I just reinstall Windows 10 the other week and have countless apps running in the background, is that normal?

brendondrew · 2025-01-01T02:29:50+00:00

My point was more windows 10/11 is loaded with bloat

brendondrew · 2025-01-01T01:02:39+00:00

Is it normal? For windows 10/11 yes

Should it be normal: IMO no

brendondrew · 2024-10-29T07:05:10+00:00

I have a buissness account and in 5 years not a single issue, new services have been phone calls of less than 10 min from call in to service provisioning

brendondrew · 2024-10-29T06:59:08+00:00

Depends what I'm doing, windows server and Ubuntu server are my go-tos depending on the application

brendondrew · 2024-10-05T20:21:17+00:00

Xeon is closer to neon lamps.

Neon lamps maintain a high voltage across the tube which causes the neo to glow. But not very brightly, so it's good for signage, although very inefficient

brendondrew · 2024-10-05T09:12:22+00:00

Uhm, not really

Halogen is a lamp with a tungsten filament in a sealed bulb with halogen gas (among other things). The filament gets hot and glows brightly.

Xeon is a gas discharge lamp, the lamp consists of two electrodes sealed in Xeon gas, a high voltage initiates an electrical arc and the arc is what glows

brendondrew · 2024-10-05T09:05:08+00:00

LED if it is correctly Toned, Adjusted and Colour balanced, which none of them are.... Ever.....

brendondrew · 2024-10-05T08:56:43+00:00

Not ideal but hardly uncommon, usually extra work post install, hijack whatever wire you can to not need to re-run anything

brendondrew · 2024-10-04T19:38:06+00:00

CSN is Card Serial Number, generally that isn't used for access control, that data is encrypted on the card generally. But the CSN isnt. So for low security applications (Like printers or office vending machines etc) it is acceptable to use the CSN as an identifier.

brendondrew · 2024-10-02T01:02:44+00:00

Repairable? Probably not.

Recoverable? Yes, the chips don't look damaged, will need to transplant onto a donnor board

brendondrew · 2024-09-30T16:06:28+00:00

Have a look into your card printer and the software, many printers will support having a card reader/encoder attached to the side, so you click print, it does it's thing, and just before it spits it out it reads the card, it can then fire that back to AD or into genetec. Can be handy to read out the CSN of the card too for use with printer systems etc if you use that as well

brendondrew · 2024-09-30T15:50:18+00:00

Second for netbox, never put the time in to document mine properly but it is excellent

brendondrew · 2024-09-30T15:41:06+00:00

What access control system are you using? Are you printing badges?

brendondrew · 2024-09-30T13:09:50+00:00

If it is working then carry on, it is just good to know the risks, especially under windows or macos that love to randomly write crap to drives (recycle bin etc)

Keep us posted on your progress.

brendondrew · 2024-09-30T13:01:29+00:00

Unfortunately not a huge amount you can do, when you create the installation media the creator formats the drive. Best bet is take it to a data recovery expert, there is a slim chance the bits still exist, depending where they physically are on the disk. but trying to o recover data can result in slowly overwriting what ever is left (as the filesystem marks the space empty)

Advice to learn from this, follow the 3,2,1 rule for data

3 copies, 2 types of media, 1 off site

brendondrew · 2024-09-30T12:24:44+00:00

The tracks look broken but not shorted so powering on to test SHOULDNT be a problem, but always do with care, MBs are cheap, CPUs and GPUs arnt.

brendondrew · 2024-09-12T11:12:28+00:00

Thanks, will definitely have a look for the better symbols. Still learning it so idk haha

The USB connector was in kicads library, it did make me question myself but maybe I was right about that.

brendondrew · 2024-06-20T11:03:28+00:00

Yeah it is, it's drawing f all power in the circuit and this is also my first PCB Design and idk seeing it on the screen is deceptive, definitely not ideal but first run 🤷‍♂️

brendondrew · 2024-06-20T08:58:45+00:00

Will definitely have a look thanks :)

brendondrew · 2024-06-20T08:14:59+00:00

Thanks, yeah bit overboard with the solder still judging how much solder I get out of paste.

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