Mr. Coltrane was most famously known worldwide as the Harry Potter character Hagrid. Among many other shows he also played in 2 James Bond Movies.
BBC News, Robbie Coltrane: Harry Potter actor dies aged 72
Robbie Coltrane IMDB
Pictorial: Remembering Robbie Coltrane (1950-2022) IMDB
Thursday News
Nvidia Geforce Game Ready Drivers 522.25 WHQL
Support for several new games, “also includes significant DirectX 12 performance optimizations which can dramatically improve performance for GeForce 30 Series GPUs.”
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AMD Ryzen Chipset Drivers 4.09.23.507
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Intel Wi-Fi Driver 22.170.0
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Intel Bluetooth Driver 22.170.0
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Google Chrome Updated
“The Stable channel has been updated to 106.0.5249.119 for Windows,Mac and Linux…This update includes 6 security fixes”
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Patch Tuesday
Windows Updates
Over 60 vulnerabilities addressed in both Win10 and Win11.
Win10 – October 11, 2022—KB5018410 (OS Builds 19042.2130, 19043.2130, and 19044.2130)
Win11 – October 11, 2022—KB5018427 (OS Build 22621.674)
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Prepping For Major Windows Updates
It’s been a while since I’ve written about this and with Win10 22H2 coming soon I thought I would post this for new readers.
In the past I used Service Pack updates as an excuse to clean, tweak, and organize my computers as if it were a new install. Gone are the days of Service Packs as Microsoft has moved to a yearly major feature update (version 20H2, 21H1, etc.).
The end result for me is the same and I employ the same strategy as I did before.
* A note before we start, all my “backups” are disk images using a Macrium Reflect Free bootable USB drive.
See: Using Macrium Reflect Boot Media and Macrium Reflect Boot Disk In Action
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Weekend News
Firefox 105.0.3
“Mitigated frequent crashes for Windows users with Avast or AVG Antivirus software installed”
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Google Chrome Updated
“The Stable channel has been updated to 106.0.5249.103 for Windows,Mac and Linux”
Bugfixes
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Audacity 3.2.1
Bugfixes
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Samsung Magician Software 7.2.0.930
It’s back.
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Tuesday Random Stuff…
PowerToys 0.63
“Microsoft PowerToys is a set of utilities for power users to tune and streamline their Windows experience for greater productivity.”
Smaller installer, bunch of fixes.
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AMD Software Adrenalin 22.10.1 OPTIONAL Drivers
Support for Overwatch 2 and 2 small fixes.
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Firefox 105.0.2
A few bugfixes.
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Samsung Magician Software 7.2.0.930
It was downloadable this morning and I installed it. Now it’s gone.
Looks like maybe there was an issue? If you want it give me a shout and I’ll send it to you but I would advise against it at this point.
Loretta Lynn, coal miner’s daughter and country queen, dies at 90
“Loretta Lynn, the Kentucky coal miner’s daughter whose frank songs about life and love as a woman in Appalachia pulled her out of poverty and made her a pillar of country music, has died. She was 90.”
Loretta Lynn – Wikipedia
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Weekend Random Stuff…
Google Chrome Updated
“The Stable channel has been updated to 106.0.5249.91 for Windows, Mac and Linux…This update includes 3 security fixes.”
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GPU-Z 2.50.0
“a lightweight utility designed to give you all information about your video card and GPU.”
Support for new hardware, a few fixes.
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Off Topic
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Wednesday News
Google Chrome Updated
“The Chrome team is delighted to announce the promotion of Chrome 106 to the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux…This update includes 20 security fixes.”
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Wise Disk Cleaner 10.9.3
A few minor fixes and improvements.
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Still hanging around.
Tuesday News
AMD Software Adrenalin 22.9.2 OPTIONAL Drivers
Support for Ryzen 7000 Series Processors and the game Grounded.
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Nvidia Geforce Game Ready Drivers 517.48 WHQL
Support for Overwatch 2 and over a dozen other fixes
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Intel’s 13th-gen “Raptor Lake” CPUs are official, launch October 20
Intel is announcing three new CPUs today, each with and without integrated graphics (per usual, the models with no GPUs have an “F” at the end): the Core i9-13900K, Core i7-13700K, and Core i5-13600K will launch on October 20 alongside new Z790 chipsets and motherboards. They will also work in all current-generation 600-series motherboards as long as your motherboard maker has provided a BIOS update, and will continue to support both DDR4 and DDR5 memory.
Best Thermal Paste for CPUs 2022: 90 Pastes Tested and Ranked
Even though there are a dizzying array of different thermal pastes available — some blends have been around for longer than a decade — new formulations still come to market at a surprising pace. In fact, long-time PC cooler-maker NZXT just entered the market with its first paste, the not-very-excitingly named NZXT High-Performance Thermal Paste. Long-time TIM-maker Cooler Master also just introduced a new purple CryoFuze, and Alphacool also recently introduced its Apex thermal paste, showing that the TIM market is still thriving. Both of these new pastes will make it to our test bench soon, but we have plenty of tested pastes for your perusal.
Friday News
Yeah, I know Windows 11 22H2 was released. Just. Don’t. Care…
Audacity 3.2.0
Free, open source, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux and other operating systems.
Over a dozen changes, 9 bugfixes.
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Firefox 105.0.1
“Focus behavior” fix.
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AMD Software Adrenalin 22.9.1 OPTIONAL Drivers
Enhanced Sync fix, support for CoD Modern Warfare Beta.
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