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    • DashrenderD
      Dashrender
      last edited by

      Yep, agreed.

      So, in Gene's case I wonder, does his laptop have a Win10 OEM license or an attached free upgrade license so he doesn't have to worry about using the VL media, and instead just download the generic Win10 ISO from MS for his reinstall?

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      • gjacobseG
        gjacobse
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        @dashrender @scottalanmiller
        In this case it was my signing into the NTG Vol Lic Service Center when I needed to be signing into the NTG Technet account.

        Simple issue to resolve.

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        • stacksofplatesS
          stacksofplates
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          Upped our Comcast speed. Went from 25Mb/s to 200. Went from $69 a month to $87. Not bad

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller
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            Getting ready for a long day on the train.

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            • NattNattN
              NattNatt
              last edited by

              Fixing backups. Woooo!

              Also - I'm after putting a VM Host on my machine at home to mess about with - I have 10 pro but it's an upgrade so Hyper-V doesn't work because MS is dumb. Debating whether to do a repair install of Win 10 to see if that fixes the issue, or to use a free hypervisor...opinions?

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              • thwrT
                thwr @NattNatt
                last edited by thwr

                @NattNatt said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                Fixing backups. Woooo!

                Also - I'm after putting a VM Host on my machine at home to mess about with - I have 10 pro but it's an upgrade so Hyper-V doesn't work because MS is dumb. Debating whether to do a repair install of Win 10 to see if that fixes the issue, or to use a free hypervisor...opinions?

                Depends on your requirements. VirtualBox works just fine in most cases and even better than Hyper-V when it comes to things like USB pass-through. Never measured it, but I think the overall I/O performace and latency of Hyper-V on Win8/8.1/10 is just "smoother" (faster, low lag) compared to the same workload running in VirtualBox. Probably because Hyper-V is a type 1 hypervisor while VirtualBox is a type 2. But again: You probably won't notice that in most cases.

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                • NattNattN
                  NattNatt @thwr
                  last edited by

                  @thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                  @NattNatt said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                  Fixing backups. Woooo!

                  Also - I'm after putting a VM Host on my machine at home to mess about with - I have 10 pro but it's an upgrade so Hyper-V doesn't work because MS is dumb. Debating whether to do a repair install of Win 10 to see if that fixes the issue, or to use a free hypervisor...opinions?

                  Depends on your requirements. VirtualBox works just fine in most cases and even better than Hyper-V when it comes to things like USB pass-through. Never measured it, but I think the overall I/O performace and latency of Hyper-V on Win8/8.1/10 is just "smoother" (faster, low lag) compared to the same workload running in VirtualBox. Probably because Hyper-V is a type 1 hypervisor while VirtualBox is a type 2. But again: You probably won't notice that in most cases.

                  Just to spin up VM's for messing about/testing stuff mainly - partly to teach myself more stuff, partly because I get bored easily...So will be wanting to run Linux VMs as well as Microsoft VMs

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                  • thwrT
                    thwr @NattNatt
                    last edited by

                    @NattNatt said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                    @thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                    @NattNatt said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                    Fixing backups. Woooo!

                    Also - I'm after putting a VM Host on my machine at home to mess about with - I have 10 pro but it's an upgrade so Hyper-V doesn't work because MS is dumb. Debating whether to do a repair install of Win 10 to see if that fixes the issue, or to use a free hypervisor...opinions?

                    Depends on your requirements. VirtualBox works just fine in most cases and even better than Hyper-V when it comes to things like USB pass-through. Never measured it, but I think the overall I/O performace and latency of Hyper-V on Win8/8.1/10 is just "smoother" (faster, low lag) compared to the same workload running in VirtualBox. Probably because Hyper-V is a type 1 hypervisor while VirtualBox is a type 2. But again: You probably won't notice that in most cases.

                    Just to spin up VM's for messing about/testing stuff mainly - partly to teach myself more stuff, partly because I get bored easily...So will be wanting to run Linux VMs as well as Microsoft VMs

                    VirtualBox should do, really. Big plus is pass-through. With VirtualBox, you are able to just pass through a USB thumb drive and you will have full access to it, including things like partition tables. I'm using this whenever I need to do something complex to partitions on disks, sticks and SD cards: Fire up a Linux-VM, attach the storage device, start parted / gparted / fdisk / sfdisk / whatever, modify partitions and finally just detach the device. Works very well.

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                    • NattNattN
                      NattNatt @thwr
                      last edited by

                      @thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                      @NattNatt said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                      @thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                      @NattNatt said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                      Fixing backups. Woooo!

