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  1. Chewy509

    USB IBM Model M Keyboard

    I've got a Das Keyboard Model S Professional silent at work (Cherry red switches), and very happy with it. The Reds are only slightly louder than most membrane keyboards, but for a comparison, Das Keyboard has audio here: http://www.daskeyboard.com/model-s-professional/ (scroll down and there...
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    ODBC Driver

    Whoa, necro -thread... No I didn't. In this case I ended up using some of the reports from the application to extract the key information and went from there...
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    Show us your desktop!

    Ps. First is the desktop, the second shows the default window borders I've got set, etc...
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    Show us your desktop!

    Agreed.
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    Workstation monitor?

    Ivy Bridge will do 4K on HDMI/DP provided you have the UEFI support and a very up to date Intel Driver and X.Org version, and the HDMI/DP ports are of the required versions. (Some cheaper motherboards skimped on the actual hardware for HDMI, limiting overall bandwidth on the wire to less than...
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    USB Flash Drive

    Interesting that the writes are quicker with the 4K tests...
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    Earthquake

    Likewise, is every one affected ok?
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    Retrieving key from BIOS? (Win8.1)

    Do you happen to the have OS Restore media for the laptop? Why not use that if you have it. (Did it come with the laptop, or did you have to burn the DVDs yourself based on recovery software in the initial install?) Either way, Toshiba should be able to provide the media (or a download link) for...
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    Forum restored back to 4.x

    Agreed. But you could replace the vendor in the last sentence with: More than anything it had me wondering what the Microsoft people were thinking More than anything it had me wondering what the Oracle people were thinking More than anything it had me wondering what the Ubuntu people were...
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    Spacewalk - Linux automated installs

    Sounds like you just need Cobbler then? Otherwise you could do your own Distro based on CentOS and use the automated installation script functionality... Spacewalk, IIRC, is the open-source version of Red Hats Satellite, which has full lifecycle management, which sounds like overkill...
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    Spacewalk - Linux automated installs

    Seems interesting... Howewver I thought most used Puppet these days? PS. Satellite/Spacewalk use Cobbler for bare metal deployment management...
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    Thank You Google Fiber

    I think it really happened around the time (early 2000's), when web-development started to be done by artists/graphics designers, and not programmers largely due to the tools that made it so accessible to non-coders.
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    Thank You Google Fiber

    Let's see: Most web-developers were careful about the size of the final page as delivered... (bytes were often counted, including all image sizes, to ensure a page could be downloaded in under 5 secs) Hardly any use of javascript... and certainly very little inclusions from around the web...
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    Thank You Google Fiber

    And I'm still at 9/1 ADSL2+ (w/100GB) for $50 p/m. (only get 9MBps due to distance from the exchange)... And our glorious NBN is now "no-body knows WTF is going on" mode since change of government... **NBN = National Broadbad Network, that originally was meant to bring fibre direct to most...
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    PC Gaming = World of Suck

    So what's so wrong with Steam? Shouldn't it be possible to install w/steam and then just uninstall the Steam component, or at least disable it's service when playing the game? (Didn't realise the steam components took so much CPU/RAM doing nothing)?
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    32->64, 8.0 -> 8.1 (licence questions)

    Nope, it's just "business"... contracts, laws, money (maximum extraction of from "customers").
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    PC Gaming = World of Suck

    I'm sorry, but you purchased a license for the game that has restrictions, eg must be used with steam... By acquiring a copy from another source without those restrictions is not inline with the original license you purchased, and therefore can be considered morally wrong as you are following...
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    32->64, 8.0 -> 8.1 (licence questions)

    editions that come from MSDN (or ActionPack subs) can't be installed on client machines even with real OEM/Retail keys... breaks the MSDN/System Integrator licensing agreement...
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    Something Random

    Merc, fantastic effort on the weight loss... Re: BMI, the best advise is to ignore BMI completely (it falls apart in way too many situations), and look simply at body fat percentage. (and with many consumer grade scales that have semi-accurte body fat mesasurement, this is the way to go). I...
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    4K, 28" monitor for $399

    Under Tech Specs: http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&sku=210-ACHO&baynote_bnrank=0&baynote_irrank=1&~ck=dellSearch
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    4K, 28" monitor for $399

    Hopefully... but buyers need to be aware that this is a TN panel, that can only do 30Hz refresh at 4K... Also there seems to be some missing info if MST is required if using DisplayPort...
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    32->64, 8.0 -> 8.1 (licence questions)

    Others have pretty much answered the questions... 32bit and 64bit keys with Win7 and above are interchangable. (This may have applied with Vista as well, but unsure). XP x86 and XPx64 were two distince licenses and can't be shared between 32bit and 64bit editions. (XP x64 was closer to Win2K3...
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    6TB hard drives

    Anandtech review of 6TB drives: http://anandtech.com/show/8263/6-tb-nas-drives-wd-red-seagate-ec-hgst-he
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    Fast CPU for video transcoding? Xeon?

    Personally, I normally just rip direct from disk (via ffmepg or mencoder cli), but on occassion have used ddrescue to extract the disk to an ISO, and perform a normal conversion based on the ISO... (ddrescue is like a regular dd, but has options for skipping and retrying bad blocks, which is...
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    Fast CPU for video transcoding? Xeon?

