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Yeah, I'm just a rank amateur 👴🏻; I think the last time I did a BIOS upgrade, it was from a "floppy" disk 💾. But at least, I finally got this last one right . . . I hope. (So far, so good.)

I reviewed the Gigabyte list of BIOSes again, and this warning was strong enough that I thought I'd try to update it again: • Major vulnerabilities updates, customers are strongly encouraged to update to this release at the earliest. Credits to "Assaf Carlsbad and Itai Liba from SentinelOne" •...

Semi-on-topic, after my 3/29 CPU-cooler upgrade, I noticed last week that the RAM clock was backed down to the default 2666MHz, from the 3600MHz that those DIMMs support. So I had to go into the BIOS to correct that - I assume that sync-ing with the CPU clock speed it a good thing...

Trump is the Reverse Robbin' Hood - he takes from the poor and gives to the rich. ;) He's gonna make you an offer you can't refuse. What's that old saying, "A fool and his money are soon Liberated".

Breaking news: Eel-on Muskrat is buying TikTok. He's going to rename it Xmy@$$. 😜 And Donald Trump has issued an executive order declaring the Constitution unconstitutional. :LOL: From the radical left-wing commie-pinko New York Times...

FYI, all, I have ended up hating this case. The power button is "unencased" on the front top-right corner, and is quite sensitive. It is so easy, reaching around for something else, to accidentally bump the button and turn off the PC. A power button should be away from the case edges, and...

Well, the install is done, but it was a lot more hassle than I'd hoped. The first problem was that, even though I left the PC running "full bore" until just before I turned it off, and got right into trying to remove the old heat sink while it was still hot, following online advice, I tried to...

Alright, I "pulled the trigger" on the Assassin, V2, from Amazon, so it's an easy return if it doesn't fit. Thanks, all, for your comments and suggestions.

Thanks, Merc, I just started checking into that Assassin (in between the sweet 16); "cool" design :cool: - "twin towers", dual fans. But it's 155 mm tall, whereas the Pure Rock 3 is 154 mm. ;) Upon further review, Tom's likes it.

Thanks, DD, I'll check into those options. I had thought the other side of the case was "solid", but downloading the doc'n, I see that I was wrong. :)

In the interim, I searched reviews a bit for good CPU air coolers, and I was interested in the well-regarded be quiet! Pure Rock 3; it's a silly mm shorter, at 154. But when I checked into it a little more, it seems that it would be a fairly major hassle for me to install. Instead of "just"...

I'm considering replacing the stock cooler on my Ryzen 7 3700x processor, with CPU utilization 100% 24×7, working on the World Community Grid. My case is a Thermaltake Versa H18, which is listed as supporting CPU coolers up to 155 mm high. I'm concerned about getting a cooler that is exactly...

Donald Trump has won the Nobel Prize in Fiction for his State-of-the-DisUnion speech on March 4. From https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/arts/television/late-night-trump-address-congress.html: “Things got off to a big start when Trump and JD Vance held hands and sang a medley from ‘Wicked.’”...

Don't hold back, Mr. Feinman, tell us how you really feel. ;)

From another commie-pinko website, https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/03/epa-launches-full-assault-on-environmental-protection: . . . the Trump administration’s widely anticipated assault on regulation on all fronts at once, announcing 31 separate actions to roll back restrictions on air and...

In the Trump-ed up America Great Again world, along with most major newspapers, the 3 major (non-Fox) broadcast TV networks, Associated Press, CNN, . . . From https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trumps-anti-media-rhetoric-turns-action-rcna191949: "The president has prevented The...

“The guy has spent the entire campaign screaming about how awful electric cars are, is now buying an electric car. Of course, there’s no chance he will actually pay for this electric car. But why should he, when he did a big commercial for them today, absolutely free?” — JIMMY KIMMEL But then...

Fun article from the (left-wing-media) New York Times, about yesterday's Tesla commercial at the White House.

The new KVM switch was delivered a day early, and I got it installed and working OK. 🙏 (y) I'm leaving the old, disconnected one in place for a while, to make sure the new one is reliable.

Thanks again, all. I've made the purchase, and it's supposed to be delivered Monday. So I'll be doing some calisthenics next week, crawling under and around my desk, unplugging the old KVM from the 4 PCS, and plugging in the new one. 🤞

Thanks, fellows. IIRC (and that's always a big If), CDW used to stand for Computer Discount Warehouse.

Taking some measurements, that Tripp-Lite B032-VUA4 model I mentioned above has (handy) built-in cables, but they're only 4 feet, and I need 6 feet to reach all 4 PCs in my office. OTOH, they have one, B006-VU4-1, for which I must purchase 6-foot cables separately, but it can handle either PS/2...

