http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/ Where intelligence meets technology... and gnomes en-us 2-6-12 7:45:35 2-6-12 7:45:35 PHPBB 2 RSS .01 No one can pretend to moderate GnomeLAN contact@gnomelan.com http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16358 I'll join in. I built a box with an Atom 330 processor with 2GB of ram and 4 x 1 Terabyte WD Green hds in hot-swappable bays and runs [url=http://freenas.org/]FreeNAS[/url]. I'm using ZFS in raidz-1 [one drive failure resilient] as the file system and it runs great. I also have file compression turned on and it still will save files at around 36 MB/s. The entire thing only consumes about 36 watts while running [I honestly can't remember if that is at idle or at drive read/write] and is pretty quiet. It's also pretty small. The software is at sort of a cross-roads as the original maintainers of it have gotten board with it, but a commercial entity has taken it over and vowed to keep it free. [They have motivation as they sell hardware that runs the software] I'm happy with it. I have it set as a time machine capsule and keep all of my media, documents, source code and photos on it. It works great and is super reliable. I'm pretty sure it's been on for 6 months without ever rebooting prior to me moving. At my new place it's probably only been on for 3 months because it took a while for me to get it hooked up. 5-7-11 11:15:08 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16358#16358 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16357 Threadcromancy! I know no one uses this anymore but I switch from WHS several months ago. It crashed (again) and was to the point read/write speeds to the storage pool were miserable, it got the standard Windows Rot. I sought alternatives. I attempted a standard Ubuntu install with some 3rd party storage pooling software and it sucked. So I looked further and found Amahi. (www.amahi.org) This is seriously the best home server software I've seen. It's Fedora 14 based, comes with Greyhole storage built in (Linux Equiv to WHS Drive Extender) and while I did lose the crap on my drives while converting them to EXT4 it is so much more stable it isn't even funny. When I originally installed it was Amahi 5 and FC12 based, then there was a big change to FC14 and Amahi 6. 3 lines in the terminal and 1 patch for Greyhole and I was upgraded to the newest version. I cannot tell you how nice this software is. It blows WHS away in terms of a home server solution that allows drive pooling. 4-28-11 17:53:24 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16357#16357 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16355 [quote:924cc5d5d4="Napalm"]I am hijacking this thread cause most of you are plugged into it. Need some advice. Wife needs a new laptop for work. I had built a beauty of a sandy bridge desktop replacement only to get caught in the recall and have HP cancel the order. So now the wife has decided to scale back and wants a machine for under $1k. I want to be able to do a little gaming on it, but certainly don't expect to run Crysis or Rage at max (medium would be ok by me). Would an I5 or the I7 be the way to go. Obviously worried about 2 vs 4 cores but the price impact of an I7 is making it near impossible to meet my goal. Also 6 vs 8 GB ram I know 8 is better but can win 7 survive on 6? Thanks.[/quote:924cc5d5d4] My three year old ~$800 machine was able to run Crysis at medium, so I have to assume it would cost less now. I may need to do a rebuild for Crysis 2, though. 2-27-11 14:32:20 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16355#16355 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16354 I am hijacking this thread cause most of you are plugged into it. Need some advice. Wife needs a new laptop for work. I had built a beauty of a sandy bridge desktop replacement only to get caught in the recall and have HP cancel the order. So now the wife has decided to scale back and wants a machine for under $1k. I want to be able to do a little gaming on it, but certainly don't expect to run Crysis or Rage at max (medium would be ok by me). Would an I5 or the I7 be the way to go. Obviously worried about 2 vs 4 cores but the price impact of an I7 is making it near impossible to meet my goal. Also 6 vs 8 GB ram I know 8 is better but can win 7 survive on 6? Thanks. 2-10-11 13:58:43 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16354#16354 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16353 So here is the culmination of all the data mining that can be done on the net. http://www.spokeo.com/ I found both mac and Hex on there already. If you goto the privacy on the bottom right corner, You can put the url and the email in and it will send an email that allows you to instantly delete it. 1-15-11 16:03:06 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16353#16353 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16352 First reply, 3 days, not bad lol. 1-10-11 17:49:22 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16352#16352 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16351 First post of 2011. 1-7-11 20:26:18 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16351#16351 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16350 Finished up school last week and will have about 10 weeks off, YAY! I'll be heading home tomorrow for a week. Very excited to be on vacation, will be a welcome break. HOw about you? [I'm a lot slower now noticing posts because they blocked gnomelan.com at work, for being bandwidth intensive, that's a laugh.] 12-22-10 23:14:09 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16350#16350 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16349 thanks for the tip, just bought space trader merchant marine on steam for $5. its alot of fun for $5 12-19-10 17:19:21 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16349#16349 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16348 This is genuinely shocking how we don't use this anymore lol. I just wanted to make sure my account didn't deactivate from non-use or something. So what is everyone up to? 12-15-10 8:51:14 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16348#16348 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16347 [quote:11329dc50f="SiliconCowboy"]Holly hell a post! [/quote:11329dc50f] Whoa... 12-14-10 21:57:29 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16347#16347 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16346 Holly hell a post! There used to be a game called space trader that was all about economy. If I recall Eve Online is pretty much a space trading game, but it's a MMO that involves a monthly fee i think. 