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  1. madcow
    What world are you from? Here we have Comcast.
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    Google is evil. I keep trying to at the very least switch from chrome to FF but chrome is just so much faster.. I'm still using 3 gmail accounts and an android phone (Nexus of all things) which would be very hard to get rid of though.
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    Still using gentoo on the desktop. I'm wanting to move to something less of a resource hog (i.e. no compiling needed) and lower maintenance but I haven't liked anything else enough to replace it. I've started using Ubuntu on some home servers.
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    If you're looking for something cloud based Amazon Glacier might be a good option. $0.01 per GB per month so cheap if you stay around a few hundred GB. http://aws.amazon.com/glacier/
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    Mainly here for build logs and show your PC threads.
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    Is this actually a problem? I was thinking it is a feature to only load and render content that you can see.
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    Finally updated http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/21948-ltt-10tb-storage-show-off-topic/page-25#entry1009417 It was pretty outdated. Please update the data when you get a chance Hardware: Main See this post. Backup CASE: Supermicro SC846BE26-R920B PSU: Built-in redundant 920W MB: Supermicro X9SCM CPU: Xeon E3-1220 RAM: 16GB ECC RAID CARD: LSI 9211-8i flashed to IT mode. Chassis backplane has built in SAS expanders. SSD: Intel 710 100GB (OS) HDD: Seagate 4TB x8, Hitachi 3TB x10 (62TB raw) Software and Configuration: Gentoo Linux ZFS with 2 raidz2 vdevs (about 48TB usable on each box) Usage: ZFS, NFS, KVM hypervisor See for details: link Photos: Main above, backup pulled out below: Backup: vm1 ~ # zpool listNAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOTz2 56.2T 41.8T 14.5T 74% 1.00x ONLINE -
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    The main box is actually down from 70TB to 64TB now. The 3TB disks were moved to the backup machine and I am now running 16 4TB HDDs. Total between the two builds would be 126TB. The setup is expensive but didn't happen overnight. I almost always buy disks on sale and only ever buy the cheapest desktop drives. I'm also more of a server guy than a desktop guy so this is where all of my PC funds have been going for some time.
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    I need to update my posts at some point. I've done a lot of rearranging of hardware and have had a second box with 62TB of raw storage for some time now. It is mostly cold standby though.
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    Has Ubuntu moved to systemd in their latest release? If not it may be better to go with a distro on systemd as like it or not, that is where things seem to be heading for Linux in general. I know Fedora 20 uses systemd and is easy to install and should work mostly out of the box.
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    Regarding 8TB drives, yes it is very cool but I wonder.. where will SSD pricing be at by the time these drives become affordable for consumers? At the rate they are growing SSD for mass storage may be realistic in a few years.
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    Irrelevant according to Seagate http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/195931en
  13. madcow
    Monitor arm/stand. You can get good single and even dual monitor stands for less than $50.
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    Portability is my favorite feature of Linux Everything is a file and config files are human readable. Replicate configs between systems just by copying the files. Automate the task by having a script write the files. Copy (running) OS just using the common cp -a command to another boot media and have it just work. Target media can be pretty much anything including USB flash drives, VM disks, iSCSI disks, chroot environments, and ramdisk where the disk can be dynamically created and populated by initrd during boot Modular design. I've seen ancient Linux 2.4 systems P2Ved and paired with a 2.6 kernel that booted and ran without issues. Amazing!
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    Are you using the FQDN or just hostname? The names you are using must somehow be resolving to your public IP.. Not sure what else to say than try using the FQDN and check your DNS zone.
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    KVM
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    I try to keep the hardware setup simple: VM side of things is more complicated. As you can tell I stopped trying to make the diagram pretty Red is the WAN network Black is the LAN network with a route to the internet Blue is the internal network for accessing storage The docker network is actually a separate natted network and should be a different color Dotted line indicates inactive connection.
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    The SSD is very noticeable if you do any multi tasking. I recently had a chance to revisit an OS running on a spinner drive and I was surprise to find that I could not even launch a few web browser windows while installing some software in the background.
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    External as in like something over USB? Try searching for "windows to go" It is a win 8 feature to create a portable USB bootable windows environment. It is officially only supported on the enterprise version but I hear it is not difficult to get working on regular win 8.
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    Uchuu senkan yamato. Some of this stuff is legendary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Blglm47fm6I
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    Those are some strange issues. I think you should try another distro. I recently had great success with the latest Fedora on a laptop. Recommended.
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    I'm a silence freak. Silence is addicting. I don't even want to run a laptop for very long because the little fan starts to bother me. I've been through these phases: Phase 1: Replace fans. Phase 2: Replace components with lower power and quieter models. Phase 3: Move PC to another room (and run long cables to peripherals). I can still hear the damn thing through a door. I'm thinking the next phase would be building an acoustic foam barrier.
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    HAProxy may work for you. I'm not too familiar with the software but I've seen it used to redirect HTTP traffic to another IP. What is "Dedi"? I did a quick search but didn't find anything seemingly relevant.
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    I can do many but the skill has a 5 min cooldown
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    You probably won't have to change anything on the primary site firewall.
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