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Given the low number of drives - 2x2Tb RAID-1 would be best. RAID-5/6 are only worth while with larger numbers of drives were capacity is more important than speed or redundancy. A for the SATA sockets. What version of Windows Server (assuming Windows) are you planning on using. Windows Storage Pools in 2012/2012R2 look like a great alternative to the motherboards hardware RAID controller or an expansion card. If you want hardware RAID I'd say, given the size, number and type of drives, then the built in RAID would be fine. RAID controller cards can be a little pricey. Still, I'd go with Storage Pools personally.

That's the answer to the question, no body knows the question. You can't know both otherwise the universe will end...

SCCM licencing is one of the weirdest and hardest to undestand IMHO. You don't actually need to buy any licences (other than OS) for the server you are physically running it from, the host if you will. You don't even need to buy an SQL server licence. You only need to buy the management licences for the clients you wish to use SCCM with. The server ML's are for if you want to use SCCM to manage windows installs, updates, anti-virus, etc on your servers. So you might buy a SCCM server ML for your domain controller, or file server, or print server, etc. Likewise you need client ML's for each desktop computer you want to manage. The licencing for running the SCCM server and 1 standard edition SQL server for use with SCCM, is included with the client management licences. For most the easiest way to license SCCM is through EES since it's included as part of the Core-CAL suite. This would give you everything you need for your desktops computers. You only need to purchase server ML licences if you want to use it to manage any of your servers. Again there is actually no SCCM server licence per se, and you don't need to purchase the required SQL license to run it either. It's all inclusive with the client ML's.

Do what I did over Christmas - buy a cheap USFF PC and install GameEx. Then you can have a PC that is consoles. Now I can troll both sides of the flamewar

Although it can be pretty easily set up with what you've got now, as @Seb1780 above, I think you're trying to do too much with one table. Personally, I'd do this... 3 sheets... Prices, Sales, Totals On the Prices sheet have a simple table listing items and their price. On the Sales sheet have a table of items for each day, just filling in the number sold On the Totals sheet have the same table as you have now, each cell just multiplies the daily sales in the relevant Sales table with the releavent Price in the Price table... (Cell Total!D12) = Sales!D12 * Price!C12 You can then autosum the columns and rows to give daily totals and weekly totals.

If it was my £600 I'd get a PS4 and a Wii-U, the best of all worlds. None of this keyboard and mouse nonsense... Argh! Can't stand FPS's. Vomit inducing first person perspective. And as for multiplayer... Give me a console were I can be billy no-mates playing a quality story driven 3rd person adventure like The Last of Us, no can't get that on your fancy 4Ghz, GTX Titan, PeeCee (On topic, I'd go for a quad core AMD FX, with 8Gb Ram and a mid-spec graphics card with as much graphics ram as I could afford, preferably 4Gb if possible at that price).

To be honest, no idea. I've always viewed them as an ok consumer brand rather than prosumer. I suppose 'it's Cisco' might mean something?

AFAIK, Linksys was bought by Cisco years ago, they are now used as Cisco's budget branding.

Nice house. Must say, if it was me, I'd probably have to spend another $70m redecorating!

Can this do Disk2Disk daily incremental backups without overwriting the contents of previous backups, so you get a version history of changed files over time? If it can then I may drop Yosemite Backup in favour of this... If it can manage disk based backups to the required level, I'd actually be willing to look at a paid for version/annual subscription for support when the **** hits the fan.

If I was rebuilding from scratch now, I think I'd go for local storage and use Hyper-V Replica to mirror VM's between hosts for failover. It's not 100% but good enough for this environment. Central storage does make failover and load balancing a lot easier to manage. One option for central storage, which is the route we went down a few years ago, is a Windows server with SMB shares on a separate network to the main LAN.

But 600+? Surely it's cheaper buying 1 game full price that you are actually going to play than 108 games on sale that you're never going to play? I understand having a games back catalogue, I've got one I'm currently working my way through, but buying loads of games on the off chance you may one day want to play it just because it's in a fire sale seem crazy to me. Oh-hum, Happy Steam sale everyone, hope you all get what you want...

I hate to ask (silly console gamer doesn't understand the facts of Steam), why not complete those games before buying anymore? Surely the games would be cheaper second hand in 5 years time, if you still want to play them after burning through your current back catalogue?

