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Whilst many many people who are technology minded certainly understand your paranoia (and many also have the same feelings), I don't think the average person (who has already handed over everything to Facebook, Google, Apple, etc) really cares about either point. Therefore, as the majority don't...

What are you wanting to do? Simple file format conversion? Apply filters/transforms/etc to the files? What OS/Platform?

That's the exact same board I have in my main home system. Excellent board. The only downside I've noticed with ASRock boards in general, is that the DIMM slots are very tight which has lead to DIMMs not being seated correctly, and POST error reporting is very lackluster, but otherwise very...

My thoughts as well. (Haven't dealt with the RD550, but none of the other 1RU servers I've dealt with are in form quiet). Mind you, even a F/A-18E Super Hornet at full throttle/after burner can register a 35db reading with enough distance between the aircraft and recording device...

If you're a MS dedicated environment, (AD, MS Office, Exchange), the Sharepoint is hard to look past due to it's integration with AD and Office. IIRC, Sharepoint itself is free, provides wiki functionality, forums, file repositories, etc, however it's search functionality is sh*t without...

Rereading the last few posts, the AV industry really has a lot to answer for... Like producing a vaccine that causes some other horrible condition that you are left wondering was the vaccine really worth it?

Came across another one today... Have found a patch was released just around end of Dec that would cause issues with the ntfs.sys driver (typically a BSOD on shutdown, the cause was reported being in ntfs.sys). MS have redacted the original patch, and re-released it. The only thing in common...

MS are extending the spread of the "Get Windows 10" application to domain connected systems now. However, they are also releasing GPOs to assist in removing the pop-up notification for those systems, if the sysadmins don't wish to have end users notified... (which is a good things, as it's the...

I'm actually a little surprised that Intel don't test internally with Prime95 or a similar application?

Thanks for the input guys. We've decided to go with a few Kingston V300's in USB3 enclosures. (AU$85 for a 120GB V300 + enclosure).

@time, thanks for references. I've tested a few of the keys that we tried previously, and most top out at 40-50MB/s sequential read/write, yet when I eventually found the specs of some of the certified usb keys, most are way above 200MB/s sequential read/write... I'll pass on the idea to throw...

The main issue is the current set of keys we have, all tend to have really sluggish moments when starting applications and when any IO is involved. None of our drives are on the official list...

Hi Guys, We've started to play with Windows to Go at work (both Win8 and Win10), and the area we are having issues with, is finding decent 64GB/128GB USB keys that perform well in this role. Has anyone used a set of keys that they are happy with in this role?

Has anyone else had problems with recent Windows 7 updates borking the installation? I've had 4 installations (2 in VMs, and 2 laptops - both w/AMD APUs) boot directly to the System Recovery console and attempt to repair the system. The SRT log shows the cause to be bad patches and/or patch...

Protocase will custom make according to CAD plans... http://www.protocase.com/ We used them at work to build a prototype enclosure for an embedded system, and very happy with the quality. Oh, and they also build these: http://www.45drives.com/

Surprised no one has linked this yet: https://theintercept.com/2015/12/28/recently-bought-a-windows-computer-microsoft-probably-has-your-encryption-key/ Note: Only applies to home users, corporate users with Pro/Ent versions on a domain don't need to worry if they are not using a Microsoft...

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...

I do agree the bezel is a little large, however size wise, I'm personally more interested in sub 24" displays (so I can two of them), or the ultra-wide displays (21:9 ratio) if above 27"... What is interesting about it, it's a 10bit** panel (most are either 8bit or 6bit) for US$1300... US$800...

Anandtech review of HP's new Z27q 5K monitor... http://www.anandtech.com/show/9870/hp-z27q-monitor-review-aiming-for-more-pixels

During write, it's our own forensic acquisition software generating the load (so is dependent on the source device and contents as well), but when the source is an SSD, the SSDs read performance easily outstrips the write performance of the Toshiba... All our software uses O_DIRECT for cache...

We use some of the 2TB Toshiba's (DT01ACA200) at work, and we also see ~170-180MB/s sustained off them. (Reads 170-180MB/s, writes 160-170MB/s, with both slowing as we get towards the end of the platter)... Block size = 64K, queue depth approx ~128 (avgrq-sz), file size is 500GB-1TB+. (OS =...

Once I realised Jar Jar was a Sith Lord, ep 1-3 started to make more sense...

We tried it (an earlier version) in the office and was very impressed with it, we did however have a lot of work to do it get it integrated with AD. But reading the current documents (v8.2) the issues we had with AD integration are mostly solved now... The only area which Sharepoint was better...

Waiting until closer to Christmas when the attendance has started to decline a bit...

IIRC, MS worked closely with the NSA on securing Windows during the development of Vista and also with 7... Therefore most of the requirements for a high security configuration can be meat with the use of GPOs and don't requirement much of anything else... NSA guidelines for OSes are publicly...

