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...

I noticed my system crashing while playing this bubble game on agar.io website. Blue screen of death Driver nvlddmkm.sys was at fault. I just checked nvidia's latest driver and it is confirmed that this driver is buggy and not only that but it has some serious security risks ! Therefore I...

Good day. Got a 15 years old WD IDE hard drive, that was showing ZERO problems in SMART data, suddenly can no longer calibrate (i.e. it can't read anymore.) NOW the SMART data is showing something's wrong. Hard drive "clicks" (heads go back and forth full disk) then quits trying. Have another...

I thought software raid was simply using windows to mirror two drives, on standard disk controllers. So what is this card I have called a Silicon Image Softraid controller? It does hardware raid (as I would name it) - I can set up arrays in it's own bios before an OS loads. So why do they call...

PCI express graphics in a 1 lane slot? Yes I know I can fiddle with extension ribbons, but why have they designed the 1 lane slots to physically not allow longer card to go into them? Is it to stop the user squashing motherboard components which may be nearby? Obviously it would run slower, but...

Where is the best place to get it cheap? I just need 1000 ft roll. This seems a lot cheaper than most. What is the...

How to prevent rubber grip from becoming sticky? -- @[email protected] Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch! Live long and prosper!! / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! /( _ )\ May the Force and farces be with you! ^ ^ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.39.3 ä¸�借貸! ä¸�è©�騙! ä¸�è³*錢! ä¸�æ�´äº¤!...

IBM workers banned from using USB sticks Full story: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44069488 Staff at IBM have been banned from using removable memory devices such as USB sticks, SD cards and flash drives. The possibility of "financial and reputational" damage if staff lost or misused the...

While troubleshooting a new HD, I just ran into a new problem of which I'm not sure where the problem is. When I press the on/off button for the pc on the front of the case, I see it start to light up but within a fraction of a second, it shuts down is the best way I can describe it - does not...

Thought my 200-watt amp was like 50-years-old: reality checks in to say it's actually 30 and only made from 1985-88. ...Way back when everything was 8-ohm speaker loads. A number of good amps, however, placed for added feature-minded class consciousness, provided for speaker arrays -- in case an...

The problem I'm trying to solve is that windows 10 upgrade to one hard drive messes up the boot sector of the other bootable drive. I've been opening the case and pulling the data cable. I need a way to EASILY switch off a hard drive so that it is completely inaccessible. I've been considering...

I got two Nvidia cards at a garage sale, along with a large Dell monitor that apparently was made to go with them. The cord on the monitor is not the usual SVGA connector, it's got 24 pins. (3 rows of 8 pins), plus a large flat pin on the end. These cards look like they were costly. There is a...

Would your hand get cancer in the long run? Wireless charging means there is energized EM radiation coming out of the pad! :) -- @[email protected] Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch! Live long and prosper!! / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! /( _ )\ May the Force and farces be with you! ^ ^ (x86_64...

I have a Samsung 850 EVO 124G SSD that I use for the system drive in my #2 desktop. I recently noticed that more than 60G was being used by the C drive. I hadn't installed nearly that much stuff. A Macrium backup done just 4 days earlier was only 16.5, not nearly large enough for 60+G. I checked...

graphic card/SATA III questions 1. Have graphics cards improved so that they don't block adjacent mobo slots? 2. Are there expansion cards for PCI slots that provide internal SATA III connectors? 3. What's the correct search term to use? 4. Will such a SATA III expansion card transfer data...

Would your hand get cancer in the long run? Wireless charging means there is energized EM radiation coming out of the pad! :) -- @[email protected] Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch! Live long and prosper!! / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! /( _ )\ May the Force and farces be with you! ^ ^ (x86_64...

On 30/4/2018 10:10 AM, Real Troll wrote: Dr P.J Moylan has written a paper to argue a case against using C. Wouldn't bother to read it! It's just one tool. Just use it WISELY if you think it's broken. Can you make a hammer that doesn't hit human hands? :) --