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Vitalius

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  1. He's using 4TB drives. His chances of a URE during rebuild are pretty significant at 4TB worth of storage with 3 drives or more (which RAID 5's minimum is 3 drives). In fact, I think it's over 70% at 12TB of total storage (3 x 4 = 12).
  2. uh, no clue what the other two people are talking about. You don't need a PCI card for RAID. I recommend these OSes in this order: Amahi FreeNAS Debian Do not use RAID 5. I would explain but it's a very long explanation of why. Either use RAID 6, RAID 1 or 10, or no RAID at all. A server is just a PC that shares services for other computers on a network. You'll need to create a share on the network for the drives and files you wish to share. If you use Windows, which you probably do, you'll need to use CIFS sharing.
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    So, I've installed the new Radeon driver with C…

    Uninstalled driver. Will reinstall the old version later. Don't need it to play Disgaea.
  4. So, I've installed the new Radeon driver with Chill, ReLive, and such. 

    My Fury X's fan RPMs keep going to max (3,000) even though the GPU is at sub-30 Celsius. 

    Setting the fan's speed to a range from 500 to 1,500 RPM in WattMan works but only temporarily. Around a minute later, it starts slowly working it's way back to 3,000 RPM. 

    Wai.

    1. Vitalius

      Vitalius

      Uninstalled driver. Will reinstall the old version later. 

      Don't need it to play Disgaea.

  5. You have to ditch the HDD to still have the speeds of your SSD. All forms of RAID limit the drives to the slowest one. Just make regular backups.
  6. Check your tracking information for a weight to see if it's just 1 drive or actually 40.
  7. I'm really glad I found out how to do this. I love dark theme things so much. 
     

     

  8. Grab the attached .theme file then double click the file to apply the theme. Or you can copy the following spoilered text into a .txt file and change the extension to .theme using Notepad/Wordpad. It shouldn't affect your backgrounds. It hasn't changed mine. If you check the text or edit the .theme after downloading, you'll see that it's just three numbers that customize the color per item. These are RGB Values. They are in RGB order (red then green then blue). 0 is none, and 255 is maximum. 0 0 0 is black. 255 255 255 is white. 255 255 0 (red and green) is yellow. 0 255 255 (green and blue) is Teal/Cyan/Turquoise/Baby Blue. 255 0 255 (red and blue) is Magenta/Purple. 170 170 170 is a darker grey while 70 70 70 is a lighter grey. If you wish to find a color's RGB value, select it here and read the RGB value listed: http://www.w3schools.com/colors/colors_picker.asp Some items are obvious (like Window, which is the entire background of a window), others are not (like HotTrackingColor, which is the hotlink color, i.e. when there are links in a window to something else). Trial and error or google. The options above the colors themselves are unknown to me, but I think they shouldn't be necessary to adjust to your desired colors. This was found on DeviantArt.com and at http://eversins.deviantart.com/, as it mentions in the .theme file and text. Enjoy. The one I've pasted is my default. It isn't so much about the matrix. Lime green, at least in this context, is just a nice color. Text: File: dark.theme Note that this affects all programs that use Windows' default white background. An example is that I have qBittorrent open and it's the same as File Explorer. Here is an example of the theme I have listed. You can of course adjust it according to your preferences as I've mentioned. I've found some menus are hard to read with these settings, but it's a work in progress for me. 90% of it works fine.
  9. Vitalius

    My experience with the Steam Controller so far:…

    eh, I prefer dual shock layout. Just wish there was a higher quality controller available with that layout. It's either third party crap-fest, high priced custom made, or PS4 Dualshock.
  10. My experience with the Steam Controller so far: It's pretty good. Not perfect. Not great. But definitely good. 

    Now... to actually play a game with it.

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      Vitalius

      eh, I prefer dual shock layout. 

      Just wish there was a higher quality controller available with that layout. It's either third party crap-fest, high priced custom made, or PS4 Dualshock.