Thanks very much, DD and Merc, for your responses. But Level1 is above my budget level. ;) I had to crawl under my desk to check, but confirmed that another limitation I have is that one of my PCs, a bargain-basement Dell PowerEdge T20 "mini-server" with an Intel Xeon E3-1225 v3 CPU, can...

Greetings from the dark ages! I have a Zonet 4-way KVM switch that worked fine for many years, but has started to get a bit flaky. (It sometimes misses keystrokes or mouse movements.) The other limitation it has is that it uses a PS/2 keyboard and mouse, which are getting moderately rare, in...

Hey, David D, I hope you're not drafted to fight against Trump's threatened invasion of Greenland. 😜

Speaking of Something Random, DD in DK, thanks to the Danish Storyville Records for their archival of classic jazz. E. g., I'm but a happy serf in the Dukedom of Ellington, and Storyville was kind/generous enough to provide an online compilation of Duke's classic amateur-live-recorded 1940...

After decades of talk, Seagate seems ready to actually drop the HAMR hard drives

NY Times: Elon Musk spent more than A QUARTER OF A BILLION DOLLARS in the final months of the presidential election to help Donald Trump win. <insert political cartoon of Trump as a marionette controlled by Musk> In other news today, Donald Trump announced the replacement for all federal...

Breaking news: Trump nominates the CEO of Boeing as head of the FAA. 😜

Maybe the new Director of the U. S. 🇺🇲 FBI, Kash Patel: active promoter of Qanon conspiracy theory whose core belief is that a cabal of Satanic, cannibalistic child molesters is operating a global child sex trafficking ring that conspired against Trump. promoted use of pills that, he said...

Notes from Underground (the bargain basement): this past Wednesday, I tried to log on to my home-built 17⅜-year-old PC to check for security updates, but there was a problem - the screen was only showing on the bottom half, in a real big font. It turned out that it couldn't support my...

A friend sent me one of many cases in the new regime o_O: Our new ambassador to France … Charles Kushner “…convicted of illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion, & witness tampering, & was sentenced to two years' imprisonment…As convicted felon, was disbarred in three states. He received...

And now, for something completely random (): Desi Lydic Says Trump is ‘Picking Mascots,’ Not Leaders “The Daily Show” host said Trump could do worse than an “actual doctor” like Dr. Oz to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services: “I’m impressed he didn’t pick Dr Pepper.”

That DCP-L2640DW printer does support duplex printing. It's a very handy feature, if the driver supports it.

Eating pizza with your hands makes you a New Yorker:

Dios de Los Muertos: Days of the Dead. Nov 1-2. To celebrate, I went out to a favorite Mexican restaurant for my favorite Mexican dish, carnitas. 😋 I told the guy "If you'll pardon my French, Feliz Dios de Los Muertos." He took my money.

Happy Dios de Los Muertos! (To me, it's a much cooler holiday than halloween.)

Danke schön. Du auch. It's a royal pain to hear about our members' health-care-coverage issues, in this Great Nation. Other countries have national plans for their citizens' medical needs. But, of course, that's "socialist medicine", so it has to be bad/evil. (For the bottom line$, anyway.)...

I like to say that I'm a fan of classical music: bebop, doo-wop, and hip-hop. But as I've gotten (much) older, I've gotten to appreciate the older classics, like the 3-album Duke Ellington set "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_No_Lament:_The_Blanton-Webster_Band". And I'm a sucker for...

But seriously, we have already contributed to disaster relief for Hurricane Helene, and I'm anticipating another contribution in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton. I hope some of you can consider a donation.

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Does your job have opportunities for travel to conferences/workshops/etc.? That can be a good and low-cost way to do some traveling and see something completely different.

Referring to his Donaldshitp, from https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/31/us/politics/trump-nabj-fact-check.html: Former President Donald J. Trump, in a combative appearance before the National Association of Black Journalists, repeatedly disparaged Vice President Kamala Harris and the Black women...

How Long Is It? 😉

Yes, two 160 GB Seagate Barracudas. I had the idea to have a separate /home disk, thinking that might cut down on overall seek time.

Note from the amateur/"cheap seats" ;): My oldest build is still going strong after 17 years. Or at least, still going (from my World Community Grid result summary): Pentium e5200, overclocked 28%, from 2.5 GHz to ≈3.2 GHz; (which I had to lower from 3.5 GHz late in 2012). I'm guessing...

It wasn't MicroSoft's fault (this time); it was due to CrowdStrike, the cyber"security" company, and their buggy software update.

Within a day of the assassination attempt, "Republicans accuse Biden of inciting Trump shooting"; from NBC News: Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio (and vice-president candidate): “The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all...

This past Patch Tuesday, my original Win Up problem, above, had gone away: Finally, after about 5 months! I've retried Check for Updates over the past few days, and it's still working okay.

Would it be feasible to contact the serviceman directly and see if he'd "cut you a deal" on recharging the AC?