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Please, all metric system units which are named after a person are uppercase. Unless you have a chip on your shoulder for James Watt please use W. And metric system requires a space between value and unit. Like this: "1 W". Or this: "1 kW", note, the prefix kilo which stands for 1000x is...

Assuming your wiring and outlet can handle 10 A. Ten amps multiplied by 120 volts is 1200 watts. If your computer really uses up 1200 watts then you need an A/C unit in your room to neutralize this kind of heat. Because in the end all this energy will be converted into heat. Now, is your...

Keep in mind you may have a 1600 W PSU, but the real power drawn is much less and depends on your actual hardware and the workload.

Wired. It has a hole in the bottom and there is a latch-like thingy ... but it is very hard to move and nothing happens when I do it. Right now I went to my garage and gave it a pressured air treatment, works normally for now. Still curious how it opens.

Nope, I peeled everything off, even the left side sticky cover. A mystery. I'm contemplating buying a new mouse and then crush the damn thing just to see ... There is RGM-300 manual and videos, but it differs.

For your information, Linux has no GUI. There are several GUI applications which run on Linux and *BSD and other UNIX-like platforms, but they are no part of Linux. Most user-friendly Linux is Gentoo indeed. I started using it in 2004 and it was so wonderful I dropped everything else soon. Most...

Anyone knows how? It seems there is a hair or something inside, making the scroll erroneous. Can't see any screws anywhere ... Me scratching head.

Actually I did not derail anything. Privacy is a huge issue with MS and Google. Read their privacy statements, I did. The world is changing around us, much faster than you would think. I replying only because you decided to accuse me in lying. What I wrote is my personal experience, thus cannot...

I just canceled my MS account, they made me wait 90 days before final cancellation, but now it's gone. I feel much better, working on shutting down my Google account. Still some emails come there, but I'm getting close. See, I am used to free world we had before and can't stand this endless...

LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice, and much better it is. LibreOffice is an active project with frequent new releases. Yes it can open and import/export a wide range of formats.

It was like this in soviet land. And if this Davos gang gets what they want then whole western world will have it this way. You own nothing and rent everything. It is in UN plans for 2030, in case you didn't know, NWO. I do not know what high demands you have for office, I use Libreoffice and...

Once upon time computers had "IDE mode" option in BIOS. This was for Windows users, they were supposed to use IDE mode to boot, then install AHCI driver and then set this option to AHCI. This IDE mode was not meant to be used after initial Windows install. I don't know what you have there, maybe...

EnderW Did you try Avidemux? I've been using it for ages, it is mature and with 2.8.1 it also gained superb audio processing. Has lots of plugins, supportive forum and Wiki pages with plentiful information about its use.

Hold your horses, what shielding and grounding? I thought I'll take a long (too long) SATA cable and make two short ones from it by cutting it and soldering a new connectors on them. To my knowledge there is no shielding and grounding in these cables. Yes, I am aware of tuned cables where...

I was an IT manager when CRT started disappearing, we had guy on payroll for photo work and he demanded CRT, the only way to get true colors is properly calibrated CRT he said.

Uh, after placing the order I found out they ship from Hong-Kong. I received an air mail tracking number and then ... nuttin'. After a week a message. Due to COVID all air mail is canceled. Will ship using alternate method. And ... didn't take long. About four and half months, and the package...

Right. But it also created a whole new "industry". We had one of these in our property, a lawyer and a disabled man in wheelchair. Checking whether or equipment complies with disability act. They found some tables where one inch taller than allowed by law. This should be the decision of business...

Avidemux. Of course, you must start a clip with keyframe, therefore you are not free to cut it wherever you want. For freedom to cut anywhere you have to re-encode.

Here's my story. One drive fell out from zpool, WD Red. I bought a replacement, a brand new WD Red. Plugged it in, started resilvering. Next morning I saw it was aborted by zpool. Couldn't figure out why, everything did seem fine otherwise. Although I noticed idle3ctl could not manage this...

