Re: [H] laptop 24/7

[Robert Martin Jr.]

With the extra cooling it should be fine especially if it drops into low power 
mode when you're not using it. My parents are running an old AMD laptop that 
has rarely been turned off for 7 years. I'm amazed the damn thing still works. 
They have it on a generic laptop cooler rest with fans.
lopaka

  From: Winterlight 
 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com 
 Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2016 11:13 AM
 Subject: [H] laptop 24/7
   
I am currently in temporary quarters for the next couple of months. 
With my WS I never turned anything off it would run untill I had to 
reboot for updates.  I have sent up a temporary office using a Lenovo 
Edge I7 Quad core, my good mechanical keyboard, mouse  and a 24 inch 
monitor. The laptop is plugged in and sitting on a Thermaltake giant 
fan laptop cooler. I turn it on in the morning and turn it off at 
night. I would like to just let it run all night as I want it to keep 
checking mail, and be ready to use when I turn the monitor back on in 
the morning rather then having to boot up, and set everything up 
again. Does it hurt a laptop to let it run like this 24/7? Thanks



   

Re: [H] Lopaka's Desk project from a few months back

[Robert Martin Jr.]

Duncan, how you doing my friend? I still reminisce about our E3 trip with 
Robert, Hayes, Bino, etc. Good times. I told my son I'll take him when he's 18 
since he's the avid gamer now.  I'll have to see if I can find the pics from 
that year and re-post them for a trip down memory lane :)
lopaka

  From: DSinc <dsinc...@epbfi.com>
 To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com 
 Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2016 3:15 PM
 Subject: Re: [H] Lopaka's Desk project from a few months back
   
Greg,

What is a "NUC?" But whatever, Lopaka's always been a genius with this 
kind of construction. Another #1.

I'm still staring at the pix, many more days to go.

Duncan



On 12/15/2016 9:58 AM, Greg Sevart wrote:
> The best aspect, as you point out in the end, is that it holds 4 separate 
> systems. Excluding NUCs, laptops, and an HTPC, I've relegated everything but 
> my main PC to the basement in my current residence, but that would have been 
> pretty nice in one of my prior configurations.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Hardware [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of 
> Robert Martin Jr.
> Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2016 11:22 PM
> To: Hwg <hardware@hardwaregroup.com>
> Subject: [H] Lopaka's Desk project from a few months back
>
> Here's a short write up and parts list for a desk I built a few weeks back. 
> Enjoy http://97.84.98.104:81/projects/desk.html
>
> lopaka
>
>
>



   

Re: [H] Lopaka's Desk project from a few months back

[Robert Martin Jr.]

I had a couple PC's at my old desk and with externals and stuff the cord 
situation was out of control. This setups pretty tidy with most cords and 
network stuff mounted to the backside of the desk on a piece of plywood with 
minimal visible wires. I also mounted to UPS's on brackets on the backside so 
there isn't anything sitting on the floor under the desk either. My external 
HDD's are inside the desk now too but accessible from the front panel which 
raises up
lopaka

  From: Greg Sevart <ad...@xfury.net>
 To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com 
 Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2016 6:58 AM
 Subject: Re: [H] Lopaka's Desk project from a few months back
   
The best aspect, as you point out in the end, is that it holds 4 separate 
systems. Excluding NUCs, laptops, and an HTPC, I've relegated everything but my 
main PC to the basement in my current residence, but that would have been 
pretty nice in one of my prior configurations.

-Original Message-
From: Hardware [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of 
Robert Martin Jr.
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2016 11:22 PM
To: Hwg <hardware@hardwaregroup.com>
Subject: [H] Lopaka's Desk project from a few months back

Here's a short write up and parts list for a desk I built a few weeks back. 
Enjoy http://97.84.98.104:81/projects/desk.html

lopaka



   

[H] Lopaka's Desk project from a few months back

[Robert Martin Jr.]

Here's a short write up and parts list for a desk I built a few weeks back. 
Enjoy
http://97.84.98.104:81/projects/desk.html

lopaka

Re: [H] Ideas for a new build

[Robert Martin Jr.]

Something to also consider is a good NAS if you don't already have one. I keep 
all my important stuff on the NAS so I don't have to have as much HDD space on 
any of the PC's at the house. Map a NAS share or create an iscsi drive for each 
box. I'm running a synology DS1518+ . I only keep the quick access stuff on the 
local machine.
Build wise I'd go with a newer i7 mobo with decent amount of ram if you do much 
virtual machines. I'm always running a few virtual box machines for random 
stuff. I don't have a mobo with M.2 interface but I'd look at it if building 
something new. My best system is a quad core 6700k 4.0 GHz box. I have a toggle 
switch to boot either win 8.1 pro or windows 10. Still tend to use 8.1 more 
often because a few of my programs still have issues running on 10.  I'm still 
running samsung pro SSD's as primary's in most of my boxes. Video card is 
midrange right now just because I don't game on my main machine,  
lopaka

  From: Brian Weeden 
 To: hardware  
Cc: hwg 
 Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2016 5:05 PM
 Subject: Re: [H] Ideas for a new build
   
One of the big recent advancements is in the new M.2 interface for SSDs,
which finally creates an interface that can match the inherent speed of
modern SSD:
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/02/understanding-m-2-the-interface-that-will-speed-up-your-next-ssd/

If you do a lot of disk-intensive apps, I think that would be something
worth upgrading for. Will require a new mobo, however.



-
Brian


On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 7:59 PM, Jim Maki  wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
>
> My last new build was a 2.67 GHz i7 system in 2009. I have been using a
> dual
> Xeon 6-core, 2.67 GHz refurb (HP Z600)for about 2 years. I have outgrown
> the
> storage capacity (hard drives, etc.) of the HP case. It is very proprietary
> and would not easily transfer to the larger case I have (from the i7
> build).
> In addition, the Z600 does not have new features such as USB 3.0.
>
>
>
> Anyway, I have been "out of touch" with state of the art and am looking for
> some suggestions for a new build. While price is important, a high
> performance to price ratio is more important. I am not much of a gamer (an
> occasion Civ V game) but do have multiple programs open a one time. I do
> some graphics (CorelDraw) but my next major task is a book on family
> genealogy (pictures, genealogy charts, text).
>
>
>
> So suggestions and a "why" would be highly appreciated.
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> Jim Maki
>
> jwm_maill...@comcast.net
>
>


   

Re: [H] Best router for gaming ?

[Robert Martin Jr.]

Asus RT-N66U with tomato firmware is my favorite. Been running one for a while 
and recently picked up another on sale for a backup.


lopaka

  From: Naushad Zulfiqar 
 To: "hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com"  
 Sent: Friday, November 25, 2016 6:35 AM
 Subject: Re: [H] Best router for gaming ?
   
I left commercial routers many moons ago and am now using Ubiquiti
products.  Check out their Edgerouter X.  It's quite nice for the price.
You would need an access point too, and their Lite ones are also very good.

On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 9:33 AM, FORC5  wrote:

> Happy Black Friday <:-|
>
> Have a Netgear N600 WDNR3700. current firmware but is a few years old.
> I do not have any problems other then a occasional reboot of the
> router/modem which seems normal.
> My son online games and claims he is getting a lot of drops. Hard wired or
> wireless.
>
> Do not know ( will ask) if when he gets dropped if mine get dropped also.
> Need to check that.
>
> Suggestions for best router for gaming ? I do also connect to a bridge for
> my shop access needs to be able to do that.
> Homework a foot. May not be me, may just be the games.
>
> Everyone hope you had a good holiday and those to come.
> fp
>
>
>
>
> Date:  Thursday, November 24th, 2016
>
>        ***Caution Tagline Below***
>                **Tallyho**
> ***
>    There is no defense except stupidity
>            against a new idea.
> ***
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>


-- 
Best Regards,


Zulfiqar Naushad


   

Re: [H] Strange NVIDIA problem

[Robert Martin Jr.]

Could be the monitor. Swap them around and see if that monitor does it (changes 
to lower res) on a different output. I've had a couple monitors that did that 
before going out completely. 
lopaka
  From: Winterlight 
 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com 
 Sent: Monday, September 26, 2016 11:03 AM
 Subject: [H] Strange NVIDIA problem
   
My desktop uses a three year old NVIDIA GTX 660 plugged into three 
monitors. In the last 3 months I have been having a problem with the 
left hand monitor which is a Dell 2407 that runs at 1920 X 1600 
.  The other two monitors are fine. When the monitors wake up I have 
no signal to the 2407 and all the wall papers and icons are skewed 
over to the right. Sometimes a reboot or a complete shutdown and 
resetting the cables will bring back the signal but even when that 
happens now it comes back at 1024x768 and even stranger at a refresh 
rate of 75hz instead of 60hz and then it is a big struggle to get it 
back to the correct resolution and refresh rate because the correct 
1920 X 1600 at 60 hz isn't even available to select.

The first thing I did was to remove and then update and install the 
driver but it happened again. To find out if it was hardware or 
software when the monitor was down I booted into a different OS. My 
desktop dual boots Windows 8.1 Pro and Windows 10 Pro. The problem 
remained so I knew it couldn't be a software problem. That left the 
video card, the cable, or the monitor.

The cable is a top quality DVI cable that I got from Monoprice. It 
appears to be in good condition and I have removed and re seated it a 
number of times on both video card and monitor  when this has 
happened. A couple of times I thought it was a re seating of the 
cable that was causing the problem but it couldn't still be the 
problem and besides I don't see how the monitor itself, or the cable 
could account for a change in resolution, or an increase in refresh 
rate. the monitor is using the correct DELL driver and has no monitor 
type problems... such as pixalation or breaking up video, that sort 
of thing.  Last night I reset Power Balance to never put the monitors 
to sleep and I will see if that solves the problem for the time being.

It has to be the video card right?

  I am not a big gamer but I do have a steam account and very 
occasionally I will buy a game and play it... usually something that 
is years old... I just played Left4Dead2 for example. However I do 
intend to be driving four large monitors in the near future... so 
will a EVGA GTX 1060 with 6GB of RAM  do the job or do I need to 
spend the money on ta GTX 1070. Yes the 1070 will be better in modern 
games and 3D but I don't use it  for that. Will the model number of a 
modern video card make any difference for day to day multi monitor 
support?  Thanks w



  



   

Re: [H] Odd Windows 7 problem

[Robert Martin Jr.]

I had that happen frequently on one computer and eventually found a fix script 
that I would run then reboot and would all be fixed. I think it was related to 
corruption of the icon cache or something similar. 
lopaka

  From: Thane Sherrington 
 To: "hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com"  
 Sent: Wednesday, September 7, 2016 10:36 AM
 Subject: [H] Odd Windows 7 problem
   
I've run into this a few times, and each time I've been forced to do a 
repair install to fix it.  This time, repair install isn't working, so 
I'm digging deeper.

Here's the problem.  On Windows 7 Home and Pro systems, occasionally 
they will boot up to a desktop with no icons, but the icon labels are 
visible.

When I click the start button, it depresses, but the Start Menu doesn't 
appear.  I can open Task Manager by right clicking the Start Menu or by 
using Ctrl-Shift-Esc and then I can open a command prompt.  I can open 
Control Panel from the command prompt, but all the icons are missing 
(although the labels are visible) and I can use the search box to open 
Control Panel applets.

Here's what I've tried so far:

1)Repair install/Inplace Upgrade from the DVD.  This works for the first 
reboot, but after a few reboots, the problem returns.

2)System Restore - I've gone back to a known good restore point, but the 
problem remains (so no icons when System Restore reboots).

3)SFC /scannow - says it has made changes, but no icons on reboot.

4)Created a new user profile - no change in that profile.

5)Boot to safe mode - no change.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.  Out of interest, I think the 
problem may be related to Visual C++ 2013 redistributable, since on this 
computer, it installed just before the problem started.  I tried 
repairing it, but there was no change.  I'm running another SFC before I 
remove Visual C++ 2013 redistributable.

T






   

Re: [H] Network Problems

[Robert Martin Jr.]

try connecting to the severs via IP address and not system name. It's probably 
a workgroup or DNS issue. Also check via router and make sure it sees all the 
machines in the connected device list.
\\IP address 
lopaka

  From: Steve Tomporowski 
 To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com 
 Sent: Saturday, September 3, 2016 10:12 AM
 Subject: [H] Network Problems
   
The configuration is this, the router goes to a switch, which feeds the 
main computer, a Stora and a server running Unraid.

The situation:  I was copying files from the Unraid server to a USB 
memory on the computer when things got flaky.  The connection seemed to 
be timing out (I wasn't watching it all the time). Finally, the computer 
lost all connectivity.  I've restored internet access, I can access the 
Unraid server via a browser, but neither the unraid server or the Stora 
now show up in File Explorer.  Refreshing network doesn't find them.  
I've tried several reboots, of the computer, the stora, the server, the 
switch and the router.  Updated the router firmware, updated the 
computer network card drivers.  File explorer remains stubborn. Anyone 
familiar with this?  Can't seem to find anything resembling my problem 
on the net, so far.

ThanksSteve



   

Re: [H] Private Internet Access

[Robert Martin Jr.]

No I haven't had any issues like that but I'm running a separate router for PIA 
VPN (all VPN settings on tomato router) . I've never used a VPN app for 
connecting. I am using a swiss PIA IP. Have you tried switching the access 
server IP? 
lopaka

  From: Winterlight 
 To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com 
 Sent: Friday, September 2, 2016 12:16 PM
 Subject: [H] Private Internet Access
   
I subscribe to Private Internet Access VPN. I subscribed around a 
year ago but in the last six months when I use the VPN it will drop 
me while I am using it which is unacceptable. This happens regardless 
of internet source = my IP or a hotspot or if it is on my desktop or 
laptop. PIA tech has been less then helpful... anybody else 
experiencing this with PIA?



   

Re: [H] Any one there ?

[Robert Martin Jr.]

I'm still here too Fred, but has been pretty quiet around here...
lopaka
  From: FORC5 
 To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com 
 Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2016 5:20 PM
 Subject: [H] Any one there ?
   
Just wondering why the list has been so quiet

also still using Eudora for email and wonder if anyone knows why 
sometimes some email come thru really scrambled, same email displays 
properly in TBird.
American express email and siriusXM email I have to get in Tbird.

from phones do not format well either but are readable.

just wondering, Eudora is getting a little old but been using it a long time.

tallyho
fp

Date:  Saturday, June 25th, 2016

        ***Caution, Tagline Below ***
                **Tallyho**
**
  If you can't learn to do it well, enjoy
              doing it badly.
**

Re: [H] Duncan

[Robert Martin Jr.]

Welcome home my friend...
lopaka
  From: DSinc dsinc...@epbfi.com
 To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com 
 Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2015 9:25 AM
 Subject: Re: [H] Duncan
   
To the List,
I am now happily at home and completed the 2d phase of life; Iam now 
67yrs old.
I am trying to relern EMail! I am so happy the
List is UP and Opsnorml.
Thankyou for your thoughts and prayers. They worked. I am still kickingeven
though the new guy is strange.
regards,
Duhcan


On 01/24/2015 15:25, Chris Reeves wrote:
 Agreed. Some of the best news of the weekend

 -Original Message-
 From: Gary Jackson gjack...@visi.com
 Sent: ‎1/‎23/‎2015 11:48 AM


 To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
 Subject: Re: [H] Duncan

 It will be nice to get you back on the list Duncan !


 Gary


 -Original Message-
 From: Hardware [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of 
 dsinc...@epbfi.com
 Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 6:46 PM
 To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
 Subject: Re: [H] Duncan

 I'm doing okay. Feelin' good.  I am in an assisted living facility called 
 Rosewood, in Fort Oglethorpe (where my sister lives).  Have my own apartment. 
  And it sucks to have to stay here, til June, my calendar says.  The food's 
 lousy, but it's regular.  I'm supporting my local pharmacy--in Atlanta.  I 
 haven't figured out email yet.  Sis comes by every couple of days and helps 
 me out.  Learning my way around the place.

 Thanks for asking after me.

 Onward and Upward,
 Duncan

 - Original Message -From: Scott Sipe csco...@gmail.comTo: 
 hardware@lists.hardwaregroup.comSent: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 01:55:30 -0500 
 (EST)Subject: Re: [H] Duncan

 Bump. Anyone heard anything?

 Scott

 On Dec 18, 2014, at 8:38 PM, Christopher Fisk 
 christopher.f...@thefisks.org wrote:  Any updates on Duncan? It's been a 
 few weeks and was hoping to hear good news!  On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 7:46 
 AM, Joshua MacCraw maccr...@gmail.com wrote:  Strength to Duncan  
 family.  On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 5:51 AM, James Edwards 
 jedwa...@hardwaregroup.com wrote: Yo everyone, pay attention! From his 
 sister Bonny at addy4st...@yahoo.com  To all,  My brother, 
 Duncan, (do not know how he's identified in your group other than the 
 owner of this site) was admitted to the hospital on 11-11 after suffering 
 multiple strokes. He was in ccu for 3 days, the hospital for 3 and is 
 now in re-hab. He is mobile, somewhat, and coherent, but memory, 
 vision, and balance are impaired. Thought you would like to know. He's 
 optimistic, accepting, and going with the flow. He's himself in 
 conversation, just trapped in a not too responsive body.  Bonny 
  Bonny, please send me a good address to send well wishes. I will 
 forward it to the list.Jim Edwards 

Re: [H] Freenas Nas4free any experience?

[Robert Martin Jr.]

Thanks for the input. I did load up NAS4FREE and the problem seems to be fixed 
now. The interface is more what I'm used to since my old DIY NAS was freenas 7.?
I'm getting decent file transer speed with no pauses. I'm doing a 2 TB copy 
using unstoppable copier as a test and so far no hiccups. :)

lopaka


On Tuesday, July 8, 2014 11:21 PM, Greg Sevart ad...@xfury.net wrote:
 


I'm inclined to blame the 3ware. I never used one that impressed me in the
slightest, though 5mbps certainly suggests a deeper issue.

In any case, I'd consider snagging a Dell PERC6 or PERC H700 off ebay. I
just did a series of RAID5 and RAID6 tests on a bench PERC6 and a used PERC
H700 I got off ebay for $100. Both of these cards are based on slightly
altered LSI MegaRAID adapters and even support using LSI's management
software, though note that the PERC6 does not support physical disks  2TB.
All tests performed using 8x2TB Toshiba HDDs. CrystalDiskMark sequential
using a 4000MB test file:

PERC6 RAID5: 791MB/s read, 485MB/s write
PERC6 RAID6: 671MB/s read, 398MB/s write
H700 RAID5: 1086MB/s read, 1015MB/s write *this is effectively the
theoretical peak potential of the underlying HDDs*
H700 RAID6: 937MB/s read, 704MB/s write

Disks are also important. Either buy RAID-rated disks, or Toshiba's DT01ACA
series. Expect everything else to cause problems.

Greg


-Original Message-
From: Hardware [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf
Of Robert Martin Jr.
Sent: Tuesday, July 8, 2014 9:26 PM
To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
Subject: [H] Freenas  Nas4free any experience?

I have been working on retiring an old freenas box so I built a nice server
with spare parts running freenas 9.xxx x64. I have a hardware raid array
(3x3TB raid 5) on a 3ware 12 port contoller. The interface is way different
than what I'm used to but I can deal with that. The transfer speeds are
horrible though and pause about every 20 seconds. I'm only averaging 5 mbps
compared to 55 MB/s on my drobo5n. This is actually a backup for my drobo5n
that will get powered on about 1x every 2 mos to update any new files, etc. 

I've heard nas4free is a little more solid compared to newer versions of
freenas. Never tried it though. 

Suggestions? Write caching is turned on - still slow as hell

lopaka

[H] Freenas Nas4free any experience?

[Robert Martin Jr.]

I have been working on retiring an old freenas box so I built a nice server 
with spare parts running freenas 9.xxx x64. I have a hardware raid array (3x3TB 
raid 5) on a 3ware 12 port contoller. The interface is way different than what 
I'm used to but I can deal with that. The transfer speeds are horrible though 
and pause about every 20 seconds. I'm only averaging 5 mbps compared to 55 MB/s 
on my drobo5n. This is actually a backup for my drobo5n that will get powered 
on about 1x every 2 mos to update any new files, etc. 

I've heard nas4free is a little more solid compared to newer versions of 
freenas. Never tried it though. 

Suggestions? Write caching is turned on - still slow as hell

lopaka

Re: [H] Routers to new homes?

[Robert Martin Jr.]

