How do I transfer music to my Eclipse MP3 player from Windows Media Player?
Any external media connected to Windows, with a file system that windows can write on (FAT/NTFS), will show up in Windows Media Player under the Sync tab, as shown in the screenshot above (SUPERMAN is the thumb drive’s identifier).If your Eclipse media player’s file system can be directly accessed by Windows, it will also show up here. I would recommend creating a playlist that contains all the songs you want present in your player. Keep adding/removing to this playlist as you use your PC, and once in a while connect the device and sync that specific playlist to it (WMP will skip all already-present files, and also remove ones that are no longer in the playlist).To go fancier, you can set up auto-sync in WMP settings and assign that playlist to it, so that you don’t even need to press any buttons, just connect the device with WMP open. Click on Set up sync… and choose the playlist(s).
What is the comparison between an i3 processor and a Core 2 duo processor?
There’s not one pat answer to that question, since there have been several different versions of the Core i3 introduced since 2008, some with different capabilities than others. But there are some common differences between the Core 2 Duo line and the Core i3 series.The Core 2 Duo processors were all dual-core CPU’s that lacked Intel’s Hyper-Threading technology, meaning they only handled one thread per core. These were actually highly advanced versions of Intel’s Pentium III processor, only using a fast version of the AGTL+ bus protocol that was developed for the NetBurst (Pentium 4) line of processors. The combination of the two, along with refinements in the processor architecture, created a CPU that was much more powerful than either the P3 or the P4 series had been. In fact, very old benchmarking programs will recognize a Core 2 Duo as two Pentium III CPU’s running at huge clock rates (by P3 standards).The Core i-series, which began with the Nehalem microarchitecture in 2008, made some significant changes. These were the first Intel CPU’s to eliminate the old front-side bus design entirely, moving the core logic that had been on the motherboard into the CPU itself. Intel also re-implemented Hyper-Threading, which had always existed on NetBurst (although not always enabled), and added it to the new Core series. Because of this, dual-core Core i3 processors can process up to four simultaneous threads, something that required the use of a Core 2 Quad previously.Aside from that, the only other difference is that Core i3 series CPU’s of any generation have architectural enhancements that allow them to do more work at the same clock rate, with each new generation increasing the performance gap. If you took a 3 GHz Penryn Core 2 Duo (the last C2D series) and put it up against a new 3 GHz Pentium G4500T (which is a Skylake i3 with HT turned off), the Skylake would still be about twice as fast, and maybe more.
Is it worth replacing a 9-year-old MacBook battery?
Well, Since 1992 roughly, Lead has been discontinued in the manufacture of Solder which is what is used to attach all the different electronic components on logic/mother/circuit boards, thus, the quality and lifetime of electronic devices are limited and more so with extreme conditions eg., electronics submitted to hot and cold whether from normal usage or differing conditions (Don't leave your valued electronics in the cold car - especially here in Canada, brrr!)I saw a picture (Science magazine of sorts…) of microscopic hairs (finger-like tentacles like lightning travelling in-between solder points of an SMD and/or Soldered CPU/GPU points causing the chip to short out in multitude of areas; Fingers of microscopic Tin, used in the manufacturing of new (lead-free) solder killing all hope of any life expectancy for All electronics, Apple stuff too.Personally I would buy a laptop for half the price and double the specs, perhaps a gaming Alienware laptop or Surface Pro 4 Core i7 with Detachable keyboard, and peripheral devices and of course Full Protection; nice solid case, glass screen protector, Google Account/FRP Locked etc etc etc, or a nice gaming laptop Woohoo, something that will hold its value & perform better than any MacBook Pro with its CPU & memory soldered onto the logic board thus making Junk that you can't upgrade leaving us frustrated by the following year.To answer your particular question however I would consider buying Chinese batteries from EBay, AliExpress, Amazon, ChinaDirect… & replace it yourself!(See YouTube videos for help!) for fixing those old machines and virtually anything out of warranty.This will keep costs worth replacing those old-school Apple parts which I find were the best especially the Macbook Pro from 2010 to late 2013 with DVD burner, ya! They still sell for $400., 500–600 maybe higher or lower depending where you are located.
