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Sorry – I misread your post. This is an old problem, but I’m darned if I remember the solution that works every time. As a starter try rebuilding the icon cache it may be corrupt.
Open a command line
then type:
CD /d %userprofile%\AppData\Local
DEL IconCache.db /a
EXIT
if it barfs at you then maybe Admin mode is required.
Spinners fail too, but more subtly – corruption is the name of the game – I assume that you have run the disk utilities for your spinner. At the very least do a fsck from the single user mode mentioned earlier.
I assume as the thread continues that you still have problems.
You may want to try an extended memtest – flaky areas of ram is likely to send things off into la-la land.
I would also get on to your SSD site and check out whatever utilities they have for your pc. It could be that you are missing a firmware update that Mint is ‘assuming’ to be present. I’d also run whatever SMART tests they have, but when I had my carp Kingston 120GB SSD Now 300v (NOT to be recommended under any circumstances) it sailed through all their tests, but was definitely responsible for freezes and crashes under Windows 10. Still worth a check as poor data in your swap file can also play havoc.
Try right-click on the screen -> view ->show desktop icons
No, but don’t forget Giffgaff. very much a bare-bones mobile provider but it is actually an offshoot of O2. If other family members use Giffgaff calls/texts between you are free.
If you do go with them be prepared to do a bit of googling while you go through any setup teething problems. They keep prices low by not having any support staff. They also keep their customer communications to the bare minimum.
If you can, examine the source code of the email. I recently received an Amazon.com email that looked 100% genuine at first glance but actually contained links to some unsavory Brazilian medical company. It was click bait.
There is a simple right-click to do this in TBird, but I’m sorry I do not know how to do this invaluable test in other email programs.
Unfortunately I know nothing about the Shuttle or AMD chips on it. However, the symptoms are almost identical with those I experienced on my wife’s NUC. This led me round the houses on various issues.
a) Check your bios power ‘saving’ settings a Mint update may have maliciously altered it. Do not forget power saving on your usb equipment needs to go off.
b) Check that you have the latest mobo/chipset drivers installed. These have nothing to do with Mint and normally get installed at the UEFI level
c) Start in safe mode (normally press left=shift while booting. A Grub menu should appear. Select recovery mode. Then work through the various options
I normally do fsck first to make sure the drive structure is not stuffed. The one you should really do is dpkg.
Now the bad news NONE of these worked for me, despite finding out that Intel had an issue with Win10, and that the Kingston SSD was apparently OK. In fact I later since discovered that there is a real incompatibility somewhere in the Kingston hardware and Windows 10. Replacing the drive cured things for me.
With all the efforts put in by the GPU makers and M$ an awful lot of the threading now takes place on either the gpu ‘engine’ or its associated Physics engine. About the only big sensibly threaded task for the cpu is AI for each actor (really no reason why there should not also be an AI/pathfinding engine on the GPU too). I hate to say it, but I think Intel called the long term play much better than AMD. I guess we will just have to see if AMD can optimise and get the cpu clockspeed up a notch or three.
As AMD make pretty good GPUs that steal some of Intel’s cpu bread in the process why would they spend too much time on raw cpu clockspeed when they can probably get a much bigger bang for their buck from the portable and gpu markets? Pride and a ‘don’t put all your eggs in one basket’ philosophy is about the only drivers I can see.
“Location – Twixt Severn and Wye”
Many moons ago I had a girl friend from that area – not more than a mile or so from where they meet. Brings back happy memories of a very gauche young man.
I’ll do some better tagging and display of them, should help.
Good luck with that I do not remember very many threads where we kept the discussion totally on track. Normally they wander all over the place and rarely come back to the OP.
No criticism of anyone was intended by my remark. Just an honest wish not to bury Ryzen discussions too deep!
Fair point, but maybe Ryzen does warrant a thread on its own. We tended to throw the kitchen sink into the ‘Does anybody still Build?’ topic. For what it is worth my take based on all the various reviews is that Ryzen is NOT a killer games machine. It is merely OK and will help keep Intel’s prices ‘honest’. The (future) server version of Ryzen may be far more interesting to those who need a new server.
From my personal perspective, although I can write multi-threaded applications I tend not to do so, because few normal applications really need to be multi-threaded and they also tend to be a ‘b’ to debug. The only exception to that is graphics work where running a thread for each scan-line usually makes sense. The gains however are not staggering as the GPU can often be used instead. From a purely personal standpoint I’ll stick with CPU grunt/power consumption as the drivers of any choices I make.
I use VMs a lot, but these run on their own cpu/core so again it comes down to grunt. If Ryzen somehow optimised I/O or I/O band=width usage it would however be a winner for me, but so far that does not appear to be the case.
I do however look forward to real-life user experience with great interest, so please keep this thread open!
Unfortunately the old oil-filled magnifying screens used a mineral oil filler. As it is nearly 60 years since these were last produced the oil inside will have degraded in the sun light and gone a sludgy brown colour by now.
If you really want something like this you may be better buying a cheap vacuum pump and try to vacuum form your own plastic one. (there are loads of how-to’s on vacuum forming acrylic).
No, I think sgb got the wrong end of the stick. I am actually talking about a concaved piece of glass.
Oh – you mean one of these!
My Uncle nearly set his house on fire with one of these as the early morning sun used to shine on it.
If you can get it working to your satisfaction — fine. However for those bits of kit that would otherwise get trashed the Pi route may be a way to make a couple of bob.
IMO the biggest factor AMD have going for them is that Intel’s leaked plans for this year and even next, seem at best underwhelming. Not so much Tick Tock, but rather Tock tock tock! The 14nm die seems to be a problem which raises huge question marks for the 10nm and lower versions. Intel’s focus seems to be on power consumption rather than grunt giving AMD a bit of catchup time.
Ars has an interesting review. Not a great cpu at the moment, (depends on price etc), but the next iteration may make an interesting server. What I found interesting in the review was that AMD totally misjudged the inertia (and difficulty) of writing multi-threaded applications, and how few things need multi-threading rather than grunt.
Gut it, and put in a Pi Zero plus a 5 inch HDMI monitor (about £40 total) — instant modern Internet TV!
Unfortunately in my experience anyone involved in a Joint Venture, or purchasing services in India is kept well away from any Engineers lest they be subverted by modern Western ideas. in addition 40% unfortunately still have a 70 years old Partition chip on their shoulder.
If you see anything interesting that you think you may want to play with one day, make an image of the floppy (read using a usb floppy drive and WinImage. ) At a later date you can run them on a vm machine — you may need to use utilities to ‘slow’ the simulation however.
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