Recent content by Pr3tty F1y

Hey all. I'm buying a new PC for my parents as I recently Skyped with my dad who was puzzled by the fact that his current PC was no longer keeping time. Apparently, at nearly 10 years old, the CR2032 on the motherboard died :-P And, after replacing the battery, his PC has kept time but...

Say I want to install security cameras around my house but I don't want some subscription service or shipping my video off to the cloud. Are there any FOSS packages out there/recommended hardware for doing so? I mean, I get the basics of likely needing a redundant set of hard drives (like the...

My nearly 11 year old (for the most part) PC just rebooted spontaneously three times in the last hour. I believe the end is nigh. While this is a lazy post, if anyone has been doing research recently, I'd appreciate leveraging your knowledge. I want a higher-end rig but I don't need to pay a...

It's been forever since I've had to deal with auto insurance, so I wanted to throw it out here for opinions. My wife was backing out of our drive way (we live directly across from a T intersection on a low traffic residential street with a 20mph speed limit), and the lady who made the left down...

So, my mother-in-law's wireless N router seems to be becoming a bit crap. My solution was to purchase a new router (I'm thinking Netgear Nighthawk AC2100 as it's an r7200 and I have the old r7000 and they look comparable and I love my r7000), set it up with the the existing SSID and password...

I believe each one of us is feeling stress and anxiety regarding the current world situation. If you're anything like me, it probably goes in waves of feeling that we're in a dire downward spiral to the ups of hope of scientific progress and good acts towards our fell people. I figured this...

So I run a multi-monitor setup with different monitors as I use a 16:9 monitor for my primary and a 5:4 (previously a 4:3) monitor in portrait mode as my secondary. This setup isn't for gaming, it's just practical. I use UltraMon to manage my multi-monitor setup so I can have a single wallpaper...

So I bought an unlocked Moto G5 Plus new a few weeks ago. I am on a StraightTalk wireless plan on the AT&T network. So, I trimmed down my MiniSIM from my prior GSM phone and made it into a MicroSIM for the G5 Plus. It's been a fantastic phone and I've had no problems until today when I lost...

So a few months ago, I intermittently started getting e-mails for someone with a similar but different enough name from me that I figured someone just had a typo in their e-mail address when they registered somewhere. Now, come today, I get hit up with multiple insurance quote e-mail offers...

Title says it all. The man was a legend. His tracks still rock today.

My 80 year old uncle's girlfriend bought him a new PC. It was a nice gesture (it's one of those touchscreen AiO thingies), but while it's better than his old PC in some respects, it's worse than his old PC in others. in particular, it has a 5400rpm hdd... ugh. I've copied his files over from...

I know it's not preferred, but I figured I'd ask the question to save me the time of a re-install. I have a 1tb 7200rpm WD Black hard drive on Window 7SP1 64-bit that is my primary OS drive. Is it possible to clone to a 960gb SSD? Any issues with turning on TRIM after the fact? Any other...

So it seems that the USB port on my Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini is going bad. Wall-outlet based chargers (which seem to have a beefier micro-USB jack) seem to still charge it, but those that use USB adapters to charge it require me to flex the cable against the phone to maintain contacts with the USB...

I'm not sure if now is a good time to build a new PC or not, but I just realized that my current PC will be nearing 5 years old next month and, although it serves me well, it will inevitably crap out on me sometime in the not so far future. Based on some cursory searching this morning, this is...

I realize this is likely a dumb question, but I just want to verify. It seems that built in eSATA on the rear IO panel for the most current generation of Intel motherboards (Z170) is no longer a standard feature. Can you just add an eSATA rear port bracket that connects to one of the internal...