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History in pinned-on the taskbar programs - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: AardvarkM31
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: December 11, 2021, 04:47:15 am
content: Hello,Running W10Pro all up to date. When a program that is pinned to the taskbar is right clicked, most show most frequent sites, history of files and other information that I do not wish to be there. Notepad for instance shows 11 of the last files I looked at or created with it. How can I disable these things?thanks

author: newbrain
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 11, 2021, 09:30:50 am
content: On Windows 11 Pro now, but should be essentially the same AFAICR:Open Settings, search for "recent".It should find something along the lines of "Show recently opened items in Start, Jump Lists, and File Explorer".You can then disable it.EtA: Checked on a W10 Home machine, the item has a slightly different name, and can be found in "Start" page of Settings (searching for "recent" will bring it up)

author: AardvarkM31
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: December 11, 2021, 03:57:15 pm
content: Quote from: newbrain on December 11, 2021, 09:30:50 amHello newbrain,Worked as far as I can telll. Used the search for 'recent'. Maybe too old school, but I spend more time turning off new features, rather than using themThank you!

author: newbrain
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 12, 2021, 09:01:50 am
content: Yes it's a bit embarrassing when the list isFilthy_porn.mpgHate_letter_to_boss.docCheating_my_spouse.jpgand so on...

author: coromonadalix
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 21, 2021, 05:10:38 am
content: It's called know how to do a clean up loll browser history, document history loll and yes change some options before it's too late loll
Who where have a Software who can make Flow Simulation with a 3D File? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Lord of nothing
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 14, 2021, 03:21:20 pm
content: HiI have an Mini Pc with 2x 50mm Fans who are crap and loud.I dont want to replace them with the same so I would like to print an Fan Adapter for a bigger one.Sure the get Mount on the Outside and should blow a lot of Air into the Case where a dedicated Graphic Card is wo get (to) warm and tosty when I play some good old Games. Now I must restart the Pc and set the Fan speed to "insane loud" to get the Airflow the need.I need a 4 Pin one:Code:Fan connector1=GND2=+12V3=FAN_TAC4=FAN_CTLSo I want buy this one:https://noctua.at/en/nf-a14-pwm/specificationHow about the static Pressure can the handle a reduction to ~40cm?I would like buy an Air Filter to collect the Dust in the Room since the would get into the Pc...That mean the Fan must handle that to. Maybe someone have an Flow Simulation Software and would like put my upcomming 3D Model to the test and see if there is something to optimise.

author: mjj
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: December 19, 2021, 10:03:54 am
content: You could use a free 30 day trial of AutoDesk CFD:https://www.autodesk.co.uk/products/cfd/overview
Does an M.2/NVMe SSD use PCIe lanes from the north bridge, or the south bridge? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Freesurfer
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: December 15, 2021, 10:47:28 pm
content: I have a 1TB SATA drive that I bought some time ago, but it is constantly full and I need to shuffle things in and out to free up space.I am wondering whether to add in more capacity with extra/bigger SATA drives, or getting an NVMe drive, but without robbing PCIe lanes from the GPU.My system is built from an Asus Z170A motherboard, i7-6700k CPU, Nvidia RTX 2080 GPU, 16GB RAM. To my knowledge the system has 20 PCIe lanes, out of which 16 are used by the GPU. I don't know about the remaining 4 lanes and if they may be assigned to things like on-board USB. It has one USB-C slot, as well as a teal USB type A port labelled "USB 3.1", as well as a bunch of USB 3.0 slots and other I/O like audio and 1000Mbit ethernet. I don't know if these may somehow use any of the PCIe lanes.Then there's the empty M.2 slot, which I think should support an NVMe drive. When I looked into it some time ago, it had the correct slot keying to accept an NVMe drive. And the manual stated something along the lines of "SATA or PCIe mode". The term "NVMe" is not mentioned specifically, but this motherboard is 5+ years old and NVMe is a relatively new term, I guess from before the industry properly settled on NVMe.But back to the question.. considering that the GPU uses 16 lanes and only 4 are left.. Is there a risk that installing an NVMe drive will drop the GPU to only 8 lanes?

author: thm_w
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 16, 2021, 01:05:04 am
content: See these threads:https://pcpartpicker.com/forums/topic/187715-asus-z170a-m2-supporthttps://linustechtips.com/topic/691758-z170-motherboard-3rd-pcie-slot/Should come from the chipset, unless you use a PCIE card instead of the m.2 slot.
Idea: just nuke the "computing" child boards - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: magic
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 02, 2021, 09:02:02 am
content: I see that the whole "computing" section has been collapsed into a single board in "products".Can't say I'm surprisedQuite the contrary, I wonder if it wouldn't be better to further remove some or all of the child boards.In particular, "networking" and "security" have always been pretty much dead, methinks "general computing" could easily absorb their traffic and more people would actually see the threads (I for one rarely bothered venturing to those boards).Not sure about the others; "programming" and "vintage" are somewhat active at least.And now that "general computing" became the parent board of the whole lot,QuoteI suppose SBCs could be added to this list.

