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This is a really specific question, but is anyone aware of any media players (or plugins for VLC) that will scan a pre-defined list of addresses (udp) and start streaming automatically? I know most media players can do multicast streaming, but I need to be able to it semi-autonomously (e.g. set it up one-time then users don't really have to know what an ip address is, it 'just works').
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Are there Windows 8/8.1 isos available online like the ones for Windows 7 on digital river?
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Nov 15, 2013 21:41
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stubblyhead posted:Are there Windows 8/8.1 isos available online like the ones for Windows 7 on digital river? You need a product key to get the ISO from MS. But yeah, it's doable.
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Nov 15, 2013 21:43
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crestfallen posted:I haven't tried any time recently, and I'm not at my home computer to verify, but I believe CrashPlan can do this. IMO it's the best online backup service there is. Thanks. If at all possible when you get home could you double check? I'm going to shoot an email to their support and check with them, as well. Something like this would make me feel a lot better about not spending a fortune on local backups (we really don't have that many files to backup, so we can spare the network overhead a lot more than the infrastructure costs).
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Nov 15, 2013 23:57
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Earl of Lavender posted:Haha, oh dear. And I guess there was that (tangentially related) thing with some anti-virus definition update that matched critical files a while back. Still, I imagine we would have heard more about it if Skyrim was crippling people's systems on uninstall. That was a good one. There's also the time McAfee whacked svchost.exe on running systems after the definitions updated. I think Sophos flagged itself not too long ago.
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Nov 16, 2013 00:06
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Yeah we were running McAfee when their update poo poo itself upon our all systems. And of course we moved to Sophos which pushed down an update that flagged their updater as a virus and deleted that exe. Now we're running MS Endpoint Protection which hasn't hosed us over yet.
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Nov 16, 2013 00:25
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Is there any reason that switching back and forth between Windows 7 and Xubuntu would cause my Windows clock to jump ahead 5 hours? It still thinks I'm in the correct time zone, and syncing with whatever Internet time server corrects it.
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Nov 16, 2013 02:58
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Maybe Xubuntu is setting your hardware clock 5 hours ahead instead of adjusting for timezone in software? e- here you go https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Time Linux is using UTC, Windows is expecting localtime baka kaba fucked around with this message at 03:11 on Nov 16, 2013 |
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Nov 16, 2013 03:08
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baka kaba posted:Maybe Xubuntu is setting your hardware clock 5 hours ahead instead of adjusting for timezone in software? That would be hilarious. And annoying. How would I check that? BIOS?
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Nov 16, 2013 03:09
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hooah posted:Is there any reason that switching back and forth between Windows 7 and Xubuntu would cause my Windows clock to jump ahead 5 hours? It still thinks I'm in the correct time zone, and syncing with whatever Internet time server corrects it. Linux defaults to UTC and syncs the hardware clock periodically. I'm on my phone, but there's a place to set UTC=NO that will force it to local time.
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Nov 16, 2013 03:10
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AlexDeGruven posted:Linux defaults to UTC and syncs the hardware clock periodically. That led me in the right direction, thanks.
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Nov 16, 2013 03:11
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Well I tried Windows 8 a while ago and I do service Windows 8 machines, I just prefer the simplicity of Windows 7. I do think eventually Windows 8 will come of age, and that day will come when everyone has touchscreen monitors.
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Nov 16, 2013 06:57
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fragem666 posted:Well I tried Windows 8 a while ago and I do service Windows 8 machines, I just prefer the simplicity of Windows 7. I do think eventually Windows 8 will come of age, and that day will come when everyone has touchscreen monitors. Or you know an explosion of tablets that are happening right now. We just replaced a managers desktop with a surface pro 2. Intrepid00 fucked around with this message at 08:04 on Nov 16, 2013 |
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Nov 16, 2013 07:54
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Intrepid00 posted:Or you know an explosion of tablets that are happening right now. We just replaced a managers desktop with a surface pro 2.
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Nov 16, 2013 08:57
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Armourking posted:Nice. Last laptop upgrade cycle we got ultrabooks, this going time will probably be Surface 2s once the dock comes out. The docks btw are only 10/100 Ethernet. Kind of dumb. The Belkin one he chose in 1000 but I haven't confirmed and the video is through USB 3 but it seems fine. A company wide rollout to sales isn't going to cut it if MS or someone doesn't clone it it to a 1000 nic. I would love to roll this out to sales who currently share desktops and carry a laptop. Intrepid00 fucked around with this message at 09:07 on Nov 16, 2013 |
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Nov 16, 2013 09:02
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What would people recommend for a program that just backs up applications/folders and then lets you selectively restore them in Windows 8.1? I want to start over with a clean install and then restore just some of my programs in an effort to get rid of 5 years of crap and junk.
