I'm curious as to how close to actually getting that 1 Gbps the people are. The people I've seen showing screenshots of Speedtest or similar stuff are mostly getting 1/3 of the advertised speeds, but is that the norm or are they just unlucky outliers?
Hm. I don't quite frankly know, I have no IPv6 - access and thus I have zero experience with that stuff. You could always set the number of tries to a very low number and apply rate-limiting in addition, but I suppose even that won't work forever, the IPv6 address-space is too big.
trying to move away a bit from the open source stuff just to avoid nasty surprises like this.
You don't know if there are more or fewer bugs in proprietary stuff since most bugs and vulnerabilities aren't made public and as such I do have to ask if this is really an informed decision on your part and not just bias -- you're seeing a lot more exposed bugs and vulnerabilities in F/OSS - stuff because they're more openly publicizing such details, thus you start to believe that there are more bugs and vulnerabilities in F/OSS - stuff to begin with.
As always, you should use Fail2ban or a similar tool anyways in addition to all the other security-measures. Fail2ban prevents you from taking advantage of this bug.
Great, it uses less CPU power and disk space to create a horrible quality video that half of the time it manages to write a video without corrupting it. Again - lossy, low-bitrate H.264 compression. Unless your goal is create a crappy blurry video on YouTube (and for many gamers, I guess that is their goal), ShadowPlay is useless. I'll stick with the tool that works (and creates better quality videos) than the one that doesn't.
You're asserting your ignorance as a fact. Shadowplay defaults to 50mbps bitrates at 1080p 60FPS, that's hardly "horrible quality." Also, I have yet to see even one instance where it corrupted the captured video. You can always transcode the 50mbps video to something more reasonable in software afterwards if you feel like it, but when you're actually playing it makes sense to let the GPU handle the encoding as there's no drop in framerates, but with Fraps there most definitely is.
You can clearly see that "smile" is fake, but the thingamabob happily accepts it as joyous smile. Now, if it could detect the frown on my face from seeing these stupid, fluff-piece spamticles, on the other hand...
I have only had one SSD fail on me, it was an early one.
I wonder if we've just been lucky or what, but me, my boyfriend or his brother haven't lost a single SSD so far and we've got 6 altogether at the moment. The SSDs me and my boyfriend are even terribly low-end budget - stuff or ones that were heavily discounted, like e.g. the no-brand, no-name mSATA SSD from DX.com or the OCZ Vertex 3 that was like 60% off the price. The one from DX.com runs a bit hotter than you'd expect SSDs to run, but otherwise it seems perfectly fine. As things stand and even if all the experience I have is anecdotal I certainly am not afraid of buying and using SSDs.
Why would something like Force Touch convince someone to switch from Android unless they're the kind of people who constantly rush to any new flashy thing? For one, Force Touch seems like a terrible, unintuitive gimmick that isn't easily discoverable and pretty much all the things you can do with it can be also be done without with little effort. Secondly, if someone is using Android they're likely using it because it isn't iOS; cheaper, more-varied hardware, not-so-tightly controlled lock-in and thus much better access to tools from more than one vendor, dual- and even triple-SIM phones and so on.
Chowing down on dozens of pounds of pork, spam, and pineapple and turning your body into a quivering tub of flaps of lard is no way to go through life, son.
Enjoying yourself isn't the way to go through life? Considering you only have one life to spend why shouldn't you want to enjoy it?
I imagine that you can supply the license key even if you do a clean install, but I am only guessing. However, if you first upgrade to W10 through Windows Update you can *then* make W10 install media and do a clean install ever after, they have confirmed this. So, in a worst-case scenario you have to install 7/8/8.1 first, update through WUpdate, then wipe the machine and clean-install W10.
If you upgrade from 7/8/8.1 the license is there to stay and you can in the future perform a full clean installation. It is tied to the hardware in some way, I dunno how, so you probably can't move the license to another PC, but aside from that it is a non-revocable license.
Except that's still not enough. If you ever need to copy anything to or from the computer you'd be likely to use a USB-device for that and, well, it's been shown already that such things can be infected even at the firmware-level, not even to mention USB-keyboards, mice and all those things that can also be compromised.
Researchers have found out that watching videos you enjoy and find entertaining makes you less depressed? Well, no fucking shit, Sherlock. It has nothing to do with cats or dogs or shit, per se, and is all about just being entertained by the videos!
and they have also managed to identify the root cause
No, they managed to identify *a* cause, not *the* cause. If TRIM works fine under other OSes, but not Linux, then Linux is doing something differently and that in and of itself isn't yet enough proof to make a claim that the fault lies in the OS or that it lies in the controller -- it could even be both! Finding the actual root cause requires still quite a bit more work than that.
Windows supports TRIM out of the box, there is no need for any 3rd-party executables for that.
Also, do you actually continuously verify that your data is written and stored correctly? Unless you have ZFS or BTRFS, you most likely are accumulating errors across your data.
