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I use ISO for BD and DVD, but in general I don't rip my stuff. I don't rewatch stuff enough to warrant all the HD space consumed to keep it all online. For playback I use a HTPC. I mount the .ISO with Daemon Tools and and play the movie with Arcsoft Total Media Theater 3.

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The ARM9 is a bit dated these days. No floating point unit (ARM11 added that), it's not super scalar, etc. It's also not designed to run at 1GHz. The fastest ARM9 I'm aware of is 533MHz. The Cortex A9 on the other hand is pretty impressive.

Kinda expensive for VOIP. There are much cheaper alternatives like Callcentric and voip.ms

I high doubt it's an ARM9. It's probably an ARM Cortex A9.

That's why they sell 'em with a single screw.

Vegas baby!

I'd stay home and put the $25k toward my home theater, or buy a new to me car.

I'll ask the dumb question... Why not look at a different flavor of a Zotax Ion motherboard? The IONITX F-E has a PCIe x16 slot you could put a graphics card in and then you would have 3 or 4 no problem.

A few thoughts... What about the warnings about not being able to change the partitions once they're encrypted? Or does that mean the encryption container itself can't be resized, not that the partitions in it the container can't be resized? I thought the whole idea of LVM was to allow you to...

Now I'm stuck on Madwifi... Supposedly it supports the AR928x in the system. I found some instructions on how to install it into CentOS, I did all that, but there's still only the wired ethernet driver in the network device hardware and I didn't see any relevant device listed when I go to add...

No particular reason for LVM. Ubuntu wouldn't work without it. I'm pretty new to Linux, so the ability to resize the partitions might come in handy if I set up something very wrong though.

Well, it boots and runs. Somehow I managed to end up with TWM and it says Gnome isn't installed after a reboot though. :confused: I had to yum it back onto the system. Odd...

Well, so far I'm liking CentOS. It was able to setup the RAID-1 + Encrpytion + LVM on the two disks without any issues. It was straight forward and all done inside the GUI. No goofy partition quirkiness like Ubuntu Server 8.04. It didn't lose the optical drive like Ubuntu Server 9.10 either...

What's the warranty from Seagate on a Seagate certified repaired drive?

Thanks for the suggestions guys. I have downloaded the DVD image for CentOS 5.4 and am in the process of downloading Fedora 12. I will probably try CentOS first since it's supposedly more enterprise oriented and more stable.

I've always been too scared to buy anything from Newegg that was an open box. They claim they don't test 'em, and they also claim they don't have any warranty from newegg and to check with the manufacturer.

After powering it off and back on it's even worse. It just says, "Please wait...". I think I'm going to throw in the towel on the whole disk encryption and leave the OS unencrypted and use truecrypt to encrypt the portion of the disc that the rsync server will be using to store the data.

Are you sure about that? Computers and TVs (and some other things) only have a 90 day return policy and a 2 year warranty. Are you sure that Computer Monitors are treated differently?

I guess I should also point out that it did not prompt me for a password anywhere in the boot sequence.

Eh... I think it's dm-crypt. The HD light is still on, so I'm not exactly sure what's going on. Is it possible it's waiting for the background reconstruction to finish?

Ok, LVM fixed that problem. It finished installing, but it doesn't quite boot. Starting up ... Loading, please wait... [ 22.435232] md: md1: raid array is not clean -- starting background reconstruction Check root= bootarg cat /proc/cmdline or missing modules, devices: cat...

I went with 3 paritions, swap, / (root), and home. But, I just hit another roadblock. I decided to skip LVM and just put the partitions directly in crypto volume. It chokes on the swap partition. "The attempt to mount a file system with type swap in Encrypted volume (md1_crypt) at none...

I think it will only due 2 since the HDMI and DVI are electrically the same port.

I suppose that's an option. Uhh.. You have got to be kidding me. I tried exactly what's in this guide and it worked fine. When I try it with only 2 partitions per disk (like I've been trying all along) it doesn't work. With only 1 RAID partition per disk it works. So, two RAID partitions +...

