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Got a flat tire and had to put on the donut spare (full size spare FTW; scissor jacks suck).
When the tire went flat, TPMS just said “low tire pressure”. When I put on the spare TPMS reported “TPMS error, cannot read sensor”. I am totally disappointed by this, the system should know which tire is dead and should know when the spare tire is mounted. As I understand it, TPMS works even when the car is not in motion and requires a sensor on each wheel (which the donut spare lacks). It could give me more info but it does not.
My car has an info display field that shows text and graphics. Would it be too much to ask for it to be more informative than the TPMS idiot light on the dash?
Just saw that Funimation has a maximum password length for their site. I understand that there has to be a limit but this one looks to be a mere 17 characters. That’s a security failure right there.
Oddly enough, even though the password that I have stored on the Funi App to auto login is different from the password that I’ve actually set I still get in with full account access. That’s somewhat scary.
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Just got my Blurays from Sentai/Viz today and PowerDVD won’t play them. I thought it was because I’d reset my firewall and had blocked PowerDVD completely. So I unblocked it and it still doesn’t work. Then I remembered that PowerDVD will, and did before, play DVDs without being able to go online.
The last time I had an issue with PowerDVD was when Windows reassigned my libraries + drive letters and PowerDVD, which stores stuff in My Documents, didn’t like that (Nor did all of my Steam games). When I got my first SSD I put my libraries on an external drive. This time, the drive letters seem fine but I can’t access that hard drive.
I’ve had this old Fantom Greendrive 1 TB external drive running nonstop since ~2009. Hopefully it hasn’t reached the end of its lifespan. Last restart, the PC was complaining about it
I bought an external Blu-Ray drive two weeks ago to use on my ASUS laptop and the mini-tower home built PC upstairs. It came with a OEM version of PowerDVD 2010 that I installed, it won’t play my most recent Sentai or Funimation Blu-Ray’s but will play my copies of Princess Jellyfish and B Gata H Kei from two years ago. I think it may be an encryption key issue.
In any case the drive works just fine to rip the newer disks to my NAS drive so the encryption key isn’t really a problem.
Well my issue seems to have been resolved by running Scandisk. Scandisk dismounts and then remounts the drive now (which I still find rather weird) and I suspect that is what fixed my problem. I’m still backing up the really important stuff from that drive now though.
My old PowerDVD9 won’t play any Sentai release past (and including) Infinite Stratos. PowerDVD seems to cut the old versions off after a certain point. Planned obsolesence?
I got a copy of 12 and that, so far, has worked with all my anime releases. Which is good as while my BD ripper software is still going strong I don’t have much space to rip to anymore. I’ve only got about 3 TB of external HDD storage and now there are 4 TB single drives. I keep putting my storage $ into USB 3 drives and SSDs instead of getting a new mechanical drive.
My guest is that there’s some auto login key the app gets that doesn’t expire when you change the password. Unless the app asks for the password once in a while, I would assume this is the case.
Why don’t cases come with side fans these days? My Crossfire setup desperately needs a breath of fresh air but my case-and most cases, I’ve found-don’t sport a side air intake.
I gave up trying to understand computer case designers and their designs a long time ago.
The newer chipsets, cpu’s & non-gaming graphics cards are not supposed to need as much cooling. That is probably why extra case fans have become rare in anything other than the dedicated gaming cases and those tend to be rather outlandish in appearance.
Luckily we bought several cases over the past 10 years that we have been able to re-use. They still look good and have all the extra fan ports you could ask for.
Mine didn’t even come with a power supply. It is like a laptop-in-a-box. It only has a external power supply with a tiny plug to power the mobo so I guess they figure not having a power supply inside the case means it needs less fans. You could always mod the case, and slap an old fan into it
I’m tempted to get a new side panel and put a fan in the windowed panel. Apparently my case had a side panel option, but the side panel window option was more popular and became the standard option. Glancing at cases I notice that the tiny, cheaper cases tend to have side intakes but the hulking, expensive ones don’t.
I tried getting a new fan with 2x+ the CFM to replace one of my current fans but this new fan is 4 pins and has a cable that is much too short to get to the only free 4 pin header on my motherboard.
I should upgrade my GPUs but even though ASICs have supposedly made GPU mining of LiteCoin obsolete the GPU prices are still astronomically inflated.
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I don’t understand all of these TV boxes. For the low price of an HDMI cable and a wireless mouse/remote I can hook up a computer to a TV that does all of the stuff that the box can do and more. It looks like Amazon isn’t including the HDMI cable or the Gaming Controller with this box
So for those that don’t know, today was Microsoft’s ‘Stop supporting Windows XP’ day. There will be no further updates, or patches for XP. Today was also, ‘hack the crap out of windows xp’ day, since going forward, the lack of security patches from Microsoft will make the operating system vulnerable to new, and potentially never-before-seen exploits, viruses, and other kinds of malware. And with no official patches from Microsoft, most of this new stuff will be here to stay.
It’s been 13 years since XP’s release, and I would say that it’s about time it was put out to pasture. But whether or not you see this as a ploy by Micro$oft to get more people to buy newer operating systems, that’s essentially what it has turned out to be. Continuing to use XP will eventually leave you with some nasty stuff. Unfortunately, your options are pretty limited.
Continue using Windows XP, and hope nothing bad happens.
Upgrade to a newer version of Windows. Windows 7 is pretty good, and Windows 8 is pretty terrible right now.
Get a Mac. If you happen to have a few thousand dollars lying around.
Some big problems with Microsoft’s End-Of-Life on Windows XP are :
It’s the OS on the vast majority of ATM’s worldwide. So, there are banks that are going to Pay for continued support.
It’s still the primary OS on many government PC’s worldwide. I’ve seen where a couple of countries are already contracting with MS for continued support. Notably, the US Government isn’t among them … yet.
XP is still massively larger in terms of installed base than Windows [strike]Vista the Second[/strike] 8.
I know that 13 years is an incredibly long time for any PC based piece of software to be in general use, but it isn’t all that unusual for other types of technology products. I’ve got stereo and photography equipment that is far older, much of which has support of one type or another available for it.
Microsoft is a victim of their own success with XP, I predict that back channel / ad-hoc support will crop up and we will continue to see XP in use for a good bit longer.
Some of my relatives just upgraded to cheapy win7 systems over the weekend.
What I find hilarious are the times when the government says that a computer system is secure and it is obviously running XP. For example, in Baltimore there is now a system of internet cameras in every school and the police can now access it from “any computer or smartphone”. When the PR person was telling us how secure this all was-if anything online is secure, it isn’t made by the government-the computers in their HQ were running xp.
XP was great in its day but its inability to play higher end games, effectively use modern multicore processors, run 64 bit software or address more than 4 GB of RAM does make it rather obsolete. I had forgotten that it doesn’t have native exFAT support but luckily there was a m$ fix for that.
Linux sucks. For running servers and doing stuff through the CLI it is great but as a GUI for “Joe public” it fails.
That’s too true, Linux is so dramatically different between versions, with the GUIs, and there are so many versions. Going between Linux versions reminds me sometimes of going from Windows 7 to OSX.
Lately I’ve been using Kali Linux. The default GUI there reminds me of what would have resulted from Microsoft grafting Windows 3.1 onto Windows 95.
For someone who does everything inside of a browser on XP then I could see Linux working for them, but if they use Windows-only software then I have my doubts.
ATMs run XP embedded, and MS hasn’t stop support on that yet I heard… Also, they’re on a closed network that is not likely to be hit. You need to sneaker net those machines apparently.
