What Are You Doing Right Now
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver I've built a couple systems with NZXT cases now, and really really like them. They're large, but the internal space is amazing to have compared to the cases I've used in the past.
What about the quality? Thin metal? Sharp corners?
Rolled edges or edges deburred all the way around, no splinters or cut fingers. Metal is a little thin for the size of the cases I've worked with, but they also almost always have thick plexiglass windows on one side of the case, and the opposite side of the case is sturdy. The interiors have always been painted (their mid-range generally), and even with the side panels off are solidly built. No bending from exerting a little to much force. I really like the additional internal fan mount to provide better airflow across the graphics card(s) and top of the power supply as well.
Thanks, but I've got really enough "Windows" running on the machine, don't need any in my case
Would prefer sound dampening foam instead.lol. I see what you did there
I guess it gets a bit cold there to use liquid cooling.
The foam would just cook it
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@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver I've built a couple systems with NZXT cases now, and really really like them. They're large, but the internal space is amazing to have compared to the cases I've used in the past.
What about the quality? Thin metal? Sharp corners?
Rolled edges or edges deburred all the way around, no splinters or cut fingers. Metal is a little thin for the size of the cases I've worked with, but they also almost always have thick plexiglass windows on one side of the case, and the opposite side of the case is sturdy. The interiors have always been painted (their mid-range generally), and even with the side panels off are solidly built. No bending from exerting a little to much force. I really like the additional internal fan mount to provide better airflow across the graphics card(s) and top of the power supply as well.
Thanks, but I've got really enough "Windows" running on the machine, don't need any in my case
Would prefer sound dampening foam instead.lol. I see what you did there
I guess it gets a bit cold there to use liquid cooling.
The foam would just cook it Silent fans?Erm, I live in Germany, not in Siberia
My current PC uses a self-build watercooled system (with a quality ceramic pump from my former aquarium and a Tupperware bottle as a coolant expansion reservoir). I guess I got a little experience here. But I don't see any benefit for the new system in going watercooled.
So yes, would use ultra silent Papst fans (industrial quality).
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Just got back to the hotel. Closed down Touche with @rob.
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver I've built a couple systems with NZXT cases now, and really really like them. They're large, but the internal space is amazing to have compared to the cases I've used in the past.
I'll have to try them again. Last time I built with them the quality was very poor. Metal was too thin and many of the threaded holes were in the wrong spot by a cm or more. Makes it hard to line up components. For cheap cases I've been doing a lot of Rosewill. Cheap but the quality is good enough for what they are.
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Sigh.....10 x 2TB
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@Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Sigh.....10 x 2TB
Problems? Or do you now have to wait on a rebuild?
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Work - and I"m not liking it...
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About time to head over to the conference center.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
About time to head over to the conference center.
I wouldn't be doing that if I closed down Touche with you and rob...haha
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wondering what to do, but have a very strong feeling of Can't Be Bothered!!
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Ug, trying to figure LVM out...
about to kick off Travis' video from ML
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Ug, trying to figure LVM out...
about to kick off Travis' video from ML
pvcreate.... vgcreate.... lvcreate...
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Ug, trying to figure LVM out...
about to kick off Travis' video from ML
pvcreate.... vgcreate.... lvcreate...
Bless you
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Ug, trying to figure LVM out...
about to kick off Travis' video from ML
pvcreate.... vgcreate.... lvcreate...
From the bit I've used it this is really the extent of it. There is some additional nuances but if you get these commands down LVM is much easier.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Ug, trying to figure LVM out...
about to kick off Travis' video from ML
pvcreate.... vgcreate.... lvcreate...
Ok I get
pvcreate: Command not permitted while global/metadata_read_only is set. -
I'm on XenServer 7.. I think I need to use a xe vdi-create command to create the volume first.. then I can mount that as LVM through another xe command.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I'm on XenServer 7.. I think I need to use a xe vdi-create command to create the volume first.. then I can mount that as LVM through another xe command.
After you figure out partitioning, then LVM. One step at a time.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Ug, trying to figure LVM out...
about to kick off Travis' video from ML
pvcreate.... vgcreate.... lvcreate...
Ok I get
pvcreate: Command not permitted while global/metadata_read_only is set.Partition first. And pvcreate requires you to specify the block device.
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Looking at how easy it is to build a coin pusher arcade machine
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diskimage-fu, probably worth a black belt:
Part 1 (in a amd64 VM):
- Download blank Raspbian image
- Create a blank loop file
- Mount both, original image and new image
- Create a slightly modified similar partition layout, format partitions
- Rsync everything to the new image
- Create NFS export from the mounted target
- Flash a modified version of the image (just the boot partition including the kernel and a few firmware drivers) to a SD card. Slightly modify the kernel command line to actually mount the root partition ("/") via NFS
Part 2 (on ARM based device)
8. Fire up your ARM based device with the SD card
9. Modify image (update packages, install software, purge stuff, modify configs)
10. ShutdownPart 3 (within the VM)
11. Flush file buffers, un-export, unmount, un-loop & stop NFS server
12. Flash final image to SD cardCompletely scripted.
My previous plan (using a chroot on an ARM based CPU) worked too, but it was very slow due to the old Banana Pro I had spare. The new version is even cooler because I can run the real environment (incl. the desktop) on real hardware without flashing a full distro to an SD card.
