Author: benbam

1 April 2018

make or break – desktop power supply

according to the article enclosed, a good power supply is critical for long term stability and reliability for your personal computer. i believed this is also important in all electrical power driven systems. choose a PSU that is high in wattage preferably double what your desktop can output quoted from the same article below: “All about output Manufacturers usually list their power supplies’ output in […]

30 March 2018

rooting and unrooting android smartphones

the one reason for unrooting smartphones is to recover data(files or pictures) lost or deleted by mistake. after unrooting the smart device, you will not be able to do software update or google pay. to revert the pending action, you will need to unroot the device. at such, unrooting android devices seem tricky as there are many apps or software, some require you to pay […]

26 March 2018

mainboard troubleshooting – component failure analysis

To determine what would happen in a circuit if a component fails, re-draw that circuit with the equivalent resistance of the failed component in place and re-calculate all values. The ability to intuitively determine what will happen to a circuit with any given component fault is a crucial skill for any electronics troubleshooter to develop. The best way to learn is to experiment with circuit calculations and […]

26 March 2018

boot process – back to basics

the enclosed links described the boot process of a computer, this is the fundamental of computing. if you think thru the process when a fault happened in your computer, you can quickly identify the what is causing the fault in most cases. https://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Unix-and-Internet-Fundamentals-HOWTO/bootup.html   https://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Hardware_Software/BootProcess.asp    

17 March 2018

Quick Assist, Window 10’s Built-in TeamViewer-Like Remote Help Tool

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/intro-to-quick-assist-window-10s-built-in-teamviewer-like-remote-help-tool/ you need to login to your microsoft account, an email address associated with hotmail or outlook.com they probably want to track you, this is the downside. but it’s also the same for teamviewer, teamviewer has a hidden log which tracks the IP addresses of the hosts and destination. they generally used it to deduce if you are using teamviewer for personal or commercial use. […]

11 March 2018

losing your file when you unplug your usb drive from windows

it’s always advisable to select option to remove your external storage devices safely, files went missing after unplugging the external storage abruptly, do happen! recently, i tried to recover a lost word document on an external usb drive, it was not successful even with data recovery software, so i reckon that it is recommended to take precaution by setting up your windows system restore automatically(run […]

10 March 2018

the importance of quantum computing

quantum computing is the age of super computers, imagine computer processing speed like lightning that you have never seen before. i can think of the good side that it will make ransomware obsolete cos’ the time taken to decrypt the files locked on infected computers will be negligent. the downside is that cryptography, the method to lock and protect your files will also become useless. […]

27 February 2018

uncle google is keeping things to himself

i like using google search engine, and i have been using google for many years, mainly to search for things i want to know. however, i realise recently that uncle google is keeping the good stuff to himself. for good or bad, maybe classified information which they deem improper for the public. however, it’s still one of the best and powerful tool on the internet. […]