stewi1014

Worst case is the PSU can't keep up under load and the system crashes while the OS has cached writes to some important files -> Reinstall OS/Lose important files. The way I see it; Unlikely the PSU won't work, Unlikely it not working will cause damage. A small probability times a small probability is a very small chance. I'd keep it and see what happens. Edit: I think it's worth noting that if the PSU is insufficient, you'll only notice once the PC draws more power than the PSU can supply; the PC will likely only crash while under high load.

Do you want to do a file-level copy, filesystem-level copy, or drive-level copy? It sounds like you just want files, and don't want to preserve the operating system or file-system. I certainly can't recommend preserving the OS. If you have an external HDD, then can't you just copy the files from the old to the external hdd, then to the new computer? I'm not sure where you are, but alternatively the US Newegg site has loads of harddrive readers here that would let you access the old drive once removed. You could also try copy them over the network, but it seems like this is a very straightforward problem if you've already got an external HDD.

Do you think that is accurate? my first assumption is that 50C would be quite hot to the touch, but not too painful, but someone who's.. touched more hot stuff might be able to speak to that more accurately. In any case, the way I see it is it comes down to what risks you want to take with your data. If it's at 50C I'd just leave it, and if I was storing critical data on it, I wouldn't be keeping it on a single drive anyways. If it's a main OS drive and you don't want to take the chance of re-installing everything, then it might be an idea to take an image of the drive every few months or so regardless. Harddrives fail without any external influence all the time.

You want to have a full windows and Kali OS, sharing a USB as a main drive? If so, I'd note that while Linux is mostly fine with changing hardware, windows cannot be moved from one computer to another. Also, YUMI will not install an OS to anything, it's for writing ISOs, which for most operating systems will be the installer, not the actual full-flesh OS, although there can be overlap. You'll have to create the USB yourself, there are no tools for that, as there's no demand for them. You'll need a second USB or boot media you can run the OS installers on, and then configure the installation through the windows and Kali installer so they install to their own partitions on the USB. I'd suggest starting with your favourite partition manager, and allocating a partition the size you want for you Kali install. Then you can run the windows installer, get it to install to the remaining free space, and then run the Kali installer, deleting the partition you made earlier, and letting the installer add whatever partitions it wants in the free space. With any luck, the Kali installer will detect windows and automatically add a boot entry to grub. Otherwise you'll have to delve into the world of editing the grub configuration file. https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/grub.html#General-boot-methods is a good place to start, but hopefully you won't need to do that. I'll be honest, I think you'll find that whatever you're trying to accomplish with doing this will not be successful. What is your reasoning for installing the OSs in this manner? Edit: If however, what you want is to have a USB with a Kali and WIndows installer, that's a far more reasonable goal, and a multiboot creator like YUMI is what you'll want to use. Still not sure what it is you're trying to do.

For now though, I'd say meeting and talking to people is simply a matter of organising it. I should sleep. I need to be up in the morning. I hope it works out allright.

I can 100% vouch for getting out and exploring the world. Trick is you just have to dive in head first. If you don't leave your comfort zone you'll never truly get to experience something new, and I think that it's trough our experiences that we develop as a person, not through our achievements. Not that I can really speak as I'm still kinda figuring out the whole 'run away and experience the world' thing.

No, not at all. I was going to uni in Australia, but I just wasn't feeling it. The whole society, mindset of the people. I mean, I had good friends there, still do, but I took a step back and looked at what graduated computer scientists were like, and I hated it. Earning good money, in the same houses with high-end cars and no understanding or respect for the world that's out there. Never developing, what i consider to be one of the most important things in life, their soul.

Ah. yeh I get you. I must admit I've been lucky to be born into three Citizenships that let me live most places in the world. Decided I just needed a change of scenery, so came here. It's interesting living in a country so different to the ones I was brought up with, but it's fun, although I certainly do feel isolated sometimes. Edit: I only recently started to properly understand the phrase 'fake it till you make it'. Sometimes you just have to do things, not because you're motivated to do them, but just because you know it's what you should do. Funny thing is, once you start, the motivation comes. Fundamental problem with human motivation.

Where are you? Just invite a few people you know to have coffee. I have a favourite cafe I drive to in a town 15 mins away here in Sweden, and It's great fun just having a chat with whoever wants to join. Don't have to know someone well to invite them for a coffee, and if they can't come, their loss of a free ride to a wonderful little cafe. 3 or 4 people total will keep the conversation going, and give some variety. It sounds weird talking about it this way; Just have a coffee!

I use Manjaro, and I love it. I'm not going to be like mate here, and say you should use it. Pick whatever you want. Freedom to choose exactly what software you're using is the single greatest thing about Linux, and the moment someone decides to try it and is told they must run this and they must do that is, in my mind, completely backwards to the philosophy of the Linux community. I think this 'dictating' comes from an almost desperate desire many people have for people in general to move over to Linux, and while I'm in the same boat, I think they're going about it the wrong way. I wouldn't hold it against them.

If the only thing you haven't tried replacing is the CPU, then it's the logical conclusion as to the culprit. Have you bee using the same peripherals the whole time?

I'm finding it a little hard to understand what's happening. Do you have a USB that you're trying to use as the main drive for a kali install? If that's the case and you've already tried installing Kali from a bootable installer there's a chance you might have accidentally overwritten part of your windows install. What's your end goal, and what exactly have you done so far?

Wow, that's quite the board. Thanks for that. It's certainly well suited to custom loops. I'll keep it in mind. Thanks.

Good point about the temperature delta. I was thinking about seasonal differences causing fans to run faster in summer, but you're exactly right; the 'right' temperature in the loop is agnostic to the ambient temperature. I'm feeling more and more convinced that the motherboard is the way to go with this, just time consuming to find and scour the manuals for them all. I was looking for x299 motherboards that have 10Gig Ethernet I could run to the server, but haven't found any that also have temperature sensing. I'll be able to run the cable internally if I use 10Gig cards on PCIe extentions, so would make it cleaner, if a bit more expensive. All that networking and EMI protection overhead for two systems a few cm apart.. In any other scenario transferring data in this fashion would be absurd.

I'll start trawling through the manuals of the motherboards I'm considering and see what I can find. After thinking it over an Arduino might not be such a bad choice. I'd like to keep things simple, but an Arduino could offer some interesting functionality. Does it have an adequate analogue to digital converter to read multiple temperature sensors, or would I have to jerry rig some kind of capacitor charge/discharge circuit to read them?