Thread: Computer/program help

Originally Posted by Gasman

I went with Topper30 for a DAC and the Topper amp to power my speakers. This has a headphone or speaker option so thats nice.

Then today i got my computer in the mail. Excuse me if i dont use all the proper terms but...

MSI Ageis
13 gen i7 13700F
W11
32gb ram
2tb hdd
1tb ssd
Gtx 3060 gpu
2.0 to 3.2 gen 2 usb ports.
Hdmi and display ports.
Lots of pretty lights and 6 fans.

Ok, maybe i went a little overboard but hell, my other computer i kept for 8+ years. Maybe this one will last that long too.

With a machine like that you should be able to hack into NORAD.

Originally Posted by Gasman

I went with Topper30 for a DAC and the Topper amp to power my speakers. This has a headphone or speaker option so thats nice.

Then today i got my computer in the mail. Excuse me if i dont use all the proper terms but...

MSI Ageis
13 gen i7 13700F
W11
32gb ram
2tb hdd
1tb ssd
Gtx 3060 gpu
2.0 to 3.2 gen 2 usb ports.
Hdmi and display ports.
Lots of pretty lights and 6 fans.

My man read the whole topic and made a shopping list to be sure he has EVERYTHING
Yeah, that's a killer conf, I wish I had the same

Originally Posted by Gasman

Ok, maybe i went a little overboard but hell, my other computer i kept for 8+ years. Maybe this one will last that long too.

Yeaaaah... I go with the accounting rules myself, they tend to amortize a computer in 3 to (max) 5 years. After that it is too much of a hassle to use.

Originally Posted by STF

Office?

Here's a free alternative to MS Office that's compatible with office files.

Free Office

https://www.freeoffice.com/en/

Being a Linux user, I am partial to LibreOffice, and I believe it now will run on WinDOHs machines.

Originally Posted by CrescentCityRazors

Being a Linux user, I am partial to LibreOffice, and I believe it now will run on WinDOHs machines.

Which distro? I run Debian "Bookworm" on my Raspberry Pi 4B and Asus 900a netbook (Ubuntu "Bionic" on my really old P4 deskside).

Originally Posted by JBHoren

Which distro? I run Debian "Bookworm" on my Raspberry Pi 4B and Asus 900a netbook (Ubuntu "Bionic" on my really old P4 deskside).

Ubuntu 22.04. Dell laptop is my main device. It's polished and has a really big user base and peer support is great. Lots of great software in official repos. When I saw WinDOHs 8 I said ENOUGH. Jumped into Linux with both feet, burned my bridges behind me. There are other distros that are good. I tried Red Hat early in it's run, didn't like it or just couldn't figure it out. Went back to OS2 Warp for as long as I could keep it going. W98 and W7 almost got me back in the Microsoft cheerleading squad and then that atrocity, W8, was released and sent me running and screaming away and Linux seemed the only realistic choice. I installed Ubuntu 12.04 I think it was and the whole experience was so slick and smooth! No compiling stuff, just click and shoot. Tried Mint, Debian, a few other good ones, and some minimalist distros like Puppy, Raspbian on the Pi's, Kali, but always drifted back to Ubuntu. If I had to pay to run Ubuntu, I would. Next choice would probably be Debian.

And BTW, @Gasman, I bet you could write a dandy shell script that would run in a Linux terminal that would go through your entire drive file by file and back up anything that has been changed, to your backup drive. It would be a bit clunky and maybe resource hungry but you could set it to run only when you aren't doing intensive tasks on the computer. A shell script works like a DOS or WinDOHs batch file, or *.bat file, except it is orders of magnitude more flexible and powerful. You could also probably do something in Python that would do what you want. Essentially the task is simple... automatically go through the entire directory tree looking for new files or files that have changed, and copying them to the backup drive using the same directory structure. Periodically use the dd command to clone the working drive onto a fresh backup drive and store the old backup drive for a backup backup. Or whatever the windows dos session equivalent to dd is.

A more sophisticated approach would be an app running in the background, watching everything you do, and backing up anything that you save after editing. Not my style, that.

Today I've been getting things switched over from the old unit to the new. Tonight I will start on the Radio programs so I can get my logging and digital modes working. This is going to take some time. But before I started the Radio stuff I ran an Ethernet cable around the house and into my room. Before I was getting about 10mbps. Then with the new computer I was seeing just under 100. I just tested with the Ethernet cable and 460mbps Download speed, 11 mbps Up load speed.

Now were talking. I should be able to watch mega porn now.

