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    Will MySpace Ever Make A Comeback?

    I was 'there' when Facebook was new, and exciting, and just for certain universities. I was there when farm ville was a thing that my mum was playing on Facebook. I am not on face book anymore and I am a better person than you. I see the friends I care about, catch up with others by chance and...
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    SQL Injection: The Hack That Will Never Go Away

    Ah its good to see an anti-PHP sentiment echoed here; Unreadable, inefficient and riddled with bad practice - welcome to bad language design 101. Blaming developers for SQL injection attacks is like blaming..... developers for IE6 layout issues. Its not the developers fault that the software was...
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    48 Port Gigabit Switch Recommendations?

    My main beef supporting clients with HP switches is that they only support HP transceivers/DAC - which is utterly daft and anti-competitive.
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    48 Port Gigabit Switch Recommendations?

    To the above, yeah that's all well and good but unfortunately it's cisco, and cisco treat 'standards' like there own personal proprietary plaything. Much better going with a brand that isn't quite so far up its own backside. Check out the icx Brocade ICX 6450.
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    STP/LCAP to switch connections??

    Noisy and hot, it's probably noisy because it's hot. What is your room cooling like? Where are the intake/exhaust on the switch and how do they relate to the room. Is the device on its own, in a rack, sandwiched etc - is there room to breathe. Any switch firmware upgrades?
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    What IS a backup

    I have seen that floating around here too and I think they are confusing backup vs archive. It can pretty much be summed up as online(live), nearline(backup) , offline, (archive) differentiated by performance vs availability. For example in a business context, your local drive for live data, a...
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    Need 2TB SSD for IO intensive work

    Another random thought, assuming it's the on board controller, what is the disk mode set to in the bios and are you confident it's ahci? If it's a default Ide that may be your issue.
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    Crucial m4 to samsung 850 evo

    Since my laptop doesn't have m2 I run 2 x crucial msata ssd and it runs great. The above is paranoid and untrue and not reflective of real world conditions.
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    Need 2TB SSD for IO intensive work

    Sorry my bad, I meant write back, not write through. As in, is the drive configured to allow immediate confirmation of writes. Probably an option in Intel RST if memory serves me.
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    Need 2TB SSD for IO intensive work

    What file system is the SSD formatted as? Cache write through enabled for maximum throughput? Any recycling bin rubbish going on?
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    Need 2TB SSD for IO intensive work

    What OS are you running and is it trim enabled? What is your workflow that is so IO intensive and requires 6TB writes per day per workstation and would a shared storage solution be more suitable?
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    Looking at a NAS. Need a couple of questions answered, please

    I know this is an enthusiast forum and all, but man, some of you are getting carried away. OPs pitch sounds like a home user with minimal requirements, not an industrial server blade. OP your original pitch already seems overkill. I run a 2 bay synology at home for the wife and I. Can easily...
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    Official World of Warcraft Movie Trailer

    Formulaic trailer that follows the layout of every other crap trailer Hollywood pushes out, including so over used it's not even funny x will y word zooms, crap cliché dialogue and crap CGI footage considered good enough for trailer usage... Whole thing absolute reeks of a movie studio that...
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    Chattanooga Offering Internet 10X Faster Than Google Fiber

    What, future proofing is installing cat 6a cable instead of cat 5 but running a 1gbe switch, with the option of adding 10gbe at a later date. This is the equivalent of installing a full blown data network and using it to stream hd episodes of my little pony....
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    Windows 10 Upgrade Nags Become More Aggressive

    Don't get me wrong, a great deal of corporate IT is shockingly incompetent and its probably not your fault, it's your shitty managers. So what are you doing to apply the pressure and hold them accountable by moaning at Microsoft?
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    Windows 10 Upgrade Nags Become More Aggressive

    Long list of complaints about works crappy internal IT, blames Microsoft for nagging. Irony still very much at play.
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    Windows 10 Upgrade Nags Become More Aggressive

    In order, What crappy work VPN implementation prevents you moving OS? Evidence? Ironic lol
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    Windows 10 Upgrade Nags Become More Aggressive

    Not moving OS is like not changing toothbrush heads. The old one might still have bristles but that doesn't mean they should go anywhere near your mouth.
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    Fractal Design Define R5 Case

    A 6 page review that concludes with 'Grandma Law #1 “If you don’t have anything good to say then don’t say anything.”' and fails to take the nuance of its own advice, coupled with a use of the word 'fractal' that seems to be as marketing misused as 'quantum'. This might...
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    Booting from device on UEFI board

    In windows I use Rufus to deploy ISOs to a USB stick. Make sure you format to fat32.
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    How To Get The New U2 Album Out Of iTunes

    No, this is like the bank plastering my bedroom wall with marketing. After all, I don't have to look at it.
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    Windows 9 Tech Preview Screenshots

    It sounds like you are describing my phone not my computer. Glancing has its place. For everything else, there's a proper OS.
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    Linus Torvalds 'Still Wants the Desktop'

    This, times infinity. The greatest downfall of Linux is the inability of average joes and enthusiasts alike to distinguish the kernel from the distribution. Linux is to Ubuntu as Unix is to OSX, yet even in this thread we have lots of people saying 'rarr rarr linux desktop'.
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    World's First Levitating Bluetooth Speaker

    That has to be the worst marketing video, complete with 80s porn music, i have seen on a long time.
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    10 Worst Things About Building A New Gaming PC

    This thread is a good example of Americans not getting self-deprecating sarcastic humour. As a Brit I thought it was hilarious. Things like using kitchen bowls to divide up the screws, which I totally don't do *shifty eyes* Lighten up you bunch of grumblers :p
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    Gilbert Gottfried Voices Famous Video Games

    'job done' got me. Would have also appreciated a 'time to work?'
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    Silicon Valley Episode 1 Free On YouTube

    The uploader had not made this content available in your country Because reasons
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    Is 4k even a viable day to day resolution?

    It has less to do with what the resolution is capable of, and more to do with badly implemented scaling support at the OS level. Windows in particular is an absolute dog to mess around with when scaling, from ugly, low res window decorations, to menu dialogs spilling out of their window...
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    Microsoft to Start Xbox One Closed Beta of Project Spark in February

    When has Microsoft EVER supported PC gaming? DirectX? A one stop shop of 'buy microsoft' and shaft everybody else.
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    Best Melt Down of CES 2014

    In my mind, its not as good as the presentation meltdown in Last of the Samurai. To people criticising him for not managing to muddle out some winging words, jesus christ listed to the question 'The curve - how do you think its going to impact the viewer experience of your movies' ...
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    Microsoft Offers Students 3 Months Of Office 365 Free

    OO/LO has not 'been the same' as Microsoft Office since the ribbon interface in 2007. To date thats six years of forward thinking development, while the open source projects have the same look, same internals, have ugly front ends and are slow to perform even basic actions. I will take the...
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    Must See Video Of The Day!

    Video recorded on an iPhone 5?
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