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Lingrah

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About Lingrah

  • Birthday April 30

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  • Gender
    Male
  • Location
    East Coast US
  • Occupation
    Whatever pays? Film, IT, and Farm Work mostly.
  • Member title
    wow this account is like a nostalgia trip for me

System

  • CPU
    All of these specs are my old PC I gave to my little sister. I may update with my actual specs one day AMD 760K 3.8GHz (4.3 boost)
  • Motherboard
    MSI A78M-E45 FM2+
  • RAM
    Crucial Ballistix 16GB (2x8Gb) DDR3 1600
  • GPU
    SAPPHIRE Radeon R7 260X
  • Case
    Corsair SPEC-01 ATX Mid Tower Case
  • Storage
    WD Black 1Tb + WD Blue 500Gb
  • PSU
    Thermaltake 500W 80+ Bronze
  • Display(s)
    VA2246M (Main) |:| HP f2304(Secondary) |:| LC320EM2
  • Cooling
    Stock CPU cooler. (Hopefuly a clos3ed liquid soon) 2 AF120 REDs
  • Keyboard
    Razer Black Widow Chroma
  • Mouse
    Mad Catz R.A.T. TE
  • Sound
    Razer Kraken 7.1 Chroma
  • Operating System
    Windows 7 Ultimate(10soon)

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  1. Oh hi I remember you :D

    1. FloRolf

      FloRolf

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      And sorry, unfortunately I don't remember you 😬 have you changed your username or something? Maybe a different pfp? 

       

      Anyways, welcome back! I hope you can find peace on here again. Imo it's a pretty amazing community and there are many long time members on here who are definitely willing to connect with new (or new old :P) members as well. 

    2. Lingrah

      Lingrah

      Yes and yes. I updated my info just after leaving the comment. 

      Old name was TotalLegitREMIX, pfp was the like a boss meme dude but edited shittily to say "Like TotalLegitREMIX". If you don't remember me I am not offended, it was half a decade ago. I just recognize your username and pfp, no idea what interactions we had tbh, I just remember we had a lot.

    3. FloRolf

      FloRolf

      Ah yes, I remember that name! 

      Always nice to see people come back :)

  2. Does anybody read these things? What a nostalgia trip visiting this site has been. I used to spend so much time here. 

     

    Short personal story. I had a strict, abusive father. Hiding in my bedroom browsing this forum was my escape growing up. Learning and talking about computers kept me sane. Once I got out of there, I haven't really been here until now, but glad to see it is still thriving!

    1. Cyberspirit

      Cyberspirit

      The status update crew is still going strong and so is the forum.

       

      Glad to hear that you were able to get away from that place.