                      Also - I'm after putting a VM Host on my machine at home to mess about with - I have 10 pro but it's an upgrade so Hyper-V doesn't work because MS is dumb. Debating whether to do a repair install of Win 10 to see if that fixes the issue, or to use a free hypervisor...opinions?

                      Depends on your requirements. VirtualBox works just fine in most cases and even better than Hyper-V when it comes to things like USB pass-through. Never measured it, but I think the overall I/O performace and latency of Hyper-V on Win8/8.1/10 is just "smoother" (faster, low lag) compared to the same workload running in VirtualBox. Probably because Hyper-V is a type 1 hypervisor while VirtualBox is a type 2. But again: You probably won't notice that in most cases.

                      Just to spin up VM's for messing about/testing stuff mainly - partly to teach myself more stuff, partly because I get bored easily...So will be wanting to run Linux VMs as well as Microsoft VMs

                      VirtualBox should do, really. Big plus is pass-through. With VirtualBox, you are able to just pass through a USB thumb drive and you will have full access to it, including things like partition tables. I'm using this whenever I need to do something complex to partitions on disks, sticks and SD cards: Fire up a Linux-VM, attach the storage device, start parted / gparted / fdisk / sfdisk / whatever, modify partitions and finally just detach the device. Works very well.

                      Cheers dude, will get that setup when I get home later!

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                      • thwrT
                        thwr @thwr
                        last edited by

                        @thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                        @NattNatt said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                        @thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                        @NattNatt said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                        Fixing backups. Woooo!

                        Also - I'm after putting a VM Host on my machine at home to mess about with - I have 10 pro but it's an upgrade so Hyper-V doesn't work because MS is dumb. Debating whether to do a repair install of Win 10 to see if that fixes the issue, or to use a free hypervisor...opinions?

                        Depends on your requirements. VirtualBox works just fine in most cases and even better than Hyper-V when it comes to things like USB pass-through. Never measured it, but I think the overall I/O performace and latency of Hyper-V on Win8/8.1/10 is just "smoother" (faster, low lag) compared to the same workload running in VirtualBox. Probably because Hyper-V is a type 1 hypervisor while VirtualBox is a type 2. But again: You probably won't notice that in most cases.

                        Just to spin up VM's for messing about/testing stuff mainly - partly to teach myself more stuff, partly because I get bored easily...So will be wanting to run Linux VMs as well as Microsoft VMs

                        VirtualBox should do, really. Big plus is pass-through. With VirtualBox, you are able to just pass through a USB thumb drive and you will have full access to it, including things like partition tables. I'm using this whenever I need to do something complex to partitions on disks, sticks and SD cards: Fire up a Linux-VM, attach the storage device, start parted / gparted / fdisk / sfdisk / whatever, modify partitions and finally just detach the device. Works very well.

                        Oh, BTW: Hyper-V knows how to pass through a local storage device too, but ... well, does not work in each and every case due to some restrictions.

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                        • NattNattN
                          NattNatt @thwr
                          last edited by

                          @thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                          @thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                          @NattNatt said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                          @thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                          @NattNatt said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                          Fixing backups. Woooo!

                          Also - I'm after putting a VM Host on my machine at home to mess about with - I have 10 pro but it's an upgrade so Hyper-V doesn't work because MS is dumb. Debating whether to do a repair install of Win 10 to see if that fixes the issue, or to use a free hypervisor...opinions?

                          Depends on your requirements. VirtualBox works just fine in most cases and even better than Hyper-V when it comes to things like USB pass-through. Never measured it, but I think the overall I/O performace and latency of Hyper-V on Win8/8.1/10 is just "smoother" (faster, low lag) compared to the same workload running in VirtualBox. Probably because Hyper-V is a type 1 hypervisor while VirtualBox is a type 2. But again: You probably won't notice that in most cases.

                          Just to spin up VM's for messing about/testing stuff mainly - partly to teach myself more stuff, partly because I get bored easily...So will be wanting to run Linux VMs as well as Microsoft VMs

                          VirtualBox should do, really. Big plus is pass-through. With VirtualBox, you are able to just pass through a USB thumb drive and you will have full access to it, including things like partition tables. I'm using this whenever I need to do something complex to partitions on disks, sticks and SD cards: Fire up a Linux-VM, attach the storage device, start parted / gparted / fdisk / sfdisk / whatever, modify partitions and finally just detach the device. Works very well.

                          Oh, BTW: Hyper-V knows how to pass through a local storage device too, but ... well, does not work in each and every case due to some restrictions.

                          Yeah, I'm aware of Hyper-V's...quirks...

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                          • thwrT
                            thwr @NattNatt
                            last edited by thwr

                            @NattNatt said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                            @thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                            @NattNatt said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                            @thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                            @NattNatt said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                            Fixing backups. Woooo!

