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Properly speaking A haiku references Something natural: Much like the soft wind Through long undulating grass Passes, shapes it, Subtle words of life Will shape your haiku, and be A gentle calm breath.

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I humbly submit My signature beneath me Like soil under feet

Been using the Windows one in various forms (i.e. Defender in 10, Microsoft Security Essentials in 7, Endpoint Protection in work) for 4 or 5 years now and it has been the least faff AV I've ever used. No dodgy updates marking system32 files as viruses or borking the update mechanism or breaking my browsers or... Honestly no point in bothering with anything else these days, IMHO.

On similar grounds of "hot diggy DANG weissbier is delicious", I have no issue with cloudy beer whatsoever. I mean, my head has issue with it the following morning, but in terms of the drinking I'm all good

I did not have a good weekend in movies. Parker starts out as a typical Jason Statham movie--he's the criminal with the strong moral code, gets double crossed and sets out for revenge. He's clever, he's resourceful, and everything moves along at a fast pace for the first 30 minutes. Theeeen Jennifer Lopez turns up and it turns in to some kind of weird romantic comedy, with her checking his bum out and him putting on an atrocious Texan accent in a ridiculous hat, and all this faff about her struggles at work as a nearly-broke divorcee, and omg honestly it's like they cut Maid in Manhattan into the middle of The Mechanic. I have never known a film change character so completely and catastrophically as this one. Don't even bother. And then Zoolander 2 has been the straw on this camel's back when it comes to comedy sequels. Too knowing, too self-referential, trying too hard and shoehorning too many celebrity cameos in with a nod and a wink instead of playing it straight as the first one did (yes, it was ridiculous, but it was internally consistent, and didn't keep going "eh? EH?" at the audience after each joke). There's a couple of good jokes, and it's not the worst of the recent comedy sequels (better than Anchorman 2, which I can't even remember now, and certainly better than Hot Tub Time Machine 2 which oh god why would you do that), but it's just not worth bothering with, frankly. Just going to rewatch the Wolf of Wall Street this weekend. At least I know it'll be good.

As someone with a hot spare alongside my RAID 6 array, could you elaborate?

By strange coincidence, this just popped up on my Facebook feed: 3D Printing Is Going to Turn the Miniatures Gaming Market Into a War Zone | VICE | United States

They were experimenting with screens to set up around accidents at one point, weren't they? It'd be worth the investment, I reckon...

Click through each of the entries, because they submitted portfolios not just single illustrations, and then right-click>view image for pictures 3000px wide, and then struggle to choose which one you want as your new desktop background: https://ilmchallenge.artstation.com/

If it helps, I didn't pay for it. /cough

Finally saw Batman v Superman (the three hour ultimate edition. THREE HOURS. Did not need to be three hours). Wasn't as bad as I was expecting, mostly because I was expecting it to be atrocious, but instead it was mostly just... meh. Batman killing people and branding people was just... no. That's the Punisher you're thinking of, not Batman. Stop it. It was weird seeing Ben Affleck as Batman, and I didn't like it, but that turned out to be much less offensive than the sudden shift to Murderman. But the thing I keep getting stuck on--the really stupid part--is Lex Luthor. Not just the godawful annoying performance, but his motivation. Why was he doing all this? What was his driving force? As best I can make out from his Big Bad speech, it was because he was an atheist, which, er. Right. Thanks for that. "God is either all powerful, in which case he is not all good, or he is all good, in which case he is not all powerful." That logic might work for God and his ascribed powers of omniscience and omnipotence, but Superman is quite clearly not all powerful, as witnessed by the times he gets beat up a lot, or outsmarted. So we know this answer. So maybe you don't need to go through all this ridiculous palaver just to find that out, y'know? Also lol @ a jar of human p155 being a major plot point. Top writing, that.

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Please consider this an unequivocal, almost worshipful recommendation of all of Ted Chiang's short stories (this is based on his short Story of Your Life). The level of intellect he brings to bear is incredible. In the field of SFF short fiction, he is the Ozymandias, and we are the travellers gazing upon his works. The final stage on the SF Writer's Heirarchy of Doubt, just after "Why haven’t I been chosen as Earth’s representative for the Galactic Senate?", is "Why aren't my stories as good as Ted Chiang's?"

eBay & Facebook groups will have people selling stuff off, usually, though for varying definitions of "value". Mantic figures are very good, started by former GW employees and with former GW designers, but much better value. Mantic Games | The Home of Gaming

Stupid thing: never realised you could use Alt-Gr. I've always used Ctrl-Alt-4 to get €.

Never really thought about it, cos I never use the ¦, but it's wrong on my fancy pants Microsoft Ergonomic keyboard.

One host will show the disks online and the other offline--that's normal, and shouldn't be messed with. The on/offline can be mixed as well--so right now, one of my hosts has the CSV online and the Quorum offline, and the other vice versa. The network thing looks suspicious though--I don't have my SAN listed in my networks, but I'm on multi-path fibre channel. I suspect an iSCSI SAN would show there, and if so, that could well be your problem.

