ace_ventura
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Episode 5x22
in Hak5
what happened at the very end of the episode where some guy came out, i tried to listen to what he said, something about you guys had to get out of there?
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If you have vista or XP media center edititon, windows media center should be able to see it. Not sure mabye Windows Media Player too.
yeah thats what i thought too but where in those players do you go, in mediaplayer i did a file open, etc, and i looked around there no place that has that sort of an option, so i dunno, maybe it just doesn't work and ill have to get a video capture device, i was just hoping to be able to get that to work so i didn't have to.
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lol sorry, im not that bad of a forum user as the post would have let you think, i was searching and i couldn't really find anything that i liked, and was just curious if anyone here had any idea.
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I am looking for a 802.11n router that has the best performance at the longest range, i dont care about 802.11g or b and would like gig eth.
is there one that can do 100mbps threw a wall or are they all close and line of site that do 100mbps?
Thanks.
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is there any software i can quick download so i can tell if its at least working then i can narrow it down to orb if thats the case
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it is a VIVO card and i would like to use it with orb. it shows up as a webcam under orb but it doesnt seem to work.
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no it is not an all in wonder card, but it did come with the dongle that has composite and s-video in and outs
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my graphics card (sapphire x1900xt) came with a few dongles one is component out and the other is composite/s-video in and out, ive used the component before so i know that works but i decided i would like to use the video input so i can output my dvr and watch it threw orb however im not sure how i can view the video feed on my pc. Does anyone have any ideas?
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ESXi does indeed look good (thanks for the link, will be demoing this at work), but in this case using it means you have to virtualize your file server.
in which case if i virtualized my fs then i would run into the disk issues situation described earlier
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I would also recommend that you use the host OS as the file server because of data integrity issues.
Thats a pretty nice system you want to build too, You should put Windows Server 2008 on it.
I think you should have a separate disk for the OS and applications to be installed on, and make the big RAID dedicated to storing stuff.
i plan to put 2008x64 on it, and i will do the separate disk thing as well
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Is that a problem if it happens at 4am on a Thursday?
nope thats not an issue :)
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the only thing thats a downer but i guess not to big of a deal, is that if i need to apply patches to the FS everything else must go down, thats why i originally had thought to do a FS in a VM, but making the host OS the FS does seem to alleviate the issues i may have with a virtual disk as described above in a few scenarios
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so far i gather this is how i should set this up:
Old PC: PDC
New Server Build:
2x250 RAID1--For Host OS: 2008x64
4x750 RAID5--For VMs and FS Data
Quad Core
8Gb RAM
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Host OS 2008x64 as FS w/data on RAID5
software:
VMware Server
BDC VM on RAID5
WWW VM on RAID5
VPN VM on RAID5
PCI raid card for RAID5?
mobo RAID1 for Host OS?
Other Hardware:
2TB NAS esata prefered or USB (for backing up RAID1 and RAID5)
all of the OS's will be joined to the PDC's Domain
this is for a small network so i dont think i will need the extra nics, the mobo will have 2 nics built in but if its better let me know and ill throw in however many PCI NICs i should get
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i looked into and thought about doing Hyper-V but i know vmware and use it at work so thats why i was leaning vmware
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what i was planning for virtual machines were a pdc (primary domain controller srv08), fs, www and vpn server and i was planning on building this myself but if its cheaper with your option i may do that instead
so if this is the case, i would want to have my file server part of the domain which would be running as a vm, so i dont know how well that would work.
actually i do have a few spare older computers if you were to suggest using a bdc like what you have and just run a pdc on an older box
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what i want to do is build a computer that will host multiple virtual servers so im looking at getting a quad core cpu with 8GB of ram, i would also like this box to have lots of disk space for the VMs that is also redundant so i have a lesser chance of loosing data, so for this im thinking 4x 750GB drives in a RAID 5.
Now what i have planned so far is to have server 2003 be the host OS for the box, then install VMware server and create away. One of these virtual servers will be a file server that i would like to be fast, i would like to see at least 100 MB/s transfer rates in the vista file copy dialog box, now i know thats not accurate or a great measurement but if its going to read that fast it should be plenty fast in actuality as well, and yes my network is gbit and yes i do know it will depend on the speed of the other computer transferring the file to and from, i just want the server to be capable of 100 MB/s of faster (my desktop has a raptor raid 0 array so that should hit 100 MB/s anyways)
My plan is ~500GB for VM space and the rest ~1.7TB or so to File server space (4x750 RAID 5= ~2.2TB), so i would have 2 partitions: 1 500GB and the other the rest of the array so ~1.7TB. So the easy part is i will create for example 4 VM boot drives on the 500 GB partition now one of those VMs will be the file server.
The dilemma is how i create the FS data drive, because i dont want to create a virtual drive that will expand automatically since that will lower performance and there could be a big ass 1TB file on this partition and i dont know how well that would play with vmware and or windows, and it would take a really long time to create a fixed size large 1.5TB virtual drive to mount as the 4th Virtual FS data drive, plus if i needed to expand it for more space it would take a very long time plus there's a greater chance of data loss if the virtual drive becomes corrupt in the midst of expanding the virtual hard disk so that leaves this other option that i have come across which is to use a physical disk in vmware which sounds like what i would need however i would think that the large left over partition ~1.7TB should be unmounted on the host os, in my case server 2003, that i will use for this pc because i wouldnt think it would work very well to have 2 OS's having access to 1 partition at the same time, so ok, now if i were to use a physical disk using the left over partition and i unmounted that partition in the host os and all is well i can store files on it using the virtual file server, but if i were to shut down all VMs and remount the partition i would be using for the virtual FS would i see the data on the disk? i dont think i would if i can remember correctly from a previous test which can make it more difficult to get access to data should something happen therefore i would also want to have a NAS for backup and setup a backup program on the host os that will backup the boot VM's and setup a backup app on the FS to backup all the data on the FS data partition all to a NAS of equal size to my 2.2TB raid array just for cushion. But heres another scenario, what if i want to resize the partition on my raid array so i can have more space, so heres what i would do; boot to G-Parted and resize the partition so i may have 250GB for VMs and then 1.95TB for FS data, now when i restart the vms i dont think vmware is going to like that, so i could loose data.
so i guess whats the best way to set this all up for speed and data redundancy, if i got another computer and built a SAN out of it, that may work, but thats extra cost that im trying to keep low
windows media center menu hacking needed
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does anyone know if there is a way to remove the "Buy Music" button when you are playing a song in windows mediacenter. If already found an application that would hide the "Strips" like "Sports" and "Extras" but i cant seem to find any way to remove that darn Buy Music button.
Thanks.