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Anyone know Sed's surname and care to PM it to me so Ican get this this thing shipped out today? And while I'm thinking of it: The T450 has two DDR3L slots but only a 42mm M.2 slot, so none of my existing M.2 SSDs will fit in it. I also noticed that there are three different screw sizes on the...

Clonezilla will have the same issues as Acronis with regard to secure boot/GPT disks. There's a really easy fix if you're the one responsible for installing the OS, which is not to use secure boot and GPT, but it's definitely a problem if you're trying to image arbitrary Windows systems.

Acronis's recovery environment is Linux-based. For a system that was built on a Secure Boot/UEFI setup, it doesn't have the security keys to read the content of the protected drive since it doesn't have a trusted bootloader, even for the 2016 version. You pretty much have to have a modern...

If you want fast rebuild times and 10GbE that doesn't cost a fortune, what you want is called a PC.

Wouldn't you buy a computer-only GPU if that was your concern?

Based on experiences with ~12TB arrays on ARM-based NASes, you're probably over 48 hours.

Here's a video of someone achieving a perfect game on the highest difficulty setting of the new Doom. It's five hours long. The single player game looks fantastically fun and atmospheric, and I can see a lot of notes about what id always said they wanted Quake to be like. I'm most surprised at...

Apparently they aren't. Rufus, which now as an automatic Windows to Go mode, says the MCT-created .wim files are specifically made to not conform to Microsoft's own standards. One assumes the USB installer would have the retail .wim, but it's anybody's guess what Windows build you'll be getting.

Funny thing I just discovered: The install.wim files present in the Windows 8 and Windows 10 Media Creation Tool downloads are not actually standard .wim files and can't be used for Windows to Go images. You have to have a retail Windows ISO to make a Windows to Go disk. I have the 8.1 Retail...

I use Acronis. It works for my needs, which include goofy stuff like cloning multiboot configurations. Every once in a while it barfs on something, usually GPT/UEFI boot setups that its Linux-based imaging tool can't read, but for those machines it doesn't seem like anything works unless it runs...

Maybe it's time to try a different drive clone tool?

How is your system configured to boot? EFI or BIOS?

I usually run 2TB+ drives through Seatools long diagnostic before I put them into service, no matter how I intend to use them. Seatools will test multiple drives in parallel, though it doesn't like being used on systems with more than 10 connected drives.

The reserved partition is most likely the result of an interaction with EFI on the machine. I don't think that's new behavior and I don't think it's exclusive to Windows 10.

Gmail absolutely makes URLs linkable. In fact, I don't think you can stop it from doing that even if it's unintended (throw a space in someplace if you don't want it to be). Gmail won't allow a whole range of file types to be attached directly to a message, including .EXE and script data. I've...

Proper file permissions and GPOs, particularly those that surround EFS/Bitlocker key distribution, would go a long way. I don't actually think anything is going to stop everything. If you have an up to date security suite plus the normal collection of appliances and proxies between users and...

Weird carp are probably a much bigger problem down in Oz. Probably poisonous. Or venomous. Or both. And covered with tentacles. And always carrying on about witnessing them at the gates of Vahalla.

Oh and also, I got sed's laptop today. Amazon sent me a Thinkpad L with a mechanical drive rather than a T with an SSD, so that thing is going back on Monday.

Mild deviation from topic to follow: VDI on Server 2012 is a pain in the ass to get running. I've done it for classroom sessions and it is, no joke, worse than setting up Slackware was in 1994. I'm fairly certain that Microsoft's instructions for getting it working probably qualifies as sales...

Who said anything about rechargeable? I have an MPOW Bluetooth receiver and a pair of monoprice Monitors rigged up. I use my old 8.9" Samsung tablet as a display/control system for it if I'm not running it from my phone. It more or less lives on a dock on a shelf above my towel rack. It's not...

You're putting them in a bathroom though, where you're unlikely to want or need a prefect listening experience. How long are you spending in there?

Good point. And I guess if that's his fetish and he has a dentist who is cool with it, more power to him.

Naw man. Throw a cheap XBMC/Plex client + some bluetooth speakers in there and set it up so you can run it from other Plex/XBMC systems. It's fantastic. Mount it on a wall in the back of the shower or something.

Well, yeah. The people I work for can't afford anything. Plus all these setups are going to be customized to hell and probably come with an infinite supply of support engineers, but on the off chance a number could come out, it would've satisfied some curiosity. The accounting for all of the...

They certainly can, if that's a module you need. I've not needed to investigate. I believe Untangle has its filtering module set up as part of a subscription package, but your standard-issue OSS system can probably run Squidguard if you want a free option.

