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Living Room / Re: DC Weekly Tech News HAS RETURNED! [Episode 2 Linked Within!]

« on: October 07, 2020, 12:25 PM »

Episode 3 Info

Episode 3 might be slightly delayed due to me currently battling a rather nasty chest infection.  Currently finding it hard to go more than 30 seconds without coughing half my insides out so trying to record would be an utter nightmare.  If it is delayed it will only be by a few days and it won't be missed completely!

Sorry in advance!

-Stephen (Kynlo)

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Living Room / Re: Slightly warm computer killing my internet speeds...I have no idea why.

« on: October 07, 2020, 10:42 AM »

and when you say temp, I assume you mean the ambient temp?  If thats the case, what are your system temps like (Mobo, CPU, etc).  Worth having a look regardless as it could be indicative of a larger issue

-Target (October 07, 2020, 01:22 AM)

I've checked individual component temps and all seem fine - internal temp is via a sensor on my fan controller and I've mainly been basing it off that.

I've tried it on another machine (laptop) but not able to reproduce at all on there. 

I'm gonna experiment with a few things once my chest infection clears up and I can concentrate enoug to care about it haha

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Living Room / Re: Slightly warm computer killing my internet speeds...I have no idea why.

« on: October 06, 2020, 07:44 PM »

The Cat 6 goes straight into the router (tried multiple wires).  Internet is full speed when computer is cool...slow when it starts getting warmer

It's very odd lol

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Living Room / Re: Slightly warm computer killing my internet speeds...I have no idea why.

« on: October 06, 2020, 04:22 PM »

Remove dust from every computing device. Laptops are famous for collecting lots of dust that is not visible on the outside.
Pets and carpet? You have dust issues in your computer equipment. And don't forget shed human skin.
Use a laptop in bed? You have serious dust issues in your computer equipment. Really, the worst place to use a laptop is in bed.

In my place of employment there is a tile floor, desktops and no pets. Yet, every 6 months I take out servers and desktops and remove dust. And I'm still amazed by the amount of dust being sucked up by these computers. You clean your computers less frequently? You have dust issues in your computer equipment.

Have a non-tech partner that (compulsively) cleans? You have dust issues in your computer equipment.

Any mix of scenarios described here apply to you/your environment? You have serious dust issues in your computer equipment.

Once you eliminate your dust issues, you can look further. Especially older electronics used to be sensitive for changes in environment. I have worked in a company with an electronics lab containing an old 286 computer. If there was a storm front within 10 kilometers of that computer, it would fail. Most reliable weather computer I have ever seen...

Nowadays electronics do not have that many issues with changes in barometric pressure changes, humidity levels and/or temperatures. But it is still possible you have an electronically "worn" unit. When the room temperature goes beyond a certain level, do you turn on AC? There is a chance that this unit drops the power in your house just below a certain threshold that makes your computer environment behave as it does.

There are lots of weird scenarios to think of. But always go for dust elimination first. Electronics attract dust and lots of it. Even if you think you have a very clean environment, do that dust check. 

-Shades (October 06, 2020, 04:18 PM)

I should have mentioned this is a wired connection on my desktop (which has just been cleaned today) xD

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Living Room / Slightly warm computer killing my internet speeds...I have no idea why.

« on: October 06, 2020, 02:15 PM »

So, I've finally found the cause of my internet running slowly:

Whenever my internal temp is 30c+, my internet speed starts to drop dramatically...to the point I'm losing about 50% of my available speeds.

With the internal temp below 30c, I'm running around 500-550Mbps, but when I hit anything over 30c it starts to slow down to around 200-250 

It's not like 30-35c is abnormally hot so I can't work out wtf is going on.

Anybody else had an issue like this?

-Stephen

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Emergency Release - Dad's Around

« on: October 04, 2020, 08:37 PM »

However, since I'm bored bloody lovely: https://www.portable...om/index.php?id=1871

Click that link and hit the download button ^_^

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Emergency Release - Dad's Around

« on: October 04, 2020, 08:34 PM »

Sorry to necro the post, but there's no download link. 

-DCUser (October 04, 2020, 07:49 PM)

I mean, Scancode hasn't been around in like 6 months and this is a 12-year-old thread.  Not really all that surprising that the download link is gone haha

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Living Room / Re: DC Weekly Tech News HAS RETURNED! [Episode 1 Linked Within!]

