Posts made by coliver

@pmoncho said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@pmoncho said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@pmoncho said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@Dashrender said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@pmoncho said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Currently trying to find a gaming PC for $1200 or less (I will probably go over a little). I'm not a gamer so a little out of my depth.

Based on my past readings through old posts here to get a sense of what is out there, just wondering what order the money should be spent, 1. CPU, 2. GPU, 3. RAM, 4 SSD or SATA or should it be 1. GPU, 2 CPU, 3 SSD, 4 RAM?

When spec'ing a new desktop what do you look at first to spend your money?

Great question, I’m in the same boat right now.
Where does the mobile sit in here? And cooling?

Good point. I see liquid cooling and then trying to envision gaming on a laptop. Ugh, burning jewels is not a good thing. There are cooling pads out there as I recently discovered. My current laptop gets a little to warm with current WFM software and all the other things I am running.

Are you looking to build or buy? PCPartPicker has some decent "pre-built" options available that you'd just have to source the parts for.

https://pcpartpicker.com/guide/gWv6Mp/excellent-amd-gamingstreaming-build.
https://pcpartpicker.com/guide/RPTwrH/great-amd-gaming-build

Thanks @coliver I was looking to buy instead of build. Nephew's in TX. He may need support down there too so I figured Dell or Asus if I can find a good build for decent price. I am even looking at the outlets too. If there are warranties, I will take one off ebay also.

In that case I'd look at Asus RoG kit. It's very high quality and actually fairly inexpensive for what you'd get (not cheap but decent). https://store.asus.com/us/item/202003AM280000010/A50159-ROG-Strix-GA15DH-Gaming-Desktop-PC

Excellent. Thank you.

The nice thing is that, in the future, if you want to upgrade it piece-meal you have that opportunity. That particular one starts at 8GB of RAM, but you can easily thrown 16 or 32 in there without any issues.

@pmoncho said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@pmoncho said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@Dashrender said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@pmoncho said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Currently trying to find a gaming PC for $1200 or less (I will probably go over a little). I'm not a gamer so a little out of my depth.

Based on my past readings through old posts here to get a sense of what is out there, just wondering what order the money should be spent, 1. CPU, 2. GPU, 3. RAM, 4 SSD or SATA or should it be 1. GPU, 2 CPU, 3 SSD, 4 RAM?

When spec'ing a new desktop what do you look at first to spend your money?

Great question, I’m in the same boat right now.
Where does the mobile sit in here? And cooling?

Good point. I see liquid cooling and then trying to envision gaming on a laptop. Ugh, burning jewels is not a good thing. There are cooling pads out there as I recently discovered. My current laptop gets a little to warm with current WFM software and all the other things I am running.

Are you looking to build or buy? PCPartPicker has some decent "pre-built" options available that you'd just have to source the parts for.

https://pcpartpicker.com/guide/gWv6Mp/excellent-amd-gamingstreaming-build.
https://pcpartpicker.com/guide/RPTwrH/great-amd-gaming-build

Thanks @coliver I was looking to buy instead of build. Nephew's in TX. He may need support down there too so I figured Dell or Asus if I can find a good build for decent price. I am even looking at the outlets too. If there are warranties, I will take one off ebay also.

In that case I'd look at Asus RoG kit. It's very high quality and actually fairly inexpensive for what you'd get (not cheap but decent). https://store.asus.com/us/item/202003AM280000010/A50159-ROG-Strix-GA15DH-Gaming-Desktop-PC

@pmoncho said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@Dashrender said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@pmoncho said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Currently trying to find a gaming PC for $1200 or less (I will probably go over a little). I'm not a gamer so a little out of my depth.

Based on my past readings through old posts here to get a sense of what is out there, just wondering what order the money should be spent, 1. CPU, 2. GPU, 3. RAM, 4 SSD or SATA or should it be 1. GPU, 2 CPU, 3 SSD, 4 RAM?

When spec'ing a new desktop what do you look at first to spend your money?

Great question, I’m in the same boat right now.
Where does the mobile sit in here? And cooling?

Good point. I see liquid cooling and then trying to envision gaming on a laptop. Ugh, burning jewels is not a good thing. There are cooling pads out there as I recently discovered. My current laptop gets a little to warm with current WFM software and all the other things I am running.

Are you looking to build or buy? PCPartPicker has some decent "pre-built" options available that you'd just have to source the parts for.

https://pcpartpicker.com/guide/gWv6Mp/excellent-amd-gamingstreaming-build.
https://pcpartpicker.com/guide/RPTwrH/great-amd-gaming-build

@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/06/cox-slows-internet-speeds-in-entire-neighborhoods-to-punish-any-heavy-users/

This means the US now ranks near the bottom of the third world in Internet speeds and protections. You can get better speeds, for cheaper, in remote third world locations pretty easily.

Nope, that is not even remotely true. Not even in the Dominican Republic, they do this in the Dominican republic and there is still dial up and DSL which does not get even close to this. Price is also a big issue as well.

You're kind of ignoring that a lot of areas in the US only have access to dial-up and satellite. The costs is exuberant as well.

You should able to launch another instances of the game. You could then use one of the screen tiling apps out there to get them to fit evenly on the screen.

@flaxking said in Looking to Buy a SAN:

@ScottyBoy said in Looking to Buy a SAN:

@flaxking said in Looking to Buy a SAN:

I've recognized an IPOD and witnessed it play out.