author: Halcyon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 07, 2021, 05:06:40 am
content: It'd be nice if you could apply one or more tags to posts that way if someone wants to see everything, they can, or if they just wanted to see "Vintage Computing" tagged posts, they can as well.Forums like the Ubiquiti Community Forum does thishttps://community.ui.com/questionsYou could choose from specific pre-set tags or specify things down to a granular level such as a specific model number (if applicable).

author: PlainName
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 08, 2021, 04:51:35 pm
content: Can't see why embedded, and perhaps programming, are in general computing - those two (and particularly the first) are much more about design, whereas most of computing is about using (off-the-shelf parts usually). In fact, the reason I am posting this here much after the fact is because I used to monitor embedded and programming and then lost sight of them when they moved. I only just stumbled onto them again because normally I avoid general computing (boring, many other better resources for computing issues, etc) so didn't spot them until accidentally clicking the wrong forum to view.

author: AntiProtonBoy
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 08, 2021, 10:55:49 pm
content: Not a huge fan of child boards, it just adds another layer of indirection and is one way to kill traffic to those sub forums. Just have a Programming and Computing main boards, and that's it. Don't need to split hairs about sub categories too much.
Win 7 Speech recognition -- Jump to Component Altium - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Jester
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 30, 2021, 11:04:54 pm
content: Hi again!When hand populating a board, I have Altium running and make use of the J-C key sequence (Jump to component) to find component locations. I always re-annotate boards with a logical sequence and that helps but I still end up searching sometimes.It would be really handy if I could use speech recognition to get Altium to zoom in on the location, when I say something followed by the component designation. Is there a free or cheap speech recognition program for Win7 that would allow me to this without needing to type any keys?I would not be surprised if someone is already doing this.Thanks, JUPDATEI tried speech recognition in Win 7 and it actually works I say "Press JC Press C5 Press enter" and Altium zooms to C5, "press page down" and it zooms out, easier than I thought.Hands free component locating. Now if I could just grow a 3rd hand, one for the tweezers, one for the solder and one for the iron, I could really be productive.
Windows 10 randomly switching keyboard settings to deleted "default" one.  - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Miyuki
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 29, 2021, 06:03:09 am
content: Hi folks. Especially those who use a different keyboard layout than your windows localization default.I know this issue from time to time pop up on windows forums but I do not find a working solution to it.When I remove the keyboard layout what was the default for installation and replace it with other. Sometimes, randomly happens it just appears in layout selection and is active. It is not visible anywhere in the preferences settings, just in the task bar. It can happen a few times a month.I have disabled "different input method for each App"Yet it helped a little, it still happens from time to time

author: newbrain
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 29, 2021, 04:20:11 pm
content: For me, this happens only after I remote login from my Android tablet.When I'm back at the PC it will have US keyboard layout.I normally use a modified Swedish layout (nothing too strange, just added some useful chars, e.g. ω Ω × π ° etc.).

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 30, 2021, 12:20:57 am
content: Your keyboard layout belongs to MS. Get used to it.

author: Ranayna
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 30, 2021, 11:54:05 am
content: Check your Languages Panel: Start -> Search for "language settings" -> Preferred Languages. I *think* that MS automatically adds any languages you have enabled here to the available keyboard layouts.Even though i have my Windows to en-US, i'm using the german date/time format. Therfeore i also have german available in the list. I suspect that this caused german to be added into the available keyboard layouts.If you have more than one language in the preferred languages and want to keep it that way, klick on "Keyboard"There you have a couple of options, if you want to fix to a single language, select that one in the dropdown.Finally you should check for keyboard shortcuts to switch between languages. Maybe you hit that accidentally. Click on "Input Language hoy keys"There you should see a list of available layouts to switch to/between. If you have hotkeys configured, you can change or remove them here as well. The default Left Alt + Shift can be removed as well.

author: Miyuki
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 30, 2021, 06:12:50 pm
content: Quote from: Ranayna on November 30, 2021, 11:54:05 amI have two languages/keyboards hereBut!At the "keyboard select" on the taskbar next to the clocks are Three of themAfter restart, there are just two as they should be but then randomly the third one just appear and activateIt has nothing to do with switching hotkey as this keyboard shouldn't be there in the first place
Is there an adapter to use SATA drives on hardware that uses tiny M2 SSDs? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: cdev
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 11, 2021, 01:57:53 pm
content: I have an fairly recent vintage thin client that is intended to be used with M2 low capacity SSDs that I would like to use with bigger hard drives, and/or bigger 2.5 inch SATA SSDs . I want to use it as one might use a bigger computer, possibly adding some soft-RAID approach to make it more reliable. What I am hoping for is some means of using SATA hard drives. This computer likely does not have a PCIe slot but it may have pcie available via a funky micro connection currently occupied by a wifi card its a highly nonstandard wifi card thats easily removed. It also has some internal USB sockets and I suppose as it can and has booted from one of them I may be able to use one of my USB to SATA adaptors internally too, boot to that and then mount any external sturage thats it reaches via USB? But thats likely a bit funky. What I guess I am looking for is some kind ofadaptorthats stable and robust.Does anybody know of such a thing or have any ideas for me? I have a USB to SATA adaptor, and it can boot off of it, as a last resort I could likely use that too?

