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    Lower efficiency power converters, more load on ac, space and UPS. Higher latency and chance of stuff going wrong as it converts to one media type, through more cables and connectors as opposed to strait to fibre. Unmanagable or moniterable, sfps can be monitered, rebooted etc from the switch, the converters don't generally support this. Not really more secure either, just a bit more difficult.
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    Rotate the tires, front to back and check on the noise, if it stays it is probably the bearing at which point get them done as when those fail the wheels can abandon the car without permission.
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    Just been informed that they have split the website into two now: commercial (learnpad.com) and tablet management (connect.learnpad.com). You can find the install link at Install - ClassConnect
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    Yea, it redirects on the surface but a lot of the links seem to return 404s and learnpad.co/install is nowhere to be found, not under.com/UK/install or .com/install or anything.
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    It appears the Learnpad site is down/broken in some way, anything that points to learnpad.co breaks including the OEM install bit I was using just a few days ago. Unfortunately I only just managed to spark interest in the Learnpads on the NZ tech mailing list and now their site is broken. Not a good look. Anyone know what is going on/the new OEM install link. Tried to submit a support request but even that form was broken @LisaLearnPad
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    Look at hp as well, they seem to have a mediocre rep with some on the forum but for us they have bested Dell on every single measurable metric.
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    Decade long RM vs Vanilla flame war, news at 11... Maybe @bossman was right all those years ago about this thread
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    Start Menu

    SYNACK replied to MatthewL's topic in Windows 8

    You're making the assumption that it's broken, give it a little time, it is really not that bad especially if you use the windows key as a search key for application names with the keyboard like has been possible since Vista anyway.
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    Alright @Sam_Brown are you after your palaeontology badge or something? This threads original resurection predates my joining. As to the debate it has been well played out in other threads/flame wars both RM and vanilla systems have their merits and their are people who will defend both to the end of time.
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    Don't bother with the v series, go for the e series with lifetime warranty and non-crippled rebranded 3Com software in them. Are you looking at doing 10gbit ever? if so you'd be better with the 2910al for edge which can do layer three and take 10gb modules.
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    Nice, ASUS have made progress, with the first lot the efi wouldn't even allow windows PE to boot, only a standard W8 dvd untill a couple of firmware upgrades ago even with secure boot off.
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    Ah, never mind then, in Apple years those are about due to be excavated and reconstructed as exhibits in the Smithsonian. Apple support is like the attention span of a goldfish Sorry to the OP, it looks like there are probably no legal options to make that hardware do what you want it to.
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    Yea, a basic upgrade is easy, a fat image is not so much, EFI boot is limited to fat32 so only 4GB files, MDT does not seem to provide an easy option to split even though wim files can. It can't boot 64bit at all thanks to the EFI, everything else in the system will handle it but the EFI stops it. Even an emulated blueray via my Zalman VE200 of the MDT point failed as the EFI removes compound devices from the boot options. The last lot I did by booting from a Windows 8.1 DVD/USB, going to command prompt and using a NTFS USB to raw apply a WIM file then used the 8.1 DVD to repair all the boot settings. This worked and saved ages worth of time with Office, updates etc already applied but it was still a massive hassle. I have got very close with litetouch and if I can manage it, it will make the process a massive amount more automated than before. Of course ASUS could solve my problems in one go by sorting their EFI to allow PXE boot and add an option to suppress the reporting of a 64bit architecture in their BIOS lookalike EFI config if they insist on not enabling it for 64bit natively.
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    Grrr, Check my previous posts about Intel, I am no fan of them and their largely junk software and drivers. I does not surprise me that a screw up of this magnitude would be their fault. Don't get me wrong, I like their CPUs and even chipsets but their software is to die from.
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    Good to know, the little T100s take enterprise fine, have imaged them before with a complex and time consuming setup of powered USB hub, USB DVD and USB HDD along with the Windows RE to repair it all. That was six of them though and I am now confronted with 30 of them but it is the only device in the price range. We are also getting a few Acer Switch units which may behave better and despite lower battery capacity and a tiny increase in cost look better. At any rate I am resigned to the fact I need to hack a small bit of the MDT code to get these things fired up. At least ASUS has sorted their bios to boot Windows PE as before it would ONLY boot from a Windows 8 32bit DVD.
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    Ah, the joys of vendors and their quaint ideas of market separation and device specialisation. This is the tale of Modern quad core atom Laplets (Hybrid tablets and laptops) and their use of not only the low power CPU but also of the 32bit only UEFI. This fun game manifests in not being able to use 64bit OSs solely because of the vendors choice of junk UEFI, couple that with thei lack of UEFI support for USB NIC and PXE booting and you have a tidy excrement storm. (at this Point I'd like to thank ASUS personally for their contribution with the Transformerbook T100) Now, As it happens there are USB3 Gigabit NICs that work great on the USB ports of these tablets - if not supported in the lacklustre UEFI - and MDT offers LightTouch where you can connect to the share and run lightouch.vbs and set it on its way. This all seems to go fine till the reboot where it spits the dummy as it is trying to use the 64bit Win PE image. What now you say, this 32bit machine is getting the 64bit image, but why? As it happens MDT at least eh one I have just checks the CPU architecture in WMI so sees 64bit, it fails to see the crippled UEFI by companies like ASUS that refuse to fix it so uses not only 64bit PE images but also 64bit EFI boot files. All is not lost, my plan is to edit the Architecture identification to check for: dim rubbishSystemDesign =true which will set the architecture to 32bit if one of these devices is detected. I hope that this will allow me to image them successfully, if not easily and I truly hope that vendors making these pull their heads out and start supporting stuff like PXE if they want their market to truly explode. Other than this rubbish, these devices are epic and can do anything (if at a limited speed) and are perfect for schools wanting to fully use technology. Unfortunately, as usual they are held back by one or two stupid OEM decisions which is the only reason why the Surface Line exists in the first place. I will post back in a few days when I am back in that school and have tried re-writing MDT around this nonsence.
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    The usefulness of NCQ and the like is probably down to how smart the firmware is in the drive. It should still queue writes for files in fast RAM that are close to each other and spit them out in a more contiguous block which will make it easier for the SSD chunk to write out. AHCI itself should add a little speed boost as it does not have to emulate the 1980s on each side and can talk directly. Each would be small or unmeasurable gains depending on how much optimisation of the code and hardware they have done to deal with the past but at the very least it should save you a few picowatts of power a year I would still chuck all the settings to the most modern one supported in any system I was messing with though.
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    Upgrade them to the latest IOS available to those devices and it 'may' be able get the new software. Those devices have long since been obsoleted by Apple.
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    IBM do sans also
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    :'( and me just a lowly right hander who can only read upside down with some effort. Its all the blood rushing to my head that's the problem really, plus getting upside down to read for starters
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    Infested with ADS

    SYNACK replied to agiles's topic in Windows 7

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    Your Desk!

    SYNACK replied to Frut02's topic in General Chat

    One more day and you'll be able to eat that with a straw
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    <3 Elizabeth
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    The second cool thing I have found off this blog that I think needs reposting How to jump to the desired registry key with one click | Winaero
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    How to restore the Last Known Good Configuration feature in Windows 8.1 | Winaero
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