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"Windows 7 computers won’t receive security updates without antivirus scanner" https://www.myce.com/news/windows-7-dont-receive-security-updates-without-antivirus-scanner-83815/ "Windows 7 computers without an antivirus scanner won’t receive the latest security updates automatically. These...

In article [email protected] SFF-PC Johnny wrote: On Wed, 07 Mar 2018 16:49:24 -0800 mike wrote: On 3/7/2018 2:24 PM, Nomen Nescio wrote: ...

This is a long way from building computers, but I've seen other posts that strayed at least as far, so here goes: New York State is determined to 'encourage' us to file our taxes online to spare them work. The past few years I have been using AARP volunteers to help/check my taxes and then...

It's time to discuss and inform you of what has been bothering me for quite some time now. It's how Windows/The Task Manager presents the "performance of the computer". In my daily usage it's not the CPU or the Memory usage which decides the experience. It's mostly the harddisk and the constant...

Hello, You may not believe it and I may not believe it myself but this actually works. First I tell you shortly where this solution came from... probably me... misinterpreting somebody elses solution or maybe I interpret it correctly. I don't know but the following fix seems to work 100% reliable...

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2018/02/22/man-sues-microsoft-for- 600m-after-forced-windows-upgrade-destroyed-his-pc.html

On 2/3/2018 22:22, Steven Petruzzellis wrote: I'd respond to Kevin S Jervik directly .... And in response you have nothing but a crack .... The fabricator AKA Kevin S Jervik does it ... Since this is the comp.lang.c newsgroup, let's go C programming. Anyone got complete C source codes of...

English translation (google-translate assisted :)): My fear is that bitcoin will cause global warming and rising electricity costs. A possible solution for bitcoin is to introduce a law that states that a person can only mine bitcoins with only one or a maximum of 5 computers. Such a law could...

MNF wrote: On Tuesday, February 20, 2018 at 5:50:40 AM UTC-7, chrisv wrote: Peter Köhlmann wrote: Yeah, WinDOS use requires a fair amount of effort in security and privacy.

-------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Good Guy Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-10 Subject: MSBuild Tools Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 17:15:45 +0000 You can download all build tools from this link: https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/#build-tools-for-visual-studio-2017

Wolf K wrote: BTW, AFAIK, there isn't a single Linux software package that does something no Win/Mac package will do. If there is one, I'd like to know of it. Wrong. Completely wrong. Take "openplotter" for example. Not available for windows. Not for OSX.

I know 300 ft is the limit for cat5, but I wonder if you are using a 100 ft cord when it could be 60 ft would effect the performance much?

On 3/12/2017 2:30 AM, Paul Hayton wrote: Hi there I run a retro BBS using Mystic BBS software. The author of the software has been actively developing it for the last 15+ years. I thought I'd post here to let anyone interested in BBSing that there is a Raspberry Pi (ARM) version of...

Does anyone have a copy of the BIOS file for the Advantech AIMB-742 motherboard? The file name is: A742V123.BIN If so, please send me a copy! Thanks.

In article "Jonathan N. Little" wrote: Wolf K wrote: Nah, they'll a) use ad-blockers; I wasn't talking about a web browser. Cortana was the first think I killed. Not sure if home users have that option. --

I have a Western Digital WD5000AAKX hard drive that I was using via an adaptor connected to an external USB port. One day the drive could no longer be seen by my PC running Windows XP. And also not by my PC running Windows 10. At least not completely. From my desktop I can click it off so I can...

I keep my USB drives in a metal box, just in case.

I have been reading some stuff about digital forensics and have seen several comments about "RAM slack" where supposedly some old OS versions were so idiotic that patches of RAM larger than the desired file to be saved, were written to disk. To me this sounds utterly absurd.

First one was an Ebay scam out of China. Crypto- Ebay/China -Currency. The seller first lists, waits for the buyer's take, then pulls out and disappears with the buyer's money. Ebay facilitates the scam with its 2-month adjudication policy: 2-month's shipping time, exclusively, for Chinese...