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Posts made by marcinozga
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RE: What Are You Doing Right Now
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RE: Popcorn Time Still Alive Thanks to Open Source
@scottalanmiller said:
@marcinozga said:
If I understand correctly how that app works, it streams video content from public trackers. Poor quality and a huge risk for legal repercussions. And while open source licensing allow them to avoid legal trouble - except the original developers - the end users are exposed to all kinds of issues.
Only if illegal where you live. This is perfectly legal in much of the world, including parts of Europe.
My wife got a letter from Verizon once, because, silly me, I was downloading from Kickass. I know in Germany you can get in real trouble for torrenting. In Poland torrenting is legal for "private use" as long as you don't share it - I know, real geniuses we have in our government, part of why I migrated.
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RE: Building a Server for Home Lab
@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@johnhooks said:
@DustinB3403 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
That's surprising. Every Proliant we've ever had, including DL380s, has been staggeringly loud.
~That's because whoever sold him the server took half the fans....
Ha I double checked
And.... they really did steal them?
Oh no, haha they're all there.
Maybe they're clogged with dust and don't spin anymore.
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RE: Popcorn Time Still Alive Thanks to Open Source
If I understand correctly how that app works, it streams video content from public trackers. Poor quality and a huge risk for legal repercussions. And while open source licensing allow them to avoid legal trouble - except the original developers - the end users are exposed to all kinds of issues.
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RE: Pricing up Used Hardware
@Dashrender said:
@marcinozga said:
Look up similar specs on Ebay. And then depending on age, mark it up 10-30%.
mark it up? I would think mark it down (assuming a direct sale) because ebay and paypal eat into the sale price.
Leaves room if buyer wants to bargain. And there's always the chance that somebody will pay what you actually ask for it.
A real life example: a little over a year ago I planned to but iPad Air 2, and I wanted to sell or trade iPad 3. I put it up on Craigslist for $250, I was ready to go down to $200-$210 (I'm greedy, I know). BestBuy was giving me $181 I think. Almost every offer I got was in the $75-$150 range. The max I was able to get after negotiations was $180. I traded it in at BestBuy anyway, and got to keep the charger. -
RE: Pricing up Used Hardware
Look up similar specs on Ebay. And then depending on age, mark it up 10-30%.
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RE: What Are You Doing Right Now
@RojoLoco said:
It's a real sh*t show on SW today... this guy thinks it would be ok for him to block an app from students' personal phones because of bullying.... somebody hand me my slappin' gloves!!!
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1381548-block-a-smartphone-app
And this one want's to track users with their own smartphones.
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RE: What Are You Doing Right Now
@scottalanmiller said:
I'm surprised how often this comes up. Are there really so many people that have RAID and servers but are not aware of what to do when a drive fails? I mean, maybe no one teaches this stuff but it seems so ridiculously obvious that when the drive fails you replace it ASAP. I mean, what do they think that the RAID is for or is doing? This is an honest question, don't mean to berate the person in question as this comes up quite often. Clearly there is a gap in training somewhere because this requires zero technical knowledge. It's like "when do you replace a tire"... um, the moment that the original one blows.
http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1381551-raid-5-failure-on-logical-drive-what-to-do
I think it's more than lack of training, I think it's lack of common sense. We're slowly heading towards idiocracy. "Welcome to Costco, I love you".
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RE: Poor network bandwidth on VM (failover cluster)
What antivirus (if any) is running on that server? What happens if you disable it?
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RE: Poor network bandwidth on VM (failover cluster)
@LAH3385 said:
@Dashrender said:
When a file is written to your vSAN, the process doing the writing most likely won't reply that the process is completed until all nodes in the vSAN report that the file has been written.
If there is a bottleneck on the communication between the vSAN servers, this could introduce your delay.
I believe you said you are using x-over cables between the servers for the vSAN, so you likely don't have a switch related problem there. But you could still have bandwidth/latency issues there.
