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      Jason Banned
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      Just ordered me a Lenovo Thinkpad P70 with 64GB of ram, 512GB SSD and a 1TB HDD

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      • JaredBuschJ
        JaredBusch @Jason
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        @Jason said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

        Scaling sucks on the NodeBB Internal images..

        You mean the auto scaling for the avatars? Yes it does. It does not say it anywhere, but I found after testing that you need a square image for best results.

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          DustinB3403 @Jason
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          @Jason said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

          Just ordered me a Lenovo Thinkpad P70 with 64GB of ram, 512GB SSD and a 1TB HDD

          Why Lenovo? .. I mean besides "it was a good price"

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            Jason Banned @DustinB3403
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            @DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

            @Jason said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

            Just ordered me a Lenovo Thinkpad P70 with 64GB of ram, 512GB SSD and a 1TB HDD

            Why Lenovo? .. I mean besides "it was a good price"

            They make good workstation computers.. Not sure why you assume the decision was made based on price.

            Very few left in the mobile workstation market. Dell laptops suck anymore bad quality control. HP no longer has a good selection etc.

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              Jason Banned @JaredBusch
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              @JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

              @Jason said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

              Scaling sucks on the NodeBB Internal images..

              You mean the auto scaling for the avatars? Yes it does. It does not say it anywhere, but I found after testing that you need a square image for best results.

              Yep.

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              • DustinB3403D
                DustinB3403
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                I mean, why lenovo with their antics as of the past year.

                I would never consider a Lenovo product again because of they way they've acted.

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                  Jason Banned @DustinB3403
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                  @DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                  I mean, why lenovo with their antics as of the past year.

                  I would never consider a Lenovo product again because of they way they've acted.

                  And Dell, HP, ASUS and others have had their fair share too.. Don't use the OEM image and your fine.

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                  • JaredBuschJ
                    JaredBusch @Jason
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                    @Jason said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                    @JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                    @Jason said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                    Scaling sucks on the NodeBB Internal images..

                    You mean the auto scaling for the avatars? Yes it does. It does not say it anywhere, but I found after testing that you need a square image for best results.

                    Yep.

                    Just discovered a new feature.

                    Clicking on a person's avatar no longer goes straight to their profile page.

                    Clicking on this
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                    results in this
                    0_1463349255741_upload-4ae3dcdc-68b1-4581-9a01-8bbda63bec00

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                    • JaredBuschJ
                      JaredBusch
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                      and the big green button is to follow.

                      0_1463349397396_upload-be8017a9-b331-4c36-b59d-e1c244ab541e

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                        Jason Banned @JaredBusch
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                        @JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                        and the big green button is to follow.

                        0_1463349397396_upload-be8017a9-b331-4c36-b59d-e1c244ab541e

                        And the Heart icon makes it slightly creepy.. ..

                        alt text

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                        • JaredBuschJ
                          JaredBusch @Jason
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                          @Jason said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                          @JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                          and the big green button is to follow.

                          And the Heart icon makes it slightly creepy.. ..

                          just a bit.

                          also, you can delete your follow on post in that other thread. I deleted my reply.

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                          • JaredBuschJ
                            JaredBusch
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                            Told a Buffalo LinkStation Duo to reset itself a few hours ago. That apparently also wipes the drives in some fashion. When I started, we had 1300 minutes (22 hours) to go.

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                              Jason Banned @JaredBusch
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                              @JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                              Told a Buffalo LinkStation Duo to reset itself a few hours ago. That apparently also wipes the drives in some fashion. When I started, we had 1300 minutes (22 hours) to go.

                              0_1463349666645_upload-61b5916a-d8cd-4df6-a887-783abc869cf9

                              I used to have a Terastation at home.. Yep reset doesn't just clear the config it wipes the drives I believe it does the 3 pass DOD short wipe, but I couldn't confirm.

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                                stacksofplates @Jason
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                                @Jason said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                @DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                I mean, why lenovo with their antics as of the past year.

                                I would never consider a Lenovo product again because of they way they've acted.

                                And Dell, HP, ASUS and others have had their fair share too.. Don't use the OEM image and your fine.

                                The one issue they had would still load their drivers even if you image. It was loaded from the BIOS. However, I still have one I use as a Linux workstation.

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                                  Jason Banned @stacksofplates
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                                  @johnhooks said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                  @Jason said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                  @DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                  I mean, why lenovo with their antics as of the past year.

                                  I would never consider a Lenovo product again because of they way they've acted.

                                  And Dell, HP, ASUS and others have had their fair share too.. Don't use the OEM image and your fine.

                                  The one issue they had would still load their drivers even if you image. It was loaded from the BIOS. However, I still have one I use as a Linux workstation.

