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    IntMD got a reaction from Cowboyk56 in This this even a thing?   
    I've got a Prodesk 400 G6 on my desk at work. I've never even heard the fan spin up on it unless I was trying to make it purposely and it's only an arms length away from me.
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    IntMD reacted to Drevo Dano in New 24/7 live stream issue.   
    It would be nice if youtube treated it as a "background live stream" because of these issues. In my experience the fact that the logo now has the live icon permanently slapped on just means that I don't know when an actual live stream is on.
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    IntMD reacted to saintlouisbagels in Linus's remarks on Twitter in the past couple months couldn't be more wrong   
    Buddy, take off your tinfoil hat.
    Linus is a person and as a person he has opinions. Just because because his (and other people's) opinions happen to follow the mainstream media sigh NARRATIVE does not mean he is a follower.
    Elon does a-hole things, and - surprise!- most people do not like a-holes.
     
    All this thread has shown is that you are not a free thinker. You've gone from "fan" to "hater" because you're a fan of Elon.
    Just, you know, don't idolize anyone.
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    IntMD reacted to Levent in School forcing me to install MDM software on privately owned laptop   
    Your school is more controlling than some of the IT companies I worked for lol. I am personally quite anal about keeping work and personal data separate on different devices, this wouldnt fly with me at all. If they want you to limit what you can and cant do on a computer, they better provide the computer.
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    IntMD reacted to LAwLz in $80,000 High School Hardware Upgrade   
    What are the computers going to be used for, and how do you plan on managing them?
    I think these are two questions you need to answer first.
     
    I would strongly advice you ignore the people recommending that you hand build a bunch of PCs using "gaming component".
    Chromebooks are very popular for schools because they are very easy to manage, and can do most or all the tasks students need them to, and nothing more (which is good for management). 
  6. Informative
    IntMD got a reaction from Radium_Angel in For those of you who have parts laying about unused...   
    Pretty much only a couple of power supplies short of being able to build an X79 and an X99 system. Might need another case, but probably have one hanging around somewhere, and maybe a few extra fans.
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    IntMD got a reaction from Cyberat in New Nzxt Build   
    Is it directly from NZXT with their BLD service? If so, before you do anything yourself, contact them and ask for advice, they may ask for it to be returned, or ask you to do a couple of steps before returning if they don't work. It's fairly often (but not always) RAM related, so could be that has crapped the bed. It can also sometimes be cause by GPU drivers, so, might be worth a shot at using DDU ( https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html ) in Windows safe mode and reinstalling the latest version of those from AMDs website.
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    IntMD got a reaction from Jtalk4456 in Computer Maintenance Routine   
    My maintenance routine...
     
    Dust it when it is dirty/maybe give it a clean if I upgrade something.
    Let AV/whatever else do it's thing.
    Fix or reinstall Windows if something properly breaks in it (last had to actually do that on Vista) or if I do a major (multiple component) update, I will sometimes do a fresh reinstall of Windows. I don't keep anything solely on there that I actually need, so usually a full delete and reinstall.
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    IntMD got a reaction from MingLee420 in Scanning and repairing drive every boot? Help!   
    Can I ask why?
     
    Pressing shutdown on windows 10 doesn't necessarily actually do a full shutdown - it will save the current system state to increase the startup speed.
     
    It may or may not get rid of the problem you are having if you disable fast startup if you're going to be unplugging it every time you shut down, as it should then do a full shutdown.
     

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    IntMD got a reaction from da na in Scanning and repairing drive every boot? Help!   
    Can I ask why?
     
    Pressing shutdown on windows 10 doesn't necessarily actually do a full shutdown - it will save the current system state to increase the startup speed.
     
    It may or may not get rid of the problem you are having if you disable fast startup if you're going to be unplugging it every time you shut down, as it should then do a full shutdown.
     

