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We are doing performance testing of guidewire application,related batch process and REST API. We have a requirement to monitor batch processes and REST API performance with Guidewire monitoring tool. I am new to this. Can someone suggest how to monitor this and get performance statistics from GW inbuilt monitoring tool.

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When repairing a motherboard and its components such as the CPU (Central Processing Unit) and RAM (Random Access Memory), it's important to note that glue is generally not used in these processes. Glue is not a suitable or recommended material for securing or repairing electronic components on a motherboard. Instead, specialized techniques and tools are employed to ensure proper connections and stability.

Here are some guidelines for repairing a motherboard, CPU, and RAM:

Proper Handling: When working with delicate electronic components, handle them with care to prevent damage from static electricity. Use an anti-static wrist strap or mat to discharge static electricity before handling the components.

Troubleshooting and Diagnosis: Identify the specific issue with the motherboard, CPU, or RAM by troubleshooting and diagnosing the problem. This may involve checking for loose connections, damaged components, or faulty circuitry.

Component Replacement: If a component is found to be faulty or damaged, it may need to be replaced. This typically involves carefully removing the old component and installing a new one, following proper installation techniques and ensuring compatibility with the motherboard.

Thermal Paste Application: When installing or reseating a CPU, it's important to apply a thin layer of thermal paste between the CPU and the heatsink. This helps facilitate proper heat transfer and cooling. Clean off the old thermal paste using isopropyl alcohol before applying a fresh layer.

Secure Mounting: Ensure that the CPU, RAM modules, and other components are securely and correctly mounted in their respective slots or sockets on the motherboard. Follow the manufacturer's instructions and guidelines to ensure proper alignment and seating.

Power and Testing: Once the repairs are completed, reconnect all necessary cables and power sources to the motherboard. Perform thorough testing to verify that the repaired components are functioning properly and that any previous issues have been resolved.

It's important to note that motherboard repairs can be complex and delicate tasks. If you are not experienced or comfortable with handling motherboard repairs, it is recommended to seek assistance from a professional technician or an authorized service center to avoid further damage or complications.

By bringing AI to people through search engines, Microsoft and Google are accelerating a significant shift in computing, and the hardware and datacenter infrastructure powering the applications may be one indicator of success.

Microsoft and Google unveiled next-generation AI-powered search engines last week that can reason and forecast as well as give users more thorough responses to their queries. Similar to how ChatGPT can offer in-depth responses or build essays, search engines will be able to generate comprehensive answers to complex questions.

In order to answer to text inquiries, Microsoft is integrating AI into Bing, while Google has announced plans to integrate AI into its text, image, and video search engines. Last week, the announcements were made on consecutive days.The businesses understood that a robust hardware infrastructure was necessary for integrating artificial intelligence into search engines. The corporations withheld information about the hardware used to power the AI computation.

Microsoft and Google have been developing AI hardware for major announcements like last week's AI search engines for many years.

The AI computing infrastructures used by the organisations diverge greatly, therefore the viability of the search engines will be put to the test by how quickly they respond and how accurately they deliver results.

An insider with knowledge of Google's plans has verified that the TPU (Tensor Processing Unit) chips used in its cloud service power Bard. Microsoft said that its AI supercomputer in Azure, which most likely runs on GPUs, can produce results at the rate of search latency or on the order of milliseconds.

This sets up a highly visible AI computing competition between Google's TPUs and Nvidia, the industry leader whose GPUs control the market.

Teams from all over the world were constructing and powering equipment and data centres. We were meticulously coordinating and setting up a complicated group of distributed resources.

Sincerely, I did not foresee the development of AI. I had thought that the unit of measurement for computer power would always remain ghz. Hardware rendering has been faster over time. But given that DLSS and other comparable applications use AI already, I'm concerned that it could eventually replace our GPUs. Excuse my ignorance, but if AI is already able to place "fake" frames between actual frames, might it possibly do so in the future? What if, for example, the GPU only needs to render one frame per second? possibly even little. AI takes care of the remainder, filling it in at whichever framerate you want.