« on: October 04, 2020, 01:05 PM »

Episode 2 is LIVE!

Check the first post in this thread for the links and info!

I will update the first post on this thread every time there is a new episode!

Thanks,

-Stephen (Kynlo)

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Living Room / Re: Show us a photo of your mutt or other creatures..

« on: October 01, 2020, 01:32 PM »

Wiggins - the newest member of our family. A 7 mo. old miniature long-haired dachshund. Probably the hands-down coolest, most laid back dog we've ever met.

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-40hz (October 01, 2020, 01:10 PM)

 

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Living Room / Re: DC Weekly Tech News HAS RETURNED! [Episode 1 Linked Within!]

« on: September 29, 2020, 02:07 PM »

OK, I have decided on the following release schedule:

Every new episode will release on Sundays(UK) - Can't narrow it down to a specific time due to other commitments, but it will be every Sunday "at some point during the day".

If anybody wants me to include any specific news or topics then I need to know by Thursday on each week at the latest (Unless any massive stories happen on a Friday/Saturday, I plan to use Friday's/Saturday's as Edit Day rather than adding additional recording).

Thanks,

-Stephen (Kynlo)

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Living Room / Re: DC Weekly Tech News HAS RETURNED! [Episode 1 Linked Within!]

« on: September 29, 2020, 02:00 PM »

Is it also on Google Podcasts? Thank you.

-erikts (September 24, 2020, 10:01 PM)

It finally got verified on Google.  The link is in the first post

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software for planning wood bookcases/cabinets/tables etc?

« on: September 29, 2020, 07:32 AM »

I completely agree that the games have become the focal point of that image - dimming the lights may be the way to go or finding some way to make it less "look at me"

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Mafia 1 and Mafia 2 - Atmosphere done right - Travel back in time to the 1940s

« on: September 28, 2020, 08:43 AM »

I really liked Mafia II.
Going to try out Mafia III soon. 

-tobi.codes (September 28, 2020, 08:42 AM)

Mafia III is amazing.  One of the only games that drew me into the story and made me not skip cutscenes!

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Living Room / Re: DC Weekly Tech News HAS RETURNED! [Episode 1 Linked Within!]

« on: September 26, 2020, 09:08 AM »

If anybody has any topics of interest they would like me to cover in EP2, please let me know as soon as possible.  I'm currently doing the outline for the episode so if there's anything you want me to talk about, now is the time to tell me! 

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Living Room / Re: DC Weekly Tech News HAS RETURNED! [Episode 1 Linked Within!]

« on: September 25, 2020, 06:00 AM »

not bad (wasn't expecting that accent though  )

might be an idea to provide an outline of the content so we know what to expect (I'm not a console guy, so this one was largely lost on me)

-Target (September 24, 2020, 09:40 PM)

OK, Added a load more platform links and also added the outline in the first post (will edit with each episode!)

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Living Room / Re: DC Weekly Tech News HAS RETURNED! [Episode 1 Linked Within!]

« on: September 25, 2020, 05:38 AM »

Is it also on Google Podcasts? Thank you.

-erikts (September 24, 2020, 10:01 PM)

Not currently - Distribution is slowly rolling out to more platforms (different acceptance time from each platform is making it slightly slower haha).

We are now on Pocketcasts and (seem) to also now be on iTunes (but I can't check that).
New links are in the main post!

Thanks.

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Living Room / Re: DC Weekly Tech News HAS RETURNED! [Episode 1 Linked Within!]

« on: September 24, 2020, 09:43 PM »

The webpage that it's hosted on shows an outline of the episode with relevant links to the stories :p

I can post them here in the future though if people would like!

Thanks for listening!

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Living Room / Re: DC Weekly Tech News HAS RETURNED!

« on: September 24, 2020, 06:35 PM »

Thanks for the kind words!

I will post here, and on the DC Discord when new episodes are live!

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Living Room / DC Weekly Tech News HAS RETURNED! [Episode 2 Linked Within!]

« on: September 24, 2020, 05:59 PM »

The long-missing DC Weekly Tech News Roundup has returned...IN THE FORM OF A PODCAST!



I have decided to reboot the weekly DC Tech News as "Kynlos Tech News", as a podcast available on the link below:
https://anchor.fm/kynlostechnews

The SECOND episode is LIVE right now!.

Any suggestions, comments, feedback etc is greatly appreciated.

