Long gone, but now back… sort of. :)
Q: What is the maximum length for an HDMI cable before attenuation occurs? (via Quora) A: In reality, any length of cable will introduce some attenuation. I think you’re actually asking “how long can a cable be before attenuation becomes a problem?” But even there, there’s no absolute answer. A cable in an electromagnetically quiet…
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“When stars teeter too shut to the menacing voids, they’re can kickstart tidal disruption events (TDEs). Stars are yanked in in direction of the shadowy gap by its glean gravitational self-discipline, and are eventually ripped apart by the unheard of tidal forces.”
Q: My Lenovo (windows 8.1, later 10) used a recovery drive from an Acer laptop with Windows 8 which it updated to 10. Len now thinks it’s an Acer? What changed? (Question sent via Quora) A: OEM recovery drives usually contain drivers and add-on software specific to that brand of PC; the Acer recovery disk…
A reader asks: How do I know if I have enough RAM? (Question sent to me via Quora) Every device (PCs, tablets, smartphones…), and every user, has a unique answer for “what’s enough RAM?” In a perfect world, RAM would you hold all of your running programs and processes in their entirety, live; letting the hard drive…
Q: If my dimension XPS Gen 4 is 64-Bit, why can it only address 4GB RAM? (Question sent via Quora) A: There’s a world of difference between what’s mathematically or theoretically possible, and what is commercially viable for desktop systems! For example, a 64-bit system is theoretically able directly access 2^64 bytes (=16 exbibytes) of…
Q: How do I recover/save my phone’s internal storage before doing Reset? (via Quora) A: It depends on where’s the data stored — but should always be relatively easy to do. 1) If the data is on a plug-in/add-on memory card, recovery is trivially simple: Turn off the phone, remove the card, and plug the card…
Plus: What happened to Karen’s PowerTools? Most of this article is about some free templates that can simplify your use of Robocopy — a free, powerful (but underappreciated) command-line copy/clone/sync tool that’s built into all current Windows version. But before digging into Robocopy, please let me tell you about a related issue: The rise, fall,…
Q: What is the difference between using the activated and unactivated versions of Windows 10? (Via Quora) A: Windows will work OK without activation, but it’s not the same as the activated versions. Unactivated Windows will only download critical updates; many optional updates and some downloads, services, and apps from Microsoft (that normally are included with activated…
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…