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    New LG 4K 'Cinema' Format 4096x2160 Panel Now In Production

    ^ this. (Sorry, couldn't resist)
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    New LG 4K 'Cinema' Format 4096x2160 Panel Now In Production

    The problem comes when YOU ARE the creator of the content. I'm hoping that this panel shows up in hardware LUT displays as well (and that perhaps one day I can afford it).
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    Hard mouse pad?

    I like hard surface with low friction/high glide but some texture for feedback. I'm really liking my Func F30.R.
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    Computer reboots when accessing NAS share.

    Is there any chance that it's trying to do autoplay or something similar on that share for some reason? (It's a long shot)
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    Best way to hide data

    I've seen this suggested in the thread a lot. I would kind of expect based on reputation that the nation in question would be 1/ blocking access to cloud based storage and/or 2/ carefully monitoring the kind of activity to/from said storage.
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    Calibrating NEC LCD2490WUXi2: Tips needed.

    Tips? The process is pretty much a couple of click with Spectraview. You definitely, DEFINITELY want to go the Spectraview route to do this so that the internal hardware LUTs are used. Once you have an appropriate colorimeter (and have licensed Spectraview) it's a completely hands off...
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    The perfect ZFS home server motherboard.

    Seems like Asrock got a lot of things right there. Too bad they didn't equip it with a high quality Intel onboard NIC too.
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    Intel NSA Security issue - Backdoor to access your PC using Intel

    The first thing I was thinking is that you need far more than 3G radio hardware to actually do something with it. You'd need a data plan on every carrier in every country around the globe for every single Intel vPro processor made. Who is paying the carriers for that? Who is keeping all of...
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    Windows 8.1, so far so good

    But "UPGRADE" licensing is not the same as an "upgrade" install even though in English we use the same word. You could have a perfectly valid license to upgrade (being the owner of an eligible previous edition) but you MUST do a clean install because, for example, it's your first time going...
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    Best slick but silent mouse pad

    I have always hated mouse pad shopping because everyone's terminology is a little different. I like low friction, good glide, no sticktion, but a rough texture that helps to communicate by touch how far/fast you've moved the mouse. I'm using a Func F.30R which I like a fair bit. I really like...
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    Windows 8.1, so far so good

    Yes, weird. I'm a TechNet member but I also purchased a retail Win8 key when they were running the promo earlier this year. I never ended up using it yet - I decided to wait for 8.1 to use it on my main workstation, and I want to do a clean install. I'll be a little ticked if the Win 8.0...
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    PC can't 'restart' from Win7 anymore - "Overclocking Failed!"

    So I did the big jumper-based CMOS clear and threw everything back together. I saw at least one normal restart (it could have been two) following that process but again today the system can't restart. I think all I did was set XMP timings (to rated, not overclocked) and then put it back to...
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    When do you juggle process priorities?

    The only time I touch it is if I'm doing large file compressions (like huge 7zipped backups) or video encoding (like 6-12 CPU hours rendering an AVCHD disc). I make sure that the processes are set to lower than normal so the system stays responsive. Generally I've found that the apps...
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    PC can't 'restart' from Win7 anymore - "Overclocking Failed!"

    Yeah - I know the "Overclocking Failed!" message is pretty generic, misleading, and can't be taken at face value. I saw the "wake on PCIe" thing in a thread about cold boot issues. I tried it and that's not the fix. I have also completely removed nHancer, nVidia performance, nVidia system...
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    PC can't 'restart' from Win7 anymore - "Overclocking Failed!"

    Pretty sure 3602 was stated as one of the ones you could not downgrade.
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    PC can't 'restart' from Win7 anymore - "Overclocking Failed!"

    B00nie / Killer_K: I've already done the CMOS clear as part of this I should also have been crystal clear in my original post that I have no problems booting, POSTing or anything else. All of my google attempts took me down roads to people who had cold boot problems too, or double/triple...
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    PC can't 'restart' from Win7 anymore - "Overclocking Failed!"

    Hmmm. I haven't been doing any gaming in a couple of years, really, so I'm not on top of the exact state of things in that specific area. I'm not intentionally overclocking but I do have some tools like nHancer and nVidia Performance installed (mostly to tweak AA with modes which weren't...
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    DKIM, who is using it?

    I was using it for a couple of years. I've stopped running my own mail server for my domain now, though, so it no longer applies. I was using both Domainkeys and DKIM (I think I remember the two correctly) and have had SPF configured for a few years too. I know that gmail will enforce it all...
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    PC can't 'restart' from Win7 anymore - "Overclocking Failed!"