author: RoGeorge
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 11, 2021, 02:19:33 pm
content: Have you googled for "SATA to M2 adapter"?

author: Ranayna
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 11, 2021, 02:35:59 pm
content: M.2 is just the connector. It alone does not say anything about the protocol running over it.Common for M.2 nowadays is PCIe, used for NVME drives.There is also SATA over M.2 though.Depending on what you M.2 slot supports, the required adapter can be very different.For M.2 SATA it is not much more than an electrical adapter:https://www.delock.de/produkte/1089_M-2/62517/merkmale.html?setLanguage=enFor M.2 NVME you would need something like this:https://www.ebay.de/itm/255133743875?hash=item3b6727fb03:g:hIoAAOSwfuZhPzVYThis is essentially a PCIe SATA Controller card in M.2 form factor.Both just found by googling, no recommendation. I have no personal experience with such adapters.

author: macboy
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2021, 01:49:04 pm
content: The WiFi card is likely in a A/E keyed slot. This carries PCI-e (two x1) and USB rather than PCI-e (one x4) and SATA like the much more common M key. You can find adapters to break out the PCI-e and USB, but the system's BIOS/EFI might not support anything other than the specific WiFi card. The USB part is no problem, but if the firmware doesn't configure the PCI-e interface then no operating system can see the device. I faced the same problem trying to add a PCI-e slot to a recent mini-PC as well as Dell laptops.

author: Doctorandus_P
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 28, 2021, 06:03:45 am
content: Why bother at all?SSD's are mass produced and cheap while such cables are much lower volume specialty products.I would not be surprised if the cable itself would be more expensive then a new SSD.
WinXP Backup32 locks computer - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Johnny10
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 24, 2021, 04:04:36 am
content: I am trying to remember what to do when this error box shows up and locks up the computer.Can't seem to get a regular startup again.

author: coromonadalix
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 25, 2021, 02:49:00 am
content: Hum was it by a locked / in use file ??
why most television manufacturers make usb port so pain the ass to use? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: aqarwaen
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: December 01, 2021, 09:42:01 pm
content: why most television manufacturers make usb port so pain the ass to use?i mean inserting usb drive or removing is quiite challenge..is there any reason why usb ports need to always be in back and hard to acess?why cant tv manufacturers make usb port more easier to acess and use?

author: wraper
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 01, 2021, 10:01:19 pm
content: Because thickness on the edges usually is only large enough to fit LCD panel. Electronics are located in the middle where TV is thicker. So unless they make TV thicker on edges or make bezel very wide, there is nowhere to fit USB port. Use an extension cable.

author: Someone
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 02, 2021, 01:28:53 am
content: Most brands also unnecessarily* encrypt recorded files of the "free to air" broadcast streams. The USB ports are (from the manufacturers view) so you can permanently attach a storage to the device for their exclusive use, but without them having to support/sell anything.* necessary for them to obtain advertising/promotional rights:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeview_(Australia)#Freeview_certification_standardsAlso prohibiting other consumer friendly features like seeing what the EPG showed yesterday (or a week ago, or an hour ago!) or how easily/fast you can navigate through the material.
LTSPICE CPU/system benchmarks ? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: MathWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 12, 2021, 11:50:24 pm
content: I'm looking at the latest intel/AMD CPU's, considering an upgrade, mainly for gaming. I don't do video editing, or any other hard processing, except ltspice simulations.Does anyone know of a thread or site with benchmarks of running spice sim's on different systems ?What effect does the GPU have for that matter, when you finish a sim, and it sometimes lags while "drawing" traces ? GPU's cost a fortune so that's not a factor, since I'm a gamer anyways, but I never actually benchmarked a circuit and recorded the vales, on my current PC or other's ones I have/had.

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 13, 2021, 02:32:21 am
content: Quote from: MathWizard on November 12, 2021, 11:50:24 pmProbably none. It usually "lags" when there is a LOT of data generated by the simulation. And LTSpice's waveform viewer could definitely use a big overhaul. It's kinda buggy and inefficient.

author: langwadt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 13, 2021, 02:39:33 am
content: I suspect disc speed make big difference

author: magic
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 13, 2021, 07:16:09 am
content: I think it's some preprocessing of the data for display but disk could be a possibility too if you manage to generate gigabytes of data (I never did, so far).Check the size of the generated RAW files and check for CPU activity spikes when loading the results. At any rate, it probably is not a GPU bottleneck.

author: AndyC_772
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 13, 2021, 09:09:16 am
content: The limiting factor with rendering results in LTSPICE is hard drive speed. The GPU is barely used.Tip: always save your schematic .asc file to a folder on an SSD,thenrun the simulation. That way, the results get written to the fastest drive available.

author: MathWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 14, 2021, 02:44:04 am
content: Yeah I only have SSD and nmve drive these days.So hasn't anyone bench marked spice sim on different CPU's ?

