Yeah, my bad, but its still best to have the OS on something a bit faster than usual (and of course having all the tombstones on the fast drive helps too:)
As for VAIL, its based on 2k8r2 SBS, so is x64 native, I am hoping the 2k8r2 license for a client OS under the Hyper-V will let me use it, if not, meh.
From the beta I have noticed that one of the hoped for toys, active directory, is not present, maybe its being added in later, I really hope so. Another thing that would be nice is if SBS CALs could be used on it.
The only "huge" change from a client standpoint (and lets face it, that's the most important thing with a headless server) is the support for Homegroups, if this is the only change I will not be upgrading.
Oh don't worry, enough of the shoddy torrent tracking and search sites have a smitfraud based scare-ware lurking in a banner ad, and of course she still uses IE for browsing:)
Yeah, I got a pair of the 1.5s when they had that problem, was burn-in testing them prior to use and got all those errors, RMA 2 drives and the replacements are still spinning.
Used a modified 1kw "gaming" PSU to feed the whole thing, wired up some extra sata power cables so that the 12v runs from the vid card power leads to spread the load over more rails, thing is solid and very good efficiency since its running at low load.
As for hot-swap bays, every time I got a rack of those the hard-wired in fans would die within about a year and leave me with mis-matched sets of bays in the front, also they don't filter dust all that well, so I stick with the wire mesh + filter front of the armor and have a treo of 120mm fans in the front pumping a very large amount of air through the case.
Wish mine had wheels, thing weighs as much as a tank;(
Seagate have a nice range of 2TB 5900RPM drives that (with a sufficient "enthusiast" case like the CM stacker or thermaltake armor) can yield 20+TB of storage without having to look at anything external.
Also those drives can handle very high throughput (at the detriment of seek times), and are specially designed for just this application.
Yeah, its a 10 CAL on WHS, I only know of one client of mine who pushes that limit (business using 3 WHS machines to keep their computers backed up) but yes, there is a limit on it.
You can chose if you want redundancy or not on a per share basis, so your family photos can be stored n+n redundancy or you can chose to just rely on the servers backup (plug in an external drive and let the WHS box backup to that) to keep something, or you can just wing it and burn some incense to the gods of HDD mtbf:)
Your setup sounds damn nifty, I used to use a machine running FreeNAS (freeBSD mashed down to about 30M, configured via XML and running all sorts of nifty stuff) but the fact that every time I wanted to add something new to it (and my needs were growing faster back then than they are now) it was a major undertaking, and of course it didn't manage backups at all (of the clients or the server).
WHS doesn't have any restrictions on drive sizes apart from the primary needing to be big enough to store windows and all the "tombstone" files on it (os is around 20G, tombstone files eat 4K per file which consists of meta data as to which drive the file is actually stored on etc).
Hehe, I use a thermaltake armor full tower, with an extra 2 "icage" units installed, 10 drives in the front and 3 in the back, all cooled directly with fans (except for one of the front bays).
Currently only have 11 drives in it, but there is still room to grow.
Its survived 3 drive failures (data was redundantly stored) and a motherboard failure (24/7 constant operation over 3 years managed to kill the caps on the motherboard with 2 months to spare on the warranty), so it is indeed rock solid:)
Windows home server, 1TB 7200rpm main drive with seagate LP 5900rpm drives, lock it away and never have to think about it till you need to drop another drive in.
The reason for the fast main drive is that with WHS when you copy data to it, it stores it on the main drive first, then schedules it to be distributed out to the storage drives the next time a "storage balance" is done.
Works fairly well, its based off windows server 2003 at the moment, but if you can wait till the end of the year they have a server 2008r2 version coming out soonish.
Fair few racetracks and testing areas will not allow a vehicle to be operated without someone at the wheel (insurance is hell).
Found this one out when I was in high school and a few of us made a remote control datsun 120y. The problem we had was that no one trusted anyone else enough to sit in a car someone was driving with the remote kit.
Well, they did have a Metallica song as the backing, but, well, Lars nearly had an aneurysm that something cooler than him was using their music as a backing...
Actually, if the thing has adaptive suspension, it likely could make up for limited irregular conditions.
As for "wet road" and "hot road" adverse conditions, those could be calculated rather easily from the start.
And yes, I agree, if it can pull a park like that (obviously showing it off) it can probably do a regular park a whole lot faster and more accurately than any of us could.
