I run Nvidia software, it installs 5 services, 4 of which I have disabled; only the Display Driver service runs. I don't play games in 3D, stream video any game servers, or need to be told when to update my drivers. I also don't need my graphic card settings changed at the whim of a program (service).
Now GameWorks is shown, which would be service when/if released. Much like their Physics engine (PhysX) that I've never known a game or application I've used use.
The PhysX directory is not only the first directory in ones Windows Path, if you remove it or place it to the end it fixes the "error". Meaning that directory is checked first for any application (.exe),.dll,.bat,.cmd or anything called. Yes you can speed up your Windows OS drive by putting that directory at the end of the Path, mayhaps not by that much but every little bit helps.
"C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\PhysX\Common" is the path and one of those services I have disabled does stop the "error" from being found, replacing it at the beginning of the path. I disable them all after a driver update so not sure which; but Nvidia Geforce Experience Service sure seems a good bet.
And I do play games when I can, Battle Field 3 (all high or max video settings) still a favorite.
We've been using Samsung drives in "non production" status servers, embedded servers, etc. and have had a terrible time of it. The first drives we bought a few years ago (840 Pro) were good, but we've seen Samsung SSDs run entirely through their write capacity (as reported by SMART) and then go dead when not even mounted! Turns out we aren't the only ones to get bit by buggy Samsung drives.
And the 10 year warranty that interest me - running a 32Gig SSD drive for a week I lost 48K of the drive.
It's or bytes written.
"Samsung guarantees the 2TB 850 Pro for 10 years or 300 terabytes written (TBW), and the 2TB 850 EVO for five years or 150 TBW.
840 Series 120GB/250GB/500GB 3 years 840 PRO Series 128GB/256GB/512GB 5 years (73 TBW for enterprise applications)"
Clearly you're not a gamer. 60 GB installs are the norm these days.
Battle Field 4 (40-60 GB) - with a SSD drive you can be in game and take 3 of 5 objectives you need to hold, before any other storage device user can even begin to play. With a dual monitor or viewing the web based map one can watch it going down while the loading continues.
He didn't see a problem with it, this while all around him were telling him to just hang up, don't talk to them.
I just happened to be visiting when he got another one, hanging up in disgust and damn tired of it; guess they sold his number as one who will talk and it was non-stop.
Never post anything I wouldn't want my kids to read, this was long time ago; knowing that one day they may search my post out.
I've never been in a flame war and the only curse word I've ever used on-line - was go figure when chatting to my youngest:) now mid 20's.
I used a handle on the Usenet and only posted there, Googling that handle now gets 12,000 hits and all of them on.com sites, they are everywhere. Chances are very good if you Google a computer help question you'll come across a post of mine as a first hit at tomshardware.com (they must pay for that honor), a place I found as many of my post were showing as being from there..
Now many sites it appears use the Usenet postings as showing how busy/active their comment sections are. At least most are now showing up as "guest" or not able to be replied to (a reply that would never be seen nor sent).
I can't be held accountable for anything posted to a.com site under that handle, as I can't vouch for any of them not being edited.
"... pardon us for having ZERO faith in the fact that Microsoft..."
No need for a pardon. Microsoft has a LONG history of being anti-customer, in my experience.
For example, people who "upgrade" from Windows 7 to Windows 10 will lose Windows Media Center without being told in advance, apparently.
Win7 was missing SNDREC32.exe, at 198K a down and dirty.wav player, just drag and drop.wavs on it and it plays them (it can be called and play a.wav before any other program can even load). I use it for ringtones, and other small sound files.
I copied it over and it works fine with Win7, but missing the.dll's to record (which I have no need for).
As for Windows Media Center I've never used it, so will never miss it if I have to go to Win10.
Windows 98, good. Windows ME, bad, Windows XP good, Windows Vista, bad. Windows 7, good, Windows 8, bad. See the pattern? Microsoft makes more money alternating good and bad versions, because people who buy bad versions "upgrade".
I took the high road dual booting Win95 with NT, Win98 with W2K, and XP, but yes every other "consumer" Windows OS has been a failure, I've never installed ME or Vista, I took everyones word on those two.
The original/. article that mentioned a subscription OS was linked to a story that was shortly edited, saying it was wrong a subscription based OS was misunderstood by the author, and all mention of the word subscription removed from the story.
To be more precise http://tech.slashdot.org/story... Links to: http://mashable.com/2015/01/21... At the very bottom of that story is - Correction: Windows 10 will be a one-time upgrade, free for the first year of release, and there will not be a subscription model attached, as this post initially reported.