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 14, 2021, 03:15:53 am
content: Even with very fast drives, LTSpice will always lag while displaying waveforms when there's a lot of samples. It's in the way the waveform viewer handles data, and we can't say for sure what the culprit exactly is without seeing source code... But what we can say is that some lag will occur even with very fast GPUs, SSDs and CPUs. As you may have noticed, the waveform viewers tends to trigger several screen updates in a row and it's particularly visible when there's a lot of data. The screen updating code is visibly inefficient for some reason and would need a big overhaul IMO, I've also encountered other screen updating issues.So if you're looking for a fix, either wait until LTSpice gets improvements, or try making your simulations generate less data, which is a whole topic in itself.
PUF! Magically .. Corporate KIOSK Linux is here (by MS) - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: PKTKS
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 04, 2021, 03:22:13 pm
content: I had a hunch that it would not take long to the whole thingjust collapsing into the Corporate IDIOTIC KIOSK...With licensees managers .. anti-this and spyware that..It just took way shorter than i thought,The whole stack is ready to deploy..Cf. PHORONIX the stupid Corporate KIOSK computer hit linux ..https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MS-Endpoint-Manager-LinuxNot surprised really - they had deformed *NIX insanely bad to achieve this.I expect myself switching away from these trends in a mid term future...... back to some real thing related to a real computer power...Paul

author: ataradov
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 04, 2021, 03:40:30 pm
content: What are you talking about? All they did is add ability to manage Linux workstations in corporate environment. What is so scary or bad about it. I personally don't care about corporate environments, but there are people that do care, and for them this may be useful.Ah, ok, I looked through your posts. You seem to be one of those bitter people that always complain about stuff.

author: PKTKS
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 04, 2021, 04:33:26 pm
content: No complains... no rantIf you track changes in *NIX like myself for a decade at least..Soon you will realize that it is not rant or complain..They have changed way too much stuff just to be quietand not talk about.Ok i understand some folks trapped in Corporate KIOSKSwill like this a lot .. reasons obvious..Vast majority who cares about having get rid of that will not.2 sides of a coin.PaulPS./ Alas I have spent time and effort to get rid of that..reason obvious I may sound like rant..I will have to do that again .. get rid of them again
Ubuntu Won't Let Me Paste Files To Other Drives - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: bostonman
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 03, 2021, 01:53:45 pm
content: For some reason Ubuntu isn't letting me copy/paste files to other drives such as a thumbdrive.I didn't have this problem before, no suddenly it seems to be occurring. I check online and found it could be permissions (and/or a bug that isn't getting fixed), but I am uncertain why permissions would change and any changes didn't seem to make a difference.Does anyone know what is going on?

author: Benta
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 03, 2021, 05:55:03 pm
content: Post your question here:https://ubuntuforums.orgwith more detail than you've presented.

author: ejeffrey
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 03, 2021, 09:36:50 pm
content: There used to be a bug in the gnome file manager that if you did "cut" and paste rather than "copy" it would always try to do a filesystem level move which would fail if they were on different volumes. If you can copy and then delete the original, that might help.
Distributed computing projects? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: ixfd64
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 03, 2021, 12:12:49 am
content: Just curious, does anyone here participate in any distributed computing projects?I've been participating in the Great Internet Mersenne Prime search for almost 17 years. Haven't found any record-size prime numbers, though.

author: Nominal Animal
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 03, 2021, 01:57:44 am
content: I don't participate in existing ones, but I do write parallel and distributed code in C for mostly scientific purposes.

author: xrunner
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 03, 2021, 02:03:55 am
content: Participated in seti@home for years until they stopped (for the time being). Then I moved the machine I was using for that project to Einstein@home, a search for pulsars. Been with them for 1 year 7 months and have 10,000,000 credits now.

author: NiHaoMike
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 03, 2021, 02:58:43 am
content: Folding@Home, which doubles as cryptocurrency mining through Curecoin/Foldingcoin.Another good project is Archiveteam Warrior.Not sure if it's distributed computing in the conventional sense, but I also seed (legal) torrents like Linux ISOs and mine Swagbucks.

author: ixfd64
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 03, 2021, 03:30:46 am
content: Folding@home is a good cause. I didn't know it supports cryptocurrencies now!

