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  1. Re:Wrong question. on When Will Your Hard Drive Fail? · · Score: 1

    Meh! I bought a new HP x510 just recently. It's now orphaned and WHS v1 fully updated and running 2003 server Sp2 so it should recognise >2TB drives. I got it because the hardware specs were much better than equivalent current NAS boxes. So after installing 3 x 3TB drives in it, the WHS software trashed one of the drives (set as a WHS backup and not pooled) because I copied just over 2TB of files onto it, even though RDing into the box showed the 2003 server could handle the size, WHS couldn't.
    So now I've got 2 partitions on each drive. 1 at about 1.98TB and another just under 1TB. WHS still can't pool them, but I created shares that are perfectly accessible.
    Before I did this, I used it as intended for backups with WHS and worked on 1 out of 3 machines. I'm still playing with it and I'll install a 2TB OS drive later on. Otherwise there's quite a few backup solutions out there that can backup to the shares I've created.
    I'm not worried though as I can do a headless install Win 8.1 (it has drive pooling) or look around for another OS as long as it works OK with stock drivers.

  2. Re:Only three things are certain on When Will Your Hard Drive Fail? · · Score: 1

    I like cracking my soft boiled egg pointy side up.

  3. Re:No it doesn't on YouTube Algorithm Can Decide Your Channel URL Now Belongs To Someone Else · · Score: 1

    Anyone for Elevenis?
    My Fivefathers....
    I was one and a half way through the door.

  4. Re:Wow. Just wow on New Snowden Leaks Show NSA Attacked Anti-Virus Software · · Score: 1

    Good point. Somehow all the attention focussed on Kaspersky makes me think that they are not duty bound in any way to western intelligence. They have the resources to harden their software. Unfortunately it comes down to a matter or trust. Do you trust Kaspersky because they are not in the big 5 or do you trust the home grown product?
    In the end I don't trust any of them, but I run Kaspersky to stop virii and most malware on a critical Win machine. It just makes me angry that security, lo that the net itself is so full of holes that hardening my systems becomes impossible. Not only that, but it is difficult to find out IF you've been hacked.

  5. Re:Not a bad price on The US Navy's Warfare Systems Command Just Paid Millions To Stay On Windows XP · · Score: 1

    It'll be cheaper for them to buy Windows 10 licences.

  6. Runes on Unicode Consortium Releases Unicode 8.0.0 · · Score: 1

    Unicode now has a set for pre-Latin Hungarian runes!
    Hanging out for the keyboard....

  7. Re:Criminalize it! on UK's Legalization of CD Ripping Is Unlawful, Court Rules · · Score: 2

    Here's the moral high ground and the stupidity of UK police chief: https://www.bestvpn.com/blog/2...

    I honestly thought this was a joke.

  8. Re:Science reporting at its best! on Researchers Claim a Few Cat Videos Per Day Helps Keep the Doctor Away · · Score: 1

    that 7,000 people were polled

    I thought they were 'pinged'....

  9. Re:AARP games on E3 2015: A Lot of Nostalgia For Old Games · · Score: 1

    It's one of those desert island scenarios when the kids send you away and maybe visit on birthdays.
    I'll be happy with a gaming laptop and some choice games. Maybe I'll spend the children's inheritance on Steam ;) and those nurses better be pretty as I'm practising to be a dirty old man.
    Maybe Slashdot will have a version for us, the permanently baffled....

  10. Re:Libraries of Congress on Google Pulling Back the Veil On Its Custom-Built Data Centers · · Score: 2

    Except that there is no agreement on how much data the Library of Congress actually has.
    "Though some sources have suggested that 10 terabytes represents the total quantity of data stored at the Library of Congress, this is a significant underestimate, given that the Web Archiving program had by itself collected 525 terabytes of data as of July 2014. A slide from a September 2012 presentation by a Library of Congress storage engineer furthermore noted institutional storage capacity in excess of 27 petabytes, casting further doubt on the accuracy of the 10 terabyte number as applied to the entire holdings."
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  11. Re:Call me about their use of metric... on US Airlines Say Smaller Carry-Ons Are Not In the Cards · · Score: 3, Informative

    Airbus A380

  12. Re:Problems causing Video effects? on Unreal Engine Code Issues Fixed By Third-party Company · · Score: 1

    I don't get what you're on about. I respect the first AC's comment and I never disagreed with it. How could I? In fact, my followup comment tried to show what opinions are out there currently as far as driver issues and suspicions about game code, what a real system builder is up against when there is money to spare and you have clients who can afford it.
    I suppose it's easy to assume that 'I build gaming systems' equates to someone who whacks a few boards together and loads Windows and knows nothing about what they're doing. I do and I care and support my systems and clients.
    The 2nd AC was just rude.

  13. Re:Problems causing Video effects? on Unreal Engine Code Issues Fixed By Third-party Company · · Score: 1

    Not for me porky. I build them for clients. I wouldn't blow $4~6k on a gaming machine.

