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After the last update 10.2.1 my IPhone 5C stopped showing notifications when there was new mail.  I have to click on to the mail icon & then it will check mail.  Any SUGGESTIONS will be appreciated.Did you read this?
http://www.techradar.com/how-to/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/ios-10-problems-here-s-how-to-fix-the-most-common-issues-1328553
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A new feature in iOS 10 is iMessage effects, which are full screen animations designed to make your iMessage chats more entertaining. These effects INCLUDE fireworks, lasers, shooting starts and an invisible ink feature.

Hi all, recently I needed to do that so that I can send my drawings (mainly for approval) more secured. I’ve come across and used that site: http://urlcrypt.to/
 Please give my your opinion about if it is any good because i honestly have no knowledge in that field.
I’ll appreciate your feedback.
Why not send drawings by e-mail attachment? Why have an active link out there for people and web crawlers to connect to to farm info?

I havent used any services like this but would advise the setting password OPTION if this must be used, but I would not go this route of using this service and I explain below why:

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You can add one more layer of security by enabling the captcha option or by setting a password. This way only people who successfully pass the captcha test or enter the password can see the links, while all the bots being rejected.

What is URL Crypt?

URL Crypt is a free service that lets you encrypt your links. There are hundreds of bots and servers that crawl the web for URLs and access them, copy the content or try to find who created them. By using URL Crypt, you are now safe from these risks.

Our mission is to protect you and all the other users of your URLs.

How URL Crypt can help?

Internet is not a safe place. URL Crypt is meant to help you protect your links by encrypting them in a safe way.

You can add one more layer of security by enabling the captcha option or by setting a password. This way only people who successfully pass the captcha test or enter the password can see the links, while all the bots being rejected.

Agree with Soybean with 1 caveat'....
On that online storage account i would create a seperate folder for the user who will access it and keep the shared files in there...
Therefore the password if set properly will only allow access to the files you choose...not the full contents of your online storage.

How come the cloud storage will be safer ?

Would it be easy for the recipient to download files ?

More details would be helpful...

My guess is that there must be at least a million different BRANDS and models of cell phones. Trying to think of purpose for such a statistic...

FCC might have this info of how many different models since they would have to be registered, however multiple models might work under the same FCC license/permit based on multiple models with the same approved by FCC RF Transmission circuitry. Additionally I am SURE there are cell phone knock OFFS created in china for example that might be their own model and might not have been FCC approved as well so knowing the exact number of brands and models will have a certain level of error to the statistics.

If wanting to know how many were ever made vs how many different models I am unsure where you would amass such information because its pretty useless. Thinking the only information that might be helpful would be statistics of how many people are subscribed to a service vs the population to know for MARKETING whether a region or location is saturated with phones or there is a potential market to push the sales of phone to an AREA. Smart phones are able to report back what OS they are running so you could even know if people are already running the newest phones or if many of them are stretching the life of older phones to know if there is a market to target with newer phones to get people to upgrade.Patent Office...Patent Office might be better than FCC. I was thinking FCC would be stricter with getting approval per model whereas a patent could be blanketed more across a range of models because FCC would require testing of each model, whereas the patent might be more flexible to span across models.

Well he has 2 places to try for that information Patent Office and FCC 

Other issue is that during research you get statistics from a manufacturer today, and the information may be different tomorrow so there is no perfect count that i can think of. As for phones are being made daily and lots of them.We probably won't see him for 8 - 9 months...I doubt if there are a million brands and models. Wikipedia lists 161 cell phone makers world wide. I don't think each of these has at least 6,211 separate models currently, or has had during their past.

Bought a new phone (Moto E). New phone stopped reading SD Card and said 'Do you want to forget this card?" I chose yes.

Card now doesn't read on the phone or on the laptop.

Card cost £22 and is 16gb. It's from a reputable retailer. What has the phone done to it and can I get it to work again?ISSUE resolved cannot see how to delete post, please either delete or advise me how to delete; thank youPosts are not normally deleted merely because you have resolved your issue.   What we would like to see is you posting how you resolved your issue.  That info could be helpful to other smartphone users. I took the sd card and threw it in the TRASH. Learn from that what you will folks.Do you PLAN to try another microSD card in your phone?  Quote from: davidglasgow on January 24, 2017, 01:48:20 AM

Card cost £22 and is 16gb. It's from a reputable retailer. What has the phone done to it and can I get it to work again?

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I am using  Windows 7 and Google Chrome.  I can get form 1040 on my screen and fill it out. I want to save it and reclaim it later with the infor that I have entered.   No matter what I do I cannot reclaim the form with my  infor.  With such a brief explanation  can somebody  give me any help.     Thank you.      BobHi  --
No need to reply.  I finely figured out that I had to download the page.  Excused me for taking up your time.    BobHope your gettin a refund Bob...good to seeya again...PATIO  -   
I guess you REMEMBER me because I have so much trouble.  Thank you.  I am still having trouble with my IRS forms  but maybe I will work it out.  I got it right yesterday but today I can't remember how I did it.  Old age is catching up with me.  I will not get a refund BUT I will not pay any taxes!!!Good on you...patio  -
Go back to my first post on this problem and see if you can offer a suggestion.   Thanks     BobIf the info in the file is still there what happens if you RITE clik it and select Save As ? ?Bob, go back to your second post where you said " I finely figured out that I had to download the page."  Yes, you have to download the form and save it on your computer.   Then you should be able to open it your PDF reader and type entries in the boxes and save it with those entries retained and view-able the next the you open the form. 

By the way, did you download your form from irs.gov or SOMEWHERE else?  I suggest you get it from irs.gov.  soybean  -
Thanks for your reply.  Yes I get the form from gov.  I get the form on my monitor and enter infor.  I then  click on "download".  Another page comes up with "save" on it.  There is a space that has "1040"  in it.  I think I am supposed to delete that and give a name.    I do that and go to "download" and it is there but I open it it is a lot of printing that means nothing to me.  From then on I am lost. You said to save it on your computer. Where?  you said I should be able  to open it your PDF reader.  Where is that?   Be easy I'm not to smart.   Thanks for your time  Bob.Bob, if you know someone who knows more about using computers than you that you could ask to show you how to download, save, and open that IRS form, that would be much easier than trying to get help online.  I mean no offense, but your computer knowledge is so limited that trying to explain to you how to do things via a forum discussion is very cumbersome.  soybean  -
You are right.  I don't have any help so i just try things and once in a while I get lucky!!  My problem is when you use terms I don't know what it means I am lost.   I am not offended and I understand.  Thanks for the help I have gotten over the years.     Bob Last I heard IRS laying off people may be going out of business soon. Quote from: John1397 on January 21, 2017, 06:11:57 PM

Last I heard IRS laying off people may be going out of business soon.

Was talking with a coworker about AI ( Artificial Intelligence )  and he was asking how it works. My answer to him was that its like a feedback loop and SENSORY and depending on what is SENSED there are laws in the code on what to do if certain conditions are met, but that additionally there is code out there that allows for the program to learn from cause an effect as well and build on itself so the programmer doesnt need to WRITE code from then on, it can dynamically create its logic possibly as well based on the environment around it.

Then I got the question of well you program on the side have you ever attempted it. My answer was that long ago I did try to make a program that was more of a Q&A. It had no sensory and REALLY wasnt AI because it was more of a to do list of if this is the input then this is the output. I TRIED to make it unpredictable though with seeded random generators such as if you asked it how are you feeling it would be a wide variety of feeling outputs but it really was not by any means what i would consider today an AI, but back when i was 12 years old I was determined and I spent about 3 weeks programming up an AI type of program in GW-Basic.

The problem I ran into was that I only had 64k of memory for my program and my program didnt store information in a file because while I knew enough about programming in GW-Basic, the code I wrote was lacking advanced programming techniques such as reading and writing to a disk which would have allowed for my program to deal with more information than that of what was nested within the program itself. All the data was contained in the code, so the program got bigger and bigger to the point that I hit the 64k limit of GW-Basic and that was the end of my attempt at an AI project when I was 12 in 1987.

Curious if anyone else here attempted at making their own AI or something similar before and any problems they ran into with it?

Later on when I found an adult DOS game that I cant share the title of here, it was funny that a lot of the way the program interacted with you was similar with the Q&A logic of if you enter this then do that as an output to the user of the adult game etc. In this game certain personalities were difficult to try to get to the goal of the game which I can also not discuss here. And this also was not AI but was entertaining trying to get yourself through a hurdle of chat to try to get what you wanted when the code was written as such that it acted like a real female that wasnt easy and you had to work for it etc. Of course one could play these types of games and write down a flow chart and then know how to answer each question to get from A to Z without going backwards or stuck in a loop of failed progression. The game was a game a friend gave me on a floppy disk and we all took our tries at getting lucky to get from A to Z to beat the game I guess you could call it by getting to the final goal of the game for the fake personality female that you were interacting with.

I am looking at all the smartphones and flip phones it seems what I need is a $10 GSM that is unlocked that can accept a sim card what I am wondering is when it says SAMSUNG SPRINT or LG Verizon if this is a different phone than just a Samsung without a CARRIER name on it? I bough a  LG Optimus Zone 3 for $10 NEW and this is a nice phone but is locked and on CDMA so if it was unlocked it still would not work.Here is a list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_telephone_operating_companies
The list  includes America, Europe and Asia.
To find  WO is who inside of a country, you have to dig deeper.
Sad to say this list does not tell you that some companies are not compatible.

Here is a personal experience. My  flip phone no longer works. I buy another phone. My  SIM card does not work. Well, after two weeks I learn that not all unlocked phones are unlocked. Too hard to  explain. I had to buy another SIM card or else another phone. So I got another SIM card.

