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Building shelter? Hunting Berries? Would lack of electricity really return us to the stone age? We survived quite well without it uptil what, the latter part of the 19th century. It's only been the past 100 years we've been totally reliant on it. Would society really full apart that completely? How long would it take the government to declare marshall law? I recon order will be restablished inside of a month at most. I think desease and famine will be the biggest killers during the first couple of years a society shifts back to be more agricultural based and large cities down size. I don't think danger from looters and anarchists would last all that long to be a significant threat to life, and I think hunting would probably land you in serious trouble with the miltary state (end of a noose?). For shelter - there's nothing wrong with existing housing stock. For food - rationing would be back for the better part of a decade. There's almost certainly offline desiel/gas backup generators that'd get electricity back to key stratigic areas that will allow government to continue functioning. And it wouldn't take that long to rebuild working gas/coal generators for the national grid. In evolutionary terms, it's probably set us back 50-60 years at best. Sorry - I don't think you'll be living in caves, hunting wild berries while fending off the zombie apocalypse. You'd be very unlucky if you survived any event that threw the would that far back!

The once in 500,000,000,000 years solar flair? (or twice in 40 years in this scenario)... My answers still the same. Hope it's a localised problem and head off to mainland Europe.

I've got a push bike then

No doubt it would - but all power world wide? Erm, If there's a planet left after that you kind find me catching three-eyed fish in the black sea...

So how localised is this lack of electricity problem then? Are we talking something that manages to take out all power world wide? What can even do that without wiping out all life in the process? Once in 500,000,000,000 years solar flair? Then, if that's the case, how would I know? So, even if it's not, I'd assume it's localised. Which means, I think, my actions would be.... Turn up at work, no power, school shut, go home. Next day - try work again. Think somethings a bit fishy, drive to family in a town 30 miles away. Realise they have the same problem - drive to London. Mmm, not Internet in the UK then? Channel Tunnel and off to the continent. Become a hobo wandering around Eurasia until I stumble upon electricity and Internet. North Korea?

I have a Philips Videopac G7000 (1978!!!) laying about. Fired it up the other day - what an absolutely brilliant console it was. Much better than the Atari rubbish that was doing the rounds at the time Aghhh, Jetpac 3-way tie between Fantasy World Dizzy, Galaxian and Jetpac for the "Greatest Game Ever Made" title. 2nd game I ever played (on a 16k speccy no less).

On your DNS servers, if your right-click the domain name listed under "Forward Lookup Zones" and choose Properties. What is set under the General and Name Servers tabs? Is the replication set to all domain controllers with the right level of compatibility? Is the security settings on the Dynamic Updates preventing replication? Are all servers listed in the Name Servers tab? You probably want to check this on all DNS servers individually. Also, are ther Name Server (NS) records for each DNS server?

All this really says is that the consumer market is becoming more web based and platform agnostic - something I think we already knew. It's unsuprising that in such an environment Mac's would do a little better than they had been since there isn't the paltform lock-ins that caused those buyers to purchase Windows in the past. The more everything becomes cloud and web based the more people will run all sorts of crazy alternate OS's on any number of disperate devices because quiet frankly all that's really needed is a web browser.

These two might just be the best I've seen on the web in a while. Fantastic. Especially the MacOS emulator running Aldus Pagemaker!!!

Heelllppp! As anyone come across ACS ACR120U based MiFare readers? I have one sent from the people recommending some door locks to us (ACS ACR1281U-C8). They sent me the USB reader with a link to ACS's website to download drivers and tools. It appears it's a proprietory system so the PC/SC tools on their website and anything I find on the web doesn't appear to see the reader. In a last ditch attempt before having to brush up on my Java coding skills, does anyone here have an app they've downloaded/come across/written themselves and are willing to share? All I need to be able to do is read the UID off some MiFare cards so I can set up user accounts in Active Directory ahead of DocuPro being installed next week as part of our new print solution. Thanks

If you want to run 2 NICs - 1 for VM's, 1 for Hosts, then make sure all the IPv4 and IPv6 settings are disabled on the VM NIC as they are not actually required and can cause DNS/Routing problems on the host (dual homed). Essentially the VM NIC is being used as a switch uplink port to connect the virtual switch in Hyper-V to your physical switch. So think of it has connecting two switches together rather than connecting a PC to a switch. As for teaming NIC's, it all depends on how many VM's your are hosting. The more hosted VM's the more they are sharing that switch uplink bandwidth, the more teamin will help by increasing available bandwidth. Think of it as the back bone connection between a couple of core switches. If you are running Server 2012 and want to use NIC teaming then use the built in software teaming rather than any manufacturer specific driver based teaming. I've found Server 2012's built in teaming to be easier to configure and more reliable in the long run. Also, you may need to reconfigure the ports on your switch for teaming depending on which temaming method you opt for. Server 2012 can team NIC's without needing any switch configuration changes. If you only have 2 NIC's then I really wouldn't bother with teaming, leave them seperate. If you need the extra bandwidth, and the host NIC is only being used for management then it might be an idea to buy a cheap USB NIC for the host and then team the two built in NICs for the VM switch trunk.

