the ration might have been stored in high temperatures or the bag was open for a long time because the chocolate basically got ruined

just from March 2016 until the time he recorded that video

which, worst case, is like 1 year 7 months or something

@allquixotic "might have been stored in high temperatures" ... like, in Australia?

@Bob :D

oh wow it's 42 minutes

reminds me of the time he opens up a 1979 Japanese life boat ration and comments on how it has this salty, caked on powder that smells like "pool chemicals"

gee, ya think? if it was on a life boat.....

why is he eating the processed cheese on its own...

you put that on the bread or something

@allquixotic lol this looks like someone went just dropped by the local supermarket

'cept in rather more bland packaging

@Bob :D that's probably the goal of making a ration

something the troops would recognize

"we have two rubber bands" *pulls out three rubber bands*

there are some ration types designed for long shelf life, but if not, generally they just have to pick components that'll remain edible for 2 years

@Bob I laughed at that quite a lot more than I ought to have >_>

one thing I've learned from watching many ration videos, is the storage temperature makes a stupid amount of difference in the shelf life of the ration.

Steve1989MREInfo has rations from before I was born that are edible because someone (for one reason or another) kept them in a freezer for 30+ years

what is this "tomato ketchup"

we use tomato sauce here

it's a fake!

@Bob lol

I like his reaction to the vegemite

@allquixotic haven't gotten there yet

the fruitcake looks like play-doh

@JourneymanGeek "Back home"? Have you moved? Or traveling?

@allquixotic dammit now I'm hungry at 2am :P

@allquixotic he's also left the teabag in far too long :P

@allquixotic bega!

@ThatBrazilianGuy he is in India for a few weeks

thank god trump has decided not to come to the UK

@Burgi he will eventually, though I'm not sure if he'll come on his private 757 or on Air Force One

did you see that the UN has branded him as a racist?

@Burgi for some reason, he seems relatively immune to backlash and free of consequence for anything he does... I guess there are a loooooooot of really powerful people protecting him

any other human would long have been impeached

Bad language in headline which is the actual quote

oh, he's not gonna just eat the marmalade directly? :D

I don't even remember what vegemite tastes like anymore

I should go pick some up tomorrow

@allquixotic oh come on, wrong anthem at the end :P

@Burgi Still betting on him doing his state visit in Scotland because there's less people up here to protest for reasons of his mother's birth

someone told me that the shares in his company have plummeted since he became president

i haven't checked that myself

@Bob I noticed that too rofl

@FleetCommand what's bad about today in particular?

@FleetCommand ...sooooo, what about those X-rated?

heh

i remwmber when someone tried to assure me that the BBFC (12, 15, 18) ratings were difficulty levels

slept for like a few hours, still feeling crap :D:

no lol

tbh it'd prob be nice, but then i'd get out and feel like i'm in iceland again

you know what's worse than being outside in your swimming trunks in February, in Iceland?

it's not sleep that's hurting me, it's this stupid bug

it's 'almost' real flu

lol

@FleetCommand I meant WRT trump, but that's a fun story

@FleetCommand Sorry, were you referring to the "shithole countries" comment? "Trump says idiotic, bigoted thing, suffers no consequences" is every day ending in y. I thought something had actually happened.

!!info

@allquixotic I awoke on Fri, 12 Jan 2018 16:50:10 GMT (that's about 7 minutes ago), teleported 74 goats

Such a fantastic example of brilliant, unbiased tech journalism: This $90 neck and back massager is on sale for just $34 today

10 ways journalism is dying, you won't believe number 4!

If you think contemporary digital content is messed up, then click like, share and subscribe!

Heart for "yes", angry face for "no"

The North American Bitcoin Conference is No Longer Accepting Bitcoin Payments for Tickets

@djsmiley2k Why are millennials killing journalism?

Is this what is killing journalism

Ah, perfect excuse pretext

mini-rant: even the BBC is starting to slide into this

Information-less headlines

grrr d9sheashing

dishwasher still not working, wife acting like entitled prat

If your dishwasher isn't doing her job, take her out on a date, then leave without telling her :P JK

0.2

kl

2.1 likes to rest his hand on the keyboard when he goes to sleep

superuser.com/questions/1284987/…

not cool....