Your changes of getting the right phone and the right SIM card and the right carries are poor. This is by design.

You will need the help of a technician that knows what's working in your area.

Does anyone know if the is one site that CONTROLS all the UPC barcodes it SEEMS like it would not WORK well if they used the same bar code for different items  ?Your question is UNCLEAR...it's already regulated.

See Here...

No 2 barcodes are the same.I did a little searching looks like gs1 us is who runs or issues barcodes.Correct...

I typed in SEARCH : #360video under YouTube and click on the VIDEO, but I cannot find the CARDBOARD ICON ( like the shape of a glass ) on the right bottom on my SMARTPHONE LGK3, and the following website show how to watch . Please advise and many TKS.
http://www.vrcircle.com/post/How-to-watch-360-Degree-VR-Videos-On-Your-Phone
John

yes i have a question i am wanting to find out every single website i have ever signed up on since i started getting on a COMPUTER and this has been like since 2000
and i am wanting to find out also every email i have ever signed up since then because i dont like the idea of me having accounts out there and not KNOWING or remembering how to get in them and close them
i have contacted various private i's and they say they can recover some and i even HIRED one and she did a *censored* job
so does anyone have any ideas of what i can do Strange request, and not knowing what you had for e-mail accounts is an interesting one.... almost an inverse to yourself as if your looking for someone elses e-mail accounts other than your own because that is a greater probability of unknown.

Google is the only means I know of for searching this info for free, and very interesting the need to snuff out these accounts going back to 2000. Data just doesnt go away if thats your hopes. Its on backups with companies that can be restored to the web and dumped there was well as part of an archive for legal REASONS if there were a court order for example to look into an investigation, its still out there unable to be deleted. Deletion would be illegal of deleting information related to wrong doing etc.Your memory and record keeping are your primary options.If you are paying people to do this you will run out of money waay before the task is even 1/2 way done...If you have habits with regard to note keeping, yu can find the information on our computer or on your backups.
Example:
One user has the habit always make  a TXT file with his user name and password for every e-mail  and other account ever made at any time. He always made a note in a TXT file. Sad to say, he does not remember how he named the text files he created. He only recalls that he always used the TXT type and never the DOC type for the files
Solution? He TURNED on the indexing service for his PC and started to look for text  files with  the character. He found a lot. He had to read each one. some

Of course, if one tends to have bad habits,  one can pay other people a lot of money to arrange the disorder. 

Side Bar:
In the USA that are a number of wrongful convictions due to improper use of forensic evidence. This could possibly happen with data gathered from e-mail.

Please advise how to make a password on the video mp4 file in the LGK3 Smartphone so that the fille cannot be opened without password. Thank you.
JohnYou'll need some sort of app to do that.  Here's one that claims to do it.  I've never used it so can't remark how well it works.  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.newsoftwares.folderlock_v1&hl=enYou can lock the file with filelocker app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mwgo.filelocker

You can also hide the file altogether with leo privacy guard. where the file will go in to leo guard app and can only be accessed by entering a password : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.leo.appmaster&hl=enQuestion I have is .... why isnt the phone itself in a locked state GOOD ENOUGH?

The file would not be accessed when the phone is locked. I have a number pad lock on my phone and it can take up to 10 digits. It would take a long time to try them to get into my phone if my phone was ever lost. Including 0000000000 through 9999999999 I have 10 Billion different up to 10 digit pin codes that I can use.

Hopefully the MP4 is not anything illegal. As for only purpose to go beyond complexity of 10 billion different pin codes would be if its SOMETHING so secret that 10 billion is not enough of a wall to keep law enforcement or government from someday up to 10 billion tries later from getting access to.  Sometime friends borrow phone (for whatever reason) and invade your privacy by checking photos and videos. Maybe he is asking this to protect himself from thatI never loan my phone out...I don't LEND my phone to ANYONE either. My rule is If you have an emergency, I will call for you. If you need to text someone, I will send the text. But no one puts their hands on my phone but me. Call me paranoid, but I don't trust anyone with it.

I have many Internet pages open. When I went to upgrade Google chrome, I did it, but I lost all the Internet pages and tabs that were open.  Now, I can see them in my browsing history but my question is, can somehow recover the tabs that I lost?Have you tried reopening them by pressing ctrl+ shift+T or by going into history in drop down menu and CLICK reopen closed tabs button?I'm sorry, I should have pointed out that I have a tablet. I don't know if that matters.It does matter a little. What company does your tablet BELONG to?Polaroid.I think you can reopen them by going into options in the corner. There might a recent tabs button there. i FOUND a  COUPLE of BLOG pieces which might be able to help you out.:
 http://www.ghacks.net/2014/04/11/restore-closed-tabs-chrome-android/
http://www.techbout.com/open-recently-closed-tabs-android-phone-17690/
https://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-reopen-a-closed-tab-in-chrome-for-android/

Having $3,000 to spend i'm trying to see the best laptop I can get for up to that price or under. SSD would be required along with a high end graphics card of course, thank you. Do you care about battery life or are you going to be plugged into an outlet when gaming?

My experience with gaming laptops are that their batteries dont last that LONG gaming and they require an outlet. Friend of mine has a gaming laptop and its like a space heater when playing games and the battery runs dead in about an hour of gaming if not plugged in. If your going to be plugged into an outlet and laptop is just preference as a space saver there are many power hungry laptops out there.

What screen size?
Do you want a number pad?
Any other features you want it to have?If you wanna a good laptop to use for years, I suggest Toshiba. Quote

If you wanna a good laptop to use for years, I suggest Toshiba.

So I'm unsure which sub forum to put this in because I'm not sure what is causing this problem. Basically some videos I watch are played not in color, but in some weird almost completely black and white. The video STILL may have some very faint color like a very faint yellow or blue. This happens on various websites such as youtube or others, and it happens on all browsers.

I'm running Windows 10. I'm not very tech savvy so I may NEED my hand held a little bit through this 

Thank you!Some monies were done in black and white.  Quote from: Geek-9pm on February 20, 2017, 01:40:43 PM

Some monies were done in black and white. 

1) Does it only occur with videos you watch on the web or does it also happen with videos on your computer?

2) Did this just start or has it always been this way? If the former, what is new or different since the last time everything worked properly (ie, new hw, new sw, virus, error, etc)?

BTW...what is Origon ? ?

Sounds like the culprit to me...

I agree with patio. Let's try uninstalling Origin and see what happens.

Do you have a restore point that will take you back to before the problem arose?

Do you have a restore point that will take you back to before the problem arose?

If I have POSTED this in the wrong area would the moderator please move it to the correct forum. Thank You.

First I have Included a .jpeg File to answer any (what kind of computer do you have) questions.
I currently am running Windows 7 from my HDD, I was Informed that I would get better speed if i used Easeus partition master to migrate the OS to ssd but beyond that i also would like to add windows 10 and Ubuntu to triboot this computer, i am also running steam games from my ssd on a separate partition, my question is how do i migrate the windows 7 PROPERLY, do i need to manually align the partition or does easeus do this good enough automatically, do i PUT windows 10 and Linux on the ssd with it or on the HDD, which drive should my swap and paging file go, and which drive should i be running my steam games from. Also if there is any expert info that you would like to add to help that i have not covered that  would be appreciated.

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hello my friends, i have a very basic "yes or no" question, hopefully...
i download 1080 resolution dvds onto my portable HARD drive which connects to my 1080 HD TV via USB type A, so NOT HDMI. My question is am in fact outputting the movies from my tv in 1080, or is it downscaled to 720?
As ive noticed that whether i play 1080 or 720 movies from my portable hard drive on my tv, the quality is exactly the same

Or do i need to use somethng else to plug and play my movies that involves a hdmi cable to get maximum qualityWhat vid card ? ?

HDMI cable or display port should be used at any rate...

Where are these DLoads from ? ?Have you CHECKED the video files themselves to see what resolution they are?

"1080 resolution dvd" doesn't make sense. DVDs are not 1080p, that's Blu Ray.

In my inbox:
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We are looking for employees working remotely.
My NAME is Leonor, I am the personnel manager of a large International company.
Most of the work you can do from home, that is, at a distance.
Salary is $2900-$5600.V 

Hello,

I have Windows 7 on my laptop. I was just on the Post OFFICE webpage, USPS.COM. I was moving the cursor with my finger when the webpage suddenly enlarges to twice its normal size. I do not KNOW what I did, but how can I get the webpage to go back to its normal size?

Thank you.
Try pressing Ctrl-0 (zero).  You should be able to enlarge and shrink the web page using Ctrl-+ (PLUS) and Ctrl-- (minus).  Ctrl-0 (zero) puts it back to the default size. Quote

I was moving the cursor with my finger

Hello.I have this speedlink sl-6535 srd 01 gamepad and i wanna use it to PLAY fifa 13 on pc...i INSTALLED several simulators for xbox but none worked....when i use it simple without the emulators some of the buttons dont work at all...like the right analog stick or the dribling button...when i use it with the xbox EMULATOR ...its going total nuts...i cant even go down or up ...I really wanna use it like a ps3 controller because it looks like one and i m used to play on ps controllers.If anyone can help me ,PLEASE,with this,i would be very grateful.Fifa has a Huuuge Forum...i'm sure someone there has DONE this...have you tried there ? ?

