I had a question that got attention from one user. The Comments got toxic and the reputation of the question got voted into the negative range (presumably by the commenter). So I deleted it and basically asked it again and it immediately got voted negative without any rationale. Maybe it's a t...
Well once patents get thrown out they get thrown out.
> It's worth noting that the larger decision Apple prevailed on in 2012 isn't affected by today's ruling. A separate jury awarded nearly $1 billion in damages to Apple, though eventually that number was cut back to $548 million through a number of appeals. Last summer, a court decision denied Samsung's request for reconsideration.
I've recently discovered an extremely useful feature called Link Layer Topology Discovery in Windows 7 - I click on "See Full Map" in the network and sharing center.
And it outputs this lovely, very useful network diagram
However, in windows 8 , See Full Map is missing. However, the underly...
I was trying to determine if the GoPro was connecting to router or not. It was getting assigned address from a strange subnet which didn't make sense after watching the video.
If it was then connecting to directly to the GoPro wasn't required.
since the 192.XXX.XXX.XXX being assigned to it would have also worked
@JourneymanGeek - Do I bother writing up an answer to document this?
Notice
THE FOLLOWING PROCESS OUTLINED IN THIS ANSWER HAS BEEN REPORTED AS HAVING WORKED FOR SEVERAL MONTHS. YOU STILL NEED A VALID WINDOWS PRODUCT KEY IN ORDER TO INSTALL WINDOWS. THIS SOLUTION WILL WORK FOR BOTH RETAIL AND OEM LICENSES
Hint: In order to copy the code without going to PasteBi...
Enjoy
It actually has some hard to get Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 .ISOs
@Ramhound Speaking of which. One of these days I'm gonna do a writeup of how to properly extract SLIC certificates and do a SLP OEM reinstall (for Win7).
If there isn't one already.
Had to do that recently and there's a couple blog posts out there but they're a bit ... scattered.
I have another answer on how to prevent Windows 10 installs on Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 :-)
When/If you do feel free to point to that answer in the comment section of this last answer. I should find the solution for 8.1, it exists, might or might not work for 7 (RW Everything) sounds familiar.
@Ramhound You mean for SLP installs? Win8 is completely different.
Win8 is SLIC 2.1. Win7 is SLIC 2.0.
SLIC 2.1 has a unique key in the BIOS and doesn't seem to require a certificate on the install disk.
A related problem is Win8 will auto-install the wrong (OEM) edition... e.d. Home even if you have a Pro key. It just never prompts you.
SLIC 2.0 has a certificate that must be installed (slipstreamed into the install disk usually), an auto-command that must be run in an install script, and an OEM key that must be added to the PID file. And of course also requires the generic OEM key in the BIOS.
@Bob - I mean just grab the key from BIOS, there is already an answer, that describes the process. I admit its not really required since activation is easier on later versions of Windows.
Is there a way to hide a community from my user profile
I am really sick and tired of people with no reputation at superuser, going over to their SO accounts, and serial downvoting me :$
Are you completely ignorant? That link must be visited by asker in order for it to work. I cannot quote my version of Windows to answer what the askers version of Windows is. Thanks for the good laugh though. — Hydranix14 mins ago
I have a machine with 2 GB RAM fused in the motherboard and no extra memory slots. Is there any techniques to increase the RAM availability to OS without needing to add more RAM?
My machine is Lenovo Ideapad, windows 8.1, 2GB RAM, Intel Celeron (dual core).
Agreed. In my experience, @random can be rather pedantic about the "cleanliness" of the site, including things like the length of tag wiki excerpts. There is some merit in his answer, but tag wiki edits on tags that are expected to be deleted soon are not entirely useless—they can still provide useful guidance to users, including advising that the tag not be used. — bwDraco5 secs ago
@random is rather whimsical, and that may very well be the reason he's still a mod after all these years.
I'm wondering: I regularly read stories on other forums about people who are having problems with Windows 10 that they link to Windows 10, but are actually more likely to be related to stuff like drivers. Should we have a CW for such issues?
or do we actually have something like that already?
I am using headphones. I have other speakers as well connected. After I select my headphones to be the default device & default communication device in the sound manager, if the other speakers were originally the default device, my headphones become very very low quality audio output for absolute...
