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Thanks, guys. I'll have to verify, but I also assume his current drive is an SATA 2½" drive, and that there isn't an NVMe interface on his laptop. I assume, too, that he doesn't need ≥1 TB; I don't think he has a lot of videos or other space-hogging files. Intel is an interesting option; I...

My friend wants (me) to upgrade his old Win 7 laptop to Linux. My thought was to replace the hard drive with a new SSD, so he'd have the old Win drive as a backup. I think he just needs a ½ TB drive. What recommendations do any of you have for reliable brands/models for this relatively small...

Thanks, Lunar and Merc, for your responses. I did remove the recovery partition(s!). That was from the first link I included. When I went in to look at the partitioning, there were 3 "recovery partitions", including a tiny one that I first removed. Then after that and the other link didn't...

It does appear that I get other updates installed, such as Windows Defender definition-files.

A few weeks ago, I started having a problem with Windows Update on my one Win PC. The periodic check says: But on "patch Tuesdays", when I click "Check for updates", it gives an error: Retry or rebooting doesn't help. I tried the Troubleshoot "advanced Windows Update" tool to fix it, but...

The Magic of Accents - YouTube

Confirming that LibreOffice can save as HTML.

No, Google Docs seems to support only word-processing docs. But this link shows that Google Drive can share PDFs, and, I presume, most other file types. Free (0 $) space usage is limited to 15 GB, though.

Google? I think I have this little album shared with everyone, if you can open it. Oops, I just tried to add a PDF, and that didn't work. But I think you can also share files in Google Docs.

I sometimes used to use the PC Decrapifier software to get rid of junkware on Windows PCs. However, that isn't supported any more. But I just saw, in the comments in this Ars article, about a similar option, O&O AppBuster. Has anyone in this forum had any experience with this "O&O" software...

Sorry for the hijack from the "peanut gallery"/"cheap seats", but I've been considering the consumer-grade ASUS Prime B450M-A II mobo, and one of the features I was interested in is "BIOS FlashBack™", so if it isn't compatible with the CPU I get, I could upgrade the BIOS without having to...

Alarming report from https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/06/millions-of-pc-motherboards-were-sold-with-a-firmware-backdoor: Millions of PC motherboards were sold with a firmware backdoor Hidden code in many Gigabyte motherboards invisibly and insecurely downloads programs. I built my...

I vaguely recall the NEC V20 and v30 chips, plug-compatible with Intel 8088 and 8086, resp., but supposedly 20-30% faster. In a previous millennium, I worked in data analysis for a mid-sized biotech firm, and convinced them to let me replace all their PCs' CPUs with the NECs. Could you imagine...

He got rhythm, too: From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatum_(music): "A tatum is a feature of music that has been variously defined as: 'the smallest time interval between successive notes in a rhythmic phrase', . . ." Brilliant ¾-blind dude had a musical term named after him. The...

Because it's Something Random. 🥚 🌮 😜

Missing Route 1? Mendocino, Pt Reyes, Stinson Beach, Mt Tam, SF, Santa Cruz, Monterey, Big Sur, SLO town, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Malibu, Santa Monica, ... Is that the world's most incredible Coastal Highway?

I'm considering a new "cheapo" build with a Ryzen 5700g. I can get DDR-3600 for just a few bucks more than DDR-3200. Would that be significantly faster, for "compute-bound" workloads? Or would the 3600 MHz RAM speed be limited by synchronization issues with the CPU's "System Memory...

Whoa, DD, you narrowly missed Cali falling into the ocean. Good move!

Second mention I've seen about one aspect of the current SouthWest disaster, from the NY Times: Southwest, which is particularly vulnerable because of its point-to-point routing — Dallas to Denver, then Denver to Seattle, say. (The other major airlines take a hub-and-spoke approach, funneling...

Don't go overboard on this idea. 😉 Is it one of those "mega-ships" with thousands of prisoners passengers? My bro-in-law had just Emailed this morning, with a NYTimes-article comment about the recent incident where a passenger fell off the boat: "When I imagine being trapped for 5 days...

One of My Favorite Things about Jazz is taking a "show tune" and improvising the hell out of it. A few other examples: Coleman Hawkins ("The Hawk"): Body and Soul and Just A Gigolo. Bud Powell: Somebody Loves Me (here's Doris Day's version). Milt Jackson ("Bags"): Heart and Soul and Take...

We've recently started getting P. O. D. pix in our order-confirmation Emails. They were legible "stills", though. But my wife recently got an Email from Amazon with a link to a "live" map showing the delivery van location "real-time". That's progress!

