Hunt for powerful yet cheap and portable computer

Choices: Mini-PC (laptop parts), Laptop, Barebone PC (desktop parts)

Problem:
to get size as small as possible, you have to use laptop parts (e.g. SSD disk) that in turn will increase overall cost (or force you to use less powerful part)

Is it possible to make a powerful; but easily transportable PC?

Virtualization Home Lab: Choosing a suitable computer (quiet, low power with nested virtualization support) 
- expensive

Server maintenance related

How to Backup/Restore a Windows 2003 Domain Controller

Need to defragment Windows Server disk offline?
Probably the closest yet still practical approach is boot-time defragmentation

Server disk defragmentation softwares:
UltraDefrag
+ free
* review: [Windows] Improve your computer’s performance by defragging with UltraDefrag
Puran Utilities
+ free
Auslogics Disk Defrag
- Pro version that supports boot-time defrag isn't free

What about defrag from boot CD?
Programs that try to defrag your Windows drive without using the Windows API are the most risky. These generally rely on a boot CD that runs its own OS. Programs that perform the defrag while you are working in Windows do not fall into this category.
(source: Before You Defragment Your PC)

Bad experience(s) regarding server disk defragmentation:
Be very careful with your servers, I defragged one overnight once and had a hell of a cleanup job the next morning. It still worked but crazy errors all over the place and services not starting etc.
(source: Server Defrag Software Recommendation?)

Yesterday I used PerfectDisk 11 Pro to defrag all my drives (like I do every month or two) and this was the first time the 3TB drive had been defragged. Upon rebooting from that overnight task, I discovered that my 3TB HDD is now listed as RAW instead of NTFS in Windows 7 Disk Management. It still has a drive letter assigned to it, but trying to open it gets the error ...
(source: How to recover lost partition on GPT drive?)

Terkait Kartu Kredit

Cek Transaksi Terakhir Kartu Kredit BCA dari handphone 3/20/2018 08:19:00 PM
Layanan ini adalah layanan yang terintegrasi dengan applikasi sms Banking.
Jadi supaya Kamu bisa menggunakan layanan *141# kamu harus terlebih dahulu terdaftar menjadi pengguna sms banking Bank BCA.
Menurut saya untuk pengecekan Info kartu kredit Bank BCA yang paling mudah adalah dengan menggunakan layanan USSD Banking ini.  Tapi ada banyak alternative lain yang bisa kamu gunakan, yang paling mudah dan aman adalah melalui call center bank BCA atau kamu juga bisa menggunakan Applikasi Chat VIRA BCA.
Untuk cara pendaftaran layanan VIRA bank BCA kamu harus mendaftarkan nomor HP kamu terlebih dahulu di ATM bank BCA Terdekat. Kamu bisa melihat informasi lebih lengkap di sini.

Cara Mengubah Nomor Handphone Kartu Kredit BCA
- telpon
- online

KOMPLAIN TAGIHAN KARTU KREDIT BCA
jumlah poin reward yang dibutuhkan untuk ditukar dengan iuran tahunan kartu kredit BCA gold adalah sebesar 75.000 poin – sementara poin reward saya sampai dengan May 2010 adalah sebesar 137.653 point – yang notabene melebihi persyaratan yang diminta

TERKAIT :

Apakah bisa reward bca tidak sy gunakan/tdk sy ambil buat belanja, tp sy mau pakai buat byar biaya tahunan jika sdh mncukupi apakah bisa?

Untuk penghapusan uang iuran tahunan kartu kredit BCA bisa diajukan melalui layanan Halo BCA 1500888 agar dibuatkan laporannya terlebih dahulu.

PENGALAMAN PRIBADI PENGAJUAN PENGHAPUSAN KE HALOBCA (telp ke 031-1500888 pakai paket telpon As TIDAK memotong pulsa alias Rp 0) :

- Pengajuan TIDAK bisa dilakukan sebelum tagihan muncul

- Syarat: pemakaian 300rb selama 3 bln terakhir

UPDATE JULI 2022 :

penghapusan iuran hanya bisa pakai saldo reward.

ajukan saja penutupan kartu, biasanya akan 

Keluhan Perihal Kartu Visa Signature BCA
Ketika saya mencoba untuk meminta penghapusan annual fee, dikatakan baru bisa diajukan setelah tagihan tercetak.

