There was a clear warning from Putin on provision of long range missiles that could hit deep into Russia to Ukraine. It would be consider as a direct attack by NATO on Russia. Biden has done just that!
While game-playing the future, one of the main flashpoints we came across, where the global conflict can start, was the Arctic. We look at it in complete detail.
The premise and the mindset apparent in the new Trump team points to an interesting world out there. Things will not be rosy, but they will be very different. Very, very different.
I have a 4 year old HP Touchsmart 610 workstation. It has worked fine for so many years, but recently it was giving me a lot of trouble. For one, the fan was not working properly and it would switch off after getting heated up! Second, it would have so many apps open (on their own – per the Task Manager) that the load on the CPU would be high.
The situation was such that I could use no other browser except Opera. And, that was an interesting lesson for me. Only Opera (and possible MS Edge) puts the least load on the CPU. The worst was Firefox and then Chrome. But Opera did the things wonderfully.
I went to a nearby Fry store to see if I could get a new fan or maybe a heat sink to replace. The guy there was smart and nice and he suggested that I should first open the back cover up and clean the fan. Came back and started on “Operation Touchsmart Restore”
So, I did two things:
I had to reinstall some of the softwares and apps. This time I am going with the MS Edge browser with Opera as a stand-by.
The major issue came with the audio. Once I was done, my audio just wasn’t working at all. And, when I would try to troubleshoot the audio problem via the existing functionality, it would just give me one message – No audio output device installed. Extremely annoying! I tried to download the IDT Audio drivers – installed and restarted the machine – but that didn’t help either.
Then I chanced upon this HP Support thread which did the trick for me! So here I am reproducing the steps that someone mentioned there – and I followed to the “T”! And boy did that work! Now its all back to full force on my HP Touchsmart.
1. Select IDT High Definition Audio CODEC on Device Manager.
2. Select Driver tab.
3. Click Update Driver… button.
4. Select -> Browse my computer for driver software.
5. Select -> Let me pickup a list of device drivers on my computer.
6. Select High Definition Audio Device (Not IDT High Def… this is important.) and click Next.
Appears Warning message, but reply Yes.
7. ! Windows has successfully update your driver software.
Key is step 6.
I was thinking sometime back of actually buying another machine and discarding this one given the issues. But it feels very good to work on it and restore it to a point where it still feels like new. Well, almost
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