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Finally had some time to get more design down; switched to SolidWorks after finalizing the floorplan so I could get the mechanicals and physical properties going. Looks like the preliminary hull is 300 feet long with a max diameter of 80 feet, only 50% longer/wider than the Goodyear Blimps. This...

Quite so. Most of my listening has gone to Pandora these days, and if I want a particular song I just do what all the teenagers do (YouTube). But I still have a significant local collection that is mostly used on my mobile devices, but local access at home would be nice. Is foobar2000 the place...

There are a number of programs I've seen lately that launch a browser window at some point and use IE regardless of settings. And at that point, if the "Do you want IE to be your default browser?" question pops up, that machine is hosed.

The ground in the quarry was iced over last night, had a blast drifting around.

And a special thanks to our newest regular, sedrosken, for putting another nail in my coffin. Having a completely reasonable and mature conversation with someone who wasn't born when I graduated high school. :p

If you are going to stay with that hardware, stay with XP. Just get a 60GB SSD and do a fresh install, maybe some more RAM, it will be fine.

Resolved. I re-loaded the latest firmware, then re-entered the config manually and it works correctly. Thanks for all the help!

I have a 3" tall stack of 3.5" disks that are Win 3.1 somewhere....

I can't help you, but would love a copy of the VM when you are done ;)

All QoS is disabled, WAN load balancing is round robin, and Protocol Binding has my service firing back out the same WAN link as the client is connecting to (WAN2).

I just saw what you saw in the log....SPT=49395... Don't know where it got that number from, but it is clearly wrong. But that item lists when we hit the firewall with traffic on 90.

Port 90 in and port 90 out. We specify port 90 in the connection string on the client app, and the server has been configured to receive on port 90. So no translation needed.

The problem being I don't check the domain accounts; I have specified my own normal address as the account admin.

Good idea, but no go. Disabled all the attack checks and the problem persisted. I'm also logging all dropped packets, so it should show up anyway.

Thanks Google for sending me an e-mail that I need to update the billing credentials for a domain that doesn't include the name of the domain. They include the last 4 digits of the offending credit card (since replaced), but I purchased all of the domains! I've set up 50+ of these things over...

I just swapped out the FatPipe for a Netgear ProSafe SRX5308 Quad-WAN router. Working great. Only issue is that there is one service that I need to forward from the outside. Objective: Forward traffic on port 90 to internal IP address 192.168.0.18 Steps taken: 1. Under "Security"->"Services"...

I have a paid license, thanks ;)

Many of the brands have a business-class line of PCs that aren't crap. Lenovo: ThinkPad / ThinkStation Dell: Latitude / Optiplex (not all) / Precision HP: Elite whatever I stick with Lenovo at this point, simply because I am now familiar with their range and their particular set of gotchas...

It is all ordered. I'll let you know how it goes during the build.

Definitely not aiming for silent. If the two HDDs are the loudest thing I will be happy.

You secured the computing time, it is only fair to run them on your account. If you felt like buying a bunch of time on AWS or secured time on some other supercomputer, that would be your contribution as well.

Yes sir. ;) 16GB sticks seem a no-brainer as they are significantly cheaper in $/GB. That is unusual.

Good find Stereodude. That is a tempting little machine.

Like most of my projects, price hasn't been mentioned until you brought it up. That isn't an issue. When you say server-grade RAM, are you specifically saying registered? Or simply RAM on the HCL for the board?

Isolating chunks of the network one at a time, waiting about 30 minutes between each step. The main switch has 48 ports, most of them uplinks to additional switches, so I pulled 12 of them at a time (third group did it), then 4 of the offending 12 (fourth was it), then found the one of those 4...

Thanks again Coug. Any recommendation on heatsinks? I'd love to put some tower-style units in there, but the RAM bays look pretty close...

They'd rather not; the local users would prefer the lowest latency they can get.

No idea why it was killing the traffic yet. They are on separate subnets in addition to being entirely different physical networks (separate switches, etc). A different NIC on the VoIP server does connect to the data network, but that has a static IP and is handled properly. It may be ARP or...

Thanks for those links, I didn't know such things existed. But I still don't think I need to make things that complicated. This computer does not need five nines reliability; one nine would be plenty. And I don't think the requirements are pushing any performance envelopes either; the only...

Also interesting that they show a 2.5" SSD as an upgrade option? I thought it ran a pair of mSATAs?

Thanks for that. I knew I was getting it wrong and I knew you'd correct me. Much appreciated. So the board for that would be a S7056 or an S7066?

Three very late nights of troubleshooting and I've found the issue. One of my users disconnected the LAN cable from their laptop and connected it to the "PC" connection on the back of their VoIP phone, effectively bridging the networks. This causes no immediate problem, but after 10-20 minutes...

Looking at a pair of Intel Xeon E5-2420, and I'd love to use a Tyan S7045 but I'm not sure it would fit.

I've been meaning to play with Hyper-V for quite some time. You and Merc have both said nice things about it, and I believe it could be better than ESXi. But I have no experience with it at this point and it is time to start the project. 32GB of RAM won't be enough; 48 might do it, but I'd...

Thanks Coug, I love me some data. My performance could most charitably be called "inconsistent".

1. Due to a large number of recent acquisitions, there are currently 10 servers. Until they are able to integrate the data and users from the other companies, this is how it will be. 2. The number of users is much higher, but the other users work from home and remote in to WinXP/7/8 VMs running...

The demand for a decent ESXi server is there, but the server room isn't. This will be sitting in a room with 8 people who talk on the phone all day for a living. I've already done all I can with the acoustics of the space in general, but this thing will be within 6 feet of a couple people no...

Giving it a shot now, I liked his first album quite a bit when it came out.

That is definitely outside my normal listening zone ;) But I did find this today: http://youtu.be/s1JsBhRCRH0

Just the system at work. I suppose it depends on your definition of bad-ass; but it is easily twice as good as the systems I've had in the past. A pair of Adam A8X along with an Adam Sub8. All being driven from a Creative X-Fi HD USB Sound Card. The weak link is no doubt the source (Pandora @...

Now that I have a bad-ass audio system, I find that songs that sound clean are getting much more play. Recordings by "The Xx", particularly "Stars" is getting a lot of attention at the moment. Other suggestions?

Indeed. Just scroll to the bottom, and there are some statistics along with the birthdays.

Yup. Tax against corporations is a bad idea to start with. 1) We can't put a gun to the head of every other country to make them play along. 2) Taxing something we want more of is not a very good idea. Note I'm not saying there should be less taxes, just tax things we don't want (unhealthy...

I'm still cool with that. Not a bad idea.

Best thing about the Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 is that is uses a standard micro USB connector instead of the larger one that their older tablets used. Loving that.

RAID-0 of SSDs in a laptop. Awesome.

I think the total number of IRL meetings between anyone here and anyone else are pretty low. I've met Handruin (once) and Santilli (three times) in person, years ago, and that is it.

:-D

So many laptops support an mSATA SSD as well as a HDD, this is a bit too late I'm afraid.

Nope. All the downloads had completed over the last several weeks. They thought that every time it prompted for an update it was a new update, and that they had been installing them correctly.