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Do you have some way to confirm the data you have is the data you stored? If so, great, copy and then confirm the copied data is good. If not, well, you may already be screwed and won't know it. If there's doubt about the status of the hard drives, I would try to collect an image with ddrescue...

Is windows still doing the thing where if it thinks you're doing multimedia, it messes up networking; and does RDP count as multimedia?

If you have to ask, the answer is probably no, you can't. But the OSDev wiki does have barebones examples in Pascal and Basic (not QBasic though). Learning enough C to be dangerous is probably an easier path though, IMHO. Writing an OS can be fun and tedious and terrible and more fun. Test on...

I'm sure it's there's fab capacity and yields to think about. Plus if they do two releases the FOMO crowd might buy twice.

Other desktop OSes have certainly gained some marketshare since the last time, but Windows is still, clearly, a monopoly with market power. I don't think there's much of an anti-trust case about ending support for older versions though. It's reasonable for OSes to have a finite lifetime, and...

Does bios setup show up on hdmi if the hdmi cable is plugged in and the vga cable is disconnected from the board?

TCP does that, and TCP often uses Nagle's algorithm, but Nagle's algorithm is something else. Nagle's algorithm says don't send tiny data packets unless you peer has acked everything you sent. That ends up not being great if your peer has delayed acks, which is also common; TCP_CORK/UNCORK is...

Switches do eliminate collisions, if everything is full duplex, and limit the scope if some ports are running at half, but it the average unmanaged switch gets a broadcast packet or a multicast packet, it's going to queue it to all ports. Otherwise, broadcast doesn't work, so you can't send a...

The point of a switch is to not flood all packets to all ports. Broadcasts have to go everywhere by design (unless you've got vlans), some switches might do multicast stuff, but I think unmanaged switches will tend to flood those too.

You should be able to get error counts from the network card, and maybe the other end of the cable (router, switch, etc)? If there are lots of errors, try a different cable. Otherwise, yeah, putting in a new NIC is a reasonable thing to try. I'd look for something intel, maybe...

In the before times, I ran a lot of Intel enterprise SATA SSDs. They were pretty good, and the failure rate was maybe 10% of our spinners, maybe less. But none of them ever showed any prefailure indicators that I could tell --- just disappeared from the bus randomly.

A quick look around says socket 7 was introduced in 1995 k6-iii was released in 1999. Wikipedia says AM4 launched in lat 2016, but Zen came out early 2017. AMD is not only continuing to make AM4 chips, but they're also making new SKUs; so yeah, AM4 is longer than socket 7. The pace of computing...

Highly doubtful that you'll get more lanes IMHO. Best case would be a chipset with pcie 5.0 upstream on the x4. Maybe the dual chipset boards would run pcie5.0x4 from the cpu for both of them, you'd lose a cpu m.2, but have a much wider path for data through the chipset.

My 13 year old has basically taken over my steam account at this point. When he was younger and wanted to buy garbage games on steam, they went into my account, because why setup a steam account for a 10 year old... and now it's clear, I haven't bought much recently, so all the fresh games are...

Maaaybe, you can often figure out the sector number, and then if you have the right tools, go from a sector number to find out the file or directory that's got trouble. But I'm not sure how to do that with filesystems people actually use. I'm assuming these are unreadable sectors; if they're...

It's a packet switch, not a circuit switch. So the switch negotiates each wired connection to the best mutually supported speed on that port, and then packets come in and go out at the speed of the port involved. So your 10g box can send 10gbps to the switch, and it'll distribute it to the rest...

Firmware update is a good bet. Lazy answer is I think ASUS puts a scheduled reboot option in their routers; if it reboots every sunday night, that 'fixes' the problem. I've had this kind of thing happen with different network devices if I write scripts to hit the web interface once a minute...

The biggest thorn in Microsoft's side is Microsoft. If they wanted Windows 11 to be adopted, maybe they should have made it good. If they want people to use the Windows Store to buy stuff, it needs to work consistently, or at least be something normal people can repair or reinstall. If they've...