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Nov 16, 2013 19:53
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You can root around in AppData and pick which program (settings) you want to keep. I would also recommend Windows Easy Transfer, but it looks like you'd need a backup program.
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Nov 16, 2013 20:04
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GrizzlyCow posted:You can root around in AppData and pick which program (settings) you want to keep. I would also recommend Windows Easy Transfer, but it looks like you'd need a backup program. Yeah, I figured that was what I'd be ultimately doing; I just wish there was a nice program that automated all that.
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Nov 16, 2013 20:18
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Ur Getting Fatter posted:Thanks. If at all possible when you get home could you double check? I'm going to shoot an email to their support and check with them, as well.
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Nov 16, 2013 20:37
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Inspector_666 posted:Are they opening OWA in Internet Explorer? There are a bunch of options and features that don't work in other browsers. Yes, but perhaps not a new enough version, I haven't really forced updates out at that location.
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Nov 18, 2013 04:26
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Performed my first ever dual-boot (Win 8.1 as main, Win 7 as secondary) and now I'm a bit confused. The process was actually quite simple and straightforward.  The way I did it was simply creating a Win 7 virtual hard disk from within Win 8 by just shrinking my main drive and installing it on the new volume from an ISO within Win 8. My plan in the future when I get a bigger drive is to simply partition it and have Win 8 on C: and Win 7 on D: with D: possibly being a separate hard disk.Problem is, after installing Win 7 it is considered my main OS. During boot it is on top of the list and it kinda annoys me. Not a big deal, I guess, but still. What bothers me more is if I launch msconfig to set Win 8 as my main/default OS, it changes startup settings from "Normal" to "Selective" and it automatically unchecks "Use original boot configuration". Again, probably not a big deal, but if I select "Normal startup", Win 7 automatically becomes the default OS again. So, what gives? Why is my secondary OS forcing itself to be my default one? Should I install Windows 7 first, then 8? The point is to use 8 and eventually 9/10/etc. on C:, while retaining Win 7 on D: for older games. I actually do have one old game that runs on 7 but not on 8 and there's no fix for it. And I kinda don't want to have my main OS on D: or do a backwards installation of installing an OS to D: first then C:. I suppose it doesn't really matter but I'm just a retard with an OCD. Please help.
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Nov 18, 2013 05:31
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You did want to install Win7 first, then Win8, but that's in the past. Easiest non-destuctive way to fix this now is using http://neosmart.net/EasyBCD/
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Nov 18, 2013 06:22
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37th Chamber posted:You did want to install Win7 first, then Win8, but that's in the past. Easiest non-destuctive way to fix this now is using http://neosmart.net/EasyBCD/ Okay, thanks for the link. That seems like a nifty program to have. But I think I'll just deal with what I have as long as it works without any issues. I just need to remember next time to install the older OS first and newer one second.
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Nov 18, 2013 07:05
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Out of sheer curiosity, why are you dual booting 7/8.1? Some sort of software compatibility issue?
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Hadlock posted:Out of sheer curiosity, why are you dual booting 7/8.1? Some sort of software compatibility issue? I said it in my post above, I have one game that works in WinXP/7 but not 8, Kohan: Ahriman's Gift. And I have no clue where my XP key is so I'm just going with 7. I'm not sure what seems to be the issue but the game is nearly unplayable with lag and short freezes yet other older games work fine. This is just a precaution for any other possible incompatibilities both under Windows 8 and future versions of Windows. I know Microsoft is pretty good with supporting older stuff but you never know.
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Nov 18, 2013 07:24
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I have a Win7 machine backed up via Windows' built in image backup solution. I reimage this machine exceedingly often - sometimes 6-7 times in a day. Rebooting to disc, opening System Recovery Options, etc., is a pain in the rear end to do this often. Is there some script or other utility I can use to automate re-imaging this machine? Ideally I'd execute the script from within Win7 and have to do nothing else.
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Nov 18, 2013 18:56
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Chimp_On_Stilts posted:I have a Win7 machine backed up via Windows' built in image backup solution. I reimage this machine exceedingly often - sometimes 6-7 times in a day. I really have to ask, what are you doing that requires you to re-imaging 6-7 times a day? Whatever you're doing, it sounds like it may be more suited to use a virtual machine and use states/snapshots. If for whatever reason, what you're doing requires a native system, something like Deep Freeze to lock the state of the computer might be worth looking in to.
