Recent content by gaaah

It just dawned on me, that I have several dozen CDs and DVDs backing up data and software from long ago. The thing is, I haven't owned a CD/DVD player for at least a decade.

Lower-end air quality monitors are notorious for being inaccurate. I'd love to hear from a user who bought two of these and gets the same readings on both given the same air.

That's thrilling. Now how about a basic partition manager Microsoft? It's 2023.

Hi, I'm thinking of getting the Gigabyte GA-Z690-UDAX, and I want TWO front panel USB-C ports. The manual says the internal USB E connector supports only ONE USB C port. However, I found this product on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Cablecc-Front-Header-Motherboard-Floppy/dp/B07W4HQMGJ...

I find this morally ambiguous at best. First we had the traditional brown, and now a kind of off-white? What's next, bright colors like blue and red, or, God forbid, purple? I guess this is just a sign of the times.

Won't this have major implications for UPS designs? I mean, why take the 12VDC of your UPS batteries, invert it to AC, supply the AC it to your power supply, only to have your power supply convert it back to 12VDC to use on your motherboard? The UPS will still need an inverter to charge the...

I'm a retired programmer that has used versions of Windows since 2.1. I never remember the File Manager or Windows Explorer search function working as expected even once. I always have to revert to the command line and DIR or FIND.

In my day we didn't even have the format command. You had to deposit individual 0's and 1's with tweezers and a microscope, you bunch of pansies.

They make a DisplayPort to Umbilical adapter if you want to start junior earlier.

Yes, it is far more likely the router is phoning home once in a while to check for updates, it's not that they're being "pushed". Sorry for the alarm. Smorizio, I see no option in the setup pages for turning the firmware check off. BTW, would be nice if the router checked at 3am rather...

Well yeah, but aren't you the least be uncomfortable having someone "out there" push a firmware update to you whenever they see fit? Seems to be rather wide security hole. What if Dr Evil wanted control of your home network? My original question still stands: How do they do this and how do...

I own this router. I have no way of knowing where it came from. All I know is my firmware version is up-to-date and the Asus site says the firmware was minted just yesterday, so I doubt Dr Evil sent it.

Hi I have a Asus Blue Cave. Last night my router got a firmware update without my OK. How do they do this and how do I keep them from doing it again? Maybe it's just me, but I'm not OK with someone "out there" force feeding me a firmware update whenever they want.

I should add a little about my setup --unchanged since I got my GTX 1060: My GTX 1060 has one DisplayPort and one HDMI. The DisplayPort runs to my primary (a 4K monitor) and the HDMI runs to my 4K TV. No adapters used or needed.

For 3 or 4 years, ever since I put in my GTX 1060, the BIOS (or more correctly, UEFI) would show up only on a secondary monitor. When it first happened I researched for about a whole day to get it to display on my primary, but to no avail, so I suffered with it as it was. If I wanted to get...