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I have been a BOINC user since 1998; started using seti@home my freshman year using an old compaq laptop with win95 on it. I now run 3 projects on my home network, seti@home, milkway@home, and Atlas@home, they run on my main pc (4930k and 32gb ram, amd r9 290) as well as an amd hexcore system that is much slower.

Ive only used it in an office environment once, at my last job when we got some new killer (at the time)hardware. Loaded up boinc/seti on dual proc dell server with 256GB ram, for 'testing' to make sure it could run at full load for periods of time. It was also fun to see how many work units it could do. My boss said 1 day was enough, so i uninstalled it.
These distributed computing tasks dont use much bandwidth, but they will run your cpu at max, and some of them eat up RAM (Atlas@home is one). There are settings to control all that.
However, running these on work systems is using company resources for personal stuff, unless your boss is huge into distributed computing and science and wants spare cpu cycles spent that way(havent met one yet that does),

@dafyre said in Corel Draw x8: Performance and other issues:

The first place I would look is Updated drivers... How recent is Corel Draw x8?

Just downloaded.

That said, It did do an update prior to my uninstalling it and cleaning the system up and re-installing it.

no idea on your question, but i never thought to use this feature.

going to be setting this up.

What don't want use it for?
You could use:
Trello.
WhatsApp.
Facebook.

@BRRABill said:

@Breffni-Potter said

This looks horrible now. I get that someone has replied but the preview is useless 🙂

I've been trying to manually edit that out. But as you can see I miss from here to there.

I agree, I do not like that new "feature".

Yes, if it was a reply as topic only thing it would be great. but as the general quote it is f[moderated]ing stupid. We are still in the same thread.

@scottalanmiller said in Windows 10 Replacement for Movie Maker:

@brianlittlejohn said in Windows 10 Replacement for Movie Maker:

@gjacobse said in Windows 10 Replacement for Movie Maker:

What I have called Firewire, they call i.Link.

You can thank Apple for that... Apple trademarked "FireWire" so everyone else had to come up with their own name for IEEE1394

Well, you can thank people using Apple's term for IEEE1394. The real name is just IEEE1394. Calling it FireWire or i.Link is the issue. Just call it by its real name and it gets much clearer 🙂

True!

Fonts should never come as an .exe - if they do run away.

They come as native font files, you then install them based on the OS, either Mac or Windows does this easily

In this case, it was a matter of the settings during the restore.

Under GENERAL you had to select your source and destination as normal. Destination was changed so that it was the new History file. Under FILES you updated the DB and LOG files to reflect the new DB, otherwise you would over write the originals.

This is where they borked it. They didn't mention FILES only going to OPTIONS, and there is where they mentioned updating the file names. The main discovery was that you need to uncheck LEAVE Source database in the restoring state.

When I emailed them about removing the 'borked' databases I had created the called me back. I mentioned it to the fellow and we had a short discussion on the matter where he took notes and agreed that the directions were incorrect. When I got to the part about unchecking LEAVE Source database in the restoring state he mentioned that he uncheck Take tail-log backup before restore

Hope this helps.

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@tonyshowoff said:

@Dashrender said:

@coliver said:

@Dashrender said:

@tonyshowoff said:

o actually I don't really do that much these days, but when I first started travelling I just sort of matched up with what was

What is CIS? I don't travel enough to have run into this term before.

Commonwealth of Independent States, former USSR.

Thanks.

I didn't know we, as Americans, needed an invite to visit CIS. Like Scott, it's on my long term list of places to see, but Australia and Japan are higher on the list.

Yeah and even then the initial visa is only 72 hours for you people.

Yeah, not terrible.

Most of mine don't give away either, they sell, granted for next to nothing, but it's still sold.

or it's off to the recycler.

@RojoLoco said:

@johnhooks said:

@RojoLoco said:

@johnhooks said:

@RojoLoco said:

Look out Etsy, here comes a bunch of laser printed crap for sale!!! (I might buy one of these if it includes the brunette...)

At least it will most likely up the quality of the crap.

And it will up the price of custom engraved MBPs... because they're not nearly expensive enough.

Ha just use the savings to buy one of these and do it yourself

Or skip Apple altogether... like I already do.

Then you can personalize that paper thin Lenovo laptop you have!

That's awesome. I love watching this guy's videos.

According to their blog you can still use chrome://apps. But that appears to be a touch only interface.

Does anyone know of an alternative that allows for searching your apps by typing?

@Jason said:

@gjacobse said:

@MattSpeller said:

@coliver said:

@MattSpeller said:

@coliver said:

I've had a low success rate with startech devices. They are cheap and when they work they work ok... but most of the time they don't. Even if one had been working fine come in the next day and it doesn't work at all.

Exactly my experience, but I will add that the more complicated the product is the lower it's chances of working properly. It's a sliding scale from "meh, yeah, ok" to "possessed by demons" to "complete and utter failure to chooch"

At a former job we bought a serial to USB from them for a PLC once... never again. It did funky things and inserted random characters into programs. We returned it for a replacement... the second one didn't work at all.

Oh sweet jesus those are the exception. NEVER buy one unless it's straight from these guys. Trust me, I spent years doing electronics engineering programming chips and bit banging

http://www.ftdichip.com/Products/Cables/USBTTLSerial.htm

Yea,.. there is a lot of fakers that just won't work on those FTI drivers... ugh.

The driver has a verification software in the download you can check the chip with though.. in Windows 7 the fake ones would still work I believe.

Until FTDI decide to block them again heheh

@coliver said:

Do VPN connections get created/torn down with every communication? Or are they persistent until the device disconnects?

Normally neither. They are normally persistent until a certain amount of time, then they tear down when idle. Might be hours or days. That way they don't remain absolutely forever, but normally a very long time.

This is just for their web API. Not directly related to calls.

@JaredBusch said:

You need to upgrade your ERL to firmware 1.8 to get the full traffic analysis capabilities in the GUI.

Which has been done.

Don't ask me.. it's what he told me - so I just walked away and really didn't put any more thought into it.

But his thought was that you can't acquire the AP over wireless.

He has a greenfield setup.

But in thinking more about it... he's going to have to plug into the network no matter what for at least the first AP. After that he should be fine all wireless.

Again the user seems to have lost the external monitors.

It seems that it is a permissions issue, thought it should not be. For a test, will add to the local admin and test. Unless there is a different option (sorry, getting rid of the Surface is not an option).