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The card is in the mail, perhaps swedes are a bit slower or they went after the Asrock and Sparkles, which seem to have better cooling and so on. It would be really nice if Intel levelled up on the integrated GPUs. Perhaps in a generation or two? (With the AI-stuff beeing so popular and all?)

I ordered a B580 for the son. IIt will join a 11700 (maybe K) and 32 GB RAM. And he uses a 1080 monitor, so it should be enough.

I know, it makes the HW price almost irrelevant. =) And if you license all physical cores with EE you can run as many VM:s as you want with EE on that machine. So you can potentially cram a bit more out of it, vs Standard Edition where you have to license every core in every VM. But I'm also...

The 9575F looks amazing. But I will dream sweet dreams about a 9175F in SQL Server tonight, 16 cores @ 4.2 - 5 GHz and 512 MB L3... :)

EPYC servers have 12 slots/CPU. I had to Google, but it seems like each DIMM slot has it's own memory channel. https://lenovopress.lenovo.com/lp1702-balanced-memory-configurations-with-4th-generation-amd-epyc-processors#figure-4th-gen-amd-epyc-processor-logical-view

My only comfort is that I don't have to use Citrix, like most people in the organisation. LOL. I cannot agree more about Outlook, and on my previous laptop I couldn't be in teams meetings when the AV was scanning, not sure if it was a feature or a bug. Then, maybe the bad performance is not...

Even if we had 32 x 6 GHz cores and 1TB of RAM developers would make software that makes the OS lag... more bloat, new frameworks, new versions of Teams and Outlook with AI and whatnot... My sons computer feels pretty fast but he doesn't have Teams or Outlook installed. But every other computer...

I am also curious what's in the NAS boxes. :) Do you have different data tiers? For example one NAS with Optane Enterprise disks for high performance, one with larger volume normal SSD:s, one with spinning disks for huge volumes of historical data?

I think regarding code vs speed, when performance increases we come up with more bloat. It would be great if we could write in plain English what we want the result to be and it outputs ASM-code (and compile it for us), but it seems like there is some way to go. And even then we need to have...

Covid sucks, I hope you'll be able to get some rest now and feel better next week.

Just want to remind you that there are plenty of different bike vacation opportunities. In Europe you have Italy, Spain (around Girona for example), Belgium or... most countries really... And I'm sure there are equally nice cycling destinations in the USA. For me cycling in beautiful...

I have no idea about switches, I think I use Varmilo EC Sakura switches but they are also a bit on the light side. Quite similar to Cherry Reds. The New Model M looks really interesting, hope you'll write a report later on.

I had a pretty "fun" bug on my work laptop (1255U CPU) when it was almost new: All cores rän on 400 MHz, all the time. It got fixed in a BIOS update but it was unusable for a few days. (Teams + Outlook starts automatically..) Regarding ASUS, I haven't kept up with the motherboard market in the...

Really sweet... I hope they turn up as options in mainstream servers during the next 6-9 months. It would make a nice drive for TempDB in SQL Server.

Single threaded performance is important, especially for my favourite, SQL Server where I (for my workload) tend to buy the minimum but fastest cores available. But in the general server space it's usually more about density and power consumption, and 96 -> 128 cores per socket is a decent step...

Seems like Seasonic will have a couple of ATX3.1 models PSUs available in USA in October. https://seasonic.com/power-supplies/ I haven't bought any PSUs since maybe 2020-2021, but have only bought Seasonic for almost as long as I can remember. I bought an Enermax to a P4 1.8GHz system, the...

Rape and incest is apparently "inconvenient"? https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1819406646134571334?t=OUDeq6415UIIIJ5kZptHhw&s=19

I'm not even close, I built 3 or 4 machines at work around late 2013-2014, I was away for 5 years so 1 or 2 probably got decommissioned when we changed owners, but 2 are running legacy software, runs 24/7 and are still going strong. (Fractal Design Define cases, Seasonic PSUs, ASUS TUF...

It is similar in Sweden, we have Bank-ID, not developed by the state but the large banks and defacto standard, useful almost anywhere in the digital domain. Maybe it's easier to implement these things in smaller countries? I think Estonia is the most digitalized countries in the world.

MS authentication is frustrating in so many ways. I feel that the process is broken if Microsoft accepts land line telephone numbers but don't offer a "Call me back" option, like some of the other online services do.

SQL Server is the only Microsoft product I like. (Except maybe some keyboard or mouse back in the days) Advice: If you want to earn big bucks, stand by a product that is as expensive (like $7500/core for Enterprise Edition) as possible and become really good at it. (Of course, in Sweden we work...

I agree. Perhaps 8 TB is pushing the limits of current technology? I imagine it's easier to manage cooling, reliability and so on in the 3.5/2.5/EDSFF formats. In the server space M.2 are more common as boot drives where I suppose they see a lot less activity than their carrier mounted friends...

