The lonely tech post thread.

[savoloysam]

Oh dear. My CPU is getting rather warm. Like hovering at 80 warm and checking my log it hit 90.

When I built the PC about 15 months ago, I didn't think I'd be putting such a big graphics card in it. The case is smallish budget one (Coolermaster q300), but it's mesh on the top and front. I've got 3 140mm fans, located on the rear, the top and the front. I've ordered another one for the front, but there's still a huge card pumping out heat not far from the CPU. CPU is an i5 11600 with an Be Quiet Pure Rock Slim 2 cooler on it. Not sure what else I can do. I could change the cooler, but can't get a beast in there, just don't think there is enough space. Would changing thermal paste make any difference? It's just using the stock pad that came with the cooler. Could get another case with more space, but it's something I'd like to avoid.

At the risk of starting the obvious have you looked inside and checked for a build up of dust? It happens to most PC's after time.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

You're fussing where you don't need to. Intel have always said that anything under 100C is fine. I had an i5-750 that I ran for 7 years and would peak at 96C if I really pushed it. An i5 11600 will always run a bit hot, it's in its nature.

Only thing I would say is that you've no overclock room with that cooler. If you're not running stock, that's the first thing to dial back.

It seems odd to be the high, but maybe I am worrying a bit much. The heat out the back of case is quite something with that and the GPU. I get the odd time when the frame rate drops dramatically, which I assumed was it throttling, but maybe not.

No overclocking, it's just a standard 11600, not the K.

At the risk of starting the obvious have you looked inside and checked for a build up of dust? It happens to most PC's after time.

Yes, it really wasn't bad when I installed the GPU recently, but I did give it a light clean whilst I had it open with a little computer vac I've got.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

E-mail from client this morning forwarding an email from a site she needs to use to make payments, but doesn't understand.

They site haven't got their shit together to make it work properly with modern browsers and have asked their IT set up Edge in compatibility mode. I did this for the client last year when they e-mailed in June, but come on. Sort it out.

 

[alex_]

E-mail from client this morning forwarding an email from a site she needs to use to make payments, but doesn't understand.

They site haven't got their shit together to make it work properly with modern browsers and have asked their IT set up Edge in compatibility mode. I did this for the client last year when they e-mailed in June, but come on. Sort it out.

IE goes full end of life in feb.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

IE goes full end of life in feb.

I thought it was meant to be last June. It just baffles me that a company hasn't updated their site enough and wants uses to use Edge like this. Should have been killed ages ago,

 

[alex_]

I thought it was meant to be last June. It just baffles me that a company hasn't updated their site enough and wants uses to use Edge like this. Should have been killed ages ago,

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Removed from windows 10 in feb - Internet Explorer 11 has retired and is officially out of support—what you need to know

 

[two sheds]

not sure I understand this - how complicated do pointers get beyond storing an address?

 

[Chz]

It's a very simple concept that can get extraordinarily complex in use. Pointer mathematics is fiendish, and you can of course have pointers to pointers to pointers.

Edit: I'm sure modern languages handle it better, but I never studied anything newer than C++.

 

[existentialist]

not sure I understand this - how complicated do pointers get beyond storing an address?

Pointers are, in essence, pretty straightforward. It's what happens when pointers go wrong that tends to make it into a nightmare.

 

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[WouldBe]

Can you uninstall office 365 from win 10 or will it cause problems?

 

[savoloysam]

You can uninstall it Quite often the process will continue to run in the background if it came preinstalled.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Can you uninstall office 365 from win 10 or will it cause problems?

365 is fine to uninstall just don't fuck about to much with uninstalling some of the WindowsApps via powershell or the auto-diagnosting stuff unless you know what your doing

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Boss has got more involved in the business last few months after someone left and was not replaced. Get messages from him at 3 in the morning with what ever he's doing with a Linux server.

After bashing my head for part of the morning trying to sort out a remote gateway I reached out. He said he take a look and do another ticket that had arrived.

He's just explained to me on WhatsApp how to give a user permission to access a folder. I don't actually think he knows what I've been doing for the last 15 months

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Feeling quite pleased with myself. We had a late one last night attempting to upgrade an ESXi host. We couldn't get it play nice with RAID controller, despite it apparantly being supported. So did a clean install of 6.7.

Get a phone call this morning. Apparently some of the USB sticks hanging out the back were hardware dongles for a CAD package. Still not super experienced with vCenter but got the pass through working.

Got a phone call this afternoon from another client. He's in the his mid 20s and is there IT Manager along with other roles. He's got a degree in IT. Machine won't boot as it can't find the hard drive, so its probably failed. I ask if he can have a look in BIOS for me before we go over. He tells me like I'm stupid that it won't work because "it's connected to the cloud". If that's not bad enough that PC isn't even Azure AD joined yet.

I've all the time in the world for people who know nothing and ask for help, but he's this really annoying habit of asking for a solution a lot of the time, which is normally wrong, rather then telling me what the actual problem is.

Once again...

 

[B.I.G]

Feeling quite pleased with myself. We had a late one last night attempting to upgrade an ESXi host. We couldn't get it play nice with RAID controller, despite it apparantly being supported. So did a clean install of 6.7.

Get a phone call this morning. Apparently some of the USB sticks hanging out the back were hardware dongles for a CAD package. Still not super experienced with vCenter but got the pass through working.

Got a phone call this afternoon from another client. He's in the his mid 20s and is there IT Manager along with other roles. He's got a degree in IT. Machine won't boot as it can't find the hard drive, so its probably failed. I ask if he can have a look in BIOS for me before we go over. He tells me like I'm stupid that it won't work because "it's connected to the cloud". If that's not bad enough that PC isn't even Azure AD joined yet.

