@JourneymanGeek Yeah mini-ITX probably, but never done a mini-ITX build so feel a little out of my depth in making firm recommendations
I mean, my current case wouldn't look out of place beside the monolith from 2001
I've been reading up on builds but, was wondering if there are any special considerations / gotchas / things to definitely do / avoid beyond the usual common sense build stuff
@PatoSáinz I linked my nephew to that image and his reaction was "wait what"
Adds bulk but you have more flexibility (especially in terms of power) and 5-6 years down the road, you will thank me when your PSU dies and you arn't left with a brick ;p
heatsink height may be an issue for third party heatsinks too
It may get to the point where he just buys a high-spec laptop (can get a fair amount for 900 GBP these days), but if he's considering the alternative might as well do it right with something feasible
hm. So... while I was tempted to let the damned thing die, I'm trying to image my dad's old 80gb laptop drive over to a spare 300ish gig drive. What's the preferred resizing tool for that now? gparted on a livecd?
(I have a recovery partition I'd rather keep so there's some shuffling that may happen)
could you run a Disk cloning tool that allows for resised parttitions and a GUI with little lines to move that represent the partitions, and have it done in one move?
all the disk manufactures have some sort of free tool they provide to do that, and i assume you dont have to be typing stuff in and hoping it was right.
paragon, acronis , and easus all have software that is really simple to use.
The response from typing something in my ssh connection is very slow! The remote system has enough free memory and the cpu usage is not so high (Ubuntu Server 15.04)
@Psycogeek I couldn't figure out an indentation that made sense when editing, so preserved the number of spaces that were there originally while preformat-blocking it (I think)
It's a shame, as it's an otherwise excellent, well-worded and researched question :P
@bertieb oh yea it was a great question, that should hve DIED :-)
and i see it did.
that just leaves telling the user what they could have done, but I suspect that they know, that any forum on the whole web would have had a problem with the way it was presented. Even if that would actually raise the interest (views) of the question.
should be able to be answered at SU: "You need at least an atom", or "a PI would never pull it off with speed", or "an older laptop could do it", or "a nuc". But based on previous experience it still is not likely to be survivable here.
I Am ok seeing 15 answers with ways that people accomplished said tasks with 10 different types of computer equiptment , with thier experience as to how well it does those tasks. that is not opinion, in my opinion .
it becomes opinion :-) when someone says "this advert i saw for some crappy cheap computer thing says it will do all that"
@Psycogeek Aye, options are grand, but they way it was worded invited opinions ("is a Banana Pi the best option?"). Hopefully the edit will get something useful out of it.
"I put one in my wallet" , you what? you sat on it :-) While micro sd cards will fit like 10 in your wallet, I would not put them in mine, nothing else has survived well in my wallet even if it was paper :-) why would i think that a tiny microchip would.
while many of the people saying thier sandisks micros failed completely about 50% of the people (luckily) told where they purchaced it from. some directally some if you read between the lines indicated they bought them from "other" sellers. of that half most of them would have discovered the problem by first fully testing, before using it.
A few of the problems could have been due to "unsupported file systems" when windows did not support EXT file systems, shoving a card in that was formatted with one, would have windows wanting to format it, or at least completely not understanding it and even possibly damaging it when checkdisking a format it did not have a driver for.
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I have a 10 year old slightly obese indoor cat. Recently I was petting his stomach and thought I found what may have been a scab. I scrapped it gently with my finger nail before I had the hair completely clear from the space (to get a better look) and it fell right off. When I was able to clea...
