The war between wetware and hardware.
Music players
by sparks » Wed Feb 26, 2020 10:56 pm
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Anybody got recommendations on a decent music player to replace that piece of shit Windows Media Player? I've just about had my fill of that outdated...
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Not a hardware guy, but I'm keen to guess. I figure there's some kind of power pass through going to the USB, so that it can get power even when the...
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Win7 and large drives
by sparks » Fri Feb 07, 2020 5:19 am
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Is there a way to use larger than 2TB drives as the boot drive?
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You can run automatically (e. g. weekly) a Powershell script .
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Last post by Witness Fri Mar 06, 2020 11:15 pm
Casting video
by ed » Sun Mar 01, 2020 1:15 pm
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I am thinking that it might be time to get a new TV. Got a little one for the guest room and I was pretty darn amazed at the functionality. I felt...
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Hmmm seems if you have Miracast on your PC you can wireelssly connect to a tv/monitor. If it is a new thing then you just do it, if it is old, you...
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Last post by ed Sun Mar 01, 2020 6:21 pm
In need of expertise: Google Sheets
by Rob Lister » Tue Feb 25, 2020 1:49 pm
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Is anyone here have more than a passing familiarity with Google Sheets, or other spreadsheet software?
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:rub:
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Last post by Rob Lister Thu Feb 27, 2020 4:17 pm
Crypto
by Witness » Thu Feb 20, 2020 3:58 am
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Does anybody here encrypt one/some/all of his drives? Or folders?
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On the work laptops, no noticeable performance hit...then again I don't have an equivalent non-encrypted system running the same software for...
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Last post by Pyrrho Fri Feb 21, 2020 2:00 am
New search engine
by Witness » Fri Feb 07, 2020 11:13 pm
From Verizon:
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Last post by Witness Fri Feb 07, 2020 11:13 pm
dump your apple stock
by Rob Lister » Tue Jan 18, 2011 2:08 am
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ven if Steve Jobs never returns to Apple, I would not expect a visible, tangible impact on how Apple is executing over the next couple of years,...
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Even though I work in patents (translation thereof) I'm kinda jaded about the whole thing and about intellectual property law in general.
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Last post by Anaxagoras Fri Jan 31, 2020 4:08 am
Satellite internet service
by Anaxagoras » Sat Apr 07, 2018 11:20 am
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Do you think this is going to be a better deal ultimately either in terms of price or quality of service?
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Everything you ever wanted to know about Starlink but were afraid to ask
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Last post by Rob Lister Thu Jan 09, 2020 3:41 pm
Computer Generated Malware
by Bananas?-Yes » Mon Dec 23, 2019 10:49 am
I suspect that title causes a blood pressure increase very quickly in some folks and I sure can understand that this is thinking so far out of the...
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Last post by Pyrrho Fri Dec 27, 2019 10:39 pm
I finally did it.
by Pyrrho » Tue Nov 12, 2019 11:12 pm
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What? You stopped using this???
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I appreciate your assistance.
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Last post by Bananas?-Yes Fri Dec 27, 2019 2:15 am
A Very Strange Habit
by Bananas?-Yes » Tue Dec 24, 2019 9:30 am
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I sincerely do not know how my brain evolved to this stage where I have started to take on Internet companies and get them to work a little harder to...
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I think that you scared him off Rob.
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Last post by ed Tue Dec 24, 2019 2:50 pm
Machine translation
by Anaxagoras » Wed Feb 13, 2019 10:07 am
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Got a new toy at work, just taking it for a test drive.
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Google Translate Sings: The Sound of Silence (Simon & Garfunkel)
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Last post by Rob Lister Mon Nov 11, 2019 12:01 pm
Programming nostalgia
by Witness » Tue Oct 09, 2018 11:59 pm
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Usborne books out of the 80ies:
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Air Force finally retires 8-inch floppies from missile launch control system
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Last post by Witness Mon Oct 28, 2019 9:32 pm
Quantum dreams
by Witness » Thu Jun 27, 2019 4:02 am
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Google's Quantum Processor May Achieve Quantum Supremacy in Months
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The word is given. Warp speed.
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Last post by sparks Sun Oct 27, 2019 3:01 pm
Website software
by ed » Sat Oct 19, 2019 11:25 am
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I want to throw together what I think a friends website should look like. no selling, just info. Need 3 or 4 tabs with product contents. Need the...
