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I suspect you can get away with anything that does iSCSI, which FreeNAS certinly does. As a down side, you can't add zpools to an iSCSI share, so whatever size and storage configuration you use is what you're going to have unless you feel like bringing down and recreating the disk pools. From...

Is it possible that your shell replacements are running with a different set of credentials than Windows Explorer? Do things work with Windows Explorer?

I'm actually working on the 4th and 5th. Those will be good days to get stuff done since no one will be around and the "sacrifice" of missing out on festivities means extra time off and a higher labor rate for contracting, so I'm fine with it.

I hate fireworks. I probably won't get a decent night's sleep until next Monday or Tuesday. D:<

I don't think Action Pack subscriptions are going away either. They seem to use the same portal/interface as Technet, but I haven't gotten any messages that say anything is happening to them. Of course, Action Packs have an extremely limited collection of software. They really only support the...

The license keys once issued don't go away. They never have before at least. But keys are issued individually now rather than all at once, so users no longer have a pool to draw from; they have to use all the activations from a single key before they can request another. After the service goes...

It really doesn't matter. The least expensive MSDN sub that includes the implementation products rather than just developer tools is ~$6,000.

Yeah that's the setup guide I was looking at. I thought I linked it but apparently I forgot to do so.

Nothing. Maybe MSDN will still be available?

The deeply sucktastic part for me is going to be rebuilding seldom-used demo/test environments for classrooms and labs every time I need them. Is there a generic tool somewhere to back up and restore Exchange/SQL Server/Sharepoint "personalities" in terms of content, config files and data...

I'm playing with the setup now using a m0n0wall appliance I found online. vSwitches are something I've never messed and I'm more than a little concerned that I'm going to wind up with a system I can't interact with except from the console. Thanks for the thorough reply, too!

Microsoft is discontinuing Technet Subscription sales at the end of August, 2013 and will no longer activate purchased subscriptions on October 1st of 2013. If you want Technet, get it now.

I need to get it done before I put that machine in to production. I found instructions for doing it using a Gentoo Linux instance.

Of course, If I just stick a $100 Firewall appliance between my server and the internet, I also lose out on all the nifty management stuff the hosting service is supposed to provide me. And I'd have to worry about the damned thing needing reboots, which seems to be what happens with every SOHO...

This is a big part of my decision to use Server versions of Windows on my "big" desktops as well. The fix is really to put shortcuts for the things you actually do someplace that's legitimately convenient for you; probably pinned to the taskbar, shortcuts on the desktop or even using extra...

That's actually kind of a big deal. I hope it pushes more features in to competing products.

You'll have to call them. A human being will ask you about your troubleshooting steps and for every tiny little detail printed on the CPU. Then they'll issue an RMA and packing instructions. You'll ship the part to Kentucky and your replacement will be shipped out next business day. For me this...

I'm getting ready to install a 1U server at a datacenter. I just realized that I'm going to be exposing my ESXi server's management interfaces directly to the internet unless I figure out some way to lock that down. I have two public IPs and ESXi of course doesn't give me any utility to work...

It's limited so Intel can continue to guide users to Extreme Edition or Xeon CPUs. If you have a task that requires a working set big enough for that to matter AND don't have the cash for a $400 Xeon, AMD probably has something that's kinda-sorta the right fit.

The summer has been decidedly pleasant here, which is actually kind of disappointing to me since one set of windows in my office faces a gigantic water park that's only been open five days since the beginning of the water park season.

What happens if you boot off a Linux Live CD?

Silly question: Have you loaded BIOS defaults yet?

Bad CPUs do happen, but they're vanishingly rare. I see maybe one every year or two. This does not sound like any kind of CPU failure I've ever run across.

There's a decent little piece of platinum in one, I think. One of my customers had a some meth-head saw his way in to their office a few months back. He took a VCR (part of the old security system), a jar with a bunch of loose change and an ipod that was on somebody's desk but missed the six...

Aussie and Canadian politics always strike me as incredibly sane when compared to those of the USA. Even your reactionary blowhards are downright reasonable compared to ours. That said our reactionary blowhardsSupreme Court did something today that will be seen fondly through the lens of...

In my experience, Ivy Bridge CPUs are a crap shoot with Intel H61 chipsets. They can usually be made to work with a BIOS flash but then you have to go through the fun of keeping a Sandy Bridge chip around to flash the BIOS in the first place.

Needs more drive bays.

