A) Yes, I do grab folders that I think need to be backed up right there and then, and drag them over to the external drive. I also don't have it scripted but I do have a backup routine. Sunday night I rsync everything with an external usb drive. I used to have it scripted but that would require me to keep the usb drive plugged in all the time. With rise this encrypted maelware and shit I decided that it was better to keep my backups completely off line.
B) Yes, I think we can safely say I know more than the author.
That is basically what I do. I copy over all the important files and my data to a external HD. I have used automatic backup systems and bare metal recovery options in the past. To me they have never been worth the trouble. Seems like every time I try to recover from one of these something isn't comparable or something is missing like a driver.
To me its just easier to reinstall and copy over the data from backup once I replace the drive.
So the NSA keeps a list of identities of MI6 members stored where some Hawaii-based contracted sysadmin has complete access to them.
Wouldn't surprise me a bit if the did. As a system admin for over 20 years you would be surprised what you come across, what people trust you with and to do.
One bank I worked for all the terminals where secure with individual passwords, everything was secure. All but the backups. Everything was backup to tape that everyone in the IT department had access too. The backup tapes where not secure or tracked. Anyone with a IT badge could have walked in there, walked out with every customer record and it would have been weeks before it was noticed.
I was system admit at a real estate company. For years my job was to load weekly backups to a offsite location in the trunk of my car. This data contained every piece of data the company had from pay role to customer information.
One time when I was cleaning out an account for a former employee, on his unsecured home directory I came across a CSV file containing a dump of every customers account number, name, DOB, address, credit card numbers, SSN, and a lot more. If I wanted to commit a case of identity theft I could have made off like a bandit and nobody would have ever known.
Email admin. Almost every thing that goes on in a company now goes through the email system. A email admin could know more about the company than any one if he wanted too. What big deals are going down to who is sleeping with who in the office.
What it comes down to is people simply think that computers are all secure because they have no real clue how they work. The secretary at the front desk, she has no clue that her gossip is stored in plan text on a server that anyone in the IT department can read. Most CEO, CFO, BLTs, are the same way. They will email back and forth about the upcoming "big deal" they are working on.
Most people are simply ignorant on how computers really work.
MB: GIGABYTE GA-AM1M-S2H AM1 2 x SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
CPU: AMD Athlon 5350 Kabini Quad-Core 2.05GHz Socket AM1 25W AD5350JAHMBOX Desktop Processor AMD Radeon HD 8400
That is almost the exact same rig I have for a htpc at home. The thing is so quiet when I first fired it up I thought it was dead. I'm even using the stock 50mm cpu fan that came with it. The 5350 is no power house processor but is more than enough to do most desktop work. Even some light gaming if you want too.
Over all I was more than impressed by how quiet this system was.
Has anyone built a near-silent desktop computer with off-the-shelf components? I'm interested in getting the details.
I built a quad core htpc out of a AMD 5350 processor. Not exactly a power house processor but if you are looking for something to do word-processing, web browsing, and some light gaming you could do worse. I selected that processor with the goal of quiet in mind. When I power up the system all there is a slight whirl of the fan starting. Even then you have to be in a quiet room and have your ear on it. Other than that its whisper quiet when running.
But if you want a decent rig that is also fairly quiet, think big ass fans. 120mm and above. My antec 900 case has 3, 120mm fans in it and a 240mm on top. My cpu fan is also 120mm. I have two of them sitting next to my desk at home. Both of them put out are inaudible in a normal room and just a low whisper in a quiet room.
Nerds are not value conscious, nerds are cheap. Nerds are also fanboys.
All I have in my house are AMD processors, except for the i5 I have in my surface. The reason I have all AMD processors is because I know the processor line. I don't know Intel that much, but I'm learning.
When you called it the underdog you pretty much nailed it. I'm already working on my design for my next workstation. I'm going with a i7 this time. Just to be frank, AMD has fallen behind on the technology curve. DDR4 ram is out, PCI 3.0 is standard now and so is 22 nm processor. Intel is 2 years ahead of AMD on technology.
