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Where was I, oh yes Soft links.

When you create a Soft (Symbolic)  link in Windows it adds a new record to the MFT but instead or referencing a data stream it is marked as a “Reparse Point”. Reparse Points are a complex subject but their use with Soft links is simple.

When you open a soft link NTFS finds its record in the MFT and returns the Reparse code for a soft link to the I/O manager along with the actual path of the link. The I/O manager then reissues the I/O request using the new path.

The command for creating a soft link is the same as for creating a Hard link but without the /H so:

mklink Slink.txt Test.txt

Soft links work with files AND directories and include a full path name so the link could even point to a remote file share. A point to note though is that as the file record doesn’t directly reference a data stream the reference count on the stream isn’t incremented. If you delete the original file then you are left with a soft link that points nowhere.

Soft links are useful for lifting deeply nested directory’s up the directory tree. If you had a directory C:\dir1\dir2\dir3\Project then you could lift it to C:\Project with:

mklinkC:\Project C:\dir1\dir2\dir3\Project

(All one line)

I will do mount points in a minute.

 

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https://capx.co/the-eus-euro-clearing-plan-is-an-act-of-protectionist-self-harm/

I wondered what Euro clearing was all about and now I have a better idea. Don’t look like its leaving London anytime soon.

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I am going to reserve judgement for the moment but I think I smell a rat.

Mrs May is the only one who can truly speak for the government when it comes to making major concessions. She is the only one who can say her red lines don’t really matter.

Like I said, we shall see.

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The Brexit negotiations are becoming more like a scene from The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy every day.

The one where Deep Thought tells Vroomfondle and Majikthise that if they can keep violently disagreeing with each other about the answer then they can keep themselves on the gravy train for life.

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I had great fun with that W7/W8 thing a few years ago.

The Windows installation DVD is dual format MBR and GPT/UEFI. W7 lists MBR first but W8 lists UEFI first.

There is settig in my BIOS for boot options that says MBR/UEFI/AUTO but I discovered it ONLY applies to booting from dual format DVDs.

Every other drive on the system will always UEFI boot if there is an EFI partition or MBR boot if not.

Hours of head scratching was had ?

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Well that told me nothing of interest about UEFI but it looks like a nice micro ATX board.

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It may be an idea to see if you can download a copy of the motherboard manual first. Im going to have a look for that ASUS one ?

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I would have to read up on modern boards because my BIOS is from 2011 and is of the type “Gigabyte Hybread UEFI”

My board will attempt a UEFI boot on the selected boot device if it finds an EFI partition but if not it falls back to MBR.  I don’t know if full UEFI systems still do that.

 

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I see we have told the EU that we might, possibly, just maybe not bung them £38bn if they don’t get a move on with negotiations.

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No it was just nonsense. But its what I have come to expect from the man.

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I was going to send you that link !

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I forgot to mention that the disk should be partitioned as GPT too.

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The basic requirements are to have a FAT formatted “system” partition marked as type efi with the efi version of Grub in its root. Then you will have to run a config program to add this path to the system CMOS.

That is the basic idea but as im sure you know there can be much more to it if you are trying to migrate an existing installation.

Oh and its a FAT partition because thats all UEFI understands.

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UEFI is pretty simple if you are using Windows because most versions know to look for the MS efi boot manager as well as the default efi one.

Using Linux can be a bit trickier if the installer doesn’t sort it for you but im sure its nothing you cant handle ?

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Just thought D-Dan

Was the price you quoted for the parts built into a case with PSU. If it was then i would go for it because they will test it as a system and give you a warranty before shipping it.

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I haven’t actually had a Ryzen 7 to play with yet but I have read good things.

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Sorry Marx

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For those who may get board waiting, have a good look at the Wiki page for Karl Marks and see if you can guess which political leader most closely follows his views.

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Interesting week in the EU dont you think ?

Ireland thretens to ban our planes from its airspace ???

Ireland admits that the EU has told it there will be no hard border no matter what.

The EU is telling May what she can do with her over generous white paper.

Roll on next week !

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Prior to that I got COMMITted by our own IT department. The aim of the COMMIT program was to standardise laptops and their software across the company. When I got my COMMIT PC I found I had been assigned a fixed, static IP address. Wonderful for connecting to the company network, useless for connecting to the equipment I was ment to be maintaining.

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