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From Ars Technica yesterday: Seagate says Network Attached Storage and SMR don’t mix (Seagate's IronWolf and IronWolf Pro NAS drives are all certified SMR-free.)

Wow, that is nasty. I hope you can get it fixed, though it may take a fair amount of effort. I, and I'm sure many of us, have seen a bug on the screen and tried to squish it. So we can take a lesson from your unfortunate experience and make sure the bug is on the exterior of the monitor first.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/04/trump-halts-us-funding-to-WHO-says-none-of-this-is-his-fault President Harry Truman: As opposed to the current sign in the Oval Office, The Buck PASSES Here.

Wishing all our members, past and present, all the best on this Sunday. Though we are currently in difficult times, we are blessed in our modern era with the technology to be able to be in contact electronically with our family and friends. And not just in a "phone call" or in Emails, but to...

All the below from https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/10/politics/wall-street-journal-trump-coronavirus-task-force/index.html: The Wall Street editorial board is a notoriously conservative group, usually supporting conservative policies and Republican presidents. So, when the WSJ writes an op-ed...

Feds: filed and accepted 2/25 with TaxAct online, refund direct bank deposit received and processed 3/4, so 8 days Δ. That was then; though the filing deadline was extended due to COVID-19, now the IRS may be dealing with the economic-relief aspects of COVID-19. I haven't filed State yet. I...

That facility made the NBC Nightly News national broadcast this evening.

I should have added context to my posting just above; that local rehab/healthcare facility has now had 39 deaths, out of 190 beds. Also, I went for a walk of around a couple of miles this morning, and only about 10% of the people I saw were wearing masks.

Personally, we're doing OK, thanks. I wish the same for you and all of our members (current and former). In our area, we have had some "hot spots". One rehab/healthcare facility has had 35 deaths so far. I picked the wrong time to retire, October of last year. So we won't be getting any...

Ironic, considering the "traditional Chinese curse", "May you live in interesting times." Our president inaction.

Thanks for the updates, Time. Regarding your earlier comment on ECMO, perhaps Boris could benefit from that, if it is even an option. It seems like another drastic last resort. I don't know which St Thomas' Hospital your report was referring to; I was born there (the one in Akron, Ohio :))...

Sorry, but as an Ugly American, (and as a true American, I mean a citizen of the United States of America, not those un-American Mexicans and Canadians, nor, of course, Central or South Americans :)), the only NBC I'm familiar with is one of our major TV networks.

Thanks, Time. One fairly powerful tool for a U. S. president is the Defense Production Act: IANAL, but it seems that this act is not restricted to military usage, but could be applied, say, in defense against a dangerous invading virus.

And speaking of all of us April fools, I saw a meme the other day, to the effect that "Of all the stupid, wild and crazy things I've done in my life, I'm dying because I touched my face?"

Wow, I hadn't heard that wild story - do you have a link?

We can only hope and pray that this (or any other) medication can be effective against COVID-19. IIRC, production seems to be ramping up, and some pharma companies are donating large quantifies. From Time's postings, IMHO, enhanced ventilator production seems of somewhat limited value and...

This had blindsided the Chinese, since it supposedly started in the Wuhan area only about 4 months ago. And we know that a fair percentage of people with the virus show no or fairly mild symptoms. It was only when the alarming number of deaths were noticed that serious research, and government...

I just guessed you'd reversed three letters at a time, and your real name was Ken Rossed. 🤷‍♂️

That's great to hear, Ken! And I also would like to see a reduction in the political rhetoric in this thread. After all, who is to say who's right and who's wrong? Oh, I am, I am, and you are. ;)

Yeah, very vexing to have such a fundamental program, seemingly not requiring much processing power, flake out.

Yeah, that's what I meant. I usually start it only when I want to do some "spot-checking" (with <Ctrl><Shift><Esc>), then exit it again (<Esc>).

Aw, κραπ, first the hardware problems, and now Windows OS problems. Did you have task manager running "full-time"?

