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It depends on what is more important to you. If size is more important than speed go for an HD. But if speed is more important go for an SSD. If you need both, and your computer will hold two drives you can always add the SSD and make it …
Buying Instagram followers is pretty much the same unethical tactic as buying up copies of your own book to get on the best seller's list. It's dodgy at best and contemptible at worst. At least The Times identifies (although not obviously) best sellers that resulted from bulk sales. Too bad …
It seems these days that technology exists to infuriate us rather than serve us. I used to enjoy watching movies and viewing pictures on my Queast 2. The TV app worked well. I could put the screen into panorama mode and expand the screen. I could do prev nd next …
>According to me Mozilla Firefox (google chrome) is best for SEO. A response like that is completely useless without supporting info to back it up.
I can't imagine how that would be useful to any programmers. The algorithm as shown would need more computing power than a straight multiply. Back in the 1970s I created a library to multiply arbitrarily long integers using prime residues. These days some languages handle this natively and efficiently. Python, …
> I don't know what religious idea scares me more, eternal torment in Hell or eternal boredom in Heaven. > - Isaac Asimov I'm with Isaac. Count me out.
That would be back in 1971. It was something very short written in BASIC on an ancient teletype (the clackety clack one with the round keys). It was so long ago I've forgotten what it was.
Aside from the sorting problem, there is agreement that a date like 2026-07-12 (regardless of what separator you use) will be yyyy-mm-dd. The problem with any other format is you can never tell whether a date like 07/12/2026 means July 12, or December 7. I prefer YYYY-MM-DD, not just because …
This is a little project I threw together for exchanging messages between two computers. It started as a way for my wife and me to exchange messages when one of us was inside and the other outside in the hammock. I tried various approaches involving a shared folder (a bit …
>Improve Content Quality @Muhammed_356 - Do you not see the irony in this? You insist on making posts that almost literally duplicate what everyone else has said. This does nothing to improve content quality.
For numeric fields you might want to use the `BETWEEN` keyword, assuming you are restricting to a range of values. But VB6? Seriously?
I don't know why it is so hard for tech companies to design good tech. Take my current (free) Rogers Xfinity camera. They tout it as being primarily used for the front door. According to the sales team here is how it works: 1. Someone rings the doorbell 2. See …
I have an email address that contains my name but I guard that tenaciously, only giving it to a few very trusted organizations (my former employer for pension and info purposes), and also a very few trusted individuals. For everything else like Meta, Kijiji, Google, etc, I have a google …
Been that way for years. When I decided to leave my first programming job I told my boss that I should be present at the interviews. Being an engineer he assumed he knew enough to do it himself. He was wrong. Not only did the replacment not have a programming …
Why use an external site when you can just do ipconfig /all
I've been through the same lather-rinse-repeat cycle, except with ChatGPT. I find it useful but flawed, and I can't keept track of all the times I have read, "You're absolutely right. Here is code that actually works" only to repeat the cycle. But on the whole it has saved me …
A little late for you for now but thumb drives are not reliable devices for long term storage. Even though they are similar to SSDs, they use lower quality components that have a much higher failure rate. If you don't have two copies of your backup then you do not …
When I was a DBA, if I did a proper job on design and implementation, my daily routine consisted of checking that the nightly backups ran. On the first of every month, and at every transition to/from daylight saving there were a few additional checks. I wrote a number of …
I'm not sure exactly what you mean by system info but I can get my info from msinfo32 System Summary Components Display or Task Manager Performance GPU If you need more detailed info you can use [hwinfo](https://www.hwinfo.com/download/) which comes in both installable and portable downloads (free).
Welcome back. I'm sure you've seen a lot of changes.
My son was in China very recently and his fiancee's parents used an app that would take voice input, translate it into Mandarin or English, then speak the translated input with the input user's voice. If that wuld interest you I'll try to get more info on it.
If you also have a touchpad or thumb-nub (that thing in the middle of Thinkpad keyboards) try disabling them. Your drifting may be coming from there. I used to get drifting from my ASUS touchpad from time to time (among many other ASUS issues).
Never use "architect" as a verb.
>"Oh wait, I should wait for Series 4!" That's what killed Osborne computers. They announced their "next" system long before it was available and everyone stopped buying their current model. With no saole their income stream died and so did the company.
I find [WinMerge](https://winmerge.org/?lang=en) does it for me. It's free and open source.
I just renewed my ISP Internet/TV/phone package for another two years. It includes a Rogers Xfinity outdoor camera. It automatically tags the video stream and creates clips when it detects motion. Everything is saved to the cloud. The "Easy Setup" was anything but, however, that's another story. Unfortunately it is …
The only software I have come across that ran on Windows 10 but not Windows 11 is PaintShopPro 9, and it is so old I am not surprised. What specific apps are not running, and what errors are you getting? Have you tried running the apps in compatibility mode?
>Millions of dollars collected and not one phone delivered. And they changed the website terms to something like "We make no guarantee that we will ever deliver a product."
I'd tell you a UDP joke but you might not get it.
But if you ask them to provide actual specs how are they going to complain when you give them what they asked for? This is one of the reasons I did prototyping - setting up the interface with stubs to provide feedback for the controls. It saved me weeks of …
A few years old but I highly recommend [Ozark](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5071412/?ref_=fn_t_1) and [Justified](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1489428/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_justified).
It's hard to offer a solution when you haven't described the problem other than "stopped working". What has changed since it "was working"?
Astrology is BS. The only reasons to consult an astrologist are: 1. You want bad advice 2. You have too much money and you want to throw some away If #2, consider donating to an animal shelter instead.
For years before I retired (IT) the laptop of choice for our company was the IBM (now Lenovo) Thinkpad. When I retired and had to spend my own money I went Dell (Inspiron). It was a great machine so the next laptop was also a Dell. That one, and its …
@Dani - I know you understand brain fog. I've had about three hours sleep since 8:00 yesterday morning so I thought @rproffitt was downvoting the original post rather than tha AI summary. Apologies. I'm still running on empty so I'll just stop there.
>Does driving your customers to your competitors count as "improvement"? If your company was Spirit Airlines, definitely an improvement.
Typically I want to paste (in Windows) with no formatting so I use CTRL+SHIFT+V.
Who is to say what a sentient AI will find worthwhile? I don't believe you can narrow it down to those two things any more than you can narrow down humans to, for example, sex, power and money. If you are an atheist then you defne your own purpose. Some …
Be yourself. The people who matter won't mind and those who mind don't matter. - Bernard Baruch
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