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I was wondering.....when looking at a NOT Gate....what causes the output to change from above the transistor to below it... what overcomes the force. Quote from: TurtlesNThings on July 15, 2017, 01:13:47 AM

I was wondering.....when looking at a NOT Gate....what causes the output to change from above the transistor to below it... what overcomes the force.

As well as TTL and CMOS technology, simple digital logic gates can also be made by connecting together diodes, transistors and resistors to produce RTL, Resistor-Transistor logic gates, DTL, Diode-Transistor logic gates or ECL, Emitter-Coupled logic gates but these are less COMMON now compared to the popular CMOS family.

Integrated Circuits or IC’s as they are more commonly called, can be grouped together into families according to the number of transistors or “gates” that they contain. For example, a simple AND gate my contain only a few INDIVIDUAL transistors, were as a more complex microprocessor may contain many thousands of individual transistor gates. Integrated circuits are categorised according to the number of logic gates or the complexity of the circuits within a single chip with the general classification for the number of individual gates given as:

Hey everyone
I’m taking a technical WRITING class and one of the assignments I have is to interview 1 RELEVANT professional who works OUTSIDE the university and it has to be in the same major. I would appreciate the help if you answer these questions and you don't have to answer them all.

1-Why did you decide to study engineering?

2-What field did you choose?
 
3-What extra requirements such as certificates might we LOOK at getting to be more marketable?
 
4-Was this field different than you expected it to be?
 
5-What things do employers mostly look for?

6-How necessary are internships for a future job?
 
7-What duties are required as an engineer?
 
8-How diverse has your work been, personally?

9-What is your goal in 10 years from now?
 
10-Do you have any experience working with other engineering fields?
 
11-Do you have any specific skills within your field?

12-Is a bachelor's degree sufficient for this field?
 
13-If you have any advice for a future engineer what would it be?


Thank youIts too bad it has to be a network engineer specifically.... it excludes many who would otherwise participate if not that specific.

For a technical writing class I am surprised that they require the person answering to be same profession as you.

You might find better results contacting a company that has network ENGINEERS to see if they might be able to answer the questions for you. Additionally an internship would generally allow questions like this as well as maybe get your foot in the door with a career during or after college.

Right now we are running a host server that houses our application so that customers who WOULD rather us host it are allowed to do so and it gives them rdp access to it from anywhere.  Server had been up and running for a few years now and its currently running 2008 server R2 and has around 175 people that connect to it.  Unfortunately when it was setup it was setup as the Active Directory Domain Controller, DNS, File Server, and the Terminal Server.  Well I know that need to be split out but because of cost and downtime we will need to do it slowly and was kinda getting my plan in place and wanted to maybe get some opinions and see if I was MOVING in the right direction.  I made a crude drawing of the current layout of what we have and what we can work with currently.  I plan on turning all the machine into VMs also.  So far I have a host machine running hyper v server 2016 and I have two VMs running on it with Server 2016 installed.  The Test Main for instance is the current server running that house everything and where the 175 people are remoting into.  Currently we have them remoting into a environment to where they can only see the program which launches when they remote in.  I also plan on switching that out for App mode in the new vms.  I have added the hyper v server host to the domain along with the 2 server 2016 vms.  Now I plan on doing all this without interrupting the Test.Main computer for now as we cant have any downtime with it right now.  On the test.main we have the program running off the c DRIVE but all the data is stored on a separate J: drive.  I installed remote desktop services on the vm server 2016 1 and it now has the session broker, web access, licence server, and session host roles.  I know we shouldn't run all that one one machine but for now it will have to do.  I plan on installing a version of our software on the c drive of the vm but it will still access the data off of the test.main 2008 machine this way for the future we can have different vms running different versions of the app but still keep all the data stored in one place.  Now the vm server 2016 2 will have a different version of the app installed and have user rdp into it as well as the vm server 2016 1 but the only role I was going to INSTALL on the VM Server 2016 2 was the rd session host.   I currently have not setup a rd gateway and wasn't SURE if I needed it or not some sites say i didn't and wasn't sure if I could just use the connection broker.  For now I only plan on a few users on these new vm machines but will add more over time and also plan on upgrading and splitting out the roles on the old main.test machine and also taking the users out.  Was just looking for any advice as this is a big project im kinda jumping into.

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I did try to search for this but obviously no luck.
and I'm sure it's a newbie question but, what is with posting and GETTING the response "your post will not appear until approved by a moderator"?
it that some sort of newbie ranking safety thing?

cheers,
Mark.Yes, it is an "anti-spammer" tool. Your FUTURE posts will no longer need APPROVAL. Welcome to the forum Welcome ABOARD Mark...Welcome Mark, and I see you came from Bleeping to assist here too. Awesome  thanks GUYS.

Over the past few years there have been many Single Board Computers.  Many wee intended for industrial controller applications, you the hobby and do-it-yourself crowd got into it. 
Up to name, arguably, there were not really Personal Computers. Now you have to re think that. YouTube has some new SBC devices that can be used as real PC devices if you add a monitor, keyboard and mouse.

Notable is the use of the Intel Atom CPU, which makes install of Windows 10 easy. Forget about the x86 to ARM emulation. Some of the new items are Intel based and run Windows 10 with no compromise.

To see what s new, do a search:
You tube Single Board PC Intel
.. and get some nice videos about some new SBC  things that have been released recently.     

Sorry about the ads, just skip over the ads.   

I would have put some links here,
 - but the links get to be so messy for YouTube.A few years ago I was looking into a small and lower power consumption Single Board Computer to replace the Pentium 4 tower I had laying on its side as a HTPC. What worked out nice was that the Roku came out and was a perfect fit for what I needed. Small, Low Power Consumption, and as a bonus I didnt have to load any HTPC software to it it was ready out of the box and the price tag of $35 was a bargain. Prior to this I tried the Chromecast, but wasnt impressed with its inability for stand alone operation so the Chromecast was a waste of money and thrown into the junk box because once registered with a gmail account the devices are non transferable so I couldnt even try to sell it for $20 to get some money back as for I'd have to give my gmail account with it to whomever I sold it to so it is junk. The one feature the Roku didnt have though was the ability to PLAY my own digital media, however I could play the media through a computer that was on my network with the Plex TV service. But when I was cleaning up some tangled cables I saw a USB port on the back of my Sony Blu-ray Player and looked into its use and realized it supports USB connected drives up to 32GB in size as FAT32, so I then was able to store content on a USB stick or external hard drive with a 32GB FAT32 partition and play the media off of that.

These single board computers aren't very powerful and so their use is limited. Games might be limited to Indie Titles for games that dont require any strong CPU/GPU to run them etc.

I tried to get by with a ITX board computer once as a space safer attempt, but what I found was that all I did was buy into a board that had limited future use. It could handle up to a Phenom II Quadcore CPU, but it only had a 4x PCI Express slot and the integrated video was a weak GeForce 6150 GPU. This ITX was ok as a server or workstation that wouldnt do anything too graphically intense, but I soon found myself retiring it because it wasnt a space saver solution that could play games.

So I MOVED on to connecting a laptop to my desktop setup for a bit a few years ago when the local power company decided to double the rates for electricity turning $150 a month electric bills into $300, and I went through a instant reduction phase of making sure lights are off in rooms not being used and only stuff on when using it as well as shutting down my power hungry computers and using computers that could get by that used far less electricity. But while the laptop was able to play games and was a space saver, it was short lived as a permanent setup for desktop computer use because when the power company eased back on how bad they were STICKING it to us, I switched back to using my desktop computers again that used up to 10x the amount of electricity that the laptap was using in favor of performance vs electron sipping as I was.

A friend of mine who works in IT uses single board computers as thin clients and they WORK awesome. There isnt much to go wrong with a thin client. And a thin client doesnt need to be that powerful as for the brunt of the processing is server side in sessions. Single Board Computers unless higher end performance components for Graphics and Gaming, they are just pretty weak. They work fine for non intensive applications I suppose.DaveLembkem
These SBC thigs are short on OCPU powerm but have alot of conetivilty. The have GIGABIT Eterhnet.  True 4K video. So, they dfan be used for top end gaiming. as a thinclient.
When most get have gigabt Internet, gaming PCs will become history.

Don't think you have to just use whatever browser  everybody else likes.
There is still a chive.  Not just Chrome, Firefox and  or Edge.
Look here:
10 alternative browsers that prove there's life after Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Internet Explorer
- from PC WORLD,  by By Ian Paul  - Jul 24,  2017
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Despite the seemingly small world of web browsers, there’s an ENTIRE alternative universe out there. All of them are fighting for your attention with unique features and specializations around new interface concepts, PRIVACY, music, social media, and more. If you’re looking to shake up your web-surfing EXPERIENCE, CONSIDER these 10 great browsers not named Firefox, Chrome, or Internet Explorer.

Is it possible to find the file size of multiple emails and other files before copying to a usb flash drive?  I am going to upgrade my OS from Vista to the latest Windows and I need some advice about transferring stuff I want to keep, and this seems to be the simplest option - at the moment I have an 8GB Sandisk and some CD-R discs.  Any comments and/or links will be appreciated.What e-mail client are you using or is it just web based through ISP etc?

I use Thunderbird for my e-mail. It allows me to migrate from SYSTEM to system and my e-mail comes with me. Its a manual process that I use where I copy the entire Thunderbird data from my profile to a USB stick. Then I install Thunderbird to new computer and then dont configure it, just exit after install is complete. Then INSERT USB stick and copy the Thunderbird contents to my profile on my new computer and then launch Thunderbird. All my e-mail is there ard the passwords for authentication and all transfers over.

Curious why file size of e-mails before copying to USB stick would be so critical. Your USB stick should be plenty large in capacity to take some e-mails with attachments that are limited in size to usually around 25mb or less.

Thunderbird is a product of Mozilla and is LIKE Outlook, but FREE

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/AOL was the first ISP that I had and I signed up then for their email service - been all ok since, but I can't find if they have a process to transfer the present contents of my account to another PC or OS - I think when I changed my PC last I just started afresh.  My idea is to have a copy of various items - Picasa photos, documents, etc, in case things go wrong!
My concern with file size was prompted by my transferring some photos to a CD (trial run) and running out of space, and I thought it would be useful to know how much I NEEDED.  Anyway, I'll copy what I can and sort things out after the upgrade.
Thanks for interest and reply.Another option you could use is Cloud Storage such as Google Drive which gives 15GB of free storage. Any system you connect to Google Drive with would have the contents and no having to worry about burning discs etc.  https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2375123?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en

Look at this.       


