@scottalanmiller said:

@wirestyle22 said:

@Mike-Davis said:

@JaredBusch said:

That is just a silly thing to say. PoE and PoE+ require, per the IEEE standard, category 5, but is still allowed to be ran on category 3 for lower wattage workloads.

I haven't installed many PoE+ cameras and have only had those running less than a year. Do you have a number of PoE+ cameras running on CAT5? Longer runs? I'm wondering why the camera company I was dealing made such a big deal about 23 guage CAT6 for their cameras. Maybe because it had a heater?

You mean a heater as in a heating unit? I guess? A quality cat5e cable will tolerate temperatures from -4 to 167 degrees Fahrenheit. Keep in mind I run a lot of cabling for my company but I am by no means a cabling guru. Maybe they know something I don't. shrug

He means a heater in the camera enclosure.

WELP. I took a chance boys.

I don't have to typically deal with harsh winters even though we were hit with a sizable blizzard this year in NJ.

@Jason said:

a Stick of C4 explosives would take it down too 🙂

I had other options but posting them may put me on a watch list... I'd like the Rolex thanks 😉
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PUNS!!!!! :bowtie:

@Jason mmmm, cable porn

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Be warned, testing IOPS requires overwriting the drives. So any test that tests your IOPS has to blow away your storage. If it doesn't, it's not even remotely a useful test. So think carefully before doing this on anything that isn't a fresh build.

But you can run it inside the OS that's on those drives without concern that that data already there will be damaged.

Sure... but since that doesn't test what is in question, there wouldn't be any point to that.

@aaronstuder said:

@Dashrender We are a global company. 192.168.104.X is already used by another location.

Doesn't sound like much of a global company to me if they are overlapping subnets. Seems pretty careless. Bad idea incase something does need to talk, and also one routing BGP advertisement mistake away from causing a lot of issues.

And let's not get started on NAT translation for it, that's a bad idea too

@johnhooks said:

So apparently this a service a lot of people use? I've found a few different places that sell them.

http://seedboxgui.de/guides/what-is-a-seedbox/

Seedboxes and private trackers are nothing new.

They are not in mainstream media because it is too complicated for the news cycle.

We do this for my family. The really nice features are that we can do family to family calling at zero cost and never hit the PSTN at all. Leaving a connection open full time is no problem whatsoever. And you can video chat very easily, too.

Downsides is no one wants to deal with an extra thing to make calls on. Even for free.

If you are trying to update the firmware on the raid card my best suggestion would be to do it through the lifecycle controller. Reboot the server and during post after the Dell splash screen in the top right corner you will see some option via key commands. Hit F10 to boot to system services. Once you've entered the system services/lifecycle controller environment you should be in the gui with a list of options on the left. Choose platform update, follow the on screen instructions to update the firmware for all the components you want, specifically the raid card. I haven't heard of drives being blocked before and I don't know the specifics of the drives you bought, but any we sell should be compatible with what I am assuming is and H-Series raid card you should have in your system.

A very detailed answer with examples can be found over on unix.stackexchange: How can I replace a string in a file(s)?

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

Did I ask for something? confused

You were about to, perhaps?

LOL - I do want to stand up for me myself personally, but I haven't been overly motivated. I'm such a minimal user though that I'm guessing that once it's up, I'd never touch it again (outside of updates) so it wouldn't be a great learning thing.

Necessity being the mother of invention and all. 😉

@anonymous said:

Come use cases for this:

Allowing myself to access my jumpbox from work, without making it available to the whole world.

MORE common than that would be allowing SSH FROM the Jump box to servers. The servers will often only allow connections from the jump box,.

Ok, so I read that blog post and it is useless for me because I run everything on CentOS and that is not a supported system yet for the automagic scripts.

But, renewal is still pretty straightforward.

#-- running as root. cd /etc/letsencrypt systemctl stop nginx ./letsencrypt-auto renew --agree-tos --email [email protected] systemctl start nginx

However, very expensive if all you want it to do is audio.

For that I recommend this:

https://www.google.com/chromecast/speakers/

that looks pretty good - glad to see Outlook.com integrate so well with Office365 personal/home just like Business has integrated hosted exchange.

It always felt weird to me that an email account wasn't part of O365 Persona/home - while it still probably isn't required to have an outlook.com address, definitely has it's advantages.

It would be awesome if MS allows individuals to buy their own domain name and use that in Outlook.com too.

Does anyone know if that's possible?

Yeah, that's very cool. Very handy.

Yes we do 🙂