Posts made by thegillion

@scottalanmiller Yeah I see you on there. I am using the same build you are.

I have been trying to get mine to work. I am running it on a VPS from vultr and cant get my sons kindle to connect or my windows 10 minecraft. My android tablet will work. If someone wants to try the IP is 104.207.142.12

I had a friend send me this as soon as I saw it I had to share.

http://www.engadget.com/2015/05/01/boeing-787-dreamliner-software-bug/

"The 787 Dreamliner has been plagued with battery woes since its early days, to the point where the Federal Aviation Administration kept it from flying the skies in the past. And while those technical difficulties are apparently taken care of, Boeing's flagship airliner could be on the way to more trouble soon. According to the FAA, there's a software bug in the 787 Dreamliner that can cause its electrical system to fail and, as a result, lead to "loss of control" of the plane. But why? The FAA says this is triggered by the aircraft's electrical generators, which could give out if they have been powered on continuously for over eight months. "A Model 787 airplane that has been powered continuously for 248 days can lose all alternating current electrical power due to the generator control units simultaneously going into failsafe mode," the FAA said in a statement warning of the flaw. "We are issuing this AD to prevent loss of all AC electrical power, which could result in loss of control of the airplane." Boeing, for its part, is aware of the problem and has reset the power on 787 Dreamliners currently in service. Most importantly, the company's already working on an update that will patch the software vulnerability -- though there's no word on when its jets will receive it."

Can you imagine the tech support call?

@scottalanmiller said:

Here is my IOWait from one of the boxes that just got brought back up...

01:53:57 PM     all     12.47      0.00      9.12     26.66      0.00     51.75
01:55:07 PM     all     23.65      0.00     14.91     37.25      0.00     24.20

26% and 37%, those are crazy numbers!

02:20:01 PM CPU %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
02:30:01 PM all 0.20 0.00 0.34 0.06 0.07 99.34
Average: all 0.20 0.00 0.34 0.06 0.07 99.34
^^SSD server with 2 CPU and 2GB of ram

06:20:01 PM CPU %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
06:30:02 PM all 0.28 0.00 0.15 0.69 0.03 98.84
06:40:01 PM all 0.36 0.00 0.20 0.82 0.05 98.57
Average: all 0.32 0.00 0.18 0.75 0.04 98.71

^^SATA backup server with 512mb of ram and 1CPU

Im just going to leave this right here

"2) Service Interruption Credits
If Services are interrupted for a period of at least 24 hours after notice by the Customer to CloudatCost, an allowance equal to 1/30th of any fixed billing cycle charges for the affected Service shall apply to each full 24 hour period during which the interruption continues. Credit in any billing period shall not exceed the total average monthly charges for that period for the affected Service. No allowance shall apply to any non-recurring or usage charges. The Customer's sole and exclusive remedy for Service interruption shall be the credit outlined above
The Customer must request credit within thirty (30) days of the validated interruption, failing which the Customer forever waives its right to any credit for such outage. CloudatCost reserves the right to determine in its sole and absolute discretion if an interruption is considered a validated interruption.
At no time will multiple remedies be provided to the Customer for same, similar or related troubles for the same service. Customer payables must be current prior to the Customer receiving any credits
No credit shall be provided for interruptions due to the following:
the failure of any component, software, network or system provided by the Customer or a third party;
network maintenance by CloudatCost;
Force Majeure events;
acts or omissions, negligent or otherwise, of the Customer or a third party, or any breach of any term or condition by the Customer of the Master Services Agreement or any schedules or addenda attached thereto."

http://www.cloudatcost.com/terms.php

This is just my 2 cents but I have been using Vultr from beta and they are great.

@thanksaj said:

So one thing I will say I don't like about AWS is the names for everything. A VM is an instance. Firewall rules are under security group, which to me is users and those users' permissions. They seemed to go out of their way to make all the names of standard stuff as unique to them as possible, and that is a little irritating, IMHO.

They think they are cisco lol

@thanksaj said:

@Aaron-Studer said:

Free for the first year.

You sure?

Yes it is only for the first year.

@coliver said:

Does anyone else find that really creepy?

yeah
http://dni.li/wp-content/pixx/2008/01/ms/08-ms.jpg

This page more then any

Just in case you havent seen this
http://www.amazon.com/Mommy-Why-There-Server-House/dp/160530641X#

Here are the pages
http://dni.li/2008/01/10/whyms/

http://www.wimp.com/christmascard/ I want one like this!

@MattSpeller said:

It's not a contest lol but yes I get it. Primarily for gaming and VM based learnings:

39" 4k with 24" secondary

AMD8320 @ 4.4ghz
8gb
256 samsung840
2x2tb

Soon to add (some are presents but #48 will be my new nas with new hdds)

Hi Matt,

I’m pleased to announce that you had the highest bids for the following items:

2. Bid: $5.00
   Model: Dell Latitude D630
   Service Tag:
   CPU: C2D T9300 2.5ghz
   RAM: 2gb
   Hard Drive: 120gb
   Notes: NO power adapter. NO Operative System installed.