I've seen some reports that Germany is much better off regarding COVID-19 than other European countries, such as this one. From that: Germany, like South Korea, has been aggressively testing its population from the outset. Aggressive testing likely will identify persons otherwise too well to...

There are similar overloads of unemployment-benefit websites in the U. S. And probably in other nations.

So the good news is that the U.S. death rate from COVID-19 infections will presumably go down, since we will have a more accurate count of those infected, as the "denominator" of that rate. Unfortunately, from family-ar experience, just having the tests available is only the first step; being...

Coronavirus comes for spring break: Don't those kids watch/read the news, or are they all just stupid? Colleges are closed; don't they consider what "souvenirs" they might be bringing home to their families (older parents, or grandparents), or the reason colleges (and so much else) are closed?

Wouldn't it be great if the major Cloud Computing providers (Like AIM: Amazon/AWS, IBM, Microsoft) would donate a tiny fraction of their massive cloudy data-processing power to COVID-19 research projects?

From https://www.anandtech.com/show/15633/covid-19-toms-hardware-2020-folding-at-home-race: Folding@Home, a long-standing distributed computing project, recent added COVID-19-related research tasks to its list of projects.

In the words of an ex-president, "I feel your pain." How distressing to have it run OK for many hours before flaking out. I assume that you (and snow and handy) are using quality components, and you already checked the RAM "with a variety of memory tests", and presumably "reseated"...

From Ars T.: Firm wielding Theranos patents asks judge to block coronavirus test [Updated] Legal expert calls it "the most tone-deaf IP suit in history."

Chinese billionaire Jack Ma says he will donate one million face masks and 500,000 coronavirus testing kits to the US

Ah, I wondered how long it would take to blame the COVID-19 problem on that non-citizen/commie/nigger Obama.

Let's see, who's in charge of the "FDA regulations" and the CDC? And who's been busy twittering shots at all of the candidates in the democratic-party presidential campaign?

From Ars Technica: Singapore was ready for COVID-19—other countries, take note To me, a key factor in the Singapore vs U. S. response is summarized in their statement "These countries all have social structures and traditions that might make this kind of surveillance and control a little...

That Tom Hanks/Rita Wilson issue may be among the best recent news about COVID-19. If they recover completely, people will realize that it's not an "always-deadly plague", a belief which has caused world-wide panic.

March madness indeed: 2020 NCAA Tournament (basketball) games to be played without fans in attendance

Fake News: https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-trump-dowjones-tweet/false-claim-in-2015-trump-tweeted-that-if-dow-joans-plunges-us-president-should-be-shot-out-of-a-cannon-idUSKBN20P340

We're all very happy that you were able to satisfy your TP/PT sanitation requisites! :) Are you thinking the "panic" is due to COVID-19?

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/02/who-data-shows-coronavirus-is-containable-us-fails-to-contain

From Ars Technica: Facebook is canceling its massive F8 developers' conference over fears of COVID-19. The conference had been scheduled to begin on May 5 in San Jose, California.

9⁴ or 8⁴?

So according to the manual Yes, that's the complete list. Wonder if it would work under Wine, for *X enthusiasts?

Seconded!

Aw, jeez. About how old is the unit? Can you at least set up a fan to get warm air from downstairs?

Critical Windows 10 vulnerability used to Rickroll the NSA and Github Attack demoed less than 24 hours after disclosure of bug-breaking certificate validation.

Then I hope you were able to shut off the water at the main valve in time to minimize the damage. A few years ago, we got to have a kitchen remodeling because a pipe froze. (The builder forgot to insulate one little corner of the house. :mad:)

I hope there wasn't a leak. ☔ 🌊

At least you got the good news that your mother's surgery went well, and I'm sure the whole forum joins me in wishing her and your family the best.

From https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/8/21056198/sonos-google-statement-lawsuit-ces-reaction-big-tech: Sonos said what every smaller tech company was thinking: working with big tech sucks Also covered in...

At my old job, we got YubiKeys, but they set it up so we could alternatively use the PingID app on our phone, which was more convenient to me.