@MattSpeller Here I was going to offer some sort of encouragement to you, but honestly, this conversation just motivated me to finally ask that librarian I know out. Hope you have a good time, however things work out!

@scottalanmiller said:

I learned C in 1989, I think.

It was Turbo Pascal for me, in 1996. Toss in a course in assembly for good measure. I was never great at programming, never grokked the advanced algorithms, which is the real key to being a good code monkey.

@BRRABill said:

@Carnival-Boy said:

I could do without quite so many sales calls though.

Can start giving out the robot number from the other thread.

That's a great idea actually. Course then you can't listen in. It's 214-666-4321. Yeah, I bookmarked that right away.

@scottalanmiller Oh, I know and understand that.

Apparently they're known for sending extortion letters, now that I've had a little bit of time to do some research on them.

I really don't mind getting rid of them or paying a reasonable license fee. What they're asking for isn't what I'd call reasonable, it's just enough that most companies would pay rather than go to court.

I'm also not sure if the Fair Use would cover those under the teaching, scholarship, or research exemptions. Probably going to have to get a lawyer involved.

Got a surprise email end of the day yesterday from Getty Images claiming we're using copyrighted material. The email does appear to be legitimate. The page they reference has been up for nearly 6 years now..... and you just now tell us this?

Has anyone dealt with this sort of thing before?

If we are using material that needs licensed then of course I'll take them down. Really, really annoying to get the notice after 6 years tho.

For the curious, it's two images in our ingredients glossary. Precision Herbs PHMA Ingredients Glossary Be quick tho, I'm taking the two pictures of plants down for now till I get this dealt with.

Just because a few of us are inclined to reply in responses closer to short stories than forum posts... (in old geezer voice) Why I tell ya, these young whipersnappers don't know what's good for em."

USB-C just can't become the new standard fast enough!

@scottalanmiller said:

USPS: Unified SPam Service

Oh, you just had to bring this up and trigger a trucker story, didn't you?

So between 2004-2008 I was driving truck locally in NE Ohio here. Every Wednesday I would take one of the 54' trailers over to a printing company in Medina, and pickup a FULL load of nothing but those advertising packages that show up in people's mailboxes. That particular 54' trailer and truck combination's legal weight limit was ~46,000lb, each flier weighed ~6oz, figure ~400lb for palates/packaging, and we get what? 91,200. Now assuming the normally shady companies I worked for at the time, it was probably closer to 100,000 every Wednesday. Yeah.... I was delivering all the mailbox fliers for the Akron/Canton area. To anyone that lived in the area at the time, you're welcome

@Lakshmana said:

@scottalanmiller If i install Linux OS means I will use the Wine to install the VMware or any virtual products where the usage of the RAM will be done efficiently as per my requirement

We're obviously missing lots and lots of information here. Let me list what I think I know so far, and then what you are wanting to do.

You have tried to install Ubuntu. The laptop no longer boots. You want to install Ubuntu without loosing data. The laptop has a small amount of memory available. You obviously don't understand Wine/VMware/Virtualbox. Finally, you have at least created a scenario that you're laptop no longer boots, and we don't know weather that "very important data" is really around or not.

Does that cover the situation you are in?

Let's start out at a Spiceworks University Virtualization 101

Installing Ubuntu and running from it is not going to make using less memory for the same tasks you currently do possible.

If you want the laptop working, you may be able to boot from the recovery media that you made for the laptop, and choose "Repair a current windows installation" in the 2nd screen.

You probably want to pay attention to an industry best-practice. The rule states "If the data is not backed up, then it is not important."

What is your goal here? IE "usage of the RAM will be done efficiently as per my requirement" doesn't make sense to most of us. Yes, Ubuntu can use less RAM than Windows, but the applications you run will still have the same resource needs.

@coliver said:

@Dashrender said:

So what? Did he really open source his patents?

Yep. https://www.teslamotors.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you

From everything I've read (not that blog post yet) Tesla is really doubling down on this idea. They want other small manufacturers to get involved and force the infrastructure update, and battery research, to match what they are building.

Well, now I see them, thanks.

@Dashrender said:

So what? Did he really open source his patents?

I think so, tho I haven't seen them myself yet.

You can't install something if you don't free up space to install it on. Without removing a partition, or making one smaller, both of which carry risks of loosing the data. Backup, backup, and backup before attempting anything like this.

You could have easily installed Linux using Virtualbox without having to mess with partitions and/or messing up the boot sector.

Running all my

 sudo yum -y update

and

 sudo apt-get -y update && sudo apt-get

One of these days I'll have the infrastructure here ready and script it all.

@nadnerB said:

I've been known to ask people what they'd do, just to eliminate that option. Thankfully I don't have anyone handy for that sort of thing where I'm working now.

@Dashrender said:

I've never understood how viruii got around AV products on machines running them. It's my understanding this is somehow possible because of other unpatched flaws in the OS, even though the AV knows about the virus, the virus can still get in through the OS flaw, then using that flaw disable the AV, and pwn the machine.

Do I understand that incorrectly?

It's normally through another piece of software than the OS today actually. Microsoft finally got most of the holes in their swiss cheese plugged. Ironically, the programming code that many AV use also creates a hole for malware to enter through. Wish I had a few minutes to find those articles that hit recently.

@bbiAngie said:

@travisdh1 What we are looking at cannot be acquired from newegg...

I figured. It's the easy example for someone not at all familiar with how these thing connect. Also good for you, most of those don't reach "home lab" level.

@Dashrender said:

huh - cool - looks like I might have been thinking about it all wrong.

Sorry I'm possibly putting some bad info into your thread @bbiAngie at least I'm learning some cool stuff along the way.

You can take a gander at the low end stuff I know of on the dumbest search terms I've used that actually worked on NewEgg

@Dashrender said:

@Dave.Creamer said:

@Dashrender Hmm...I may be wrong here, but 6Gb is 6Gb. If you have a 6Gb SAS connection, the max you'll get for throughput is just that - 6Gb.

Actually I am not sure how that works.
Each drive is rated at 6 Gb/s - right?

Assuming that, two drives running in RAID 0 should be able to pump data out at 12 Gb/s.

Is that incorrect?

DAS units normally have a back plane of some sort. So you are really hooking 4 to 8 drives to a single SAS channel. Spinning rust this doesn't matter so much as current SAS/SATA standards are so much faster than the drives can work with data... start dropping SSD into a SAS attached DAS and you could cause yourself a bottleneck.

@Dashrender said:

So I guess the next question is - where is the RAID taking place?

As I understand it, if you have an external DAS and are using SAS to connect to the RAID controller directly, then you have direct access to every drive at full speed, just like you would in the chassis.
Assuming 10 drives, at 6 Gb each - you should get, at max, 60 Gb of throughput.

None of the SAS connected DAS devices I've seen work like that. It's normally all connected on one or two SAS channels. Course that's all low end stuff, I imagine the higher end devices may be different.

@coliver said:

@Breffni-Potter said:

I promise it has nothing to do with my latest question
http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1424967-how-would-you-stop-a-sentient-ai

I'm convinced that SAM is a burgeoning seed AI who has already become self-improving and is now just biding its time obtaining resources.

Best organic ai implementation I've ever met!