Six ports does seem to be the realistic limit, weird FM2 board aside. On the plus side, one thing we can say at this point is that both Intel and AMD have perfectly adequate video decoding and output options, so it's not like someone couldn't stick a 4-port SATA controller in a PCIe slot to make...

Simplest way to get TV recordings? Bittorrent/NNTP over a nice VPN connection. I know there are super slick automation systems like SickBeard and Couch Potato for getting content if you want to go that route. They pretty much rely on RSS feeds to make sure your stuff is up to date. Doing it...

Memory Alpha, the obsessively detailed Star Trek wiki, states that: 1. "Sulu" cannot possibly be a Japanese surname because there is no "l" phoneme in Japanese. 2. It could be an Anglicized version of "tsuoru", Japanese for "Red Crane." 3. Or possibly a result of mixed Asian ancestry. The wiki...

WPKG is software distribution service that allows Windows clients to download and install software from a locally managed server. It works without needing Active Directory and the server component runs on both Windows and Linux.

The "right" way to do that with Acronis would have been to Add a New Disk through the utilities screen and confirm that you wanted a GPT disk ahead of time.

I just re-set my S4 to check and... nope, it did not ask me that.

Do anyone know of a sure-fire way to figure out how to make Android devices use contacts and info on Google accounts rather than saving it to a Manufacturer app or phone-exclusive contact? I just spent an hour looking at three different unfamiliar phones and they all handle contacts completely...

Since no one answered, the products I'd look at right now are the Google Nexus 7 or 10; the Galaxy Tab 3 Note 8"; or the Asus MeMOpad 10. If you're willing to bargain hunt, the Nook HD goes for $100 to $120 on Ebay at this point, and might be acceptable. The Nook has kind of a crummy default...

From what I read, he literally did retire to a South American life of hookers and blow. He's been living the dream for the last 15 years.

I'm going to start building and reselling Plex servers. My basic setup will be a Lian Li PCQ25B, initially with 3 2TB drives, an H61 motherboard with a Pentium G630 and 4GB DDR3, re-sold with as many set top clients (Pivos Xios or the like) units as requested. My cost on the basic system is $630...

World War Z is perfectly adequate as long as you completely forget the book that it's based on and also that the Z is supposed to stand for "zombies." And I actually mean that. It's not a bad movie. It has a horrible rep among nerds because it's explicitly NOT anything like that book. Max...

There's quite a lot more than 84TB. That's just what's in that particular chassis. And the correct answer is "redundancy."

It's going to be a file server anyway, man. Two or four gigs probably isn't unreasonable.

My I7 rigs stay at 100% utilization for days or weeks at a time because of video encoding, but it was my experience that the Hyper 212 was subjectively just as loud as the Intel HSF at idle and under load. The Noctua is inaudible under any condition; the only time that machine makes noise is...

My big guy must not be a monster then. It only has 48GB of DIMMs and 84TB of disks in it. ;) I probably should've used a back brace when I racked it though. The Hyper 212 is at least decent from a cooling standpoint. I know I could've replaced the loud fans as AD indicated, but that's one of...

Er, why? Gaming isn't going to be improved with a bandwidth increase and latency is ultimately going to be controlled by infrastructure upgrades from your ISP that they probably have zero interest in doing. Granted that I want it too, but I'm more worried about getting the switch ports that go...

I've had more than one and they were BOTH loud, which I define as being not measurably less noisy than the stock Intel fan. Since they're not cheap and kind of annoying to install, the fact that they aren't at least quiet puts them firmly in the do not recommend category. The Zalman CNPS9500...

I wouldn't. The Hyper 212 is surprisingly, annoyingly loud for a "quiet" HSF. I've tried them a couple times and regretted both. Pay the extra $10 to get something that's actually acceptable.

How is that NOT a monster? SSD, top-end CPU, 32GB RAM? Also, why the Seagate SSD? That doesn't actually seem like their area of expertise.

The magic of VIA for motherboards was actually the astonishing uniformity of configuration. Windows only ever needed one driver. Period. Install Hyperion.whatever and everything would work, even if you completely switched CPU architectures. That made maintaining install images or slipstreaming...

A decent start for your NAS project. It's as much CPU as you need and you can run it off a 120W PicoPSU along with several drives. You'll probably have to add a SATA controller, but your Athlon board would need one too.

Storage abstraction is going to become a common feature set in other OSes and filesystems. zPools are nifty, but there's also UnRAID, SnapRAID, disParity, Storage Spaces and Btrfs that you could look in to.

Now gamers are bitching that, because MS dropped the internet requirements, they're also dropping pure digital distribution and enforcing a disc requirement to play games.