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UberGerbil

I've never used one so I can't say from personal experience, but you may be able to solve the problem for your preferred cable run by using two (known good) 3m cables and a cheap repeater / extender like this.

UberGerbil

Yes, the best solution is to ditch XP. If that isn't feasible from a marital peace standpoint, you really need to figure out what is generating the traffic (and Wireshark, mentioned above, is a good way to do that). What AV scanner(s) have you used? If it is infected with multiple malware strains, ...

UberGerbil

As far as Chrome with too many tabs goes, I find it's more about memory than CPU. Or have you already installed a tab-suspender extension so that isn't as much of an issue?

UberGerbil

I just found a still-sealed & shrink-wrapped copy of Windows 8 Pro (retail) that I vaguely remember getting as part of a bundle on NewEgg a few years back. I wonder if I'll be able to use it to activate Windows 10 Pro.

UberGerbil

From the article chuckula linked: As a side note, manufacturers often skip 4 due to its meaning in Chinese culture. It’s an unlucky number because it’s homophonous to the word ‘death’. Something that AMD surely does not want to be associated with Zen architecture. This is something you learn pretty...

UberGerbil

If you're overclocking / overvolting it's quite possible you're getting data corruption prior to the crash, which could affect things that are written/updated during boot like your profile, the icon cache, etc. Creating those conditions could've had similar results from Windows 7 (or XP or whatever)...

UberGerbil

Draft is tonight?
Whoa.
Draft is tonight.

UberGerbil

If you can open a command window, you could run the VER command (there's also WINVER but that may not be present in embedded) -- 5.0x will be Win2000, 5.1x will be XP, 6.0x is Vista and 6.1x is Windows 7 (because that's how Microsoft rolls -- there's a full list here ). Odds are pretty good that it ...

UberGerbil

I ran across this image on Imgur and thought of this thread.

Bonus from the comment thread for that image, for one of the soldering threads here.

UberGerbil

I bought some dimmable LED T7/E17 type bulbs, 6W and now I think I can see the problem. There is always current being sent to the bulb, so it burns out prematurely. The LED converts that urrent into light so even when the light switch is in the off position, the LED bulb is still glowing. If there ...

UberGerbil

One of the times I won was a year when I missed the draft and the autodraft just used the default rankings. It was kind of embarrassing, though of course I did do some in-season managing and roster manipulation. One positive about having relatively few teams in the league is that a lot of good playe...

UberGerbil

I think there's a kind of penetrating oil that has an effect on Loctite; at least, I recall somebody telling me that once. You'd definitely want to make sure it's a non-conductive penetrating oil (that stuff tends to find its way everywhere).

UberGerbil

"Hit him to death!"

UberGerbil

She'll write a book, hit the lecture circuit, and/or turn up as a talking head somewhere. Eventually she'll be selling a "redemption" story. If she'd just managed to do all of this a few years earlier and this whole thing was already a few years in the rear view mirror, I wouldn't be at al...

UberGerbil

Thanks for the head's up. I don't own any (I tend to buy Anker for this kind of stuff) but I think I know a couple of people who might. I assume if they bought them from Amazon the company will be contacting them (one thing about selling to people directly: you know how to find them) but with this k...

UberGerbil

You know, this offers a unique opportunity for an epic prank. Slip an MP3 player into the coffin set at maximum volume playing one file that consists of hours of silence and then something like this.

UberGerbil

Redocbew wrote:
whm1974 wrote:
So how did you get here?

He ran fast enough until he created a breach.

the wrote:
Looks like Iowa.

So... he drove a DeLorean at 88mph into a cornfield full of ghosts of dead baseball players?

UberGerbil

You know they've been around for a while, right? The one at UVillage here amuses me because (a) it's exactly across from the Apple store, and (b) they put the VR tryout area right in the front. So you can stand in the Apple store and watch be-headsetted newbs fail around while immersed in XBox.

UberGerbil

Ah, I've forgotten most of my optical disc-fu. I assume this is a -R or +R disc? Perhaps the last session wasn't closed and that's causing the imaging utils to barf? Have you tried looking at it with a CD writing program to see?

UberGerbil

The discussion of checked exceptions in Wikipedia might be worth a read. That's a particular kind of exception that Java provides, and few other languages do (and some that did got rid of it) -- an aspect of coding-by-contract that sounded good in theory but ended up being a pain in practice. Kiniry...

UberGerbil

Thanks for following up on this old thread with the fix. Somewhere I have a file with all the oddball non-default settings that CenturyLink requires for their modems, which I always used to use when setting up non-"Authorized" 3rd party DSL modems that weren't "supported" by CL b...

UberGerbil

Arvald wrote:
Buy a dollar store phone line splitter and run an RJ11 (ie phone cable) to the other machine. both parts commonly available at dollar stores for $1 each.
You can set fax machines to number of rings... including never answer for an outgoing only fax.

Dollar Store, picking up the slack.

UberGerbil

I'll play again.

UberGerbil

It's been a while since I had to deal with an HP product but IIRC their support page will identify your HP device and offer to download the latest drivers if you don't already have them. These days Windows Update is pretty good about taking care of that for you (if you let it) -- assuming you're run...

UberGerbil

-1080p @ 60 fps actually seems to be a little more demanding than 1440p @ 30. It is. 2560x1440@ 30 fps is ~110 MPixels per second 1920x1080@ 60 fps is ~124 MPixels per second It's exactly 12.5% more pixels to push, so a CPU that is running at 90% doing the former is going to be trying to push past ...

UberGerbil

Baby wipes make quick work of dirty fans for future reference. While I don't doubt they do a good job of removing the dust, won't the moisturizers leave a residue which will tend to trap new dust in the future? I'd use a Swiffer sheet, or equivalent, if handy -- after all, collecting dust is what t...

UberGerbil

I've stated my appreciation of Macrium Reflect in the past (in fact, well in the past ). The UI makes it easy to do things that make me think "There's no way this is going to work; it can't possibly be able to do that, can it?" and it does it with no fuss. I've never had any data loss with...

UberGerbil

So out of curiosity, what was your chosen solution -- a thread-safe replacement for ctime, or locks around the call? (Of course that's just a question of who is doing the locking, unless you have some MT-aware ctime that does per-caller allocations using eg thread local storage) Amateur night and mu...

UberGerbil

Check with your public library, some of them have access to Consumer Reports. Very very interesting, hadn't heard of that before. Apparently not just piles of the magazines but the actual online subscription too. Yeah, both the King County and Seattle City Public Library systems have the online ver...

UberGerbil

The drivers on the optical disc that comes with the motherboard are pretty much always out of date. And the latest chipsets frequently need bios updates. Whenever I'm doing a new build I use the driver disc for its only best use -- as a coaster for my beer while I'm downloading the latest drivers on...

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