Eric Carlson

Right. LOL on the spoiler.

Yes, my father's Erol's account has been changed companies twice, but still works. I use my own domain for my email, with gmail (the business version that I am grandfathered in for free for now). I ...

My father still has an Erols email account (and probably includes dial up service, or at least it did when he started). Changed to StarPower, then RCN, but Erols still works. He also has Gmail ...

With Gmail, I don't have to do anything, and the spam from gmail addresses goes into the spam folder. I do have friends with gmail, and they show in the inbox as expected.

Gmail does a great job of filtering spam into the spam folder. I have many rules set up to handle unimportant non-spam, so it skips the inbox, but I still have access to it. And other rules to ...

The 400W PS is more than adequate.

I use a still-supported Nvidia Quadro P400. I bought a bunch of 6 cards including a couple P400's for like $82 on ebay. It's newer than yours, and supported, but not much more powerful. I had a ...

In the early 80's I similarly fixed a scanner radio, that had a flaky LED display, by sticking a heatsink to the LED driver chip. Solved the issue.

Agreed.

Either 70% or 91% isopropyl alcohol is fine for cleaning CPU paste.  The water content is not a concern.

You could try ControlMyMonitor to switch inputs with a shortcut. I used it for a while, but for some some reason it doesn't work with my current (older) video card and monitors at 1440p ...

That sounds like an outage. Only in a network outage have I experienced more than taking a few minutes at most to reconnect after disconnect or power loss.

Interesting. Let us know what else you find about reducing power. I've only done it on desktops. I've got my old i7 desktop under 50 watts, not counting monitors. I did swap out my old hot 24" 3rd ...

I hope I can find my info when the time comes. I should look for it now.

Awesome. And he's updating Spinrite. It's been many years since the last version. Not sure it as useful as in the old days: It was very useful before IDE drives were a thing. I wonder if us ...

There are several ham radio apps that only run on Windows. I am also a Windows developer. With those 2 things, I think Windows will be the primary OS for me for several more years, at least.

For me, keyboard failure is very rare. I have many keyboards (couple dozen), many I got used, and I think maybe 1 has issues, and it's my only Apple keyboard. Some have the letters wearing off. I ...

Yes.

It is strange. It certainly isn't Read Only Memory. It is rewriteable storage. Could be short for EEPROM, but that is dubious naming,

That bothers me too. Let us know what you find out about disabling it.