Trying to be the best of both, and being good at neither is a good way to lose market-share. Which is where Windows is now. Windows is declining, and as Microsoft moves to the subscription model, will die even faster.
The original/. article that mentioned a subscription OS was linked to a story that was shortly edited, saying it was wrong a subscription based OS was misunderstood by the author, and all mention of the word subscription removed from the story.
The interfaces do suck. I can help out my mother, not because I'm smarter, but because I've learned to deal with the idiocy that's out there and understand some of the obtuse terms being used. I deal with crappy stuff all day long, she doesn't.
To really make this hard, Mozilla is changing their UI all the time, without warning, without consulting with users, with devs thinking they know what's best for the entire world. Leave the UI alone, and stop being actively hostile to the user.
Thankfully, I've got TeamViewer which makes remote control easy. I recommend it. You need the other end to have broadband though or it'd be too slow.
My Mom (82 yrs) confused me for years saying her Internet didn't work, I'd check her system and it worked fine yet still she complained. One day it clicked she meant her E-mail.
She was very active with a web based E-mail system, through changes of IP's and interfaces she got lost, that she can't remember much anymore doesn't of course help a bit.
I had set her up with Forte's Agent E-mailer to POP3 her E-mail long ago but due to other advice she never used it. Sad really as she could of moved it from Windows system to Windows systems and it act the same with no loss of anything. Even version 1.93 (it's up to 7 now) is still useable by using Stunnel for SSL, and my choice as an E-mailer.
But that's how they set up their system: users can create and manage their own areas of the site, while users add content. It was actually a pretty good idea ten years ago. Back then you had slashdot and fark and other forums where the admins essentially created all the different content areas (subforums, I suppose). So it was always a little limited. Now reddit comes along and you can create an area all your own just to talk about beanie babies or whatever. (last sentence removed).
How ironic. That's what the Usenet is and was long before WWW came alone.
Also, the Amiga had the best case handling in a file system:
Say you have a file called File1 (no need for an extension). You could access the file with any capitalisation you like, file1, FILE1 File1, FiLe1 or whatever takes your fancy.
It had/has the benefits of a case sensitive filesystem, with the ease of use of a case-insensitive one.
Now, if someone could just explain to me why case sensitivity is important in a file system...
And why to this day I write the file name "HOSTS" in caps as it didn't understand it unless it was, until version 3.
UPDATE: NASA issued a statement at about 19:30 PT / 22:30 ET July 5 / 02:30 UT July 6 saying that the cause of the safe mode is understood, and that New Horizons will resume science operations on July 7:
NASA’s New Horizons mission is returning to normal science operations after a July 4 anomaly and remains on track for its July 14 flyby of Pluto.
The investigation into the anomaly that caused New Horizons to enter “safe mode” on July 4 has concluded that no hardware or software fault occurred on the spacecraft. The underlying cause of the incident was a hard-to-detect timing flaw in the spacecraft command sequence that occurred during an operation to prepare for the close flyby. No similar operations are planned for the remainder of the Pluto encounter.
“I’m pleased that our mission team quickly identified the problem and assured the health of the spacecraft,” said Jim Green, NASA’s Director of Planetary Science. “Now – with Pluto in our sights – we’re on the verge of returning to normal operations and going for the gold.”
Since they only have one shot at the flyby, the New Horizons web site states that the encounter sequence they are uploading will disable the safe mode and instruct the probe to return to the timeline sequence.
It's a hail mary attempt, it switched for some reason and they will be putting in back into that mode and no out. subject: "Can I just say On Behalf Of Humanity", seems the most relevant word at this time.
You may want to remember that Frank Herbert wrote only first six--and the last two were done a couple of years before he died. After that it was his son, Brian Herbert, in conjunction with Kevin J. Anderson, work about which some people, well, have a rather low opinion.
No I wasn't aware.
Reminds me then of the L. Ron Hubbard's series "Mission Earth" it's a 10 volume set. It's said he died while writing it, someone taking over the story. I can tell you where it happened - volume 3 it went stupid after that one, just ridiculous. I have the 10 volume hard back set (hopeful collectors item) but just collected the last 6 (unread).
Never heard of it huh? It's that operating system that runs the majority of the 'net. Everyone uses it daily even though they're not aware.
