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The trial ISO I got from MS didn't give me the opportunity to use another key during install, hence the workaround. I've always done trial and put in the key at the end as well. I'm not sure I'd do that with a production server though.

Here's a REALLY random something: Somebody's dissertation-length analysis of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, written probably two decades after the game was published.

The answer to that question is yes. I do maintain images with Home and Pro licenses and I check them against desktop and mobile platforms as I encounter new chipsets. I've never had a problem with Windows 10 or 11 activation on brand-name systems.

You're talking about telephoto ranges and I'm thinking about standard ranges. A lot of the Z series primes under 200mm are 1.8s at best.

I suspect that Microsoft considers Windows Server the way it considers Office Professional: it's not something that consumers are ever supposed to have. Office 2021 was the first release of Office Pro 2013 that had a single user perpetual license SKU. 2016 and 2019 were not available to end...

To its credit, Canon also has a full line of pro lenses AND a decent range of long zooms and most of the stuff that's still on its roadmap are pretty niche. Sony doesn't really do long zooms and Nikon doesn't have much in the way of fast primes in Z mount, unless you really want a 50/1.2. Yes...

Corporate IT is a very different animal from anything that makes sense for any other context, but on the other hand, simplifying the environment is the biggest favor support people could ever have to deal with.

One tiny and weird hitch for using Server 2022: the trial version is considered a separate SKU from Standard Server or Datacenter. A valid product key for one of those doesn't work with the trial software. There's still a fix, which is to remove your existing trial key with a publicly-known...

The thing that gets sold in a Wal-Mart or Best Buy will sell 100x more than the $3000+ bodies that get paired with $2500 RF lenses. Those places only have the kit lenses and MAYBE the RF 50/1.8 as available options, too. I look at the low-cost options as improving the floor of what we see in...

You forgot Transmeta, Chewy, but I'm surprised you remembered Rise. I can't fully tell if the tech Transmeta developed actually went anywhere and was just licensed by every tech company under the sun, or if it just died on the vine, but apparently the company that held all its assets died in...

I understand why it's consolidated as much as it has, but at the same time, I wish there were more than the same few options. Pour one out for Abit.

As a counterpoint, getting 20+ megapixels and fantastic contemporary lens designs mean that many, many people can be very well served with a relatively entry level camera, especially compared to crappy phone cameras. I'm sure that's the proper comparison point for the R100.

Gaming is not the only reason to want computer with expansion capability. It's not really useful for fleet systems, but for home users, there's a whole world of unknowns surrounding the needs of a user and there's a good argument for having places to plug in a drive or expansion card. We don't...

Apropos of nothing, does anyone else think that it's completely insane that premium desktop motherboards are selling for north of $500 these days, like $500 B550 boards? For a pair of 2.5GbE ports and some extra aluminum around the VRMs? I had an occasion to stop in Microcenter today, looking...

I think we all use different processing applications. Numbers for Adobe software may not have a meaningful correlation to DXO or Capture One. It's also true that improvements are coming very quickly. I do feel like Intel has gotten written off in GPU discussion. I've seen A770s sell for under...

The only thing that's REALLY weird about it is the lack of a touchscreen. The touchscreen has been something that Canon absolutely nailed all along. It's incredibly friendly to new users like, hey, exactly the people who get $500 cameras. I'm glad to see a true low cost RF option at least.

The people who make this hardware work to shave fractions of a penny off the costs per unit, and it's not like GDDR6 or 7 is exactly cheap. For nVidia especially, gating the additional texture memory to high end products is a way to ensure that there's a limited lifespan for the cheaper parts...

Usually the XY00 AMD and X0Y0 nVidia card are approximately on par, up to about the x080 level on the nVidia side. AMD's high end usually doesn't reach the ridiculous high of whatever the x090 can do, but AMD's top end is also far cheaper. AMD sometimes adds some extra SKUs to fill in between...

AMD released the RX7600 today, which has an MSRP of $270. It keeps pace with the corridor of Arc 770 - 3060Ti but it only has 8GB RAM and doesn't have either Intel's driver support for content creation or nVidia's AI, but given that it's priced reasonably, it's at least worth consideration.

Right now it's just learning. None of my customers are a good fit for Azure, which is absolutely the end goal of everything Microsoft is doing now. I totally understand why you aren't messing with it any more. A lot of SMB systems expect a Microsoft environment and even though MSSQL and .net...

Just today, I'm finally getting around to doing something with Windows Server 2022. I upgraded things to 2019, and no one has any real interest in upgrading for no reason, so it hasn't been on my radar. Server 2022 does not have a mandate for Microsoft accounts, nor can Windows Store software...

The 4060TI was released today. It has almost nothing going for it, and that's the 4090, 4080 and 4070 ALSO really had nothing going for them given their pricing and power draw.

nVidia has apparently continued its bold new direction of shipping GPUs that aren't worth buying. Hope you wanted good ray tracing at 1080p in your $400 or $500 card because that's the only really compelling feature it brings to the table.

One of my customers closed their office during the pandemic and I just brought it home. Their setup is a just VMs in my datacenter now. Which are also sitting on an RD550. I added a second PSU and switched the single CPU for a pair of bigger boys (I think I went E5 2670 v3 to now having 2698s...

