Well, this is also my first extended experience with a Lenovo AccuType keyboard. While the key travel is very shallow on this system, the uniquely rounded keys do make typing a bit more accurate.
Ryzen PRO for business PCs, plus new mobile processors.
This is probably the first time the enthusiast will see the "heat map" in the Task Manager CPU graph (which Windows only uses if you have 32 or more hardware threads).
[This LQ review](https://superuser.com/review/low-quality-posts/653320) go 4 delete votes and 1 Looks OK and the post remains. How did that happen? Is it because of a mod's action?
@Twisty It always takes 6 Recommend Deletion votes to delete a post, but if there's only one NAA/VLQ flag in play, just 1 Looks OK will finish the task
@kingledion, I ate a prickly pear once and I was aware that I had done so for considerable time afterwards, specifically any time I touched anything. They're not a fruit for the inexperienced. — Separatrix14 hours ago
@Burgi heh. I'm now partial to IntelliJ on the Mac, but for work I'm forced to use Eclipse Neon on Windows 10, which isn't all bad, but is terribly slow (especially on Windows, with McAfee, and HDD instead of SSD) and has a tendency to freeze up sometimes
@Bob you know what sucks about rsync.net? You have to buy 1 TB of storage (yes, it's a fixed quantity, you can buy more but you pay even if you don't use it...) to get zfs send | ssh zfs recv functionality
and they have "immutable" snapshots, meaning, whatever you send them, not even the server's root user can delete, which is awesome, it's ransomware-proof
1 TB of storage from rsync.net is $60/month btw :P
@Bob they're expensive as hell, but have great support, very robust servers, ridiculous speed, ridiculous reliability, and native zfs send support (not to a file, but to an actual pool!)
and their SSH is ridiculously locked down (a good thing) - your snapshots are always safe
someone just flagged my post for containing the word "hell"
@Bob do any of those (1) support native ZFS, and (2) have ransomware protection, so even if the ransomware knows your account details, they can still get your data back?
@allquixotic Native ZFS doesn't matter (really, it doesn't... sending to dataset is the same as sending to file and then dataset). The only place it could make a difference is if you're doing dedupe.
And "ransomware protection" also doesn't matter.
Generic ransomware isn't going to try to access external stores, unless they happen to be mounted. These are not mounted.
Sure, you can hit maybe a dozen servers where that happens to be useful.
Or you could hit thousands of desktops.
Which gets you more money?
@allquixotic Put it this way. That kind of attack isn't 'ransomware' so much as an APT that could easily stay hidden for months, until you type in a password at some point ... poof. You've lost.
Unless the destination is literally write-only, in which case storage costs will just keep growing. Which is also unmanageable.
Ransomware-protection. Marketing fluff.
If you really want to get into it, most of these support snapshots of some sort.
e.g. B2 has snapshots (that aren't accessible by API, either).
But if you're dealing with attacks of that level, they'll just as soon get your website login and delete things from there.
If there's a determined human on the other end, and you're internet-connected, you've lost. If it's just generic ransomware that spreads as far as it can, you just have to be smarter than the majority.
When the majority is dumb enough to open random email attachments, that's not a hard thing to do.
@Bob I disagree. Sure, WanaCry doesn't attempt to encrypt your backup account (unless you have it mounted, in which case you're asking for it), but it's not hard to envision some ~50 SLOC per backup service special-casing in a ransomware payload. You can extort way more money from enterprises than people, so a single successful server breach is worth hundreds of desktops if they don't have their backups anymore.
If there's a way to get into your backups, they're going to go for it (which is why the best backups are physical, of course, but I can't do that with my OVH box -_-)
But basically even if they literally performed identity theft and took control over your rsync.net account, you could just re-establish that you're the legit owner of the account from a non-compromised system and get them to restore your snapshot, even if the attacker attempted to delete everything to the best of their ability.
@allquixotic Even that is trivially defeated by most offsite snapshot systems. C14 is much like Glacier in that you don't have direct access to the backups, only to a staging store.
@allquixotic I've not actually gotten around to trying C14, only read about it. But even B2 does snapshots that you can't delete without a website login. Except you'd have to manually manage the snapshots in that case.
@Bob I'd get halfway done downloading it and get a nastygram from Verizon informing me that I now have no more unlimited data because I exceeded my limited-unlimited data cap. That's a non-starter for me.
@HenryWHHackv2.0 I don't think you'll find any regular users of Windows 10 Walled Garden Edition among the power users in RA... though someone might download it to try it out
@allquixotic In all honesty, they're gunning for the MacBook crowd.
I doubt the folks here would want to use Windows 10 S...
Unlocking Windows 10 Pro costs $49, but is free on some systems.
The education market (currently dominated by Chromebooks) tends to like locked-down systems for their manageability, and this is another market for Windows 10 S.
Ultimately, what the mainstream market wants is simplicity and reliability.
Power users are a very small minority. Computer literacy in the general population is becoming less important.
Microsoft next big step is to comeout with Windows 10 S+ (In this version you cannot download anything from anywhere and you will only have to use the defaults and nothing else.)
If a 2K+ user does an "accept and edit" Community provides the 2nd "approval" vote. Otherwise the 2K+ rep user's edit wouldn't go through, and they'd have to decline the edit and do their own
We have an employee whose last name is Null. Our employee lookup application is killed when that last name is used as the search term (which happens to be quite often now). The error received (thanks Fiddler!) is:
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<faultcode>soapenv:Server.userException</faultcode>
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I use the phrase
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every now and then, usually when somebody asks me when I'll finish some programming task that I haven't even looked into yet.
I know what it means:
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Phrase
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We have an employee whose last name is Null. Our employee lookup application is killed when that last name is used as the search term (which happens to be quite often now). The error received (thanks Fiddler!) is:
<soapenv:Fault>
<faultcode>soapenv:Server.userException</faultcode>
<fault...
I use the phrase
How long is a piece of string
every now and then, usually when somebody asks me when I'll finish some programming task that I haven't even looked into yet.
I know what it means:
English
Phrase
How long is a piece of string?
1. (colloquial, often humorous) U...