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Most hosting providers have DIY website builder options.
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Last post by Pyrrho Sat Oct 19, 2019 5:34 pm
Wikipedia founder admits to serious quality problems
by Geni » Thu Oct 20, 2005 12:39 am
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From The Register
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Wow. Cool story.
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Last post by Anaxagoras Mon Sep 16, 2019 11:26 am
VPNs
by ed » Mon Sep 09, 2019 6:11 pm
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Anyone use one?
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To add to ed's paranoia:
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Last post by Witness Tue Sep 10, 2019 8:36 pm
scary scams
by ed » Fri Sep 06, 2019 12:04 pm
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I can only think ransomeware .
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Scum like this are why drawing and quartering should be brought back. Not that they ever get caught though.
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Last post by ed Fri Sep 06, 2019 1:24 pm
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Last post by shemp Fri Aug 30, 2019 11:48 pm
phpBB --- WTF
by ed » Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:48 am
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If I wanted to have a forum dedicated to my business interests, using
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Interesting language there.
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Last post by Bananas?-Yes Sun Aug 25, 2019 11:48 pm
Social media photo tracking methods
by Pyrrho » Sat Jul 13, 2019 6:51 pm
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Fascinating discussion.
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There are some amazing tracking methods out there/here on the Net. I have done some studying of this subject and I was at one time able to receive...
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Last post by Bananas?-Yes Fri Aug 23, 2019 6:06 am
Download them All
by ed » Wed Jul 17, 2019 12:54 pm
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There was a utility that allowed you to download all thing linked on a page. It is, sadly, defunct.
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That was the cool thing with DTA
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Last post by Witness Thu Jul 18, 2019 3:14 am
Agent Smith vs Android
by Pyrrho » Sun Jul 14, 2019 9:50 pm
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Check Point Researchers recently discovered a new variant of mobile malware that quietly infected around 25 million devices, while the user remains...
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Doesn't look like that, but it serves to remember what I went to the store for...:)
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Last post by sparks Mon Jul 15, 2019 1:14 am
errr ummm
by ed » Mon Jan 28, 2019 11:13 pm
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I restarted my pc before I left for a late lunch. I come back to everything wiped. Like a clean install of win 10....
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I think I was insulted.
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Last post by ed Thu Jul 04, 2019 1:11 am
Google Earth comes to most browsers.
by Rob Lister » Wed Jul 03, 2019 10:37 am
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Formerly, like yesterday, Google Earth was restricted to Chrome. A beta version is now available for Firefox, edge, opera. Not sure about safari....
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Earth ...
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Last post by Rob Lister Wed Jul 03, 2019 10:59 am
Powerline Adapters
by ed » Tue Jun 25, 2019 2:29 pm
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So, my home is not wired for Cat-5 (and if there is now a Cat-6, anyone who smugly informsd me of that supremely useless fact will get a kick in the...
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yepper.
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Last post by Rob Lister Tue Jun 25, 2019 5:04 pm
New blackmail thingie
by ed » Fri Jun 21, 2019 10:23 am
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Hello!
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Or just get a Mac.
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Last post by Doctor X Mon Jun 24, 2019 2:47 am
Mathematica goes freeware
by Witness » Wed Jun 19, 2019 2:03 am
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Sorta.
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Wolfram Language and Mathematica have been bundled free on the standard software for the Raspberry Pi now for ages. I usually delete them to free up...
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Last post by Pyrrho Sun Jun 09, 2019 9:16 pm
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Last post by Doctor X Tue May 28, 2019 9:19 am
Adobe CC (the CC stands for ClusterfuCk)
by Pyrrho » Tue Dec 20, 2016 12:53 am
Well, maybe not that bad...but today at work I updated Illustrator CC 2015 to Illustrator CC 2017 and th 2017 version is now in Trial Mode, expiring...
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Last post by Pyrrho Sat May 18, 2019 5:36 pm
Tech support thread
by Rob Lister » Mon May 06, 2019 4:27 pm
sorry abdul, your link will go unclicked because you are shit at baiting.
