So if I'm seeing a different Mac address sometimes and then later in same day the previous one comes back that would mean a different cell phone possibly? My point here is I'm pretty sure my b.f. has a secret cell phone that he hides cause he's a cheater. And I get a diff Mac address every so often but not at same time as his normal cell. Could he change SIM card and would that produce another Mac address? — lisa ashley4 hours ago
@JourneymanGeek: I think you're familiar with this issue I have, but I've decided to post this question and put a bounty on it in the spirit of Winter Bash
For some odd reason, my Roccat Kone XTD gaming mouse likes to disconnect by itself when I plug in, disconnect, or otherwise manipulate other devices that are attached to my computer. That includes such mundane things as touching a cable to a USB port (without even plugging it in) or probing a USB...
...one of those clip-on ferrite beads used to reduce EMI on cables
Can someone tell me why you think that question isn't worthy of an upvote? I posted it through the Android app and I didn't get my hat for doing that because it needs a +1.
@DragonLord what happens if you are not trying to charge devices on a $1500 computer and instead use a $20 wall wart :-)
Do you have any Hubs connected? One person discovered thier hub sucked, which is rather easy to happen with switching power supplies as the power for the hub?
The weird thing about it is it Re-connecting when (i assume) some Input is sent to it (clicked) that might be a reason to clean up the USB port mess made in the registry, from plugging stuff into every port. each item gets recognised on each port in a windows system, this leaves a lot of mess laying around. It would rarely cause a disconnect, but if somehow it could be attributed to the system and software blinking out (the i/o reconnect)
Maybey it could be the list of stuff there ready to be drivered in that port.
Speaking of switching power supplies, the phones and devices that are connected to charge often have pulsing curcuits used on the power stuff, to set the voltages for charging. They probably depend a lot more on capacitor cleanups on the supplying power , even the USB computer power as they are usually really clean, and would reduce any feedback (or flyback (coils)).
I just scrolled down the 50 newest questions. Probably MORE than half of those have a -1 and just even reading the titles I don't think there is reason. Is there a single person doing all these?
Is there a max down votes per day? if not there should be.
This isn't an intended effect, it's only to encourage users to play their role in moderating the site, but it seems people are downvoting meritorious questions even though this won't get them anywhere towards this hat
I've been at the top of the Winter Bash Super User leaderboard since the beginning but I've only downvoted questions that were genuinely low quality or should be closed.
Even with the hats, I know what I'm doing and only see it as an opportunity for my moderation work to shine, not as an excuse to abuse our privileges
Why people only downvote the bad, when they could spend as much effort upvoting the good (assuming they could find it anywhere). There is no love loss to upvoting anything.
You can get more bees to honey then you can get flies to shit , oh wait that isnt how that saying goes :-)
@DragonLord the answer is "all of them" I store every driver that i have downloaded for my system , in a folder and on a backup. a few older ones too, because ya never know when they will screw up the updated one. then i toss only when the hardware itself is tossed.
34 drivers and software really isnt that much , motherboard software is also comming with all the extranious bloatware some of which might be useful. When the old, or the board is sold, access to archives of old junk are not always available, and some 3rd party "drivers site" can be the worst place to ge them.
My latests gigabyte board was 39 items
People think the Web will always be there, it is freaking amazing how resilliant it has been, and all of the large sites too. But stuff happens, or it used to happen and it never will again :-)
Asking "what have you tried?" and getting an answer is better than three people posting a solution someone has already tried, and explained why it didn't work for them
Nuclear power is completly safe, it will never go critical or meltdown (chernoble). ok NOW nuclear power is completly safe and it will even handle an earthquake. (fukusaki)
@ekaj On the other hand, isnt the claim that the questions and answers are supposed to have wide appeal and use ? that the answer is not just for that one person? that they are supposed to be all encompasing magic answers that work for everyone :-)
The Future is Made in America
See the jaw-dropping new technology that's putting the U.S.A. back on top — and the 3 companies that control it. Two of them have doubled since we first recommended it... and the other has more than TRIPLED.
Speaking of viagra, does anyone know how to "aim" waste to a toilet when you have a 4 hour upwards liquid travel path ? Or is that what they mean when they say "fountain of youth"
@ekaj i saw the horror video, where they documented all the stuff they had to go through, sending humans into a sure death to save the world (or that part of it)
Nope. And its entirely your fault for bringing it to my attention. Generally we leave these alone until someone complains, or there's an organised clean up. Generally this is a low priority task unless someone complains about it. The second one was a trivial fix to bring on topic. — Journeyman Geek ♦1 min ago
I wrote simple program (with help of Igor Ostrovsky's article 'Gallery of Processor Cache Effects') which supposed to examine levels of cache in my processor. According to Coreinfo provided by Microsoft
my processor have following levels of cache:
+------------------------+---------------+-----...
Here i do not understand what the user is expecting to see as results?
Both of these caches are now on-die , both of them use similar speed of memory, and both are just being tested for the memory speed (i think?), not the capability for processing and read ahead and all the other goodies that the processor does to make things faster from those different areas.
How do I delete an email from outlook in such a way that it does not qualify for restoration via the "recover deleted items" functionality?
There are situations where I need to delete critical information that is sent to me from outside our network due to our security policies.
I am concerned ...
Well you must have been here for some part of winter, you got a Hat "Business in the front, Party in the back" :-) gee did anyone think about that one as being a sexual inuendo .
It took them five years and seven revisions to figure out that it might be a good idea to include the content rather than add more links and "try Y if X is down".
@ekaj well you know what to do with the rest of it. Put in a power full computer in the bottom, and a Bread rack or Pizza tray in the rest of the slots :-)
Would it be okay if the SSD is put on SATA channel 1 and I just cloned the partitions block-for-block to the there, them set the system to boot from SATA 1?
logically a person could even move it from port to port, check that the bios/uefi boot menu was set right, and windows BCD stuff will still look for the drive by ID.
One thing i would want to do is drop the dependancy on the original drive, because (ya know) just like the old boot.ini. where the "windows" is (the system), does not "have to" be where the boot started.
So fixing a BCD to jump from the old drive (that may die some day) to boot to the new drive, seems like it would suck.
So you got your "system" partition , which is actually the boot stuff, and the OS partition, which is called "boot" <--- are you realising yet how stuidly named that is :-)
So the Bios (uefi) "boot menu" is aimed at the disk you want to "boot" to. it fires up the "system" partition with the BCD crap in it. From there it boots to the "boot" partition based on ID there in that BCD stuff.
That BCD stuff can potentially be edited with BCDedit, and 3 other 3rd party programs that make it easier or provide more features and make it very complex.
(the idiocy of the whole thing ticked me off so much, i actually do not use it that way, and my "boot" and "system" are all on the same Partition.) but most setups have this "system" partition (remember it is boot) as a small partition on the first of the disk.
---Back one idea , the dependancy would be re-pointing the Old BCD to a new disk. this would work, but if the old disk is not there, neither is the BCD (the way it is pointed).
I just scrolled down the 50 newest questions. Probably MORE than half of those have a -1 and just even reading the titles I don't think there is reason. Is there a single person doing all these?
Is there a max down votes per day? if not there should be.
I wrote simple program (with help of Igor Ostrovsky's article 'Gallery of Processor Cache Effects') which supposed to examine levels of cache in my processor. According to Coreinfo provided by Microsoft
my processor have following levels of cache:
+------------------------+---------------+-----...
How do I delete an email from outlook in such a way that it does not qualify for restoration via the "recover deleted items" functionality?
There are situations where I need to delete critical information that is sent to me from outside our network due to our security policies.
I am concerned ...
