@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Found something that is actually even worser than Origin: Uplay. Login works only after hitting the login button 10+ times. And if you try hard enough:
Account locked.
Warning - NEVER enable MFA with uplay...it asks for it CONSTANTLY - you can;t add a trusted device etc, every time you start it up, it asks....wanna start a game after already logging in? MFA. Want to purchase something? MFA.
Like, dude. Chill.
@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just got told i cant add friends on Steam until i pay for $5.00 USD or more.. well i guess i wont be social for a while on Steam.
Yeah, there are a lot of people creating new accounts to trade for virtual items and scamming others out of those items for real world money. By using the $5 limit, they can associate new accounts to a bank or paper trail, and deter the scammers.
Go pick up Tropico! You can get the whole bundle for $31 and it's worth it.
Or just tell friends your steam name, and they can add you. Simple. 
You can't send requests, but you can accept them
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
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@NattNatt said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@NattNatt said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Fixing backups. Woooo!
Also - I'm after putting a VM Host on my machine at home to mess about with - I have 10 pro but it's an upgrade so Hyper-V doesn't work because MS is dumb. Debating whether to do a repair install of Win 10 to see if that fixes the issue, or to use a free hypervisor...opinions?
Depends on your requirements. VirtualBox works just fine in most cases and even better than Hyper-V when it comes to things like USB pass-through. Never measured it, but I think the overall I/O performace and latency of Hyper-V on Win8/8.1/10 is just "smoother" (faster, low lag) compared to the same workload running in VirtualBox. Probably because Hyper-V is a type 1 hypervisor while VirtualBox is a type 2. But again: You probably won't notice that in most cases.
Just to spin up VM's for messing about/testing stuff mainly - partly to teach myself more stuff, partly because I get bored easily...So will be wanting to run Linux VMs as well as Microsoft VMs
VirtualBox should do, really. Big plus is pass-through. With VirtualBox, you are able to just pass through a USB thumb drive and you will have full access to it, including things like partition tables. I'm using this whenever I need to do something complex to partitions on disks, sticks and SD cards: Fire up a Linux-VM, attach the storage device, start parted / gparted / fdisk / sfdisk / whatever, modify partitions and finally just detach the device. Works very well.
Oh, BTW: Hyper-V knows how to pass through a local storage device too, but ... well, does not work in each and every case due to some restrictions.
Yeah, I'm aware of Hyper-V's...quirks...
@hobbit666 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
Wondering what to display on our nice shinny new 42" TV's on the wall
A Penis.
@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@NattNatt said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Installing Windows 7 SP1 on a new client's machine.....
Just SP1 or Windows 7 including SP1?
SP1 on a previous Windows 7 install. No updates had been done on the machine. Had a Vista machine with no updates too...I cried. Because I had to deal with Vista.
@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
I'd watch it....for purely scientific reasons obviously...
@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
@kelly said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
@kelly said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
Took the Fallout 4 plunge a couple of days ago. I'd forgotten how hard those games are in the early going when more than one of just about anything can kill you.
Yep... try modded hard mode. FUU it took me a few hours to get Sanctuary safe.
Any mod recommendations? I'm early enough that starting over wouldn't hurt too much.
Oh... yes all the mods. I've got a list somewhere let me dig it up.
@quixoticjeremy said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
@kelly said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
@kelly said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
Took the Fallout 4 plunge a couple of days ago. I'd forgotten how hard those games are in the early going when more than one of just about anything can kill you.
Yep... try modded hard mode. FUU it took me a few hours to get Sanctuary safe.
Any mod recommendations? I'm early enough that starting over wouldn't hurt too much.
Oh... yes all the mods. I've got a list somewhere let me dig it up.
There's a HUGE list of mods that make fo4 so much better. I have a list as well that I'll grab once I get home.
compare both and only install mods that appear on both lists
@Minion-Queen said:
That sounds yummy
It is! Used to serve it at a bar I worked at - Alcohol free too, and should be ok for you and Nic to drink too!
@scottalanmiller said:
@NattNatt said:
would I need MCP before MCSA? Or should I go straight for MCSA?
Depends on your definition of "need." You don't need to do anything specific before attempting the MCSA. But the MCSA is just a cert given after you have a certain collection of MCPs. It's not a cert test on its own.
So you don't "need" an MCP to get the MCSA, but by starting down the path of the MCSA, you will get several MCPs.
After you get the MCSA, you still just go after a few more MCPs to move up to the MCSE.
Awesome, didn't realise that! Cheers for the help as always - will start looking towards what I want to do 
Poocha...that's a scary amount of traffic to say it was while he was sleeping...
@scottalanmiller Cheers! Thanks for the heads up in the first place!
The skill to handle users, interpret what they need from what thy say they need, and customer service are important in my opinion too!
@scottalanmiller said:
Just the title alone tells you what a disaster this thread is going to be....
well...you tried...
@DustinB3403 said:
So besides the fact that ASUS is paying through the nose for this, what do the end consumers get?
Increased prices?
@Breffni-Potter said:
@NattNatt said:
hah well If you ever decide to have it multi-location get in touch
oooo, who are you
Hah a lowly tech that works in a big hosting company based in the UK
@scottalanmiller said:
Nope, UK is just nutty in the underground.
Pretty much, Was there 2 weeks ago and there's another one "Hannah still giggles when she hears "Cockfosters" #LoveYourImperfections"
