Have you thought about getting mac for this? From what you're describing they'll be doing very basic editing, something iMovie can handle easily. We're actually doing some similar editing at work currently, and there was no comparable software available on Windows. And if they need more in the future, they can move to Final Cut Pro.

F....ing lawyers Who cares how someone found out about it, it's out there, in public, game over.

@scottalanmiller said in Right Ubiquiti Gear for Traveling:

@marcinozga said in Right Ubiquiti Gear for Traveling:

@NerdyDad apples to oranges. Add case, SD card, power supply, wifi dongle, perhaps keyboard for initial setup, and you're slowly getting close to the price of off the shelf product. Add your labor on top, and you end up with ugly box with dongle sticking out, with no warranty (excluding parts) and no support. So for a few dollars more you get fully supported, high quality product, with print server and airplay, that you can set up in a couple of minutes with your phone or tablet.

And which one is more likely to land you in a holding cell while US customs officials determine what it is!

Haha, yeah, I missed that point.

@NerdyDad apples to oranges. Add case, SD card, power supply, wifi dongle, perhaps keyboard for initial setup, and you're slowly getting close to the price of off the shelf product. Add your labor on top, and you end up with ugly box with dongle sticking out, with no warranty (excluding parts) and no support. So for a few dollars more you get fully supported, high quality product, with print server and airplay, that you can set up in a couple of minutes with your phone or tablet.

@scottalanmiller I had older model, without ethernet port, I donated it to my sister, still works to this day. I still have cat-friendly time capsule, over 6 years old, rock solid, strong wifi, 0 issues. I'd say airport line of products is really solid.

http://www.apple.com/airport-express/specs/ - $99, Weight: 8.5 ounces (240 grams)

@Dashrender I came from heavy gaming background, so performance was always my priority, sometimes the only priority, lol. So RAID 5 was off the table, period. And I was lucky enough to always work for people who had no clue what I was actually doing.

@Dashrender said in What Makes Parity RAID Safe on SSDs:

@marcinozga said in What Makes Parity RAID Safe on SSDs:

@Dashrender said in What Makes Parity RAID Safe on SSDs:

I've been lucky I guess - I've never lost an array when resilvering a RAID 5 array.

Ha, I've been lucky to never use RAID 5

How long have you been in the game?

Long enough. 17 years if my math is correct. I always managed to push RAID 10 over 5.

@Dashrender Some RAID controllers have certain limit on number of URE they encounter before marking drive as failed. I had that happen on some LSI controllers, but the numbers were really high, perhaps in thousands.

@Dashrender said in What Makes Parity RAID Safe on SSDs:

I've been lucky I guess - I've never lost an array when resilvering a RAID 5 array.

Ha, I've been lucky to never use RAID 5

@dafyre How many of the failed ones were actually caused by URE? I'd be interested to see the %.

@Dashrender said in What Makes Parity RAID Safe on SSDs:

OK I had to do some digging before posting.

I recall seeing @scottalanmiller post many times that SSDs don't suffer UREs, but perhaps he was meaning that they are so unlikely in current use patterns we can ignore them.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/05/07/flash_banishes_the_spectre_of_the_unrecoverable_data_error/

This post talks about this topic exactly. But I'll shorten it for this post.

You asked - is it all about the bits, yep, it sure is. As you can see in that graphic, even consumer SSDs are 10x less likely to hit a URE than an enterprise HDD. And there are two levels greater than that. You can see where Scott got the 12 TB basically means 100% likeliness that a resilver will fail. You'll notice that a 600 TB array has about a 50% chance of failure, 300 TB has 25% 100 TB is around 8%.

I think the new question we need to ask ourselves, what level of risk are we willing to accept? Which isn't new at all, it's something we should have been (and continue) to ask ourselves.

Don't take those numbers for granted, there are plenty of consumer SSD drives with 10^14 URE. So if you happen to put 6x 2TB SSDs in RAID 5, you can still run into it.
Now another thing is most misunderstand what URE is and assume it's a set number and you always hit URE after reading 12.5 TB. It's not, it's just a probability or running into sector on disk that cannot be read from. Similar to playing Russian Roulette, if you're lucky, you can keep pulling the trigger indefinitely without blowing your brains out, you can have RAID 5 rebuilding PBs of data without ever hitting URE.

Idiocracy has happened on Nov 8th, this is just business as usual.

http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apple-sued-for-choosing-not-to-lock-out-iphones-behind-the-wheel-to-prevent-texting-and-driving.2028205/

This just made my day.

It happened to me a few times. I think it even wanted to order pizza once after 10PM, luckily that requires voice confirmation.

1. Why?
2. Android doesn't run on iPhone, iPhone is used as a display here.

Try different router, the one Verizon gives you is low grade consumer junk. It does look like Verizon is doing something with that port since your user can access it outside of your network. It could be Godaddy as well, they run Cpanel I think, there are some filters there that can block certain traffic based on whatever triggers the filters. Perhaps someone got infected and was sending too much spam and now they filter that ip address?

Call both companies and threaten to close the checkbook if this is not resolved promptly - give them 24h, then start shopping. Both Verizon and Godaddy are scumbags, so really no reason to stick with them.

Wine should be included in Ubuntu repos, you might need to enable it in Ubuntu Software Center. So entire installation should be this:

sudo apt-get install wine

Never build from sources if there is a package available in repos already.

Sharepoint. 2010 I think.

@Dashrender said in Health insurance plans:

I consider my plan pretty OK, perhaps not great, but definitely not bad.

Now the other plan I just heard about (and also confirmed is completely possible) is as follows:

Premium per month: unknown
Employer pays 100% of premium
Deductible is $8000, after which 80% of covered costs are paid.

HSA is the same as above as federally mandated.

This plan seemed outrageous at first, but after an offline discussion, it is this way because the employer wanted a lower premium cost.

That plan is in violation of ACA, max out of pocket per year is $6850 (it goes up next year), after that insurance must cover 100%.
Either way, the only acceptable insurance plan is the one when it costs me $0. No deductible, no copays, no out of pocket expenses. Unfortunately it won't happen in US.