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It's not contained nor will it be contained in the US. It's going to run its course. The "it's just the flu" crowd is probably right in at least one regard. Like the flu, pretty much everyone is going to be exposed to it and likely there will be at least 10's of thousands of deaths (in the...

I saw this the other day

I haven't seen that at my local super market yet. Just the Costco I go to. Time to get a bidet? (Though I don't understand how only squirting some water on your butt only will actually clean things acceptably. I've seen how clean my hands aren't when I just rinse them under the faucet with...

Around then we'll be onto the zombie apocalypse, so best to keep up on your cardio.

He bought a ridiculous metal "enclosure" in this one.

Well, I did call it a more proper chassis. 😛 That'd be the minimum for such a build IMHO. As you mention Supermicro would be the right choice. My main server is in a Supermicro 4U chassis. My backup server is in a 4U Norco. I also don't understand why he didn't use a SAS expander connected...

It should come back much faster because there's not an underlying economic problem. It's a biological problem. The markets don't like uncertainty and there's a lot of that right now.

I watched it yesterday and marveled at the stupidity of it. Anyone dropping that much on a system can afford a few hundred dollars extra for a much more proper chassis like a Norco 4224.

That's the Dow Joans, not the Dow Jones, so he's safe for now. 🤣

Yeah, I know. I've been complaining for a while also. I wasn't aware that politicians were actually pushing legislation to end it though.

I will give AMD some credit. They seem to have done a decent job working with Microsoft on how threads are distributed to the Ryzen 9 3xxx cores by the OS (Windows 10 1909). It automatically spreads out threads (at least in x265) to different physical cores first before using the...

Not a very big Marco Rubio fan, but #LockTheClock

AMD's drivers for their graphics cards never cease to amaze me. I put my old R380 in my E5-2687W v2 since I pulled the GTX 1080 and put it in the R9-3950X. I get just a blank screen in Davinci Resolve when I start it (E5-2687W v2). It is a graphics card driver issue. Updating the drivers now...

Some alcohol is quite tasty. I've never been a big drinker, but I enjoy an adult beverage from time to time. I generally don't like hoppy beers or beers with a high IBU. But there's so many different alcoholic beverages out there to choose from there pretty much something for everyone...

Just as a point of clarification to my opening post. I bought a second LG WH14NS40 from Amazon and got it today. I can confirm that it can be flashed from the stock 1.04 WH14NS40 firmware to the MK version of the ASUS BW-16D1HT 3.10 firmware directly in one step with the modified ASUS flasher...

If you bought it in the last few years it should be a NS50 but you don't want to put any of the firmwares for the MT1959 platform if it's the older MT1939 platform. For UHD ripping with MakeMKV + burning the optimal firmware is the patched 1.02 WH16NS60 firmware.

I wouldn't exactly say it's a nightmare, but there's no fire and forget easy way to do it if you want everything right and are trying to optimize disc space. If you don't mind spending a few minutes per disc it's not that bad. It's also easier if you don't care about special feature audio...

Unless you want to rip UHD blu-ray discs just leave the drive alone. If you're planning to rip UHD blu-ray discs what software are you planning to use? Edit: Also, you need to make sure the drive is really a NS50, not a NS40. I know the model number is WH14NS40, but there will be a SVC level...

You're probably way too late to buy that with any reasonable delivery time frame.

I have that same concern. I've noodled putting everything "online". All my DVDs, blu-rays, and UHD blu-rays. I was thinking at tax time (I should get a sizable refund despite making changes to withholding last year to reduce the refund size) to get enough of the 14TB WD enterprise drives to...

Anyone else ripping UHD discs? I picked up a LG WH14NS40 from Amazon for about $55 and got it yesterday. Reportedly all the working Asus & LG drive models are the same hardware so there's no point to buy a more expensive model. I used Marty McNuts modified ASUS flasher to get a "UHD friendly"...

I laughed. I liked all the humor and sarcasm in the list.

At least some of the Aussies have a sense of humor about running out of toilet paper. https://www.foxnews.com/world/coronavirus-australia-newspaper-toilet-paper

The fear of a run is usually enough to cause the run. It's a self fulfilling prophesy. Heck, I'll be real frank. I bought my R9 3950X system when I did partly because I wanted to have something fast to play with should we all get quarantined for some weeks due to the Coronavirus. I bought...

