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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for a very flexible timer

« Last post by Shades on April 10, 2015, 06:29 AM »

'Manic Timer' would be the first timer I would think of when you want a set-it-and-let-it-run timer. Keeps track of anything you do in your system and can create reports from that. Comes in both free and commercial versions.

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Html and CSS School / Re: HTML editor for beginners

« Last post by Shades on April 08, 2015, 09:59 AM »

Even the free HTML-Kit has a "preview pane"-like window which could be shown side-by-side with your html coding window. You have drag and click somewhat to make this happen every time, but you can set the refresh interval of the "preview pane" in its settings. If that is still a thing you want to have.

A decent text editor where you create the concept of the page you like to make and only when finished you'll do preview in the browser of your choice...is the better way to do things. Sure, at first you'll fail, perhaps even fail miserably. But you will proficient with HTML more quickly than when you keep staring at a preview pane to to see the result of each and every change. This is a time-consuming habit.

Same rules apply with CSS...especially when working with tricks to get the same look on different web-engines, you can fall in this trap.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Adventures in cleaning (my cranky) computer

« Last post by Shades on April 07, 2015, 09:27 PM »

Be wary of any registry cleaner. If you have a program that didn't make proper use of the registry, the registry cleaner could mark this as something to fix or remove. Result? Your application wouldn't work anymore.

Not all programs are written properly and registry cleaners have a notion to be over-zealous in getting the highest number of "errors" they need to fix. Once you hit the 'Fix all errors'-button, you could be going from a (reasonably) working system to making a recover attempt from a restore point or even re-installation of Windows in just a minute.

Personally, I haven't used a registry cleaner in years. Sorry for being harsh, but I am inclining to say that you deserve whatever misery you get into after a registry cleaning.

Your registry won't be much smaller or faster or stored more optimal on disk. Only that last item could make some (debatable) difference.

The best advice? Leave the registry alone. Better keep a tool that makes a snapshot of your system (including registry) running in the background when you install some new piece of software. Once you want to get rid of this software, use that same tool again to revert all changes this new piece of software made. This is the better way to keep your system lean and mean. I believe Comodo offers such a tool as (limited) freeware and commercially licensed.

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General Software Discussion / Re: 'create Restore Point' question

« Last post by Shades on April 06, 2015, 08:08 AM »

Although SSD's work fine with SATA2 ports, SSD's really start to work for you when you connect these to SATA3 (a.k.a 6g) ports on your mother board. And if your PC is older than 4 or 5 years, it is highly likely your motherboard doesn't have these SATA3 ports. RAM isn't backwards compatible. Your current mobo likely uses DDR2 RAM, your new mobo would use DDR3 RAM or better. Besides, your current RAM 'sticks' would slow down new RAM 'sticks' so significantly that you negate most, if not all, speed gains a new mobo gives you.

Unless you have a very custom build case, your case can handle mobo's build according to ATX standards.

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: 'create Restore Point' question

« Last post by Shades on April 05, 2015, 10:39 PM »

The value that is shown here in this overview from my own computer (idling, Firefox opened with 1 tab), this is already too high. Values like this shouldn't appear on idling PC's. If they do, it means there are one or more hardware issues cropping up. This PC is already 7 years old, but it is functioning well enough.

Values should be between 0.00 and 0.25 on an idling system. When doing lots of activities on your PC, this value should not go over 1.00 or at max 1.50. If you see higher values, your PC is encountering serious problems, resulting in a sluggish system at best...but you can wait for the BSOD's to appear soon. This, because your hardware won't (sufficiently) enable Windows anymore to read/write the data and info it requires to be a fully functional OS. This is not Windows fault, your degrading hardware is to blame.

Now, if you have such a system and it only runs 3 to 6 hours a day doing menial tasks only...you still will get some use out of it, hopefully for quite some time. But make no mistake, your hardware continues to degrade.

Network traffic and reading/writing data to a hard disk (internal or external) or pendrive are common to cause 'Interrupt' spikes. Such equipment that you regard as fast will cause hardly any spikes at all, while slow equipment will cause much bigger spikes than you would expect. 

The 'Interrupt' value is the first indicator that things aren't running as smoothly as they should be.