Unless AMD pulls some serous rabbits out of the hat, these will be the last AMD systems I have.
I would like to point out that of all the creatures that have come before us we are the only ones that really get a choice on if we go extinct or not. We alone have the ability to take ourselves off the extinction list.
We can also just as well put ourselves on that list too. Not only that, we can move ourselves to the front of the line if we chose too.
It's not a database server. I simply don't find myself IO bound. When I do, it's a long running task that I usually kick off and walk away from. I have more need of disk space for redundant backups of my stuff, not raw speed.
This is why you need a proper bitch box. A box to get your bitch work done with out tying up your main desktop. My bitch box doubles as NAS and has a AMD FX-8350 shoved in it. It also has 16 GB of memory. When I have bitch work for it to do I spin up a VM and crack the whip.
This I can get long term tasks done while leaving my main workstation open for more important tasks. Like GTA5.
I don't have a "Main PC" I have "main pc's."
Workstation / Gaming Rig:
Windows 7 Pro
AMD 8150 8 core.
Gigabute GA-990FXA-UD3 MB
24 GB of GSKILL Sniper 1866Mhz RAM
512 GB Crucial MX200 SSD
256 GB Scandisck SSD
4, 1 TB WD Blacks in a RAID 5 array
2, EVGA 770 Graphics cards.
2, ACER 2ms 1080p gaming monitors.
Bitchbox / NAS / Plex:
CentOS 6.6
AMD 8 core 8350
Gigabute GA-990FXA-UD5 MB
2, 1 TB WD Black System and Scratch disks
3, 3 TB WD Reds in a RAID 5 array, (2 WD Reds to add on mydesk when I get round to it)
Some cheap ATI graphics card so it will boot.
I have a few other systems around a back up box and a htpc.
Heh, yeah, yet another reason why I don't like Windows: the automatic upgrades that always seem to turn up when they are inconvenient and require a reboot
You realize those are configurable right? The default is to let windows take care of itself, but you can configure when and if windows will download and install updates.
Personally, mine is set to download update automatically but I tell it when and what it can install. I never get caught by a random restart. When I tell it install the updates I expect there will be a restart. It just lets me know there are updates out there.
Because we have already been there, we got plenty of lunar rocks, and there is no particular reason to go back. Mars is much more interesting, and asteroids provide far better economic opportunities.
"We" have done no such thing. Only a hand full of people have been to the moon. I don't know about you, for all I know you might have been one of them. I do know that one of them wasn't "me."
That is the most important reason I want to go back to the moon. I haven't been there and I would love see the original sites of the first moon landings.
That is how I want to do it, tour the moon like tourist.
The "write amplification" on SSD is greatly exaggerated. Unless you are running a enterprise level database off of consumer drives I doubt your going to wear one out before it becomes obsolete. The SMART warning system is also greatly improved when it comes to SSDs over spinning rust. Just use it like a normal HD and don't worry about it.
I have a 5 year old 256 GB SSD in my system now. It has been used as a system disk for that time. It is now at the end of its useful life. The SMART system is showing reallocated sectors on it, 3 to be exact, and it was small so I decided to replace it. I moved it off to a back channel and use it as a scratch drive. I replaced it with a modern 512 GB SSD. But still after 5 years of constant use its still good for that.
bought a new laptop with 16 GB upgradeable to 32 GB. No swap space configured.
This is something I don't understand why you would want to do this? Even with 16 or 32 GB of RAM. Diskspace is cheap too and the system won't use it unless it needs it. I would rather keep the swap on and have it there to use if needed. When it comes to swap its better to have and not need, than to need and not have.
...and disabled. I bet Tonya Harding could use the dough.
I'm not sure. Tonya Harding has been showing up on that Worlds Dumbest TV show for years. That must pay pretty well to have that associated with your name.
