Elite Dangerous – Trading rare commodities

I was unaware these existed until yesterday. Some stations have rare commodities, which are unique to a station - and can be sold for a greater amount, based on distance travelled away from the source station. http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Rare_Commodities I ended up doing this, just for a bit of a change from bounty hunting and found it…

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DeDup for DPM

Announcement - http://blogs.technet.com/b/dpm/archive/2015/01/06/deduplication-of-dpm-storage-reduce-dpm-storage-consumption.aspx The process is a little raw at the moment - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn891438.aspx I imagine it will be one of things that is integrated natively into the next version of DPM - and becomes a bit easier to use when it is.

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KMS Guide

Updated on : 11/08/2016 (Windows 10 KMS patch compatibility) Relevant to: KMS - all versions KMS seems to be one of those things that is sometimes quite poorly understood – and many existing blog articles or pieces of documentation seem to gloss over important details (IMO). So, below is my attempt. Concepts MAK - Multiple…

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Blog hosting – SiteGround

As per my previous post, I have moved from wordpress.com to a hosted provider - and the experience has actually been quite good. I used Nadolu Co Media to help me transfer the site, come up with a new theme and work out a few kinks. Initially, we did some other business related work, but…

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Elite Dangerous docking guide

While speaking the other day, a mate (Chocolate bear) of mine mentioned he was having trouble docking in ED. While I'm sure there are many methods, this is how I do it. Docking with a dock Drop out of FSD Close to within 7.5km (requests to dock from further than this will be denied) <Picture…

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