I'm interested if no one else jumped on them

 lopaka




 From: DSinc dsinc...@epbfi.com
To: HWG hardware@hardwaregroup.com 
Sent: Wednesday, February 5, 2014 9:50 AM
Subject: [H] Routers to new homes?
 

Shortly I will receive 2 new N750 routers. One to use, one a spare. This is 
because my ISP tech person
came by to check out my 'stuff.' His diagnosis was that my current N300 router 
is now a 'bottleneck' to my
'internet experience' on my fiber-optic Giga-bit feed. OK. Damn!
OK. So, I wait for a pair of Netgear wnr-4300-100nas (N750) routers.

I will end up with a pair of N300 wnr-3500Lv2 routers. These routers a fully 
ISP-supported and can be flashed to
the latest DD-WRT / Tomato / whatever f/w (so I am told.) Used only w/Netgear 
f/w.
One used, one never opened. Any takers?
Offered for FREE + my shipping cost to whomever.
Best,
Duncan

Re: [H] Routers to new homes?

[Robert Martin Jr.]

Yes same CA addy. Would you like me to paypal to shipping? Let me know which 
e-mail address.


lopaka



 From: DSinc dsinc...@epbfi.com
To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com; Dsinc dsinc...@epbfi.com 
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2014 3:42 PM
Subject: Re: [H] Routers to new homes?
 

Actually, I was just packing up the 'used' router. This router is 'used' 
router sans CD (cuz I can not find it!), and a virgin, same box to 
pack/send. Willing to box for shipping whenever.
NO! Nobody has graced my INBOX with any interest.
So, One 'used' wndr-3500L(v2), ready to ship minusits' CD.
One new wndr-3500L(v2) ready to ship.

Should I send both to the same address that I know in CA?
Wondering,
Duncan

I now use an NG wndr-4300 device. Told that support is the same( 
whatever). I do zero wireless.
Duncan

On 02/10/2014 18:20, Robert Martin Jr. wrote:
 I'm interested if no one else jumped on them

   lopaka



 
   From: DSinc dsinc...@epbfi.com
 To: HWG hardware@hardwaregroup.com
 Sent: Wednesday, February 5, 2014 9:50 AM
 Subject: [H] Routers to new homes?
  

 Shortly I will receive 2 new N750 routers. One to use, one a spare. This is 
 because my ISP tech person
 came by to check out my 'stuff.' His diagnosis was that my current N300 
 router is now a 'bottleneck' to my
 'internet experience' on my fiber-optic Giga-bit feed. OK. Damn!
 OK. So, I wait for a pair of Netgear wnr-4300-100nas (N750) routers.

 I will end up with a pair of N300 wnr-3500Lv2 routers. These routers a fully 
 ISP-supported and can be flashed to
 the latest DD-WRT / Tomato / whatever f/w (so I am told.) Used only w/Netgear 
 f/w.
 One used, one never opened. Any takers?
 Offered for FREE + my shipping cost to whomever.
 Best,
 Duncan

Re: [H] VM second NIC

[Robert Martin Jr.]

Yes, I do something similar. In the primary OS (win8pro) on the secondary NIC I 
 disable everything except virtualbox bridged networking driver (no TCP/IP, 
etc) so there is no conflict with the primary NIC. You would do the equivalent 
of VMwares bridged driver. Then the virtual machine is isolated from the 
primary and can be on another subnet, etc.

lopaka



 From: Winterlight winterli...@winterlight.org
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com 
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2013 6:31 PM
Subject: [H] VM second NIC
 

I have a new computer build = windows 8 PRO.  My PC motherboard has the usual 2 
NICs. I want to install VMware version 9 workstation and have it use the second 
NIC. I have a three router network that isolates a WIFI connection from my LAN 
for employees, friends, family to use. I am thinking I can plug the second NIC 
into the router that outputs to my LAN and the other wifi routers and then 
point the VM to that NIC... is something like this possible. do I need to use 
the second NIC...  how do I go about this? Thanks

Re: [H] Win 8 upgrade install.

[Robert Martin Jr.]

I was always curious how well that worked. Never tried that way before. I 
always did every windows 7  8 upgrade as a clean install. I didn't realize any 
of the THG guys installed from within the prior OS, seems a little messy to me 
;)

lopaka



 From: Tim Lider timli...@adv-data.com
To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com 
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 8:12 AM
Subject: Re: [H] Win 8 upgrade install.
 

I have some info I would like to add.

When I did an upgrade from Windows 7 there was a lot of problems.  I decided to
do a clean install of Windows 8 Pro.

What I did was first was use Windows Easy Transfer on the current install of
Windows 8 Pro. I only copied the profiles I needed.

Second I installed Windows 8 Pro, asked it to format the C Drive. After Windows
8 Pro was installed I used the Windows File Transfer Wizard to put the Profile
and settings back.  It worked like a charm, it even told me what Programs I
needed to install :) I then used the free key for Windows Media Center and it
ran perfectly.

Regards,

On November 18, 2013 at 5:32 PM Robert Martin Jr. lopaka_...@yahoo.com
wrote:
 Just google clean win 8 upgrade install. Lots of sites have the tutorial.


 lopaka



 
  From: Winterlight winterli...@winterlight.org
 To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
 Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 2:13 PM
 Subject: Re: [H] Win 8 upgrade install.
 


 what instructions?

 At 01:46 PM 11/18/2013, you wrote:
 I did clean install from boot on both of my win8 upgrade discs. You
 do need to follow instructions to do registry hack to get it to
 authenticate when using an upgrade key for clean install. Much more
 stable than an upgrade.
 
 lopaka
 
 
 
 
   From: Winterlight winterli...@winterlight.org
 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
 Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2013 11:19 PM
 Subject: [H] Win 8 upgrade install.
 
 
 Last year I bought one of the 25 dollar Windows 8 Pro upgrade iso
 download deals from MS. I am now ready to install it and have a few
 questions.
 I have all ready installed Win7 on another hard drive with the boot
 drive located on a clean SSD ready for Windows 8 to do the upgrade.
 Can I boot off the Win 8 DVD and install that way or do I need to
 start the install from within windows 7?
 I guess there is no way I can just install Windows 8.1 direct.. can I?
 thanks m
Tim Lider
Sr. Data Recovery Specialist
Advanced Data Solutions, LLC
http://www.adv-data.com
timli...@adv-data.com

Re: [H] Win 8 upgrade install.

[Robert Martin Jr.]

Both of my win 8 upgrade CD's boot and install fine. I did clean installs with 
all my win 7 upgrades too (all 13 of them). I was under the impression that all 
the discs are the same and the only difference is the key to determine which 
version loads. FYI, mine were both win 8 pro upgrades. Don't know if that makes 
any difference. They are bootable though. 

lopaka



 From: Winterlight winterli...@winterlight.org
To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com 
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: [H] Win 8 upgrade install.
 


How do you install it clean when the upgrade disk is not made to 
boot? You must have a OEM or retail disk.

At 08:20 AM 11/20/2013, you wrote:
I decided to give it a try this time around, the Windows 7 to 
Windows 8 upgrade.
Lets just say it was messy and did not work well at all.

The clean install with Windows Easy Transfer worked a lot better.

Regards,

On November 20, 2013 at 8:15 AM Robert Martin Jr. lopaka_...@yahoo.com
wrote:
  I was always curious how well that worked. Never tried that way before. I
  always did every windows 7  8 upgrade as a clean install. I didn't realize
  any of the THG guys installed from within the prior OS, seems a 
 little messy
  to me ;)
 
  lopaka
 
 
 

Re: [H] Win 8 upgrade install.

[Robert Martin Jr.]

I did clean install from boot on both of my win8 upgrade discs. You do need to 
follow instructions to do registry hack to get it to authenticate when using an 
upgrade key for clean install. Much more stable than an upgrade.

lopaka




 From: Winterlight winterli...@winterlight.org
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com 
Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2013 11:19 PM
Subject: [H] Win 8 upgrade install.
 

Last year I bought one of the 25 dollar Windows 8 Pro upgrade iso download 
deals from MS. I am now ready to install it and have a few questions.
I have all ready installed Win7 on another hard drive with the boot drive 
located on a clean SSD ready for Windows 8 to do the upgrade.
Can I boot off the Win 8 DVD and install that way or do I need to start the 
install from within windows 7?
I guess there is no way I can just install Windows 8.1 direct.. can I?
thanks m

Re: [H] Win 8 upgrade install.

[Robert Martin Jr.]

Just google clean win 8 upgrade install. Lots of sites have the tutorial.


lopaka




 From: Winterlight winterli...@winterlight.org
To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com 
Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 2:13 PM
Subject: Re: [H] Win 8 upgrade install.
 


what instructions?

At 01:46 PM 11/18/2013, you wrote:
I did clean install from boot on both of my win8 upgrade discs. You 
do need to follow instructions to do registry hack to get it to 
authenticate when using an upgrade key for clean install. Much more 
stable than an upgrade.

lopaka




  From: Winterlight winterli...@winterlight.org
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2013 11:19 PM
Subject: [H] Win 8 upgrade install.


Last year I bought one of the 25 dollar Windows 8 Pro upgrade iso 
download deals from MS. I am now ready to install it and have a few questions.
I have all ready installed Win7 on another hard drive with the boot 
drive located on a clean SSD ready for Windows 8 to do the upgrade.
Can I boot off the Win 8 DVD and install that way or do I need to 
start the install from within windows 7?
I guess there is no way I can just install Windows 8.1 direct.. can I?
thanks m

Re: [H] a small success!

[Robert Martin Jr.]

A little thing like that was where most of us started getting interested in 
hardware :)
Could be a big step or a little one, hehe

lopaka





 From: DSinc dsinc...@epbfi.com
To: HWG hardware@hardwaregroup.com 
Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 2:06 PM
Subject: [H] a small success!
 

Sorry. I just had to share this. I just finished walking my older Brother 
through Let's install
a new video card.  He did not have a 'video card' actually. He was operating 
via an onboard
nVidia Geforce 6100 logic inside his Northbridge chip. Fine. We did the bios 
stuff to defeat his
onboard Geforce 6100. He then did the install of his new GTX630 video card into 
his
open PCIE_16 slot. He moved his VGA cable from its' old m/b connector to his 
new card.
(yes, I suggested changing this cable for the DVI cable that came with his 24in 
Dell monitor.
He has now done that and is very happy. I salute his persistence. He has 
previously changed
a nic card, and installed his first NAS (which I built for him).
I've invited him to join our List, but, I think he is still wondering about 
that. Perhaps one day.
TNX,
Duncan

Re: [H] Crucial M500

[Robert Martin Jr.]

I went with the Samsung 840 Pro for my boot drive (win 8 pro) and have been 
very happy with the reliability and speed.
It's a great choice!

lopaka



 From: Greg Sevart ad...@xfury.net
To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com 
Sent: Tuesday, October 1, 2013 3:15 PM
Subject: Re: [H] Crucial M500
 

Yes.

However, I would get a Samsung 840 EVO or Samsung 840 Pro - and nothing
else.

-Original Message-
From: hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
[mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Winterlight
Sent: Tuesday, October 1, 2013 3:59 PM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: [H] Crucial M500

Is the Crucial M500 suppose to replace the M4... I'm confused.

Re: [H] 3TB

[Robert Martin Jr.]

When my first ReadyNAS NV+ v1 had the catastrophic failure, I did have all or 
most of my movies on hard copies. I can say it took over 6 months to get 
everything back in digital format because I had to re-rip and stuff. Anything 
important (other than movies) is backed up to 2 different NAS setups so the 
likelihood of failure is small. On the drobo5n I probably have 9 TB's of movie 
files. Once I started doing blu-ray backups, filling up a NAS is easy. Some 
movies are 20GB's each. I like having stuff on raid and have been able to 
recuperate from 3 drive failures because of raid, without doing anything but 
popping the dead drive and and putting a new one in hot. System rebuilds and 
all is good. 


lopaka




 From: Anthony Q. Martin amar...@charter.net
To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com 
Sent: Friday, September 20, 2013 12:58 PM
Subject: Re: [H] 3TB
 

Why does anyone need movies on a raid?  That seems like overkill to me.  
If one of my drives crashes, it won't be the end of the world as I have 
all of the backups on optical.  I just keep track of what is where so I 
can regen one as needed. But so far, after 24/7 use of nearly two years, 
no problems. Those drives are sleeping 99% of the time. :)

On 9/20/2013 10:47 AM, Christopher Fisk wrote:
 WD Red have worked fine for me.  I got a set of 4 and put into a raid.  Had
 one keep dropping out of the RAID and failing to rebuild but it turned out
 to be a bad SATA cable rather than the drive.


 On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 6:05 PM, DSinc dsinc...@epbfi.com wrote:

 Heck, your research is way behind. SSD's in NAS is a fact to my meager
 reads.
 True, any of the users are Linux-geeks that have 'dicked' with their NAS's
 OS (f/w), but
 still. I read it to mean that this is active ATM, if only on a limited
 scale. Way above my pay
 grade :) LOL!
 Duncan


 On 09/19/2013 17:02, Zulfiqar Naushad wrote:

 That's sexy. Must read more.

 Sent from my iPhone

 On Sep 20, 2013, at 12:01 AM, Robert Martin Jr. lopaka_...@yahoo.com
 wrote:

   What sold me most on the 5N was the ability to add a mSSD in the
 accelerator bay, to cache data and speed transfers. I have a Crucial m4
 128GB mSATA Internal Solid State Drive CT128M4SSD3 in mine. Once I added
 that, the data transfers are crazy fast. Plus the drobo is 5 bays not 4
 like the readynas NV+.

 lopaka


 __**__
 From: DSinc dsinc...@epbfi.com
 To: hardware@lists.hardwaregroup.**comhardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
 Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 1:36 PM
 Subject: Re: [H] 3TB


 Oh! Holy cow! I guess I am still learning how to get my NAS to link up
 on my LAN.
 I've never tested, but do not think I see this performance. But then,
 since completing my
 10base1000 LAN, I have never really tested. Actually, I know not how. I
 just move/copy stuff
 from my desktop to my NAS, and it goes pretty dang quick! The NAS-to-NAS
 backups at Zero-dark-30
 take place at theNAS' own chosen/agreed upon speed. This I never quibble
 about. Clearly I might not be
 on top of this, but it all works so well for me I just don't worry about
 it at all. I own/run these appliances that
 are so much smarter than me, but still speak to me in their 'plain
 speak' that I treat them as 'family.' Except for
 Intel nic cards, my NAS appliances are the most reliable network
 devicesI have ever owned.
 I know that they use a Debian-based Linux OS so I do not dig into their
 guts. No need to.
 They just plain workand make digital life a bit better.
 NAS-ON everyone!
 Duncan

 On 09/19/2013 16:07, Robert Martin Jr. wrote:

 Drobo5N is a completely different beast compared to earlier units. I
 can transfer 20GB in under a couple minutes over network. ReadyNAS NV+ v1
 is about 4-5x that and the v2 6-7x that

 lopaka


 __**__
      From: Zulfiqar Naushad z00...@gmail.com
 To: hardware@lists.hardwaregroup.**comhardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
 hardware@lists.hardwaregroup.**com hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
 Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 12:46 PM
 Subject: Re: [H] 3TB


 The deciding factor for me was the hybrid raid. I mix and match
 different sizes and it works just fine.

 Before that I had a drobo. Great features but super slow performance.
 Gave that to my brother in law as a gift and he uses that till today.

 I don't think I could deal with traditional raid. Having all same size
 drives would be a bear to upgrade. It's funny. Almost every bay in my
 synology has a different brand, size and rotation speed. Everything
 just works and works well.

 If the synology ever dies I'm never going to switch to another brand.
 Love the web os of synology and they keep on improving the interface
 and adding features. I barely use most of them. I just have an
 antivirus running and do torrents from the synology. I've set it up
 with ddns so I can add torrents from my phone wherever I am and once I
 come home it's sitting there for me ready

Re: [H] 3TB

[Robert Martin Jr.]

I actually have a ReadyNAS NV+ v1 and a v2. The v1 has been running for years. 
I've had 1 catastrophic failure after a power outage outlasted the UPS. Data 
was completely gone on 2 drives. Rebuilt and it has been running fine since. I 
also had to replace the PS on the v1 once so far.

The NV+ v2 is OK. Seems to have some speed issues when transferring large 
files. I'm planning on selling it because I got a good deal on the Drobo5N and 
it had large capacity.

lopaka



 From: DSinc dsinc...@epbfi.com
To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com 
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 5:03 AM
Subject: Re: [H] 3TB
 

Lopaka,
Never knew you had a ReadyNAS! Silly me.
How do you like your NV+ v2?
I started with a DUO-v1 in 2009. I can blame John Steinbruner for that. 
I have added an Ultra 2 and an Ultra 2+.
Just now I stay local. In the future I may off-site one of my NAS, or, 
may try a cloud backup location. For now, I
am very happy with my NAS's.
Everything I've ever learned about NAS has been viathe ReadyNAS forum 
via Netgear. Lots of really smart folk there.
Duncan

On 09/18/2013 20:48, Robert Martin Jr. wrote:
 I've got five 4TB Seagate drives in a Drobo5N. All working well about 5 mos 
 now. I have 4 WD 3TB reds in a ReadyNAS NV+ v2. I had 1 die within days, but 
 the replacement is fine. The reds have a better-longer warranty.


 lopaka



 
   From: Anthony Q. Martin amar...@charter.net
 To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
 Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 3:09 PM
 Subject: Re: [H] 3TB
  

 I have at least 10 of them running in my movie box. They work fine for this 
 application.

 Sent from my mobile device.

 On Sep 18, 2013, at 5:16 PM, Winterlight winterli...@winterlight.org wrote:

 I want to get  one or more 3TB desktop drives to store videos oneither a 
 Seagate or WD ... maybe a WD Red. I am really looking at reliability and 
 price point rather then performance. Anybody have any issues with large 3TB 
 drives?

Re: [H] 3TB

[Robert Martin Jr.]

The data loss my my fault on that that one. The UPS I was using was not 
compatible with the readynas and I knew it, so the unit lost power when the 
battery ran out. I have only used compatible Ps's since then and have made it 
through and handful of power outages.

lopaka



 From: DSinc dsinc...@epbfi.com
To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com 
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 10:59 AM
Subject: Re: [H] 3TB
 

Thanks for the history. Wow! Two NV+. Can I assume that both are 4-drive 
units?
Yes, I've read many threads about 'power outage' issues. And why each of 
my NAS has its' own UPS. This has been tested 3 times since moving to NW 
Georgia. We get many Electrical storms thanks to Mother Nature! The NAS 
shutdown logic has worked perfectly every time the UPS battery went to 
50% so far. My plan may not be perfect, but I am still hanging in there.
Sorry to hear of the data loss. Bummer. Yes, understand the 'speed 
issues.' Nothing is ever fast enough is it? Understand the Drobo5N. 
Drobo is very high in the ReadyNAS community also!
Never mind... :)
NAS ON Bro!
Duncan

On 09/19/2013 12:12, Robert Martin Jr. wrote:
 I actually have a ReadyNAS NV+ v1 and a v2. The v1 has been running for 
 years. I've had 1 catastrophic failure after a power outage outlasted the 
 UPS. Data was completely gone on 2 drives. Rebuilt and it has been running 
 fine since. I also had to replace the PS on the v1 once so far.

 The NV+ v2 is OK. Seems to have some speed issues when transferring large 
 files. I'm planning on selling it because I got a good deal on the Drobo5N 
 and it had large capacity.

 lopaka


 
   From: DSinc dsinc...@epbfi.com
 To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
 Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 5:03 AM
 Subject: Re: [H] 3TB
  

 Lopaka,
 Never knew you had a ReadyNAS! Silly me.
 How do you like your NV+ v2?
 I started with a DUO-v1 in 2009. I can blame John Steinbruner for that.
 I have added an Ultra 2 and an Ultra 2+.
 Just now I stay local. In the future I may off-site one of my NAS, or,
 may try a cloud backup location. For now, I
 am very happy with my NAS's.
 Everything I've ever learned about NAS has been viathe ReadyNAS forum
 via Netgear. Lots of really smart folk there.
 Duncan

 On 09/18/2013 20:48, Robert Martin Jr. wrote:
 I've got five 4TB Seagate drives in a Drobo5N. All working well about 5 mos 
 now. I have 4 WD 3TB reds in a ReadyNAS NV+ v2. I had 1 die within days, but 
 the replacement is fine. The reds have a better-longer warranty.


 lopaka



 
     From: Anthony Q. Martin amar...@charter.net
 To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
 Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 3:09 PM
 Subject: Re: [H] 3TB
    

 I have at least 10 of them running in my movie box. They work fine for this 
 application.