Here is a way to generate  any number of silly words tha yur can remember. But they might not have ant real meaning. This could be used in humor, but also could be use for other things. Such as a password that can be remembered but is not in the dictionary.

Image is from a screenshot of the web site:
http://soybomb.com/tricks/words/

Go there and generate a new list for yourself. You might find this list helpful in making a hash table for some software project.

Question: What might you do with this?

This reminds me of the NAME generator that Blizzard Entertainment uses for World of Warcraft. I ran into an issue with the name of BlizzardofOz for one of my characters because they said that basically no ones name could ever look like its from Blizzard itself. They force changed my name to Erntbelsay

I so did not want to be called Erntbelsay or Ernt for short 

So I went in and went to rename myself as for the FIRST renaming when they flag a name as bad is free they had a name generator and some strange combinations were created but none that I liked... So I saw looked around my office for ideas on names and there was a reflection of a LIVE CD album that said EVIL in the reflection and I was like wow haha lets try liveevil and it worked and so my undead ROGUE was liveevil 

Got LOTS of whispers from people liking the creativity of my name some people even saying its like a mirror reflection of letters and I laughed and said thats how it came to be, my one LIVE CD album was reflecting off of a glass cabinet and it said EVIL with the E and L turned hehe and so I was like well Blizzard forced a name change, looked around room and came up with this.  Reminds me of RavenBlack's Random SURREALISM Generator
https://www2.ravenblack.net/random/surreal.html

I like this one best of the many videos about Automotive scan stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJcUoX3CpSw
I case you don't know, OBD 2 is required on cars made after 1996 in the USA.

You do NOT ned to pay $100 and up for a scanner tool if you have an ANDROID smartphone.  This is how they can get the cost way down. If you want, you can buy better software and this may help  the company that developed these little gadgets.  The hardware is now being made in China.

You can buy a dongle for the OBD2 for under $10 from on-line vendors. The lowets cost ONES do not have any lights. You must use a andooied blutooth smart phone to read the scans.

Watch the bideo.  I have a $49.99 model OBD II scanner that you can scan for codes erase codes as well as have it connected when driving down the road and watch all the SENSORS to make sure none of their values are out of whack. Only complaint I have is that the cord is only about 2 feet long. So you cant be a passenger watching the sensors and values, you have to make sure no traffic in front of you on a back road and look down at it quickly and back up on a straight away to watch values.

They make cheaper units that just clear codes and display codes such as this one for $13 http://www.tmart.com/U480-OBDII-EOBDII-Memo-Car-Diagnostic-Scanner_p133255.html?cc=USD&fixed_price=us_us&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI3tj-5I6q1QIVFYGzCh0oXAsNEAQYBSABEgJyQ_D_BwE

I could have gone cheap on the scanner, but I really wanted to see real time sensor values so that I could see what was going on vs just a code and shot gunning the problem by it might be this or it might be that with parts that are non returnable. One example was O2 sensor on a car that has 2 of them... well which one is it. With my scanner I saw which one wasnt reporting. Crawled under car and sure enough broken wire, SOMETHING snagged it and ripped wire out. So I knew to just buy that one vs roulette of one or other for $80 sensors.

Then came the fun of trying to get the old one out. Rusted in... Fortunately I have an acetylene torch to get it cherry red to get the threads to loosen on the broken O2 sensor so I could install the new one after everything cooled.   

When looking for a scanner, I almost bought one that connected to USB port of laptop with software to be able to set laptop on passenger seat or be a passenger and watch its performance, but I realized .... how often will I actually need this? I am not tuning my car for max performance and tricking anything out, so as long as check engine light is out all is good, so I went cheaper but still features to diagnose better with the $50 scanner.

Its nice that this that you shared works over bluetooth so that no cable length issue in the vehicle.Thanks for sharing. Tris is all new to me. 

At the risk of being redundant...
Some cheap models from China are now Bluetooth and all the information is shown in an Android App on a smartphone. No Cords. No cables. No strings. No lightrs. No bottoms. Small enough that it can be left plugged in.

Image from f from Google images.

With this thing, you Use  a smart phone as the human interface devices cuts the cost down by a FACT of fie to one. Some reviews claim that want is inside is basically all the same thing.

I have yet to receive it. I will report if it really does what they claim.
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I have yet to receive it. I will report if it really does what they claim.

This is NOT about cell phones. Instead, it is about those other things that your can charge from a USB port. Like a micro MP3 player.

You might buy a thing that has a rechargeable battery and plugs into your USB port.
Ignore people who tell you to charge it overnight. That is just wrong. I
8 hours might be for 4000 mah. The small batteries are 500 mah. The small, cheap light duty rechargeable batteries require only two hours to change on a USB port. And ignore those battery testers that tell you to recharge. Recharge only when the device stops performing. Be careful and expect the life to be a year or so.


Don't ask me for the research. Ask the people who tell you to leave it on the charterer. They are the ones who need to research charging norms for low-end lithium-ion  batteries used in cheep toys  and gs pocket devices.


If a device's battery gets damaged by leaving it on charge overnight rather than for a couple of hours, I'd be concerned about the charge protection circuitry in the device.  Decent devices should have charge control chips that properly regulate charging and stop charging the battery when it is full.I'd say all rechargeable batteries should go through a cycle of charge and drain. Overcharging is dangerous and only the really cheap poorly constructed ELECTRONIC chargers will maintain a constant charge even when the battery is at 100%.

I had a pile of smart phone crunching data for the BOINC Asteroids project for a while, but decided to shut them off from this data crunching because looking further into how the program ran on the smart phones, I didnt like that the program would only run when the battery was 100% charge and connected to a charger. Lithium batteries are dangerous if something goes wrong with them ( = usually a FIRE ), and are really meant to be cycled through a drain and charge cycle vs on a charger all the time.

So I have a bunch of spare smart phones that I picked up for $5 each if i need one, and they arent on the charge 24/7.  IMO anything other than leaving a battery at 0% for a long time is pretty much fine. You can get compulsive about it but, at least in my experience, it doesn't make much of a difference.

Lithium Ion and Lithium Polymer batteries work best with Partial discharges, not full discharges. It is Nickel-Cadmium and Nickel-Metal Hydride batteries for which full discharge/charge cycles are best for their longevity. discharging a Li-Ion battery to 50%, charging it to full, then using it until it is at 50% again is considered a one cycle in terms of the rated number of cycles. For long term storage you want a partial/50% charge rather than empty or full. Empty could prevent it from being able to store much charge when one goes to use it again, and full can cause it to lose some capacity.

leaving it on the charger is similar to storage, so being fully charged will reduce it's lifespan.

Considering my Laptop from 2008 is coming up on 10 years old and sits on the charger pretty much 99% of the time and still runs for about an hour and a half (where, when new, it was 2 and a half hours) I'm not convinced it is worth the additional effort of worrying about specifically when, how, and at what percentages I should charge battery-based devices or the charge ratios I should remove them from the charger.

Even though the batteries are not typically consumer replaceable on many devices like MP3 Players, I've found the battery usually outlasts the device anyway. My 4GB Sony Walkman MP3 player from 2006 has basically fallen apart through normal usage. The case no longer stays together because the plastic for the screw posts snapped as did the little snaps in each side, so unless held together with tape or something the entire FRONT comes off and the screen flaps in the breeze, it hangs frequently, the volume rocker fell off and a piece of metal had to be held across the snapped-off contacts where the microswitch used to be, and it's basically in a condition that makes it pretty much unusable as a portable MP3 Player, to the point that I replaced it for that reason. Despite this- the battery still powers the device for 6-7 hours (about half what it did when I bought it).

Corrections I said 500  mAh. I should have said 150 mAh as more typical of very small devices. Such batteries can be overcharged from a USB port. (Unless a over charge device is inserted in the circuit.)

If this is worrisome, don't by the cheap MP3 players from the far east. The battereies are not very well documented.

As I mentioned, this warning is about very small batteries found in low priced things like pocket MP3 players that do not have WiFi or LCD. Small batteries from 100 to 200 mAh are common.

Cheap devices are being sold both mail-order and in some stores. Be aware that the cheep models may have small batteries that can overcharge and present a possible fire hazards. Do not leave on the charger overnight.

This link below is about cells more typical for smart phones. Do not assume that the smaller batteries would meet some of these specs.
This is for compression.
https://www.ineltro.ch/media/downloads/SAAItem/45/45958/36e3e7f3-2049-4adb-a2a7-79c654d92915.pdf

Search for  data sheet 150 mAh battery

I found:
Far east maker:
https://cdn-shop.adafruit.com/datasheets/402025+150mAh.pdf
Above gives warnings about overcharge. Why?

Dmestic supplier:
https://media.digikey.com/pdf/Data%20Sheets/TinyCircuits%20PDFs/ASR00003_Web.pdf
Notice Digikey claims they sell units with built-in protection.

The above provides the technical specs. The battery itself  does not have  protection. It must be used in a device that prevents over charge, otherwise the user must monitor the charge to prevent damage.
Do not expect the low-cost MP3 players to have overcharge protection. One  MP3 player v vendor says do not ever charge for more than two hours. The data sheet for a typical 150 mAh battery above indicates a full charge can be done  in one hour.

EDIT: Here is a data sheet from Texas Instruments. This is not directly related to the topic, but gives a background about how battery chargers should work.
http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/bq2000t.pdf
When it comes to cheap chinese devices, you get what you pay for. I wouldn't be surprised if they lack certain protections or they don't function correctly. This is the same market where companies sell  you 2TB Flash drives for 40 bucks that are actually around 4GB.

