@XInterverse thanks for the sub on insta 
@anon32498208 thanks for the comment on YT
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is SATA disk inside or IDE?
it would be faster if you took out the HDD and connected it to some more modern PC/OS
and then transferred the contents from disk to disk
later you put the disk back in the laptop
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Iāve been subbed for a while on YT!
But you canāt see that since I have subscriptions set to private
??? To Google I go!
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You need to boot to BIOS to find out. Google will not work
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or open the mask where the disk is and remove it (disconnect the disk)
and you see if there are dozens of pins = IDE
or is SATA
if is SATA and disk is big enough (100+ GB)
you can buy for little money a case that has a small adapter inside (chip) and so you get a portable USB hard drive.
if you have a desktop PC also
then you donāt need anything, but like me you connect the disk and put a backup there, separate it and save it in a safe place
so I have a few of those SATA / 2.5āā as backups storage.
it doesnāt matter so much ā¦ you can always play a video (screensaver) with the aquarium and put it next to your fish to have company and light from the display
better than throwing it away
I extended the camera from an old laptop that was up there on the display (which is actually USB just doesnāt have a standard connector but is connected to the motherboard) and then I use that laptop as a magnifying glass when I solder some small things
set the plastic wheel on the camera so that the focus is on things that are close, etc.
it can be used in many ways
you set up a smartphone (also one you donāt use) to stream video to some internal IP via some app for that. e.g. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pas.webcam
and you use that laptop as a monitor that displays nonstop the video it receives.
You put your cell phone somewhere where you want to have surveillance but to be within range of WIFI
or use all as a mirror (and you look at yourself from different angles )or whatever.
better than throwing away
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Nope.
Specifications: 1.7-GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor, 256 MB memory, 64-MB Nvidia GeForce2 MX graphics accelerator, 37.25-GB hard drive, 16x/10x/40x CD-RW drive, 16x DVD-ROM drive, floppy drive, 10/100-Mbps Ethernet, 56-kbps v.90 modem, one free PCI slot, three free USB ports.
Oh thatās a good idea!
Lol
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Gotta work today. Sorry if I havenāt responded.
Also, why is my post on replit all of a sudden a spammer magnet, it hasnāt even been active (besides the spammers) for a year or two!
https://replit.com/talk/ask/mail/28592
(Yes, I reported most of them. The mods donāt seem to react after them just deleting post after post so I gave up on the most recent ones)
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There has been a 25% increase in all attacks since russiaās invasion of Ukraine began
but spam often infiltrates and sleeps or makes normal posts with some random text like āokā, āI like itā etc.
to gain trust
after 6 months or 2 years spent sleeping
then access to all those thousands of accs are sold on the black market and the buyer then manages it ā¦and they fill in the content he wants.
it may be plain human spam and / or mix
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I was reading a replit post about how to crash a computer by infinitely opening command prompt windows with :KRPE
I couldnāt find any documentation about it, so I looked it up. No official command documentation on https://developers.microsoft.com
However, I did find a webpage with the exact same code
However, this webpage is scary, itās a forum (like ours), but filled with people talking about hacking tactics and stuff. It even gives guides to high schoolers about how to hack! Is this possibly a dark webpage?
Replit post: https://replit.com/@icerix/How-to-troll-your-friends-computer-with-4-lines-of-code
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infinite loop
but nothing would happen because many have multi-core CPUs
and one CMD is performed on one core
so you should at least run 4 such instances or more to freeze the PC
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So even though it is spamming so many windows it wouldnāt freeze? What about the GUI? Wouldnāt that get messed up?
which GUI?
itās about the processor doing the same thing because itās in a loop and comes quickly to 100% CPU
and then it doesnāt matter if itās a program, a game, an OS or a GUI
everything slows down and starts to be not responsive
while true; do echo; done
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Ah yes, I must spread the great works of Poe:
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Thatās what Iām saying. In your previous post, you were talking about it not affecting the computer much.
Wouldnāt it do so for the reason you explained?
I am sadly uneducated in command line languages.
What does the ādoneā command do? Does it signify the end of the loop so it can loop over again?
depends on where you run it
if something is written to use all cores then it will use all cores
but CMD and such command lines
they mostly use a single core
so it is necessary to insert it in the code
to create a few more BAT files and call them
and in them to start one and the same thing again
and then you have e.g. 4 pieces working at the same time
although it may also be too dependent on the cpu
because the CPU may be at 50%
you donāt care what he does ( done ends a while-loop in bash)
rather, it is essential that the cycle be repeated (endless loop)
like:
1 start here
2 if 5 > 1
goto 1
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Yeah. I just wanted to know what done did.
Good stuff to know.
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here is one form of the human infinite loop
- say out loud AAAA
- if you hear AAAA go to point 1
you will get tired quickly 
and the processor performs millions of actions in an instant
and then of course it starts to heat up more and so on
and there is no time for anything elseā¦
nothing else comes up for processing because it is busy with a loop
so everything waits and waits its turn
and PC (or anything else) becomes non-responsive and mostly restart button on the case is the solution
if you are fast enough CTRL + C can help
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