@coliver said:

@Minion-Queen said:

Roads seem good here, not on them or going anywhere but traffic is moving well.

Normally they are pretty decent... but it looks like our plow drivers were caught with their pants down. Normally I see two on my way into work this morning I didn't see any and the roads were in bad shape. Although I am leaving 30 minutes earlier then I did last winter so that may have something to do with it.

Roads were fine here this morning. The people driving on them were not... My 35 minute drive turned into over an hour thanks to everyone going 30mph. It's winter, I get it, I left 15 minutes earlier than normal and arrived at the office 10 minutes latter than I should. People are so much fun to work with that I decided inanimate idiot-savants were the easier.

@BRRABill said:

Seems the Interwebs are very annoyed that Microsoft is axing Windows 8 support. Reading through the comments on Facebook.

You mean someone liked it? Guess people liked Vista and ME as well shakes head and walks away

@dafyre said:

@travisdh1 said:

@dafyre First absurdly dumb questioning here (hey, it's what I'm good at.) By your use of fail over cluster, that means you're setting this up at the SQL server and not the OS level, right?

Not this set, no. This set will be done as a File Server. I figured out part of what I am doing wrong, but I am waiting on my boss to give me an available IP address, lol.

Good! I'll buy the first round if we ever meet up.

Also, looks like I need to dig into this DAG thing.

@dafyre First absurdly dumb questioning here (hey, it's what I'm good at.) By your use of fail over cluster, that means you're setting this up at the SQL server and not the OS level, right?

@anonymous said:

Does anyone make a cheap raid card?

Inexpensive raid card no. Inexpensive HBA card, yes.

@anonymous said:

@travisdh1 Can you get it fixed so it runs a service too?

Next time. I didn't put an init script for it together as this one was just the first step. If I continue to use it I'll definitely clean it up, make it smaller, and hopefully get an easy-to-deploy init or systemd startup script running as well.

@scottalanmiller said:

Why is he building Asterisk from sources!!!! What is wrong with people?

http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1387043-ubuntu-make-error

@scottalanmiller said:

I. Can't. Even.

http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1387039-geek-squad-as-a-managed-service-provider

I keep this on my phone to pull out for just these situations. Picard Facepalm Tho we might want to go straight to Double Facepalm today. Hopefully we won't move on to the triple facepalm!

If I start using it properly I'll re-roll this as a minimal install. Now that I've used it a bit I don't know why I bothered with even a lightweight gui. Next time I'll see how small I can make it.

@anonymous said:

Where is the link? o_0

That might help! xoserv.ova

I've been using calendar.google.com since I accepted that at least one company will know more about me than I do myself. I've got other apps pulling the schedule in as well.

@mlnews Only took them 6 months to get around to it. Did they even send a unit to one of the DD-WRT devs? Doesn't seem like it anyway.

Stallard Technologies (www.stikc.com) has PowerEdge 1950G2 in stock. They aren't something I'd want to keep turned on all the time, but they do include the basic DRAC. 32GB RAM and 2 E5345 CPU runs ~$200. I'd imagine one of those would be enough to start.

@christophergault said:

@scottalanmiller Damn, I still have allot to learn about all this...

You're asking the questions to learn tho. We all had to start somewhere, hopefully you can learn from our mistakes!

@johnhooks said:

I thought SSD's would eliminate the need for RAID. But I'm still on the fence about this.

Wow, missed that the first time through. Where did THAT idea come from?

@johnhooks said:

So we're supposed to take "tech tips" from someone who runs a server with 3 RAID 5's striped together in Windows with no backups? And apparently that server not only stores everything, but does their video encoding......

Running a business off a home built server with consumer class SSD drives. Consumer class drives and no backups are the problems here. So sad from someone who really should know better.

@BRRABill said:

Interesting tidbit you may or may not know. (I am sure you do.)

While the H310 DOES support single drives non-RAID), the H710 does NOT. You can use a single drive by creating a single member RAID0 array.

Not that you wouldn't always use RAID in a server. Just thought that was interesting.

Good to know with my predilection for software raid, in that specific usage case an H310 will be just fine should I need another HBA.

@JaredBusch said:

@quicky2g said:

This thing is looking pretty slick:

http://www.auramedia.tv/

I don't want to pay $150 for a tv tuner and DVR.

I don't need all the other features. I just need a tuner and DVR. I already have ways to stream all the things.

A usb dongle and a laptop set to never hibernate/shutdown. Your choice of software to make it work, lots of options available.

@coliver said:

@travisdh1 said:

@coliver said:

Played a few training missions in Elite Dangerous last night... wow is that hard to play with a controller. It was either that or the ship I was using was very slow, training mission so understandable. It feels awesome and the game looks amazing even on my slightly outdated gaming PC. I can see where playing this with a Rift or other VR would be phenomenal.

I'm really not a fan of the training missions, and most of the missions you find on the in-game mission board aren't worth doing. The Sidewinder you start out in is the most maneuverable ship in the game, and worst in every other aspect.

I'm travisdh1 in-game if you want to friend me, I'll try to give you a hand starting out. Only worked my way up to a Viper so far, which is just plain mean. It's only got 2 guns, but they're both Large hardpoints. Damage has a bit of a different model than many other games I've played. If you're attacking a larger vessel with small/medium weapons, the weapons don't do as much damage. So the Viper is the small ship with big guns that take down the bigger ships quickly, which means making much better bounties while hunting criminals (my favored way to make money.)

I'll add you in game. I'm playing the training missions to get a hang of the controller, it is going to take a long time before I actually pilot proficiently with it unfortunately.

Oh, I forgot the biggest starting detail of all! Those training missions give you fixed weapons. You rarely hit anything with those initially. Get in game and do a cargo run so you can pickup a gimbaled weapon or two! You'll actually hit things when you shoot at them (unless you're a LOT more patient with getting used to the controls than I was.)

@Kelly said:

Looks like SlingTV would only get me part of the way there since it doesn't carry the major networks (CBS, NBC, ABC, and FOX). Hmm

Just break down and spend the money to put an aerial antenna, and a motor to turn it if you want to get really fancy. You should be able to pickup a good number of the local channels you'd otherwise miss that way. If you're close enough to the transmitters, you might be able to get away with an indoor model. You'll save tons of money in the long run.

@coliver said:

Played a few training missions in Elite Dangerous last night... wow is that hard to play with a controller. It was either that or the ship I was using was very slow, training mission so understandable. It feels awesome and the game looks amazing even on my slightly outdated gaming PC. I can see where playing this with a Rift or other VR would be phenomenal.

I'm really not a fan of the training missions, and most of the missions you find on the in-game mission board aren't worth doing. The Sidewinder you start out in is the most maneuverable ship in the game, and worst in every other aspect.

I'm travisdh1 in-game if you want to friend me, I'll try to give you a hand starting out. Only worked my way up to a Viper so far, which is just plain mean. It's only got 2 guns, but they're both Large hardpoints. Damage has a bit of a different model than many other games I've played. If you're attacking a larger vessel with small/medium weapons, the weapons don't do as much damage. So the Viper is the small ship with big guns that take down the bigger ships quickly, which means making much better bounties while hunting criminals (my favored way to make money.)