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For some reason, the boot partition is located in the HDD instead of on the SSD (system drive). However, the capacity of the hard drive is recognized as max 2TB. In order "unlock" the rest of the 2TB, I have to convert the drive from MBR to GPT which would result in the deletion of the boot partition. Is there a way to convert without causing the boot partition to be deleted?

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I ought to boycott Toshiba and JVC Kenwood for this.

I intend to as well. Not that I've bought anything from Toshiba in a while… I do have a stack of JVC Taiyo Yuden CD-R's sitting here, though.

Just had another possibly-stupid idea regarding that Tesla GPU thing– I could avoid upgrading my PSU by taking a second ATX PSU (which I already own) and wiring it in parallel with my existing one to split the load between them.

Also just discovered that these used to exist; they seem like an excellent idea. too bad they appear to not exist anymore. They fit in a 5.25" drive bay. The one warning sign I see is the lack of a ground pin, but my guess is they'd ground to the PC chassis somewhere.[www.newegg.com] https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16817104054
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I do have two (could easily make it three) open 5.25" half-height (now the standard height) bays, so I might just bolt my second ATX PSU there if it comes down to it and I actually follow through.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Nov 25 2019, 13:46

Huh, it has male connectors for the output? That'd require some funky cables to work with.

I'm glad Mozilla included "layout.css.text-decoration-skip-ink.enabled" in about:config.
I just updated to Firefox 70, and it was so ugly with that thing enabled, good think it could be turned off.

These Black Friday deals are getting crazy, how can one hope to resist such an outrageous discount

Is that a ryzen 2600(x)?

It was some cheap curved Samsung monitor

Huh, it has male connectors for the output? That'd require some funky cables to work with.

funky cables are fine by me; I can make my own cables.
And my guess is the big ol' PSU cable thing is mainly being used for power detection (the typically green wire which when shorted to ground makes it turn on). Just a guess though.
Note I've been awake for over 24 hours now so I'm rather brain-dead.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Nov 29 2019, 08:54

Missed a deal on a 1050ti for 40$...

First time I ever heard of RGB toilet. What's next? RGB hot shower? RGB toilet paper? RGB bathroom tiles? Pills that turn your ordinary poop into RGB poop!?

Missed a deal on a 1050ti for 40$...

RIP.

First time I ever heard of RGB toilet. What's next? RGB hot shower? RGB toilet paper? RGB bathroom tiles? Pills that turn your ordinary poop into RGB poop!?

RGB glasses. instead of letting you see things, they just shine (in sequence) pure green, blue, and red lights directly onto your retinae. Now you never have to see anything that isn't RGB ever again.

Need a spare backup HDD so I can reinstall Windows.

To buy more HDDs or to not buy more HDDs...

PCMCIA / cardbus cards aren't the easiest to come by. I did find some usb ones that are basically flush, but there's an NEC branded one, and a chinese clone marked AKE or no brand with an inferior chipset.
Also, firewire used to be really popular then, but I only see external hard drives amd dvd drives using it- nothing else.

These stairs sure are hard to climb.

I was used to type "calc" in execute in Windows XP to load the calculator, but now that on Windows 10 I have a custom calculator, I wonder if there would be a way to tie it to this behavior, without having to add a shortcut to start menu, desktop or any other shortcut method like that.

I was used to type "calc" in execute in Windows XP to load the calculator, but now that on Windows 10 I have a custom calculator, I wonder if there would be a way to tie it to this behavior, without having to add a shortcut to start menu, desktop or any other shortcut method like that.

Probably won't work quite this easily unless you change some permissions (I have not run these commands), but:

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move C:\Windows\System32\calc.exe C:\Windows\System32\calc2.exe
cd C:\Windows\System32
mklink calc.exe Path\To\Custom\Calculator.exe

Would create a symbolic link for calc.exe.
Might be better just to add its path to the %PATH% variable so it's searched before C:\Windows\System32, and then rename it, though. I like the other option for the "It's so bad it's good" logic.

PCMCIA / cardbus cards aren't the easiest to come by. I did find some usb ones that are basically flush, but there's an NEC branded one, and a chinese clone marked AKE or no brand with an inferior chipset.
Also, firewire used to be really popular then, but I only see external hard drives amd dvd drives using it- nothing else.

I could use a PCMCIA USB card myself, for my 1996-vintage laptop. Desktop's still got a Firewire port on its sound card, and my Powerbook G4's still alive technically as well.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Dec 3 2019, 16:10

Rubber cement is totally under-utilized.
I just used it to adhere a famicom cartridge shell that I 3D printed together. In the past I've also used it to glue foam pads back on to headphones.

Wondered if I should finish a C++ Stars Without Number sector generator from a while ago

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