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@LunarMist, how are you testing? For the Windows 11 upgrade checker to work you need to ensure: CSM is disabled in the UEFI Secure Boot is enabled. You are booting from a drive that is GPT and using the UEFI/GPT bootloader. TPM enabled in the UEFI (either called TPM, fTPM, PSP or PTT) and the...

I don't think it's that bad...(It's still a high number, though) On the Intel side of the fence most Intel chipsets post-Haswell era, have PTT in the chipset (PTT = Platform Trust Technology aka TPM). It'll be hit/miss in the early 100/200 series chipsets, but IIRC all 300, 400 and 500 series...

Interesting note: The min specs for Win11 have increased (no surprise there), but TPM 2.0 is now a hard requirement... https://www.pcworld.com/article/3622940/windows-11-system-hardware-requirements.html

And now it's formally announced,,, Seen a few of the youtube channels have reviewed the leaked beta, and IMHO if's 'meh'... nothing to see here, move along type stuff.

Looks like Sony is exiting the DSLR market to focus on mirrorless: https://www.engadget.com/sony-is-no-longer-selling-dsl-rs-091012774.html

@sedrosken Any interest in the older 8bit (6502 / Z80) or early 16bit x86 systems? If so I've found the following two YouTube channels of interest: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE5dIscvDxrb7CD5uiJJOiw/videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8uT9cgJorJPWu7ITLGo9Ww/videos The first one does...

My wife's allergist and immunologist earlier this week have both heavily advised that she not get any of the current vaccines on offer in Australia, as they don't have enough case studies and evidence on safety for select groups of people especially for those with immune/allergy related...

So, Facebook in order to comply with proposed Australian Law, has decided to remove all news articles and links to mainstream media sites, as well as pages for the news media, etc, rather than have to pay a fee to the media outlets... And most of the news papers are crying foul on Facebook...

We've had a few of these for testing, and seem to work well in the storage roll: https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/motherboard/X10SDV-7TP4F?locale=en And using PCIe to M.2 adapters you can increase to a total of 5x NVMe devices. (1x onboard + 2x on M.2 adapters on the 2x PCIex8 slots)...

Saw this yesterday on LTT:

Well, the 2nd impeachment was tabled in the House and passed... Just waiting on the Senate now... Source: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/14/the-guardian-view-on-trumps-second-impeachment-urgent-and-necessary

Looks like (as reported here), 2nd impeachment may be tabled and voted on in the House tomorrow (13-Jan), with Senate vote likely one week later. The question moving forward, if impeachment is not tabled or fails, how likely will Trump contest the next election or have one of his very close...

I just hope all of you stay safe and out of harms way... Things are looking to get a little worse before they get better. For those following, which is the most likely outcome? 1. 2nd impeachment? 2. 25th amendment? 3. nothing and hope the place doesn't get torched?

Happy New Year to all...

Just like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and hope you enjoy a safe and pleasant holiday period. For all others who also celebrate other events at this time I also wish a: Happy Hanukkah Io, Saturnalia! Happy and Joyful Kwanzaa Happy Constitution Day Joyful Feast of Winter Veil Happy...

@Merc, great to see you back.

Nikon Is ending 70 years of camera production in Japan, and moving production to Thailand, https://www.mirrorlessrumors.com/nikon-is-ending-70-years-of-camera-production-in-japan/

Going to be a stone throw from Dreamworld...

And to top it off, yesterdays temp was 36C (97F) and today is looking the same...

I hate moving house.... Last time was just over 11 years ago...

I went and tried to find out when Samsung switched from SLC to MLC to TLC and QLC on their products and even some of the product datasheets don't list the technology of bit cell count. Listing just Samsung V NAND as the technology doesn't tell me much, since there is 2bit, 3bit and 4bit...

Restrictions in some Australian states were also brought some criticism at the time due to certain scenarios being allowed, and not other in regards to gatherings. But all in all, they were aimed to protecting the community at large, and would appear to have worked. Here is one classic example...

I don't think his own ego will allow himself to be 1 term president. (the last being IIRC Bush Snr).

US hits 1million new cases in less than a week. https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/21/health/us-coronavirus-saturday/index.html WTF is going there? Also todays paper reported that Donald Trump jr has tested positive as well?

So what's the mood in the streets throughout most cities in the US at the moment? Any serious threat of civil unrest or possible civil war between the two factions? From what's being reported here, that most vocal Trump supporters appear quite fanatical?

I'm surprised how close it has become... What's being reported here in Oz, is that Biden pretty much has won it (assuming he wins NV). However lots of reports of claims that Trump's allies and even himself will launch legal action over various aspects of vote counting, etc.

