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  1. Mercutio

    Best Way to Open an .OST File in Outlook 2013

    Are these clients still part of an Exchange-managed organization? I think you can just attach the .OST files per this. You might have to do some screwing around with re-naming files to get them to open.
  2. Mercutio

    This is the thread for the discussion of interesting apps.

    Switch to the desktop app. You can install it through Ninite. It's better behaved anyway.
  3. Mercutio

    Windows 10

    Correct. I have every confidence that it'll work just fine. Remember that a hardware ID is generated and passed during activation regardless, so they're probably just assuming that the key that passes the static "legit check" at install time is fine and can be assigned to the new Windows 10...
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    NSK2400 build notes

    That's going to be a seriously nice little machine.
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    This is the thread for the discussion of interesting apps.

    Are you using the Desktop program or the Modern-style built-in app? They are different things.
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    This is the thread for the discussion of interesting apps.

    Outlook is shitty regardless of its intended platform. Excel and Word are very usable. Onedrive and OneNote are very solid tools. Definitely more hits than misses.
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    Windows 10

    8 or 8.1. And you have to start with the November 2015 Installation media, which I have but was generally pulled from public access. I haven't tried with 7 because Windows 7 keys actually have value in and of themselves whereas the only thing I'm ever going to do with a Windows 8 key from this...
  8. Mercutio

    HP laptop still slow -help me determine why

    That Turion P520 can be outperformed by some Core 2 Duo CPUs and is 30% slower than a first generation (c. 2009) Core i3M. That guy is going to be slow in a way that just isn't going to be fixed.
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    This is the thread for the discussion of interesting apps.

    I don't know that it's actually a bad thing. Windows BADLY needs a better on screen keyboard and actually almost all Microsoft's software for Android is pretty damned good if you have some reason to want it.
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    Windows 10

    I've found that I can use Windows 8 product keys from fresh installs of the updated Windows 10 media from November.
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    Goodbye Firefox

    For about two days, I was getting a "Upgrade to Chrome!" message when I hit Youtube on Palemoon, the same message that IE6 or weirdo third party browsers (e.g. Dolphin) users get. And then I stopped getting the message. I don't know if that's something Palemoon did or something Youtube did...
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    Goodbye Firefox

    Palemoon isn't constantly packaging new third party software. Palemoon has no plans to discontinue fully functional NSAPI plugin support. Palemoon isn't fucking around with a touch friendly default theme that absolutely no one asked for. Palemoon doesn't change user defaults when its sponsorship...
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    Goodbye Firefox

    I'm sure I can, but it's a case that I'd rather be seen in metrics as using a current, modern browser so that it can be counted and considered for support.
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    Goodbye Firefox

    Palemoon no longer uses Gecko as its underlying rendering engine, but rather a fork called Goanna. Absolutely the only change I've noticed because of this is that Youtube now gives me a message that I need to upgrade to Firefox or Chrome when I browse there, and defaults to a much less...
  15. Mercutio

    Proposed NAS build

    I did have some weirdness when I upgraded my storage box from Server 2012 to 2012r2. The LSI driver wouldn't initialize until I uninstalled and scanned for new hardware in Device Manager. I wrote a script that automated doing that, but some time in the last few months it started detecting and...
  16. Mercutio

    NSK2400 build notes

    You've definitely had more patience with that whole system than I would have. Especially over a bad DVD drive. I'm not saying to set it on fire and then piss on it but I'm just going to say that's something that's made me feel better about a bad DVD burner in the past. ;)
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    Best movie you've seen

    I also like Dark Matter, though the premise seems to be more "How close can we get to re-making Firefly without getting sued?" than anything else. It's definitely B-grade material but I liked it.
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    Best movie you've seen

    Over the weekend I binged on a TV series called "The Expanse." Thomas Jane is the only actor I recognize in the cast, but it's a hard science fiction conspiracy thriller with high production values and good acting. Only eight episodes have aired as I write this but it's well worth checking out.
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    NSK2400 build notes

    Intel's web site is a goddamned marvel of organization compared to HP's. Just be glad you don't have to go looking for that sort of stuff on anything more than a very irregular basis.
  20. Mercutio

    Best movie you've seen

    Check it now. It's all there.
  21. Mercutio

    Need a computer in Roseburg, Oregon, fast.

    You misspelled "strip clubs"
  22. Mercutio

    Skylake i3 6100 integrated graphics of AMD Radeon HD 7770?

    The 7770 is substantially better for gaming but Skylake has full hardware decode support for modern codecs (e.g. HEVC) and of course the 7770 is going to have much higher TDP and extra fan noise. The answer to that question for the most part comes down to whether or not you card about fill rates...
  23. Mercutio

    Linux nub

    I'm just going to say that Handy's assessment of OSX is almost entirely the same as my own. I see a lot more "Hey, why doesn't that just work?" on OSX than I ever did on Windows (where things do actually mostly just work, or else I know exactly how to configure them anyway) or Linux (where...
  24. Mercutio

    Windows 10

    Off the top of my head, at the grub prompt, hit e, then add the word "single" after the word "splash" in the grub config, then boot with F10. You'll come up in init mode 1 with a passwordless root prompt and you can sudo passwd root so it's something you actually know. Edits to the running grub...
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    Best movie you've seen

    The book is well written and very amusing. And, having spent time around a lot of engineers and physicists, it's also quite tonally accurate in a way that's not common in filmed entertainment.
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    Windows 10