An article on why Toilet Paper is in hot demand: https://nypost.com/2020/03/04/why-people-are-buying-so-much-toilet-paper-amid-coronavirus-outbreak/

Someone can easily get 1.75L bottles of booze for under $20 in Michigan. Sure it doesn't have the same alcohol % content of Everclear 190, but people might actually want to drink it.

Now it's serious! The next James Bond movie has been postponed to November because of the Coronavirus. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/bond-movie-no-time-die-delayed-due-coronavirus-1282170

That sounds like a lot of trouble and hassle, and I wonder if it's really much, if any cheaper, than bottom shelf booze. Plus, good luck buying any hand sanitizer now.

What the heck? It's poisonous.

Spread that fake news! https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/fauci-denies-being-muzzled-over-coronavirus

I didn't buy any. Apparently I'm the oddball who keeps more than a few days supply of TP at home. I decided to survey the situation while I was in the stores (buying my regular weekly groceries) since the media has been stoking panic on toilet paper due to Covid-19...

The local Costco I go to had 0 toilet paper or paper towels yesterday afternoon. This is where they should be: The panic buyers apparently haven't found the local grocery superstore (not Walmart) yet:

It can be, but as you've seen, doesn't have to be. Embedding large files to each song is not logical. Reading them from the directory makes more sense.

And we're off to the races now. Cases popping up all over in the US. 😕 I guess the CDC strategy of refusing to test anyone who didn't have a direct link to another infected person didn't actually stop the spread. 🤯 Will the US issue travel advisories against traveling in the US? 🤣 BTW, has...

I'm sure that will all go away by the time this all settles out. Just some low level paper pusher following the "rules" sending out bills.

Like requiring you to pay taxes?

Is that why the Chinese are burning the bodies before they can turn?

Did you watch 28 Days Later last night?

In my x264 compression test the new Ryzen 9 3950X (stock) decimates my old i7-4770k (oc'd). 54.26 fps vs 10.39 fps. The E5-2687W v2 does 17.73 fps.

Why does this surprise you? I suspect if you name the JPEG to cover.jpg or art.jpg it will also display. It is displaying your "album art" that goes with the song. Or, that's what it thinks it is doing. Foobar2k will do something similar. I leave a 480x480 jpg in the folder of songs (from a...

That wouldn't work. Or at least history shows it won't work. Maybe, maybe not... In a week we'll probably know more. Honestly, I'm a bit surprised that this hasn't progressed faster.

That's too far out as this point, but it could happen if things keep intensifying.

What do you mean? You can make any version of Windows automatically log an account in on boot, even with a password. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autologon

The best made plans are no match for gov't incompetence. It's a super fine line to try to walk. Do too little and you'll be criticized for not taking it seriously. Do too much and you'll be criticized for overreacting.

The HHS press conference yesterday was a lesson in political tap dancing. Saying everything while saying nothing. They can claim to have covered all possible positions.

The US gov't officials seem awfully proud of the fact there haven't been any new coronavirus cases in 2 weeks in the US. They apparently forgot to mention they pretty much aren't testing anyone. They've only tested 426 people. As a point of contrast South Korea has tested >35,000 people. Its...

It's not that hard to unplug an Ethernet cable during install or decline to enter your WPA2 key until you're finished.

I did more iperf testing and used NetIO-GUI. Neither showed any issue maxing out the connection either way. I never tried NetIO-GUI before, but other people used it to show the Mikrotik issue in the past. I guess I'm stumped. I don't really want to try a clean install of Windows and I plan...

It looks like you may have been correct after all. 1gig to 1gig does this whether pushing or pulling. Updating all the Mikrotik gear to SwOS 2.10 fixed this problem with all my other PCs and I haven't seen any other reports online regarding this issue for versions 2.9 or later. I'm puzzled...

I was able to benchmark my new R9 3950X system against my E5-2687W v2 in x265 using the settings I've been playing around with for high image quality encodes. Summary: E5-2687W v2 - 0.417 fps (4 simultaneous encodes combined) R9 39050X - 1.391 fps (4 simultaneous encodes combined) [CPU not...