12-13-10 19:49:35 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16346#16346 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16345 It's for an older system, but you may want to take a look at [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_Kid] this. [/url] 12-11-10 13:02:06 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16345#16345 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16344 So I just started playing Receatter, I really like the economy in the game. I want to know if you guys could recommend some good single player games have that have fun buy/sell elements 12-4-10 10:41:05 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16344#16344 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16343 [quote:e407d10da8="SiliconCowboy"]So what's the verdict eXceLon? Decide to pick it up? I figure your 7 hour trial has to be up by now :)[/quote:e407d10da8] Yeah, I used up all of my trial time. I think I'm definitely going to pick it up. Probably the only thing stopping me so far is that I have several other games that need to be finished. Maybe when I do decide to buy it will be on sale, but given the popularity of this game probably not. (Yes, I did reply here while I was talking to you in the other IM window.) 8-26-10 20:15:17 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16343#16343 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16342 So what's the verdict eXceLon? Decide to pick it up? I figure your 7 hour trial has to be up by now :) 8-23-10 13:41:31 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16342#16342 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16341 Yea, when you play online there is alot of rushing, but when you play with say 4 v 4 of friends, as a good rule of thumb most people wont rush. So it allows for the end game build up 8-21-10 10:45:22 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16341#16341 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16340 That's what is nice about their battle.net system. It makes it really easy to make games of people you know so you can play a bit more civil than the random games :) 8-21-10 7:33:48 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16340#16340 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16339 [quote:3a20564187="eXceLon"] Since I'm apparently the only one not playing this game, I guess I'd like to check it out.[/quote:3a20564187] Haven't gotten too far into it, since it took forever to download. I'm enjoying it so far though. I'm tempted to buy the full game, but I'd mostly be limited to the single-player since I'm not all that interested in the multi-player. I enjoyed RTS games at LAN parties, but online it's too much about build orders and rushing and concluding the game in 5 minutes. I just don't much enjoy that. 8-20-10 19:00:58 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16339#16339 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16338 [quote:3f927e9968="SiliconCowboy"]I've had decent luck with http://cdburnerxp.se/[/quote:3f927e9968] That's what I use these days. 8-16-10 22:38:49 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16338#16338 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16337 [quote:4683fbdd03="SiliconCowboy"]If anyone that doesn't have it yet wants a 14 day trial drop a line in the thread, I'd be happy to give you one of the two codes they gave us in the box.[/quote:4683fbdd03] Since I'm apparently the only one not playing this game, I guess I'd like to check it out. 8-16-10 22:35:46 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16337#16337 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16336 Yea... I used 7 and it seemed to work ok. the first time i tried, I got all sorts of errors but that was with a Dynex disc. So that could have been it 8-4-10 16:12:26 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16336#16336 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16335 I've had decent luck with http://cdburnerxp.se/ 8-4-10 9:24:11 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16335#16335 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16334 I may be missing something here, but Windows XP allows you to burn data CDs via drag and drop. 8-4-10 8:50:16 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16334#16334 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16333 I am looking for free software to burn data cd's in mp3 format? Does anyone have any that they recommend? I'm using ultraISO but I do not love it. 8-4-10 7:20:37 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16333#16333 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16332 If anyone that doesn't have it yet wants a 14 day trial drop a line in the thread, I'd be happy to give you one of the two codes they gave us in the box. 8-1-10 11:52:17 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16332#16332 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16331 It has a very nice facebook friend finder. Thats how you I found Hex, You just give them your facebook credentials, and it finds any of you friends that have logged into their facebook. 7-29-10 7:21:12 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16331#16331 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16330 My copy is set to be delivered today. [Surprise!] I'll most likely use d r o n g e [at] [thissite] . com 7-29-10 6:34:27 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16330#16330 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16329 You added me earlier but just confirming I have it. RealID email is jebbeck [at] comcast.net 7-29-10 0:29:14 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16329#16329 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16328 I bought my copy on the cheap from Dell since I won't be able to play it until around august 6th anyway. 7-28-10 11:21:09 http://www.gnomelan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16328#16328