There are reports SMR drives failing during ZFS resilvering. I'm not saying SMR does not have any use. Just advertising them as NAS drives is misleading, ZFS may be used in NAS.

I don't know now, I bought my last drive a few months ago and then it was sold and shipped directly. I'm pretty sure if you register your Amazon drive with WD then the warranty starts from day you bought it. Earlier I had a case with WD when they refused warranty of some Amazon seller sold...

Funny. I did the exactly same thing. The only difference is I bought a new drive in every two months. And I bought WD drives. WD sells them direct, same price as Amazon, no problems with warranty of course if you buy direct. Took the old smaller drives and made myself a backup storage server.

I wonder if it has better quality of HEVC hardware encoding than my current TU116 [GeForce GTX 1660]. I do not game, but I do lots of video encoding.

Windows is a monument for sales skills of Bill Gates. Selling an OS which is not secure enough to be connected to the internet ... Cars allowed on the public roads must pass DOT tests, if there was similar requirement for operating systems then Windows would be out of business. Billions, tens of...

I have been happy chap ever since I ditched MS operating system. 2003 it was, will be 20 years anniversary soon. I admit, once I wanted to try W10 out of curiosity and tried to install it in a virtual machine. First I got "a genuine free copy of W10" from some dark corner of internet. It...

I made a fair attempt to find these cables. Corsair website gives a pretty useless table about cable compatibility. No part numbers, nothing helpful. Having these modular cables is a great idea, but it turns into nightmare if you don't have them. All usual places I use for shopping have lots of...

Video editing is very broad term. For instance, I record from digital broadcast sometimes and then I cut out the ads, this is [basic] video editing, and this requires no video stream processing. Therefore no need for any computing power. I use Avidemux for this, BTW. But then again, I love old...

Scalpers are the byproduct of destructive economic policies. Every time the free market is restricted black market arises. Don't blame the rainwater when your roof is leaking.

Most budget friendly is OS upgrade, try Linux Mint, Mate or Xfce4 edition. Free, secure, fast, does not call home. Just my 2¢. My ThInkpad T410 has similar CPU, I'm not complaining.

Actually I ordered some SATA connectors, once they arrive I'll see how good my self made cables are.

Don't worry, USA went to metric system after WW2, what do you think how many people know uppercase "K" stands for Kelvin degree and lowercase "k" for prefix kilo? Which means KB is Kelvin-byte (nonsense) and kB is kilobyte. I told this to a friend of mine, he has masters degree in IT. He thought...

Aren't 90% of medical supplies coming from China? I think Trump started doing something about it but ... resurrecting manufacturing is not as easy as shutting it down.

Everyone wants their computer to look neat inside. Well, I do. Good for airflow, too. I have a bag full of SATA cables, yet the cables in use in my computers are not perfect length. Out of boredom I searched net and found DIY SATA connectors are sold. Has anyone used these to make custom length...

Low blood Ox was before omicron when Covid went to lungs, this is not the case with omicron, no lung damage.

I added $70 and bought two 20 round clips from Beretta. Now I'm out of additional $70. Let it be a lesson to you. Free money does no good.

With omicron I'd be more interested if I already had it or not. Considering how easily it spreads everybody is going to have it, experts say, I think they make sense.

Koldur, I was an IT manager and sysadmin for 8+ years when the computerization made its first steps into enterprises. In 2003 I quit because I could no longer stand MS. I promised to myself I will never install Windows again and I have kept this promise. Therefore I don't have a slightest clue...

This, dear Koldur, is b/s. The way how you load microcode is irrelevant. However, if microcode is loaded too late as it can happen with misconfigured OS then you can expect trouble. This is why I build it into kernel instead of loading later from userspace. It is paramount to load microcode...

I cannot believe this from WD. I thought I was conned, again. But I got a refund! The story. Two weeks ago I woke up early morning, like before 6 AM Sunday morning. I saw an email from my server (I run a little email server in my router, all computers report there if any issues emerge) about one...

Railroad Tycoon (long time ago); Colonization (I still play it); Capitalism Plus - this is the greatest game based on real life free market and competition, was even used in colleges