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7901.

Solve : Happy Birthday Rob Pomeroy ! !?

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Have a GREAT One there bud...Happy BIRTHDAY, Rob! Oh, by the WAY, my brother and his wife recently spent nearly TWO weeks in the UK on vacation. They loved it!Hope all is well Rob...we miss you.

7902.

Solve : Easter eggs in Microsoft products?

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This is not new. Maybe new to you.
Over the years Microsoft has hidden little cute THINGS that were not documented. You had to press some keys at the right moment and see the 'Easter Egg' hiddeen in the software.
Here is the LIST from Wikipedia.

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The Microsoft Bear is a mascot of the Windows 3.1 (and later Windows 95) TEAM.[2] It was the teddy bear that one of the senior developers on the team used to carry around. He makes SEVERAL cameo appearances in Windows:

Thinking this "Bear" is in relation to a hoax virus e-mail about 14 years ago which instructed people to remove a system file jdbgmgr.exe with a bear icon if found because it was a virus and some people not knowing any better deleted an important system file for Windows.

http://www.security-faqs.com/the-teddy-bear-email-hoax.html

I never really cared back then why Microsoft went with the Bear Icon, but I suppose it all makes sense now reading the wiki you linked.Not quite sure why this even qualifies as "news"....

BTW...the CH News Editor position is still open...Quote from: DaveLembke on April 24, 2015, 12:35:45 PM
Thinking this "Bear" is in relation to a hoax virus e-mail about 14 years ago which instructed people to remove a system file jdbgmgr.exe with a bear icon if found because it was a virus and some people not knowing any better deleted an important system file for Windows.

Thankfully, jdbgmgr.exe is really only needed if somebody is going to be debugging Java running in the Microsoft Java runtime, so the effect on such a hoax was limited.

Why does Windows 95 have functions CALLED BEAR, BUNNY and PIGLET? (this is actually used as a cite note)***sigh***Quote from: patio on April 24, 2015, 12:52:38 PM
BTW...the CH News Editor position is still open...

I have some late cricket news... W.G. Grace is dead.

7903.

Solve : What is 'Triple Minutes for Life'??

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I was looking at cell phones and saw this:
Triple Minutes for LIFE
On that site the site, it said:
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This means that every paid Airtime Minute you add to this phone will be tripled. This benefit is limited to this phone only, is not transferable and is not applicable to promotional minutes.
I don't get it. What is the catch. Please somebody explain this.

It is not possible to give anybody Triple Minutes for Life. Right?
It's a promotional offer. They mean the "life" of the phone, not the life of the user! The phone has a unique serial number and the phone company multiplies by 3 the prepaid minutes you purchase. As mentioned, the offer is TIED to the phone (not just the SIM) and will not transfer to another phone even if the phone is damaged, lost or stolen. The idea is to add perceived "value" to a phone that you might otherwise reject when making a purchasing decision.
Looks like a quote from a TracFone ad. They offer these deals with low end phones to get people to buy them.
Yes, TracFone. Here in USA Walmart sells them. But the price of the phone is not high. So that makes it hard to understand. There is no contract. It is a 'pay as you go' plan. I don't see how it is technically possible to offer lower prices, no contract and a low cost device.
One Android model sells for about $20 and comes with the triple thing.
I have tried doing the math and it makes no sense. They will not MAKE a profit.

Or maybe they do. If so, the other phone companies are really making a huge profit. Hart d to believe.

And the Android models allow some data traffic. Even a little texting.

But I am not going to buy one. Not yet. I am still waiting for the free fone I was promised. The US government is giving away free smartphones to all who QUALITY. People on low-income assistance can sigh up for a free phone.

Some call the free phone the 'Obama Phone.'
http://www.obamaphone.com/

I am still waiting. Quote from: Geek-9pm on April 26, 2015, 10:15:26 AM
If so, the other phone companies are really making a huge profit. Hart d to believe.
They are making a huge profit. It is not all "hard to believe". TracFone Wireless is the USA's fifth largest wireless provider, it spends virtually nothing on advertising, it has according to anaylysts "a maniacal focus on eliminating unnecessary expenses." It does not have a tower network of its own, it piggybacks on the big cell network operators infrastructure, buying millions of minutes at a time; Tracfones have expiration dates; purchasing more airtime typically adds 90 days of SERVICE, with a 365-day extension package available, so the customers have to keep prepaying to keep the phone alive. Also with prepay the company has your money before you use any minutes, so it can earn interest. The phones are cheap basic older model phones bought from China in large amounts. Their business model seems to be to make a little bit of profit from each of a large (and growing) number of customers.
They actually do advertise...and in conjunction with the huge retailers such as Wal-Mart they pretty much seperate senior citizens from their limited income...
7904.

Solve : 2 TVs from 1 cable box??

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I'm THINKING of putting a small 19" TV by my computer desk. So I can have it on and watch TV when Im on the computer.



Right now in this room there is a TV and cable box. But the TV and cable box are behind me @ the opposite side of the room.



Is it possible to run 2 TVs from this cable box?

I don't need both TVs to be on @ the same time.



Motorolla DCX3200-M
How are you connecting the cable box to the TV? You should be able to do this with a simple splitter on the cable to the TV (whether it is HDMI or whatever). Of course both TVs would need to be showing the same CHANNEL but I doubt this is a problem in your situation.How do you know your PC has the horsepower to do both ? ?
I'd check that out 1ST before buying anything...Thank you.



I THOUGHT I read somewhere that this Motorolla box has "handshake" which prevents you from splitting the VIDEO?
Hmm, never heard of this "handhake" before, you would need to ask your cable company about it. I imagine however that this wouldn't be an issue if only one TV was on at a time since the handshake signal would only be handled by the switched on TV.

7905.

Solve : How do you clear your hard drive??

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Hi -
Sometime ago there was a discussion about how to clear a hard drive. Some of the ANSWERS showed imagination. I have been TOLD that there is a program which will convert everything in a hard drive to zeros. Is this true and if so how do I get the program? I am thinking of giving my computer away and buying a new one but I do not WANT to pass on any information and yet I do not want to damage the computer. Any suggestions? Thanks Bob Quote from: bobhlgh on April 15, 2015, 12:14:38 PM

I have been told that there is a program which will convert everything in a hard drive to zeros.

That would be DBAN.

The download page can be found here.

You download the ISO file, burn it to a CD (using a tool such as IMGBurn) and boot your computer from the CD. You can then use he tool to wipe the drive.BC_Programmer -
Thanks That is just what I wanted. Consider the problem solved!! Bobformat it,, all your data will goneHydrochloric Acid also cleans a hard drive. Completely.
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npg/npgd0332.html
Quote from: AlicePhoebe on April 28, 2015, 10:59:56 PM
format it,, all your data will gone


Stop resurrecting OLD threads PLEASE...
7906.

Solve : New 25 watt TDP AMD Sempron X4 Kabini AM1 computer build?

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Going to try out a new 25 watt TDP Quadcore AM1 system setup out of curiosity mainly, but ALSO to use it as an electron sipper system in my barn office which is going to have solar power with a battery bank. Hoping to have the barn mostly off the grid with exception to the internet connection that is fead to it from the house which is on the grid.

According to benchmarks, this Sempron Kabini Quadcore 1.3Ghz out performs my old gaming computers Dual Core Athlon 64 X2 4450B even with the 10% overclock to 2.53Ghz.

Old Gaming System CPU http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Athlon+Dual+Core+4450B = 1190 and last benchmark with overclock I was getting like a 1304 score with passmark.

New Electron Sipper Project CPU http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Sempron+3850+APU+with+Radeon+R3 = 1694

Here is the MOTHERBOARD and CPU that I bought and it came to like $72.

I already have a case, 350watt power supply, 2GB Patriot 1333Mhz DDR3 RAM, and a 240GB SSD that I am going to use for this.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113366 = CPU

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128696&cm_re=gigabyte_am1-_-13-128-696-_-Product = Motherboard

I almost went with the Athlon x4 for $52 instead of the Sempron x4. The Athlon is the 2.05Ghz as seen here http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113364&cm_re=athlon_am1-_-19-113-364-_-Product , but I feel that although rated for 25 watts its going to be more power hungry than the 1.3Ghz 25 watt CPU because 25 watts is the TDP and not actual CPU load, as well as the benchmark for the 1.3Ghz is strong enough to do what I need it to do, so I went with that instead. They have a even cheaper x2 CPU available for $29.99, but the benchmark on this is poor compared to the x4 for $5 more. So I spent the $5 more to not have a totally weak CPU but something that might be similar to my old gaming systems CPU in processing power.

It looks like this electron sipper sempron quadcore could play some average GAMES etc. Not a build for serious gaming by far although i am going to put it to the test out of curiosity as to just how hard you can push it. For serious gaming I gave my AMD FX-8350 4Ghz 8-core system that runs on almost 500 watts continuous draw when gaming, when my old gaming system is about 165 watts tops, and I am hoping that the combined power draw on this electron sipper project is under 50 watts with display which is 18 watts leaving 32 watts for the computer which it might fall within with that slow 1.3Ghz clock.

I could have just used my Toshiba Netbook with 1.66Ghz Intel Atom processor out in the office of my barn with a 13 watt idle and 18 watt draw when playing games, but that Intel Atom is too under powered for even Facebook flash games, and it may be because of its weak GPU portion of the weak CPU which = the APU. With this new electron sipper desktop build I have a PCI Express slot available if I wanted to stuff a cheap video card into it and get better than the APU AMD Radeon HD 8280 graphics processing.

It will be interesting to SEE what it is and isnt capable of at 1.3Ghz.

Anyone try out the AM1 type builds yet to say WHETHER you like it or had any troubles with it etc?

7907.

Solve : Happy Birthday Nathan ! !?

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Have a Great ONE...HAPPY BIRTHDAY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!HEY Nathan, Happy Birthday

7908.

Solve : Windpws 10. Is it News or just Press Release??

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There has been very little big news about Windows 10. Still MS keeps sending out little bits of this and that.
Why MICROSOFT is calling Windows 10 'the last version of Windows'
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That was the message from Microsoft employee Jerry Nixon, a developer evangelist speaking at the company's Ignite conference this week.
BBC:
Microsoft to STOP producing Windows versions
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"There will be no Windows 11," warned Steve Kleynhans, a research vice-president at analyst firm Gartner who monitors Microsoft.
When? Free?
Windows 10: release date, price, news and features

IF FREE, I WILL TAKE THREE! Quote from: Geek-9pm on May 08, 2015, 02:28:36 PM
There has been very little big news about Windows 10.
I would call the free upgrade to 7 & 8.1, and to the Chinese pirate users quite big news.

Is there is a "conspiracy of tolerance" about Geeks' increasingly eccentric posts? (They do fill up the forum, I suppose)

Salmon Trout,

I am acting alone, so I am no part of a conspiracy.

However, if Windows 10 really becomes mostly free, many will join me .
Each ONE will act by each one's own volition or free will.
7909.

Solve : Happy Birthday Quantos ! !?

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Enjoy the Day...Have a Great ONE BUD...Happy BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

7910.

Solve : Windows 10 Will Eliminate Recovery Partition.?

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This topic was published back in March. It might be news to you.

Of curse, Win 10 has yet to be released, so exactly how it will do recovery is not clear to me. Or maybe it is to you. Here are a few links on this:
No recovery partition in Windows 10
...and
Windows 10 will save disk space and no longer require a recovery partition
Is that the reason? Based on the links you posted, I can't draw the conclusion that no computers, whether desktop systems, laptops, or smaller portable devices, will have a recovery partition. The second link you posted points out that "the influx of smaller sized Windows devices that are starting to become the norm. Many of these systems have small disk storage ..." So, clearly, the idea of eliminating a recovery partition is related to storage space on the device. Again, I don't interpret your references as authoritative sources regarding whether a recovery partition will be present on no devices running Windows 10, or only on smaller devices with smaller storage capacity. I've always thought the manufacturers had some latitude in deciding whether to put a recovery partition on a device, as opposed to a dictate from Microsoft. Quote

I've always thought the manufacturers had some latitude in deciding whether to put a recovery partition on a device, as opposed to a dictate from Microsoft.