If anybody would be interested in me posting a transcript for each episode, then please let me know!

On Spotify: https://open.spotify...HLM6AH29OUrbpezqrdhW

Pocket Casts: https://pca.st/7uy99jzv

Breaker: https://www.breaker....o/p/kynlos-tech-news

Castbox: https://castbox.fm/channel/id3360080

Radio Public: https://radiopublic....los-tech-news-GEov0K

Google Podcasts: https://www.google.c...MC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw==

Overcast: https://overcast.fm/...150/kynlos-tech-news

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.app...podcast/id1533370150

Castro: https://castro.fm/itunes/1533370150

iTunes: itpc://anchor.fm/s/386ec250/podcast/rss

RSS Feed: https://anchor.fm/s/386ec250/podcast/rss



Thanks,

Stephen!


Latest Episode Outline:

Episode 2 - Oct 4th 2020

A brief look at this week's Tech News.  Brought to you by Donationcoder.com

In this weeks episode, we discuss the Jet Pack Paramedics & Amazon Prime Day. We also take a look at the latest discovery of water on Mars and the upcoming Amazon Luna Cloud Gaming Service. We then finally discuss Among Us and the Farewell of Farmville!

Links:

Jetpack Paramedics: https://edition.cnn....-intl-gbr/index.html

Amazon Prime Day: https://gadgets.ndtv...ctober-13-14-2302471

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Water on Mars: https://www.nature.c...s/d41586-020-02751-1

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Amazon Luna: https://www.bbc.co.u...live-reporting-story

Among Us: https://kotaku.com/a...g-problem-1845256959

Farmville: https://www.bbc.co.u.../technology-54339972

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Our Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kynlostechnews
Our Discord: https://discord.io/kynlostechnews
Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/kynlostechnews

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Cannot capture browser windows

« on: September 24, 2020, 09:59 AM »

From a very quick google, this seems to actually be an issue caused by adware/malware.

https://forums.malwa...ad-of-getwindowinfo/
https://soft2secure....se/www_getwindowinfo

Please can the OP use something like MalwareBytes (or your prefered method) to see if anything is flagged?

(I cannot be 100% sure this is the case but it certainly seems plausible).

Thanks!

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Cannot capture browser windows

« on: September 24, 2020, 09:53 AM »

Using: Firefox 80.0.1 and then 81.0 (64-bit) [It updated during the test]
Latest Windows 10 build
Screenshot Captor: v4.36.2 (Licensed)

Firefox Window: Focused

Attempted to capture screen using both Keyboard Shortcuts, Quick Capture Bar and from within the Screenshot Captor Main Window.

All capture methods attempted (Minus Full-Screen DirectX)

Result: Cannot Replicate

Firefox Window: Last Focused Window

Result: Cannot Replicate (Same process as above)

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Can anybody else give this a try to see if we can help mouser get to the bottom of it?

-Stephen

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Cannot capture browser windows

« on: September 19, 2020, 09:28 AM »

I did some more testing today with a slightly older build of SSC and still cannot replicate this at all.

OP: Any info you can give us would be greatly appreciated

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Cannot capture browser windows

« on: September 17, 2020, 06:20 PM »

Could you explain a little about what method you are attempting to use to capture the window? I have just tried it using the latest SSC, Firefox and Windows build (using every capture method I could think of) and cannot replicate this behaviour.

The image below was captured using "Capture windows object or scrolling window" then CTRL+Left Click on the window I wanted.

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Living Room / Re: Hardware and software for quality youtube podcasting (for boardgaming)?

« on: September 10, 2020, 12:45 PM »

I use twitch with OBS... never tried youtube

-wraith808 (September 10, 2020, 12:40 PM)

OBS is great for recording even without sending it live to a platform 

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Living Room / Re: Hardware and software for quality youtube podcasting (for boardgaming)?

« on: September 10, 2020, 07:03 AM »

For recording (especially multicam with live editing options) - 100% go OBS

For editing, I personally use OpenShot (which is free and Open Source)

For your graphical (and spritzy stuff), check out the following:

https://www.pexels.com/ (Free videos & images)
https://www.pixabay.com (free images)
https://www.freemusi...ve.org/curator/Video (Free audio)
[some of these are attricution based licenses but they always specify]

https://spark.adobe.com is also really handy for throwing together promo videos/graphics/stuff (not free but reasonably prices)