Re: Win11 explorer bug?

On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 22:15:43 +0000, Martin Brown
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On 10/12/2024 21:47, john larkin wrote:

On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 21:26:20 +0000, Martin Brown
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On 10/12/2024 17:41, john larkin wrote:

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Spice is the only thing I do that needs a lot of compute power.

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Trouble with solving huge non-linear matrix problems is that they don't
parallelise at all well. You could well be better off with whichever of
the current CPU crop has the fastest single threaded performance.

 
I wish the monster graphics processor could run Spice.

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Why do you use the monster graphics processor then?

We have IT consultants. I told them to get me four identical PCs,
small towers with modest graphics and Win10. They bought four monsters
that I literally can't carry alone, with a crazy GPU mess. The
motherboard is about 8" square and the GPU is the size and weight of a
small tractor.

After months of tuning and registry edits and add-ons, it's usable but
not enjoyable.

They do seem to be reliable.

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I find that for my work the built in graphic capability of Intel chips
is more than adequate for all 2D work and tolerable for 3D if you never
do too much full scale photo video rendering and flybys.

The SolidWorks viewer works fine on my old Win7 machines, or on an old
laptop. As does PADS.

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Useless for gaming, AI code or realtime video editing but at present I
don't do any of those often enough to merit a fancy fast graphics card
in my main machine. I prefer to have it run cool, quiet and well under
50W unless it is being asked to work very hard when it rises to 80W.
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When editing documents or diagrams and no serious computations are
running I sometimes get warnings that the CPU fan has stopped.
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Obviously data is toast if anything goes wrong so don't store important
results on it long term. I no longer bother but it might help you.

 
We back up brutally, on local servers and online.
 
Once a month I get a multi-terabyte USB hard drive with copies of all
our servers and our shared Dropbox accounts. We treat them as
write-once, and distribute them around California.

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I hope you verify that you can get the data back if you had to.

I have a bunch of times, to update various machines in the field. It
has worked every time. And we have *lots* of backup drives.