When you have determined that networking is the cause of the 'Interrupt' spikes:
If by any chance you have a spare network card laying around (100Mbit/sec or faster) you could build that into your PC, disable the onboard network in your BIOS and start using your PC again. It is quite possible that this action eliminates one or more causes that make the 'Interrupt' value spike and you would have a much more functional PC again. Even if you don't have a spare one, new ones cost between 5 USD and 10 USD here in Paraguay (so should be cheaper in the US).

When you have determined that the reading/writing on HD is the cause of the 'Interrupt' spikes:
Eliminating or reducing spikes is much more tricky here. For example If you used your computer and HD's with Windows XP before and you upgraded to this installation to Windows 7, you might have an unaligned hard disk. Simply stated:
when this is the case, every read/write action on your PC is practically done twice. Partition manager software (MiniTool has an excellent piece of freeware) can identify and fix this for you. Aligning is a very intense operation and will take hours, perhaps even a full day, and if things fail you are in serious trouble (so make backups first if you do this). However, after your HD's are successfully aligned you will be very glad you did this.

However if you installed Windows 7 from scratch, this aligning is already done and the point of the paragraph above is moot. In that case it is more likely that the part of the Nvidia chip-set responsible for the actual reading/writing on your HD's isn't working properly anymore. You can get a SATA controller that fits in one of your mobo's PCI-E connectors, connect your HD's to that controller and disable this part of your BIOS. This won't be that cheap and is more of a 'hail Mary' than anything else.

More often than not, it is cheaper and/or less of a headache to get a new mobo and RAM, move your SATA HD's (no IDE connectors on new mobo's anymore) and video card to the new PC and re-install Windows.

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General Software Discussion / Re: 'create Restore Point' question

« Last post by Shades on April 05, 2015, 04:53 PM »

Sounds like an old motherboard to me. I used to have A8N-Pro ones, but these boards use the Nvidia chip-set and I hate to break it to you, these don't last long. I am convinced that the reason why your system is behaving oddly when connecting multiple HD's using different technologies gives you problems is, plain and simple, the quirks of a dying Nvidia chip-set.

Of all the boards I run, none of them have Nvidia chip-sets anymore. My experiences at that time may not be relevant anymore for new boards that have Nvidia chip-sets, but I was so appalled by the problems I encountered, you won't see me buy any mobo with their chip-sets ever again. At least 5 years ago I phased out Nvidia. I still have 3 Asus A8V (10+ years old and based on VIA chip-set) in use 24/7 and those are still going strong.

I do like Nvidia video cards though.

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by Shades on April 05, 2015, 01:45 AM »

It isn't my style of music and that is the only thing bad thing I can say about this guy.

With a talent like his, why does the US even put up with a Justin Bieber and consorts? This is awesome and I don't even like his style of music (too close to country for my taste). He reminds me a bit of John Denver (my mother did like his music).

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General Software Discussion / Re: 'create Restore Point' question

« Last post by Shades on April 05, 2015, 01:22 AM »

Read this thread (2nd post) on the Microsoft Community forums. It states that when you enable the Windows services associated with the creation of restore points, your PC should make one RP once a week or when Windows detects that a (big) change occurs on your computer. Automagically...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best VM Creation Solution

« Last post by Shades on April 05, 2015, 01:12 AM »

I would attempt to make a dump of the entire database. The software I mentioned before also allows you to do such a thing. Then I would create a new database, preferably on a different DB server and import this dump into it, again with the already mentioned software. A different DB on the same DB server is an option too.

With these actions you have checked that your data (including its structure) can be restored successfully. Don't underestimate the importance of this. Make the time for it, because you don't want to do this the moment the proverbial sh!t hits the fan. There is a bonus, you have now a second DB running and with that you can experiment to improve access times.

It may not be as easy as using 3rd party software to create database dumps, the software that accompanies the database is usually most reliable when generating and importing these dumps.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best VM Creation Solution

« Last post by Shades on April 04, 2015, 02:48 PM »

You have several options for virtualization. If your needs are small and basic: VirtualBox/VMWare Player will do. You will need to re-install your server inside either of these solutions.
VMWare has software that could convert your current server into a virtual one, which can be used in VMWare only. If this software is able to convert your real server into a virtual one, make sure to test it first extensively before giving up the real server though.

