CIPWTTKT&GC 0x2E - Abort, Retry, Fail? - Hardware & Software

Making something for pfsense is by far your most cost effective option for a gig capable firewall.

I was planning on treating it. It actually won't be difficult at all to remove from the wall, since it's on a drop-in plate. Any color suggestions lemme know

They do have some good netgate devices that are prebuilt, but your best bet is probably making it yourself. They make some nice half depth ITX rack cases you could build in. Any used Dell R2XX series servers should work well too as long as you can find half depth rails.

So, let me get this straight... I finally buy a new CPU, motherboard and, unfortunately, RAM. I install the stuff accordingly and it all goes well, until I hit the power button. The motherboard shipped alongside my 2nd series Ryzen wasn't updated to support Ryzen2. A bit of scuffling and emergency discord help later, I take the girlfriend's Ryzen 1600 CPU as hostage to save my own motherboard from stupidity. It POSTs with my cpu after the BIOS updates, finally. All is going well. - - - - - Oh wait... Windows activation fucked up, because I changed hardware. And now I can't even re-activate it with the old account because they're saying if it was the free upgrade to Win8.1 then you're SoL if you upgrade your hardware significantly! WHOOPS THEN. Really not sure what my options are right now.

I don't know what's popular now (Is DAZ loader still a thing?) but if it comes down to it you can always just pirate it With MS handing them out to users like candy, practically nobody aside from corporations is actually running a copy of windows they paid for anyway

It just sucks that they "gift" you the Windows 10 upgrade, UNTIL you buy new hardware. Then it's "lol takebacksies."

Windows 7 activations still work. If you need a real Windows 7 pro key, send me a PM

Sold my 12" MacBook. Now looking to use a laptop again, but hell if I'm spending $1100 again. Dug out my old T420. It has a 64GB SSD as the boot drive and a 500GB hybrid drive for storage, but I'm kinda itching to get a X220 or X230 and put a bigger SSD into that. Somewhat hard to justify another thinkpad purchase when this one works fine, though

If you're talking about Win7 to Win10 then no that's passed. Also PM? What time are you living in? That's sooooo oldpunch.

I've used Win 7 Pro keys to install Windows 10 Pro just fine within the past month...

Microsoft is weird then https://i.imgur.com/7n8iVtp.png

I think upgrading from Windows 7 to 10 directly through GWX doesn't work anymore, but you can use the Media Creation Tool, make a Windows 10 bootable disk, plug in a 7 <whatever> key and it just works

Yea I thought the same. And then it ended in december supposedly. But I just activated two computers with 7 keys.

It's almost like we're the product

I've begun getting some of the tools and gadgets I ordered. Got my Hakko solder station, some bulk wire and wire strippers, some more chisel tips etc. Got a bench power supply, calipers, heatgun and heatshrink and tons of other stuff on the way as well. So excited to play around with some "beginner" projects that I haven't done since I was a kid with my "learn electronics" toys.

Sounds like my classmate. He has a bunch of powerbank controllers and whatnot and one morning he came to school with a weird gadget - he had taken 2 18650 cells, taped the controller wires to it and ran to school with his ghetto-ass powerbank because he forgot to charge his phone at night.

Eventually I'd like to build a 'powerbank' big enough to connect to some solar panels and a charge controller to run a common device I have nonstop. Like say a small NAS. Enough storage to power it over night and enough solar to fill up the batteries and provide power. In a sense making a minature powerwall just for running specific stuff as a goal. I got the renewable bug.

I've had a similar desire starting out, not for an E-Bike. But being in Florida when hurricanes hit, they can hit bad. I'd love to bust out like a 400-500Wh bank and some solar panels and we could all keep our devices charged up fast while the panels top off the cells. That said, I've watched some E-Bike guides and it seems really cool to add E-Bike stuff to an existing one. And this would be a jumping off spot.

I've had luck with their live chat tool. I tell them the old motherboard died and had to be replaced. They gave me a new key after that. I wish phone activation was still a thing...

I accidentally put a lexar usb stick through the washing and then in the dryer while it was still in the pocket of my trousers (when I get back to my country I definitely need to save up for a clothes dryer and try to find one because they're so god damn useful. America is so surreal with the technology advancements that makes Slovakia look like it was stuck in 2004) It somehow STILL works even when the plastic housing is kinda melted. At least it smells nice.

I have this usb stick: https://cdn2.harveynorman.com.au/media/catalog/product/cache/21/image/992x558/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/u/l/ultra_fit_32gb1.jpg It was in my wallet, but now it isn't and I have no idea where I put it and it is so damn small, that I can't find it anywhere.

Keychain ones are the only way to ensure I don't lose it. And even then I've gotten to my car many times and realized my keys are still plugged into a computer somewhere, I just can't get as far without them.

Is it just me or are alerts not working any more?

I'm getting alerted from people replying to me right now, but people don't @ me ever so I have no idea if that works.

@nikomo

Got notified.

Alerts are fixed for me now, but they all reset and were broken for like 15+ hours

i really like having ethernet in my room hardwired less cool: the ethernet jack is by my door in one corner of the room, my desk is in the complete opposite other corner of the room. guess i gotta get a flat ethernet cable and some nail clips

Got my Bench power supply in today, it's so cool. Got a decent Korad KA3005P. I think EEVBlog had problems with it like 5 years ago but they apparently fixed it. So far it's really fun to work with, just wish it let me control the volts and amps longer while power was active. been messing with finding Fan sweet spots for starting on low voltage. Useful if I do some NAS or something. Only issue is the fan. The is quite loud even if there is no load or even if the unit doesn't have a live output. But when pushing >1Amp it really gets noisy. Don't want to void the warranty but might ask the seller or something if I can put my own fan in it. I'd consider putting a Noctua in it. I also got my OPUS BT-C3400 and ran all my 18650's I recovered from my dead laptop. All of them were about 1500-1600 first time. Did another full charge and drain and they read 1800-1900. These are >10 year old cells from a shit Acer laptop. That's pretty good I think. So I bid on some lots of used cells on ebay. Don't need high capacity since it's just stationary and want cheap shit cells to practice with without ruining 2-4$ cells. I'll eventually move to something better.

usually when soldering batteries directly I just use the most massivest tip I can find, tin everything, reposition while things cool back down and then melt the things together they're really effective heatsinks so making sure you have a lot of thermal mass helps keep contact time down also BMSes are nice