Not really news. So it goes here. Not YET a separate site, a landing page.
You may already know that Intel has been saying the Optane Memory technology will shake the earth and ROLL over everything in its path.
But you can get it yet.
So they have started a new web page that DEALS with the PR and other announcements about something they can not sell yet.
Here is MAYBE the only place where you might find this:
https://www.pcper.com/news/Storage/Intel-Quietly-Launches-Official-Optane-Memory-Site
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We now have an actual Optane landing page on the Intel site that discusses the first iteration of 'Intel Optane Memory', which appears to be the 8000p Series that we covered last October and saw as an option on some upcoming Lenovo laptops. The site does not cover the upcoming enterprise parts l...

That might not be news, so I put in here.
Microsoft says they will RELEASE the HoloLens  soon. It seems they ALREADY have working PROTOTYPES out there somewhere.
Here are some links of interest:

http://www.mmm-online.com/technology/ci-bioball-msft-hololens-vr-ar-health-technology-biometrics-game/article/640669/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p0BDw4VHNo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTPxUGRGpnA#action=share

So FAR, they have no asked mote test one. 
Maybe 'cause I wear an eye PATCH...
 

When I go to play a game a pop-up says no sound card available but there is and it always worked, what do you thinks up, I ran Belarc and it did not show a card.It may be missing it's driver if Belarc don't show it...do you know which card it is and how old ? ? Quote from: patio on February 12, 2017, 01:22:24 PM

It may be missing it's driver if Belarc don't show it...do you know which card it is and how old ? ?

What does it show there as the default audio device?

Like Dave, My understanding is that "High Definition Audio Device" is the Sound device used for HDMI. From what I understand, it is specific to AMD's Implementation; One of my systems is AMD-based and disabling the "High Definition Audio Device" doesn't affect audio output from the on-board sound, nor from the Xonar DG Card installed in it. It does prevent Audio from going through HDMI. Nvidia's version is "NVidia High Definition Audio" And Intel uses "Intel(r) Display Audio" which are far more clear in their naming.

The uninstalled "Unknown Device" would seem to be a sound card. Though Drivers don't tend to uninstall themselves, either.

The .COM is the most popular TLD for web site names. But after giving it some thought, almost TEN minutes, I want to make it now .CLUB instead.
The are two forceful reasons.
1. Club is a word and represents a social group off people.
2. It costs less.

So,  very soon my geek9pm site will not have the dot COM.
It will have the dot CLUB at the end.

(TLD = Top Level Domain)   
How much price difference between .com and .club? And are you doing this through godaddy or some other place?What you should really do is get the .club domain long before the .com EXPIRES then set it up so the .com will redirect to the .club domain.  This means that search engines.etc will properly understand that the domain has changed and will update their listings accordingly.I now have the CLUB WORKING and it is on the same server as the COM
In fact, it is the same start page.
 Both are with Godaddy.
The renewal of the COM would be about $15 us. The CLUB goes for $1.
My domain  is not a money maker of any kind, so there is not way it can pay for itself.
I was ready to just give it up, and then saw that the CLUB goes for $1 and thought to myself for a $1 I will do it.

What is the best way to redirect a domain?
You would usually set-up forwarding within the admin panel for wherever you registered the domain.

Flashing Yellow Arrows... Quote from: patio on February 05, 2017, 07:17:34 PM

Flashing Yellow Arrows...

I now have the CLUB working and it is on the same server as the COM
In fact, it is the same start page.
 Both are with Godaddy.
The renewal of the COM would be about $15 us. The CLUB goes for $1.
My domain  is not a money maker of any kind, so there is not way it can pay for itself.
I was ready to just give it up, and then saw that the CLUB goes for $1 and thought to myself for a $1 I will do it.

What is the best way to redirect a domain?

I BELIEVE I saw a link here years ago, to look at a web site / blog in the past and see how it has changed, anyone any help please.Was it http://archive.org/web/?Better known as WAYBACK...i believe thats the one...That's it gents, thanks very much.And how's Harry doin BTW ? ?... Quote from: patio on February 12, 2017, 12:10:57 PM

And how's Harry doin BTW ? ?...

Doing fine Harry...good to hear all is well minus a slight setback...
Don't be a stranger.

You still don't know when to shut up.

Attempted reply to my problem but repeated error of 700MB. Is that six words? No idea what your asking...is there an attached photo or SOMETHING ? ?Yes, did TEXT and added photos because unable to COPY and paste. Realised mistake with repeated error of exceeds 700MB so REMOVED attachments. However, error came up with trying to send text only.
Tried reply again this morning and it seems to have gone.
Thanks.I think this was meant to be in his malware thread, but it's HARD to tell. Anyway, I'll lock this one since it seems to have run its short course.

This is not a problem, but question.
If you had a bit of money from some unexpected source, but not enough to buy a whole new PC, what would you buy  to improve what you have?
I was reading this article from last year and saw some ideas  taht did not sound right to me. Why am I so sceptical?
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3112726/hardware/the-15-highest-performing-pc-components-you-can-buy-today.html
He says:
Get a new i7 CPU from Intel. The Intel Core i7-6950X Processor Extreme Edition
Get a new motherboard. Like a Asus X99 Deluxe-II .
Then he really gets wild and suggest you get the best 12 GB RAM out there.
Finally he gets to graphics. This is what annoys me. Why did he not start with graphics? Graphics is something you can actually see, not just believe.
Then he does display. Boy does he have it backwards. Most of us would do more for our PC pleasure if we start wit ha better display and then spend money on the other stuff. Then he puts Power Supply near the bottom of his list HUH? How do you power all that tRAM with the old PSU?
Here's a link for a article with another LOOK at upgrades.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/pc-upgrades-getting-the-biggest-bang-for-your-buck/
Do you agree? Am I wrong? Should you put more money in CPU and RAM  instead of the graphics and display?
What do you think? 
Well it DEPENDS.. If you already have a great power supply why would you start with that? The point of an upgrade is to take the weakest link and make it stronger so you should put more money in whatever your weakest link is.What should (or rather, could) be upgraded in a system is going to be dependent on current system's configuration.

if it has a weak graphics card or is using on-board graphics, and the intention is to run games, then that's an obvious starting place- unless the PSU isn't good enough for a reasonable budget graphics card, in which CASE that would be a starting place. and if a system has 4GB of RAM an upgrade to 8GB or 16GB can be helpful; but again, that goes back to the system configuration. If the PC has 4 slots of RAM, and you've got 8GB in 2 slots, then you can upgrade by buying two more 4GB sticks; but if your 8GB is in 4 2GB sticks, you have to buy four new 4GB sticks to get the same upgrade, which isn't going to be nearly as economical (not to mention now you've got RAM you aren't using as well, the old sticks)

Maybe the motherboard doesn't even have a PCI-E slot to use for a graphics card, in which case maybe a motherboard upgrade would be in order; but then you likely need new memory, and if the case you have is OEM, a new motherboard might not connect up properly with all the case connectors as well.

Sometimes an "upgrade" can be achieved by merely buying a good CPU cooler; if you've already got an unlocked processor and a motherboard capable of overclocking, you can overclock, which could improve performance. Or at least make numbers bigger, anyway. Cooler's tend to be fairly affordable. (Sometimes they are considered a necessary component of a build, though I usually start out with a stock cooler myself.)

And, if the system is old enough, "upgrades" are throwing money down a hole. It's ONE thing to do this knowingly (eg upgrading older systems just because you can) it's another to do so expecting to bring new life into the system. You aren't going to be playing The latest Doom game on your ZX Spectrum just because you bought the 16kB RAM Expansion, for example. Quote

Do you agree? Am I wrong? Should you put more money in CPU and RAM  instead of the graphics and display?
What do you think?

I used a tape recorder 40+ years ago computers were starting no cd do they make any device that can do what a cassette recorder or reel to reel recorder does? You could use a computer but kinda big smartphone has no input jack. I guess what I need is a digital recorder with input and output jack same price range as a cassette recorder. Are you trying to use an old computer with CLOAD for example to do a cassette load, and looking for a modern recorder that is low cost to interface with old computer? Also what is your budget?

Back in the early 1990S I still had my TRS-80 Model 1 with 16k RAM and was able to CLOAD using a small boom box tape player/recorder to load and save Basic programs to cassette.

Biggest issue your going to face with modern digital recorders is that they have a sample rate to them and so if your using a modern digital voice recorder with say an older computer that loaded originally from cassette tapes as an option, your going to run into troubles because the sample rate of modern recorders are probably going to cause data loss/corruption since the cassette CLOAD option back in the day was a magnetic tape analog recorder ( lossless as long as a good recording ) with no sample rate. The wave form is read in and converted to digital as an analog input. Binary was input as 0 and 1's by the analog waveform where amplitude above a specific threshold was considered a 1 and anything below that threshold a 0. The volume if set wrong on the cassette player would cause for load issues due to this threshold requirement. Older computers had ability to control start/stop of cassette play/record. At the time I had a more modern tape player/recorder boom box. If I entered CLOAD and pressed play fast enough it wouldnt time out and it would load my Basic program off of the cassette tape.

Im thinking the older computer listening to a load of data from a modern digital recorder is going to be like when you talk through a fan thats running and  say "Luke Im Your father" where the message is time sliced into chunks due to the fan blade blocking your voice at timed intervals and the older computer isnt going to be able to error correct like the human ear/brain can, so the noise of the sample rate using a digital recording to say MP3 etc its going to crash trying to load from it. If you look at a analog recording and a digital MP3 recording on an oscilloscope you can see the difference, but many human ears cant tell the difference between analog and digital audio sources. To a computer though it reads the wave form and so it sees the chopped segments of audio as a result of the sample rate.

