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There is no reason to close the IoT thread. It isn't so big now but fits the same mold as the Impressions thread.

That section is in testing. Currently it is set for only admin view.

This thread is fine for now.

We share the same sentiment here, while yours is about posts, ours is about the entire thread. Let's have this timeline of events over the years: - There was a first impressions thread for Windows 8 that ended up being a catch-all for news and reactions to Windows 8. This was ok at the time. - Separately, the Technology News section was a ghost-town and buried near the bottom of the sub-forum list. - The frontpage news staff had fallen off and it was generally left to myself and Xper to put up posts. This is a problem for both of us because Xper was/is very busy person and I don't read up on tech news. - People had noticed that news was not being updated as often on the frontpage. The frontpage gets a good amount of traffic and is an entry portal to the forum. Active front page = active forum in the eyes of visitors. - Xper adds the ability for people to add news posts to the frontpage. As of this writing, with exception of bots, only Tihiy has attempted to make a news post that way. - We started having database errors (if you remember SQL Driver error and forum downtime) and one of the problems was found the large "Impressions" thread was causing a lot of errors. - So we locked the thread. People got upset, we moved the thread to GD and closed/made new ones when they get too big. After that period when the thread was moved to GD, we still wanted a better way of handling it. So we see that many users are actually doing the same job that people would be doing of putting news on the frontpage. Instead of submitting it as a news items, they were posting in the thread. So you may remember being reached out to (among others) to post news, since it was what was being done in that thread. Even now, with this new forum version there is the ability to create a news item on the frontpage, and it will create a thread on the forum so that people can discuss it. Regarding content for news posts, News should be posted without opinion. You can let opinion be made in the discussion. So if you wanted to post a news article about how Windows 10 will disable the built-in Administrator account after an update, you would just be stating fact. There is no opinion in the matter. Surely it would be nice to post all sorts of news, not just bugs with an OS. And if these types of things are truly important to people, then they are fine news items.

You forget. We do not want the "news megathread" that is Deeper Impressions... and becoming IoT is a bad idea thread. We would prefer that each of these news items be their own threads, and then we can take those news posts and have them as news on the front page. However our multiple attempts to make it like that have been refused. So we make no concessions for those catch-all threads.

UART, XP/Vista/Win7 drivers exist for that HwID. Try the Windows 7 driver. This can be found in Intel Chipset driver. I found a driver v9.4.4.1005 from 2013.

Doubtful it is NoScript's fault. The forum should be keeping that announcement data in a cookie. Make sure it isn't being blocked or deleted when you exit the browser.

You should be editing your previous post should you need to post in a thread again, where you are the last poster, within 24 hours. We have a rule about this and bumping threads.

What is the purpose to add a video or sound driver to WinPE? If you don't want the driver actually in the image, you can run it manually with drvload. I use this for testing, or as a stop-gap until the actual boot image is updated.

Well once you accept, it doesn't show up again.

Chipset drivers aren't needed. I've only added LAN and mass storage drivers to PE. I do not agree with the approach of just adding everything you can find into an image. I would only add what is required by the hardware you are servicing.

It depends on the contents of the WIM file you are using. If it contains registry hives (as a system image would) then they will overwrite. Imagex was primarily used to lay down an OS into a blank disk.

I got it myself using 2 browsers, but also have seen this type of thing on other forums too.

It may be a long time before rights will be given to machines. We are still struggling to determine how to give rights to chimpanzees. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/31/nyregion/new-york-judge-denies-request-to-extend-legal-rights-to-2-chimps.html?_r=0 Now I am wondering if anyone put a chimpanzee on twitter and how it worked out...

I don't think switching from Windows to Linux makes any sort of difference to Microsoft. They do not make any money off existing installations because those licenses have already been purchased. It only took a couple of years of no one buying (or building) apps for the mobile app store for Microsoft to ditch or rethink their phone strategy. I suspect Windows 10 will follow the same path eventually.