                            Also - I'm after putting a VM Host on my machine at home to mess about with - I have 10 pro but it's an upgrade so Hyper-V doesn't work because MS is dumb. Debating whether to do a repair install of Win 10 to see if that fixes the issue, or to use a free hypervisor...opinions?

                            Depends on your requirements. VirtualBox works just fine in most cases and even better than Hyper-V when it comes to things like USB pass-through. Never measured it, but I think the overall I/O performace and latency of Hyper-V on Win8/8.1/10 is just "smoother" (faster, low lag) compared to the same workload running in VirtualBox. Probably because Hyper-V is a type 1 hypervisor while VirtualBox is a type 2. But again: You probably won't notice that in most cases.

                            Just to spin up VM's for messing about/testing stuff mainly - partly to teach myself more stuff, partly because I get bored easily...So will be wanting to run Linux VMs as well as Microsoft VMs

                            VirtualBox should do, really. Big plus is pass-through. With VirtualBox, you are able to just pass through a USB thumb drive and you will have full access to it, including things like partition tables. I'm using this whenever I need to do something complex to partitions on disks, sticks and SD cards: Fire up a Linux-VM, attach the storage device, start parted / gparted / fdisk / sfdisk / whatever, modify partitions and finally just detach the device. Works very well.

                            Cheers dude, will get that setup when I get home later!

                            Have fun 🙂

                            I'm using this for a few dev VMs where I need access to USB smartcard readers or USB webcams for example. Even works with very specialized devices like biometric smartcard readers (the ones from precisebiometrics.com for example)

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                            • dafyreD
                              dafyre
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                              Howdy all y'all! What a rainy weekend we had this weekend!

                              Weather got rough, but we were fortunate enough to not take any serious damage from anything around here. 30 minutes west, a Walmart had the roof taken off, and down in south Georgia, a number of people were killed by various tornadoes.

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                              • Minion QueenM
                                Minion Queen Banned @dafyre
                                last edited by

                                @dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                Howdy all y'all! What a rainy weekend we had this weekend!

                                Weather got rough, but we were fortunate enough to not take any serious damage from anything around here. 30 minutes west, a Walmart had the roof taken off, and down in south Georgia, a number of people were killed by various tornadoes.

                                Glad to hear you made it through ok!

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                                • dafyreD
                                  dafyre @Minion Queen
                                  last edited by

                                  @Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                  @dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                  Howdy all y'all! What a rainy weekend we had this weekend!

                                  Weather got rough, but we were fortunate enough to not take any serious damage from anything around here. 30 minutes west, a Walmart had the roof taken off, and down in south Georgia, a number of people were killed by various tornadoes.

                                  Glad to hear you made it through ok!

                                  Thanks! Prayers going out to all those affected, though.

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                                  • wirestyle22W
                                    wirestyle22 @dafyre
                                    last edited by

                                    @dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                    Howdy all y'all! What a rainy weekend we had this weekend!

                                    Weather got rough, but we were fortunate enough to not take any serious damage from anything around here. 30 minutes west, a Walmart had the roof taken off, and down in south Georgia, a number of people were killed by various tornadoes.

                                    Eesh. Glad you're okay.

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                                    • gjacobseG
                                      gjacobse @dafyre
                                      last edited by

                                      @dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                      Howdy all y'all! What a rainy weekend we had this weekend!

                                      Weather got rough, but we were fortunate enough to not take any serious damage from anything around here. 30 minutes west, a Walmart had the roof taken off, and down in south Georgia, a number of people were killed by various tornadoes.

                                      Glad to hear you safe,.. thoughts go to those who lost family/friends.

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                                      • coliverC
                                        coliver
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                                        NorEaster today from the sounds of it... we're not going to be hit that bad only 8-10".

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                                        • gjacobseG
                                          gjacobse @coliver
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                                          @coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                          NorEaster today from the sounds of it... we're not going to be hit that bad only 8-10".

                                          not that bad .... well maybe for New York...

                                          Here that would pretty much cripple us. People down here don't know how to cope with it. I wished it would snow,.. rather tired of +50deg weather and RAIN.

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                                          • travisdh1T
                                            travisdh1 @gjacobse
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                                            @gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                            @coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                            NorEaster today from the sounds of it... we're not going to be hit that bad only 8-10".

                                            not that bad .... well maybe for New York...

                                            Here that would pretty much cripple us. People down here don't know how to cope with it. I wished it would snow,.. rather tired of +50deg weather and RAIN.

                                            Yeah, even in my neck of the woods, the rain is getting crazy. The ground was already completely soaked, and then it went and rained for half the weekend. I'm kinda surprised we don't have worse flooding, maybe we'll get lucky and not get underwater for once.

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