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Forum: Homebuilt PC's June 5th 21, 06:36 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 2
Views: 2,653
Posted By s|b
About Kill filing skybuck

On Sat, 05 Jun 2021 09:52:28 -0500, Charlie Hoffpauir wrote:

I kill filed Skybuck long ago. But with my newsreader, his posts still
show if someone replys to his post..... so I don't see his...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's July 21st 20, 12:52 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 2
Views: 640
Posted By s|b
Motherboard

On Sat, 18 Jul 2020 10:13:23 -0700 (PDT), Roshonda Hannah wrote:

I'm trying to figure out what this motherboard belongs to, can anyone help me?
How can I send a pic of it?

Use...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's October 22nd 19, 07:33 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 7
Views: 795
Posted By s|b
SSD - is it worth the extra?

On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 10:53:52 -0500, Melmail_9494 wrote:

Just a quick question. I am considering going to SSD. I am not that
familiar with the ins and outs of SSD vs. regular HDD but do you...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's September 7th 19, 09:42 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 6
Views: 738
Posted By s|b
USB4 article

On Sat, 07 Sep 2019 13:50:40 -0300, Shadow wrote:

Will I need it?
Probably not for the next 3-4 years.

But will you /want/ it?

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s|b
Forum: Homebuilt PC's May 7th 19, 06:18 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 12
Views: 938
Posted By s|b
Better FLAC Player ? Fast, Good playlist, Low CPU ?

On Mon, 6 May 2019 14:17:01 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

I want:

1. Good playlist support, easy to add files and easy to open and play.

2. Fast start of player.

3....
Forum: General August 14th 18, 06:33 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware
Replies: 7
Views: 941
Posted By s|b
128GB Flash Drives Any Good?

On Tue, 14 Aug 2018 12:34:01 -0400, John McGaw wrote:

So, are we talking about some random vendor on e-bay selling something and
claiming it is a good 128gB drive or are we talking about a...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's July 1st 18, 08:35 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 19
Views: 672
Posted By s|b
Slightly off-topic: Tracking Files

On Sat, 30 Jun 2018 17:03:43 -0400, Bill wrote:

I use CCleaner everyday to purge my browsing history, etc.
It used to run faster. It takes quite a while to even remove
"counters.dat",...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's January 10th 18, 09:37 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 11
Views: 1,436
Posted By s|b
"Warning: Microsoft's Meltdown and Spectre patch is bricking some AMD PCs"

On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 18:11:01 +0800, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

It seemed that AMD CPU patch should be 405968*4*,

KB40568*9*4?

not 405689*2*!

That wasn't installed. KB4056894 was.
Forum: Homebuilt PC's January 9th 18, 08:38 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 11
Views: 1,436
Posted By s|b
"Warning: Microsoft's Meltdown and Spectre patch is bricking some AMD PCs"

On Tue, 9 Jan 2018 20:09:05 +0800, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

AMD FX-6300 user. Patch installed without problem.

Same with AMD A8-3870K (Win7 HP x64 SP1).

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s|b
Forum: General August 4th 17, 07:30 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware
Replies: 8
Views: 699
Posted By s|b
FUJI Finepix 2650 camera USB?

On Thu, 03 Aug 2017 19:33:45 -0400, wrote:

My friend has a FUJI Finepix 2650 camera, and has has lost the cable
to connect it to PC USB. I have checked EBAY etc to try to help...
Forum: General December 25th 16, 07:47 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware
Replies: 12
Views: 614
Posted By s|b
Chromecast Question

On Sat, 24 Dec 2016 08:29:22 -0500, wrote:

Is a help request for Chromecast appropriate in this folder? If not,
what folder?

Not a folder, but a newsgroup....
Forum: Homebuilt PC's August 14th 16, 05:47 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 13
Views: 369
Posted By s|b
Support quality USB flash drives

On Sun, 14 Aug 2016 02:20:18 -0400, Flasherly wrote:

Moral of story for your grandchildren: Do try and avoid buying crap,
sony boy.

All my flash drives are SanDisk (512MB, 4GB, 16GB, 64GB,...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's May 20th 16, 08:51 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 14
Views: 200
Posted By s|b
Intel will only support Windows 10?