Access times in a database can be affected by a lot of things. And what I have noticed with testing MS-SQL (2012) against Oracle (10g &11g & 12c) (each just using the most basic functionality) is that MS-SQL is slower. Sometimes significantly slower when you have created indexes that are filled by the DB software in a not so efficient way. To get that right, you need to have a deep insight in how MS-SQL does this and after you have fixed this yourself you'll need to be on the lookout for the DB not to mess it up again when it maintains these indexes. In this regard, Oracle is much more efficient and you see that back in improved access times. 

So, if your DB relies a lot on indexes, getting these filled and maintained properly requires you to spend time keeping them in shape. Reducing the amount of indexes might help, but that usually leads to database (re-)design. Good database design is harder than it looks. Finding the balance between storing data into the database and getting this data into your application as fast as possible can be tricky.

There is software included with the MS-SQL Server 2012 Express installer, that shows you where the time is spent when you make a query against the database. I must say that this software is more intuitive than the software that comes with Oracle databases.

You can install this software by downloading the 1GByte+ MS-SQL 2012 Express installer and follow the installation instructions. You'll need to mark first that you want to install the complete package and after a while you are presented with an option screen where you disable whatever functionality you don't need. I just mention this, because it might be confusing at first.

It could be that this functionality is already available in MS-SQL 2008 Express. The only experience I have is with the MS-SQL 2012 database.

Anyway, the overview provided by this functionality will give you a clear insight in how to improve access times in your database. If the sole purpose of this exercise is to improve access times, that would be the first place I would look, instead of spending time to virtualize your whole setup and hope that this will bring the improvements you seek.

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General Software Discussion / Re: mapping_data_source::init error: file not found

« Last post by Shades on April 03, 2015, 11:44 AM »

What is the reason of (brutally) terminating Ditto in the first place?

Software like 'Process Governor' or 'Process Tamer' would help closing any application gently, before its memory consumption or CPU consumption becomes too much for your liking.

Best practices regarding RAM consumption by an application is a whole different warzone discussion.

Debugging batch scripts involves a lot of handwork, especially when such scripts get a bit more complicated.
Fodder's suggestion is very helpful, it is best to type 'cmd' in the search box of your start menu. Perhaps it would even be better to run the 'cmd.exe' application in administration mode. Navigate to the batch script inside this CMD shell and run the script:

@echo off
taskkill.exe /im ditto.exe /f
PAUSE
start y:\Dittoprg64\Ditto.exe

When the PAUSE command is executed in the script you will see the result of the taskkill command you have executed. It the result shows one or more error messages, you can use the key combination CTRL + C to terminate the execution of this batch script (this won't close the CMS shell). Starting the Ditto application before fixing the error message is of no use and can even damage the data that is stored in that application. But you already managed to find that out the hard way.

It is very important to give an application time to close itself properly, so it can save files and data it was working with to allow it to function correctly the next time the application is started. The '/f' parameter of the taskkill command doesn't give any time at all to the application to terminate itself. Therefore it is only to be used as last resort.

For example, if Ditto consumes too much RAM for your liking, proper use of the taskkill command would be:

taskkill.exe /fi "Memusage gt 500000" /im ditto.exe         (this kills Ditto if it uses more than 500MByte of RAM)


Replace the taskkill line in your own script with the line above and use the built-in scheduler of Windows to execute the adjusted batch script on an interval (once per hour, once per day etc.) and Ditto will be properly terminated and restarted automatically, only when it is running out of your optimal settings.

Managing multiple applications in this way is a very time consuming task and there are specific tools here already available on the DC forum that make this a lot easier.

[joke (or not?)]
  You are always allowed to use the '/f' parameter like this: taskkill.exe /im excel.exe /f
[/joke]

Follow the link above for more explanation about this command (including some simple examples).

It also looks like you use a non-standard drive and folder setup in this particular Windows setup.

The reported error mentions that it cannot find a file, so that leads to to the following questions:
Y:\ - this is a network drive? And even if it isn't, are you sure you have enough user rights to access this drive and its contents?
Dittoprg64\ - Are you sure you have enough user rights to access this folder and its contents?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best SQL Express DB backup Software (SQL Express 2008)

« Last post by Shades on March 30, 2015, 12:39 AM »

The backups may not br good...or are they not good?