Surprisingly Walmart has a cassette player that has aux jacks that should work with older computers for saving/loading to and from cassette. If your planning on using some old tapes from the 70s or 80s, best of luck. I had cassettes for my TRS-80 and as the tapes aged the reliability of the data worsened. Cassettes with dates on them of 1981 for example were failing in 1991 when they were only 10 years old and they were kept in their plastic binders that the tapes would snap into and kept in a cool dry location that was dust free and away from magnets. https://www.walmart.com/ip/873878?wmlspartner=wlpa&adid=22222222227031837056&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=c&wl3=59242030832&wl4=pla-50620418455&wl5=1021892&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=8175035&wl11=online&wl12=873878&wl13=&veh=sem#about-itemThere are digital audio recorders which perform the same function, and can record and playback recorded audio.

Dave: MP3 files are a common way to find old Cassette-loading software 'distributed' for older cassette-loading systems through you-know-what kind of sites. You load the MP3 in say Audacity and output the audio through Line Out directly to the cassette port of say a Commodore 64. (easiest being those systems that used Phono cords, though you can find adapters for other system types).

Remember that while the Cassette is recording analog data  it's not recording a perfectly continuous recording of the audio. While the record head might be producing a continuous signal, data is lost instantly during the recording process, largely based on the quality of the tape. as a result of this older PCs that used Audio Cassettes would tend to store very little data across an entire cassette, with a lot of extra data being used for error correction as well as to ensure reliability even with the crappy Ferric tape that everybody and their dog was using because it was like 80 cents for a tape or whatever.

There is no replacement for the standard cassette tape recorder.
No digital device of any kind as all the the features you want. At a price within reason. Try Walmart.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/AmpliVox-Sound-Systems-Cassette-Recorder-Four-Station-Listening-Center/11962151


The price is nice and when used with headphones the sound quality is excellent. Of course is has some background hiss and the upper frequency response is only about 12 Khz. But he size, ease o use and economy make it still the best choice even after 40 years.  Quote

There is no replacement for the standard cassette tape recorder.
No digital device of any kind as all the the features you want. At a price within reason.

What feature are you supposing that they require that is not met by this device?

Remember that while the Cassette is recording analog data  it's not recording a perfectly continuous recording of the audio. While the record head might be producing a continuous signal, data is lost instantly during the recording process, largely based on the quality of the tape. as a result of this older PCs that used Audio Cassettes would tend to store very little data across an entire cassette, with a lot of extra data being used for error correction as well as to ensure reliability even with the crappy Ferric tape that everybody and their dog was using because it was like 80 cents for a tape or whatever.

Cassette tape drive

User data was originally stored on cassette tape. Radio Shack's model CTR-41 cassette recorder was included with the US$599 package. The software-based cassette tape interface was very slow and erratic; Green described it as "crummy ... drives users up the wall", and the first issue of 80 Micro had three articles on how to improve cassette performance. It was sensitive to audio volume changes, and the machine gave only the very crudest indication as to whether the correct volume was set, via a blinking character on screen while data was being loaded. To find the correct volume, one would sometimes have to attempt to load a program once, adjusting volume until the machine picked up the data, then reset the machine, rewind the tape and attempt the loading again. Users quickly learned to save a file three or more times in hopes that one copy would prove to be readable. Automatic gain control or indicator circuits could be constructed to compensate for this (the owner's manual provided complete circuit diagrams for the whole machine, including the peripheral interfaces, with notes on operation).

An alternative tape interface could receive transmissions from the BBC's Chip Shop programme in the UK, which broadcast software for SEVERAL different microcomputers over the radio. A special program loaded using the conventional tape interface was needed to access the custom interface. Tandy eventually replaced the CTR-41 unit with the CTR-80 which had built-in AGC circuitry (and no volume control). This helped the situation, but tape operation was still unreliable.

TRS-80s with Level I BASIC read and wrote tapes at 250 bits per second (31.25 bytes per second); Level II BASIC doubled this to 500 bits per second (62.5 bytes per second). Some programmers wrote machine-language programs that would increase the speed to up to 2,000 bits per second without a loss of reliability.

For loading and storing data, no hardware controller existed. Instead, the processor created the sound itself by switching the output voltage between three states, creating very crude sine wave audio.

The first models of the Model I also had problems reading from the cassette drives. Tandy eventually offered a small board which was installed in a service center to correct earlier models. The ROMs in later models were modified to correct this.

DaveLembke,
Years ago, can't remember the date, I used a standard cassette tape to load my Altair computer.A very earl  version of Microsoft basic took  kilobytes.
The original tapes ran at 300 baud. Later,I made a home brew interface that could write and read at 1200 baud. I was about to push it to 4800 baud and that was the upper limit. I by them was using a CRT monitor I I wrote the stuff to the lower part of the screen. I had a checksum and if it was good, I would run the program.
Inside Basic were commands to write and read programs I copied from computer magazines of that era.
I think this was about 1976. Not sure about that.

I used a tape recorder 40+ years ago computers were starting no cd do they make any device that can do what a cassette recorder or reel to reel recorder does? You could use a computer but kinda big smartphone has no input jack. I guess what I need is a digital recorder with input and output jack same price range as a cassette recorder.

So this page seems to be a hot topic today, unfortunitly I dont REALLY understand much of the technical side. Anyone want to dumb this down for me? https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/ Sounds super interesting though!It means that the big bad man is after your data.it is basically saying Uncle Sam has his eyes on youLittle less dumb por favor? Thanks guys..The CIA effectively had an archive of exploits in various software that they were using to gain access to systems.

It's highly unlikely these were ever utilized against everyday citizens, but that they remained undisclosed in order to continue being utilized for intelligence efforts has been considered questionable, as it is argued to be against the common interest of Americans.The CIA-Wiki topic is widely considered elsewhere.
It is not a good topic for this forum.  (No AV can stop it.)
Some media in the UK and EU have published stories about the CIA.


So far this thread is okay, but let's keep it from getting political. Thank you.https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/index.html
Is that a list of the Various softwares you mentioned BC_Programmer if so what is the general basis behind a DLL Hijack?
I see some of the tools a lot of people use in that DLL Hijack including Skype, Notepad++, ect..OK. a DLL Hijack is something we can talk about without the political stuff.
A word of caution. Some information about 'DLL Hijack' is so EXPLICIT that we would be telling people how to do it at home.

IMO, this link is safe and and the same time correct.
https://www.exploit-db.com/docs/31687.pdf
Dynamic-Link Library Hijacking by Max “RIVAL”
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Dynamic-Link Library Hijacking
Max “RIVAL”
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx    [links removed.]
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to BRIEFLY discuss DLL
Hijacking vulnerabilities and the techniques used to
mitigate and fix them. This paper is aimed towards
people with a basic understanding of Dynamic-Link
Libraries and how they can be used in applications,
however  provides   certain  points  of   information   for
those who do not.

Programmers often don't specify an absolute path to
the DLL file they want to use. This would have caused
the problem of the DLL not being found and used,
however Microsoft came up with the Dynamic-Link
Library Search Order, which runs at the application's
load time, to solve this issue. By default, the first item
found is the item that is used. The search order is as
follows:

https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/index.html
Is that a list of the Various softwares you mentioned BC_Programmer if so what is the general basis behind a DLL Hijack?
I see some of the tools a lot of people use in that DLL Hijack including Skype, Notepad++, ect..

not t hat it is my place to question such heavyweight researchers like 'Max "RIVAL"'

The objective is actually to help people here with PC issues...with accurate and concise information...
Not off-handed quotes from someone you found on some web site search...

He does not tell yu how to make malware, but he does tell how to spot it by explaining how the exploit works.

In a few months, my cable/internet/phone bundle package deal special will end and the cost of this is going to go up! Comcast is already high as it is! So I've been considering trying the Magic jack to save money. However, there's few things that I am unsure about. My telephone line in my bedroom is routed down the hallway to the living room where my main phone is. Both the living room telephone and bedroom phone lines are connected to a white gadget (similar to a splitter)  that has 2 ports. The l.r. phone is connected to the port that says phone and the b.r. phone is connected to a port that says DSL. This white gadget is then ported to the router. If I were to get MJ, would I be able to unplug the splitter gadget and PLUG it into the MJ, rather than just unhooking the main phone only to to the MJ? I hope this is not too confusing. It is hard to put into words. Another way of saying it is that rather than the main phone being connected to the router only, this splitter gadget makes it possible to plug BOTH phones into it.
I have tried researching this via google and you tube but can not find an answer. All I have been able to find out is that typically, to have multiple phones with MJ, you have to have a base phone that comes with multiple handsets. Since there's this splitter gadget supporting both phones, would that alleviate needing to BUY new phones? BTW, comcast provided the splitter gadget.
Thanks so much for any help!
BreadcrumbMagic Jack has been around for awhile and many people like it.
Howsoever, if you are confused, find a local  person to explain it to you. It does not work for everybody.
In fact, so many have been disappointed and  they have posted negative things on WEBSITES. Here is one:
https://www.consumeraffairs.com/cell_phones/magicjack.html
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When I bought magicJack on the phone, the sales person confirmed 3 times that I can speak to a live person on their toll free number. After setting the service up, and needed help, they said I had to go chat with someone on their website and they have no one there who can talk to me about my problem. When I confronted their customer service with this, he said "What do you WANT to do about it". No apologies or any accountability like it was wrong and "we'll address this with our sales DEPARTMENT."

I am watching TV off the air with antenna I see older shows in 480 and newer ones in 720 why I am I not seeing any in 1080?Antenna...Google:
Do any channels broadcast in 1080p?
Some cable providers have PPV in 1080p, but that's about it. We MIGHT even jump from 1080i/720p to the 4k standard instead of going to 1080p since the difference in image quality is very noticeable. Because there is no CONTENT broadcast in 1080p. The only content available in 1080p is Blu-Ray.An antenna isn't cable Geek...