                                  It wasn't loaded via the BIOS, sure if you used the drivers from Lenovo for your image you still get it but not if go direct to Intel nvidia etc. plus Windows 8/10 does pretty good at downloading straight from the vendors on its own. If you're referring to LSE that wasn't any maililcous code, just auto installers and it can be disabled/removed

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                                  • stacksofplatesS
                                    stacksofplates @Jason
                                    last edited by

                                    @Jason said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                    @johnhooks said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                    @Jason said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                    @DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                    I mean, why lenovo with their antics as of the past year.

                                    I would never consider a Lenovo product again because of they way they've acted.

                                    And Dell, HP, ASUS and others have had their fair share too.. Don't use the OEM image and your fine.

                                    The one issue they had would still load their drivers even if you image. It was loaded from the BIOS. However, I still have one I use as a Linux workstation.

                                    It wasn't loaded via the BIOS, sure if you used the drivers from Lenovo for your image you still get it but not if go direct to Intel nvidia etc. plus Windows 8/10 does pretty good at downloading straight from the vendors on its own. If you're referring to LSE that wasn't any maililcous code, just auto installers and it can be disabled/removed

                                    It used WPBT to load the drivers from the BIOS.

                                    http://www.zdnet.com/article/lenovo-rootkit-ensured-its-software-could-not-be-deleted/

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                                      Jason Banned @stacksofplates
                                      last edited by Jason

                                      @johnhooks said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                      @Jason said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                      @johnhooks said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                      @Jason said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                      @DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                      I mean, why lenovo with their antics as of the past year.

                                      I would never consider a Lenovo product again because of they way they've acted.

                                      And Dell, HP, ASUS and others have had their fair share too.. Don't use the OEM image and your fine.

                                      The one issue they had would still load their drivers even if you image. It was loaded from the BIOS. However, I still have one I use as a Linux workstation.

                                      It wasn't loaded via the BIOS, sure if you used the drivers from Lenovo for your image you still get it but not if go direct to Intel nvidia etc. plus Windows 8/10 does pretty good at downloading straight from the vendors on its own. If you're referring to LSE that wasn't any maililcous code, just auto installers and it can be disabled/removed

                                      It used WPBT to load the drivers from the BIOS.

                                      http://www.zdnet.com/article/lenovo-rootkit-ensured-its-software-could-not-be-deleted/

                                      I don't know what that says but it did not load drivers it loaded some software and it can easily be disabled.. Most sources on these things over play them for click bait..

                                      Everyone forgets the roll Microsoft played as well. There's a reason they are now dropping secure boot (because that's what allows WBPT)

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                                        stacksofplates @Jason
                                        last edited by

                                        @Jason said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                        @johnhooks said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                        @Jason said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                        @johnhooks said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                        @Jason said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                        @DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                        I mean, why lenovo with their antics as of the past year.

                                        I would never consider a Lenovo product again because of they way they've acted.

                                        And Dell, HP, ASUS and others have had their fair share too.. Don't use the OEM image and your fine.

                                        The one issue they had would still load their drivers even if you image. It was loaded from the BIOS. However, I still have one I use as a Linux workstation.

                                        It wasn't loaded via the BIOS, sure if you used the drivers from Lenovo for your image you still get it but not if go direct to Intel nvidia etc. plus Windows 8/10 does pretty good at downloading straight from the vendors on its own. If you're referring to LSE that wasn't any maililcous code, just auto installers and it can be disabled/removed

                                        It used WPBT to load the drivers from the BIOS.

                                        http://www.zdnet.com/article/lenovo-rootkit-ensured-its-software-could-not-be-deleted/

                                        I don't know what that says but it did not load drivers it loaded some software and it can easily be disabled.. Most sources on these things over play them for click bait..

                                        Everyone forgets the roll Microsoft played as well. There's a reason they are now dropping secure boot (because that's what a
                                        llows WBPT)

                                        I agree 100% that WBPT is terrible.

                                        Here's a quote from Ars http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=29497693&sid=ddf3e32512932172454de515091db014#p29497693

                                        Before booting windows 7 or 8, the bios checks if C:\Windows\system32\autochk.exe is the Lenovo one or the original Microsoft one. If it is not the lenovo one, it moves it to C:\Windows\system32\0409\zz_sec\autobin.exe, and then writes it's own autochk.exe. During boot, the Lenovo autochk.exe writes a LenovoUpdate.exe and a LenovoCheck.exe file to the system32 directory, and sets up a services to run one of them when an internet connection is established.

                                        I was thinking I read at one point that it added a network driver for some reason, but maybe I'm mistaken (not superfish but different).

                                        The only way to get rid of it at the time was by manually flashing the BIOS.

                                        They've since put out an update that fixed it.

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                                        • JaredBuschJ
                                          JaredBusch
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                                          still chuggin' along.

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                                            Rainy morning here. It's been over a week of rain, now.

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