3. Bid: $5.00
   Model: Dell Latitude D830
   Service Tag:
   CPU: C2D T7500 2.2ghz
   RAM: 2gb
   Hard Drive: 80gb
   Notes: NO power adapter. NO Operative System installed.

4. Bid: $5.00
   Model: Dell Latitude XT2
   Service Tag:
   CPU: Centrino 2 U9600 1.6ghz
   RAM: 3gb
   Hard Drive: 80gb
   Notes: NO power adapter. NO Operative System installed. Includes stylus. Dock is broken open along the top seam will still dock but requires some finess to sit in properly.

5. Bid: $1.00
   Model: Dell Precision M90
   Service Tag:
   CPU: Centrino 2 T7400 2.16ghz
   RAM: 4gb
   Hard Drive: 150gb
   Notes: NO power adapter. NO Operative System installed. Requires 130w adapter to even power on

6. Bid: $1.00
   Model: Dell Latitude D410
   Service Tag:
   CPU: Centrino
   RAM: 2gb
   Hard Drive: 60gb
   Notes: NO power adapter. NO Operative System installed. Battery Failing.

7. Bid: $1.00
   Blackberry Playbook 16gb
   2 cases, wall style charger

8. Bid: $1.00
   Motion Computing Tablet LS800
   Includes stylus, case and charger; only works with Windows XP
   Intel Centrino 1.2ghz 1gb 30gb

9. Bid: $1.00
   Computer power supply
   450w generic computer power supply (new)

10. Bid: $1.00
    Computer power supply
    300w micro ATX generic computer power supply (new)

11. Bid: $1.00
    USB charger
    300w micro ATX generic computer power supply (new)

12. Bid: $1.00
    Computer power supply
    550w generic computer power supply (new)

42: Bid: $1.00
Garmin GPS
Garmin Nuvi GPS (includes car charger, window suction cup)

48: Bid: $11.00
Dell Power Edge Server (tower style)
Intel Xeon 2 core
4x 250gb HDD
2x 1Gb NIC card
eSATA card
Optical drive (unknown if CD or DVD)

49: Bid: $1.00
A selection of new and used IDE and SATA drives, most are DVD-RW.
Highest bid gets first choice.

Please let me know if you are still interesting in acquiring it (Total $37.00), and if so, please make a cheque for “Canadian Sport Institute” for the total amount and give it to me.

Regards,

How did you get that for $37 ?

I was asking what your home IT setup is.My setup is

• my work/home computer with dual 22" screens

• Free NAS home server

• Home PBX

• XBMC server for home media.

• Ubiquiti UniFi UAP

• Ubiquiti Edgerouter Lite.

• 8 port gigabit switch.

I know some people have crazier setups then mine but it is what it is.

@Nic said:

Agreed. We send out real cards.

Where is my card ?

@scottalanmiller said:

What kind of pricing do they have?

$15 to $90 but they have software for every need from SSH to windows login.

I am thinking they need to tell you what is not using SSL when SSL is turned on in a site. Like on facebook or some bank sites. When it says "other resources that are not secure" I want to know what is that resources and can I tell it to not use it.

https://www.yubico.com/products/yubikey-hardware/yubikey-2/

Has anyone used this system before? I am thinking about starting to use them as I manage a lot of servers and sites. I think this would really help

@Minion-Queen said:

something that will just do my expense reports from receipts and deal with the business cards would be a HUGE time saver for me!

https://www.expensify.com/ Merry Christmas

So my wife told me last night to email her a Christmas list. So I did and I was just thinking what other people are looking at getting other than one million dollars.

http://www.nitroplanes.com/95a355-800-tempest-rtf-24g.html I like RC planes

http://www.bananahobby.com/4-ch-syma-x5c-explorer-w-hd-camera-rc-quadcopter.html

Lumosity for 1 year

SSD for my laptop http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820721107

I know my list is small but some years its only like 1 or 2 things.

So whats on your list?

@scottalanmiller said:

@thegillion said:

My wife is the worst for the exact opposite. The other day she asked me for a changer. I asked why and she said my phone is at 85%.........

I bet she eats through phone batteries like crazy. There is a reason why our iPads get "like new" battery life at five or more years old!

Yeah thats why I never get her anything with the battery built in. I know of this battery rule you are talking about but what you really need to watch for is what the battery is made of. If it is a LiPo battery and you run it to less then %10 when the battery cells die or they get hot. Now with NiMH you can run them to 0 and they will be fine but if you are storing them they need to have somewhat of a charge in them.

Here is a site with more info on batteries then you will ever need

http://www.lygte-info.dk/info/indexBatteriesAndChargers UK.html