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There's probably some truth and some embellishment. People get wronged and when they try to right those wrongs they exaggerate the situation for a more desirable outcome. "Because my shipment was delayed I had to stay home and miss a funeral - how are you going to make this right?!" While true, it's likely they never wanted to go to the funeral in the first place. So keep that in mind when reading any complaint - it's probably true but there are also some things stretched out, left out, and misrepresented. Assuming she really cut herself to get time off, it clearly demonstrates she has some deeper rooted issues. Having issues does NOT mean she's a liar, only that her perception of the world and its events are skewed. I think her biggest mistake in coming out, was that statement. It shows 1 - nobody at the office was going to give her shit for needing medical treatment (she said it was the only way to not get "told off" much like with Linus' assistant who had his wisdom teeth removed without any complaints). 2 - Shows that she's mentally unstable.. between the public opinion and very likely in a court of law, will be used against her. While I think if she's been wronged she should definitely speak out about it, I worry in her current mental state whether or not she can handle it. She would probably have a total meltdown if she read some of the shit in this thread. And that's what I mean by she could be telling the truth but not the whole truth. She's proven LMG would give you space and time for medical treatment but painted the picture black with self-harm and that the sick-time she did request prior was used against her. She didn't elaborate as what the "told off" meant but clearly she wasn't taking sick time for medical emergencies. It's easy to speculate and go down that rabbit hole - but clearly there's more to the story. Before rushing to attack her or LMG, maybe wait for more information? Understand she's hurt and is trying to tell her story - even if she's not telling the whole story it's important to listen for the bits that may be accurate.

Just a follow up - my amazon basics tool has failed (decided to keep it while waiting since it was so dirt cheap). I don't know what the rules are about posting links to videos so I'll avoid for now.. but basically while ratcheting lightly on a screw, the selector will move to the middle thus seizing itself. This happens no matter how you hold it, even with 3 fingers on the very far end of it. I've only used it to replace outlets and such, maybe 80-100 screws total. While driving a screw in, you can hear this really sad whine (metal on metal squeal) and then it just seizes. Currently trying out Amazon's "Trust me bro" warranty - they just asked me to return it and will issue me a refund, I'm roughly about 5 days outside of return policy. So honestly while some may get lucky with cheaper ratcheting drivers, I was not and understand a little more why some do cost more. Also to note, my f'ing wrist hurts so much from using this damn thing.

Yea I will walk back my initial thoughts on ratcheting screwdrivers after playing with them - I had always thought they were a gimmick. I found the most difference in screwing in flat head screws. Keeping my hand on the handle the entire time with a little bit of pressure helped keep the bit in place. Truly a god send, don't know why I waited so long. It was definitely possible to twist the klein's shaft to help assist screwing, but being shiny / slippery made it require more finger strength to get a good register on it. The knurling has such a positive grip I found it really easy to spin it. Not needed for sure - but it makes a very noticeable difference. I found myself using it for "speed" once screws were loose. I have a bunch of klein stuff for electrical work, this is my first hand tool from them. The feel of it was definitely top notch, but functionality was lacking. This is my first amazon basics hand tool as well - cheap but does get the job done. Haven't come across mastercraft - honestly for screw drivers and alike I'm very unaware of the various brands.

Since I'm impatient and wanted to play with a ratcheting screwdriver (never owned one, seemed gimmicky) I picked up two from Amazon: Klein's multibit and Amazon Basic's multibit (both ratcheting). I'll be returning both ultimately. Hopefully I'll get in on Wave 4 or 5 and have an update by next year :'(. I've been doing projects around the house and have been alternating between the two to see what my likes / dislikes were... So in summary: Klein: Pros: Very good feeling in the hand (weight and size). Very little movement of the shaft. Double ended bits are nice so if you just need 1 size up/down it is just a matter of flipping it as you move between various screw sizes. Rubber grips were reassuring. The bearing on the bits kept the bits locked into the shaft (thus never stuck in a screw). Bit holder spins. The bits are properly sized (fits well into their respective screws). Cons: No knurling means turning the shaft with your fingers is useless. Ratcheting is very tight and only useful for initial unscrewing or breaking a screw loose - I found myself using it like a regular screw driver once the screw had no resistance. The bit compartment is incredibly locked in (maybe loosens over time?) and I often had to find something to pry it open. There are opposing finger indents that lead you believe you need to squeeze to release - does nothing. The selector is really rough / stiff.. Non-magnetic Amazon Basics: Pros: The bit compartment self ejects once you squeeze the tabs, knurling on the shaft. Selector feels good. Grip is.. ok. Bits never stuck to any screws. Cons: Shaft is detachable (Why?), shaft clearly has a hole at the bottom to catch a ball bearing yet.. the input on the handle has no bearing, just a weak magnet and a prayer keeping it in. Shaft is horribly wobbly and adds to an already low-quality feeling. Every time I swap bits, I have to use a finger to hold the shaft as I remove the bit so the whole shaft doesn't come out. Bit size tolerance is a little loose. Ratcheting mechanism is inconsistent, sometimes it starts to seize up ever so slightly (easy to overcome but not a good feeling). Closing thoughts.. The funny thing is, just because of 2 reasons (knurling and ratcheting) I find myself actually using the Amazon Basics more. I want to use the Klein but the overly tight ratchet and lack of knurling push me away. **Side note: In regards to Linus' deal breaking selector direction - you grab the selector and turn the handle in the direction you're screwing... is the thought manufactures had, I'm sure. This is more of how you use your tools / personal preference in the end though. I can see where if you want to change directions single-handedly using your finger and thumb, it would make sense to do it LTT's way.