Yes, for the record I do watch that show every now and then. Some times it is entertaining to watch some drunk redneck jump a beer truck on a riding mower.
I'm not buying one anymore. I was super excited too.
I'm still looking forward to it. I have a friend that is going to toss a bucket of blood on me while I'm playing Call of Duty. He is also going to hold a fish under my nose when I'm watching 3d porn.
Except that's not really a choice when DRM is involved, is it?
Sure it's a choice. Don't want to use the DRM then don't watch. See, choice. If you chose not to watch then if enough people feel the same way, then they will stop watching, and netflix will have to change away from drm. On the other hand most will simply accept this as a acceptable deal and chose to watch. Then you get to sit in your corner and rock yourself knowing you held on to your principles.
You have a choice. To watch netflix movies, or not too. It's up to you.
Exactly. Once they removed the drm from music and dropped the price to where it was reasonable, around 10 bucks a cd, then it became easier and better to just buy the music.
Meanwhile, Intel is transitioning to 14nm process, while your processor still is still 32nm from 2012, and this intel of mine actually 22nm from the same year. These numbers might not tell you much, but the main difference to me is that my processor runs much cooler and requires less power.
AMD is way behind the competition.
They tell me a lot, and you pretty much reached the same conclusions that I reached a year ago. AMD still makes good processors but they have been behind intel for awhile now. When it came to picking a new processor for my HTPC I picked a A5350 over a i3. It was a perfect processor for the job too.
Next year I'll be sniffing around to replace the fx-8150 workstation I have. Unless AMD does something drastic to get caught up, I will probably be going with a i7 system this year.
I've been a amd fan boy since the 486 days, so if I'm jumping ship.
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Very good points.
A) Yes, I do grab folders that I think need to be backed up right there and then, and drag them over to the external drive. I also don't have it scripted but I do have a backup routine. Sunday night I rsync everything with an external usb drive. I used to have it scripted but that would require me to keep the usb drive plugged in all the time. With rise this encrypted maelware and shit I decided that it was better to keep my backups completely off line. B) Yes, I think we can safely say I know more than the author.
That is basically what I do. I copy over all the important files and my data to a external HD. I have used automatic backup systems and bare metal recovery options in the past. To me they have never been worth the trouble. Seems like every time I try to recover from one of these something isn't comparable or something is missing like a driver.
To me its just easier to reinstall and copy over the data from backup once I replace the drive.
So the NSA keeps a list of identities of MI6 members stored where some Hawaii-based contracted sysadmin has complete access to them.
Wouldn't surprise me a bit if the did. As a system admin for over 20 years you would be surprised what you come across, what people trust you with and to do.
One bank I worked for all the terminals where secure with individual passwords, everything was secure. All but the backups. Everything was backup to tape that everyone in the IT department had access too. The backup tapes where not secure or tracked. Anyone with a IT badge could have walked in there, walked out with every customer record and it would have been weeks before it was noticed.
I was system admit at a real estate company. For years my job was to load weekly backups to a offsite location in the trunk of my car. This data contained every piece of data the company had from pay role to customer information.
One time when I was cleaning out an account for a former employee, on his unsecured home directory I came across a CSV file containing a dump of every customers account number, name, DOB, address, credit card numbers, SSN, and a lot more. If I wanted to commit a case of identity theft I could have made off like a bandit and nobody would have ever known.
Email admin. Almost every thing that goes on in a company now goes through the email system. A email admin could know more about the company than any one if he wanted too. What big deals are going down to who is sleeping with who in the office.
What it comes down to is people simply think that computers are all secure because they have no real clue how they work. The secretary at the front desk, she has no clue that her gossip is stored in plan text on a server that anyone in the IT department can read. Most CEO, CFO, BLTs, are the same way. They will email back and forth about the upcoming "big deal" they are working on.
Most people are simply ignorant on how computers really work.