author: Haenk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 05, 2021, 03:23:54 pm
content: original SETI@Home-User with a user ID 6XX here
offline radio tuner app - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: m3vuv
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 23, 2021, 01:47:35 am
content: Hi all,im looking for an fm radio app for android,i have a galaxy s5 running android 6.0.1all the ones i can find seem to all use a data conection,im after an offline one,tia

author: Bassman59
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 26, 2021, 04:21:49 am
content: Quote from: m3vuv on October 23, 2021, 01:47:35 amFM radio broadcasts are pretty much the definition of "real time streaming," so there's no way to listen to a broadcast off-line.Now thereareradio stations which maintain an archive of their shows -- how far back those archives go depends on the radio station -- and the stations that do maintain such archives should have a page on their web sites which allow access to them. Whether they allow downloading or just streaming from the archive is also up to the individual station.For example, here is the great radio station WFMU (Jersey City, NJ)archive page.

author: james_s
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 26, 2021, 06:04:04 am
content: Does the Galaxy S5 have a built in FM tuner? If not then you obviously won't be able to listen to FM broadcasts without using data.

author: newbrain
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 01, 2021, 08:05:52 am
content: Quote from: james_s on October 26, 2021, 06:04:04 amIt does not, the last one was the S3.So, to the OP: No, what you're asking cannot be done.

author: NiHaoMike
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 02, 2021, 01:42:25 am
content: Quote from: newbrain on November 01, 2021, 08:05:52 amCan always add a RTL-SDR if USB OTG is supported.
Running Windows 11 on a ANDROID SMARTPHONE ! PC GAMES? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Kedar264
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 27, 2022, 06:14:50 am
content: Imagine if you can play PC games and use any Windows app, anytime anywhere by Running Windows 11 on your android smartphone. This video will show you the real android smartphone running Windows 11. No VM, No RDP Connection just pure Windows 11 running natively on Snapdragon 845 Smartphone Chipset. We tried playing AAA titles such as GTA V, Tomb Raider, CS:GO, and Euro Truck Simulator and it actually worked!Check How It WORKS !Project Renegade lives herehttps://renegade-project.org

author: Halcyon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 01, 2022, 08:03:41 am
content: I'm not sure why anyone would want to downgrade their OS from Android to Windows... but each to their own.

author: Ranayna
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 01, 2022, 03:12:14 pm
content: Also, even completely ignoring the emulation overhead that would be required to get current x86 games running...Who the heck would want to play a pc game with their fingers, covering half the image?
[solved] lib_gtk+:: GTK_IS_WIDGET failed  - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: DiTBho
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 27, 2021, 08:04:31 pm
content: After updating lib_gtk, gtk started reporting warning lines like these:Code:(rumbax:20026): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 18:50:36.197: gtk_widget_get_visible: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed(rumbax:20026): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 18:50:36.214: gtk_widget_hide: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failednot a problem, but it's annoying.I compiled libgtk2 and libgtk3 without "introspection" support and the problem disappeared.I don't know exactly what "introspection" does, but for sure it doesn't workThis topic is here for those who are experiencing the same problem.

author: DiTBho
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 28, 2021, 11:31:25 am
content: Today I recompiled {gtksourceview, pluma, geany} with "-introspection" (feature disabled), and now they work perfectly!
iPhone 11 camera crash? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: jb990
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: September 30, 2021, 10:42:48 am
content: Hello everyoneI want to ask a question about my iPhone 11I have something happening with the camera - when I turn it on with a left swipe from the lock mode, it does not seem to respond, and sometimes just a black screen where the photo window should be, as if something just closes the camera and that's it icons on the screen are visibleI read that this could be because the camera application did not load, but can anyone know what else this problem could be and how can this be fixed?Thanks in advance

author: Halcyon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 12, 2021, 10:29:02 am
content: Have you tried a factory reset?
Flybook V5 laptop (Dialogue Technology) - anyone own one please ? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Fraser
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 03, 2021, 05:40:50 pm
content: I have just become the guardian to a very nice Dialogue Technology Flybook V5 from around 2005 and upon searching for drivers on the Wayback Machine etc, I have come up empty as the drivers were not captured and Dialogue are long gone. Does anyone own one of these unusual miniature laptops please ? If so, would you be willing to share the drivers as I hope to load WinXP or possibly something later onto it.Any help would be much appreciatedFraser

author: amyk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 04, 2021, 02:43:56 am
content: https://www.umpcportal.com/products/Flybook/V5It looks like a pretty common (at the time) Intel 945 chipset platform. XP should work fine with the standard drivers.

author: Fraser
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 04, 2021, 09:49:57 am
content: That is what I am hoping but it is an unusual little ultra small laptop so I feared that there might be some bespoke drivers used, such as for the resistive touch screen and ‘mouse’ functions.Fraser

author: NiHaoMike
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 04, 2021, 12:43:01 pm
content: Try booting Linux on it.

