@Breffni-Potter said:

That expensive audio interface you bought a few years ago? May not run on El Capitan.

So for studios, video production and other areas, this could be a crippling blow to Apple's creative segment.

This will have very little effect on studios, That will only be an issue for Home users and consumers.

Studios and video production houses run very much differently than a normal business do to deadlines and most user will need to solve their own problems as quick as possible to stick to deadlines.

Almost all studio environments are an isolated network from the internet for their creative work. They only thing on the network is the computer and some super-fast file storage and maybe a render farm depending on the size of the company. They will run the version of the OSes that the hardware they are using for that studio recommends, which I can assure you is not EL Captian. The standards for audio/video haven't changed in a very long time (HD standards came back in 1980s) so unless you have a good reason to upgrade for workflow, new features, or something breaks there isn't as much of a reason to. The creative world also tends to be a place where all artists etc will get full admin rights locally (again because of the critical deadlines with the nature of the industry) and, because this is all isolated, not dealing with any sensative data that's not really a bad practice for them(administrative people are on seperate networks without admin rights)

@scottalanmiller said:

@Bob-Beatty said:

What I loved most about it was the simplicity of how it worked for our business and how easy it was to expand by adding a new blade. There were no local hard drives to worry about, just an internal thumb drive (or SSD option if you choose) to house the Hyper Visor. V-motion and fail-over was immediate.

ALL of those features are standard on every enterprise rackmount server. None of that is unique to blades. The blades only add the complexity, not the features that make them seem valuable.

Dell has the redundant SD cards and internal usb port for ESXi long before UCS had them.

@coliver said:

@dafyre said:

The moment my mortgage company asks for that, is the moment I start looking for a new one.

Mine required it over email, fax, or a certified mail. I have no idea why they didn't setup a secure file sharing system and when I complained they told me that all their other customers are doing it so to set it up for one customer wouldn't be cost effective.... They gave me an amazing rate so I guess it was worth the risk?

I asked for a secure document upload portal as well. They said they've been doing this for years and "their network is very secure" and have never had an issue.

@Dashrender said:

not that I have the need, but is HAProxy free? I'd like to assume yes because it's Open Source, but I want to ask to make sure.

There's a free version and an enterprise version which is subscription based. Both are open source, but the enterpise version is just a customized one by a third party and isn't the official one and is rather dumb.

Windows DNS can't do that. Nor would you really want to clutter DNS like that.

I think something to do NAT on the addresses is really what you need

@RamblingBiped said:

@Dashrender Meh... I've already got handholding documentation for SFTP. If they can't download Filezilla and configure it exactly as my screenshot shows I might reconsider giving them thousands upon thousands of dollars of my hard earned money. In most cases you can just forward the information to their IT department and let them do the handholding.

I'd be surpised if most mortgage brokers have IT departments. Most are little shops and just sell off the loans to other people.

@Dashrender said:

@Jason said:

Where's the support for Microsoft?

On the Server side? $250-300 per incident - and Fraking awesome in my experience.

You've actually used it? We even have people that used to be at MS on our staff that say that was one of their biggest money making scams.

@Dashrender said:

But i would never pay the price for a TS/RDS server to support this one app

We pay for ones just to support flash/java.. Keeps that crap off the desktops.

@dafyre said:

My Loan Officers when I started looking for a house requested password protected zip files. (not perfect by any stretch of the means, but better than plain text!)... My actualy mortgage company requires stuff to be uploaded to their web portal (which is suprisingly behind SSL, lol).

They great. These people acted like I was insane.

I didn't realize you could even get data center OEM. Makes no sense. Standard can make sense if you get it cheap bundled with a server.. But datacenter no way.

@Dashrender said:

In other words you're suggesting only the 2 disk models? Otherwise a commodity server is more cost effective?

Well you can pick up used 16Bay SATA/SAS servers for around $100-$200 on ebay.

MangoBacon?

What happens when the Status dashboard goes down? what tells you that?

If you are just looking for file backup. Ditch windows backup and use something like: http://www.cobiansoft.com/cobianbackup.htm

What's the Best Smart Thermostat? (Needs to be compatible with Heatpump systems with heat & emergency heat and Central AC - All electric)

this is pointless. Dual boot phones? no thanks.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Jason said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Not a bad price. Is this for home? Proliants like this are insanely loud.

What's the best option for quite home ones. is something like an HP z or Dell precision workstations the only good options for something quiet?

Dell tends to be quieter than HP. No perfect option. Workstations can be good choices or custom builds. Or just a really well insulated basement room.

At the price of that HP Proliant DL360 G5 I'm tempted to get one to test, and see if I can just disconnect some of the fans, and wire the RPM sensor together and see how quiet and hot it runs.

What's the Best Smart/Video Door Bell?

@scottalanmiller said:

I was wondering when we were going to get to talk about this. People were beginning to wonder why I was offline so much the last two days.

Yeah I was disappointed when I saw it at first. But, I think it will allow ML to have more of a reach.

Since we had the topic for the HP DL360 G5.

What's the best sub $200 server/workstation we can buy (rackmount or tower) that's around the same price and isn't too loud to run in a rack or a room at home?

Virtulazation support is a must (most likely hyper-v again).