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Not so far away from AZ, Lake Tahoe in CA got so much snow that You Can Ski All Summer.

We could also hope that Merc has found true love, or another passion, and is otherwise occupied. (Other than this forum, that is.)

Did you follow this guide: https://www.fastmail.com/help/clients/outlook.html? They claim "The instructions and screenshots in this setup guide are for Outlook 2013. However, previous versions of Outlook are very similar, and you should be able to more-or-less follow the same steps to set...

That's some deep pruning.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/intels-first-optane-ssd-375gb-that-you-can-also-use-as-ram; "Intel announced today the first Optane-branded product using its new 3D XPoint memory: the catchily named Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X. It's a 375GB SSD on a PCIe card. Initial...

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/intels-first-optane-ssd-375gb-that-you-can-also-use-as-ram; "Intel announced today the first Optane-branded product using its new 3D XPoint memory: the catchily named Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X. It's a 375GB SSD on a PCIe card. Initial...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnstown_Flood, perhaps?

It's hot today, for Virginia in mid-February. 83° F at about 2 p.m. Tomorrow's high is forecast to be about 53°.

I recently saw a couple of fine films, Hidden Figures and Lion.

The keyboard is as big as a piano.

As it happened, I had a dentist appointment last week, so I asked them about the cost of one of those ceramic crowns; they charge about $1400.

I had a couple of those crowns installed a few years ago, and they are still fine, and it's very convenient to have it done in one visit. I don't recall about the cost, since it was covered by insurance. Good luck with your treatment.

Yes. In other news, it's a tie! They'll be co-presidents, working together hand in hand. Or hand in p****.

Don't forget Windows (and Flash): Windows zero-day exploited by same group behind DNC hack Trick or Treat! Google issues warning of critical Windows vulnerability in wild Oh, and Rowhammer can hit Virtual Machines: New cloud attack takes full control of virtual machines with little...

Donald Trump: the evil of two lessers.

I hope you can program them to scream at you when their battery runs low, "like smoke detectors." 8)

That web page is the greatest amalgamation of artistic vision and poetic rhetoric that I've seen for a while! Stunning Storage, indeed! Oh, but wait; I don't want to be stunned by my storage, I just want it to hold my files. And Merc, you would have to find the exact correct colors to paint...

So, maybe it's just that they're not telling the NAS that they're working OK.

Wow, they had that much pron way back then? ;)

I hope my Samsung 850 PRO SSD doesn't explode. ;)

Happy Labor Day Weekend all (for us US'ers). (Isn't "Labor Day Holiday" an oxymoron? Oh, boy, I get a day off for working my ασσ off the other 364 days.) After a few days now, I checked the last 15 World Community Grid anti-cancer results for my new vBox vs the old PC, and I see that the...

Thanks for the advice, all. I got the vBox about a couple of hours ago, and installed the second UDIMM. Here are the Memtest86+ RAM speed test results before and after this dual-channeling: 10399 vs 17351 MB/s, about a 67% speed increase. I have included the (fuzzy) screenshot pix from my...

My 4 deliveries are supposed to happen tomorrow. :) (Or, I assume, 1 delivery of 4 packages.) But I was looking into an issue I thought about, how to minimize "wear" on the SSD. Specifically, the 30-50 (?) BOINC project files I will be getting daily, that could probably be kept on the...

So I got a Samsung’s 128 GB 850 PRO SSD. It comes with a 10-year warranty! I should live so long . . . Since the PC user's manual didn't have specific details, I also got a 2.5"-3.5" adapter bracket and a SATA cable. I'm hoping the power supply has a spare SATA power cable, since Dell says...

Thanks very much for the advice, Chewy. Second things first, you're probably right that the integrated GPU is sufficient for my needs. I hope that Ubuntu's drivers support the video acceleration, though. As far as that Intel PCIe/M.2 SSD, I mistakenly thought that it could be...

Apologies in advance, but I just got one of these: Dell PowerEdge T20 Intel Xeon E3-1225 v3 Quad-Core Tower Barebone Server for $279, from yesterday's Ars Technica/TechBargains deals list. (I'm getting too old to "roll my own" any more. This will replace my 8-year-old home-grown PC with a...

And after I saw that BBC list, I checked out Spring Breakers, as (currently) pops up first in that link. I assumed it would be some semi-enjoyable fluff. We could watch for free, and did so; it wasn't complete garbage, but pretty close.

I can't wait to tell my wife that she's been boiling eggs wrong all these years.;) I guess I'll be doing the boiling after that.

"Speaking" of passwords, does anyone here believe in Steve Gibson's theory that "padding" a base password with enough repetitive characters can make a very secure password?

Repo Man

McCabe & Mrs. Miller

Maybe it's because she thought of those brilliant IBM TV commercials for Watson (or Wat-ever). Bob Dylan?

I just watched The Conformist again. It's still good.

FWIW:.

.. (Sorry, couldn't resist the wording variant of the "Seasonic Announce New Prime Series PSU's" thread.

8½

Most of us know how to disable AdBlock for a web site, or could figure it out.

Seriously, is there no way to find out how to get affiliated? Send them a list of FS links to Amazon products, discussions of Amazon Prime and items on sale, etc.? I, for one, would not object to Amazon ads on the site to support it financially.

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Native-American giver. ;-)

From ArsTechnica: vBulletin password hack fuels fears of serious Internet-wide 0-day attacks

From Ars Technica: Android security on the ropes with one-two punch from researchers

From Ars: Firefox blacklists Flash player due to unpatched 0-day vulnerabilities

Hey Moderators, can you extract the subsequent "my first/early computers" posts into a new thread? Yeah, that would be great. Oh, and Atari 800 with 48K RAM! And 1010 auxiliary Dual-Density disk drive and 1050 Program Recorder, all still in the attic. BTW, does anyone else remember the NEC...

From Ars: Apple announces recall program for 3TB hard drives in 2012 and 2013 iMacs Quoting from a comment there: Rosyna (Ars Tribunus Militum) retrospooty wrote: Its odd about 3tb HDD's. They are failing in much higher #'s than 1,2 did before it and 4tb did after it. This is all major...

OTOH, I've had a Zonet 4-way KVM switch that has worked great for years. Yes, it's ancient history - PS2/VGA, but it has supported the various PCs (and laptop docking stations) over time just fine. I got a good PS2/USB converter, Belkin F5U119VE1, that works well with my newest PC on the KVM...

Anand Intel SSD 750 PCIe SSD Review: "Intel SSD 750 PCIe SSD Review: NVMe for the Client" Yes, I NV U.

FWIW, Mushkin Teams With Newegg To Launch Fast And Budget-Friendly ECO2 SSDs.