If you don't know, you should test the created backup by importing it on a different SQL2008 Express DB server (a VM is helpful in this case) and test the data being served up by the new SQL DB.
Assuming you have an application that works with this exported data, you could use the same application to verify the data coming from the new DB.

Don't trust a backup you make, verify that it works...else you won't have made a backup at all. It won't matter if you make a backup using 3rd party software or the integrated tools from MS itself. Never trust the message saying "Backup successfully completed". You will be burnt if you won't verify by importing the data again. I have seen the aftermath of others failing miserably with this years ago and you won't see me make their mistakes ever again.

Once you have such a test setup and backup strategy, you will be better prepared for any mishap that is waiting for you. If you do not verify your backups, you have not made backups. Can't say this often enough. 

Making a copy of an existing dump you created earlier isn't much of a safety net either. The NTFS file system (or FAT32 or EXT2 or EXT3 or EXT4 or HFS) can't be trusted 100%. Especially folks that use the MS default file size notation of KB/MB/GB are fooled into thinking that copies  of a file are the same. This notation introduces rounding and that can (and shall) be fatal. I use the byte size notation in directory opus as first indicator to see if there are file size differences. And I have seen these occur. And I have lost control files from Oracle database, simply because of a 1 byte difference in file size.   

For most intends and purposes any of the main file systems are more than adequate, but 100% reliable they aren't.

 

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: I have put a "share with facebook" type thing on the pages (temporarily?)..

« Last post by Shades on March 28, 2015, 09:03 PM »

OK, This was nagging by me...for several notable reasons:

1. DonationCoder.com is currently running in 2002 mode.  Yes a lot of people here hate Facebook and Twitter and Google+ and any sort of social media...but even those who do cannot honestly say that they are not a fantastic way to get attention for a website/project.

-Stephen66515 (March 28, 2015, 06:24 PM)

Not all people are of the opinion that the "2015 internet" is better than than the "2002 internet". Better looking? Sure! Faster? Yes! Easier? Yep! More useful?  
The thing is: by making sharing too easy, everybody starts doing this and will become noise on the receiving end. More eyeballs will see it, I am sure of that. But if this results in youtube-style comments on postings on the DC forum, then what has been accomplished here?

 

2. This actually proves my point about mouser always hating change.  Ay time there is an experiment on the site, or something that could work fantastically well...It is always lead with "I will not be keeping this" "I hate this" blah blah blah...mouser...it's 2015...This is the norm.

-Stephen66515 (March 28, 2015, 06:24 PM)

Ah, the sheeple argument...

Think about it this way...On average, people on Facebook have around 300-500 friends...so...if one person reads something on DC right now...unless they can be bothered going through the rigmarole of Copying the URL, going to Facebook/Twitter, pasting it (or shortening it first on Twitter) then posting it...they are simply not going to share it...but with the buttons that are currently on DC now (After I bugged you enough for you to add them!), it is a simple 2 click procedure.  You know how many people use these buttons?  Do you know how many more hits website get because they have sharing functions?  You probably don't because you have an intense hatred for change and future-proofing.  1 person clicking share, could potentially reach 500 friends...if 2 people also share from their friends (going on the basis of 500 average friends) - that is a reach of 1500 people...from one person clicking 2 buttons...which...I am sorry...but at the moment, DC simply doesn't get that kind of coverage because people just are not going to go through the shit of copy/pasting links every 5 minutes if there are a good few topics they feel their friends may like!

-Stephen66515 (March 28, 2015, 06:24 PM)

Easier to generate more noise. Some people have work to do and like to come home to visit, look at an/or discuss vetted content, instead of the wading garbage being served to you by FB etc. While the amount of crap being shoveled by FB is impressive and it would be actually interesting to see/touch/play with the hardware that is doing the shit-shoveling...but it is still shit-shoveling we're talking about here.

"Personally I find it too much in your face distracting"

Yeah, Because you live in 2002 and don't accept change.

-Stephen66515 (March 28, 2015, 06:24 PM)

The bar is not shown in the same visual style as the DC forum and the color makes it stick out. Some are bothered by that, some don't. Ever since I put my first steps on the internet I have become very adept at ignoring content without use to me. This bar falls in that same category.