Asked a question, received an answer, then just deleted it.

I still see it?

Do you have 10k+ reputation

yep

Somebody restore dit

ah

hmmmm oh joys

Intel patches for Specter causing higher reboot rates

@FleetCommand You lack the rep to see behind the curtain. If you could see what we see then you you would wish you couldn't.

I cry every single day because I can see what I can see

@Ramhound :D

D:

are we rehearsing yellow brick road? XD

.

After you see the 5th answer, to a question, "I have this problem also"

@Ramhound You're not the one who spends their days deleting them...

@FleetCommand Nothing could be worse than Wikipedia. That place is bordering on toxic in places.

Clippy likes to be helpful

No. He's awesome and trying to be helpful.

that's not cool

Just don't say "I am trying" or "I want to" or trying to be a help vampire and he'll leave you alone

@FleetCommand ?

How to be a help vampire?

!!hv

can you tell me the steps involved in becoming a help vampire?

I want to create a website about magnetars and rainbows.

@FleetCommand Leave out the quotes

So I think I may have finally got my Windows 10 golden image... Just capturing it, going to deploy, then decide if I hit the bottle, or hit the air

(Note: this is not a cry for emotional help - I'm not an alcoholic)

@Mokubai - I still review them....

@CanadianLuke Nothing wrong with a beer or two now and then

I know, but it's the feeling behind the beer... For success, sure, I'll have a beer Friday afternoon with the other techs... When I'm irritated at a simple job that Microsoft could have fixed years ago, then I feel I might not stop at one or two beers...

You mean the answer within the question body

I saw that

Figured I would let @Mokubai or @JourneymanGeek handle it

wooo

i almost feel human

@Mokubai SysPrep with CopyProfile, capturing and deploying with FOG

First issue was SysPrep crashing after being thrown onto another PC

Second issue (more critical to me) was Start Menu layout being reset

So NOW, I'm building the "golden image" in Hyper-V, installing apps, local group policy, etc etc, then capturing a generic Windows 10 image. Apparently, FOG allows admins to create a folder structure for drivers based on the computer's model obtained during deployment, and it throws the drivers right in!

In theory, I can deploy the image to ANY device supporting Windows 10, have the folder setup with drivers, and it will just work out of the box! We'll see though. This is my 5th capture, but the only things I had to fix was the Start Menu (appears to work correctly now), and the OOBE starting up

And since I'm using a virtualized environment now, snapshots are much easier!

So, if this works, I'll feel like a winner finally!

I've been fighting with these laptops since the Xmas break started

@Ramhound What needs handling?

Oh.

Need auditor, really not sure how that can be a full time job but hey ho ;D

@Mokubai - I am not sure what @FleetCommand saw exactly, but I saw a question, that contained an answer. This question was deleted by the author but then restored by @DavidPostill

@DavidPostill firstname.lastname@gmail.com?

@Ramhound Hmm. the guy whose question you answered put the answer back in the question...

Not really "great", but still says your answer is right...

Yeah, I saw that, suspect if you roll it back it will just be put back by the author

OK, image captured... Deploying to test computer... Hope it works!

!! Caaaaaaat2

guys!! help

I need a tablet, which has NFC support and has been released at least in 2017

are there actually ANY candidates?

@djsmiley2k My email address. Make the obvious substitutions :)

@djsmiley2k lol. I know absolutely nothing about auditing ...

;)

It got deployed... And I'm still waiting for the system to come up... It's at the boot screen still

When I deployed this image yesterday, I started deploying as I left, and came in this morning to see it worked

So I think something is causing it to slow down... But if it works, I don't care!

I donno... Even my VM took forever to boot up the first time after the SysPrep

hello :)

They care more about it being successful, as opposed to being right

I told them I'm not deploying until it's right

Yea, I've been guilted a bit, but whatever

The bosses

Non-techy people, asking why it's taking so much longer than deploying Windows 7 did

I wouldn't mind learning it a bit more, but FOG works for us... Usually.. Plus they have a very active forum with the developers

It runs on a fast SSD. I was running 4 Server 2016 and 2 Windows 10 instances, along with my regular OS, so I know it's not a virtualization issue

I know it's a Windows configuration issue

And honestly, learn Linux in your free time... Microsoft is even encouraging it

Understandable

But once FOG is setup, it's quite easy... Especially since it's managed 99% through the web interface. Or, you could download a FOG Docker image to run on Windows, then it acts like a regular .exe program

... No

They can run on anything, virtually...