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Last post by Rob Lister Mon May 06, 2019 4:27 pm
Who Broke Firefox? GRAM?!!!!
by Doctor X » Sat May 04, 2019 2:11 pm
Firefox disabled all add-ons because a certificate expired (updated)
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Last post by Doctor X Sat May 04, 2019 2:11 pm
Bosque
by Pyrrho » Sun Apr 21, 2019 10:51 pm
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New programming language from Microsoft! :hyper:
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Whatever happened to good old APL? :)
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Last post by Witness Tue Apr 23, 2019 3:27 am
Translation
by Witness » Sun Apr 14, 2019 2:24 am
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Give it a try. Seems to work a lot better than Google translate: .
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Overall, pretty decent. Where it says a boost of pep's seems too literal because that's not idiomatic English. We would say put some pep into ( pep...
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Last post by Anaxagoras Sun Apr 14, 2019 10:27 pm
Party like it's 1999
by Pyrrho » Sat Mar 23, 2019 9:30 pm
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Today I found a Tiger Direct catalog that had been under a cabinet since 1999.
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Palm IIIX, New Low Price! $319.99
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Last post by xouper Mon Mar 25, 2019 1:10 am
Leon
by Pyrrho » Fri Mar 22, 2019 10:42 am
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Intriguing.
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What is Leon?
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Last post by xouper Fri Mar 22, 2019 5:32 pm
NOPE
by Pyrrho » Wed Mar 13, 2019 12:22 am
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Working on an iOS app...needs to access a Sharepoint site...I go looking for info on the Sharepoint API which leads me to the MS Graph API, which led...
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I'm retired from dmg exploits, Don.
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Last post by Pyrrho Wed Mar 13, 2019 8:50 pm
Refurbishing an old plotter
by ceptimus » Fri Oct 05, 2018 3:43 pm
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I bought this old plotter on Ebay for £0.99 It's about thirty years old, and would have cost about the same as a small car when new. Plotters have...
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You might like this thing I found on reddit.
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Last post by Anaxagoras Sun Feb 24, 2019 7:40 am
Cyber Funeral
by Rob Lister » Mon Feb 18, 2019 5:05 pm
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I'd like to say, 'We did it first!'
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Do it yourself via majestic heavenly force. And the browser switch that dumps all that shit upon closing the program.
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Last post by sparks Mon Feb 18, 2019 6:32 pm
Hardware that lasts
by Pyrrho » Sun Feb 17, 2019 7:16 am
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You GOT to read the whole thread!
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Still phoning back home:
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Last post by Witness Mon Feb 18, 2019 2:50 am
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Last post by Doctor X Tue Feb 12, 2019 7:31 pm
The Power of Analogy
by Witness » Sat Feb 09, 2019 1:10 am
(Shamelessly copied another thread's title…)
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Last post by Witness Sat Feb 09, 2019 1:10 am
Bad News for Doc and the Apple Fan Boys
by asthmatic camel » Tue Nov 13, 2018 3:36 am
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Have the great unwashed finally realised that they're paying way over the odds for stuff they can buy for half the price or less?
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Apple agrees to pay back-taxes to French authorities
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Last post by Witness Wed Feb 06, 2019 2:19 am
Linux and Ubantu
by ed » Tue Jan 29, 2019 9:36 pm
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So .... what are my alternatives to stupid windows
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Linux Mint is recommended for Windows converts. It's just Ubuntu with a different graphical desktop arrangement that makes it look and work more like...
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Last post by ceptimus Thu Jan 31, 2019 10:30 pm
No. Just no. That is all.
by Anaxagoras » Fri Jan 18, 2019 2:31 am
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16 ounces of water is a pint. Well, in :freedom: it is. In Britain it's 20.
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I'd rather ask Alexa for a pint of whiskey.
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Last post by shemp Fri Jan 18, 2019 3:45 am
Feng shui and computers.
by xouper » Sun Jan 06, 2019 7:19 pm
:mrgreen:
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Last post by xouper Sun Jan 06, 2019 7:19 pm
Opera vs Firefox etc a missing capability?
by ed » Tue Jan 01, 2019 2:23 pm
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Firefox seems to me to be a real hog so I have moved to Opera which seems better.
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Recently I recommended Brave
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Last post by Witness Thu Jan 03, 2019 2:39 am
Video game surprise awesomeness
by gnome » Mon Dec 24, 2018 4:01 pm
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One of the things that especially entertains me in video games is when amazing things happen you didn't plan or expect, and possibly were not...
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Can you imagine having immortality and connected with that is a footnote that the artist thought you were a goat fornicator?
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