That's a silly claim that people love to spread around. If there were errors accumulating across the data then sooner or later you'd notice it, either with broken files when you're trying to open them or crashing/non-working executables and/or OS. Most home-users don't use SSDs to just store rarely-used files, they're used for, you know, speeding up the OS and applications that are often in use and to store stuff like home-dirs -- you'd very quickly notice corruptions if they did happen.
I came to comment on that: after Googling for a bit I actually cannot find any mention of Samsung SSD 840 PRO having issues with TRIM under Windows. If it was, indeed, a controller - problem then it would have to happen under all OSes as long as TRIM is enabled, but all the evidence I'm finding only points towards to Linux or these guys' setup as being the culprit.
Disclaimer: I do not own one of these drives, so I can't speak from personal experience.
Not directly an answer to your question, but related: after Googling for a bit I actually cannot find any mention of Samsung SSD 840 PRO having issues with TRIM under Windows. If it was, indeed, a controller - problem then it would have to happen under all OSes as long as TRIM is enabled, but all the evidence I'm finding only points towards to Linux or these guys own setup as being the culprit.
I dunno, just generally stating that users like it is.. well, it doesn't really mean anything. How many users? How many users don't like it? How many are ambivalent about it? What sort of method did Mozilla use in the first place to even come to this conclusion? Me, I have zero use for Hello and I certainly have no use for Pocket, either, and I would have preferred all such things to be left as addons. I do understand Mozilla's motivation, of course; getting kickback funding for such a large ecosystem definitely looks appealing from the economical standpoint and it is, obviously, true that they can't just continue to run everything on air and good-will. Still, I can't help but feel this was poorly handled.
"Oestrogen injections or bovine or human placenta in the diet had no effect." -- In addition to what the other commenter posted this tidbit I quoted here is quite important: humans are eating human placenta, not rat placenta, so the whole comparison is null and void from the get-go. You simply cannot deducate that "hey, rats eating rat placenta cause hormonal levels to change, therefore humans eating human placenta must do the same!"
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I'm curious as to how close to actually getting that 1 Gbps the people are. The people I've seen showing screenshots of Speedtest or similar stuff are mostly getting 1/3 of the advertised speeds, but is that the norm or are they just unlucky outliers?
Hm. I don't quite frankly know, I have no IPv6 - access and thus I have zero experience with that stuff. You could always set the number of tries to a very low number and apply rate-limiting in addition, but I suppose even that won't work forever, the IPv6 address-space is too big.
trying to move away a bit from the open source stuff just to avoid nasty surprises like this.
You don't know if there are more or fewer bugs in proprietary stuff since most bugs and vulnerabilities aren't made public and as such I do have to ask if this is really an informed decision on your part and not just bias -- you're seeing a lot more exposed bugs and vulnerabilities in F/OSS - stuff because they're more openly publicizing such details, thus you start to believe that there are more bugs and vulnerabilities in F/OSS - stuff to begin with.
As always, you should use Fail2ban or a similar tool anyways in addition to all the other security-measures. Fail2ban prevents you from taking advantage of this bug.
Great, it uses less CPU power and disk space to create a horrible quality video that half of the time it manages to write a video without corrupting it. Again - lossy, low-bitrate H.264 compression. Unless your goal is create a crappy blurry video on YouTube (and for many gamers, I guess that is their goal), ShadowPlay is useless. I'll stick with the tool that works (and creates better quality videos) than the one that doesn't.
You're asserting your ignorance as a fact. Shadowplay defaults to 50mbps bitrates at 1080p 60FPS, that's hardly "horrible quality." Also, I have yet to see even one instance where it corrupted the captured video. You can always transcode the 50mbps video to something more reasonable in software afterwards if you feel like it, but when you're actually playing it makes sense to let the GPU handle the encoding as there's no drop in framerates, but with Fraps there most definitely is.
You can clearly see that "smile" is fake, but the thingamabob happily accepts it as joyous smile. Now, if it could detect the frown on my face from seeing these stupid, fluff-piece spamticles, on the other hand...
Images aren't there... then they are... the page realigns when graphics load in above or below... additional scripts load that change formating.
*facepalm* That's not how epilepsy works.
I have only had one SSD fail on me, it was an early one.
I wonder if we've just been lucky or what, but me, my boyfriend or his brother haven't lost a single SSD so far and we've got 6 altogether at the moment. The SSDs me and my boyfriend are even terribly low-end budget - stuff or ones that were heavily discounted, like e.g. the no-brand, no-name mSATA SSD from DX.com or the OCZ Vertex 3 that was like 60% off the price. The one from DX.com runs a bit hotter than you'd expect SSDs to run, but otherwise it seems perfectly fine. As things stand and even if all the experience I have is anecdotal I certainly am not afraid of buying and using SSDs.
News at eleven: a person doesn't like VR, comes up with excuses for justifying asserting his opinion as a global fact.
