Three weeks ago my company ordered a lot of hardware (real hardware, not IT-related) from China.
Today, the warehouse girl comes to my office and says that, mixed in the stuff, she found a white USB drive saying "Lihuiyu Studio Labs 2012.10.25"
Curious, I had a reaction like "YAY! A free USB ...
so i have this friend that works in the HR of a larger company. he told me what he does when he gets like 200 resumes he basically just throws away 100 of them to the gutter and tells himself: "we don't need people that aren't lucky".
I'm reinstalling Windows 7 64 bit, and I encountered an issue I've never seen before. I have a legit copy of Win 64 Professional, and I've installed it probably a half dozen times on this machine in the past without a problem.
Googling the error only brings me to issues with people who are upgra...
things to try: switch up IDE/RAID/AHCI mode on the SATA controller; switch up MBR/GPT partition table type; check for SMART errors; manually create an NTFS partition
@Sathya if you have access to any system or can even boot up a Linux live CD, you can do whatever you need
I've had that issue before, but ever since I started booting off of AHCI and booting the Windows installation CD under UEFI and formatting my partition table as GPT, I've never hit any of that
I'm basically using the next-gen storage-and-boot stack: AHCI, UEFI, GPT
the only reason I'm installing Win 7 is because the Win 8 I have is the upgrade one and don't want win 8 activation to screwup because I didn't have win 7 installed
I followed the instructions under "Activate Windows 8 Pro Upgrade" and it worked flawlessly; I've been running Win8 Pro "Upgrade" (clean installed) since the day after general availability of Windows 8, and it still says my copy is genuine after installing tons of updates etc
my understanding is that Microsoft only really cares that, during purchase of your copy of Windows 8 Upgrade, you had a valid Windows 7-or-earlier license key... they only care about the fact that you had a license key, that was yours and valid, WHEN YOU BOUGHT the upgrade
what you do after that is inconsequential to Microsoft. the reason that you have to do a registry edit to make it work is a technicality
I think they're expecting that 99% of the people who purchase the Win 8 Pro Upgrade are going to literally upgrade an install of a prior version of Windows
but for those of us who want to install clean, the license doesn't prohibit it -- it's just that their GUI tools don't make it easy
the only deviation from those instructions that I had to do is in the very last step
> Run the activation utility afterwards, enter your product key to activate Windows.
once I rebooted, I didn't even have to do this step at all; my license immediately said activated/genuine
I don't consider this a "hack" at all because you aren't running any hack code, you're just editing a built-in registry key and running a built-in command line tool
in any case, installing Windows 8 should be much smoother than installing Windows 7, given that it has updated drivers and fixed bugs in the installer paths, so once you get Win8 clean installed, the task of activating is a little less pressing because you have a few days to figure it out
and it's essentially just changing one registry value and running one command as administrator
@JacobJanTuinstra Personally, though you may well (understandably!) feel a bit cheated I'd 'cut Sathya some slack' because (i) his answer was first (if not quite complete others are encouraged to enhance answers rather than adjust and repost as their own), (ii) it is elegant (1 function v your 6), (iii) Sathya is a very hard working moderator, (iv) how he manages to contribute as much as he does beats me and (v) he is brilliantly knowledgeable - so a 'pointer' from him will often be more valuable than a comprehensive answer from another. So even if you were 'robbed' it was in a good cause! — pnuts8 mins ago
amused, honoured by this
honestly the only reason I had placed that 'answer' was it was meant more like a pointer to what needed to be done
didn't expect @jacob / anyone else to post an answer, much less for the OP to come back & accept it
The user profile pages used to have a proper HTML title like:
User slhck - Super User
However, since a couple of weeks (?), this title has changed to:
superuser.com/users/48078/slhck
Not very elegant I'd say. For some reason the actual title does appear for a split second, but then it...
Say you had some sensitive information that you didn't want to store on the internet, was incredibly important to you, and you didn't need to access very often either.
Think of a digital picture taken of your grandma days before her death or something... Very important stuff.
So you load the fi...
@Bob stainless steel doesn't rust, in general, but it depends on the percentage of the alloy that is Chromium (the element) -- the more Chromium, the softer the alloy, but the more resistant it is to corrosion. On the low end (11% Chromium), it'll rust if it's underwater for a long time. On the high end (25% Chromium), it can withstand water, humid air, some acids, etc. for a long time.
The chromium forms a protective layer around the steel in a process called passivation
Three weeks ago my company ordered a lot of hardware (real hardware, not IT-related) from China.
Today, the warehouse girl comes to my office and says that, mixed in the stuff, she found a white USB drive saying "Lihuiyu Studio Labs 2012.10.25"
Curious, I had a reaction like "YAY! A free USB ...
The user profile pages used to have a proper HTML title like:
User slhck - Super User
However, since a couple of weeks (?), this title has changed to:
superuser.com/users/48078/slhck
Not very elegant I'd say. For some reason the actual title does appear for a split second, but then it...
Say you had some sensitive information that you didn't want to store on the internet, was incredibly important to you, and you didn't need to access very often either.
Think of a digital picture taken of your grandma days before her death or something... Very important stuff.
So you load the fi...
