Battlefield V shows all maps in new trailer
The DICE team released a beautiful trailer featuring all 8 maps available for Battlefield V multiplayer modes at its launch. And what can I say, every one of them looks absolutely stunning.
Narvik
- Norway
- inspired by the invasion of Narvik (1940)
- harbor town with an industrial area
Fjell 652
- Norway, arctic circle
- fighting on the mountain
- mountain cabins, AA guns
- dynamic weather
Rotterdam
- set in Holland (obviously)
- city combat, streets, buildings, canals
- elevated train tracks
Devastation
- set in Holland
- destroyed part of Rotterdam
Twisted Steel
- France
- flooded marshlands
- massive steel bridge
Arras
- set in France
- fields, trenches
- small town
Hamada
- set in North Africa
- the largest map at launch
- tank battles
- canyons, bridges
Aerodrome
- North Africa
- half-destroyed airfield after bombardment
- big central hangar
Panzerstorm
- Belgium
- tank battles
VMware vSphere Web Client failed to load with error #2032
So, I wanted to check something in my vSphere Web Client (vCenter 5.5U3), but I was unable to log in and there was this error at the bottom of the screen:
RSL https://thisSERVERofMINE:9443/vsphere-client/locales/rsl/flex-common-lib-5.5.0.swf failed to load. Error #2032
There is a really simple solution and I would love if the error message was useful for once and told me so. You just need to clear your browser cache.
Internet Explorer – that would be CTRL-SHIFT-DEL and selecting temporary files
Google Chrome – also CTRL-SHIFT-DEL and selecting cache
The case against RAID 5, why use RAID 6 instead
For many years RAID 5 used to be best practices and golden standard for any organization, who cares about smoothness of their operations, especially when downtime means losing money. RAID 5 is cheap and when the hard drive in your array fails, you can replace it without data loss. You just swap the drive manually or you can have installed spare drive already in your storage device exactly for this situation. Users often won’t even notice something is wrong. RAID 6, on the other hand, is still seen as overkill with bigger overhead and with worse performance.
Disk cost
RAID 5 needs one more drive, which you cannot use for storing data. If any of the drivers fails, you can rebuild it without data loss.
RAID 6 needs two more drivers, bud you can lose 2 drives at once and you will still be able to rebuild the array successfully.
Speeds
The reading performance of RAID 5 and RAID 6 is basically the same.
The writing performance is a little bit more complicated, RAID 6 can be more power hungry (33 % more CPU power) and also little slower in some scenarios. But the difference can be eliminated using cache in your storage device.
So what’s the problem?
It’s the security. You are using RAID, so you obviously want no downtime – restoring from backups takes precious time and you have to bring your information systems offline in most cases.
Many people think the chance of 2 disks failing at once is slim. It happens all the time, believe me. The drives have much bigger capacity today so the rebuild often takes days. When another drive fails in this period and you are using RAID 5, your data are gone. Also, the rebuilding process is pretty disk-intensive and it can cause another failure. You have probably bought the disks at once, they can come from the same manufacturing batch and have the same defects. Hell, you probably installed them and started to use them on the same day!
There is another big problem, which wasn’t such a big deal years before. Storage is cheaper nowadays. With vast arrays of many terabytes, rebuilding times are not only much longer, but there is a higher chance to encounter URE (Unrecoverable Read Error) and again, lose your data.
One recommendation holds well against the time. RAID doesn’t replace backups. Have good backups, folks.
What do you think?
Those hellish Sharepoint 2013 backups
I spent a lot of time today on this one.
I tried to backup my Sharepoint 2013 farm, full backup, via Management Shell:
Backup-SPFarm -Directory \\SERVERXXX\farm_backup\ -BackupMethod full
It did save data but always ended with an error. At the end of the log file was this gem:
FatalError: Backup failed for Object Crawl-0 (E: on SERVERXXX) failed in event OnBackup. For more information, see the spbackup.log or sprestore.log file located in the backup directory.
It was a god-damned permission problem. If you are getting this error, check your database users – open up Sql Server 2014 Configuration Manager (or the version you have) and check those:
See? Those are default:
- NT AUTHORITY\NetworkService
- NT Service\MSSQL$SQLEXPRESS
Grant them NTFS permission to the backup location and to the share (full access). Run the backup to see if the problem persists. This did it for me.
System requirements for Vampyr
The new game from authors of Life is Strange, where you play as Dr. Jonathan Reid, who is newly-turned Vampyr, is finally here. If you want to enjoy this beautiful game fully, you will need some serious performance.
Here is what you should have straight from NVIDIA:
Minimum System Requirements
- GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Legacy GPU: GeForce GTX 660)
- CPU: Intel Core i3-2130 (3.4 GHz)/AMD FX-4100 (3.6 GHz)
- RAM: 8GB
- Hard Disk Space: 20GB
- OS: Windows 7/8/10 (64 bits)
Recommended System Requirements For 1920×1080, 60 FPS, High Preset Gameplay
- GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 / GeForce GTX 970
- CPU: Intel Core i7-3930K (3.2 GHz)/AMD Ryzen 5 1600 (3.2 GHz)
- RAM: 16GB
- Hard Disk Space: 20GB
- OS: Windows 7/8/10 (64 bits)
Recommended System Requirements For 2560×1440, 60 FPS, High Preset Gameplay
- GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
- CPU: Intel Core i7-3930K (3.2 GHz)/AMD Ryzen 5 1600 (3.2 GHz)
- RAM: 16GB
- Hard Disk Space: 20GB
- OS: Windows 7/8/10 (64 bits)
Recommended System Requirements For 4K, 60 FPS, High Preset Gameplay
- GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
- CPU: Intel Core i7-3930K (3.2 GHz)/AMD Ryzen 5 1600 (3.2 GHz)
- RAM: 16GB
- Hard Disk Space: 20GB
- OS: Windows 7/8/10 (64 bits)
Now you get the idea. You can also tweak the game even higher, all the way to the Ultra-detail modes.
Whats the point of WordPress Desktop App?
I have noticed WordPress.com offers to download their app to manage your site, so I decided to give it a try. And I don’t like what I see.
The app is basically browser wrapper. Disconnect your computer from the network and you cant do anything. No functions to do (or at least prepare) stuff for your website while you are offline. Were my expectations too high? Whats the point of the app then? I can do the same (and more) directly in the browser while I get the support of my favorite plugins (like Grammarly). Also, the preview feature didn’t work for me. You cant open WP admin from the left panel inside the app, it opens your browser anyway. You need to update the app regularly.
I can imagine only one use for the desktop app … managing your distractions, you don’t have all the functions, you cant open facebook in it, you may focus better on your writing. Maybe.
The authors also tell us there is a speed difference because the app uses a local copy of your site assets. I didn’t notice any difference myself, but I will take their word for it.
Have you tried the app? What do you think?