This is an excellent point...i believe it's up to the manuf. to decide...
Afterall do you really think they wanna start getting swamped with Help Desk calls on how to restore Win 10 ? ?

I think not.Quote from: soybean on MAY 08, 2015, 07:37:01 AM
I've always thought the manufacturers had some latitude in deciding whether to put a recovery partition on a device, as opposed to a dictate from Microsoft.

Quote from: patio on May 08, 2015, 07:50:05 AM
This is an excellent point...i believe it's up to the manuf. to decide...

That would be the most logical but there may still be a recovery option just not a recovery partition. There has to be a WAY similar to mobile devices for end users to revert to factory settings without sending it in for repair as an only option.If ANYTHING Microsoft should make a more user friendly image utility that can create recovery image to USB Flash Drive with the same features that the better computer manufacturers have in their system builds as a way to create a system recovery set on 1 or 2 USB sticks or Burn to say 4 DVD-R's.

No need for a localized space hog of a recovery partition or recovery image etc. And able to recover pretty quickly. That is.... as long as you didn't misplace the recovery media.

I haven't played with recovery of Windows 10 yet, but I have used the Windows 7 built in system recovery with a USB attached external HDD and its not a very user friendly experience if you have ever used it, so using a 3rd party image creation tool is generally more user friendly like Macrium Reflect and Ghost etc.

This is fine for traditional computers though to use these 3rd party tools, but it could be a problem for small portable computers etc... so Microsoft should make it way easier for users to create images that will boot off the device that they were created onto vs having to boot off of a Windows Repair Media and then Connect a different set of media to recover from.I'm pretty sure it will be the same or similar to the Windows 8 Update & Recovery option. It may not be called a recovery partition but there is a recovery option. How to Reset Your Windows 8.1 Laptop, Desktop, Tablet or 2-in 1Quote from: DaveLembke on May 08, 2015, 10:58:11 AM
If anything Microsoft should make a more user friendly image utility that can create recovery image to USB Flash Drive with the same features that the better computer manufacturers have in their system builds as a way to create a system recovery set on 1 or 2 USB sticks or Burn to say 4 DVD-R's.
The tool provided on prebuilts Computers pretty much always writes already existing data in a provided image file (or sometimes the recovery partition) to a disc/USB. MS probably hasn't created a more generic feature such that you could take any Windows System and create recovery media for it to be returned to the state at which you created that media for a number of reasons. One among them being that imaging software manufacturers may cry foul.
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One among them being that imaging software manufacturers may cry foul.

Well MS has created their own programs that serve the same purpose as 3rd party software before... Browsers prior to IE for example. IE vs Netscape. Netscape Navigator came out on 12/15/1994 and IE 1.0 didnt come out until 8/16/1995. Big difference between IE and Imaging Software though.... I suppose it was worth it for them to kick over the bucket of legal worms with IE to compete with other browsers of the time and have an OS that was "Web Ready" at the get go for Windows 95 PLUS! inclusion of IE when Netscape was already out there with their browser.

For an imaging suite bundled into the OS, there is no advantage to kicking over this bucket and paying money out in legal fees for lawsuits I suppose with potential patent infringements etc. Legal costs far outweigh making some computer tech customers such as myself happy.

I'd be happy if they even cut a deal with a 3rd party Imaging company to bundle their imaging utility with the OS though. What imaging company would turn down such a large deal even if only getting $5 per license of Windows sold they would make a killing compared to trying to sell the software on their own at say $40 a copy. Microsoft has cut deals in the past with 3rd parties to use their software rights. Example: Spyglass therefore created its own Mosaic codebase in which most source code and all features were shared between platforms. "Spyglass Mosaic's codebase was then licensed to Microsoft and became the basis for their Internet Explorer." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyglass,_Inc.

Well I know that Microsoft will likely not bother with adding a user friendly image utility, but one could dream. Until then though the 3rd party image software works ok for the most part.

Seagate for example cut a similar deal with Acronis True Image....the CD ships with every retail HDD...

I'm thinkin both firms did well on this exchange...Quote from: DaveLembke on May 09, 2015, 11:22:39 AM
Well MS has created their own programs that serve the same purpose as 3rd party software before... Browsers prior to IE for example. IE vs Netscape. Netscape Navigator came out on 12/15/1994 and IE 1.0 didnt come out until 8/16/1995.
Internet Explorer was (originally) effectively NCSA Mosaic rebranded on a license from Spyglass. Furthermore, It was also not included in Windows until 2.0, (PLUS! being an add-on pack for Windows) when it was included in OEM OSR2 installs. It was the inclusion in the OS that caused the kerfuffle about Anti-trust, which is why MS would be hesitant to do the same thing.

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I'd be happy if they even cut a deal with a 3rd party Imaging company to bundle their imaging utility with the OS though. What imaging company would turn down such a large deal even if only getting $5 per license of Windows sold they would make a killing compared to trying to sell the software on their own at say $40 a copy. Microsoft has cut deals in the past with 3rd parties to use their software rights.
This would make the most sense. The disk defragmenter is a stripped-down, licensed version of Diskeeper in the same sense.I'm a bit puzzled. I make regular Windows 7 partition image backups using the Windows 7 disk imaging tool, to my NAS, to an external USB drive, and an internal (second) hard drive. I can restore them using either a Windows 7 recovery disk, created from Windows 7, or else my Windows 7 install disk has the same functionality. I have done it multiple times. Is this not, effectively a built-in feature? Why would I need an 3rd party product?

For what its worth, here is a video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL9M7CsP4qo
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Recovery options in Windows 10
Robert McMillen
Published on Oct 1, 2014
Author, teacher, and talk show host Robert McMillen shows you recovery options in Windows 10
This video is about six months old and might not represent the final product due out in July.
Quote from: Salmon Trout on May 09, 2015, 05:17:17 PM
I'm a bit puzzled. I make regular Windows 7 partition image backups using the Windows 7 disk imaging tool, to my NAS, to an external USB drive, and an internal (second) hard drive. I can restore them using either a Windows 7 recovery disk, created from Windows 7, or else my Windows 7 install disk has the same functionality. I have done it multiple times. Is this not, effectively a built-in feature? Why would I need an 3rd party product?

Interesting, I didn't know about that capability. I think that feature was removed from Windows 8 for some reason- I think they claim it was replaced with the "Refresh System" capability, which is hardly the case.Quote from: BC_Programmer on May 09, 2015, 11:39:29 PM
Interesting, I didn't know about that capability. I think that feature was removed from Windows 8 for some reason- I think they claim it was replaced with the "Refresh System" capability, which is hardly the case.

Microsoft introduced the system image utility in Windows 7, and then tried to hide it in Windows 8 and Windows 8.1. I don't know what version of Windows 8 have the system image option natively; in Windows 7 it was only included in the Professional, Ultimate, and ENTERPRISE editions. I don't have a Windows 8.x system myself but according to lots of web sources, it's in 8.x. In whatever Windows 8.x VERSIONS that support it, it's found in Windows 8 under Recovery, (called "Windows 7 File Recovery") and in 8.1 it's in File History (called System Image Backup.) It seems to be in that place in Windows 10 as well, at least in the Technical Previews.

With the advent of UEFI I'd really like to see PC manufacturers implementing what Apple currently does where there is no recovery partition (therefore no wasted disk space and no issues if the drive needs replaced). Instead the EFI has a feature where it will download the OS image from a remote server and then start the installer without needing any information from the hard drive.
7911.

Solve : my yahoo messenger wont work?

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I recently changed internet providers & lost my e-mail ADDY. if I go to CREATE a new account it tells me theres no program associated with it. what do I need to doyahoo messenger is not an email CLIENT or email service, so why did you put it in your title if your main question is about email?

Was the email account you lost ONE provided by your former ISP? Exactly where and how are you trying to create a new email account?
7912.

Solve : Happy Birthday Quaxo ! !?

Answer» ENJOY ! !HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!
7913.

Solve : dvd transfer?

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can I TRANSFER a MOVIE or software, downloaded from the internet onto a dvd onto my computer??? & if so, what type of dvd does it have be? dvd R + W?
You said can I, not may I.
Yes you can.
No, you may not.

Except for limited reasons, making a copy of any intellectual WORK VIOLATES the law of most countries.

You can USE a DVD+R if your DVD burner is compatible.



7914.

Solve : New Computer I need help what to buy??

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This is the Computer that I think is good for me because i'm a beginner gamer and majoring in CS, So i need it for studying and playing if someone can tell me if is it good for me or not?
it cost $1,268.28
1 x Total WAR: Rome II *Intel Promo Only*
1 x * Please Add Katana Tier 1 to The Cart to See Exclusive Deals On Peripherals and MORE! *
1 x Intel Core i5 I5-4460 Haswell 3.2GHZ Processor LGA1150 6MB Cache Retail
1 x Please Use The Heatsink Included With My CPU -NOT Available With OEM Processors
1 x GIGABYTE Z97MX-GAMING 5 mATX LGA1150 Z97 DDR3 PCI-E16 PCI-E8 XFIRE/SLI SATA3 USB3 HDMI Motherboard
1 x Kingston HyperX Fury Memory Black 8GB 2X4GB DDR3-1600 CL10 Dual Channel Memory Kit
1 x GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 OC Wf 1279MHZ 2GB 7.0GHZ GDDR5 2xDVI HDMI 3XDISPLAYPORT PCI-E Video Card
1 x Witcher 3: WILD Hunt GTX Game Bundle *NVIDIA Promo Only*
1 x NZXT H440 Razer Special Edition ATX Mid Tower 7X2.5IN 5X3.5IN 2XUSB3.0 Steel Computer Case Black
1 x Corsair CX Series CX500 500W ATX 12V 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply 120mm Fan
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64Bit English DVD OEM for NCIX PC
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB SATA 6GB/S 7200RPM 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
1 x Please Use The Onboard Sound Card Integrated On My Motherboard
1 x Please Use The Onboard Network Ethernet Card Integrated On My Motherboard
1 x Premium PC Assembly and Testing With 1 Year Limited NCIX Warranty (PRE-CONFIG WIN. OS If Purchased)
Includes extra attention to cabling, LIGHTING installation and extra burn-in period. Recommended for windowed cases. Assembly requires an additional 4-5* business days to ship once all parts are in stock. *typical lead time (currently 7-10 business days)
1 x Standard 1 Year Limited Warranty With NCIX IN-HOUSE Tech Support
Please note that Extended Service plans with On-Site service are available for your system at check-out.
1 x Bitfenix BFA-ACL-30GK15-RP Alchemy LED Connect Lit Strip 30CM 15 LEDs - Green *OEM*
1 x Bitfenix Spectre BFF-BLF-12025G-RP 120mm Green LED Case Fan 1000RPM 43.5CFM 20DBA 3/4 Pin *OEM*

Or should i go with that it cost $1,198.30


1 x ASUS GeForce GTX 960 Strix OC 1253MHZ 2GB 7.2GHZ GDDR5 DVI HDMI 3XDISPLAYPORT PCI-E Video Card
1 x PC Assembly and Testing With 1 Year Limited NCIX System Warranty PRE-CONFIG WIN. OS If Purchased
PC Assembly & Testing does not include servers and requires an additional 4-5* business days to ship once all parts are in stock. NCIX will install aftermarket heatsinks or pre-filled CPU liquid coolers. Current lead time 7-10 Business days.
1 x Intel Core i5 I5-4460 Haswell 3.2GHZ Processor LGA1150 6MB Cache Retail
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64Bit English DVD OEM for NCIX PC
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB SATA 6GB/S 7200RPM 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM
1 x ASUS PCE-N10 150Mbps 802.11B/G/N Wireless PCI-E Network Adapter
1 x Please Use The Onboard Sound Card Integrated On My Motherboard
1 x Please Use The Heatsink Included With My CPU -NOT Available With OEM Processors
1 x ASUS Z97M-PLUS mATX LGA1150 DDR3 3PCI-E16 2PCI-E1 2PCI CrossFireX SATA3 USB3.0 DVI HDMI Motherboard
1 x Corsair Vengeance CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 8GB 2X4GB DDR3-1600 CL9-9-9-24 Dual Channel Memory Kit
1 x Corsair Carbide Series Air 240 High Airflow Cube Case mITX Window 3X3.5 3X2.5INT USB3.0 No PS Black
1 x Corsair CX Series CX500 500W ATX 12V 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply 120mm Fan

Thank you

7915.