Basically they realise it may be important to a lot of different groups for different reasons, so they now have to take the time to at least do it half right:)
Yeah, the old favourites are always the best. Back to playing Dark age of Camelot myself, mainly because of all the MMOGs it has the sort of PvP I like:)
Is ever the problem with such systems, the only two mmog I have ever been able to play reasonably well with just touch pad is EVE-Online and City of Heroes/Villains (and that in a limited capacity, requiring a lot of macros).
Without commenting on the whole "which MMOG is bigger/better" thing, I would hazard to guess that for this to work, the games would HAVE to be built for it.
No, it just means we can laugh at people more who pirate them, since obviously spending however many minutes of their time finding it on TPB was worth no more than $1 they must really consider their time to be worthless:)
As a side note, I already own 4 of those titles (all great games), buy them and consider it a donation.
Actually, no, in eve you can be attacked anywhere, even high sec.
There are rules and consequences, the gankers just work around the first and balance the second.
For instance, say your a "hardcore miner" in high sec, you get the best ship you can, the hulk, you deck it out with the best mining gear and go to work in a high sec zone. A person in a cheap setup battleship can pop that ship in about 3 volleys and have enough insurance that they will not be out of pocket at all when their ship gets destroyed by the "police" (concord), they have an ally who sits beside you in a frigate and grabs any loot that you drop. Do a google search for "hulkageddon".
The best fantasy PvP game out there still is DaoC, now that they consolidated all the euro and US shards down to one there is a great population, and as I proved, you can get a new toon to 50 and ml10 within a week and a half of casual game play and get a modest template setup by the end of that second week.
Yeah, not to mention that the grandfather is further refuted because EVERY mmog that has currency farmers has inflation, its a fact of life, or well, virtual life.
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But did you follow scientific method?
Clearly this gentleman is much more learned and qualified than you, so is infinitely more suitable to have large storage devices anally inserted.
Now, where did I put my 30MB "full height" 5.25" drive...
Remember, her job is customer/public service, it wasn't just a joke to her boss, a family member, or a workmate, it was to the public at large.
That's not just stupid, that is personal negligence to your own career :)
Yeah, my bad, but its still best to have the OS on something a bit faster than usual (and of course having all the tombstones on the fast drive helps too :)
As for VAIL, its based on 2k8r2 SBS, so is x64 native, I am hoping the 2k8r2 license for a client OS under the Hyper-V will let me use it, if not, meh.
From the beta I have noticed that one of the hoped for toys, active directory, is not present, maybe its being added in later, I really hope so. Another thing that would be nice is if SBS CALs could be used on it.
The only "huge" change from a client standpoint (and lets face it, that's the most important thing with a headless server) is the support for Homegroups, if this is the only change I will not be upgrading.
Oh don't worry, enough of the shoddy torrent tracking and search sites have a smitfraud based scare-ware lurking in a banner ad, and of course she still uses IE for browsing :)
Yeah, I got a pair of the 1.5s when they had that problem, was burn-in testing them prior to use and got all those errors, RMA 2 drives and the replacements are still spinning.
Used a modified 1kw "gaming" PSU to feed the whole thing, wired up some extra sata power cables so that the 12v runs from the vid card power leads to spread the load over more rails, thing is solid and very good efficiency since its running at low load.
As for hot-swap bays, every time I got a rack of those the hard-wired in fans would die within about a year and leave me with mis-matched sets of bays in the front, also they don't filter dust all that well, so I stick with the wire mesh + filter front of the armor and have a treo of 120mm fans in the front pumping a very large amount of air through the case.
Wish mine had wheels, thing weighs as much as a tank ;(
Mr AC gets a cookie :)
Seagate have a nice range of 2TB 5900RPM drives that (with a sufficient "enthusiast" case like the CM stacker or thermaltake armor) can yield 20+TB of storage without having to look at anything external.
Also those drives can handle very high throughput (at the detriment of seek times), and are specially designed for just this application.
Yeah, its a 10 CAL on WHS, I only know of one client of mine who pushes that limit (business using 3 WHS machines to keep their computers backed up) but yes, there is a limit on it.
You can chose if you want redundancy or not on a per share basis, so your family photos can be stored n+n redundancy or you can chose to just rely on the servers backup (plug in an external drive and let the WHS box backup to that) to keep something, or you can just wing it and burn some incense to the gods of HDD mtbf :)
Your setup sounds damn nifty, I used to use a machine running FreeNAS (freeBSD mashed down to about 30M, configured via XML and running all sorts of nifty stuff) but the fact that every time I wanted to add something new to it (and my needs were growing faster back then than they are now) it was a major undertaking, and of course it didn't manage backups at all (of the clients or the server).