Damn. My Jam Plus speaker is whining like crazy. Specifically, when the speaker is connected to an MP3 player via the 3.5mm jack, and both the MP3 player and speaker are hooked up to the same USB power source, an extremely loud squealing noise can be heard.
AMD has a clear strategy. Survive 2015 and spend most money on R&D for next-gen parts. Then recapture market share by releasing these parts when they're ready in 2016.
@Bob To be fair, other tech sites have been reporting the exact same thing. Almost using the same words
Basically someone published some data that says AMD is continuing to lose market share and everyone's picking it up as if it's some sort of new revelation.
AMD has virtually no place in the market, and it's not even clear if AMD's strategy of betting the farm and spending every last dollar it has on R&D of next-gen tech will actually pay off.
By the time Polaris and Zen come out, AMD may have too little brand recognition remaining to be a viable competitor even if the parts are clearly superior. Chances are good that consumers will continue to dismiss AMD as the inferior and cheaper solution, even though CEO Lisa Su has said that they're working on changing that!
It's a shame the only viable competition to Intel and Nvidia isn't viable competition to Intel and Nvidia.
I already completely disregard AMD processors whenever someone asks me for a laptop recommendation or something. I'm not sure if they run any cooler or better than they used to, but 6 years ago the only laptop with an AMD processor I've ever bought could have easily been used as a cooker hob.
I do remember Pentium 4's although I never owned one in a laptop. I've got no idea what the situation is now, I've just never really considered them since. I'm pretty sure from reviews I've seen the performance/$ ratio is better.
@Jonno Well, Pentium 4s were notoriously inefficient and Intel's attempt to adapt them to laptops was clearly not the best idea.
Instead, Intel designed the Core architecture after the Pentium M, a completely different and much more efficient design.
This was while AMD Athlon XP processors had superior performance per watt and per clock. Intel decided to use dirty tricks to keep AMD from competing, and this is what started this whole mess.
"Instead of scoring each task on its own and weighting them according to usage model criteria, an individual task's importance depends on how long it takes to complete! " Lol, what.
AMD may very well deliver a gamechanger product later this year. The problem is whether consumers will actually pay attention to the benchmark results or just dismiss the new parts as inferior (even if they are not).
> Some preliminary AMD investigations regarding commercial usage scenarios indicate that an average spreadsheet is about 100 rows and a really big one might be, say, 2,000 rows. The SYSmark 2007 Preview benchmark, however, is based on a spreadsheet of 35,000 rows!
> What you see is that it takes the AMD processor-based PC about 7% longer to complete the job. However based on SYSmark 2007 Preview Productivity module scores, the Intel system is reported as better by 40%.
BAPCo SYSmark has had a long history of being designed to unfairly favor Intel processors, exaggerating their advantage using unrealistic, unrepresentative workloads that are completely disconnected from real-world use cases.
> An example of this is the Adobe PhotoShop component of SysMark. In the 2001 version of the BAPCo/Intel product, 13 different filters were used. On eight of these 13 filters the Athlon XP 2000+ beat the 2GHz Northwood P4.
> However, in SysMark 2002 every single one of these eight filters where removed -- again, tasks where the Athlon XP beat the Pentium 4 -- and were replaced with repeated filters that the Pentium 4 executed faster than the Athlon XP.
I have two power banks pulling a total of about 2.6 A from this thing. After accounting for inefficiencies, that's probably about 15 W from the panels. There seems to be a tiny bit of power left to spare, so the panels are probably supplying about 17-18 W. More conservative estimates put it at 16 W from the panels. That's absolutely impressive.
(This is in near-ideal conditions.)
The 21W figure is probably the ideal, raw output of the panels under 1000 W/m^2 of solar energy. It'll always be a bit less; you can expect to get 15-16 watts of power from the ports under a clear sky in practice, and at least 10 watts in most cases.
I'm pulling about 13 watts from the ports right now.
> [...] SunPower Maxeon cells [...] My older Anker Astro3 power bank was able to pull the full 1.5A continuously under mostly bright sunlight (slightly reduced by clouds), with a tiny bit left to spare. After accounting for losses at the voltage regulator, that's about 9-10 watts of power from the panels. The fact that this is possible with three panels is nothing short of amazing, and I'd expect even higher output in full, unobstructed sunlight.
The panels have no trouble generating 15+ watts under full sunlight.