Personally I think it is wiser not to buy cheap chinese crap that presents a risk of fire or explosion if I leave it plugged in for too long. But maybe I'm old-fashioned in my desire that my electronic devices not double as incendiary grenades.I have a cheapo non-name Chinese mp3 player that I used for 5 years and then gave to my girlfriend who has used it now and then over another 3 years. It gets run to zero battery and left like that and then charged weeks later via USB ports, and in general, negelected according to the above. It is as good now as it was in 2009.
I have a Prolynkz Zynxz 2GB MP3/MP4 player that I bought from Tiger Direct on the cheap around 2008 that I used lots and then lost it for a couple years and found it in a box of stuff when looking for a older 1GB DDR 266Mhz RAM stick that I remembered having and turning it on it was dead as in fully discharged, but found a cable to recharge it from my computers USB port and the music I put on its flash memory was still there and after a full charge it still worked and for hours of use as a MP3 player. I never used it for MP4 videos because the display is super small. I watched Hak5 episode on it once back before they were on youtube when they had their shows as downloads. Not sure if its Lithium or a niCad or NiMH battery in it. Never opened it up. But its still working after heavy use for a no name MP3/MP4 player and 9 years old on original rechargeable battery. I use it now at work on days that I have to go to work at 3am and this way I can work with music to stay awake and if it gets destroyed oh well I already got my moneys worth out of it. 

Ive used it for about 4 hours of MP3 and FM radio use at 70% volume in a noisy environment before the battery is spent from full charge and its impressive  that the battery hasnt wasted away for a cheap brand product. The microprocessor in it is weak its kind of laggy with the menu selection and you just need to press the button once and wait about 5 seconds as for if you press too fast it will be a navigation nightmare when it catches up with its instruction buffer from user and you overshot what you wanted and have to go back around again.

https://www.overstock.com/Electronics/Prolynkz-Zynxz-2GB-MP4-MP3-Player-with-FM-Radio/3233892/product.html

Maybe it is just me. But it seems that on-line account management is getting HARDER. Specifically:

• AV Subscription
• Banking Service
• Download Software
• Web Hosting

What financial institution required you to sign up for an A/V subscription ? ?

You're being had...

The psychologist B. F. Skinner said that medical notation is a form of multiple audience control, which allows the doctor to communicate to the pharmacist things which the patient might oppose if he or she could understand medical jargon.[

I bought a  PS4  for myself last year, with the 500 GB Drive.  I kind of all ready filled that an added a few GB using Thumb Drives but, not SURE how to configure it to STORE games on them like the XboxThe hard drive can be removed and a larger drive installed. Once a larger drive is installed when booting the PS4 it will initialize the drive and claim it for PS4 use. When connecting to the PlayStation Store you can re-download games that you purchased through the store .... Might Take a While as for games can be quite large. Save the 500GB drive to the side in case larger drive ever dies or format it and use it in a laptop or some other application where you have a need for 500GB storage.

I have been told that the hard drive replacement/upgrade process is the same for the PS4 as it is for the PS3 in that it will recognize a bare drive and it will create the partition and the handshake to the replacement or larger drive.

I have done this process for a PS3 and with the PS3 its a very simple swap. And actually the PS3 I got for free because the Hard Drive was CRASHED. I pulled a 40GB SATA HDD from an old laptop and put that into it and was back up and running in less than a half hour. Once connected to PlaySation store I was able to download games to the 40GB SATA HDD. So I have Minecraft, Diablo 3, and Little BIG Planet 1, 2 and 3 and Hamster Ball on it for my daughter, in which I play Diablo 3 on it occasionally, but prefer it more on PC for controls etc.I was meaning more of an External Drive, add on.Here is all info you should need ... mainly it needs to be 250GB minimum 8TB maximum and USB 3.0 ... Also what they should have in RED is that any other data on this external drive will be deleted when joined with a PS4. It formats and pairs the drive for use with the PS4 and likely has antipiracy attached to that external to keep you from sharing the external drive with friends is my guess or they just rely on their authentication service to approve or disapprove use of titles. Or quite possibly the minute that external drive connects to a different system it wants to format it because its hardware address is a mismatch to the original PS4 etc. https://support.us.playstation.com/articles/en_US/KC_Article/PS4-External-HDD-Support

If you got this to work with lesser than 250GB thumb drives then your lucky as for its outside of the specs listed.Dave - just a reminder - this guy is the current incarnation of Squall. He'll spin your wheels endlessly if you allow him.  Thanks for the heads up Allan Quote from: Allan on July 31, 2017, 09:24:44 AM

this guy is the current incarnation of Squall.

Hello Users
Can I MONETIZE my videos on you tube like a make a big play list of tom and jerry cartoons will you tube will create problem or not??No, that is breaking all sorts of copyright laws, YouTube will shut the channel in a heartbeat and block you from their Adsense system (which could cause you major issues down the line if you ever WANTED to monetize another website).  There's no such thing as a "get quick RICH" system by PUTTING ads on a website/YouTube channel, yes you can make money from running ads on sites like this however you need to take the time to make ORIGINAL content, not just use someone else's.

I'm not sure what my  Main Manager pulled up for me yesterday, to train on there POS systems.  I googled an FOUND something by Till that emulated the software an seemed REALLY similar but, I can't find any DL

AdSense publishers may not display Google ads on pages with content protected by COPYRIGHT law unless they have the necessary legal rights to display that content.

So back on 8/3 I replaced my 7 year old Motorola Surfboard MODEM with a newer Broadband modem. Called Xfinity and shared the mac address with the helpful customer service tech and informed her that when she makes this change my phone will be disconnected because I have Vonage. well the disconnect happened and then i saw my modem  go through two reboots and then stay on and figured ok its been flashed and configured to work with xfinity. Turned my router on and all seemed ok, but it wasnt.

Hulu was acting strange to where it would TAKE 2 or 3 attempts to play streaming content and sometimes bail out in the middle of a show after a commercial.

Additionally Second Life would fail to authenticate at times and it was strange that it was as if 3 times a charm to get it running.

As well as occasionally a Device Activation notice would pop up on computers in the house but of course the users would exit out of it so I wasnt able to check it out to see what the options were.

I went to xfinity website figuring if its something with the account it should pop up and tell me right.... well nope. Logged onto my xfinity page and checked e-mail and no alarm notices or anything suggesting that anything further had to be done. Looked around for any account log info if any even existed. Nothing...

So I saw that xfinity had a chat, so I started up a chat and shared my issue. Come to find out my Modem was configured to work with the MAC Address ASSOCIATED with my account, but there was a 3 step process to further CONNECTING this modem to my account. So they gave me a link which was pretty much /activate at the end of the URL for xfinity and that brought up the page that everyone else had been seeing that I was trying to get to. I followed teh 3 step process and the internet connection went dead. Looked behind me and the modem was going through another reboot. Upon power up the chat session that I figured would have timed out from disconnected internet connection was active again and the support tech asked if I was still there. Informed them that my modem rebooted after the 3 step process and maybe its fixed now.

I tested my Roku for Hulu and YAY no problems. Tested my Smart TV BlueRay player and YAY no problems there either.

They then before I left offered me a deal to get 25/5 internet and 90+ channels for $69.99 a month for 12 months and then the following 12 months for a 24 month term at $89.99 and if I cancelled it would be a $234 early termination fee. Plus if I accepted I would also have to pay a $15 fee for the installation kit. I asked what channels were included in the 90+. As for it was described as having Latino channels and I wanted to make sure I wasnt going to get home shopping network and latino channels that I wouldnt be able to use. They gave me a link. The link didnt show a 90+ channel tier to see what channels were included. They tried to send me the info to my gmail and my comcast e-mail accounts and no e-mail arrived from them. But yet sort of a pressure tactic to " Are you going to Approve" multiple times through it as I was asking more and more questions. Initially they said how would you like 90+ channels of Cable + 25/5 internet for $69.99 a month for 12 months... I then said well thats great if I am not locked into a 24 month term with having to pay full price after the first 12 months. They then shared that yes its a 24 month term and no its not full price. The full price is $111 a month but it would be $89.99 a month. I was excited and almost approved of it for $69.99 a month because I'd get the 25/5 internet + cable + the xfinity wireless anywhere for mobile devices, but for the fact that even when requesting why dont they copy/paste the e-mail content into the support chat since the e-mail method of sharing it with me doesnt SEEM to be working they werent able to tell me what 90+ channels I was getting. I pulled out and figured these must be the 90+ channels that no one wants and maybe thats why they arent telling me, as for once I say OK, Im locked into a $234 early termination fee or sticking with it or 24 months at $69.99 for first 12 and then $89.99 for 13th thru 24th. 

The good thing is that all is better now. But odd that internet connection was half configured and I had to go through this final 3 step activation with the modem through browser on my computer thru their website.

Just received a complaint that this one computer was acting slow to respond.

I switched user leaving them logged on and logged on as myself where I have tools to diagnose further. The gadget I use for monitoring CPU and Memory use which isnt on user profiles but only for my use showed that 93% of the RAM was in use and a page file that is the largest I have ever seen on a system with only 4GB RAM at 12GB in size of which 95% was in use.

Ran AVG Virus Scan and it came up clean. Ran Malwarebytes and also clean.

Looked in Task Manager to see what process is eating up RAM and Virtual Memory ( Paging ) and even when checked for all users it didnt seem to add up correctly. Usually when checking the checkbox for all users it will refresh and show all memory allocations to processes. But it just doesnt add up correctly. How is 3723MB in use and the process total as reported by task manager for all users far lesser than that with it all totaling 726,408 which is 726.408 MB, so where is the other 2996.592MB being USED. 

I even went up and used the refresh thinking maybe it didnt refresh to show memory use for all users and nope, it still reported really low compared what what was actually in use, so what process is able to eat up 2996.592MB and also MAKE for an insanely bloated page file that is almost 12GB in size

I ended up switching back to the user account and they had firefox open with multiple tabs open as well as adobe reader handing a PDF file.

What was VERY strange was that one of the tabs had a very strange (unicode?) CHARACTERS alternating with M [] I [] C [] R [] O [] S [] O [] F [] T . With Unicode characters not supported maybe, as seen in the PIC attached for Firefox tabs they had open.

But I closed out Firefox and switched back to my profile and saw just a small amount of memory freed up. The issue with the huge memory use and page file was still happening and task manager reporting it very low usage compared to actual.

I switched logging back onto them and clocked out Adobe Reader next and then switched back to my profile, once again a small amount of memory freed up, but something was still holding onto a ton of RAM and making for an huge page file.