    This started a long time ago but in general I don't "restart" a lot and I had a lot of other more pressing things to worry about. The PC is a P8P67 Pro w/ i5-2500k running Win7 x64 Pro (which was originally installed on a P5B-E w/Q6600 and then upgraded 2.5 years ago without reinstall)...
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    Need help: Linux MD + LVM2 data recovery

    Yep. CFV did the trick and I've verified everything. It all seems to have come off clean.
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    Need help: Linux MD + LVM2 data recovery

    Thanks, guys - both look suitable. My liveCD already has cfv so that's the tie-breaker for now. Working on it...
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    WiFi - UniFi alternatives? General Qs

    I find myself somewhat unexpectedly looking into some possibilities for a modest-sized church environment as well as perhaps my home environment for wifi coverage. Neither environment has a 24/7 server at this time. I am not an expert in enterprise-grade, controller operated wifi networks at...
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    Need help: Linux MD + LVM2 data recovery

    It could be the wrong version, I suppose. They were very old MD devices. At this point with a live CD I don't need to start the MD layer, vgchange -a y autodetects and off it goes. Not exactly correct, but it appears functional. There are some particularly important areas of the data I'd...
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    Need help: Linux MD + LVM2 data recovery

    As I suspected near the end of this thread, this was the missing layer in my previous recovery efforts. The pvcreate command printed a warning that it detected an MD superblock on /dev/md2 and asked permission to overwrite it. I would have expected this if I continued to work with the...
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    To me this sounds like a growing "on the side" photography business. The old PC certainly won't be doing him any favours. As a start IMO this person should get a NAS running RAID-1 mirroring at least. Projects that are currently being "worked" can/should reside primarily on the PC's local...
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    Need help: Linux MD + LVM2 data recovery

    Yes, indeed, and I forgot about one while thinking through the issue. :( The two filesystems I've accessed which were straight mirrors without LVM have been fine, oddly. A normal fsck said they were clean already and a forced fsck came up clean too. I find it puzzling how what should be a...
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    Need help: Linux MD + LVM2 data recovery

    Yes. You've just jogged my memory that the UUID in the LVM backup file would be the UUID of the PV after pvcreate, not the UUID of the underlying device on which pvcreate was run (right?). That's why the UUID length doesn't match (duh). The issue wasn't a lack of ssh understanding...
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    Need help: Linux MD + LVM2 data recovery

    I admit my "rescue" setup is difficult to paste output from - it's an old, no-network SFF PC running a live CD with my disk dangling from it. Next time I'm able to I'll work to copy some blkid output. For UUIDs I guess the answer to your question is "both". LVM2 expects to see the real UUID...
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    Need help: Linux MD + LVM2 data recovery

    It hasn't been until the last couple of days that I've had a chance to take another crack at this. Using mdadm --build /dev/mdX --assume-clean -l 1 -n 2 /dev/sdaX missing it appears like all of the MD devices are running again. The UUIDs are still all zeros though. I have always been able to...
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    Need help: Linux MD + LVM2 data recovery

    Hmm. A couple of extra things I realize I should have mentioned: - I'm not trying to recover the system, I just want to copy off some data from /home and move on. I've replaced the server with a Synology already. It doesn't bother me if the mirrors aren't rebuilt, or if LVM2 asserts control...
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    Need help: Linux MD + LVM2 data recovery

    I'm looking for a little help re-gaining access to an LVM2 area on a spindle that came out of a crippled machine. Google has stopped helping me so I thought I'd ask for advice. The system was running ubuntu 8.04 LTS and I configured it using two pairs of disks with MD RAID-1 mirrored...
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    Trouble finding a mechanical keyboard...

    They paid to license it, presuming they are using it legally. People already complain mech boards are too expensive and they're already a low volume niche market.
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    Trouble finding a mechanical keyboard...

    Windows logo is copyrighted/licensed - you might run into this a lot. As I mentioned in a previous post, based on personal experience Cherry stabilizers can be excellent. They are often overlubed and feel sticky or hard to press so people add even more lube and then start complaining online...
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    WWYD - Trouble choosing ZFS server or NAS

    Surprised to be accused here of going overboard because I wanted to write to the surface of the disks once before starting to build arrays considering that threads here are full of people buying each drive from a different vendor over the course of months to ensure they don't have two drives...
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    WWYD - Trouble choosing ZFS server or NAS

    Opened the 3TB Reds to start exercising them because no matter what I do I think they'll be part of the solution. Having trouble exercising them with P4-era hardware. The BIOS sees 800GB disks. A live linux sees proper 2.7TiB drives x2. Spinrite follows the BIOS so I don't think it will...
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    Need higher capacity HDD...raid0 or new single disk

    IMO, upgrade and retire/repurpose the existing. Why? - power footprint - lots of miles on the existing drive - running RAID0 doubles your chance of data loss (and see the point above - one of the pair is far from new) - generally, technology and performance improve with each model upgrade...
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    WWYD - Trouble choosing ZFS server or NAS

    This is an interesting idea, I may adopt this. Not sure how much I'll even need a server for, but $35 and ultra low power is a pretty great option. Thanks for taking the time to hit a bunch of my question. I'm not sure if we're on the same page. It sounds to me like you're describing what...
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    Trouble finding a mechanical keyboard...

    From experience, Cherry stabilizers can feel pretty good if properly lubricated. I've found a lot of sticky Cherrys are actually already OVER lubricated from the factory but users keep adding more lube...
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    WWYD - Trouble choosing ZFS server or NAS

    A couple of follow up questions have come to mind for those familiar hands on with Synology... 1/ what do you see if you connect a drive used as external backup on the NAS to a Windows system? Can you dig into incrementals or differentials and restore a given version of a file completely...
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