Since BETA 2 (and now RC1), I've had issues when accessing a local service directly on my TuesNAS Scale server over a routed IP (192.168.0.10 > 192.168.1.5), but on the same subnet no problems (192.168.1.4 > 192.168.1.5). The service becomes unresponsive after about a minute and then I have to reconnect / refresh. I've observed this behavior in HTTPS/SMB/NFS/SSH. I expect iSCSI would have this issue, but can't be bothered to test since the big 4 experience this issue anyway. However here's the kicker, I can ping through a gateway all day (granted not TCP and not a state so it is different) and I can access a container (nextcloud) hosted on TuesNAS scale through a gateway, without any issue. My gut tells me, it's definitely something in the network stack of Scale that's not happy about something going on. My gateway/firewall is pfsense, and pretty much default - so it /should/ not be closing states at specific intervals. No other service between subnets is impacted, only those hosted directly on TuesNAS scale. Anyone else experiencing this issue?

Had it ever worked prior, and what made you replace the motherboard? Start by only booting it with the minimum amount of RAM (1x per CPU per channel - look at the guide) Make sure you've given the motherboard every source of power it needs, look for pictures online. Consider using your personal computer + virtualbox orr personal computer + docker, instead. The processors from the G5s are so old that a 2019 "Pentium" will give you better performance and energy savings.

You could just convert it to a JBOD enclosure and connect it to whatever you have laying around. Trying to stuff consumer parts in there might get a little tricky otherwise.

If it is a problem it won't kill it right away - I'd put it down there and inspect it every day for the first week, then weekly afterwards. Look for rust and/or condensation on the casing. You could also just put an old computer down there (even if it is 20 years old) to see if it will survive. I'd definitely clean it monthly, or part of the weekly inspections - check dust levels. My basement is finished all for but one room, and that's where my server lives. Going 5 years strong.

Modded minecraft server can get pretty demanding (wanting faster single core + loads of RAM). Anywho, I would get a linux VM going on FreeNAS, install docker, and go nuts. Jails are fine and dandy, but if you're new to the world of linux/freeBSD - ubuntu + docker = widely supported. You'll find more stuff on the internet on getting it setup. Damn near everything has been container-ized, so it will make your life easy.

You could do what linus did, and buy a thundbolt docking station and run it to the server over fiber. Then using microsoft multipoint server or whatever hypervisor you want, assign those IO devices to specific VMs. RDP actually works quite well, are you having any specific issues with it? Also if this is for a lab, you always have the option of VMUG to get a full license for Horizon.

When it plays the video, is the URL using an IP address, localhost, or a DNS name? Timeout means what it sounds like, it tried to reach the resource and couldn't. Is the IIS website bound 0.0.0.0 or a specific IP?

oh I think I'm losing it, maybe it was the whonnock server I'm thinking of - I could've sword they had another server die that was running gluster and it was too hard for them to figure out (or maybe it was just the initial configuration)...

What was he running on the 45 drive machine that went down a while back? I know his wannaco (or whatever the name is) went down a while back too - I think that one was their weird windows / card solution?

SSL protects the data in transit, not the server itself. Large portion of websites are hosted on apache, so I would read some hardening guides, separate it from the rest of your network, and go for it. There are probably a few scripts you can run that will walk through and secure apache. If you use Nextcloud (fork of owncloud, better IMO) they have a hardened OVA you can import into ESXi. I believe their docker varient is also secured. If your reverse proxy isn't secure but your apache server is, it almost defeats the purpose. Reverse proxies work great, just make sure you keep it + the apache server up to date.