No, not the NETWORK. The computer. If the network were not the-bottleneck that it is, what would be the FASTEST sustainable transfer of data between one fast PC and another?
Imagine you have two new PCs with fast Intel i7 cores and losts of fast memory. Now imagine a top grade fiber optical cable between the two at a short distance.  An imagine you WANT to transmit 8 GB of data that is already in RAM. And you have spare RAM. So, how fast can you transmit the 8 GB from one to the other?
Wound it be like 5 gigabit per SECOND?  50? 500?

Curious minds need to know.   If the network wasn't a bottleneck then it would max out at the speed of memory reads/writes. Thanks, BC.
I see yhou arfe using  32GB 1600Mhz DDR3 memory. What would that be   in bits per second. Assume the data path is 64 bits wide, or  8 bytes.102,400 Megabits/sMath NEVER fails...

hii,
I am LOOKING forward to do either a certification course or a short term computer course.I had heard about ccna,mcse,php,digital marketing,android development etc..I am very much confused.Which course should i prefer or if there is any other suggestions please help me.Are you a resident of the USA?
First, some observations.
Whee yu live, yu age and prior education are all actors to consider.
In you r area yu may already qualify for free or low-cost training.
If you do get a job offer, would  your  be wiling to to move out of the area?
Here is an article published in 2014.
Where the jobs are: The new blue collar
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By 2017, an estimated 2.5 million new, middle-skill jobs like Poole's are expected to be added to the workforce, accounting for nearly 40% of all job growth, according to a USA TODAY analysis of local data from Economic Modeling Specialists Intl. and CareerBuilder.

CompTIA A+ certification validates entry-level SKILLS in today's essential IT domains, including computer repair, SOFTWARE & operating systems, network administration, information security, cloud computing, and troubleshooting of both desktops and mobile devices. A+ certified technicians also learn customer service & communication skills in order to effectively interact with technical and non-technical employees.

You connect your SmartTv to the internet then CALL service on the phone give them a 8 digit NUMBER this allows to see every thing on your TV. I would think they will do this on computers to.They do. It's called remote access.Allan, MAY  I SAY something about the CIA? Thank you for checking Geek. I'd rather you didn't.

I was listening to the radio set to AM 1100 it drifts out to a spanish radio station 1090 colorado 50000 watts goes a long way as I am over 700 miles away.  Does any one use internet radio and is it safe for your computer to install software?I use internet radio a fair bit to listen to various local stations at work or when I'm traveling.  You should be able to get a fair bit without needing to install anything, I use http://tunein.com/ for most of my stuff which works entirely in browser (although they have an Android app if you want to use it on mobile).  Tune In should give a decent amount of stations from all around the world.  Most decent radio stations tend to have some sort of stream on their own website as well.

That said, while internet radio is GREAT from a "I just want to listen to something" aspect, there's something still cool about hooking up a radio and seeing what distant stations you can get, there's no real challenge when you can just click on a station and listen to it - I tend to muck about a fair bit with radio hardware to see what sort of distant transmissions I can find, you certainly get some interesting stuff!You might want to visit:  http://www.am-dx.com/
And then look at this: http://www.am-dx.com/fcclist.htm

This radio hobby is called MW DX
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MW_DX
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MW DX, short for mediumwave DXing, is the hobby of receiving the reception of distant mediumwave (known as AM in North America) radio stations. MW DX is similar to TV and FM DX in that broadcast band (BCB) stations are the reception targets. However, the nature of the lower FREQUENCIES (520 – 1710 kHz) used by mediumwave radio stations is very much different from that of the VHF and UHF BANDS used by FM and TV broadcast stations, and therefore involves different receiving equipment, signal propagation, and reception techniques.

I I yYou question is not well understood. 

Did you mean:
  "How to Use Your Cell Phone as a Wi-Fi Hotspot "
The answer is:
  https://www.lifewire.com/use-your-cell-phone-as-a-wi-fi-hotspot-2377756
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Did you know you could use your cell phone as a wireless router for internet access on your laptop, TABLET, and other Wi-Fi devices? iPhone and Android smartphones have this Wi-Fi hotspot (or MOBILE hotspot) feature BUILT into their devices. You can use your phone's data PLAN to get connected on your laptop, tablet, and other devices all at the same time.

Hello all,
I NEED to copy and paste a photo of text I received to translate it but WHATEVER I try I cannot even highlight it......please help. It is urgent and I am not do good at this myself.
Thanks for reading thusYou probably have to "open" the email before attempting to highlight its contents.Your topic title mentions a photo.  Then, in your message, you said "paste a photo of text", which makes no sense.   We need some clarification.   Do you want to copy and paste text OR a photo? You could right-clicking on the photo and saving it someplace. Then, you may be able to open it in a paint program such as GIMP or Photoshop and get to the text that way.If what you described is accurate, that you have a photo of some text, then you will NOT be able to highlight it and copy the text out of the photo.  If you can't do the translation by reading the text from the photo and you have to have the text in a text FILE in order to process it with some sort of translation software, there are 2 ways you could do it.  You could read the text from the photo and manually type it into a text file or you could use OCR (OPTICAL Character Recognition) software to attempt to convert the text in the photo to a text file.  OCR software often is included with scanners so, if you own a scanner, you may also have some OCR software.  If not, use your favorite search engine to locate some FREE OCR software to download.You can try the add on, Project Naptha.

I'm putting movies from my computer onto a Lacie FUEL. The Lacie Fuel is basically a WIRELESS hard drive that you can connect to on your devices to play media from. The only problem is, when I open up the app, there are some files there that didn't take the name I gave it. If I go to the details tab when right clicking on properties on the FILE, it has the same name as the one on the media app but renaming that doesn't change it in there either. I've looked through the files with MKVToolNixGUI and tried both deleting and renaming the title field in there, but still no luck. I'm not sure where it's pulling the name from nor how to change it. Does anyone know?Ok, so I just put one of the movies as an MKV file on the drive (I'm converting the MKV files to MP4 files and putting them on then.) and the MKV file showed up with the proper name while the MP4 files say the WRONG name. Some file systems don't allow lengthy filenames. They trim it down and rename it. It may be one of those scenarios. But i'm not sure.Taking a quick look at the product page, it supports .MP4 but not MKV for it's own video features, so given your MKV file remained unchanged, I suspect that the device itself may be internally cataloging supported file types, renaming them to a hash or something.

How to stop it though, I've not found anything on that. It's difficult to predict how these "Smart" External Hard Drives will behave sometimes, and any inbuilt functionality like this is definitely not well documented to the point of knowing how to prevent it in most CASES.

Had some server issues today 3/12/2017 at around 6:30 PM MST. The web host had to take the server offline because of a larger DDoS attack that was affecting their network after this was done and some things were changed the server returned back about 40 MINUTES later. Sorry for any inconveniences and if the attacks continue I WORK on getting the DNS moved to a provider with more DDoS protection.Glad to see CH back up and running so quickly. Yesterday I went to ASSIST here and SAW it was offline and my first thought was that it might be a problem at my end, but when able to navigate elsewhere and CH wasnt resolving i KNEW it was down and just give it a little time to be back up.

Am I the only one who REALLY doesn't like the thought of just throwing out perfectly good computer hardware, books, etc., just because they're 10, 20+ years out of date? Do you know of any places/organizations that take low-spec PCs? I'm talking single-core Pentium 4, 768 MB RAM, Windows XP, only useful for retro stuff. Also Zip drives, external hard drives, printers, and other peripherals. What about blank 3 & 1/2" and 5 & 1/4" floppy disks? I've got loads of them. I sent two boxes of old books (80s-00s) and disks to the Internet Archive, and felt proud of myself for having saved pieces of history (family was early to get on the computer bandwagon, and tended to keep stuff).dictation.
It depends where you live. Use your local craigslist to describe what you have that you would like to just sell real cheap or giveaway. Be sure to include pictures. With legacy equipment it's hard to describe it in words what it is, the pictures do a better job.
The might be a local college that needs to have older equipment for their computer laboratory so that students can take things apart and put it back together again.
You might mention in what area you live.
Be sure and place information on Facebook and twitter. And if you don't use Facebook or twitter, now's the time to start doing it just to your grittier stuff.
I keep everything I have room for. I still have a book about PC-Write, PC-File, and PC-Talk from the mid-eighties, as well as a college textbook on "Applied Structured BASIC" from about the same time frame. I was basically a dumping ground for people getting rid of older stuff since I was "out of date" tech wise anyway. I don't go for old books, but I'll will occasionally grab older stuff on eBay. I've been looking for older Macintosh/Apple/Commodore systems at a reasonable price for a while, but they are rather high on the price scale.

I also looked into rebuilding one my first Windows PCs, but the same Motherboard alone was asking over $100.

Considering that, may be worth trying eBay if you need to get rid of stuff. Including the blank floppy diskettes, as they are getting harder and harder to come by (the 5-1/4" ones especially.). You might get a good price from people looking for that sort of thing. (Maybe not so much the P4 system, but anything before that seems to be going up in the sold prices).For me it depends what it is. I have a reasonable sized collection of vintage/retro/rare machines. However, all of those are machines that are somewhat interesting on a technical or historical level, several of which are pretty rare and valuable by modern standards (the rarest I have being a NeXTstation Turbo Color.). I then tend to restore them, get them all working (which can be a pretty big challenge for some of the more unusual stuff from the pre-internet days as there's very little documentation).  In the last year I've also started documenting them on my website YouTube channel.