 Sent from my mobile device.

 On Sep 18, 2013, at 5:16 PM, Winterlight winterli...@winterlight.org 
 wrote:

 I want to get  one or more 3TB desktop drives to store videos oneither 
 a Seagate or WD ... maybe a WD Red. I am really looking at reliability and 
 price point rather then performance. Anybody have any issues with large 3TB 
 drives?

Re: [H] 3TB

[Robert Martin Jr.]

Drobo5N is a completely different beast compared to earlier units. I can 
transfer 20GB in under a couple minutes over network. ReadyNAS NV+ v1 is about 
4-5x that and the v2 6-7x that

lopaka



 From: Zulfiqar Naushad z00...@gmail.com
To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com 
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 12:46 PM
Subject: Re: [H] 3TB
 

The deciding factor for me was the hybrid raid. I mix and match
different sizes and it works just fine.

Before that I had a drobo. Great features but super slow performance.
Gave that to my brother in law as a gift and he uses that till today.

I don't think I could deal with traditional raid. Having all same size
drives would be a bear to upgrade. It's funny. Almost every bay in my
synology has a different brand, size and rotation speed. Everything
just works and works well.

If the synology ever dies I'm never going to switch to another brand.
Love the web os of synology and they keep on improving the interface
and adding features. I barely use most of them. I just have an
antivirus running and do torrents from the synology. I've set it up
with ddns so I can add torrents from my phone wherever I am and once I
come home it's sitting there for me ready to consume.

What more could I want. I also haven't used port teaming to double the
bandwidth to 2Gbps.

Sent from my iPhone

On Sep 19, 2013, at 6:48 PM, DSinc dsinc...@epbfi.com wrote:

 Hi Zool,
 Yes, several in the ReadyNAS community seem to be moving to Synology, QNAP, 
 and,
 others. Fine. Different strokes for different folks! Nothing more..
 I've studied, thought, played with numbers, and decided to stay with my
 3 ReadyNAS boxes until something serious happens.
 For certain, Synology will be where I move to!  All of my ReadyNAS run 24/7 
 and have
 never dropped a beat in 3 years.  I still wait for my 1st HD failure! And, 
 any data loss
 I have suffered has been totally 'pilot error' (mine!). I'm good. My NAS 
 boxes are the PFM
 part of my home LAN.
 Best,
 Duncan

 On 09/19/2013 08:28, Naushad Zulfiqar wrote:
 Ready nas are great. It was between that and the synology for me and I went
 with the latter. 3 years on and its still hasn't skipped a beat.
 On Sep 19, 2013 3:03 PM, DSinc dsinc...@epbfi.com wrote:

 Lopaka,
 Never knew you had a ReadyNAS! Silly me.
 How do you like your NV+ v2?
 I started with a DUO-v1 in 2009. I can blame John Steinbruner for that. I
 have added an Ultra 2 and an Ultra 2+.
 Just now I stay local. In the future I may off-site one of my NAS, or, may
 try a cloud backup location. For now, I
 am very happy with my NAS's.
 Everything I've ever learned about NAS has been viathe ReadyNAS forum via
 Netgear. Lots of really smart folk there.
 Duncan

 On 09/18/2013 20:48, Robert Martin Jr. wrote:

 I've got five 4TB Seagate drives in a Drobo5N. All working well about 5
 mos now. I have 4 WD 3TB reds in a ReadyNAS NV+ v2. I had 1 die within
 days, but the replacement is fine. The reds have a better-longer warranty.


 lopaka



 __**__
   From: Anthony Q. Martin amar...@charter.net
 To: hardware@lists.hardwaregroup.**comhardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
 hardware@lists.hardwaregroup.**com hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
 Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 3:09 PM
 Subject: Re: [H] 3TB

 I have at least 10 of them running in my movie box. They work fine for
 this application.

 Sent from my mobile device.

  On Sep 18, 2013, at 5:16 PM, Winterlight winterli...@winterlight.org
 wrote:

 I want to get  one or more 3TB desktop drives to store videos
 oneither a Seagate or WD ... maybe a WD Red. I am really looking at
 reliability and price point rather then performance. Anybody have any
 issues with large 3TB drives?

Re: [H] 3TB

[Robert Martin Jr.]

What sold me most on the 5N was the ability to add a mSSD in the accelerator 
bay, to cache data and speed transfers. I have a Crucial m4 128GB mSATA 
Internal Solid State Drive CT128M4SSD3 in mine. Once I added that, the data 
transfers are crazy fast. Plus the drobo is 5 bays not 4 like the readynas NV+.

lopaka



 From: DSinc dsinc...@epbfi.com
To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com 
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 1:36 PM
Subject: Re: [H] 3TB
 

Oh! Holy cow! I guess I am still learning how to get my NAS to link up 
on my LAN.
I've never tested, but do not think I see this performance. But then, 
since completing my
10base1000 LAN, I have never really tested. Actually, I know not how. I 
just move/copy stuff
from my desktop to my NAS, and it goes pretty dang quick! The NAS-to-NAS 
backups at Zero-dark-30
take place at theNAS' own chosen/agreed upon speed. This I never quibble 
about. Clearly I might not be
on top of this, but it all works so well for me I just don't worry about 
it at all. I own/run these appliances that
are so much smarter than me, but still speak to me in their 'plain 
speak' that I treat them as 'family.' Except for
Intel nic cards, my NAS appliances are the most reliable network 
devicesI have ever owned.
I know that they use a Debian-based Linux OS so I do not dig into their 
guts. No need to.
They just plain workand make digital life a bit better.
NAS-ON everyone!
Duncan

On 09/19/2013 16:07, Robert Martin Jr. wrote:
 Drobo5N is a completely different beast compared to earlier units. I can 
 transfer 20GB in under a couple minutes over network. ReadyNAS NV+ v1 is 
 about 4-5x that and the v2 6-7x that

 lopaka


 
   From: Zulfiqar Naushad z00...@gmail.com
 To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
 Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 12:46 PM
 Subject: Re: [H] 3TB
  

 The deciding factor for me was the hybrid raid. I mix and match
 different sizes and it works just fine.

 Before that I had a drobo. Great features but super slow performance.
 Gave that to my brother in law as a gift and he uses that till today.

 I don't think I could deal with traditional raid. Having all same size
 drives would be a bear to upgrade. It's funny. Almost every bay in my
 synology has a different brand, size and rotation speed. Everything
 just works and works well.

 If the synology ever dies I'm never going to switch to another brand.
 Love the web os of synology and they keep on improving the interface
 and adding features. I barely use most of them. I just have an
 antivirus running and do torrents from the synology. I've set it up
 with ddns so I can add torrents from my phone wherever I am and once I
 come home it's sitting there for me ready to consume.

 What more could I want. I also haven't used port teaming to double the
 bandwidth to 2Gbps.

 Sent from my iPhone

 On Sep 19, 2013, at 6:48 PM, DSinc dsinc...@epbfi.com wrote:

 Hi Zool,
 Yes, several in the ReadyNAS community seem to be moving to Synology, QNAP, 
 and,
 others. Fine. Different strokes for different folks! Nothing more..
 I've studied, thought, played with numbers, and decided to stay with my
 3 ReadyNAS boxes until something serious happens.
 For certain, Synology will be where I move to!  All of my ReadyNAS run 24/7 
 and have
 never dropped a beat in 3 years.  I still wait for my 1st HD failure! And, 
 any data loss
 I have suffered has been totally 'pilot error' (mine!). I'm good. My NAS 
 boxes are the PFM
 part of my home LAN.
 Best,
 Duncan

 On 09/19/2013 08:28, Naushad Zulfiqar wrote:
 Ready nas are great. It was between that and the synology for me and I went
 with the latter. 3 years on and its still hasn't skipped a beat.
 On Sep 19, 2013 3:03 PM, DSinc dsinc...@epbfi.com wrote:

 Lopaka,
 Never knew you had a ReadyNAS! Silly me.
 How do you like your NV+ v2?
 I started with a DUO-v1 in 2009. I can blame John Steinbruner for that. I
 have added an Ultra 2 and an Ultra 2+.
 Just now I stay local. In the future I may off-site one of my NAS, or, may
 try a cloud backup location. For now, I
 am very happy with my NAS's.
 Everything I've ever learned about NAS has been viathe ReadyNAS forum via
 Netgear. Lots of really smart folk there.
 Duncan

 On 09/18/2013 20:48, Robert Martin Jr. wrote:

 I've got five 4TB Seagate drives in a Drobo5N. All working well about 5
 mos now. I have 4 WD 3TB reds in a ReadyNAS NV+ v2. I had 1 die within
 days, but the replacement is fine. The reds have a better-longer warranty.


 lopaka



 __**__
     From: Anthony Q. Martin amar...@charter.net
 To: hardware@lists.hardwaregroup.**comhardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
 hardware@lists.hardwaregroup.**com hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
 Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 3:09 PM
 Subject: Re: [H] 3TB

 I have at least 10 of them running in my movie box. They work fine for
 this application.

 Sent from my mobile

Re: [H] 3TB

[Robert Martin Jr.]

I've got five 4TB Seagate drives in a Drobo5N. All working well about 5 mos 
now. I have 4 WD 3TB reds in a ReadyNAS NV+ v2. I had 1 die within days, but 
the replacement is fine. The reds have a better-longer warranty.


lopaka




 From: Anthony Q. Martin amar...@charter.net
To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com 
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 3:09 PM
Subject: Re: [H] 3TB
 

I have at least 10 of them running in my movie box. They work fine for this 
application. 

Sent from my mobile device.

 On Sep 18, 2013, at 5:16 PM, Winterlight winterli...@winterlight.org wrote:
 
 I want to get  one or more 3TB desktop drives to store videos oneither a 
 Seagate or WD ... maybe a WD Red. I am really looking at reliability and 
 price point rather then performance. Anybody have any issues with large 3TB 
 drives?

Re: [H] Using two routers at the same time. but only one for WiFi

[Robert Martin Jr.]

Yes. Tomato with openvpn. I followed a tutorial to set it up initially and have 
only messed with is once since then, to change the IP address of the VPN 
Server. The router gets set up as a client and auto connects to the VPN server 
on each reboot. Any clients behind that router go out through the VPN and are 
not visible to anything else on the network.

lopaka



 From: Scott Sipe csco...@gmail.com
To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com 
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2013 6:17 PM
Subject: Re: [H] Using two routers at the same time. but only one for WiFi
 

Are you running tomato with OpenVPN? What tomato 
distribution/mods/plugins/whatever do you use? I've only ever used the stock 
tomato without VPN and would love to give it a shot.

Scott

On Sep 15, 2013, at 9:30 AM, Robert Martin Jr. wrote:

 Sorry didn't give all the info. One router is bridged to primary and the 
 other uses tomato going out an encrypted VPN. Haven't had any issues and have 
 been running 24/7 for over a year. All tomato firmware.
 
 lopaka
 
 
 From: Naushad Zulfiqar z00...@gmail.com
 To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com 
 Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2013 6:07 AM
 Subject: Re: [H] Using two routers at the same time. but only one for WiFi
 
 
 Wouldn't double NAT be an issue?
 
 
 On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Robert Martin Jr. 
 lopaka_...@yahoo.comwrote:
 
 Yes, no problem at all with that setup. I have 3 wireless routers at my
 house. The second and third use the first as the gateway. My network's
 using 3 different subnets so I can prioritize traffic easily. Gaming, work,
 and home/VOIP networks.
 
 lopaka
 
 
 
   From: Brian Weeden brian.wee...@gmail.com
 To: hardware hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
 Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2013 5:51 AM
 Subject: [H] Using two routers at the same time. but only one for WiFi
 
 
 Got a bit of a problem with my home network. I've got FIOS (which I love)
 but the WiFi signal from the FIOS router is not strong enough to go up to
 our bedroom. Also, it's speeds are not all that great.
 
 A few months ago I looked into setting up a WiFi extender for the network.
 Unfortunately, none of the Actiontec routers that Verizon uses support it:
 
 http://forums.verizon.com/t5/Home-Networking/Actiontec-router-does-not-support-wireless-range-extender-so-how/td-p/553721
 
 I've confirmed that my router is one of these. I was also told that
 replacing the FIOS router completely was not an option because it's needed
 for the IPTV to function.
 
 So, I was thinking it should be possible to turn off the WiFi portion of
 the FIOS router and add a new router to the network that will handle the
 wireless duties. As long as I set the new router to use the FIOS router for
 its gateway, things should work, right?
 
 Would it be preferable to run off DHCP for the new router and have the FIOS
 router handle those duties? Or should I let the new router get it's IP
 address from the FIOS router and then all the wireless devices get their IP
 addresses from the new router? In that case I'd obviously have to make sure
 they were on different IP ranges.
 
 
 -
 Brian
 
 
 
 
 -- 
 Best Regards,
 
 
 Zulfiqar Naushad

Re: [H] Using two routers at the same time. but only one for WiFi

[Robert Martin Jr.]

I'm running Tomato Firmware v1.28 on an older buffalo router for the VPN 
CLient, just because I already had that version on the router and it had VPN 
support. . My primary router is an ASUS and is running Tomato Firmware 
v1.28.9054 MIPSR2-beta K26 USB vpn3.6. 

It aso has vpn support although I don't use it on that router.

lopaka



 From: Scott Sipe csco...@gmail.com
To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com 
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2013 6:17 PM
Subject: Re: [H] Using two routers at the same time. but only one for WiFi
 

Are you running tomato with OpenVPN? What tomato 
distribution/mods/plugins/whatever do you use? I've only ever used the stock 
tomato without VPN and would love to give it a shot.

Scott

On Sep 15, 2013, at 9:30 AM, Robert Martin Jr. wrote:

 Sorry didn't give all the info. One router is bridged to primary and the 
 other uses tomato going out an encrypted VPN. Haven't had any issues and have 
 been running 24/7 for over a year. All tomato firmware.
 
 lopaka
 
 
 From: Naushad Zulfiqar z00...@gmail.com
 To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com 
 Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2013 6:07 AM
 Subject: Re: [H] Using two routers at the same time. but only one for WiFi
 
 
 Wouldn't double NAT be an issue?
 
 
 On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Robert Martin Jr. 
 lopaka_...@yahoo.comwrote:
 
 Yes, no problem at all with that setup. I have 3 wireless routers at my
 house. The second and third use the first as the gateway. My network's
 using 3 different subnets so I can prioritize traffic easily. Gaming, work,
 and home/VOIP networks.
 
 lopaka
 
 
 
   From: Brian Weeden brian.wee...@gmail.com
 To: hardware hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
 Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2013 5:51 AM
 Subject: [H] Using two routers at the same time. but only one for WiFi
 
 
 Got a bit of a problem with my home network. I've got FIOS (which I love)
 but the WiFi signal from the FIOS router is not strong enough to go up to
 our bedroom. Also, it's speeds are not all that great.
 
 A few months ago I looked into setting up a WiFi extender for the network.
 Unfortunately, none of the Actiontec routers that Verizon uses support it:
 
 http://forums.verizon.com/t5/Home-Networking/Actiontec-router-does-not-support-wireless-range-extender-so-how/td-p/553721
 
 I've confirmed that my router is one of these. I was also told that
 replacing the FIOS router completely was not an option because it's needed
 for the IPTV to function.
 
 So, I was thinking it should be possible to turn off the WiFi portion of
 the FIOS router and add a new router to the network that will handle the
 wireless duties. As long as I set the new router to use the FIOS router for
 its gateway, things should work, right?
 
 Would it be preferable to run off DHCP for the new router and have the FIOS
 router handle those duties? Or should I let the new router get it's IP
 address from the FIOS router and then all the wireless devices get their IP
 addresses from the new router? In that case I'd obviously have to make sure
 they were on different IP ranges.
 
 
 -
 Brian
 
 
 
 
 -- 
 Best Regards,
 
 
 Zulfiqar Naushad

Re: [H] Using two routers at the same time. but only one for WiFi

[Robert Martin Jr.]

Yes, no problem at all with that setup. I have 3 wireless routers at my house. 
The second and third use the first as the gateway. My network's using 3 
different subnets so I can prioritize traffic easily. Gaming, work, and 
home/VOIP networks.

lopaka



 From: Brian Weeden brian.wee...@gmail.com
To: hardware hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com 
Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2013 5:51 AM
Subject: [H] Using two routers at the same time. but only one for WiFi
 

Got a bit of a problem with my home network. I've got FIOS (which I love)
but the WiFi signal from the FIOS router is not strong enough to go up to
our bedroom. Also, it's speeds are not all that great.

A few months ago I looked into setting up a WiFi extender for the network.
Unfortunately, none of the Actiontec routers that Verizon uses support it:
http://forums.verizon.com/t5/Home-Networking/Actiontec-router-does-not-support-wireless-range-extender-so-how/td-p/553721

I've confirmed that my router is one of these. I was also told that
replacing the FIOS router completely was not an option because it's needed
for the IPTV to function.

So, I was thinking it should be possible to turn off the WiFi portion of
the FIOS router and add a new router to the network that will handle the
wireless duties. As long as I set the new router to use the FIOS router for
its gateway, things should work, right?

Would it be preferable to run off DHCP for the new router and have the FIOS
router handle those duties? Or should I let the new router get it's IP
address from the FIOS router and then all the wireless devices get their IP
addresses from the new router? In that case I'd obviously have to make sure
they were on different IP ranges.


-
Brian

Re: [H] Using two routers at the same time. but only one for WiFi

[Robert Martin Jr.]

Sorry didn't give all the info. One router is bridged to primary and the other 
uses tomato going out an encrypted VPN. Haven't had any issues and have been 
running 24/7 for over a year. All tomato firmware.

lopaka


 From: Naushad Zulfiqar z00...@gmail.com
To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com 
Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2013 6:07 AM
Subject: Re: [H] Using two routers at the same time. but only one for WiFi
 

Wouldn't double NAT be an issue?


On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Robert Martin Jr. lopaka_...@yahoo.comwrote:

 Yes, no problem at all with that setup. I have 3 wireless routers at my
 house. The second and third use the first as the gateway. My network's
 using 3 different subnets so I can prioritize traffic easily. Gaming, work,
 and home/VOIP networks.

 lopaka


 
  From: Brian Weeden brian.wee...@gmail.com
 To: hardware hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
 Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2013 5:51 AM
 Subject: [H] Using two routers at the same time. but only one for WiFi


 Got a bit of a problem with my home network. I've got FIOS (which I love)
 but the WiFi signal from the FIOS router is not strong enough to go up to
 our bedroom. Also, it's speeds are not all that great.

 A few months ago I looked into setting up a WiFi extender for the network.
 Unfortunately, none of the Actiontec routers that Verizon uses support it:

 http://forums.verizon.com/t5/Home-Networking/Actiontec-router-does-not-support-wireless-range-extender-so-how/td-p/553721

 I've confirmed that my router is one of these. I was also told that
 replacing the FIOS router completely was not an option because it's needed
 for the IPTV to function.

 So, I was thinking it should be possible to turn off the WiFi portion of
 the FIOS router and add a new router to the network that will handle the
 wireless duties. As long as I set the new router to use the FIOS router for
 its gateway, things should work, right?

 Would it be preferable to run off DHCP for the new router and have the FIOS
 router handle those duties? Or should I let the new router get it's IP
 address from the FIOS router and then all the wireless devices get their IP
 addresses from the new router? In that case I'd obviously have to make sure
 they were on different IP ranges.


 -
 Brian




-- 
Best Regards,


Zulfiqar Naushad

Re: [H] Pocket WiFi hotspots

[Robert Martin Jr.]

I used to use a Fonera on battery pack for that with DDWRT. Not sure what would 
be the best option these days.



 From: Joshua MacCraw maccr...@gmail.com
To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com 
Sent: Thursday, August 8, 2013 1:37 PM
Subject: [H] Pocket WiFi hotspots
 

Ok, since I've delurked to stir the pot guess I'll ask a question:

Good, inexpensive, dual radio, 802.11n pocket hotspot running dd-wrt or
Android? Want ability to drop it in between public WiFi  my mobile wifi
devices so they can use my VPN server without needing to do VPN themselves .

Re: [H] Android

[Robert Martin Jr.]

I'm interested in hearing how it goes. I've had a few android phones and all 
were rooted with custom ROM's within the first couple days. I use virgin mobile 
and on that network it's very important to register the phone to their service 
before you root and install a custom ROM. The phone won't register correctly 
otherwise. I love android phones but only after installing a custom ROM with 
the tools I prefer. They usually come with loads of crapware that needs to be 
gone. CyanogenMod is usually my preferred ROM. 


lopaka




 From: Naushad Zulfiqar z00...@gmail.com
To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com 
Sent: Monday, August 5, 2013 1:08 PM
Subject: Re: [H] Android
 

Cool, just excited to see what you think of Android.  Let me know once you
get it.

