Amit Moryossef

This should be a fun one I have a house with ~100 smart devices (all of the lights, ACs, blinds, some doors, some locks, some power outlets, boilers, etc) - All connected to HomeKit (using homebridge) As my Security Cameras DVR died, I was wondering how can I in addition of locally storing my footage, store it in the cloud using Apple's free recordings. Basically, I am looking for a DVR kind of device with 8 camera inputs like the left image, and 1 output like the right image, that also has an API I can access the live footage stream locally on the network. + Do you think it is a good idea to keep it all on Apple's servers? I think it would be smart to also store a local copy, but the HomeKit integration would be wonderful to access the footage from wherever, securely. I am aware of: The thing is I already have my cameras installed, and wired to my power-closet, so I just need to find a compatible device

Thanks! This looks kind of good, I'll read more into it, but it seems like 150$ for 1 transmitter, 2 receivers. Quite expensive, but if I have no other choise... Regarding remote signal - Apple TV remote is built in all iPhones, so my family can control it from the phone over WiFi.

I own 3 TVs with cable and Samsung Smart TV software on them. I also own 1 Apple TV. Is there a way I can share the Apple TV output between all of the televisions, such that every TV can see the video output from the Apple TV? I was thinking on getting an HDMI splitter, and if exist, a wireless HDMI cable (something that works over LAN is probably best), however, I can only find wireless HDMIs over 200$. Is there a cheaper way to share the signal? (can't pass a cable between the TVs, different floors)

Thank you all, it was a graphics card issue. Disconnected and reconnected, works

Guys, I need your help. My computer was totally fine, then I started playing Rainbow 6 Siege, and it crashed. Booting, it makes this sound and does not continue: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/266658407962902539/386238726046482432/Motherboard_Louder.m4a It happened yesterday as well, again when playing Rainbow, but then I only blew on the MB and it was fine.

@Elerek That is a cool tool, but no. I need to be able at any time to remote control the RDP sessions logged into my terminal

Up to this day, I had a Windows Server 2008, and many users logging in remotely (around 10). Going to tasks manager, I can go to users, and if a user is logged in I can "Remote Control". Now I need another PC to act as a terminal for those users, something related to adding more users and less load. I gave my IT guy a Windows 10 PC to do it on, as I was requested, but after working on it for 4 hours and configuring everything, he said that there is no remote control option in Windows 10, but if I want I can install Windows 7. - Does "Remote Control" exist on Windows 10 for RDP sessions? - If not, does it really exist on Windows 7, and is reformatting my only option? I just don't really want to pay for another 4 hours of configuring stuff. Note, I did see this option in technet, and it is listed only for windows server, here.

@Mooshi That's why I can't understand why it is 100$ @rn8686 Makes more sense if that is the case, thanks

I asked for an offer on a prebuilt system for work, and got 2 suggestions. 1. HP 8300 / SFF / i5-3470 3.20 GHz / 8GB / 240GB SSD / NO-DVD / WIN 7 PRO / 400$ 2. HP 6300 / SFF / I5-3470 / 8GB / 240GB SSD / WIN 7 PRO / 500$ What is the difference? Is it only the DVD drive that is worth the 100$ difference?

Well yes, I wish it was linux, but it can't be. It is Windows Server 2008

Unfortunately, yes. I'll try convincing my dad to keep the drives separate. If I do manage to separate, should I get SSDs for the OS? something like 2x250gb samsung 850 evo?

Good, so final thing, are the WD red good for servers or anything else I should get?

Thanks, I have a backup disk on site (periodical), network backup (image), then daily FTP backup for the data to my home, and a periodical full drive image (once a month I take it home)

Ok, that sounds like a good solution. Also, apologies, made a mistake, it's raid 1, not 0 So: connect both new drives -> use a drive cloning software (any recommendation?) -> replace old drives with new drives?

Oops correction, its raid 1 (mirroring)

I do have spare ports, but I want to replace the entire thing, no use for a 100gb drive there. I will go the other way then (backup / restore -> replace the entire raid)

My dad has a server with 2x100gb HDDs in raid 1, separated into 2 volumes. It is not at all enough for his needs, so I want to get him an upgrade. I don't want to change the raid structure, because it works the way it is, and my dad does not like changes. I was thinking on 2x1TB hard drives. Are the WD Red drives good enough, or should I get something else? Also, I wanted to know how to go about the upgrade. To get 0 down-time, I thought of perhaps removing one old drive, and inserting one new drive into the raid, and it will get mirrored, and then remove the other old drive and insert the other new one, and finally expend the volumes to whatever size he wants. The other solution I have is to create a windows backup to an external drive, replace the drives, and install windows from a backup. Will the first method work? Is there a better way to go at it? Thanks!

Watched this video, and stopped on this frame; Quite a cool design, so I wanted to make my youtube feed look like that. First I built a shell, and then, when tried the youtube APIs, I got stuck with keys I can't have, like `channelId` and stuff. So this project is a bust (until I get interested again and write a youtube API mock), but at least there is a nice shell. Also, "Floatplane", not "The Floatplane". We all know what happened to facebook.. Didn't want to just waste it, so here is a video for my archive of dead projects - Note: this uses minimal styling (SCSS) as I stopped to work on it when encountered the API issue. It is similar, but differnt Note2: Project time was about 2 hours (as I used a framework I am very familiar with and am a member of it's development)

Ok, thank you all, I got it. It is very cheap, and shipping is less than a week, so I will hopefully confirm shortly

Redoing my network, and I need short cables that would support gigabit. I looked for cat5e (ebay is my only source), and found these: http://www.ebay.com/itm/302181315477 Although they are cat5e, it is listed they have "data speed" of "10/100 Mbps", which I find odd, so are these cables enough? If not, what should I look for? Edit: Cat 6 ethernet are listed with 1 gigabit support, although they are way more expensive, and the actual cable in the wall is cat5e

10Gig This seems to be enough, right? http://www.ebay.com/itm/TP-LINK-TL-SG108-8-PORT-GIGABIT-SWITCH-NEU-/112092326717?hash=item1a19392b3d:g:CwIAAOSwHoFXrfXi Custom PC (we are still on the linustechtips forum ) Motherboard is GA-H97-HD3, and it supports 1Gbit! Hurrah! I don't want to take it apart to show you the input cables, because it's a mess. Ill need to find how it is called, and get a new better one, without my dad saying it is useless. Tricky.

Both switches are indeed 100Mbps. your hunch was right. The interface is nameless, (just a metal box, no text anywhere), and because I am connected to it, and from there straight to the router, and my computer shows me a 100Mbps, I deduce that it is 100 as well. Nice detective work! So why does it even show me a 1Gbit option? stupid windows. --- So basically everything is 100Mbps, except for the router. Is there a way for me to check if my computer network supports 1Gbit at all? I looked online, and it says that if it shows me the 1Gbit option it should support, but as learned from the laptop, even if it shows it does not support. If my computer supports 1Gbit, I guess Ill look into upgrading everything.

Directly to the router with a single cable. I connected just the laptop, to see if it would say 1Gbit

I decided to do a clean test: Connected a laptop directly to the router. I changed the network speed and duplex to a 1gbit full duplex, and it is still saying 100Mbps. Laptop: https://www.asus.com/us/Notebooks/ASUS-ZenBook-Pro-UX501VW/ EDIT: Laptop does not have LAN, and comes with an included LAN -> USB addapter.

This is from the PC: I changed it to the setting you mentioned, it is still saying 100Mbps The PC is connected to an interface, and then to the router