• CIPWTTKT&GC V41 - I understood some words
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I also picked up this 320GB HHD for free, should I be concerned? That's the only thing that's yellow. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/GEMtwVK.png[/IMG] chkdsk says it's fine, I also fully reformatted the hard drive. Oddly enough the power on hours are minimal.
[QUOTE=garychencool;51252775]I also picked up this 320GB HHD for free, should I be concerned? That's the only thing that's yellow. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/GEMtwVK.png[/IMG] chkdsk says it's fine, I also fully reformatted the hard drive.[/QUOTE] Its [I]probably[/I] fine for light use, but honestly with as cheap as drives are getting these days I wouldn't personally bother with it.
[QUOTE=garychencool;51252775]I also picked up this 320GB HHD for free, should I be concerned? That's the only thing that's yellow. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/GEMtwVK.png[/IMG] chkdsk says it's fine, I also fully reformatted the hard drive.[/QUOTE] As long as the speed checks out (Do a HD Tune performance test) you should be fine. A surface write test wouldn't hurt though, will force any bad sectors to pop up and hopefully reallocate just fine.
I was thinking of putting it in the Thinkpad since it's a 2.5 inch hard drive and waiting until Black Friday/Cyber Monday to get a 2.5 inch SSD for upgrading. Oddly enough this Thinkpad has a slot for those microSATA SSDs.
My uni just tried to send exam results in email, and its just a huge mess of characters, so long that gmail cuts it off. I copied it all and saved it as a simple html file. Turns out it's an embedded png, encoded in base64, which itself shows a three hundred rows long spreadsheet. And its not even ordered. kill me
[QUOTE=Kecske;51253208]My uni just tried to send exam results in email, and its just a huge mess of characters, so long that gmail cuts it off. I copied it all and saved it as a simple html file. Turns out it's an embedded png, encoded in base64, which itself shows a three hundred rows long spreadsheet. And its not even ordered. kill me[/QUOTE] As each day goes on, I begin to believe that the set of all universities and the set of technologically competent people are complements of each other. (No disrespect to those of you who run uni IT, you're the exception to the rule.)
Expresscard is an amazing standard, why don't we have it anymore? PCMCIA too.
[QUOTE=Trekintosh;51253313]Expresscard is an amazing standard, why don't we have it anymore? PCMCIA too.[/QUOTE] it got in the way of computers being paper thin
[QUOTE=Trekintosh;51253313]Expresscard is an amazing standard, why don't we have it anymore? PCMCIA too.[/QUOTE] ultrabooks (size considerations) price per connector Most people would rather have 1 extra cell of battery (~1 hour extra) than an expresscard-ish connector in an on-the-go laptop (Battery sizes are insane in modern computers compared to older ones). Anyone else can use Thunderbolt 3.
[QUOTE=garychencool;51252811]I was thinking of putting it in the Thinkpad since it's a 2.5 inch hard drive and waiting until Black Friday/Cyber Monday to get a 2.5 inch SSD for upgrading. Oddly enough this Thinkpad has a slot for those microSATA SSDs.[/QUOTE] Do some digging on those microSATA SSD's for that model. Many thinkpads can support them but you need to find a custom BIOS file that has it whitelisted.
Man, I'm getting really sick of obnoxiously slow HTTPS connections. Half the time I get stuck at "ESTABLISHING SECURE CONNECTION". My stop and refresh buttons are getting a good workout. At first I thought it was just my network, but nope, I get to work and its the exact same fucking thing.
So a family member has recently been complaining that his computer "is awfully slow again". Last year, I reinstalled Windows 7 on that computer. It seems that every few months after I clean and mess around with the computer, it seems to run like ass again. Now I've moved further away from home, he's saying that he is most likely going to buy a new tower PC from a shop somewhere because his current one is running like ass... again. I've tried to advise him against this. I'm suggesting that I can run mbam on there, physically dust/clean the inside of the PC when I'm next at home and also upgrade him to a SSD. Do you think there are any other things I can do to save his PC? I feel as if it's a waste buying a new system for what he does (internet, e-mail, photos, music).
[QUOTE=colincooke;51255085]So a family member has recently been complaining that his computer "is awfully slow again". Last year, I reinstalled Windows 7 on that computer. It seems that every few months after I clean and mess around with the computer, it seems to run like ass again. Now I've moved further away from home, he's saying that he is most likely going to buy a new tower PC from a shop somewhere because his current one is running like ass... again. I've tried to advise him against this. I'm suggesting that I can run mbam on there, physically dust/clean the inside of the PC when I'm next at home and also upgrade him to a SSD. Do you think there are any other things I can do to[B] save his PC[/B]? I feel as if it's a waste buying a new system for what he does (internet, e-mail, photos, music).[/QUOTE] Lock him out of it.
[QUOTE=Forumaster;51255090]Lock him out of it.[/QUOTE] The best way to save a computer from a user is to make sure the user doesn't use it at all. Honestly. Or install Linux.
[QUOTE=Trekintosh;51253313]Expresscard is an amazing standard, why don't we have it anymore? PCMCIA too.[/QUOTE] Majority of consumers simply don't need them. Adding something most people won't use is just extra unnecessary costs.
