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My new storage server is going to be a Server 2012 machine. FreeNAS is nice and I love ZFS to death, but I know I'll appreciate the versatility and performance of having a non-appliance server.

I have a few things I'm not really using. Maybe someone will be interested, maybe not. I'll probably Craigslist this stuff next week if there aren't any takers. * SuperMicro 5 3.5" to 3 5.25" hotswap SATA 1.5Gbps bay enclosure. Beige. Loud as hell with stock fan. * Off-brand (Vantec or Norco...

Windows 98 will install on modern hardware. Leave SATA ports in IDE mode, make sure the drives aren't too big. You only need 512MB RAM since that's the most it will use, and you'd have to do some hunting to find a compatible graphics card. My "retro gaming" rig is a Core 2 Duo E6300 on LGA775...

As an alternative, you could install Windows 98 as a VM on a more powerful Android/ARM-based system, to give your daughter the benefit of a platform modern enough to be useful for internet access while maintaining her ability to use whatever old software you need. Also, congratulations to your...

Well the whole point of Hiren's Boot CD (Proteus Restored Edition) is that it has pretty much all of them. I do believe the current release has TrueImage 2012 on it, along with current releases of Ghost, DriveImage and HDClone.

Every tech should have a copy of Hiren's BootCD. Not that I am in any way advocating searching for such a thing in the monstrous and illegal Proteus version that includes a crap-ton of clearly illegal licensed software on Piratebay.se. Did I mention that it would be illegal and wrong? Because it...

Try Gliffy. The free version doesn't really let you save much, but you can screenshot them into images.

As I recall from the original SimCity, one of the easiest ways to make a happy populace was to build a city with no roads at all but pervasive railways, simulating widely-available mass transit.

Not that I know of. Plex DOES have a plug-in architecture, but tuning and DVR functions are more in line with the stuff that Windows Media Center, MythTV and BeyondTV do. The nifty thing about Plex is that it will scan the folders that it's aware of several times an hour looking for updated...

From everything I've read about it, SimCity sounds more like an MMO than the sandbox game it used to be. I mentioned it in the Media Players thread, but I'm curious as to what the Ouya can do. Most of my tablets can handle Dungeon Defenders just fine on modest ARM CPUs, and that uses a fairly...

I'm not complaining about Plex on Roku. I'm complaining because the Roku has no native support for viewing content that's shared on a local file server without an intermediary like Plex.

The biggest pain on the Roku is lack of support for local content. People have established various hacks to kinda-sorta enable some access, but there's nothing remotely standards-conforming like DLNA or simple remote filesystem (SMB/NFS/AFS) access. They're wonderful if all your content is...

I'd be absolutely shocked to run across a configured-for-shared-hosting web server that didn't have PHP enabled.

I think the WD/Seagate/Maxtor editions of TrueImage are pretty old, like maybe the 2008 versions? It's definitely my buddy for that, but CloneZilla is freeware and will definitely clone a drive for you. You could also use a Linux boot CD and just run dd on the drives. If that's a PITA, let me...

I'm guessing you're using their web page builder and trying to apply all of this to a template they created for you? You probably CAN add PHP if you know what you're doing, but most of the time you're going to wind up creating more work for yourself by customizing a template than if you were...

I've seen a few 500GB SSDs at $250 - $260 with rebates. Prices are moving for the higher capacity drives now. Surely that's a good sign.

Oh, please. You people don't know from deliberately ignorance in politicians until you've seen the breathtaking stupidity of men who believe that the Earth is no more than 6,000 years old and/or are willing to argue about things like Germ theory being made responsible for Congressional science...

The biggest difference between 5400 and 7200rpm drive is whether or not we can get the damned things to work properly in disk arrays. :cursin:

Roku supports Plex, but apparently not all that well. All the solutions I found for making Roku devices play local content were hacks that relied on private channels; "Put it on a thumb drive if you really want to play it on your Roku" is a really common thing to read when researching what they...

I found this on Imgur. There may in fact be some truth to it. I got a few 830s and 840s and a lady followed shortly thereafter.

Does it reappear after a warm boot? What if you do "rescan disks" in Disk Management?

Plex allows for sharing server access to anyone you've invited. That means that you can make your Plex server available on someone else's xbmc setup, assuming you have the bandwidth to support their requests. As far as the appliances themselves, I don't know that things have changed enough...

Plex is about a zillion times better than it was the last time I messed with it. And it integrates with XBMC now, too.