That said, I have no interest in keeping tech just because it's old.  If I upgrade my PC the parts are likely still reasonably valuable so I'll sell them on.  When it comes to old Pentium 4 stuff, it's simply too old to be  usable, it's common as mud so not particularly rare and I'd generally either give them away (if I can find someone who wants them which is almost never) or recycle them after stripping any components that I'd have a use for.  Old stuff like that simply isn't worth having around for me, it takes up space, I'd never be able to use it for anything practical and it's not interesting enough for me to add to my collection.

I find that stuff from before 2000 tends to be resellable as it's not super easy to find and people tend to like having it for retro stuff.  Stuff newer than that but not new enough to run modern software tends to not be worth anything more than scrap value as they are so common.  I'm probably going to sell off a couple of my more boring machines (486 PC (I have several so don't need them all), old powermac.etc) to make space for more unusual stuff. Quote from: jonny12x on March 10, 2017, 10:08:33 AM

Am I the only one who REALLY doesn't like the thought of just throwing out perfectly good computer hardware, books, etc., just because they're 10, 20+ years out of date? Do you know of any places/organizations that take low-spec PCs? I'm talking single-core Pentium 4, 768 MB RAM, Windows XP, only useful for retro stuff. Also Zip drives, external hard drives, printers, and other peripherals. What about blank 3 & 1/2" and 5 & 1/4" floppy disks? I've got loads of them. I sent two boxes of old books (80s-00s) and disks to the Internet Archive, and felt proud of myself for having saved pieces of history (family was early to get on the computer bandwagon, and tended to keep stuff).

It may not qualify as hoarding...but i have every HDD that i've owned...
I sold a bunch of PC's with upgrades thru the years...always kept my original HDD's...

It may not qualify as hoarding...but i have every HDD that i've owned...
I sold a bunch of PC's with upgrades thru the years...always kept my original HDD's...

My Facebook chatbox and the gear icon to CHANGE it's SETTINGS are gone I have a Dell Vostro 200 32 bit Windows Vista and use Google,not Google chrome.How do I get this feature BACK..thanks.Try a different browser install like Firefox and see if the feature comes back.Well I didn't find a solution,but did find a simple way to get onto my chat again on my outdated Dell with Windows Vista and Internet Explorer 9.Right in front of my eyes on the top of my Facebook page is a yellow bar that allows a person to go to basic Facebook..press that and you've a different format but can chat and send/receive messagesThanks for the previous reply.Interesting to learn that Facebook has backwards ( legacy ) browser compatibility. Glad you found a solution and THANK you for getting back to us with a Basic FaceBook work around option. 

*If you want to ever use the latest up to date Facebook without using the Basic Facebook page, I have a strong feeling a install of Firefox would allow support for all modern web pages.Thanks for the info DaveLembke.Even after many years I'm still not very savy on the computor.This Dell vostro 200 has many bugs and I haven't even had a firewall for a few years.Can't access firewall and some other features.I do have a basic free Avast and perhaps that gives the computor some protection.Seems I cannot upgrade past Internet Explorer 9.I'm reluctant to try to change things as I don't have the money for a new computor or repairs if I mess things up.Facebook forums or the help boxes are basically of no help.Just was lucky to try the Facebook basic and there it was in front of my face all the time.Hundreds of people asked a similar question on Facebook forums and help and other computor help forums and no one mentioned going to the Facebook basic.

This MIGHT be more PR than  news, so I PUT it here.
Source: The Verge
Microsoft's Slack competitor to launch next week
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Microsoft is planning to make its Slack competitor, Microsoft Teams, AVAILABLE to Office 365 customers next week. The software GIANT is planning a launch event for March 14th to make Microsoft Teams live around the world.

This is a ten-year old article. Looking it over, it is still right on. The older keybvoards were really, really bad.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/139100/the_10_worst_pc_keyboards_of_all_time.html

Look at this:

It even gets worse! Click on link above for a visit to the crazy keyboard history.
 
I couldn't get the site to work. Stays on the intro page, next doesn't work, trying to click the arrows doesn't do anything, etc.


Anyway, my vote is for the Atari 400:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Atari-400-Comp.jpg/2560px-Atari-400-Comp.jpg

Here is the link again.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/139100/the_10_worst_pc_keyboards_of_all_time.html

Yeah,the Atari was bad. An three was a Tandy colour computer that was horrible.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/139100/the_10_worst_pc_keyboards_of_all_time.html#slide6

[attachment deleted by admin to conserve space]Neither link WORKS for me, I think MAYBE it only works for those with a subscription to the site?

My vote is for any of those so called ergonomic keyboards, they are terrible.Sorry about the links. When  that kind of thing happens,  one could try a proxy to see if another route works better.

In that list the IBM jr was  listed as the worst ever.
From the article:
PCWorld Worst Keyboards
10. Commodore 64 (1982)
9. Timex Sinclair 2068 (1983)
8. Commodore PET 2001-32-N (1978)
7. Texas Instruments TI-99/4 (1979)
6. Tandy TRS-80 Micro Color Computer MC-10 (1983)
5. Atari 400 (1979)
4. Timex Sinclair 1000 (1982)
3. Mattel Aquarius (1983)
2. Commodore PET 2001 (1977)
1. IBM PCjr (1984)

I had a Sinclair. Gave it away.  Those rubbery, calculator type keyboards in several early computers at 80's were really bad. But I dont understand at all, how Commodore 64 is on the list (10th worst) I strongly DISAGREE!
And I have typed many, many program listings, used wordprocessor and spreadsheet with my C64.

I would say, any relatively new el-cheapo keyboard that has a 'spongy feel' when pressing the key is worse, and what's also annoying, is that nowadays the manufacturers are making the keyboards smaller (people dont have space on their desks anymore?) so the keys are too close to each other.
At work I have a HP keyboard from circa -08, that is clearly 'downsized', and many times after I've once again hit two keys at the same time, at the end of the day I've been very close to yanking that keyboard off, and to bring next day some older, real sized keyboard from home to replace it.

Oh, and yes, those 'ergonomic keyboards', as mentioned before, they are really awful.I disagree with the comments on ergonomic keyboards.  I have a Microsoft Comfort Curve Keyboard 2000 that I've used for several YEARS now and I like it.  But, I guess this keyboard is only slightly ergonomically shaped, compared to other ergonomic keyboards.

My phone caller ID displays 202-547-8574. If you get a call from this number it is a scam.Yes, it's a very old scam. Microsoft never calls you.I kept them on the line 25 minutes 1 nite about a Month ago.....fun.I don't have the patience to keep them on the line that long, there's other things I'd rather be doing than talking on the phone with a worthless scammer.These scammers, in India or the Phillipines usually, have been calling just about everyone in the Western world for the last 7 years at least. This is really well known, but it still gets people, usually elderly or GULLIBLE folk.


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I don't have the patience to keep them on the line that long, there's other things I'd rather be doing than talking on the phone with a worthless scammer.

Was curious what others felt on this. I have been working on fixing computers since the late 1980s. And from the mid 1990s through up until about 5 years ago, I had been pretty busy fixing computers and making ok money on the side doing so. It seems that ever since the price for new computers dropped below the $500 price tag for new laptop and desktop computers my help with fixing computers has dropped off and instead I am getting inquiries from past clients asking what they should buy next in a list of computers with price tags of $249.99 through $399.99 that they were eyeballing as the replacement to their prior computer.

The Windows XP no longer being supported created a scare that many felt forced to have to buy new computers, and I ended up getting many free computers when people were looking for a means of getting rid of their old computers and they didnt want to have to pay to get rid of their old computers. This WORKED out for me because it gave me free guts to fix other computers with as well as it worked out in that I was able to take 2 of the systems and give them to my wife and DAUGHTER for them to have computers and they were free.

It may be more than just computers being cheaper which has caused a drastic drop off in computer repair needs. Today mobile devices are also more common and there is a market for fixing shattered touch screens on Smart Phones and iPhones but computers I just feel have turned into throw aways. People buy them new and when they have a problem, they just buy another low cost computer or in some cases I have some clients that have done away with their home computer and instead went to a large tablet instead.

I sort of feel like the TV Repair Guy did when TV's became so cheap that when they died, people just bought new TVs. I am glad I didnt invest a lot of money into the computer repair business. I still have many helpful tools, but back 8 years ago business was booming and I almost set up a shop locally for people to bring their computers to to have them serviced. I instead decided that the boom in business may be just a flash in the pan and not to pursue this business, but instead just remain on call as clients need me.

I still get some business, but the business is no longer can you fix my computer, but instead its, can you recover my data and place the data onto my new computer. For the fact that many people feel upset but can live without the gigs of data that they lost and just start over again, and only business owners mainly having a monetary value to their data the money making is only in those businesses that have critical info and the computer dead is holding the data hostage to them, so they pay to recover it. I additionally help my clients that are business owners to protect their data from loss, and so I suppose I shoot myself in the foot for setting up their data to be protected and so the odds of me having to help to get data back for them is far lesser than the first time that they came to me and had all their data on that one computer or server with no backups.