"I'm open to adding some very subtle extra button somewhere that pops up a menu"

You mean like the one that used to be on DC...the one that nobody used?  Oh yeah...they didn't use it because it was VERY SUBTLE and NOBODY KNEW IT WAS THERE!  

Mouser, you know me, and you know I will be straight up honest with you...You need to accept change...DC is 10 years old...but stop acting like everything is still as it were back then...it is 2015...accept change or be left behind in the dust...DC needs to incorporate all that is good, and accept that having an in-your-face popup, that could potentially mean DC gets a HUGE increase in traffic (Or at least a huge amount of potential towards free advertising).

-Stephen66515 (March 28, 2015, 06:24 PM)

Some spit-balling here: if you must have these buttons, I would update the profile pages here at DC and have check boxes (default enabled/disabled/cookie) close to the 'Post' button that way it is easy to share your own posts on a forum thread and if you have nothing to add to the thread you could add buttons to the first post. Or make a DC share button that shares automatically with the 'socials', according to the configuration on your own profile page. That way you could get rid of the bar, but not give up on the sharing functionality...for those that care at least.

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Living Room / Re: TV shows thread

« Last post by Shades on March 28, 2015, 06:25 PM »

Continuing where Stoic Joker left off, 'The Walking Dead' and 'Z Nation' are very enjoyable zombie TV-shows as well. Both are very different. TWD is already around for 5 seasons and none of these are bad. Z finished its 1st season and is much(!) more tongue-in-cheek.

'Helix' is also a very enjoyable. A lot of series from SyFy are. From them also comes a sci-fi mini-series, called 'Ascencion', which is very well done. Know as little as possible about this mini-series as possible for full enjoyment, though. 

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Coding Snacks / Re: Is there any way of 'saving' file associations?

« Last post by Shades on March 25, 2015, 09:22 PM »

A search on the DC forum resulted in this N.A.N.Y entry. And it is my guess that it will help you out, especially with your preference of using portable software. Of course, this tool is portable as well. 

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Living Room / Re: Interested in doing my own car maintenance.. Advice?

« Last post by Shades on March 24, 2015, 02:08 AM »

It also makes looking up information inside the books a bit tricky.

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by Shades on March 24, 2015, 01:37 AM »

@tomos:
[bad joke]
Schadenfreude...you sound a bit like a grammar n*z*, just now. Then again, when someone does do some 'Schaden' to a word, I have a hard time believing that a grammar n*z* gets much 'freude' from correcting it 
[/bad joke] 

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General Software Discussion / Re: how can I do this in excel?

« Last post by Shades on March 24, 2015, 01:22 AM »

In the other thread, as Ath already noticed, I mention that many people perceive Excel to be the hammer to "nail" the problem. Although this may initially work, I can tell you now already that this solution won't scale well, if at all. Just open 25 instances of Excel at the same time...I have seen the result of that on a computer with 64 Xeon processors and 64GByte of RAM. A system that has proven to be capable of doing really heavy calculations on huge sets of data with our software, suddenly became so slow that we were called in the middle of the night by the (very upset) board of directors of the company that owned this computer for some serious "grilling".

Since then, there is one mantra. Excel is never, ever a solution. Entering Excel in any automated business process and you won't have to wait until you get burned by that decision. Excel eats so much resources, it is by far the biggest offender in the Office suite...Microsoft should be ashamed of letting such garbage loose on the public. Yet the public yearns for more crap to be bolted on that pile of sh*t.

An approach of generating an Excel file automatically after being triggered or after the interval of your choice is far better and something quite easy to do in already pre-existing solutions such as a CMS.

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General Software Discussion / Re: links of files of a web server

« Last post by Shades on March 22, 2015, 11:34 PM »

Any reasonably modern computer has sufficient resources to run the requisites of most, if not all, CMS's. Heck, if the amount of users that make use of these requisites is low, even older systems (Pentium 4 class) won't have problems. On Windows you have a lot of choice. XAMPP is one of those solutions. But there are many more and have been discussed previously on the boards here.

When you run such a solution you will have a working Apache web server, a MySQL database server and PHP. These are the building blocks which most CMS's need to function. After that is done, find the CMS you like on this website.