Thanks!


On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 11:06 PM, Brian Weeden brian.wee...@gmail.comwrote:

 No, had  to wait a week. It's going to be a work phone and I have to
 double-check with my employer to make sure they're going to cover the plan
 I want before signing the contract.



 -
 Brian



 On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Naushad Zulfiqar z00...@gmail.com wrote:

  Did you get it?
 
  :)
 
 
  On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 4:48 AM, Brian Weeden brian.wee...@gmail.com
  wrote:
 
   Thanks man, I think I'll pull to trigger tomorrow on the phone and then
   I'll start playing around.
  
   I don't really play games on my phone or do anything really intensive.
    Mostly email, browsing, reading, and light apps.  So the max battery
  life
   tweak sound good to me.
  
   ---
   Brian Weeden
   Secure World Foundation
   +1 202 683-8534
  
   On Aug 3, 2013, at 20:45, Naushad Zulfiqar z00...@gmail.com wrote:
  
I agree with your assessment.  HTC has better hardware (physical) and
software (sense 5) vs Samsung (Plastic and Touchwiz).  Samsung is too
cartoony and weird looking for me.  Regarding the hardware button, I
  also
agree, hardware button is pretty bad to use and I don't like it.
  That
said, the HTC ONE is a capacitive button and also set up the wrong
 way
   (not
following android guidelines).  There is some weirdness going on with
  HTC
also, such as hitting home twice for the task manager and other
   keypresses
to get Google Now.
   
I've owned several high end phones over the years, and for some
  reason, I
still prefer the on screen keys that the Nexus 4 provides.  Along
 with
   the
MOTO X and some other models.
   
About OTA, some custom roms do offer OTA, but their OTA can be half
  baked
or really well done.  But in either way, you download the full
 package
   and
then upon accepting the OTA it automatically goes into recovery and
   flashes
it or you flash it manually.  Thankfully the process is not too
 painful
   and
the OTA's don't come too often, maybe once a couple of weeks or in
 some
cases once a month.
   
One more thing, with android you never change the bootloader, just
 the
recovery and ROM.  Speaking of recoveries there are mainly 2 out
 there.
CWM (Clockwork) and TWRP.  TWRP is more graphical and supports the
 Open
Recovery Script that a lot of ROMS use to automate stuff like
 flashing
   the
ROM, then modem, then something else, then wiping dalvik cache and
  other
stuff, so that's why I recommended TWRP (Team Win Recovery Project).
   
With either recovery it's advisable to first do a nandroid backup
 from
within the recovery.  This is akin to creating an ISO image of your
   phone,
so if you flash to a newer version of a ROM or to a different ROM and
   don't
like it, you can always re-image your phone back to it's previous
  state
including all preferences and wallpapers that you have set.  It's a
  true
image.
   
Also read up on Titanium Backup.  That app is worth it's digital
 weight
   in
gold!!  I use it regularly and almost every day.  It can do some
   freakishly
amazing stuff!!
   
In the end, if none of this custom ROM malarkey makes you happy, it's
   also
very easy to revert back to stock and continue using it that way.
   
For a vanilla experience with some bells and whistles over stock, try
Cyanogenmod.  It's compiled from the AOSP (Android Open Source
 Project)
   and
has some really nifty features built in that I wish were in stock
   android.
In fact a lot of stuff in stock comes from Cyanogen.  These guys are
 at
the leading edge of Android Development.
   
But there are some caveats with Cyanogen (www.get.cm)  Stable builds
  for
the S4 and One don't exist, and you would have to run nightlies.
  That
   can
also mean flashing every night.  Thankfully there is a free app
 called
Cyandelta on the play store that downloads only the delta's and
 flashes
that, so instead of a 180 MB download every day, it's around 5-6
 megs.
    But
then again, if a particular build of the nightly is working fine,
 then
   

Re: [H] Non-Wireless DDWRT/OpenWRT capable router

[Robert Martin Jr.]

You can disable the wifi on any of the existing routers.

lopaka





From: Harry McGregor mic...@osef.org
To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Thu, June 6, 2013 12:43:55 AM
Subject: [H] Non-Wireless DDWRT/OpenWRT capable router

Hi,

I am looking for a hard to find item.

A wired router that supports DD-WRT, OpenWRT, etc and also has a USB port, and 
hopefully gigabit ports.

The main requirement is that I don't want it to have wireless. Either being 
able 
to physically remove the WiFi adapter or not having one in the first place 
would 
work.

-Harry

Re: [H] Non-Wireless DDWRT/OpenWRT capable router

[Robert Martin Jr.]

Gotcha. Not a lot of options although if you don't mind invalidating the 
warranty, you could open the unit and cut the antenna trace with a razor. 



lopaka



From: Harry McGregor mic...@osef.org
To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Thu, June 6, 2013 8:57:20 AM
Subject: Re: [H] Non-Wireless DDWRT/OpenWRT capable router

Hi,

Yes, I am well aware of software disable.

This is for an environment where even having the radio in the unit could 
raise major flags with the end user.

-Harry

On 6/6/13 5:50 AM, Robert Martin Jr. wrote:
 You can disable the wifi on any of the existing routers.

 lopaka




 
 From: Harry McGregor mic...@osef.org
 To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
 Sent: Thu, June 6, 2013 12:43:55 AM
 Subject: [H] Non-Wireless DDWRT/OpenWRT capable router

 Hi,

 I am looking for a hard to find item.

 A wired router that supports DD-WRT, OpenWRT, etc and also has a USB port, and
 hopefully gigabit ports.

 The main requirement is that I don't want it to have wireless. Either being 
able
 to physically remove the WiFi adapter or not having one in the first place 
would
 work.

 -Harry

Re: [H] time to change Usenet server

[Robert Martin Jr.]

I've been using astraweb. I get better speed than when I had gigagnews, the 
price is pretty good, and I've only had 2 short outages and had e-mail warning 
the service would be down for short periods.

lopaka





From: Christopher Fisk christopher.f...@thefisks.org
To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Thu, May 30, 2013 4:21:16 AM
Subject: Re: [H] time to change Usenet server

I have a good experience with usenetserver.com
On May 28, 2013 5:59 PM, Winterlight winterli...@winterlight.org wrote:

 I am subscribed to Supernews but I'm not really happy with the retention
 ... what is the best service out there. Thanks.

Re: [H] Odd hard drive issue

[Robert Martin Jr.]

Most new bios let you adjust the wait time for the drive to respond. Try 
increasing the time until it detects correctly each time. I had a SSD that used 
to do that and that's how I fixed it. If not that, drives probably going south.

lopaka





From: Thane Sherrington th...@computerconnectionltd.com
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Tue, May 28, 2013 11:04:56 AM
Subject: [H] Odd hard drive issue

I have a WD SATA drive that passes all SMART tests, and appears to work fine, 
but when I cold boot, it doesn't detect (and I get a boot disk error).  If I 
immediately warm boot, it detects and boots up fine.  It does this in two PCs, 
so it's the drive, not the machine.

Any ideas?

T

Re: [H] XBOX 360 Question

[Robert Martin Jr.]

Just download your profile to it and you should be fine I think :)

lopaka





From: Winterlight winterli...@winterlight.org
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Fri, May 10, 2013 6:37:55 PM
Subject: [H] XBOX 360 Question

I have a basic 4GB  XBOX 360s that I bought back in November to hook up to my 
HDTV and  use Media Center as a extender from my PC using a Silicon Dust 
Network 
tuner. It works great and I decided to buy another XBOX on Ebay for another TV 
and save the cost the renting another cable box. Today I bought a supposedly 
like new XBOX
360s with a  320GB external hard drive and a couple of newish games = Halo 4 
and 
Boarderlands2

In order to hook it up to my PC as another extender ( I know you can have 5 
extenders) do I have to Activate it with Microsoft ... or change 
registration... 
or any thing like that... or can I just plug it in use my existing XBOX live 
log 
in and then  start using it.

-w-

Re: [H] Two NICs

[Robert Martin Jr.]

I use both NICs. One is for the normal home network, the other I use for 
virtual 
machines that run through an encrypted VPN   :)

lopaka





From: Winterlight winterli...@winterlight.org
To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Sat, May 4, 2013 1:01:30 PM
Subject: Re: [H] Two NICs

I used a PC with multiple NICs as a router as well... but back in the 
nineties before inexpensive quality routers were readily available.
  Are you doing this for a home network?



At 12:53 PM 5/4/2013, you wrote:
That depends upon whether you use your machine as a router or not !  I
have a system where I have three network cards and two internal
networks attached.

On Saturday 04 May 2013 20:42:02 Winterlight wrote:
  Every Motherboard I have purchased in the last ten years has twok Gb
  NICs. I understand that they can be used for two different Networks,
  but I have yet to find anyone who needs to do this let alone actually
  uses them. It seems to me to be about as useful as the Firewire port
  they seem to put on all high end boards. Does anyone here use their
  two motherboard NICs? Is there a great use for the extra NIC that I
  am unaware of? Has someone found a creative way to employ two NICs or
  is this just another dead feature that hasn't fallen to wayside as of
  yet?


--
Best Regards:
  Gaffer
  Pontefract Linux User Group.

Re: [H] SSDs and My Documents

[Robert Martin Jr.]

I've had 4 SSD's die each in under 6 months. I'm not really sold on the 
reliability ;)
2 were OCZ and the others were a Patriot and a ADATA. All in different boxes 
and 
all were boot drives. I had a seagate hybrid drive die after 2 months also. All 
were on UPS's too.

I switched back to mechanical drives for my important machines. Don't have the 
time to redo everything that ofter any more

lopaka





From: Anthony Q. Martin amar...@charter.net
To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Sun, May 5, 2013 6:03:02 AM
Subject: Re: [H] SSDs and My Documents

Dependsif it is going in a laptopmost folks just put everything on the 
SSD.  I have a 256 GB SSD in my thinkpad, so everything goes on the SSD.

On my desktop, I used to have a 160GB SSD...so only Windows and programs went 
on 
the SSD...all documents and stuff went on the d drive, which is a hard drive.  
I 
now have a 500 GB SSD, but I still put non-programs on the hard drive.

As you know, many laptops come with SSDs onlyno need to worry about 
writes...unless you are doing something wyyy outside of normal.

I got my first SSD in Jan 2011...that drive is still working great!

On 5/4/2013 9:25 PM, Steve Tomporowski wrote:
 I've just bought my first SSD.  Should I be moving folders like Documents and 
Libraries to another drive?  Whats the current status on that?  I read it both 
ways over the last couple of years.
 
 Thanks...Steve
 

Re: [H] SSDs and My Documents

[Robert Martin Jr.]

I may try the Samsung 840 when I load up windows 8  ;)

lopaka





From: Greg Sevart ad...@xfury.net
To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Mon, May 6, 2013 8:40:41 AM
Subject: Re: [H] SSDs and My Documents

All of them crap controllers. OCZ would either be Indilinx or Sandforce,
neither of which have a good track record (though Indilinx far worse than
SF). Your Patriot and ADATA were probably Indilinx or Sandforce as well.
Your failures were almost certainly firmware problems, not NAND wearout.

Samsung (830, 840 Pro) is where it's at, followed by Marvell controllers
(e.g., Crucial C300, m4, m500).

SSDs are extremely reliable if you get one based on a good controller.
Friends don't let friends buy OCZ, though the controller manufacturer is
more critical than the brand label on the box.

Greg
(owner/user of: 4x Intel G2, 1x Intel 320, 5x Samsung 830, 1x Samsung 840,
2x Samsung 840 Pro with no failures)


-Original Message-
From: hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
[mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Robert Martin
Jr.
Sent: Monday, May 6, 2013 10:06 AM
To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] SSDs and My Documents

I've had 4 SSD's die each in under 6 months. I'm not really sold on the
reliability ;)
2 were OCZ and the others were a Patriot and a ADATA. All in different boxes
and all were boot drives. I had a seagate hybrid drive die after 2 months
also. All were on UPS's too.

I switched back to mechanical drives for my important machines. Don't have
the time to redo everything that ofter any more

lopaka





From: Anthony Q. Martin amar...@charter.net
To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Sun, May 5, 2013 6:03:02 AM
Subject: Re: [H] SSDs and My Documents

Dependsif it is going in a laptopmost folks just put everything on
the SSD.  I have a 256 GB SSD in my thinkpad, so everything goes on the SSD.

On my desktop, I used to have a 160GB SSD...so only Windows and programs
went on the SSD...all documents and stuff went on the d drive, which is a
hard drive.  I now have a 500 GB SSD, but I still put non-programs on the
hard drive.

As you know, many laptops come with SSDs onlyno need to worry about
writes...unless you are doing something wyyy outside of normal.

I got my first SSD in Jan 2011...that drive is still working great!

On 5/4/2013 9:25 PM, Steve Tomporowski wrote:
 I've just bought my first SSD.  Should I be moving folders like 
Documents and Libraries to another drive?  Whats the current status on 
that?  I read it both ways over the last couple of years.
 
 Thanks...Steve
 

Re: [H] Arduino?

[Robert Martin Jr.]

I have 3 raspberry Pi's. 2 are media centers running rasbmc and openelec xbmc. 
The other one is running squeezeplug and operating as a logitech squeezebox for 
network audio using Squeezelite. They perform well. Was thinking about getting 
a 
couple more :)

lopaka





From: Naushad Zulfiqar z00...@gmail.com
To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Thu, March 28, 2013 10:54:28 PM
Subject: Re: [H] Arduino?

I use my raspberry pi as a xbmc media center.  Works great on 720p and
below.

Most of my content is 720p anyways.
On Mar 29, 2013 6:26 AM, Scott Sipe csco...@gmail.com wrote:


 Has anybody played around with Arduino or the Raspberry Pi? I've played
 around a little bit with the Pi--though I haven't really found anything
 that neat to do- and plan to order some Arduino equipment soon. I have some
 ideas for an automated yard watering system amongst other ideas!

 Anyone with cool projects or tips and tricks?

 Scott

Re: [H] How to turn off 10-minute sleep on Seagate ST3000DM001-1CH166 ?

[Robert Martin Jr.]

Check the readynas forum. I believe this procedure is outlined for any drives 
that can be adjusted :)

lopaka





From: Julian Zottl jzo...@radiantnetworks.net
To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
Cc: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Fri, March 29, 2013 6:23:07 AM
Subject: Re: [H] How to turn off 10-minute sleep on Seagate ST3000DM001-1CH166 ?

Usually that is a function you find in the bios/raid controller. I've never 
seen 
a drive do it in it's own.

Julian

Sent from my iProduct, cause I'm iSpecial But not in that ishort bus kind 
of 
way...

On Mar 29, 2013, at 7:52 AM, Anthony Q. Martin amar...@charter.net wrote:

 After rebuilding my system with a new ASUS board, I wanted to upgrade my data 
drive to one with more capacity. Since I have a zillion drives around here, I 
threw in a Seagate 3TB drive which is the ST3000DM001 model. I've been using 
these in my media server as they are inexpensive though I'm  now moving on to 
the 4TB models.
 
 Away, the drive is plenty fast.  But, it goes the sleep after about 10 
 minutes 
and it drives me nuts to have to wait on it to wake up. This is not a problem 
in 
a media server but on an active desktop, it is annoying.
 
 I know I can go buy a WD Black for $170 or so for 2TB, but is there a way to 
configure this drive to not go to sleep or set the sleep interval for a longer 
period?

Re: [H] Reflowing and reballing

[Robert Martin Jr.]

It is not only a cold solder issue. That's how the problem starts. You can 
successfully reflow and console a few times but if it was heavily used 
eventually the motherboard needs to be reballed and often with a new GPU chip 
(varies from $10-20) for that part and $50-90 for the work.

I have 2 boxes that just got finished being reballed and are getting sent back 
this week. If the problem is the GPU, a reball with new GPU could outlast a new 
console with reball and extra cooling mods

lopaka





From: Thane Sherrington th...@computerconnectionltd.com
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Wed, March 27, 2013 3:26:23 PM
Subject: [H] Reflowing and reballing

I hadn't heard these terms until today.  Are they as much BS, as I take them to 
be?  It sounds sort of moronic to refer to replacing the solder on chips as 
reballing.  Isn't this really a cold solder issue?

T

Re: [H] Reflowing and reballing

[Robert Martin Jr.]

Reball is all older solder removed and new solder balls installed reattaching 
the GPU/CPU to mainboard :)

lopaka





From: Thane Sherrington th...@computerconnectionltd.com
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Wed, March 27, 2013 3:26:23 PM
Subject: [H] Reflowing and reballing

I hadn't heard these terms until today.  Are they as much BS, as I take them to 
be?  It sounds sort of moronic to refer to replacing the solder on chips as 
reballing.  Isn't this really a cold solder issue?

T

Re: [H] Reflowing and reballing

[Robert Martin Jr.]

There's a couple guys on ebay that do it and have good feedback scores, and a 
few electronic repair places online. If the 2 I get back in a week or so 
(Coming 
from Kentucky) are working well I give you the guys contact info.

I did the original x-clamp mod and reset on both of these and they each worked 
for about a year or so longer but now needed the reball which is beyond my 
capability.

lopaka





From: Thane Sherrington th...@computerconnectionltd.com
To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Wed, March 27, 2013 4:23:54 PM
Subject: Re: [H] Reflowing and reballing

At 08:02 PM 27/03/2013, Robert Martin Jr. wrote:
It is not only a cold solder issue. That's how the problem starts. You can
successfully reflow and console a few times but if it was heavily used
eventually the motherboard needs to be reballed and often with a 
new GPU chip
(varies from $10-20) for that part and $50-90 for the work.

Where do you get that sort of work done?

T 

Re: [H] List info / Jim Edwards

[Robert Martin Jr.]

Same here. Mostly lurking but still read the list mail ;)


lopaka



From: DSinc dsinc...@epbfi.com
To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Mon, March 18, 2013 4:01:18 PM
Subject: Re: [H] List info / Jim Edwards

Hey Jeff,
A bunch of us 'oldsters' are still alive and bitchin' on this
HardwareGroup list. I could be blocked by many, but,
I continue to sharewith those that respond.
Thanks for your service!
Duncan

On 03/18/2013 18:50, Jeff Lane wrote:
 I haven't either, but would be willing to. This is the best bunch of folks
 that I have on all my tech lists and sure wouldn't want to break it up. As
 an aside, though, I certainly hope Jim is ok. Being a Korean vet I am all
 too familiar with silence in a
 groupJeff


 I have not donated anything in the past, but will be more than happy to
 contribute now.

 Mike



 At 06:16 PM 3/18/2013, DSinc wrote:
 Yes, Me too! According to my schedule from waay back, I am now
 awhole lot in the 'non-payment' list!  Still willing to fund this
 List/enterprise.
 Duncan

 On 03/18/2013 18:02, FORC5 wrote:
 In the past I have made donations to the list but has been a long time.
 Willing to donate.
 fp

 At 01:46 PM 3/18/2013, Bryan Seiz Poked the stick with:
 Collective,


Has anyone seen or heard from Jim lately ?  Does anyone know who
 pays for and runs the list ?  The domain is set to expire at the end
 of this year, any info would be appreciated.

 __
 Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary
 Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. (Benjamin Franklin, 1755)

Re: [H] Google voice calls

[Robert Martin Jr.]

Actually Google Voice is VOIP compatible, uses standard SIP protocols (although 
some of the info is encrypted) and can be integrated directly into many 
asterisk 
distros. I have a GV trunk on my PBX-in-a-Flash box and make most of my long 
distance calls through it for free.The asterisk box always tries the 
googlevoice 
trunk first and if busy, then rolls over to one of my paid voip providers. You 
can even download Iphone and android apps to initiate calls to software sip 
phones, etc.


lopaka



From: Brian Weeden brian.wee...@gmail.com
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Cc: hardware@hardwaregroup.com hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Sun, September 19, 2010 4:40:16 PM
Subject: Re: [H] Google voice calls

GV is not VOIP - you still need a phone to make calls.

GV is an advanced way of using that phone.  One of the coolest things is the 
ability to connect multiple phones to your GV account.  When people ring your 
GV 
number, you have a lot of control over what happens.