One of the greatest comedians of all time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Hill/
MB: GIGABYTE GA-AM1M-S2H AM1 2 x SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard CPU: AMD Athlon 5350 Kabini Quad-Core 2.05GHz Socket AM1 25W AD5350JAHMBOX Desktop Processor AMD Radeon HD 8400
That is almost the exact same rig I have for a htpc at home. The thing is so quiet when I first fired it up I thought it was dead. I'm even using the stock 50mm cpu fan that came with it. The 5350 is no power house processor but is more than enough to do most desktop work. Even some light gaming if you want too.
Over all I was more than impressed by how quiet this system was.
Has anyone built a near-silent desktop computer with off-the-shelf components? I'm interested in getting the details.
I built a quad core htpc out of a AMD 5350 processor. Not exactly a power house processor but if you are looking for something to do word-processing, web browsing, and some light gaming you could do worse. I selected that processor with the goal of quiet in mind. When I power up the system all there is a slight whirl of the fan starting. Even then you have to be in a quiet room and have your ear on it. Other than that its whisper quiet when running.
But if you want a decent rig that is also fairly quiet, think big ass fans. 120mm and above. My antec 900 case has 3, 120mm fans in it and a 240mm on top. My cpu fan is also 120mm. I have two of them sitting next to my desk at home. Both of them put out are inaudible in a normal room and just a low whisper in a quiet room.
It's boring. Like modern cars, when you open the bonnet and all you can see are plastic covers.
Did anyone else hear that being read with Benny Hill voice?
Nerds are not value conscious, nerds are cheap. Nerds are also fanboys.
All I have in my house are AMD processors, except for the i5 I have in my surface. The reason I have all AMD processors is because I know the processor line. I don't know Intel that much, but I'm learning.
When you called it the underdog you pretty much nailed it. I'm already working on my design for my next workstation. I'm going with a i7 this time. Just to be frank, AMD has fallen behind on the technology curve. DDR4 ram is out, PCI 3.0 is standard now and so is 22 nm processor. Intel is 2 years ahead of AMD on technology.
Unless AMD pulls some serous rabbits out of the hat, these will be the last AMD systems I have.
I would like to point out that of all the creatures that have come before us we are the only ones that really get a choice on if we go extinct or not. We alone have the ability to take ourselves off the extinction list.
We can also just as well put ourselves on that list too. Not only that, we can move ourselves to the front of the line if we chose too.
It's not a database server. I simply don't find myself IO bound. When I do, it's a long running task that I usually kick off and walk away from. I have more need of disk space for redundant backups of my stuff, not raw speed.
This is why you need a proper bitch box. A box to get your bitch work done with out tying up your main desktop. My bitch box doubles as NAS and has a AMD FX-8350 shoved in it. It also has 16 GB of memory. When I have bitch work for it to do I spin up a VM and crack the whip.
This I can get long term tasks done while leaving my main workstation open for more important tasks. Like GTA5.
I don't have a "Main PC" I have "main pc's." Workstation / Gaming Rig: Windows 7 Pro AMD 8150 8 core. Gigabute GA-990FXA-UD3 MB 24 GB of GSKILL Sniper 1866Mhz RAM 512 GB Crucial MX200 SSD 256 GB Scandisck SSD 4, 1 TB WD Blacks in a RAID 5 array 2, EVGA 770 Graphics cards. 2, ACER 2ms 1080p gaming monitors. Bitchbox / NAS / Plex: CentOS 6.6 AMD 8 core 8350 Gigabute GA-990FXA-UD5 MB 2, 1 TB WD Black System and Scratch disks 3, 3 TB WD Reds in a RAID 5 array, (2 WD Reds to add on mydesk when I get round to it) Some cheap ATI graphics card so it will boot. I have a few other systems around a back up box and a htpc.
It should move back.