Solve : Windows 7 Professional COA Key Sticker under $40.?

Answer» Moderator: This is NOT a commendation. It is a question.

If you buy a new Windows 7 Pro DVD with the COA, it can run well over $100 from retail outlets. ( COA means Certificate Of Authenticity.)

But on famous action people are selling the COA sticker for under $40.
The catch? You agree to buy a junk computer with the COA. If you do not pick up the computer and pay an addition fee for pickup, the PC is sent to the junk yard. So they say.

Is this legal? That is my question. Earlier I had bought a Windows 7 DVD with a COA only to find that MS would not authenticate the key. So I am very skeptical about this.

Only active seller says this:
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Windows 7 activation: COA can activate any brand PC. But you need to have Windows 7 Professional. A single COA is only good for a single PC, if you use more than 1 PC with the same COA, both PC will be de-activated. We cannot recover for that. Please just use a single key on a single PC. Sometimes in order to activate another brand system you may need to CALL Microsoft activation center ***numbers deleted*** for Automatic Phone Activation.
I want to have windows 7, 8 or 10 on two of my newly rescued PCs
Sadly, the two KEYS I have are ALREADY tied to older junk desktops.
What I do not understand is how the guy can re-use a key from a junk PC
Or does he? What does he know that I don't?

If I were a rich man... I would not ask.
No, it is not legal. Yes they can SELL the COA with the original machine but it is not legal to install the copy onto any machine other than the original so it is virtually useless. Stay away.
7916.

Solve : Boy makes low cost Braille Printer with Lego?

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It was about four years ago.
12 year old develops low cost Braille Printer with Lego and promises to give design and code for free download
We don't see enough of these kind of stories. So it is worth repeating.
Three or four things we can learn from this.
• Don't underestimate the ability of youngsters.
• Lego is a useful computer tool.
• There is a need to enable handicapped with computers.
• Silicon Valley still can create non-profit innovations.
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Developed by Shubham Banerjee, a 7th grade student from Santa Clara, California. BRAIGO is a Braille Printer using Lego Mindstorms EV3. This concept slashes the price of a printer from more than $2000 to around $350 for education, teaching and home use purposes. Thus giving a more cost effective printer for the disadvantaged.
Would like to know what he has done lately.
Curious if he got some help vs done this all on his own.

I have USED the Lego Mindstorms with USFirst.org Lego Robotics where I am a Lego Robotics Coach and if it wasnt for some adult input on the matter, pointers on what direction to go and how to achieve something showing the kids the physics & math that is beyond their scope at their age, the robots wouldnt function as well as they do. On our team we have 9 thru 12 year olds and I feel that this kid may have had a PARENT help them with this some. Its not impossible for him to come up with this on his own, but the complexity of it I have to question if an adult assisted whos an engineer etc.

Someone should have an extensive interview with the kid 1 on 1 and have the kid describe every part of the design, why he chose it, and explain the programming involved to prove that he DOESNT get tripped up stumped on what he should know and run to dad for answers to questions.

Anyone can make something with their kid and then back off and say that their kid did all the work as a way to promote them. What parent wouldnt want to give their kid a benefit over another kid such as down the road when applying to colleges, and in the letter sharing a half truth project as a means to leverage their kid into getting accepted to a big name college with grants etc.

Sorry to say I have my doubts with this project that the kid so called did all on their own, but the credibility of this should be tested extensively to make sure the kid knows EVERYTHING about its design and can share why he chose to design it a specific way as well as explain the programming involved which the programming is simple in which you connect modules together using a Mindstorms GUI and edit the parameters of each module, but the math, logic with sensors that need calibration, and timing is difficult and how he calculated duration of motor movement or distance CALCULATION by revolutions of each of the motors to place a punches in the paper at just the right positions to be read as good braille.

The programming is not an actual language where you start from scratch, but instead its simplified for kids to work with pre programmed modules/objects in which you can plug in values in the editable fields and with module/objects chained together on the Mindstorm GUI IDE it then takes that module/object structure and converts the simplistic structure back to low level instructions for the MindStorm controller which has sensor input jacks and motor output jacks and a USB port used for download/upload between PC with Mindstorm GUI.



The article has some comments and it looks like he did respond to e0mail. Maybe somebody in your team would like to tray and reach him.
7917.

Solve : AM1 Build - Only Single Channel Memory?

Answer»

Figured I'd share this in CASE anyone else was planning on building one of these AM1 builds. I put mine together and I have the Sempron 3850 Quadcore Kabini 1.3Ghz and its performance is about the equivalent of a 65 watt Dual-core but at 25 watts.

I bought 2 x 2GB sticks for 4GB thinking that I would have 4GB with Dual-Channel memory config vs a single 4GB stick. Well that was found out after the fact to be a waste of $2 in getting 2 x 2GB sticks vs a single 4GB stick that I could have gotten for $2 cheaper than the paid of 2GB sticks because the AM1 CPU design only supports Single-Channel memory.

This build is for my office in my barn that I plan on powering off of solar power and desktop computer setup so I decided to go with this build as an ELECTRON sipper. I ended up getting Wireless Networking out to the barn by setting up a Linksys Wireless B Access Point into a crawl space attached to a 8 ft board with duct tape and power cord and Cat5 cable long enough to place this at the far corner of the crawl space closest to the barn and power it from office of my home and tie it into home network with a router before my home network to place some isolation of communications in case anyone hacked this 2003 model Access Point even though I don't think anyone would do this and its as secure as WEP 128-bit can be with Mac Filtering, and SSID not broadcast etc. At the barn 100ft away in the loft I get a 2 bar signal, and I will setup a Linksys Bridge that I have to connect that to a switch so that I have have multiple networked devices sharing that wireless bridge connection to the Wireless B access point. I could go with G or N, but why not put an on Wireless B Access point to use vs tossing it away when my internet speed is only 5mb/1mb anyways so wireless B still exceeds the bottleneck of the broadband connection.

Here is more info on the AM1 build that another guy did with the same motherboard that I got the Gigabyte motherboard: http://betanews.com/2014/05/05/amd-am1-platform-build-a-great-pc-without-hurting-your-wallet-review/

With my build I have dual-boot Linux Mint 17.1 and Windows 7 Home Premium. Both OS run well on this build, but its performance is the feel of like a older 5 year old AMD Dual-Core, its probably because although 4 cores, its slow CLOCK of 1.3Ghz limits it, but its not meant to be a gaming setup so that's fine.For what it's worth, in general usage you won't notice any difference between even single and quad channel RAM, there just aren't that many situations where your memory bandwidth is the limiting factor vs for example your storage or CPU. At least you hopefully saved more than the additional $2 going with an AM1 build over the alternatives sounds like a decent little energy efficient PC.Quote

At least you hopefully saved more than the additional $2 going with an AM1 build over the alternatives sounds like a decent little energy efficient PC.

Yes this build was very inexpensive.

Motherboard was $37 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128696&cm_re=gigabyte_am1-_-13-128-696-_-Product

CPU was $36 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113366&cm_re=sempron_3850-_-19-113-366-_-Product

RAM was $34 ( 2 x $17 ) for 2 of these for 4GB http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820239848&cm_re=kingston_2GB-_-20-239-848-_-Product

Other parts below I had already:

eMachine mATX case ... the ECS motherboard in it was dead.

350 watt cooler master power supply since I tossed away the eMachine power supply because I dont trust it after the motherboard died in that build.

300GB Maxtor SATA HDD

16x DVD-RW SATA drive

Windows 7 64-bit Home Premium ( last license available from the 3 license PACK that I own. )


Not a bad computer for $107 in new parts mixed with parts already on hand and last of the 3 license license activations.

The computer runs on about 18 watts idle and when running benchmark pulls just shy of 25 watts. Older Dell 17" flatscreen runs at 22 watts and so the whole computer draws 40 watts at idle to just under 47 watts when benchmark has it running full bore to crunch numbers and RENDER graphics etc.


Next project ... buy and install solar panels on roof of barn and wire them with trickle charge circuit to lead acid battery bank that has many fused links.


7918.

Solve : New virus/malware??

Answer»

This is part of a conversation I just had with Microsoft tech help. The pop ups mentioned below appear to be similar to the Microsoft telephone scam calls. Has this come up before? If so can you direct me to the discussion? This looks serious for folks that are not security minded.
Thanks Daryl.



Larry A:
10:08:13 Hi, thanks for visiting Answer Desk! I'm Larry A.

You:
10:09:36 I just got a popup warning error net framework file missing, error 895. call Microsoft @ 1-844-317-7202 for help. Is this legitimate??

Larry A:
10:11:56 I have checked our phone numbers and this number is not ours.
How often do you get this popup message?

You:
10:13:39 Then I presume it is a scam?? The message also said to stay on that internet page I suppose to keep the connection. Should this be reported?? To who and how?

Larry A:
10:15:02 Let me check my resources about it. One second please

You:
10:15:31 OK This is the first time this has happened.

[attachment deleted by admin to conserve space]Do you need my help cleaning your computer?Help is always appreciated although I was hoping for an answer to my questions first to know if others have had this identical message. It has not re-occurred.....YET.
Is Pay Attention a message?
Thank you both. DrfQuote from: Daryl on May 15, 2015, 05:55:48 PM

I was hoping for an answer to my questions first to know if others have had this identical message.

The message is from the malware, "pcinfectedalert.com". it redirects you to various websites which show these messages. It has nothing to do with Microsoft.

The messages themselves are absolute gibberish, but as you said it can fool the uninitiated. That is sort of what they are going for.

The fake Microsoft tech phone scams go back several years. This is merely a evolution of the former Cold-call MS tech support scam.

At that point the goal was to charge your credit card under the guise of "support". The goal appears to still be the same, likely to prevent people from issuing a chargeback if they are under the impression that they offered a legitimate service.Search for 1 844 317 7202
And get hits like this:
http://www.callercomplaints.com/SearchResult.aspx?Phone=844-317-7202
OR
http://844-317-7202.stopcall.me/844-317-7202-720336

It is an unlisted number.
If you're still getting those pop-ups you should have have your computer cleaned. If you wish to do that, please let me know and I'll move this topic to the malware forum and commence the cleaning.So far it has only occurred the one time and my full Zonealarm scan showed no problems. I THINK I will see what happens over the weekend before doing anything else.

Perhaps it was just a pop up and not an infection?

I appreciate the help I have received on this forum and hope that you will keep your offer open for a few days. No doubt I and others would benefit.

Thanks, DrfJust wanted to mention that sometimes a bad website will have a script trigger to tell you fake info as a means to try to get you to take action in which they are hoping you will get fooled into unknowingly infecting your system with an install that OTHERWISE cant happen without your help to infect yourself and/or spending money to remove fake viruses, or go through the motion to install a virus that doesn't exist at the time of the pop up message, but by clicking to install a fake tool you unknowingly infect yourself in a phishing and trap with sometimes ransom scheme.

In the PAST I have found some websites out there on the web that have these script triggers. If you remember what you were doing, where you were surfing at the time when this happened, if you go back and FOLLOW the same path you might see it pop up again.

I have not seen this specific pop up, but I have seen others that are creative in which a fake virus scan pops up and you see numbers start counting up showing 394 infections for example and its all fake trying to prey on those who don't know any better.

