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Ben Shoemaker
AskWoody LoungerRAID ISN’T A BACKUP! Just that he was arguing that, I’d consider them not a good information source.
RAID is to prevent downtime. RAID prevents time loss. Backups prevent data loss.
RAID used to be to expand capacity and speed over a single drive but that’s now becoming a moot point with 8TB+ NVMe enterprise SSDs.
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Ben Shoemaker
AskWoody LoungerOctober 7, 2022 at 9:13 am in reply to: How to digitize your 35mm slides (or, how I did it) #2486273I’d really urge people AGAINST using an LED lamp as the light source. The CRI is terrible on cheap lamps and only OK on good lamps. A halogen bulb has a perfect CRI and will render skin tones properly. If you need to dim it down, use a neutral density filter on your lens. Considering cameras are built to shoot outdoors, I’m guessing that you can iris down to compensate for shooting directly into the lens.
Alternatively, you could get a lighting “gel”, like Rocolux 299, neutral density filter to put in front of the lamp. They are meant to handle the heat of a halogen lamp. Not directly ON the lamp, bulb but if it’s 1/2″ in front that’ll be fine for a 25W bulb.
I hope that helps.
-Ben
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Ben Shoemaker
AskWoody LoungerOh no. Friends don’t let friends use motherboard based RAID. Does one of your other systems use the same RAID? If not what was your disaster plan if/when this mobo failed?
Consumer motherboard manufacturers are also terrible at releasing BIOS updates and/or RAID drivers and firmware updates.
I changed to HP/LSI/MicroSemi cards a while ago. They have good compatibility if you need to connect an old RAID to a newer card. What I do is just buy a spare card on eBay a couple/few years after buying the first one. For business applications, I buy two cards initially and put the spare in a safe spot.
Just my $0.02.
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Ben Shoemaker
AskWoody LoungerSeptember 28, 2021 at 1:37 pm in reply to: Why some Outlooks will stop working with Microsoft services #2392353Being the “family” computer guy is going to be rough in November.
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Ben Shoemaker
AskWoody LoungerSeptember 27, 2021 at 4:14 pm in reply to: Why some Outlooks will stop working with Microsoft services #2392163My users have an O365 subscription and use Office 2016 on the desktop. We still use a local AD server. We don’t have/use Azure AD. I set up people’s email profile in Outlook using their email address and the password set in O365. Is this going to stop working?
According to this article…
https://www.kraftkennedy.com/modern-authentication-vs-basic-authentication/
…they are using modern auth to log in the Office 365 desktop app.
My users GREATLY prefer local Outlook over OWA. They are going to kill me if Outlook stops working.
Thanks.
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Ben Shoemaker
AskWoody LoungerFebruary 23, 2021 at 3:12 pm in reply to: Amazon’s new ‘same-day nodes’ will displace postal deliveries #2345860Of course Amazon is trying to control the entire delivery chain. If USPS planned on this revenue steam for any extended period of time, they were fooling themselves.
As soon as drone delivery becomes a thing, Amazon will barely need drivers and trucks for last mile (home/business) delivery. Probably about the same time that automated trucks start moving freight on US highways. Driving as a profession will soon become a thing of the past.
I’m still amazed that USPS does daily mail deliveries and pickup.
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Ben Shoemaker
AskWoody LoungerWhenever I’ve had problems, I’ve used a nice piece of software call OEMkey to pull the key from the BIOS then I go hit change key, enter that in and it goes through.
The only other problems that I’ve had was when cloning from one PC to another (new laptop). You get a hardware changed error when trying to activate. In that case, you have to clear all traces of the key in order to apply the new key. From some searching I found this…
If activation fails with hardware changed error, at an elevated command prompt, run
slmgr /upk
slmgr /cpky
reboot then change the product key the normal way (using oemkey if no COA)
HTH,
BP
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