Quote from: Moab on December 16, 2023, 06:12:17 PM

Quote from: NT2C on December 16, 2023, 05:29:49 PM

Quote from: Moab on December 16, 2023, 04:24:42 PMInterestingly enough it came up in this link. And the questions section says win11 pro. The specs listed at bottom says only 3 usb ports.

2*USB 3.2 Gen2, 1*USB 2.0, HDMI 2.0+DP 1.4, 1*Type-C (video&data), 1*RJ45 1000M, 1*3.5mm Audio Jack(HP&MIC), 1*DC Jack, 1*CLR CMOS Reset

But iirc the pic showed 4. But nt2c you said 5. Was that including the usb c? Or using an adaoter for hdmi to usb etc?

Either way I would confirm specs before buying.

Camelcamelcamel shows an even lower price via 3rd party. But I can not find any other sellers. This has happened a couple times to me recently. Anyone know whats up with that?

There's a pair of USB 3.2 ports and I thought it said a pair of 2.0 ports, plus the USB C.

The 4.0 or 4.4GHz speed is in turbo mode, which would typically only kick in for gaming, otherwise it's a 2.3GHz processor.  For what you're using it for you'd likely never see a difference.  The memory is older DDR4 memory.  That'll slow it down some but again, with what you do you'd likely never notice.

I think the most strenuous thing I use my pc for is media apps -playing videos on like youtube or netflex etc.

I chose the larger 4.4ghz for that very reason. I figured whatever they were advertising it woukd be actually slower.

I think its two 3.o usb ports and one 2.0. Plus the usb c. But either way. I think the only other thing I use is my external drive and a cheap sound card thing. But the sound on this is probably good enough.

There's a Pornhub joke in here somewhere. Lol! But I can't find it. Maybe; Does Pornhub have a recommended pc stats page? Lol.

Not sure if they have that, but I do know Forgotten Weapons from YouTube was posting their gun videos there for a bit when YouTube was going through their "Gun channels bad" phase a couple years ago.

You know you've been a geek a long, long time when you hit one button to close apps and your phone reports that it just freed up more memory than your first nine computers had combined, and that was just about 1% of the total in the phone.

Would appreciate your opinions?

https://ufozs.com/smf/index.php?topic=2063.0

Quote from: NT2C on March 06, 2024, 06:54:09 PM

Interesting on several levels: subject, presenter, the advertised course.

Quote from: Ever (Zombiepreparation) on March 07, 2024, 06:32:07 PM

Quote from: NT2C on March 06, 2024, 06:54:09 PM

Interesting on several levels: subject, presenter, the advertised course.

Sabine is a great presenter and a respected scientist in her own right.  I follow her channel and enjoy what she discusses.

Right! So I've now bookmarked her channel! (ON MY NEW COMPUTER! Thank you again for MY NEW COMPUTER!)

btw- as you can see I'm trying to use up UFoZS's allotment of exclamations marks! LOL

Now this is off topic but I'd like to collect more things like this that would be enjoyable. Do we have a dedicated thread where we post things like favorite YouTube channels?

Quote from: Ever (Zombiepreparation) on March 08, 2024, 08:48:57 PMRight! So I've now bookmarked her channel! (ON MY NEW COMPUTER! Thank you again for MY NEW COMPUTER!)

btw- as you can see I'm trying to use up UFoZS's allotment of exclamations marks! LOL

Now this is off topic but I'd like to collect more things like this that would be enjoyable. Do we have a dedicated thread where we post things like favorite YouTube channels?

https://ufozs.com/smf/index.php?board=108.0

Quote from: NT2C on March 08, 2024, 08:54:03 PM

Quote from: Ever (Zombiepreparation) on March 08, 2024, 08:48:57 PMRight! So I've now bookmarked her channel! (ON MY NEW COMPUTER! Thank you again for MY NEW COMPUTER!)

btw- as you can see I'm trying to use up UFoZS's allotment of exclamations marks! LOL

Now this is off topic but I'd like to collect more things like this that would be enjoyable. Do we have a dedicated thread where we post things like favorite YouTube channels?

https://ufozs.com/smf/index.php?board=108.0

Thanks! Going there now

The skatez (feet) on the bottom of my main mouse (Logitech MX Master 3) were getting to the point the mouse was having trouble gliding even on the hard surface mouse pads that I prefer (VicTsing 3D plastic or 3M Precise) so I bought replacements (2 sets) from Hotline Games and I just installed them.

I'm having trouble convincing the mouse it's not an air hockey puck. 

I'd been getting issues with one of my oldest SSD having trouble booting and developing errors in Windows.  I took it off the boot cycle since it was just a backup of music and games that were already on other drives and my NAS.  Went to see its capacity today and found it's almost completely dead, just gives its brand and type.  It's a Toshiba 240GB that I tossed in when I purchased some other stuff a decade ago.  I think I paid $150ish for it.

Just replaced it with a 2TB Silicon Power for $84.

So, we now have this Velop WiFi 7 mesh system with 3 nodes in the house.  Parent node in my office on one end of the house, and child nodes in the living room area and another in the pantry close to the door into the garage.  I had hoped this would make it easier to connect with the cameras on that end but, because it's an insulated firewall and fire door it's hard to get a signal through it, even with the node that close.  It's literally about 15" from one camera that gets barely 2 bars if I leave the house door ajar. The firewall blocks that much signal.

Then I saw a Velop WiFi 6 two node system for sale, refurbished, $24.99 and I grabbed it, even though I was unsure it would connect with mine.  It's still in transit but I found the exact same model on Amazon (for $100) and was able to confirm that it will mesh perfectly with my existing system.  Even better, I can stick one of those nodes in the garage and connect it to the parent node via ethernet cable and it will have an excellent signal on that end of the house.  WIN! 