Which laptop is best for hackers?
Well you can approach hacking from two angles:Hacking & CrackingHacking is more finesse than pure brute strength. A hacker could use a raspberry pi (Mr Robot) or a beefy computer to hack. It’s not about the journey it’s about the destination.Cracking has no skill involved. Sometimes it is necessary but there are so many other methods. Cracking is very fast guessing in simple terms. The more powerful the computer the more guesses. Cracking is a last resort.So your question - which laptop is best for hackers?Any laptop that can run linux (dual boot, live usb or virtual machine) can be used as a hacking device/laptop. Even a OnePlus3 could be used as a hacking phone as it can run kali linux (operating system with hacking tools preloaded).I’ve answered the question but I’ll give my 2 cents on the best laptops I think are most suited to pentesting/hacking.THESE ARE MY OPINIONS. PLEASE NO PC vs MAC DEBATES.Macbook Pro 2015.This is going to be controversial. But I think that macbooks (before apple axed the ports) were the best pentesting device out there. They have stellar battery life and build quality. They have excellent cooling and an aluminium unibody with lots of I/O (ethernet, SD card reader, lots of USB ports etc).And it runs UNIX which means it has C, PERL, PYTHON, SQL, BASH, PHP, HTML, CSS and more languages PREINSTALLED. It can also run virtual machines which means you can get bare metal linux goodness.2. Razer Blade 14.This is for all the windows fans out there. The Razer Blade 14 is an amazing machine. Again stellar I/O and build quality. Great keyboard. Bad OS. Long battery life. All round great device which can also run virtual machines and boot off of live USBs for Linux fanatics.3. Alienware 17It has great cracking performance and computing power for running lots of scripts and processes. It has massive amounts of storage and RAM. The disadvantages of this machine are that it is, it’s HEAVY and you get 3 HOURS of battery life on this machine. Compared to the macbook and razers 10+ hours of battery life you will certainly bringing your laptop charger to any pentest.Conclusion: Get a light laptop with long battery life. The laptops above are for people who want the best possible experience when pentesting. You could use a chromebook to pentest if you wanted to.Brian Kelleher
As a professional programmer, what is the best laptop you've owned and why?
I haven’t had a lot of nice laptops, but I just treated myself to a 2018 Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition (i.e. comes with Ubuntu instead of Windows), and it’s the best laptop I’ve ever owned. I had Mac PowerBook and MacBook in the past, but I prefer the XPS.I have to admit, it’s not the most fair comparison, since I owned the Macs more than a decade ago.The specs are pretty decent on this laptop (16GB RAM, 4.0Ghz 8th-gen i7, PCIe SSD, 2x thunderbolt ports, really featurefull docks available), but there are two main reasons I love it:Portability—both because of size and because of battery life. It weighs like two pounds, and it’s close to the size of a normal 11″ laptop even thought the screen is 13″ because the bezel is so thin. Additionally, the battery lasts all day. Longer than all day. They claim 16 hours. It probably depends what you’re doing, but I’ve got to believe it’s pretty close. I usually go for two or three days without charging it because I have a different work station at work. All this means you don’t have to take the charger with you almost ever, so you can use the laptop for extended periods anywhere you go. I don’t know if “portability” even captures it correctly. It’s more like “use-anywhere-ability”Came with Linux and all hardware features working flawlessly. As a person who prefers Linux for my desktop OS, it’s so nice to get a machine that just comes with it and doesn’t need a lot of extra work to get all the hardware working. If you’re a professional and you depend on Linux to do your job, preinstalled is the way to go.Anyway, there are other portable, powerful laptops out there, and there are other laptops that come with Linux, but none so far have scratched my itches like the XPS 13.