A scan using Malwarebytes is advised to make sure that you don't have anything bad on system as BC_Programmer was indicating with Quote
The message is from the malware, "pcinfectedalert.com". it redirects you to various websites which show these messages. It has nothing to do with Microsoft.
If you find anything on your system and it needs a cleaning then SuperDave is the guy to contact for further help.Thank you Dave.
Not only helpful information but impressive communication skills that filled in some more of the gaps in my limited computer knowledge. I did not touch a computer until 6 years ago and now at 80 the learning curve remains steep.
If this is a "new" presentation a little publicity may help others.
I must find a PUBLIC pay phone and see what pitch a call will bring.
Thanks again, DrfThe last word for now is that the pop up has not showed itself again and up to now I have no computer problems that I am aware of.
Thanks again for the help.
7919.

Solve : Apple, Google and More Bring Privacy Fears to Obama?

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For some reason the major media don't see this as important. So I put this here in other. What do you THINK?
This link is from Wired, but some others also have the same story.
Smart Phone Backdoor.
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The letter, which was obtained by The Washington Post, is but the latest turn of EVENTS in an ongoing battle between the government agents seeking to PROTECT national security and the technologists working to defend public privacy in the wake of Edward Snowden’s revelations about MASS surveillance.

While people like FBI Director FBI James B. Comey have argued that locking law enforcement out altogether puts innocent people at risk, the tech companies maintain that building a backdoor for the good guys means creating a vulnerability that could just as easily be used by the bad ones. And so, in recent months, companies like Apple have tightened their security, making it impossible for law enforcement to access the company’s servers or individuals’ password-protected information. And these companies want it to stay that way.

“Encryption protects billions of people every day against countless threats—be they STREET criminals trying to steal our phones and laptops, computer criminals trying to defraud us, corporate spies trying to obtain our companies’ most valuable trade secrets, repressive governments trying to stifle dissent, or foreign intelligence agencies trying to compromise our and our allies’ most sensitive national security secrets,” the letter to President Obama reads.
Does it matter?
7920.

Solve : Can Oil Frack cause a Earthquake??

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Hey! this is Off Topic!
The full title is:
Scientists think fracking can cause earthquakes, but they don't know how
Here is the link.

In the USA and Canada, fracking for oil is a process of breaking up underground rocks to release the stuff inside. Some people think it is harmful.

Is there some way computers could be used to make a model of what is doing on? That way there would be a credible answer to the problem. Oklahoma has gotten very seismic active due to pumping, and I think they are also fracking from what a person told me when I was out there last on gov business trip.

With EVERYTHING that is pumped out I think personally Oklahoma's issue is caused by a settling of the land that use to float on the liquid pool below it. However fracking could be causing solid ROCK that is under strain to release pressure as an earthquake when it destabilizes by losing its structural integrity.

They had 8 earthquakes in last 24 hours, and its almost a daily detection of multiples... The only good thing is that they are small ones lesser than 4.0 usually.

[attachment deleted by admin to conserve space]One would think if pump out liquid underground eventually it would settle. Not LIKE water that is pumped out underground it just runs back in again.Thanks for the replies.
For What It Is Worth:
IBM want to use AI to predict earthquakes.
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A team of computer scientists at IBM, in partnership with RESEARCHERS from the University of Texas at Austin, New York University and the California Institute for Technology, created a model that simulated the entire flow of MANTLE under the Earth’s surface.
But don't try it at home! Explain earthquakes where there is no frakking then.
7921.

Solve : What you need to know about warranty laws?

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This was published two years ago in Consumer reports. It still represents your legal rights in the USA. Other countries may have similar laws in force.
You have more rights than you might think
Consumer Reports magazine: May 2013
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The written warranty is not the whole story
Your rights go beyond what you read in a warranty booklet (also called an “express warranty” or guarantee). Any written or spoken claim made by a manufacturer or retailer—in a print or TV ad, on a package, or anywhere else—may be considered an express warranty as well. For instance, TV and Web ads for a product called the Olde Brooklyn Lantern say that its LED BULB will last 100,000 hours. So even though OldeBrooklynLantern.com guarantees satisfaction for only 30 days, if those LEDs stop working before 100,000 hours (more than 4,100 days), you might have the right to a repair, replacement, or refund.
What you should do. Keep copies of all performance promises, no matter where you find them. Try to get spoken claims in writing. Send an e-mail confirming the promise and keep the response.
The article goes on to say...
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You do not need the service contract

Extended warranties or service contracts are a bad deal. Most products don’t break during the time covered by them—typically years two and three of ownership. Moreover, the typical cost of repair is on average not much more than the cost of the contract. The consumer warranty protections described here make service contracts even less worthwhile.

What you should do. Self-insure by placing the money you would otherwise spend on service contracts into a savings account. Use that when you have to repair or replace a product at your own expense.
Warranties must be reasonable
...
A warranty that makes it IMPRACTICAL, if not impossible, to get satisfaction probably can’t be enforced, says Amy Schmitz, a professor at the University of Colorado School of Law. For example, to obtain warranty service, a manufacturer can’t make you pay shipping charges that exceed a product’s cost, something Schmitz said a company tried to do with a defective blender she bought. She negotiated for a new blender by sending a photo of the broken one with the cord cut off to show that she wasn’t trying to commit fraud.
Cool idea!
So, be SHARP when it come to quality. Don't let them get off easy when they SELL cheap products
(I just had a bad experience. That cheap RCA 10" tablet just failed. It is now out of warranty. BUMMER.)
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(I just had a bad experience. That cheap RCA 10" tablet just failed. It is now out of warranty. Bummer.)

If this is the one that Walmart had on sale for $49.96, its the same model that I bought my daughter. She killed her kindle fire by dropping it face down and I fixed it by installing a new digitizer with was a royal pita. She then killed it by downloading something that corrupted the flash memory so it wouldn't successfully boot. Tried factoery hard init and that didn't help. Tried a online tool that someone coded up which was suppose to help unbrick a bricked kindle fire but it doesn't boot up far enough to support USB communications to establish connection to it. Ended up seeing this RCA Tablet for less than $50 at Walmart and figured we'd get her that since she has such as good track record with these portable devices at just 10 years old. Surprisingly its still working. She uses it all the time. I know that RCA is at the low end of quality. If she gets 1 year of use out of it before she kills it that would be an accomplishment. We told her to be careful with this one because we were not going to buy any others for her. But I still find it in the seat of recliner before sitting down etc and so one of these days its going to get sat on or stepped on or something spilled on it when its left on the kitchen table etc. DaveLembke,
Thanks for the comeback. The one I got was a ten inch, it costs more.
Did not mean to suggest all RCA products are trash, just reacting a bit to my misfortune. That thing had been sent back earlier on a RMA and worked for awhile. I was geeing to like it when it zonked the battery.
Walmart now has a policy that you have to seal with the factory if it fails after 15 days. Even so, I would rather buy at Wallmart than from an on-line distributor.

Now I am down to using my wife's Kindle Fire, which has been more reliable. Amazon is on of the few on-line stores I trust.
7922.

Solve : Can you match IP addresses from different emails??

Answer» HI!

I am trying to identify a couple anonymous emails. Will the IP address be the same even if the emails are different? The reason I ask is because I believe that the person the is emailing me is someone that knows me so I am trying to match the IP addresses. Here is my list thus far...

Anonymous EMAIL IP Addresses:

2607:f8b0:400d:C04::22f
2607:f8b0:400d:c04::229

People I KNOW IP Addresses:
I IP Address: 2607:f8b0:4001:c05::229
II IP Address: 2607:f8b0:4002:c07::22e
III IP Address: 2607:f8b0:400e:c03::229

Am I on to something here?

THANK you for your help!
No need to start a new Topic...


Topic Closed.
7923.

Solve : Sound and video do not match?

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I got a little video camera that is suppose to record sound and video when you play back it plays back first sound then the picture. Some videos with sound right from a website when they play back are the same way the sound does not match the video. I got Windows XP 5 m internet speed and windows media player 11 , PENTIUM 4 2.5 g and 512 m ram any thoughts?Are we GOING to consider two different issues?
Your camera MIGHT be working fine. Try another computer.
There are some things that can cause Windows XP to fail keeping sound and video together. You can try another video player.
Maybe your AV program is working in the background.

7924.

Solve : Forbes: Windows 10 Release Date Leaks.?

Answer»

That is not NEWS. Is it?
But FORBES draws attention to Windows 10 release date.
The too-good-to-be-called-Windows-9 platform
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...what Microsoft has started to do in recent builds is begin adding polish. ANIMATIONS, ICONS and general UI elements have gotten noticeably cleaner in recent weeks and if Microsoft can KEEP up this breakneck pace then July 29th may be possible...

The real problems is thee are already too many kinds of Windows 10.

EDIT: Windows 10 Preview Build 10122 10130 Available.
7925.

Solve : Your Java is out of date.?

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When using my old XP machine to watch videos I get an error message. Not SURE what is the cause. Some checking around and I got the message above.
What would Java have to do with Video?
What is this all about? The Oracle site says I can try to use Java run time 8 and maybe it will work with my Windows XP.

What is going on?
The site that has videos likely has Java scripts that are running behind the scenes. I get messages like this all the time with a clean Linux build such as Linux Mint which has Flash built into it so such as at Facebook I can play the flash games and everything otherwise seems to work fine, but it states that specific scripts were non functional from Akamai. For the fact that the site FUNCTIONS fine under Linux but I see these script messages I FIGURE why give it a Java install if everything is running fine as for, why let some secretive background tracking or whatever other purpose script function.

If the WEB content seems to otherwise work fine such as videos play but its just an annoyance that its telling you that there is a java script that needs java, its up to you if you WANT to install java and have the blat go away and allow whatever to run behind the scenes. But if its causing a functionality problem, then its best to install the latest or last version that supported xp. I haven't had to install the JRE to XP in a while so not sure if the latest version works with XP or if you will have to install an older version that is the last to support it. Some info here on this: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/install-windows-141940.htmlThanks. So I went and did an install for Java 7.
Later on, found my trouble was really something else. The video workaround for me is to use Chrome instead of Firefox. And it was not Java related.
Live an d learn.
I removed Java from my Win 8.1 laptop months ago and have not missed it one bit.

7926.

Solve : Is it me or the site?

Answer» So I NEED to know is this my computer's problem or the site's and if MINE, what is it? So I go on this site to play games and one minute I'm playing then I shut if down and TEN minutes later the game won't load. Keep in mind I play on other sites like this one. Where you can play or download a video game.

I choose the game from my ISP FAVORITES list, it show the game's title in it's usual black square with the site's color borders. I wait and wait but the game never loads. The bottom keeps saying "Waiting for" and my cursor has the hourglass by it forever. so I dump the page. and reload it from my favs. Nothing again. so I use the site search box. the titles may or my not come in if it does and it has the "Click to Play" button... I click and nothing. It doesn't load. If I reload from fav and the title page displays the "Cleick to Play" which usually means the game will open in seconds, it still won't open.

Now keep in mind I have no problems opening other sites like this one or site like Twitter, Facebook etc... This is the only site that does this.

Is the problem my machine or the site. Oh one more thing the site's speed on the games is much faster than the speed should be. not totally unplayable but really fast.

The site's mod /admin says there is no problem with the site because others are logged on. But Walmart.com says the same and everyone knows they have issues.

Than you for your time and response.
What site so we can test at our end?The site is 8bbit I guess it'a address is www.8bbit.com

To be fair in testing the site would you need to pretty much use tmy type of connection? The site says WV and IE8 works there and I use both. However I use both on every other site as well with no problems. Thank you for your tie.
7927.

Solve : sky+HD box freeview?

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Hello
Not sure If i'm in the right area to post my Question but here goes:

I Have a sky+HD box freeview and I'm no LONGER a sky BROADBAND customer As I've moved in to a council flat I have a Communal DIGITAL Aerial in my loft with 1 aerial input in the wall
Can someone help me get my sky Box to work?

Thanks

Sky's "Free" service is still satellite TV and not through an aerial so unless your building has a satellite dish you will not be able to use your box.

