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| visits | member for | 3 years, 9 months |
| seen | May 13 at 18:41 | |
| stats | profile views | 158 |
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Oct 23 |
asked | Custom buttons to move email to specific folder in Thunderbird |
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Oct 21 |
asked | Configure Thunderbird to verify DKIM signature and display an icon to this effect? |
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Sep 27 |
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Does printer ink evaporate with time? added 169 characters in body |
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Sep 27 |
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Does printer ink evaporate with time? @Bobson, I did not consider that subtlety in the meaning of the words. I don't think the OP wanted to know whether the dye particles leave the container though, only whether the volume of the complete solution decreases. |
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Sep 25 |
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Why does Firefox cause high-CPU-usage “spikes” every few seconds? The symptom is tracked in bug 490122. I don't seem to experience these in Firefox 4+ anymore - thankfully. |
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Sep 25 |
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Why does Firefox cause high-CPU-usage “spikes” every few seconds? There's a Bugzilla entry on Firefox GC / CC becoming unusually slow. |
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Sep 12 |
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Three-way mirrored RAID in Windows 7? It's rare. To be specific: roughly twice a year, I find a file with a 8192 byte chunk of data that turned to zeroes. Sometimes it's a random app that reverted to default settings; I always look for this symptom in its config files then. Other times it's a source file I was coding. The first time I have seen this was in early 2000s on Win2K. I have seen it with this frequency on almost every PC I've had since then (which would be about 5 desktops + 1 laptop). |
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Sep 12 |
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Three-way mirrored RAID in Windows 7? One particular failure that I did manage to pinpoint and fix in the end was an overheating chip on the motherboard. I ran a piece of software that would write 20 GB of random data every night, then read it back and report errors, and once a week it would find a flipped bit. RAM tests showed up nothing, cable twiddling didn't help. Turning up my fans made this go away once and for all. Now the corruptions seem to correlate with bluescreens and lockups, both of which are far too rare for me to debug sensibly... |
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Sep 12 |
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Three-way mirrored RAID in Windows 7? @sblair I would have said so too, but now that you mention it, the most important factor is to stay on Windows :) |
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Sep 11 |
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Three-way mirrored RAID in Windows 7? This is a bit like saying "you don't need checksums or error correcting codes; instead make it so that your data is never corrupted in the first place". I can't fix the huge variety of causes of data corruption. I need something practical. |
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Sep 11 |
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Three-way mirrored RAID in Windows 7? @sblair yeah... shame it isn't supported on Windows. |
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Sep 11 |
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Photoshop causing other programs not receive ESC key Shift+Esc might work in some cases, but usually does not. I mean it might close the odd menu, but programs that expect ESC won't respond to Shift+Esc. |
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Sep 11 |
asked | Three-way mirrored RAID in Windows 7? |
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Sep 11 |
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What's the difference between RAID 1 software mirroring and Fake RAID? The "plex" thing seems to happen if you already have another partition there. Really annoying. |
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Sep 11 |
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RAID 1 mirroring to more than two drives? Shame it doesn't exist on Windows... |
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Sep 8 |
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Difference between Ctrl+Refresh and Ctrl+Shift+Refresh? @user2980 well you're wrong :) |
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Sep 8 |
answered | Difference between Ctrl+Refresh and Ctrl+Shift+Refresh? |
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Sep 8 |
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How can I do a Cache Refresh in Google Chrome? For me, Ctrl+Shift+R twice works every time. I don't know why they made it so annoying. |
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Aug 29 |
awarded | Popular Question |
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Aug 28 |
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Smart whole disk imaging backup compatible with TrueCrypt whole disk encryption? Everything works fine now, so while I understand your advice, I can report that there are no more issues with having my system disk encrypted. And I rather like that I do not have to try plug every little hole by moving things like AppData, ProgramData, the hiberfil, the page file, temporary dir, etc, off the system disk - basically all those things that could leak a password. And some programs are just too dumb to obey, and will dump their sensitive data on C:\ anyway. |