In my experiences with XAMPP I always liked that by default all is stored in the main folder XAMPP. You usually install it in C:\XAMMP or extract it in such a location (yes, it can be used as a portable app too).

The one thing you should remember though, is that the computer running XAMPP isn't too exposed to the internet. Solutions such as XAMPP are meant for testing and developing and should not be used in a production environment. At least not with their default settings enabled. To my knowledge any of these solutions come with instructions to make them safe for a production environment. 

Yes, all of the above will require you to study, but you will be glad that you did in the long run.

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General Software Discussion / Re: links of files of a web server

« Last post by Shades on March 22, 2015, 05:01 PM »

Excel is one of the worst tools for this kind of job...and as you asked for advice from professionals, they will tell you that Excel is (one of) the worst tool for this kind of job. A Content Management System (CMS) is more suited for such a job. Most CMS's make use of a database which has no problems storing and showing links (or storing/showing files if you are so inclined).

This kind of solution is usually faster than working with Excel files containing links. And that is not the only advantage such systems have over manually managing files and links in and/or with Excel.

I am sorry if I offend, but n my opinion Excel is perceived to be a hammer by many and these many see all their problems turn into nails. This way of thinking causes unmaintainable files, vague file structures and disastrous workflows come into life.

Although you might think you have saved time/money by "nailing" your problem. It is better to get it clear in your head what you want to achieve and then look for existing solutions on the internet. You will find that in most cases there is already such a solution ready for you to use. Commercial, open source or otherwise.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by Shades on March 22, 2015, 09:19 AM »

If you have a spare hard disk and sufficiently sized pen drive laying around, feel free to download a trial iso of Windows 8(.1), create a boot-able pen drive using that iso (Rufus is one of the easiest tools I know), disconnect your main hard disk, connect the spare hard disk and start installing.

There is no surer way to test if your system is able to handle a new OS. And by disconnecting your main hard disk you won't make any (unintentional) changes to your main OS. After you are done testing...disconnect the spare hard disk and reconnect your main hard disk and you are ready to roll again in the comforts of your trusted OS.

 

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by Shades on March 21, 2015, 04:39 PM »

Breastmilk...ok, I can still get why some people have/want an alternative use for that. But those pictures of ..., I have little to no words for them.

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Living Room / Re: Windows 10 will be free for "genuine and non-genuine" users

« Last post by Shades on March 21, 2015, 04:30 PM »

You forgot to mention that after the grace period of not being able to verify the status of your OS (at this point your background goes black) you enter in another (much shorter) grace period. When you run out of that one, your computer reboots after 2 hours.

It is my guess that something similar will happen with Windows 10. Maybe they will use a different interval, depending on the device that is running Windows 10.

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Living Room / Re: My computer is haunted?

« Last post by Shades on March 20, 2015, 11:01 PM »

Worst case scenario: your USB ports could be fried. You will need to buy either a PCI expansion card supporting multiple USB ports or a new new mainboard.

Less worst case scenario: the drivers for your USB ports are broken. Removing and re-installing your USB drivers would be the best solution. More often than not, USB 3.0 ports need specific drivers which are usually found on the installation media that comes with the mainboard. And if you misplaced the installation media, you likely can find these drivers on the manufacturers website as well.

Are you sure that the mainboard is supplied sufficient amounts of "juice"? All kinds of (very) vague and seemingly unrelated problems can occur when your power supply isn't capable anymore to deliver the +12, +5, -5 and GND required by your mainboard. You could try to use a different power supply and check if the errors still occur when connecting the USB keyboards again. A high quality power supply really makes a difference, but often people fit their PC with a cheap model power supply, so they can spend more on a (more) decent video card or SSD or whatever.

If you as builder of your own system can "save" a lot of money this way, guess where a manufacturer of pre-built consumer-grade PC's will spend as little as possible. And if these manufacturers move systems in bulk that really adds up.

Here in Paraguay you don't have much choice, but since I have been using Corsair power supplies (and the occasional OCZ) I spent much less time on workstation maintenance. 

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by Shades on March 18, 2015, 09:21 AM »

Maybe the Outlook/Office you were using hadn't all the necessary patches? That would be my first guess. Besides, What version of Exchange is running? If your Outlook is 2 versions older than the Exchange it connects to...your usually SOL.