PC Tech Thread

Thanks, however very confused by retrieval costs. I've sent them a support request and shall see what happens.

Also I try to minimise the amount of my money I give to Amazon.

https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/pricing/

It's priced based on how quick you need the data. Let's say you have a HDD failure and want your stuff back but you don't need it immediately, just look at the Bulk pricing.

For the EU region
$0.0025 per GB
$0.0275 per 1,000 requests

So you pay for the amount and the number of files.

It's not going to add up to much for a home user.

I like AWS so I'm happy for them to take the whole $3 or whatever it was to backup my stuff.

Anyone else find NoScript in Firefox causing Firefox to effectively lock up when loading a page?
I have to keep ending the Firefox process to get my tabs back (save for the crashed one).

Number of files could be a stickler with literally millions of audio files and associated xmls etc (games and sound design work).

Guess I could archive into blocks before uploading, but then I won't be able to keep synced easily.

Just put everything in one giant Zip file.

~$275 to retrieve 10 million files. Depending on which storage option you choose you might only need to use Glacier for a year before it's paid itself off. I'm working on the assumption that Glacier backups are unlikely ever to be needed but important that they are available if you do need them. It's data insurance with low ongoing costs.

You could, but then you'd lose the FastGlacier ability to sync a local directory with a Glacier vault automatically.

I did a week or two ago. Seems to have been sorted now (not sure if Firefox or NoScript updating fixed it). It also seemed to be suddenly incompatible with a clipboard manager I was using (Clipx).

Mine's been doing it months. I've tried a bunch of things to fix it but it seems to centre on NoScript. I might have to stop using it.

I need some reccomendations for software that can patch/update Windows and regular desktop apps e.g. Office, Adobe etc.

We have a tool at work but it's a pain, as it's too cumbersome and we can only find one company to support it so I'm looking for something that's good and with decent support.

Cheers

I don't get it. Windows, Office and Adobe all automatically install updates.

I think he is talking about an enterprise solution.

"Enterprise solutions" are just annoying sysadmins blocking everything "because updates might break something" then wondering why the systems are compromised because they didn't have the latest updates.

Don't underestimate the disruption that can be caused by several thousand PCs trying to download the same windows update at the same time over the same internet connection. Patch management is a bit of a tricky thing to get right, apart from the issues you mention.

They don't though do they? If they're on a domain, they use a locally cached version of the update(s). Win SCCM or whatever it is manages shit like that, right?

Even Win10 home PCs can do similar:

Only if you have a wsus server set up i.e an enterprise patch management solution...

EDIT: Just read that it is part of Windows Server now. It used to be a paid extra, not sure when that changed.

EDIT: So, yeah, in your face :P

it's not @Stonehedge's fault he's behind the times, he's mostly worked on nhs it systems.

How bad is a Surface pro? Can it replace an ipad and fairly light use Laptop?

Everyone I know who has one has been super pleased with theirs.

I should have said it's a small corporate LAN, circa 300 machines. WSUS, whilst it works and is free it's not great, in fact it's a bit of a faff and reporting with it isn't great either.

Good to know. Any feedback how it performs in tablet esque mode?

Will ask the boss, he has one.

I think Mrak has/had one. Can't @ him as I don't know what funny character he uses to have a blank screen name.

I've had a Pro 3 for a couple of years, replaced a desktop and a laptop. Love it, used to do my proofreading on it in tablet mode, works well as a big bit of paper. Screen is amazing if you calibrate it. Have run a full android tablet emulation on it a bit and it's been happy with that too.

Only practical downside to mine is it chugs trying to play 4k video on the youtubes, but a 4 shouldn't.