Intel i7-6700 and Xeon E3-1230 v5 are pretty much the same, except that i7 has builtin Graphics and Xeon does not. I don't get it. How can i7 with builtin graphics consume less power?-- William
If you wish to ever have a free-as-in-beer Windows 10 upgrade, you
have to do it before July 29th (according to my unreliable memory).
Windows 10 is OK except for the continuous leakage of information to
Microsoft. But even earlier Windows versions are being updated to spy
too. The main advantage of Win10 over its predecessors is that it
will be supported longer. A second advantage is that your license is
recorded in the cloud so in future you can wipe Win10 and install it
again without much difficulty.
Windows 7 and on continually bombard you with update offers. Some
even appear to be opt-out. Don't accept these offers. Download Win
10 once to a USB stick and install from there instead. That means
that you will only have to download it once, even if the installation
fails a few times or if you have several machines.
To create a USB stick with the Win10 update, you need to use the
"Media Creation Tool", an option wherever you can download Win 10.
You can create a USB stick for64-bit, 32-bit, or both. Then it is
just a matter of mounting the stick on the Windows non-10 system and
running "setup".
I've done this on several machines previously and it mostly worked (a
previous war story described puzzling disk space issues).
On my notebook, I attempted to upgrade 64-bit Windows 8.1 to Windows
10 from within Windows 8.1 using Win10 update from a USB stick.
Salient points about this notebook:
- partitioning / booting is MBR, not GPT / UEFI
- all OSs are 64-bit
- came with Win 7
- upgraded to Win 8 (free) and then Win 8.1 (free)
(Thankfully I made recovery disks!)
- it has Ubuntu and Fedora installed
- booting is via Ubuntu's GRUB
It did not work. The update process chugged for a while and then came
up with this helpful message
Something happened.
We can't tell if your PC has enough space to continue
installing windows 10
Isn't that a great message! It doesn't say why it cannot tell if
there is enough space. It won't let me tell it (yes, it does have
enough space). It just gives up.
If you google for this message, you will find lots of random advice on
this one. Probably because there are a lot of causes. I tried a few
of the easier ones with no success. So I decided that perhaps Windows
needed to own the boot record.
I booted into the recovery system provided by the manufacturer. I
pushed a couple of options (repair boot? I don't remember and there
isn't a trace left). The result was an unbootable system grub only
found enough of itself to report that there was a problem: none of its
modules were found. I could not boot Windows, the Windows recovery
partition, or either Linux.
I then studied <https://peter.upfold.org.uk/blog/2013/02/28/restore-windows-8-bootloader/>.
I booted a Win 8 recovery DVD that I'd made.
- I tried "repair your computer" "advanced options" "Automatic Repair".
Didn't work. Apparently it put diagnostics in C:\Windows\...
but there was no such filesystem.
- I tried "repair your computer" "advanced options" "Command Prompt".
Set the "active partition" (as per first comment in that blog entry):
> diskpart
> list disk
> select disk #
> list partition
> select partition #
> active
> exit
> bootsect.exe /nt60 C:
> BootRec.exe /FixMbr
> BootRec.exe /FixBoot
I don't really know what each step does, but it worked. I could
boot into (only) Windows 8.1)
>From Win 8.1, I clicked on "setup" from the mounted USB stick. All
went uneventfully.
Now I will install Fedora 24 (replacing Fedor 20) and in the process
re-install grub.
> I also have heard of the power grid, being a microgrid designer and all.
>
Although it's not Linux specific, given the number of posts on this thread
regarding power quality and continuity, perhaps microgrids and power walls
might be an interesting meeting topic.
I'd be interested in knowing what types of control systems are in use for
linking and delinking? ie. how would you handle spinning up and linking a
wind turbine to a hydrogen cell; bonus if there were discussions around
Sandia SPIDERS and cybersecurity.
Got some spare time?
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GTALUG is having the annual Linux in the Park Potluck this year at
Dufferin Grove Park on 23rd July at 2pm.
Things we will provide: Plates, Cutlery, Serviettes, Cups, and Garbage bags.
Things you might want to bring: chairs, tasty beverages (that are
non-alcoholic, as the city prohibits alcoholic beverages in the park),
food stuffs that you would like to share and enjoy, tarp/blanket,
sunscreen, hats, things to help survive the warmth of the Canadian
Wilderness.
We will doing this in a pot-luck style. Thus, please bring enough food
and drink for yourself and your guests, and try to bring enough to
share with others in the group.
We are using the GTALUG wiki to organize everything:
<https://gtalug.org/picnics/2016/>.
Note that if you forget anything you needed, Dufferin Mall is across
the street, featuring a supermarket (No-Frills) department store
(WalMart), as well as other specialty stores.
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This is oriented to gamers but I think that it is interesting. It helps
one answer the question: will an upgrade be worth the bother?
<http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/cpu-hierarchy,4312.html>
[wandering elsewhere in the topic of upgrades]
My last desktop upgrade (a couple of years ago) was from class 6 (Core 2
Quad Q6600) to class 1 (i7-4770).
RAM capacity might also matter. In theory, my old desktop could have 8G of
RAM but in fact it could not, so I installed 6G. My newer desktop should
handle 32G but I only have 24G installed.
SSD is so much zippier than HDD that it might be the first upgrade to
consider. It seems to make a lot of difference with "modern" desktops
like Gnome 3, Unity and Windows 8.x and 10. Make sure that you do
backups.
