@dafyre said:

@Dashrender I know he has several... but smbitjournal.com is the only one that I have seen regularly mentioned, lol... Usually when something involving a SAN or various RAID versions comes up, lol.

Or FreeNAS

@Dashrender said:

@johnhooks said:

@Dashrender said:

@johnhooks said:

If you're using a newer power supply with Active PFC, a lot of the cheap ones won't work. You'd need to find one that is Active PFC compatible.

We just got two CyberPower CP1000PFCLCD's not too long ago and they seem to be ok so far.

You bought this for a desktop? Did you need extra clean power for a specific purpose?

Ya. The power supply is has Active PFC. We lost power one day and the computer shut off even though it was plugged into a cheap UPS that used a simulated sine wave. We had another outage and it stayed on with this one.

huh - that's what happened here recently with a power blip and my equipment is all on APC 3000 UPSs.

Those say they cover PFC. Truthfully I don't know much about UPS's other than what I found after we had that problem. That's why we got these. They were reasonably priced and were compatible.

@Dashrender said:

@johnhooks said:

If you're using a newer power supply with Active PFC, a lot of the cheap ones won't work. You'd need to find one that is Active PFC compatible.

We just got two CyberPower CP1000PFCLCD's not too long ago and they seem to be ok so far.

You bought this for a desktop? Did you need extra clean power for a specific purpose?

Ya. The power supply is has Active PFC. We lost power one day and the computer shut off even though it was plugged into a cheap UPS that used a simulated sine wave. We had another outage and it stayed on with this one.

We set up Usoris Remote Utilities. It's free for 10 pcs, business or not, and they have a bunch of connection types:

@scottalanmiller said:

It's always HVM by default.

Oh ok. Thanks for the info!

@scottalanmiller said:

Where you trying PV or HVM?

Truthfully I don't know. I didn't see an option for either. I clicked on New VM, then selected CentOS 6 from the template list, gave it a name, picked my ISO from the NFS, picked the server, set cpu/memory, set storage, set network, and then finished.

@scottalanmiller said:

We've been using a lot of CentOS 6 over the years.

I probably screwed something up. I'll try tomorrow just for fun.

I got it in the mail today, and didn't know what it was because it was just in a postal plastic bag. Great surprise!

@scottalanmiller said:

I'm really shocked that CentOS does not work. We do this all the time and it has always "just worked" right out of the "box".

I haven't tried 7. I saw someone else had an issue with 6.x so I figured I'd try a different iso.

@scottalanmiller I have a test XenServer up and running. Thanks again!

(P.S. to anyone who wants to try. Don't use a CentOS 6.7 iso for a VM. I used it just because I had it from trying to install Xen. The networking will not work and you will attempt to fix it for about 3 hours. Then begin to question yourself, because you can't seem to figure out a simple networking interface in XenCenter. Then you will install Ubuntu and it will work fine.)

@scottalanmiller said:

@johnhooks said:

So I've been thinking. Who's the bigger devil out of this mess, Lenovo who was using a channel that was given to them (which lets face it, most people would do - not all but most) or Microsoft for giving them the ability?

This is in reference to the pre Windows executed code, not superfish.

Lenovo is my feeling. Not to get into that debate (because I think agree with how this sounds) but you don't blame the gun, you blame the person who wields it. There are tons and tons of ways to be harmed out there and we can't rely on people not making weapons or tools that can be used as weapons but on the criminals who see an opportunity to do harm and leverage it.

When you put it that way with the guns, I agree.

So I've been thinking. Who's the bigger devil out of this mess, Lenovo who was using a channel that was given to them (which lets face it, most people would do - not all but most) or Microsoft for giving them the ability?

This is in reference to the pre Windows executed code, not superfish.

Who do you use? I have an ASUS and it's been fine so far. I wondered if it's worth it to get something like a System76?

@scottalanmiller said:

@johnhooks said:

So how can we load Linux on through UEFI? They just allow it for now?

Linux itself isn't a thing. Some OSes are verified, some are not. UEFI can be made to be controlled by the user, sometimes not.

Oh ok.

So how can we load Linux on through UEFI? They just allow it for now?

@scottalanmiller Oh ok, I guess that makes sense. I never realized it had to be verified by them, but now that I think of it, who else could verify it?

@scottalanmiller said:

@johnhooks said:

Isn't that the whole reason UEFI exists, so we can't have that happen?

No, UEFI exists to promote Windows lock in.

I guess I should rephrase that, wasn't that the proposed reason, so only verified code could run?

@hubtechagain I have a Lenovo that I got for free, however it has Linux on it so I think I'm ok?

From that link:
"That turns out to be a method Microsoft introduced with Windows 8 to allow the BIOS to execute code on boot up (!?!) called "Windows Platform Binary Table (WPBT)""

Isn't that the whole reason UEFI exists, so we can't have that happen?

If you're using a newer power supply with Active PFC, a lot of the cheap ones won't work. You'd need to find one that is Active PFC compatible.

We just got two CyberPower CP1000PFCLCD's not too long ago and they seem to be ok so far.