    The only reason would be the BIOS won't recognise the chip, and/or power delievery requirements... Check with ASRock and their supported CPU page for your motherboard...
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    Fast CPU for video transcoding? Xeon?

    What are you encoding to? and what software are you using? For example, if targetting h.264, then nVidia cards can do GPU accelerated encoding via "nvenc" (uses CUDA)... Xeon's won't really help (unless you want to go socket2011, where the E5 can offer more cores/cache) but than depends on the...
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    Router recommendations for network partitioning (and dual-WAN)?

    The way you've described it, I don't know of any off the shelf routers that will do all that. A server that's built with 16ports and Wifi can certainly do it, with the correct DHCP and firewall service setup, but don't know of an off-the-shelf solution.
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    Router recommendations for network partitioning (and dual-WAN)?

    Not going to discuss actuals products, but... You don't need a router with a large number ports if you use a decent L2/L3 switch between the gateway router and their internal gateway devices... eg, the building has an IP range of 9.1.1.100/27. For example each business is on a separate floor...
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    Something Random

    Excellent news Merc.
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    Synology share access via IP address

    Nope, it was taught that way to ensure the AD setup could work with all other OSes that forced strict RFC compliance with DNS names... eg work with Mac, *BSD, GNU/Linux, etc...
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    Synology share access via IP address

    NETBIOS allows underscores, but DNS does not... (RFC952 Sec 1) cite: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/909264 From the MS article:
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    Synology share access via IP address

    Have you contacted Synology support? And also contacted Konica Minolta to inform them that their firmware is broken...
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    Synology share access via IP address

    Have you tried adding the domain name to the user name? eg DOMAIN\username as it's often done when you want to access objects that are not part of the current domain. Maybe the CIFS server only uses the domain name if accessed via the computer name (the pc name is part of the SMB/CIFS...
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    Something Random

    Just like to wish everyone a belated Happy World UFO day... (2nd July) http://www.worldufoday.com/ The truth is out there...
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    Central Air Conditioning for house - Need any and all advice ASAP

    My mother in-law had her AC replaced a few years ago (Panasonic unit) that works quite well... BUT we wouldn't recommend Panasonic units mainly due the warranty conditions. (very tight on what they consider covered under warranty, and Panasonic has a general policy of always repair - never...
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    Ghostery

    I've been running it for a number of years. My now standard Firefox setup has NoScript, Ghostery, AdBlockPlus and Lightbeam installed. Pretty much blocks most crap, and lightbeam shows all the connections that are possible even with those blockers. http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/lightbeam/
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    Got a Latitude D610!

    FYI, Most business class laptops (like the D610) from that era had similar or higher resolutions. Approx 5-6yrs ago, the race to drop prices resulted in lower res screens for both desktop monitors and laptop monitors. Case in point, my two 20" TFTs are now 8+yr old and are 1680x1050 in res...
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    Vulnerabilities: Synology, SuperMicro Motherboards

    I certainly can't wait for the "Internet of things"... (Just imagine the botnet that one could create when that becomes a reality).
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    Vulnerabilities: Synology, SuperMicro Motherboards

    That was my thought in regards to both? Why does a BMC need direct access to the Internet, and the only reason I can think of giving a NAS direct access is if has FTP or web functionality tat you wanted to explicitly expose... Yes these sorts of things shouldn't happen, but security requires...
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    TR's SSD endurance test

    That's what thermite is for! (disposing of drives with sensitive data).
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    TR's SSD endurance test

    Agree 100%. But I was under the impression, that once write limits were reached, the drive would remain in read-only mode indefinitely and not brick themselves at some point in the future (and I suspect many users would expect the same sort of thing).
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    TR's SSD endurance test

    Thanks for the update. Interesting that the Intel and Kingston bricked themselves when write's started failing, so limited opportunity to get data off the drive when writes have been exhausted...
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    Support

    Sorry, I have no idea what you are talking about?
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    Best Hard drives for size, storage, and reliability?

    Take the warranty through Hitachi... Be safe rather than sorry...
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    Something Random

    My last jump was back in '99. Just a 900ft static line jump, whilst fun, is over in a minute.
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    Best Hard drives for size, storage, and reliability?

    Isn't there some consumer law in the US regarding: 1. False advertising? The product is not as decribed. 2. You can't offer a "new" product without warranty? I know in Australia, both of the above practices (whilst do occur) are illegal. You have the right to return a product (within a...
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    i7-4960X / Socket 2011 issues

    Seeing how they typically treat home and SMB OEMs, I don't think they care at all.
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    Something Random

    Just made a batch of cookies with the kids... Yum, yum, yum.
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    i7-4960X / Socket 2011 issues

    @Tannin, the same would also apply to AMD as well... considering their sockets tend to have a longer life span in availability, but you pretty much always require a BIOS update if you wish to use a new CPU in an older motherboard. How is that any different in the current Intel world since socket...
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    i7-4960X / Socket 2011 issues

    IMHO it's the BIOS/UEFI developers that are at fault... The basic problem is that they don't have a safe fallback mode if an unknown CPU is installed, but instead rely on discrete lists of known CPUs and required configurations. If the BIOS on startup doesn't recognise the CPU, then they...
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