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New offer from Sweden:

http://www.der-postillon.com/2017/01/IKEA-wall.html

German, but a picture is worth a 1000 words

Huge amount of good old games on sale:

https://www.gog.com/

Found some great titles, like Lucasarts titles (Loom, Monkey Island, Sam & Max Hit The Road), X-Com, X Rebirth, Total Annihilation, JA 1 & 2, Galactic Civilizations, Homeworld Remastered, Syndicate, Neverwinter Nights Diamond ...

@coliver said in Copying Content from other sources:

I which source that could possibly be...

Nearly emptied my orange juice on my keyboard

@scottalanmiller we should really have a "Frankenstein'd Projects" category.

Was looking for a way to open the case of a DLink 615 WLAN AP (just had one spare). Luckily I found this guy who had the required special tool.

Youtube Video

@scottalanmiller said in Computer Crash Wipes Out Years of Air Force Investigation Records:

In addition to not taking backups....

Lockheed took two weeks to notify the USAF. USAF took another week to notify Congress. Three weeks of hiding in shame?

It takes some time to choose someone who will be promoted for this.

The new power supply (5V 15W) arrived just 25 hours after ordering. It was shipped from somewhere near France roughly 500km to the north. With standard parcel. Awesome.

Frankenswitch v3 loves it:

@tiagom said in How do you keep track of licenses?:

Curious as what license management/tracking software others use.

Snipe-IT (https://snipeitapp.com/)

Open source, can run on Linux, easy installer. You basically create a license and check that out either

• to an asset (Windows or SQL Server Server licenses for example) or
• to a user (I'm using that for CALs and user bound non-MS licenses)

There are some minor flaws, but it's in active development.

Working on FrankenSwitch again. Fans robbed from a dead 1U server, new 5V AC/DC converter, internal power distribution, little optical improvement on the front LEDs...

@Tim_G said in WD Blue PC SSD:

@thwr said in WD Blue PC SSD:

@Tim_G said in WD Blue PC SSD:

I guess what I'm getting at, is do we consider them A-level drives or B-level? I know they have the 3-year warranty with them like the wd blue spinners.... but do we treat them with the same respect?

I would probably stick to Samsung EVO or Kingston for SATA and Intel 600p for entry level M2.

As said before, WD Blue SSD isn't a new product, but I would still wait a bit.

I'm strictly talking consumer-based and desktop/laptop/client-based. Nothing to do with servers. Nothing to do with anything really for that matter...

Sure, all the drives mentioned above are relatively cheap but quality consumer products. The list does not answer your question, but it offers you an (way better) alternative.

I'm just wanting to know if WD builds their SSDs or are they rebranded? If you say rebranded from SanDisk, then does SanDisk make them? Because I thought SanDisk was rebranding them anyways?

Couldn't find a good English source, but this German Golem article explains that WD blue is based on planar 15nm TLC cells from Flash Forward (joint venture: Toshiba & WD) and uses a Marvell controller. This combination isn't new, just take a look at the SanDisk X400.

It looks like the WD Green SSD uses the same cells, but another controller from Silicon Motion which does not even have a cache, making it a poor choice in most cases.

So yes, it's just rebranded with a slightly modified firmware.

Had a test once with a 99% result. Only failed question was a calculation for some backup storage sizing. The calculation itself was correct, but I did a mistake with KiB and KB. I'm somehow proud of that "failure"

For me, it's 128 * 8 = 1024. End of story.

@gjacobse said in Using dpkg to install on Raspberry Pi:

Trying to install the WSPR - Weak Signal Propagation Report software on the rPi3 and running into a small error.

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo dpkg --instdir=. -i wspr_2.00r1714_i386.deb
dpkg-deb: error: `wspr_2.00r1714_i386.deb' is not a debian format archive
dpkg: error processing archive wspr_2.00r1714_i386.deb (--install):
 subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 wspr_2.00r1714_i386.deb

Pretty sure @scottalanmiller (or others) can spot the issue in a moment,.. but I'm not seeing it.

Downloading the package doesn't take long, as it's only about 2MB.

Are you sure you want to install an i386 package on armhf? I don't know the software, but it could be a native compiled binary for x86 as the name suggests. You can't run that directly on ARM (except for some emulation in between like QEMU).

Solution: Use an ARM version

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse 3D print a case for that bad boy

If only someone would ship me a printer, and plenty of consumables....

I would like to have one,.. it would help with the other project I have in the line.

We're just in the process of buying one. First thing to print will be a stand for the official 7" Raspberry Pi displays.

@Dashrender said in DC seems to have fallen off the Domain:

If you're DC is just a DC - you can demote it, then leave the domain, wipe and reload it, join the domain and promote.

If it's also a fileserver, etc, well - have fun.

This of course assumes you can't use the normal tools to remove the old AV cleanly.

mkfs.ntfs & format ... The only tools I know to fully remove Symantec products - except for a snapshot maybe.

Yeah, good morning everyone ...

(Why the heck did I join a US IT community again? ;))

Some of you may have noticed that I wasn't spamming contributing on ML much during the last couple of weeks. Was sick, had (and still have) loads of work and... well, was busy writing my first real article:

Hyper-V Networking 101. Part 1: NICs and Switches
https://www.starwindsoftware.com/blog/hyper-v-networking-101-nics-and-switches

I know that the article covers a very basic topic and I didn't mention Hyper-V 2016's new NAT capability yet, but I plan to write more "Hyper-V networking 101" about VLAN, NAT, NIC teaming and maybe a few more topics.

Any feedback is highly appreciated

@DustinB3403 said in Shark Week:

I like the sharks that eat the idiots that go swimming in the ocean, and then wonder why they lost a leg, arm or other appendage.

Those sharks are my bros.

Because if you don't want to be a part of the food chain, don't get into the food chain.

Can't add anything to this

SAM, stop poking me with that stick, please Will go for a Linux box.

@MattSpeller said in Is it bashing to ask what other were thinking:

@DustinB3403 said in Is it bashing to ask what other were thinking:

Yet I don't feel that we've bashed, we've discussed their topics, and how to address the issues / initially configure the issues.

This has been one of the exceptionally few things that bothers me about this forum. For my two cents I think we should keep the cross linking to a bare minimum and for interesting / news topics only. It does not "feel right" most of the time when I read about posts from there.

This community can be a little... predatory... on the folks less experienced in IT. Well intentioned, absolutely. But a little vicious to the unwary.

Well, this very community IS IT. Also, ML's NodeBB is a very fast paced system, that's another problem / feature.

To take up some cludges for @DustinB3403, it was not him alone. We're all shaking our heads about all the quiz questions, @Dashrender called it "beating a dead horse", just for example.