The twist I've run in to with Lenovo laptops is that the internal controller writes a unique ID to drives as they are set up for the notebook. You can USE any drive you want, but you need to make sure that if the drive is going to be used on the internal controller, that it is in the internal...

Must've missed this when it was new. Anyway, I've been using PrivateInternetAccess.com for few weeks. Unlike BTguard, where I almost never saw torrents transferring at over 200kb/sec, I am actually sustaining almost 4MB/sec in aggregate downloads right now. It's painless to switch the location...

There was laughter and it was of the out loud variety. Bravo!

Back in December, I took my ladyfriend on an adventure to an Apple store to get her iphone fixed after it fell out of her purse. It wasn't under warranty, so she paid $150 for a replacement. In January it fell out of her coat pocket onto concrete floor and the screen broke. Rather than pay...

Seagate announced the other day that they're discontinuing 2.5" 7200rpm drives in favor of high capacity 5400rpm models and hybrid drives for performance. Seagate also announced some 3.5" hybrid drives. I've had a few hybrid drives and, other than a modest subjective improvement in boot/resume...

Are you doing any kind of dismount or backup on SQL Server? That's something you can configure through Management Studio and the instructions for doing it are completely google-able. I'm not sure how to tell you to test, except that a live database would be wonderful. The problem I always have...

I've not been very impressed with Acronis Nonstop Backup in any implementation to date. I have not tried the 2013 version. Are you trying to back up live VMs? Are you at least going to snapshot them or something prior to imaging? My guess is that you'll wind up with technically bootable .VMDKs...

The important question is, does one maintain bowel control while doing mid-air acrobatics on a busy expressway? ;)

In the last month, I've had five different people ask me if I could convert some misbegotten PDF back in to its editable source. Sometimes, it's possible and sometimes it's not. Today it was a Powerpoint presentation so the answer was no. I suspect this is going to become a bigger and bigger...

Is the Note 8 official now? I thought it was still just a rumor.

It came and went so I guess we won't be getting anything like that. Samsung is having an event in a week or so and they're definitely launching a new Galaxy phone. I'm curious to see if they also update their tablet line. The Note 10.1 is the current flagship, and it's a BIG step down from the...

Used graphics cards are always kind of scary since you don't really know how they've been abused, whether the cooling solution is still attached and working etc.

That might be true, but that has absolutely nothing to do with the functional use of the product. "OMG they didn't put a pull strap under the tablet in its snug little box so it's automatically wrong forever" isn't a valid criticism of the product unless the product you're reviewing is the...

What's wrong with Classic Shell? The default is to provide a Windows 98-style start, but in its own settings, it can be switched to an XP or Vista-style start experience pretty easily.

From the article: "The packaging and unboxing experience is Apple-quality. " ... and that was the point where I realized the author is a waste of oxygen.

That sounds like a job for an Intel Next Unit of Computing rig mounted under a table and carefully set up to automate tasks at hand.

I have a DLink Wireless USB kit that I was messing with in relation to some point of sale equipment. It was kind of awful. It DOES work for things like printing, but it loses connection all the damned time and data rates are abysmal unless you're standing so close that you might as well plug in...

I'm almost positive that ESXi is limited to only one physical CPU of up to six real cores. That's how I read the license agreement anyway. Xen seems relatively straightforward and it's already baked in to some *nix systems. The thing that still gives me pause with all the available...

There is a usb over IP implementation but, again, not at usb 3 speeds.

FreeNAS ZFS performance on 99% full volumes is UGLY. My primary array filled last night and file copies - even internal volume to internal (well, eSATA) drive on different physical controllers - are presently around 1.5MB/sec.

Wireless USB is only certified for operation at "2.0" or Superspeed, and even then only at ranges under 3m. At 10m, speed drops to 100Mbit. Good luck with that conduit.

A lot of my stripper friends carry various models of LG Optimus - which is uniformly hated by all I know who have them, or the HTC One V phone, which seems to be better-liked. The girls invariably buy completely crappy Android phones, find out that they suck (like 600MHz phones with 256MB RAM...

The UPS Bastards know that you'll be back sooner or later. I have similarly strong feelings about FedEx (which is why UPS was used to begin with), but sometimes I still can't avoid dealing with them.

You have to remember that a lot of these practices came out of the realities of the early '90s, when Win32 was a new thing and servers were very different beasts than they are now.

Please. Corel is a Canadian company. They would politely ask me to stop and then apologize and offer me some Tim Horton's.

I've shipped things internationally via UPS before and have not run into this issue.

According to my math it's about 400MB/s. Whatever. Same difference. ;)