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  1. Chewy509

    Something Random

    I thought he was a civilian contractor for the CIA?
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    Best movie you've seen

    "Kubo and the two strings". Absolutely fantastic movie, great cinematography, great soundtrack... 10/10 from me... (A little scary in parts for the younger kids).
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    Windows 10

    Windows 10 will continue to be a free upgrade for Win7/8.1 users for those users who use Assistive Technologies. (eg, on screen keyboard, text reader, magnifier, etc). https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/accessibility/windows10upgrade
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    Evolution (Modern Human).

    Sorry for posting that article, I only scanned through it to see that it was mostly on topic... But the point remains, human evolution may have reached a point of stagnation due to our own ability to control our immediate environment, improvements in food supply and improvements in health...
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    Evolution (Modern Human).

    Unfortunately large scale conflicts will no longer be factors in reduction of population, as most modern militaries are staffed by well educated volunteer based forces.
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    Evolution (Modern Human).

    Started from: http://www.storageforum.net/forum/showthread.php/10725-Tesla-doomed?p=196716&viewfull=1#post196716 What mubs mentioned actually reminded me of this youtube clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwZ0ZUy7P3E
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    Tesla doomed

    This has been studied quite a bit recently... Here's a blog post about this very issue. http://www.rooshv.com/the-theory-of-evolution-does-not-apply-to-modern-human-beings
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    Laptops with large 1080P displays?

    In that case, I withdraw my recommendation. Sad to see the ProBooks decline from what they once were...
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    Laptops with large 1080P displays?

    The HP ProBook 870 G3 with 1080p display and 6-cell battery should do what you are after... It also has a VGA connector for those older projectors... Newegg has the 870 G3 with 1080p display, but the 4-cell battery for $961.
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    Windows 10

    Ignorance... In Oz, it's still a very heavy MS centric ecosystem, but there is a slow movement away from MS towards Apple and Cloud based OS-agnostic services...
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    Windows 10

    Please be aware that Cortana and most of the telemetry can still be turned off in the Enterprise and Education editions of Windows 10. This only affects the Home/Professional editions. My guess, some of these moves may be attempt to get the SMB sector (which largely used Pro edn's) to migrate...
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    Politics

    Well, the Australian Federal 2016 election has come and gone, with the Liberal/National Coalition remaining in power (by the thinnest of margins). So our NBN will continued to be implemented with 2nd rate technology, public education, social services and health systems* will have funding either...
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    Bent Pins

    Easy, it moves the issue to become someone else's problem. ergo reduce support costs, therefore increase profits.
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    BIOS Hangs with Old Drives

    UEFI will interact with the drives during POST, typically reading the partition table (MBR/GPT) and looking for EFI boot volumes. Couple of things that aren't mentioned, but I'll assume that you have done them: 1. Reflashed the BIOS to ensure a clean state. 2. Connected only one of the drives...
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    Windows 10

    And that's going to be great for most users out there... not to mention ISVs when developing and supporting their products on Win10...
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    Windows 10

    What'll be interesting in a few years time when people need to start working out which "Windows 10" they have, especially when it comes to things like drivers, OS extensions (DirectX, etc) as the core of the OS is updated. Or is this an admission by MS that the kernel itself is done and we'll...
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    HOT

    And today's forecast for Brisbane, Queensland, Australia is a nice sunny 29C day.... (84.2F). A lot of people have headed to the local beaches to cool off... FYI, It's the middle of freakin winter and we should be having an expected temp of 21-23C (70-74F).
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    Nvidia’s GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 revealed: Faster than Titan X at half the price

    "Nvidia Titan X" has been announced: http://www.anandtech.com/show/10510/nvidia-announces-nvidia-titan-x-video-card-1200-available-august-2nd Note to be confused with the already released "GTX Titan X"
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    Something Random

    As per the listing details: 3x discs, cover and case of the movie Minions... I would expect to get what's listed on BB website as listed.
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    Phone bags

    We have a few of these at work when working on mobiles: http://tritechforensics.com/store/product/digi-guard-signal-blocking-faraday-pouch-cell-phone-touch-screen/
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    Paid antivirus

    Avast to purchase AVG... https://blog.avast.com/avast-and-avg-a-future-together Make of this as you will...
  22. Chewy509

    Something Random

    @Coug, sorry to hear about that, truly a tragic thing to happen.
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    Something Random

    They're not, the seats are getting smaller... (so they can fit more people on each flight). http://www.independenttraveler.com/travel-tips/travelers-ed/the-shrinking-airline-seat
  24. Chewy509

    Someone is dreaming regarding AMD

    FYI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_nanometer
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    Something Random

    Or use a function as the password generator: $ echo passphrase@slashdot.org | sha256sum | base64 -w 0 MjAzZGM4MDZmNTIyN2I4YTQ5YjYxZjQxMDBiZWJiYWVlOGE0ZDZmYTAyZGYxMmM3ZGY4YTgzMzE2NjA2MmM2OCAgLQo= That way you just need to remember the passphrase (which can be stored in plain) for each site...
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    7200rpm SAS 4kn Drives Being Comparable to 10K rpm Drives.