The thought that GPUs might one day perform the same functions as AIPUs is both intriguing and unsettling.

Currently getting increasingly frustrated with my 5K widescreen LG monitor for an assortment of reasons.

How to secure a computer network?

Hello People,

I am not much oif a techie guy.
I got fed-up of using laptops for about a dacade now and so reverted back to pc.
PCs in Europe last 5 years with no hardware issues but here in Asia you are lucky if a part does not fail after 12 months. So bought this pc (as parts and got the shop to assemble it) and after 1 yr the power supply died. So went to another shop and had it replaced. Bad thing is, the new part died about the 3mnths later. Got fedup of the pc and now started using the old 2015 laptop for about 6mnths now. Got to get the pc working again as this laptop is 2 yrs out of date now and might die on me anytime.
If this laptop was bought here in Asia I know it wowuld have long died on me before the 5yrs was over. Chinese goods, hey!
Anyway, this is my Asian pc spec. I need your advice which power supply to buy (spec) so it lasts atleast 12months and nbot a lousy 3 month or even 1 month!

PROCESSOR: INTEL CORE 13 3RD GEN
S/N: #1635

MOTHERBOARD: GIGABYTE INTEL CHIPSET H61M-DS2
S/N: #184540016033

RAM: ATA DDR3-4GB
S/N: #213900264632

STORAGE: TEAM 120GB SSD SATA
S/N: #AA2319310519
WARRANTY 1 YEAR

MONITOR: DELL E1916HV DISPLAY 18.5"
S/N: #AA2319310519
WARRANTY 3 YEAR

MOUSE: LOGITECH B-100

KEYBOARD: LOGITECH K120

CASING & PSU: SPACE D-096

HARD DISK WESTERN DIGITAL (WD)
WARRANTY 1 YEAR
S/N: #WXDIAA0M2326

UPS: SANTAK R60
S/N: #190408-87430065

Can someone tell me if the parts specs are good or bad or ok ?
I bought all these back in Christmas 2020. Was the spec good for that year ?
For some reason the parts, especially the monitor feels like light-weight and toyish. You know how chiinese goods feel. Cheap and light weight. Toyish feeling which do not last long, unlike 80's Japanese hardwares and parts (electronics) which were heavy and good quality, lasting over 5 years. In Europe hardwares and parts (electronics) feel heavy and good quality lasting atleast 5 yrs. Hence I had no problems with my PCs and laptops, ever throughout the 5 yrs guarantees. No parts ever need replacing. And the PCs/laptops last well over 5 yrs too!
Nevertheless, they are not that much high tech quality as the Japanase electronics hardwares & parts as USA been suppliying the European markets since the 90's (ever since Japan started losing the global market as the dominator) and USA hardwares (electronics) are not that solid (good quality) as Japanese were.
But these Chinese light weight stuffs, which flood the Asian markets are a real light weight, crap quality and a total disgrace. Parts come with only 1 year warranty and most die within or fater 3 months and need fixing or replacing!
Very different from the PCs I bought in EU. hardwares there feel like real stuffs. Not toys.
This crap of a pc I bought here (yes in Asian Market) for the first time in 2020 as starting to be a headache. Hance, asking you all these questions on my spec. The shop said it was not Chinese parts as they are bad quality and last very low time. I can't remember if he said the parts were from Taiwan or what. I think he said Taiwan or maybe he said Korea. Cannot remember fully.

Good Evening Folks,

I got some basic questions on Tablets.

Which Tablet do you recommend I buy to use for php programming ?
I never bought a Tablet before. Now taken an interrst to buy one but need to buy one suitable for programming. I Always program using pc or mobile phone. Now let us change this.

What bare min spec I should get ?
Ram ?
HDD ?

To hookup an external keyboard & mouse, which ports must the Tablet have ?
USB ?

To hookup an external monitor (like to my desktop pc monitor), which ports must the Tablet have ?
HDMI ?

