Recent content by Phantum

Upgraded my plan, doubling speeds.

If you have the resources; install and set up the Observium Turnkey Linux appliance then configure SNMP on the boxes/devices you'd like to keep tabs on.

I suppose that makes sense seeing as how it has a heavy security focus however openbsds network stack intentionally doesn't allow for stuff like traffic inspection (though they could just as easily use a separate dedicated box for that).

I'd put my money on either customized Cisco boxes or something special from Narus.

Maybe I've just been lucky so far but I also go by the "numbers". If a seller has 10-15k+, the overall feedback is 98%+ positive and hasn't seen a particularly recent upwards trend of negative then if the price and receive date are good I'll go for it. However if I can find the same merits...

I chose Ethernet when I got mine installed. I told the install tech I wanted to do Ethernet and he hooked it up. The ONT simply passes the public IP to the connected device (my router) and that's that. However this leads to many support issues when THEY are having problems and trying to...

Yeah been a while since I did the math but I've been using Crashplan with no complaints. Currently at ~5TB and as long as the file doesn't need significant breakdown and processing, I can fill my upload pipe (35Mbps[4MBps]).

Yep this, exactly this. I always tell people, it's not strictly a requirement but it is highly advised and upon failure help will not be forthcoming. It's like Chris Rock once said, "you can drive a car with your feet I you want to but that doesn't make it a good fucking idea!"

I went back and forth for quite sometime but landed on SFP+ due to its upgrade path. I figured, I ever wanna go farther than 7 meters (I think that's the max for passive direct-attach cables) I could do optics and fiber. More expensive than RJ-45, sure, but SFP+ uses less power and offered...

Yeah what brutalizer said. I went with FreeNAS, ZFS, SSDs (mirrored then striped) and 10GbE (Intel x520-DA2) for my home SAN.

I'm quite partial to and extremely happy with FreeNAS + jails/plugins. However my storage server is exactly that, it does storage for everything on the network (iSCSI, NFS exports and mounts, CIFS, AFP for TimeMachine). Plex, Transmission and MineOS are my favs plugins and then there are a...

Same here, and I wondered the exact same thing after I saw w1retaps post so I Google'd around and tried again, was up and running a few hours later. The only thing I haven't completed is the resolution issue (upon reboot it reverts back to 1024x768) but to get started you'll need the Unlocker...

Yeah what the last two posts said, sounds like an HDCP issue. If you're running an Nvidia card you can pull up the Nvidia control panel and check HDCp status to the display.

Yeah, I believe you are correct, it's coming back to me now. Apparently I interpreted the info wildly different from what I actually read.

I was under the impression that Intel did some re-working of the turbo feature in Brodewell-DE to allow for the turbo'ing of multiple cores while under load...? It was my understanding that it wouldn't be all cores but certainly more than one as it has been in the past.