Root Access

12:11 AM

@SimonSheehan: if all else fails, there's always SSH and irssi

12:34 AM

@Luke questions like these are about as open ened as asking "Is there a God?"

We have to speculate your profile of applications, your workload on those applications, the time, duration and frequency of your backups, the time, frequency and duration of shows you want to record, etc etc etc.

You can't demand a concise answer from a non-concise question

Journeyman Geek

@Luke: from my experience it should work. but there's little advantage to freenas in a VM for regular use, you could just use fileshares (or libraries) off the win7 box

surfasb

I haven't used Freenas in like three years. Have they got support for SMB 2.0?

Arrdem

@sur

derp. @surfasb I suspect that FreeNAS does, but from my time therewith you would be better served by running Ubuntu or some other distro with the same packages just because FreeNAS is so annoying to configure. I also recall that the FreeNAS SMB build is (by transfer benchmarks) much slower than the equivalent packages under Ubuntu or Debian but its' been a while so check me on that.

surfasb

12:52 AM

@Arrdem Yeah, the last time I looked at NAS benchmarks was back in the Vista SP1 days, when SMB 2 started becoming a mainstream word among NAS builders.

I remember finally being comfortable with switching away from FTP transfers without gimping transfer rates.

Arrdem

yeah... I started out with FreeNAS back then too... before I really knew anything about *nix just because it was easy to set up. I have since migrated to SSH-based tools simply because I a) stopped using Windows and b) was really feeling a lag in FreeNAS SMB service. Two hour copy jobs? no thanks.

surfasb

For real. I'm more of a Fedora Core guy myself, but it's all the same.

Luke

1:17 AM

@surfasb That's why I asked in Chat instead of a question. And I didn't realize that FreeNAS sucked so bad...

How about running an actual Atom board and FreeNAS or some other Linux distro on that?

Would I see a big performance difference?

I don't want a ready-made box for my hard drives

Arrdem

1:32 AM

@Luke it depends on your load level... At home I run an old Pentium 4 box with a few USB HDDS tacked on as a file server under Ubuntu 9.04 (Its' only a server, why update?). If you are only looking at light media and file streaming, an Atom board should be all you need. I mean... unless you have wireless-N or solid gigabit network and use every last bit of bandwidth somehow anything you slap together should be man enough to keep up with home requirements. Performance difference from what?

A "real" server?

KronoS

2:01 AM

any c coders around?

Luke

@arrdem as spouses to VMs

*as opposed to

KronoS

2:42 AM

now thats epic

Sathya

3:29 AM

Journeyman Geek

argh...

went to the IBM service center, they had apparently no idea my case got escalated until they called up the call center in malaysia (with a sekrit cheat code). Got the USB case escalated and switched over to here

also, quoted repair price for the fix i need is 950 bucks...

(broken USB port ._.)

William Hilsum

3:59 AM

ouch!

... but, 950... what currency?

Arrdem

5:06 AM

@Luke very dependent on how much oomph your VM host has, but my guess would be that a VM should do fine. Obviously real steel hardware is preferred, but VMs have a cost advantage.

Journeyman Geek

@WilliamHilsum: SGD. its also more than what i paid for it

Luke

5:40 AM

@Arrdem chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/2281224#2281224

Sathya

lolwut

Journeyman Geek

India? ;p

Sathya

@JourneymanGeek yeah..

we've the inaugural F1 race this weekend ;p

Journeyman Geek

6:00 AM

least it isn't a cow. They don't move unless they feel like it ;p

Sathya

ahahah :p

studiohack

or a bull :P

love the countdown @dma57361 :)

lovesh

6:49 AM

0

Q: revert resolution change in windows 7(screen gone black after change)

i changed my screen resolution from 800x600 to 1280x1074 and now window starts up but there is no display and a message comes on a black screen saying No input connected. i can only start windows in safe mode. I checked in safe mode but there was no restore point available. I am using windows 7. ...

i m badly stuck at this can someone help?

hi @Sathya got a minute?

Sathya

start in safe mode, change the resolution, reboot.

