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Lump me in here too. I can "handle" the old style chiclets (though it is FAR from ideal), but the new keyboard is complete and utter trash. Thirded. I have an old MacBook (Late 2009) at home and a my last 3 work laptops have been MacBook Air's (Mid 2009, Mid 2012, Early 2015), and the key...

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Flying Fox wrote:
To me it is just the usual skipping of 4, not skipping both 3 and 4. Am I reading the subject wrong?

You are correct, TFA mentions Zen 3 twice so post subject is off.

Additionally, Zen+ launched today on Friday 13th so I guess AMD is being fake superstitious here

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From the article chuckula linked: As a side note, manufacturers often skip 4 due to its meaning in Chinese culture. It’s an unlucky number because it’s homophonous to the word ‘death’. Something that AMD surely does not want to be associated with Zen architecture. I guess Intel were never bothered a...

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1) What does the firmware say? In BIOS Setup, can you go to the "BIOS" tab and see what "Windows 10 Features" is set to, "Windows 10" or "Windows 10 WHQL" or "Other OS"? Also what is "CSM Support" set to, "Disabled" or "Enabl...

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I'm thinking of just switching to latched cables and breaking the latches on the motherboard side: the motherboard's SATA ports are orientated off the board edge and so the cable ends are sitting horizontally with the shortest side downwards, I think this makes them unlikely to come loose on their o...

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Case/disk side is fine for latching cables, motherboard is horrible for it so I haven't

It came loose on the disk side, as the case has the two 2.5" bays orientated with the SATA cables fighting gravity. Sigh.

Topinio

Ding ding, we have a (provisional) winner. I had already checked the SSD's cabling and that of the mechanical E: drive, but your post convinced me to recheck all the damn cables and the SATA cable on the Linux SSD was loose, and reseating it has gotten the Windows install (on a separate SSD) to play...

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My hardware is fine, my OS shouldn't be corrupt. Shutdowns have been planned, not crashes. Drastic action should not be necessary. Reinstalls, "refreshes", other major interventions that require huge amounts of energy and time ... just like this issue doing that same thing, it's ridiculous...

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I don't think it's hardware, but I'm mostly just venting that Windows is now designed to do nothing and do it slowly, while locking out any attempts to resolve the issues. It's like the designers decided that the product is good enough to not go wrong or to fix itself, against all the evidence. :evil:

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It decides it won't boot, taking 30-40 minutes to not do so and give up with "inaccessible boot device" despite showing the boot process from that device for all that time. Says I can restart now. Rinse and repeat 3 times. Then it's "preparing automatic repair" for another 20 min...

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Beautiful. This is the stuff that dreams are made of. Gz.

Topinio

I haven't actually brought anything yet and wanted to arm myself with some questions before speaking to any sales people. Oh, my bad, I took your "I'm having to use a Cisco ASA 5506 for a VPN connection with someone and I'm unsure exactly how the service contract / software update stuff works ...

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https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/services/ ... vices.html

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I have no idea how buying Cisco works as a non-large customer, but would ask who the device was bought from and why can you not talk to them about the Cisco support contract?

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Waco wrote:
Bauxite wrote:
I do this for a living...

You and auxy...shouldn't. Bad habits shouldn't come from those that are in a position of authority.

Pretty poor form dragging auxy in just to attack her.

Topinio

You shouldn't be turning off the updates. Just set the "active" hours to decent times and it'll restart during the night when you're not using the computer. Or whatever time you're not using it. Problems with Windows Update are not restricted to "just" the major inconvenience of...

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Waco wrote:
anotherengineer wrote:
FORTRAN 90 FTW

Finding anyone who knows Fortran is pretty difficult too.

A few of our big codes that run a huge number of core hours are Fortran and we're running out of people who know it well enough to maintain it.

Clearly not paying enough, then -- there are load of us out here

Topinio

Intel published client impact assessment benchmarks, impact is +6 to -21% AFAICT.

Obviously, these are close to besst-case as they are all with CPU well above mid-range let alone low-end, and all Skylake or newer.

Topinio

Intel will likely push Cascade Lake into 2019 due to this bug or simply cancel it in favor Cannon Lake-SP in 2019 which is still on the roadmap last I heard. The rumors are pointing toward Cascade Lake as being a Sky Lake-SP update still on 14 nm due to delays in 10 nm production. One big new featu...

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My 1709 Home instance is spinning away, it's a very Noddy box though (Atom and 1 GB / 32 GB) so who know when it'll see the patch. My 1703 Pro main system has been failing to install the patch all afternoon, have even resorted to clearing out the Windows Update download directory. The Windows 8.1 Pr...

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Yeah, I saw that on the AV front -- how is it "unexpected" though? How can Microsoft not have profiling information on all the major AV suites and be able to publish a list of which ones it thinks seem okay?

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So, has Microsoft only patched Windows 10 release 1709 (on 2018-01-03) ? (Like Apple only patched macOS 10.13, on 2017-12-03, also with partial mitigation only.)

Topinio

Call me selfish, but as a consumer I'm for this simply because it helps protect me from price inflation, supply shortages, and whatever else massive companies might cause as a result from massive consumer graphics cards orders/deployments. That's unsupported and contrary to evidence. The only thing...

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Why not instead offer premium support/licensing options for GeForces in the datacenter? The Tesla driver is validated sufficiently to enable an offer of premium support, and this is baked into the TCO. Or, another way to look at it is that the very existence of the Tesla range of boards at its high...

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Also looking at the comparison R9 380 vs GTX 1060, it seems like that would be a great improvement as well, almost doubling the framerate. But if the i3 is already a bottleneck, then it will be even worst for the GTX1060! Yes, on that CPU bottleneck point. On the GPU step, https://www.bit-tech.net/...

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The GTX 1060 is not enough better than the R9 380 to be anything more than a stopgap, IMO: it'd get you from kinda ok to fairly solid, if the rest of the system was decent and could cope -- but in this case, I'd be very surprised if your 2012 i3 isn't the bottleneck holding back the R9. (You could b...

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Is there any evidence that this has ever happened? I'd be surprised if e.g. for $20 one could get 3 replacements of a $60 GPU. I'm not aware of any cases with the ten year warranty. But I've been a member of their forums long enough to see owners getting generational upgrades just with the regular ...

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Klickey wrote:
Hmm....how irritating. I just updated to High Sierra because it kept announcing me about the update. I did to stop it, and High Sierra does slow my Macbook air early 2015.

You should try it on a MacBook Late 2009

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Keep in mind the 10 year warranty carries over to whatever the replacement card is. So I think it is likely the user could expect to end up with a twice, even thrice upgraded GPU over the span of a decade warranty. Is there any evidence that this has ever happened? I'd be surprised if e.g. for $20 ...

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If you are concerned about reliability, you can buy the cheapest model 1080 Ti and then just use a small portion of the money saved to upgrade it to a 5 (or even 10) year warranty, the cost depends on the model in question. So you have a few options to pick from here. Even a 1080 Ti hydrocopper can...

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