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;51255221]Majority of consumers simply don't need them. Adding something most people won't use is just extra unnecessary costs.[/QUOTE] Also USB 3.0 pretty much can do everything PCMCIA and Expresscard ever did. Except add more USB ports. :v:
[QUOTE=garychencool;51252775]I also picked up this 320GB HHD for free, should I be concerned? That's the only thing that's yellow. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/GEMtwVK.png[/IMG] chkdsk says it's fine, I also fully reformatted the hard drive. Oddly enough the power on hours are minimal.[/QUOTE] The drive isn't broken. That value is a sign the drive worked to fix itself, it's merely a sign of possible future issues. Always have backups, but the drive should be working fine. A full format or a full disk write forces the drive to reallocate weak sectors, so it should run fine.
[QUOTE=Demache;51255229]Also USB 3.0 pretty much can do everything PCMCIA and Expresscard ever did. Except add more USB ports. :v:[/QUOTE] but USB hubs
[t]http://i.imgur.com/uhIPYlA.jpg[/t] [quote]It helps keep in that vintage smell.[/quote]
[QUOTE=S31-Syntax;51252752][url]https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-Flush-ExpressCard-SuperSpeed-Adapter/dp/B00BB7TVMO[/url] Slimline usb3 cards are boss for such things. Cram it in, leave it in.[/QUOTE] And here I was thinking all those slots were good for was shitty network adapters
[QUOTE=wingless;51255326]but USB hubs[/QUOTE] "Splitting" existing ports doesn't truly count IMO. PCMCIA cards had their own USB controller so you could upgrade to USB 2.0 on a USB 1.1 laptop and such.
[QUOTE=latin_geek;51252424] Keep us updated, I want to know how well it handles modern Windows/Linux and some art or notetaking apps. I've had my eye on one of the thinkpad tablets for a while now.[/QUOTE] Will do. I plan on installing and using Windows 10 on it, and getting a replacement pen for it. I will probably only use it for some hand writing but I usually type up notes and such. Although it would be useful for drawing storyboard and whatever else for future film shoots. [editline]24th October 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=Levelog;51253621]Do some digging on those microSATA SSD's for that model. Many thinkpads can support them but you need to find a custom BIOS file that has it whitelisted.[/QUOTE] They cost more than the 2.5 inch SSDs and might even be slower so I'd rather just get the 2.5 inch SSDs instead. I can pretty much get double the storage for the same price. Although if I do randomly find one for free, I'd probably use it just for some sort of storage. Also I've budgeted $100 on this. Already spent $20 for 4GB of RAM, making it 6GB. I plan on potentially maxing the ram to 8GB. Got the charger for free and a friend and I are going to clean it out and install Windows 10 on it tomorrow onto the free 320GB HHD I got. Speaking of hard drives, I picked up a free 120GB and 500GB WD Blue. Tested them and everything, they work and I'll probably use it for some PC built as storage or something.
[QUOTE=Demache;51255596]"Splitting" existing ports doesn't truly count IMO. PCMCIA cards had their own USB controller so you could upgrade to USB 2.0 on a USB 1.1 laptop and such.[/QUOTE] PCMCIA was basically a hotpluggable PCI slot. The amount of bandwidth it offered compared to USB 2.0 really can't be compared. It also had that weird [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoomed_video_port]ZV card[/url] mode which meant you could also use it to directly push data into the framebuffer via an external video device. I guess in a way ExpressCard was similar in that it was a PCI express slot but I've never really compared the bandwidth of Thunderbolt to know if it's really a successor to just using expansion cards or just something where 3/4 of the peripherals are expensive as shit, like firewire was.
I think the old family HP printer at home just self destructed. I remember reading about how a bunch of printers have built-in fail dates so I wonder if it just auto died or something. It was printing stuff and suddenly it stopped. The printing loading bar keeps going. Cancelling doesn't seem to work either. Unplugging the power and replugging it in doesn't fix it. It just goes back to it's middle of printing state and does nothing. I think it went full retard.
welcome to printers
[QUOTE=papkee;51256075]welcome to printers[/QUOTE] Maybe it sensed that there's a new printer (the Brother laser printer I got off Amazon) is in the same household so it's like, fuck you, *self destructs*
Next time you should of bought an HP LaserJet™ 4M Plus. The only LaserJet™ assured to survive The Apocalypse. Also yes, in my mind I see a nuke scorched wasteland with flattened buildings, burned out cars and scattered around are Atari 2600 joysticks and slightly singed LaserJet 4M Plus's. :v:
My USB optical drive just spins up for about a second then stalls out and starts over. It's plugged into the USB port on the keyboard of my convertible tablet. As the drive is spinning up, the power light on said detachable keyboard flickers. Is it drawing too much power?
[QUOTE=Trekintosh;51256319]My USB optical drive just spins up for about a second then stalls out and starts over. It's plugged into the USB port on the keyboard of my convertible tablet. As the drive is spinning up, the power light on said detachable keyboard flickers. Is it drawing too much power?[/QUOTE] Sure is. Most USB optical drives I've seen use two USB ports because one isn't enough for the motor let alone with a keyboard too.
[QUOTE=Demache;51255596]"Splitting" existing ports doesn't truly count IMO. PCMCIA cards had their own USB controller so you could upgrade to USB 2.0 on a USB 1.1 laptop and such.[/QUOTE] I don't like hubs, it's just another thing to lug around when you could have had more USB ports to begin with.
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