Thanks - I was searching for card index - clearly weak Googlefu! :doh: I shall check it out straight away.

Thanks - I didn't realize e-ink displays had reached the phone market yet! Definitely worth checking out.

I find that this is often a power issue. Older laptops will always have their limits, but I have got around this on many laptops and docking stations by replacing the power supply with a higher wattage one. ---------- Money makes the world go round ... but documentation moves the money.

That was also my first reaction, although the difference is that the guess has to be a proper word. Robust Services Core | Software Techniques for Lemmings | Articles The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.

What about RemoteApp? This way, every remote window will be it's own window, letting you use your local screens & window management however you like. Including using your local virtual desktops to manage them.

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I've been using a Drobo5N2 for about 4 years now. Well there was a gap in the middle. The drive held my ripped collection of DVD's that I could watch on Plex and some backups. The gap came from an issue after a firmware upgrade. I couldn't mount the drives anymore. The unit was out of warranty, so I tried several steps on my own and could not get it to recover. It sat for over a year mocking me. I don't remember everything I did to try and recover, but near the end I know I pulled drives trying to get it to rebuild, which it did, but still would not mount. When I got back to it I did another firmware upgrade, still no love. So I decided I would pay for a support call. Turns out they never charged me nor even ask for a credit card. One of my drives may have caused an initial problem that was exacerbated when the firmware update rebooted the box. I didn't see anything in the later firmware notes, but I assume there was something that was fixed later. Drobo support was able to point me to some publicly available tools to get things working again. The support was done over their support messaging system. It took a couple of days of back and forth, but was very helpful and ended in success. My point to all of this is that I expected to have to start over with an empty Drobo. But even with all of the drive pulling I did when I figured I didn't have anything to lose, the system maintained integrity. I didn't loose any data.

Exactly. Obviously it took people to develop the product/service, and costs money to run it, so the question to ask is always, what's the incentive for them to offer it for free?

The problem with that approach is that you then have a computer with an out-dated build online updating which makes it highly vulnerable to bots looking for computers that insecure to attack. The only way to keep that remotely secure is to have a windows cd you can fresh install from and all the updates on dvd or something so that you can install them all while the computer is kept offline until it's security build is fully up to date. That is a tricky measure to implement since you tend to only download what you need for your hardware build, so if that changes, all the updates that go with that new build are now slightly different than they were for the old build. In other words, the most secure ways of re-staging a PC can get pretty complicated over time. You are very correct about having the data on a different drive. I have never regretted doing that.

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I am something of an audiophile, and I far prefer that music goes through as few stages as possible between the original and my ears. I didn't start to stream any music until I found a good source of classical music streamed in FLAC on the web. My system is rather analytical, and I can definitely hear the difference between that and MP3. As a result, I prefer to listen to the original CD, although I have ripped some my vinyl to FLAC. Thus a decent CD catalogue becomes essential.

I have calculated the speed of an unladen European Swallow to be 148,648,000,000 km/h (92,365,584,983 mph) in order to match the momentum of the Ever Given. This is based on estimating the weight of a fully laden 747 to be 242 tonnes and from Chris C-B's speed calculation for the 747, calculating the speed by inserting the momentum and weight for a 20g European Swallow into a Momentum Calculator.[^] “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.” ― Christopher Hitchens

Good idea - thanks. I actually have a redundant h/w firewall hanging around, so I might just press that into service.

VLC always feels like a treat. I don't know if this idea will work with discs, or would need some modification. I've written the text-based .SRT file with subtitles and their timestamps on more than 1 occasion for something snagged from the net for offline viewing. As for online stuff, HTML5 is pretty dandy when it comes to processing video. I can easily process every pixel in each frame of a video on this old laptop in real-time. But you wouldn't need to do that - you'd just need to overlay text onto the canvas at the correct timestamps - that'd be fast and low-power. Went searching for a link and lo-and-behold, the video element actually can handle subtitle files. Ripper! [Adding captions and subtitles to HTML5 video - Developer guides | MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/Audio\_and\_video\_delivery/Adding\_captions\_and\_subtitles\_to\_HTML5\_video)

You might need to glean from multiple sources. Classical Music Collector has already been suggested. You might also look at Classical.net or Thrall Classical Music Library Money makes the world go round ... but documentation moves the money.

Chris C-B wrote: During the day somebody swaps the disk in a rotation of three disks, and takes it off-site. Chris C-B wrote: Nelek wrote: You are relying in another employee to work crrectly, aren't you? Nope! :confused::confused: Anyways... nevermind, it was just a joke about "the problem with computers is usually between the monitor and the chair" (another form to say human factor). No need to continue this ;) :-D M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

Chris C-B wrote: I am not sure of the USB2 capabilities - is it a maximum of 192 kbps as I have heard mentioned? Try both and go with whichever sounds better to you. The reality though, is since you're going into the stereo with analog through RCA cables & connectors, it really won't matter which you do. I live in Oregon, and I'm an engineer.

Hmmm - not a bad idea. I think I might just do that! I actually gave it a bit of a speed boost five years ago by giving it an SSD. I guess it's either that or MS-DOS! :omg:

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