I had a three month contract to install fiber optics and set up a new network, the person in charge of me was in charge of all of the computers, the main computer that accessed outside (a gateway if you will) was a Linux, he had no clue how to work on on it, and would touch it on a bet.
Well, one time, I had a problem with my land line, and I erroneously accused the wrong phone and threw that one out instead of the one that was causing the problem.
I went for a swim with MyTouch cell phone in my back pocket. You could use it as a level by the water inside the glass.
I immediately went out and purchased a new phone being so important I couldn't miss one that may come my way.
Wrapping the insides of the MyTouch in toilet paper, and shoving it into the middle of a pan of dry rice for a few days fixed it right up.
Not sure if it counts as it was an Amiga 3000 and they came to my house to fix it for free.
I had a "friend" who brought over a new hard drive to get working on the Amiga I did my best then the system just quit, He then says yep, did the same thing to mine.
I forget the last Dune book I read as there were so many books in the series. They became well garbage and I thought he was milking it for all it's worth.
So why would the next messenger bring any message?
Because the next messenger would be smart enough to realize that if they have any electronic data more valuable than school assignment, video game save game files, selfies and letters to grandma then they should have offsite backups. Whether your data burns up in a fire, gets destroyed in a flood, gets stolen by non-government agents or impounded by government agents does not really matter; except that in the impounding case you might get it back. Back it up and there is much less to fear.
And perhaps this first messenger has a backup too.
In this case everybody has the information: "As reported Telam a specialist who preferred anonymity, which leaked on the web are "SSL certificates terminals that send data from the schools to the datacenter," which were published "on the site http: //caba.operaciones.com.ar by poor settings on your servers. "" (translated version).
Does that mean those upload are now legal since they actually uploaded them? Or are they still illegal due to some loophole? Or, as I recall, is it that Prenda didn't have the rights in the first place so they actually committed copyright infringement too in uploading them?
It's what Prenda does, they will of collected IP addresses of those downloading the self uploaded files bring charges against them. But it appears the tables have turned.
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I run Nvidia software, it installs 5 services, 4 of which I have disabled; only the Display Driver service runs. I don't play games in 3D, stream video any game servers, or need to be told when to update my drivers. I also don't need my graphic card settings changed at the whim of a program (service).
Now GameWorks is shown, which would be service when/if released. Much like their Physics engine (PhysX) that I've never known a game or application I've used use.
The PhysX directory is not only the first directory in ones Windows Path, if you remove it or place it to the end it fixes the "error". Meaning that directory is checked first for any application (.exe), .dll, .bat, .cmd or anything called. Yes you can speed up your Windows OS drive by putting that directory at the end of the Path, mayhaps not by that much but every little bit helps.
"C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\PhysX\Common" is the path and one of those services I have disabled does stop the "error" from being found, replacing it at the beginning of the path. I disable them all after a driver update so not sure which; but Nvidia Geforce Experience Service sure seems a good bet.
And I do play games when I can, Battle Field 3 (all high or max video settings) still a favorite.
WTF is SWJ?
I use LOL as a nickname (shortcut) in Opera for http://www.acronymfinder.com/ had to use it this time myself.
We've been using Samsung drives in "non production" status servers, embedded servers, etc. and have had a terrible time of it. The first drives we bought a few years ago (840 Pro) were good, but we've seen Samsung SSDs run entirely through their write capacity (as reported by SMART) and then go dead when not even mounted! Turns out we aren't the only ones to get bit by buggy Samsung drives.
And the 10 year warranty that interest me - running a 32Gig SSD drive for a week I lost 48K of the drive.
It's or bytes written.
"Samsung guarantees the 2TB 850 Pro for 10 years or 300 terabytes written (TBW), and the 2TB 850 EVO for five years or 150 TBW.
840 Series 120GB/250GB/500GB 3 years
840 PRO Series 128GB/256GB/512GB 5 years (73 TBW for enterprise applications)"
http://www.samsung.com/global/...
Clearly you're not a gamer. 60 GB installs are the norm these days.
Battle Field 4 (40-60 GB) - with a SSD drive you can be in game and take 3 of 5 objectives you need to hold, before any other storage device user can even begin to play. With a dual monitor or viewing the web based map one can watch it going down while the loading continues.
He didn't see a problem with it, this while all around him were telling him to just hang up, don't talk to them.
I just happened to be visiting when he got another one, hanging up in disgust and damn tired of it; guess they sold his number as one who will talk and it was non-stop.