Adding on, a higher grade drive may last longer, but nothing lasts forever. Spinners fail, SSDs fail (less often, but more spectacularly). You really should have 3 copies of things you care about, and one of those should be offsite. The 3-2-1 backup rule suggests having two types of media, but I...

Keep in mind, the first gen famicom had RF out only, and it's tuned to Japanese TV frequencies. There's references our there that say there's a pot you can adjust to get it on a US TV channel, but it's still RF. And the controllers are 'permanently' connected and the cords are short. If you can...

Confusion between Costco and Cosco strikes again.

There was one for the Coleco vision too. Not sure how the intellivision one works, but the coleco one is pretty much an whole atari clone in the adapter and it just takes over the whole output, none of the original guts do anything.

Does it? Isn't it mostly a rebranded 7950x3d, so one CCD has 32M and the other has 96M? Plus whatever memory controller differences.

The bandwidth for optical audio is tiny compared to video, and video needs two way signalling. Optical audio really cheaped out because they can, IIRC, the transmitters are usually led, not laser, and the cables are usually plastic, not glass fibers. Unidirectionality means no format...

Adding on, some people have improved the game significantly (caveat, I haven't played it this way) http://www.neocomputer.org/projects/et/ Some of those changes could have likely happened with a couple more weeks of development. Falling into pits unexpectedly wasn't ever fun, although I'm a...

Sometimes it's handy to have a place for power bricks to keep them off the surface. Not sure if that tray would do it though.

The best format for distribution on Linux is a self-contained Windows exe that you've tested in Wine. Not sure which windows version to target, but as long as it runs well in Wine, it will run everywhere. Much better than trying to play nice with anything else.

With my trolling hat firmly on. The two most popular Linux distributions, Android and ChromeOS both push pretry hard for an online account. I don't think the bundled ads are pushed as hard as Windows though, but recent Android does force install a bunch of stuff when you sign in, that you pretty...

I just bought one recently. They're definitely still out there for cable. Less so for DSL, gotta find a modem you can put into bridge mode or whatever, but it's going to have all the stuff, just disabled.

It still works for listening to digitally imported (di.fm), but you need a subscription if you want to use winamp instead of their web player now, I think.

I'm sure there's some of us. And we've got some real horders that can probably make use of SMR as well. Also, chances are all the other bits work without shingles too, but the density is a bit less so the PR highlights the capacity with SMR. I think I saw someone has a drive you can format for...

Inquiring minds want to know... What did your friend replace these with? These seem pretty solid as access points, but wifi 6 and 7 are nice to have.

It's pretty easy to accidentally buy from not Amazon if you're not paying attention. I assume most of the people writing reviews don't pay attention, so there's going to be some of that. But also, amazon still comingles inventory afaik, so you might select to buy from one seller, but amazon...

Roku devices are pretty good UI (depending on the service, some of them write real shitty UIs), and easy for regular people to use. Integrations into fun personal library stuff is kind of not great at the moment though. There's a lot of things that kind of work and kind of don't. And there's...

Yeah, it's a real shame Intel killed development right before Microsoft demoed Continuum. x86 windows mobile 10 could have been really interesting.

That's barebones though. No ram or storage.

Yep, I only went to the Microcenter in Tustin a couple times and don't remember buying anything when I lived near there, and I think I went in the Santa Clara location twice, and I worked at the office tower next door for about a year. Now that Fry's is dead, I always check if I should visit...

I've got the 2023 model. The stylus is great for fidgeting with, but really I just wanted the headphone jack and a decent processor. I'm thrilled that motorola figured out how to make vibration work, whatever year moto g power I had from before then was really terrible at actually notifying me.

Can't you just move the old sim to get SMS codes sent by Verizon?

That button doesn't seem to work for me either, but turning off the TPM works great.