All of you 40kers should watch this over lunch. Find the best monitor you can for it--the video goes up to 4k... (The characters & dialogue are bobbins, but the work and the quality is phenomenal.)

Windows Server 2012 has a built-in tool for migrating VMs between clusters that, by all accounts, works very well. But it has its foibles when it comes to moving Highly Available VMs (and honestly, why run a cluster if you're not going to run HAVMs?) and is a bit of a faff if you're moving to entirely new equipment, storage and all. You have to migrate from the old cluster to the new cluster on the same storage, and once that migration is complete, then migrate the storage. Which is lots of cross cabling and temporary set up and scope for things to go wrong when you're an idiot (*cough*). But all the articles on the subject, including that authoritative MSDN blog post linked above, mention SCVMM 2012R2 as another method. Yet if you try to Google up instructions for that, all you come up with is the same reference to "you can do it with VMM... but this is a guide on using the built in tool". It turns out that's because the VMM method is laughably simple. But still--it's nice to see that written down, hence this blog post. This is how to migrate highly available virtual machines (HAVMs) to a new cluster on new storage using Virtual Machine Manager 2012R2. First up--set your new cluster up in the usual fashion. Configure the witness disk in quorum if you need, the new cluster shared volume, the network settings. Easy. Then set up your Virtual Machine Manager installation after installing the prequisites and the database (a separate download from VLSC; SQL has to be installed before VMM). Straightforward stuff, especially if this isn't your first cluster (as presumably it isn't, in this guide on migration ). Once VMM is up and running and updated, open the same setup.exe on your new hosts and install the local agent from the splash screen. You can then add the cluster in the VMM console. On your existing hosts, in the old cluster, remove the existing VMM agent if you have one and then install the new agent as you just did. You don't need any restarts here. Once the hosts are on the new agent, you can add them into the new VMM instance as well. In doing this, VMM will create all the logical networks etc. that the existing VMs use. Now we have the one bit of configuration needed--the networking. In the properties of each of your new virtual hosts, go to virtual switches and recreate what you have on your old hosts. I've kept it simple in my environment and use a single network, so I've created a new virtual switch with the same name, as an External adapter, and tied it to the relevant network adapter. I've also allowed the management OS to share the connection because I want to go over my teamed 10GbE connection for everything, but you can tweak as suits your needs. Make sure these connections are set up the same on all your hosts. Then, in the Hardware section of the same properties window, find the network adapter(s) you selected above, go to Logical network underneath, and tick the box for the network that your existing VMs use. At that point... you're good to go, more or less. I had one final error to resolve before I could migrate VMs though (that only flashed up halfway through moving my first VM): "Oh bugger," quoth I. But it turned out to be easy to resolve: check a couple of certificates' thumbprints, and run a PowerShell command if they don't match. I also installed BITS on my virtual hosts (along with everything that feature required) as part of troubleshooting this, which didn't fix the error, but is probably required anyway--it was certainly installed on my old hosts. Once you've checked the above and resolved it if necessary, the process of migration goes thus: Select the virtual machine on your old cluster. Shut it down (no live migrations here, I'm afraid). Once it's powered off, select Migrate Virtual Machine at the top, as if you were live migrating within the cluster. Select one of your new hosts. Click next until it migrates. That's it. That's literally it. That's why there's no article online about how to do this, because it's so blindingly obvious even I could work it out. At the end of the above, your VM will be sat on your new host, awaiting startup, unless you ticked the box to start it after migration anyway. It will have installed the new VM components. It will be connected to the network. It will, in summary, just be ready. It's a marvellous thing. It gives me a warning about this being a one-way process due to the host OS difference (2008R2 to 2012R2), but that's fine. I'm now migrating my VMs one at a time without having to do any weird cabling or set up. All my equipment and software is configured as it needs to be anyway--I've not had to do anything temporary that might cause me grief in the future. The workload for my next week just got a lot lighter

I'll get NMS in a few months in a Steam sale as a chill-out/relaxation game. Half an hour at the end of the night, cruise around in space a bit and find a new planet, that sort of thing. I intend to take years to finish it

Not a movie, but just binged Stranger Things on Netflix and I am bereft without it now. Proper 80s nostalgia and a love letter to Stephen Spielberg and Stephen King, a mix of ET and Stand By Me and It and all sorts of other 80s references. Very, very enjoyable.

This is key to our interests--our assessment models can be a little funky, and change across key stages--so this is really good to hear. As to visiting Plymouth--it's me that's in Lincolnshire, I'm afraid, 5 hours away! Thank you for the offer though.

Portsmouth is a bit of a distance! We've asked our account manager for a nearby school we can visit, but they'll always pick one favourable to them, so a broader view of sentiment on here is helpful as well. Thank you!

As @NokiX said--that's exactly the error message I got with the update installed. Still not found an answer; just uninstalled it for now.