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Greg Utas1-Jan-20 15:43

Greg Utas

1-Jan-20 15:43

No wonder the parser can't disambiguate it. They look the same. I can't see how to do it without first resolving names. Within C#, it looks like a type attribute (Maxvalue) masquerades as a field. So for C#, you could probably just treat it that way and get on with life. But if you want to generate the equivalent code in another language, I can see how it would be a PITA.

honey the codewitch1-Jan-20 15:45

honey the codewitch

1-Jan-20 15:45

Basically I treat them as fields until I can't, such that a type has generic arguments or something which precludes it from parsing as a field reference.

Later on i resolve it, and yes it's a pain. Sigh | :sigh:

When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.

Greg Utas1-Jan-20 15:54

Greg Utas

1-Jan-20 15:54

I don't know how far afield you're going with your project, but the prospect of converting C#

System.Int32.MaxValue

to C++

INT32_MAX

does not fill me with delight. Not in the least.

honey the codewitch1-Jan-20 15:56

honey the codewitch

1-Jan-20 15:56

Luckily I'm only targeting other .NET languages so the basic libraries are all the same.

When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.

Win 10 USB DIagnostics

Kevin Marois1-Jan-20 10:06

Kevin Marois

1-Jan-20 10:06

Can anyone recommend a good USB diagnostics tool for Win 10?

I'm having issues where my headphones will cut out, or I get random pauses with my keyboard & mouse. This PC is only a few months old.

If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.

Jacquers1-Jan-20 19:10

Jacquers

1-Jan-20 19:10

USBlyzer - USB Protocol Analyzer and USB Traffic Sniffer for Windows

Other things to check are power saving settings (sometimes usb ports can be switched off to save power) and updating drivers.

Mark_Wallace1-Jan-20 20:06

Mark_Wallace

1-Jan-20 20:06

Try running a Linux distro from a stick.

If the problem doesn't occur then, it will confirm what the problem is.

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

carlospc19702-Jan-20 6:32

carlospc1970

2-Jan-20 6:32

You got a point. Test the hardware with Linux and check if the intermittence still happens.

Mark_Wallace2-Jan-20 23:35

Mark_Wallace

2-Jan-20 23:35

It's one of the first things I do when it looks like I've got a hardware problem.

If it works, it's the driver or a software conflict; if it doesn't, it's the hardware.

It can save you going through a lot of pointless steps.

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sjl421-Jan-20 21:26

sjl42

1-Jan-20 21:26

Have you got a slideshow running for your desktop background? I found that if the 'change picture' setting was set to the 1 minute interval, then every minute the mouse/keyboard/pretty much everything froze. Setting it to 10 minutes seems to either fix the problem or I don't notice it so much now.

who_me?2-Jan-20 1:39

who_me?

2-Jan-20 1:39

I can't be the only one who read this and thought "Woohoo! Wait, what are USB Diagnostics and how would I win one?"

It's too early in the year, wake me in Feb.

Johnny J.2-Jan-20 2:10

Johnny J.

2-Jan-20 2:10

who_me? wrote:
how would I win one?

Not just ONE - I want to win TEN! D'Oh! | :doh:

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Member 118167762-Jan-20 10:56

Member 11816776

2-Jan-20 10:56

I was having a similar problem. I could right click on an item -- and it could take 30 seconds for the popup menu. All sorts of things like that. It was not every time, but frequent. It started after an upgrade and upgrading to 1909 fixed it. So, I suspect it was one of the mitigation fixes that was causing the problem -- even after Microsoft supposedly fixed the problems.

So, if you haven't upgraded to 1909 -- and it went very smoothly for all four machines here -- I would recommend it. The problem might not be with the USB ports.

Mac: replaced HDD with SSD

steve vreeland6-Jan-20 11:27

steve vreeland

6-Jan-20 11:27

I could use a good USB wireshark plugin....
Of course if I could win ten of 'em, that'll work too.

found on: https://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/USB

You can capture raw USB traffic on Windows with USBPcap. The Tools page lists some other options for Windows USB capture.

raddevus1-Jan-20 9:52

raddevus

1-Jan-20 9:52

I just completed a much-needed project on my old i5, 8GB 2014 Mac Mini: replaced the HDD with an SSD.

At first, I couldn't even get the the mac to recognize and mount the SSD so I could clone, but I finally got that working.

I tried using EaseUS cloner[^] without success.
I then tried the free version of Carbon Copy Cloner[^] and it took a bit over an hour to clone the drive but it succeeded.