Next step log them off and only have myself logged on, but dont reboot and see what happens. All of a sudden everything back to normal. Their profile had something running in memory that ate up a ton of RAM and I have no clue what it was.

Logged back on as them to see if the problem would come back and problem gone.  I suppose I could have just told themt o reboot the computer, but the minute I saw insane amounts of RAM unusually in use with a massively bloated page file, I was on the hunt for that one program or process that was causing this and it wasnt to be found. Task Manager didnt even report it. Yet it was a real problem. The Hard Drive LED was on solid and the system was slow, yet the CPU use was only about 15% with 85% available.

So question I have is.... is there a better memory usage tool out there to see what processes are consuming memory for all users as well as ability to see what processes are tied to page memory that will show what the culprit is when Task manager itself cant even report the info? I am thinking maybe no because a 3rd party tool might use the same API that Task Manager uses to report and so it might report the same incorrect info, but if a tool doesnt take a shortcut in using the same API and they have their own method of tracking memory use, maybe then the next time something like this happens I can pin point the culprits vs just logging off and back on the user or a system reboot which to me I really like to know the cause of the issue vs being lazy and taking the etch-a-sketch approach of a reboot. Because obviously something really went wrong here and I dont know what went wrong and why, and I have a hard time just ignoring something like this because I know it will be back to haunt this system again if its happened in the past with no corrective action taken to cure it of this potential future problem.



[attachment deleted by admin to conserve space]If i remember correctly CPU-Z has a memory tab...Cool thanks Patio gonna take a look at that. I dont remember there being that feature, but its been a while since I played with CPU-Z. Maybe its a new feature.

UPDATE:

Downloaded CPU-Z 1.80 and ran it and I dont see a feature that shows memory usage info for processes. I exported it all as a TXT file to see if maybe its hidden in the info dump file but nope, just whats shown here below. The memory tab only shows RAM type and timings etc. 

Quote

CPU-Z TXT Report
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Binaries
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

CPU-Z version         1.80.1.x64

Processors
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Number of sockets      1
Number of threads      4

APICs
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Socket 0   
   -- Core 0   
      -- Thread 0   0
      -- Thread 1   1
   -- Core 1   
      -- Thread 0   2
      -- Thread 1   3

Timers
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

   Perf timer      3.313 MHz
   Sys timer      1.000 KHz


Processors Information
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Socket 1         ID = 0
   Number of cores      2 (max 2)
   Number of threads   4 (max 4)
   Name         Intel Core i3
   Codename      Haswell
   Specification      Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-4130 CPU 3.40GHz
   Package       
   CPUID         6.C.3
   Extended CPUID      6.3C
   Core Stepping      C0
   Technology      22 nm
   Tjmax         100.0 °C
   Core Speed      3392.2 MHz
   Stock frequency      3400 MHz
   Instructions sets   MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, EM64T, VT-x, AES, AVX, AVX2, FMA3
   L1 Data cache      2 x 32 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size
   L1 Instruction cache   2 x 32 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size
   L2 cache      2 x 256 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size
   L3 cache      3 MBytes, 12-way set associative, 64-byte line size
   Max CPUID level      0000000Dh
   Max CPUID ext. level   80000008h
   Cache descriptor   Level 1, D, 32 KB, 2 thread(s)
   Cache descriptor   Level 1, I, 32 KB, 2 thread(s)
   Cache descriptor   Level 2, U, 256 KB, 2 thread(s)
   Cache descriptor   Level 3, U, 3 MB, 16 thread(s)
   FID/VID Control      yes


   Turbo Mode      supported, disabled

   Clock Speed 0      n.a. (Core #0)
   Clock Speed 1      n.a. (Core #1)


Thread dumps
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

CPU Thread 0   
   APIC ID         0
   Topology      Processor ID 0, Core ID 0, Thread ID 0

   CPUID      
   0x00000000      0x0000000D   0x756E6547   0x6C65746E   0x49656E69
   0x00000001      0x000306C3   0x00100800   0x7FDAFBBF   0xBFEBFBFF
   0x00000002      0x76036301   0x00F0B5FF   0x00000000   0x00C10000
   0x00000003      0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000
   0x00000004      0x1C004121   0x01C0003F   0x0000003F   0x00000000
   0x00000004      0x1C004122   0x01C0003F   0x0000003F   0x00000000
   0x00000004      0x1C004143   0x01C0003F   0x000001FF   0x00000000
   0x00000004      0x1C03C163   0x02C0003F   0x00000FFF   0x00000006
   0x00000005      0x00000040   0x00000040   0x00000003   0x00042120
   0x00000006      0x00000075   0x00000002   0x00000009   0x00000000
   0x00000007      0x00000000   0x000027AB   0x00000000   0x00000000
   0x00000008      0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000
   0x00000009      0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000
   0x0000000A      0x07300403   0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000603
   0x0000000B      0x00000001   0x00000002   0x00000100   0x00000000
   0x0000000B      0x00000004   0x00000004   0x00000201   0x00000000
   0x0000000C      0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000
   0x0000000D      0x00000007   0x00000340   0x00000340   0x00000000
   0x0000000D      0x00000001   0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000
   0x0000000D      0x00000100   0x00000240   0x00000000   0x00000000
   0x80000000      0x80000008   0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000
   0x80000001      0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000021   0x2C100800
   0x80000002      0x65746E49   0x2952286C   0x726F4320   0x4D542865
   0x80000003      0x33692029   0x3331342D   0x50432030   0x20402055
   0x80000004      0x30342E33   0x007A4847   0x00000000   0x00000000
   0x80000005      0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000
   0x80000006      0x00000000   0x00000000   0x01006040   0x00000000
   0x80000007      0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000100
   0x80000008      0x00003027   0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000


CPU Thread 1   
   APIC ID         1
   Topology      Processor ID 0, Core ID 0, Thread ID 1

   CPUID      
   0x00000000      0x0000000D   0x756E6547   0x6C65746E   0x49656E69
   0x00000001      0x000306C3   0x01100800   0x7FDAFBBF   0xBFEBFBFF
   0x00000002      0x76036301   0x00F0B5FF   0x00000000   0x00C10000
   0x00000003      0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000
   0x00000004      0x1C004121   0x01C0003F   0x0000003F   0x00000000
   0x00000004      0x1C004122   0x01C0003F   0x0000003F   0x00000000
   0x00000004      0x1C004143   0x01C0003F   0x000001FF   0x00000000
   0x00000004      0x1C03C163   0x02C0003F   0x00000FFF   0x00000006
   0x00000005      0x00000040   0x00000040   0x00000003   0x00042120
   0x00000006      0x00000075   0x00000002   0x00000009   0x00000000
   0x00000007      0x00000000   0x000027AB   0x00000000   0x00000000
   0x00000008      0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000
   0x00000009      0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000
   0x0000000A      0x07300403   0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000603
   0x0000000B      0x00000001   0x00000002   0x00000100   0x00000001
   0x0000000B      0x00000004   0x00000004   0x00000201   0x00000001
   0x0000000C      0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000
   0x0000000D      0x00000007   0x00000340   0x00000340   0x00000000
   0x0000000D      0x00000001   0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000
   0x0000000D      0x00000100   0x00000240   0x00000000   0x00000000
   0x80000000      0x80000008   0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000
   0x80000001      0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000021   0x2C100800
   0x80000002      0x65746E49   0x2952286C   0x726F4320   0x4D542865
   0x80000003      0x33692029   0x3331342D   0x50432030   0x20402055
   0x80000004      0x30342E33   0x007A4847   0x00000000   0x00000000
   0x80000005      0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000
   0x80000006      0x00000000   0x00000000   0x01006040   0x00000000
   0x80000007      0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000100
   0x80000008      0x00003027   0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000


CPU Thread 2   
   APIC ID         2
   Topology      Processor ID 0, Core ID 1, Thread ID 0

   CPUID      
   0x00000000      0x0000000D   0x756E6547   0x6C65746E   0x49656E69
   0x00000001      0x000306C3   0x02100800   0x7FDAFBBF   0xBFEBFBFF
   0x00000002      0x76036301   0x00F0B5FF   0x00000000   0x00C10000
   0x00000003      0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000
   0x00000004      0x1C004121   0x01C0003F   0x0000003F   0x00000000
   0x00000004      0x1C004122   0x01C0003F   0x0000003F   0x00000000
   0x00000004      0x1C004143   0x01C0003F   0x000001FF   0x00000000
   0x00000004      0x1C03C163   0x02C0003F   0x00000FFF   0x00000006
   0x00000005      0x00000040   0x00000040   0x00000003   0x00042120
   0x00000006      0x00000075   0x00000002   0x00000009   0x00000000
   0x00000007      0x00000000   0x000027AB   0x00000000   0x00000000
   0x00000008      0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000
   0x00000009      0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000
   0x0000000A      0x07300403   0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000603
   0x0000000B      0x00000001   0x00000002   0x00000100   0x00000002
   0x0000000B      0x00000004   0x00000004   0x00000201   0x00000002
   0x0000000C      0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000
   0x0000000D      0x00000007   0x00000340   0x00000340   0x00000000
   0x0000000D      0x00000001   0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000
   0x0000000D      0x00000100   0x00000240   0x00000000   0x00000000
   0x80000000      0x80000008   0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000
   0x80000001      0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000021   0x2C100800
   0x80000002      0x65746E49   0x2952286C   0x726F4320   0x4D542865
   0x80000003      0x33692029   0x3331342D   0x50432030   0x20402055
   0x80000004      0x30342E33   0x007A4847   0x00000000   0x00000000
   0x80000005      0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000
   0x80000006      0x00000000   0x00000000   0x01006040   0x00000000
   0x80000007      0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000100
   0x80000008      0x00003027   0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000


CPU Thread 3   
   APIC ID         3
   Topology      Processor ID 0, Core ID 1, Thread ID 1

