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APOD: 2018 September 13 - Comet, Clusters, and Nebulae[^]
I hope you all enjoy the somewhat infrequent postings. I would love it if Chris would make the APOD a sticky feature - I'm pretty sure there are many of us who enjoy these images. For my part, I only post when they are deep space rather than local objects pictured so maybe that would be better if CP made it a feature. Just a thought - enjoy.
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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Was surfing and found this today MOnSter 6502
While I never really worked with this particular chip (mine was 8080 and Z80) I am amazed (and appalled) at the time and effort this took. And he isn't done! He appears to be working on version 2.0
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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Quote: Are you nuts?
Probably.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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What some people do is amazing. Does look extremely professional. I am waiting for the Pentium version.
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Pentium with though hole, the size of a reasonable country!! 
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That is pretty big 
guess we can put it on the moon.
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To be truly authentic, it would need to include the FDIV bug[^].
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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So I guess he makes sure one transistor fails at random intervals?
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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Blocked at work. My first two computers were 6502. :/
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Awesome find.
Started on on Apple II...many moons ago!
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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About 10 days ago, I posted a thread; The Lounge[^] discussing how to decide when it is time to upgrade your machine.
In among the sarcasm, humor and anecdotes was actually a couple of good suggestions, with the key one being upgrade to SSD.  Thank you to those who suggested this.
What impresses me most is how much faster web browsing is, I guess caching all those images to the HDD really slowed things down.
With that said, I have managed to stumble on to an issue
When the drive arrived, I jumped on CNET read a step by step article on upgrading your HDD to SSD, downloaded the recommended tool, plugged in the SSD to the USB and cloned the HDD to the SSD. Removed the HDD and installed the SSD. Crossed my fingers and restarted the machine. Much to my elation, it booted quickly, windows started faster and life was good.
Hey wait a minute. Not so fast. What's this? I bought a 1TB SSD and when I look at the drive properties it says 500GB. It shows the other 500GB as un-partitioned space, which makes no sense for an SSD. 500GB was the size of my HDD. Apparently the shareware tool caused this during the clone process. Moral of the story - "you get what you pay for", or "if it is free it is for me, except when it comes to shareware"
Has anybody else run on to this? Am I hosed at this point and have to go back to ground zero and start the process all over again? Or is there some way to claim the un-partitioned space?
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Computer management/disk management and expand the drive.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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The tool simply duplicated your old partition on the SSD. The other 500gb is unallocated. There are tools available that can change the size of the partition without loosing any of the data.
windows paretition manager - Google Search[^]
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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This is a free partition resizer works fine for me:
IM-Magic Partition Resizer Free[^]
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Just curious here but what SSD did you go with. When I had to rebuild my home rig I went with one of these: Intel 600p[^]. I tell you what, those M.2 SSDs running on the PCIe bus are stupid fast and quite reasonably priced.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
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I'm looking at this one for my 7-year-old Acer laptop:
Amaon: Crucial 500gb[^]
I'm seriously considering installing Linux on it and converting the current win7 install to a virtual machine.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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That will certainly speed your Acer up but I don't think that you will get anything near the advertised speed unless your SATA bus is version 3.0 or higher. SATA 2.0 is capped at 300 MBs.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
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1. it'll still be much faster than a normal HDD, and
2. later if you update your machine move that SSD over coz the new hardware will give you that SATA 3.
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That's a really good price...almost a no-brainer! I've got an 8 yo laptop that received a SSD transplant about 2 years ago. Huge improvement! Well worth the money even then. At times I prefer it to a much newer hp laptop which seems to be haunted. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Crucial doesn't have the reputation Intel or Samsung have for their SSDs, but I have no idea what they're talking about.
I have 4 or 5 Crucial drives, and I'm very happy with them.
The price you're looking at makes it a no-brainer, even if your laptop's bus might not allow it to run at the full speed the drive is capable of. As a bonus, being a bog-standard SATA drive, you know you can physical migrate it to another system down the road.
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All SSD is, is a different kind of memory than RAM. Crucial has an outstanding reputation for their RAM modules.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Avoid Kingston. I've had 3 failures (out of 8) within 2 years of installation.
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I got a sandisk and it's already up and running.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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