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Nov 18, 2013 19:10
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Since Office 64-bit has compatibility problems with 32-bit plug-ins, which is basically all of them, does that mean we should default to installing the 32-bit version of Office? Is this ever going to change?
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Nov 19, 2013 07:04
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Josh Lyman posted:Since Office 64-bit has compatibility problems with 32-bit plug-ins, which is basically all of them, does that mean we should default to installing the 32-bit version of Office? Is this ever going to change? Unless you're working with giant files (2GB+), even Microsoft suggests staying away from 64bit office like the plague.
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Nov 19, 2013 07:08
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37th Chamber posted:I really have to ask, what are you doing that requires you to re-imaging 6-7 times a day? I analyze malware. Sometimes I use a native system, though usually I do use a VM for obvious reasons. I'll look into Deep Freeze. Any further suggestions?
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Nov 19, 2013 07:17
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Chimp_On_Stilts posted:I analyze malware. Sometimes I use a native system, though usually I do use a VM for obvious reasons. I'll look into Deep Freeze. Any further suggestions? If you do this for a living, doesn't your employer have guidelines and software for you to use? I have never heard of freelance malware analysis.
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Nov 19, 2013 12:12
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 I just updated Win8 to 8.1, and now all of my contextual menus and whatnot look all lovely and weird resolution like this. Some of the right click menus from stuff in my system tray are also weird off-res too. How do I fix this?
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Nov 19, 2013 12:55
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Arnold of Soissons posted:
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Chimp_On_Stilts posted:I analyze malware. Sometimes I use a native system, though usually I do use a VM for obvious reasons. I'll look into Deep Freeze. Any further suggestions? Deep Freeze is definitely what you want to do. I worked at Best Buy and we used a version of it on our display computers. Obviously, you want people to be able to play with machines, but you also don't want them doing anything permanent. It was configured there so any time we rebooted the machine, it would go back to it's "factory" state. WAY easier than imaging/reimaging. Though if you're insistent on using imaging, you might want to get Acronis - I've found it's slightly faster than Windows Image restoration.
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Arnold of Soissons posted:
If the above poster's solution doesn't fix it, try turning off DPI scaling for high-res displays in the shortcut properties for Firefox
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Is there any reason for me to update to Windows 8 from Windows 7 on my desktop gaming machine? All I use it for is web browsing, movie watching, and playing vidya games. I worry that MS didn't have the video games part in mind when designing Windows 8, though it seems fabulous for tablets and I definitely want to get a Surface at some point.
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Nov 19, 2013 16:53
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Games generally work identically in my Windows 8 install as they did in Windows 7.
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Nov 19, 2013 17:18
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:Games generally work identically in my Windows 8 install as they did in Windows 7. I've read lots of stuff about them working noticeably better in many cases, which isn't surprising since under the hood, Windows 8 is better than 7 in a lot of ways. But yeah, I'm not sure why you'd think the UI changes would affect your gameplay experience.
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:Is there any reason for me to update to Windows 8 from Windows 7 on my desktop gaming machine? All I use it for is web browsing, movie watching, and playing vidya games. I worry that MS didn't have the video games part in mind when designing Windows 8, though it seems fabulous for tablets and I definitely want to get a Surface at some point. I run Windows 8 and principally use my machine for gaming, and its mostly fine. 'Mostly'? On a couple of occasions I've had to set compatibility mode as Windows 7 to run something. (For example, the soon-to-be retired Games For Windows bullshit doesn't play nice with Windows 8  ). Setting compatibility takes a couple of seconds, and I've only had to resort to that a couple of times, and I've tried dozens and dozens of games since W8 came out (digital distribution for games will be the death of my wallet, even with hardcore sales!)I'm not any kind of Metro user, but that is fine, as the presence of Metro has no impact on gaming.
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Michael Scott posted:If you do this for a living, doesn't your employer have guidelines and software for you to use? I have never heard of freelance malware analysis. I do this for a living and my employer has some of the very best infrastructure and software in the world. I was trying to be succinct in my post so I left out a lot of context, but since a couple people have asked let me make it clear that this is absolutely not my primary testing / analysis method, this is for a small number of special cases that are best handled on a native machine. It's basically such a small number of cases that it's easier if I just find a testing solution myself, otherwise I may end up spending thousands of dollars worth of other people's time setting up what should be a simple thing.
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