   CPUID      
   0x00000000      0x0000000D   0x756E6547   0x6C65746E   0x49656E69
   0x00000001      0x000306C3   0x03100800   0x7FDAFBBF   0xBFEBFBFF
   0x00000002      0x76036301   0x00F0B5FF   0x00000000   0x00C10000
   0x00000003      0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000
   0x00000004      0x1C004121   0x01C0003F   0x0000003F   0x00000000
   0x00000004      0x1C004122   0x01C0003F   0x0000003F   0x00000000
   0x00000004      0x1C004143   0x01C0003F   0x000001FF   0x00000000
   0x00000004      0x1C03C163   0x02C0003F   0x00000FFF   0x00000006
   0x00000005      0x00000040   0x00000040   0x00000003   0x00042120
   0x00000006      0x00000075   0x00000002   0x00000009   0x00000000
   0x00000007      0x00000000   0x000027AB   0x00000000   0x00000000
   0x00000008      0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000
   0x00000009      0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000
   0x0000000A      0x07300403   0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000603
   0x0000000B      0x00000001   0x00000002   0x00000100   0x00000003
   0x0000000B      0x00000004   0x00000004   0x00000201   0x00000003
   0x0000000C      0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000
   0x0000000D      0x00000007   0x00000340   0x00000340   0x00000000
   0x0000000D      0x00000001   0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000
   0x0000000D      0x00000100   0x00000240   0x00000000   0x00000000
   0x80000000      0x80000008   0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000
   0x80000001      0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000021   0x2C100800
   0x80000002      0x65746E49   0x2952286C   0x726F4320   0x4D542865
   0x80000003      0x33692029   0x3331342D   0x50432030   0x20402055
   0x80000004      0x30342E33   0x007A4847   0x00000000   0x00000000
   0x80000005      0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000
   0x80000006      0x00000000   0x00000000   0x01006040   0x00000000
   0x80000007      0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000100
   0x80000008      0x00003027   0x00000000   0x00000000   0x00000000




Memory SPD
-------------------------------------------------------------------------


Monitoring
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Mainboard Model      2AF7 (0x000000F0 - 0x00002738)

LPCIO
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hardware Monitors
-------------------------------------------------------------------------


DMI
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

DMI BIOS      
   vendor         AMI
   version         80.19
   date         07/18/2014
   ROM size      8192 KB

DMI System Information      
   manufacturer      Hewlett-Packard
   product         500-281
   version         1.00
   serial         MXX4421KGJ
   UUID         {9834E2A8-4499-35B0-75D4-0C8044DD22C2}
   SKU         F3E14AA#ABA
   family         103C_53316J G=D

DMI Baseboard      
   vendor         Hewlett-Packard
   model         2AF7
   revision      1.04
   serial         1234567890123456

DMI System Enclosure      
   manufacturer      Hewlett-Packard
   chassis type      Desktop
   chassis serial      unknown

DMI Port Connector      
   designation      Ctrl0Port0 (internal)

DMI Port Connector      
   designation      Ctrl0Port1 (internal)

DMI Port Connector      
   designation      Ctrl0Port2 (internal)

DMI Port Connector      
   designation      Ctrl0Port3 (internal)

DMI Port Connector      
   designation      Ctrl0Port4 (internal)

DMI Extension Slot      
   designation      PCI Express x16 Slot
   type         A5
   populated      no

DMI Extension Slot      
   designation      PCI Express x1 Slot 1
   type         A5
   populated      no

DMI Extension Slot      
   designation      PCI Express x1 Slot 2
   type         A5
   populated      no

DMI Extension Slot      
   designation      PCI Express x1 Slot 3
   type         A5
   populated      no

DMI Extension Slot      
   designation      Mini Card Slot 1
   type         A5
   populated      yes

DMI OEM Strings      
   string[0]      FBYTE#2U3E3K3N3Q3X464C4k5c676J6S6Z6b7B7K7M7Q7T7WaJapazb3bcbhbpcb
   string[1]      .m2;BUILDID#14AM1RRW602#SABA#DABA;
   string[2]      
   string[3]      
   string[4]      
   string[5]      
   string[6]      
   string[7]      
   string[8]      
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   string[10]      
   string[11]      
   string[12]      
   string[13]      
   string[14]      
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DMI Physical Memory Array      
   location      Motherboard
   usage         System Memory
   correction      None
   max capacity      16384 MBytes
   max# of devices      2

DMI Memory Device      
   designation      DIMM1
   format         DIMM
   type         unknown

DMI Memory Device      
   designation      DIMM2
   format         DIMM
   type         unknown
   total width      64 bits
   data width      64 bits
   size         4096 MBytes

DMI Processor      
   manufacturer      Intel
   model         Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-4130 CPU 3.40GHz
   clock speed      3400.0 MHz
   FSB speed      100.0 MHz
   multiplier      34.0x


Storage
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

USB Devices
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

USB Device         Generic USB Hub, class=0x09, subclass=0x00, vendor=0x8087, product=0x8008
USB Device         USB Input Device, class=0x00, subclass=0x00, vendor=0x093A, product=0x2510
USB Device         Realtek USB 2.0 Card Reader, class=0x00, subclass=0x00, vendor=0x0BDA, product=0x0158
USB Device         Generic USB Hub, class=0x09, subclass=0x00, vendor=0x8087, product=0x8000
USB Device         USB Composite Device, class=0x00, subclass=0x00, vendor=0x04CA, product=0x004B
USB Device         USB Composite Device, class=0x00, subclass=0x00, vendor=0x03F0, product=0x0E2A

Graphics
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Number of ADAPTERS      0

Graphic APIs
-------------------------------------------------------------------------


Display Adapters
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Win32_VideoController      AdapterRAM = 0x6F09C800 (1862912000)
Win32_VideoController      DriverVersion = 10.18.10.3368
Win32_VideoController      DriverDate = 11/28/2013

Monitor 0   
   Model         DELL E177FP (Dell Computer)
   ID         DELA023
   Serial         WH3186619GCT
   Manufacturing Date   Week 22, Year 2006
   Size         17.1 inches
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This is for individuals who would like to shire photos and letters with family and close friends. This is not about Facebook because Facebook gets to be much too intrusive.

Here is an article I found recently that is just right for individuals who want to share photos and letters without the WHOLE world watching. You do not have to buy anything. And it will work for Apple, Android and Windows.

Sharing personal files around the world <<-- Safe Link
David Bogle wants to share family history files with RELATIVES overseas, while also keeping them private
"I have amassed a lot of data about our family history (papers, photos etc), which I keep in a folder on my COMPUTER. This folder is subdivided into 37 sub-folders, some of which also have sub-folders. It amounts to about 1GB of data so far. I would like to share this data with other family members in various parts of the world – safely, GIVEN its personal nature. I was going to copy the folders onto a CD and post it, but if a CD got lost, anyone could easily access the data.  Options I have considered..."

For the full story, click the link above.

With all the talk a week or so ago about the whole Microsoft Paint being deprecated stuff, I was tinkering around with various Windows versions and different versions of Paint. I had an interesting idea and managed to do this:



This is the old Windows Paintbrush program, which predated Windows 95. The puzzle here is that this is running on 64-bit Windows 10- which cannot run 16-bit programs. How did I do it?
hmmm are you using backwards compatibility to a 32-bit process handler from the 64-bit OS which is built into it and then added OS handler contents from prior could be Windows 7 or 8 32-bit say for the 32 to 16 bit handling essentially forcing Windows 10 64-bit to run through its own 32-bit support that runs a 32-bit program from a prior version of Windows which handles the 16-bit support?

 

Only other method I can think of is a 32-bit wrapper program similar to the portable app software that brings it to 32-bit execution for 16 bit process and Windows 10 64 having support for 32-bit PROCESSES.

 


I've used prior Windows components within newer OS's and so thats why I was thinking maybe of this backwards compatibility daisy chain. I just never tried this if this is what you were able to achieve.

Years ago I needed the Kodak Image Viewer for my Canon scanner and I essentially took portions of Windows 2000 Pro that I needed and made it work under Windows XP. I guess Microsoft didnt want to PAY Kodak to add it to XP. well I have 1 license of 2000 Professional and needed the scanner to work with this on XP and so thats what I did.  I figured Kodak already got their money from me through me buying my OS through Microsoft for 2000 Professional and only 1 scanner in use using the Kodak Image Viewer at a time so its kind of a grey area but no harm in running it on one of my other systems that I wanted to use XP with the scanner and Kodak Image Viewer worked best for my needs and they werent shorted monetarily in any WAY from 1 device running it on a OS unintended for its use when I bought Windows 2000 Pro from Microsoft for a prior build 
Ah, you are thinking too deeply about it, it's actually surprisingly straightforward. I was sneaky when I said that it predated Windows 95, since it's the PBRUSH.EXE from Windows NT 3.51. The "trick" is that Most people (me included) would be thinking "Windows 3.1". Few people think of Windows NT 3.51 or 3.1.

NT's accessories were based around Windows 3.1 and so it had the same programs in terms of what they did (including paintbrush) but they were fully 32-bit applications. Since they were 32-bit, they still run on 64-bit Windows, even the latest versions of Windows 10. Interesting to think that a program from ~1993 runs as-is on the most modern Windows version without any sorts of hacks or patches, though.  COOL ....

From this last line I had assumed it was a 16-bit application.

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The puzzle here is that this is running on 64-bit Windows 10- which cannot run 16-bit programs.

They could have accomplished it with some kind of full on emulation but I doubt it was worthwhile.

When the 386 was launched in 1985 it was certainly not faster than the 20MHz and 25MHz 286's. But Intel designed MANY new features into the CPU that gave it many more possibilities than the 286. For instance, the 386 could operate in three modes: the Real mode to emulate a 8086/8088, the Protected mode just like the 286 and the new Virtual mode that made multitasking possible. Also new was the possibility of the 386 to switch between the three modes without having to reset. Something that was impossible for the 286.

My younger brother upgraded to a newer tablet and gave me his older one a BungBungame (MI100) 10.1" Tablet PC - 1.3GHz NVIDIA Tegra 3, 1GB DDR2 MEMORY, 16GB. He had tons of games on it and his personal info on it and so I decided to do a factory reset on it to wipe everything and make it LIKE new.

UPON factory reset everything comes up in some sort of Asian language not sure which one. I was able to get English language by getting to settings and then opening the settings on my SMART phone to look at that side by side this tablet to know where Language was to select that and then tap and scroll down for english.

Was wondering if anyone knows of a way to change the default to english upon factory reset, or i I would need to flash this device to blow away the 4.1.1 Android that is on it with a specifically english version of it to get the english default?