Finally, I disassembled the Mac Mini following these fantastic instructions: Mac mini Late 2014 Hard Drive Replacement - iFixit Repair Guide[^]

You actually take every piece out of the Mac Mini case (main board, power supply, everything!) to get the old HDD so you can replace the SSD. It is insane!

I am very happy to report that I was able to re-assemble the thing with the new SSD. I've rebooted the machine and it is 20 times faster. Everything is so much better!!!
I'm not exaggerating here --> Previoulsy I would run a command like ls -al in a dev directory and the prompt would blink for 3 seconds before it even started to do something. XCode (iOS dev IDE) runs quite nicely now and the iphone emulator runs well too. Amazing.
Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

This was a great New Years Day project! I like the ones that end in success, the best. Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

Posted via FireFox on my Mac Mini (wouldn't have even tried this before).

Greg Utas1-Jan-20 15:46

Greg Utas

1-Jan-20 15:46

Now that you've got it nailed, it sounds like you could start a business refurbishing i5's!

Ron Anders1-Jan-20 16:40

Ron Anders

1-Jan-20 16:40

Nice job.

Carbon Copy Cloner is what we use too. Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

raddevus1-Jan-20 16:48

raddevus

1-Jan-20 16:48

Ron Anders wrote:
Nice job.

Thanks, there were a couple of tricky parts. Luckily my son had a #6 Torx Security driver.
I had a #6 torx (star driver) but it wasn't the "Security" type with the hole in the middle. That is really ridiculous!

Also, check the Step 23 (in the ifixit guide[^]). You need a special wire tool to stick in those two holes so you can pry the mainboard out of the case. It is really ridiculous.
I didn't notice I needed a special tool until I got to that step and the thing was already torn apart.
I walked around the house trying to find something with wire that was the correct size that I could use and finally found a spring on an old chip clip. I cut the thing with some tin snips and somehow got it to work. That step is another ridiculous part of the tear down.

foggles2-Jan-20 1:39

foggles

2-Jan-20 1:39

At first, I couldn't even get the the mac to recognize and mount the SSD so I could clone, but I finally got that working.

How did you get this working? I got hung up here doing an iFixit SSD upgrade to my macbook pro and decided to pass on the upgrade.

raddevus2-Jan-20 4:06

raddevus

2-Jan-20 4:06

foggles wrote:
How did you get this working?

Here are the steps I took...
1) attached my Amazon.com: Inateck USB 3.0 Hard Drives Docking Station for 2.5 Inch and 3.5 Inch HDD SSD SATA I/II/III, Support UASP and 10TB Drives, Optimized for Ssd(Fd1003): Computers & Accessories[^] to the Mac Mini USB port. (I had this device from previous windows-based HDDs that I've cloned to SSDs.)

2) inserted the new SanDisk 250GB SSD
3) The disk wasn't readily recognized and I had to look around to find out how to do that-- finally found the disk utility and I had to erase and reformat the SSD - https://support.apple.com/guide/disk-utility/erase-and-reformat-a-storage-device-dskutl14079/19.0/mac/10.15[^]

After that, I could see the drive was attached, but I tried the EaseUS software and it said it could not create a bootable clone.

4) searched for and found the Copy Cloner software and it did the rest. Pick your source and your target) and Copy Cloner takes care of it.

5) I was quite nervous after taking the entire thing apart and re-assembling because there was no way to know for sure that Copy Cloner had gotten everything correct, but the computer booted up perfectly from the cloned SSD.

That's it.

It's probably that first thing that you need -- the Mac Disk Utility.
Good luck. Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

foggles2-Jan-20 18:21

foggles

2-Jan-20 18:21

Thanks for the info. The kit I bought (OWC 1.0TB Aura Pro X2) had an enclosure but the enclosure only supported the old (current) drive and not the new one. I had put the new ssd in the machine and attempted to set it up using disk utility in recovery mode (or whatever that mode is) but it wouldn't recognize the new drive. After a few attempts I decided to return the drive and put the return funds toward an eventual new machine as I'm coming up on 7 years with the laptop.
Enjoy your spruced up machine!

Stuart Dootson6-Jan-20 23:58

Stuart Dootson

6-Jan-20 23:58

If you mean after it's been formatted with APFS or HFS+, it could be you need to use the Startup Manager to tell macOS about the new startup disk... I remember having to do that when adding an SSD boot drive to my MacBook Pro back in 2010. Start booting, but press the Option key as you turn on the power and keep it pressed to get to the Startup Manager.

Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p

foggles7-Jan-20 6:49

foggles

7-Jan-20 6:49

No, I didn't make it that far. It was as if it wasn't there at all as far as Disk Utility was concerned.