Posts made by marcinozga

Good sales email is no email.
If I want or need something, I'll look for it. If I get sales email that makes it through spam filter, it gets marked as spam anyway.

@brianlittlejohn They were good enough to run DOS and Turbo Pascal - at least that's what one of my college teachers claimed.

@KOOLER said:

@marcinozga said:

Such a shame. I was a beta tester, and their product was really nice. I had plans to put it into production with next server refresh.

Give a call to StarWind We can seamlessly replace NIMBOXX (as we do run Hyper-V and VMware and not cheesy hypervisors still needs years of forging to catch up even with Hyper-V).
We can also buy old NIMBOXX gear from sad guys managed to actually buy from AWOL company. People we'll help to everybody! We're not trying to rip off poor little souls who spend money on something already we can move on and do free StarWind on top of existing SuperMicro gear + VMware or Hyper-V. Just in case.

I am Starwind customer already. But due to some internal shenanigans, I was forced to replace it with SAN.

I'd say that's typical Microsoft. One step forward, 20 backwards...
They did a great job simplifying licensing in 2012 and bringing the same feature set in both editions, and now this. I have 2x12 core Opterons in my servers, there's no way I'm upgrading to 2016.

Such a shame. I was a beta tester, and their product was really nice. I had plans to put it into production with next server refresh.

I've replaced optical drive with SSD in 27 inch 2009 iMac. It required a conversion tray, iFixit has it for sale. They also have guides how to do it, step by step with pictures. And since yours doesn't have display fused with glass (2012 models and newer), it's fairly easy.
I never bothered to enable TRIM, and I saw no side effects.

I type this from Win 10 joined to Win 2008 R2 domain. I have no issues at all, and I have not seen any issues with other PCs on my network.

@Dashrender I'm not sure about these SKUs, but switching between hypervisors is seamless. Just submit request to support and they'll send you correct license.
Edit: If you purchased through Veeam online store you cannot swap hypervisor licenses.

@MattSpeller said:

@marcinozga as a Canadian I have different rules, but that's a very valid point.

ISP or some 3 letter gov agencies don't chase you there for torrenting?

@MattSpeller said:

@Dashrender said:

What is everyone (who has one) using for a DVR? I'm considering moving to over the air only.

piratebay + slave torrent box + vlc streamer

edit: vlc streamer is one of the only apps I've ever paid for and SERIOUSLY enjoy.
http://hobbyistsoftware.com/vlcstreamer

I'm with JaredBush on this, stay away from piratebay and kickass. Quality is just poor, and you're risking a letter from your ISP, or worse. Stay with private trackers. Or invest in offshore seedbox and vpn.

@Dashrender sonarr + couchpotato + transmission + plex

@JaredBusch said:

I hate when companies choose similar names.

I have been a longtime user of SlingBox and always think of that first when people mention Sling TV.

I have not used Sling and have no plans to. All you are doing is trading providers with this service. I have an solid antenna and my own DVR (a crappy cheap one, but it works).

Correct, but no taxes, fees or equipment rentals. And it's much cheaper than traditional providers.
Sadly, antenna is not an option for me. Poor signals, or none at all, and my landlords wouldn't be too happy if I put 15 foot pole on top of the roof.

@dafyre No idea.
I had outages in September, a few minor ones in October, complete outage 2 days ago, and a few channels last night. And every time Sling claims outages affect small percentage of customers. Too bad I'm in that small percentage every time, despite having better internet connection than probably 99% of US population.

About 2 months ago I decided to show Verizon the door and cut the cord. I was so fed up with taxes, bs fees and equipment charges that I happily accepted $200 termination fee (they still haven't charged it). I live in the area with poor OTA signals, so my choices were limited.
We decided to get Sling TV with a couple of add-on packages and CBS all access. After 2 months I have to say I'm really disappointed with Sling. Service reliability and quality is really poor. I don't think it even broadcasts in 720p, despite me having plenty of bandwidth - I have 100Mbit at home. The idea is great, channel selection is not too bad, but after 2 outages last night and night before, I can't justify paying for it anymore. CBS all access surprisingly works great, with 0 outages, and awesome picture and sound quality.
So I did some digging yesterday, and discovered that I can get Playstation Vue, despite living outside of major city where it's available. And coincidentally Sony announced yesterday it is available on Amazon Fire TV and stick, so I don't even have to buy PS 3 or 4 to get it.
I was also trying to get Time Warner TV on Roku, but their beta program, and probably final service, is only available to their internet customers. And their internet service is much much slower and more expensive that FiOS. So no luck there.
In the end, Sling with add-ons (44 channels) and CBS costs me $41 plus a few bucks sales tax I guess, Playstation Vue starts at $50 for 52 channels, and I didn't see any taxes or fees.
Does anybody use Playstation Vue? How's the quality and reliability? I'd love to keep Sling, but it feels more like beta, or even alpha service at this time.

One of my remote users got hit by Cryptowall a few weeks ago. And the email he got was so obvious, I couldn't believe he fell for it. And he didn't run backups, so he lost all files. I'd rather have users learn the lesson the hard way, than to bend over and support some scumbags.

And on top of that subscription "only" 100Mbit bandwidth.

$199 is not bad, but I wonder about that $99/year service. Will it stop working if I decide not to pay?

@johnhooks said:

@marcinozga said:

For Drupal, I use Backup & Migrate module with NodeSquirrel:
https://www.nodesquirrel.com/ - free up to 5GB

All my Linux servers are virtualized, and I use Veeam.
I have one VPS that I backup with Bacula.

Do you like bacula? I haven't had a reason to set all of that up yet to try it.

If I were to take the jump should I do bacula or bareos?

It's ok for my needs. I still run custom script to dump mysql databases, and then bacula does file level backup. It can be dead simple to set up, or it might confuse the hell out of you. And it's a backup tool designed for tapes originally - I think - but it works with disks. If you decide to try it, use Webmin to manage it, it will make your life much easier.
I've never used bareos, so I can't compare. Its webui looks nice, I can tell it's Bootstrap based.

For Drupal, I use Backup & Migrate module with NodeSquirrel:
https://www.nodesquirrel.com/ - free up to 5GB

All my Linux servers are virtualized, and I use Veeam.
I have one VPS that I backup with Bacula.

And then there's this guy:
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/05/fios-customer-discovers-the-limits-of-unlimited-data-77-tb-in-month/
https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r28309842-LOL-VZ-called-me-about-my-bandwidth-usage-Gotta-go-Biz

I wonder if he's one of the offenders too.