Other than a bot, maybe one of our old members is pranking us. It almost seems like they're purposely using bad grammar and syntax, as well as obscene and vituperative language, just to be annoying.

Parky, Parky, Parky, you are so fiercely furious at us for not taking your "false farce" words as Universal Law. You need to try to calm down and attempt to achieve some inner peace and acceptance. Perhaps you should try something like this:

Mercutio, this one's for you from Willy: To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor...

There must be a word for somebody who comes to an obviously small, highly technical internet forum, without displaying any knowledge or respect for the complex computer-related questions the web-site deals with, to espouse their own personal political/religious opinions, but refuses to accept...

Thank you so much, Parky, for sharing your enlightened view of the universe. We are so lucky that, in the thousands of years in human history, of various religions, nations, races, beliefs, tribes, etc., you have provided us with the One True Meaning of Life, and all of those other beliefs and...

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/10/nvidia-is-investigating-reports-of-melting-geforce-rtx-4090-power-connectors <Insert appropriate heat/power/connector humor here. 😉 >

At the other end of the spectrum, decades ago, I got an IBM KB-3923. I liked it so much, I bought a second one as backup. It's still up in the attic. The old one continues going strong, after a few (±) spills, and a lot of fur and dust to vacuum up occasionally. ;) 😃

Wow, that's a bit scary to me, since I've had my Ryzen 7 3700x BOINCing full-time, 24×7×8×2×100%, for almost 1½ years. It still seems to have 16 threads running OK, no errors reported. I'm not happy with the temps, though, occasionally getting to 85°-87°. I'm using the "stock" Wraith Prism...

When I saw JTR's comment yesterday, I thought he meant the "cat" command in Linux. Now I see the cute Creamsicle® feline photos. ❤️ 🐱 (It reminds me of a pic I have of my cat looking at the touchpad I used to use, which I captioned "Where's the mouse?" 😉) I wonder why he could see the pix and...

Or you can use Ubuntu or another flavor of Linux.

Dear EzrolMic, get lost.

Your drug spam was reported, Zanrickdah of Papua New Guinea.

At least back in May, Seagate had a disk-cloning program downloadable on their web site, and it wasn't restricted to their own drives.

Reported - Russian edition of the Nigerian scam; сходятся you, too, Читать!

So Amazon did accept responsibility (and replacement cost) for failing to "mark the package signature required"?

I just watched The Third Man again after many years. To me, it's still brilliant in noir-and-white.

Hackers exploited 0-day, not 2018 bug, to mass-wipe My Book Live devices - Ars Technica: Western Digital removed code that would have prevented the wiping of petabytes of data. . . . The vulnerability is remarkable because it made it trivial to wipe what is likely petabytes of user data. More...

Last week, I got a Samsung SSD, to replace a hard drive on a PC that had gotten flaky. I tried to use Samsung's own software to clone the old drive to the new one. About a dozen times - it never finished. (Confirming the PC's flaky-ness.) So I Googled for (free) disk-cloning software. My...

From Contractor that ruined 15M doses of J&J vaccine hiked price of another by 800%: FDA releases damning inspection report as lawmakers question ties to Trump admin. Things are not looking good for Emergent BioSolutions, the contract manufacturer that ruined 15 million doses of Johnson &...

OK, I backed off the fans' max setting to normal, but set my case fan speeds to modulate off the CPU temp. And I bought a big fan for the front of the case. I'd been using the "psensor" app to monitor the temps, but it just shows the current, min and max values, with a little graph that shows...

I tried to figure out how to use lm-sensors to detect the fan speeds, to no avail. (I admit that I'm just a ordinary Ubuntu user, not a Linux super-user.) I guess you get what you pay for; mobo manufacturers don't really support Linux, so it's up to the "community" to do so, and it's worth...

My home thermostat is set to 71° F = 21⅔°C. The "composite" temp that I believe is reporting from my graphics card is 44°C. (This is as reported by the Linux "lm-sensors" package, FWIW.)

Thanks, sedrosken. My temps are not that great, around 80°. OTOH, I'm running the World Community Grid, "all out", 24×7×16 threads×100%, helping research cancer and COVID. Despite not active overclocking, I think I'm getting a pretty good boost above the "base clock" of 3.6GHz, about 12-13%...

What kind of cooling do you have for your 3700X?

Congrats, sedrosken! I just got mine Thursday; I drove a couple of hours to the Micro Center store in Fairfax VA. Price was $279, "$50 off", with an additional $20 off for "bundling" it with a motherboard. (I'm wimping out, keeping it at default clocking for now, on the included cooler.)