I just point it out. You could have zero problems, I just know I've had problems so I decided to share them. Even I would say I am not running a truly optimal or ideal situation, but budgets being what they are you have to make due with what you have. Also consider you are starting out. Most bad network designs are that way because they were pieced together in a disorderly way. You have the opportunity to get a head start on the future by doing it in a way that will be easier for scalability or when issues arise. ESXi is free and is Linux. So one plus is that you don't need to buy a license for the host. It is not full featured and some things you can't do. One that stuck out to me is you can't add external or additional storage to the virtual array. I am sure there are good comparisons out there, or maybe make a new topic asking about ESXi vs Hyper-V or other options.

It is either we are too old and crabby OR Invision does not have a full grasp of what their userbase wants. I would suspect that the amount of their customers that use the forum software that want all these new bells and whistles are in the minority.

Shift+Enter appears to retain the spacing.

I've never trusted software RAID but I know people that swear by Storage Spaces. So I can't really answer that for you. I also do not know if you can put WSUS on a DC, if it can you can just have 1 VM. I know for small business you are somewhat limited but I personally wouldn't put the VM on the file server. As I mentioned before, the OS on the DC is not going to take up a ton of space and with so few clients you don't need a ton of RAM. So the DC's VM can be on anything. The only reason I bring it up is depending on how your downtime plan is. Take this real world example. My dev network has 2 main systems: 1. File server as outlined in previous post. Domain member. 2. ESXi Hypervisor with 2 VMs: - VM1: AD, DHCP, DNS, WDS - VM2: WDS, IIS, Apache, MySQL Less than a month ago, a disk fails in the file server and it cannot be used* until the disk could be replaced and the array rebuilt. The spare on hand was defective and would not work and replacement disks had to be mailed overnight. But because the DC was kept on a separate system, everything still worked except for functions that used resources on the file server. If all had been on the one system, the entire network would have been unusable. So consider that potential situation and make sure you have it in your plan what to do when using a single point of failure.

Seeing my own profile (the template image is set as my cover) on different resolutions, it looks like you can't have just 1 image work properly for everything. The hover template portion seems to work fine, but being able to create a single perfect image that works in all views isn't possible with this software.

Switches (or options/parameters) are used in CMD.

I knew the focus stealing habits of Windows 10 was going to be a problem for people playing games. I have problems with it just using Explorer!

Deactivating a product key is not a thing. If you go to install and Windows does not activate once it has internet access, then you need to phone in the activation. Product Keys for XP do depend on SP, but there may be some difference for Retail. All I remember from those times was that RTM-SP1 and SP2-SP3 used different product keys for OEM editions. There was even a time when I had to write the COA part number on the hologram discs used for installs so that the wrong one wouldn't be installed and the end-user couldn't activate.

I build all file servers with the same format: - OS on RAID1 onboard - DATA on RAID5 or 10 on RAID card (with hot spares) Having the OS on the same array/controller as the data gives you a single point of failure. The OS can be easily replaced, the data cannot. If the motherboard were to fail, you could transfer the data disks with the card to different hardware. If no RAID card is used, this can't be done. You can virtualize WSUS and AD no problem, but I don't see a reason to virtualize the file server's OS. AD for that small amount of clients could run on 4GB RAM on a dual core CPU.. aka very cheaply. You could get any old box and a Hypervisor with 2 VMs on it and have your AD and WSUS.

The most of my interactions on Facebook is I change my picture once a week and interact in a couple of group pages. I can get a sense of what is happening in my local community with the events portion. I don't go about and read much of what other people put on their pages. There are very few people who make good posts that are on the friend list and there is not so much "crazy talk" like I hear many people complain about. Nearly everyone on Facebook seems to be a "filthy internet casual" as can be evidenced by the rampant duplication of shares/posts, clickbait and out-right fake image macros and re-re-re-re-reposted memes. The notion of having to prune the friend list doesn't make sense to me. Being removed from someone's list doesn't mean anything. And don't fall for Facebook's guilt-trip attempt to get you to post Happy Birthday on everyone's page.