II_Echelon_II

Hello, i'm a little bit stuck and i'm hoping to find some help here My home network is 192.168.1.0/24. In this network i've got a pfSense firewall running that only serves as an OpenVPN server. It has it's WAN interface connected to my LAN. The problem is that when connected to the VPN it connects me to the virtual network that the OpenVPN server creates. However i want it to connect to my LAN (so the pfSense's WAN). Does anyone how i'd do something like this? Thanks in advance!

Great givaway! Would be the perfect replacement for my little brothers old pc!

I'll probably use it to render gameplay video's. My old CPU will be donated to my little brothers to upgrade his pc and hopefully they'll opt out of buying a console

Like bonehead said, powerline isnt always the most reliable way of providing ethernet. The best way would be running cables trough the house, but it's time consuming. I don't know what distance is between your pc and the router, but i'd vote for connecting your pc via wifi via a dongle or such. When your wifi is well within range, it's fine for gaming and video.

I'm more concerned with plugging it back in all the time and the capacitors constantly charging/ discharging when being plugged in/ out (if thats a thing) It's a Dell PowerEdge R510

Hello, quick question; i recently bought a server that makes a little buzzing noise when turned off. I want it to be completely silent when it's off, so i though about just unplugging it (or hooking up one of those remote controlled power sockets). However i was wondering if it would be bad for the hardware to just unplug it at night and plug in in during the daytime. Thanks in advance! Echelon

Wait until the next generations drops, like OriginalPromise suggests and then buy a last gen card. The 290x is rumored to drop in price real soon. And buying a card that is just released (if your on a budget) would be way to expensive.

I don't expect it to affect the graphics card itself (1 degree at best), but the wifi card itself might get warm... This isnt a big deal either, but moving the card to the lower slot shouldnt be a hassle. You should be able to plug it into the large PCI slot. Your PC will just recognize it as the same wifi card without trouble.

Thanks! I'll check VMWare's HCL before buying!

I don't see how the budget is really related? I'm looking for a system that can run 10 non intensive VM's so you should look according to performance, not according to budget... If you'd build a system built according to budget it'd be tailored for a budget, not for the use. but <€500,- would be nice

I was thinking of an i5, they're a little bit more expensive, but i'm going for quiet so i think i'm better off with an intel CPU. 32GB of RAM should be enough right? And for storage 2x 1TB in RAID1. SSD might be an expension in the future, but as of now i'm trying to keep in cheap-ish Does that sound like something that could work?

Thanks for the reply, but that's is just the basic stuff, i'm looking for a somewhat more specific answer I know for RAM is should at least count 2GB per VM. And CPU something around 1 core per 4 VM's. I wanted to know what you guys think and if what i'm thinking is right, because i'm pretty new to virtualisation servers...

Hey! I made a topic a few days ago asking wether i should go for server or desktop grade hardware for running an ESXi virtualisation server. I went with desktop grade, because i'd be a lot quieter. Now as i'm trying so assemble a server pc i realize... I havo no idea what hardware an ESXi machine requires Could anyone give me an idea what hardware i'd need to run a server like that? It's going to be running 10 VM's maximum, things like a database server, webserver, fileserver, ftp, firewall etc. This will mostly be used internally so i don't expect much traffic or load. It'll mostly be based on linux. I'd like to hear what you think!

Thanks! I'll be going for a desktop, because it'll be in my room all the time and i don't think i'd be able to sleep with the noise of a real server.

Thanks for brining up noise. I was wondering what the noise difference would be? Are servers really that loud? Because a cheap-ish intel CPU could, with a big enogh radioator, almost be cooled passively.

Thanks for the reply! I can get somthing like 2x Xeon X5355 and 12Gb RAM for around 250 euros (HDD's not included). Again i don't know how this stands up against a desktop around that price. I won't be doing anything CPU heavy, so i don't know if a real server would be overkill and if i could better spend the extra money on something else.