Instead you would need to buy a Fre view DVR which will give you similar functionality to a Sky box but with regular freeview TV. You could consider selling your Sky box to raise funds to put towards a new DVR.No-one outside Great Britain will have any IDEA what they are talking about... hapling said that, you can get twin tuner Freeview HD PVRs for under £100 at Maplin or ASDA, or even less on line like £70 at Dealbuyer.com, probably cheaper secondhand. (A PVR is a box with a hard drive in that you can use to record programmes).

7928.

Solve : This is the oddest information lookup yet ... a very manual install of an EXE?

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So my daughter is doing a report on World War II and was asking about her great GRANDFATHER and I decided I would look up my grandfathers metals. As for I know he got a few medals, but not sure which ones. I remember one of them a bronze star.

I came across this site that is the biggest mess of a manual installation of an EXE I EVER seen to date. Instead of just a download with an INSTALLER or just run it where ever as an EXE after download they have specific pathing that I guess you need to use and wow its a step by step confusing mess.

http://www.amervets.com/library.htmQuote

As the software quickly identifies your version of windows you will see a new screen that says "Winsock.dll found. Please select YES". (Always click YES at this prompt when you re-start the software in the future.)

heh nothing like completely pointless messages.

it looks like it is actually an MS-DOS program so won't even work on 64-bit Windows.It looks to be a very old way of ddoing something.
You may want to do it in a sandbox computer.
Apparently it will modify some widows components.
EDIT: As BC noted, it would not be a 32 bit program.
Try to run iton a old PC with windows 95.
I MIGHT open it on a XP 32-bit virtual machine where its contained.
7929.

Solve : IP Addresses 101 (Damsel in Distress)?

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Quote from: Geek-9pm on May 26, 2015, 09:25:02 AM

These seem to be different IP addresses. They are IPv6 type.
Most of the world is now using IPv6 method of doing the IP. In theory, it should be possible to give every computer on out planet a unique IPv6 so that you could know who sent you a message.
Here are an article about the IPv6 thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6
As you see, it is a bit detailed and it becomes hard to generalize it.
Notice that what you gave were not full IPv6One of the goals of the system is to identify the source of a communication. But this GIVES rise to other concerns.What tool did you use to locate the source? You souled be able to find the mauil SERVER location. Here is ONE of many services:
http://reverseip.domaintools.com/
Does that help any?
EDIT: oops. I see two of out best already answered, so what I said here may be of little use.
He is using a Mac. So the IP Address is a Mac Address not a PC Address!Quote from: JacobRocks12 on May 30, 2015, 10:30:30 PM
He is using a Mac. So the IP Address is a Mac Address not a PC Address!

MAC Addresses have nothing to do with Apple or Macintosh computers. Quote from: BC_Programmer on May 31, 2015, 01:16:33 AM
MAC Addresses have nothing to do with Apple or Macintosh computers.
Now you tell me! You mean I PAID all that extra money to get a Macintosh and I don't get a special address?

7930.

Solve : How do I upload to a GitHub repository??

Answer»

Hello GitHub experts,
I'm new to GitHub and I want to be able to upload some files for my Garry's Mod server (LOADING screen data). I downloaded the Windows software and I created a new repository. I thought it was going to be a simple, easy to use drag-n-drop program but no. So I tried right clicking it and opening it in Explorer. I dragged the files there and then went back to the GitHub software. I added a title and summary to the commit and click Ok. It actually uploaded, or at least on the software! I checked on the repository online and it wasn't there. Just a plain old .gitattributes file. I checked back on the software and I saw at the top the word Sync with the (^1) above it. I CLICKED it and let it sync. I get the MESSAGE "Failed to Upload: Please check the debug console for further details." something like that. I tried opening the GIT Shell and typing "$ git debug LoadingScreen" then "git debug LoadScreen". It dosent work Can anyone how to simply tell me how to upload data?Most User interfaces for git are not very good. The most usable one is PROBABLY TortoiseGIT.

Github does provide instructions when you create a repository about how to upload to it. I don't know how the github software works but with TortoiseGIT you should be able to right click the folder of your local working copy of the repository and add them to your commit, commit them, and then push them to the remote repository.

I'm not really sure how git get's involved with Garry's Mod for uploading- I'm aware of a few mods that use a repository that you pull to install content that isn't supported by the workshop, but I'm unaware of anything where you would actually have to push changes.1st you will need a MAC address...I'd suggest you find a git tutortial and go through it to learn the basics such as this: http://readwrite.com/2013/09/30/understanding-github-a-journey-for-beginners-part-1.

Github is not just some sort of file hosting site, Git is a sophisticated version control system that requires learning to at least understanding what you are doing. You probably don't need to know all the complex stuff at first but you would at least want to know the basics of committing, cloning, pushing and pulling.

This probably seems daunting but it's not that bad and can easily be picked up in under a day.

7931.

Solve : BOOTMGR is missing. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart.?

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Please guys HELP me. My Laptop is ASUS 550L. It stopped responding while I'm trying to connect to the Internet so I shut it down by PRESSING the power button. Then When I turned it on, It said that "Startup repair cannot fix this computer automatically". I tried to find solutions online and then I followed some instructions from a site then now the laptop says "BOOTMGR is missing. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart". I tried making a Flash drive Repair Disk for Windows 7 but When I went to Boot Options, There's no Usb there. Can you please help me? Please. Do you have a DVD with the Widows 7 instalation?
If so, it can be usedto repair that kind of error.
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To run the Bootrec.exe tool, first start the Windows RE:
1 Put the Windows Vista or Windows 7 media in the DVD drive, and then start the computer.
2 Press a key when you are prompted.
3 Select a language, a time, a currency, a keyboard, or an input method, and then click Next.
4 Click Repair your computer.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/927392Cuys, I NEED help. I tried to create a repair for Windows 7 in a flash drive but when I went to boot options, There's only four options there. P1: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GU&1N, P0: HGST HTS541010A9E680, MultipleCard Reader 1.00 and VEFI MultipleCard Reader 1.00. I tried selecting P1 and the same message appears which is BOOTMGR is missing. P0 is also the same. VEFI MultipleCardReader says the same. Multiple Card Reade says Invalid System Disk. Replace the disk and then press any key. When I don't connect the USB, Only TWO Options apper which are P1 and P0. I don't have installation disk and dont have money also to bring to for repair. I'm only a student. Please help me.
OK, you came to the right place.
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My Laptop is ASUS 550L
If the computer camwith Windows, then it already has beenlicensed. So you do not need to buy a NEW retails copy of the Windows operating system.
Here is what people do if for some reson they do not have the install CD or DVD.
You get a friend t o help with a working computer taht has Internet
You two will do this:
A. Go to the Microsft ssite and look for a download of your version of Windows
( Maybe your is the Home 32 bit version.)
B. Burn the ISO file to a DVD using any ISO burner.
C. Taje the new DVD and set yur computer to boot from theDVD.
(This is inside opf the BIOS setup area.)
This video shows ho you make the laptop boot up the DVD
http://www.asus.com/NZ/support/FAQ/1008829
Can you do that?

EDIT:
From a Google search:
Download Windows 7 - Microsoft
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows7
If you need to install or reinstall Windows 7 you can use this page to download a disc image (ISO file) to create your own installation media using either a USB ...
Link above has more information about product key issues. If yu can't find the proct key, you may have to call Microsft support.
7932.

Solve : Computer won't turn off?

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Several weeks ago I had my computer "scrubbed" by a local outfit to remove a persistent virus. They reinstalled Win 7 and I reinstalled my information and programs. Since then, when I use the "Shut Down" button in the Start MENU to turn off the computer the screen GOES blank but a "whooshing" sound , like a fan running at high speed or a hard drive really spinning continues until I press and hold the Start button for several seconds.
Any idea what's preventing the machine from completely shutting down?
I have an ASUS all-in-one ET2701INKI-B046C.
Sounds like they didnt exactly SCRUB the system and perform a clean build to it. I have dealt with this problem with SYSTEMS that were infected that I cleaned up and of which the system still had damage from the problems.

I'd suggest a clean install from factory media or disc. 99.9999999% sure this would cure your problem with shutdowns hanging like this.

7933.

Solve : Damaged monitor?

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Hi -
Nobody is dumb enough to have this problem but me. I was supposed to send a bank an ELECTRONIC signature. They sent me a form by e-mail to sign. I signed the form on the monitor with a pen That was not what I was supposed to do. Now I have my name on the monitor and I can not get it to go away. Is there ANYTHING I can do except buy a new monitor? I will try anything. Thanks Bob This was part of a joke 20+ years ago ... blonde secretary joke... but if it did happen you can try rubbing alcohol on a soft towel to try to thin out the ink and get it to wipe off. If its a CRT tube type monitor its much easier to remove. If its a flat screen display the display surface can have a texture to it that makes ink removal more difficult as well as the surface is a plastic and any STRONG removal chemicals can break down the surface making the display worse.

My daughter when she was 6 years old took a sharpie and Bic pen to get 17" flatscreen display. Rubbing alcohol and LOTS of careful rubbing with the soft cloth did the trick to remove most of the ink. Be careful not to bare down on a flat screen display as for the liquid crystal layers for the RGB can get damaged if too much pressure is applied.

Here is the joke from long long ago ....
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Q: Why do Blondes use WHITE OUT on their computer screen's?
A: Because they couldn't find their eraser.
from here: http://www.blondesville.com/dumb-blonde-jokes/2/


BTW.... do not use an eraser if its a flat screen you will damage the display surface. Rubbing alcohol is safest.DaveLembke -
Thanks I was so upset I couldn't think of anything. I'll try your suggestion to-marrow and let you know how I come out. BobDaveLembke -
Your suggestion worked. My monitor is an Acer . I did not know before that it has a FILM of some sort over the glass so only the film had ink on it. Thanks You saved me the price of a new monitor. Consider the case closed. Bob
7934.

Solve : Windows 10 advise?

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Hi -
Windows 10 is being offered free. I am using Windows 7 now. If I take W 10 when it comes will it be more complicated than W7? I am happy with what I have now and I don't want to have to learn all over again. What will be my options? I am supposing that some of you have been on W 10 bata and have some idea about what it takes to change over. Any suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks BOBhttp://money.cnn.com/2015/02/22/technology/windows-10-review/Allan -
Thanks for your reply. That website sounded like a SALES pitch to me. However I guess I will GIVE it a try when it comes. I still am satisfied with Windows 7. It does everything I am capable of doing. I just want to be ready just in case they do away with W 7. Thanks Bob First, they don't do away with OS's, they just stop supporting them (proving updates). Second, Microsoft will continue to provide Extended Support for W7 until 2020. Third, the website I sent you to was CNN. It was not an advertisement.Allan -
OK I will just stay with what I have. I PROBABLY will never see 2020 so I am all set. Thanks for the clearing up what will happen to Windows 7. BobYou're welcome.

7935.

Solve : I Lost My Game To Tabbed Windows?

Answer» Happy New Year Gamers...

Everyone, have I lost my game forever? I had an online game open and while open I inadvertently opened up my History and clicked on something in there which replaced what was in the opened window. Apparently Chrome will not allow you to open the History and use it while a window is opened without replacing that opened window. So now, my "The 7th Saga" game (which was at Lv 72) has been eaten up to the point that I can't even get back to my game from my favorites.Without starting the entire game over.

Can I get my game back and at the point I was when I opened the History window?

Thank you guys and dolls...
Online Games usually have a server that you authenticate with and once logged on the information from a server populates a flash session or dynamic HTML session. If this game is one of those games that every time you start the game you start from scratch then thats just the nature of the game by design. However a game that has levels and based on its title I would think that if you go back to that website where the game is hosted and logon to the website, it should have your information there so that upon logging on and maybe having to select what Realm or Server your connecting to you can get back to where you were at level 72.

What I have seen some people do is wipe out history and passwords and after not using their passwords for a long time they forget them. So now when the password is no longer stored in the system and password is unknown they are locked out of the game. This requires them to use a Forgot My Password tool on the website and then you have to supply the user name or e-mail address that was used to register the game and then they will e-mail you a password reset to follow a link and change password ect.