Hi Guys, Haven't really commented on this, but please be aware that any patch MS provides will break sh*t, as this flaw isn't some coding issue, but rather a policy/procedure issue in regards to how MS decided to use kerberos. Kerberos Golden Tickets have been known about for a while now, just...

More often than you would think (especially if you consider cars as well**). Basically the engineers work out how much stress on the gears there are during the complete rev range for each gear, determine the materials required and then reduce the amount of materials (in order to reduce cost) but...

Our son's Mottled Scorpion was delivered today. (Will try to get a better picture later on when it's not hiding in the cave setup). Also here is a good view of the underside of his Whip Spider. If you look closely you can see the primary pincers which has spikes a lot like a praying mantis...

As for other presents (besides lots of Lego), our son is also getting a Fringed Jumping Spider and a Mottled Scorpion for Christmas. I'll take photos when they get here... As for pets total (and this will seem like a zoo). A Border Collie and Jack Russell dogs, a Ragdoll cat (we are foster...

We've both had our own fair share of bites from various things over the years, myself having been in the Army for a number of years, and also enjoying hiking and camping... My wife has worked with various wildlife rescue services over the years, and also studied for a veterinary science degree...

And here is one of my daughters Giant Panda Snail, which she is also getting as a Christmas present...

Here are two pictures of our son's Christmas present... She bit my wife, and my wife said the bite was one of the worst bites she's ever experienced. (and that includes being bitten by spiders and snakes (pythons)).

In addition to the wiki on Samba's website, the Arch Linux instructions appear fairly detailed. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Samba_4_Active_Directory_domain_controller

To be honest, never have tried setting up Samba as a AD DC, only as a NT4 DC. Haven't had the need to... Setting up samba as a NT4 DC failed the first time, but once knew what was missing and what the (poorly worded) error messages meant, had no issues getting with working with Windows NT4 and...

In case you haven't seen this elsewhere: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/15/12/07/1642241/microsoft-will-resume-pushing-windows-10-to-machines-with-win7-81 TLDR; Microsoft are re-enabling the Windows 10 update that will automatically install Windows 10...

Is there any word if they intend to do the same with other server applications? eg Exchange, MSSQL, etc? Otherwise unless a business is strictly tied to MS technologies, this may drive users to start seriously considering alternatives.

Sed, Is Manjaro rolling release like Arch or does it peg packages for a period of time? (the mentioning of the kernel make me wonder). The only time you need to worry about kernels and X versions is with the AMD proprietary drivers since they lag in support for the newer releases. The only...

Sorry, misread your post... Apparently MS don't even allow that setting via GPO... Here is the list of official GPOs for Egde. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt270204.aspx The only thing I can think of is to watch the registry to see how MS are storing the setting(s), and...

Does this help? http://windows.microsoft.com/en-au/windows-10/change-the-default-search-engine-in-microsoft-edge Has tips for adding google as a search provider-> http://www.tekrevue.com/tip/google-default-search-engine-microsoft-edge/

In relation to the Windows Update - Get Windows 10 item... Here is a corresponding /. article: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/15/10/15/2210224/windows-10-upgrades-are-being-forced-on-some-users Funny reading... Also to note: Some users have found that the Windows 10 update via Windows Update...

FYI for those using LastPass http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/10/logmein-buys-lastpass-password-manager-for-110-million/

Having played with a new HP Probook recently, I have to agree with Coug, they have really lost their appeal. About the only real options are either the Lenovo X1 or T-series... As for Asus models, haven't been impressed with them for a while... Another option are Fujitsu Lifebooks? eg S904...

It all depends on how HWMonitor is accessing the current CPU clockspeed, as there are several different methods... If it's using DMI via the SMBIOS, then I'm not surprised by the weird values (DMI data is notorious for being plain wrong in many regards). If it's accessing the values directly...

In short: 8K res, 17" LCD panel (giving 510ppi), 120Hz refresh rate http://hothardware.com/news/japan-display-wizards-squeezes-8k-into-17-inch-lcd

You do know that Yahoo has been using Bing as it's backend since '12? Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8174763.stm and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing

This will never happen... There are simply too many Win32 based applications for MS to do this, especially if they want people to continue to keep up to date in regards to the OS. (Note: MS has been trying to do this since they introduced .NET back in '02). IIRC. The .NET Framework and the new...

@Tannin, why are you worried about IPv6? Australia won't be seeing widespread IPv6 deployment for a long time yet since NBN Co have basically abandoned IPv6 as part of the supplied residential product to RSPs. (IPv6 addresses are only made available on request for business connections and some...

So unsure how to take that? :confused:

@Tannin, well said.

I personally hate the misuse of javascript for sites... (blog sites that fetch content via AJAX, and the page itself is nothing more than a JS blob and that blob is several MB). But I think both sides are talking about two slightly different things, one about content (web-site with mostly...