That system is kind of weird though. It doesn't support being an iSCSI target, so you'd be doing SMB or maybe NFS. That's definitely less than ideal for running VMs, and it's not like the local CPU could manage such a thing. All SSD media storage is cool from a bragging rights perspective...

Microsoft admits it can't fix Windows 11.

What's the application for that particular range? I completely understand the 100 - 300/2.8 as a sport lens but 200 is too long for sport and too short for wildlife. Is it entirely meant for the teleconverter?

I probably will soon.

MaxDigitalData is offering what appear to be rebadged 7200rpm Seagate Drives with a three year warranty for EXTREMELY reasonable prices. 14TB for $129? 16TB for $169? I'm assuming they're pulled working datacenter drives, but the specs on Amazon say they're SATA and don't mention whether they're...

First one is fun and jazzy. Second one was a little more Isaac Hayes/Curtis Mayfield, but in line with the stuff Marc Rebillet improvises. Third one, not bad, but not really my thing. Forth one is a big ol' nope.

One of the people in my office is an Inuit Certified Quickbooks ProAdvisor. My company does not use Quickbooks for Payroll or any credit processing. We DO have to have something that's in Quickbooks Plus, which costs more than regular Quickbooks but not as much as Quickbooks Pro. I have no idea...

AMD architecture supposedly benefits more from increased memory bandwidth in general. It might not be as essential on that side. It may also be that Dell is more willing to leave some performance on the table to create some additional product tiers in its offerings. This whole situation reminds...

The problem is that On Prem Quickbooks is still substantially cheaper than QB Online, and the online version looks different enough that bookkeepers who aren't terribly computer savvy are scared of all the changes, even if the same functionality is present in the online product. I hate QB with a...

Apparently you REALLY need to look at the language on the license agreement of your AM5 motherboard firmware updates. Asus's newest BIOS versions demand that you agree to void your warranty before you're allowed to download the latest version.

Art Tatum and Bill Evans are both masters of form. Jazz piano is a whole different world. They're the guys doing what classical pianists do not know in all their world of technique. The first thing to say is that you don't have to like all of it. I don't. I don't care for highly structured...

Does anyone else play piano? Because holy crap this whole thing is 16th notes and look at the mobility on his right pinky finger. And it's written that way.

I build PCs, mostly as a hobby at this point. Having parts funneling through my life is also an excuse to get and stay current on upgrades as well. Gaming PCs are about the most interesting thing most people want, so there is a degree to which I pay attention to that stuff. Nah. My datacenter...

MSI entry level GPUs wouldn't make my personal cut because MSI seems to prioritize fan loudness as if it's a feature. I had really good luck with the ten GTX1080TIs I bought last time through the same guy. I still see the people who have those cards fairly regularly. No one has mentioned having...

Equally fun fact (that I just learned): If you later associate a Microsoft account with your Windows 11 Local account and choose "User this account everywhere in Windows" instead of "Microsoft Apps Only", even though your account is still displayed as a local account, there does NOT seem to be a...

Jedi can somehow dodge and parry laser blasts and toss bombs down 1m wide vents without guidance systems so it's probably a trust in the Force thing.

For some reason, I did not.

Guardians has Rocket, a hyperintelligent raccoon who loves firearms; Groot, a walking, talking (and dancing) tree; Kosmo, a telepathic and telekinetic Russian Golden Retriever; and Howard the Duck, who is mostly shown drinking or gambling. Every one of these is a deeply silly character, but they...

I'm a huge Marvel comics fan but if anyone told me 15 years ago that I'd get a movie with genuine emotional depth about a raccoon with a machine gun, I would've said that's insane. But here we are. Guardians volume 3 hits all the high Cs. Today is May the Fourth. In my house, we finished Andor...

From what I gathered, the reality is that Backblaze loses something like 1.5% of the drives it buys within three years. That's an astonishing level of overall reliability. Seagate drives are a bit less reliable, but they also cost less, so the relative value from their side very close either way.

Not gonna lie, that works for me. My living room area already looks like a Philips Hue factory exploded and the desktop out there DOES have a clear panel. 2TB isn't big enough to bother with, but if I saw one of those, it might be worth an extra $10 for the novelty. Properly speaking, Luke's...

I had SMP systems on 486, P54C Pentium, Pentium Pro and finally Pentium 2. I went back for the Athlon X2, Core2Q and a succession of i7s. The only generation I really skipped was the dual Thunderbird Athlon platform you had. I'm not going to pretend that anything from the Pentium 2 era or...

Lots of cores work great with Resolve, which ends up being the biggest consumer of my CPU time. And I like having crap-tons of I/O and RAM on my workstation. Lots of cores is also really handy when I'm both rendering video AND editing photos. But I strongly suspect that Adobe specifically isn't...

I tried Lightroom Classic on my 3960X. It's apparent to me that Adobe software is in no way, shape or form optimized for more than maybe four cores. There isn't much subjective difference between doing things on the Threadripper than the R9 5900. Just watching AI masking or DeNoise work, it...

There's a really fun book that I like to share with substance-using friends called "A Brief History of Vice" by Robert Evans (not that one, although that one probably knew a thing about substances as well), wherein the author discusses the things that ancient peoples did to get blasted and then...