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A friend of mine reported very slow boot times on his PC, around 30 min usually and sometimes up to an hour. Apparently, accessing the C drive was slow too. I troubleshooted his PC and I can't find the issue. I booted into a Linux live installation and checked the SMART SSD status, ran a few benchmarks and made a backup. The disk is fine. I then tried to reinstall Windows since it looked like a software issue. Weirdly, booting into the newly created Windows installation drive also took ages and all operations were slow as well, that includes reformatting the SSD which took ~40 min, and the installation itself didn't make any progress during the hour we waited. Installing and booting Linux worked fine and took roughly 10 to 15 min. The PC had a PSU failure a month ago which was when the slow booting issue began. I imagine something might be fried, I'm not entirely sure what it could be though. Does anyone have any ideas? I am horribly confused.

Guild Wars 2 does the job for CPU bound computation for me. If the entire map takes part in the event, the Unbounded Guardian in Bloodstone Fen lets my machine (i7-2600K @ 4.4GHz, GTX 980) drop to 5 fps. That's just not that easy and very time consuming to test.

It wasn't an order, more like a deluded wish.

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Piz Daint, Europe's fastest supercomputer, located at the CSCS in Switzerland, gets a hardware upgrade. The goal is to effectively doubeling its current performance. The existing Sandy Bridge CPUs will be replaced by Haswell CPUs, and the GPU by Pascal GPUs from NVIDIA. In the future the LHC at Cern will be supported by Piz Daint. Source: More computing power for Swiss research - ETHZ

It's not about status symbols whatsoever, it's about doing what you like the most in the best possible way. Always aim high! That was quite good! Your choice of words was a bit unnatural but not too bad. :-) I do sometimes understand a little bit of Dutch. Especially when I hear it while being able to read it at the same time. It has quite a few similarities to Swiss German. We learn German, English and French in school. You can usually choose to learn Italian in high school. But not many people do it. Besides that, we've got like a million different accents of Swiss German. There are parts of Switzerland where they speak such a fucked up German that I don't even understand them. And yes, we are all very proud of our accents too. The fourth national language of Switzerland is Romansh which sounds like a mix of Italian, Latin (oh, yeah, btw I had 2 years of Latin in school too) and German. It's honestly one of the coolest languages I've ever heard. Sadly, there are just 60'000 people left who speak it. There is a hip-hop act which raps in Romansh, Liricas Analas, I linked the video. (Not really my kind of music but I like those guys.) Someone once told me that the French-speaking and the Flemish-speaking Belgians hate each other. Is that true?

I do recommend it. But in the end it depends on your working morale, motivation and discipline. You know, even top universities give you at least a small chance to catch up if you haven't learned something before. It will be harder for you but it's not impossible. Personally, I would prefer a more gentle passage. I live in the German-speaking part of Switzerland, close to Zurich. I'm assuming you speak Dutch and not French since you're from Antwerpen, right? :-)

My tweet? In one of your videos? Thank you! *sits down and dies in peace* Great video and segment, btw.

Hi, I come from Switzerland and we have the Rudolf-Steiner schools here too. I did regular public schools and I'm studying computer science now but maybe some things I've observed and heard from steiner-students might help you. Here, many people switch to public school (we call it gymnasium, I believe you do as well) when they are about 14 years old. Most say that it took them quite some time to get used to the regular school system with grades and exams. I would recommend to acclimatise before you go to university simply because uni can be very confusing and unguided in the beginning. Besides the personal and emotional issues you might face, a simple advice: The higher the education the more theoretical and technical it's gonna be. It helps to know some math and to be prepared for a lot of abstract work and thinking. And that is, as you said, not the steiner schools biggest strength. I hope that helps at least a little bit.

Yeah, I know. But I don't know about any reliable people who are. The audio hardware industry is a huge mess, would be nice if Linus could shake up those idiots at least a little bit¨.

Hi guys, I recently tried to find some information on audio recording; recommended specs, computers, interfaces etc. And I ran into the most useless articles ever. Ranging from "Just buy a mac" to "the faster the cpu and the more ram the better" (duh) I was wondering if anyone at LMG is interested in benchmarking the effect of CPU and memory on DAW and VSTi plugin performance and audio interface latency. Differences between USB, Firewire (yes, IEEE 1394a. I'm serious...) and Thunderbolt for interfaces would be quite nice too. I don't know if anyone cares though... Roman

CS student learn math, don't ask, just do it All of it is very interesting but the best part is the Xbox One and Wii to game on a 65'' TV with 5.1 surround and an old arcade console, two table soccer tables and a billiard table for our free time, which is nice. and free coffee

The Aria looks amazing

"Sie ist eine Lehrerin, der die wirklich das Beste für seine ihre Schüler will." You have to use the feminine form which is "die" and "ihre". And "das Beste" is a noun, notice the article "das".

Hotplugging a Nvidia GPU is possible through Nvidia Optimus (http://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-gpu-optimus,9788.html) which is part of the driver. Or at least should be. It's more about the muscle-wire lock. This thing probably needs some kind of driver.