Folder permissions should be set using security groups, users should be members of the group with the access level you want that user to have. Users can be members of multiple groups allowing different access rights for different folders/shares. These security groups should be new, fresh, unique security groups you have created yourself specifically for this purpose rather than using any pre-existing or built-in security groups. An AllUsers group might be handy for things like the Desktop so you can set Read Only for the AllUsers group, make all user accounts a member of that group, and the desktop is read only for everyone. Personally I prefer to set the permissions using the advanced tab, I like having fine control. Here you can give them read only access to permissions and prevent them from taking ownership, ect. There's also a number of built in groups that you need to think about setting access rights for - SYSTEM, INTERACTIVE, CREATER OWNER, EVERYONE. Wisesofts's NTFSfix is a great program for helping with this task: NTFSFix

That's funny, after a lot of searching that's what I settled on, and it's carp! Can't do playlists properly, doesn't like the memory card, a right pita! (I've got it doing both but it makes sure I know it's unhappy about it, grrr). I've got all my music uploaded to Google Play and the metadata has been borked. Not sure if the All Access subscription is worth it. Thought about Spotify a year or so ago. found a fair number of songs missing from the service and the app didn't want to play nice mixing my own music with the streamed stuff. Long story short. If music is important go for the iPhone 6+!

I'm with you. HTC One M8, lovely phone. I too miss my iPhone. Can't find a good music app on android and nothing beats iTunes on the PC, I'll probably go back to iPhone next time since 64Gb models (which I need for my tunes) will be within my price range/monthly budget by then.

I think we have two still in use! Someone asked for a Sony Memory Stick reader (they use them as well as floppys) the other day. I sent them packing with a USB cable and told them to plug the camera in! Oldest kit was at the last place. Science had a stack of BBC Micro's in their conservatory compete with cube monitors! Also the head of ICT gave me a beige PowerMac G3 while I was there which I spent too much money refurbing to run OS X. Used as my main PC for a while. Here, admin were cleaning out their store last week and came upon boxed containing old back up tapes. Including something that looked like this: The box also contained floppies going back to 1993! They also found pupil records going back to the 1950's! But the question was, what have I been given back that I was surprised was still in use. The oldest so far was an Ergo Ensis S: Thought I'd got rid of them all years ago, grrr.

Gives me time to save then Apparently Sharp was demonstrating something at this years CES, 85" 8k glasses-free 3D. As far as I can make out it's something to do with the pixel density at 8k that makes glasses-free 3D possible. I may have to get a cheap 4k telly when the PS5's released, just to tide me over!

I'm holding out for an 8k curved OLED that supports glasses-less 3D...

I looked into this recently. Smart do an annual subscription for the Notebook software based on a) the number of smart boards on site and b) the total number of classrooms you want to use the software in. You'll need to contact a reseller for pricing as it seems pretty bespoke.

12/15 with a couple of guesses. The ones I got wrong were 50/50 picks also. Championship Manager vs Football Manager, or C&C 4 vs Starcraft - like I'd know the difference!

Bah Humbug! But if I must... A Winter Tale (David Essex) Love of the Common People (Paul Young) Stop the Cavalry (Jona Lewie) If you accept those as Christmas songs, especially the last one (the radio stations do!?!), then you can swap out Paul Young for Coldplay - Viva La Vida. Similarly themed to Stop The Calvery and includes Christmas-y bells ringing. Bah Humbug! If you're gonna insist the songs are actually about Christmas then... Mistletoe and Wine Fairytale of New York ????

The server needs to publish the apps to the clients. We use SCCM here so our App-V packages are published through SCCM. Unfortunately I'm really not sure how you do it without SCCM other than the apps need publishing. You should be able to copy the .appv package to a client manually and double-click it to run the contained app. There's also, if I remember correctly, the option to have MSI's created when you sequence an app so you could publish the app through GPO's with the MSI.

It was an half agreement with what you wrote. Digital cables it makes zero difference, it can't. Most, as you say, analogue cables the reality is, shall we say, over egged by manufacturers to sell needless products to those that don't know better. That said, analogue signals by their very nature can be influenced by environmental factors. Audiophiles in particular are known to pay extra for quality cables because they can and do make a difference. Unfortunately it's been a long time since I last looked up the specifics and really can't be asked to do an interweb trawl. All I know is for analogue, in certain circumstance, it can make a difference.

For analogue cables *some* of the claims may actually help improve the overall quality and reliability of the connection and/or output. For digital cables...nope. 1, 0, CRC - it's either there or not a bit of gold plating isn't going to change that.