Heh, yeah, yet another reason why I don't like Windows: the automatic upgrades that always seem to turn up when they are inconvenient and require a reboot
You realize those are configurable right? The default is to let windows take care of itself, but you can configure when and if windows will download and install updates.
Personally, mine is set to download update automatically but I tell it when and what it can install. I never get caught by a random restart. When I tell it install the updates I expect there will be a restart. It just lets me know there are updates out there.
Because we have already been there, we got plenty of lunar rocks, and there is no particular reason to go back. Mars is much more interesting, and asteroids provide far better economic opportunities.
"We" have done no such thing. Only a hand full of people have been to the moon. I don't know about you, for all I know you might have been one of them. I do know that one of them wasn't "me."
That is the most important reason I want to go back to the moon. I haven't been there and I would love see the original sites of the first moon landings.
That is how I want to do it, tour the moon like tourist.
The "write amplification" on SSD is greatly exaggerated. Unless you are running a enterprise level database off of consumer drives I doubt your going to wear one out before it becomes obsolete. The SMART warning system is also greatly improved when it comes to SSDs over spinning rust. Just use it like a normal HD and don't worry about it.
I have a 5 year old 256 GB SSD in my system now. It has been used as a system disk for that time. It is now at the end of its useful life. The SMART system is showing reallocated sectors on it, 3 to be exact, and it was small so I decided to replace it. I moved it off to a back channel and use it as a scratch drive. I replaced it with a modern 512 GB SSD. But still after 5 years of constant use its still good for that.
bought a new laptop with 16 GB upgradeable to 32 GB. No swap space configured.
This is something I don't understand why you would want to do this? Even with 16 or 32 GB of RAM. Diskspace is cheap too and the system won't use it unless it needs it. I would rather keep the swap on and have it there to use if needed. When it comes to swap its better to have and not need, than to need and not have.
Is anyone else bothered that some people get so much pleasure in pretending to be psychopaths?
Nope, not at all.
...and disabled. I bet Tonya Harding could use the dough.
I'm not sure. Tonya Harding has been showing up on that Worlds Dumbest TV show for years. That must pay pretty well to have that associated with your name.
Yes, for the record I do watch that show every now and then. Some times it is entertaining to watch some drunk redneck jump a beer truck on a riding mower.
I'm not buying one anymore. I was super excited too.
I'm still looking forward to it. I have a friend that is going to toss a bucket of blood on me while I'm playing Call of Duty. He is also going to hold a fish under my nose when I'm watching 3d porn.
Just the excuse I needed to upgrade my graphics card.
Except that's not really a choice when DRM is involved, is it?
Sure it's a choice. Don't want to use the DRM then don't watch. See, choice. If you chose not to watch then if enough people feel the same way, then they will stop watching, and netflix will have to change away from drm. On the other hand most will simply accept this as a acceptable deal and chose to watch. Then you get to sit in your corner and rock yourself knowing you held on to your principles.
You have a choice. To watch netflix movies, or not too. It's up to you.
I would rather have this than siverlight. Silverlight just blow mule ass, it gives the mule a rusty trombone. (look it up).
Nice, very nice.
Exactly. Once they removed the drm from music and dropped the price to where it was reasonable, around 10 bucks a cd, then it became easier and better to just buy the music.
Meanwhile, Intel is transitioning to 14nm process, while your processor still is still 32nm from 2012, and this intel of mine actually 22nm from the same year. These numbers might not tell you much, but the main difference to me is that my processor runs much cooler and requires less power. AMD is way behind the competition.
They tell me a lot, and you pretty much reached the same conclusions that I reached a year ago. AMD still makes good processors but they have been behind intel for awhile now. When it came to picking a new processor for my HTPC I picked a A5350 over a i3. It was a perfect processor for the job too.
Next year I'll be sniffing around to replace the fx-8150 workstation I have. Unless AMD does something drastic to get caught up, I will probably be going with a i7 system this year.
I've been a amd fan boy since the 486 days, so if I'm jumping ship.