The Computer Thread

You can only Dual-Channel with RAM bars of identical sizes. They theoretically don't have to be from the same manufacturer but they are probably more optimized when they are.

edited 3rd Jan '17 8:56:31 AM by Kiefen

DDR3 and DDR4 RAM are not compatible, although DDR3L and DDR4 are, albeit with the speed being reduced to DDR3 levels.

If they are of the same DDR type but have different clock speeds, they will run at the lower/lowest clock speed.

One of my most trusted scanners, Malwarebyte's Anti-Malware, has stopped working correctly. It's taking forever to do anything. x_x

The World Wide Web is being ruined by Twitter! It used to be when you clicked a tag you were taken to a list of every thing public on the site where the subject in question was the main topic, or at least advertised to be.

Now when you click on a tag you should be expecting to be taken to a list of every on the website that where the subject in question was also added as a tag, regardless of relevancy. I don't know who thought this was a good idea but people were adding superfluous tags to increase their hits through searches since before Google bought youtube. Anyone using the site in 2003 would have said [[Hahahano no]], and it's obviously a twatter trend because even Urban Dictionary has changed its plain blue useful tags to useless #hash tags.

We've got web pages that scroll down nigh endlessly where they used to have a nice list of thumbnail links to guide visitors to place of interest. Margins have grown out of control in what I guess are attempts to appease phone users who will just be using facebook or twitter anyway. Less and less text is affected by the size chosen in browser options, trending is becoming the new invasion, and I really liked the old invasion better when troll posts were at least obvious, unapologetic, easy to return. I suppose I should be grateful "social media" has made it easier to keep up with pro wrestling but out of all sites, why did Twitter have to be the trend setter? With more and more services expanding the character limit for texting I'd hoped emoticons and abbreviations would be fading from "chat" but as long as the site built around character limit reigns supreme...

Hey,so I have these things in my firewall and I'm wondering what they are,

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I am not sure, but here's a page that may be able to help.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd425028.aspx

It's quite wordy.

Are you using an Enterprise edition of Windows 10?

Per , that appears to be a bandwidth optimization utility for pushing software updates in a business environment.

Sometimes I really hate computers; just spent the past 2 days fighting my BIOS and Windows to get them to recognize my new drive^* Samsung 960 Pro NVME SSD as existing and viable as a boot drive.^* This involved having to actually modify the windows .iso file that gets used during installation so that the drivers were preinstalled into the code, I couldn't even load them from a separate USB drive like you usually can. This was not a fun or easy process.

On the up side my read write times are double what I was getting even with my old 4XSSD RAID0 array and I no longer even see the windows loading screen during boot^* Though there is a very brief flicker between the bios screen and the desk top coming up so I think I'll consider 3.5GB/s read write speeds worth the hassle once I get every thing reinstalled.

My external drive is acting up and I cannot seem to do anything about it except tell how "Delayed Write Failed" or "I/0 Device Error". The sad part is that it seemed that it was literally yesterday that my drive worked without fail but it seemed to almost betray me. I do not want to format and give back to the manufacture for a replacement. Data recovery is expensive.

Try another USB port, preferably one actually on the motherboard rather than one on the case, as those have a habit of going faulty.

Does Microsoft Word ever make adjustments to your documents all by itself?

Do you mean formatting or spelling?

Formatting.

I had this happen a few times when you change your datatype, font or line alignment.

There are also many auto-formatting options whose defaults depend on your languages conventions.

How is it so hard to develop an app that opens a website, scrapes the contents, and displays them in a menu? When I was poking around with Kodi a few months ago, at least Flix2Kodi and NetfliXBMC worked, they were just ugly. I opened Kodi up just now to see if I could change the display mode so it would be more pleasant to look at, and they're both throwing errors as soon as they try to log in now.

Cross Post:

Did anyone else encounter the start menu bug on their Windows 10? I had to reset my laptop just to make sure that it can work again after previous methods had failed. Do I need to use the anniversary update?

edited 7th Apr '17 9:11:46 AM by GAP

The best I ever got into developing something like that was using certain websites' API and taking their data from there.

So, I've got audiobooks. I've been putting them on mp3 CDs. Yay!. But the problem is every track is one audio CD long. Boo. However, the app you're supposed to play them in has subtrack timecodes stored as XML. Yay! However, it's incredibly tedious to copy that information into Audacity by hand, and Audacity's import/export marker format uses a different time format and different arrangement of the data. Boo. Solution: I've been learning Python to create the kind of files Audacity wants. Yay?

Since Sunday, I've learned enough to write a script that will take an argument from the console, modify the filename it assumes that argument is into the destination filename, convert a dictionary of titles and times into the proper time format, generate the proper arrangement of that data, and write it all to the destination file. I have yet to learn how to strip information from an XML file into any kind of variables, so I'm still working from a hand-written dummy dictionary, but it does everything else it needs to do now.

Hey everyone, I've got a problem with my Ubuntu laptop and I was wondering if anyone here could help.

Basically, when the battery is low but not extremely so (around 20%), it does a hard shutdown. It's supposed to hibernate, but apparently it never gets to do so since something else force a shutdown before that point is reached.

So, any idea where that comes from and how to fix it? One possibility I've thought about is that Ubuntu is overestimating the battery level, and thinks it's ~20% when it's actually close to 0.

Sometimes a battery will need to be recalibrated by turning off every automatic response and letting it completely discharge.

In the last days of my laptop the battery meter was completely broken and would never show any percentage between 98 and OH GOD SHUT IT ALL DOWN NOW, and would reach the latter in under five minutes off the cord. I bought a new battery and it fixed that. Then I stopped using the laptop because of processor and memory issues.

Speaking of processors, how practical is it to replace a CPU in an existing PC rather than buying a whole new one?

That ultimately depends on how old your other hardware is and if you wish to upgrade to something that is compatible with it.

From a PC building standpoint modern CPU's don't have pins anymore that can break off and instead are like cell batteries which you just place on their designated spot. So even if you have little experience in PC building you should be able to unscrew your CPU-Fan and exchange your CPU.

Building a computer inside your desk as part of your desk: cool idea, or actually a leg oven?

The computer's about three years old.

Depnds on ventilation.

do you know what socket type?