Improved performance

On 6/18/2020 10:34 AM, Paul wrote:
philo wrote:
On 6/18/2020 10:29 AM, philo wrote:
As to my time stamp.
I am posting frim my phone now but I also post from my dual boot
computer which runs win10 and Ubuntu.

I specifically set my time so that no matter which OS I boot to the
machine displays the correct local time.

I never thought to check to see what the time of post is.

Anyway I'm thinking maybe I should just put an SSD in my wife's
machine and then I won't be bothered by the sound of the HD.



That post was from my phone and I see the wrong time stamp. this on is
from my Win10 machine

You would think, with all the tech in a phone, they
could manage to keep a clock of some sort. Even the
incoming CallerID information, I think it has a
timestamp, so that a receiving device could even
set their clock by it.

Things like GPS provide time (not every phone will
have GPS), but the time in that case is UTC and
there's no time zone info.

It sounds like maybe the phone needs a timezone,
to go from the "native" UTC to the "display" timezoned
value.

Â*Â* Paul



Will see if there is a setting.

I have a different project today....doing some minor porch repairs on my
120 year old house.

The only reason I bought the house was because it was the only one I
could afford. That was 40 years ago and it's in much better shape now.

On 6/18/20 10:34 AM, Paul wrote:

[snip]

Things like GPS provide time (not every phone will
have GPS), but the time in that case is UTC and
there's no time zone info.

IIRC, GPS is now required in a mobile phone, For 911 calls if nothing else.

It sounds like maybe the phone needs a timezone,
to go from the "native" UTC to the "display" timezoned
value.

Â*Â* Paul

My phone has an option to set the timezone manually.

--
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.us/

"A Christian is a man who feels repentance on Sunday for what he did on
Saturday, and what he is going to do on Monday." [Thomas Ybarra]

I just now set my time to manual.

It is 6:52 pm Central time

philo wrote:
I just now set my time to manual.

It is 6:52 pm Central time

It's looking a lot closer now :-)

My Atomic Clock is a little heavy to lift
off the shelf, but I bet you're pretty close
to that.

Paul

On 6/19/2020 6:59 PM, Paul wrote:
philo wrote:
I just now set my time to manual.

It is 6:52 pm Central time

It's looking a lot closer now :-)

My Atomic Clock is a little heavy to lift
off the shelf, but I bet you're pretty close
to that.

Â*Â* Paul



Next to my computer is the GE clock my parents got for their wedding in
1948.

I recall my father replacing the motor's gear train when it got very
noisy. I had to do that a few times too over the years.


They were all made of copper.

The last time I replaced it , it was with an aluminum mechanism and it
never grew noisy again.



https://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/25149...-1/s-l1000.jpg

philo wrote:
On 6/19/2020 6:59 PM, Paul wrote:
philo wrote:
I just now set my time to manual.

It is 6:52 pm Central time

It's looking a lot closer now :-)

My Atomic Clock is a little heavy to lift
off the shelf, but I bet you're pretty close
to that.

Paul



Next to my computer is the GE clock my parents got for their wedding in
1948.

I recall my father replacing the motor's gear train when it got very
noisy. I had to do that a few times too over the years.


They were all made of copper.

The last time I replaced it , it was with an aluminum mechanism and it
never grew noisy again.



https://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/25149...-1/s-l1000.jpg

That looks like part of a defrost timer for a refrigerator.
I've replaced that on my fridge a couple of times.

https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/6a6...82d51d3.jp eg

The bottom part has gears and contacts, the top circular part is
similar to your gadget.

Paul

This one has no wiring.
It fits within an armature.

Glad I have a quiet one now...
I was getting so tired of replacing it every 15 or 20 years.

Since I had a lot of extra energy today I decided to vacuum 50 years worth of dust out of my basement.

The only problem is
..my house is 120 years old!

On 6/15/20 1:42 PM, philo wrote:
My wife and I each have several Win10 machines.
The other day, I decided to check out the tower she's used without issue.

I noticed excess hard-drive activity, yet saw no obvious problem.


I decided to poke around in Device Manager and saw the SATA controller
was a 14 year old, generic Windows driver. I decided to try the "update
driver" option and it found an actual Intel driver about ten years newer.

Problem solved.


Looks like I lucked out there. For some reason I thought that Windows
Update automatically looked for hardware driver updates as well.
I know after a fresh installation, the video drivers are often updated.




Clone to SSD and all is well.

I'd try these....

https://allneeds.com.au/catalog/prod.../category/526/

.... though soaking the can in very hot water for a minute boosts the
pressure.

An air compressor is best, though.