Computer Questions Not Worth Their Own Thread II

[Genocidicbunny]

Depends on the motherboard. Google to see if it will support your CPU. Physically, it will be fine, but the motherboard might not recognize it without a BIOS update, if at all.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I noticid that several of my images were corrupted on my HDD. I looked at the ones on my external and they were just fine. Is it posseble that they got corrupted during the transfer from the externel HDD to the computur?


EDIT: Also on my Vista start menu I got ti set to only find programs as I nevir search files from there. Howevir there used to be a Search button on the right side and I think I installed an update and now its gune. How do I get it back.

 

[Turner]

Yes.

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[aimeeandbeatles]

OK so Ill try to copy those files by themselves hope that works...

EDIT: Also on my Vista start menu I got ti set to only find programs as I nevir search files from there. Howevir there used to be a Search button on the right side and I think I installed an update and now its gune. How do I get it back.

I got this one ....
click the undirlined text

Does anyone know whyd they removed it.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Edit: Didnt realize I already posted above oops

 

[civ_king]

Depends on the motherboard. Google to see if it will support your CPU. Physically, it will be fine, but the motherboard might not recognize it without a BIOS update, if at all.

System Info​

System = Dell System WorkStation 370
BIOS Version =A02 (08/23/04)

Service Tag = 3865461
Express Service Code = 7024392793
Asset Tag = {none}

how do I convert this to usable information?


Will
Dell Precision WorkStation 370 System BIOS A08 1.0
work?

http://support.dell.com/support/dow...dateid=-1&formatid=-1&source=-1&fileid=172860

 

[Genocidicbunny]

Looks like you're out of luck. From what I gather, you've got a precision 370 system which has an intel 925 chipset. That chipset only supports Pentium 4 and Pentium 4 EE. (So nothing with more than 1 core pretty much)

 

[PeteAtoms]

1) When is the next iteration of this thread going to be made (what's the post limit in Computer Talk)?

2) What are some sources of news about technology/computers that you (no one specific) can recommend? Right now, my RSS feeds include Lifehacker, Digg, Makeuseof, the How-To Geek. Just looking for some sites geared toward the beginner/intermediate computer user (nothing advanced).

 

[civ_king]

what about http://www.electronista.com/

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

2) What are some sources of news about technology/computers that you (no one specific) can recommend? Right now, my RSS feeds include Lifehacker, Digg, Makeuseof, the How-To Geek. Just looking for some sites geared toward the beginner/intermediate computer user (nothing advanced).

http://thegeekeryblog.wordpress.com/

Its sporadically updated but it has some good info

 

[Genocidicbunny]

SlashDot

reddit.com/r/programming and /r/technology

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Something crazy I just noticed while cleaning up my pictures folder. I noticed that in a subfolder in Pictures there were hundreds of duplicates of files. I had not touched that folder since I copied the entire Pictures folder over. I looked on the external and there were none of these duplicates. Could it happened when I copied it over?

 

[Turner]

1) When is the next iteration of this thread going to be made (what's the post limit in Computer Talk)?

Oh, 10k I suppose. There's no hard limit like OT. But I think vB still has problems with threads over 10k posts. But I'm in no hurry to start a new one.

 

[cardgame]

how can I make the best use of my new quad core processor?

 

[Genocidicbunny]

Join the CFC Folding at Home team. It'll keep it busy and you'll be contributing to science. See http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=324147

 

[Turner]

how can I make the best use of my new quad core processor?

By giving it to me.

No, I understand your frustration. Get a new computer, all shiny and cool, and suddenly you're "Now what? "

There's a lot out there like Folding at home to help with, if you're so inclined. So you don't have to do just that. Google for 'distributed computing projects', and you'll find a lot out there.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Question #1: Is there a way within Windows to search for every file EXCEPT specified filetypes? (e.g. in the Pictures folders I want to find every file thats not JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, etc.) I looked at the advanced search already... If not, is there a third party free program. I tried GREP but I couldnt figure it out. I dont like Google Desktop.

Edit: I just relized I forgot question 2 ... ooops.....

 

[Genocidicbunny]

well, grep would technically be your best bet. egrep -iv '.(jpg|png|gif|bmp|...so on...)$' * would be the command.

Cant you just sort the folder by file type and find all file types that are not images? It would be pretty simple of a task to do it manually in this case.

 

[PeteAtoms]

well, grep would technically be your best bet. egrep -iv '.(jpg|png|gif|bmp|...so on...)$' * would be the command.

Cant you just sort the folder by file type and find all file types that are not images? It would be pretty simple of a task to do it manually in this case.

How do you make those vertical separators/lines? |l1Ii
Lol, definitely not an L or i or 1.

 

[ParadigmShifter]

It's next to the Z key on my (UK) keyboard. |

There's something that looks quite similar on Alt Gr-(left of the 1) key ¦

The other symbols on the key to the left of 1 are ` (unshifted, back apostrophe) and ¬ (form feed symbol?) when shifted.