author: amyk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 04, 2021, 01:30:06 pm
content: Quote from: Fraser on October 04, 2021, 09:49:57 amAt that time it would probably be a regular PS/2 interface, or even serial.
Interesting Windows 10 problem - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Wilksey
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 21, 2021, 09:11:53 am
content: Hi,I have an interesting Windows 10 problem on one of my machines, I would be interested to know if anyone else has had this and managed to fix it.Computer working fine and I shut it down properly etc, it gets left for a few weeks, I go to turn it on, hits the login screen, I log in and the screen goes black with the mouse cursor (moveable), I can CTRL + ALT + DEL, so I load Task manager, explorer process is running, I close it and open it a few times, nothing changes, I can run chrome and all other apps fine, 20 - 30 mins later the desktop and taskbar appears and everything works fine, nothing in event logs and no obvious reason, device manager shows all devices are OK.This is repeatable everytime, anyone have any ideas?The machine is not on the network so it has an older Windows 10 version, but it was working absolutely fine and suddenly it just did this.TIA!

author: David Hess
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 22, 2021, 01:53:12 am
content: 1. Check the error logs for warnings and errors. Look especially for disk errors. Check the SMART logs also.2. Check that none of the drives are full. If the drive where temporary files is stored runs out of space, Windows gets weird.

author: Zucca
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 22, 2021, 12:34:37 pm
content: Laptop?If yes monitor back light problem?

author: Wilksey
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 22, 2021, 01:43:29 pm
content: Solved!It was the Icon cache, needed deleting so it could rebuild again.....

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 22, 2021, 06:47:34 pm
content: Quote from: Wilksey on September 22, 2021, 01:43:29 pmReally? The infamous icon cache issues have been plaguing Windows for AGES. Fricking f*ck!

author: Wilksey
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 23, 2021, 09:06:59 am
content: Yes, I had an issue way back when with Windows 7 crashing (almost unheard of) and it was something to do with Fonts of all things, just used to blue screen, I had to uninstall an update and run some commands to get it to work again, then it was fine ever since.For anyone interested or who may come across this problem, this is the directions I followed and it has worked fine since.https://www.howtogeek.com/232779/how-to-rebuild-a-broken-icon-cache-in-windows-10/Edit: Oh by the way, windows did not throw any errors in the logs or give any indication (that I can see) that this has happened, and the SSD is 30% full, the only symptom was login prompt (within a second or 2) type in password hit enter, 20 mins later icons appear on desktop and taskbar shows, meanwhile black screen moveable cursor and can load (using CTRL + ALT + DEL) task manager and run chrome, etc from the run command within TM, Explorer was showing 0% CPU usage for 20 mins then it sprang into life.
SATA Power Connector Wires Location - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: DW1961
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: August 26, 2021, 04:53:36 am
content: I have an SATA power cable that has all black wires - no colors. It's just one of those extensions.Coming from the L pin key side, which are 12V and which are 5V + and -?

author: LateLesley
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: August 26, 2021, 05:37:15 am
content: You can find the pinout here.https://pinoutguide.com/Power/sata-power_pinout.shtml

author: DW1961
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: August 26, 2021, 05:42:02 am
content: Ah, really didn't mean pin out. I need to power wire diagram. Changed in Subject and description.

author: magic
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 26, 2021, 06:40:01 am
content: Then use the pinout diagram and a multimeter.With 545 posts on this forum you have one of those, hopefully?Realistically, the order of wires is likely the same as that of the pins.

author: Nominal Animal
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 26, 2021, 09:07:43 pm
content: What LateLesley wrote.If the power connector is of the standard thin type, with thick wires, there is no room to rearrange them. From pin 1 (the hook side), the wires are 3.3V (orange), GND (black), 5V (red), GND (black), 12V (yellow). The colors in parentheses are the typical colors used by most manufacturers, but not guaranteed by any standard as far as I know (and OP mentioned theirs have all black). There are 15 pins, and each wire is connected to three consecutive pins in typical power connectors. If you have more than five wires, then you have one of the cables that supports staggered spin-up and/or pre-charge.And like magic wrote, do use a multimeter to check the cable. I did once burn up the logic board on an IDE HDD by using a 4-pin Molex power Y-splitter which accidentally had the 12V and 5V swapped. So check; do not assume.

author: mariush
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 26, 2021, 09:12:19 pm
content: And just don't connect the 3.3v wire, no hard drive or SSD uses it.In one of the latest standards one of the 3.3v is repurposed for PWDIS as the pinout page linked above says. Giving 3.3v on that pin would prevent mechanical drives from spinning.

author: DW1961
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 12, 2021, 05:00:16 pm
content: Quote from: Nominal Animal on August 26, 2021, 09:07:43 pmThe SATA plug I cannibalized just had all black wires. Thanks for the explanation. I also just figured it out looking at diagrams and counting over, then testing it with my DMM. Thanks.

author: NiHaoMike
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 13, 2021, 12:03:03 am
content: Quote from: mariush on August 26, 2021, 09:12:19 pmI have seen an oddball 2.5" drive that did use the 3.3V.

