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I had to wait more than a month after ordering a Dell gaming notebook, something went wrong with the IDEAL payment (which is the most popular way of paying online in the Netherlands) on the Dell side.
But now I'm really pleased with the notebook, setup went flawless, and I got 100 Euro discount because of a discount action during the waiting period.
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Z.C.M. wrote: I'll give you three cows, two goats and three pigs.
Well, the cows can be herded down the road to my farm, but you'll have to tell the mayor that traffic on the road needs to be closed off and you might need a special license. The goats can be delivered by truck to the pen, and could you take the pigs directly to the butcher?
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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I do ordering a lot online, however if it s something local I ask to place it in one of the shops nearby, as I prefer to pick it up at the end of the day instead of playing mouse-and-cat with the delivery guy...
For instance, two weeks ago (one Thursday), wife's laptop dead... Ordered one online the very same night, picked it up Sunday on way home...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Try the Beau Monga's rendition of "Hit the road Jack" from New-Zealand's X-Factor.
It's quite nice.
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Assembling my AMD 32-core CPU beast of a machine!
I've decided to name it: Triacontadicore
Thanks to all those who provided suggestions!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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sounds like a beast. what are you doing with it all of that?
note: please don't say win10
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Yes, Win 10 Pro.
Lots of virtualization and software development, as well as some personal video encoding.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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You will realize very soon that 32 core is way to little to run Windows as host for massive virtualization...
If you already using virtualization try a Linux host... It worked for me for over 7 years (when I just realized I need no Windows at all)...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: I've decided to name it: Triacontadicore
Thanks to all those who provided suggestions!
Is it too late for suggestions? AMD32CoreCPUyMcAMD32CoreCPUFace? 
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The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Install new SSD, install Linux on the ssd, and convert existing win7 instance to a virtual machine (if that's even possible).
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: convert existing win7
Um, converting Windows 7 to anything will cause a rip in the space time continuum. Highly recommended you just bury the Windows 7 in salt mine at a minimum depth of 15,000 feet.
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That's just something Microslop says to scare people that don't know any better.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Well then, do report back on your successful conversion. 
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I elected to do a full reinstall of 7 in the virtualbox seeing as I now run browser, email, media player etc in the linux so seemed pointless/wasteful to have the all duplicated in the vm.
yeah it's painful
... still have to install some other items e.g. in my case visual studio ... then the settings (which can be copied over if lazy)
--- but on the other hand I know it's a completely clean setup not filled with old baggage from other long gone / never used apps and libs.
Also helpful in that you might find some of your own projects rely on files/folders or even registry settings (sometimes hard coded and quick fix hacks) you've forgotten about
- you know if it doesn't install on your own "machine" it's gonna have problems elsewhere.
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Mothball my 18 month old Intel NUC w/ Windows 10. It had never been exactly stable  but in the last couple weeks had become horrible. A full OS re-install the prior weekend worked great for about 4 days... 
Created a 2nd user account on my wife's MacBook Pro and installed the 2 "real" apps that I need a decent computer for.
Connected my Chromebook to the 27" monitor that the NUC used to use.
This weekend's fun... smoking some ribs on the patio while drinking beer and not dealing with Windows BS. ![Beer | [beer]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
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Intel's botched more than one firmware version for its NUCs when trying to address the Spectre/Meltdown/whatchamacallit vulnerabilities. If the current latest doesn't make yours stable again, go back to one that predates their attempts to fix anything.
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My NUC was pretty unstable with the BIOS it arrived with (which was before any of the SPECTRE madness). Often times it would crash / reboot during Windows boot-up or within the first couple minutes the desktop was active. If it made it past those first few minutes it was solid.
I sent the SSD back to Samsung for testing (they claim it was OK). I tried some different RAM but the issues persisted. Over time a few BIOS and driver updates seemingly made it quite a bit better but never perfect. It would crash about 1 in every 25 boots.