Other mistake some people do is that they forget what realm or server they connect to. So after the logon to the website you need to select the correct server. If the incorrect server is selected you will start from scratch at level 1. This is because your game is on a different server. You then have to log out and logon and select a different realm or server until you find the one that your level 72 is at. Maybe this is the problem your running into.

Additionally lots of the games like this have support for pass through FaceBook authentication and so it might be possible to link your Facebook to the game account as well, however this may assume you under a different identity than that of the account you already have with them, so sometimes it doesnt work after the fact to link a Facebook authentication to a game. * Note: I personally avoid this Facebook authentication method for games. I prefer each and every website to have its own username/password associated with them to avoid getting hacked.The 7th Saga was a Super Nintendo game, so best I can figure is you were using one of the online emulation sites which emulates the system to play the game for you.

In which case the answer is probably no.

Hi, and thank you for your efforts. Yes the game is online at OldGamz in the SNES forums. Thsite allows for you to save after each hit each kill or each level as many times as you wish. It also has reset options. So it is not a restart with each login, no. A login will last until you clear your cookies. then you MUST login again and your game begins from your last save, even if in the middle of a battle.

What happened yesterday, I have no idea, except to say it occurred when I had the game opened and I went into my History and clicked a site , that page replaced my game. As soon as i saw that I used the back button in the browser bar/row to go back to my game page. It did however, the info on my game was lost. Lost not only in that window. but also in my favorites/bookmarks. I always thought that was sacred. No matter what you could always go to favorites to restore your saved info. And this was saved info believe me. I save after each it sometimes.

I really want to know exactly what might have happened to devour my info.

I did contact the site about retrieving my game at the level lost , however, they said they cannot do that. Admonished me about backups. The problem was the Chrome tabbed browser which AOL Techs can never find in the programs. I was told Firefox was going to be installed as my Default browser. The tech said it isn't. But AOL overwrites whatever they want and make it so you can't undo it. their techs have never been able to undo Chrome browser cause they've never found the program.

My options now seem to be either drop the game where I was playing with a group or to restart the entire game when i was 8 levels from maxing out a very tough grinding game.

Btw, I did logout of that site and re-login. I restarted my computer also, and nothing. The save is just vanished into air. Darnit!

Thank you guys, I appreciate it.
I took a look.

Your "favourites" in the browser or otherwise don't save any game data whatsoever. All save data looks like it is stored locally; when you hover over the Flash Player there are options in a toolbar that allow saving and loading State, which basically takes a snapshot of the entire game state and saves it to a file, and allows you to load it later. It never loaded any save info automatically for me.

The save data that is part of the game itself- that is, that would be saved on the Super NES CARTRIDGE- seems to work, however the game only allowed you to save in Inns. Since you said you saved after "every battle" it sounds like that isn't what you used. But the Save States I described- where you explicitly select a destination file or a file to load, don't sound like what you've used to "save" either.

I suspect that perhaps registered users get some kind of automatic feature. Either way the data would be stored locally on your computer, if anywhere. It looks like the default format is FILES with "gs0" extensions where 0 can be any number up through 9. You might want to use a search tool to search your hard disk for those files as you may find something.

Another thought is, Have you left that Tab open the entire time? If you click on a Favourite in Chrome and you already have a tab open to it, it will merely switch to that tab.

Hi PC_P, thank you for the interest. It's appreciated.

So that site does allow you to enter Inns to save your progress but that is for the purpose of, shall we say warping from town to town. As you were in the site and loaded a game I'm sure you noticed underneath it about 7 icons... these control game play. The "Cloud" is the icon that allows you entry to the Save and Continue Progress of a game. So yes, you can save your game play as often as you like and end the game as I mentioned, in the middle of a battle if you wish, COME back in a year and pick up right there.

My thing is, that game is still in my Favorites, however it has been wiped clean of my data/info. That has never happened before and I have no idea why it happened this time. As for the tabbing of windows. When the ISP introduced that version the tabs were in one window. But versions later the new window simply replaces the one that was opened. And today when I was on with a tech it opened in individual windows. So that if I had a game opened, and went into browser history, it opened another page so there were two pages open. But again, that just happened starting today. *shakes head*

To be honest I don't even know what browser my comp uses. Lenovo tech said he was going to replace "Edge" with "Firefox" and make it my default. However, when I use the "What browser am I using search," It says Chrome. My System Information shows it is Chromium. Today he said you can't be using that because you have the AOL Desktop as your browser. All I know is I see remnants every time I close programs or pages or anything, a tracers closes like there was more than one browser working.


When I'm over my disgust I will probably begin a new game of The 7th Saga. Sorry if this is muddled. I'm just stunned about this thing. And i WORRY about the next time.

Thank you again... enjoy your evening.


No, I'm not comp savvy, what I know can fit into a thimble.I cannot on my own search for the answer to this dilemma.
Hi CHers, I hope your day is going well.

I think there may be one more thing I can try. As I was thinking about Sunday and what was going on around the time of the lost file/page, it occurred to me something else happened. I remembered accidentally punching the "DELETE KEY" and I think I hit it two or three times. I was trying to hit the "ENTER KEY" and hit DELETE by mistake. So if I did delete the files, is there a way for a novice like to me recover it?

I shouldn't even be asking that because as I recall, the last time I tried to recover something I ended up buying this comp because I wiped my OS off the other one. I will contact a tech later to request a remote of my comp and let them do the work. For the safety of my girl her. However, what do you guys and gals think, could that be what happened? If so, is there a shot I can get my saved game back?

Thanks...


Friend of mine used the free version and was able to get a file back. Biggest thing is that you have better odds getting a file back soon after its deleted as for the minute the hard drive flags that file as deleted its space that it is consuming can be overwritten with new data. When part of all of the file is overwritten then its lost for good.

https://www.piriform.com/recuva

Just ran it on my system to try it out. And you just need to uncheck the Install Chrome [ ] box to the lower left for a clean install. Kind of neat in that it shows files and if they could be recovered or not. Green dotted/flagged ones could be recovered. Others only partial recovery possibly since incomplete from original form.


[attachment deleted by admin to conserve space]The "Cloud" icon is only present for registered users. If I click it it presents a login prompt, and I have no desire to create an account (sorry) so I don't know what lies beyond. It's possible pressing delete deleted something from there. In that case, there would be nothing to recover via Dave's method, as it would have been saved on their server (as suggested by the cloud icon)

If I may present an alternative suggestion; considering you will likely have to restart anyway.

What you are doing is using an online SNES Emulator; the game you are playing is an SNES game, not an online game; the features, saves, etc that surround it are features provided by their emulation.

As you've found, having it in your browser has caused you some trouble.

What I'm getting at is that there are alternatives for Emulation Software. For the Super Nintendo console, SNES9x is one of the more commonly used ones; Higan. Both of these allow you to emulate Super Nintendo cartridge games.

The problem is going to be finding the games. the ROM images of the cartridges that are used by emulators- including the online emulator- are copyright material, so providing a link or anything of that sort here would be, quite rightly, against forum rules, but they can be found with a bit of Google. (Though, this entire thread breaks forum rules already since playing SNES games on an online emulator is piracy, though I doubt you were aware of this)


At that point, you'd be dealing with a separate piece of software, rather than your browser. (And, the local emulator software tends to be much better).

Hello Everyone, I truly appreciate all the help offered to me. Unfrtunately this effort to have techs tryand find the material didn't pan out. Even the 3rd level tech couldn't be of any help.

As for me, I am not one to download things onto my computer. So this tool, I'm sorry Dave, I won't be loading it. My only other recourse appears to be redoing the game.Ugh!

Also sort of a query. if I were to hit the DELETE KEY would I lose the item right then? If the answer is yes, then the delete key wasn't the culprit. Because when I hit the DK I thought I was hitting the ENTER KEY and afterwards i continued to play the game, so that wasn't it. Some thing happened when that History click replaced my game.

Okay everyone, it's been a pleasure. Thank you so much... I guess I may as well get started on the redo.

Til next crisis... wishing you all the best in 2017.
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Solve : Windows 10 Upgrades Kills ...Windows 7 And 8 Features?

Answer» Forbes magazine says:
Windows 10 Upgrades Kills ...Windows 7 And 8 Features
Link:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/06/02/windows-10-features-removed-windows-7-windows-8/
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I have been part of the Windows 10 beta program since day one and I’ve witnessed the evolution of an OS that blends the best aspects of Windows 7 and Windows 8. Unfortunately Microsoft MSFT -0.15% has now also confirmed that Windows 10 will kill some of its predecessors’ most loved features…
Posted on June 02 by Gordon Kelly, Contributor

He claims that:
+ Watching DVDs requires separate playback software
+ Windows 7 desktop gadgets will be removed ainstalling Windows 10.
+ If you have a USB floppy drive, you will need to download the latest driver

And some other stuff he thinks is important.
- I could can less. I WATCH DVDs on by TV.
- I pit gadget son my desk, not my computer.
- I hate floppy drives.

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+ Watching DVDs requires separate playback software
This appears to be the case. I can't get Win10 to play a DVD with WMP.

I expect this is because DVD decoder software requires royalties to the DVD Forum for commercial software, and Microsoft decided not to include it with prerelease versions. Considering most people who are "serious" about watching DVDs either watch it using other devices or they use other software anyway, I don't think this is a PROBLEM even if it isn't temporary for the pre-release. (I seem to recall The Win7 Beta couldn't play DVDs either)

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+ Windows 7 desktop gadgets will be removed ainstalling Windows 10.
Well, considering they were an unfixable (by design) remote exploit, I hardly see this as a negative, myself. Let's see, have a bunch of silly eye-candy gadgets on my desktop, or be susceptible to remote execution exploits that could allow software to take over my PC. I think that choice is pretty obvious.

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+ If you have a USB floppy drive, you will need to download the latest driver

This is untrue. My USB Floppy drive works when I plug it in without downloading or installing anything.Its also worth noting that Windows 8 also doesn't support the desktop gadgets or DVD playpack in WMP. Its also important to remember that while you can't play DVDs in WMP there is nothing yo stop you simply using something else like VLC to play them.My HP laptop (Win 8 ) came with CyberLink Power DVD; it works well for DVD playing. Surely, all manufacturers put this software or an alternative on all new systems.
7937.

Solve : Partitions show up in file explore like hard drives?

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diskpart
select disk 0
select PARTITION 1
assign letter=R
exit
reagentc.exe /setreimage /path R:\Recovery\WindowsRE /target C:\windows
Try create a recovery disk to see if it works



You must change the OEM partition to the Recovery partition.

diskpart
select disk 0
list partition
select partition # Note: Select the first OEM partition: select partition 1
set id=de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac
select partition # Note: Select the second OEM partition: select partition 6
set id=de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac
exit

Ha my name is Danny and I did both of these TWO my Dell XPS 8700.
It fixed the problem. Don't really know how I did it.
Only now I have like two partitions SHOWING up in file explore as drives.
Don't suppose someone could tell me how to UNDO this. Hey this is me again actually I think when I REBOOT they went away nevermind

7938.

Solve : Hewlett-Packard Watch ( 1977 ) HP-01?

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Saw this watch on the show Storage Wars, decided to look it up for info on this, and figured I'd share it here. On the TV show they brought it to a watch DEALER who claimed it was worth $1300 (USD) which luckily was greater than the COST of the storage locker that they won the bid on to make a profit.

I always thought it was Casio in the 1980s that CAME up with the first Calculator Watch, so it was a neat TECH history find.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-01

7939.

Solve : Backgrounds, wall paper?

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I don't use SCREENSAVERS, but love changing BACKGROUNDS & wallpapers. Some people say these use up 'resources,' space, or WHATEVER. true ?Not ENOUGH to worry about. Probably the same people who tell you Windows 10 is no good Thanks, Allan. STILL haven't made up my mind on W.10.

7940.

Solve : Brightness not bright?