The old model, which used traditional polycrystalline solar cells, was rated for only 14 watts and used four panels. This model uses monocrystalline SunPower Maxeon cells, and is rated for 21 watts while using three panels.
It's absolutely amazing how far solar power has come.
(apologies in advance if this is the wrong site)
I'm trying to replace a faulty DC power jack on a laptop, and having quite a difficult time with it. At this point, I'm not sure if the problem is with my equipment, or my technique.
Equipment:
Weller 50w temp controlled iron (max temp: 850f, E...
Can I use an USB 3.0 extension cable (max 5Gb/sec) for an USB 3.1 gen C device? (and get 10Gbit/sec speeds since I have USB 3.1 gen 2 ports and devices ) ?
Got two USB ports at the front (yay, what a luxery compared to my old tower which had everything at the rear), but all I have in front is the slow USB 3.0
I rarely have my ROCCAT Tyon set any higher than 3000 DPI, which is my normal setting for everyday use.
...and this 3000 DPI setting is with sense -4 (on a -5 to +5 scale).
I can see an argument for ~5000 DPI with a 24-inch 4K display, but 12000 DPI is excessive.
...okay, there are 15.6-inch 4K displays, but I still don't see much of an argument for such insane sensor resolution.
At that point, one could conceivably need the full 8200 DPI of the widely-used Avago ADNS-9800, but that's still a corner case as it would still require a very low sensitivity setting, a preference for very fast on-screen cursor movement, or both.
For most users, 4000-5000 dpi should be enough even in the case of a 4K 15.6" display.
Well, it certainly does seem that the long-established 800 dpi resolution typical of inexpensive mice is fast becoming inadequate even for everyday use with the advent of super-high-resolution displays, but 12,000 dpi is overkill.
Also, at that level of resolution, the tracking surface starts to become a potential issue. Accurate tracking at >10000 dpi may not be attainable except on a dedicated mousepad.
@bwDraco You don't actually run it at 12k DPI. Usually.
There's some scaling involved that also increases accuracy at lower resolutions.
Much the same principle as used in some camera sensors.
Basically, you want to keep your eDPI low. But having a high DPI on hte mouse can be advantageous over having a higher software 'sensitivity' (which acts as a multiplier on the real DPI)
Yesterday, I added a password containing a ! to my BIOS. Unfortunately, the password prompt that asks for the password when you boot doesn't let you write a ! (i.e. the little * isn't added and it tells me it's the wrong password).
So I Googled how to remove that password and stumbled upon this ...
> Next to the memory sticks, there are two little things labeled JRST2001 and JRST2002. I first tried to connect one to the other, and then my computer wouldn't even boot, the only thing that light up was the leds next to the keyboard.
?!
> Then, since it kept booting into the bios for no apparent reasons, I started changing settings randomly until it worked.
I had a question that got attention from one user. The Comments got toxic and the reputation of the question got voted into the negative range (presumably by the commenter). So I deleted it and basically asked it again and it immediately got voted negative without any rationale. Maybe it's a t...
I've recently discovered an extremely useful feature called Link Layer Topology Discovery in Windows 7 - I click on "See Full Map" in the network and sharing center.
And it outputs this lovely, very useful network diagram
However, in windows 8 , See Full Map is missing. However, the underly...
Notice
THE FOLLOWING PROCESS OUTLINED IN THIS ANSWER HAS BEEN REPORTED AS HAVING WORKED FOR SEVERAL MONTHS. YOU STILL NEED A VALID WINDOWS PRODUCT KEY IN ORDER TO INSTALL WINDOWS. THIS SOLUTION WILL WORK FOR BOTH RETAIL AND OEM LICENSES
Hint: In order to copy the code without going to PasteBi...
I have a machine with 2 GB RAM fused in the motherboard and no extra memory slots. Is there any techniques to increase the RAM availability to OS without needing to add more RAM?
My machine is Lenovo Ideapad, windows 8.1, 2GB RAM, Intel Celeron (dual core).
(apologies in advance if this is the wrong site)
I'm trying to replace a faulty DC power jack on a laptop, and having quite a difficult time with it. At this point, I'm not sure if the problem is with my equipment, or my technique.
Equipment:
Weller 50w temp controlled iron (max temp: 850f, E...
