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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • I had a problem with my boss’s computer yesterday where Windows decided it didn’t need to load the drivers for one of the two built in USB 3.0 controllers. On boot, only one of the two controllers would work, either the one for the front ports, or the one for the rear ports, completely randomly. It would not load the driver for the other controller until I disabled and reenabled it in the hardware manager.

    BIOS recognized a keyboard or mouse in any of the 2.0 or 3.0 ports at POST, but if Windows failed to load the rear 3.0 driver at boot time, it dropped the keyboard and mouse.

    Workaround was to swap them to the 2.0 ports. Final solution was upgrading to Linux.








  • Those letters originate from the rights holders, who have leechers in the swarm, verifying that you are actively uploading data to them. Your ISP doesnt care if you torrent, or who you torrent to. They wont originate a letter unless a rightsholder requires them to.

    The rightsholder has your IP address, and the name of the file you sent them. Data for those files was sent to their leechers by your IP address, perhaps not by you, but by some machine operating on your network, or through it.

    It is possible that the letter to your ISP included a list of both IP addresses belonging to several of their customers, and filenames sent from all of those customers. It is possible that the ISP sent out letters to each of the individual subscribers, and just attached the full list of files from the original complaint.