Recent content by Newtun

Thanks, guys. I'll have to verify, but I also assume his current drive is an SATA 2½" drive, and that there isn't an NVMe interface on his laptop. I assume, too, that he doesn't need ≥1 TB; I don't think he has a lot of videos or other space-hogging files. Intel is an interesting option; I...

My friend wants (me) to upgrade his old Win 7 laptop to Linux. My thought was to replace the hard drive with a new SSD, so he'd have the old Win drive as a backup. I think he just needs a ½ TB drive. What recommendations do any of you have for reliable brands/models for this relatively small...

Thanks, Lunar and Merc, for your responses. I did remove the recovery partition(s!). That was from the first link I included. When I went in to look at the partitioning, there were 3 "recovery partitions", including a tiny one that I first removed. Then after that and the other link didn't...

It does appear that I get other updates installed, such as Windows Defender definition-files.

A few weeks ago, I started having a problem with Windows Update on my one Win PC. The periodic check says: But on "patch Tuesdays", when I click "Check for updates", it gives an error: Retry or rebooting doesn't help. I tried the Troubleshoot "advanced Windows Update" tool to fix it, but...

The Magic of Accents - YouTube

Confirming that LibreOffice can save as HTML.

No, Google Docs seems to support only word-processing docs. But this link shows that Google Drive can share PDFs, and, I presume, most other file types. Free (0 $) space usage is limited to 15 GB, though.

Google? I think I have this little album shared with everyone, if you can open it. Oops, I just tried to add a PDF, and that didn't work. But I think you can also share files in Google Docs.

I sometimes used to use the PC Decrapifier software to get rid of junkware on Windows PCs. However, that isn't supported any more. But I just saw, in the comments in this Ars article, about a similar option, O&O AppBuster. Has anyone in this forum had any experience with this "O&O" software...

Sorry for the hijack from the "peanut gallery"/"cheap seats", but I've been considering the consumer-grade ASUS Prime B450M-A II mobo, and one of the features I was interested in is "BIOS FlashBack™", so if it isn't compatible with the CPU I get, I could upgrade the BIOS without having to...

Alarming report from https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/06/millions-of-pc-motherboards-were-sold-with-a-firmware-backdoor: Millions of PC motherboards were sold with a firmware backdoor Hidden code in many Gigabyte motherboards invisibly and insecurely downloads programs. I built my...

I vaguely recall the NEC V20 and v30 chips, plug-compatible with Intel 8088 and 8086, resp., but supposedly 20-30% faster. In a previous millennium, I worked in data analysis for a mid-sized biotech firm, and convinced them to let me replace all their PCs' CPUs with the NECs. Could you imagine...

He got rhythm, too: From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatum_(music): "A tatum is a feature of music that has been variously defined as: 'the smallest time interval between successive notes in a rhythmic phrase', . . ." Brilliant ¾-blind dude had a musical term named after him. The...

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