Recent content by berry120

I suspect you're correct. A good friend of mine had a theory that the internet in "common" use would grow smaller horizontally and larger vertically as time went on, and that seems to be panning out. Back in the day "common" users of the internet were only the tech elite at universities - as...

I very occasionally poke around here now, but as others have said this site has long been dead. Reddit, Stackoverflow, generic Facebook groups and the like have definitely taken over from traditional forums, and that trend only seems set to continue.

Unfortunately if the normal repair tools don't work, then you're probably out of luck on an "easy" solution. The only other thing I can recommend (short of a data recovery specialist) is to write your own program to examine the file in light of the DBF file structure (DBF file structure. Xbase...

Bad phrasing on my part. I'm certainly not justifying the rise in house prices and corruption of (some) politicians. I'm one that's often quibbled about it myself. It just seems like small fry compared to the struggles of last century. Please do campaign for better housing, less corruption...

...and due to how stats were recorded at the time, that's often only physical injuries. Shell shock and other serious mental conditions often weren't recorded in the same way. Not too long ago I found my great, great grandfather's WW1 records - they were horrific reading. He survived the war...

In the past, 7-zip has (for me) been able to open and extract zip files that windows has reported as corrupt. It may be worth giving it a go: https://www.7-zip.org/download.html If that doesn't work, I can recommend ZIP repair - I've used it a couple of times with promising results...

I'm ummed and erred about this for a while, but ultimately NVENC seems to still have a few unresolved problems with its HEVC encoding - amongst others, it has a habit of creating rather large bitrate spikes in the output (so often causing performance issues on playback devices), it can't use B...

Likewise, but I've also been considering upgrading. Not for games mind you, but I regularly do HEVC video encoding, and an 8th gen i5 would get it done a lot quicker than my current offering...!

Please drop the inappropriate jokes. I get it was meant as a harmless joke, but bear in mind not everyone who posts here may be at all tech savvy, so what you see as a joke may be unintentionally taken seriously. On the other hand, if you've got any good advice related to the question at hand...

To give you an idea of past activity - back in the day when I joined (and even that was after the real peak), a topic posted in any of the popular forums would generally get pushed off the front page within half an hour.

Yeah, sadly the traditional forum format feels like it's long past the peak it had (which was probably about 10 years ago now.) I haven't seen any popular new forums around for ages - the ones that are still going seem to be those that had the momentum to start with, and kept it. Absolutely...

Nothing is ever wrong with asking a question, however the way you asked it came across as much more inflammatory than curious: If you were genuinely asking a question out of curiosity there, "so, tell us again" was not the way to start - it sound much more like an inflammatory remark than a...

And did you forget that you were the one that originally stated that "Hospitals and ambulances in the US are using laptops and GPS to keep track of events", in response to laughing at ambulances in the UK sometimes using, just as they do in the US, another form of communication? ...and that was...

I assume that was your roundabout way of admitting that you were wrong, and ambulances do use other means of communicating when mobile phones aren't available? ;)

I did check the phone coverage maps and noticed there were several regions that didn't have any coverage at all. Granted, most are in areas that aren't populated, but it still means that a phone signal won't always be available wherever you are in the US... Genuinely out of interest, what other...