Then a couple weeks ago a particular boot-up failed spectacularly and all subsequent boots made it to the Windows desktop but the "Start" button was DOA. I tried a few things in PowerShell to no avail.
I tried to restore from my Macrium Reflect back-ups but they all claimed to be corrupt. WTF!?
I deleted all the SSD partitions and re-installed Windows 10 from scratch. Everything ran great for 4 days. No boot-up crashes. Everything seemed better, stronger and faster. Woo Hoo!
Then another series of boot-up crashes and finally a desktop with a dead Start button. That was the last straw.
I'll use my Chromebook for the trivial stuff I do at home and the wife's MBP for a couple of the bigger things.
Maybe someday I'll try to resurrect the NUC with Windows or Linux... but for now it's ribs and beer!
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Sorry to hear that - sounds frustrating as hell. Nothing worse than an unstable PC and you don't know what's causing it.
I realize it won't do you any good, but both of my NUCs are running very well - never had an unexplained crash, except when using one of the first BIOS updates they rushed out shortly after Spectre was discovered. Lesson learned.
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I was going to recommend SysInternals' disk2vhd - I've used it to convert an old laptop's drive into a VHD file, but if your host's gonna be Linux, then I'm not sure there's any virtualization host for Linux that can use those files directly (VHD/VHDX are Hyper-V).
That said, I have no doubt there's some tool that can convert VHD/VHDX files to whatever format your Linux virtualization host uses (VMware? Virtual Box? Something else?) But if you're going to go through this conversion step, you might as well first check if your host already has tools that'll do the equivalent of disk2vhd but output in whatever format you need.
The one area to look out for is that, once you're rebooting into your virtualized 7 environment, it'll see your hardware's completely changed and 7 might want to reactivate itself. Or the virtualized hardware might not be automatically recognized by 7. I'd suggest you back up the virtualized disk before you boot from it the first time and let the OS make changes to it, unless you're ready to recreate it again from the original physical machine.
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During a hardware/software migration by our webhost two days ago, they decided that my ftp accounts should be all lowercase. I didn't notice until realizing that the website was not available from my office. No ping and tracert is stalling after several hops...I've been blacklisted! Confirmed by connecting on a mobile...only problem is that it's out of my hands...I've no choice but to open a support ticket begging to be let back in.
6 hours later, the tech has removed the ban, whitelisted my IP address, and given me the cause for the ban...triggered by x number of failed ftp connections.  Funny, I happened to be troubleshooting another problem with a diy ftp utility. Got it working, with the exception of the main site...funny, the error message changed after several tries.  (at the time, I was unaware of the migration as my colleague had forgotten to forward the message from the webhost)
OK, now to deal with the ftp problem...login to cPanel and check the account...try it with lowercase as it's shown and it connects.  Progress!..but wait, that mixed case username is baked into all of those remote-client desktop applications...this breaks the update features...I had prepared for a pwd change, but not a username change! Cursing and swearing, then in a moment of clarity had to stop and laugh and take the most logical approach. Take the leap of faith and delete and recreate the ftp account. Problem solved!
Rant over. Thanks for letting me vent! It just irritates me when I have to deal with crap like this instead of coding...or lounging. And, if you've made it this far, have a great weekend!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Quote: I found a picture of you, oh oh oh oh
What hijacked my world that night
To a place in the past
We've been cast out of? Oh oh oh oh
Now we're back in the fight
We're back on the train
Oh, back on the chain gang
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I had stuff like that happen a couple of times with GoDaddy and then finally the last time they bothered me I moved to smarterasp.net[^] and have been very happy since.
It is painful migrating off though. But once the original host does so many bad things that it feels like you're migrating anyways, then it doesn't matter. That's what happened to me on GoDaddy. They told me, "Oh you'll have to set up all your web sites again."
Me: Good bye.
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Installed the latest SSMS and saw two version numbers on the about box.
In title: SQL Server Management Studio v17.9
In list: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio v14.0.17285.0
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