  11. I'm converting a BTRFS drive to a RAID 1 with another drive. I've never done it before and BTRFS is kinda "different".

    >risking over 2TB of data

    :sweating:

    I mean, it's just media and backups. Even if I lost it, I'd only know what I lost thanks to the tree I make of my files.

    Still, it'd be very annoying. I don't have another drive to push it all to. 

    >90% complete mirror

    huzzah

  12. I've owned the Dell U3415W 3800R. It's very good. Dell's quality is very high imo for a monitor. The difference between the 1900R and the 3800R is that the 1900R has a more pronounced curve. That's it. That's the whole difference. So where both are curved, the 1900R is more curved than the 3800R. Just so you know, there is a review covering the differences between these two monitors: https://www.amazon.com/review/R3EXCR6LYVTJ2W/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B00Q7VCSGU It states "Dell Wins" as the overall takeaway.
  13. Sieg Heil Emperor Trump

    1. AnnoyedShelf

      AnnoyedShelf

      I have way too many memes for this

    2. Railgun

      Railgun

      Tis a good day for America right now

    3. Tech_Dreamer

      Tech_Dreamer

      Aww, shucks , i wish it was a Saudi puppet instead

  14. Vitalius

    Tried out Gentoo. Would not recommend. You basi…

    There are multiple reasons I can think of for using Arch when I don't want to customize things. The primary reason is so I can learn so I can eventually customize things. Like, you gotta learn things in steps imo. i.e. first learn how to install the OS yourself. Even if it's automated, you learned more than you knew before. Then start looking into why you'd customize things. Then actually customize them. The only reasons I've found for myself to customize things is so I can use the software I want to use. But I haven't got very far with that. Gentoo doesn't really make the first step easy. Part of a distro is learning what's available for it and what it does differently that makes you want to use it over other distros. In the end, it's all Linux, so that is what matters since you could technically get anything on any distro. For example, now I want to use OpenRC in place of SystemD. So I didn't come away from trying Gentoo completely empty handed. But I still need to learn more about it and why I'd want to use one over the other. If I can't get into the system to see the benefits of why it does the things it does, I may as well not have bothered trying to use it.
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    Tried out Gentoo. Would not recommend. You basi…

    I should clarify. The thing I take issue with is the Install Guide for Gentoo AMD64. It does things in ways that doesn't facilitate educating and it orders the sections in ways that seem illogical to me. The wiki itself didn't really lend itself to me the way the Arch wiki did, but then again, I have very specific problems (my wifi adapter is annoying due to drivers being proprietary only). About the only useful thing I learned was that OpenRC exists from installing Gentoo. Everything else I learned is easily automated or similar. I did automate the kernel compiling because I have no idea or care about what I'd need or want to change regarding the kernel settings, so I can't see why I'd take the time to do it manually. I may one day, but I want a usable system before I bother with those types of things.
  16. Tried out Gentoo.

    Would not recommend. You basically have to use Arch's wiki if you don't already know how to install the OS because the Gentoo wiki, at least for anyone who intends to do things slightly different, is unusable for that purpose. 

    I'll just stick with Arch I suppose. May try Slackware one day just because.

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    2. BashZeStampeedo

      BashZeStampeedo

      Sorry, I still don't see it. Why even bother with a source-based distro for installation convenience or to just use a "stock" setup? (That's so pointless I don't even). I wouldn't ever bother with a distro like Arch or Gentoo if I *wasn't* going to customize the kernel, configure options for packages, and so on. Might as well just use a binary distro at that point.

       

      But I can see being annoyed with Gentoo based on the installation process. Arch has a more streamlined base installer, while Gentoo presumes that you want to do practically everything yourself. It's an apples or oranges comparison, frankly, but I don't think Arch does "better", it just holds your hand a bit more on the presumption that you don't want to customize things as much as makes a source-based distro really shine.

    3. Vitalius

      Vitalius

      There are multiple reasons I can think of for using Arch when I don't want to customize things.