Hey, I'm looking into running a little virtualisation server at home with an ESXi enviroment that will run things like a web server, database server, smb fileserver, ftp server and maybe some ubuntu or windows machines. Now i'm looking into the hardware and since i'm pretty new to server hardware i was wondering what would be the better option here. Going for a real (refurbished) server, building one out of consumer hardware (a desktop basically) or maybe building one out of server hardware myself... My budget is around 200-300 euros. I'm not expecting heavy loads, it'll just be used for typical home usage, like backups, media and small databases/ websites thats won't be public. I'd like to hear what you guys think! Greetings, Echelon

I'm sorry to bring this old topic up again, but i fixed my problem, and wanted to post the solution in case someone else ever stumbles upon this topic. First i ran a Windows installation disk and in the first screen that pops up i pressed shift+f10 to get into cmd. I ran some bootrec commands (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392/nl). The disk still didn't boot, but now a at least my pc didn't freeze if i put it in as secondary disk. After that i ran Seagate's recovery software (My disk is from Seagate, but it should work on any) and this finally made it possible to recover my files. Fixing the windows installation just wasn't possible. Thanks!

I'm sorry, but i don't see any of these being well running channels. I'll explain (this is for me personally): A toy channel would be funny, but not something that i'd watch on the regular. Toys are fun, but most of them are basicly useless and they'll almost never will be anything worth spending money on (unless you have money lying around anyway) and so i think the target audience is too small and de video's would be just about stuff that doesnt matter at all. A gaming channel sounds more interesting, although the way Slick did it wouldn't be the form i'd enjoy watching it in. The review was really long and became uninteresting after a while. I think if you'd want to do cheap games with great quality you could do a top five series every month or so with a small explaination about the game and more games in one video. Also gaming optimizing tips en ways to enhance gameplay would be cool. I think it's really cool you are trying to innovate and try new things on LinusTech, but i don't think these ideas in its current state aren't going to do it (at least for me they won't). I hope i helped, i wasnt in any way trying to be an asshole, but i just wanted to give my thoughts.

I'll try looking in disk management as soon as i get home, and i've tried de Linux thing already (as i've explained above). I'll also try some (bootable) data recovery software, so i can bypass an OS to get acces to my disk.

Also tried this, the drive just doesn't show up as a connected device even though the drive is spinning.

Yes, it has the working disk selected as boot driver, but whenever the broken one is attached as secondary it just hangs after POST... With Windows 8, it also hangs after POST, but after a while it start auto recovering the secondary disk.

Yeah, if i stick it in a Windows 7 machine (as secondary disc) it doesnt boot at all, and in a Windows 8 machine it start recovering the disc, which doesn't do anything either. When i try to reach the disk from Ubuntu i get an error saying it can't open the disc, because there is a faulty Windows 8 installation on the disk and it can't be opened.

Dear Linustechtips'ers, I've got a problem... Last night i tried to boot my laptop (which was in sleep mode before), but i instantly got a bluescreen. After rebooting it automaticly started recovering the disk and seconds after it started the screen turned black. I know Windows 8 is notorious for getting a black screen after things like an update or whatever and normally it's just a matter of waiting it out, but this time it just did nothing. The disk doesn't make any weird noises and starts spinning as normal, so i don't suspect it to be a physical problem. Things i've tried so far: Booting in CMD or Safe Mode, but this can only be enabled in Windows 8 itself... Putting the HDD in another pc. A windows 7 machine wouldn't even boot and a windows 8 machine began autorecovering the disk, which did completely nothing. Booting the laptop with a Ubuntu Live CD. Linux booted well, so it's not a hardware problem (besides the disk itself), but when i try to open the disk from Linux, it says it found a corrupted version of Windows and it can't acces the disk. Which i thought was weird, because i'm on a Linux machine. Any help is welcome Greetings, II_Echelon_II

I'm not entirely sure, but if it's required by the developers we can't do anything about it unfortunately I'm kinda doing both I'm looking for a fun group to play with, but i hope they'll play on our server with me.