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    IntMD reacted to Taf the Ghost in Power plant in space by 2035   
    Anyone else seen this go badly in SimCity?
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    IntMD got a reaction from Kilrah in Batteries In EV and Hybrid Cars   
    The freezing point of hydrogen is -259.2C. If you're getting down to that sort of temperature, you have other more serious problems than driving your car.
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    IntMD got a reaction from mr moose in “Good job I guess.” Samsung is using recycled fishing nets for some of it’s plastic in the S22.   
    Did a beach clean with a group on the island I live on a couple of years ago. I'd say about 50% of the items we picked up were small sections (like 5cm/couple of inches long) of fishing nets, mainly from parts that had broken or had been cut off and dumped when a net had been repaired. Also picked up part of a broken net that had washed ashore that was probably somewhere in the region of 50-100kgs of net. All in all between about 15 of us, we probably cleared around 300-500kgs of plastic from 1 smallish pebble beach in about 3 hours. That all went to a recycling centre.
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    IntMD got a reaction from Quackers101 in “Good job I guess.” Samsung is using recycled fishing nets for some of it’s plastic in the S22.   
    Did a beach clean with a group on the island I live on a couple of years ago. I'd say about 50% of the items we picked up were small sections (like 5cm/couple of inches long) of fishing nets, mainly from parts that had broken or had been cut off and dumped when a net had been repaired. Also picked up part of a broken net that had washed ashore that was probably somewhere in the region of 50-100kgs of net. All in all between about 15 of us, we probably cleared around 300-500kgs of plastic from 1 smallish pebble beach in about 3 hours. That all went to a recycling centre.
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    IntMD got a reaction from Eigenvektor in Dear LTT, wtf are these subtitles   
    Autogenerated youtube ones...
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    IntMD got a reaction from WkdPaul in What's your cell provider?   
    £20/month for 20GB data & 10k mins/texts, could get unlimited data if I moved to the other network we have, for the same price, but they're not as fast as mine is (at least last time I checked, which was a while ago).
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    IntMD got a reaction from GDRRiley in Recommendations for a good backup system? feat. 'Backblaze restore isnt great...'   
    This is from Backblazes website. Sounds like your data is probably in the Amsterdam data centre, so I imagine a disk backup would be sent from there and not the US.
     
    Where are my files stored?
    Backblaze Help January 27, 2020 19:25 Follow Backblaze currently has data centers in Sacramento California, Phoenix Arizona, and Amsterdam Netherlands. 
    The region for an account, selected at the time of account creation, will determine what data centers may be used to store data for the account. The region for an account is available via the "My Settings" page of the Backblaze website, once signed in. 
    Accounts in our US-West region will store data in both Sacramento and Phoenix data centers. Accounts in our EU-Central region will store data in the Amsterdam datacenter. 
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    IntMD got a reaction from da na in Gaming laptop overheating   
    When you did the repaste, you did cover the full die area and not just put a pea size amount or something in the centre? You did tighten up the heatsink again to the correct amount of torque? Might be worth disassembling again and just checking on the paste you used to see if it still looks ok.
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    IntMD got a reaction from WhitetailAni in A new version of windows is coming!!!   
    This. 2k was amazing for the time, XP was awful when it first launched, and most people hated it until about SP3.
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    IntMD reacted to LAwLz in A new version of windows is coming!!!   
    Not to mention XP got very mixed reception when it was first released and the consensus that XP was good only appeared several years after the release, when people had upgraded their computers and most software issues had been fixed.
    It was seen as really bloated and demanding. If you had a CPU that was 3 years old you could basically forget installing XP. It was too heavy.
     
    It was basically the same as Vista, except Vista was quickly replaced and people were stuck with XP until it had improved.
     
    The whole "each second Windows is bad, and each second is good" is just a meme. People try their best to make it true by twisting facts, including or excluding certain versions, looking at the release version of some OS and the end of life version of another, etc.
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    IntMD reacted to leadeater in A new version of windows is coming!!!   
    I'm sorry but Windows 2000 was amazingly good, all XP did was change the UI (round corners and colours, wooo), everything else near literally the same OS.
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    IntMD got a reaction from Mark Kaine in Help from the community RTX 3080 Fraud   
    Have they said they are not going to refund you then, or is it just that the funds aren't in your account yet? You didn't actually mention them not refunding you specifically in your original post, just that you can get it back from the CC company, so I just thought the refund was likely on the standard few days to go back in to your account type thing that normally occurs.
     
    Also, on your previous reply to my other post, you clearly didn't read what I said, so...
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    IntMD got a reaction from LogicalDrm in Help from the community RTX 3080 Fraud   
    What exactly is the fraud? I take it they have refunded you?
     
    I know Overclockers UK have been having problems getting 3080s in particular, but are still honouring the preorders that were taken before they were closed (far too late, in all honesty as for certain cards, they still haven't got release day orders complete yet). They've also stated that 3080s are in particularly short supply with few delivery dates coming up for any of them over the next month or so, particularly with Chinese New Year and the usual factory shut downs and delays that causes every year.
     
    I can understand why a company would have pulled them and refunded, if they literally cannot get them, which is the take I'm getting from your long post. I can also understand why you are pissed, but it's not really fraud if they refund you due to being unable to fulfill your order. Now, if they had cancelled orders, then had them for immediate delivery at the higher price, sure.
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    IntMD got a reaction from Arika in Help from the community RTX 3080 Fraud   
    What exactly is the fraud? I take it they have refunded you?
     
