The localized names come from a file named "desktop.ini" which is marked with the attributes System and Hidden. If that didn't get copied, you'll just have the plain ol' boring directory names. For example the contents of the desktop.ini in my Pictures folder contains: [.ShellClassInfo] Lo...
There are rumors of GTX1160 / 1660 cards being revealed possibly as soon as this month, in both vanilla and Ti variants. They are supposed to be RTX chips with the ray-tracing feature disabled and different clock speeds / RAM types / RAM sizes, and rumored to be $80ish cheaper than the RTX2060 for a...
This will be my first "big one" since moving to NC eleven years ago. I lived in southern New England prior to that, and my main experience was with the (much weaker) Hurricane Gloria back in '85 leaving my neighborhood without power for well over a week, took out MANY trees in our yard, an...
In my experience, I've found the temperatures reported by motherboards to be neither accurate nor precise, especially motherboards in that vintage. The only trustworthy/reliable information you can easily gather (without a thermocouple, as mentioned) is whether or not the CPU is throttling. There is...
My work is running some Core 2 E8600 machines and a Phenom II X4 with Win10. I actually upgraded the CPUs from like C2D E4400s because E8600s are so cheap on eBay. They run great. Chrome and Thunderbird are very fast on them and that's really all they use. Newest machines there are Haswell. I agree...
Left 4 Dead 2 is awesome in co-op mode, and also supports LAN. It's an older game, so it's often on sale for dirt cheap (my buddy picked it up for $1.99 a week ago, but it's back up to $19.99 now.
The latest news from Saturday is we now need an emergency out-of-band Windows update to roll back the kernel mitigation for Spectre variant 2 because it may cause data loss and/or corruption in addition to the known rebooting issue. On top of that, Intel says to stop patching microcode/firmware upda...
An interesting development... NVIDIA Asks Retailers To Stop Selling To Miners & Sell To Gamers Instead The company wants its cards to go to gamers instead and it’s trying to do so by directly selling on its website and asking its retail partners to limit orders to two cards per person. NVIDIA st...
I've got a 2009-era Panasonic TC-P54G25 plasma (purchased in January 2010 on clearance) and it's been absolutely wonderful, especially after calibration. The only issue I've had with it is that the panel makes a slight buzzing sound during large brightness transitions, similar to the noise CRTs used...
Firefox allows a configuration where you can set it up to accept all cookies from first-party and/or third-party sites, but only keep them around until the browser is closed; at which point every cookie that is NOT in your white-list will be deleted. Benefits: ⋅ All sites will be fully fun...
I can understand someone wanting faster LAN speeds enough that they are willing to fork over the $$$ for a 10Gbit switch. What I don't understand is: Why would that same performance-concerned person decide to back up a laptop over WiFi, rather than just plugging the laptop directly into the 10Gbit s...
Funny coincidence that this thread came up now. I purchased a NES console off eBay and received it in the mail yesterday. It's the newer revision released around 1993 (which I didn't even know existed until a week ago) so it's quite a bit smaller and the cartridge loads on the top (just like the SNE...
Well let's put it this way: What does Enterprise Edition buy me exactly? Nothing, because Windows 10 Enterprise Edition is still the same old consumer/desktop OS with an enterprise license and a handful of extra features. Enterprise != Server. What you REALLY want is a server OS, such as Server Es...
I have been following its development for months, and I am planning on getting one. Although admittedly, the price is steeper than I anticipated. My main requirements are: 5.0" or smaller, Android, Verizon compatibility, and unlocked bootloader.
The updates really aren't difficult. It's just that they don't provide any ROI to the manufacturer or carrier. They already have their money, so why bother when the VAST majority of consumers don't care?
After my ISP (Time Warner) started instituting cable modem rental charges, I bought a SB6141. It worked well for a few months, but eventually started having issues with thousands of uncorrectable errors. Switching to a Zoom 5341J (also an 8x4 modem) resolved the errors completely and gave me rock so...
On about 25% of my page views at TR (front page and forums) I'm being prompted for a username and password, from what I'm assuming is an errant Doubleclick ad: A username and password are being requested by https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The site says: "Google" This is using FF47 on ...
If you have a recent phone, you should already have a SIM that will work just fine. I haven't talked to Verizon about activating a device in years. I buy direct from manufacturers, pop my SIM in, and haven't had a single issue in this regard. That's assuming your old SIM card actually fits in your ...
I'm in the same boat as you, almost exactly. The builder's wiring contractor installed a box into the wall, just like the one you posted. It doesn't have any ventilation, unless you consider the airspace inside the wall to be "ventilation". So that rules out putting heat-generating compone...
I'm planning on giving these a try soon: LightDims . The reviews seem to be mostly positive. I used a black Sharpie to color over the green LED on a smoke detector to achieve a decent level of dimming, but still keeping the LED visible. Sharpie ink also has the advantage of being easily removable wi...
I've done a lot of RMAs in the past for an individual... [snip] ... multiple CPUs from both AMD and Intel What in the world is this individual doing to CPUs that they need to be RMA'd? I've built literally thousands of PCs, and fixed many times that many, and in only one circumstance was the CPU at...
My Delta flight from Atlanta to London in 2013 had a USB port integrated into the TV (in coach). Same with my flight from Atlanta to Milan in 2014, and Atlanta to Honolulu in 2015 (both also Delta/coach). Those were all large, modern planes though. The shorter domestic flights that I've taken in rec...
it was like 7:30 in the evening by the time they finally got me the paperwork and I had been there since 9:00 that morning. I was tired, irritable, and hungry -- I'd already left to get food once -- and ready to have my new car. I did end up signing a lot of things without reading them as completel...
I'm using a Razr Maxx HD running Android 4.4.2. When I connect it via USB and browse using Windows Explorer on Win7, the files ARE noticeably slow to show up, especially photos where it has to read the entire file so it can generate a thumbnail. However, for me, it always finishes the operation, and...
The engineers were looking towards the future. They didn't want to "use up" #4 when they didn't have to. After all, there are only a finite amount of numbers available, they must conserve wherever they can
I maintain two major email accounts: 1. My personal account which I only give to living breathing human beings who write actual emails to me 2. My "everything else" account I get notifications on my phone for account #1, but not #2. Account #2 has been a Yahoo account since the late 1990s....
Yes, that is insane. :roll: We only consider defects to be "bad" when it's obvious that a developer didn't even do the bare minimum of unit testing. We have so many requirement defects, that they tend to drown out coding defects anyway. If the muckety-mucks start to penalize developers for...