In the end the business decided it made more financial sense to put 200 VMs in Azure.

This is for a TV station cloud simply isn't an option to run this stuff unfortunately.

My point is that putting a bunch of VMs in Azure is a pretty expensive solution, but dealing with an IPOD ends up costing the business enough that the cost is acceptable.

The other solution is to not design an IPOD.

What exactly are your storage needs? What are you storing? If this is VM data you would probably benefit from getting an additional host and running something like Starwinds VSAN as your storage layer.

Zabbix has the ability to monitor HAProxy as well.

https://www.zabbix.com/integrations/haproxy

@gjacobse said in Termius cross platform sync:

Just about everyone has use PuTTY at some point. Sadly though, it's not 'cross platform'... From what I have saerched and found - the session history (saved session) is saved in Windows Registry.. Not exactly easy to get to or back up.. is it possible - of course. just not easy - and if you forget,.. frustrating.

Have you looked at mRemoteNG? The settings files are saved to your local user profile so you can sync and back that up.

It does use Putty in the backend so any Putty specific settings you use will get lost.

@wirestyle22 said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

I've only been eating dinner. I am losing a lot of weight

Until this work from home craziness that's exactly what I had been doing. Not sure I was losing weight but I felt better.

@scottalanmiller said in Reconsidering ProxMox:

@coliver said in Reconsidering ProxMox:

@scottalanmiller said in Reconsidering ProxMox:

We've been deploying more and more Proxmox and so far, knock on wood, we are remaining happy.

Are you deploying multi-node setups or just single nodes?

Single node. It's a rare customer that would need more than one node.

Got it.

@scottalanmiller said in Reconsidering ProxMox:

We've been deploying more and more Proxmox and so far, knock on wood, we are remaining happy.

Are you deploying multi-node setups or just single nodes?

Return of Reckoning. I always seem to come back to that MMO.

@Pete-S said in Looking for solutions to allow remote users access to their internal psychical computers:

I don't understand how the use of RDP could do anything to cause multiple logins?

If you RDP in to your desktop using the same login as usual then everything is exactly the same as if you're physically there.

You'd want to setup a remote gateway and configure it to talk to all of your desktops.

@BRRABill said in Moving from Physical AD/Data Server to Office365:

I guess the question is ... do we just scrap our AD, and use our Office365 accounts to log in. Do we really need anything more than that?

Yes. No.

@IRJ said in Moving from Physical AD/Data Server to Office365:

@coliver said in Moving from Physical AD/Data Server to Office365:

@IRJ said in Moving from Physical AD/Data Server to Office365:

As far as the data, moving it to the cloud is the only viable option for a remote workforce and company this size. Do you need instant access to the storage? if you could wait 3-4 hours to retrieve data, you can use an ultra cheap service like Glacier. (You can also pay extra for a single retreival if for some reason you need it in 15 mins). Glacier is about 20% less expensive than wasabi and offers 99.9999999% durability.
If you need infrequent, but instant access you can use S3 infrequent access which is approximately $12 a TB, and offers the same 99.9999999% durability.

Honestly with the storage included with most Microsoft 365 subscriptions Sharepoint/OneDrive is probably the way to go.

Agreed. I was talking about data archiving. Not using that for any type of user or document storage. That would be cruel to users to put their data in glacier haha

Good for punishing stupid users though.

@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JasGot said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

OMG AMAZING!!! Finally.
This changes everything.

What are you referring to? A new feature? Inquiring minds want to know.

It's hard to see, but check out his little blue arrow.

Per machine permissions / ACLs now available. Huge feature we've been needing badly.

LDAP/AD integrated?

It's had that for a really long time.

@IRJ said in Moving from Physical AD/Data Server to Office365:

As far as the data, moving it to the cloud is the only viable option for a remote workforce and company this size. Do you need instant access to the storage? if you could wait 3-4 hours to retrieve data, you can use an ultra cheap service like Glacier. (You can also pay extra for a single retreival if for some reason you need it in 15 mins). Glacier is about 20% less expensive than wasabi and offers 99.9999999% durability.
If you need infrequent, but instant access you can use S3 infrequent access which is approximately $12 a TB, and offers the same 99.9999999% durability.

Honestly with the storage included with most Microsoft 365 subscriptions Sharepoint/OneDrive is probably the way to go.

@scottalanmiller said in Moving from Physical AD/Data Server to Office365:

@IRJ said in Moving from Physical AD/Data Server to Office365:

@scottalanmiller said in Moving from Physical AD/Data Server to Office365:

@BRRABill said in Moving from Physical AD/Data Server to Office365:

Keep some sort of AD authentication, or not?

Not likely. What purpose would it serve?

Managing SSO accounts with other SaaS services

AD is complete shit for connecting to SaaS, though.

That's true without WSO2, Shibboleth, or ADSF it's complete shit.

@JaredBusch said in Large File Sharing:

@dafyre said in Large File Sharing:

@Obsolesce said in Large File Sharing:

@Dashrender said in Large File Sharing:

RDP to a desktop near the share would be another option as well. Though performance could still be bad.

No that isn't an option...

Why not?

Because they are sharing. How many RDP are you going to set up?

You could do an RDP Gateway and just have a single outbound connection.... but it's really not ideal, RDP isn't the fastest or lightest protocol.