It's fun to play with, but at the end of the day, it's a router in a low demand environment. Unless your requirements involve complex encryption or QoS needs, probably just about everything will do what you need.

There is zero evidence of this happening. Ever. Women getting violated by gender-conforming (cisgendered) males in bathrooms? Sure. But explicitly trans people perving on ladies? Please find some evidence of this happening. And there are already relevant laws for dealing with those issues...

Trump says stupid things and doesn't apologize. Here's the actual quote in question, though Mr. Trump has a history making insulting offhand remarks about Hispanics. "When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're not sending you. They're sending...

How much does one cost?

The GOP presidential nominee said without any tempering qualification that Mexicans are rapists. Is that somehow not racist? The party as a whole also believes, according to its longstanding platform, that women and homosexuals should be denied rights. That's the club to which republicans...

It did not stand out to me. But hey, if the racist, misogynistic, homophobic, anti-intellectual shoe fits, maybe you all could pull back on some of that rhetoric to make the comparison a little more remarkable than it presently is.

My biggest single knock against nvidia GPUs is that the cooling solutions seem to be of uniformly poor quality. They suck and die, followed swiftly by the rest of the card. Why would I want nvidia's reference cooler in the first place? Why would anyone?

No one in this thread or in timwhit's linked article used the term Nazi, SD.

Something surprisingly, shockingly non-trivial in Windows 10: Restoring the default Start Menu tiles. The powershell import-startlayout command is broken on Windows 10. I mean it just doesn't work for normal invocation. You can use it during a Deployment scenario, but it'll fail if you try to...

At home, my network runs through a VM with Untangle as the router OS. I could set up a router a whole lot of different ways and overall I don't think it makes much difference for anything I'm doing, it's just that I already had the Untangle VM set up.

Most of the time, when I see Bluestacks installed, it's so a kid can play Android games or run one of those mobile-only messaging apps. The people doing those sorts of things tend to be in the category of folks who know just enough to be dangerous. I can't say with 100% certainty that Bluestacks...

It might be just as well said that he walked back some of the wingnut crap he had to say to win the GOP Primary Beauty Pageant, but of course he inflicted Sarah Palin on a national audience, so I suppose some things just can't be forgiven. But hey, if you're willing to give up a Senate seat over...

I can't decide if this is exciting or not. I feel like I barely touch what my GTX 970 can do, but then I've also plugged it in to my TV and seen 4k games slide down to barely double-digit frame rates. Shipping consoles aren't able to handle 4k, so I suspect the amount of work put in to pushing...

I have a hard time believing you'd rather have an extra Democrat in the Senate compared to a hawkish Republican with the gravitas of a former Presidential run behind him.

We've had an obstructionist congress since at least the (first) Clinton administration. Even when one party has had full control of both congress and the Presidency, intra-faction fighting has done wonders to prevent any sort of lawmaking. It's worth pointing out that the Dems have around a 70...

It's not any sort of surprise at this point since we've widely discussed it, but sed's official, I-just-paid-for-it graduation present is a new Thinkpad T450. i5 / 250GB SSD / 8GB RAM / Windows 7. I'm going to see if I can upgrade the RAM and/or SSD before I pass it along, but I also purchased...

Sounds like that's the IP Helper Service doing its job.

Not that this will make you feel any better, but an overclocked Rpi can also manage some Gamecube stuff at the intended 480p resolution. Something with a Broadwell Atom, however, can step up to Wii levels. And the Wii controller is just a Bluetooth device, which is hardware anything that a...

I'm a big fan of Andy, a preconfigured Virtualbox machine that runs Android/x86. It's not a phone but rather a tablet session, but it runs well for anything that doesn't need specific GPU code (i.e. some Unreal Engine games). Edit: Also, stay right the fuck away from Bluestacks. Every...

One thing they could be doing is Hijacking an HTTP request. That's within the realm of possibility. They could also be using the Windows IP Helper Service and/or a Service of their own devising (do you have the ISP's Support software installed?) to bring up the login page. Since they have...

My friends like to do this thing where no one can go at the same time but they all like seeing super-hero movies with me. So I'm at three viewings now because of COURSE I want to go again. I'll be happy to break down what's going on in as much or little detail as anyone would like. Also...

For all two of the other Windows 10 users, if you're on the fast update release cadence, you can get Adblock Plus for Edge now.

SF members have been amazingly generous this week. Seriously.

You probably could do the work you need with something like Partition Magic, but you're also risking the possibility of killing something the laptop want in order to boot. Starting over is going to be easier if you can take the time to do it.

Navy Pier!