Looking forward with my services that I provide to people, hardware repair and data recovery is my strengths, and programming is a weakness of mine. To stay up with the times and remain diverse in IT, I am almost thinking that I will need to change away from hardware support which is going the way of the TV Repair Guy and that i should crack open a book and strengthen my programming skills and instead of trying to be a jack of all trades and master of none,... that i should stick with one language and try to master it and instead of using older IDE's like Bloodshed Dev C++ and VC 6.0, I should work with newer Visual Studio C++ as for there will be a future in people that require programmers, but computer repair techs are going the way of the dodo.This is dictation. (You might see some funny things.    )
DaveLembke,
Your post got my attention. A few years ago I was in a situation very similar to what you describe. But now I am too old to do much work at all. But during the last two years I did get some extra income by selling some of my stuff on eBay. And I don't mean just computer stuff, I had a number of things I'd collected over the years that I was able to and recover some of my losses.
I also learned that it is possible to buy computers off of eBay and fix them up and make them work. In fact, most of the stuff I have bought off of eBay I was able to get to work and in some cases I was able to resell some of the items I purchased and reworked.
It seems there may still be an opportunity for knocker printer like yourself to take advantage of some of the things that are available through auction sites such as eBay or others.
Yes, I know, there are some swindlers and scams on eBay. But I believe that the refurbished computer business on eBay is very legitimate. Microsoft has certified these dealers to reload their computers with Microsoft operating systems. In some cases the computers came with Windows 7 and it seems that the people that are doing the refurbishing are reloading these systems with the OEM version of Windows 7 that was sold with the machine. Apparently that is perfectly legal. The machine came with an OEM Windows 7 license and after being repaired they reload it with the same OEM operating system. So the not breaking any rules.

Now here's what I think a person could do. Many people want to get a low cost computer that has the features they want and something they can be repaired or maintained for number of years. These refurbished computers that are available on eBay arm most often some type of Dell OptiPlex system. The later models of the optic Plex series were pretty good designs for general business use. They were never intended to be high-performance gaming computers. There are meant to be no-nonsense reliable business machines that could do the kind of work that has to be done in an office or small business. There must of been thousands upon thousands of these machines that were pulled off of leases and put onto the used computer market by either Dell or whoever was doing the leasing.
Here's what I think a person could do. By a few of these refurbished Dell computers that might have something a little bit lacking. The usually lack a keyboard and a mouse and no monitor. And in some cases they have a very small hard drive or not enough memory. Most of these come with  a dual core processor running about 2 GHz. So they are capable of doing fairly impressive things other than real fast gaining. Most of these can be upgraded to dedicated graphics and they would be more appealing to some individuals that one a better computer for playing games.
The price is right on these refurbished Dell computers. With the operating system installed and in working condition these sell for under $100 and come with a guarantee or warranty. For little bit less money you can get one that doesn't have a hard drive in it but still has the certificate of authenticity that would allow you to install the OEM version of Windows 7 on a new hard drive.
So there is a possibility of working with some people in your community that are looking for a good computer but would like to get it from somebody that will offer local support and six something in the goes wrong. Some of these people have already had bad experiences with store-bought computers and they end up with a box that doesn't work but they still have the monitor, keyboard and mouse. So these individuals might be willing to buy our reconditioned computer from you on the understanding that if something goes wrong with it your there to help them out and fix it.

Many users become frustrated when they find that the salesman at a local Best Buy or Walmart cannot explain to them how something works nor can they give them the assurance that the warranty will really help them out is something goes wrong. I still think there are many people that want some responsible individual in their community that they can rely on for their computer maintenance.
So that's my idea, I would do that myself except that I am getting so old and my recent sources are very, very slim. I just want to say that I have bought about three or four reconditioned Dell computers and I was satisfied that they all were in usable condition and I was able to derive some benefit from them. Unfortunately, I had a nice Dell desktop here that I was going to try to upgrade myself and I made some kind of a mistake and I must've damage the motherboard. So I'm going to quit trying to do this myself.
Now if you still have your skills and you don't make the stained stupid mistakes that I do, you could probably pick up a few of these refurbished computers or even one that is not completely working right, and resell it to some local customers and make a small but significant gain on the transaction. No, you not only get rich. But it would be one way to supplement your income if you are a senior citizen. Just a thought that I wanted to share with you.

And by the way, the computer that I'm actually using right now is one of these ultra small desktops made by Dell. It is a model 745, but it's the real tiny small form factor that has no way to expand it with PCI cards. I would stay away from these unless you are sure that your customers never want to expand or improve the computer experience. No expansion slots.
However, the medium-size Dell computer case is perfectly fine. It requires half height cards, but there's no problem finding half I cards nowadays. Typically the medium-size case has at least one slot that suitable for a dedicated graphics card plus the other PCI slots for the more ordinary things.

Years ago I studied real hard to become a TV repair technician. I worked at that for a while and I would study at home to learn computer programming. Months later I did travel back to California and got a job in Silicon Valley during those years when the personal computer industry was booming in that area. So I was able to use my background in electronic technology to get a decent job there in the Valley during the time when there was a lot of interest in personal computing and manufacturing stuff for use in personal computers.
Of course, nowadays most of the actual manufacturing is done elsewhere and the Silicon Valley nowadays is mostly a place for start up companies and for firms that are doing deep research into new ideas. Anyway, I am too old for any of that now.
Just thought I would share some of these ideas with you.

End of dictation. 
Thanx to Win 10 i'm actually up from this point last 2 years...I used to be a TV repair man in the 1970s and early 80s. It started when I was about 14, being interested in electronics, I used to be given stuff that people didn't want, radios, record players, TVs, etc. Mostly vacuum tubes then, even in the earlier 80s a lot of colour TVs that were in use by customers had them. I went from fixing stuff at home for people, mainly for beer money, to working in a repair workshop for a company that rented out TVs. It was a culture shock. No more studying the circuit diagram and trying to work out the fault scientifically. There wasn't time for that. The firm had a range of 5 or 6 sets out on rental, and they were all by the same manufacturer. You would get a set in with reduced picture height, and old Jack would say "change V14, and if that doesn't fix it, change R251, it's gone high". You had lists of stock faults, and really, a monkey could have done the job, as long as it could use a soldering iron. A lot of problems were really due to reliability issues.    Yeah I remember TV Repair Techs on call and some shops here and there that serviced TV's and Vacuum cleaners etc in Northern New Jersey where I grew up 15 minutes from NYC. In the 1970s and early 1980s they thrived. I remember going into them to get vacuum cleaner belts for my mom when she would get something snagged in the auger and burn up the belt. This one guy in view behind counter had a TV open and while smoking a cigar off and on be soldering something with one of those old black sears craftsman soldering iron guns that had the light that came on with 1/2 trigger and loop of metal that heated at the tip when full trigger pulled. By about 1989 most of them went out of business.

   Next door neighbor was a TV repair man since the 1950s and I use to invite myself as little kids do into his garage when he was working in it to see what he was up to and he had old tube TV's and Radios that he worked on. The glow of the tubes and him working on it to me was mesmerizing. It felt like I had a mad scientist working in his shop right next door to my home and Mr Delner was really cool that he wasnt mean and telling me to go back home, he let me stick around and watch what he was doing even though I had absolutely no clue what he was doing but it was entertaining since I wanted to know how it worked and how he knew what was what. When he passed away in 1983. His wife was in her late 70s and the stuff in the garage was no longer touched. It was his clutter that no one else in the family knew what to do with. I use to sneak into their garage that was offset along side my property which had a side door that wasnt locked and go in there quietly and snoop around and check out what stuff he had in there. He had all sorts of books and manuals and tubes and large metal block capacitors and resistors and all. I was about 10 years old and "borrowed" stuff from their garage without asking. I figured that well he is dead and no one else is using this stuff and he probably would be ok with me messing with his stuff since he is gone and cant use it anymore. That was my mindset at age 10. Of what I "borrowed" from his garage, I couldnt make any of the circuits do much other than I learned that the tubes with a 6 in their part number would glow with a 6 volt lantern battery. I would trial and error testing what pins on the tube were the power pins, and when i found the power pins for the element inside it would glow orange.

   I brought this to school for show and tell and the teacher and classmates were like WOW COOOL, what does it do... and I said it only does as you see, it glows orange. Then they were like ohhhh... Thats boring then.  Teachers though knowing my interest in electronics would bring in broken things for me to see if I can fix them. Most stuff I couldnt but a few things I was able to fix. I fixed a TOASTER and an electric pencil sharpener. The toaster had a break in the element that glowed orange. I fixed that by fixing the mechanical switch inside that wasnt making contact when lever pushed down, and the electric pencil sharpener was somehow a pencil point made its way into the motor and gearbox section and was pinched between the motor sprocket and the sharpener sprocket mechanically binding it. I just needed to turn the sprocket like counter clockwise to free the piece of graphite and then the sprocket teeth meshed without binding. The teachers were very thankful for this and so both teachers were cool and extended my help into everyone benefitting such as thanks to Dave fixing the pencil sharpener I will bring in cookies for everyone tomorrow etc. Only draw back to this was that each time a teacher brought in something to be fixed I now had people saying Fix it so we can get the treat reward. There was a TV brought in in 5th grade and this teacher heard about me from prior grade teachers and she opened her mouth and said well if Dave fixes this TV then I promise to the class that we will watch the next New York Mets game that is on during the day on it. I looked at the teacher like... GREATTTT. Thank You for putting me on the spot here. Fixing a TV is a bit more challenging than a Toaster and electric pencil sharpener. Well kids in class were like can you fix it, and I opened it up and the circuit board was smoked around the high voltage for the electron gun and the picture with brightness control all the way up in a dark room you could barely see a picture and it didnt fit to the entire picture tube. I said this cant be fixed by me. It needs a new circuit board and I knew at that time that the boards were model specific. One thing I was tempted to do, but realized that its just crazy nonsense was that I was going to take my 13" TV and move my working TV guts to her 13" TV's case and make it look like I fixed it. It would have been my TV BASICALLY in the case of her TV so to her and everyone else it would look like I fixed it. But I didnt want to give away my TV set and have to rewire to the switches of the other TV to make it look legit. So I let the class down. We didnt get to watch the Mets and some classmates were angry with me. I really wish the teacher didnt put me on the spot like that. It would have been one thing to offer whatever reward after its fixed, but not a reward offered before fixing that would turn the class ugly on me when it wasnt able to be fixed.