Why would something like Force Touch convince someone to switch from Android unless they're the kind of people who constantly rush to any new flashy thing? For one, Force Touch seems like a terrible, unintuitive gimmick that isn't easily discoverable and pretty much all the things you can do with it can be also be done without with little effort. Secondly, if someone is using Android they're likely using it because it isn't iOS; cheaper, more-varied hardware, not-so-tightly controlled lock-in and thus much better access to tools from more than one vendor, dual- and even triple-SIM phones and so on.
Chowing down on dozens of pounds of pork, spam, and pineapple and turning your body into a quivering tub of flaps of lard is no way to go through life, son.
Enjoying yourself isn't the way to go through life? Considering you only have one life to spend why shouldn't you want to enjoy it?
I've lost track of how many times I've been burned by a driver update from Microsoft that turned out to be incompatible with my hardware
That's odd. The last time I had such troubles was around Windows XP and I fiddle with a lot of different computers and setups.
Something being someone's job doesn't make it legal or acceptable.
I imagine that you can supply the license key even if you do a clean install, but I am only guessing. However, if you first upgrade to W10 through Windows Update you can *then* make W10 install media and do a clean install ever after, they have confirmed this. So, in a worst-case scenario you have to install 7/8/8.1 first, update through WUpdate, then wipe the machine and clean-install W10.
If you upgrade from 7/8/8.1 the license is there to stay and you can in the future perform a full clean installation. It is tied to the hardware in some way, I dunno how, so you probably can't move the license to another PC, but aside from that it is a non-revocable license.
Except that's still not enough. If you ever need to copy anything to or from the computer you'd be likely to use a USB-device for that and, well, it's been shown already that such things can be infected even at the firmware-level, not even to mention USB-keyboards, mice and all those things that can also be compromised.
Researchers have found out that watching videos you enjoy and find entertaining makes you less depressed? Well, no fucking shit, Sherlock. It has nothing to do with cats or dogs or shit, per se, and is all about just being entertained by the videos!
with no evidence.
So, your personal experience counts as evidence, but mine doesn't?
Linux uses a more modern and performant variant of TRIM, namely queued TRIM
Except that's irrelevant, the guys didn't use queued TRIM either. It says in the article itself that they used non-queued TRIM.
and they have also managed to identify the root cause
No, they managed to identify *a* cause, not *the* cause. If TRIM works fine under other OSes, but not Linux, then Linux is doing something differently and that in and of itself isn't yet enough proof to make a claim that the fault lies in the OS or that it lies in the controller -- it could even be both! Finding the actual root cause requires still quite a bit more work than that.
Or does it require a binary to execute TRIM?
Windows supports TRIM out of the box, there is no need for any 3rd-party executables for that.
Also, do you actually continuously verify that your data is written and stored correctly? Unless you have ZFS or BTRFS, you most likely are accumulating errors across your data.
That's a silly claim that people love to spread around. If there were errors accumulating across the data then sooner or later you'd notice it, either with broken files when you're trying to open them or crashing/non-working executables and/or OS. Most home-users don't use SSDs to just store rarely-used files, they're used for, you know, speeding up the OS and applications that are often in use and to store stuff like home-dirs -- you'd very quickly notice corruptions if they did happen.
I came to comment on that: after Googling for a bit I actually cannot find any mention of Samsung SSD 840 PRO having issues with TRIM under Windows. If it was, indeed, a controller - problem then it would have to happen under all OSes as long as TRIM is enabled, but all the evidence I'm finding only points towards to Linux or these guys' setup as being the culprit.
Disclaimer: I do not own one of these drives, so I can't speak from personal experience.
Not directly an answer to your question, but related: after Googling for a bit I actually cannot find any mention of Samsung SSD 840 PRO having issues with TRIM under Windows. If it was, indeed, a controller - problem then it would have to happen under all OSes as long as TRIM is enabled, but all the evidence I'm finding only points towards to Linux or these guys own setup as being the culprit.
I dunno, just generally stating that users like it is.. well, it doesn't really mean anything. How many users? How many users don't like it? How many are ambivalent about it? What sort of method did Mozilla use in the first place to even come to this conclusion? Me, I have zero use for Hello and I certainly have no use for Pocket, either, and I would have preferred all such things to be left as addons. I do understand Mozilla's motivation, of course; getting kickback funding for such a large ecosystem definitely looks appealing from the economical standpoint and it is, obviously, true that they can't just continue to run everything on air and good-will. Still, I can't help but feel this was poorly handled.
"Oestrogen injections or bovine or human placenta in the diet had no effect." -- In addition to what the other commenter posted this tidbit I quoted here is quite important: humans are eating human placenta, not rat placenta, so the whole comparison is null and void from the get-go. You simply cannot deducate that "hey, rats eating rat placenta cause hormonal levels to change, therefore humans eating human placenta must do the same!"