The replacement drive should always be of the same capacity or larger than the other drives in the array. Brand/Manacturer/Model doesn't matter so much. The reason you are recommended to use the exact same model is to overcome the most common "gotcha". Two different drives of the same capacity, say 500Gb, may actually format to differing capacitys due to differences in technology used and manufacturers methods of describing drive space (500Gb Base10 =/= 500Gb Binary). While most of the time you'd probably be fine, you don't want the one drive that formats to 478Gb when all the others have formatted to 485Gb. For this reason, if I'm not using the exact same model then I tend to trade up a capacity, so buy a 620Gb drive and accept 120Gb of unused drive space. Not sure if I explained it very well, but that's my general understanding of using drives in RAID.

Pah - too easy! Get it running under Windows 8.1 64bit! Run Windows 95 in a Bochs emulation...

(fake IP's) Core Network addresses - 10.95.32.0-10.95.33.255 VHD Network addresses - 172.45.28.0-172.45.28.255 External IP addresses - 229.39.174.28-229.39.174.42 SMB File server has 2 IP addresses. One on core network (10.95.32.16) which users use to access shared folders (\\10.95.32.16\home$\%username%). The other on the VHD network (172.45.28.10) which virtual machines use to access their disk images (\\172.45.28.10\VHD$\PrintSvr\). Both connections use 2x1Gbps bonded pairs and TOE (TCP/IP Off-load Engine, less CPU load) nics. The VHD network uses Jumbo frames for faster data transfer.

Everything in the diagram is physical. So there are three individual physical host servers. The square brackets underneath give an indiciation of individual running virtual machines. Technically I believe it qualifies as a NAS set up in a SAN-like configuration. This is the network route virtual machines hosted on the virtual servers take to access their virtual hard drives stored in a SMB share on the file server. Physical switch on the "live internet" side of the firewall. Anything plugged into it has a live public IP address. 2 routers, each with thier own 14 address subnet. One link to each subnet from the smoothwall. Allows the smoothwall to provide loadbalancing and failover between the two routers. Yes

What he's not saying is that any use of BBC1 or BBC2 airtime for former BBC3 programs would necessitate cuts in BBC1/2 programming that would have been broadcast had BBC3 been on air, and of course there won't be enough available airspace on BBC1/2 for all of BBC3's programming. In deed the best of BBC3 usually made it's way across to BBC1/2 anyway at some point, so not a lot of change from BBC1/2 programming. All in all I'd say the head of iPlayer was being a little disingenuous and trying to put a positive spin on the situation.

Don't know how much this will help, or confuse more, but this is a (very) rough layout of our current network topology.

That description sounds an aweful lot like GPO's, which to the best of my knowledge have no effect on DHCP.

And the next iPhone will be better than the Nexus 5, and no doubt the next Nexus after that will be better than the iPhone, ad infinitum. Sometimes I wonder what Rank Xerox must think about these "OS wars" and "who stole what from whom?"

When a new machine needs an IP address from DHCP it broadcasts a request packet across the network. All machines on the network will recieve this packet. Only the DHCP server will respond. A more indepth breakdown can be found on wikipedia: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

32bit or 64bit for each OS? Are you sure the programs have been uninstalled? Could be work manually checking "C:\Program Files (x86)\" if you're running 64bit Windows 7.

I think this is the current edition: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Exam-Ref-70-410-Installing-Configuring/dp/0735673160/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1394546754&sr=1-4 Sounds like what you want/need is to work through the first half dozen chapters in a VM environment.

That say's every major ARM manufacturer is moving to 64, not much on why. The answer, of course, is two fold. More video based applications - higher resolutions, video phones, personal movies, editing, etc. And... Games - physics, AI, etc. Unlike the living room, the single unified device is a practical reality in the mobile world.

I think, what you are driving at are FSMO roles...

Very well done!