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  1. Re:I used the Media Creation Tool on Microsoft Rolls Out Major Fall Update To Windows 10 (windows10update.com) · · Score: 1

    Most of the time all I want are the ISOs. With Threshold 2's ability to accept Windows 7/8 keys make the in-place upgrade unnecessary, and superfluous. I really don't want the Media Creation Tool to put crap in C:\$WINDOWS.~BT and C:\$Windows.~WS even if I told it to just download the ISO.

    The only benefit of using the creation tool is if I wanted to have an x86+x64 FAT ISO. Or Windows Update fails in a way which causes the upgrade to stop showing up, and one is forced to upgrade in-place.

  2. Re:I used the Media Creation Tool on Microsoft Rolls Out Major Fall Update To Windows 10 (windows10update.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Or download the ISOs directly using https://www.microsoft.com/en-u...

  3. Re:mintty on cygwin on Ask Slashdot: What Terminal Emulator Do You Use? · · Score: 1

    Same here. If you set LANG=....UTF-8 Unicode is rendered using common programs like ls and less, but sadly not vi.

  4. Re:HP - Aglient - Keysight on HP Is Now Two Companies. How Did It Get Here? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Agilent was spun off in 1999.

  5. Re:Did Sergei miss the travel advisory? on Ukrainian Hacker Who Targeted Brian Krebs Extradited To US (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe he read it but this advisory did not say anything about Italy.

  6. Re:Click-bait BS on 500 Million Users At Risk of Compromise Via Unpatched WinRAR Bug · · Score: 1

    I always tack on a .rar to any SFX so I could disable auto extract. I'm still using 3.93.

  7. Re: Genius or not on Ahmed Mohamed, His Clock, and the Curious Turn of Events · · Score: 1

    Based on the articles I've read, he did not bring it upon himself to show the clock to his English teacher. The clock's alarm went off when it was in his desk which prompted his teacher to ask Ahmed what it was, leading him to show the clock.

  8. Re:Why are we doing this? on New Horizons Phones Home After Pluto Flyby -- Craft Healthy, Data Recorded · · Score: 1

    Our solar system consists of 3 classes of objects: rocky planets, gas giants, dwarf bodies. Going to Pluto allows us to study the 3rd class. Scientists think these dwarf objects in the Kuiper Belt are the building blocks of planets but did not have a chance to accumulate into one since our solar system formed and studying objects in that area will give us a more complete understanding of what happened during the early age of our solar system.

    http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Pluto/...

    I think this mission is especially challenging because it's so far away. Mission planners need to account for the considerable latency involved.

  9. Re:This is why physics is the king of the sciences on LHC Discovers Pentaquark Particles · · Score: 2

    Agreed. Here's the page where it shows the significant events of the mission.

    http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Missio...

  10. Re:The Revolving Door Argument is Thin Anyway.... on FCC Chairman: a Former Cable Lobbyist Who Helped Kill the Comcast Merger · · Score: 1

    > why has gigabit internet rapidly proliferated around the country over the last decade?

    You have an interesting view about the glacial pace at which gigabit service is rolling out in a handful of US cities. Just because you reference a bunch of links doesn't mean your posts should be taken seriously.

  11. Old on Seeing Buildings Shake With Software · · Score: 1

    Saw this several years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  12. Re:The Revolving Door Argument is Thin Anyway.... on FCC Chairman: a Former Cable Lobbyist Who Helped Kill the Comcast Merger · · Score: 5, Interesting

    https://corp.sonic.net/ceo/201...

    in 2004, the FCC took steps to limit competition, turning away from key provisions of the 1996 Telecom Act. They set aside unbundling requirements which serve as a key bridge for competitive carriers. By circumventing Congress this way, the Bush-appointed Chairman of the FCC was able to turn back a competitive tide, creating an intentional duopoly on Internet access in the US.

    The FCC Chairman was Michael Powell

  13. Re:Hasn't Google been doing that for a while now? on Google Rolls Out VP9 Encoding For YouTube · · Score: 1

    I can't answer your question but the html5 player is much more efficient than the Flash player and I've set it as the default in Firefox. I find that a video would buffer more often using the Flash player compared to the html5 player.

    Does it mean the video has been encoded in VP9 if the nerd stats say DASH in Flash? The html5 stats say explicitly VP9.

  14. But... on How Comcast Bankrolls Organizations That Support TWC Merger · · Score: 1

    "but... but...

    2 Gbps for everyone."

  15. Mozilla accepts CNNIC on Chinese Certificate Authority CNNIC Is Dropped From Google Products · · Score: 1

    There was an article in 2010 about this subject and the naysayers were correct.

    http://slashdot.org/story/1308...

    I've personally deleted its authority entry in Firefox.

    "Fool me once. Shame on you..." and all that.

  16. Re:x64 only on FreeNAS 9.3 Released · · Score: 1

    Do you have any recommendations? I found out about it after some of my friends talked about it many years ago. The set up was straight forward. I only need to share some videos through DLNA/CIFS.

  17. Re:x64 only on FreeNAS 9.3 Released · · Score: 1

    It's a Core 2 Quad Q8200. It's perfectly fine for running my small group of VMs that provide FreeNAS, tftp server, PXE, NFS, Windows file sharing, network/server/environment monitoring, and IP management. It does all this with 8 GB main memory with 2.4 GB free.

  18. Re:Why on FreeNAS 9.3 Released · · Score: 1

    FreeNAS's base is NanoBSD. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_... describes the project. The primary benefit of using NanoBSD is that everything is RO at runtime which means you can pull power from the system at anytime.

    Another vendor who uses FreeBSD is Juniper. I've read about file system corruption--not often, but it can happen--from admins when they don't perform a proper shutdown.

  19. Re:It needs a different name. on FreeNAS 9.3 Released · · Score: 1

    So, "free ass"?

  20. x64 only on FreeNAS 9.3 Released · · Score: 2

    My CPU doesn't support x64 guests so I'll remain on 9.2.x, which still works pretty well. The only downside is the minidlna plug-in is a bit old and needs to scan the entire collection when adding new files. Newer versions will either have inotify/kqueue working, if not already.

  21. Re:Probably fake cards, actually on Ask Slashdot: Is Non-USB Flash Direct From China Safe? · · Score: 1

    Analogous to worrying about something that's not likely to happen but sounds scarier and ignore a more common problem.

  22. Re:"vector games are an issue"... on Internet Archive Launches Arcade of Classic Games In the Browser · · Score: 1

    Tac/Scan, Quantum, Star Trek are there. There may be others.

  23. Re:This whole CurrentC thing is reminding me of Di on Apple Pay Competitor CurrentC Breached · · Score: 1

    DivX and DivX ;-) were a pun on CC's misguided DIVX.

    I think it's an appropriate association and for people who think CurrentC or its future incarnations is a bad idea should associate it with DIVX.

    "CurrentC, the DIVX of the 21st century."

  24. DIVX on Why CurrentC Will Beat Out Apple Pay · · Score: 1

    After reading the description of CurrenC it seems like we're witnessing the launch of DIVX in the late 1990s.

  25. Re:Spoiled much? on Will Fiber-To-the-Home Create a New Digital Divide? · · Score: 1

    RDP 8.1 features like USB headset redirection requires LAN bandwidth/latency at this time.