I've never flashed an android device before and so its all new to me. 

Here is the device that he bought if more info needed. I think he bought it from Newegg as well. he told me that ever since he bought it it has defaulted to some asian language when wiping it back to factory so it might have been intended for sale in asia and made its way to the USA or something. He bought it as a gaming tablet because it has the nvidia GPU.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=0EJ-000W-00001R

When I play a MP3 in VLC,  it shows a image.
HOE can I get that image? Now I use a screenshot, but I was hoping I could  do some kind of batch to get all from a  BUTCH of different sources.
Any ideas?You will have to find a TOOL to extract the ID3 tag information from the command line.

EyeD3 is one command line tool for windows.

I think you can also get the cover art using something like ffmpeg.

Most programs like id3Tag have some way of exporting cover art as well. For some reason it's necessary to define new actions to export cover art though.VLC gets the art from the web, doesn't it? Or is it embedded in mp3 files?

It does read cover information from an MP3 and show it if PRESENT, though it's possible that it might also reads from the web.

(I added a cover to a mp3 file for which there would be no artist/album saverd on any online service and VLC shows it from the id3 tag)BC, I will try that.

Salmon, That would explain why VLC sometimes has a prior image.

Thanks both of you.

I basically, bought this game verison for my PS4 from Wal-mart  https://www.walmart.com/ip/The-Elder-Scrolls-Online-Tamriel-Unlimited-PS4/26096325?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=10065&adid=22222222227018686872&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=c&wl3=40342263392&wl4=pla-78302279432&wl5=9006064&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=117097733&wl11=online&wl12=26096325&wl13=&veh=sem

I made the account an get to the NEXT screen says UPGRADE or ENTER code, don't have a code an the other is the dlc of that gamecontact the software manufacturer. thread locked

I just changed my EMAIL address there and I need a PASSWORD. I've tried all of I can think of no go.
I tried the forgot password bit and my cell phone isn't working so I can't get a CODE or anything.
I had them send something to my Hotmail.They SAID they sent it but I don't get any email there.
I go there and Hotmail seems to be working.
I have no idea how to get this password.thie is disgusting as heck.Please help neededCheck the HotMail SPAM folder....
I checked there nothing. I've done it 3 times now it just doesn't come in there at all.Contact them again...When I put in the new email I didn't need a password.I thought that was different.
I can go to gmail by just typing in gmail in browser.But sometimes they need a password.
I can't then give them one.I want to FIND out what it is.See above ^^^This is driving me nuts.
I can get a code to go to my gmail but I still need a password to change my
password or to know what it was.

I have an IMAGE on Imgur I'd like to POST here as part of a question. What is the procedure for doing that? 

Thanks, people.

ChristopherASACopy /Paste the link should work....If you have the image on your hard drive, you can attach it to a forum post.  To attach an image, click Attachments and other options shown below the forum message box and then click the Browse button, below "Attach:", to browse to the file on your computer and select it to be attached to your post. you can put the imgur direct link into an img tag. For example let's say you wanted to show off your amazing NEW processor info, and you have an imgur link. You could ENTER:

CODE: [Select][img]http://i.imgur.com/5Q48JYl.png[/img]
into the post and it would show up as an image:

I have been given a pair of tp link 600.powerline adapters. because i was thinking my  wi fi wasnt' strong enough. i have a router in one  room .
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and my tv in another room . but i dont know how they work .or what they are supposed to do .can anyone help. please.Instead of this
Router <------------------------------------------------------ long ethernet cable ------------------------------------------------------> TV

You can do this
Put 1 TP link adapter in  AC socket as same room as TV and 1 TP link adapter in  AC socket as same room as router.
Router <-- short ethernet cable ---> TPlink plug1 <---[house AC wiring --->] TPlink plug2 <-- short ethernet cable ---> TV
I also believe both power points need to be on the same circuit.

personally, I've never had good, reliable service from those sort of adapters, always found it better to get a high quality wireless kit (either modem/router combo or separate router).I have been using them for 5 years with my NAS (DLNA server) and my Samsung smart TV. I can stream 1080p mkv video with no stuttering or pauses.
Quote from: Mark. on August 23, 2017, 04:58:57 AM

I also believe both power points need to be on the same circuit

Interfering with people
When I asked Andrew Ferguson if there are any disadvantages to the technology, he simply replied, "talk to radio hams…" So I did. It turns out PLC adaptors produce RF interference, which may knock out shortwave radio reception within the immediate vicinity. Radio hams aren't happy, viewing this technology an indiscriminate and clumsy airwave pollutant. There are pressure groups dedicated to securing legislation against PLC - I contacted one named UKQRM, which has produced YouTube videos (here's one, here's another) purporting to show the interference in action. Elsewhere, the Radio SOCIETY of Great Britain is pressuring OFCOM to take action.

salmon,
have you found yours to be 'set and forget' ?

I've generally found them problematic to setup overall (some better or worse than others) but more troublesome was having to 'maintain' them.
they'd either drop out, loose connection or have some issue that needed intervention.

but I'm glad they do work for some people. 

Over the years here on CH I have made screen shots of my Windows PC .
Here is just one of many.
http://help9pm.com/CH/trash-pc.jpg
These were used to give a VISUAL aid to a conversion on the forum. Anybody is welcome to use any of these  to HELP others see something about personal computer.
Now is my problem. There are just too many I have placed in the folder
http://help9pm.com/CH/
There is no index.html file.  So the whole directory is shown with  short names that once meant something. Is there some way I could make a thumbnail file? Yes, I know there is, but I mean is there a simple way? I don't want to do it the hard way.
Do you understand what I mean? 
Or should I just move this stuff onto a photo share site?Thinking a external photo share might make more sense. I know that they are regularly having to dump older images here to keep from filling up hard drives on the web server. Many times I WENT to look BACK at something that was discussed years prior and there was a image there and the image is no gone and in some cases its so old that its part of almost a format stripped format that is a flat text file vs the forum ENVIRONMENT to save more space or because it was part of a server information flattening dump from older versions maybe to keep the database size reduced as well. Sharing the screenshots a as a link takes very little space here on CH but the images that are shared are a bloat burden that they have to constantly clean out the old so the new can be posted.

So i have tried installing at least 3 different programs on my windows 7.Iit either SAYS no internet connection or please check internet connection or proxy settings.i have tried looking this up but cant figure it out and was hoping SOMEONE here can help.thank youWhat programs for starters?

Does this computer otherwise have no problems surfing the web?Also,
•  What kind of Internet? Cable? DSL? SATELLITE? Cell Phone 4G LTE?
•  What kind of modem / router?
•  Do you have an Anti0Virus program that loves to block thongs without telling you?
  If so, disable it while you instill. Be careful.

I just got a second phone number from Google. But it is not inside my own AREA code. Doesn't matter, it does not cost anything. Or does it?
I don't get it. How can they give out free phone numbers for almost anybody?
Here is something I found:
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The old standby for free phone service, Google Voice lets anyone with a Google account choose a phone number and then gives you plentiful options for managing calls made to that number.
Most likely, you'll want them to ring your MOBILE phone. But calls can also be routed to one or more additional lines: office, home, etc.

Please tell me. Should I forget about ever building a gaming PC for myself?
Microsoft is putting out these ads. Did you get one?

Can they really do that? Some 8 cores in the CPU and 12 in the graphics chip.

Some place I saw it has a price just below $300. $299.
For that money it is hard to build anything with that much poser.
Or is it?   

The pictures attracted I reduced to save BANDWIDTH.

[attachment deleted by admin to conserve space]A gaming PC only needs to be built or implemented if games you want to play are PC based.

In some situations its cheaper to go with a console vs buying or building a gaming PC.

I still prefer PC's for gaming, and depending on what games you play a lower end or older system might be plenty without having to go overboard. For example I like playing UT99 and its been around for about 18 years now and because it was made during the Pentium III era, it runs good on an older system or a lower end new system without having to spend crazy money on it. Is this the game?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdavVDmjtu0
Were you very good?
Do you still play?The X in XBox One X is not a roman numeral.

It's USD price is $499. The lower price you cite is the reduced price of the XBox One S, which is an earlier console.

Remember a few decades ago when Atari challenged us to "do the math" trying to sell their 64-bit Jaguar Console?

This is the same sort of marketing. They are slapping numbers on a ad and expect users to "do the math" and compare those numbers to numbers for other hardware, even thouse those numbers do not not actually represent anything useful.

-They added 4 cores to the CPU. But it's still the same one from the original XBox One console release- they just added 4 cores to it. That's cool but it's not a brand new chip design or something.

-That "12GB" is not Graphics Memory, that's total memory; it just happens to be shared between the system and the graphics card. Quite misleading for them to suggest it is 12GB of dedicated Graphics Memory.

-I'd expect the Graphics Chip won't be able to reach it's rated TFLOPS speed since it will have to share memory bandwidth with the rest of the system, since it lacks dedicated graphics memory.

it retails for $649 CAD. That's only $150 less than I paid for my build in 2008 and that system is still more capable than the XBox One X.

Even if the numbers were accurate, it's not like more processing capability means better games. Plenty of systems have been better on-paper than their competition but proven to be worse in practice, like the Sega Saturn.

Will have to check out your link when I get home as per not able to get to youtube from work... 

 But UT99 is Unreal Tournament 99 and I hosted a server for about 2 years until it cooked on hot summer day in my previous home a mobile home when wife decided to shut off the AC to save money on electric bill and my Pentium III 850Mhz UT99 server blistered its wafer and let out its secret smoke. There was a map that I hosted called DM Massive Bedrooms which was like Toy Story where your the size of Army men running around hiding in Lego houses and toy school bus or under a bed in bedroom etc. I had this map down to where I knew all the good areas were to snipe and frag people from and would pop in occasionally and what was fun is when others found these sweet spots and you had to take them out in which special weapons and invisible armor was used to sneak up on someone who thinks they are tucked away in a snipe spot to headshot people or I would use a missile that had option to launch it and run or alternate guide the missile in to its target in which it was funny to fly it around and scare players thinking they are targeted to be wiped out and I would laugh and fly it around and guide it into an area with multiple targets and the shock wave is like M.O.A.B in which you can take out everyone in a large area. I'd have up to 16 people there at a time fighting, sometimes I would have bots running around which you could set them from easy targets to a difficult setting where they are on you like flies on CANT say. 