      The primary reason is so I can learn so I can eventually customize things. Like, you gotta learn things in steps imo. i.e. first learn how to install the OS yourself. Even if it's automated, you learned more than you knew before. Then start looking into why you'd customize things. Then actually customize them. 

      The only reasons I've found for myself to customize things is so I can use the software I want to use. But I haven't got very far with that.

      Gentoo doesn't really make the first step easy. Part of a distro is learning what's available for it and what it does differently that makes you want to use it over other distros. In the end, it's all Linux, so that is what matters since you could technically get anything on any distro. 

      For example, now I want to use OpenRC in place of SystemD. So I didn't come away from trying Gentoo completely empty handed. But I still need to learn more about it and why I'd want to use one over the other.

      If I can't get into the system to see the benefits of why it does the things it does, I may as well not have bothered trying to use it. 

    4. BashZeStampeedo

      BashZeStampeedo

      It just seems to me like you could achieve the same learning experiences in any old distro that you'll get from using Arch this way. But then as long as it encourages you in some way, it's better than sticking in a rut, I guess.

  17. I recently watched a ThioJoe video where he mentioned what the new WiFi standard 802.11ad was about. It's a 60 GHz WiFi signal that can't go through anything (basically), but is very fast and has basically no latency. 

    One example he gave was that it might be used for VR, where you don't have a tether, and just have the headset with a battery. Or you could use it for TV without an HDMI cable. 

    Well, there is some credence to the VR statement. I'm watching Valve's Dev Days youtube videos and for the VR section, they specifically stated they had invested in a company that was using a 60 GHz WiFi signal to produce a tetherless head mounted display and they liked what they saw in the demo so far.

    So yeah. It's basically happening. Between that, and their prototype controller that allows gripping for the gripping function (i.e. you grip the controller to grab things in VR), I'm very excited for the future of VR. If you let go of the controller, it doesn't fall out of your hand.

    Just.... all my yes. VR is the future. And even if it feels like it's stagnating atm, their video states that there are 1,000 new VR users every day on Steam with 600 apps (over 100 have made $1,000,000 so far). 

    The future looks bright.

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    Yo vitalius, are you still getting rid of the e…

    Agreed. Monopoly is good for no one.
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    Yo vitalius, are you still getting rid of the e…

    I'm going to see if Vega/Zen are worth bothering with. It's not so much that I prefer AMD. It's that I prefer the better $:performance that they tend to give overall. I've never owned an Nvidia GPU personally. But once I decide, I'll be selling my PC by parting it out.
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    Yo vitalius, are you still getting rid of the e…

    Waiting on Vega/Zen.
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    Yo vitalius, are you still getting rid of the e…

    I am but not for a while.
  22. That is true, but I've had quite a few of their products so far. The only one I'd consider "good" was my monitor. Regardless though, I didn't mention overclocking. My GPU is underclocked and my CPU is left at default settings. If I replace my motherboard and CPU, but leave everything else, my system doesn't have the issues it currently does. This includes the following: My system won't boot with the keyboard plugged into the USB ports on the motherboard. My system won't boot with the StinkyBoard peripheral plugged into the USB ports on the motherboard. Dual-booting with UEFI and GPT took quite a lot of trial and error to get working. The settings you'd expect to make it work don't make it work (CSM and Secure boot). I mean I could go on, but there's little point. Some people will have no issues. I have had issues and will not buy ASUS for that reason.
  23. I do not like ASUS because, imo, like companies that "do everything" they do everything "ok" and like one or two things "good". Nothing really great though. I currently own an ASUS X99 Deluxe motherboard. I blame my system stability issues and bugs on ASUS and the X99 platform as a whole. I will not buy anymore ASUS products after this for this reason. Specifically motherboards.
  24. Also, open a command prompt as admin. To do that, right click the start menu button and click Command Prompt (Admin) beside it. Then run this: sfc /scannow It is System File Checker. It will look for corrupt system files. I always do it after a windows update. You'd be surprised how many times it has fixed corrupt files.
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