WHS doesn't have any restrictions on drive sizes apart from the primary needing to be big enough to store windows and all the "tombstone" files on it (os is around 20G, tombstone files eat 4K per file which consists of meta data as to which drive the file is actually stored on etc).
Yeah, because a bug (running vista on your client and using the server without the latest updates) over a year old and fixed is a problem...
I will also point out that the very first linux release wouldn't run on my 8088 cpu... ... ... ...
Please sir, if you are going to google for bugs, check your dates :)
Hehe, I use a thermaltake armor full tower, with an extra 2 "icage" units installed, 10 drives in the front and 3 in the back, all cooled directly with fans (except for one of the front bays).
Currently only have 11 drives in it, but there is still room to grow.
Its survived 3 drive failures (data was redundantly stored) and a motherboard failure (24/7 constant operation over 3 years managed to kill the caps on the motherboard with 2 months to spare on the warranty), so it is indeed rock solid :)
Windows home server, 1TB 7200rpm main drive with seagate LP 5900rpm drives, lock it away and never have to think about it till you need to drop another drive in.
The reason for the fast main drive is that with WHS when you copy data to it, it stores it on the main drive first, then schedules it to be distributed out to the storage drives the next time a "storage balance" is done.
Works fairly well, its based off windows server 2003 at the moment, but if you can wait till the end of the year they have a server 2008r2 version coming out soonish.
Fair few racetracks and testing areas will not allow a vehicle to be operated without someone at the wheel (insurance is hell).
Found this one out when I was in high school and a few of us made a remote control datsun 120y. The problem we had was that no one trusted anyone else enough to sit in a car someone was driving with the remote kit.
Well, they did have a Metallica song as the backing, but, well, Lars nearly had an aneurysm that something cooler than him was using their music as a backing...
Actually, if the thing has adaptive suspension, it likely could make up for limited irregular conditions.
As for "wet road" and "hot road" adverse conditions, those could be calculated rather easily from the start.
And yes, I agree, if it can pull a park like that (obviously showing it off) it can probably do a regular park a whole lot faster and more accurately than any of us could.
Your hostillity toward the Computer has been noted citizen, please report to the "armour testing lab" for re-assignment.
Praise the computer!
note: that is the lab right beside "exotic unstable weapons testing" lab.
Basically they realise it may be important to a lot of different groups for different reasons, so they now have to take the time to at least do it half right :)
In my day we were lucky to have a hammer!
We used two halves of a brick if we were lucky!
Yeah, the old favourites are always the best. Back to playing Dark age of Camelot myself, mainly because of all the MMOGs it has the sort of PvP I like :)
Throw in world of goo as a good one for stylus touch screen ;)
And yes, any of the popcap games run reasonably well with touch screen.
Is ever the problem with such systems, the only two mmog I have ever been able to play reasonably well with just touch pad is EVE-Online and City of Heroes/Villains (and that in a limited capacity, requiring a lot of macros).
Without commenting on the whole "which MMOG is bigger/better" thing, I would hazard to guess that for this to work, the games would HAVE to be built for it.
Don't worry, the people who appreciate sarcasm can detect it well enough, the others will, unfortunately, mod you down.
No, it just means we can laugh at people more who pirate them, since obviously spending however many minutes of their time finding it on TPB was worth no more than $1 they must really consider their time to be worthless :)
As a side note, I already own 4 of those titles (all great games), buy them and consider it a donation.
Actually, no, in eve you can be attacked anywhere, even high sec.
There are rules and consequences, the gankers just work around the first and balance the second.
For instance, say your a "hardcore miner" in high sec, you get the best ship you can, the hulk, you deck it out with the best mining gear and go to work in a high sec zone. A person in a cheap setup battleship can pop that ship in about 3 volleys and have enough insurance that they will not be out of pocket at all when their ship gets destroyed by the "police" (concord), they have an ally who sits beside you in a frigate and grabs any loot that you drop. Do a google search for "hulkageddon".
The best fantasy PvP game out there still is DaoC, now that they consolidated all the euro and US shards down to one there is a great population, and as I proved, you can get a new toon to 50 and ml10 within a week and a half of casual game play and get a modest template setup by the end of that second week.
Fixed that for ya :)
Yeah, not to mention that the grandfather is further refuted because EVERY mmog that has currency farmers has inflation, its a fact of life, or well, virtual life.