Long gone, but now back… sort of. :)
(Question asked by reader Tevin Gotti*.) No, it’s not true. Lots of data gets permanently deleted all the time. Data that’s been fully and completely overwritten is beyond recovery. But it takes extra steps to “fully and completely” overwrite data. When that’s not done, all bets are off: It might be possible to recover old…
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…
A reader asks: “Is 32 GB RAM too much?” Fred says yes, even for future-proofing. Here’s why.
A reader asks: “Why do files on an external hard drive run slower than files on my internal hard drive (not SSD)?” They use two very different means of connection, and the speeds aren’t even close. Internal drives usually connect directly to the mainboard via purpose-built high-speed interfaces meant specifically for moving hard drive data….
Windows 1.0 was released 33 years ago, in November 1985. It wasn’t much: Just a standard DOS setup (on a single 5.25″ floppy disk) wrapped in a simple point-and-click interface and displayed in CGA 640×200px resolution or Hercules monochrome green or amber. This combination of OS and “shell” was primitive, but it could run and display…
I’m again experimenting with voice-to-text transcription. I keep hoping for that Star Trek experience — you know, where the characters whap their comm badge, speak with normal speed and diction, and have the computer fully understand them. But for me, that’s truly fiction. In real life, with free-form text, voice to-text accuracy is likely to…
Q: What is the most hard drive speed-intensive task? (Via Quora) A: There are actually many, many tasks that can force a drive to work at full, no-holds-barred, flat-out, 100% read/write capacity, for an extended time. So there’s no one, single “most intensive task” — there’s actually a boatload of ’em! In addition to obvious software…