1

Q: Change screen resolution while in safe mode for normal mode

A screen of mine burnt out, and was replaced with a screen of lower resolution. It works in safe mode as that is in 800x600 resolution, but when I try to boot to normal mode, it fails. Is there a way to change the resolution for normal mode in safe mode?

windows-7 screen-resolution safe-mode normal-mode

lovesh

@Sathya this is not working

Sathya

define not working. Did you change the resolution or did you just boot and restart?

lovesh

change the resolution and rebooted too

@Sathya Also i enabled the 600x480 mode but still the same

Sathya

7:05 AM

@lovesh afaik you can't select 640x480 in Win 7. 800x600 is the minimum. Set it to 800x600.

lovesh

there is no 800x600 mode in the safe mode menu that appears when i press F8

Sathya

@lovesh ?? boot into safe mode & select the resolution after right click desktop -> properties

0

Q: Meta questions not delivered to Inbox

There were a whole bunch of meta questions asked in Super User over the past few days. However none of these were delivered to my inbox What's up with that?

bug notifications global-inbox

@DMA57361 @DMA57361 @studiohack you folks facing the same ( ^^ ) problem?

studiohack

7:21 AM

@Sathya I've been getting them, I think... yup, confirmed that I got it, at least the most recent one

DMA57361

@Sathya I've got the last one from SU as far as I can see

Sathya

@studiohack @DMA57361 weird. Nothing here.

studiohack

interesting. sounds like an isolated bug @Sathya?

DMA57361

hmmm the "not a dupe" question might be missing thou

Sathya

let's see..

DMA57361

7:23 AM

yes, yes it is

studiohack

@DMA57361 its missing or its there?

DMA57361

"Deletion notifications" was my latest (I was mis-reading a "you've got a comment on question X" as notice for question X) :P

lovesh

@Sathya i have done that and applied the changes. the resolution changes in safe mode but when i reboot into normal mode again there is a black screen which says input not supported

Diago

How do you embed comments in chat again?

Sathya

@Diago no can do..

studiohack

7:31 AM

use a > and copy paste @Diago

like so:

> hello testing!

Sathya

ninja'd by @studiohack >.<

DMA57361

there's a user script that lets you do /ob <commentURL> IIRC

studiohack

Cheers! :P

William Hilsum

@JourneymanGeek ouch - sorry to hear that... is there anything you can do? :/ That seems rather excessive - In England, I used to do board level repairs, but, it just takes far too long and the profit wasn't there - so I ship them to another company now.... It should really cost more than £50 for a socket if that is all it is - or £100 possibly maximum at retail.... £5 if you have a steady hand and can do it yourself!

@studiohack Thank you!!! I tried everything a while ago! Maybe I overlooked it, but, I couldn't find it in the FAQ or anything - maybe I should of just asked!

studiohack

@WilliamHilsum what?

what message are you replying to? @WilliamHilsum?

William Hilsum

7:39 AM

@studiohack How to do

a > test

ok... didn't work :/

studiohack

@WilliamHilsum ahhh

use a space between > and the block @WilliamHilsum

like so: > testing @WilliamHilsum

William Hilsum

> Cool! Thanks - I swear I tried everything a while ago... Should of just asked here!

studiohack

cheers @WilliamHilsum :)

DMA57361

Right. I've class to run off too; catch you all later.

William Hilsum

@DMA57361 have fun

Now lets complain about mass censorship! :P lol, thanks!

Sathya

7:48 AM

clean up, ship-shape ;p

Diago

@WilliamHilsum Go ahead. Complain away. We have a trash bin room somewhere we can move it to oblivion.

Sathya

Journeyman Geek

8:09 AM

@WilliamHilsum: its apparently getting escalated through the local service desk, and to lenovo (their local support is IBM). If that fails, my dad knows someone who knows someone....

William Hilsum

@Sathya What is that meant to be of?

@JourneymanGeek Good luck!

Journeyman Geek

@studiohack bulls tend to be better behaved

@WilliamHilsum: eh, i will need it. I also really need to look at replicating my setup on a VM or another system for backups sake. lucky for me, this system has almost nothing thats not backed up in such a way i can't just reinstall and copy over stuff to %appdata% or such

also, the fix for the broken USB port is to replace the whole system board >_>

William Hilsum

@JourneymanGeek That's cool... If low CPU usage, you may want to see if you can get the HP Micro Server in Singapore - I am so impressed with it for £100 in England... As I said previously - sucks compared to an I3 in performance... but, costs half in electricity to run and fully esx compatible

Journeyman Geek

@WilliamHilsum: I have enough hardware to cover it. Its the actual work involved ;p

William Hilsum

@JourneymanGeek I know that feeling :( Not enough hours in the day!

Journeyman Geek

8:20 AM

ya

least i got the backups done

studiohack

8:34 AM

@Sathya I did not get a global inbox notification for the latest meta post on SU (about that question that we mods converged on)

Sathya

8:54 AM

@WilliamHilsum @JeffAtwood tweeted that, it's a comparison of BF2 v/s Bf3, ie comparison of how much graphics in games have changed over past 5 years

William Hilsum

@Sathya Ahh, ok - thanks!... I don't think I have played a "proper" game in ages... To be honest, the first one did look a bit blockey, but, I could of sworn the second was a real picture if you hadn't of said that!

Sathya

10:15 AM

heads up Super Users

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DMA57361

12:31 PM

afternoon all

William Hilsum

Afternoon!

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