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Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-02-09, 17:05

in Milliways
There's a conflict of interest between writers of search algorithms and the users. The users search for what they want to see. The writers want to you see what they want you to see, regardless of what you search for. With some of these algorithms we're approaching the situation where the search …

Re: PCI madness

Posted on 2024-01-24, 00:05

lordmogul wrote on 2024-01-23, 10:34: Below that some 9500 GT also came in PCI I also have Jaton 9500 GT, Sparkle 8500 GT and PNY 8400 GS PCI cards. Performance rank is as you would expect. None of them can compete with the Zotac GT 610 PCI, which scores nearly 4x higher in 3D Mark Vantage than the …

Re: PCI madness

Posted on 2024-01-23, 04:31

I have a couple of Zotac GT 610 PCIe x1 cards that I use in situations like this. I also have another pair in conventional PCI, and several 520/610's in x16. The PCI cards have 512 MiB of memory and the others 1024 MiB. Note that memory speed is very important with these cards. The PCI @ 1333 MHz …

Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-01-22, 10:04

in Milliways
The gun issue is similar to the dangerous dog issue. Certain breeds are notorious for attacking people, especially children. Whenever there's such an attack, you hear calls for such breeds to be banned. This naturally riles up responsible dog owners, who train and socialize their animals correctly, …

Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-01-21, 01:14

in Milliways
I think the point is that 'hard cases make bad law'. When considering the justice of a law you need to consider the average case, not exceptional cases, however sensational and newsworthy they may be. It reminds me of the abortion debate in Ireland. Groups seeking to overturn Ireland's abortion laws …

Re: end of DVD storage

Posted on 2024-01-11, 02:20

in Milliways
I still burn important files to Blu-Ray but the only media I now trust are Taiyo Yuden BD-R DL disks imported directly from Japan. These are not cheap.

Re: end of DVD storage

Posted on 2024-01-07, 16:19

in Milliways
Yeah like floppy disks in the late 90s. They're now just for short term storage. Don't expect your data to still be there a year from now.

Re: So ebay sent me an email today....

Posted on 2024-01-04, 13:37

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I understand that Google are going to start deleting inactive accounts and so they probably did this to avoid the bad PR from lots of people losing their accounts because of the difficulty of verifying them. They'll probably reinstate the old policy again in future. In the old days you could verify …

Re: So ebay sent me an email today....

Posted on 2024-01-03, 20:20

in Milliways
I log into all accounts at least once a year because of this. I usually take the opportunity to change the password too. (This is non-trivial as I have multiple eBay, Google/YouTube, Yahoo, Microsoft and other accounts.) ETA: As an aside, I'm glad to see that Google removed the requirement for …

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