Its "faster boot time" is nothing but a classic MSFT cheat, in this case its more like a wake from hibernate than an actual boot...
Yup, that's exactly what it is! Last I played with Windows 8, hibernation could be disabled via command line per KB article 920730. What Microsoft failed to realize is that they do *NOT* control the hardware. As such, there's a greater chance for some memory leak or RAM errors causing corruption. When you "reboot" a Windows 8 PC, you're not flushing out the RAM. At least from what I can tell. This is a serious issue. I predict a flood of technical phone calls in which Microsoft will have have no choice but to disable this feature by default with an upcoming patch on Patch Tuesday.
Just started playing around with Server 2012 as a VM. That's it, Microsoft is done for. I'm convinced of that. WTF were they thinking? Just how much cocaine have they been snorting?!
I'm evaluating ARC Serve D2D actually. I needed a BRM recovery that also supports full with incremental backups. But most importantly, I needed a solution that will backup MS Exchange 2010 and supports native 4k disk sector sizes. Acronis still does not support Exchange 2010 (WTF?, so late now), and MS 2008 native Windows Backup will not support 4k sector sizes on newer drive. Supposedly 512e emulated support may work. But with newer external drives that use 4k sector sizes, VSS writer will fail!. As for Backup Exec 2010 and 2012, I'm fucking done with what amounts to a hacked up "API". I want a turn-key product, not a fucking roll-your-own enterprise solution for a SMB market.
And to extend my rant even further. It's the year 2012. Why on this 3rd planet from the Sun do we not have any viable working backup solutions out there!!! Every G-Damned one of them has their major problems and/or incompatibilities. WTF is up with that shit?! Blows my mind.
Actually, what would be better is to mirror both the SSD and HDD in one RAID1 volume. Then designate the SSD as the primary read/write target with the HDD left to keep up on the write-back transactions at its own pace. Not sure if any RAID controllers are smart enough to do this automatically by not letting the slowest drive slow the entire RAID1 volume down. In theory, you could achieve by making both the SSD and HDD Dymanic disks under Windows and then create an NTFS mirror across both drive. Leaving the SSD as the primary boot disk in the first channel. If anyone has done this, let me know. Otherwise, testing is required with different types of RAID1 configurations (hardware, software, or at the OS level).
Essentially, an SSD cache does something similar from a performance point of view. But it's only a cache and not an entire real-time mirror of data.
Yup. Hence "AMD" and not just a specific lineup. Intel (from a business model, not a technical reason) purposefully segments their market. Only Xeon chips support ECC regardless of what the chipset on a motherboard is capable of.
L1 and L2 on die per CPU core. L3 is on die and shared among all CPU cores. L4 is RAM L5 is SSD accelerator L6 is HDD. L7 is Cloud storage off in Internet lala land. L8 is stored on my old HDDs someplace in the dumpster. It might be found in a few hundred years from now.
Standard desktop chipsets can get real flaky with 16GB of RAM and above. So be sure you get a single Quad kit and not 2x Dual kits like most people get (because it's cheaper). But then again, if you're serious about needing that much RAM, I suggest going workstation level with an Intel Xeon or AMD chip. Those are the only to line of CPUs that will support ECC. Last thing you want to have to worry about is some bit flips happening someplace and then the corruption being committed back to disk. Ugh!!! The though alone is enough to give me ulcers. Seriously, go with ECC when working with that much memory.
SSDs have a propensity to just die like a normal HDD. Not sure why. Could be overheating, poor quality in materials making the ICs, buggy code in the firmware someplace. Who knows. But I've seen plenty OEM Samsung and OCZ Vertex 2 drives go tits up in a nanosecond. Either you can't read the data of the drives, or flat out wont enumerate SATA side (effectively bricked).
So why SSDs look great on paper in "theory", real-world stats say otherwise above and beyond just my own experiences.
OTOH, like the SSD crackwhore bitch that I am; once I tasted the speed of SSDs, I'll never go back. I just schedule daily backups to a standard HDD. Windows 7 Backup or Apple Time Machine for you Mac heads.
Would escargot be one of them? Who in the hell thought it was a great idea to eat slugs in a shell?! It must have been out of desperation would be my guess.
Carmack's ability to create a "game" is questionable. But with regards to engineering both game and rocket engines, clearly this man is a top tier coder.
When you invest in a company, that capital goes to expanding the business including hiring new employees. Those employees also have to be paid with a reoccurring stream of revenue. Obviously. So it comes to no surprise that FB is expanding above and beyond its original scope. What's next? Facebook tablet (yet another device)? Facebook phone? Oh, how about Facebook teeshirts, mugs, special blended coffee. How about a Facebook movie? Oh wait. How about...a Facebook game, religion. How about a Facebook mini TV series. Facebook homes, Facebook ppartments. How about a Facebook bar? At some point, a company such as FB jumps the shark. I say it already happened a long time ago IMHO.
When your entire business is built around a cult of personality, it's (wait for it)...mortal as man himself!
