Hondaman
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Last Activity: Today, 07:46 PM
Joined: 09-12-2008
Location: Clarksville, Indiana
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California is in BIG TROUBLE. New eco-friendly laws are prompting oil refineries to close down, and rural gas stations have closed. Soon, police, fire, airports and US military jets will face fuel shortages that simply CANNOT be overcome (all docks that import "special California eco-fuel" from other countries are already operating at 100% capacity, and docks that belong to closed refineries have stopped unloading overseas oil tankers). Electric companies have NO legal liability from brush fires, and I think California actually FORBIDS them from clearing dead (or living) trees from under...Last edited by Hondaman; 03-12-2026, 02:13 PM. -
My apologies. Apparently, links will now appear at the END of the post, not close to the beginning, where I intended it to be, and left space for it.Leave a comment:
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Age verification
California and Colorado are planning some vaguely-worded laws regarding "age verification". People who supply OSes, computers, accounts on computers, whatever, are required to make a bit (or maybe just a couple of bytes) available to "application developers" so applications know the age bracket of the computer user. Under age 13, age 13 to 16, age 16 to 18, and over 18. Brazil has already passed such a law, and rumor has it many countries in Europe are already planning this. Here is the outlook here in the USA:
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Strip video, keep audio?
Can anyone recommend good software (Win7/Linux) to strip the video from my dash cam footage, and create an audio file? I'd like to e-mail some pieces of audio to my mother. She has an old car like I do (she has a 2004 Chevrolet 2.2L, I have 2002 Saturn 1.9L). She needs to know what a whining power steering pump sounds like, since older systems often develop leaks, which can lead to damage and accidents. I told her it was whining "like that American professional tennis brat John MacInroe from 45 years ago", but I was being cheeky. That does not really describe what it sounds like.... -
Yeah, um, I think I tried tesseract for Ahn Meong-Chul's book (he was a guard at SEVERAL NK concentration camps). I did NOT get good results with tesseract. And honestly, I thought Linux was supposed to work well with Canon 8400 scanner.
Speaking as an Asperger's autism person, sometimes I just need to see things summarized in "ten words or less". I am grateful for the internet, specifically Wikipedia, telling me about freemasonry. I suggest it is not something I will engage in. The Korean school (for deaf and disabled) was founded by a family there, and there is absolutely...Last edited by Hondaman; 09-14-2025, 10:37 PM.Leave a comment:
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No, I don't think I want to create a PDF. I scanned pages from Ahn Meong-Chul's book (in Korean) and uploaded the JPEG to a website that specializes in OCR of foreign languages, one page at a time. Then I cut and paste the characters into Office 97 (which can handle Korean). I open the paper book and re-format the Word document so the paragraphs and quotation marks, and sub-chapter headings match the paper book. Then upload one paragraph at a time to Google Translate.
My new Japanese book will be the same way, but I have to install a Japanese language capability, whether Win7...Leave a comment:
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I'm sorry. Amazon's listing does not tell me. ISBN search websites don't tell me either.
I did get my copy of DOGANI today (Korean). It appears to be the testimony of about 100 abused children that inspired the movie "SILENCED". An art teacher sees physical and sexual abuse in 2005 in a Korean school for the deaf and other disabilities. I haven't even finished scanning Ahn Meong-Chol's book yet (in Korean, discussed in another thread), and now I have another Korean book to scan.
By the way, if you ever want a good book to read, there is a book "SPOTLIGHT"...Leave a comment:
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Japanese language -- Win7 or Linux Mint?
I ordered a Japanese book, it will never be published in English. A Mr. Fujumoto was a Japanese sushi chef who became a cook for Kim Jong-Il. He was not perceived as a threat to the dictator's power, so he became very close to the dictator. Apparently, the dictator is QUITE hedonistic, with a lot of debauchery. Although he can spend as much as $700,000 per year on alcoholic beverages and this alcohol is NOT actually the highest quality. Also, the dictator has 24 palaces. One of them is as large as TEN YANKEE STADIUMS PUT TOGETHER. Are they all that large?
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Blasting relatively noisy 80mm fans directly at the board might be an odd thing to do, and it might look unattractive. Like painting a Rolls-Royce luxury car the same light green as a Lamborghini. But if I think it leads to longer board life, I will do it.Leave a comment:
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Thank you. It looks like I found the problem. The Seasonic Fanless 460 (it was not the 400) was apparently having heat-related problems.
I moved the Seasonic Fanless 460 to the AMD 5350 system running the pfSense BSD-based ad-blocker (much lighter load). The PSU that was in the AMD / pfSense system was the Seasonic M12 "eye-eye" 520W. I don't do "roman numbers", so that is how I say it. That PSU is now in my "problematic" AMD 8150 Win7 system. I have been running Youtube for HOURS now, and there is no rebooting.
I just read an old review...Last edited by Hondaman; 08-21-2025, 11:01 PM.Leave a comment:
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Thank you.
My Seasonic Fanless 400 is old, but it sat unused in my house for quite a few years. I have the equipment lying around to measure power consumption, but I do not think the PSU is overloaded.
