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I've always thought this design is very clever.
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Honestly what I felt was most weird about this topic is that there are people out there who feel insecure about it. Never thought about it.. I very clearly prefer female over male vocals for pretty much everything including music and narration. There are always exceptions of course.
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I've been happy with Lastpass. Very convenient.
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I can so relate to that xkcd.. Kept migrating distros until I ended up on Gentoo. My setup won't work now without unofficial kernel patches. I'm happy with it though. It is my hobby.
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I have a working example of this using KVM that I'm using now although I only have one GPU that I'm passing into a guest. Gaming performance on Windows is good but as mentioned there is a noticeable overhead. Windows support for KVM generally seems to not be quite there. It definitely underperforms compared to Linux guests. ESX may not have this problem. In theory you can add in as many GPUs as the hardware will support and pass each into a guest. You can also assign individual USB devices (input and possibly sound devices) to guests for a full desktop experience. You can use desktop parts as opposed to server parts for KVM but VT-d support on the CPU and motherboard is required.
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I'm not particularly driven by morals. I just like to keep things simple and avoid messy hacks where possible. Back when many games were riddled with obnoxious DRM and the pirated distribution was both easier to acquire and cleaner to run, I took that approach. Fortunately, Steam came and made all of this even easier. I have no incentive to pirate the few games I play now. I prefer to pirate music and movies because they come in high quality open file formats, but do not because I feel that the risk now outweighs the benefit in the US. The cost of getting caught is basically financial ruin for life.
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Server OS? Windows? FreeNAS? Linux?
madcow replied to w0lv3r1n w0rm's topic in Linux, macOS and Everything Not-Windows
1GB of RAM per 1TB of storage is a guideline but is in no way a requriement especially for just a home media server. I would not go with any less than 4GB for a ZFS setup but would consider 8GB plenty for most configurations. This is assuming you don't enable options like dedupe. You really should not need it for this kind of application. -
I think this depends on the raid controller. If you have a hardware raid controller it will likely have a proprietary format that only it understands. Even single disk JBODs created on a hardware raid controller often cannot be read directly by the OS. You can still recover the raid in a degraded state but you would need an identical working controller in the new machine and run an import. HBA and software raid - you are fine as long as you run the same software Hardware and motherboard raid - I'm thinking no
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Try to find where BIND is logging. I think Ubuntu sends it to /var/log/syslog by default. Restart the service and see what is failing. 127.0.0.1:953 is for rndc controls. Is there any reference to "rndc-key" in named.conf or any of the include files? Does it point to a file such as /etc/bind/rndc.key? Does the file exist? If you posted your zone file in a code block it would be easier to read.
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I cleaned up my setup:
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Two 4U boxes look the same but the top one has display and audio outputs. It is actually my desktop machine. Cables go out to another room. -
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I want to switch to Ubuntu, just a few questions.
madcow replied to Migals's topic in Linux, macOS and Everything Not-Windows
Yes http://www.overclock.net/t/1205216/guide-create-a-gaming-virtual-machine This is a similar setup using KVM instead of Xen, which I recommend. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=162768 -
Why do people care how their system looks like internally?
madcow replied to PatriotDBoss's topic in General Discussion
My box has no side window and is also sitting in a closet for noise suppression so I rarely see it. I'm still picky about cable management. Whether I can see it or not doesn't matter to me. I can't stand *knowing* that there is a mess in my PC that I can still clean up. I have no practical explanation for it like improving airflow. I'm just bothered by cables that aren't tied down. Then again, things like mismatched colors don't bother me at all. -
It is unfortunately not uncommon for businesses to have Windows 2003 server (or older) systems still in production so yes, you will more than likely run into Windows 10 years from now. Will it be something that is actively deployed to new systems 10 years from now? That is a good question..
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It sounds like it is running silverlight in wine through your browser using pipelight. Found another guide http://www.webupd8.org/2013/08/pipelight-use-silverlight-in-your-linux.html Best method I've seen so far.
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I believe Netflix still does not run natively on Linux. Yes it is web based but I hear there is some browser plugin required that doesn't work on Linux. People have gotten it to work in wine if you don't mind going that route.
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The circular window is an optical drive? I won't buy anything that has an optical drive.
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Modern drives can be mounted in any position without issue. Here is FAQ I found from Seagate http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/195931en
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I give short names by function. Makes them easy to identify and I don't have to do so much typing when I need to SSH in. vm1 vm2 fs1 fs2 ns1 ns2 vpn1 etc.. They aren't all separate boxes. If one server has multiple of the above services the names cname to the same host.
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I just got some 10Gbe NICs to connect my boxes together. It costs more than old IB hardware but it was *so* much less hassle to get working. Driver is in the kernel and performance is pretty much as expected out of the box: $ iperf -c fs2------------------------------------------------------------Client connecting to fs2, TCP port 5001TCP window size: 94.7 KByte (default)------------------------------------------------------------[ 3] local 192.168.127.30 port 48312 connected with 192.168.127.31 port 5001[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 11.1 GBytes 9.58 Gbits/sec$ iperf -c fs2------------------------------------------------------------Client connecting to fs2, TCP port 5001TCP window size: 94.7 KByte (default)------------------------------------------------------------[ 3] local 192.168.127.30 port 48311 connected with 192.168.127.31 port 5001[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 11.1 GBytes 9.56 Gbits/sec
