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Re: Do you participate in any other communities? 10 Hours Ago by polles yeah, reddit also Re: What's your favorite productivity hack outside of coding? 10 Hours Ago by jacobss One of my favorite productivity hacks outside of coding is the Pomodoro Technique. Re: What's your favorite productivity hack outside of coding? 9 Hours Ago by Reverend Jim Odd that something so basic and obvious needs to be named. Of course, "Pomodoro Technique" is a lot shorter than "go hide in the server room so my boss won't keep interrupting me so I can get some work done" technique. At least that's what I used to call it. Re: What's your favorite productivity hack outside of coding? 5 Hours Ago by Dani I don’t think there’s a better answer than that. Productivity hack when not coding are none other than breaks from coding. It’s so simple :) Re: What's your favorite productivity hack outside of coding? 5 Hours Ago by Dani So basically my Palo Alto technique :) Re: What's your favorite productivity hack outside of coding? 3 Hours Ago by Reverend Jim >So basically my Palo Alto technique :) A lot easier and more pleasant in mid-winter in Palo Alto than here in Winnipeg. What's your favorite productivity hack outside of coding? 5 Days Ago by Dani … outside, and see lots of cafes with lots of other tech entrepreneurs all working on their laptops, meeting with VCs, making… This is me venting 5 Days Ago by Dani … money where my mouth is. In the current landscape of tech and programming forums, Dream.in.Code went out of business… Re: This is me venting 1 Day Ago by Dani … staff writers. IMHO we used to have a lot of tech news content being published regularly, but as traffic declined, so… Re: This is me venting 4 Days Ago by Reverend Jim It's hard for me to imagine that all of the pleasure I've gotten out of Daniweb, the challenges, the insights, the friendships since I joined in 2010, are all dependent on the largesse of just one very talented person. I, for one, appreciate all you have done, particularly considering your current health issues. If you feel unappreciated then … Re: This is me venting 4 Days Ago by Reverend Jim Also, in non-computing over the years I have heard comments like "if only I hadn't stopped for coffee I would have missed that accident, or several other variations. The thing is you never know what would have happened if you had made different decisions. Certainly making a different decision may have resulted in things being better. Or they … Re: This is me venting 1 Day Ago by jkon Dani , yes I also believe that you are responsible for the decline of DaniWeb .... BUUUT that was many years ago. We all foreseen the decline of "forums" back in early 2010's , there were many alternatives of what to do , and I strongly believe that you choose the wrong one. I will not repeat what you did or what you could be done … Slaying Unicorns: How Europe Sabotages Its Own Economic Future 2 Weeks Ago by Johannes C. …over $1 billion* Can you name one European tech company that has brought forth significant innovation in …/)* With no industry, no substantial progress in the tech sector, and growing resistance to post-colonial exploitation, …they don’t understand, grasp power with dystopian surveillance tech, and squander our taxes. My recommendation to EU… Re: ASUS Laptops - my experience 3 Weeks Ago by Reverend Jim … see my SSD. So back to Best Buy where the tech confirmed with a Windows 10 USB installer that the drive… Re: ASUS Laptops - my experience 2 Weeks Ago by Reverend Jim … back. When I got to the counter I told the tech that I would not accept it until they showed me… Re: ASUS Laptops - my experience 2 Weeks Ago by Reverend Jim … lab and my local Best Buy. So either the lab tech was sloppy or the laptop is shit. Re: ASUS Laptops - my experience 2 Weeks Ago by Reverend Jim … day. He informed me that the Windows system that the tech installed was not the OEM version for my machine. I… Re: ASUS Laptops - my experience 1 Week Ago by Reverend Jim … the custom settings were missing. I'll mention that the tech said I should try downloading the backup file from the… Re: How NOT to do business online 2 Weeks Ago by Dani … who knows his craft and industry but isn’t necessarily tech savvy.) Re: Online subission forms not sending emails of submitted info 1 Week Ago by david.tigner …. in the root directory are directories: PHPMailer, RNHindex, etc.). IONOS tech line said that the reason for the blank white screen… Re: Shared Printer Problem 1 Week Ago by Bunker Network hiccup, paper jam, or driver glitch - troubleshooting the shared printer quandary demands patience, tech-savvy finesse, and perhaps a dash of printer exorcism. Re: Online subission forms not sending emails of submitted info 1 Week Ago by Biiim …. in the root directory are directories: PHPMailer, RNHindex, etc.). IONOS tech line said that the reason for the blank white screen… Re: ASUS Laptops - my experience 2 Weeks Ago by toneewa If the power connector was replaced with the motherboard, then your charging cord is suspect. If they setup your PC with Windows 11, there's a good chance a GPT partition was used instead of NTFS (outdated). Imaging back to this would fail. Always check in your BIOS to see if your drives shows up there. If you're setup in UEFI mode, instead of … Re: ASUS Laptops - my experience 2 Weeks Ago by Reverend Jim When I got it back they had replaced both the motherboard and the power supply and I checked in the store to verify there were no power issues. I suspect you are correct about them not reconnecting the touchpad as that was not working in Linux either. As for GPT vs NTFS, I have never formatted to anything but NTFS, and when I originally got the … Re: ASUS Laptops - my experience 2 Weeks Ago by rproffitt "I allocated a C partition and formatted as NTFS then boot back into my Windows 11 install USB." That can derail the usual Windows install. On today's PCs I start off with a blank, no partition drive, boot the Windows USB stick and once in a while need to add the Intel RST storage driver. I maintain that Microsoft should update … Re: ASUS Laptops - my experience 2 Weeks Ago by Reverend Jim Likewise... Whenever I reinstall Windows, other than the times I've reset to factory, when it gets to the "where do you want to install to" I always get the installer to delete, then recreate the partition. Re: ASUS Laptops - my experience 2 Weeks Ago by Reverend Jim >At some point you are stuck with a clean install I'm using my father-in-law's old laptop in the interim. When I inherited it I took out the old drive and put in a spare SSD. I didn't bother restoring the diagnostic or recovery partitions. It's quite peppy now. It's also an ASUS, but purchased before they started making crap. At some point, … Re: ASUS Laptops - my experience 2 Weeks Ago by toneewa I wouldn't worry about not having any ASUS utilities. You can always download them later, [here](https://www.asus.com/support/download-center/). I consider them all bloatware. Having the partition as an MBR and then installing a Windows image as GPT, is like going to replace your spare tire and finding out it has a different lug nut bolt pattern… Re: ASUS Laptops - my experience 2 Weeks Ago by Reverend Jim >I consider them all bloatware Something I may try on this laptop (old ASUS K53E) once I get my other one back is a fresh install from USB but selecting "World" as my region. I read somewhere a while back that if you select any specific region, bloatware for that region gets installed, but if you pick World then no bloatware. You … Re: ASUS Laptops - my experience 1 Week Ago by toneewa > Ever had to install Windows from 39 floppy disks? It was not fun, especially when disk 39 frequently had a read error. Not that many, I still have them. Highest was 6 for booting, so I could read a CD. I wrote on them, "BAD" if ever had that problem. > I actually tried this as well, running diskpart.exe. It couldn't see …