chip on it. It allows me to boot from and use two floppy drives (non-SCSI) as if they were connected to the motherboard. It works fine in one of my motherboards but in the one I really want to use (Commell P4BWA) it just gives me a floppy error...

I'm scratching my head over a current problem with my pc. I have two pcs. I use one for general stuff. I use the other to web surf. My network consists of the router provided by my ISP, and I use wired (Ethernet) cable between the router and pcs. Last night, I turned on the pc I use to surf...

Will Windows 10 install on a LGA775 / Core2 Quad Q6600 w/8GB ram platform? Is there a list of Windows 10 supported (legacy) CPUs anyplace on the web? thank you...

In article Jasen Betts wrote: All of a sudden I'm seeing lots of windows posts cross-posted to alt.os.linux. Tthere's a troll recently posting lots of garbage to alt.os.linux via google groups. and since google groups doesn't appear to...

continuous hammering from assholes who found my computer, it has not been hacked or compromised. The only firewall is Windows firewall. The AV is Avast. I use Tor, Stunnel, QSL and occasionally Omnimix. Oh and I also have the SMTP service running. Russians and

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msrc/2017/05/12/customer- guidance-for-wannacrypt-attacks/ https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms17- 010(d=printer).aspx http://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=KB4012598

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/05/13/a- british-researcher-says-he-found-a-kill-switch-for-the-malware- crippling-computers- worldwide/?tid=pm_world_pop&utm_term=.eac4c07288e5

There’s a hole in Windows big enough that Microsoft did an emergency fix this week. Called the “worst Windows remote code exec in recent memory” and "crazy bad" by the Google security expert that discovered it, the malware requires no interaction from a user. Often malware requires a PC user...

AMD2, AMD2+, AMD3, and AMD+ I like this MB https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128565 Only I'm then out of my present CPU ... AMD Phenom X4 9550 2.2 GHz Quad-Core HD9550WCJ4BGH if I get it. By a hair's width -- the Big Plus difference between a socket 2+ and 3.