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You do know you can do an Anytime upgrade and swap up Windows editions without having to reload, right?

MAC + presumably CPU ID or possibly disk volume ID.

There are different classes of licenses and different mechanisms for dealing with activation. Microsoft encourages companies that have the infrastructure to do so to use KMS licenses that provide an accurate count of licensing more-or-less all the time. It's in the company's best interest to do...

Nits once said that I'm charming.

Your copies of Windows are almost certainly using a volume license key and reporting to a Key Management Server. The process of dealing with activation is simply invisible to you in your current role.

I also have good personal hygiene and excellent penmanship.

I suspect the thing that normally trips product activation is that the VMs need to have a different MAC and changing the MAC address is something that pretty much always triggers product activation. I don't know if virtual CPUs have different virtual serial numbers but I do know that the way the...

In a big company you'd be using a local activation server to track your usage and I suppose you'd be billed according to what the activation server says you're doing.

Mark my words: Greg's war on proper English will one day kill us all. You could have stopped this, Handy. You could have stopped this.

An activated license with Hyper-V does count as a product activation, so it must need a license separately. The Microsoft Partnership agreement my company operates with gives me ridiculous numbers of volume-licensed server installs, even setting aside MSDN subscriptions. MSDN is by far the...

I bet you say that to all the boys. :P

How do you know I wasn't blowing my nose or, um, OK, we'll leave it at nose-blowing.

Great. Now I have to clean my monitor.

I mean I am talking neck stretch marks here.

The housewives of Northwest Indiana, when in their bathing attire, make presumably forced homosexual analingus with jelly or syrup seem like an acceptable possible alternative for a male who has been detained at the California Institute for Men in Chino, San Bernadino county, California for a...

BSG's music in particular has a brilliant and rather unique talent behind it. The young man, Bear McCreary, who composed practically everything used in the series (and he is YOUNG; I don't even think he's 30 yet) worked with both Western and non-Western musical traditions and at times dozens of...

I know you have crappy internets but this is the context for that. It's a bit of Hindu Scripture.

Clear throat. Sing a few bars: oṃ bhūr bhuvaḥ svaḥ / tát savitúr váreniyaṃ / bhárgo devásya dhīmahi / dhíyo yó naḥ pracodáyāt. GODDAMMITSOFUCKINGMUCH So say we all.

True story: My company is relocating. For the first time I will have an office with a window. Even better: The view out that window is of a water park that's relatively close to the road. Disappointing addendum: Midwestern housewives in bathing suits are enough to make guys who just finished a...

"The Muppets" came from Netflix today. I won the Netflix release-day lottery.

I always tell my parents that some day I'm going to make my fortune by being the first person to bring amazing "shoe" technology south of the Mason-Dixon line. They don't think that's as funny as I do.

I'm just trying to save some innocent commas and apostrophes. ;)

If I log in to Sprint's web site it tells me. I have no idea what Verizon or AT&T do.

Didn't everyone with two IQ points to rub together already know that was going to happen? I have a student who managed to get a $350 Verizon bill because he went over the data cap on his LTE service by some utterly ridiculous amount. Basically he played movies from Netflix 8 - 10 hours a day...

There is a trailer up for Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome. It looks like Michael Bay made sweet sweet love to Bourne Movie fight-sequence editing and it is filled with some kind of shitty not-Bear McCreary music but rest assured that both Ronald D. Moore and Bear McCreary are listed...

As an improvement to Storage Forum, I'd like the ability to edit Santilli's posts for readability.

I think the whole United States should be dissolved. At the very least the Jesusland sisterfuckers need to be separated from the rest, but I think there's a compelling argument to be made for smaller regional nations rather than the enormous collective we currently have; the needs of New Mexico...

Can't you boot to runlevel 1 and set your password?

As an owner of a 17" Macbook Pro, I am going to say it's a goddamned boat anchor. You might as well give up and call it a desktop. Thunderbolt is only interesting if you'r willing to pay the huge Apple Tax markup on available hardware. People seem to be astonished by Apple's service, but in my...

I believe the Lotus suite is free now.

Here's a discussion I've had several times over the last few months: "I really want to get a Mac. Everyone says I should get a Mac. iTunes works better on Macs and there's imovie and everything is easier, right? But I have all these Windows programs and none of them are for Macs and what Mac...

I should have a couple 4TB drives by the end of the week. I'm going to pull them and use them as internal drives as well. As usual I am far more interested in capacity than performance. They're probably going to get thrown in my FreeNAS anyway.

I really think anyone who needs to ride a bike with an amplified exhaust system should be castrated and used for some kind of painful medical experimentation. At least the asshats who weave in and out of traffic tend to eliminate themselves from the gene pool just fine on their own. I found a...

That thing is a little bit better than twice as fast as the 128GB Patriot thumb drive I have here for both reads and writes. Definitely nothing to complain about.

I'm not particularly interested in California either. The Pacific Northwest, maybe. But not California.

Having redundancy is important. Having a specific RAID level is decidedly less so. Parity calculations will kill your IO performance.

No one is answering that because there is no hard answer. The answer will most definitely be lower for disks in RAID5 or 6 than 10, though.

It took approximately the same amount of time to decrapify the machine as it would have to reinstall.

Synology doesn't have any special magic to make its bits go faster than Gigabit Ethernet line speed. If you're going to be hosting multiple VMs over one, you'll really need to pay attention to the underlying disk configuration. You'll need to look at a RAID1 or RAID10 setup to have any kind of...

The argument for the Probook is that they're cheap compared to other business-class notebooks. I love Thinkpads but Lenovo doesn't offer anything as cheap as a $390 Probook (though this one was not THAT cheap). That, and the most common low-cost Thinkpad, the Edge, is really more of a glorified...

And the big winner for thing that was fucking up start times? HP Protection Suite, which appears to be some crap that was licensed from our good friends at McAffee. As if I needed more evidence that nothing from McAffee should ever be tolerated on a computer.

Synology gives you a whole bunch of neat addons and toys but the little four and six drive ones I've set up don't really scream "expansion" to me. I've fed ESXi with a FreeNAS and found the performance kind of weak over just plain Gbe, but there are better folks here for talking about that...

So I'm sitting here right now with an HP Probook 4430s. It's an i5 with 8GB RAM... and it takes a little over three minutes to get to a desktop and probably another three after that before the hourglass goes away. Needless to say this requires some investigation. Anyone else see a problem with...

Oz is the land of 70mph wildfires, rampaging koalas, baby-eating dingos, nature-show eating jellyfish, testicle-eating footballers and a wide variety of other poisonous fauna.

Please stop doing that. It shows an intense disrespect for your audience and makes some of us question other facets of your intellect.

Businesses with less than 10 employees have a lot more leeway about certain things though in general I agree completely. My office is entirely Catholic except for me. One of my coworkers in particular absolutely can't make the distinction between religious and secular activities. She finally...

Domain Controller is unquestionably what kills it. No DC starts up quickly ever.

I charge when my battery gets down to around 25%. How long that takes depends on usage. Usually Thursday night and either Saturday or Sunday night depending on how much I've been reading.

I believe that's correct.

Boot time on Server 2008 is awesome if you aren't running many services. My game machine (with a 250GB Vertex3) starts in ~14 seconds.