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I have 3 new laptops. A TOSHIBA, an Asus and a Lenova. The problem is that the brightness for the Asus and Lenova is not near as clear/sharp/bright as the Toshiba. They almost have a dull yellow tint to them while the Toshiba is bright and white. The brightness level is maxed out on all. They all have 1920x1080 resolution. They are all set on the high performance power setting. The Toshiba has an i7 processor w 4600 hd graphics card. The Asus has an i7 processor w 5500 hd graphics card. The Lenova has an i5 processor w 520 hd graphics card. What is the problem? Why is the Toshiba noticeably brighter and sharper???

[attachment DELETED by admin to conserve space]Apparently this is something new for you. For others this is a common problem. The brightness and clarity of laptop displays various from one brand to another. In fact, even desktop displays very quite a bit. I am using to television sets forth my PC desktop and the quality and brightness of the two variants. It just so happens that the brighter PC display just happens to be the Toshiba. Maybe that's a coincidence.
Now as to your problem with your laptop. It is almost always a question of the display electronics and has little to do with the process for or even my graphics chip. In the case of a brand-new laptop VARIATIONS in brightness and quality of the display would be a reason to return it to the vendor and ask for a refund or exchange.
Thank you for including photos of the three laptops. This underscores the need for seeing a laptop side-by-side with another before making a decision to buy ideally one would want to have a laptop that has just as much light output as a good TV set and the clarity that would be equal to or greater than a high-quality television set. So it's wise to actually make a side-by-side comparison before you buy.
Now back to your question. How can you resolve this? The issue is not something that is adjustable other than the standard controls for brightness and contrast. Too much brightness will make the display fuzzy. Contrast can also AFFECT the clarity of the display. Some screens are just not capable of high contrast. It's just the way they're made.
Apparently, in your case, the Toshiba would be the best choice. Now I'm not going to say that Toshiba is always the best choice, there are some people that have complaints about Toshiba laptops. By this I can recall, I don't think I've ever heard anybody say that the Toshiba laptop was not bright ENOUGH or clear enough. Usually the complaints had to do something else.
That's all that I can think of. Hopefully some other members of the forum will have some better ideas.
(this post was done by microphone dictation. Please overlook mistakes in grammar or spelling.)Ok, that makes sense.. It's unfortunate that you cant truly tell the quality of the brightness/sharpness without literally seeing the laptops side by side. There should be a lumens # in the specs or something... Like you said, I obviously just want the same HD quality as I would get w a new HD tv. So if what you say is accurate, you can have 2 laptops w the same screen size, resolution, processor, graphics card, brightness/power settings, operating system, etc. and still be different due to the different brand? Thanks.

7941.

Solve : Chromecast - Wireless Issue [solved] sharing fix?

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Installed Chromecast and while its cool once its WORKING, its quite an odd install, and not without potential for problems.

Install Process:

1.) Unbox Chromecast device and plug into TV HDMI and plug micro USB into USB port of TV to power it and avoid another cord to an outlet.

2.) Device boots and directs you to url

3.) You go to URL and it directs you to connect to Chromecast unprotected wifi

4.) Connected to unprotected Chromecast wifi and it then shows a code on TV of say 5Y6R.

5.) You enter this code into the web interface of the Chromecast and it now verified that your laptop is connected to configure the Chromecast device.

6.) You then have to select from a list of detected wifi networks, which one is yours.

7.) With wifi network selected you then have to enter the security key/password

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Here is where trouble started:

I have 2 wifi routers and I wanted to connect to the D-Link which is 128-bit WEP ( I have very few neighbors around my home so its ok that its not the most secure), but Chromecast would not connect to this wireless ROUTER.

So I went back and instead of using my D-Link with 128-bit WEP, I chose to instead connect to my newest router which is WPA2 [AES]. It connected with no problems with this other $14 wireless router.

*This 2nd wifi router was added to free up the one router from wifi bombardment and loadbalance some, so while my wife and daughter connect to the older D-link, the Chromecast and my devices connect to the newer wireless over WPA2-[AES].

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So problem solved moving on...
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8.) In order to control this device that is now connected to your wireless network you need to have Chrome browser installed. So Installed Chrome and wasnt too thrilled about only option for this browser was to download the beta version. I try to avoid beta's unless its a new game that is in development and its a way to play the game before release ETC. You then go through a step with a screenshot of wireless network manager with no words on what to do, and its prompting you to basically disconnect from unsecured Chromecast and connect back up with this same wireless network that the Chromecast is connected to.

9.) Search Google on how to control Chromecast from Laptop. There is a control tab in the upper right corner with drop down. Click on tab and tell it to cast the display from the laptop to the TV.

10.) PC display is now cloned to the TV with some lag. ( Lag might be that I was using Netbook with Intel ATOM processor through this process.)

11.) First hit Youtube and play video and tell it to go full screen. Cool it works.

12.) Next goto www.fox.com and see if the streaming episodes can play. Cool they play

13.) Now back to youtube because daughter wants me to play a video. Netbooks battery is at 12% now and I need to shut it down. I wonder if the Chromecast will stop with the SHUTDOWN i the netbook that is playing the youtube video along side the chromecast is powered down.

14.) Shutdown netbook and the chromecast was chugging along playing youtube video on its own without requiring the netbook to be on to play it. COOL!!!

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Not sure how many others are using the Chromecast here, but I found the installation lacking in detail and had I only had the one wifi router I probably would have thought something was wrong with the chromecast device since it wouldnt connect to a router that works fine with other network devices like Kindle Fire, Laptops, and Desktops etc. Having this other wireless router was the only way I got it to work without I suppose changing the wireless security to WPA2 etc from WEP and all devices that connect to it as well, so connecting to this 2nd wireless router was the easy way out of a mess I could have gotten into.

SO... If you have a D-Link Wireless Router such as my D-Link DIR-601 and a Chromecast, and the Chromecast is not connecting when using WEP Key or Passphase/Password etc, try using WPA2 [AES] instead of WEP 128-bit.I know this is old but just wanted to say thanks, this helped me solve a compatibility issue that was driving me crazy for daysGlad it helped.

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Solve : Have I been pwned website - Test your e-mail addresses to see if compromised?

Answer»

I was checking out www.hak5.org that I have donated to and watched since 2005 and Shannon Morse shared a cool website on "The Top 5 Biggest Hacks of 2016 – Threat Wire" video as video is linked here: https://www.hak5.org/episodes/threatwire/the-top-5-biggest-hacks-of-2016-threat-wire

And the Have I been pwned website to test your e-mail addresses out is located here: https://haveibeenpwned.com/

I checked my many e-mail accounts and the only one that hasnt been part of information leak/theft hacks is my gmail account. My yahoo accounts are tied to multiple data security problems not just with yahoo but also other sites that I registered with and used that e-mail with. The coolest thing is that for me its not that big of a problem that my data is out there and leaked. Nothing personal in these e-mails and websites and I have for years used false information with all my e-mail accounts so I have aliases and alias birthdays and addresses and fake maiden name security question answers and all that stuff. The problem is for those who have real information that is registered and those foolish enough to use mothers maiden name and all sorts of other security questions that should never be used etc. For all my security reset questions I might pick a category LIKE your favorite instrument and use "YellowBigBird" as the answer. No one ever would come up with that, its so outside the box. The worst and weakest security reset question has to be your favorite color.

Figured I would share this here as for there may be many of you who are unaware of this cool website that is able to tell you if your email is linked to data leaks/hacks and it also gives a listing of what websites and what data breach and hacks it was grabbed from. Its also always best to change your passwords and security questions to change up your account with what may have been leaked. If the information contained in a leak is stale then its useless to a hacker.

I added some PICS of my results with e-mails blanked out. The one below with 5 LISTED breaches is my oldest e-mail account from 2003 that is still used and is mainly the one that i use to register everything and anything that requires a registration. Its my junk bin that i keep active.

[attachment deleted by admin to conserve space]It should be noted this isn't checking if your E-mail account was compromised, but rather whether one of your online accounts associated with that E-mail have been compromised.

For my Hotmail E-mail, it Looks like I've had two accounts compromised: "Daniweb" which I registered on before I even registered here and have pretty much ignored for 8 years, and DropBox. In the former case I couldn't care less- I have a good idea what password I would have used then and it isn't used for any web account that I can think of, so presumably nothing that matters. Dropbox responded to the hack immediately by informing users pretty quickly and I changed my password at that time; but the compromised password wasn't used elsewhere.

Interestingly, my web domain e-mail "@bc-programming.com" also had a related account exposed, for some recruiting website I don't remember ever using. All my web-hosting associated Account passwords are unique randomly generated passwords which I don't use for anything else (largely for this reason!) so I'm probably fine.

Interestingly, a while back I found my own site had been compromised through a wordpress vulnerability which was also able to get my FTP password, (or my FTP was somehow compromised, I don't know) I saw a login from Argentina in the logs and decided to change the password. Managed to clean up the mess and change the config to avoid the vulnerability.

The funny part was the most damaging part- an attempt to change my index.php to serve malicious drive-by downloads- was up for a grand total of 5 seconds, because by sheer coincidence at that exact time I was making changes to the file, and when I uploaded the changes I overwrote the hacked version!

Another related ISSUE is the question of whether a site you give your E-mail to sells it onwards. Most sites will say "We never sell your E-mail to third parties" or something to that effect.

I heard of somebody coming up with a rather clever approach to this; they would actually create a brand new E-mail account (with unique profile info) and have it forward to their main e-mail for every online SIGN up, then write down the E-mail and the attached website they used it to register with. Then when they got spam, they could see exactly who sold their E-mail address (or was compromised). Seems like a lot of work to me but it's pretty effective.

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Solve : Browser temp files?

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How can I FIND my browser's TEMP files, or downloaded files in either IE, Chrome or Firefox?


Thanks!
Hello,

By default almost all web BROWSERS are set to store your downloaded files in "Downloads" folder present in your Windows user profile folder usually here==> C:\users\your name\downloads


Thanks for the information zep516.Quote from: cinque8 on January 09, 2016, 09:17:13 AM

How can I find my browser's temp files, or downloaded files in either IE, Chrome or Firefox?
You've mentioned two THINGS, temp files and downloaded files. zep516's post addresses downloaded files but not temp files. To clear temp files in Firefox, for example, see How to clear the Firefox cache. For Chrome, see https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95582?hl=en If you want help with IE, please tell us what version of Windows and IE you are using. In all browsers you can find a setting in OPTIONS to force downloads to a folder of your choice.You're welcome cinque8 !

and thank you Allen.

Joe
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Solve : Converting files?

Answer» URGENT!! How do i convert org FILE to DOC file?We are going to need more information, what software created it, what is the file MEANT to contain.etc?
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Solve : Youtube Audio ---- Noticed a weakening -- Normalization??

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Nothing more frustrating than wanting to crank youtube audio and only squeezing about 60% max volume out of it. Seems as though Youtube might be normalizing the audio.

http://productionadvice.co.uk/youtube-loudness-normalisation-details/

Anyone know of any software, browser addon, or other means that can act as an amp / waveform booster to get the 40% back that they throttled the max volume down by without having to buy a higher output sound system. My sound system was just fine until over the last few months it seems LIKE the volume is set to the max and you can clearly see its throttled from max volume output pretty badly.

[attachment deleted by ADMIN to conserve space]Nobody else answered, so I will give it a try.
First of all, that should not happen. It is digital audio and has an absolute reference. Or it should be.

Can you confirm it is only You Tube that does this?

Some sound cards have the option of automatic level control. You should see that somewhere in the documentation.
This might help:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-pictures/automatic-volume-leveling-during-audio-playback/f9656c4a-b5e7-4cff-b029-7577f0efa549?auth=1
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This is really annoying:
Quiet sound is amplified to sound at a REASONABLE level. Then when a loud part of the song comes on the level automatically drops making the quiet parts sound annoyingly loud & the loud part annoyingly quiet... Sorry that's the best way I can describe this... again:
He had the opposite problem!

Interesting I will have to check into that... thanks geek. In the meantime I have my system connected to my Roland guitar amp aux in jack which gives me plenty of volume when I want it vs the $12 logitech speakers which otherwise work fine when playing a CD or MP3 and the volume level can go to 100% vs capped around 60 or 70%. I will have to go to other SITES that have music to see if they cap at 60-70% as well.For GENERAL reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_compression
Much of the research on Audio Compression was done on analog audio.
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Solve : Free Calendars. DIY?