You can have it ring all your phones, some, one, or none.  And those options 
can 
be set for every number. So your wife calls and it rings all your numbers 
(home, 
work, and cell).  Your boss calls, and it only rings work.  Your mom rings and 
it goes right to voicemail.  And your can have multiple custom VM messages 
depending on who is calling.

GV can also send your voicemails to email or SMS and does auto-transcription.

Now, if you have Gmail, GV does integrate with that and allow you to make VOIP 
calls.  


---
Brian

Sent from my iPhone

On 2010-09-19, at 7:23 PM, John pon...@gate.net wrote:

 It calls you first, then makes the call. You can also use it as an old 
 fashion 
calling card by dialing your own google number. There also happens to be apps 
for cell phones and a newer gmail feature. 

 
 
 -Original Message-
 From: Winterlight winterli...@winterlight.org
 Sent: Sep 19, 2010 5:37 PM
 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
 Subject: [H] Google voice calls
 
 Has anybody initiated calls yet from their Google voice account. I am 
 a little confused here. You can't make calls directly from your 
 computer with a mic/headphone setup..right? So you tell it to call a 
 number, and then it calls you at the number you have set it up for 
 once it has made the connection..  for example., I tell Google Voice 
 to call a long distance number then it calls me on my Verizon 
 Land line as a local call once it makes the connection .. is that how 
 it works? thanks
 
 

[H] Console serial port

[Robert Martin Jr.]

I have a couple embedded boxes that have an ethernet type serial port for 
console control. Anyone know where I could pick up a cable or convertor that 
would let me run a standard DB9 serial device (mouse, modem, etc) off of this?

TIA

lopaka

Re: [H] remote softare

[Robert Martin Jr.]

I use both remote desktop (built-in) and ul...@vnc 
I like the file transfer capability of u...@vnc and the ability to copy and 
paste text back and forth between local and remote boxes. Remote desktop is 
handy also, because even the home version can be hacked to support multiple 
user 
logins and I use this for remote web browsing for employees, that runs them 
through my home firewall with a ClearOS setup (AV scanning, keyword filtering 
and black/white lists, etc). No chance of malware to work machines this way, 
and 
limited user rights for them)


lopaka





From: Winterlight winterli...@winterlight.org
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Sun, August 22, 2010 3:36:38 PM
Subject: [H] remote softare

There is lots of different remote software available, and a lot of it is free. 
Is there a stand out program for controlling your desktop from afar using 
Windows 7 machines?

Re: [H] DIY JOBD NAS/Mediaserver

[Robert Martin Jr.]

That should be plenty for a media server, although I would probably put an 
intel 
gigabit nic since I have a few of those sitting. I have a ReadyNAS NV+ that 
streams to 3 rooms and holds network shares for each user also. My backup 
server 
for stuff I don't need as often is a cheap 2U rackmount system I picked up for 
$50 on ebay. I started with 2 gigs of ram and dropped to 1 after not noticing 
any difference. I've got a pentium-d cpu in it and 4 external removable sata 
bays. I'm running FreeNAS on it and also did some manual tweaking to get a 
quake3 server and a few other goodies running on it. I've done file transfers 
nonstop for up to 2 days (backing up movies/TV shows on the other server and 
used it at the same time for gaming and streaming just to see if I could lock 
it 
up.

lopaka





From: Joshua MacCraw maccr...@gmail.com
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Wed, August 11, 2010 12:49:52 PM
Subject: [H] DIY JOBD NAS/Mediaserver

How much horsepower do you figure is needed to serve up a few (4 max likely) 
video streams of data? Looking at resurrecting my old A7N8X PC as a linux 
NAS/mediaserver to serve up media files (MKV, VOB, MP3, FLAC) over my wired 
network.

It has the XP-M CPU overclocked (3200?), 1GB RAM,  dual 100Mb Ethernet. It 
seems a shame to let it collect dust and NAS/media server solutions seem to be 
so expensive!

I won't be doing transcoding but might want to be able to transmux for the PS3 
which may or may not be aided by the ATI X850 in the box. There's only 2 SATA 
ports but I'm thinking I can easily get an inexpensive card, RAID or not, to 
support 3-6 drives I'll move over from my workstation.

2 services come to mind: SAMBA  some DNLA server like PS3MediaServer, 
TVersity, 
or Myth. Assume I can run all that under Ubuntu or something with this low end 
hardware? Cheap 8 bay case, 350-500W PSU, RAID card, maybe 2GB DDR RAM still 
got 
to be way cheaper than a media server, no?

Re: [H] new system build suggestions or upgrade

[Robert Martin Jr.]

Not to be overly simple, but can't you just open task manager and start opening 
a bunch of memory hungry apps and see if total utilized physical memory is more 
than 4GB? Seems like that would be pretty cut and dried :)

I only have 4 GB in my top 2 boxes or I would test the theory...


lopaka



From: Greg Sevart ad...@xfury.net
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Tue, August 3, 2010 2:42:59 PM
Subject: Re: [H] new system build suggestions or upgrade

I'm still quite confident that you're mistaken. Client Microsoft operating
systems and Server SKUs less than Enterprise simply will not use any more
than 4GB. They're technically capable of leveraging PAE to extend memory
usage, but they don't. They will use PAE to support DEP (and NUMA,
apparently), but that's it. Windows 7 and fully patched versions of Vista
will, however, _report_ all installed system memory, but it will not use one
byte more than 4GB. I'd be happy to eat my words if you can point out a
Microsoft-published document that definitively indicates that I'm incorrect,
but I don't believe that is the case.

This document also outlines memory limits of 32-bit Windows versions that is
marked current as of May 2010:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2267427

Even if I am somehow mistaken and it is somehow possible to use PAE to use
more than 4GB of memory under a MS Client OS edition, that still doesn't
change the fact that each 32-bit process still has a maximum of a 4GB VAS.
PAE and 4GT (/3GB switch) don't change that. The application must then use
AWE (Address Windowing Extensions) to make use of any memory beyond
that--and the list of apps that use the AWE API is very small. The only one
that I know of offhand that does is Microsoft SQL Server.

Greg

 -Original Message-
 From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-
 boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Soren
 Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 2:54 PM
 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
 Subject: Re: [H] new system build suggestions or upgrade
 
 Heh... nice writeup, Greg, but not completely updated, if I humbly may say
 so.
 
 If one look at the MS support sites about this question, one will get as
many
 different and contradicting explanations on the subject, as there are
support
 numbers (Qxyz). Beats the crap out of most techs that I know.
 
 However, I have built a large number of AV systems, and quite a number of
 those are with more than 4GB RAM, even up to 32GB. They all use the
 installed RAM without any problems, so I guess that at least *some* of
MS's
 support sites are right, when some obviously aren't.
 
 There is no trickery because the processor is not limited to 32 bits of
 physical address in PAE mode. PAE mode adds a third level of page table
 lookup and changes the page table entries (PTEs) from 4 bytes wide to 8
 bytes wide. This gives more room for bits of physical page address, or
page
 frame number. In the first CPUs to implement PAE only four more bits were
 implemented, for a total of 24, or 36 bits of physical address. Thereby
 allowing 64 GB of ram to be directly addressed. No trickery is involved.
It's
 the same address translation the MMU has been doing all along; the format
 of the lookup tables (page tables) is just changed.
 
 As you may see, this is not as much an O/S question, as it's a CPU
question.
 Nowadays, no problems when using a high grade processor.
 
 This site pretty much nails it:
 
 geoffchappell.com/notes/toc.htm
 
 BTW, one of the finer benefits from using a large amount of RAM, is that
the
 swap file can be allocated to RAM, which makes makes the system very
 responsive. This allocation usually takes place from topdown, depending
on
 the method used (separate proggie, or just a .reg file).
 
 ./
 
 Greg Sevart wrote:
  Ummnot quite.
 
  While it is technically possible to use more than 4GB of memory on a
  32-bit OS with PAE, Microsoft client operating systems will NOT use
  it. Even the Standard SKUs of their Server operating systems will not
  use PAE--Enterprise or Datacenter is required. (This actually gets
  even more convoluted--these OS editions DO use PAE to implement
  NoExecute memory protection, but will not actually use more than 4GB).
 
  Furthermore, I think you're confusing user mode memory (apps) with
  kernel memory (O/S). By default, 32-bit versions of Windows XP with
  4GB or more memory installed will split the 4GB into 2GB of user space
  and 2GB of kernel space. The kernel space is reserved for just
  that--the Windows kernel, kernel mode drivers, etc. You can use the
  /3GB switch (4GT) to move this 2/2 split into a 3/1 user/kernel split.
  Absolutely anything over 4GB is not used, and that's true for 32-bit
  versions of Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7.
 
  You may lose some of the 4GB address space for memory mapped devices,
  such as video cards and other devices. This is why you will frequently
  see a 32-bit system with 4GB of memory only report 2.8-3.8GB. 

Re: [H] Droid X options

[Robert Martin Jr.]

I have an unlocked  rooted Nexus One with cyanogen 6 alpha rom (based on froyo 
2.2). It's a very good and reliable phone. It's pretty big and I only keep it 
in 
my pocket when walking around, but never when sitting. I hear the droidx is 
pretty large. The Nexus One with this ROM can play divx files flawlessly using 
RockPlayer (free version), has full adobe flash support, and a decent camera. 
I'm using it on T-mobile and have no data plan (not necessary because I have 
wifi at home and at work locations). My primary use is to manage work/staff 
schedules between 4 facilities, GPS mileage tracking, SIP client makes the 
phone 
an extension to my home asterisk system when in wifi range, and I also use the 
kindle app frequently to read books (most I converted to kindle format from PDF 
or txt files)


lopaka



From: Thane Sherrington th...@computerconnectionltd.com
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Thu, July 29, 2010 5:28:51 AM
Subject: [H] Droid X options

Since I live in Canada, and it looks like we aren't going to get the Droid X, 
I'm looking for other options.  I've read that the HTC Desire is good.  Anyone 
have any suggestions (other than the iPhone, which I think I'll take a pass 
on?) 
:)

T

[H] IP address translation question..

[Robert Martin Jr.]

I'm using a new script that temporarily creates a firewall rule to let an 
outside connection in on a centos box.
I'm having a problem because the box sees the IP address of my router 
63.193.xxx.xxx, instead of the IP address that has been granted rights 
70.91.xxx.xxx. 

I'm not sure whether the problem is at the router or if it is related to the 
software that is connecting to the box (Android Sip client -sipdroid)

Any insight or input is appreciated. When the script hits the centos webserver 
it is identified correctly, but when the SIP client tries to connect it is 
denied because it appears to be the routers IP addy instead of the external one.

lopaka

Re: [H] IP address translation question..

[Robert Martin Jr.]

Hey buddy, long time no chat, hehe. The script is encrypted so I have no idea 
how it is set up. The jist of how it works is here http://nerdvittles.com/ and 
it's called the travelin man.  I suspect the problem is with the SIP client 
on my phone, and the reason I suspect that is because the activation login on 
the centos system does list the proper IP address that has been authorized, but 
when I try to connect as the second step, the SIP client is denied due to ACL 
issues because it is listed as being my home IP address and not the remote 
address that was approved. 

I'm going to try a different SIP client and see how that fares and I'll let you 
know. 

Thanks bro
lopaka






From: Julian Zottl jzo...@radiantnetworks.net
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Wed, June 30, 2010 3:09:33 PM
Subject: Re: [H] IP address translation question..

Hey Lopaka :)
Send me the script, sounds like something is up with it.

Take care,

Julian (Sabre)


On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Robert Martin Jr. lopa...@pacbell.netwrote:

 I'm using a new script that temporarily creates a firewall rule to let an
 outside connection in on a centos box.
 I'm having a problem because the box sees the IP address of my router
 63.193.xxx.xxx, instead of the IP address that has been granted rights
 70.91.xxx.xxx.

 I'm not sure whether the problem is at the router or if it is related to
 the software that is connecting to the box (Android Sip client -sipdroid)

 Any insight or input is appreciated. When the script hits the centos
 webserver it is identified correctly, but when the SIP client tries to
 connect it is denied because it appears to be the routers IP addy instead of
 the external one.

 lopaka

Re: [H] CDR recovery

[Robert Martin Jr.]

I've used unstoppable copier to recover partial CD/DVD's

lopaka





From: Julian Zottl jzo...@radiantnetworks.net
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Sat, June 26, 2010 8:27:15 PM
Subject: [H] CDR recovery

Hey All,
A friend of mine has some audio CD's (not sure if they are MP3 or Red Book)
in which some sections of the foil are corroded or gone.  It sounds like it
is only small sections though, so most of it should be recoverable.  What
software would help in this case?

Take care,

Julian (Sabre)

Re: [H] Computer turns itself off under load

[Robert Martin Jr.]

I've seen this a few times. It's sometimes because of heat when the bios 
setting specifies a power down at certain temp. If that's the case you can 
change the setting to a higher temp to give more leeway. Also I've seen this as 
a video card related problem, that is sometimes heat related and sometimes a 
power supply issue where the higher load on system starts pulling more than the 
PSU can supply.

lopaka





From: Brian Weeden brian.wee...@gmail.com
To: hwg hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Fri, June 11, 2010 5:15:22 AM
Subject: [H] Computer turns itself off under load

Got another weird one.  My HTPC has suddenly developed an issue where it
turns it self off.  Not crash, but completely powers off.  And the only time
it happens is when I ask it to encode video, such as using Handbrake.  It
gets a few minutes into the operation and boom.  Everything else - surfing,
ripping, 1080p playback, etc is perfectly smooth and fine.

I'm thinking this could be power issue.  My guess is that when both cores
ramp up to full power to encode the video, the power supply can't handle it
and it dies.  The only recent change I've made is adding another disk to the
RAID array

Here's the rest of the hardware:

Athlon X2 4850e 2.5 Ghz
GIGABYTE GA-MA78G-DS3H 780G Motherboard
Areca ARC-1220 PCI-Express x8 SATA II Raid card
(8) SAMSUNG Spinpoint F1 HD103UJ 1TB 7200 RPM SATA
OCZ StealthXStream 600W EPS12V Power Supply

Is that too much power load for the OCZ?

---
Brian Weeden
Technical Advisor
Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org
+1 (514) 466-2756 Canada
+1 (202) 683-8534 US

Re: [H] Computer turns itself off under load

[Robert Martin Jr.]

Oops, I meant video encoding problem, not video card. Increased CPU load :




From: Robert Martin Jr. lopa...@pacbell.net
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Fri, June 11, 2010 9:50:00 AM
Subject: Re: [H] Computer turns itself off under load

I've seen this a few times. It's sometimes because of heat when the bios 
setting specifies a power down at certain temp. If that's the case you can 
change the setting to a higher temp to give more leeway. Also I've seen this as 
a video card related problem, that is sometimes heat related and sometimes a 
power supply issue where the higher load on system starts pulling more than the 
PSU can supply.

lopaka





From: Brian Weeden brian.wee...@gmail.com
To: hwg hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Fri, June 11, 2010 5:15:22 AM
Subject: [H] Computer turns itself off under load

Got another weird one.  My HTPC has suddenly developed an issue where it
turns it self off.  Not crash, but completely powers off.  And the only time
it happens is when I ask it to encode video, such as using Handbrake.  It
gets a few minutes into the operation and boom.  Everything else - surfing,
ripping, 1080p playback, etc is perfectly smooth and fine.

I'm thinking this could be power issue.  My guess is that when both cores
ramp up to full power to encode the video, the power supply can't handle it
and it dies.  The only recent change I've made is adding another disk to the
RAID array

Here's the rest of the hardware:

Athlon X2 4850e 2.5 Ghz
GIGABYTE GA-MA78G-DS3H 780G Motherboard
Areca ARC-1220 PCI-Express x8 SATA II Raid card
(8) SAMSUNG Spinpoint F1 HD103UJ 1TB 7200 RPM SATA
OCZ StealthXStream 600W EPS12V Power Supply

Is that too much power load for the OCZ?

---
Brian Weeden
Technical Advisor
Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org
+1 (514) 466-2756 Canada
+1 (202) 683-8534 US

Re: [H] AV disabling question

[Robert Martin Jr.]

Can't you boot in safe-mode with network support? Also most of the BootCD 
utilities (hirens, etc) have network support and a bootable mini-XP to run 
other windows utilities off USB key or similar.

lopaka





From: Thane Sherrington th...@computerconnectionltd.com
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Tue, May 25, 2010 1:12:45 PM
Subject: [H] AV disabling question

When a computer comes into the shop, I like to disable the current AV so as to 
speed up the scans and prevent two AVs conflicting.  I've been disabling the 
AV's services, but I've found that when I do that with NIS (surprise, suprise, 
it's a piece of crap) then it shuts down access to the internet because it's 
firewall is off.  Then I end up having to turn the service back on (no small 
feat because the PoS tries to prevent changes to it's service settings even 
though it's turned off.)  Does anyone know of a better way to disable AVs 
(especially NIS) without uninstalling so that I can still access the internet?

T

Re: [H] Odd CPU issue

[Robert Martin Jr.]

I've seen at least 5-6 CPU's go bad. Sometimes it's just the cache memory and 
sometimes the processor. Old athlons would fry pretty quick if the CPU fan goes 
bad often just within a few minutes. I've probably built or repaired 500+ 
systems just as a hobbyist. I used to average 3-4 full systems a week back in 
the old days. Now that I don't have a lot of time, I've probably done new boxes 
3 this month.

lopaka





From: Scoobydo swza...@yahoo.com
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Fri, May 21, 2010 2:59:23 PM
Subject: Re: [H] Odd CPU issue

If you've had experience of several bad CPU's then you must be a system builder 
with hundreds of builds under your belt. I'm just a hobbyist and have only 
built 20 or so boxes over the years and I've never even heard of anyone having 
a CPU go bad until you said it. Bad mobo's, PSU's, hardrives, floppies, optical 
drives, video cards, RAM, fans etc. I've seen it all with the single exception 
of the processor. CPU's are by far the most reliable component of any PC, 
period. Intel and AMD deserve great respect for that major accomplishment. Of 
course static electricity can kill one pretty easily but that's not going 
bad, that's user error. Somewhere in this area in a land fill is my original 
IBM PS/2 486 SX-25 and I'd bet anything that if it were buried functional with 
no bent or broken pins it would still run if socketed in a working box. I 
really believe that..


On Fri, 21 May 2010 14:09:01 -0500, Gaffer 14...@castle-computer.co.uk wrote:

 On Friday 21 May 2010 15:02:35 Scoobydo wrote:
 I assume you've looked for a borked BIOS setting? Doesn't make sense
 the CPU is bad. I've never heard of one going bad so must assume
 something else is happening..
 
 
 On Fri, 21 May 2010 06:24:39 -0500, Thane Sherrington
 
 th...@computerconnectionltd.com wrote:
  I have an HP machine that won't boot with its CPU in it (boots to
  three long beeps and then one long continuous beep.)  It has a
  ADA4200IAA5CU in it
  http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K8/AMD-Athlon%2064%20X2%204200+%20-%2
 0ADA4200IAA5CU%20%28ADA4200CUBOX%29.html
 
  When I put in another CPU ADA5600IAA6CZ
  http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K8/AMD-Athlon%2064%20X2%205600+%20-%2
 0ADA5600IAA6CZ%20%28ADA5600CZBOX%29.html
 
  It boots fine.  So one would assume, bad CPU.  But when I move this
  CPU to a test motherboard, the machine boots fine.
 
  Any ideas?
 
  T
 
 I've had experience of several bad CPU.  Having said that, and in view
 of the tests that the OP has done, BIOS settings are the first place to
 check.  The other is the CPU psu itself.  I've seen bad capacitors
 cause the psu to shut down on heavy load but supply power just fine to
 a lighter load, ie a CPU that draws less power.
 
 The other suggestion I would make is to check the BIOS beep codes to see
 what the beep code means.
 


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Re: [H] Odd CPU issue

[Robert Martin Jr.]

The first cpu I've seen go bad was a 100MHz 486 cpu  (if I remember correctly) 
and the cache went bad for no apparent reason. If you disabled the cache the 
box worked fine albeit very slow. The second was a pentium 233 mmx and problem 
was identicle to the prior one. I had one celeron 300A go dead for no apparent 
reason and it had good cooling so it wasn't due to heat. It was in a regular 
and not overclocked machine. I had a pentium-M 2GHz cpu die completely and it 
was running a large copper heatsink so it wasn't heat, and I put another 1.7 
cpu on the board and it ran well for about another year till the mobo died 
(that box did run 24/7 as a server/DVR box). The remaining ones however I did 
suspect heat as the cause of death or dusfunction.

