alaknebs

alaknebs

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send me one of those if you have a spare XD that said.. i don't need a new machine ... so chances are i'll miss the whole ryzen thing.. hell, chances are i'll miss the whole 10nm thing too XD (i was saying the articles i read aren't necessarily most accurate... but they suggest ryzen are selling like hotcakes. amd was prepared but the motherboard people less so.)

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not necessarily the most reliable sources... . https://techreport.com/news/31545/ryzen-availability-check-eight-cores-and-nowhere-to-put-em http://wccftech.com/ryzen-am4-motherboards-supply-shortage/

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i read something funny the other day... (don't really know the technical stuff aside from there's a screw up) wonder which security software it is.. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20170303-00/?p=95655

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unless there's no measure that you can take.. aside from pulling the plug. i don't think anyone is opposed to disclosure. the tricky thing is the amount of time a company is given to fix an issue. how do you know if a company is dragging its feet or having difficulties?

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well... you could argue the blackhats who knew about it and keeping quiet are more likely to be state affiliated and selective against their targets. compared to kits built using disclosure info being available to everyone and dog who whacks everyone and dog. obviously it's not a hard and fast rule...

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same one the doc wrote about? bbc is just a few days late XD speaking of windows... on the bright side.... in future, you can forbid installation of win32 stuff on win10! on the other hand, you'll just get infected by uwp stuff XD http://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-to-permit-block-on-apps-installing-if-theyre-not-from-microsoft-store/

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heh. i remember for some odd reason my win3.11? came with os/2 warp.. obviously didn't take me long to screw the whole thing up and ended up with win3.11 only...

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well.. it depends on which ryzen is compared to the i5, doesn't it. the articles headlines i've seen so far seem to suggest the high end parts stack up well performance wise so far at lower cost, but i did read one of the reason is that intel "wastes" a big chunk of the chip on igpu that simply doesn't get used by people using discrete gfx (whatever happened to the dx12/vulcan mixing gpus?) whereas the amd cpu is just that... cpu. a different article i read suggest

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oddly.. i am not sure it makes a big difference for xcom2... didn't feel much difference when i shoved it between ssd and 7..2k hdd... i normally just have win10 on the ssd and steam itself.. but keep games in hdd.. though i think for division it was more noticible... wonder why...

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interestingly... just noticed the nvidia driver installed by win10 automatically...apparently a few days ago. 376.53 - it doesn't exist on nvidia's website...... wonder what's so important... i had 376.33 installed. .. 1st time it happened i think since i installed win10. normally.. i don't install the 3d vision drivers.. just the gfx/hd audio and physicx... it auto-installedthe 3d vision this time... just as well it didn't install the geforce experience... <

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well.. if it's win7 retail, you are supposed to be able to install it into another machine.. (provided you are not using it on more than 1 at the same time)... as opposed to oem, where you can't. that bit (ie what happens after win 10 upgrade) was never really really made clear. could be because it's the same machine that causes it to raise up a fuss. i don't think ms is allowed to get rid of the rights of people to migrate their win 7 retail. upgrading win7 retail doe

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https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10 assuming you are on another windows machine...just d/l iso and make a bootable stick/dvd but that's an interesting bit of info.. about the win7 key not being valid (for win7). it shouldn't be invalid... if it's retail. also saw this.. make sure you didn't enter a typo. https://www.bleepingcomputer.c

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emet is free. mbae was free. integrated mb 3 isn't. ghacks says you can re-install the old mbae after you install mb 3... if you can find the old installer. also mentioned some perpetual beta version of mbae in future. alas. no reason for me to use mbae so far, and whilst i know emet will be discontinued next year, i'll cross that bridge when it comes to that. i only ever use mbam to manually scan once in a while. if emet and mbae does similar things, logically

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incidentally... it interferes with emet (well.. anti-exploit part). it crashed my firefox earlier upon installation - the trial version (aka all the components) is activated immediately as opposed to asking if you want to activate the trial during thte installation process. you can deactivate the trial prematurely (no idea if it can be taken up again in future)

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i don't think the supermarket is asking the country to change its name. some idiot from the supermarket tried to stop icelandic companies from using the word iceland (and actually won some cases in courts) XD bt has been using homehub as the name of its brick since it started doing home adsl all those years back. who knows if they've trademarked it. that said, they are calling the new version smart hub instead... what phone now? XD they'll probably g

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