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    Gamers Nexus: NVIDIA's Dirty Manipulation of Reviews

    Nvidia has always been a garbage company. They never invented anything, just bought a bunch of other video card brands several decades ago, and the only thing they did over the years is increase the amount of cores and memory. Though we have to give credit for the CEO sticking his head inside an...
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    Does distance between m2 slot and CPU make a difference?

    You could probably add a 10 meter long extension cable and see no difference.
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    Do they make 3.5" solid state drives?

    I mounted 2.5 inch SSDs in 3.5 inch bays just by screwing in one side, seems to hold well and cools well.
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    Remote boot sector ?

    I doubt the boot up time differs much between a SATA SSD and an NVME drive. The drive is not the only thing that determines how fast your OS will load, at some point it probably becomes unimportant. You either need to find a bootloader that can do it. The famous Linux bootloader "grub" cannot...
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    all sata port dead...

    Are the drives receiving power? If it's a mechanical HDD, see if it's actually spinning.
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    Intel ‘Downfall’: Severe flaw in billions of CPUs leaks passwords and much more

    You don't need a command prompt, that just makes it easier, but you could be hacked simply by visiting a website which runs a piece of javascript that makes use of these exploits. This has nothing to do with having root or administrator privileges, if someone has them, then they already have...
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    Intel ‘Downfall’: Severe flaw in billions of CPUs leaks passwords and much more

    If you removed most of the complexity from modern hardware and software, you would lose a bit of performance but gain massive amounts of reliability. The human mind can only guarantee the reliability of a design up to a certain point in it's complexity, after that it's becomes a lottery.
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    Who here has gigabit internet? Also anybody subscribed to Comcast 6 gig?

    I think it's both awesome and sad how fast connections are today. Nowadays a random kid is probably watching a meaningless 4K 60FPS video on his smartphone, wirelessly, at 5 MB/s, while that same bandwidth would be enough for a thousand people to chat over IRC, use e-mail, browse basic websites...
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    Dug this guy up the other day. 1.2ghz PIII Celeron

    Poor quality capacitors don't necessarily mean the manufacturer used cheap components, even Intel boards had issues with failing capacitors. It could be related to the so called capacitor plague of late 90s and early 2000s. I would say boards are definitely worth keeping. CPUs are probably...
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    Dug this guy up the other day. 1.2ghz PIII Celeron

    Replace all capacitors, not just ones that are bulged.
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    What's the best Linux networking protocol?

    Eulogy, that's cool. Could you please post your setup? What operating systems are on either end of the transfer, the network cards, switch, type of cabling and their length? Are you using NVMe drives?
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    What's the best Linux networking protocol?

    Deadjasper, maybe a dumb question, but is your network 100 Mbps or 1000 Mbps? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think NFS still doesn't have an easy way to authenticate users. The minimum you should do is restrict your NFS shares to be accessed only by the IP addresses of the devices from which...
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    Failed 8,3 Years old WD Red drive 3TB (EFRX) - what now...?

    The usual way of doing it is overwriting it multiple times, each time with different, random data. On Debian operating system, and probably many others, there is a program called "shred" which does just that, and it's manual page describes it this way: Overwrite the specified FILE(s) repeatedly...
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    Failed 8,3 Years old WD Red drive 3TB (EFRX) - what now...?

    Eventually drives run out of spare blocks, because there is only a limited amount reserved when the drives are manufactured. This reserved space is probably no different from the rest of the usable space and is reserved purely in software. It should be possible to increase it, but I don't know...
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    Failed 8,3 Years old WD Red drive 3TB (EFRX) - what now...?

    Some file systems do support marking bad areas.
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