Hasn't been for years... Many consider the US to now be a Oligarchy, due to the power of lobbyists on government policy. That is, policy and law is not governed by the populous belief and public desire or for the betterment of all, but rather the invested interests of a few (non-elected)...

The main reason for mentioning the 1060, (it's IMHO still a decent card even today), was to ensure they weren't paying full price for what is either old stock or as you mention 2nd hand... If they got a good discount on it, then a good buy.

Trump has covid-19?

Didn't realise people still had stock of the 1060? (replaced by the 1650 and 1660 over 18mths ago). I assume it's the 6GB version and not the 3GB version?

Aren't both Opera and Vivaldi now based on the Chromium rendering engine? (aka Chrome).

Can't offer any recommendations for an AIO, as pretty much all current models with Intel CPUs all only use Intel HD graphics (which is still questionable performance wise). Most of the AMD based models are using the older A-series instead of Ryzen APUs. Admittedly I could have missed a few, but...

No need to apologise, I myself was at one time one was a member of the SR forums, and migrated to here a few years before Eugene sold it... (the quality of posters was steadily dropping, and saw a post mentioning here that the 'old timers' were migrating to). IIRC, the migration occurred as SRs...

That SR review? When did they become worse that Toms Hardware? Seriously bench marking a storage device through Hyper-V, and not clarifying if the guest OS had direct/sole access to the device? The SQL transactions per second look like RAM/CPU limited and not storage limited... The WD Blue SSD...

IIRC, F8 is disabled by default on Win10, you need to actually enable the function via GPO / registry! You can force win10 to give you safe mode via: 1. Boot, and when you first see the spinning dots, press and hold the power button to force shutdown. 2. Repeat step 1, 3-4 more times. 3. The...

Sounds like a BSOD boot loop? (Had a few in the early days on Win8). Are you able to start windows in safe mode to at least run some diagnostics? https://www.thewindowsclub.com/windows-10-stuck-screen-restarting-will-not-boot

@time, thanks for the information. The InWin 301C was my preferred case (at the start), however when trying to limit the entire PC build to AU$1000 and wanting discrete GPU and decent power supply, you need to make sacrifices in some areas, and in this case it's the case... (no pun intended)...

There are a few 3rd party fan control implementations for macOS. Just need to try a few to see which one works for you... FYI. having fans go at 100% was a common issue for a lot of older mac's when the drives were replaced. IIRC the EFI firmware only compares the new drive details against a...

For those looking for a B550 based motherboard, the following (and pt2 and pt3) were interesting...

If you've changed nothing on your end, then it really does point to a problem on their end.

Could be a problem at either end, as I've seen weird problems with some sites load balancer's not directing traffic correctly that cause these sort of issues, or could be stale cookies on the client side giving information that the server doesn't like. IIRC Firefox has started using DNS over...

I thought that as well, but some USB drives don't play well with some DRM systems, as they (the DRM system) expects to be able to talk directly to the drive (via ATA commands), which may or may not work depending on the USB bridge being used. Funny enough the Silverstone PS16B is still the...

Hi, Just a quick reply, if anyone has done any research into this, thank you. However I've gone through all the games that would need the optical drive and none work on Windows 10. ;( (Most are EA titles like Sims 2, Spore, etc). This negates the need for the optical drive. The games in...

Hi Guys, Just want to double check I haven't missed any small mATX cases, with my kids new builds. They are both getting entry level gaming systems, and need to find a small case to fit in their desks. The cavity itself is 280mm wide x 420mm deep x 500mm high. (11" x 16.5" x 19.5"). Basic...

Seriously? https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/08/trump-advisor-reportedly-pushing-herd-immunity-idea-lambasted-by-experts/ I don't know if this quote is fitting or not? "A Single Death Is a Tragedy; A Million Deaths Is a Statistic" -Joseph Stalin

It's being reported here in Oz, that it's expected that a lot of US citizens will postal vote in the upcoming US elections (due to illness/covid/etc), however there has been no additional allocation of resources to the US postal service to cope with the extra load, with many fearing that their...

Went back to working in the office three weeks ago, after working from home since March... Now back to work from home for the next 7-8 weeks... (Damn you second wave).

Seagate FireCuda 520 (500GB PCIe 4.0 NVMe) reviewed: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=seagate-firecuda-520&num=1

Well, where we are (SE QLD), we had most restrictions/limits removed a few weeks ago as stock levels got back up and people realised that panic buiying/hording wasn't necessary... (we were nearly back to normal).

I think we have evolved from homo-sapian to homo-sapian moronis.