I've all the time in the world for people who know nothing and ask for help, but he's this really annoying habit of asking for a solution a lot of the time, which is normally wrong, rather then telling me what the actual problem is.

Once again...

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I lose track of whos who but if you aren’t a higher rate tax payer you should get a new job.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

I lose track of whos who but if you aren’t a higher rate tax payer you should get a new job.

Hopefully one day. Fair bit more to learn before that and the boss has been good to me.

 

[B.I.G]

Hopefully one day. Fair bit more to learn before that and the boss has been good to me.

As you like but I feel you are undervaluing yourself. Price yourself up in the market and then the boss can continue to be good to you once you both have an idea of your worth.

 

[Rob Ray]

Seems like Skynet isn't beating us yet ...

 

[Chz]

Have fully filled out the mesh I was slowly building as I tested things out. £60 for two additional nodes on Ebay versus the £10/mo forever that CF want to provide it themselves.
Maximum headline speed sitting next to the router is slightly down versus my old setup, but getting an absolute minimum of 150Mb/s anywhere in the house is a massive improvement in average speeds. AIUI the reason being that a good chunk of the bandwidth is reserved for the nodes to speak to each other, but I'm not complaining. It works well, even better than I expected - the Boy's room could never get much more than 20Mb/s before, no matter how I moved the repeaters around. I always used to think a decent router plus repeaters did the job well enough, but proper mesh equipment is a massive upgrade.

 

[alex_]

Have fully filled out the mesh I was slowly building as I tested things out. £60 for two additional nodes on Ebay versus the £10/mo forever that CF want to provide it themselves.
Maximum headline speed sitting next to the router is slightly down versus my old setup, but getting an absolute minimum of 150Mb/s anywhere in the house is a massive improvement in average speeds. AIUI the reason being that a good chunk of the bandwidth is reserved for the nodes to speak to each other, but I'm not complaining. It works well, even better than I expected - the Boy's room could never get much more than 20Mb/s before, no matter how I moved the repeaters around. I always used to think a decent router plus repeaters did the job well enough, but proper mesh equipment is a massive upgrade.

What did you use ?

 

[Chz]

What did you use ?

Community Fibre give you a "free" Linksys Velop AC2200 node. I don't know if you actually need the additional nodes to have CF firmware, but they're easily available on Ebay for ~£30. I got one just to prove it worked and added another when that went well enough. There are better mesh solutions out there, but the pricing on this was unbeatable.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Am I bonkers for wanting to build a VM on my home PC to work from home rather then use my laptop? Maybe I'm OCD but all the added cabling to plug my monitors and keyboard and mouse in frustrates me somewhat and a KVM switch that does 120fps is on the pricey side. I've got a VM already in a datacentre, but it's sub optimal for doing all my work on.

I've spent a little while trying to read up on the licensing, before I check with the boss, but MS make it far from simple to understand and I can't find the specifics of running a Win 11 VM on top of a licensed Win 11 host PC. It's probably for this reason that all the VDI we supply to clients is based on Server rather then desktop Windows.

 

[Artaxerxes]

MS licensing is a fucking nightmare to understand.

 

[Lazy Llama]

MS licensing is a fucking nightmare to understand.

And I suspect that’s intentional.
They want people to buy more than they should “just in case”. A bit of FUD never hurt a licensing bill.

 

[newme]

I hate multiple laptops for one job, also 5 minute timers for log off.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

And I suspect that’s intentional.
They want people to buy more than they should “just in case”. A bit of FUD never hurt a licensing bill.

Well you just need talk to one of their licensed partners. Nothing like a gravy chain.

 

[MickiQ]

Am I bonkers for wanting to build a VM on my home PC to work from home rather then use my laptop? Maybe I'm OCD but all the added cabling to plug my monitors and keyboard and mouse in frustrates me somewhat and a KVM switch that does 120fps is on the pricey side. I've got a VM already in a datacentre, but it's sub optimal for doing all my work on.

I've spent a little while trying to read up on the licensing, before I check with the boss, but MS make it far from simple to understand and I can't find the specifics of running a Win 11 VM on top of a licensed Win 11 host PC. It's probably for this reason that all the VDI we supply to clients is based on Server rather then desktop Windows.

Never tried Windows 11 (not actually encountered it yet) but I've built Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 10 VM's under Virtualbox on a Windows 10 PC. Windows 7 was a nightmare, it was forever insisting it was unlicensed and refusing to do anything. Windows 10 worked fine and didn't even need a key to be installed (long time since I did it). Give it a shot and report back I'd be interested in knowing. It's quite possible that the install process queries Virtualbox and asks it what the host is.

 

[Lazy Llama]

Well you just need talk to one of their licensed partners. Nothing like a gravy chain.

Oh we dealt with an approved licensing partner who okayed what we were doing (this was at a previous employer). MS decided they had a different interpretation of the rules from the partner.

Still, not as bad as Oracle.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Never tried Windows 11 (not actually encountered it yet) but I've built Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 10 VM's under Virtualbox on a Windows 10 PC. Windows 7 was a nightmare, it was forever insisting it was unlicensed and refusing to do anything. Windows 10 worked fine and didn't even need a key to be installed (long time since I did it). Give it a shot and report back I'd be interested in knowing. It's quite possible that the install process queries Virtualbox and asks it what the host is.

I know it's possible, I've got Win 10 & 11 VMs set up that to play with, although I did it with Hyper V. Its not hard to use a bit of software to emulate a key management server.

As this is for work though it would need to be properly licensed. If I just ask my boss I won't get very far, if I come to him with all the information and it doesn't cost much, he'll probably agree.