How to check if the bandwidth is saturated on cross over? It does not seem to use much at all.
Starwind console should have graphs available for all kinds of resources utilisation. Btw, you don't need crossover cable on 1Gbit and faster ethernet cards.
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RE: Building a Server for Home Lab
If I hit powerball, I'm buying this "case": http://www.redharbinger.com/shop/cases/cross-desk-usa-only/
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RE: Building a Server for Home Lab
@anonymous said:
Who makes a nice looking case?
Lian-Li for example. Fractal Design are not bad either.
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RE: Building a Server for Home Lab
@coliver said:
I have a Gigabyte board in place right now in my home server. No problems with it thus far.
And my brother-in-law is sending his Gigabyte mainboard for repair, because he didn't want free professional advice from family member, and instead relied on Tom's Hardware or similar board.
Every vendor has bad products and every vendor has good ones. In my experience, Gigabyte mainboards are problematic and require more time investment than others.
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RE: Building a Server for Home Lab
@anonymous Personally I'd go with Intel NUC, but I don't know what are your requirements. Perhaps you need more memory than you can put in NUC, or more disks. If you really want to build it yourself, I recommend Asus, Supermicro or Asrock Rack, don't buy Asrock desktop products.
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RE: Building a Server for Home Lab
@anonymous said:
I have been thinking about this board:
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-motherboard-gaf2a88xmd3h
- Micro ATX
- Supports up to 64GB of RAM.
- Has RAID (I don't intent to use it)
- OnBoard Ethernet 1 x 10/100/1000 Mbps
- ONBOARD USB 3.0 HEADER(S)
- 8 SATA 6 GB/S Connectors
Gigabyte makes me nauseous. Avoid like a plague. I know theses are recommended all over the internets, but the main user base are hobbyists, teenage gamers, overclockers and the likes. I've built thousands of PCs before, on all kinds of mainboards, and nothing gave me more headaches than Gigabyte products.
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RE: Building a Server for Home Lab
I run my home lab on Intel NUC. Great little machine and power efficient. And I didn't have to worry about anything but RAM and SSD.
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RE: What Are You Doing Right Now
@scottalanmiller said:
OMG... I sweat the people over there are freaking incompetent... the number of people on SW that just "fear" anything virtual, hosted or remote is crazy.
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1374462-starting-over-do-i-need-avtive-directory
Linux domain controllers and linux desktops joined to it - I didn't have such a good laugh in a while.
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RE: What Are You Doing Right Now
@Minion-Queen said:
@scottalanmiller is also the only one I know that has had the issues with a Mac or Windows10 desktop that I have ever heard of. I have 2 MacBook Pro's and a Mac Mini and am actually quite happy with them. Of course I also use them the way they were meant to be used.
I have constant issues with Windows 10. I also have issues with iMac display. My previous machine was repaired a few times, last time display broke, after AppleCare expired, Apple gave me new model for free, and threw free fusion drive upgrade - that's $250 right there. The new machine had display replaced twice before, 3rd time as I type this. I'm picking it up today. And I hope it breaks again, I want to score free 5k iMac
Despite the issues, Macs are top quality machines. Low end shit is that plastic junk for less that $500. -
RE: Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play
Total War Rome and Total War Empire. Dominations on iPad and iPhone.
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RE: TV/DVR without Timewarner, Verizon, Comcast, etc
@Kelly said:
The only things I use cable for are sports: football; American football; the Olympics; etc. If I could get channels that supplied those things and get rid of cable I would be so happy. /me goes off to search for SlingTV to find out what it is.
https://www.fubo.tv/ - this covers a lot of football, Fox Soccer Plus - avaiable on PS3 and PS4 - adds Bundesliga, some European Cups, and a few more.
For american football probably the best would be Sling TV, it has a few ESPN channels and sports pack, CBS All Access might have some football available in the future.
Olympics are exclusive to NBC, so no dice, Playstation VUE or OTA antenna.