  14. Re:Problems causing Video effects? on Unreal Engine Code Issues Fixed By Third-party Company · · Score: 1

    Holy handgrenades!
    I have built high end gaming systems that replaced older high end gaming systems ad infinitum. Always the problems of the older systems had to do with speed (texture loading for instance) and rendering high framerates at comparatively low resolutions - just for the sake of hurdling over various 'issues'.
    When you realise that there are no bottlenecks in the system but these issues are still present, then you look elsewhere and that elsewhere is coding.
    Those AAA games you speak of are the culprits, forced to publish before they are optimised and depend on updates that may break other things.
    I read different opinions by those who (should) know about driver issues, the last being that both nVidia and AMD have 2 standards, optimised for GPU processing (labs) and another for rendering (games). Others claim that the game code itself (NOT the engine driving it) is complicit with these faults.
    I will assume that coding errors in the game engine will affect the game code, no matter how well it is written.
    In the end and at this time, the purest graphic setup must be a single GPU to avoid hardware jitter and the fastest ram based drive.
    Something must be done with the developer paradigm or it becomes a pretty pointless investment for high end systems, 4K monitors and the like.

  15. Problems causing Video effects? on Unreal Engine Code Issues Fixed By Third-party Company · · Score: 1

    The big question for me is do coding errors affect video rendering issues?
    We tend to blame drivers for this, but recently there are opinions out there that suggest that the game code itself is responsible (as well).

  16. Re:Comparing apples to miniature oranges on CDC: Americans Getting Heavier, Average Woman Weighs As Much As 1960s Man · · Score: 1

    Not that I can see in the series and movies that come out of the US. The amount of small titted women is amazing. No sir, I don't like it.

  17. Re:All Hail Emperor Napoleon on CDC: Americans Getting Heavier, Average Woman Weighs As Much As 1960s Man · · Score: 1

    I've worked with quite a few different measurement systems. As far as the Napoleonic system goes, a French explorer called Barrallier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... used lineal Napoleonic measurements for distance, however most of his map work and diaries were useless as he measured up and down hills instead of proper cartographic methods from point to point. So the height of a mountain was how far it took him to walk it, rather than the height above sea level.
    Austro-Hungarian measures called Vienna Measurement (pre 1876) was supposedly standardised across the Empire, except it wasn't especially on the Hungarian parts which (for example) measured most goods as 'Barrels'. This was ok but were these Pozsony (Pressburg/Bratislava) barrels or the barrel sizes used by other parts of the country? As for area, a 'Hold' could be anything from 1 acre to more than 2 hectares. A Mertfold was exactly 1 (English) mile or around 8 km depending on who you were speaking to. So standardisation and how to use it was a godsend.
    King Sobieski of Poland who came with his army of winged hussars to defeat the Turkish siege of Vienna in 1687 had to use medieval maps of the surrounding area which were quite inaccurate. He still managed to surprise the Turks and drive them off, but this was a turning point in cartography, thereafter proper 'modern' techniques were used.

  18. Koryo on North Korea Blocks Data Access For Foreigners · · Score: 2

    So the Koryo hotel catches fire and the Koryolink internet service goes down.
    I wonder if there is a connection here somewhere?

  19. Re:Mixture on US Teen Pleads Guilty To Teaching ISIS About Bitcoin Via Twitter · · Score: 2

    Has the US declared war on ISIS/ISIL? I know it's a moot point but I'd like to know. Obama has asked congress for some sort of declaration on the 12th June but I'm unsure of the previous status.
    So by facilitating (in any manner) assistance for the enemy in a war not legally declared, is illegal?
    Last time this happened was the police action against North Vietnam.

  20. Quantity Surveying on The Danger of Picking a Major Based On Where the Jobs Are · · Score: 1

    Quantity Surveyors are one of the highest paid. Go for that.

  21. Re:Annoyed with Spacecraft personification on Online At Last: Comet Lander Philae Wakes Up · · Score: 2

    01001100101100101011000111

  22. Re: I am blue and my head appears to be upside dow on Online At Last: Comet Lander Philae Wakes Up · · Score: 1

    Ahhh Hello Ethan :) Want to explain why the universe is big, I mean REALLY big?

  23. Re:Propaganda - Unless They Are Fucking Idiots on Report: Russia and China Crack Encrypted Snowden Files · · Score: 1

    the people running the circus are a bunch of fucking clowns. If they didn't have alternate plans with different networks, they are incompetent

    That is logical and reasonable. The serious question for me is the level of intelligence within this conspiracy of intelligence organisations.
    This is not a movie but real life. If anything is compromised then plan B comes into effect that is IF there is a plan B. I can't imagine under any circumstances that affected organisations just sat there doing nothing. Otherwise they are truly fucking clowns.
    And as for Snowden, he is a hero because he confirmed everything that was suspected but never proven. The conspiracy theory isn't a theory anymore. It is real and that is just too hard for some people to get it into their heads.
    So where is the Mycroft Holmes here? Does anyone like that exist at all? Just by the timing and method of the 'shock and awe' attacks on Baghdad shows how little intelligence there was. I hope that they've lifted their game or we are being run by fucking clowns.

  24. Escape on Toshiba Introduces a Cortana Keyboard Button For Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    Looks like it replaced the esc key.
    Now what?

  25. Storm in a tea cup on Microsoft's Skype Drops Modern App In Favour of Old-Fashioned Win32 App · · Score: 1

    It's not a big deal. More likely that the blogger is making it a more significant than it really is.
    A. Skype isn't going away: New EULA coming up in August 1st to bring it in-line with Win 10.
    B. Windows Phone Skype won't go away either.
    C. It's only the RT version that's being canned. No big deal and there will probably be other RT stuff canned.