Long gone, but now back… sort of. :)
Maybe — but probably not. It depends on how you set things up. Most web/cloud-based email services (not just Yahoo) live almost entirely on their host servers, not on your PC. In a typical default setup, your browser accesses your web/cloud-based email and displays it locally (on your PC); but at most, only temporary scratchpad…
In “What’s the cheapest way to network an external hard drive?” I suggested a fully-functional, zero-cost option: Connect the drive to any PC that’s already on the network, and use the OS’s built-in network sharing function (e.g. Win10’s Give access to/Advanced Sharing/ option) to let others access the drive. Several readers had good follow-on comments…
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Some estimates say YouTube adds something north of a petabyte of new data every day. That’s impressive in itself, but remember that YouTube is owned by Google, whose servers have to store data for: Google Search; Google Docs/Sheets/Slides; Gmail/Inbox; Google Calendar; Google Drive; Google Translate; Google Maps; Waze; Google Earth; Street View; Google Keep; Google…
Recordings released by NASA/JPL let you listen to “plasma waves moving from Saturn to its rings and its moon Enceladus… like an electrical circuit between the two bodies, with energy flowing back and forth.” NASA/JPL article: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7186 Recording, if above embed doesn’t work: https://youtu.be/hWHLCHv4PiI Permalink: https://langa.com/?p=2082
Some things never change: Linguists have translated a clay cuneiform tablet from the city of Ur, circa 1750BCE. The tablet is from a copper buyer named Nanni to the seller, Ea-nasir, complaining that the ingots were inferior, and that Ea-nasir was rude. “What do you take me for, that you treat somebody like me with…
Sure, if you’re trying to repair a damaged hard drive. Chkdsk — check disk — is the Windows tools that examines your drives for logical and physical errors. Adding the “/f” tells Chkdsk to fix logical errors on the disk, if any — things like file fragments that the operating system lost track of. Adding…
Uncle! OK, OK, I give in! When I recently resurrected the Langa.Com site, and started working again with the old Windows Secrets gang over at AskWoody.com, I assumed my current laptop would be up to the task. After all, it had served me well for the last few years. I was wrong. It’s not an…
Yes, by definition: It’s not working, so it’s broken! 🙂 I think you’re really asking if it can be repaired. If you can remove the keyboard, it’s quite possible that you can indeed correct what’s wrong. You’ll have to poke around your laptop, carefully removing fasteners, to see how it’s put together. Some laptop keyboards…