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The Venue is just fine for lots and lots of stuff. Pretty much everything that isn't web browsing or gaming, it's pretty good for. It makes a decent E-reader amd music player and I'm about 200% more likely to run Modern-style apps on it than on a laptop or desktop.

I've been fairly impressed with Asrock's workstation boards. They're a lot less picky about RAM than SuperMicro.

I use two Norco 24 bay chassis for my big file server. One of them got modded into an SAS enclosure. I have a pair of LSI 9211s (in TI mode) and a pair of HP SAS Expanders installed. The Norco chassis are huge and take standard desktop parts rather than noisy rackmount gear, so in addition to...

Correct. That's how I've always done it.

If I were only buying a small number of drives, I'd buy the big HGSTs. As it stands, I'm ultimately going to replace 24 3TB drives. I do have another ~30 4TB drives, but at the moment, I'm most interested in getting a meaningful capacity upgrade for the three and four year old Hitachi and...

They're LSI 9211s, either Dell or IBM branded but flashed to standardized firmware. They're well behaved for SATA or SAS but work with hot-swap bays, external enclosures and SAS expanders. There are faster controllers in the world but nothing is really better in terms of compatibility or price...

It's actually OK for my needs. Things get added. Things never get removed. It doesn't matter if it's slow unless I'm doing a bulk copy.

This is a straight copy between two Windows Server Storage spaces. One consists of 7x5TB SMR drives (20TB array) + 500GB cache drvie. The other is a pair of 4x4TB Ultrastar 7k4000s. The drives are connected to a pair of LSI SAS controllers (the two external drives are in an external SAS chassis...

Well that'll be a slight improvement!

Which one? I like the Sense V2 clock. I also like "Authentic Weather" but the novelty factor isn't high enough to make me actually use it.

Are you sure you want an 18TB RAID5 given the mathematical certainty of having a hard read error during an array rebuild of a data set that large? I try not to make RAID5 arrays larger than 12TB. SD, as far as I can tell, the "intentional messing with firmware" is limited to those Eco-type...

I think the plan is one Star Wars movie a year going forward from now until the end of time.

I've used it for limited personal needs. I found that it was faster for me to use btsync most of the stuff I thought would not be OK in Google Drive.

No Jar-Jar. Does not suck. DOES manage to be funny in moments without being over the top or breaking tone. Magic was captured. You know that "Chewie, we're home."-moment from the trailers? Yeah. The whole movie has that.

New Star Wars is spectacular. You probably already know that. I am telling you anyway. I got to see it twice tonight. I don't think 3D is necessary (I appreciated the color reproduction of a non-3D screen) but I did also pay for an IMAX ticket and I do think the larger screen is worthwhile even...

I've seen it once and I'm waiting for the second showing to start now. I'm not going to spoil anything yet.

My uncle and my father both have some. The guy my dad dealt with had a chess timer by his phone to track time because $600/hour adds up even 2 minutes at a time.

There is a human infant in my apartment right now. It is seven months old. Mostly it seems to fall over from a sitting position and/or try to put its toes and/or whatever parts of the nearest cat it can reach into its mouth. Quoting Tron would be a distinct improvement.

A best-case rule of thumb is that your maximum throughput will be about half the rated maximum claimed by the spec. 1/3 the speed is probably more realistic and, again, it depends on the number of active clients and sessions, the transceiver and antenna arrangements and even more environmental...

I just get a couple people who live around the Westmont store to meet me over there when I need cheap i5/i7s in exchange for $5 worth of Starbucks. Sometimes they don't have the stock I want and that's when I make the extra trip to Fry's. I don't like Fry's as well though.

At one time at least, Microsoft sold high security Windows configurations to governmental organizations. I suspect they get to review code even if they rest of us don't.

I suspect there will be a patch before too terribly long. You have an external firewall and don't expose your home PCs via any remote services other than Plex, right? I'm more concerned about how far back Microsoft will patch or address this vulnerability. I have more not-R2 (Vista's cohort)...

Yeah but Fry's definitely isn't so bad when it's selling an i7 CPU for $100 less than Amazon or at least price matching what the local Microcenter is doing. Which is really handy since Microcenter doesn't like selling anyone two of the same CPU in a month.

The service exists and it's still running, so yes, this impacts home PCs as well. If you're on the Public firewall profile and have no User accounts with(!) a password (and therefore don't use any Windows file sharing or the like), you're much more safe than a Windows server. Safety decreases...