It was not a bit of a fight, ot was really serious business. Almost as bad as soccer supporters in Europe, but without physical fighting. :) I had both the C64 and Amiga 500, they were really nice computers, the Amiga had specialized chipsets for graphics, sound and MMU (Denise, Paula & Agnus)...

You clearly didn't take part in the Amiga vs. Atari wars. I still hate Atari ST.

Shame about the damage to the bike, hope it's not that bad.

That is still very good, I hope you get back into your normal routine. I managed to ride 5000 km last year, up from previous years of 1500-1600 km. For me, riding outdoor is still the best when the weather lets me, great way to let the thoughts wander and enjoy the local scenery in 3D. 🙂

I had a few years when I didn't ride bikes very much. One year I started riding like crazy, because we only have like 3 months of summer and got an injury. In early 2019 we got a dog, during the pandemic I got too fat for cycling clothes. But a while I bought an indoor trainer (Kickr V5) and...

Have to agree that Icelandic is very beautiful.

My condolences. And what Handruin said, take your time, but I hope you stay around.

You are probably right Merc, there are more useful languages you can learn unless you plan on moving here. But Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are all very closely related, if you can speak one you can usually understand the others. Norwegian is maybe my favourite language of the three because the...

Man, this sounds impossible, even the poor danish children start talking later than others because they talk so strange. 🙂 Sweden and Norway is also nice, and Belgium also seems to be OK (besides Netherland). But your skills should be in high demand anywhere. I hope it sorts itself out soon.

We use a moka pot, size 6 is perfect for one large mug. https://www.bialetti.com/ee_en/venus.html Just fill with water + coffee and wait a couple of minutes. I also found a normal off-the-shelf coffee with a roast that works great with our local water quality, so I'm really happy with it. It's...

That sounds like a great idea. Norway is really beautiful, and when you're tired of the fjords (takes a few days) you can turn right and travel south through Sweden. =)

Welcome to the nordic countries. :) I hope you and the family like it here. Denmark is really nice, should be the perfect base if you want to travel around Europe. I have a ~1200 km trip to make within Sweden before I even reach Denmark or Germany.

I bought a Varmilo with their EC Sakura switches a while ago. They click and requires mute during Teams meetings, but I like the feeling of both the keyboard (heavy+dampened) and the switches. My only other experience with mechanical switches is with MX Red + the IBM in 1987 or so.

Samsung mobiles are fine.

Happy holidays!

Aha, you have your own cloud? Nice. :)

I wouldn't mind 48 GB of RAM, then you will not have to worry about buying more RAM for a few years. 256 GB would be great for hosting a VM with SQL Server. :)

OS updates are maybe the weak point of motorola? I love their phones, have had a Moto Z and Moto One Hyper, but they received very sporadical updates. I bought the Z spring 2017 and the updates stopped in August 18. :(

Glad to hear that it worked out. Access is not bad for its intended use, just a long time since I used it. As a side note, it's also quite easy to kill performance in SQL Server. :)

I believe Access has a database size limit of 2GB? I now remember a story from 1995, where a guy working for our city council apparently decided to build a journaling system to store all incoming+official documents - in an Access database... The documents were of course scanned and stored as...

I used Fox Pro + VB6 to create a CD based database application around 1999-2000. Very nice to work with if I remember correctly. But I have mostly been working with SQL Server. Personallly I could/would use Management Studio (SSMS) as a GUI for smal scale manual input. For corporate use I would...

Seems like it is possible: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/p/access/cfq7ttc0hhmx?activetab=pivot:overviewtab I suppose the various tasks includes building forms in the UI? She has no interest in learning SQL Server? I ask because Express edition is totally free with a limitation...

I think it should work fine as long as you give it enough RAM? I have a T440s (anno ~ 2013?). It was unbearable slow with 8 GB but got much better with 12 GB. It doesn't say much, bit it is much faster than my work laptop (4 year old HP with 8 GB). And if I remember correctly I believe I...

Regarding menus in 10, I just write things in the search bar and select the top item in the search result. It is probably just me, but I find it annoying that some things are in the new UI and some in the Classic. We'll see what 11 brings.

Google actually has an opt out program: https://www.theonion.com/google-opt-out-feature-lets-users-protect-privacy-by-mo-1819594840

Don't fortget the 8.8.8.8 DNS server. if you think about it,.most companies collect user data, when you buy food, coffee or whatever. We get all these great "free" services - which we pay for with information about us.

Starting yesterday I got a popup in my Gmail (phone) if I wanted to disable popups (to avoid dual notifications). I have also disabled sound+visual notifications from almost every app in my phone since 2015, and also mail notifications from Outlook at the work computer. I usually check the...

I can imagine that a droid turbo beat the Z hands down. :) The Edge 20/20 Pro looks interestimg (or G100 for that matter) if I were to get another phone right now, but I will most likely use my current until it dies. The S9+ still gets security updates and I am kind of used to the UI by now.