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Comment Refresher (Score 1) 105

I thought the model A and B came out at the same time? Did the B come out first for the enthusiasts to fund the reduced model. (I know the stated goal of the A is for education) whereas the goal for the B would presumably be for hackers. That being said I am actually borrowing a friends RPi to see about it's use as a serial console and I am not disappointed.

Comment Re:If there was a Bad at Math Map... (Score 1) 1163

Why not? Term limits are 2 consecutive terms. He's been out of office, and so is quite eligible once again.

Incorrect:

22nd Amendment
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.

Comment Re:Synology is nice (Score 1) 182

I can't say what version of the DSM we are using, however, these were synology boxes purchased in the past 6 months.

As far as the email feature, it is consistent across versions. We opened a case with synology and they said that this is the expected behavior at this time. There are unsupported hacks that involve logging in to console and modifying it. But in the future they plan to correct this.

Comment Re:Synology is nice (Score 1) 182

Am I the only one that finds the Synology GUI the worst piece of crap ever? Maybe the experience is tainted by the fact that I always work with them over an RDP connection, but it loads a huge freakin image, I have to drag and click stuff with terrible responsiveness. Sometimes I have to click twice, its always laggy and the UI never fits the resolution I'm working with.

That being said, it has a ridiculous flaw in its email implementation that conflicts with the CRM software my company uses, it always sends the email FROM the same address it is sending TO, really... how hard is that to be user configurable and why would you make your TO your FROM, isn't that just a red flag for spam

Comment What is Lustre File System (Score 5, Informative) 68

From their website:
http://wiki.lustre.org/index.php/Main_Page

High Performance and Scalability

For the world's largest and most complex computing environments, the Lustre file system redefines high performance, scaling to tens of thousands of nodes and petabytes of storage with groundbreaking I/O and metadata throughput.

Comment LannerInc (Score 1) 344

http://www.lannerinc.com/ ; I've been searching for a new router/server combo for the last few weeks online and have been looking for various SBC devices. I haven't purchased one of their products yet but I'm looking at getting something like http://www.lannerinc.com/Network_Application_Platforms/Network_Processor_Platforms/MR-301 to get going on, with 512MB of RAM and a 1.2 Ghz processor and the ability to add a laptop harddrive and a mini-pci slot for wireless. I expect it to do all the normal things a home server should mail, voip, dns, dhcp, dlna, nfs and torrents. If anyone has a better idea about this let me know but this is about as good as it gets with 5GBE ports so I can use the NFS at full speed internally and as someone said way above this if my 3MBs DSL ever suddenly grows to 500MBps I will totally be prepared

Comment Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express (Score 1) 232

Seriously? Microsoft offers a free piece of software that runs on the server that does "exactly" what he needs and we are suggesting Sharepoint/Alfresco, grep/locate and Google Search Server?
http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch/en/us/search-server-express.aspx

You don't have to like them, but you should consider that they want to steal the market everywhere enough to give away decent software to get their foot in the door.

Comment Exchange 2007 (Score 1) 900

If your using Exchange 2007 with 4 gigs of RAM I recommend at least 4 times that for swap, maybe 5, even if you only have a 1GB information store. Other than that (to get it off my chest) I just make it some remainder of the disks I use for a RAID array so for 4 GB on a desktop it comes out to 2GB.

BTW, exchanges 2007 admins I'd love to get information on what I f*ed up if you don't get that kind of RAM usage because I've done multiple installs that consume these kinds of resources and crash the Information Store.

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