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The Lenovo MIIX 510-12ISK 30.48 cm IPS Convertible Tablet PC is in the same price bracket – Windows 10 and comes with a very nice (and accurate) Wacom pen. I bought one for my wife as a major anniversary pressie. She loves it and the i3 config is more than adequate for her. It runs Mint in a vm quite happily too.
Used to be a family thing e.g. dad.address@gmail, mum.address@gmail.com, sis.address@gmail.com. In those days each was an individual address. Having read the thread I’m not sure it still works in the same way.
Run the Windows Disk Clean-up utility, use the option to clean up System files and pretty much delete everything it allows – especially the files used for Windows updates. My guess is that you have 7GB of cruff hiding there!
Thanks for the link. I found it very useful as I need small form factor 32GB+ capacity thumbdrives for my Pi Zero projects. Unlike most PC requirements the Pi needs fast drives as i/o is i/o is otherwise restricted by its antique USB2 standard and the unreliability of using SD drives as main storage.
Just to go back to the ‘Ancient’ part of the OP. I came across this today. Absolutely amazing!
Do I read that correctly – One 1TB drive (full I guess) has a probability of ~10% that at least one byte on the drive will be totally corrupt? That actually sounds quite low so I’m probably misreading it .
Edit, I think I identified a solution, and possible cause. The solution was to dial down my Hub to the ‘legacy’ setting. As things used to work just fine with the b/n/g setting it suggests either the Pi suffered a wifi driver regression or BT have regressed their driver in some way. The problem was evidenced as a dhcp link that kept dropping out.
A second copy of family stuff is always nice to have, but useless if it is corrupt. I’m not a pro but I was gutted to lose some photos I took in Bhutan. (a rare place at a rare time – a couple of years before they got TV).
Just a tip to pass on to your friend, it is better not to try to compress photo files for two reasons:
a) As Dave points out they are already in a compressed format.
b) Where possible (and time permits) any photo backup should be checked for corruption caused by the copying process.
I do not have independent stats on file corruption but corrupt headers are fairly common. I’d guess that it could be at least 1:1000 that are corrupt in some way. From bitter experience, that number sky-rockets if you compress the jpg.
JPG Checker is a checker for Windows. (not now free). I have used it in the past when it was free and it was fast and accurate.
If he knows how to use Python then PIL is a good method as it actually loads and tests each image and prints out an exception for those that fail. Unfortunately this really only detects corrupt headers, not image glitches.
Python code, (needs to be put in an appropriate loop):
from PIL import Image
v_image = Image.open(file)
v_image.verify()If he knows Linux then jpginfo is a free way method.
This is not an exhaustive list of methods, but rather to encourage your friend to do it if the photos are at all valuable. He can find more by searching on-line for “check jpg files for corruption”
“get some decent anaglypta wallpaper to paint.”
But a pig to remove when you get tired of it. Lining paper is much easier to remove and cheaper too!
“I think the main new bits would be mono, cpu, gpu, ram, ssd, case and poss the ps”
You missed out all the upgraded peripherals you will need to go with your new mobo. viz. USB-C to USB-3 hub and USB-C to HDMI monitor adapters!?
Of course if you don’t like using adapters the list of new kit gets even longer.
It looks like Avast has underestimated the numbers of infected computers yet again. Apparently the Malware Server infected so many users that it ran out of disk space and deleted the list of those initially infected.
I think if you installed CCleaner any time after July this year then a full off-line scan would be a sensible precaution. The early advice on using an off-line scan looks good as the malware does incorporate A/V evasion techniques.
A number of A/V companies offer off-line scanning software, some such as Kaspersky call them rescue disks – for example Sophos . (probably best not to use Avast in these circumstances!)
The cable routing for the electrics could also be an issue. From memory ‘horizontal’ runs are frowned upon. I suspect the electrician will say the cables need to be rerouted and any power taken back to an appropriate junction.
Although we have segued into the difficulties of driving elsewhere there is also the problem that each country has its own oddities in car design (not too much between cars in the EU). My most embarrassing moments seemed to have revolved around picking up a hired car then being unable to figure out some simple thing that is completely intuitive to the natives of the land. In the US I just could not figure out how to release the hand-brake (compounded by it being called the emergency brake) – it was set/released by a floor-mounted button, but probably the worst was having to leave all our luggage in a Brisbane monsoon because I could not find out how to release the boot (a lever by the driving position). Although you could vent steam with a good rant in the UK, it becomes much harder when you know it will pay to smile and just act the dumb foreigner again, and harder still if you have resisted and wasted twenty minutes trying to figure it out all by yourself with SWMBO suggesting that you go and ask!
It is normally easier when you are driving the ‘correct’ car layout for the driving regime you are in, but even then you can get caught out by the idiosyncrasies and different traffic laws of each country. I hate to think of the number of times that the US habit of fast exit on the left in multi-lane carriages has resulted in my having to make a twenty mile diversion. Others like the Aussie ‘hook’ turn or Kiwi give-way rules still give me nightmares when I think about the numbers of near misses they caused!
Friends tell me that it has now become quite dangerous driving in New Zealand as a result of the numbers of Chinese tourists driving hired cars.
50% of those were part of my primary school education. viz Rods,Bushels,Hands,Cubits. There was a smidgen of rationale in their inclusion as bushels and poles were still a fairly common agricultural measure, as were Hands for measuring horses while of course cubits are an integral part of the Old Testament e.g. Noah’s Ark etc. For some reason we also were taught about the military pace (I vaguely remember it being used in Arithmetic lessons together with marching cadences along miles of military roads in order to schedule imaginary troop movements against the rebellious Scots!) — Brainwashing obviously started early where I lived.
Dates me as an old phart, but moving between units all the time was an invaluable bit of background for engineering, and learning how to do rough approximations to check answers.
I guess we will never know but I found the inclusion of Singapore Telecomms in the list extremely interesting. Not the top-tier hi-tech company that most people would stick on a list together with Intel etc. I’m not meaning to demean Singapore in any way as they have some real cutting-edge top-tier research going on there. However because of their inclusion, I’d dismiss the PRC as the rogue element as there are probably enough dedicated humint PRC sleepers already embedded in most Singapore top-tier companies from my past experience, and the million or so highly educated Chinese immigrants who have since arrived during the last twenty years.
Apparently Avast was not telling the whole story. For 95%+ of CCleaner customers what they said was true, but if you are a tech company or someone with valuable IP then you may well have picked up some nasties on your networked system.
It all now has the distinct stink of political correctness attempting to cover up for administrative incompetence rather than a justified sacking. Whether that is true I obviously have no idea, but the way it has all been handled certainly scores a goal wrt administrative incompetence.
Footie in Ultra is good and a lot better than HD in terms of both colour & resolution..
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