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Windows NT 3.51 and 4.0: A true enterprise workstation class OS suitable for running AutoCAD. Windows ME: A pile of shit. I pretend it never existed. Vista: Such great potential. This version had broken functionality and performance suffered. Windows 7: What Vista should have been from the beginning. Windows 8: BILLY G, WHERE ARE YOU? SAVE US FROM BALLMER!!!
It's called not thinking outside the box. AKA laws of unintended consequences. We've all been guilty of making similar mistakes in that an original idea seems brilliant at all angles accept for one. The one angle you never knew existed. The one angle that's crucial and ultimately determines the outcome of the idea.
Now imagine entire governments doing this with the laws they legislate.
1a. Mass communication at the speed of light instantly lowered the barriers to entry. So naturally the US is hemorrhaging wealth for the time being. But the correction will start to level off when labor becomes too expensive for the products and services you're willing to purchase. We are already seeing this effect with mass production. China is getting expensive. Eventually it will move to Africa and the Middle East until all corners of the Earth have been touched.
1b. It's never a fixed pie. If that was the case, humanity would still be living in an agrarian life with no means for technological advancement in all endeavors.
2. Rich people only have money when others spending their on goods and services owned and controlled by the rich. Ultimately their wealth is worthless when everyone else has no money to spend. More often than not, it's government regulation that's protecting the rich under the original idea of protecting the poor. It's a sad ironic truth in fact.
3. I'm torn on this. On one hand, people hiding behind a corporation are little if ever held accountable for their actions. It's used like a suit of armor to take all the legal hits. On the other, it allows people to take on more risk that further develops our economy and productivity. I'm open to debate on whether this is ultimately good or bad.
Doesn't matter what people are for the most part. But when threat is stated, it becomes a whole other matter all together. He just advanced to the next level. One that either you or I ought to never go.
As someone who's been both overseas to Asia and much of the USA, you haven't got a clue. Sincerely and honestly. If there's one thing you must remember, it's that culture has everything to do with how a nation manifests it's own productivity. Americans and Europeans have a high demand for a quality of life. We as a society work hard and play hard. It's why we are so organized to get shit done and places like India and China are now just catching up as they become more "westernized".
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Its "faster boot time" is nothing but a classic MSFT cheat, in this case its more like a wake from hibernate than an actual boot...
Yup, that's exactly what it is! Last I played with Windows 8, hibernation could be disabled via command line per KB article 920730. What Microsoft failed to realize is that they do *NOT* control the hardware. As such, there's a greater chance for some memory leak or RAM errors causing corruption. When you "reboot" a Windows 8 PC, you're not flushing out the RAM. At least from what I can tell. This is a serious issue. I predict a flood of technical phone calls in which Microsoft will have have no choice but to disable this feature by default with an upcoming patch on Patch Tuesday.
Just started playing around with Server 2012 as a VM. That's it, Microsoft is done for. I'm convinced of that. WTF were they thinking? Just how much cocaine have they been snorting?!
"Pumice, the lightweight stone used to smooth skin, is usually found in beauty salons."
Ha! I'll use that line next time I see a mechanic wash his hands with a Lava Bar.
There will be lots of sex happening on beaches and in wide open fields far away from light pollution.
I'm evaluating ARC Serve D2D actually. I needed a BRM recovery that also supports full with incremental backups. But most importantly, I needed a solution that will backup MS Exchange 2010 and supports native 4k disk sector sizes. Acronis still does not support Exchange 2010 (WTF?, so late now), and MS 2008 native Windows Backup will not support 4k sector sizes on newer drive. Supposedly 512e emulated support may work. But with newer external drives that use 4k sector sizes, VSS writer will fail!. As for Backup Exec 2010 and 2012, I'm fucking done with what amounts to a hacked up "API". I want a turn-key product, not a fucking roll-your-own enterprise solution for a SMB market.
And to extend my rant even further. It's the year 2012. Why on this 3rd planet from the Sun do we not have any viable working backup solutions out there!!! Every G-Damned one of them has their major problems and/or incompatibilities. WTF is up with that shit?! Blows my mind.
Actually, what would be better is to mirror both the SSD and HDD in one RAID1 volume. Then designate the SSD as the primary read/write target with the HDD left to keep up on the write-back transactions at its own pace. Not sure if any RAID controllers are smart enough to do this automatically by not letting the slowest drive slow the entire RAID1 volume down. In theory, you could achieve by making both the SSD and HDD Dymanic disks under Windows and then create an NTFS mirror across both drive. Leaving the SSD as the primary boot disk in the first channel. If anyone has done this, let me know. Otherwise, testing is required with different types of RAID1 configurations (hardware, software, or at the OS level).
Essentially, an SSD cache does something similar from a performance point of view. But it's only a cache and not an entire real-time mirror of data.
Yup. Hence "AMD" and not just a specific lineup. Intel (from a business model, not a technical reason) purposefully segments their market. Only Xeon chips support ECC regardless of what the chipset on a motherboard is capable of.
Cache levels.
L1 and L2 on die per CPU core.
