No idea. It seems to have slowed down a lot since I last used that same USB pendrive with ghost 8.3

I am assuming it only copies 50GB and compressed that down to 30-40GB

@Hennes Ghost got obsoleted for me , when they failed to keep up with the technology and lliterally nuked (the data on) a few disks for me. (i think it was 8.1)

Ghost worked fine for windows XP and the 'normal' 30GB-ish drives

@Hennes yes it was wonderfull for that.

I could move to acrosnis or something else, but I still had a small bootable pendrive around (including network drivers)

I can wait one more day for a backup. As long as it works.

@Hennes Even ghost had options that would/could cause it to go over every sector or not. Different methods for different things. Like if a person needed a full clone of the disk for recovery

Aye. It has that option. But I did not enable it

Like you said, as long as it works , it might take less time still than testing 15 methods and options :-)

(or new programs that are unfamiliar.

what is a good way generally of troubleshooting when over wireless it says "waiting for www.google.com" so browsing slow like that?

@barlop First figure out if it's the wireless by plugging the computer in hardline and trying again

It is

next?

I said it's wireless so I got that far!

Does it do it for other websites, or just google?

i'm not keen on testing it this moment as the chat might be unresponsive but I think it was other websites too.

I am running wireless and wired at the same time right now so it's running through wired right now, responsively

@barlop i wonder what the "signal strength" is about that moment, because wireLess will negotiate a slower speed as it gets further away and begins to fail at the higher speeds

@barlop I have no clue of your technical competence, and I know far too many people where "problem with wireless" = "it happens when I use a device that happens to be connected over wifi", so apologies :)

I tested that.. The signal strength is very good..

@barlop Are other wireless devices operating just fine?

"Very good" actually doesn't mean anything when it comes to wifi >.<

Are you on 2.4GHz or 5GHz?

I ran inssider.. When right next to the router windows 7 shows 5 lights. When moving away it's still 5 lights.. when moving further still it's 4 lights.

2.4GHz I think maybe my WLAN adaptor isn't seeing 5GHz but I think my router broadcasts both.

(At my apartment, I couldn't push a meaningful 2.4GHz wifi signal more than 10ft from the router due to massive amounts of interference. Signal strength was "Great!" though.)

how can you measure interference?

I measured it mostly by "All my 2.4GHz devices don't work for crap, all my 5GHz devices work great, and the only difference is the frequency"

I suppose I could go right next to the router and see how responsive it is

and then bought adapters for all the things that weren't 5Ghz

and my life got so much better -.-

did you find your 2.4GHz connections worked fine when the things were right next to the router? (Thus indicating was interference?)

Sometimes. It was hit or miss depending on the time of day. Other non-wifi 2.4GHz wireless stuff was also showing significant range issues (wireless headset, bluetooth, etc.)

ok i'm gonna come off lan and try it near there

.

even though I have 5 lights for signal anyway!

Oh, I had 5 lights / full signal everywhere

I just had no bandwidth

I recently moved to a house instead of an apartment, and range issues are now not a problem. Same devices, same hardware, same devices, just different environment and now ranges are 4 times larger than they were before

(This is, of course, all anecdotal, since I didn't have any tools for actually measuring wifi interference in a scientific manner)

People were saying that turning on a microwave (using a similar frequency) will nuke the 2.4 wifi. . . . how many times were we told that stuff doesnt get out of the microwave :-)

@Psycogeek That assumes that the microwave is perfectly insulated, and they rarely are. The are usually well insulated, but I've seen my share of microwaves that leak a bit of energy

It only really nukes the 2.4ghz spectrum when I'm wearing my wireless headset and watching the popcorn pop though

heh, wget www.google.com straight after I moved back far away just went faster than it did near the router

so it's a bit intermittent i suppose

If I step a few feet away, my headset reconnects

@barlop Buy a 5GHz wifi adapter, see if it helps, return it if it doesn't?

@barlop So now you need a long download and any sort of view of the speed, to test what really happens.

last time it was unresponsive browsing but fine with a torrent, and the torrent wasn't going at huge speed the torrent was like 200KB/s

Ok a long download frome somewhere you could get speed. hmm big files, sure server, a vimeo or youtube

just changed to another 2.4GHz adaptor.. now wget www.google.com is fast

really fast.. like the two times it shows are identical to the second.

with the other adaptor it was a gap of about 10 seconds between the times in the wget

It'd be great if I had software that could actually show what is happening, what is the difference there

If you could see radio waves, you could see where the signal was going, and the interfearances. But then again when your locked up in the mental ward for what seeing all that stuff would do to you, they probably wont have computers :-)

I am surprised the way computer problems are that computer technicians aren't known for mental illness and seeing psychologists over some of these computer issues!

You are not required to attend anger management when you throw windows out your windows :-)

yes I suppose another point is that people tend to get thrown into a mental ward when they harm others..

if people just drive themselves mad they often don't get help!

I use a D-link adapter N only. it is long so it has the possibility for some antenna, and it has a blinkey light to see about how the data is flowing with it. I still want to put a real whole antenna on it and see what it could really do. Because all these things are 2 way , there is no reason other than convienience that the plug in adapters shouldnt have router size antennas.

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^ @Psycogeek do you think it's worth it?

@Boris_yo Better sign up quick, there is a savings countdown clock just like on the home shopping club (tv show with non-stop products infomertial sales) only 13 left (on that palllet)

Or better get hosting classified as "WordPress Hosting" from LunarPages?

@Psycogeek Seriously. Now every spammer will grab their package and then legit people like me will suffer slowdowns?

Isn't that logical or HostGator can handle it?

@Boris_yo Sure but spammers get kicked out eventually, and then of course the price goes back to normal eventually.

I think someone else here like even the chat bot would know more about web hosting than i would. I just know if you become popular and have thousands apon thousands of visits, and get really serious about it, wherever you Started, you will not be staying with that host, or with that original smaller package you thought was enough.

@Psycogeek Russian reviews are not good in recent years. Shows HostGator's corruption under Dr. Evil.

Does that mean they allow spammers and scammers and all manners of wicked and evilness to be on hostgator?

"Instantly install over 75 open-source scripts with just a click!" Hey they have some warez sites that will do that too :-)

@Psycogeek No they were acquired by EIG or something and eveything they touch turns to shitte.

Any reason VPS hosting is cheaper than WordPress hosting? dreamhost.com/hosting

" All coupons and discounts are only valid towards the initial purchase and do not affect the renewal or recurring price." also notes about no cancelling and re-signing up with another coupon.

@Psycogeek Where do you see it?

@Boris_yo in the tou.

Is there any way to check what internal hard disks are compatible with my laptop?

Plus it sets EVERYTHING up for you automatically if you go with the Wordpress plan. With the VPS plan, you can still get WP, but you have to create the SQL databases and WP installs yourself.

@DemCodeLines Check the manual?

Or just assume it is regular SATA. At a rought guess 99% of all laptops sold in the last decade have a nornmal 2.5 inch SATA drive

Not a moviegoer, but anyone familiar with Van Helsing?

winterbash2014.stackexchange.com/werewolf-hunter

Just out of curiosity. I'm going to be pretty busy as I prepare for an exam in a few hours.

Is there a quick way in bash to rename an extension to lower case? I need to do about 50 files that I FTP'd down, rename them from *.JPG to *.jpg to work... I tried mv *.{JPG,jpg}, but it tells me that there aren't folders