I finally dumped the half speed dial-up and I now have what looks to be real internet, wow! When the tethered phone has three bars, google speed test says it's four+Mbps! I'm now faster than my cousin's in town DSL, saaaaweeet. I can now retire my sneakers and just go visit (and squash his foolishl...
Where practical, I just refuse to run without RAID nowadays. Some of my Seagates were bad enough I had to give up on them as RMA replacements aren't free (shipping) and they were failing more than once a year, but that was a long time ago. I'm happy with my Toshiba drives, but they are the first Tos...
That or something like it definitely still applies to my R7 1700. If Windows is configured to ever let it drop to its minimum state, it gets intermittently slower even when it should be maxed out (full load and anything reading frequency directly shows max). Captaintrav, what's your CPU? My observa...
My biggest gripe with DPI scaling on Windows is that Microsoft usually guesses the scaling value wrong, and then sets that wrong value as the default for every single user that ever logs on. The display reports its physical size and resolution, and that would be enough to ensure that printed 10pt f...
Stumbled across this lately that there are at least some cases where the power plan settings on Windows 10 is making BIG differences in performance. I'm not sure how turbo boost and everything plays with these settings but I'm talking about the "Processor power management" settings. The de...
I like the (minor) visual tweaks, and the brightness slider on the notification panel is a good idea. It feels like DPI scaling behaviour got worse somehow, though That sucks, I've been welcoming the enhancements for this as they come. Maybe they'll have it sorted out by fall (we're only doing the ...
My sample size is pretty small outside of work where we manage the updates ourselves, but I have yet to see *any* machine in the wild that got 1809 offered through Windows Update. I wonder how MS is going to approach rolling out 1903. I have received 1809 through WU on two of my personal laptops an...
My sample size is pretty small outside of work where we manage the updates ourselves, but I have yet to see *any* machine in the wild that got 1809 offered through Windows Update. I wonder how MS is going to approach rolling out 1903.
I noticed this too on FB, and what's worse when I clicked on the links it just took me to the front page. After a bit of testing, it seems only about 1/3 of the time did clicking the FB link take me to the story.
Y'all must be using some seriously crappy hardware. Which is understandable. Not like each of us can afford to upgrade every PC we touch. I have just never seen these kind of issues on any of the W10 machines I interact with on the regular. Even my dad's old Thinkpad, which is a dual core i5 from y...
The fact we still have facilities on 1.5MB copper connections makes deploying the updates ever harder too. Thankfully some sites are finally getting fiber, but at the cost of several hundred thousand dollars per site. Not everyone can get 100mbit connections easily even nowadays. I'm not sure how y...
The cumulative updates are seeming to get bigger and bigger, this month's CU KB4486996 for 1709 was about 900 mb and takes some time to install. We even ran into a new issue where our AV (unfortunately mandated by security "experts") was causing an issue because it was taking too long to s...
I believe you can get to the recovery options without booting into the OS if you, get this:. Repeatedly power it off as soon as you see the Windows logo, then Windows will give you options to repair since the PC won't start. Why they removed F8 is beyond me. A nice new feature they added to this mon...
The new installer in 18.04 is garbage. I had no success getting a system to boot after creating a simple 2 disk RAID 1 mdraid array and booting from it. Reverted back to server 16.04 and it's fine.
I wonder if one of the Windows updates was for the wireless driver, if he was on wireless. I had enormous problems with Windows Updates failing on a Windows 7 laptop, then at some point it dawned on me to try Ethernet, and it started working again. The Windows Updates service seems to be really fini...
Do you have an SSD in that laptop? I'd try another disk especially if it's an SSD. I've seen some pretty weird issues arising from defective SSDs, and there doesn't seem to be things like disk errors in the event log, but after testing RAM and exhausting other ideas, tried a different drive and magi...
I've had great success using VirtualBox for an XP emulator. This is all games of DX6 an earlier or possibly OpenGL prior to 2 (certainly 3). Anything newer than that and I would expect it to work in modern windows. Probably, but I'd rather run anything of the DirectX9 era on XP for the nostalgia fa...
I'm well aware of the security risks, but thinking of building a system just for old games -> I don't have any hardware worth trying new games on so no need for newer OS. My question is if Windows Update is still working for XP? If I install it and temporarily connect it to the internet is it going ...
edit: this post is about the Linux file system check, apparently it's a bad word so therefore the asterisks :lol: Ubuntu 16.04 -> when I log in I keep getting /dev/md0 will be checked for errors at next boot. Okay. Check the status of the filesystem: Last checked: Thu Jul 20 16:53:52 2017 Check inte...
I know on some Dodge products, so I imagine Chrysler/Jeep as well, tunes from Superchips did vastly alter the throttle response. At least for my friend that had one on his Durango, unfortunately it gets locked to the VIN so I can't reprogram mine as well.
I never thought of but the TBW system probably is why my Durango seems pretty nonchalant when you mash the gas from a dead stop, cause the power once you hit about 30mph seems a lot more so. I always chalked it up to the revs needing to get up, but I bet it has more to do with the programming TBW th...
What are you paying for fuel? Our 98 octane is $1.61 per litre.
91 is $1.41 CDN
Ouch 91 octane can be had here for just over $1, I'm guessing 91 would be $1.10-1.15. I think we have some of the cheapest gas prices in Canada though.
I was down to 10.5 mpg but a 2 hour drive to MD upped it immensely to 14.0. 95% of my driving is in the city, so having a heavy 3 row SUV and a thirst 5.7 Hemi is a bad equation for getting good fuel economy. Luckily, I only have a 7 mile round trip daily drive to work every day, so even at those v...
Just as a note, there is microcode updates for all kinds of processors in the package, but Intel hasn't released any *new* microcode updates for anything older than Haswell. Well, sure, but if it isn't available, it simply isn't available whether you are hacking it into the firmware or using your d...
Just as a note, there is microcode updates for all kinds of processors in the package, but Intel hasn't released any *new* microcode updates for anything older than Haswell. I suppose they had to draw a line somewhere, but especially in the data center 5 years seems fairly short. Not necessarily. I...