Well, someone didn't read the thread... :nono: I can't even get the RAID-1 component working (first step). So if you reduce it down to just that, it's pretty simple. Further, I don't really care about volume management. As I understand it, it allows the entire disk to be encrypted at once...

Either would make me happy, but neither works. It doesn't basically doesn't support the BIOS based RAID unless you integrate some additional modules into the kernel, and that's only recommended if you're using it on a dual boot system where windows uses the BIOS based RAID. So that's fine and...

Uh... Lets take the encryption and LVM out of the equation. It can't even set up software RAID correctly. This guide doesn't work. I create all the partitions and then it pukes when I try to set up the software raid giving errors. It's supposed to let you pick which of the partition that are...

Haha, I decided to try Ubuntu Server 9.10 to see if it was and different, and it can't see my USB CD-ROM drive after the first few steps of the installer. Funny how 8.04 had no problems. :rolleyes: Linux is clearly going to take the world by storm with this sort of solid performance!

It's not for work, and I'm not in IT anyhow. And, how is it not the fault of the OS that nothing is documented and that it isn't intuitive?

So, I'm about ready to pull my hair out here. I see in the 10 years since I last tried Linux nothing has changed. It's still completely unusable. Nothing is documented. Nothing works as expected. It may be free, but you clearly get what you pay for. I'm trying to install Ubuntu Server 8.04...

Oh, I guess I missed that... :cheese:

Maybe I'm dense, but what's different about the tabs? They seem the same to me.

Uh... He's not trying to connect a printer. Did anyone read his post?

Well, I just showed you another alternative. ;)

Who cares what PowerDVD does for DVD-Audio Playback? :scratch: Foobar 2k + the dvdadecoder plugin will give you full resolution multichannel DVD-A playback regardless of the soundcard in your PC. :cheers: I ripped all my DVD-A's to ISO's with DVDFab Decrypter (which decrypts DVD-A discs) and...

At work we have a few unused static public IP addresses, so I could connect it directly to the net though I'm leaning more toward putting it behind our WRT-54GL running Tomato and using port forwarding for some extra security. I haven't quite decided what I will do with it. After I build it...

I saw Zotac now has a Pineview based Mini ITX board. I wasn't too impressed by the specs. It lacks gigabit ethernet, "hardware" RAID, and only has 2 SATA ports. The lower power usage and slightly more powerful CPU don't make up for those deficits IMHO. The Zotac IONITX-D-E probably more...

I haven't tried it. iTunes seems to work OK for the sole purpose of loading music onto my iPod. I couldn't fathom trying to use it for music playback on a PC, but it passable for loading music on the iPod.

I think several of you have the DIR-655... D-Link issues fixes for router vulnerabilities

I guess I should have clarified. I'm not necessarily stuck on using rsync, but that was my first idea. I want to control my own backup and not use an online service. I also want something more versatile than a basic NAS device. I will probably put the small box in either the closet at work...

It looks like a mini ITX Atom 330 boards + this case + two 2.5" SATA laptop drives might be just the ticket. I wonder if the newer Pineview Atom CPU would be worth waiting for. :dunno:

Interesting... How's the Linux support for the ION chipset?

I'm potentially looking at building something small, quiet, cheap, & low power machine to sit tucked in a closet or basement as a remote rsync target to serve as an off site backup. I would want to do RAID-1 with two SATA drives. Beyond that I don't have much preference. I assume some sort of...

I pride myself on how quiet a machine I can build (while maintaining good cooling). What's the design goal of the typical 1U server? How few minutes you'll want to spend listening to it?

I think someone missed the sarcasm.

IMHO, Newegg has gone full tilt stupid with their shipping since the 1st of the year.

I've got two of these. One in my HTPC, and one in my Desktop.

Pardon the stupid question here, but are you PIF'ing* the servers or selling them? If the latter, how much are they? *(Paying it Forward)

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