Heck, with the right app your smart phone can handle it.
In WWII, my father was in charge of a 155 mm howitzer crew. He used a piece of wood about 12" x 18" with a laminated chart on it. There were quite a few variables listed. It used wind speed, distance, etc., to calculate the shot. He claimed that by using the chart, they could hit any target by the third shot.
But only if you are smarter than your phone.
I was curious about the details of that and found an article which pointed out that your smart phone is literally a million times more powerful than the guidance computer used in the early Apollo flights.
The AGC (Apollo Guidance Computer) had 64K of memory and ran with at clock speed of 43KHz. According to the article, a USB-C charger is “smarter” than the AGC.
Pretty amazing stuff, and nowadays we take it for granted.
https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/smartphone-power-compared-to-apollo-432/
I am noticing since the new “ads at the bottom” feature has appeared, browsing the forum now springs a malicious website block from Norton often enough to be annoying. This was a problem on another forum-style website with third-party ads until that site took steps to kill the problem.
This is not quite as ‘stunning’ as it appears at first glance. The USB-C protocol includes a number of features that must be actively monitored and managed (high available DC power, for instance) on top of the requirements for effective power conversion with acceptably low levels of RF interference. The device also has to ‘know’ how to communicate effectively with a diverse range of potentially connected equipment.
I at last got around to following the advice presented several days ago. I appreciate not seeing the ads at the bottom of the content I want to see.
Thank you.
As you have done, I did last night! ‘Ad Block’ on my machine ! Now I am able to see what interests me, without having any interuptions. It was some good advice…
I do have another question: Regarding a ‘message’ that slides in over Outlook. It has to do with a Notice, regarding an ‘unrecognized’ USB device.
. I am pretty careful as to email messages. I do not open any that are not from someone on my contact list. one that appear to be advertisements, or ‘sales’ feelers. I seems to get ‘regularly’ SPAM in my ‘Junk Mail’ I just delete it regularly. My household Wi-FI is P/W protected, and to date has not been a problem.
Any help, or advice; would be appreciated.
Probably an infection. You should promptly run the malwarebytes Anti-Malware, from a ‘bootable’ stick drive if you can.
I presume you are aware of whatever USB devices you have connected to your system. A very common ‘dodge’ used by weasels is to make you think there is some awful Stuxnet-like consequence about to happen to you, or some conspirator who has secretly attached a pendrive to steal precious secrets or whatever. There’s probably a link of some kind that you’re supposed to click, either to fix the problem or find out more about it. Do so about as readily as you’d stick your hand in a cobra’s mouth.
I surmise from context that you see this happy little scam when you’re reading e-mails, not in your Internet browser. It was probably imported and loaded when you clicked on something in that program, perhaps a link sent by someone who didn’t realize he’d been hacked or infected himself. I expect the latest version of Anti-Malware will catch it; you might also want to update your antivirus protection ‘just in case’.
Thanks, Overmod! I had had high hopes for the installation of the Malewarebite Program, as well. I had used it as a free version several years back…This time I bought the bullet. and paid for the upgraded version to be installed!
[soapbox][#offtopic] I tried to get it to work right for about a week; and followed many of their installation macro programs to work out my issues… I never could get it to corerectly install, let alone run! I was hard up against their limit of 99 installations, and still BUPKIS. So I advised them of my problems and requested my payment back; it was over a week later they responded, and offered no solutions, fortunately, I had paid with a card…Took them(the credit card) a month to get it refunded to my account.
I had had high hopes for it, but they sure poured cold water on my enthuisiam.[#dots][banghead]
Rant off! [sigh]
That literally astounded me. I’ve been using their stuff for many years, across a wide range of platforms and software, and never had an issue with it.
Is it possible you got one of those ‘discount’ people who purport to provide software at ‘10% discount’ and then insert themselves as middlemen with middleware for the customer ‘support’? I actually fell for one of those things while ‘on hiatus’ in Erie when I needed an online purchase of file-recovery software on an ‘emergency basis’.
Never did quite get all the links to the actual customer support (in Europe) of the package I had supposedly ‘bought’, although there were all sorts of e-mails promising quick and effective solution.
BTW, the online scan version of Anti-Malware has always run effectively on my Windows environments, and requires no download or local storage at all. If you have a trusted connection or VPN with adequate bandwidth, I recommend you see if it solves the issue you were having.
Today the pop-up ad was partly covered by a Kalmbach ad to subscribe.
Well, the fake update scam pops have now expanded from the Nutrisystem ads to others. Whoever Kalmbach sold the bottom popup feature to is providing a virus-clogged product. And I might add, an annloying distraction. Solution is to hit the “back” button and close the popup, but on every page the virus shows up (about 80 percent the past day or two), this is getting annoying.
Still not seeing any popups…Even more surprising is that when I previously accessed youtube videos under windows, I almost always was forced to watch their preliminary ad videos before viewing the desired content.
But using knoppix live I have never been required to sit through that. I never woud have anticipated this benefit
I have had no popups since I deflated them several days ago.
This YT behavior is probably not a client side software issue. I see unskippable ads at random both on my Roku and Firefox/Linux Mint. Most of the time they are very short.
Interestingly, I haven’t seen those obnoxious pop-ups in a while despite Ublock Origin being turned off on this site. Perhaps the upstream ad wholesaler caught on to a bad actor and cut them off … maybe.
It does seem hard to imagine. But throughout the past decade I have found using Youtube under windows without being forced to watch their ads to be an extremely rare pleasure. It happens, but maybe in 3 out of every 20 launches. So much so I just came to expect ads all the time.
Since switching to Knoppix, I have not once been subjected to mandatory ad viewing at Youtube. Not even the ones that give you the “skip ad” option after a few seconds…not even one.
Can’t explain it, but sure am loving it. [8D]
When something suddenly stops working on your computer, the first thing you want to do is review any recent changes you have made…new drivers…updates…new programs…stuff like that. Well, when their ad server got ‘broken’ I had just switched to knoppix.
Perhaps they search for cookies to determine what ads to show me? (just speculating)
AdBlock (free version) seems to be working for me on Firefox, for now…