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Apparently, 1 of 5 adults in my city has an account on Ashley Madison, according to the stats. I don't believe it for a second. Ottawa is too boring for that to be true.

Isn't that just a synthetic benchmark anyway? Both companies have a long, storied history of fucking with their code to allow benchmarks to score well. Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if those results were atypical, but isn't it too early to tell? Edit: Never mind, apparently I can't...

Group policy is the only way, to my knowledge.

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They both have their moments. I'll reserve judgement until I read this one, though.

If you didn't want to slap him, he wouldn't be the Fool, now would he? Can't wait until my wife's done with the book so I can read it. heh.

I haven't had any problems with torrents on Windows 10. No issues with Chrome, either, but we may not be running the same version. Who knows.

Amusing enough to waste a few minutes on, that's about it.

Nah, nothing wrong with Seasonic. Update to my last post, I ended up going with this monitor. Got it for $400 off refurb.LG 31MU97-B 31IN 4K UHD LED Monitor 2xHDMI Display Port 4XUSB3.0 Height & Pivot Adjust Build In Spk - 31MU97-B

Any thoughts on this monitor? Looking for a decent 4K screen that isn't tiny. I was looking at the curved IPS (21:9) but they're typically 2K. Yes, I have money burning a hole in my pocket, before the question is asked. BenQ BL3201PH 32IN 4K UHD IPS LED Monitor 3840X2160 4ms 2HDMI DVI VGA DP...

Aww, don't tell them that. The sudden onset of paranoia is fun to watch.

I'm jealous. That is all. Given the choice to stay where you're at or go to a Fortune 500, it would have to be one hell of an offer to make me move and give up relative simplicity. That said, I'm an IT guy, and the larger companies do tend to play with the bigger toys. That's always going...

That's fair. It doesn't work for the XP folks, though. XP is absolutely broken. I've seen the long-term maintenance patches that we get at work (only because we pay a stupid amount of money for post-EOL XP support) and it's not pretty how unpatched the world's XP systems are now. Same with...

... why? No, really. Why stick with Win7 over Win10? Is it because you're afraid of change, or because everything is running Just So and you're worried about breathing around your PC in case the change in air flow starts a chain reaction? I mean, I get why my dad doesn't want to switch away...

This doesn't happen to me with 3x 1920x1080 and nVidia Surround. This may be because nV Surround makes all three monitors one large "screen". I have seen this before, but it was always adjustable (and annoying, yes). Have they removed the ability to natively adjust where the monitors meet in...

A place that doesn't use PowerPoint as a crutch to explain everything to everyone? I'm intrigued and wish to subscribe to your newsletter. The place I work at uses it for almost everything, all day, every day. It's like a set of training wheels that everyone carries around for life.

If you don't need any of the features specific to the 2013 suite, don't bother, especially if you are fully licensed for 2010. It's a lot of money for a smaller business for little to no real gain. Edit: Here is a really high-level view of the new features of 2013. Nothing notable...

Oh, we're definitely not saying "stop, now, and never try again". We're just not sure that with all of this going on, that now would be the time to think about having another one, especially if this is a genetic marker that means our kids are predisposed to this kind of thing. We're seeing...

Yep, I think the day care experience is doing good things for her in that the other children are showing her what "normal" is. This can also serve as a mask for the more important issues, though. I don't know how much interaction she actually has with the kids that is initiated by her and not by...

I haven't posted because, to be honest, there was no point until the diagnosis was in. It's in. My 2 year old is showing several traits on the autism spectrum. I'm honestly not sure whether to post this here or on the depression thread, because it's becoming very difficult for me to deal (in...

If I had a nickel for every time I've heard this... It depends on what you're doing and how often you're doing it. If you're doing 3D modeling all day long and it's your primary business, you'll either need a beast of a machine or a video card that you can do PCI-E passthrough with. Both will...

Huh. It should let you continue without a key. You might have to install from DVD, though. The media maker should allow you to create a .ISO file that you can install from (the "install later" option).

As a full time IT guy, I say: If he needs something to do that badly, he isn't being proactive enough. Or he's just that damn good and he needs to find a better job. =D Anyway, good luck. I find Win 10 to be pretty decent. Privacy issues make it sketchy for a lot of people (I'm not one of...

Get it here:Windows 10 Download the media creation tool and run it.

Yep, what Mist said. You have a licensed copy of Windows 10 for that computer. Unfortunately, MS doesn't provide you with an option to revert to 7 once you've done the upgrade. It'll be interesting to see if they will undo the switch for you. I'd guess that they probably won't. They'll tell...

People are still installing XP. It probably won't activate anymore, so they'll probably have to be transferred to an actual agent.

Because why, exactly? Because I don't care if they data mine things that are completely irrelevant, like the location of my PC? I turn off things like Cortana, not because I don't want them to listen to me, but because I don't use them. I use Siri on my phone now and then. I am absolutely not...

And they were just as silly. Windows 8 was perfectly usable with Classic Start or whatever if you didn't want Metro. Some of the same things that made Windows 8 aggravating are still around in 10 (e.g. UAC being point blank required for some things, like Edge).

Depends on your system. Was painless for me on every one of my machines. And the "Microsoft is watching me poop" stuff? Who cares? Everyone is watching you. Welcome to the Internet.

Can't confirm as I no longer have access to MSDN, but I suspect that will be the case, as it always has been with retail keys.

That has been their plan for a while now. OEM keys already work that way. They are, for the most part, non-portable.

Edge doesn't run with UAC disabled. Fuck that noise.

Seen it happen to uninfected systems dozens of times through (hand picked) MS updates alone, at work, on a closed network with no access to the internet and USB policies that prevent use of media. So, yeah, it definitely happens.

If you don't use a custom setup (such as your own WSUS), you cannot defer updates forever or control what you get/don't get, to a great extent, so you should probably stick with 7 at this point. I suspect that they'll do a 180 some time soon as there is a large community of people getting angry...

Confirmed that WSUS still works, and still lets you control whether you install automatically or download only. Unfortunately, I confirmed this by updating directly from MS Update, and got a new nVidia driver. gg me.

29th.

I have had it randomly downgrade my drivers from a new version to an older version, but that was in the early days of TP. I don't think I've seen that since then. That said, if they are forcing all driver updates, ugh. I will remove them from my WSUS and that won't ever happen to me, but most...

The only real fix is to install WSUS and control your update channels yourself, and that's a ridiculous amount of overhead for 99% of their customers. That said, yes, you can install an older driver, Skanda (or you could during tech preview, anyway). I installed an older version of the nVidia...

Unless they have about 75 USB battery chargers for sale, I'll go with yes. Got that TV that I bought from the Amazon sale on Friday. It's pretty good for a $600 4K TV. I think I lucked out on that deal.

Or just run dd-wrt on any of the Asus series. Then again, you might as well buy the Mikrotik if you're gonna go that route.