wilhil

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by wilhil 7y ago
Is there really a market for modding a 7+ year old laptop? I know thinkpads used to be great (And some still are), but, I just don't get the point in trying to give more life to something so so old - most likely ~3rd-4th gen intel.
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by wilhil 7y ago
Sorry, We only do servers and high end workstations/desktops... I personally couldn't find a ODM that was high quality... all seemed to be cheap/too plasticy and would break easily... Unless you are doing ~5k+ a month and can
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by wilhil 7y ago
Which Intel had and how we got started ~15+ years ago and as our sales figures went up, we got contacted and met with people and gradually the relationship got better and better.
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by wilhil 7y ago
We are a MSP and are mainly a Dell house at the moment - however, we have found a niche in media and are constantly building mid range servers and high end workstations. On the high end, we can assemble a Xeon or i7/i9 machine, 64GB me
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by wilhil 7y ago
Intel have a great partner program - I'm a small OEM (as one arm to the company), less than 100 units a month - but, still a nice number... Intel give me advanced warranties, presales support, partner centre, certain privileged informa
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by wilhil 7y ago
What about P2P transfers...
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by wilhil 7y ago
I'm an IT and networking guy... This is one thing that got on my nerves completely - most equipment comes as AC or DC, and I'm never sure what to order, so, I usually go for the AC one as it's the safe choice
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by wilhil 7y ago
I worked for an ISP that was deploying switches nationwide... We got a lot of space in BT Telephone Exchanges and thought nothing more of it. I have never seen such dirty and bad power! Literally once a week we had to go to exchanges to res
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by wilhil 7y ago
I can't remember the technical details and haven't touched this in years - but, it just wasn't this simple. It was something about the handover process from EFI to bootloader and it was something really awkward... We got it w
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by wilhil 7y ago
I don't know why this has taken so long... About 5 years ago, I was involved in a project where we purchased Intel based tablets based off a standard reference design in bulk for about $80 a piece - that included battery, cameras, scre
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by wilhil 7y ago
:P Thanks!
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by wilhil 7y ago
BMCs are scary as hell... even for people who say they isolate them, you also need to do a full audit as many come with rubbish default settings. For example, Dell's default config on BMC/Idrac (at least 4-5 years ago when I teste
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by wilhil 7y ago
Here here... This is a hidden thing that seems to always go under the radar. My Intel i7 4790k has lost at least 40% speed since I originally bought it, and for years, I always thought that Intel machines were getting slower without any act
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by wilhil 7y ago
I just tried playing! You have a bug, there is no way to unmark a cell, so, when I did one incorrectly, I couldn't click on it :(
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by wilhil 7y ago
Not taking a stance on what has happened here, but, I just find it weird in this day and age how you can be accused of crimes against a country you aren't in by doing something over the internet. Was it Turkey (I forget) recently that
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by wilhil 8y ago
"upon interviewing the locals, it turns out the winner is North Korea with 160% of residents saying they have full confidence in the leadership"
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by wilhil 9y ago
One thing that I actually hate on Windows 10 compared to Windows 8 is the native apps - it is a huge step backwards. I have a Microsoft Account on my work (Office 365) email address. Windows 8 worked perfectly - if you signed in to Windows
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by wilhil 9y ago
Now if only they can partner with someone to get chat working as well as it used to or get syncing between multiple devices working...
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by wilhil 9y ago
I know they are planning wildcard already (as per article), I'm just keeping my fingers crossed we will see code signing and others before too long... I understand though, code signing will be much harder to automate and maybe not so f
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by wilhil 9y ago
Am I being thick, looking around their entire site and I can't see the price anywhere. Even the FAQ says to sign up to a trial, give your credit card info and then you see the price...
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by wilhil 9y ago
As someone who has tried some early builds, what annoys me is that they have made it a lot easier and much quicker to install on Linux than it is on Windows!
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by wilhil 9y ago
Because when you buy software, you know you are renting it - you technically can reverse engineer/decompile, copy, clone, resell - but you know you shouldn't. If I buy a car and want to take the engine out, or a light and resell i
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by wilhil 9y ago
I remember back in Windows Vista days (and early Windows 7 builds) doing extensive 32-bit Vs 64-bit testing and the 32 bit system outperformed the 64-bit in everything from startup time to application launch time. This being said, PAE doesn
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by wilhil 9y ago
Other than treating staff well, how would you go about stopping something like this? As my own company is growing, we fully trust all employees, (limiting only what is essential), but, a dev ops guy if he was so inclined could technically d
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by wilhil 10y ago
Is this a whole new thing or the evolution of Robotics Studio and the CCR? It looks strangely familiar!
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by wilhil 10y ago
So, tit for tat?! That aside... So, does that mean once your picture is released, you don't need to pay back? If so, I see some people would probably get rich :/
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by wilhil 10y ago
Now, how can I actually use these? I say it every time I see "company X releases Y" or open compute project... They are lovely and I want to use it, but, any enquiry to the manufacturers show that you need a minimum order that is
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by wilhil 10y ago
Who knows the truth about Brexit just yet... Trade deals will come in and we will probably get back to where we were - in the long term. ... If/when we get there, any bets Microsoft will not lower pricing?
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by wilhil 10y ago
I have bad memories of freenas (before the split/new version) many years ago when I had a disk and power failure... hdb went, so, c/d moved up a letter and it automatically screwed up raid... ... I was able to recover, but, I reme
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by wilhil 11y ago
And, as not an employee of a multi billion pound company, how can I get involved?! I ask every time, and this project is amazing, but, it feels just for the big guys!

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