I've had a lot more motherboards bite the dust though, sometimes fryed when the 
PSU went sketchy and sometimes on their own. Lots of power supplies have gone 
south though (more that mobos + cpus combined)


lopaka





From: Scoobydo swza...@yahoo.com
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Fri, May 21, 2010 3:41:20 PM
Subject: Re: [H] Odd CPU issue

Clearly you have more experience than me but you did say gone bad because of 
overheating right? Most components I've had go bad did so for no apparent 
reason. They just failed at some point. I've never seen a CPU do that and even 
old socket 462 Athlon XP's shut down when over heated saving themselves from 
frydom. I base that on the fact that the last one I worked on (2800+) wouldn't 
run for more than a couple minutes in Windows because it was showing 70C in the 
BIOS. After I cleaned the gunk off dude's heatsink and applied new TIM. Problem 
solved and it ran as good as new. I have an ancient PII 333 MHz Slot style CPU 
right now in my apartment that runs as well as the day it was built in 1997. An 
old style horizontal HP Vectra and I don't know why I even keep it around..



On Fri, 21 May 2010 17:17:51 -0500, Robert Martin Jr. lopa...@pacbell.net 
wrote:

 I've seen at least 5-6 CPU's go bad. Sometimes it's just the cache memory and 
 sometimes the processor. Old athlons would fry pretty quick if the CPU fan 
 goes bad often just within a few minutes. I've probably built or repaired 
 500+ systems just as a hobbyist. I used to average 3-4 full systems a week 
 back in the old days. Now that I don't have a lot of time, I've probably done 
 new boxes 3 this month.
 
 lopaka
 
 
 
 
 
 From: Scoobydo swza...@yahoo.com
 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
 Sent: Fri, May 21, 2010 2:59:23 PM
 Subject: Re: [H] Odd CPU issue
 
 If you've had experience of several bad CPU's then you must be a system 
 builder with hundreds of builds under your belt. I'm just a hobbyist and have 
 only built 20 or so boxes over the years and I've never even heard of anyone 
 having a CPU go bad until you said it. Bad mobo's, PSU's, hardrives, 
 floppies, optical drives, video cards, RAM, fans etc. I've seen it all with 
 the single exception of the processor. CPU's are by far the most reliable 
 component of any PC, period. Intel and AMD deserve great respect for that 
 major accomplishment. Of course static electricity can kill one pretty easily 
 but that's not going bad, that's user error. Somewhere in this area in a 
 land fill is my original IBM PS/2 486 SX-25 and I'd bet anything that if it 
 were buried functional with no bent or broken pins it would still run if 
 socketed in a working box. I really believe that..
 
 
 On Fri, 21 May 2010 14:09:01 -0500, Gaffer 14...@castle-computer.co.uk 
 wrote:
 
 On Friday 21 May 2010 15:02:35 Scoobydo wrote:
 I assume you've looked for a borked BIOS setting? Doesn't make sense
 the CPU is bad. I've never heard of one going bad so must assume
 something else is happening..
 
 
 On Fri, 21 May 2010 06:24:39 -0500, Thane Sherrington
 
 th...@computerconnectionltd.com wrote:
  I have an HP machine that won't boot with its CPU in it (boots to
  three long beeps and then one long continuous beep.)  It has a
  ADA4200IAA5CU in it
  http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K8/AMD-Athlon%2064%20X2%204200+%20-%2
 0ADA4200IAA5CU%20%28ADA4200CUBOX%29.html
 
  When I put in another CPU ADA5600IAA6CZ
  http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K8/AMD-Athlon%2064%20X2%205600+%20-%2
 0ADA5600IAA6CZ%20%28ADA5600CZBOX%29.html
 
  It boots fine.  So one would assume, bad CPU.  But when I move this
  CPU to a test motherboard, the machine boots fine.
 
  Any ideas?
 
  T
 
 I've had experience of several bad CPU.  Having said that, and in view
 of the tests that the OP has done, BIOS settings are the first place to
 check.  The other is the CPU psu itself.  I've seen bad capacitors
 cause the psu to shut down on heavy load but supply power just fine to
 a lighter load, ie a CPU that draws less power.
 
 The other suggestion I would make is to check the BIOS beep codes to see
 what the beep code means.
 
 
 
 --Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http

Re: [H] Yet another stumbler

[Robert Martin Jr.]

One interesting tidbit to file away is that the Wii console seems to connect 
more easily if the band is set to 11. I had to set up a couple for netflicks 
recently and they wouldn't connect if the band was at 6. I set up a vlan on 11 
and everything went fine after that.

lopaka






From: maccrawj maccr...@gmail.com
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Sun, May 16, 2010 10:53:04 AM
Subject: Re: [H] Yet another stumbler

1? Dunno what routers you work with but of Linksys, DLink,  Netgear's I've 
seen they 
all default to center which is 6. Do a scan of any neighborhood and that's 
where 
you'll find 99% of the WAPs.

As I said, this is likely because 1  11 have major attenuation at their 
respective 
lower  upper edge of spectrum because there is not enough room to fit 20mhz 
centered 
on the extremes. Showing the actual width characteristics is one of the nice 
things 
about how InSSIDer displays scans.

On 5/16/2010 3:03 AM, Naushad, Zulfiqar wrote:
 Yes, the true non overlappable channels are 1 6 and 11, but then again,
 you can eke out some throughput by going to a less congested channel.

 The thing is that most routers default to 1.

 So I changed mine to 6 and got great benefits.


 -Original Message-
 From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com
 [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of maccrawj
 Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 1:00 PM
 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
 Subject: Re: [H] Yet another stumbler

 Good luck on that, on 2.4ghz there are only 1, 6, 11 that don't overlap
 and then
 factor in the 40mhz vs. 20mhz issue. 1  11 are nearly useless since
 they don't
 provide enough spectrum for 20mhz much less 40mhz.

 After years of using Netstumbler to survey, I now use InSSIDer.

 On 5/15/2010 12:30 PM, Naushad Zulfiqar wrote:
 To search the SSID's of other AP's and their Channels, in hope that
 you can
 set your AP's channel to something less congested and thereby getting
 better
 performance :)

 On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Anthony Q.
 Martinamar...@charter.netwrote:

 What are these?


 On 5/15/2010 1:33 PM, Naushad Zulfiqar wrote:

 http://www.metageek.net/products/inssider






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 02:26:00

Re: [H] Open question?

[Robert Martin Jr.]

Everything important in my place is wired and gigabit speed running through a 
managed switch with QOS. Even on N-band wifi, transferring videos that are 
13-15GB each could take a really long time.  I have a wireless setup just for 
my daughter laptop and I use it occasionally with my laptop if I'm outside on 
the porch.

lopaka





From: DSinc dx7...@bellsouth.net
To: Hardware Group hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Wed, May 12, 2010 4:24:52 PM
Subject: [H] Open question?

Is it fair for me to NOW believe that the majority of this LIST is now actively 
using WIFI for their internal home LANs?

No. I do not wish to start a firestorm with those that use both!
The basic question is about the use of WIFI... :)

(Are there many of us old fools still using only wired CAT5/6 LANs?)

Just wondering?
Best,
Duncan

Re: [H] Powerline adapter (rather than wireless N)

[Robert Martin Jr.]

Good to hear it working well for you. The wiring in my condo is substandard and 
I believe that's one of the reasons it wasn't reliable for me. I HAVE to use 
UPS's with line conditioning on all computers here or they will start having 
random issues from frequent power drops and spikes.


lopaka





From: Anthony Q. Martin amar...@charter.net
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Tue, May 11, 2010 2:12:29 PM
Subject: Re: [H] Powerline adapter (rather than wireless N)

Well, I got my powerline stuff a day earlyall of it is netgear, but 
still running the linksys wrt56g at 10/100.

Getting the netgear powerline stuff going is too easy...just plug in the 
PL adapter, plug in the ethernet cable to it, and than plug in the other 
piece (I got the 4 port AV unit) into a socket someplace.  So right now 
I have the laptop at the other end of the house (one level down), where 
the wireless signal barely makes it. But on the powerline system I got 
100 Mbps network (what's reported) and I am transfering files at 45 Mbps 
(big files).

Of course, that same file moved over the router to my other PC moves at 
92 Mbps.

So wired ethernet is definitely better than powerline, but we knew that.

I can't wait to try this on the Netgear router...it will take longer to 
get that up, so I'm doing simple tests first.

On 5/10/2010 11:00 AM, Robert Martin Jr. wrote:
 I've used a few a scrapped all of them. Very slooow and intermittently 
 glitchy. I still have a couple sitting at home somewhere.

 lopaka




 
 From: Anthony Q. Martinamar...@charter.net
 To: The Hardware Listhardware@hardwaregroup.com
 Sent: Sat, May 8, 2010 6:22:18 AM
 Subject: [H] Powerline adapter (rather than wireless N)

 Since I have both Tivo and a Blu-ray player downstairs, I'm think that 
 perhaps a powerline adapter would be a better option. That way, I could 
 connect both devices over a powerline network rather than using a special 
 adapter for Tivo and nothing for the Blu-ray. And, if I get an XBox or 
 something like that, I have a ready solution for networking.  From some 
 reading, the logic goes that a wired ethernet connection is best, followed by 
 a powerline connect, and then a wireless connection. Is that true?  I live in 
 a two story house, so one wondering if the wiring is truly connected between 
 the levels.

 Anyone played with one?

 I guess I can be the tester...


 -

 So I hear that Tivo now has an 802.11n wireless adapter.

 I get spoiled watching HD movies from Amazon on my Tivo XL.

 Having the speed of 802.11n would make the transfers faster.

 But my laptops are 802.11b and g. Will they work on an 802.11n system?  Are 
 the backward compaticable?

 Would my new phone (Droid Incredible), when I get it, be able to use 802.11n 
 on its WiFi?  What about an iPad?  Is everything new these days 802.11n ready?

 I just read the descriptions of two different products on Amazon and neither 
 of them mentioned backwards compatibility.  That makes me think it's not 
 there.

 If it is there, which router is best?



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Re: [H] NetGear WNDR3700

[Robert Martin Jr.]

Make sure you find the setting for broadcasting the SSID and set it correctly. 
Most wireless routers will also have the wireless disabled by default, so if 
thats the case set it open to start with and enable wireless, then try 
broadcasting on channel 6 which most of my devices can see easily (I'm assuming 
your's would too but I could be wrong :)


lopaka





From: Anthony Q. Martin amar...@charter.net
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Tue, May 11, 2010 7:57:03 PM
Subject: [H] NetGear WNDR3700

Man...none of my stuff can see any wireless signals coming from this router.  
I'm wondering if it is sending out any signals.  It's setup to broadcast its 
SSID but even with my laptop right next to it, it can't see it. What gives 
here?  The wired 1000Gbps ports work fine and the lights for the 2.4GHZ and 5 
GHz wireless are shining bright.

Re: [H] Powerline adapter (rather than wireless N)

[Robert Martin Jr.]

I've used a few a scrapped all of them. Very slooow and intermittently glitchy. 
I still have a couple sitting at home somewhere.

lopaka





From: Anthony Q. Martin amar...@charter.net
To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Sat, May 8, 2010 6:22:18 AM
Subject: [H] Powerline adapter (rather than wireless N)

Since I have both Tivo and a Blu-ray player downstairs, I'm think that perhaps 
a powerline adapter would be a better option. That way, I could connect both 
devices over a powerline network rather than using a special adapter for Tivo 
and nothing for the Blu-ray. And, if I get an XBox or something like that, I 
have a ready solution for networking.  From some reading, the logic goes that a 
wired ethernet connection is best, followed by a powerline connect, and then a 
wireless connection. Is that true?  I live in a two story house, so one 
wondering if the wiring is truly connected between the levels.

Anyone played with one?

I guess I can be the tester...


-

So I hear that Tivo now has an 802.11n wireless adapter.

I get spoiled watching HD movies from Amazon on my Tivo XL.

Having the speed of 802.11n would make the transfers faster.

But my laptops are 802.11b and g. Will they work on an 802.11n system?  Are the 
backward compaticable?

Would my new phone (Droid Incredible), when I get it, be able to use 802.11n on 
its WiFi?  What about an iPad?  Is everything new these days 802.11n ready?

I just read the descriptions of two different products on Amazon and neither of 
them mentioned backwards compatibility.  That makes me think it's not there.

If it is there, which router is best?

Re: [H] 1000 Mbps vs 100 Mpbs -ClearOS

[Robert Martin Jr.]

Same here, I love it. In fact ClearOS looks a lot more polished than CC and 
still runs pretty decent on minimal hardware. For example, I upgraded my little 
embedded 4 port box (600MHz celeron) from CC4 to ClearOS. I've got 1GB ram. 
This little box runs a proxy server with content filtering (for the kids), AV 
scans all incoming traffic and downloads, runs a large blacklist, running 
Misterhouse (home automation with a X10 firecracker connected to internal 
serial - not visible on outside), also running two Quake 3 servers and a 
WorldofPadman server, and just installed VQmanager (Voip analysis) software and 
have all VOIP traffic mirrored to the box. Everything still running smoothly 
which is amazing to me since it's very low power hardware. I used a dremel to 
add a USB port to the enclosure and have USB sound card running the home 
automation announcements, etc.

lopaka


I'm still very happy with clearos (was clark). I'm using it on a via epia dual 
gigabit board. Stable.  Works fine. 
Sent via BlackBerry 

-Original Message-
From: maccrawj maccr...@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 14:11:45 
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] 1000 Mbps vs 100 Mpbs

Well for home use this sounds like overkill especially if it needs more than a 
little 
12W embedded device to run. I do see where a larger setup could benefit from 
it, but 
that's apples to oranges.

On 5/10/2010 6:41 AM, Greg Sevart wrote:
 Yes. You can use pfSense as an access point I think, but that really isn't
 its purpose. It is designed to be a firewall and/or router first and
 foremost. If you did implement one, you'd probably want to take any existing
 device that you have performing routing/firewall/NAT duties and disable
 those functions.

 You could configure pfSense as a transparent firewall in front of or behind
 your existing router, but that's honestly not going to provide a great deal
 of value in most implementations.

 -Original Message-
 From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-
 boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Naushad, Zulfiqar
 Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 8:17 AM
 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
 Subject: Re: [H] 1000 Mbps vs 100 Mpbs

 I see.

 Very interesting.

 But if I wanted a pfSense box, then that would make my router redundant.
 I would have to just use it as an AP right?



 -Original Message-
 From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com
 [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Greg Sevart
 Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 4:14 PM
 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
 Subject: Re: [H] 1000 Mbps vs 100 Mpbs

 pfSense was forked from m0n0wall several years ago to provide expanded
 features not consistent with m0n0wall's minimalist approach suitable to
 smaller, embedded systems. It also uses the (IMO) more robust and less
 quirky BSD packet filter (pf) instead of ipfw. They offer a similar
 interface and
 either one should be fairly familiar if you've used the other.

 -Original Message-
 From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-
 boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Naushad, Zulfiqar
 Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 8:03 AM
 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
 Subject: Re: [H] 1000 Mbps vs 100 Mpbs

 What's better?  pfSENSE or M0n0wall?

Re: [H] MS Expression ?

[Robert Martin Jr.]

I found Joomla to have a steep learning curve and felt that Drupal was a lot 
easier to learn. Joomla seems to have a lot more plugins but many are not free.

lopaka






From: maccrawj maccr...@gmail.com
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Thu, May 6, 2010 2:48:30 AM
Subject: Re: [H] MS Expression ?

There are also alternatives to complete page editing in the form of CMS' like 
Joomla. 
Look  feel is setup with templates  GUI then you only have to manage the 
content in 
blog style.

On 5/5/2010 6:57 PM, FORC5 wrote:
 Have always used Frontpage ( because I have it ) and have not really even  
 used it to much but have to now assist with my club's web site. Frontpage 
 works but was wondering about expression , worth it ?

 thanks
 fp

Re: [H] Seperate networks.

[Robert Martin Jr.]

Use use a little smoothwall box to do that. I have a 192.168.1.X, 10.0.0.X  
192.168.2.X. The first is my internal LAN. I have a clarkconnect box that does 
about the same thing but it's not located by my work area.

lopaka





From: Bobby Heid bh...@sc.rr.com
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Sun, May 2, 2010 10:48:51 AM
Subject: [H] Seperate networks.

Hey,



Every now and then I need to bring people's PCs to my house.  I use sneaker
net to copy over any files and all that I might need to fix their machine.
After I am pretty sure I have it all cleaned up, I then will connect it to
my LAN to make sure all the Windows updates are applied and anything else
that needs updating.



What I'd like to do is to have two networks that can both access the same
internet connection but cannot see each other (unless I wanted them to).  



What type of setup would I need to have to do this?  Any links that will
demonstrate it?



I currently have a standard Linksys WRT54GS router connected to a Motorola
cable modem.



Thanks,

Bobby

Re: [H] Separate networks.

[Robert Martin Jr.]

There's a hack available for a few linksys routers that lets you assign a 
different IP range to the 4th ethernet port and keep it separated from the 
others. All the suggestions I'm seeing require additional hardware and constant 
electricity draw, where I feel the minimum hardware neccessary the better.

I would recommend either a central clarkconnect or smoothwall box, or a  
linksys router that supports the 4th network port hack and also virtual 
wireless access points (which can also be kept separate from home network).

lopaka





From: Winterlight winterli...@winterlight.org
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Sun, May 2, 2010 11:16:41 AM
Subject: Re: [H] Separate networks.

You need two more routers. Give the first one a IP addresses of 
192.168.3.1 and plug your modem into it. This is the WAN

Plug the other two routers into the WAN. One end into one of the WAN 
ports and one end into the wan port of the individual routers.

Give your new routers a different IP address, LAN one = 192.168.1.1 
and LAN2 = 192.168.2.1

once you set it up all the routers will have access to the internet 
but LAN one will not be able to even see LAN two because the 
individual firewalls will block them.

I have this setup using three Linksys routers. I set it up to isolate 
my LAN from my WAP. It was easy to setup, but for me it was a bear to 
actually get the routers to work the way they were suppose to. I kept 
having to call Linksys and they would do things like clone the mac 
address or some other trick, and eventually it all worked. However, 
once it was up and running it has run flawlessly for four or five years.

Good luck,
w

At 10:48 AM 5/2/2010, you wrote:
Hey,



Every now and then I need to bring people's PCs to my house.  I use sneaker
net to copy over any files and all that I might need to fix their machine.
After I am pretty sure I have it all cleaned up, I then will connect it to
my LAN to make sure all the Windows updates are applied and anything else
that needs updating.



What I'd like to do is to have two networks that can both access the same
internet connection but cannot see each other (unless I wanted them to).



What type of setup would I need to have to do this?  Any links that will
demonstrate it?



I currently have a standard Linksys WRT54GS router connected to a Motorola
cable modem.



Thanks,

Bobby

Re: [H] Separate networks.

[Robert Martin Jr.]

Nah, just meant hack as in not standard setup and taking some manual 
intervention. I couldn't find the exact article I followed but there are a 
couple tutorials that look pretty similar ;) 

Pretty easy stuff for most THGers to do especially if you already have 
compatible hardware laying around. 

lopaka




From: maccrawj maccr...@gmail.com
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Mon, May 3, 2010 3:30:45 PM
Subject: Re: [H] Separate networks.

Well I knew he didn't mean crack but I did assume kludge, NBD.

On 5/3/2010 12:41 PM, Christopher Fisk wrote:
 On Mon, 3 May 2010, maccrawj wrote:

 It's not a hack it's as legit as any 'nix box with 5 nics + IPTables
 being reconfigured based on what I read.

 Hack as in clever solution, not hack as in crack.


 Christopher Fisk

Re: [H] oversized DVD

[Robert Martin Jr.]

I'm selective about which movies stay uncompressed and only do this for select 
movies. I still use divx or xvid compression for most average movies, so they 
don't take up as much space.

lopaka


I admit years ago this would not have been an option.  But now, why not?  Dl 
dvdr media is cheap.  I just picked up a 50 pack for $32.  

But anymore, I don't even bother going back to dvd.  I file my disks away and 
just use makemkv (makemkv.com) and keep the content uncompressed. 

--Original Message--
From: Richard Quilhot
Sender: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
ReplyTo: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] oversized DVD
Sent: Mar 30, 2010 8:37 PM

Why not burn on a dual layer dvd without compression?

Richard E. Quilhot C.N.A.
quilh...@gmail.com




On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 9:32 PM, maccrawj maccr...@gmail.com wrote:

 I use these apps depending on the method needed to reducing space:

 1. DvdShrink- great for simply encoding into smaller size, removing
 unneeded audio/subtitles, and minor savings from still images.