L3 is on die and shared among all CPU cores.
L4 is RAM
L5 is SSD accelerator
L6 is HDD.
L7 is Cloud storage off in Internet lala land.
L8 is stored on my old HDDs someplace in the dumpster. It might be found in a few hundred years from now.
Standard desktop chipsets can get real flaky with 16GB of RAM and above. So be sure you get a single Quad kit and not 2x Dual kits like most people get (because it's cheaper). But then again, if you're serious about needing that much RAM, I suggest going workstation level with an Intel Xeon or AMD chip. Those are the only to line of CPUs that will support ECC. Last thing you want to have to worry about is some bit flips happening someplace and then the corruption being committed back to disk. Ugh!!! The though alone is enough to give me ulcers. Seriously, go with ECC when working with that much memory.
SSDs have a propensity to just die like a normal HDD. Not sure why. Could be overheating, poor quality in materials making the ICs, buggy code in the firmware someplace. Who knows. But I've seen plenty OEM Samsung and OCZ Vertex 2 drives go tits up in a nanosecond. Either you can't read the data of the drives, or flat out wont enumerate SATA side (effectively bricked).
So why SSDs look great on paper in "theory", real-world stats say otherwise above and beyond just my own experiences.
OTOH, like the SSD crackwhore bitch that I am; once I tasted the speed of SSDs, I'll never go back. I just schedule daily backups to a standard HDD. Windows 7 Backup or Apple Time Machine for you Mac heads.
Citizen, there's an app for that. Now go spread the message around your block.
Would escargot be one of them? Who in the hell thought it was a great idea to eat slugs in a shell?! It must have been out of desperation would be my guess.
Carmack's ability to create a "game" is questionable. But with regards to engineering both game and rocket engines, clearly this man is a top tier coder.
You don't what them to be idle, now do you? Use punch cards instead. Trust me.
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"Don't hate the playa, hate the game" - Ice T
I hate both the game and the players that play it. The only winning move is not to play.
When you invest in a company, that capital goes to expanding the business including hiring new employees. Those employees also have to be paid with a reoccurring stream of revenue. Obviously. So it comes to no surprise that FB is expanding above and beyond its original scope. What's next? Facebook tablet (yet another device)? Facebook phone? Oh, how about Facebook teeshirts, mugs, special blended coffee. How about a Facebook movie? Oh wait. How about...a Facebook game, religion. How about a Facebook mini TV series. Facebook homes, Facebook ppartments. How about a Facebook bar? At some point, a company such as FB jumps the shark. I say it already happened a long time ago IMHO.
Nobody does a Mentos ad like Jean-Claude Van Damme
When your entire business is built around a cult of personality, it's (wait for it)...mortal as man himself!
Windows NT 3.51 and 4.0: A true enterprise workstation class OS suitable for running AutoCAD.
Windows ME: A pile of shit. I pretend it never existed.
Vista: Such great potential. This version had broken functionality and performance suffered.
Windows 7: What Vista should have been from the beginning.
Windows 8: BILLY G, WHERE ARE YOU? SAVE US FROM BALLMER!!!
Obviously that would a Republican saying that. Liberals don't believe in God let alone thank them.
It's called not thinking outside the box. AKA laws of unintended consequences. We've all been guilty of making similar mistakes in that an original idea seems brilliant at all angles accept for one. The one angle you never knew existed. The one angle that's crucial and ultimately determines the outcome of the idea.
Now imagine entire governments doing this with the laws they legislate.
1a. Mass communication at the speed of light instantly lowered the barriers to entry. So naturally the US is hemorrhaging wealth for the time being. But the correction will start to level off when labor becomes too expensive for the products and services you're willing to purchase. We are already seeing this effect with mass production. China is getting expensive. Eventually it will move to Africa and the Middle East until all corners of the Earth have been touched.
1b. It's never a fixed pie. If that was the case, humanity would still be living in an agrarian life with no means for technological advancement in all endeavors.
2. Rich people only have money when others spending their on goods and services owned and controlled by the rich. Ultimately their wealth is worthless when everyone else has no money to spend. More often than not, it's government regulation that's protecting the rich under the original idea of protecting the poor. It's a sad ironic truth in fact.
3. I'm torn on this. On one hand, people hiding behind a corporation are little if ever held accountable for their actions. It's used like a suit of armor to take all the legal hits. On the other, it allows people to take on more risk that further develops our economy and productivity. I'm open to debate on whether this is ultimately good or bad.
So, the Nazis did take over UK. I knew it all along!
Doesn't matter what people are for the most part. But when threat is stated, it becomes a whole other matter all together. He just advanced to the next level. One that either you or I ought to never go.
As someone who's been both overseas to Asia and much of the USA, you haven't got a clue. Sincerely and honestly. If there's one thing you must remember, it's that culture has everything to do with how a nation manifests it's own productivity. Americans and Europeans have a high demand for a quality of life. We as a society work hard and play hard. It's why we are so organized to get shit done and places like India and China are now just catching up as they become more "westernized".