  3. Thanks for the tip about SMB. I was under the impression that was terribly slow, but a quick google search tells otherwise. I am terribly disappointed by the lack of information regarding S3 available without emailing them. I remember a few years back using amazon file hosts to backup my game server daily because I didn't have the space to do it locally, and it was incredible easy. I had to email them here just to get any idea of what is going on. But I shot them an email, hope to hear back soon. Also doesn't amazon's cloud storage system have their own software? Why would I need veeam in this situation? Thank you so much for all your help and support. As I said before, setting up servers for something like this is uncharted territory for me. But hey, what better time to learn than when a small business depends on you not fucking up for their entire POS system to work : D (mostly joking, I can do almost everything needed of me with confidence, I just have no experience with servers aside from an old desktop I retrofitted to run my game servers and whatever other small server stuff I need/want it to do like a pi-hole not on an raspberry pi)
  4. My grandparents are very old school. As much as I agree with you here, this is the best they are gonna get (convincing them to spent $0.05 is hard, let alone hire an IT pro). Anything I can do is a GREAT improvement over their current system. I have done a couple of small IT jobs through my life, this one is riding the line between what I know, and out of my league (I installed their first computer system half a decade ago, but I was far more inexperienced and they only went from a single old computer, to an actually useable system. This most recent one was installed by Clover themselves, and might be fine if it wasn't dealing with firearms, which clover has 0 support for). Most everything I can take care of myself, but the couple areas I am gray in, I am asking for help here and hoping to learn the rest along the way. Have to take a look at that tomorrow. I didn't realize the time when I said earlier I was about to visit today to figure that out. If I can't figure it out through looking at the system, I can call the guy who set it up. By my understandings I can export to a system through a LAN connection, I hope this is the case. That is what I am afraid of. I need to look at the current system to see how much storage a single day's video takes. If it is too high to upload, I may look into at least having an on-sight backup that will last longer than their current setup (not nearly long enough). If that means just throwing another couple drives in the current DVR so be it, but I'd rather have it on a system easier to view and playback than the "crappy" DVR (it is actually really good, but convenient playback is not it's strong suit). If I don't have the internet to do a nightly or better twice daily upload, I will try to convince them to upgrade it. If I can't, I will at least set the main couple of angles to upload (the tiny store is loaded to the brim with cameras (3 pointed at the front door alone. You can see the nose hairs of anybody walking in the door). At least I want to have the counter overview, door, parking lot, etc backed up for 3-6 months).
  5. Yes windows PC. Uploading to a cloud and an external hard drive would definitely be a cheaper option that tbh would be enough, if not for the security system. From what I was told (I'll investigate myself) there is no way to offload the data from the security system, without a physical device right beside it. If we're gonna get a computer to offload and upload that data, I'd rather spend a few extra bucks for the server, and have that for anything else we may need
  6. Looking into them after the previous person's comment, I'm liking them so far. Do they have good software to upload to an external cloud?
  7. Will check on the DVR, might have to make some calls to get specifics. Do you have a specific physical server you'd recommend? I've built a couple dozen desktops, but I have zero idea what type of hardware is good in a server, and since it's not my money I'd rather buy a prebuilt, then just deal with the software. We will talk about their backup options soon. They offer a cloud based backup, but the service itself is stored locally. We also want to have our own backup for all important documents from sale logs, inventory, 4473s etc. that right now are taking up the entire second floor. We have already had hour+ long calls with many POS systems, and they are by far our favorite right now, but they certainly aren't perfect.
  8. 1. agreed 2. That's the plan. I want to back up locally and cloud. Internet here sucks so having a close backup is important, but in case of fires and such having off site cloud is important. 3. We are on clover, thinking of going to Axis. 4. Not sure. Going in to check that this evening. 5. 2 computers. 1 running windows. The other runs a custom OS from clover. But when we implement the new POS system were looking at probably 2 or 3 windows PCs + the security system. Edit: oh also PCI compliance. Currently managed by a local company (no idea what), will probably switch to Axis if their rates are fair.
  9. Actual questions start with -, but more info might make answers easier. I'm helping my grandparents gunshop upgrade their entire computer and POS system. Until couple years ago they did everything on paper. They now have a computer system that sucks. Most of the stuff I can do without assistance from this forum, but I need help with some server and off-site stuff. Right now if their one computer has a hard drive fail, they lose all of their digital everything, all they have left is a literal paper trail (It hurts my soul too). I want to add a server there that backs up their computers nightly. I want it to store locally and upload to an off-site service. I would also like to back up the security footage for a couple weeks (right now it's 9 days), and maybe a couple important cameras for a few extra months. - So I need a local server that has enough processing power to upload and download many files, and that's about it for processing power. It needs a good internet link, and many slots for expandable storage. Hotswap drives not necessary. What would be a good raid setup for basic storage security (one drive failure maybe)? - What off-site service would be best for large amounts of uploads daily. Probably not many downloads. Will it come with its own software to match files between local and them? - I need a small server rack with a couple slots for later expansion, but there's not a ton of floor space for a massive setup. - What operating system would be best for something like this? Windows would be best because I'm familiar with it, but if that's not feasible I can learn something else. - on that note, what software would be best to setup that would automatically send information from the main computers, to the local server at the end of the day, and then shut off the computers. If you couldn't tell, my knowledge about storage and backup servers is limited. Any help and advice would be incredible. Thank you guys so much <3
  10. Well your first problem was assuming watch Ubisoft was going to make anything easy for the consumer. Ultimately there is no way to know the cause. Your best bet would be to google more details on the crash (Is it a CTD, is it on launch, mission load, etc) and see if it is game caused. If it is a CTD on launch then you will go down the list of frequent culprits. (Anything that has in an game overlay such as fraps or Riva Turner Statistics, etc). Anything that attempts to modify your playing expereince (Game Companion, flux, etc). Continue to go down the line of frequently caused crashing reasons. But if it was working yesterday and not today, my best guess is it is either cuased by something in game, or something new to your computer. Also don't forget to verify integrity of game cache. Reinstall if all else fails.
  11. fractal design define s. I have this on my desk right now and I love this. It has a glass panel which I suppose is easy to stain, everything else I have yet to stain with my oily fingers. If you do not want the window they have a model of the same case without the window.
  12. Gonna need to know the game. Every game will log it differently. Some games do not log crashes while other give detailed logs. Some games you will need to install a mod to get proper logging. So once again, what is the game? As for part two, let's see if fixing the first problem and we will see if that resolves it.
  13. Not picky. I do not care about the interface. Cord vs wireless. Just good headphones for their price. I am willing to pay more if it is worth it, but cheap is always nice. Last time I was in the market, I was debating between HyperX Clouds($99), Razer Kraken Chroma($99), or Sennheiser RS175(Do not remember the price, not cheap) Anyways, that was a few years ago, anything else new and cool that is good for the price? Thank you all!
  14. Maybe that was my trouble. Only one audio cable and I didn't realize that was a limitation of the free version.
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