Information technology, computing and related
Wacom One: no display signal “No signal. Press the OSB button to switch the input source” Sorting this issue was a complete pain in the arse – and it was needlessly so! I’ve worked in IT since the early 80s, building PCs using barely legible instructions translated from Chinese to Tiawanese to English by people […]
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Discord friend gives you $50 steamcommunity card “$50! Hell yes” 🤑 *click* *login* “Gimme gemme gimme!” 🤑 “Huh? I’ve been hacked? How did that happen?” Obviousy it’s a scam! People, especially not strangers, or casuals haven’t spoken too in ten years don’t just pop up and give you $50! Apparently this has been around for
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Scary PayPal scam This turned up in an account today and was a tad alarming due to its nature and unexpected appearance. { Logging into PayPal and seeing “You have sent £877.77 to … ” } Well, if that doesn’t make your heart beat a little faster, eh? (We cancelled and reported it, of course).
PayPal invoice scam to be aware of! Read More »
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How transistor chips are made Via Interesting Engineering, on Facebook: Microchips are in nearly everything, and they power much of what makes the modern world possible. Here’s how they’re made
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Intro BSOD (Blue Screen of Death), the infamous sight of windows crashing, perhaps taking your work with it, perhaps taking everything with it, as the crash corrupts the file allocation tables beyond repair! (This is why we do back-ups, people!) The problem with the BSOD, and Microsoft’s cryptic messages, is they can be a sod
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Unity and Pixels per unit No, I don’t have the answer – yet – but I will. I’m still new to Unity and trying to get my head round this one aspect, the rest is simple, in comparison. PPU is not straight forward, at all. I wouldn’t say it’s complicated, but it is. If you
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Clarification While I have – on and off – played with programming for decades, have worked on Circle MUD based MMOs and have designed board games, I am not a ‘developer’, I am, as far as you are concerned, a complete and utterly clueless noob. This is not a “How to guide”, this is a
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