It is worth noting that any Ethernet cable should be max length 100 metres. If a cable run is longer than this, then you will start to lose quality of service on the network.

It depends on lots of things - is it an open-plan office? Are there any walls that might affect the signal strength? You could even do a mix, have one on WiFi that's furthest away, and the other two on ethernet into the router - ethernet is generally faster and stronger, and more reliable, than WiFi in my opinion...so I'd always do Ethernet where possible.

@thwr 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:

@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...

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@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.

Cheers dude, will get that setup when I get home later!

@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

Youtube Video

Definitely not J-Pop.

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?

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

To boldly go....

Sir Patrick Stewart: Poo emoji role for Shakespearean actor
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-38675616

bit of a shit role if you ask me...

Youtube Video

Cleaning up a clients PC, AV was never installed, and I've removed 16 adware programs so far and just got AV installed...

damn, stay safe!

Youtube Video

@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

I'd possibly still be a bike mechanic...possibly still in the police...who knows!

@art_of_shred said in kb3213986 breaks 3d multi monitor gaming:

3. Uninstalling KB3213986 and resume gaming.

Is it still that simple with Win 10?

SAM is posting from the future now too...

@brianlittlejohn said in Happy Birthday Thread:

@Minion-Queen said in Happy Birthday Thread:

It's gonna be above single digits here so this is much preferable. and I get to go to BJ's Brew house for dinner

I love BJ's Brewhouse!

....twitch must.....resist......

@nadnerB I....I don't get it...? Guessing it's something about making them shut up?

@RoopanKumar said in Can a domain user allowed for Windows Updates and install software should be denied:

@NattNatt it wont be applied globally it will be applied only to a particular group or to a particular OU

Correct - same thing applies - it will only apply to people in the OU the GPP is applied to.

No, as long as you apply the group policy globally it should be fine for a normal user and will automatically download and install updates.

The steps that matter:

-In the Group Policy Object Editor, expand Computer Configuration, expand Administrative Templates, expand Windows Components, and then click Windows Update.
-In the details pane, click Configure Automatic Updates.
-Click Enabled and select one of the following options:
Notify for download and notify for install. This option notifies a logged-on administrative user before the download and before the installation of the updates.

-Auto download and notify for install. This option automatically begins downloading updates and then notifies a logged-on administrative user before installing the updates.

-Auto download and schedule the install. If Automatic Updates is configured to perform a scheduled installation, you must also set the day and time for the recurring scheduled installation.

-Allow local admin to choose setting. With this option, the local administrators are allowed to use Automatic Updates in Control Panel to select a configuration option of their choice. For example, they can choose their own scheduled installation time. Local administrators are not allowed to disable Automatic Updates.

Click OK.