On Fri, 20 May 2016 11:28:44 -0400, Paul wrote:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2498097,00.asp

All next-generation processors built by Intel, AMD, Qualcomm,
or others, will...
Forum: General May 10th 16, 10:01 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware
Replies: 5
Views: 845
Posted By s|b
Router problem

On Tue, 10 May 2016 12:59:41 -0700, Norm X wrote:

With some browsers I could not get to Google, but I could go to other
websites (Firefox and Vivaldi)...

I use Pale Moon, a better...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's January 9th 16, 04:48 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 4
Views: 77
Posted By s|b
NVIDIA Geforce card not even come with proper Drivers on installation DVD

On Fri, 8 Jan 2016 20:26:28 -0800 (PST), wrote:

LOL! How stupid this can be! I just bought and installed Geforce card and put
installation DVD and I could not properly...
Forum: General September 3rd 15, 06:18 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware
Replies: 2
Views: 346
Posted By s|b
Driver scanner

On Thu, 3 Sep 2015 16:35:26 +0200, Franco Af wrote:

OS: windows 10
scanner: epson 2580

Cosa si puo' fare per renderlo compatibile oltre ad installare varie
macchine virtuali?

...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's July 22nd 15, 08:15 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 23
Views: 360
Posted By s|b
Windows 10? Who will upgrade from Win 8, from Win 7, from XP this month?

On Tue, 21 Jul 2015 15:03:45 -0700 (PDT), RayLopez99 wrote:

I decided on my 'throwaway' PC, which I use for coding and gaming (for fun, not my day job), which is a modern quad core running Windows...
Forum: General July 6th 15, 06:43 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware,comp.mobile.android
Replies: 17
Views: 996
Posted By s|b
Android for my Acer Aspire One

On Sun, 05 Jul 2015 22:02:34 +0100, Richard Kettlewell wrote:

Did you mean the Newsgroups: header, BTW?

Yes! Sorry, my mistake!

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s|b
Forum: General July 5th 15, 09:27 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware,comp.mobile.android
Replies: 17
Views: 996
Posted By s|b
Android for my Acer Aspire One

On Sun, 05 Jul 2015 21:10:51 +0100, Richard Kettlewell wrote:

Looks fine to from here. (The syntax is quite liberal about whitespace)

Learned something new today! :-)

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s|b
Forum: General July 5th 15, 08:58 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware,comp.mobile.android
Replies: 17
Views: 996
Posted By s|b
Android for my Acer Aspire One

On Sat, 4 Jul 2015 20:53:05 -0700, Norm X wrote:

This message is X-posted to alt.comp.hardware & comp.mobile.android.

Not sure, but I don't think it made it to comp.mobile.android. There's...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's June 14th 15, 04:06 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 11
Views: 366
Posted By s|b
dead USB ports too frequent for my liking

On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 10:10:46 -0400, Larc wrote:

I connect front panel ports to use for USB flash drives and such and have never had
one of those fail.

Neither have I. An uncle of mine /did/,...
Forum: General June 6th 15, 05:29 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware
Replies: 10
Views: 1,348
Posted By s|b
Mouse Stutter

On Fri, 05 Jun 2015 14:41:06 -0400, Stephen G. Giannoni wrote:

Microsoft mouse, in 4 year old pentium system running Windows 7 home
premium, has developed an intermittent stutter.

Maybe there's...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's April 11th 15, 04:59 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 4
Views: 454
Posted By s|b
Evercase cases do not last for ever

On Thu, 9 Apr 2015 23:41:25 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

I was shown one of these things - the power button was busted.
It has a spring made of clear plastic that also serves as a...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's March 13th 15, 10:40 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 8
Views: 672
Posted By s|b
KB 2670838 - The EVIL UPDATE

On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 04:25:47 +0100, Skybuck Flying wrote:

KB 2670838 - The EVIL UPDATE

This Windows 7 update wasted a lot of my time today.

I installed 13 updates on Patch Tuesday. KB2670838...
Forum: General January 25th 15, 09:41 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware
Replies: 3
Views: 291
Posted By s|b
Computer Builds

On Sun, 25 Jan 2015 10:26:53 -0900, Bill Bradshaw wrote:

I have finally decided to bite the bullet and build my own desktop. I
am looking for sources where I can read about what others are...
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