Answer» Make your own calendar FREE.
A LIST of Free calendar makers:
http://listoffreeware.com/list-of-best-free-calendar-software/
Some LET you add photos.
There are a lot of free photos from Adobe, GOOGLE and Microsoft.
https://images.google.com/
(Enter your favorite subject in the search box)
I like animals:
animals

Please add to this list.
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Solve : Need to access my dell inspiron 1545 from my macbook?

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My Dell Inspiron 1545 running Windows 10 has several sectors on the hard drive that have gone bad. I have ORDERED a new hard drive, but I would like to move my files and photos to save them. Can I move them to my older MACBOOK OS 10.7.5? I have an extra external 500MB of RAM on my MacBook through a USB port. I don't know if the files and photos will save on the mac, though. Does the Windows 10 computer boot properly or the system is crashed as a result of these bad sectors?Quote from: JanetTheberge on January 06, 2016, 03:53:34 PM

I have an extra external 500MB of RAM on my MacBook through a USB port.
That's not "RAM".
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Solve : Documenting Hardware/systems?

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Hello all,

I have started an IT job for my college and been tasked with documenting Hardware/Systems in a certain department. I am seeking any advice on any templates or specifics to document. I REALLY only think of the basics like a PC to document the hardware (internal specs of a pc and monitor, keyboard, etc) and the software side (OS, applications (their current version) and licenses). If anyone has any advice or would be kind enough to explain any details or steps that I should take prior to or after, I would love to learn and take in any and all information I can!

Thank you for any help as it is greatly appreciated. First steo isto identify the make and model o each bit of hardwareandsoftware in use.
Often the vendors and distriutors have aditional materail hat can help clealry identify what yuo have.
There are auditing TOOLS out there that can be used to GATHER information, but it depends on if the college will allow you to run a 3rd party tool on the systems to gather this info or not.

Back when I was in college years ago I was directed to Sisoft Sandra which gathered all sorts of info on systems. There are others out there too that audit and list info.

If your not allowed to run any audit programs on systems then its a bunch of manual research.

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Solve : Has Computer Hardware Suffered From the Gamer Community??

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Has computer hardware suffered as a result of the gamer community?

Shopping for parts is becoming increasingly difficult as more and more PRODUCTS are designed to be visually pleasing, contain meaningless buzz words and even more ridiculous components.

I am writing this after coming away from looking at a motherboard that boasted a LAN controller (with no technical specification) that and I quote: "Prevent(s) disconnection due to high ping" & "Allows you to actually run your PC 24 hours a day".

Actually finding components with real merit is now so much more difficult to the old days, in which you could pick up good kit at computer fairs. Now you have to browse around online trying to find manufacturers which haven't succumbed to the temptation to make ludicrous promises for people that don't know any better.


I propose a witch hunt! (j/k)It is more than just gaming. And hardware. There is a lot more under the hood.
Early efforts by hobbyists often focused on games as an example of something that could not be drone without electronics.

Some of the firsts home made computers would have an interactive game the demonstrated the value of a game that would offer some competition to a single user. Any early computer hobbyist wanted to make machine that would interact with a human in an amusing way.

The big companies came in and offered dedicated games machines, but the amateurs wanted something that would not be dominated by commercial interests. Here is a list of some games that are not tied to monmey-makungs companies.
List of open-source video games
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_video_games

By making a game PC with hand picked hardware you could save a lot of money and play great Public Domain games. Double fun! You make it, you play it!
But like the OP said, that time has gone. There are no more computer fairs. Not around here anyway. Yeah, you can buy real expensive stuff, bu its snot much fun anymore.

Back in March they had a big game thing San Fransisco.
Here is one blurb of that event.
http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/06/state-of-vr-sony-project-morpheus-2015/
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I did not get motion sickness when I demoed Sony's new and improved Project Morpheus VR headset at GDC this week in San Francisco.
Huh? Is the objective motion sickness??
IMO, too much super realistic graphics takes away some of the fun of using your own imagination. So instead of being entertained, yor ate terrified.


Uh oh you may have set me off! Gamer stuff rather annoys me.

Quote from: Accessless on June 09, 2015, 05:33:55 PM
Has computer hardware suffered as a result of the gamer community?
I think so. Though it may merely be a new market segment, having to sort through the gamer-oriented trash is annoying.

For example- even RAM is not free of this. You have those ridiculous looking RAM modules that have brightly coloured goofy appendages sticking out of the top:



Now, thankfully- again, this is just a market. You can find "Normal" RAM; Corsair- the same company- has XMS2/XMS3 for example is pretty good (IMO) and isn't super-flashy, and, coincidentally, is far cheaper.

That page you linked is pretty hilarious though. "Military Class 4 components" (They don't mention how badly you'd have to screw up to not meet those requirements). The blurb about their "Network gaming" is pretty hilarious. And the "feature" they seem to illustrate as being related to some special network chip is actually part of their software. Thankfully at the bottom is a proper spec sheet- the LAN is apparently gigabit- so there is that much going for it. The big issue I had when I built the computer I'm using right now is that while playing games better than my old system was sort of expected, it was not a requirement and it wasn't why I was upgrading- the main reason was basically that it was starting to lower my productivity for my work. And when searching for components you have to dodge all sorts of gamer-oriented trash. There are graphics cards with RGB LED's illuminating Logos. The fact that you can change the colour of the LED is somehow marketed as a feature. Because that is certainly the killer feature I'm after, being ABLE to arbitrarily change the colour of a LED light on a graphics card.

Network cards are also marketed in this way too. And that is because only the "gamer" archtype is both interested in computers while simultaneously a lot of the time being completely ignorant of how it works. the LAN capabilities of pretty much any motherboard makes separate network cards redundant unless you specifically need more than one (eg for a server system). But then you have things like gaming network cards, where they put some giant heatsink thing on it and pretend there is some super-fancy network chip utilizing super awesome gaming technology to eliminate your pings... and you know that the heatsink is probably not even attached to anything and is just a thin cover over a basic network card to justify a higher price point.

Sound Cards suffer from some of the same issues. First their card lines have absolutely stupid names. Take the Creative X-Fi "Fatal1ty" or however it is spelled. Apparently it's named after some "Pro-gamer" handle, and he used the card. Well, good for him, I guess. It's not as if we see enough ignorant douchebags telling us what to buy, after all. We need a few more. Now the advantages of Sound cards are not completely non-existent, but the "Gaming" benefits are. Sound cards are good for music production and similar tasks, but they aren't going to improve gaming- at least not anymore, since most hardware accelerated sound tech has been replaced by the Windows Sound Mixer.

I haven't seen hard drives marketed as "gaming" devices thankfully, not that I'd be surprised to see something like a "WD Dremora" that is marketed as a super gamer HDD that is really just a WD Blue dressed in a skin/covering to make it styled like the Dremora from the Elder Scrolls.

Laptops of course don't get to escape this treatment. I dealt with that first-hand. I needed a new laptop to make Visual Studio and my work actually doable without my desktop system. None of the "value" laptops on offer had the specs I needed, though they had the appearance I would prefer. Once you get to the specs needed for what I wanted I was looking at gamer laptops that are styled to look like something out of Star Trek. And they are always emblazoned with some huge distinctive logo. "Republic of Gamers" being one I see a lot. That is a country I don't think I even want to imagine.

I ended up finding a laptop that had what I needed that didn't look completely ridiculous, a Thinkpad T550, so it is possible to find, but the manufacturers that actually cater to higher-end usage and aren't after "MAX EF PEE ESS" are few and far between.
I forgot to mention that my example "gaming" mobo only supports pci-e 2.0This is a very interesting point - It somewhat goes both ways - In someways the gamer community has CAUSED hardware to suffer but in other ways it has benefited it.

Sure, "gaming" hardware is full of marketing nonsense that has started to spill over into regular hardware, but is this really a serious issue? Sure it's annoying but there is nothing to stop you actually reading the raw specs (e.g. what network chip a given motherboard uses) to work out how it will perform and then ignore all the marketing nonsense. Most of the "gamer" features on these components can simply be ignored.

As far as appearance goes, I am not a massive fan of the "gamer" style with big flashing lights and strange gaming related dacals, same goes for massive heatsinks on RAM (although as BC said, there is plenty of decent RAM without heatsinks). But again, is this really a huge issue? If you don't care about how your PC looks, why does it matter that a board has a crazy decal and if you do care (like me to a certain EXTENT) then there are still plenty of non-gaming MOTHERBOARDS out there. Take mine for example, a Gigabite GA-Z77X-UD5H - there is very little gaming nonsense plastered all over it.

You also have to think of the benefits to PC hardware caused by PC gaming. If we look at something like mechanical keyboards for example - Previously they were reserved for high end users and were very expensive, back in 2011 I paid £120 for my first new mechanical keyboard which was right before they became the "next big thing" for gaming. Back then the choice and availability was limited, I had to order it from a specialist keyboard retailer. Now that the gamer community is all over them, the prices have dropped considerably and the range has grown hugely with companies such as Corsair and Coolermaster releasing their own mechanical keyboards. They are also now stocked in more mainstream retailers which makes them much easier to find.

Another thing - Would GPU technology have progressed to where it is today without PC gaming - Probably not. If there wasn't a big market for extremely high performance GPUs then I doubt they would be advancing as rapidly as they are today and prices would be surely considerably higher.

You also need to think, if it wasn't for PC gaming, would PC components still be widely available, affordable or have such a wide selection. If you think about it, outside of gaming, desktop PCs (especially custom built ones) are a very niche market, the average user does not need a desktop PC, especially a custom built one. Most people I know who don't have a specific need for a desktop PC just tend to buy a laptop. If it wasn't for gaming I imagine the selection of PC components would be extremely limited and expensive due to low demand.

Quote from: Accessless on June 09, 2015, 10:23:51 PM
I forgot to mention that my example "gaming" mobo only supports pci-e 2.0
That is a totally separate discussion - AMD do not yet natively support PCI-E 3.0.Quote from: Accessless on June 09, 2015, 10:23:51 PM
I forgot to mention that my example "gaming" mobo only supports pci-e 2.0
Quote from: camerongray on June 10, 2015, 03:33:23 AM
That is a totally separate discussion - AMD do not yet natively support PCI-E 3.0.

Now I'm confused. I thought that PCI-E 3 cards were not backwards compatible with PCI-E 2 sockets. Why does my graphics card work?Quote from: Accessless on June 10, 2015, 07:16:40 AM
Now I'm confused. I thought that PCI-E 3 cards were not backwards compatible with PCI-E 2 sockets. Why does my graphics card work?

PCI-Express 3.0 is backwards compatible with 2.0.For what its worth. Acer claims they are still courting gamers.
Acer Whiffs At Computex, Gaming Line Still Shells And Promises
(From Tom's Hardware, June 9.
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After Acer's New York City event this spring, where we saw an avalanche of new Acer products, we got teasers about the company's newly rethought line of gaming devices. Though we were a bit disappointed that all that was available at the event were mockups of its "Predator" gaming desktop, tablet, notebooks, and curved monitor, we anticipated seeing the new gear in full regalia, with complete specs and pricing info and availability, at Computex.
Believe it when you see it.
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Solve : What about Public Key Cryptography??

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Here is a link to a Microsoft web page:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998077(v=exchg.65).aspx
Understanding Public Key Cryptography

For most of us, this is as much secrecy as we need. The Public Key method is easy to use and hard to crack. But it is not bullet proof.
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... example, both the sender and the recipient must keep the key SECRET because anyone who knows the key can use it to decrypt and read the message. A lost key RENDERS the encryption useless. In addition, the strength of the algorithm is important. An unauthorized party can take encrypted ciphertext and attempt to break the encryption by determining the key BASED on the ciphertext.
This subject is often considered controversial and should be avoided. IMO every user should have a BASIC knowledge of what this is and why it matters.