Never post anything I wouldn't want my kids to read, this was long time ago; knowing that one day they may search my post out.
I've never been in a flame war and the only curse word I've ever used on-line - was go figure when chatting to my youngest :) now mid 20's.
I used a handle on the Usenet and only posted there, Googling that handle now gets 12,000 hits and all of them on .com sites, they are everywhere. Chances are very good if you Google a computer help question you'll come across a post of mine as a first hit at tomshardware.com (they must pay for that honor), a place I found as many of my post were showing as being from there..
Now many sites it appears use the Usenet postings as showing how busy/active their comment sections are. At least most are now showing up as "guest" or not able to be replied to (a reply that would never be seen nor sent).
I can't be held accountable for anything posted to a .com site under that handle, as I can't vouch for any of them not being edited.
"... pardon us for having ZERO faith in the fact that Microsoft..."
No need for a pardon. Microsoft has a LONG history of being anti-customer, in my experience.
For example, people who "upgrade" from Windows 7 to Windows 10 will lose Windows Media Center without being told in advance, apparently.
Win7 was missing SNDREC32.exe, at 198K a down and dirty .wav player, just drag and drop .wavs on it and it plays them (it can be called and play a .wav before any other program can even load). I use it for ringtones, and other small sound files.
I copied it over and it works fine with Win7, but missing the .dll's to record (which I have no need for).
As for Windows Media Center I've never used it, so will never miss it if I have to go to Win10.
Windows 98, good. Windows ME, bad, Windows XP good, Windows Vista, bad. Windows 7, good, Windows 8, bad. See the pattern? Microsoft makes more money alternating good and bad versions, because people who buy bad versions "upgrade".
I took the high road dual booting Win95 with NT, Win98 with W2K, and XP, but yes every other "consumer" Windows OS has been a failure, I've never installed ME or Vista, I took everyones word on those two.
The original /. article that mentioned a subscription OS was linked to a story that was shortly edited, saying it was wrong a subscription based OS was misunderstood by the author, and all mention of the word subscription removed from the story.
To be more precise
http://tech.slashdot.org/story...
Links to:
http://mashable.com/2015/01/21...
At the very bottom of that story is - Correction: Windows 10 will be a one-time upgrade, free for the first year of release, and there will not be a subscription model attached, as this post initially reported.
Trying to be the best of both, and being good at neither is a good way to lose market-share. Which is where Windows is now. Windows is declining, and as Microsoft moves to the subscription model, will die even faster.
The original /. article that mentioned a subscription OS was linked to a story that was shortly edited, saying it was wrong a subscription based OS was misunderstood by the author, and all mention of the word subscription removed from the story.
The interfaces do suck. I can help out my mother, not because I'm smarter, but because I've learned to deal with the idiocy that's out there and understand some of the obtuse terms being used. I deal with crappy stuff all day long, she doesn't.
To really make this hard, Mozilla is changing their UI all the time, without warning, without consulting with users, with devs thinking they know what's best for the entire world. Leave the UI alone, and stop being actively hostile to the user.
Thankfully, I've got TeamViewer which makes remote control easy. I recommend it. You need the other end to have broadband though or it'd be too slow.
My Mom (82 yrs) confused me for years saying her Internet didn't work, I'd check her system and it worked fine yet still she complained. One day it clicked she meant her E-mail.
She was very active with a web based E-mail system, through changes of IP's and interfaces she got lost, that she can't remember much anymore doesn't of course help a bit.
I had set her up with Forte's Agent E-mailer to POP3 her E-mail long ago but due to other advice she never used it. Sad really as she could of moved it from Windows system to Windows systems and it act the same with no loss of anything. Even version 1.93 (it's up to 7 now) is still useable by using Stunnel for SSL, and my choice as an E-mailer.
But that's how they set up their system: users can create and manage their own areas of the site, while users add content. It was actually a pretty good idea ten years ago. Back then you had slashdot and fark and other forums where the admins essentially created all the different content areas (subforums, I suppose). So it was always a little limited. Now reddit comes along and you can create an area all your own just to talk about beanie babies or whatever. (last sentence removed).
How ironic. That's what the Usenet is and was long before WWW came alone.
Also, the Amiga had the best case handling in a file system:
Say you have a file called File1 (no need for an extension). You could access the file with any capitalisation you like, file1, FILE1 File1, FiLe1 or whatever takes your fancy.
It had/has the benefits of a case sensitive filesystem, with the ease of use of a case-insensitive one.