Anything that does network authentication. Even if you're implementing someone else's Single Sign on toolchain, it still ultimately has to authenticate through Kerberos and that's real, real bad.

You absolutely NEED to go and change the info to stuff you control ASAP. I know several people who can't change their Microsoft account info because some random person set their account up five years ago and now they can't prove they own the account to Microsoft's satisfaction.

That's super-ugly. How does something like that pass a security audit in the first place?

Just to support Tea's observations, it's about 12x faster for me to copy 20 10GB files than it is for me to copy 100 200MB files. I'm not sure what the drive firmware could be responding to though, since no one drive should have more than 1/5 of the data for any one file in the array, regardless...

I pulled my SMR drive array (7x5TB RAID6 + 500GB SSD) out to copy it to a set of off-site drives and reads seem HIGHLY inconsistent now where before I felt they were really fine. Short writes, up to maybe 20GB, are fast to incredible, able to sustain 250MB/sec (probably the max write speed of...

On a standard drive with Windows installed, the x00000098 error would mean that your BCD folder is hosed for some reason. Startup Repair usually fixes that, or you can actually manually run BCDedit and fix it by hand. Since you're running it on a flash drive with no other disk, it sounds like...

I have that happen every once in a while off a sysprep install. Usually I can bring up task manager and restart the stuck process.

Every December, my company runs a series of crafts classes for the holiday season. From my perspective, these classes serve mostly to annihilate any and all printers that are set before those classrooms. In past years, I've just bought a few of whatever and let them die. This year, I just...

Sadly, I made my big bundle of stupid purchases last week.

Does the Yoga have multiple USB ports? What if you went to a powered USB hub and then to your keyboard?

Somebody had to be the fall guy for Ballmer.

Yes. Especially ones that were new in 1997.

I use Drive Autosync and manually move files into a couple specific folders in Google Drive when I need to deal with something than needs careful handling, like a specific receipt or card. I don't need to do those things THAT often so I'd rather manage the occasional file than bother with using...

I've set up Samba for use as a DC, primarily in the context of centralizing password changes and basic policy management. I probably still have one or two machines from the early 2000s still running out in the world. Setting it up for the size of environments I'm dealing with was relatively...

On a mildly related topic, Amazon and Newegg were both offering APC BGE70 "home network" UPSes for $20 last week. They're meant to run your router, cable modem and maybe a phone or something for around 4 hours. I'd never heard of that product line prior, but it's a solid idea and possibly a...

A flash drive is usually cheap enough to be considered disposable. Even the 128GB USB 3 drives I carry are only worth about $25 these days.

Maybe look under Advanced Power Settings, at the USB Selective Suspend? On a white box system, I might be inclined to go look for a firmware USB power management setting, but I doubt the Yoga would have such a thing.

The Dell Venue can't handle Wii games. My i5 NUC will, but I don't have internal antennas to pair the Wii controller with its bluetooth adapter. Also, I signed on to play the beta version of Unreal Tournament and Epic is giving away a game called Shadow Complex. Looks like you don't have to do...

The biggest problem I have with the default theme is that there isn't much contrast between the light bluish grey of "unread" threads and the regular grey of read threads. Thank you for fixing it regardless.

SMR seems fine for its intended purpose. Even two or three 8TB drives are cheaper than an LTO changer and work really well for infrequently accessed, near-line storage. Don't use it for anything time-sensitive and it's pretty good.

If they're smart, not-Oracle. The Oracle license model is "You tell us you want to use Oracle. We come back every few months with new reasons you should be giving us money." Of course, just like using Windows as a desktop OS or Adobe for content creation, you go where the expertise is, and the...

The main thing I've learned so far is that every goddamned console needs a completely different gamepad and none of them are like any of the others. I have a MAME-style 6 button controller, a PS3 controller and what I've come to understand is a Super-Nintendo-style 14-button controller, but none...

I wonder what the pricing difference will be between Server 2016 and Azure instances.

I actually like doing documentation. Especially when I'm getting my hourly rate for doing it. :D

If it's not a big deal where you have a real computer as home base, what makes anyone think it's an adequate station for engineering work? Whose bright idea was it to buy those and are you sure you want to work for them? The Surface Pro is actually great for a lot of applications. I use mine...

With my Surface Pro, I mirror the screen to an external display and use a USB keyboard and trackball when I can. Having it as a small portable device for presentation needs works well enough and I can get by with the Type cover and trackpad if I have to, but it's never ideal. I don't think I...