Thinking back now, Im lucky that none of the capacitors hit me with a shock as for the old capacitors could hold a charge for a while. My dad saw a pile of parts I had in my room the one day and warned me that I could get a bad shock from them and to run a screw driver across them to made sure they are drained first before handling them. Sometimes one would spark from a stored charge. My dad just said dont kill yourself and I was free to do whatever as long as I didnt burn the house down doing whatever it was. I had lots of mishaps but never burned the house down. I would buy parts at radio shack to build circuits from books and kits and once I bought a package of small NEON bulbs for like 59 cents and held it and spread the legs out to go into an outlet and it exploded in my fingers and scared the **** out of me. I then learned how important that resistor in series with the Neon Bulb was on a 120VAC circuit. Adding resistor the Neon worked as it should when I was about 11 years old. Played with making stuff like wire wrapped around coat hangers to make an electromagnet, but it didnt work as intended because I failed to notice that the power supply that was 14 volts and 5 amps was AC and not DC. This instead caused a lot of RF Noise and upset my mother trying to watch TV downstairs because we didnt have cable TV we just had the VHF and UHF channels. Additionally my use of a DC motor and wire run through a coil made for RF Noise as well which also upset my mom trying to watch afternoon soaps.

Long story short... I bought kits and read lots of books and figured out ohms law etc and self taught myself analog electronics, and later in college learned digital electronics getting half a degree in microcomputer digital electronics.

Getting into Electronics out of High School I was very lucky in 1994 that a double date, the girls were friends and me and the guy named Earl didnt know each other and so I said so what do you do for work and he said he worked with electronics. i said ohhhh really? And next thing we knew we were talking more than the girls and drawing circuits on the napkins. I was then offered a job starting that Monday, went in and hired immediately. Was there until paychecks started to bounce and learned that when a paycheck bounces that banks dont go after your employer who is in the wrong for writing bad checks but that the bank wants you the stiffed employee to pay the bank back.  Left there to work at a bowling alley for a short stint to make ends meet as an assistant manager and then landed a job with Rockwell Automation in 1995 as an assembler. And in 1996 I was working on my home project at work and an engineer working on a prototype asked me what i was doing. I explained to him the circuit and he said why arent you an ET. I said well they only had assembly positions. He talked to my boss and I was moved up to production tester and light troubleshooting which was entry level ET. I then went over to help this woman named Carol with electronics in the service department wandering there on my own, and my boss saw me helping her and I fixed a problem with use of oscilloscope and prints and I had no clue he was looking over the wall of the cubicle. I was kind of startled when I heard my name called out where the hairs on my back stood on end for a second because I was where i wasnt really suppose to be. I was praised for helping which is cool and I was then awarded an ET position in service department fixing automation controls for Rockwell Automation / Allen -Bradley company in Lebanon, NH. This lasted until 2001 when they were downsizing and following 9/11 they chose to close down our plant completely and move the assembly and service to mexico and move engineering to other plants. Electronics was drying up. All of it was going outside the USA by just about all companies that were making electronic devices. In 2000 I was forced to leave electronics degree because local college did away with it saying there is no demand for it and there is more jobs in nursing, so how would you like to be a nurse. I said I like fixing electronics but not people. So I left that college and switched to a computer science degree MIS/IT which i took from 2000 to 2004 and completed that degree. In 2003 I was lucky to land a job in MIS/IT with a small local food store chain and did that for 6 years until economy tanked and sales dropped and they were forcing people out of the company by pressure tactics which they gave me threatening that I cost them too much and I would have to get a $5 an hour pay cut from $18 an hour to $13 an hour or firing people. I chose to leave on my own. And then got a great job with the USPS as an ET working with electronics and computers and automation. So I have strengths all around here that benefit me and the USPS.

While my job with the USPS is a great job. I have learned from my grandfather that its good to be good at a number of things instead of master of one thing and unable to do much of anything else, so because of that i try to take in and master everything i get to mess with, but with computers, mainly programming and taking on all languages that I can get exposed to, its made me a jack of all languages but a master of none.  So that is i can look at code and know what it is for the most part, but anyone looking at code I make might be like ... why are you doing it this way when there is a better way or point out other oddities in my code where its clearly not of professional coder quality and shows the gaps in skills with that language etc.

Getting back to Geeks idea of selling refurbs. My youngest brother was doing that for a few years buying up core i3 and i5 laptops and fixing them up and selling them, but even he has seen a decline in the need for a refurb computer to buy. He was making like $50 on each laptop and they were good solid laptops of the business class of laptops where they are good work horse computers meant to last vs cheap laptops of lesser quality. he too has said that he has seen his clients going for these low cost new computers instead of a refurb and with the Core i3's brand new in the $300 range its killed off his refurb sales and so he stopped buying them to fix and flip them because he now has 3 laptops that he cant sell at a profit and will have to sell at a loss after putting more RAM in them or new keyboard etc.

As far as buying and fixing for a profit there is some risk there, you could buy a brick of a computer and have to eat the cost or try to find a twin to it to mix and match guts to make a good computer to sell and maybe make a small profit.

Years ago I use to buy classic legacy mini battery operated hand held games up cheap that were dead. For example mini arcade Donkey Kong Jr. which ran on 4 x C batteries and lit up with colors on a VFD display and had button and joystick controls. I was at one point able to pick these up dead for under $20 and fix them cheaply and when fixed sell them for $75 or more. But then the supply of dead ones cheaply dried up. I only bought them if the VFD displays werent shattered. 99% of the time it was a problem with the controls or the batteries were left in the battery compartment and the acid ate away the wires or made for a poor connection. The boards with VFD attached to them were very reliable. I only had one Galaxian mini arcade that has scrambled brains and its the ROM chip corrupt somehow. Game starts and the score freaks out and collision detection is messed up. So it became a parts donor for another.

There is definitely money to be made on ebay if you find the right stuff to fix and flip. But there isnt a steady flow of it. Opportunities come and go and you either get in on it and make some money or no longer can go it because supply chain of stuff to fix dries up or you get too aggressive into it and dont realize that the door to opportunity shut and now, your going to take a loss on the products that were fixed that the demand dried up on.
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Thinking back now, Im lucky that none of the capacitors hit me with a shock as for the old capacitors could hold a charge for a while. 

Hello i am new here,i am 52 yo and am looking for help with a new build for an old game,i have little experience in terms of hardware or software but would APPRECIATE some help. I need to build a NEW PC for FlightsimX,can anyone guide me,thanks( you can send me an email if you wish)  James!! To tell the truth, I don't know.
But have you done a Google search?
Did you already see this?
https://gaming.youtube.com/game/UCY0owjbsPjfyf19nLMx0VQA
Others say you do not have to spend much money to GET a good PC for  the game you said. Namely Microsoft flightsimX
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/925724/flight-simulator-x-minimum-system-requirements
Do you like to build?
Or do you want the best bang for the buck?
Is this to be a gift?thanks for your REPLY,it is not a gift....i have done some searching,the problem is,if i buy  parts or get a NEW machine,it is LOADED with current OS like win7 or 10 right?...having said that,will MicrosoftFlightsimX be able to play on aforementioned OS ,or does it have to be XP,if you know?It runs on:
   Windows 7, Windows Vista, or Windows XP Service PACK 2 (SP2)

Already I have several Emil accounts. But they soon get full of junk I do not need.
Now the USA government says companies can share e-mail data.

So now I want an account that has very little ion about who I and and what I like.

First,  I am not GOING g to give my real birthday.
Nor will I my real name, but an alias I remember. My friends won't care.
Now comes the hard part. No phone number. No way.I refuse.

Links:
https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-free-email-services-that-do-not-ask-for-phone-verification

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2476288,00.asp
How to Create an Anonymous Email Account
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Not long ago, the sharing economy seemed to take over. Privacy was dead, and no one cared. But that was a pre-Snowden era. Now, for some, the need to go truly anonymous is more important than ever.

Now the USA government says companies can share e-mail data.

eviscerate**

** I do not know what that means.

eviscerate

It is mostly used in its figurative sense these days, that it to take the insides or important parts out of something leaving only the shell or skin or exterior, as politicians do to something they wish to kill off but can't be seen to actually do that.

ok so i have a samsung s5. it has a black screen but the phone is responsive. i have tried apps like dr.fone toolkit or vysor just to see my phone screen on my computer to get my important files. i think dr.fone toolkit has done something to my phone. the phone toggle button lights stay on every time i turn on the phone. i tried vysor and it works a little BETTER but an error MESSAGE appears "Error installing APK: /sbin/sh: PM: not found" i dont know what it MEANS. i just WANT to get information from my phone using vysor. but i think my phone is in recovery mode and i cant see or remove it from that state. i have no idea wat i am doing i really need help as soon as possible.

Some codes you can enter by using the ALT key and typing three digists on the number  keypad.
However, Unicode goes beyond.
Here is a good link I found:
Three ways to enter Unicode characters in Windows
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Alt – x

In MICROSOFT Word you can insert Unicode characters by typing the hex value of the character then typing Alt-x. You can also see the Unicode value of a character by placing the cursor immediately after the character and pressing Alt-x. This also works in applications that use the Windows rich edit control such as WordPad and Outlook.

Please advise how to hook up the Flash Drive to ipad MINI 4, or any method I can SEE the FILE in the drive. TKS.
JohnIf it has Windows FILES on it they may not even show...more DETAILS please...