We have mixed results with SharePoint. The teams that use it a lot are ones that have lots of mixed media - documents, presentations, images, file uploads, etc. SharePoint is excellent at allowing you to dump tons of different types of media into one location, and then organizing, restricting and updating that stuff. Especially if they're Microsoft documents, in which case you get a whole bunch of additional functionality, internal viewers, etc. The teams that need a classic "wiki" - that is, a text-base repository of instructions or informational tidbits - just installed an open source wiki app on a linux server and use that. It's less bulky than SharePoint and easier to do rapid editing.
My experience with SharePoint is that it's quite a Swiss Army Knife, and you can make it do tons of things, but just because you can doesn't mean you should. Most "failed" SP projects I've seen have been where they tried to shoe-horn in a bunch of custom functionality that wasn't really in it's wheelhouse. Theoretically possible, but a nightmare to do.
My company is forcing us to use SharePoint, and it's good in theory, but just blows goats in reality for what they try to make it do.
Do most motherboards support all video cards? I'm looking at a new machine and the processor etc I like but would desire a different video card. Can I take the card from it and just pass them down the line for the other machines as minor upgrades or will motherboard compatibility play a big part? Can actually get the machine plus a new video card for a decent amount less than the same parts in one machine from newegg. (as they have canadian side) decisions decisions. Basically the desire is for a i54690k with a gtx960 2 gig but a gtx 970 4 gig would be preferred. there was one i7 with gtx 960 but is now out of stock. Looking to pay in the 1300-1400 range CDN. (also though passmarks benchmarks on the processors certainly rank in the ix's above AMD due to value difference is there a big deal between them all?)
Yes any video card out now will work. They are all PCI-E 3.0. They will fit in any mother board with a PCI-E slot, doesn't matter the generation, you just will not get the bandwidth, which really doesn't matter anyways with single cards. Edit: and you would have to go with a seriously cheap mother board to find one with a pci-e 2.0 slot.
As said, the cards will probably work unless you're passing the card along to a machine with an older board with PCI-E 2.0 (it doesn't have to be cheap, just a few years old). The only other thing to make sure is that the power supply can handle it and has the correct connectors. Most people dramatically over-spec their power supplies - you just don't need a 1200 watt monstrosity for most systems - but again, if you're passing a new video card to an older or cheaper system, you might not have the power or the connectors for it. I've had so many problems with AMD drivers that I've basically written them off as a video card supplier for my own systems. They do hit some nice bang-for-the-buck price points, but when multiple people have written driver removal tools over the years because the actual vendor install/uninstall process is broken... well, you know you've got a problem.
I just used WinDirStat to see what the hell is taking up so much space on my E: drive and according to WinDirStat fully 75.1% of the data on it is "unknown". Any way to figure out what the hell it all is so I can determine if it's safe to delete? Edit: Figured it out and took care of it.
Any ideas on this? I've uninstalled and reinstalled the program 5 times... I've attempted to repair it 5 times. No luck. When I navigate to the file it's referencing, it's blank.
It's not going to be very meaningful to anyone but the developers of the application. Does this happen when you launch the program after the install? Have you tried explicitly running the program as an administrator? After you've uninstalled it, have you tried manually purging directories like c:\users\<user>\AppData\Local\GN_Netcom_A_S and checking the Program Files directories to make sure all of those directories are gone - then reinstalling?
It's been a long time since I did anything Windows, but that looks like the output from a service trying to start up and not being able to find the config or base files it needs to run. I'd take a look for any aliases that were put in the startup folder or any services that are used for it. If I'm notmistaken, the Netcom AS is a bluetooth headset so it might be a service that launches and waits for the headset to pair, or it might be part of a device driver for it. I'd go look into the Jabber forums for something that talks about it not uninstalling properly, or for directions on how to manually uninstall it.
I went to another laptop onsite, copied the config file and pasted it into the blank file... Problem solved!
Not tech help, but https://www.oculus.com/en-us/ count down as of posting this 19 hours, wonder if it will be for pre-orders.
Another non tech help, but interesting, http://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-radeon-r9-fury-fiji,29388.html AMD's new HBM video cards, cant wait for reviews, there top end card is going for 650, which is around the price of the GTX980.
I cracked the screen on my laptop. I bought a replacement screen off ebay, but it doesn't look to be the same connections. What's a reasonable estimate to have a shop do it?
It's new graphics card time. I don't think I have it in me to go through the entire rigamarole of learning everything about graphics cards amongst the 23492709 options out there. Anyone have any advice on how to proceed?
Well, my general thinking is that I want to do some future proofing to not have to buy new ones all the time, but I also don't need the highest of the bleeding edge, which is usually a lot of extra money for a comparably small amount of increase in performance. So, I dunno, basically looking for a a really solid high-ish end card that isn't bleeding edge. But I have no clue how much I should spend for that.
Around the 200-250 range you have the R9 380 and the GTX 960, the 380 is the better choice. Around the 300-350 range you have the R9 390 and the GTX 970, couldn't go wrong either way. Around the 500 you have the Fury and the GTX 980, Fury wins hands down it bench's just about as good as the next bunch. Around the 650 you have the Fury X and the GTX 980 TI, the 980 Ti benches better at lower res, at 4k the Fury X bench's better. OF course they are cheapers ones but you are talking about future proofing and such so I will not mention those. And of course they are more expensive but like you said bleeding edge if only for bragging. The Fury and Fury X are AMD new HBM cards. Instead of DDR5 which is blazing fast 5ghz memory bus with few lanes, HBM is slow, but has many many lanes in and out. AMD/ATI has always been known for shitty drivers when they release new cards, so I expect the Fury cards to get much much better in the coming year. The question is how much do you really game? And what type of games do you play? Only games where frames per second really matters is first person shooters. If you don't play those by far the best choice the 200-250 range, if you want to splurge a bit the 300-350 range would help future proof. The 200-250 range always seems to be the best bang for you buck, once you start spending more you are getting less it seems true even in CPU's. If you do play lots of FPS games, that is where it gets tricky. If you are playing at 1080p. The 200-250 range will play FPS games on high settings now and for awhile, but the 300-350 range would definitely help future proof more. If you want to splurge a bit the Fury would be one sexy card. If you are playing at 1440p the 300-350 range would be ideal, to help future proof I would go with the 500 range. 4k the Fury/Fury X will play at lower setting but to get some decent setting you will need to sli/cross fire the 300-350 range. Edit: I wasn't thinking when I was typing this at work, well I am still at work. For 1440p, the 300-350 range well just be entry level, to play with decent setting and frame rates the 500 dollar card range is good.
I just picked up a new workstation for home with a 980TI in it, and it rocks. I don't have any 4k monitors, but I'm hanging 4 2.5k monitors off of it and it's a champ.