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And now, for something completely random. I found how to do that change. https://storageforum.net/forum/account/account-details. Unfortunately, "If you decide to change your username now you will not be able to again until Aug 2, 2025." I hope that doesn't mean I can't post until Aug 2...

I'd seen that, and I was going to try to change my member name as well as my avatar. I thought I'd seen that as a possibility, but I can't find how to do it. Oh, well.

Thanks, Merc. My main usage would be for audio; I only have a few dozen video files, and those are mostly relatively short music videos. (This is the longest [but in a little shorter variation], about the brilliant gospel performer Sister Rosetta Tharp, "The Godmother of Rock & Roll".) One...

I recently signed up for the free Plex service on my smart TV. (Aside: being free, it's pretty limited. I joined because I wanted to watch the classic Fellini film La Dolce Vita, and that was the only source I found. But there were too many ill-timed commercials, the closed-captioning sucked...

Zen to One ;)

No. 😜

I got my SSD installed and cloned; the Samsung "Magician" software didn't work, but DiskGenius did, and the new drive is working fine. (y)

Since it's NA for me, I haven't looked into it, but isn't there an "in-place upgrade" option from W10 to W11, instead of a re-install "from scratch"?

I did order a new SSD, to be delivered next Tuesday. And I also did try to get my scanner working on another of my PCs under Ubuntu, but like me, it was too dark and not pretty. But (short story long), I then checked into my non-Win11-eligible Dell PC. It came with an Intel i5-4460 CPU with...

Thanks very much for your rapid response. That inspired a third alternative for me; I'm going to go ahead and get a new SSD, and try to clone the old one onto it and get it to work at least as well as the old one on the PC. Then I won't have to worry about the old one getting progressively...

It's time for another visit from the Amateur Hour. My only Windows PC is a 10¼-year-old Dell Inspiron 3847 that I got with a big rebate. It's Win 10, and cannot be upgraded to Win 11, so I knew it would be obsolete after October. The only things I use it for are to host a Pi-Hole VM, the very...

Does anyone else here use Pi-hole? I came across it at some point, and it seemed useful, so I set it up on a little VM. But I'm not so sure how useful it really is. Thanks for your feedback.

Amen, bro! 🙏

Yeah, I'm just a rank amateur 👴🏻; I think the last time I did a BIOS upgrade, it was from a "floppy" disk 💾. But at least, I finally got this last one right . . . I hope. (So far, so good.)

I reviewed the Gigabyte list of BIOSes again, and this warning was strong enough that I thought I'd try to update it again: • Major vulnerabilities updates, customers are strongly encouraged to update to this release at the earliest. Credits to "Assaf Carlsbad and Itai Liba from SentinelOne" •...

Semi-on-topic, after my 3/29 CPU-cooler upgrade, I noticed last week that the RAM clock was backed down to the default 2666MHz, from the 3600MHz that those DIMMs support. So I had to go into the BIOS to correct that - I assume that sync-ing with the CPU clock speed it a good thing...

Trump is the Reverse Robbin' Hood - he takes from the poor and gives to the rich. ;) He's gonna make you an offer you can't refuse. What's that old saying, "A fool and his money are soon Liberated".

Breaking news: Eel-on Muskrat is buying TikTok. He's going to rename it Xmy@$$. 😜 And Donald Trump has issued an executive order declaring the Constitution unconstitutional. :LOL: From the radical left-wing commie-pinko New York Times...

FYI, all, I have ended up hating this case. The power button is "unencased" on the front top-right corner, and is quite sensitive. It is so easy, reaching around for something else, to accidentally bump the button and turn off the PC. A power button should be away from the case edges, and...

Well, the install is done, but it was a lot more hassle than I'd hoped. The first problem was that, even though I left the PC running "full bore" until just before I turned it off, and got right into trying to remove the old heat sink while it was still hot, following online advice, I tried to...

Alright, I "pulled the trigger" on the Assassin, V2, from Amazon, so it's an easy return if it doesn't fit. Thanks, all, for your comments and suggestions.

Thanks, Merc, I just started checking into that Assassin (in between the sweet 16); "cool" design :cool: - "twin towers", dual fans. But it's 155 mm tall, whereas the Pure Rock 3 is 154 mm. ;) Upon further review, Tom's likes it.

Thanks, DD, I'll check into those options. I had thought the other side of the case was "solid", but downloading the doc'n, I see that I was wrong. :)

In the interim, I searched reviews a bit for good CPU air coolers, and I was interested in the well-regarded be quiet! Pure Rock 3; it's a silly mm shorter, at 154. But when I checked into it a little more, it seems that it would be a fairly major hassle for me to install. Instead of "just"...

I'm considering replacing the stock cooler on my Ryzen 7 3700x processor, with CPU utilization 100% 24×7, working on the World Community Grid. My case is a Thermaltake Versa H18, which is listed as supporting CPU coolers up to 155 mm high. I'm concerned about getting a cooler that is exactly...