Now, if someone could just explain to me why case sensitivity is important in a file system...
And why to this day I write the file name "HOSTS" in caps as it didn't understand it unless it was, until version 3.
UPDATE: NASA issued a statement at about 19:30 PT / 22:30 ET July 5 / 02:30 UT July 6 saying that the cause of the safe mode is understood, and that New Horizons will resume science operations on July 7:
NASA’s New Horizons mission is returning to normal science operations after a July 4 anomaly and remains on track for its July 14 flyby of Pluto.
The investigation into the anomaly that caused New Horizons to enter “safe mode” on July 4 has concluded that no hardware or software fault occurred on the spacecraft. The underlying cause of the incident was a hard-to-detect timing flaw in the spacecraft command sequence that occurred during an operation to prepare for the close flyby. No similar operations are planned for the remainder of the Pluto encounter.
“I’m pleased that our mission team quickly identified the problem and assured the health of the spacecraft,” said Jim Green, NASA’s Director of Planetary Science. “Now – with Pluto in our sights – we’re on the verge of returning to normal operations and going for the gold.”
http://www.planetary.org/blogs...
True multitasking, frankenos as it's pry not possible to gather all of the patents and OS to ever run it again.
Since they only have one shot at the flyby, the New Horizons web site states that the encounter sequence they are uploading will disable the safe mode and instruct the probe to return to the timeline sequence.
It's a hail mary attempt, it switched for some reason and they will be putting in back into that mode and no out. subject: "Can I just say On Behalf Of Humanity", seems the most relevant word at this time.
Infantry uses rifles, can't see this helping anybody but the ones behind the line.
You may want to remember that Frank Herbert wrote only first six--and the last two were done a couple of years before he died. After that it was his son, Brian Herbert, in conjunction with Kevin J. Anderson, work about which some people, well, have a rather low opinion.
No I wasn't aware.
Reminds me then of the L. Ron Hubbard's series "Mission Earth" it's a 10 volume set. It's said he died while writing it, someone taking over the story. I can tell you where it happened - volume 3 it went stupid after that one, just ridiculous. I have the 10 volume hard back set (hopeful collectors item) but just collected the last 6 (unread).
Cyber squatting, did I ever miss an opportunity...
Never heard of it huh? It's that operating system that runs the majority of the 'net. Everyone uses it daily even though they're not aware.
I had a three month contract to install fiber optics and set up a new network, the person in charge of me was in charge of all of the computers, the main computer that accessed outside (a gateway if you will) was a Linux, he had no clue how to work on on it, and would touch it on a bet.
I didn't see a problem with that :)
Well, one time, I had a problem with my land line, and I erroneously accused the wrong phone and threw that one out instead of the one that was causing the problem.
I went for a swim with MyTouch cell phone in my back pocket. You could use it as a level by the water inside the glass.
I immediately went out and purchased a new phone being so important I couldn't miss one that may come my way.
Wrapping the insides of the MyTouch in toilet paper, and shoving it into the middle of a pan of dry rice for a few days fixed it right up.
Not sure if it counts as it was an Amiga 3000 and they came to my house to fix it for free.
I had a "friend" who brought over a new hard drive to get working on the Amiga I did my best then the system just quit, He then says yep, did the same thing to mine.
I forget the last Dune book I read as there were so many books in the series. They became well garbage and I thought he was milking it for all it's worth.
So why would the next messenger bring any message?
Because the next messenger would be smart enough to realize that if they have any electronic data more valuable than school assignment, video game save game files, selfies and letters to grandma then they should have offsite backups. Whether your data burns up in a fire, gets destroyed in a flood, gets stolen by non-government agents or impounded by government agents does not really matter; except that in the impounding case you might get it back. Back it up and there is much less to fear.
And perhaps this first messenger has a backup too.
In this case everybody has the information: "As reported Telam a specialist who preferred anonymity, which leaked on the web are "SSL certificates terminals that send data from the schools to the datacenter," which were published "on the site http: / /caba.operaciones.com.ar by poor settings on your servers. "" (translated version).
Does that mean those upload are now legal since they actually uploaded them? Or are they still illegal due to some loophole? Or, as I recall, is it that Prenda didn't have the rights in the first place so they actually committed copyright infringement too in uploading them?
It's what Prenda does, they will of collected IP addresses of those downloading the self uploaded files bring charges against them. But it appears the tables have turned.
I wasn't interested in them so skipped those sections, but did gather they are to stop screwing their customers.