 2. VobBlanker- Best bet for totally removing ADs and other space wasting
 junk.


 On 3/28/2010 8:34 PM, Winterlight wrote:

 I have a BBC series that, over a period of many years, I bought the DVDs
 for . Now I am backing them up by ripping them to iso files with DVD
 decryptor. Each DVD holds three to four episodes. The iso files are all
 between 5.7 - 7.7 GB in size. Is there an app that makes it easy to
 reduce the ISO and then burn to a DVD all at one go. thanks





Sent via BlackBerry 

Re: [H] Killed an Old Machine!

[Robert Martin Jr.]

Or grab one off another machine and look at the structure and make any drive or 
partition adjustments before copying to the dead box using a boot disk or bootcd


lopaka





From: FORC5 fuf...@cox.net
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Wed, March 17, 2010 2:27:52 PM
Subject: Re: [H] Killed an Old Machine!

off the top of my head forget the commands but is possible to rebuild 
the boot.ini from a repair console when u boot to the install disk, 
lot easier then a repair install.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000648.htm

hohoho

At 03:21 PM 3/17/2010, DSinc Poked the stick with:
Should I be stupid enough to DELETE a 'boot.ini' file on an XPpro 
machine,..
...do I have a chance of getting this machine back?

Can I use a Repair Install to fix this stupid USER error?

This is not cardiac arrest.
This is a very old and dying machine I forced to WinXP.
This is an Asus CUBX m/b (512MB).
This is an Intel P-3 800Mhz machine.
This is a machine that has been flakey for about 6 months!
This is a machine that does not like to 'Shut Down.'

I can totally loose all of the DATA on this machine! I backed this 
machine up 2 days ago using my M$ backup logic.

Opinions welcome.
Viking Funeral is in the plan...
(I get a Lian-Li case for a new toy!)
Best,
Duncan

-- 
Tallyho ! ]:8)
Taglines below !
--
Is a hippie haircut an example of the lunatic fringe?

Re: [H] Testing Graphic Card Stability

[Robert Martin Jr.]

If you can't narrow this down to driver issue, my first thought would be power 
supply going south. I've seen similar issues when the power supply isn't 
providing quite enough power to the system.  Video card could be iffy or even 
mainboard. As for video stress test I still use a quake3 demo loop although I'm 
sure there are much better tests available.

lopaka






From: Anthony Q. Martin amar...@charter.net
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Mon, March 15, 2010 6:35:17 AM
Subject: [H] Testing Graphic Card Stability

Ok

I had a HIS ATI Radeon HD 5770 in this system.  Tried all drivers available, 
using driver cleaner to remove previous drivers, etc, yet the same result 
persisted: Crashing..  Yesterday, my PC reboot several times during the day.  
On some days, it doesn't do that.

I just loaded in A Sapphire Radeon HD 5770 in thsi system. While these cards 
are basically the same, performance wise, they boards are different as this one 
has to DVI ports on it while the other other only had one.  Thus, the layouts 
of the boards are very different (I didn't want to risk getting the exact same 
board for fear of some fundamental problem in the board design from HIS or ATI).

So far, and not much time has gone by since I just installed this board a 
couple of hours ago, things seem to be working. WEI works as done some program 
I got called Performance Test.

My question is what software can I use the drive this video card in a loop to 
see if it really works or not?  Or, am I going to have to see here and wait for 
a crash?

Thanks.

[H] Any list members near Penryn, CA ??

[Robert Martin Jr.]

I have a family friend that had something happen to her computer (don't know if 
viral or user error), but needs to get all her digital pictures off the box. 
I'm assuming it would be an easy recovery for any experienced list member, but 
it is way beyond her level. She somehow copied all her temp files into the 
documents folder and there are so many files she can't list or view them in 
that directory any longer. I was thinking a BART or Hirens CD to copy the files 
off to an external device.

lopaka

Re: [H] Any list members near Penryn, CA ??

[Robert Martin Jr.]

She can still boot into windows and I walked her through almost the exact 
scenario you outlined last night, but she said nothing happened and that even 
though the computer would boot into windows, it was unresponsive whenever she 
tried to do anything. I ran her through chkdsk and a few other command line 
tests and everything seems fine with the drive and files themselves. The couple 
quotes she got in her area to just look at the machine seemed ridiculous.

lopaka





From: Winterlight winterli...@winterlight.org
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Sat, March 13, 2010 1:02:03 PM
Subject: Re: [H] Any list members near Penryn, CA ??


I assume she can sill boot into windows? Can she log in as administrator? If 
so, I would have her bring up a command window, go to the appropriate folder, 
and issue a command to move the pictures to another drive, or folder. For 
example something like C:\Documents and Settings\User\Documents\copy *.jpg 
d:\pics

w

At 09:50 AM 3/13/2010, you wrote:
 I have a family friend that had something happen to her computer (don't know 
 if viral or user error), but needs to get all her digital pictures off the 
 box. I'm assuming it would be an easy recovery for any experienced list 
 member, but it is way beyond her level. She somehow copied all her temp files 
 into the documents folder and there are so many files she can't list or view 
 them in that directory any longer. I was thinking a BART or Hirens CD to copy 
 the files off to an external device.
 
 lopaka

Re: [H] Mapping printer xp to w7 ?

[Robert Martin Jr.]

If printer sharing is enabled, make sure the user has a legit password. Windows 
7 sharing will not allow blank passwords.

lopaka





From: Bobby Heid bh...@sc.rr.com
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Sun, February 14, 2010 4:22:41 PM
Subject: Re: [H] Mapping printer xp to w7 ?

Have you set up printer sharing?  On the W7 box, go to Start|Help and
Support and enter share printer.  That should get you going.

Thanks,
Bobby

-Original Message-
From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com
[mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of FORC5
Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 5:11 PM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: [H] Mapping printer xp to w7 ?

Friend, customer running a new puter with w7 home premium 64bit, her printer
( canon xx500) works fine.

Tried to map her laptop to print, can not make it go. I assume I need to add
the X86 drivers to the w7 install but w7 will not let me. DL'ed directly
from Canon. 

FWIW the printer on the w7 box just was recognized and worked on first boot
but when it asks me for additional drivers it just will not take them.

AT a loss at the moment. As a work around put a folder on the laptop to copy
docs to and a shortcut on the w7 box she can print so at the moment no big
deal but I really HATE not being able to make it go. I wonder to myself if a
newer printer might work. Worked fine when she was running xp.
I have mapped many a printer. My w7 box has no problem printing thru my XP
box. ( opposite to her situation)
fp
thanks
Happy *V* Day 

-- 
Tallyho ! ]:8)
Taglines below !
--
Quick!  Say something profound in 45 characters or le.

Re: [H] 3D gaming or tv?

[Robert Martin Jr.]

The last E3 some of us went to had 3D TV that looked good without glasses and 
from angles up to about 40-45 degrees. It looked like the images were sticking 
out from the screen about 4-6 feet when viewed from about 15 feet away. I 
thought it was really cool and am not sure how they did that one.

lopaka





From: tmse...@rlrnews.com tmse...@rlrnews.com
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Fri, January 15, 2010 7:41:02 AM
Subject: Re: [H] 3D gaming or tv?

I think we're a long way from that.  I think the only time would be with 
specific bluerays as nothing is being put out over the air in true 1080p, let 
alone the enhanced bandwidth you'd need. 


Sent via BlackBerry 

-Original Message-
From: Anthony Q. Martin amar...@charter.net
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:38:55 
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] 3D gaming or tv?

I saw avatar...with the glasses.  Great movie.  However, I would not 
want to have to wear glasses all the time to watch TV...if you can get 
the 3D effect without glasses, then I'm all for 3D TV. But I ain't, as a 
general rule, going to wear those stoopid glasses to stare at the idiot 
boxhmmm...well, now that i put it that way... :)

On 1/15/2010 10:24 AM, tmse...@rlrnews.com wrote:
 Have you seen avatar yet, you know, with the glasses?  :)
 Sent via BlackBerry

 -Original Message-
 From: Stan Zaskeswza...@yahoo.com
 Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:19:32
 To:hardware@hardwaregroup.com
 Subject: Re: [H] 3D gaming or tv?

 In other words, it's still not ready for prime time. If you have to have
 glasses for the 3D effect then the tech is still too immature IMHO.


 On 1/15/2010 4:31 AM, Alex wrote:

 yea, 3D was the big thing at CES this year, couldn't get away from it.

 I took the time to check out all the offerings from the major players.
 Besides the quirky pop-up effect, what struck me was how limited it was to
 the exact screen size, no more.  So it's not exactly like the IMAX 3D
 Avatar experience you had in the cinema. You get the 3D-ness only if you
 watch the screen head on.

 Another thing is your eyes will adjust to the 3D after a couple hours.
 What's the point of wearing the dorky glasses after that?  Most glasses
 were battery powered with an on/off switch.

 In any case, they appear to be pushing it hard but my opinion is that its
 gimmicky.  better to invest in a better TV screen than to pick one for its
 3D qualities.  Those glasses arent cheap and most units only ship with one.


 On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:16:47 -0800, maccrawjmaccr...@gmail.com   wrote:

  
 Years back I had my store order one of the gamer HMD's from a now dead
 company for
$300. Visually it was very 3d but hideous resolution and really
uncomfortable to
 wear. The head tracking feature worked real well for flight sims and


 such

  
 where
 glancing was needed. Never liked the result with Quake at all. Funny
 trivia, you tend
 to see this defunct co's liquidated hardware used in low-budget scifi
 movies as props. ;)

 Of the current tech the only experience I've had was with IMAX 3D's
 polarized glass
 which was very good IMHO. Bring that home as 1080P/120Hz per eye and I'd
 be a happy
 camper! Personally I don't think 60Hz/eye is enough for same reasons


 that

  
 it sucks
 for mono-vision and really would see 240Hz or better as the target. Of
 course I
 refer mostly to gaming but real 3D movies have appeal to me also!

 On 1/14/2010 5:36 PM, Bino Gopal wrote:


 This being the HWG I can't believe no one here has gone there, so

  
 what're

  
 your thoughts/experiences with 3D TV and/or gaming?   The gaming has

  
 been

  
 around longer, b/c I assume it was easier to get computer games to do

  
 3d;

  
 see this thread (someone references playing the FIRST Descent in 3D;
 something I think I remember hearing about) :



 http://www.mtbs3d.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=3 
 http://www.mtbs3d.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=3t=5274t=5274



 Turns out that Samsung DLP I got last year supports 3D (and DLPs are

  
 one

  
 of
 the few tvs out there that will, having a true 120Hz refresh rate) with
 the
 addition of an extra kit for $150 ($200 for 2 glasses from DDD aka
 TriDef at
 http://www.ddd.com/cart/product.php?productid=2 
 http://www.ddd.com/cart/product.php?productid=2cat=1page=1
 cat=1page=1
 ).  Considering it since the tech isn't going to settle for a while,

  
 and

  
 having it now would be cool (people have been doing it for the last
 couple
 years apparently with earlier Samsung/Mitsu DLPs).


 And it doesn't sound like getting a gaming rig setup with 3D is that
 hard; I
 played Left4Dead in 3D at a tech event last year with the glasses and
 headphone/mic and it was pretty cool; forgot about it until the whole
 Avatar/3D thing at CES this year and now I'm looking into getting it.



 Anyway, thoughts?




 BINO





   

Re: [H] TBird?

[Robert Martin Jr.]

For those still using email readers like thunderbird, I've found that using a 
portable version works much easier because it stores all your info within the 
folder directory and you don't have to look anywhere when moving it to another 
machine. 

On of my latest projects has been to hack or find portable versions of the 
software I use most often, and keep in on a NAS unit. Then I can open it from 
any local computer and don't have to install anything on any machine I'm using.

lopaka





From: Anthony Q. Martin amar...@charter.net
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Fri, January 8, 2010 6:46:11 AM
Subject: Re: [H] TBird?

This seems to be the easiest way to move the Thunderbird data

Taken from here: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Moving_your_profile_folder

Modify profiles.ini to point to the new location - Advanced

Firefox Thunderbird and SeaMonkey 2

Note: This method does not apply to Mozilla Suite/SeaMonkey 1.x, which uses a 
different system for keeping track of profiles.

Firefox, Thunderbird, or SeaMonkey 2 should already be installed on the 
computer where you are moving the profile and a profile folder and profiles.ini 
file should already exist. This method is recommended for advanced users only 
since it can be tough to troubleshoot. Mozilla applications can be very finicky 
about the contents of the profiles.ini file. They normally do not ignore bad 
entries, regardless of their position in the file.

   1. Create a new, empty folder in the desired profile location with the name 
you wish to use for the new profile, for example, 
D:\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\newprofile
   2. Copy the entire contents of the profile folder you are moving into the 
new profile folder you just created.
   3. If you copied the old profile from a CD, remove the write-protection from 
the copied files.
   4. Find the profiles.ini file (it will be located in the default profile 
folder path) and open it in a text editor.
  * (Optional) Change the Name= line to the name of the new profile 
folder you created, e.g., Name=newprofile
  * Change IsRelative=1 to IsRelative=0
  * Change the Path= line to the actual location of the new profile 
folder, e.g., Path=D:\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\newprofile.
   5. If you are moving a profile from its default location, the original 
profile folder can now be removed.
   6. If you're using Thunderbird, check that you can see the folders for each 
account. If they're missing, use the browse button for the local directory in 
Tools - Account Settings - Server Settings and Tools - Account Settings - 
Local Folders to specify the correct account and mail directories.

Caution: Incorrect editing of the profiles.ini file can cause a already 
running but is not responding error if the profile cannot be found (bug 
278860).

On 1/7/2010 5:03 PM, JRS wrote:
 Yes you can.   I had my data files under C:\thunderbird just so I could 
 move them from computer to computer more easily..
 
 There is a setting in there somewhere where you can change the data directory.
 
 
   --
 JRS
 stei...@pacbell.net
 
 
 Facts do not cease to exist just
 because they are ignored.
 
 
 
 - Original Message 

 From: Anthony Q. Martinamar...@charter.net
 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
 Sent: Thu, January 7, 2010 7:15:29 AM
 Subject: Re: [H] TBird?
 
 My question is this: Can you store all of the Thunderbird 3 data files
 in some place other than AppData folder in Windows 7?
 
 I have big email folders and it takes up a lot of space on my SSD.
 
 On 1/7/2010 12:17 AM, John R Steinbruner wrote:
  
 Yes sir, it is...  :)
 
 
 
 
 On Jan 6, 2010, at 8:59 PM, DSinc wrote:
 
 

 Is Thunderbird 3.x a worthy upgrade?
 Using 2.0.0.23 ATM.
 Wondering?
 Best,
 Duncan
 
  
 
 
 
 
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Re: [H] Sometimes you have to wonder...

[Robert Martin Jr.]

I believe Chris was expressing his surprise that a server that potentially 
contains huge amounts of personal data (hospital) would be given out without 
the hospital IT staff wiping the drives themselves first. Sure you can have it 
if you promise to wipe the drives, won't help if any of the data got into the 
wild :0

I work in the medical field and something like this in our company would get 
fools fired


lopaka



From: Rick Glazier rickglaz...@gmail.com
To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Mon, January 4, 2010 9:37:58 PM
Subject: Re: [H] Sometimes you have to wonder...

What Type and Model number?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS/6000
Even a ten year old Super Computer is a little slow today...
Let us know how you make out. (Thanks.)

Rick Glazier

From: tmservo
 Sometimes you have to wonder...


 Client, good friend, calls me today and says he was 'given' something and 
 asked if I had interest.   I was kind of stunned when he
 told me what.  A quick phone call and I was told 'yes, its fine, they 
 promised to erase all the drives'

 What were they given?  An rs/6000 in a cabinet the hospital just replaced.  
 'Just make sure to wipe the data?'. You have got to be
 kidding me.  Yellow truck picked it up headed my way this afternoon.
 Sent via BlackBerry

Re: [H] Freeze up

[Robert Martin Jr.]

I've had this happen a few times from poweroutage, no UPS backup, etc. 
Sometimes you can fix this running BootCD utilities and it's easiest if you can 
roll back to a previous restore point (if you have this enabled on the affected 
computer). Normally my order of attempts would be

1) choose boot option for previous known good settings (works occasionally)
2) boot safe mode and run chkdsk /f on any available HDD's (usually you'll get 
same error in safe mode)
3) bootcd (Hirens is what I use, or BART) and check HDD/files for errors using 
utilities and chkdsk
4) use system restore using old restore point (also from Hirens mini-xp mode)
5) use install cd for XP to do system repair install

lopaka





From: Sam Franc fr...@oregonfast.net
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Mon, December 14, 2009 9:48:34 AM
Subject: [H] Freeze up

My wife has a W2000 box and she is computer illiterate.
Last night she froze up her box somehow.
Had to shut it down by the off switch.
Nothing else would work.
This am we get this message:
The procedure entry point get system wow 64 directory A could not be located 
in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll
What needs to be done?
I am not an expert.
Sam

Re: [H] Freeze up

[Robert Martin Jr.]

Hehe, thats funny :). I've been using XP64 so long I didn't realize that anyone 
from the hardware group would not be familiar with wow64 directories and 64 bit 
references. 


lopaka



From: DSinc dx7...@bellsouth.net
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Mon, December 14, 2009 12:47:10 PM
Subject: Re: [H] Freeze up

JRS,
Your share is even scarier than my 1st impression! SUX 2B so far behind the 
times... :(
Best,
Duncan


JRS wrote:
 WoW64 (Windows-on-Windows 64-bit) is a subsystem of the Windows
 operating system that is capable of running 32-bit applications and
 is included on all 64-bit versions of Windows — including Windows
 2000 Limited Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, IA-64 and
 x64 versions of Windows Server 2003, 64-bit versions of Windows Vista
 and Windows Server 2008, as well as the 64 bit edition of Windows 7.
 In Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Core, it's an optional component.
 WoW64 is designed to take care of many of the differences between
 32-bit Windows and 64-bit Windows, particularly involving structural
 changes to Windows itself.
 
 -- JRS stei...@pacbell.net
 
 
 Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored.
 
 
 
 - Original Message 
 From: DSinc dx7...@bellsouth.net To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Mon, 
 December 14, 2009 11:27:45 AM Subject: Re: [H] Freeze up
 
 
 Sam, From what I read, your wife downloaded something (?wow64?)
 that may require 64-bit processing. W2K, IIRC, only does 32-bit
 anything. You may need to dig down and get rid of what she last
 downloaded and tried to run/launch. That is all I can see for
 now. Best, Duncan
 
 
 Sam Franc wrote:
 My wife has a W2000 box and she is computer illiterate. Last
 night she froze up her box somehow. Had to shut it down by the
 off switch. Nothing else would work. This am we get this message:
  The procedure entry point get system wow 64 directory A could
 not be located
 in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll
 What needs to be done? I am not an expert. Sam
 
 
 

Re: [H] Strange no video problem

[Robert Martin Jr.]

Could be power supply or even mobo components going out. I've had similar 
happen where some board component went out first, then eventually board died 
completely. Power supply is easy enough to check if you have a spare.

lopaka





From: Winterlight winterli...@winterlight.org
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Fri, December 11, 2009 4:45:03 PM
Subject: [H] Strange no video problem

I have a old PC that I use to record TV stuff. It is a P4 3400, Intel 850Perl, 
3GB of Crucial DDR, All in Wonder 9600 PRO, a Promise ULTRA 133 PCI, one Maxtor 
SATA, three WD PATA, a 8 speed LITON DVD burner, powered by a Antec 550 True 
Power. Old stuff put together for a single purpose... works well, until last 
night.

I was running it with the TV on and all of a sudden, without any indication of 
a problem, the TV audio and video just blanked out. The computer was still 
powered on but nothing on the screen.

First I powered off at the cord, waited a bit and then powered up again. 
Nothing appeared on the screen. Tried this numerous times after checking cable 
connections.

Then I hooked up my laptop to the VGA cable... the monitor worked.

Then, leaving the AGP AIW 9600 PRO in place I put a known working Matrox PCI 
G450. Still no video appears... even at POST.

But it will boot up to XP PRO and I can access all the hard drives across the 
network. Just no video

It is very strange but I am thinking PS. The Antec True Power is problematic 
and the problem is a strange one, as are most PS problems.
I put a meter on a powered up molex and got 5 on the red and 11.94 on the 
yellow. Any thoughts?

Re: [H] Unusual Active Directory Q

[Robert Martin Jr.]

