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Nope, it was taught that way to ensure the AD setup could work with all other OSes that forced strict RFC compliance with DNS names... eg work with Mac, *BSD, GNU/Linux, etc...

NETBIOS allows underscores, but DNS does not... (RFC952 Sec 1) cite: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/909264 From the MS article:

Have you contacted Synology support? And also contacted Konica Minolta to inform them that their firmware is broken...

Have you tried adding the domain name to the user name? eg DOMAIN\username as it's often done when you want to access objects that are not part of the current domain. Maybe the CIFS server only uses the domain name if accessed via the computer name (the pc name is part of the SMB/CIFS...

Just like to wish everyone a belated Happy World UFO day... (2nd July) http://www.worldufoday.com/ The truth is out there...

My mother in-law had her AC replaced a few years ago (Panasonic unit) that works quite well... BUT we wouldn't recommend Panasonic units mainly due the warranty conditions. (very tight on what they consider covered under warranty, and Panasonic has a general policy of always repair - never...

I've been running it for a number of years. My now standard Firefox setup has NoScript, Ghostery, AdBlockPlus and Lightbeam installed. Pretty much blocks most crap, and lightbeam shows all the connections that are possible even with those blockers. http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/lightbeam/

FYI, Most business class laptops (like the D610) from that era had similar or higher resolutions. Approx 5-6yrs ago, the race to drop prices resulted in lower res screens for both desktop monitors and laptop monitors. Case in point, my two 20" TFTs are now 8+yr old and are 1680x1050 in res...

I certainly can't wait for the "Internet of things"... (Just imagine the botnet that one could create when that becomes a reality).

That was my thought in regards to both? Why does a BMC need direct access to the Internet, and the only reason I can think of giving a NAS direct access is if has FTP or web functionality tat you wanted to explicitly expose... Yes these sorts of things shouldn't happen, but security requires...

That's what thermite is for! (disposing of drives with sensitive data).

Agree 100%. But I was under the impression, that once write limits were reached, the drive would remain in read-only mode indefinitely and not brick themselves at some point in the future (and I suspect many users would expect the same sort of thing).

Thanks for the update. Interesting that the Intel and Kingston bricked themselves when write's started failing, so limited opportunity to get data off the drive when writes have been exhausted...

Sorry, I have no idea what you are talking about?

Take the warranty through Hitachi... Be safe rather than sorry...

My last jump was back in '99. Just a 900ft static line jump, whilst fun, is over in a minute.

Isn't there some consumer law in the US regarding: 1. False advertising? The product is not as decribed. 2. You can't offer a "new" product without warranty? I know in Australia, both of the above practices (whilst do occur) are illegal. You have the right to return a product (within a...

Seeing how they typically treat home and SMB OEMs, I don't think they care at all.

Just made a batch of cookies with the kids... Yum, yum, yum.

@Tannin, the same would also apply to AMD as well... considering their sockets tend to have a longer life span in availability, but you pretty much always require a BIOS update if you wish to use a new CPU in an older motherboard. How is that any different in the current Intel world since socket...

IMHO it's the BIOS/UEFI developers that are at fault... The basic problem is that they don't have a safe fallback mode if an unknown CPU is installed, but instead rely on discrete lists of known CPUs and required configurations. If the BIOS on startup doesn't recognise the CPU, then they...

IIRC, it's alsa muting by default. Use alsamixer to unmute the primary channel, then save the alsa state. Reboot and you should be fine. Out of interest, did you have these issues under Arch, or has installing Ubuntu proven to be more difficult due to oddities in the defaults?

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Most likely... Ensure you have all the required gstreamer libraries installed, and ensure your user has access to the audio subsystem. (I can't remember the correct group membership required on Ubuntu). Also have you unmuted your device? (Alsa be defualt on installation will mute all output...

There are Server '08 drivers available... (which may require some mod's to the *.inf file to install) https://downloadcenter.intel.com/SearchResult.aspx?lang=eng&keyword=dc%20p3700

Actually I would consider Ubuntu's (and by extension Debian) starting of services automatically upon installation before the user can configure them correctly to be horribly, horribly broken on multiple levels. I'm sorry I don't see how using pacman is any more difficult or different from using...

Umm, no it's not... Try minix or Plan9... (Their fdisk programs require you to manually work out the correct LBAs yourself to get the best sector alignment, and some scary moments with installing their boot managers). I don't see how that happened since all the DE's and login managers have XOrg...

Unfortunately, with the recent changes the Australian government has announced, it will become a possibility. (The common theme is that the students loan system here will move to a US style system).