Cicilan 0% di situs jual beli online
Cicilan 0%, benarkah?
Meskipun disebut cicilan 0% tapi tidak sepenuhnya 0% ya. Kamu harus membaca dengan seksama aturan dimasing-masing tempat kamu belanja. Misal untuk Tokopedia ada yang namanya biaya layanan hingga 3% dari total transaksi kamu, atau untuk Bukalapak ada 2.5% untuk cicilan 12 bulan.
Biasanya penyebab billing masih full amount adalah karena kita berbelanja mendekati tanggal cetak billing.

Best practices related

Creating username policies and best practices
usernames are for identification not authentication, therefore prioritizing user convenience seems sensible
Some risks to bear in mind though ...
if the username is easily guessable then it is one less piece of information an attacker requires

Fitur "Invoice Discount" (Indonesian)

Artinya, diskon global utk 1 Sales Order

Dari Online Help untuk field "Invoice Disc. Code" yang ada di Customer Card:


This field displays the customer's invoice discount code. You can enter a maximum of 20 characters, both numbers and letters.
When you set up a new customer card, the number from the No. field is automatically copied to this field.
You then have two possibilities in this field:

• If you want the customer to have an individual invoice discount, don't change the contents of this field, but set up terms for this invoice discount code in the Cust. Invoice Disc. window. To see the window, click the Sales button on the Customer Card window, and select Invoice Discount.
  
• If you want several customers to have the same invoice discount, you can replace the default code with another one. This can be a code that has previously been set up, or it can be a new one. If you enter a new code, you must set up invoice discount terms for it in the Cust. Invoice Disc. window. After this, enter the new code in the Invoice Disc. Code field for each customer that you want to have the same invoice discount.

Use codes that are easy to remember and describe the invoice discount terms. For example:
20000 (the customer must buy at least LCY 20,000 worth of merchandise before the invoice discount is granted).
The invoice discount can be allowed/disallowed in the Price Groups window.

Install MacOS on Windows/VM

Tested and worked on Windows 8.1 Pro with VMware Player 7.1:
Run Mac OS X on PC, Free and Easy with VMware Player 3
* Install VMware Tools 7.1.1 from VMware tools download: install success but mouse still laggy and can't full screen

Comparison between VMware Workstation, Player, Fusion vs Hyper-V and Hackintosh

How to install OS X Mountain Lion on your PC with iAtkos

Download Distro Macosx dan Iatkos

Related
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Disable the New Window Animation in Mac OS X

Disk clone related

MBR VS GPT (Focus on Difference and How to Convert Safely)
In conclusion, in our opinion, GPT is better.
MiniTool Partition Wizard Free Edition [can] convert the disk style between MBR and GPT.

How to Clone MBR Disk to GPT Disk/SSD
your old hard drive is an MBR partitioned boot disk and your new HDD or SSD is GPT partitioned disk, in this case, you will be required to clone MBR disk to GPT disk or SSD. It is a little bit difficult to manage the job as a bootable issue will happen in high chances if you simply clone MBR HDD to HDD or SSD with GPT partition table. Do remember to convert the GPT to MBR first and start the cloning process.

HDD Raw Copy Tool
Examples of possible uses:
Data recovery: make a copy of the damaged drive to attempt recovery on the copy
Data recovery: copy a damaged hard drive and skip bad sectors
Migration: completely migrate from one hard drive to another
Ultimate backup: Make an exact copy of the hard drive for future use
Backup: create an image of a USB flash stick and copy/restore at any moment
Software QA engineers: restore your OS hard drives at any moment from a compressed image
Duplicate/Clone/Save full image of any type of media!

ORICO: Two same capacity drives, but can not start Clone (see FAQ)

If two driver are some capacity but different brands, the clone may can not start to process.
Different manufacturer may use different capacity caculation method,  so maybe they actually not equal with each other.

Related
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SSD partitioning- is reserve space necessary
Bottom line, you should be able to go for a partition size that uses all "available" space presented to your system.

SSD: keep unallocated space? (2017)

most SSDs are overprovisioned internally. Your 256GB SSD likely has something like 256+16GB of actual space in it. The SSD controller hides this from the OS, but it will internally use that extra room when needed.

Bad Sector Repair in Windows 10 (3 Ways Included)
Self experience: chkdsk gives more comprehensive result than GUI tool

4 Portable Tools to Make a Full Image Backup of USB Drives
Q: Can we mount resulted image file ?
A:

FOG is a Linux-based, free and open source computer imaging solution for various versions of Windows (XP, Vista, 7, 8/8.1, 10), Linux and Mac OS X. It ties together a few open source tools with a PHP-based web interface. FOG doesn't use any boot disks, or CDs; everything is done via TFTP and PXE. Your PCs boot via PXE and automatically downloads a small linux client doing all the hard work of imaging your machine