$75/US 480GB ADATA Ultimate SU650 2.5" SSD ADATA is apparently the cookie-cutter among SDD technologies: They combine all the available controllers and NAND. Not sure how long this one has been on their back-burner, in superceding the SU800 series, although for ADATA it is rather peculiar: On all...

Firefox tells me they will no longer be updating their XP 32bit version. Their solution: buy Windows 10 if I want to be secure. My question to you guys is how much trouble can I get into by ignoring their 'advice' and proceeding as usual?

Couple of keys I'd resoldered are both num6 next to the far-right +. The former went intermittent again. Opened up totally-black keyboard secured by 8 hex-ish if not Chinese variant phone screws on top, 8 cross-head Phillips screws on bottom. Checked with x30 magnifier to find solder slop, which...

I use CCleaner everyday to purge my browsing history, etc. It used to run faster. It takes quite a while to even remove "counters.dat", whatever that is. I don't remember it being an issue before. Evidently, I can accumulate 2000-8000 "tracking files" without even doing a lot of browsing...

All the same and $44/US for a 240G MLC SDD (VNand or 3D high-density variant). 3-yr warranty through other than Amazon -- a Microcenter storefront distribution play thereon. Plus taxes for new and improved, US-NET leveling tax legislation for individual states. Ebay can't touch it, although they...

3T models were recently atrocious, past few years, whereas 2/4/6TB weren't. Strangely eye-opening. I'd still want manufacturing drive dates, model verification numbers, still, were I interested in a...

Recent assessment over the state of things, I'm running 10TBytes of HDDs: Five TBye HDD or at once and in addition from a backup reserve. Everything, all the way to a couple of Seagate 200G drives, even a pair of 250G WD Caviers. The latter, although the Seagates are by no means either immune,...

Chinese Blue Mechanical Keyboard Switches. A dozen mini-screw attachments, 5 regular, the rest of which I got to with a Chinese mobile phone repair kit. (Some 30 or so usual screw-type fittings in today's micro and otherwise manufacturing jigsaw fits.) Pulled it apart, two pieces with many...

I notice that some brands of memory come with the DIMM stuck in a black platic tray (presumably the conductive anti-static stuff) but others are totally in transparent plastic. So is the protection important.

Direct Chinese marketing - no warranty, no nothing. Except, it is MICRON branded. My Micron, I bought, a USA-distribution of their 256G SSD, cost me four-times, per GByte, more. IOW if that same drive, cost adjusted for this one, it would have cost me $30 instead of $120 I paid:

Slammed a few times the past couple days with fast black/brownouts. Not sure if that exacerbated my HDD, which I'd run diagnostics and begun a few months ago to suspect for a fault. Seagate 2T HDD with probably going on 10 years usage. Diagnostic software "red alerts" prompted me to clear off...

Garmin 010-01532-0F Black Drive 5" USA EX GPS Navigator, A base angle on their now most basic "Drive 50" model, IOW, scaled down and reduced from $150+ (or even more or on same but larger screen models). The numbers mean no hand holding, cuddling, customer support lines, or map updates. ...

I have an Antec 300 Illusion case. There are two USB 2.0 connector ports on the front. I'm thinking that I may want to upgrade them to USB 3.0. Has anyone upgraded USB 2 ports on a chassis to USB 3? I'd like to get some idea of what would need to be done. I could, of course, add a USB 3.0 hub...

I was asked to check out a PC that wouldn't boot. It powered itself off after a second. It looked like mainboard was kaput. Then I checked out all the bits I removed. Both DIMMs were bad, and one of the two hard disks also bad. There was no obvious damage (such as beer spillage). So what do...

There's been a lot of talk lately about CPU vulnerabilities ala Meltown but what is the general consensus with the obvious built in back doors being put into CPU's at the OEM level. AMD Platform Security Processor/Trust Zone Secure Technology which is AMD's version of Intel AMT/Intel Management...

Now google groups isn't working lol. Anyway here is the tool, I made it available via github cause mijndomein.nl is also not working correctly. https://github.com/SkybuckFlying/HelloWorld/blob/master/TestApplication.exe This tool spawns 1 gui thread and 1 main processing thread. The 1 main...

My partner has a old HP PC, that was originally sold with Win7. It is unfit for latest version of Win10. In another forum, it was suggested to stay with 1703 version if you had it. Microsoft downloads only vomits forth the latest version for punters. If one searches for ISO of older builds, you get...

LONG time coming. Samsung is making 10 nm stuff, but Intel claims their 10 nm is denser than Samsung's. It seems Intel, AMD, Samsung have different definitions of nm lithography. So far, there is a mobile i3. I await something with more grunt. Running Skylake-X on sustained AVX-512 will almost melt...

I thought it was about time i ran a Kaspersky's rescue disk to check for malware etc. I downloaded the latest rescue10 iso as usual, ran rescue2usb.exe to write it onto my Kingston usb drive, as usual, and it came up with an unspecified error while trying to write the iso to the flash drive. I...

Good day all. I love the Model M keyboard, and have several PS/2 ones. I also have 2 Unicomp USB Model M's. Now, I haven't tried the other one of those that I have (without Windows Keys) but the one I am using now is a DISASTER! I do not know what they did with their USB controller, but it is...