Cobian Backup looks interesting. But it seems a tad more obscure than I'd like.
Currently using Acronis True Image 2014 but the 2015 version is terrible, so I'm avoiding that for now.
Yea, Cobian doesn't seem to do incrementals either.
@DragonLord I'm sure the full images work in some instances, but I certainly did not appreciate being told I had no backups available despite the directory clearly existing and taking up disk space.
That was file backups.
Full images are all well and good, but I can't really make them daily and my important files should have daily versions.
I'm going to consolidate most of the file backups (2012-2014) soon.
But I'd like to move away from Acronis if possible.
Alternatively, I could consider their (significantly more expensive) small business offering.
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superuser.com/questions/948493/… " I have done everything I can think of and everything ASUS has asked me to do and NOTHING WORKS" Oh yea that sounds like it would be easy to fix :-)
Looks like it might be one of them simple IDE/AHCI/RAID driver issues, and asus no help you fix that? they should know that. but it wouldnt be a actual hardware problem.
In addition, GameWorks provides marginal graphical advantage by using tessellation (where NVIDIA has an edge) extensively at a substantial performance cost on AMD GPUs.
> There’s a second reason to be dubious of Arkham Origins: it pulls the same tricks with tessellation that Nvidia has been playing since Fermi launched. One of the differences between AMD and Nvidia hardware is that Nvidia has a stronger tessellation engine. In most games, this doesn’t matter, but Nvidia has periodically backed games and benchmarks that include huge amounts of tessellation to no discernible purpose. Arkham Origins is one such title.
@DragonLord Catalyst Control Center lets you tweak the amount of tessellation on a per-game basis. You can set it to 2x or 4x instead of the insane default 64x and it'll run fine (and look fine, too).
Unless NVIDIA gets its act together, they're risking a lawsuit from AMD on grounds very similar to AMD's successful antitrust lawsuit against Intel.
> Pouring triangles into these surfaces can make them look subtly more realistic, but it’s also a cheap way to disadvantage a competitor. Deep performance inspection reveals that the R9 290X takes 30-40% more time in tessellation per frame than an equivalent Nvidia card.
> Nvidia’s GameWorks program is conceptually similar to what Intel pulled on AMD 8-10 years back. In that situation, Intel’s compilers refused to optimize code for AMD processors, even though AMD had paid Intel for the right to implement SSE, SSE2, and SSE3. The compiler would search for a CPU string rather than just the ability to execute the vectorized code, and if it detected AuthenticAMD instead of GenuineIntel, it refused to use the most advantageous optimizations.
> ...the consequence of it is it brings PCs to their knees when it’s unnecessary. And if you look at Crysis 2 in particular, you see that they’re tessellating water that’s not visible to millions of triangles every frame, and they’re tessellating blocks of concrete – essentially large rectangular objects – and generating millions of triangles per frame which are useless.
@DragonLord On the other hand, AMD gave large amounts of their Mantle IP over to Khronos to include in Vulkan. My understanding is that they are going for a "clean" royalty-free, patent-free approach.
And their display sync technology is an open standard (FreeSync).
Nvidia is an evil overlord. I've known this for years. Linus Torvalds has known this for years. It comes as no surprise. Unfortunately, gamers continue to support Nvidia and reward them for their bad behavior.
People just care about performance per dollar. When you perform cheap underhanded tactics like this, it's almost a foregone conclusion that you'll have better performance per dollar.
@DragonLord Which, without the artifice, isn't that much of a superiority to begin with.
At the end of the day, both Nvidia and AMD are beholden to TSMC's 28nm fab process. The process has limits on how big dies can be, how small transistors can be, etc. that neither fabless GPU designer can influence. Thus, since they both put an insane amount of work into cramming more performance into the same process, it's logical to believe that the results will be very close.
If one company were using a more advanced fab, that'd be one thing. But that's simply not the case.
I'm trying to recover a massive MySQL database, and this process generates directories that have >2M files. I accidentally did an ls -al on one of these directories. 5 minutes later I'm watching my bash prompt dutifully describing each file. Ctrl-C won't kill it. What do I do?
(most likely the process is already dead and it's just going through the output buffer. depending on how long you left it, it'll take a while)
@allquixotic Unless you go send a message to tell them, that'll have basically no effect in the greater scheme.
While I don't doubt that major companies use underhanded tactics (do you really believe AMD is an exception? Just like Google is an exception, right, until they're not...), "no discernible purpose" sounds a bit hand-wavey.
Especially considering the amount of ridiculous (apparently-)unnecessary-in-hindsight crap commonly found in many programs across the board.
At the end of the day, as long as a company's purpose is to maximise value for shareholders they're going to pull whatever tricks they can. Legal or not. Ethical or not.
@Bob Ethical is one thing (some people would say this is just as grave as being illegal, but others feel differently). Legal is entirely another thing. Our society is built around the rule of law. It's the government's duty to repeatedly smack these companies over the head with severe fines and exorbitant legal costs until they'll stop trying to cheat to win. "Cheaters gonna cheat" is not good enough. We have to actually hurt them so badly that they STOP cheating.
We also need to hold executives and board members personally responsible for willingly allowing a company to do something illegal, and put them behind bars for participating in it.
Not for a week in an individual cell with nice facilities, either. In with the masses.
We need to bring these people down to earth, humble them, and make them comply with law. If that means putting a crook CEO behind bars for 5 years, do it. There is absolutely no justification for not doing so.
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