The maps that come with the game I had most of them down. There are a few I dont play because it gives me wicked vertigo these are the space station ones where the station is rolling in space and when MOVING on the station that is rolling it wigged out my vertigo like feeling so I said I cant play those.

What i like is that so many people made custom maps for UT99 and shared them online. The one day i set out to gather them all and it was 14.1GB in map files which are hundreds of maps. Some custom maps are VERY ADULT and cant go into details about why. Most are decent, but I found Massive Bedrooms and that became my favorite and that was made by someone and is not a normal map that came with the game.

Here is the map for massive bedroom.  http://www.mapraider.com/maps/unreal-tournament/deathmatch/4617/DM-!(htr)Massive-Bedroom

UT99 is a great game and still has a good following of people playing stand alone or multiplayer online on hosted servers etc. The game I have had run on as weak as a Celeron 500Mhz 256MB RAM with a 64MB video card. I havent tried it on anything beyond Windows 7 but it runs on Windows 7 64-bit all the way backwards to Windows 2000. Might even run on Win 98 SE.  Only thing about this game is that it was designed back when CPU's were 1 core and I have had to set Core Affinity to 1 core of a 4 core CPU to get the game to not freeze frame. It runs smooth with core affinity set to 1 core on a multicore CPU for systems that have issues with UT99 that are multiple core processors. It seems as though AMD processors that are multiple core seem to act up more than Intel multiple Core CPUs. But setting Core Affinity for the game to run on say Core 0 and not on Cores 1,2, and 3 of a 4 core CPU is the fix.Geek you are 1 step closer to being barred from posting " NEWS" articles...Ok. A lot of this stuff if find  looks like Pr just might be newswoethy.
Hare a re a few:

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Amazon working on 'smart glasses' as its first wearable DEVICE: FT

Bain-Led Group to Buy Toshiba Chip Unit in $18 Billion Deal

Before Wisconsin, Foxconn Vowed Big Spending in Brazil. Few Jobs Have Come.

Police say an Instagram Live video helped lead to the arrest of a Texas “most wanted” fugitive earlier this week. (BBC)

Problems with trying to delete old emails from my tablet which I run
from my w-10 computer.I guess this is supposed to work.
Open settings,find accounts,tap google then choose accounts to remove.
In TOP right tap more.
I can't find more where the remove account is.
Also I got a question will the things I do in the tablet effect my w-10
computer and goof it up?
It is an ANDROID tabletWhichever mail app your using if deleted and REINSTALLED it then should flush out the data and start fresh. Other option is a factory reset on the android tablet which wipes all data and sends it back to the state it was in when new.Here is the problem Ithink,when I go to download something in playstore I get this
You don't have any devices. How do I correct that?Why are you usin your PC to delete things off your tablet ? ? Quote from: morella on September 21, 2017, 08:18:04 PM

This post is CONFUSING, PC and tablet are two DIFFERENT devices.

Ran into a interesting issue with BSOD with Windows 7 64-bit on a overclock that was similar to another build. I picked up a Athlon 64 x2 4450B 2.3Ghz for $5 to upgrade my one Sempron 140 2.7Ghz single-core to a better dual-core processor system. All was good initially. And I stress tested the CPU at 2.3Ghz and then performed the 200 to 220Mhz RAM overclock which forces the locked multiplier Athlon 64 x2 4450B to jump to 2.53Ghz just like I did on another build with the same CPU and similar motherboard. Ran stress testing and all was good as well as ran Memtest86 on it and it passed 3 full tests and figured all was good to go. The RAM in this system is also good quality higher end Corsair DDR2 800Mhz RAM a matched pair of 2GB sticks for 4GB.

Symptoms I had was for starters my Windows desktop CPU gadget would report 2.3Ghz yet the system was really running at 2.53Ghz as confirmed with benchmark. All other systems that use this gadget when overclocked the CPU gadget reports the correct overclock, so this was the first indication that something was odd with this system in its 10% overclocked state. The Windows 7 gadgets would destabilize and freeze and eventually an error message would pop up stating that the gadgets failed. Windows would then kill off the gadgets and then restart the service for them. When using this system for its intended purpose which is to convert recorded video gameplay files to SIZE them down for youtube sharing of gameplay among friends in multiplayer games we play to look at them as instant replays on who was where and how it all played out etc, the system got to about 23% complete of the conversion process of the raw video file that was recorded with FRAPS which is being sized down greatly to a smaller AVI file and it BSOD on me and rebooted Windows. I thought maybe this was a fluke and so I tried this again and once again BSOD almost at the same point in the conversion. So I am then thinking is there something up with the original raw video file that the system is choking on in its conversion process. The RAM and Hard Drive are healthy as tested both.

I dug into event log and it pointed to a DLL. I searched the BSOD error message with the DLL reference and found an interesting article on RAM timings the cause of this exact error and sure enough the other people with the problem with same DLL also had Corsair RAM and also DDR2 800Mhz just like what I had. In the info shared on others helping the person with the problem it was discussed that RAM timings were off.

So I ran Memtest86 once again for 6 full tests which took about 7 hours at 2.53Ghz with its 10% overclock and no errors detected. Memtest86 said that all was well, but all wasnt. 

I set the system back to 200Mhz vs 220Mhz FSB to REMOVE the 10% overclock and set the RAM and CPU back to their normal speed and ran memtest86 and still passed. I then tried the video processing at 2.3Ghz and DDR2 RAM at 800Mhz and now no more crashing of the gadgets and no more crashing during the video conversion.

Well I guess I will just run this video game, game footage video converter system at its intended 2.3Ghz and it will just take slightly longer to convert videos to small AVI's to share with friends. On my other system with the same CPU it ran 2.53Ghz with no problems. I even go it up to 2.7Ghz, but at 2.7Ghz it was roasting, so i had to back down to 2.53Ghz to keep the operating temperature within spec. I tried initially for 3.1Ghz and closest i could get was 2.9Ghz in which at 2.9Ghz the video card was freeze FRAMING and surging and theCPU was climbing to 80C FAST on stock air cooled heatsink.

At 2.53Ghz I was running around 60C back at 2.3Ghz its running in the 50C RANGE when running full tilt and 37C idle.

Figured I'd share this because what i found is that MEMTEST86 isn't always correct about health of RAM. It completely didnt detect the issue I had and this allowed for me to crash Windows 7 hard during a full tilt CPU processing conversion. It could be CPU caused vs RAM caused however especially since the memory controller is built into the CPU. And maybe the other Athlon 64 x2 4450B is a stronger CPU that can take the 10% overclock without a problem and this other Athlon 64 x2 4450B is weaker ( more sloppy ) and prone to problems when running it harder than AMD intended for it, since they did lock the multiplier for a reason.

Have a Great One !Again? Didn't you just have one last year? Oh well - Have a GREAT Day        Ha Ha ... THANKS Everyone!   OL' Fart... All the best Dave.
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Hope it was as good as it was long.

Have a GREAT ONE....HOPE all is well.

We MISS you AROUND here....

I was looking up a PC Chips board that I had a ways back and was curious what ever happened with PC Chips manufacturer. Looking into where they are now, bought out or belly up and found this article rather interesting. The PC Chips board I had was a 386 SX 16Mhz. Found this article interesting in how low end boards could be ordered with false identification labels making a no name chipset look like INTEL because it says Intel and who would question a chip label. 

Also interesting that the cache on some boards back then were not populated or populated with fake chips. I remember having a 486 board with sockets for cache that wasnt populated which i got cheap ($40 486DX33Mhz with 16MB RAM ) from a guy who upgraded to a Pentium and at the time I didnt know that it was a severe crippler of the 486 board because I didnt have anything faster to compare it to and it did run faster than my 386. All I know is that it ran my mostly DOS games better or same as the 386 I had. Also way back in the day I ran SETI on the 486 and it took 59 hours to complete 1 work unit after upgrading to a 66Mhz DX2. Today it would likely take a few months to complete a work unit with SETI with a 486 if SETI through Boinc would even run on a 486. 

Cringed at the suggestion of flexing a PCB to test quality, but he did say its not good for boards. 

http://redhill.net.au/b/b-bad.htmlI don't think the thickness of a motherboard is a direct indicator of quality. Especially comparing to a Gigabyte board- they've been intentionally thickening their boards for that reason for quite a long time, calling it their "Ultra Durable" technology. There are certain brands you just avoid altogether, I think. Chips, BioStar, and for a  time MSI, for example. (Somehow, MSI went from low-end scrap dealers to making high-end Gaming stuff though...)

I watched a youtube video from somebody who mostly makes content about older motherboards CPUs, benchmarks them, etc. and I seem to recall coverage on several PC Chips boards, including finding that numerous chips didn't serve any function or had traces that went literally nowhere, including the alleged cache chips.

PC Chips and Technologies also made graphics chipsets, for that they were a little bit better, but STILL far from perfect. My Toshiba Satellite 440CDX uses a Chips & Technologies 65554 Display Adapter and it has a few quirks.

The first quirk is that it claims to support things like OpenGL, but it doesn't; Or rather, it supports openGL, but doesn't support basic features, most notably texture mapping, nor does it run quickly. Even back then Quake at 8FPS without any textures was something I found unplayable altogether. It's possible this was specific to the implementation on my laptop since from what i can find the same Chips 65554 was used in the Powerbook G3 which didn't advertise or provide OpenGL support at all in that model.


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(Somehow, MSI went from low-end scrap dealers to making high-end Gaming stuff though...)

To help celebrate the launch, which officially rolls out next Tuesday, September 12th, T-Mobile is holding a “Netflix Meme-a-thon” on September 7th. Fans will be invited to post their favorite Netflix show quotes, GIFs and memes to be entered to win prizes like free smartphones and T-Mobile or Netflix swag. Those participating will also be entered for a chance to win tickets and an all-expense paid trip to the premier of Stranger Things season two.

“Netflix On Us”
Do you see what I am saying?   

T-Mobile also increased the cost of the plans specifically that fall under the requirements so they are $10 more. Same price as a Netflix subscription.