Think of it as a program. In that program, it has everything the real program needs

Once it loads up though, I'll check the Panther logs and see what's taking forever

I had lots of errors before SysPrep could even launch, and I had to remove a bunch of games that Windows automatically provisions -.-

I'm running out for lunch, I'll update when I get back... If things move...

roar

Let's talk about mouse pads.

Currently, I'm using Razer's (now discontinued) Kabuto mobile mouse pad, which is almost perfectly sized due to limited desk space. It's pretty well worn at this point as it's been used continuously for at least two or three years. I wonder what would be a good replacement for this...

(currently used with a Roccat Tyon mouse, which has seen more than three years of service)

linode.com/docs/platform/meltdown_statement

I love steelseries

I had a metal one previously

now I just have their weird plastic one instead

seriously apple, wtf happened

@Ramhound Sorted

@FleetCommand It's up now! Skipped the OOBE like I wanted, now to join to the domain and make sure everything still functions!

@FleetCommand Do people really wear encyclopedias? :)

guru3d.com/news-story/…

Crap... Can't log in... Only had the Admin account, and for some reason, it's disabled

SO CLOSE

Interesting layout. ASRock is doing diagonally-oriented M.2 slots to maximize the use of the available card area, with a blower fan to cool them. It even has 6-pin PCIe aux power.

Can be used with Intel VROC on X299 and AMD motherboard RAID on X399.

Hmm... I find the power connector to be rather unexpected, but consider that M.2 SSDs use 3.3V power and there is inevitably going to be some loss from converting 12V to 3.3V.

Let me look up the peak power consumption for a typical M.2 SSD...

I'm going to re-SysPrep with a new answer file... One that drops in an Administrative user automatically...

compuram.de/documents/datasheet/…

5.8W average load power for the 2 TB 960 PRO.

So... I'm not too sure how necessary the aux power is.

@bwDraco better than dragging it through potentially already heavily loaded mobo power rails...

@Mokubai Heh. My Crosshair VI Extreme has a Molex power connector specifically for delivering extra power to the PCIe slots.

@bwDraco I'd still rather the majority of power went straight into the card through a solid connector than trust the iffy spring contacts in a PCIe riser.

(ASUS's ROG Zenith Extreme X399 board has it, too; not sure if others have something like this)

@Mokubai Good point. Storage devices are particularly sensitive to reliable power delivery.

The power plug contacts are going to be directly soldered into big power & ground planes while the weedy (but numerous) tracks coming off the PCIe finger are dumping power through lots of small tracks and small vias trying to make up the power budget.

It might not be a big difference, but the power connector will probably be slightly lower resistance and therefore better.

Less power wasted. Power directly from PSU. Generally better

Well, a maximum of 5.5A of 12V power is available through the PCIe slot per spec. Considering that the M.2 spec allows a maximum of 7W per SSD, we may be talking about peak power of about 10-12W after VRM losses. That is still within the limits of the interface, but we're talking about 3.3V at the SSDs proper, not 12V, and lower supply voltages are more susceptible to problems due to voltage drop.

Realistically, though? We could have SSDs pulling upwards of 10W under peak conditions, which could be up to 15W at the VRM. Although technically noncompliant with M.2 spec, this is not an unlikely scenario.

60W peak power at the VRM, plus a fan and other electronics... is pushing it.

So you're right, @Mokubai. The extra 6-pin connector will make for more reliable power delivery under peak load conditions.

@bwDraco That makes it sound like you doubted me.

I knew I was right.

lol

:P

If there's one thing I know it's how to make a lot of electrons move in the same way at the same time.

Speaking of which, has anyone seen my cattle prod lately?

I was thinking about M.2 SSD thermal management... well, with up to two SSDs in an expansion card, passive cooling is okay, but with four such SSDs, you're going to need either a big heatsink for passive cooling or active cooling. You might as well go with the latter at this point.

Under more than a few seconds of sustained load, with heat being exhausted from adjacent graphics cards, you can and will get thermal throttling.