Donald Trump has won the Nobel Prize in Fiction for his State-of-the-DisUnion speech on March 4. From https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/arts/television/late-night-trump-address-congress.html: “Things got off to a big start when Trump and JD Vance held hands and sang a medley from ‘Wicked.’”...

Don't hold back, Mr. Feinman, tell us how you really feel. ;)

From another commie-pinko website, https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/03/epa-launches-full-assault-on-environmental-protection: . . . the Trump administration’s widely anticipated assault on regulation on all fronts at once, announcing 31 separate actions to roll back restrictions on air and...

In the Trump-ed up America Great Again world, along with most major newspapers, the 3 major (non-Fox) broadcast TV networks, Associated Press, CNN, . . . From https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trumps-anti-media-rhetoric-turns-action-rcna191949: "The president has prevented The...

“The guy has spent the entire campaign screaming about how awful electric cars are, is now buying an electric car. Of course, there’s no chance he will actually pay for this electric car. But why should he, when he did a big commercial for them today, absolutely free?” — JIMMY KIMMEL But then...

Fun article from the (left-wing-media) New York Times, about yesterday's Tesla commercial at the White House.

The new KVM switch was delivered a day early, and I got it installed and working OK. 🙏 (y) I'm leaving the old, disconnected one in place for a while, to make sure the new one is reliable.

Thanks again, all. I've made the purchase, and it's supposed to be delivered Monday. So I'll be doing some calisthenics next week, crawling under and around my desk, unplugging the old KVM from the 4 PCS, and plugging in the new one. 🤞

Thanks, fellows. IIRC (and that's always a big If), CDW used to stand for Computer Discount Warehouse.

Taking some measurements, that Tripp-Lite B032-VUA4 model I mentioned above has (handy) built-in cables, but they're only 4 feet, and I need 6 feet to reach all 4 PCs in my office. OTOH, they have one, B006-VU4-1, for which I must purchase 6-foot cables separately, but it can handle either PS/2...

Thanks very much, DD and Merc, for your responses. But Level1 is above my budget level. ;) I had to crawl under my desk to check, but confirmed that another limitation I have is that one of my PCs, a bargain-basement Dell PowerEdge T20 "mini-server" with an Intel Xeon E3-1225 v3 CPU, can...

Greetings from the dark ages! I have a Zonet 4-way KVM switch that worked fine for many years, but has started to get a bit flaky. (It sometimes misses keystrokes or mouse movements.) The other limitation it has is that it uses a PS/2 keyboard and mouse, which are getting moderately rare, in...

Hey, David D, I hope you're not drafted to fight against Trump's threatened invasion of Greenland. 😜

Speaking of Something Random, DD in DK, thanks to the Danish Storyville Records for their archival of classic jazz. E. g., I'm but a happy serf in the Dukedom of Ellington, and Storyville was kind/generous enough to provide an online compilation of Duke's classic amateur-live-recorded 1940...

After decades of talk, Seagate seems ready to actually drop the HAMR hard drives

NY Times: Elon Musk spent more than A QUARTER OF A BILLION DOLLARS in the final months of the presidential election to help Donald Trump win. <insert political cartoon of Trump as a marionette controlled by Musk> In other news today, Donald Trump announced the replacement for all federal...

Breaking news: Trump nominates the CEO of Boeing as head of the FAA. 😜

Maybe the new Director of the U. S. 🇺🇲 FBI, Kash Patel: active promoter of Qanon conspiracy theory whose core belief is that a cabal of Satanic, cannibalistic child molesters is operating a global child sex trafficking ring that conspired against Trump. promoted use of pills that, he said...

Notes from Underground (the bargain basement): this past Wednesday, I tried to log on to my home-built 17⅜-year-old PC to check for security updates, but there was a problem - the screen was only showing on the bottom half, in a real big font. It turned out that it couldn't support my...

A friend sent me one of many cases in the new regime o_O: Our new ambassador to France … Charles Kushner “…convicted of illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion, & witness tampering, & was sentenced to two years' imprisonment…As convicted felon, was disbarred in three states. He received...

And now, for something completely random (): Desi Lydic Says Trump is ‘Picking Mascots,’ Not Leaders “The Daily Show” host said Trump could do worse than an “actual doctor” like Dr. Oz to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services: “I’m impressed he didn’t pick Dr Pepper.”

That DCP-L2640DW printer does support duplex printing. It's a very handy feature, if the driver supports it.

Eating pizza with your hands makes you a New Yorker:

Dios de Los Muertos: Days of the Dead. Nov 1-2. To celebrate, I went out to a favorite Mexican restaurant for my favorite Mexican dish, carnitas. 😋 I told the guy "If you'll pardon my French, Feliz Dios de Los Muertos." He took my money.

Happy Dios de Los Muertos! (To me, it's a much cooler holiday than halloween.)