I never got a clear understanding whether or not they run hypervisors at LMG. I think their only needs are storage (file shares) and rendering - so not much else. They've shifted from one storage solution to another, though I'm not aware they ever used FreeNAS. Just GlusterFS for a short skinny and then unraid. Last I heard, they are overall just running unraid. He quickly moved away from GlusterFS once he had a node go down and required phone support to recover his data. GlusterFS is a solution to spread out your storage for both redundancy and availability. You can slide the scale via configuration for which is more important. Any speed benefit is merely a side-effect and not the main objective (aside from storage being locally redundant). Think of it similar to a CDN. FreeNAS is a general all purpose storage solution with a GUI backed by ZFS. A lot of storage solutions are offering ZFS because of the data integrity it offers. FreeNAS is well received because it's easy to use, offers many protocols, and has been proven as rock-solid. unRaid is a general all purpose storage solution with a GUI with a focus on virtual machines. Their raid solution is built for fault tolerance while minimizing data loss at the cost of speed. It round-robins files between the disks, instead of writing a single file across many disks. Write speeds can be inflated when you're writing multiple files and the raid has multiple disks. Write speed can also be improved with a SSD buffer. HyperV is a great solution if you just need VMs and not much ealse - free and point and click. Personally not a fan though. ESXi is a great solution for a little more fine-tuning (especially networking) that can be done through the GUI. It also scales out very easily and quickly. Proxmox is a mixture of the two in my opinion, lot of features but maybe you have to drop down to command line once in a while for certain things. There is no cookie cutter answer for what solution works best for each field of work. Each business is unique in how they want to protect their data, meet customer needs, and lean on technology for certain capabilities. So in the end what you have is a box of legos in which you simply need to know which each piece does, and assemble your own castle.

If you're running ESXi, I'd just download nextcloud's OVA.

You didn't mention your domain name, so in my first reply I just made one up to use in my replies. Just whatever your domain.name is.

Do you see netlogon and sysvol when you browse to \\home.lab?

Besides nslookup - is the client and DC on different subnets / vlans? There is quite a large number of ports needed between the two.

pretending your domain is home.lab, have you tried nslookup home.lab?

I would look at switching to nextcloud, FTP can be a bit of a nightmare honestly. Nextcloud will allow you to create share-able links, both with and without passwords.

The importance of defrag'ing manually hasn't been relevant since the early 2000s in all honesty. Since Windows Vista, windows has been auto-defragging to keep everything in tip-top shape. Now as a jaded bitter old man (ish), drive health is a crapshoot. They either will last you, or they won't. Modern drives are smart enough to mark bad/shitty sectors as unusable, so I wouldn't expect performance to dergade regardless of how you use it. At least not in leaps and bounds. In regards to your 100-200gb file, windows store bits of it in RAM (physical or virtual) while it plays musical chairs. My 8TB external has 300gb left, which is what 4%? I'm still getting upwards of 150mbyte/s. I have definitely been removing/adding files of various sizes over the past year, so if it were 2001 I'd expect my seek times to be measured in seconds and speeds to be halved lol. The reason you get conflicitng information is because people have been doing this for 20+ years and have a lot of knowledge spanning many iterations of technology.

There's no turnkey solution, but most NASs (synology / qnap / etc) run on linux and have USB ports. I would look at their addons first (should be able to find them "synology addons") and see if there is already something. If there is such an addon, you'd just buy a SD card reader and plug 'er in. There's probably already a debian based package that will monitor for removable media and pull files off of it, this would require a little more on your part.

Also regarding RAID - what some have done is virtualize a storage solution and pass the controller/HBA directly to the VM. Then there they can create a file server, NFS shares, and use MDADM if they so chose. To give proxmox storage they just create a specific NFS share and connect proxmox to it. This is done more often with ESXi which doesn't have any software RAID support outside of VSAN (license/$$). FreeNAS VM + ZFS + RaidZ.

If you have any "security" concerns, there's less chance of a breakout from a VM than from docker. It is also much easier to move between networks / vlans as a VM than a container. You can over-allocate CPUs (as everyone does), you just have to be mindful. You can also delegate resources (called shares in vmware) to a VM, so even though you over-allocate - your essential VMs get cycles first. I love docker-config, I'm using it at home too. Add traefik to your docker stack which will pul, auto-renew letsencrypt certs and place them in front of your services. Makes life great, just a few extra lines in your docker-config for each container (labels) and done. Easiest reverse-proxy for containers imo. Since you're using docker config, if you do change to proxmox down the road it's dead-ass simple to move it to a VM at least. I would just say down the road it's easier if you already have proxmox in place. You can also look at xcp-ng, a branch from citrix. Lawrence technologies (youtube) is a huge advocate of it, combined with xen orch he's running his business off of it. Plex by the way - no more pull requests to udpate it, if you run it as a VM. Just let it update itself. I've ran plex as a VM for over 2 years and only recently moved it out to my old desktop since I've been using h265. My upload is shit, so the best I can push out is 3 720p streams at once anyway, so I don't need a lot of cores.