    You can always boot into single user mode and reset the root password.
  27. Mercutio

    Small case build

    I was curious to see how well games would play at 4k, so I pulled out my GTX970 and tried it on my TV. Frame rates in games I have are mostly in the high single digits. 4k isn't really practical for gaming and I'm not aware of any games that are designed with 4k play in mind, but it was that's...
  28. Mercutio

    Pine A64 platform, starting at 15$

    I set up RetroPi, an emulator front-end, and IMMEDIATELY hit the wall of the thing not having the horsepower to play games I wanted to play on it. I've done RasPlex and OpenElec on them, but it turns out the Pi has a hard time with high video bit rates and won't decode some sound formats. They...
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    Pine A64 platform, starting at 15$

    Of course, it's the same problem as the Pi. I had to struggle to come up with an application where I wanted to use one instead of just running my work through a fully functional computer that I already have.
  30. Mercutio

    Brave browser

    Static, text-only content created and hosted on the server with the content you actually visited is probably the least objectionable case.
  31. Mercutio

    Lots of Snow

    I am happy that it missed Chicagoland for once but you have my sympathies, Bozo (and probably jtr).
  32. Mercutio

    Something Random

    Azure's pricing is unreasonable based on our current needs.
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    Something Random

    It's licensing hell no matter what we do. The mandate is to get two machines in two different datacenters with full failover so that the whole stupid thing can operate on one out of four nodes. All of this is coming from one person overpromising on availability to someone who is really, really...
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    Small case build

    Having now tried it, 4k on a GTX970 is not very impressive, but you get a lot of time to appreciate the details of each individual frame. The GTX750Ti is extremely capable at 1280x720 and max detail. At 1920x1080, almost everything intensive I can try drops below 25fps. On the other hand, this...
  35. Mercutio

    Brave browser

    It's telling that the project isn't based on Mozilla software, but I still see Chromium-based browsers as having very limited privacy controls and a weak addon ecosystem regardless. Moz doesn't do Sandboxing, but it does have Noscript and RequestPolicy and it also has NPAPI (I have things that...
  36. Mercutio

    Something Random

    choco install -y flashplayerplugin choco install -y flashplayeractivex My fun new project is setting up four a four way SQL Server cluster. I've never needed to do that before but I have to get it done sooner rather than later.
  37. Mercutio

    Cheap Servers

    I literally just paid $10k for four 64GB E5630s and associated hard disks and crap. You're just doing this to taunt me. :P
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    Adblock Plus "Malware Domains" filter sub breaks YouTube

    I've seen a couple videos that included a "Hey, if you like this, watch what I do on Youtube Red!" Functionally, those channels are now full time ads shilling the idea of giving Google, rather than the channel creators, more money. Of course, I'm also not going to be watching an external ad any...
  39. Mercutio

    Windows 10

    I have Windows 10 on my laptops and mobile Windows devices and also on about 130 desktops that I manage.
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    Adblock Plus "Malware Domains" filter sub breaks YouTube

    Do you think maybe Google is deliberately messing with people who are using Ad blocking?
  41. Mercutio

    Microsoft Storage Spaces vs. RAID Level

    That's a new one, but I've not tried Server 2016 yet. You might find that it's easier to work with Powershell than doing things through the GUI. The Server Management UI is weirdly half-baked for making Storage Pools.
  42. Mercutio

    Synology DSM 4.3 upgrade to DSM 5.0

    I went around and did OS updates on my few Synology boxes after Heartbleed became a known issue, but mine are all just stand-alone NASes that only talk to client PCs. I pulled the drives before I did the OS update as standard practice. I don't remember having any issues.
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    Microsoft Storage Spaces vs. RAID Level

    I've bought IBM and Dell machines in the past that had the trays, but they were full preconfigured systems rather than barebones. Intel always gives me the trays, too.
  44. Mercutio

    Microsoft Storage Spaces vs. RAID Level

    It appears that the first one I opened is just bad hardware. Machine #2 behaves like a computer that works. Lenovo also didn't ship me any drive trays. They're $25 apiece. Jerks.
  45. Mercutio

    Synology DSM 4.3 upgrade to DSM 5.0

    Maybe this will help?
  46. Mercutio

    Best movie you've seen

    I'll have to move my Rifftrax stuff to the machine you can access. You're only on one of three servers. :)
  47. Mercutio

    Something Random

    McD's pies usually are pretty tasty. Especially when you can get two of them for $1. I like the strawberry ones they have in the summer.
  48. Mercutio

    Windows 10

    My thought: So? You're not going to want to use today's Sky Lake hardware in 2021 any more than you'd want to run Windows XP on Sky Lake now. It's probably possible (I suspect it'll be technically possible to make 2021-era CPUs run Windows 10 as well, unless there's a huge change in driver...
  49. Mercutio

    Best movie you've seen

    Added. I've been to the Fathom Events Riff shows a few times and I don't think I've remembered to keep even a single one of my download codes for the audio tracks they release. IIRC, they're included in the price of the ticket somehow. The trailer for the rest of this season's episodes of Star...
  50. Mercutio

    High-performance SSDs for Desktop use

    Interesting, there were a couple guys on /. the other day making comments suggesting they work for one of the big storage pod firms, that the Helium drives ARE significantly better for reliability. If they're both more reliable and represent a path forward for standard, non-shingled recording...
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