    I know Overclockers UK have been having problems getting 3080s in particular, but are still honouring the preorders that were taken before they were closed (far too late, in all honesty as for certain cards, they still haven't got release day orders complete yet). They've also stated that 3080s are in particularly short supply with few delivery dates coming up for any of them over the next month or so, particularly with Chinese New Year and the usual factory shut downs and delays that causes every year.
     
    I can understand why a company would have pulled them and refunded, if they literally cannot get them, which is the take I'm getting from your long post. I can also understand why you are pissed, but it's not really fraud if they refund you due to being unable to fulfill your order. Now, if they had cancelled orders, then had them for immediate delivery at the higher price, sure.
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    IntMD got a reaction from BuckGup in How Does Online Banking Work   
    Ok, so this is basically super simplified, but...
     
    How is money handled with online banking? - Same way as with normal banking, the entries (debit or credit) to an account are on your own accounts ledger. 
     
    What determines you have $20,000 in your bank account and what do banks use to determine that the money is actually real?  - Not quite sure what you are getting at here, but again, the ledger of your account determines what you currently have in there.
     
    I'd assume it's a private ledger shared between banks that use the ACH but how to they know each transaction is real? - There are normallly funds held on deposit in the central bank of whichever country. The transactions are totaled and settled between the banks. Basically Bank A would say, I've sent you X amount to your bank and received Y amount from your bank, the net amount owing is Z. Then the funds difference would be settled. If they don't add up between the banks, then they'd have to look in to it, or I imagine if it's only a smaller amount that isnt worth looking in to, write it off the difference to the banks profit and loss sheet.
     
    Do they use POW or POS? - Take it you are meaning proof of work here, like blockchain stuff? They may do something along these lines these days, I know a lot of banks have been looking in to it, but they didn't when I was working in one 7 or 8 years ago. A lot of banks have super old legacy systems held together with tape, so can't imagine changing basically everything it to blockchain stuff would be easy.
     
    Is there a limit to what a bank could fill your account with like a hard limiter?  - No, but depending on your account history, something unusual would normally (and should) be flagged for someone to look at as part of anti money laundering legislation - Think HSBC getting fined a fuckton in the US for laundering some money for cartels etc.
     
     
    What backs credit cards? If I spend $20,000 all on credit and never pay it back who originally had the money? This will probably depend on your country, but where I'm from, they are essentially an unsecured loan up to X amount on money. As to who originally had the money, likely nobody. Banks usually only hold 10-20% of the actual money they are 'using' at any given point, the rest it sort of created out of nowhere as needed (this is a very simplified statement). If however, you fail to pay it back, and the bank can't get the funds back from you and have to write it off, it would essentially be written off against actual money that the bank held as it would come on to the banks overall profit & loss statements or if the credit card was underwritten, from whichever company was the underwriter. 
     
     
    What stops a bank from simply giving itself money? - They essentially do when they hand out loans and mortgages. Giving themselves specific money from nowhere? They'd likely get slapped around by financial ombudsmen, auditors, shareholders and likely the police/fraud investigators depending on the context of what it was to do with. Basically, nobody wants a bank to become an Enron.
     
    What's used to verify a transaction is real? - In general, whatever is on the ledger, it is on the ledger and to verify, it was depending on the type of debit or credit.
     
    For Swift payments, there are essentially checksums verifying the original payment instructions along with a unique identifier for each payment.
     
    For cheques (at least where I worked) ones over certain values were checked to an increasing extent depending on that value, including callbacks to the customer to verifiy all of the details (payee, amount etc.). Low value cheques were checked less often and to a much lesser extent. There was also an automatic system in place to flag up any unusual cheques (out of order usage, from a new chequebook and other things etc.) and these were checked in more depth.
     
    For point of sale transactions (using your card in a shop for example) basically the system connects to their bank in an encrypted way, saying 'I've got this sale for this amount, and for this card number, is it ok?'. The banks system then will connect to the cardholders bank and go 'We've got this, they got enough money? Is the card blocked? etc.' They will then reply authorised/not authorised, and it follows its way back through the chain to the terminal you are using - it's basically the same deal for online shopping too.
     
    As a customer, if you aren't sure that something is correct, or is generally flat out wrong in your account, the bank can look it to things further and provide more details. Copy of the payment instruction/message (which would have the senders name and where funds originated from and are going to), copy of the cheque, copy of the sales receipt etc.
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