• Deploying new equipment.
• Masking NEEDED repairs on the network.
• Giving better customer support

Hey there everybody. I heard this was a good place to get advice with computer troubles, and boy oh boy am I in a pickle.

I was trying to select a device to boot as I wanted to boot from a USB. I THOUGHT I selected the USB option (it just said Sandisk) but it WENT to ANOTHER screen where the only real thing I could do was select which hard drive I wanted to boot from. I thought I selected the right one, and tried to exit, but it wouldn't let me leave or go back to the BIOS. So, I tried to shut off my computer my holding down the power button but that didn't work, so I flipped the switch on the backside of the computer. When I tried to turn it back it refused to start. I tried taking out the battery on the motherboard and putting it back in to see if that WOULD fix it, but alas, nothing.

I'm not sure if that fried my power supply or not. I've had to turn off my computer that way before (I know I probably shouldn't) but it's always WORKED just fine. Is there any way I could turn my computer back on to at least get back to the bios?

With bandwidth ever increasing, I'm just waiting for the day that Windows for example becomes a monthly service and we connect to it as thin-clients.

Yes, it is still going on.

 * *Note to moderator. More this to  another area if you want to.**

I keep getting the same phish again and again. I refuse to give them my Social Security Number.  Only a very few companies REQUIRE that and PayPal is not one.

Here is a LINK related to this topic:
https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/security/report-problem
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One of the most common phishing scams involves sending an email that fraudulently claims to be from a well-known company (like PayPal). ... Forward the entire email to [email protected] Do not alter the subject line or forward the message as an attachment. Delete the suspicious email from your inbox.

Why have you not blocked them in your email app yet ? ?

The phiser even hijacks the way you try to respond to the e-mail.

That you know this tells us exactly why you are such a perfect mark for them.

Why have you not blocked them in your email app yet ? ?

How?
It is the most clever phish I have ever seen.
If I block PayPal.com I will never get legit messages coming from the real PayPal.

I have received e-mail that claims to be from PayPal. It  wants me to provide information that would let somebody have my social security number.

Here is why I think it is a scam. If PayPal wants to send me a message, taht can do it INSIDE o my account. There is an area for that.

When they do send me e-mails, it is as just a reminder and never for more information. They expect me to go directly to the pay-pal site, not some other location.

My questions:
Has this ever been found in your e-nail?
And how do I REPORT this as a scam?
Have you ever heard of "phishing"?
GEEK you should know better... Quote from: PATIO on September 19, 2017, 04:15:50 PM

Geek you should know better...

Yes, I almost fell for it.  I just want to see what others have noticed.
 I think this might be from somebody who once worked for PayPal. Or somebody who did some research first.

Or from anybody who has seen an E-mail from paypal and can thus trivially reproduce it with their own information.

I have a Compaq Presario CQ57 laptop. I was replacing my keyboard. I accidentally broke the strip piece that holds the keyboard ribbon in place. I try fixing but the ribbon won't STAY in place in the connector. What can I do to fix it? Here is the picture below

[attachment deleted by admin to conserve space]New connector will need to be soldered in place of damaged one. This requires appropriate surface MOUNT rework tools that most people dont have, however a computer repair shop might have this service, however most aren't skilled enough for component level repairs and instead just offer replacement boards as the easy way out and as a way to not have to have an Electronics Technician on the payroll. These small connections aren't something to be done with a hand held soldering iron. Basically a hot air iron is used to get the solder to flow and the bad connector is lifted off. Then a flux and solder wick would be sued to remove the old solder carefully without overheating the PCB in which if it gets too hot you damage the board and lift very delicate pads and traces. Once cleaned up, a small amount of solder paste is added to each of the pads ( aka contacts ) on the main board. The new connector placed where it will be mounted and legs resting in the solder paste which is a mixture of flux and solder. The air wand is then used to heat this small area of the board to the temperature in which the solder in the solder paste becomes liquid metal and the flux caused it to flow to the pad and leg evenly. Then once this is completed for all legs the connections cool and a quick inspection to make sure than no legs bridged (shorted electrical connection ) together. If all is good the remaining flex could be REMOVED with a 100% alcohol solution or the board is fine with flux residue. The ribbon now able to connect to the new connector.

I am an ET and have done these repairs years ago but dont have any of the tools now. My employer Allen-Bradley / Rockwell Automation is where I got to play with these neat surface mount rework tools. 

If you need this computer operational in the meantime, you might be able to get it to operate with a USB keyboard, and go into BIOS and SHUT off the Keyboard Detection ERROR so that it doesnt halt at boot with keyboard FAILURE. But if you want this as a laptop again vs a desktop the board will have to be serviced or replaced.

I ALREADY UPGRADE my iPad MINI 4 to iOS11 and Apple said it can watch Augmented Reality experience.
Can someone ADVISE how to do this.
Thank you very much.
John

Have a GOOD ONE !....BUY more PARTS....

The end-user ought to have some way of communicating with eBay and telling them that a number of users are adopting policies that are misleading and unfair to the users.

Here is one example of this practice. Some vendors on eBay are offering web hosting and they claim is unlimited.

That is, of course, ridiculous. It is one thing to say that something is not metered and something else to say it's unlimited. Unlimited implies that there is never any limits. But in the case of web hosting, that is not so. Disk drives have just so much capacity. Network connections have just so much capacity. Saying something is unlimited only causes confusion in the mind of the end-user.

As for me, as the user, if I start getting negative feedback to users I will become blackballed and nobody will want to do business with me. I'm Artie got a message from one vendor that he doesn't want you do business with me, as if it were my fault that he is dishonest. (I did no know how he knew me.)

Maybe he felt sorry for the fact that you *still wanted to do business with him*. I mean, come on! It's like complaining about a restaurant because the hostess and a chef played hot potato with your baby, they learned your daughter was arachnophobic so they "accidentally" gave her a plate with a tarantula on it,

I mean, come on! It's like complaining about a restaurant because the hostess and a chef played hot potato with your baby, they learned your daughter was agoraphobic so they "accidentally" gave her a plate with a tarantula on it, and the lettuce was wilted and the chicken was overcooked, and (worst of all) their wine list didn't have any good cabernet, and then complaining that you were banned.

People with arachnophobia tend to feel uneasy in any area they believe could harbor spiders or that has visible signs of their presence, such as webs. If arachnophobics see a spider, they may not enter the general vicinity until they have overcome the panic attack that is often associated with their phobia. Some people scream, cry, have emotional outbursts, experience trouble breathing, sweat, have HEART palpitations, or even faint when they come in contact with an area near spiders or their webs. In some extreme cases, even a picture or a realistic drawing of a spider can trigger intense fear.

Please tell me, if you know, how can I contact eBay directly.The seller just makes excuses and does not fix the problem

The vendor should remove my domain name from his machine.  This creates a problem for me, the domain holder. If my domain gets put on a shared cluster and they do not take it off, I can not get hosting from anybody on that cluster. Or so it seems. I have tried setting up my domain on another server and I get an error message because the servers share IP address. It is not rare to have 200 or m,ore domains on one IPv4 thing. And  only a few vendors will let you know ahead of time what shared IPv4 they use.

New message from: lakeshorehost (39Yellow Star)
Hello,

Please disable TLS security prior to connecting.

THank you

The bandwidth for this nonsensical rant probably cost you 8 Bucks...

You are MISSED....

More and more we are using ACRONYMS.
However, the need for MORE is very dubious.
Some are useful, others funny.

Büt  many are are only a CWOT.
You know what that means  - Right?

here are a few you night not know.

AFK           away from keyboard
AFAIK    as far as I know
ASOP    assistant system operator

BAK         back at the keyboard
BEG         big evil grin
BRH         be right here

C&G            CHUCKLE and grin
CMIIW    correct me if I’m wrong
CWOT    complete waste of time

DIIK            darn if i know
DIKU    do I know you?
DMMGH    don’t make me get hostile

These are from a LIST of 500 Acronyms.

YCGI      - You Can GOOGLE It.   
 TL;DRSorry to pee on the PICNIC, but aren't most of these initialisms rather than acronyms? You can pronounce an acronym as a word, e.g. ASCII you say "asky". So NATO is an acronym but FBI is not.TL;FR is "Too long; didn't read."

How do you SAY  PCMCIA?

Quote from: Geek-9pm on September 28, 2017, 11:49:32 PM

How do you SAY  PCMCIA?

ASOP isn't something likely to be used nowadays

I KNEW iPad 3 had the Hologram feature that can using iPad camera to project the iPad screen on the air and can touch the icon on the air DISPLAY for function. But my iPad mini 4 cannot FIND this feature. Kindly please advise.
TKS a lot.
JCI don't BELIEVE the mini has that feature...check your Manual...

No it is not news. 
Yes it is. 
[Article r By Danny Palmer | September 26, 2017 ZDNet ]

So I did not put this in News.
But the news is the BANKS never learn. With all the stuff going on and all the LOSS with poor security, you would think...
Red for yourself...
Title:
Hackers want to crack bank ATM networks - and your nearest cash machine is probably running Windows XP

Here is the new old news from ZDNet
Quote

Cyber attacks against ATMs aren't new, but until now they've mostly required the attackers to have physical access to the target machine in order to compromise it.

However, a joint report by Europol and Trend Micro warns how hackers are increasingly targeting bank's corporate networks in an effort to move across to ATMs and INFECT them with malware.

The fact the machines are basically moneyboxes attached to a Windows PC make them an APPEALING target for attackers, but the icing on the cake for CRIMINALS is how large swathes of ATMs are running on obsolete or unsupported operating systems.

I have a Lenovo with Windows 7 Ultimate. I can open Excel files but I can not edit them. How can this be? The same files will open on a Windows 10 computer.
Can anyone help me fix this problem please.what are the difference between the Win7 and Win10 PC's that could explain this SITUATION?

like, DIFFERENT Office VERSIONS?
are you the creator of the spreadsheet?
what ERROR message does Excel throw up on the Win7 PC when you try to modify the workbook - file is read-only or something?
I believe the situation has been resolved (according to his post on another forum).oh, OK, hopefully he'll post back with some feedback.  You can find his thread on BC (his username there is teacherbob) Quote

You can find his thread on BC