author: Berni
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 13, 2021, 05:17:13 am
content: There are some odd laptop drives that will run from the 3.3V rail, but it is indeed rare.Also if its a laptop drive then it typically doesn't need 12V either, so all you need is the 5V rail. Also pretty much all SSDs don't need 12V
Mobo PCIe SMBus:   how to twiddle ??  - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: frogblender
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2021, 02:18:28 pm
content: PCIe spec allows for an SMBus on PCIe slots. (note that smbus is similar enough to i2c that they are usually interchangeable. Usually... but that is a different topic)I have a pcie plug-in card with smbus device (an eeprom, for arguments sake), connected to the PCIe edge connector SMBus pins.How do I twiddle the mobo's smbus in order to read the eeprom?

author: PKTKS
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2021, 03:10:27 pm
content: Quote from: frogblender on September 15, 2021, 02:18:28 pmCode:suroot@host> sensors-detectDriver `i2c-piix4' for device 0000:00:14.0: ATI Technologies Inc SB600/SB700/SB800 SMBusModule i2c-piix4 loaded successfully.piix4_smbus 0000:00:14.0: SMBus Host Controller at 0xb00, revision 0piix4_smbus 0000:00:14.0: Auxiliary SMBus Host Controller at 0xb20After success probing and getting proper addr vectorsCode:suroot@host> i2cdetect Next adapter: Radeon i2c bit bus 0x90 (i2c-0)Access to SMB I2C related devices may also be probed by sensors.be warned that messing these may have strange things trippedPaul
Install Google Play Store on Windows 11 with Android Subsystem WSA - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Kedar264
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: October 23, 2021, 09:46:23 am
content: https://youtu.be/t6nyXxaYPLwIn this video, I am going to show you a great awaited alternative to amazon appstore windows 11. Google Play Store on Windows 11 First Time. Make sure you hit the like button. Instead of windows 11 sideload android apps you can now directly install apps from google play store. And the great thing is you don’t need to windows 11 sideload apk. This is the first thing you should do before installing windows 11 android subsystem. windows subsystem for android™ with amazon appstore or you can say windows subsystem for android™ with Google Play Store. You can install windows 11 android games directly. Install windows 11 android apps from Play Store. Great alternative to aurora store and amazon appstore.WSA:https://easyupload.io/qjs1kfWSA(mirror):https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Sq57...Kernel:https://easyupload.io/r42y131st Command: Add-AppxPackage -Register .\AppxManifest.xml2nd Command: setenforce 0
20% off Lifetime Plex pass - 13-17 September 2021 - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Halcyon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 14, 2021, 06:51:37 am
content: For those who use Plex and are after a lifetime pass at a discount...https://www.plex.tv/en-gb/plex-pro-week/
About several confusing SSD status data - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Logan
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2021, 12:15:52 pm
content: Hi guys.The SSD in question is a mSATA unit, bought new. It works without problem, but I got 2 strange values viewing using hwinfo:Number of reported uncorrectable errors: 500+ (steadily increasing from bought)(hwinfo gave warning beyond ~150)Number of ASR events: 400+ (steadily increasing from bought)Several no-problem value may help diagnostic:Lifetime power on resets: 450+Power on hours: 600+Resets between command acceptance and completion: 0Number of hardware resets: 0Number of interface CRC errors: 0Logical sectors written: 6 giga+Logical sectors read: 8.5 giga+Drive remaining life: 99%I did lots of search but those 2 mystery values are so poorly documented, and many information are conflicting. Do anyone have a good idea about them?Thanks!

author: amyk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 12, 2021, 07:30:24 am
content: What's the make/model? How long have you been using it for?Does doing a read speed benchmark (for the whole drive) show any unusually slow results?

author: Logan
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 12, 2021, 02:28:41 pm
content: Quote from: amyk on September 12, 2021, 07:30:24 amThank you.It's ADATA XP0120GFJSL. I have used it for around half a year.I haven't do a full read speed test yet, maybe I'll report back later.

author: YetAnotherTechie
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: September 12, 2021, 11:38:17 pm
content: run smartctl -Xhttps://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=a00101160en_us&docLocale=en_USthere's also a firmware upgradein any case, i would no longer trust in it.asr = you have a cable/controller problem
Forget silicon,and qbits for complex visual algorithms: Try protozoa computing!  - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Beamin
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 26, 2021, 10:03:10 pm
content: Have you ever seen that nasty yellow stuff growing incredibly fast on your bark mulch(do they have that in your country? Down south they use pine needles which looks like shit) when its humid out? That's actually one of the most amazing creatures we have discovered and its called dog vomit mold. It normally exists in a single cell amoeba like creature that eats bacteria and fungi, but when conditions are right they come together first as a yellow mass then into a puffy brown fungus looking that shoots spores every where if you try to kill it with the garden hose. This all happens over a day, but what does that have to do with computers? Somehow in the yellow phase( the creatures its most like is a portugese man of war which is not a jelly fish) it can calculate the best paths to food sites.Scientists laid out food like dots that mimic the cities of japan and they put the start of it where Tokyo is. It mapped the best way to get to each source in a very similar way to the actual train tracks in japan. Not a fluke(or agilent or HP) they trued other cities and got the same results.https://youtu.be/zaR0Xs0eG8Y?t=511

author: AntiProtonBoy
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: August 27, 2021, 01:50:35 am
content: I wouldn't call this phenomenon as a computer per-se, but it can be compared to a path finding algorithm or an annealing process.

