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January 23

Archiving a page?

Could someone help me archive this: https://tniad.mil.id/tni-ad-turut-berduka-cita-atas-meninggalnya-letjen/? This is for an article of mine. Tried five times on web.archive.org but the website keeps saying "Live page is not available". Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 03:34, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

Although the domain tniad.mil.id is registered, my DNS gives: "cannot resolve tniad.mil.id: Unknown host", so it is no wonder that the Internet Archive does not find a live page. Ping gives timeout on both of the name servers ns1.mabesad.mil.id and ns2.mabesad.mil.id. This nay be a temoporary problem.  --Lambiam 09:38, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

Does this motherboard support booting from pcie (GA-H81M-S1)?

I am thinking of buying this ssd CT1000P1SSD8 (a gen 3 x4 pcie) and then using a pcie adaptor to plug into this motherboard GA-H81M-S1 (pcie 2.0 x1), would the motherboard allow it to boot or it would be able to just be used from ram. The idea of not buying a sata ssd is that this faster pc can be used when I change this 4 years old pc for a better one and it will work (without some speed loss from pcie 3.0 x4 to pcie 2.0 x1).2804:7F2:598:BE0F:3D8D:9C65:28ED:3B91 (talk) 19:56, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

I do not think so. You need at least series 9 Intel chipset. Ruslik_Zero 20:55, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for the information2804:7F2:598:BE0F:3D8D:9C65:28ED:3B91 (talk) 21:00, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

Assuming your computer has an unused USB port and can boot from USB (nearly all can), and you're willing to spend $10 or something for a small USB key, or alternatively don't mind a large one permanently sticking out and have one available, you have options. Even if there is no motherboard support for NVMe booting and you're not willing to add NVMe support to tbe EFI yourself, it is fairly trivial to enable NVMe booting by using Clover or similar especially if your motherboard supports EFI booting. The motherboard boots the USB, then the USB boots the NVMe drive. I'm doing it myself on one system, indeed I just changed from an older Clover to Refind with NVMe driver added then to a new Clover then back to Refind with ease although I did have another system available to easily modify the USB when I screwed up. (The reason for changing was unrelated to the NVMe device.) However it's worth considering whether you're actually likely to gain anything from this set-up especially given you're restricting the maximums of the drive and that this sounds like a fairly old system and the benefits of NVMe are often small in a lot of non synthetic workloads. Nil Einne (talk) 15:33, 24 January 2021 (UTC)