@allquixotic As someone pointed out in a reddit thread somewhere, introducing more regulation into what's allowed in games could be a very very bad idea.
(when was the last time a government has had a rational, well-thought-out response to games?)
One possibility is that in-game purchases are banned outright
And ... that's not great for games that are expected to be maintained for many years
Just had an email from a user I do onsite support for 3 days a week. Apparently a colleague is having trouble with Outlook not loading her OST file... The IT Help Desk decided they couldn't resolve it and forwarded it to me.
What kind of HelpDesk can't resolve a corrupted OST?!
@allquixotic China (I think?) combats that by requiring games with loot boxes to publish the exact chance table don't they?
So... some thoughts on M.2 SSD thermal throttling. The motherboard I have (ASUS ROG Crosshair VI Extreme) is one of the few that have a built-in M.2 heatsink. The SSD drops in beneath a heatsink that is an extension of the chipset heatsink, with a long thermal pad that makes contact with the installed SSD. One of the three screws that hold down this heatsink is positioned such that it passes through the screw hole for M.2 2280 SSDs, obviating the need for additional screws.
According to the records kept by CrystalDiskInfo, the highest temperature reached is 49 °C, nowhere near the 70 °C throttling point.
(CDI logs SMART data over time and can generate graphs of this data)
So I struggled to get a company I loan money to to have an Excel-style sheet download, showing the payment due date, and the payments expected (among other things). What I want to do is make a table beside it, numbers 1 to 31 in the column, and have the total for the cost based on the day number so I can know how much to expect on a given day in the month
So, if I were to get $5 paid tomorrow (17), I would want that added to the total for the 17th of each month
I got it, kinda, but the drag-to-fill was horrible (as it's formatted as a table, using names instead of cell references)
But even after verifying the numbers, I realize there is still a crap-ton of data that is garbage... So I'm going to try my hand at VBA tomorrow to make it as painless as possible... Import from a CSV file, run macro, ???, PROFITS
Hi, I got hosting with namecheap and a domain with godaddy, and namecheap gave me DNS servers to feed to GoDaddy, but they didn't give me info to update an A record. When I got to whatsmydns and I enter my domain I don't see much detection, though godaddy think the domain servers have done most of their propagation.. godaddy think they're not very good domain servers.
Because Windows Defender still isn't all that good. Sure, it has the advantage of deep integration with the OS, but it still has a poor detection rate.
the Norton "trialware" that comes on Dell and other companies' PCs out of the box (whether you want it or not) is so sneaky, underhanded and naggy that it's borderline malware; even if buying their product removes all the underhanded functionality and just gives you the genuine AV product you want, I'm loathe to trust a company that ships software like that at all
no, McAfee is far, far worse, I agree, but comparing shit to less smelly shit isn't a great comparison when there are actually good alternatives
I'm no champion of Windows Defender or whatever, I'm sure it has flaws, but at least there are some trustworthy AV vendors out there who are no worse than Microsoft (who you 100% depend on if you're running Windows because they wrote the proprietary kernel and could rootkit you without you or AV vendors knowing)
Certain Samsung laptops have a bug in the UEFI firmware (often referred to as BIOS) where the system can fail to boot if the internal firmware storage (specifically, the UEFI variable NVRAM) is more than half full. For more details, see these blog posts by Linux developer Matthew Garrett.
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There's a certain joy to virtualization that's hard to describe. It opens up a whole world of operating systems and software that would otherwise require another set of hardware to run.
Well, I've been using RDP for a while to reach my PC at home while I'm on the college campus.
Moved my laptop out of my bedroom and hooked it up next to the router via Ethernet, since I don't even use it so much and only need to transfer files - figured I might as well just use RDP from the desktop and SMB to transfer files.
Perks of having Windows 10 Pro on these machines :-)
(well, SMB is available on Home, but not the RDP server)
Fiddling around with how openSUSE handles low-memory operation... It seems to need at least 768 MB of RAM to install. It'll start up on 512 MB, but is very sluggish (lots of swapping).
(all storage on the VMs is backed by solid-state media so it never gets too bad, at least)
...managed to crash the host machine. Not sure what the heck happened.
VM was configured to use only 256 MB of RAM. The VM was reading from disk constantly (oddly enough, not from the swap volume) before the host machine just crashed. Q-LED on the motherboard was flashing on the DRAM light, while the Q-Code was 4 (digit four, followed by a blank).
That almost sounds like the hypervisor malfunctioned and could not go back to the host OS.
Perhaps AMD needs to know about this? I haven't seen VirtualBox crash the host, seemingly at the CPU level, like this before.
Had to hit the reset button on the case to restore normal operation.
This was on a SATA disk.
(as a quick refresher, Astaroth has two SSDs, each with 1 TB capacity; one is M.2 NVMe while the other is SATA)
What I'm curious about is just what in Oblivion happened. I wonder if it somehow triggered an exception in "ring -1" in the processor...
Before this happened, the VM was reading sequentially from the disk at full speed, pushing 500+ MB/s in Task Manager on the host.
Now, I have dealt with virtualization host crashes before, but for entirely unrelated reasons and on an Intel platform with a different hypervisor. I have not used an AMD platform for virtualization in many years.
@allquixotic SP-64 looks similar, maybe you're just used to that discount you had? :P
> This is starting to cross over into worrisome territory. Your manuscript should not, as a rule, be hard to distinguish from the work of someone who is beginning to lose their grip on reality.
Take a look at below picture.
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