Tech Corner

[seangee]

HUH? Did I give you bad advice or something.

Nah. Just all this talk of upgrades and enhancements triggered me to reduce the biggest bottleneck on my daily machine. Its 4 years old and wasn't top spec at the time

 

[jaylach]

Why ?

Lack of legit traffic mainly. It was just time. The only really active members have become friends so we'll just keep in touch via email. Ongoing DDoS attacks were also a factor.

 

[MaloK]

So, I must decide today... What would you do ???

For around the same price...

SSD...
12x Patriot P220 2TB P220S2TB25
or
12x Patriot Burst Elite 2TB PBE192TS25SSDR

HDD...
12x Seagate Enterprise 2TB ST2000NX0253
or
12x WD Blue 2TB WD20SPZX

Since the PERC raid is disabled and I use ZFS... There is no problems using consumer grade SSDs...

The array is going to be nearly all for static data and no operating system will run from these.

The theoretical life of the SSDs is higher, but in practice who has 45 year old SSD today to prove it. On the other hand I'm sure of what I can expect from the HDDs 6-14 years... maybe less.

There's also the power consumption factor, even it the HDDs are low power (less than 1 watt idle) it's still 10 times more than the SSDs...

What would you choose in these 4 choice ?

 

[MattW]

Ok Ive had this issue since I installed Win11. I cannot get the Microsoft store to load at all. I get this pop up every time. I have reset the MS store cache even tried some other stuff in command prompt. The only other thing ive seen suggested is a complete reinstall of windows which I dont really want to do.. Im mainly trying to get MS store to work so I can get my old mojang account and xbox account back. Any ideas? Could it be caused by windows defender or any antivirus settings in Wsettings?

 

[MaloK]

When you did your W11 installation and you ran the debloater script did you remove the store ? The script suggest to keep it even if you don't use it tho.

If it's the case you're cooked regarding the MS Store... But all is not lost you can use a program named UnigetUI

GitHub - marticliment/UniGetUI: UniGetUI: The Graphical Interface for your package managers. Could be terribly described as a package manager manager to manage your package managers

UniGetUI: The Graphical Interface for your package managers. Could be terribly described as a package manager manager to manage your package managers - marticliment/UniGetUI

github.com

With this you should still be able to get what you want from the MSStore.

 

[MattW]

Ooooooh, that may have happened

My God, I'm an idiot.

 

[MaloK]

it's not selected by default

 

[jaylach]

Ooooooh, that may have happened

My God, I'm an idiot.

LOL! I did that once by mistake. To restore the store open Power Shell as an admin and enter the following command.:
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers Microsoft.WindowsStore* | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}

 

[MattW]

Oof

 

[jaylach]

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This should work... Did you run Power Shell as an admin? Right click on power shell and select to run as admin.

I know this works in Win 10 but haven't proven in 11. Can you supply a screen shot including the initial entry of the power shell command I supplied?

 

[MattW]

Didn't work either sadly. I'm at a point now where I'm going to give up

I don't even have any app open apart from chrome. I also checked on task manager and nothing is running on that in regards to MS store.

 

[jaylach]

Didn't work either sadly. I'm at a point now where I'm going to give up
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I don't even have any app open apart from chrome. I also checked on task manager and nothing is running on that in regards to MS store.

Chrome may be part of the issue. It is a bad piece of work. I won't allow anything Google on my system.

Anyway, look at the following linc as it MAY give some help.

I deleted the Microsoft store in my windows 11, How could i reinstall it? - Microsoft Q&A

so, I deleted the Microsoft store in my windows 11 because it was updating, I waited soo long and it didn't update and couldn't open it so I deleted it, then I tried to download it again, but I couldn't download it again (so how could I download it…

learn.microsoft.com

 

[jaylach]

BTW, this may also help. It is a browser based version of Microsoft Store.

Microsoft Store - Download apps, games & more for your Windows PC

Explore the Microsoft Store for games, apps, and movies on Windows. Enjoy exclusive deals, new releases, and your favorite content all in one place.

apps.microsoft.com

 

[MaloK]

Parts for the server are coming in today...

I hit another wall in direct virtualization material access.... Of course... Once a controller dedicated to a VM you cant pass it to another one... Not even if it's compartmentalized. So the hypervisor and VMs cannot be physically installed on the array that will be controlled by one of the VMs.

Ok... That one is harsh because there's no other SATA controller on that board besides the 16 ports PERC.

And there's no other disk emplacements. After giggling like a 12 years old for a while, I was lucky to find a nice little dual m.2 SATA controller and got 2x2TB M.2 drives. This should boot natively and be able to operate in mirror, like envisaged at the start... This settles me back a couple $$$ more...

But... A lot of work... It's getting closer to a Very High Integrity Segmented setup with full Error correction and redundancy provision. And I haven't reached the price a simple high end 16 bays NAS would cost, like Qnap or Synology.

I'm really impressed of all it can do... Still it's obviously not "everything" But that thing can be tailored to a great extend.

Worked a little on the GPU I can use and came up with two different model that would be able to coexist and accomplish without limitation both video transcoding and Neural Processing on their respective platform.

Enterprise grade all the way... Even the video cards have multi bits error correction memory. High density and consume less than 50 watts...

This will provide a 7B level AI engine that should run up to 14 Gigabyte models in size.

I found nearly everything to launch my own Large language trainer and started planning how I can use my 4x1TB SSDs to accelerate learning.

I know I'm going too far too fast... But also checked libraries for voice recognition and speech.

I could also virtualise my CCTV system and give it acces to live feed... And use AI for alarm decision making...

As long as it's got the soothing and reassuring voice of HAL... It will make my day loll.

 

[jaylach]

I'm still, off and on, trying to get Windows 11 to successfully install on my main system. Windows actually seems to install and does the spinning dots as it loads but when it should go tot the log-in screen it goes black screen which would tend to indicate a video issue.

I was looking through my 'all programs' in my start menu and noticed an addition from when I last updated my video drivers/software named 'AMD update manager'. I ran it and it offered an updated chip set driver package. It DID make a difference as I was having an intermittent HDMI audio minor issue that now seems to be gone. Worth another install attempt to see what happens.

If the above fails I'll leave the 11 install intact and swap to a 12 year old video card I have to see what happens. I keep the card for just such things.

Last resort will be to try a clean install which will be a pain as I have a LOT of installs. My system drive is just short of 300 GB used and all my data and most games are on a different drive. Of course, since I run a system drive and a clone a clean install wouldn't be terrible as I could install software as the need comes up. It would actually be a dual boot but each accessed via the post screen boot menu.

Total failure would just mean that I use Microsoft Rewards points to extend Win 10 updates for another year. By that time I'll most likely have done a new build and my current main would become my second desktop. Not really all that worried about using Win 10 past end of life as I have good security. If you don't trust your security why bother having?