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The last several years have been out of line with historical norms, not planning for this or something similar to be the new normal strikes me as slightly myopic.

After starting the permitting process a bit on my own, I ended up having Solar City do it after all. I did get them to up the capacity to what I was after and drop the price a bit, but I won't see those savings until next year. Even without the fed and state tax benefits my usage is so high that...

Solar panel efficiency drops considerably when there is more than 0.1" of snow on them. Enough battery capacity to keep space heaters running for a couple days would be insane. Running combustion-based heaters in a living space also isn't recommended. Might I suggest a generator in the...

I just watched The Martian for the first time (BluRay). It isn't a bad film, just absolutely sucks compared to the book. Can't blame anyone involved with the film, the audio book was at maximum density and 10+hrs long. It is no wonder that the characters seemed under-developed and the drama...

Thanks guys. I never burn anything. The only use I have for optical media is ingesting it.

If you're looking for 4k gaming with a minimum of 60fps (so you can cleanly v-sync 60hz), my home1 rig can just barely do it. Hoping it will be enough for the 90fps minimum that the Oculus Rift wants.

Thanks. Ordered.

USB powered is more convienent and easier to cable, but powered is also possible. For that matter, it could even be an internal drive. My systems don't live in cases, just shelves on the rack, so I could wire in whatever.

It seems my trusty Plextor PX-LB950UE is dying. Any recommendations for an external BluRay drive, specifically for ripping? What are the odds that any drive available now will be compatible with 4k BluRay when those come out?

We're expecting a couple inches over the weekend. Rain, of course.

I'm sure they are off-lease.

Ninite Pro supports Flash. This is the easiest way to get it on Server 2016.

To be fair the $10 for YouTube Red doesn't really company to what I give them on Patreon, but I'm sure it is better than the ad revenue I wasn't going to give them anyway. I've also never seen a video trying to promote red-only content. AFAIK all the channels I watch are still entirely...

5630s weren't on the list. But 5650s were.

My regular sales guy is offering some pretty good deals at the moment:

Nope. Not even informational. For the record, successfully creating a virtual disk also doesn't throw an event. I can create any space I like that isn't tiered, but anything with the "tiered" box checked errors with the same issue. Grr.

Nope. No entries in the log. Not even informational.

Fun jobs work for a very small percentage of the people that want them (photographer, musician, sports, YouTuber, etc). Nothing, including this, is going to change that. If you have a small YouTube channel you also have a day job. Just like 99% of Hollywood. From what I've heard, the amount of...

I'm running Win10 on all my personal machines*, and am just waiting on a program compatibility issue (cough, Barracuda VPN Client, cough) to roll it out at work. *Except this one, Server2016TP4 for added features.

Thanks guys. Powershell actually returned the same error. I did some Googling and found two other people encounter the same issue but no resolution. Does MS' per-issue support work on Technical Previews?

Why are you skeptical about YouTube Red? I does exactly what it says; no ads (except in-video) and the creators I watch get more money than if I'd watched ads.

My main home workstation is now running Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 4. I haven't been this reckless in years. Anyway, while trying to create the tiered storage I'm after, I receive an error every time I try to create the virtual disk: This happens regardless of the volume size...

I vaguely recall that it doesn't really matter until you reach capacities beyond what 512e can do (unlikely for quite a while).

Yup. The computer I built for my kid has never been on the internet. I put in the same Win10 key as I did for my home machine, copied drivers and software over via thumb drive, and it has been working well for about a month now. No intent to hook it up to the net for years, so it can be a...

Microsoft is making it very clear that they only want to support a single OS. I can't really blame them. I was very surprised when Win10 didn't represent a transition to a subscription model. Win10 is fine, and you can expect the experience in anything else to be bad and get worse.

The pollution appears much better than the last time I was there (2006?), but living there long term would certainly shorten your life.

I went to 5.2 on a bunch of them without issue. The only Synology-based sync I use is their Time Backup, and it worked more reliably when they were all on the same and latest version.

This is my experience with Lenovo as well, even if you order a preconfigured system, they only include usable trays for the drives you ordered. The LA company I now order servers through fill the thing with useful trays no charge (after I asked).

https://youtu.be/CmjeCchGRQo

Cool shot. I haven't ridden a subway in a long time, but I've never seen one with a fence protecting the tracks.

Noticed. Made comments elsewhere. My friends on FB made a sufficient outcry that I felt a contribution unnecessary.

Ah there was the confusion. Sorry about that. I have another Samsung with the OS currently installed. The current plan is to use both Samsungs as cache for the Storage Space and put the OS on the Intel NVMe. Just need to confirm that Creative Cloud and SolidWorks 2016 will run on the Server...

That page brings up some really interesting cameras, like this $3200, 42MP, point-and-shoot.

Very cool, though the certainly started rounding at the right side, putting the Hasslblads with a Canon...

I wouldn't be surprised if some BIOS default only allows storage adapters in any expansion slots? Does the system depend on a CPU-based GPU? Does the CPU you put in have on-board video? I don't think I tried a VGA adapter, but I can check it out Monday.

OS Drive doesn't show on this list:

Not sure on that one. I just plugged in the Dell 24" I have on the stand (direct via DP) and it just worked (after an age of pre-post whirring and whatnot). IIRC, it may have taken 5+ minutes to get video the first time?

If you could choose between these two for your OS drive: Samsung SM951 512GB Intel 750 PCIe 400GB At the moment I have the OS installed on an SM951, with a second as the local data drive (good for separating source and destination on batch operations). With all the storage going local, I'm...

Finally got the SSD I'm going to try as the cache for the Storage Space. As mentioned above, it looks like that kind of space can only be set up in a server OS. Downloading Server 2016 TP4 @ 8MB/s right now. Current plan is as follows: Install setup files on USB stick. Disconnect current Win10...

Whitelisting an entire domain would be the clean way to do it, but what about exporting your entire company e-mail list and bringing all the individual accounts across?

Now that YouTube Red is a thing, Ghostery alone has been pretty awesome for me.

Very similar to the build I recently did for my kid, only I used a different board and an M.2 SSD to clean up the cabling. That CPU is really quick for simple stuff.

I'll second this. I thought the no-brainer S.O.P. was shoot in RAW and make as many of your adjustments (especially exposure/balance/channel stuff) before discarding that data by converting to something else (even TIFF or Photoshop, much less JPG). Am I missing something?

I would doubt that number. An RD650 at 10% load and a 68F ambient is double that.

I managed this just for Artist, Title, and Album for 63k songs then used Mp3tag years ago. Make sure your ID3 tagging tool supports quick batching for album and artist.

Yup. If the machine is projected to have a long life consider upping the capacity of SSD. This will fend off OS growth and balance writes across more cells.

I'm currently happy with all of my audio systems, but if you are in the market, I really respect this guys opinion. https://youtu.be/4Uhkmvd3XnI

Not sure if this is still the case, but one of the perks from buying stuff from jtr used to be that the package came wallpapered with old, low-denomination stamps.

Yup. His photography pages are pretty awesome as well.

After the drives are physically installed, it takes about 90 seconds to set up an array. Then (depending on RAID level and controller), waiting several hours for the array to build the first time. Really not hard at all.