    It's down to the firmware, the firmware on SAS drives are typically geared to providing better random IO (and will typically have very mature TCQ implementations with larger buffers, and the OS drivers tend to be well tested as well), wheres as firmware on SATA drives are geared towards more...
  27. Chewy509

    Another Digital Camera Thread - Point and Shoot

    Unfortunately all those models (as priced locally) all range between AU$899 and AU$1299. The Stylus 1s retails for ~AU$600. My apologies, I should have clarified, by class, I meant in both features and price range, for my case mid range compacts with zoom (AU$400-AU$650).
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    Another Digital Camera Thread - Point and Shoot

    Thanks LM and SD. Just make an interesting point, all the other cameras in the same class and price category as the Stylus 1 (that had optical zoom greater than 5x) all use 1/2.3" sensors, whereas the Stylus 1 uses a 1/1.7" sensor. The only two cameras to not use a 1/2.3" (in this class) are...
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    Another Digital Camera Thread - Point and Shoot

    To follow up on my own post, went to the local camera store today and looked the different models and options. Due to shortages in stock due to the issues in Japan related to the recent earth quakes (2 of the main sensor plants used by Sony, etc were damaged severely), the available range...
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    Another Digital Camera Thread - Point and Shoot

    Dead thread revival Hi All, Our old camera (Fuji S6500fd) is starting to die (sensor has started to degrade), and we are looking for a new camera. The wife has said no to an entry level DSLR or bridge camera, she wants it to fit in her pocket and be easy to carry. I'm primarily looking at the...
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    PCI Slots

    Hopefully for quite a while yet, as PCIe and PCI use a very similar command protocol. (PCIe command protocol is a superset of PCI).
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    PCI Slots

    Just correcting myself. The last Intel chipset to natively support PCI off the ICH was the Q77. The Intel 80-series dropped native support for PCI slots on the ICH, of which motherboard manufactures adopted using PCIe-PCI bridges to provide PCI slots on the motherboard. The most common...
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    PCI Slots

    Also, if building your own desktops, there are still heaps of options if happy with 4th gen Intel Core. (Z97 still supports regular PCI slots off the ICH).
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    PCI Slots

    Some workstations from HP/Dell/Lenovo still have a single PCI slot, eg the Lenovo P500, Dell Precision 3000 (Full Tower), etc... However, most consumer and business orientated desktops I've seen lack PCI slots... Best to contact your preferred supplier/vendor and ask them directly.
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    Something Random

    My wife can't vomit either, (due to gastric reconstruction to ease chronic reflux).
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    Windows 10

    Kill is manually... http://www.thewindowsclub.com/delete-wifi-network-profile-windows and http://superuser.com/questions/148139/where-does-vista-windows-7-store-wireless-connection-information
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    Windows 10

    I'm assuming others have already seen this: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/16/05/15/0324224/microsoft-auto-scheduling-windows-10-updates
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    question Defense against Ransomware

    Here is the information to do this: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457006.aspx
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    IBM FlashSystem A9000

    Last update was 12.6 in Aug 2014 by SAP,,, Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBuilder
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    Politics

    I guess we're lucky in that regard, we only get a few months to ponder who the next dictator beloved emperor will be...
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    How can a router open your browser?

    Just like to add, the reason is primarily related to the CSG (Customer Service Guarantee) with voice services... From a lot of reading, the government have failed to update the CSG and Telecommunications Act when it revised the NBN rollout 3 yeas ago, effectively killing the CSG on voice...
  42. Chewy509

    Politics

    In Political news, Australia gets to vote for a new Federal Government on 02-July-2016. And the lies ads to get elected have already started...
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    Intel lays off 10% of its workforce

    Intel cancelling Atom development: http://www.pcworld.com/article/3063508/components/intel-is-on-the-verge-of-exiting-the-smartphone-and-tablet-markets-after-cutting-atom-chips.html
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    Library Management Software

    Depending on how big the library is, I know our local council library runs EOS by SirsiDynix, and has online check, ebook checkout support (relies on Adobe POS), web catalogue including reservations, self check-out stations (with 3M hardware), support for multiple sites, etc. But there are...
  45. Chewy509

    Windows 10

    Migrate the Win8 installation to the SSD, then upgrade. The rational, is that if the upgrade fails, you have a copy of the original win8 installation to fall back to. Licensing, MS are happy either way.
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    Something Random

    Thank you.
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    Intel lays off 10% of its workforce

    I'm not too sure on that, as time goes on, even if AMD goes (and I'll be disappointed if that happens), I couldn't see Intel being held as a monopoly in the market. ARM CPUs are everywhere (I haven't seen latest figures, but I'm sure ARM based CPUs outnumber Intel designs shipped when you...
  48. Chewy509

    Something Random

    Brazil's current situation isn't crash hot either, and they are about to host the next Olympics....
  49. Chewy509

    Torrent Client

    Transmission
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    networking from a wireless dongle

    If the router supports being used as an AP only, then yes it's not hard to do at all. (Simple setup the router to work as an AP, and have it connect to the other wireless device). I assume you're looking at one of these to use as the gateway device...
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