So I really don't think that is the problem, but at this point I simply MUST try another PSU. It could be the problem, after all.
It looks like the PSU review site "realhardtechx" won't let me see their database anymore unless I allow them to send notifications to my browser anytime they want. I refuse. I am typing this on my AMD 5350/Mint system....Leave a comment:
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Thank you. I do remember choosing to install extra font packages years ago, I'll have to look into it.
Guess what just happened to my new board? Random reboots after a couple of hours of use. Am I pushing my memory controller too hard? Is the north bridge or south bridge heat sink too small? Should I move down to an AMD 4100 or 4200 chip to go to from the 125W CPU to the 95W CPU? Does this mean the AsRock 970A board that "failed" a few months ago really did NOT fail, but a chip simply overheated out of spec? Maybe using the 16 GB DDR3 RAM modules (NON-ECC) is not TRULY...Leave a comment:
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I was looking at it with Libre Office, which came with Mint 21.3. I typed "OpenOffice" by mistake. And with Libre Office, the fonts and appearance are not quite as polished as Office under Win7 or Office under Crossover....Leave a comment:
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I still have some green plastic "ductwork" leading to a fan on the back of the computer from an old Dell Dimension or maybe that old Pentium-750 that someone gave me one time. I could build some ductwork to direct air with cardboard and glue. It might be difficult to attach inside the case (and not very attractive) but it would work.
Looking at my spreadsheet with OpenOffice, it is not quite WYSIWYG. Office 03 inside of the Crossover product IS exactly like Windows. I'm using a family budget spreadsheet from simpleplanning dot net....Leave a comment:
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Well that was interesting. Crossover Office (under Mint 21.3) did not work with Office 97, but it did work with Office 03, which is all I needed. It turns out my case won't handle a 120mm radiator. I should probably get 2 of the Fractal Design Refine R5, since I still occasionally use an optical drive.
Posting from Windows 7, one of the AsRock 970A-G/3.1 boards I had in my basement. The eBay board I got a few weeks ago was junk, as I thought it would be. Never spend money on eBay that you cannot afford to lose.
For now, I can retire the AMD 5350 with Mint 21.3 that I...Last edited by Hondaman; 08-16-2025, 03:19 AM.Leave a comment:
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Which emulators should I try? I have a couple of AMD 5350 test machines, how much RAM will I need? (I have plenty of DDR-3 1600 MHz lying around the house, and hardware that uses it.)
I do have experience with Crossover, it works well with Office 97 and 2003, I should probably install it immediately.
Also, I have a KVM switch. On the "other side" of the KVM I have an old i3-3245 system with Mythbuntu 12.10 (I used it to watch television with the HDHomeRun Dual back in the day). I never use it anymore, maybe I should scrap that machine. Maybe my "main"...Leave a comment:
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Win7 Emulation in Linux
If I install Win7 in VirtualBox or KVM, will Windows be tied to that exact hardware? Can I take the VM and move it to another machine at some point without having to re-activate Win7?
I bought a replacement board identical to the one Win7 is licensed on. But of course it failed. I have two more identical boards in my basement. Running out of acceptable hardware will not happen for quite a few years, hopefully.
But I am looking forward to that day when I cannot find any hardware, and I have to use emulation. Does anyone have experience with this? -
I still have my 5.25" and 3.5" drives. My first computer was a 386 DX-40 with 4 Megs of RAM. Later, I increased RAM and added the 387 math coprocessor.
Am I the only one here who remembers the Windows 3.1 error where all colors would become inverse (green would become violet, etc)? And am I the only one who remembers the Windows 3.1 "0xDEADBEEF" error?
I envied Apple users. They paid a lot more money for their computer, and a lot more for their printers IIRC. But part of that was the royalty for PostScript. So they could produce fine manuscripts...Leave a comment:
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Posting from my Galaxy S10+. One of the wires to the speaker was loose on that old motherboard, but I don't think there would have been any BIOS beeps anyway. Not sure about temperature alarms.
I'm trying to install Ubuntu 24.04 or Mint 18.3 KDE on a spare AMD 5350 system (system on a chip, 17cm by 17cm board), they won't install for some reason. I need a "full featured" second system while I repair the first.
I can't find the factory AMD heat sink / fan for the 8150 chip, so I'm stuck, and I cannot really proceed. Unless I can shop for a down-blowing fan from...Last edited by Hondaman; 05-09-2025, 02:57 AM.Leave a comment:
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Liquid cooling?
I hope my computer does not randomly reboot while typing this. My main system is the AsRock 970A-G/3.1 motherboard with the AMD 8150 chip. I am experiencing FREQUENT and RANDOM reboots once the system is used for a couple of hours (sometimes it reboots before I even get to the Win7/Linux Mint dual-boot screen). The problem MIGHT be the DRAM controller chip (I recently upgraded to the maximum 64 GB RAM). It also might be the VRM chips. I am using a typical aftermarket CPU cooler, which does NOT blow air DOWN onto the VRM heat sink.
(After previous generation hardware [Gigabyte] didn't...Last edited by Hondaman; 05-08-2025, 09:46 PM.
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