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One of my video cards kept crashing and showing various artifacts. Usually this happened when playing youtube.com videos or using DirectX. Video card was GIGABYTE nVidia GTX 460. When crashing, Windows temporary disabled both monitors / displays and, then balloon tip appeared showing: [Display driver stopped responding and has recovered] Display driver NVIDIA Windows Kernel …
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Today, reading Larry Osterman’s blog, I learned something new. I always knew, that physical access to computer / server almost always means, that it may be compromised in one or another way, like Cryogenically frozen RAM bypasses all disk encryption methods. More here. One thing I didn’t know, is FireWire (IEEE 1394 interface) Security issues. …
Today, after installing Oracle Database 11g R2 Client there was no ODBC driver listed under Data Sources (ODBC) window. First I tried to change Setup type to Administrator, then Instant Client, etc… noting worked. Then I remembered my last issue with Same / different file problem on 64-bit / WoW64. As you remember, you cannot …
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