author: golden_labels
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 27, 2021, 09:26:29 pm
content: As expected by occurrence a “scientistsverb” phrase in your reaction to it, the video is misleading.Yes, it does solve hard problems, but not because it is computationally superior to existing solutions. It does that using heavily parallel computation, by the means of exponentially multiplying processing units at demand. Each of them specialized to perform little more than this particular task. The edge organic path finding and similar designs have over computers is self-replication, which is not yet implementable in any efficient manner in human-designed devices. But that is an advantage only in a limited number of problems. It is also cumbersome to provide the input, doesn’t scale well and, per computational power achieved, energetically inefficient.The concept is also not unique. For about 20 years now many papers were published, showing the use of glow discharge, as well various concentration and pressure gradients in liquids and gasses to solve the shortest path and other problems. A related idea, employing fluid dynamics, is already widely deployed to the market. If you live in a developed country, it is likely that a processing like that has been used by you or on behalf of you.

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 28, 2021, 12:03:22 am
content: Yeah.Next thing you know, though, we'll be attempting to use human brain tissue to implement sophisticated AI processors.
how to profile the Linux kernel? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: DiTBho
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 30, 2021, 03:39:59 pm
content: I have a couple of boards from which I can only squeeze ~8Mbyte/sec from a PCI 32bit @ 33Mhz sATA controller and I'd like to understand why.The hard-drive is capable of 80Mbyte/sec read/write, I have measured it on a PC with the same PCI sATA controller.So, I guess there are some problems with the SBC and I would like to check * where * the CPU is spending most of its clock cycles, but how can you profile complex software like the Linux kernel?Which tools do I need? And which procedures?

author: edtyler
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: August 30, 2021, 04:08:34 pm
content: Have a look at SystemTap. This one of its primary use cases.Are the problems with writing or reading? Sequential or random? Which file system? There are lots of things you need to know before you start profiling.I'd start by using dd and hdparm to characterize which (or all) operations are working slowly. Do this while watching CPU utilization. If the CPU is not reaching near 90%+, the bottleneck may not be CPU. Check HDD queue lengths and also (if writes are an issue) the updating of file system metadata. Also, consider using multiple processes to drive the HDD tests.Dale

author: bd139
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 30, 2021, 04:09:27 pm
content: Look at readprofile(1). Failing that SystemTap.

author: PKTKS
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 30, 2021, 05:24:17 pm
content: In my cases... never found a single tool to such sort of thing.Usually I deal with rebuilding the scheduler as possible and messing with it..and.. messing the cgroup and namespaces as far as possible.Since Linux introduced real time capabilities in version 2.4.something...things changed quite a lot.But always I/O boils down to scheduler and cgroups (the former being more prevalent)Paul

author: DiTBho
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 30, 2021, 07:24:55 pm
content: Quote from: edtyler on August 30, 2021, 04:08:34 pmbothQuote from: edtyler on August 30, 2021, 04:08:34 pmSequential. File copy and dd if=/dev/zero of=here ... tried different bs=...Quote from: edtyler on August 30, 2021, 04:08:34 pmext2I also tried with a ram-disk, so this time it is pure memory I/O, there is no PCI-to-sATA-disk involved with ram-disk since the ram is directly addressed by the CPU, but I got the same result: very slow I/O.

author: mrflibble
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 01, 2021, 06:46:10 pm
content: Quote from: DiTBho on August 30, 2021, 03:39:59 pmFor performance profiling eBPF is pretty good. Brendan Gregg's explanation of all the handy features can be found here:https://www.brendangregg.com/ebpf.html
does anybody happen to have a copy of "matroxset tool"? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: DiTBho
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 28, 2021, 03:20:37 pm
content: Code:The driver starts in monitor mode. You must use the matroxset tool(available at <ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/linux/matrox-latest/>) toswap primary and secondary head outputs, or to change output mode.Secondary head driver always start in 640x480 resolution and youmust use fbset to change it.I need this tool, unfortunately I cannot find it, the ftp looks down

author: bd139
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 28, 2021, 03:25:33 pm
content: There's a copy lurking in the Debian source repo:http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/matroxset/matroxset_0.4.orig.tar.gzgit repo if you fancy it:https://salsa.debian.org/debian/matroxset