@ScottPack All of a sudden, the cook is everyone's confidant. The central hub and recipient of all gossip on the ship. Yet, someone we don't hear about him until the final episode?
uuhm the requirements. It should be a NAS. One massstorage HDD two small hdds inn a raid. Hence min 3SATA interfaces. It should serve as nas (samba for xbmc), webserver, utor-server and linux playground. It should run 24/7, hence be lowpower. I do not need much ressources. Even a Raspberry Pi met the requirements but the rPi has not SATA.
@MDMarra It's not brutal... It's just not the happy ending everyone was hoping for... IMHO, it was a good ending, it's just a reflection of human nature, and humans suck sometimes.
@DevNoob So grab a shuttle barebones PC and stick whatever you need in it. I think they even make some boards with an ARM CPU on it nowadays if you want real low power
I wish BSG had explored more of the history of the universe... Like Cobol, or the remnants of the colonies, or the several other planets they come across.... Not sure which ones I can mention by name.
Also, the Caprica series was slow, forced, and lacked all the story telling qualities of the BSD miniseries. And the CGI was bad to top it off. And the use of technology sucked, way too "mystical" and semi-religious. BSD simply avoided the typical tech-pitfalls by waiving the "BSD uses ancient technology because they're a bunch of techno-phobes" wand.
@MDMarra The writers felt like any explanation they tried to come up with would be terrible and would only make the whole thing worse. So they decided to have the characters mention it, have Worf refuse to speak of it, and then move on.
@DevNoob Spinning disks up and down constantly is the main thing that kills them (heat change). The money you save in spinning them down will likely be a smaller amount than the proportion cost of their shortened live. (eg, You save $50 in electricity by cutting the lifespan of a $200 disk in half. That's a $50 loss overall)
@MDMarra They're the same. MS renamed SMB to CIFS when they were going to open source the standard (Sun was working on WebFS at the time, I think it was related to NFS, but really don't know)... MS started published standards, but stopped when it became apparent WebFS wasn't going to happen either.
It's the relative path that has to be 250ish char or less, so if the user just saw it as My Documents\really fucking long name with a forklift.doc it would be fine but when you copy it from the server and it's D:\users\shares\username\documents\My Documents\really fucking long name with a forklift.doc then it's too long to manipulate
If you can rename it and it works, then that's good. If not, you might have to use a drive mapping or some tricks with subst to get it to work
@DevNoob These guys probably get sick of me blathering on about them, but I'm a big fan of the HP ProLiant Microserver. I've got two of the N40L variants at home and HP have just announced a new series so prices for the older ones should drop soon. It's got a dual-core 1.5Ghz CPU, 2GB RAM and a 250GB included, and has 4 hard disk caddies. Also motherboard-mounted USB for if you needed it.
@voretaq7 I can see a managerial headache in it, but if it's on the desktop or on a file server, unless the PC just isn't being backed up, it's six of one and half-dozen of the other.
The reason I bring it up is because back in pre OS X days, if you had too many file on your desktop, you'd corrupt the desktop configuration files (or some such) and "Did you rebuild your desktop?" was a common question on the list of first-tier troubleshooting attempts.
@ChrisS I had a 4U rackmount case with cobbled-togther system and a set 3x 2TB disks in it for my files. I've just sold it (will be delivering it later) without the 2TB disks in, just a 250GB boot disk as it's just massive and will be moving the disks to one of the MicroServers and putting Nexenta on it.
@ewwhite Well, no - from a conceptual POV. But I was curious if there was a technical issue you were coming up against. If it's just "This is how we've always done it" there's nothing IT can or should do about it unless there's a technical reason to force the change.
But yeah, if you're having a headache with backing up user PCs and redirecting folders, then drop the hammer.
I just redirect everyone's everything so they can do whatever they want and rock on with their bad selves - it's all on the file server anyway (which hopefully is backed with block dedupe / compression)
@ewwhite I sort of agree with @WesleyDavid. There are bigger fish to fry there. Sure we know it's a shitty way to organize, but it's all being redirected to the same place as documents and it's all being backed up
@WesleyDavid The church I volunteer my time and some money to, they had the same problem. So I bought them an SBS 2011 server, set up off-site backups, gave everyone a network share to save to, and at the moment there is about 5 files on the server and everything else is on their desktops and they transfer files to eachother via USB
that was 2 years ago; it was a losing battle so I just gave up and set a GPO to back up everyone's personal files to the server every night and cross my fingers they never have a fire
@voretaq7 Transfer seems a non-issue. Redirect folders, backup jobs - one and the same unless this is some half-duplex 10/100 network we're talking about.
@ChrisS 2010 with latest sp/patches. Problem seems to go away when I disable cached mode in the client (which breaks other stuff we need cached mode for )
@voretaq7 But yes, redirected folders does cause more storage to be used if people don't have a common area to dump their stuff. Thus my obsession with dedupe and compression.
@MarkHenderson - random image...ewwhite's desktop pic reminded me of the youtube video and "I can't put your desktop icons back, you can't arrange by penis!"
@voretaq7 In our office here we start our weekly full dev server backups at 5pm on a friday; they finish at about 9pm on the Sunday. Thats what happens when you cram 10 servers, each with about 3TB of files, through a single GiGE link to a NAS that has an Atom processor and 5400RPM drives :p
@srikanthchandrasekaran Our trusty mod @Iain refers to it as a "digital locker room". I'm not sure I understand, though, I've never been in a locker room.
Anyone here know about a GUI windows application that lets me create a photo slideshow using html, css and javascript and also lets me view the code after creating the slideshow?
@srikanthchandrasekaran Seriously, this is chat for ServerFault. We look after servers in some form or capacity. You probably want a StackOverflow chat room.
Or, another woman, "OK, click the "Start install button, please. It will take about 10 minutes to install", then we just chat idlly for about 10 minutes, and I say "How is the install going?" "Oh, haha, I forgot to click Start! So sorry!"
I told them the usual procedure was to run out of the room screaming and hit the fire alarm button. They complained. Not because I told them to run during a fire evacuation, either.
Best one though was I was talking to a husband, fixed his problem, and he goes "Uhhh, ok, listen, my wife wants to speak to you. sorry." he hands the phone over and this woman goes "WHERE THE FUCK IS MY REFUND YOU CUNTS IM GOING TO COME OVER THERE AND CUT YOUR HEAD OFF!"
