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chkdsk finally finished - after a total of 2 hours on a partition 443 GB in size, 64 GB used. Unfortunately when I went to take a peek it had booted into Windows. I ran Crystal DiskInfo and the SMART info said the disk was good, except temperature was 51C. Write error rate was 23,114 decimal. No...

4 hours of Memtest, 4 passes of 14 tests each (the defaults) found 0 errors. Running chkdsk /b now (command prompt after rebooting). Fairly quickly jumped to 27%, and has stayed there for the last hour. Not a good sign, I guess. It doesn't show any details of what chkdsk is doing, unlike the...

Not exactly; IMAX with laser: Superb contrast, 4K resolution, and huge colour gamuts I'm sure SD & DD will be buying one each as soon as it is available for the consumer.

The stupidity continues: RFID chips in driver’s licenses

How hackers can access iPhone contacts and photos without a password

North America is out of IPv4 addresses—for really real this time

This guy is obviously a Mazda Miata fan. Sadly, I have never driven one.

Thanks guys. I checked the disk and it was ok. I did suspect RAM, and it'd be a nightmare if it is. I plan to work most of the day on it to get it working. Will update when I have something meaningful to report.

Downloaded a tool from MS to reset the stack; didn't help.

Sorry, ignore, I just Googled it.

Thanks DD. Tried #1 & #2; didn't help. How do I do #3?

Thanks DD. How do I do #3?

Whining on battery but not on mains indicates the whiner is sensitive to voltage. Have a spare new battery to test with?

Sorry for the long post. Daughters Lenovo IdeaPad, 2 years old, running W8.1, has been chugging along merrily. A couple of days ago it froze on her; I don't know what she did, but she got it running again and used it that evening and the next day. She did complain that she couldn't print...

Bozo, the script is supposed to hide updates that have been removed / disabled, so you shouldn't be seeing the same updates again unless MS changed the KB #.

The local Amazon copycat (founded by two ex-Amz employees) bought out a fashion dress portal and later made it pure mobile app only. Now they are pontificating making their entire website app-only. The IT crowd (tech-savvy, with high purchasing power) is up in arms because they make a lot of...

Ok, testing completed. Charger 1: Samsung original, 5V 1A, came in box with Samsung Galaxy Grand phone. Battery capacity: 2100 mAh Charger 2: Samsung original, 5V 1A, came in box with Samsung Galaxy Grand 2 phone. Battery capacity: 2600 mAh C1 & C2 look identical, but have a different model #...

EPA Accuses Volkswagen of Dodging Emissions Rules All brands with 2.0L diesel affected - VW, Audi, Skoda. What scumbags. They ought to be kicked in the nuts so hard this never happens again ever, anywhere.

So you guys have your full resume, career history and details on LI? I haven't learned the trick of getting hired through LI.

Do Androids eat Altoids? Do they have deltoids?

There are also guys who collect connections like trophies. 500+ etc. Costs little; pay Linkedin to be a "Premium" member and you can send all the spam you want to people you don't know.

Howell: bad analogy comparing mains with this. In the case of mains, you might plug in a 3-watt LED or a 1500 watt clothes iron. In this case, we are talking (and I repeat) a fully matched, designed and made by the same manufacturer charger, cable, battery and phone circuit (the fact that the...

Lunar, I hear you. But: 1) Smartphone batteries typically don't last the whole day. This has been known for years. 2) Frequent charging is necessary. This also has been known for years. 3) Does it not make sense to charge the battery as quickly as possible? Since the manufacturer is providing...

a) The Charger Doctor thingy shows the voltage output by the charger to be 4.95 - 4.98 v, so I presume input voltage to the charger is not a problem. I have never needed to check input voltage for any of my devices; no low voltage problem here. Going OT now, but on the contrary, in the wee hours...

Thanks. I'll consider them for my next mouse, because I have the same problem with my right hand from mousing all day long.

He's trying to recruit you to be a spy.

Very funny, Coug. I was talking in the context of riding in the back seat of a cab, not driving the car from the back seat.

Merc, my next purchase will be one of those high-amp multi-chargers. Thanks for the link, it's already on my shortlist. DB's right, the entire chain needs to be good: the charger, the wire and the circuits in the phone. My beef is that I'm having problems using the charger & USB cable supplied...

How do the Steel Series mice help, time? I could use some advice on that!

I don't know where the problem is - charger or phone. Between my wife and I, we have two Samsung phones, same type but hers is one gen older. Hers is a 2100 mAh battery; my next gen has a 2600 mAh battery. She's out of town now, and she's run off with my charger. I'm using her charger to charge...

The current gen Camry is supposed to have one of the best back seats in the business. Haven't sat in one, though.

Semi-pro DSLRs have so many controls it's mind boggling. Even the flash is. Since my D700 use is infrequent, I keep forgetting anything beyond AV/RV mode and the basic settings. When I'm in a hurry, I just grab the point and shoot.

Then why the hell do they use them as cabs?

Here's the script I downloaded and used. Instructions: Download, unzip, right click on aegis.cmd, click "run as administrator", follow on-screen instructions. I got the link from a tech newsletter, article in a tech journal (ARS Technica?) or some such. I went through all of the unzipped...

I once rode in the back of a large taxi (Crown Vic?) some 55 miles to Newark Airport. Was the most uncomfortable ride of my life. The seat offered little thigh support, the back support sucked, and I was sliding all over the place despite being belted and the older driver driving sedately. It...

For a simian, the little one gives excellent advice!

Just ran a script I downloaded to rid my Win 7 of the "telemetry" crap. It removes the concerned installed KBs, hides them so Win Update doesn't offer them, etc. May decide to just stay with W7 unless MS relents and backs off from tall the spying. Meanwhile Linux can only get better.

What, LM, you forget that DB is a sock puppet?

They ask for mobile # because they spam with text messages and tie it to their loyalty programs. I couldn't care less. F them.

Don't they check shutter actuations before renting out and after the body comes back?

Sometimes people's thinking is screwed up. At times it makes more sense to rent. The number of people (including the wife) that tell me I'm throwing away money every month is crazy. I tell them I'm living in a nice home they appreciate, and not on the street or a shelter. Isn't that worth...

Win 8.1 castrated (removing MS' spy features - there are some guides /scripts out there) makes even more sense now. It is sorta unlimited; I get 60GB per month, then speed drops from 8mbps to 512 kbps. The latter is so slow it makes checking web mail or net banking excruciating. We do hit the...

I am on a metered connection. And I hate invasions of privacy, putting up with the minimum I have to so I don't have to live in the hills. ??

Tim & Sed: Too many things happening in life right now; can't afford the time and the patience for the learning curve. No, but it's support cycle is longer because it came out after Win 7. :(

Considering all the issues with Win-10, I'm just wondering if I should buy a copy of Win 8.1 (assuming they are still available) since 8.1 will be supported a lot longer than the Win-7 I am running now. And then at some point jump off into Linux... Thoughts?

Cool. Do any of these come with ABS? Some bikes here are now being offered with ABS as an option.

Sorry to hear this, Lunar. Since you say it's returned, it presumably went away once. May be it will again, with treatment or because of spontaneous remission?

Shit. I'm on W7 Ultimate. Went back till May 17 on the updates already installed and found these: KB2952664 on July 28 KB3035583 on July 16 These are described as compatibility updates and it's not really clear at all what they do on the KB description on MS' website. How the hell is one...

Leaky Win10. Privacy issues, and constant bandwidth use, both big worries for me. Even when told not to, Windows 10 just can’t stop talking to Microsoft