Congrats, sounds like a stressful but in the end successful venture ;)
And I do remember the few of use still left over from Toms hardware and the 
overclocking list. Many years and many projects later

lopaka





From: tmse...@rlrnews.com tmse...@rlrnews.com
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Tue, November 3, 2009 6:05:26 PM
Subject: Re: [H] Unusual Active Directory Q

Finally. After about 14 hours and minimal sleep, the solution.  Setup a vm, 
used acronis to clone into the vhd rather then turn the tib straight to vhd.  

Then booted ubcd, and reset ide controller. 

Turned off native hyper-v ethernet, and installed legacy device ethernet.. For 
some reason win2k pukes bad on the native. Tried that about 3 times. 

Installed extensions and walla!  Their active directory and pdc virtualized in 
tact, and went from 200mb free on an 8gb drive to 120gb free.  

What a gigantic pain in the ass.  But a trick I will remember for later and 
thought I'd share!
Sent via BlackBerry 

-Original Message-
From: Robert Martin Jr. lopa...@pacbell.net
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 10:09:36 
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Unusual Active Directory Q

If you've got a working VM for it now, make a full clone and try it on the 
clone. If it hoses everything there's no loss. You can keep attempting 
different hacks on clone copies until you get it right, as long as you keep the 
original VM untouched.

I'm assuming you can do this easily. I use VMWare so I'm not sure whether your 
vm program has similar/same capabilities.

lopaka





From: CW tmse...@rlrnews.com
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Mon, November 2, 2009 3:17:41 AM
Subject: [H] Unusual Active Directory Q

Ok, I've got an unusual active directory problem, that at 5AM is still keeping 
me up thinking about options.

Have a machine that is dying, running Windows 2000 Server.  It's a stand alone 
PDC.  But this machine also has a specific piece of software that may never be 
replicated and so we have to preserve it.  The hardware just won't stand for 
that, though.

So, we virtualized the drives, etc. and all is good.  Boots up fine in HyperV 
server, software starts, etc.

Issue: it took about a week and a half to get this all back on track with the 
help of some vendors on some specific pieces of hardware.  In the meantime, we 
left the dying box run, thinking we'd do this as a test to then merge over just 
the changed data as we finished.

Except they've added a few new users and PCs, which I didn't count on happening 
:(

So, I can't run a System State restore in Win2k, because it will bomb 
(registry is changed since this has been repair installed to make work on a VM) 
tried that with a copy of a VHD.  

The machine name it has (SERVER1) is the same as the physical machine name, 
etc.. in all purposes it's a clone.

Has anyone tried to just manually copy only the NTDS folder from one to another 
assuming machine names and IDs are the same?  This technically should work in 
this goofy circumstance in win2k, but I can't find anyone who has tried such a 
feat..

Re: [H] Unusual Active Directory Q

[Robert Martin Jr.]

I've switched almost exclusively to building and using ITX systems at home. 
They are small, use little power, and still have enough kick to run any of the 
games I still play. I've got quad AMD and quad intel boxes and these things are 
tiny but can do some hardcore processing. I've been stripping commercials from 
a bunch of TV recordings using a comskip script and can strip and re-encode an 
hour mpg into high quality xvid in just a few minutes.

The atom platform is solid. My PIAF (PBX-in-a-Flash) VOIP system is based on a 
single core atom CPU and can handle multiple IAX  SIP calls concurently 
without a hiccup. I've also run this off a Pentium-M ITX system and those do 
well even though they are old school.

lopaka





From: CW tmse...@rlrnews.com
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Tue, November 3, 2009 8:15:01 PM
Subject: Re: [H] Unusual Active Directory Q

You know, I spent today after we got done with solving the AD doing their new 
Point of sales.. little units that handle their software (it's Jonas if anyone 
is familiar: http://www.jonasclub.com/ )  Anyway, outside of the fact their 
touch screens are old school (COM port driven) and Chit printer technology 
still is crap, we spent the day converting boxes and putting in new POS systems 
that run off Mini-ITX Intel Atom 330 MB.  

I'm not saying I'd use it for my desktop, but the Atom 330/board combo is 
decently faster, a better choice then most microatx/cheap celeron combos, and I 
have nothing bad to say about it.  You can find those boards for like $80 
945G+Atom330 onboard.  One of the best bangs/buck out there, period.  I'm going 
to use another one, slap a USB Mediareader in it, boot to USB for a 
ClarkConnect Firewall.  

We get so focused on the high end, but I can't think of anything at all bad to 
say about this board.  Nothing, absolutely nothing.


-Original message-
From: Stan Zaske swza...@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:59:33 -0800
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Unusual Active Directory Q

 Dude it is still an overclocking list! I do it every day and will never 
 stop trying to get the best bang for my buck. Buy, use for awhile then 
 sell on Ebay and get something newer and better. Next year is looking 
 real good for AMD. InHell, who dat?
 

Re: [H] Google Wave

[Robert Martin Jr.]

Send one this way :)
lopaka1 (at) pacbell.net





From: Naushad, Zulfiqar zulfiqar.naus...@siemens.com
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2009 4:57:25 AM
Subject: [H] Google Wave

I've got invites I can send out.

Who wants them?  I can give away 10.

Thanks!

Re: [H] VCR to DVD

[Robert Martin Jr.]

If you go VCR to computer, I have an old inline stabilizer (Notice I didn't say 
macrovision remover :)
You can have it if I can find it. It usually works on older VHS stuff but not 
all the new ones (slightly different frequency) I have a really good stabilizer 
now with color adjustment, jitter control, etc. That one cost a pretty penny 
though.

lopaka





From: Rick Glazier rickglaz...@gmail.com
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2009 7:31:12 AM
Subject: Re: [H] VCR to DVD

A friend gave me a Tape-to-DVD machine a couple years ago.
An older Go.Video model. (I think they closed down.)

The Macrovision on the tapes pervents them from being copied.
YMMV...  (Good luck.)

Since I had a Video camera since 1981,
I had lots of other uses for it, grin...

Rick Glazier

- Original Message - From: Al  Just gained access to a hugh 
collection of VCR tapes, old rental store
 inventory. Great stuff from Cinderella to Debbie Does Dallas.
 
 Been reading online about copying to DVD, seems I need some hardware.
 Any recommendations? Anyone have something in the back of the closet to
 recycle? Gladly pay any reasonable amount + shipping.
 
 There's a hugh pile of tapes, so something  I can use with little input
 from me would be preferred.

Re: [H] VCR to DVD

[Robert Martin Jr.]

PVR-150 works great with GB-PVR once everythings set up correctly, but doing 
manual recordings with it are a little more work since all captures have to be 
scheduled (IE: schedule recording 10 mins in future, then start VCR playing a 
couple minutes beforehand. The hauppauge software is easier to use for instant 
captures.

lopaka





From: Steve Tomporowski didym...@gmail.com
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2009 10:30:06 AM
Subject: Re: [H] VCR to DVD

The Win-PVR 150 has an S-video/composite input, so you can input video for 
capture, however, from what I hear, it does have problems with some 3rd party 
capture applications (they graciously don't tell you which ones), since it 
records directly to mpeg.

Steve

swzaske wrote:
 Will a Hauppauge PVR 150 work as a capture card, I only used it to time shift 
 programs that aired while at work.
 
 
 Steve Tomporowski wrote:
 From experience, you have two different methods:  Either you go down to your 
 local computer shop and get a capture card (hauppauge, not ATI), about $120 
 or you go down to your local Walmart and get a VHS to DVD recorder, also 
 about $120, then rip the DVD after recording.  Unfortunately VHS quality is 
 still VHS quality when it's on a DVD or on your computer.  The trade-offs 
 are, the Recorder won't tie up your computer for the length of the movie, 
 however the recorder will force you to edit, cut and paste if the movie is 
 longer than 2 hours.
 
 Steve
 
 
 Al wrote:
 Hi y'all,
 
 Just gained access to a hugh collection of VCR tapes, old rental store
 inventory. Great stuff from Cinderella to Debbie Does Dallas.
 
 Been reading online about copying to DVD, seems I need some hardware.
 Any recommendations? Anyone have something in the back of the closet to
 recycle? Gladly pay any reasonable amount + shipping.
 
 There's a hugh pile of tapes, so something  I can use with little input
 from me would be preferred.
 
 TIA,
 al
  
 
 
 
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Re: [H] Managed switches

[Robert Martin Jr.]

I have 1 central managed switch. The reasons I use one is for the QOS and 
prioritizing traffic, and I also send a copy of all traffic from my VOIP 
devices to a box that analyzes call quality, etc

lopaka



From: Bryan Seitz se...@bsd-unix.net
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 10:13:12 AM
Subject: Re: [H] Managed switches

The ability to assign vlans, port speed, duplex, etc... to switch ports.  The 
ability to configure advanced networking features, etc...

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 02:05:33PM -0300, Thane Sherrington wrote:
 I've never dealt with managed switches before - what is the advantage 
 of a managed switch vs an unmanaged one?
 
 T
 

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Re: [H] Yahoo Mail

[Robert Martin Jr.]

I've just recently been using ad blocking at the router level which makes it 
really nice for any machines on the LAN. You don't have to set anything now or 
run any special plugins or apps.
I built a little embedded 4 port box running clarkconnect (turnkey firewall 
linux distro) It handles QOS very well and with the better CPU (600MHz 
Pentium-M celery vs 219 MHz Arm in the old DDWRT router) I can run more filters 
and apps on it without bogging it down. I was planning to use smoothwall but 
opted for clarkconnect since it had an embedded webserver (LAMP) setup.

lopaka





From: JRS stei...@pacbell.net
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Tuesday, October 6, 2009 9:02:54 AM
Subject: Re: [H] Yahoo Mail

ATT has had us on it for a while now.   It's OK for web-based mail as long as 
you use Ad Block Plus.  :)

I was pissed beyond belief when they added adverts last year.  I called and 
complained, and pointed out that I was a paying customer since they are my ISP, 
but they didn't care.


When at home, I always use local email programs, not web-based,  but the 
web-based version  is OK for checking email when at work or traveling.


-- 
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Facts do not cease to exist just
because they are ignored.



- Original Message 
 From: Stan Zaske swza...@yahoo.com
 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
 Sent: Tuesday, October 6, 2009 8:15:16 AM
 Subject: [H] Yahoo Mail
 
 Has anybody tried the new Yahoo Mail? My main box is down because I upgraded 
 the 
 mobo and all it does is beep 5 times and this box doesn't have Thunderbird 
 set 
 up on it. I really like the new interface. It's not at all kludgy like the 
 old 
 one and everything is easy to find and figure out. Not bad for a web app.

Re: [H] how do I ?

[Robert Martin Jr.]

We did a similar setup a while back for a granny unit. For our project we ran 1 
cat5 cable through underground conduit, through wall, run up into ceiling in 
living room-bedroom. In closet we have 1 gigabit switch that split off 2 
cables running back into living room and kitchen. I used snapthrough wallport 
couplers so it would be easy to connect or disconnect cables. Avoid running 
next to electrical wiring and your good.

I bought a small crimping kit ($15 - I already had some cat5 cable) and just 
followed the color diagram to make the cables. 

lopaka





From: FORC5 fuf...@cox.net
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Sunday, October 4, 2009 6:21:00 AM
Subject: [H] how do I ?

Rewiring my new *cave* b4 sheet rock and decided to go ahead and run cat5 to 
the corner of the cave closest to the house. Not going to run to the house at 
this time. How do I splice cat5 ?

My thoughts are a low voltage box on the outside wall but surely I can not just 
put jack there. Also thought of just poking thru and putting the jack on the 
inside. Or maybe just leave enough coiled outside to make the run. 

Is there a direct bury cat 5 cable. ? Distance to house is only maybe 20'.  
Have setup a bridge router but figure eventually need /want to hard wire.

fp

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Re: [H] Video conferencing

[Robert Martin Jr.]

You can use skype, MSN messenger, the new X-lite SIP softphone, etc. I used to 
always test the camera setup using ms netmeeting, then once working go to 
whichever one the client preferred.

lopaka





From: Winterlight winterli...@winterlight.org
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Thursday, October 1, 2009 9:12:17 AM
Subject: [H] Video conferencing

I have a new laptop that came with a built in camera. I want to try video 
conferenceing. I have a camera, the other party has a camera, so what software 
do I need to do this and is any good freeware?

Re: [H] Windows 7 Networking

[Robert Martin Jr.]

Search for the XP computer by IP addy instead of browsing network. That usually 
works if there is a DNS issue. Workgroup the same I assume?

lopaka

--- On Tue, 9/29/09, Steve Tomporowski didym...@gmail.com wrote:

From: Steve Tomporowski didym...@gmail.com
Subject: [H]  Windows 7 Networking
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2009, 3:46 PM

Okay, here's a good one:  How do you network a Win7 machine with a WinXP 
machine.  So far, Win 7 only sees that machine sometimes.  Lately, the last 
couple of boots, it refuses to see that machine.  It's only important that the 
Win7 machine sees the WinXP machine, visa versa doesn't matter.

Steve


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Re: [H] 64 bit drivers

[Robert Martin Jr.]

I've used some vista drivers on Win7 and also used drivers for XP x64 on win7. 
Some work some don't ;)

lopaka

--- On Fri, 9/25/09, Steve Tomporowski didym...@gmail.com wrote:

From: Steve Tomporowski didym...@gmail.com
Subject: [H]  64 bit drivers
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Date: Friday, September 25, 2009, 4:09 PM

Do Vista drivers work on Windows 7?

My Delta Audiophile 2496 is only up to Vista 64 with drivers.

Steve


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[H] ClarkConnect Embedded !!!

[Robert Martin Jr.]

If anyone recalls I posted a link to a couple 4 port embedded mini-pc's a few 
weeks back. I loaded ClarkConnect v5 on one and smoothwall on the other. They 
didn't come with power bricks but I had one that was spec'd right and ordered 
another from geeks.com for $13.

I just switched out my DDWRT WRT150N router with the little clarkconnect box 
and I have to say I'm very impressed so far. It's a 600MHz Pentium-M celeron 
box with 1GB ram. I've got content filtering running, extensive firewall, IDS 
system, HTTP server, Quake 3 server, and torrent server running. I've played 
around with a VOIP wondershaping script, QOS, etc.

My speedtests at multiple sites jumped from download of 3900 KB/s to 8834.9 KB/s
Upload speed went from 220 kbps to 570 kbps

I'm amazed that there could be such a huge difference. I haven't had time to 
test the smoothwall box as much, but I prefer its various plugins to the more 
limited firewall/NIDS capabilities of the clarkconnect box. Maybe I'll get 
motivated at some later time to write a small review, hehe

lopaka

Re: [H] More than 4GB of ram and VM question

[Robert Martin Jr.]

I'd NEVER pay that price either. I did however pre-order Win 7 Pro for $99 and 
Home for $49 on newegg a couple months back. The RC seemed to run pretty well 
and was way snappier than vista. I tried vista (unofficially) on a couple boxes 
and decided there was too much garbage for me. My fav is still XP x64. Rumor is 
that students that can verify college enrollment can get Win7Home for $29 
pre-order right now.

lopaka

--- On Tue, 9/22/09, FORC5 fuf...@cox.net wrote:

From: FORC5 fuf...@cox.net
Subject: Re: [H] More than 4GB of ram and VM question
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Date: Tuesday, September 22, 2009, 8:51 AM

bottom feeders forever :-D
hope, change or assimilation
fp
hell I still have a dos box for Aces of the Pacific :-| 

At 01:31 PM 9/21/2009, DSinc Poked the stick with:
Anthony,
Not a problem. I will just join the party later. I see no driving factor yet 
to spend $199/client at this time just to upgrade to Win7 in either 32bit or 
64bit. I choose to be a LATE Adopter, FWIW.
Best,
Duncan

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Re: [H] Nokia N9000 The Ultimate Phone?

[Robert Martin Jr.]

I like Nokia and have an N81. What I don't like is that Nokia has been 
pressured by mobile carriers to remove the built-in SIP support on all the 
newer models. When I walk in at home or at work my N81 auto sychs up with my 
asterisk server via wireless, and I can make totally free unlimited calls using 
google voice anywhere in the continental U.S. The phone becomes an extension to 
the system whenever internet connectivity is available.

We got off monthly mobile plan to pay-per-minutes since we can still use the 
nokia phones through WiFi. Now I pay about $8 a month for my cellular service :)

lopaka

--- On Wed, 9/16/09, Mesdaq, Ali ames...@websense.com wrote:

From: Mesdaq, Ali ames...@websense.com
Subject: [H] Nokia N9000 The Ultimate Phone?
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2009, 9:03 AM

Has anyone seen the N9000 phone? I just read some reviews, specs, developer 
docs, and saw some videos on this phone and it seems amazing! Anyone have 
access to this phone or know of anyone with one? Seems like it's not released 
yet but usually phones find their way to the market early. In case you haven’t 
seen the phone here are some links

http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/hands-on-nokia-n900-review-631040

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP5R-5NX1BE


Quick highlights for me personally are
- Debian based linux OS
- Updates to everything over the air
- Killer UI
- Full flash support in a full Mozilla based browser
- Very nice hardware specs in every facet i.e. camera, storage, processor, 
screen, graphics hardware accelerator, etc
- Real multi tasking OS and interface
- Get root shell on the device

All in all this device seems to be created as a mobile computer because of 
Maemo's roots as a tablet PC OS. So the phone is just treated as a platform and 
hardware to run the OS. For example you can just not use the phone at all and 
make all your calls via Skype over Wifi or 3g connectivity. Looks like finally 
a no strings attached phone.

Thanks,
--
Ali Mesdaq (CISSP, GIAC-GREM)
Sr. Security Researcher
Websense Security Labs
http://www.WebsenseSecurityLabs.com

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Re: [H] Nokia N9000 The Ultimate Phone?

[Robert Martin Jr.]

I could be wrong but I believe the older phones have hardware sip support so it 
doesn't drain the battery the way software based VOIP does. I've run plenty of 
software based SIP off various phones but it's not as seamless as the built in 
stuff

lopaka

--- On Wed, 9/16/09, Mesdaq, Ali ames...@websense.com wrote:

From: Mesdaq, Ali ames...@websense.com
Subject: Re: [H] Nokia N9000 The Ultimate Phone?
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2009, 12:21 PM

That’s not a limitation of this nokia. Anyone could write a SIP application in 
fact someone wrote something for Google voice already 
http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/dialcentral/



Thanks,
--
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Sr. Security Researcher
Websense Security Labs
http://www.WebsenseSecurityLabs.com

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-Original Message-
From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com 
[mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Robert Martin Jr.
Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 11:00 AM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Nokia N9000 The Ultimate Phone?

I like Nokia and have an N81. What I don't like is that Nokia has been 
pressured by mobile carriers to remove the built-in SIP support on all the 
newer models. When I walk in at home or at work my N81 auto sychs up with my 
asterisk server via wireless, and I can make totally free unlimited calls using 
google voice anywhere in the continental U.S. The phone becomes an extension to 
the system whenever internet connectivity is available.

We got off monthly mobile plan to pay-per-minutes since we can still use the 
nokia phones through WiFi. Now I pay about $8 a month for my cellular service :)

lopaka

--- On Wed, 9/16/09, Mesdaq, Ali ames...@websense.com wrote:

From: Mesdaq, Ali ames...@websense.com
Subject: [H] Nokia N9000 The Ultimate Phone?
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2009, 9:03 AM

Has anyone seen the N9000 phone? I just read some reviews, specs, developer 
docs, and saw some videos on this phone and it seems amazing! Anyone have 
access to this phone or know of anyone with one? Seems like it's not released 
yet but usually phones find their way to the market early. In case you haven’t 
seen the phone here are some links

http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/hands-on-nokia-n900-review-631040


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP5R-5NX1BE



Quick highlights for me personally are
- Debian based linux OS
- Updates to everything over the air
- Killer UI
- Full flash support in a full Mozilla based browser
- Very nice hardware specs in every facet i.e. camera, storage, processor, 
screen, graphics hardware accelerator, etc
- Real multi tasking OS and interface
- Get root shell on the device

All in all this device seems to be created as a mobile computer because of 
Maemo's roots as a tablet PC OS. So the phone is just treated as a platform and 
hardware to run the OS. For example you can just not use the phone at all and 
make all your calls via Skype over Wifi or 3g connectivity. Looks like finally 
a no strings attached phone.

Thanks,
--
Ali Mesdaq (CISSP, GIAC-GREM)
Sr. Security Researcher
Websense Security Labs
http://www.WebsenseSecurityLabs.com


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