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Rodney McKay

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  1. Rather than look for any less expensive equivalents of the parts you've already chosen, I'd suggest just postponing the purchase of an HDD if he could make do with just the SSD until he has another $50 - $100.
  2. I agree, and in fact I recently did, and it's great. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202186
  3. I'm not sure what to make of that statement about a partition. Do you mean that the Windows client and Linux server are running on different partitions on the same computer? If so, then the simplest way to access the Linux data while working in Windows would have been to use the FAT32 filesystem on all your Linux partitions. If you had done that you probably would have had no reason to ask this questions, but this might be a good option for you next time. For now, you could try the new Linux subsystem feature for Windows. I don't use it myself so can't really assist you beyond letting you know that it exists. If these are in fact separate computers that can be operated simultaneously, then TheKDub is right and FTP and/or Samba would be the usual ways to share files from Linux to Windows (or vice versa, or between any other modern desktop operating systems). Each is designed to allow client computers to view files independent of the filesystem on which they're located on the server. Samba makes the shared directories appear as network storage to the windows client and for that reason Samba is the option I prefer for sharing files within a LAN. Once the Windows machine has access, it can be mapped to a drive letter and appear on each reboot. FTP, even if you allow anonymous access, requires firing up an FTP client and logging in. I would only use FTP if I wanted to access files remotely, across an Internet connection. If that's what you need, there are multiple options in Linux, some with encryption and some without.
  4. Sure, Patreon is still an option. I don't see why he needs Vessel, or another third party service provider to do what Vessel did, as long as he has Patreon, PayPal, or the like to be the trusted third party for receiving the money.
  5. I'm assuming they will handle accounts on that server, something like this. 1. Server receives notification of a donation from my email address (PayPal or whatever Linus prefers). 2. Server sends a message to that email address asking me to create a username, or just automatically creates a random temporary username and password allowing me to create the username and password I choose, and in either case notifies me at the email address that was used to send the donation / membership fee / whatever they want to call it. 3. I would now be able to login via https to see some of the Linus Media Group's videos slightly sooner than non-donors.
  6. I don't have specific recommendations for a mechanical RGB keyboard around $50, but I would strongly recommend choosing a brand other than Rosewill, for any parts that matter, even if you have to wait and spend more later for a quality keyboard. I have a glitchy Rosewill mechanical keyboard and a 950W Rosewill PSU which barfed all over itself under much less than 950W load. Mine is a few years older, not RGB, and it's possible that their quality control has improved but I wouldn't count on it. The glitches I've experienced are: 1. micro USB connector to keyboard isn't as secure as it should be 2. in Ubuntu, had to press quotes twice to register once. This is obviously minor and was not reproducible in Debian, so I'm using this keyboard right now, but that only makes it adequate, not something I can recommend. IMO, Rosewill is a cheap knock-off brand, not the lower-price-for-similar-quality brand that I hoped when I purchased the above. I can only recommend that brand for inconsequential gadgets like http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16899261023 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16803009317 and simplistic parts like http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817997010 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812119582 ...and only if they're on sale, significantly below the price for the equivalent part from a reputable brand.
  7. Linus, I don't know if Vessel provided other significant functionality because I literally never tried it, but the only feature you seemed to care about was early access to certain videos, and it seems to me that feature could be implemented in a few minutes, on any server with sufficient bandwidth. All you need that server to have is 1. login credentials for supporters who have earned early access, according to whatever criteria you set 2. automatically upload each video to YouTube after whatever period of time you want, say with a script in cron or anacron. What am I missing?
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