Originally Posted by CrescentCityRazors

Ubuntu 22.04. Dell laptop is my main device. It's polished and has a really big user base and peer support is great. Lots of great software in official repos. When I saw WinDOHs 8 I said ENOUGH. Jumped into Linux with both feet, burned my bridges behind me. There are other distros that are good. I tried Red Hat early in it's run, didn't like it or just couldn't figure it out. Went back to OS2 Warp for as long as I could keep it going. W98 and W7 almost got me back in the Microsoft cheerleading squad and then that atrocity, W8, was released and sent me running and screaming away and Linux seemed the only realistic choice. I installed Ubuntu 12.04 I think it was and the whole experience was so slick and smooth! No compiling stuff, just click and shoot. Tried Mint, Debian, a few other good ones, and some minimalist distros like Puppy, Raspbian on the Pi's, Kali, but always drifted back to Ubuntu. If I had to pay to run Ubuntu, I would. Next choice would probably be Debian.

And BTW, @Gasman, I bet you could write a dandy shell script that would run in a Linux terminal that would go through your entire drive file by file and back up anything that has been changed, to your backup drive. It would be a bit clunky and maybe resource hungry but you could set it to run only when you aren't doing intensive tasks on the computer. A shell script works like a DOS or WinDOHs batch file, or *.bat file, except it is orders of magnitude more flexible and powerful. You could also probably do something in Python that would do what you want. Essentially the task is simple... automatically go through the entire directory tree looking for new files or files that have changed, and copying them to the backup drive using the same directory structure. Periodically use the dd command to clone the working drive onto a fresh backup drive and store the old backup drive for a backup backup. Or whatever the windows dos session equivalent to dd is.

A more sophisticated approach would be an app running in the background, watching everything you do, and backing up anything that you save after editing. Not my style, that.

I'm on Xubuntu now, wanted to try xfce out,

Still stuck with windows for games and work, but I missed Linux and really had to go back.

Geek

Originally Posted by JBHoren

Which distro? I run Debian "Bookworm" on my Raspberry Pi 4B and Asus 900a netbook (Ubuntu "Bionic" on my really old P4 deskside).

On which machine your honor ?
Arguably the one I use the most runs on a specific distro (Home Assistant OS) virtualized on a ProxMox lol
My main computer is also a Ubuntu Jammy (22.04), Gnome flavor (I can barely stomach anything they add above)
I have a few PiOS here and there, some ubuntu-server for some purposes...

Basically I have a lot of dirt cheap (last one was 50€ port included) different computers each with the most appropriate linux flavor for the job.

But what I am frustrated about is that sometimes you have to have a Windows somewhere. Currently I need one because the only software that allows serious home automation (ETS for KNX) for my coming HVAC system will only run on windows. It's rated "garbage" on Wine.

Originally Posted by CrescentCityRazors

And BTW, @Gasman, I bet you could write a dandy shell script

He could (he has all the tools), but then I surmise he can't (he does not know how to properly use them), and think he shouldn't. Never reinvent the wheel and whatnot. *
He had someone do it for him in the past, and if he needs to do it again, he should try a few appropriate apps to see which better feeds his needs.

Originally Posted by GasMan

Now were talking. I should be able to watch mega porn now

♩ ♪ The Internet is for porn ♫ ♬

Get on with the program, though. You should do ASMR on your ham radio, sure would fill a niche

The only Shell I know of is where i deliver gas.
Making a program is beyond my understanding so that will never happen.

I tried a few free backup programs and they were to advanced for me to understand how to use. So Im just out of luck I guess. I can save my music and vids and pic on external HD and cross my fingers.

ASMR? I do lots of different modes on the radio but Ive never heard of ASMR.
And google just showed me someone whispering into a mic.

Not sure this is something i want to learn about.

Originally Posted by Gasman

The only Shell I know of is where i deliver gas.
Making a program is beyond my understanding so that will never happen.

I tried a few free backup programs and they were to advanced for me to understand how to use. So Im just out of luck I guess. I can save my music and vids and pic on external HD and cross my fingers.

ASMR? I do lots of different modes on the radio but Ive never heard of ASMR.
And google just showed me someone whispering into a mic.

Not sure this is something i want to learn about.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...9-5b95902415d7

Toward the bottom of that page is a bat file that ought to work for you. You first do a full backup of your user files using xcopy, then daily you can run this bat file to copy only those files that have changed. You can even schedule it to run automatically, I believe, using whatever WinDOHs uses for a cron utility. Periodically, do another full backup using xcopy or windows system disk creator or whatever, and unmount and physically disconnect that backup drive so nobody can encrypt your backup drive along with your active drive in a ransomware attack, a very real threat to windows users. Then, you only lose whatever files were changed or added since the last full backup was made.

It is amazing how an operating system can have such primitive functionality but be so bloated with flufferoo. Windows is the smores of operating systems. It really does not even have a good reason to exist.

and here's a cross platform gui utility for creating and updating backups.
https://freefilesync.org/