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Thanks Coug, I needed this too.

I've been wearing glasses for 45 years. Critically important, make sure the lens has UV coating for UV-A and UV-B. Or you'll get cataracts quite early. Other coatings are optional. How the heck do you guys wear the same lenses for a decade? For a normal guy, you should get your vision tested...

What Merc said. Mostly, people wanted it in their homes for wireless, and devices would stop connecting after warranty expired and the thing had to be replaced. What's amazing is that people are still buying it.

Won't you get tennis neck (turning your head side to side to see these monsters) ?

Wonders never cease: The WRT54GL: A 54Mbps router from 2005 still makes millions for Linksys My recollection is that they died regularly every about ~ 2 years.

Well, well. My Toshiba Canvio Basics 2 TB arrived today, and completed surface testing in five and a half hours, a whole hour faster than the "similar" WD Elements on the same USB 3 port, same testing sw. Now copying stuff to it, and it is going much faster than the WD. Was cheaper to buy, and...

Hang in there Merc. I've been through this kind of thing too. Sucks, but you just have to ride it out.

Wow! Thanks!

Thanks. I need to get myself some of that thermal adhesive.

I bought my Brother HL-5350DN laser printer almost 5 years ago. I've never paid attention to the number of pages I've printed, but it's very less. The drum is supposed to last for 12k pages on average. My drum went bad suddenly a couple of days ago; there is a 2-inch wide vertical band of white...

Coug, I never said it was recommended! Six decades ago, things were quite different. And the only ape in this forum is in Australia.

After my experience with WD externals with crappy software that can't be uninstalled, and horrible speeds, I was nervous buying another WD external, this time 2.5" 2TB. It did come with trialware in folders, needed to be installed, so I just formatted the disk and got the "whole" space back...

With all the available expertise and equipment today, if the risk is so high, I wonder what it was like in, say, the 10th century? I myself was born in my parents home, mom assisted by a midwife.

Is it too late to ask for a pic with the stuck heatsinks? What do you stick them with?

True. Sorry to hear about this :(

I don't recall the article mentioning this. That's not fair reporting.

What Dave said. What's sad here is that their enterprise products are shot. They tout themselves as a premier enterprise products company. That's what's significant about this news.

High-severity bugs in 25 Symantec/Norton products imperil millions

Mechanical doping - how race bikes are being rigged.

VW to get shafted; sweet deal for owners

Forgotten audio formats: Elcaset Didn't even know this existed. I still have tons of cassette tapes, about half pre-recorded that can be thrown away, and half live recordings I've made, that need to be converted. And I have one somewhat high-end tape deck, a Yamaha KX-800U with dbx, Dolby B-C...

Thanks Merc, I'm afraid you're right. I spent some time nosing around the web yesterday, and there wasn't anything promising.

Hi Guys, I use MS Outlook in offline mode on my PC and use only the address and contact book. I sync this with my Samsung Android phone, and all was well till a year ago. Then my phone went wonky, and shows each calendar item twice. It also stopped respecting the reminder set; the phone...

Coug goes on holiday? No kidding! Nice place and nice pics, Coug. Must have been lovely and invigorating.

A couple of reasons to have the Tesla. Using Edge instead of Chrome will add hours of extra battery life. According to company tests, Microsoft's browser even beats Opera's battery saver mode.

My Truecrypt partitions are always unmounted when not in use; they are not automatically mounted on startup - would defeat the purpose, no? I manually mount when required, and unmount as soon as I don't need the stuff. Still, I don't know how the ransomware encryption works. If it encrypts the...

Interesting; thanks Handy! I'm amazed thar features like this have taken so long to evolve. I'd think after Interner Ver 1. (Netscape era) this would have become common.

dd, I do all the 4 things you listed. Chewy, many sites restrict password lengths. My bank, for instance; max pw len is 14 chars. They do force a change every 3 months. I maintain mine, wife's and mom's accounts through the 'net. Each account has a different pw, of max len allowed, composed of...

I guess you're right. Wasn't a major vulnerability discovered in one of the major password keeping programs (Lastpass ?) recently? I tried one of these for a while and found it irritating, and went back to my old method that I've been using for around 15 years. My method is proprietary (heh...

Didn't get you Howell. The passwords are stored in Word files. Since they're gobbledygook, I copy and paste them when logging in.

I guess I'm not as evolved as most of you guys are :) Long ago, after sundown, it was fire that provided light. I guess I'm still tuned to that color temp and am comfortable with that. I have no probs with 6500k in the office. But home is a different matter after dark.

To each his own :) - surely it ain't yellow! I think jtr is into 6500k / 7000k big time. I find 6500k difficult and 7000k positively nauseating (my brother has a couple in his home). I find 2700k comforting; my wife doesn't. The CFLs in the living room were 2700k; only two remain, with the rest...

I got an email from soc@slcsecurity.com in my spam folder. That domain goes to an outfit called jigsawsecurityenterprise.com. The body of the email said there had been a potential breach and my data was exposed. It correctly listed the main email account I use, and a password that I modify a...

Bright CFLs (> 30W) are available here only is painful white - 6500K or higher. In the 2700 - 3000k range, 23W is the max :(

Newer Windows versions should be able to open an ISO as if it was in a DVD drive.

For optimal performance, I think it would be more than replacing the bulb; LEDs require electronics to provide the requisite current / voltage. jtr is your man.

That's my whole point. Needlessly confusing.

:razz:

I do know what "≥" means! Maximum output is 2000mA (1000 for battery slot, 1000 for USB port). So maximum input current is > 2000mA after allowing for losses / inefficiencies.

Thanks much!

So what add-ons would make FF safe? Flashblock, Adblock, Better Privacy and Ghostery are what I have. Noscript as well? Any others?

:( Over the last year or so, Chrome has become my favorite browser; it's so much faster then FF (for my needs; I never have 3m tabs open), creates PDFs of the web page perfectly which FF never does, etc. Once Adblock & Flashblock are installer, plus Ghostery, is Chrome still unsafe? I though...

Thanks Tim. Yes Bozo, it is! What other choice do we have?

Specs are badly listed. If input is 500 ma...

I'm really bugged about the bugs & annoyances in W10. Perhaps a new thread for that.

How good a firewall does a browser maintain between tabs? If a tab has a website open, is it safe to perform sensitive transactions in another tab, or better to close all tabs other than the sensitive one? Corollary is security between multiple instances of the same browser.

Thanks Merc. I need to be careful since my W7 dual boots with W10, and I can't afford to screw up either one of them.

On second thought: should I upgrade my W7 to W10? I need to be on IE 11 or earlier, and the old versions of Java and Acrobat.

Today I received good news by email; a nearly 4-month long odyssey ended successfully. I faced innumerable obstacles created by apathetic bureaucrats and a whole lot of missing info. 1. An e-form I had to fill had a bug in its design that a govt. department refused to acknowledge or fix...

Merc, I didn't have a chance to check roll-up thingy. My understanding was that you download all the updates into one bit SP-type file? Sed is getting W7 and not W10? EDIT: I just downloaded the rollup; 476 MB, creates an .msu file. No idea what it is or how to install it. Don't know why it's...