Got the new internet installed  week and a half ago in the new house. Its the mesh with 2 nodes. Router/modem is in office, 1st node is next to router,2nd node is in living roo( center of first floor. Got the garage camera picking it up, and the doorbell camera. So far so good had 2 times now I got up at like 7 am and internet was out , first time I unplugged router and it came on second d time nothing. We had ice/ snow during both issues.

I remember my grandparents and parents talking about the marvels invented in their lifetimes.  My maternal grandfather spoke of crossing the Atlantic on a steamship and how while there were still some sailing ships they all gradually got replaced by coal-powered steamers, and later oil-fired and then nuclear.  My father spoke of the early biplanes when he was a boy, transitioning to jets like the Concorde that flew faster than sound.

Myself, I've seen the quest to explore space go from Sputnik to SpaceX, but what amazes me most is computer storage.

I started with computers when 200k tapes were new and replacing punch cards.  I just bought a micro SD card that's 2TB.  It's the size of my fingernail and weighs almost nothing.  2 trillion bytes of information vs 200,000 on a cassette tape.  That is mind-blowing.  And it's not even the highest capacity, just the highest that my new phone can take.

I put an 8TB M2 drive into a laptop the other day (installed for a friend). 8TB in a package slightly bigger than half a saltine cracker.

My first HDD was a 10MB Wang.  It weighed around 40 lbs. and was the size of a medium hiking pack. Cost new about $3,200 (1980s) but I got it free when a sysadmin friend gave me one that was being replaced at his work.  One of my early jobs was working selling business computer supplies, mostly 8" floppies and greenbar fanfold paper.  You young pups will see such wonders of your own long after I'm gone.  Don't let Skynet fuck it up.

Well i remember senior year in high school, my first time using a computer. It had a green and black screen, used the smaller hard disk. We played Oregon Trail, and typed our senior projects. About  the same time at home we had the first gen Nintendo to play on. I didn't get " modern" technology into my life as young as as some my age.

Now I use a cell phone that has more power and storage , and can do more than both of them. They said they were fads back then and look at where we are now. Everything needs a computer you fridge get an app to use it, your bank get an app, deer hunting get an app to check your deer in, our lives now need technology, with our it we wouldn't all be here at UFoZS.

Commadore VIC-20 here with 3k of RAM and a tape drive...

A Radio Shack TRS-80 with 1 8.5 inch floppy drive as storage and I belive 32k of memory was my first work computer. I used Visicalc and prepared consolidated FS on it.

It saved me literally hours of time.

We then networked through a Xenix server to a whopping 20 mb hard drive...I thought we would never fill it up since our data library was about 100 8.5 inch floppy drives up to that point in time.

8" was what David used in Wargames. Standard desktop was 5.25"?



Didn't they offer single and double sided for additional capacity? And production disks [video games/programs] were copy protected by laser drilling a hole in them at a specific spot on the physical disk IIRC.

"FLOPPY DISKS ARE KINDA EXPENSIVE" >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQQv9yva924&t=128s
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQQv9yva924&t=128s

I used to keep and 8" floppy disk around for when someone asked me to give them a document or report.

Started on a commodore 64, then an HP48sx (try programming assembly in nybbles), then Amiga then on to the dos/win until after trying XP and it was a steaming pile after windows 2000 I moved over to linux and never went back.

Quote from: MacWa77ace on February 25, 2025, 03:06:37 PMDidn't they offer single and double sided for additional capacity? And production disks [video games/programs] were copy protected by laser drilling a hole in them at a specific spot on the physical disk IIRC.

Yes, sort of.  I dug out some old floppy discs in my basement to show you (yes, I've got about 40 years worth of computer software and 30+ years of hardware stashed down there). 

In this picture, you can see that on the upper right side of the blank Verbatim floppy disc that there's a notch.  That notch tells the drive that the disc can be written to.  However, on the MS DOS disc on the left, there is no notch, which makes it a read-only disc.  If you saved something to a floppy disc and wanted to make sure that it didn't get erased, most package of discs came with a sheet of foil stickers that could be wrapped around the side of the disc to cover the notch up.  Alternatively, anything that would physically cover that notch worked, like Scotch tape or even a scratch 'n' sniff sticker!

Also, if you didn't care about the contents of a disc like the MS DOS disc below, you could simply use a hole punch to notch the disc casing right there.  The disc is circular inside of the protective cover, and the notch is outside of where the actual magnetic disc is inside, so it wouldn't hurt it (as long as you got the position correct).  If the disc itself was physically damaged in any way, good luck recovering anything on it, short of having specialized software and possibly hardware to do the recovery, and even that might only get you a tiny fragment of it. 

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Also, if you look at the label on the Verbatim, you can see that it's a 2SHD disc (Double-Sided, High-Density), which means that it was capable of up to 1200 kb (vs the 2D - Double-Density that was only 640kb).  Here's a table of all the logical disc types:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_floppy_disk_formats#Logical_formats

The 3.5-inch "floppy" discs had a similar hole through the hard plastic case. If the switch was moved so that the hole was open, the disc could be written to. If you slid it down to block the opening, the disc was protected.  Again, software that was never intended to be overwritten would sometimes come with the hole permanently blocked.  While it might have been possible to drill out a hole there, you would be risking leaving debris inside that would damage the disc.  Besides, by the time that 3.5" floppies were becoming common, the price was fairly low and it probably wouldn't have been worth the risk just to save $1 or less.

Left disc - switch on the upper right is engaged to protect the contents.  Middle disc - switch on the upper right is open, allowing data to be written to the disc.  Right disc - rear view of the disc, with the data protection switch open on the upper right corner, which would allow the disc to be written to.
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