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They can be significantly cheaper, especially with Microsoft partner programs. Individual licenses are 20% cheaper alone in India. There's also tons of corporate & education program discounts for the 3rd world that gets milked. What they do is sign up for subscriptions where they get 10 or 100...

Gray market scam keys.. they buy keys from 3rd world regions where they're much cheaper, then resell them illegally / against the ToS/EULA. Every so often Microsoft does region matching and purges keys used outside of regions they aren't supposed to be reporting from. This is why the sites often...

I2C is used for digital non-video communication on monitors (in the AUX channel on DisplayPort). Technically you could interface that with software to make an aimbot with AI player detection which tells the mouse to aim/click on the hitboxes. It doesn't need to be high bandwidth, just a simple...

Looks like an opportunity to make a hardware EDID obfuscation chain device so it appears as a Dell 3007WFP. kek

If I had to guess, the 500 staffers mostly just played foosball and drank oat milk lattes when they could be bothered to show up for work. But hey, learn2code.

$0 for my 1080Ti using their serial number lookup, lol.

Such a good brand. Just picked up a [used] SCSI version not too long ago for my A2000.

So, fun story time. I have a coworker who was in the military about 10 years ago and he did electronic/cyber warfare support in the field -- this was in Iraq/Afghanistan and several other middle eastern countries. There would be a request for high priority terrorist targets they were looking...

Plenty more that are not known by the public. The intentional zero days are patched when discovered by the 3rd party, or when they've served their purpose for use and could be exposed/used by adversaries.

Looks like just the mere act of receiving the file, because it automatically parses the file when received. The TTF exploit then begins the chain of events.

YGPM on the LG optical drive.

Man are they dense. Insiders, that's how. China, Russia, USA, etc.. they all have spies within the companies who make the hardware and software. Actual engineers with a dual role. One, to work for the company as a normal employee to make the greatest most technologically advanced products on...

Yep.. I ditched Commiecast early this year since AT&T Fiber finally got installed through my backyard. I was waiting for almost 10 years for them to run it since the initial "Fiber is coming" door flyer from AT&T. I don't really like AT&T either, but they're 100x better than Comcast so far. At...

Sorry for the late bump, but I saw this was unanswered. I use Rescuezilla. It is like Clonezilla, but more GUI based and easier to do what you need with a few simple clicks.

Time to fire up the Doom box.

Seagate drives arrived. They all worked this time. Set them up in a 1-parity pool and currently in the process of transferring 45TB of data. They were able to easily be registered on the Seagate consumer portal.

Never officially worked in IT. But I have quite a few random certs I picked up over the years from work paying for various training that is job related. By degree I have a BSE-CE, working as a principal strategic engineer in nuclear process computers & cyber security. I don't stay at the Holiday...

I ditched cable because of the rising prices and constant commercials. I moved to streaming because it was also paid, but with no ads. Now they want you to pay and still have ads. lol, no thanks. Just canceled D+ for my son because they now want over $130/yr for it. When I signed up it was $60/yr.

Pulled the trigger on these again.. we'll give it a go for round 2. 🫠 Still waiting for a refund on the WD's.

Update.. I was able to get WD email support (after about 12 back and forth emails) to give me a return w/ refund. These will be yeeted into the UPS drop box as soon as possible this morning. Holy crap what a nightmare. There's another guy on a private tracker forum I'm on dealing with the same...

lol, I'm just waiting for them to say I need to send them some iTunes gift cards first before I get a RMA number. Oops oops sorry wrong chat window. rofl

I'll have to reactivate my LinkedIn. I can use leverage that I'll recommend for all multi-million dollar computer projects I manage at the Fortune 500 company I work for, we'll no longer be utilizing WD as a partner haha.

Latest in the saga. Trying the email route. They don't seem to understand I purchased these drives from their webstore. I've made it clear in numerous emails and even attached my invoice. Insanity. They seem to think I'm in some bizarre country and bought them from a Jakarta market.

Ho-leee-balls. This just keeps getting better. Western Digital India called me based on my support ticket I created yesterday. Just sat on the phone with them for almost 2 hours. They said they wanted to help me create the RMA. They talked me through their website where I repeated the same steps...

I talked to WD Support again, and again it was India. I was able to finally get my drives to show up in the WD Support page, however the India Tech Support tells me the RMA has to be done through their site. When I go to the site, this is what I get when I try to RMA. So, I'm just in the process...

Well, I bought some drives. First I ordered (4) 20TB Seagate Exos from Newegg during their sale. Sent them all back because 3 out of 4 were DoA. Tested them all externally as well just to confirm it wasn't my backplane or something. Fast forward 3 weeks and I hopped on the WD Red Pro sale from...

The warranty is through GoHardDrive.com -- they're the reseller.

lol, that's not even remotely worth it. $50 tops for one of those.

I'll keep an eye out.. last year on Ebay there was a guy that sold off probably 30 or 40 of them for $20 each. I passed on them because I didn't think they were really wanted.

They were in ESD bags which were in foam HDD holders and inside a box. Packing seemed fine, no box damage.

Welp.. got my 4 drives yesterday night. 1 out of 4 works. 2 act like they want to power up and just click. One does nothing. Dropping them all back off at UPS here in a few minutes to return them. My Seagate experience still remains tainted. haha.. I'll wait for a deal on WD.

Thanks, got 2 bundles of 2. Need 4 20TB drives for a mirror to transfer my SnapRAID to a new pool and start fresh with new drives. My current drives are 2-4TB and between 6 and 11 years old lol. Not too excited about them being Seagate.. but we'll see how they do.

hah.. dealt with something similar last week. At work our image backup solution (cough Acronis) decided to hang while writing a log file and ballooned it to over 2TB. Luckily I caught it though before the server ran out of space haha.

Current status.. getting a little full. Before the end of the year, I'm going to upgrade the array and figure out which route I want to take. I still want to have bitrot protection because my data spans over 25 years of hoarding. Currently running SnapRAID w/ StableBit which has been great. It...

Yep.. There goes another today. Switching these over to incandescent.

Are the ebay prices of $20-30 too much? What's the goal price here? I see a ton of goldstar and other generic 16-bit ISA IDE adapters on there.

Only three fixtures are enclosed - two in bedrooms and one in a hallway. The rest are all open. In the enclosed fixtures with two bulbs, usually one burns out after 3-4 months of 3hr/day use and the other bulb lives on for about 6-8 months before it burns out. Never noticed any small print on...

The only issue I've had with them in cars that didn't originally come with them (like my Evo X), is once I upgraded to projectors and used the LED bulbs.. they'll flicker if not turned on because the DRL's are still on with a square wave output. Older DRL's only worked with incandescent bulbs...

I've tried LED bulbs from Amazon Basics, Philips, GE, Sylvania, and Ikea. Most of my lights stay off for the day and are only used in the evening when the sun goes down. All of the light fixures in the house are less than 10 years old since I replaced those shortly after I moved in. All outlets...

That's the thing though, I don't hate them. Quite the opposite. If I could find a LED light bulb that would last for more than a year, I'd be satisfied. That hasn't been the case so far.