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7:19 PM

@Ramhound I've left a comment. Even mods can't merge accounts :/

7:32 PM

@DavidPostill, I was hoping to solicit your feedback on this question:

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Q: How to make Firefox in normal mode work the same as in private browsing all the time?

I like always using Firefox in private browsing mode, but there are several issues which are kind of out of my control where other apps will open new Firefox windows, and the default behavior is to open them in non-private mode. What can be done to make the normal mode operate exactly the same a...

@Run5k What do think is wrong with it?

There isn't anything inherently wrong with it. However, a few days ago I passed along this comment to the author.

If you look at the revision history, the OP has (with the best of intentions) posted a screen shot within the question that essentially provides the solution... without really saying so. I'm afraid that is more than a little confusing to the studio audience.

I recommended that he post that as his own answer, but the comment wasn't acknowledged.

@Run5k Ah. I see what you mean. I will leave a comment and clean up.

Thank you, good sir. Overall, it really is a beneficial question... it was simply left in a rather confusing condition.

@Run5k You were quite right to call that out :)

7:41 PM

Thanks again. Needless to say, from my perspective the credit for the working solution is inconsequential, but if I had stumbled upon that question after-the-fact I would scrutinize the screen shot and immediately think, "But that should already work!"

7:57 PM

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8:07 PM

Anyone know a service that shows the price domains were bought for?

@William I think some websites might display guesses but actual pricing might break some customer confidentiality...

@William namebio.com

Another one called "dnsaleprice" came up but the site seems to be offline right now

@SimonSheehan I'm thinking more prices sold by register. The domains had an original buy it now price and was just trying to figure out what that was.

Thank you

8:36 PM

The price is set by the registar

Yes but what was the price originally? Still can't figure this out

Originally, what

oh, so for UK domaiuns, you mean how much did they pay nominet?

No idea.

I'd figure thats company secret

I'm curious, what do you need that info for?

or are you talking about weird domains like .coke?

in each case, it was an auction

and a private one, iirc

@SimonSheehan I would like to make an offer to the new seller on the domains but don't want to low ball or well high ball it.

@djsmiley2k they are most often are fixed buy it now prices not auctions. At least the domains I'm interested in.

9:19 PM

so check the average price for the tld you want

offer that

Quick question - who makes the "best" hard drives at the moment? I think I have a failing drive and want to replace it.

And I'm presuming teh person, isn't actually a registrar?

Normally prices are listed on the site...

I've had a quick look and they all seem to be roughly the same price for 1TB drives.

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Hitachi then?

9:26 PM

@ChrisF Yes. Blackblaze is pretty good for failure stats.

>
High-Level Summary
With 40,000 hard drives, Backblaze knows a lot about the reliability of hard drives and shares the statistics:

78% of drives survive more than 4 years.
The median hard drive survives 6 years.
Drives have 3 distinct failure modes that follow a bathtub curve:
Early “Infant Mortality” Failure
Constant (Random) Failure
Wear Out Failure
As long as the temperature is within spec, reliability is not affected by heat.
HGST drives are generally reliable; Seagate and Western Digital hard drives’ reliability vary by model.

Can't remember how old this drive is. I'm currently experiencing problems writing to it. No problems reading from it (doing backups and copying some folders to the other drive), but backing up a 1TB drive will take a lot of DVDs so I thought it better to replace it sooner rather than later..

@ChrisF What do the smart stats look like?

I can vouch for older WD drives, no idea on newer ones

It might be worth replacing both this one and the 500GB drive with two new 1TB drives.

Every samsung and Seagate drive I've had has died horribly

9:31 PM

@DavidPostill Don't have that turned on. I'm not a good admin of my own systems.

> SMART 5: Reallocated_Sector_Count
1-4 keep an eye on it, more than 4 replace

SMART 187: Reported_Uncorrect
1 or more replace

SMART 188: Command_Timeout
1-13 keep an eye on it, more than 13 replace

SMART 197: Current_Pending_Sector_Count
1 or more replace

SMART 198: Offline_Uncorrectable
1 or more replace

Shameless plug:

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A: How to determine how dead a HDD is from SMARTCTL report

I did some tests and I'm not sure how bad this is Short Answer: Backup this drive and replace immediately. Long Answer: A company called Backblaze has collected data on hard drive failures. It has released that data in company blogs, highlighting which manufacturer's drives failed more often ...

It's not dead yet :)

It's dead Jim.

It's not dead, it's just pining for the fjords!

@ChrisF That's why I suggested looking at SMART. The 5 values above are the ones that tell you it might die next time you look at the drive :)

"I'm currently experiencing problems writing to it." is a sign of imminent failure ...

I know...

9:37 PM

You generally don't turn smart 'On'

you just query it

Though thinking about it I could go for two 2TB drives and mirror them. That's easy to set up right?

@ChrisF Yes. Most modern systems have basic RAID control

Other users more familiar with RAID will probably chime in one which level is best for it.

I'll do that then. The Hitachi drives are a fair bit more expensive (as you'd expect), but Amazon are doing a Western Digital 2TB drive for £63 - amazon.co.uk/Blue-Desktop-Hard-Disk-Drive/dp/B013QFRS2S

I'll have a read up on setting up RAID drives.

Thanks for the help.

I'll probably swap out the current system drive which is 250GB with the 500GB drive once I've got the RAID setup.

9:56 PM

@ChrisF As you've not specified so far, why do you want mirroring?

or rather, why do you think you want it? ;)

@djsmiley2k Resiliency in case one of the drives fails.

ok fine :)

But you have backups, right?

This is the first time I've come close, but I really don't need cloud backup and I don't want to have a pile of DVDs gathering dust.

Hm.

Raid isn't backup, don't be fooled by it

@djsmiley2k The important stuff, yes. But I have a lot of videos that I haven't backed up.

Losing them would be annoying but not the end of the world.

9:59 PM

Ok :)

As someone who's raid 5 blew up, and ate lots of data...

I some how managed to rescue 66%~

@djsmiley2k Yes, I've seen that said before. Hence my need to do some more research. But not tonight as it's getting late and I won't take any of it in.

Sure

feel free to ask me if you want advice.

backups are one of my 'things'.

And I know a fair bit about various raid setups as well.

Ta. I may well take you up on that.

Right, I'm off now. Thanks once again.

Be seeing you :)

10:52 PM

I never watched the prisoner

Father in Law is avid fan of it

Journeyman Geek

@ThatBrazilianGuy er. I don't even remember. Its always been like that and I don't even remember what the config is

@ChrisF hitachi desktop drives are also a pain to find. they are pretty bulletproof

@ThatBrazilianGuy I'd be offended, but I just grabbed a random theme I liked and threw on a banner I did myself. I'm not a designer ;p

@JourneymanGeek I don't bother with port knocking, just use a random port instead

On my home connection infact, I've never seen a bot try and connect to my sshd on it's non-standard port

Now I don't know if this is because thebots don't evne bother looking at the handshake and figuring out how to respond, or they just don't bother connecting to non-standard ports

Journeyman Geek

@djsmiley2k someone suggested it. I didn't end up doing it

11:25 PM

Ah ok.

Though a good key will stop anything, anyway

it's just wether you wnana stop stuff fillin yo logs

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