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How to measure Explosive Bomb by
Flasherly[_2_]
About knocked me out of bed.
Lightning hit somewhere in the backyard.
Blew up my motherboard. Power supply still works good, drives good.
Keyboard and mouse OK. Everything off a wall socket, including the
monitor is OK.
My PCI soundcard quit or got blown up, the cable modem was...
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Homebuilt computer has slowed noticably.... why? by
Charlie Hoffpauir
My home built is getting a bit old, but within the last weeks has
noticable slowed in many operations. For example, in Photoshop, using
the erasure tool; before, erasures were instanteous. Erased materal
instantly disappeared from the scene. Now, it sometimes disappears,
and sometimes the...
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how many tape drives had SATA interface?? by
[email protected]
I bought an internal DLT drive at a computer swap meet, thinking it was
SAS interface. When I got it home, I found it was actually SATA.
Quantum made them with SCSI, SATA or even USB.
Nowadays you see tape drives with fibre channel (copper) even though the
drives are mostly too slow to need that...
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Acquire MS Office 2016 offline iso by
xJumper
So I have an actual legitimate business license key for Office
Professional Plus 2016 from an enterprise with volume licenses and I am
looking for an offline installer/iso/image or what have you so I can
install the software. Something I can physically put on my computer to
install Office 2016 and...
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Intel's "9th gen" CPUs by
[email protected]
Interesting series of leaks and rumours. So they will still be 14 nm, in
effect a Coffee Lake facelift, but with more cores for little more dollars
than previous generation. So they are still worried about AMD.
One of the interesting tidbits was solder thermal interface; perhaps
that is how they...
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SSD DRAM Less Controller by
Flasherly[_2_]
Although I wouldn't go so far to compare low-balling SSD offerings for
resemblances to the bubonic plague...
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"At Computex last June, one SSD vendor told us about an OEM 2D TLC SSD
that will burn through the rated endurance in a little over a year."
Robust performance ratings that are crippled...
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What is not a robot? by
Charlie Hoffpauir
On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 18:56:35 +0800, "Mr. Man-wai Chang"
wrote:
Are self-driving cars also a kind of robots?
Yes, just like self-posting morons from Hong Kong. They are both 'a kind
of robot'. (Self-driving cars are marginally more intelligent, and
...
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Merge text files & then sort unique in DOS by
Mr. Man-wai Chang
On 9/4/2018 11:16 PM, Grease Monkey wrote:
Merging text files is easy in DOS
for %f in (*.txt) do type "%f" output.txt
But how do you sort unique in DOS?
MS DOS has a SORT.EXE if I remember correctly... it's such a long time
ago....:)
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More Chinese soldering wonders by
Flasherly[_2_]
AUKEY KM-G6 LED-Backlit 104-Key Mechanical Keyboard w/ Blue Switches
$31.99 w/ code DXZK8U29
AUKEY KM-G10 104-Key Mechanical Keyboard w/ Blue Switches n Round
Keycaps
$30.09 w/ code 3TZLFH3H
(and no LEDs? - that's got to be some kind of round)
Looked it over (Amazon and others) they're...
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idle curiosity - why internal HD rather than external HD by
Yes[_2_]
Given some recent problems with my pc, I've started daydreaming about
moving all my HDDs (all are SATA) from inside the pc case to an
external device.
Please keep in mind that I don't have a solid handle on the right words
to use. I've seen at least two types of devices - an enclosed box to
put...
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Which fan connector? by
Percival P. Cassidy
I have an Asus Prime Z370-A motherboard that has several different fan
connectors, but only two for "Chassis fans."
I have the top and rear fans connected to CHA_1 and CHA_2, respectively,
but I am wondering whether to connect my two (non-PWM) front mounted
drive-bay fans to one of the other...
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Is VLC 3.0.3 for Windows 7? by
Mr. Man-wai Chang
On 8/9/2018 5:42 AM, Ant wrote:
Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
On 8/6/2018 6:51 AM, wrote:
I am currently running 2.2.4 Weatherwax on a 64 bit Win 7 machine. Should (can I) upgrade to VLC
3.0.3?
Just try it! If you don't like it,...
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Patriot Pison/SLCTLC by
Flasherly[_2_]
256G SSD Blaze
There is also a non-Blaze version, exclusively labeled for Amazon
marketing. Patriot is still among names among memory types, so it's
also got the $50-80 premium on this type of middle-grade TLC SSD.
Without saying, Patriot has presence for honoring the warranty (3
years). I've...
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"New "Turning Tables" Technique Bypasses All Windows KernelMitigations" by
Lynn McGuire[_3_]
"New "Turning Tables" Technique Bypasses All Windows Kernel Mitigations"
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-turning-tables-technique-bypasses-all-windows-kernel-mitigations/
This is the first article that I have seen that says I might should be
running Windows 10. That exploit...
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LAN question, can I "merge" 2 separate LANs? by
Charlie Hoffpauir
My home system now accesses the internet via Hughesnet. I have the
Hughesnet router with an ethernet connection to my ASUS RT-AC66U
router. From there I am CAT5A wired to computers and TVs via wires
from both the ASUS and a 8 port Netgear switch (GS208). I have a few
handheld devices (phones,...
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Kaspersky saves the day by
John B. Smith
Last night, Saturday, I went to shut off my head phones and heard a
voice coming thru: "We're microsoft your computer is ****ed. If you
attempt to turn it off without calling us we'll **** it up worse". I'd
already shut my browser down but I found a 'firefox' still in the
Processes of TaskManager....
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In the Belly of the Enclave of Foreshadowed Hypervisors by
Flasherly[_2_]
Spectre (on most Intel, AMD, and ARM chips) can be used to attack
software sandboxes used for JavaScript in browsers ... .
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/08/intels-sgx-blown-wide-open-by-you-guessed-it-a-speculative-execution-attack/
Sounds like the academics and Intel R&D are keep each...
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TOSLINK 96/24 adpator Pwr by
Flasherly[_2_]
USB Wall Fast Charger Power Car Adapter AC Home US/EUPlug 5V 3.1A 3
Ports
First I bought, I was mistaken. It wasn't exactly $1US, but marked up
300% by American middle/jobber warehouses. This time I got it direct
from Asia. I'll wait for the delivery if, regardless how cheap, they
blow up...
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