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You got it mixed up. OS X is free since 10.7 I believe. OS X server is $20. I think it was a bit more expensive in the past, $80 perhaps?

@geertcourmacher said in Raid 6 Amateur File Server Setup Questions:

Certainly at least one familiar face, thanks indeed for linking to my original thread;) I am here due to recommendation from SAM (since I couldn't post without moderation over at spiceworks).
I got a free Win10 via an upgrade from 7, hence no Windows tax (well, you know, having paid for it at some point of course but not now).
Your guess regarding SMB is correct, that is indeed how I have been accessing the files via Kodi so far.

I do not insinst on Windows if there is a good reason for not using it, at all. I know it's not the best OS by far, although for my normal usage it kind of is (Office Suite, few decoding tools, some Games); but that's not on the server, of course. I wouldn't have bought a licence though.

Would you be willing to switch to Plex server instead of Kodi? I haven't used Kodi personally, I have Kodi client box at home with Plex plugin, to access Plex server. Plex opens up a lot more possibilities, both client side and server side. The only possible downside is server side transcoding, stronger CPU is required to handle that smoothly.

@anthonyh said in Raid 6 Amateur File Server Setup Questions:

If I understand correctly, you're looking to set up a "NAS" basically, right? If that's the case, I would recommend looking into something like FreeNAS/NAS4Free/OpenFiler. These are Linux distributions geared towards the system being a file server. There are other features built in that you may or may not benefit from, but it may be worth it over running Win10 on the box.

I've had very good success with software RAID under linux. mdadm has served me well. I've done RAID 1, RAID 5*, and RAID 10 and all performed nicely.

*Avoid RAID 5 like the plauge. I had an older PPC G5 Xserve running Debian set up in my garage not doing anything important. Those things could only hold three 3.5 inch drives. If I was able to put a 4th drive in I would've totally gone RAID 10.

FreeNAS and NAS4Free and BSD based. OpenFiler is Linux based, however, it's abandoned project. It hasn't been maintained for years. And even then, it wasn't any good.

I work with a few mechanical engineers, I'd have to say, go for it. Finish that degree. Their job is a lot more interesting than mine.

Quick example, I have a real mortar sitting just a few feet from my desk. It doesn't have a firing pin, but it can be easily added. Guess who designed and build it? Hint: not me.

@scottalanmiller said in Why is VMWare considered so often:

@Carnival-Boy said in Why is VMWare considered so often:

I haven't tried Unitrends free with ESXi free. I may give it a go. What exactly are the limitations?

Limitations are that you can only back up eight VMs tops, that it treats them as physical servers and requires you to install an agent onto each one and it can't take an image of them so you lose the Unitrends features like being able to restore to disparate hardware or do automatic recovery and recovery is slower. And there is an ongoing dispute as to whether or not it really offers this. I keep asking and the answer is different each time, I can never get a straight answer. We don't use the free version so never play with it, but I ask "can it do ESXi Free" and they say yes, they I ask if it uses agents and they say "no, you can't use agents." So does it or doesn't it? no one knows.

I use it at home, and yes, it requires agents if running free ESXi.

I find this guide really confusing. Plex installation should boil down to downloading package with wget and installing it with yum. That and opening firewall ports should be entire guide. Samba is really irrelevant here. Besides, why would anyone want to add anything to Plex manually? That's the job for Couchpotato, Sonarr + Jackett, Headphones and similar apps.

@Dashrender said in Health insurance plans:

I consider my plan pretty OK, perhaps not great, but definitely not bad.

Now the other plan I just heard about (and also confirmed is completely possible) is as follows:

Premium per month: unknown
Employer pays 100% of premium
Deductible is $8000, after which 80% of covered costs are paid.

HSA is the same as above as federally mandated.

This plan seemed outrageous at first, but after an offline discussion, it is this way because the employer wanted a lower premium cost.

That plan is in violation of ACA, max out of pocket per year is $6850 (it goes up next year), after that insurance must cover 100%.
Either way, the only acceptable insurance plan is the one when it costs me $0. No deductible, no copays, no out of pocket expenses. Unfortunately it won't happen in US.

Try different router, the one Verizon gives you is low grade consumer junk. It does look like Verizon is doing something with that port since your user can access it outside of your network. It could be Godaddy as well, they run Cpanel I think, there are some filters there that can block certain traffic based on whatever triggers the filters. Perhaps someone got infected and was sending too much spam and now they filter that ip address?

Call both companies and threaten to close the checkbook if this is not resolved promptly - give them 24h, then start shopping. Both Verizon and Godaddy are scumbags, so really no reason to stick with them.

1. Why?
2. Android doesn't run on iPhone, iPhone is used as a display here.

@Dashrender Some RAID controllers have certain limit on number of URE they encounter before marking drive as failed. I had that happen on some LSI controllers, but the numbers were really high, perhaps in thousands.

F....ing lawyers Who cares how someone found out about it, it's out there, in public, game over.

You need to stop worrying about additional cost, it's not your money. The company has decided, period. Use this as an opportunity to learn some new stuff. And if you have any influence in purchasing decisions, why won't you recommend switches that you want to play with? You're leaving in about a year, so why would you care if they buy POE switches or use power bricks.

Virtualize the server. Then your entire backup/restore procedure involves 1 file, with the right backup solution. Veeam and Unitrends both have free editions available.

@DustinB3403 said in Games that operate better on *Nix:

@marcinozga said in Games that operate better on *Nix:

Tux Racer!

See that game is so beast. . . to bad it runs like shit on windows. . .

Blasphemy, we need to get you an exorcist

I have Malwarebytes and Clamav on Mac, so no active monitoring, I might run a scan once every few weeks/months. No AV at all on Linux/BSD boxes. No Windows machines at all. My brain is the best AV.

Oh, that's a cli script, I thought you were calling it with browser. Try this:

php -d memory_limit=2048M admin/cli/mysql_compressed_rows.php --list

@WLS-ITGuy line Loaded Configuration File: will give you config location.
See what the memory limit is set there.

https://forums.atomicorp.com/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=8539#p44057 - this is step by step guide for Centos 7.

Do it. I always name and shame, it's the other party that has something to lose. And send them an invoice for lost time, and if they don't pay, send it to collection agency, lmao.

Does anyone have documented process how to perform such migration (6.5 -> 6.5)? Migration tool included with appliance will not migrate vCenter 6.5 to VCSA 6.5, it can only do earlier versions to 6.5. Has anyone actually done such migration? Or am I sol and have to wait for 7 to come out?