P5, I totally agree, one should have personal responsibilty to repay their debts. (My personal debt is approx $25K total, and have started repaying my debt already). For clarification, in Australia, the government will take on the student loan only for your first university level degree (if you...

In line with JTR mentions, in most European countries where loans are used for University level education, the state will wipe the debt if not paid after 15-25 years, as it's assumed that after this time if you haven't warned enough to repay the debt, you're highly unlikely to in the future...

Something doesn't smell right, but since there are other platforms available migration shouldn't be too much of an issue. I personally would like to know how TrueCrypt is not secure? PS. The link is malformed...

May be of interest: http://www.anandtech.com/show/8030/backup-guide

This is the part that worries me... Are Adobe going to provide the binaries for all platforms that Firefox runs on? (I'm thinking the *BSDs and Solaris mainly, and where GNU/Linux runs on non x86 architectures, eg ARM, SPARC, MIPS, OpenRISC, etc). And I certainly don't trust Adobe to write...

Sounds like you just lost the first sector, and just restoring the MBR with partition information is enough to get the disk back. (If however the on disk filesystem structures have been overwritten then backups are your easiest and best option). Was the disk using MBR or GPT partitioning? (GPT...

Likewise, I would rather lose some CPU performance and memory to not have to deal with ads... (Also, something the article fails to mention as a counterpoint - over the past few years, people wishing to spread malware are now targetting ad servers to act as serving hosts for drive-by malware...

Thanks for the update. Hope the issues regarding insurance get sorted out so things can get moving.

Re: 3DES vs AES256 - AES256 anyday of the week. (Most VPN appliances have crypto-accelerators these days, so it's not much much of an issue to use AES). Re: IPSec vs SSL** based solution... This will depend entirely on the OSes and equipment and what they can support. Setting up IPSec tunnels...

@Tannin, no problem. I only hope that by the next ESR release Mozilla has back pedalled a little bit on or corrected the UI. (ESR being targetted at enterprise environments, were change is a little less desired).

Tannin, do you know about the ESR releases of Firefox? These are the stable long term suppoprted versions, and receive bug fixes as needed... Current ESR release is Firefox 24.5.0.ESR. (based on FF 24). https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/

I don't mind the changes, the only issue I have is how tabs are now rendered. It's hard to make out the different tabs with my current GNOME theme, as well as the default GNOME theme (in both GNOME 2.30 and GNOME 3.10/3.12).

Chnaged the default theme and layout... (It's more Chrome like). http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/hands-on-with-firefox-29-more-customizable-more-chrome-y/

I interested in how and why you have this opinion that "Linux clowns" are intentionally trying to be different? Do you consider the Windows UI and UX and other MS developed technologies to be the pinnicle of achievement? Do you consider the effort to improve the UI/UX or other core technologies...

Already happening... LSB (Linux Standard Base) already defines a lot, and a lot of distros' are moving to using systemd as the init environment... The only other change is package management, but with GUI applications handling most of the underlying differences, most users shouldn't be too out...

Seriously, WTF, this is a clear money grab... especially targetting those users who only upgrade their desktops/laptops when they die. (eg every 5-8 yrs). As for GNU/Linux taking over... I certainly would love to see alternate systems getting more market share than Windows (ideally, I would...

Just did it... (This is certainly not the worst, but the most recent). Rather than erasing the external backup drive I use (was reformatting the drive to change the filesystem being used), I accidently deleted the mid-tier/near-line copy of the data! (I use a tiered system - live/active data on...

Arstechnica review of 14.04LTS: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/ubuntu-14-04-review-missing-the-boat-on-big-changes/ Done mainly from a stand alone desktop perspective. It's not the review that interesting, but the comments... Some have noted issues with Samba...

I haven't seen anything in 14.04 that is a must have upgrade over previous versions... If it was me, I would test it throughly in all required configurations, especially anything to do with samba and AD.

As meany of you have most likely read Ubuntu 14.04 LTS has been released and is available for download. (most derivatives are also available as well). I've been testing it (specifically GNOME Ubuntu 14.04) at work for deployment, and have come across a major snag in deploying in a corporate...

FYI, with DLNA IIRC there is only 1 mandated video and audio codec (MPEG2 and MP3 respectively), however the DMS (DLNA Media Server) and DMP (DLNA media player) may advertise support for additional codecs, via the client profile as setup via uPNP. If there are matches, the DMS and DMP may use...

Re: Red Bull + mixers. I've never understood the whole Red Bull / Energy Drink thing, they taste horrible, leave a bad odor on my breath and I didn't feel any buzz after trying them... I've seen many people drink the Red Bill + vodka at pubs/nightclubs and the general feeling I got was people...