To hookup an external monitor (like a 22 inches internet tv), which ports must the Tablet have ?
HDMI ?

Are there any Adapters I can use to hookup the Tablet to external hardwares like monitors and TVs ? What are these adapters called and which you recommend ?

Which IDEs you recommend for my Tablet to program in php ?

I been reading reviews and some people say it is ok to prigram in a Tablet while others don;t recommend it saying the onscreen keyboard would take-up most of the screen.
If I hookup the Tablet to an external keyboard then would not the Tablet detect the external keyboard and auto hide the onscreen one or I have to manually hide it ?

Which Tablet you recommend for Android OS to program with a suitable php IDE ?

Anything else I should know ?

My budget is 200 British Sterling. That's $300USD.
Planning on learning Python and building websites aswell as desktop softwares for PCs, Tablets and Mobile Phones.
And ofcourse, need to install wamp/xampp as localhost.
So bare this in mind when responding as the hardware got to be good enough to deal with all this.

Thanks!

I recently built a logic probe adapting a circuit from an old magazine. One of the modifications I introduced is adding a polarity protection diode (1N4007) in series with the positive power rail, because the probe is intended to be powered from the circuit under test and I want to avoid damaging the probe should I mistakenly connect the power rails to the wrong place.

This has led to a small error in the definition of the voltage levels the probe recognizes as HIGH and LOW. That's because the thresholds are defined by a 3-resistors divider placed across the rails, which in the original design sensed the actual supply voltage of the circuit under test, and which now suffers from a 0.7V drop due to the protection diode.

I didn't want to modify heavily the circuit, so I thought of connecting the upper leg of the divider directly to the power rail of the circuit under test, bypassing the protection diode. I simulated the circuit with LTspice and everything is fine.

Here are the schematics for the input stage and the power supply stage:

My question is: is this design decision risky in case of a polarity inversion in the rails?

In this case I reckon that the current that may flow along "wrong paths" will be heavily limited by the resistors of the divider, which are rather large. Moreover the divider is connected to the inputs of an LM358 opamp, which should be quite insensitive to reverse voltages spikes of modest energy content (it's a bipolar design, so no MOSFET gates that can be damaged by voltage spikes even if current-limited).

Am I missing something? Is my reasoning correct?

P.S.: I assume a max reverse voltage of 20V (worse scenarios are less likely, and I won't bother to design a foolproof protection scheme for those).

Hey, I am facing this problem from yesterday and I was just using my pc like normally and I plyggin my wifi adapter and speakers but suddenly a BSOD came and it restarted my pc a few times, I tried the automatic repair but after that my pc won't boot and fans and lights working but dispaly not coming plus mouse and keyboard also not working.
When I reseat the ram after that the pc would boot, but afyer a shutdown it won't boot again.

--Things I did--

1. Removed CMOS and placed back after 5 mins
2. Check cpu pins all great

When I pressed the on button, it started for a second and then stopped. It then repeated this process every 4 or 5 seconds without me touching the on button again.
before the problem I was have
Intel core 2 duo E5700
Motherbord : G41m sp20 ms-7592
I replaced the cpu by Pentium 4 to try a overclock , but I was stupid because I didn't use a Cooling paste ... the temperature was 95 in bios so I switch of the power quicky then I removed the Pentium 4 and replaced it by E5700 ...
I tried to switch on the power and problem starts...

Hi all...

I have a problem with the computer not booting from the hard drive, where as if I look at the BIOS setup the hard drive is recognized.
I'm using a motherboard from Asus H110M-E M2

thanks for advance

My pc not coming on and it's fully changed, every time I try putting it on the power bottom keep blinking blue, i don't know what is wrong, could some one help me out here?

My Dell Optiplex 760 won't start but the start button blinks twice then waits for about 3 seconds and blinks once more before it repeats the process. The numbers 1 and 3 also appear every time the power button blinks. Can anyone tell me what it means. Already tried disconnecting the power cord and pressing the start button for about 15 seconds or more and nothing.

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