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Here is a good article and matrix about what is needed for different HDR formats Bit depth and Chroma sub-sampling and refresh rates. (and bandwidth required.) This really helped me when troubleshooting things with my HTPC and my HDBASET...

Set up a Windows domain controller virtual machine and then on the router point the DNS to the domain controller's IP address.

Aperture... Combine... Half Life 3 con... Never mind... (Sorry had to be cheesy!)

We are actually a very large county incorporating many cities including Charlotte. Not really a surprise for 500 servers. Actually its a small number considering... Just a "squirrel!" thought... And Merck's global prod datacenter is here in the same county and got spanked too with a crypto...

It's actually quite big! The size of a school bus! I know I am saddened due to the end of the mission. So many incredible scientific discoveries! Ocean on Enceladus, lakes on Titan, etc.

Back in my Vapochill days, I killed an Athlon XP. Although, not exactly from an overclock, it died because I forgot to put grease in the socket. It is amazing how long they run before condensation fries everything!

Yeah, sounds like a driver issue. If you're intent with using the on-board controller, you might want to use esxi customizer and load a custom VIB driver for the sata controller. Then do an upgrade install,. Yeah, sounds like you need the right driver then. It's just the matter of finding...

A few things... Make sure that your motherboard's raid controller function is turned off, even if the drives are not raided. You may need to update your on-board sata controller diver. I had this exact same problem, and that fixed it.

Ha! It will take about 6 different technicians to come on out to the residence explaining to you that the coax connections are corroded due to water damage and they will forward up to their next tier for service refund actions whilst dismissing the fact that there is a burnt out husk of a home...

Hmm... I'd rather keep my grenade, err I mean Samsung Galaxy Note 7 over the IPhone 7. But there's going to be no doubt that many will upgrade from the 6 to 7. Heck, being an android fan person, I upgraded from a HTC M8 to the Note 7. I really had no reason to upgrade The M8 did everything...

I use Yahoo for a spam trap and on-line ordering. For some reason, I have always liked their news format. Probably showing my age! Next, I'll pull up my pants past my armpits and start screaming for little kids to get off my lawn! (And I am only 38!)

Installing to USB is Windows to Go, an option only for Enterprise users.

You have a very good point and I agree!

That's so true! I keep being asked if I use a fit bit or other devices. I consider myself in shape and work out twice a day 5 days a week. (Cardio mostly since I sit in a chair all friggen day.) There is no need for a device if you see results and stick to a correct dietary plan and...

All good and valid points!

SPDIF and ADAT still introduces latency... no way around it. Even if you have a 1K sound card like I do. I have a RME Hammerfall AIO PCIE. However I can honestly say that I have no electrical interference from it at all. It's the latency that kills me at times.

I'm also a systems engineer, although the stylus can be useful, if I need a quick charge, a quick usb port is very useful. It all depends upon your application with it.

I'm a huge surface pro 3 fan, and this is very true! Hell, I have no idea where my stylus is after learning that you have to replace the battery!

Ha! Yep! I guess I am since I missed the boat! LOL! I'm a bit of an audio engineer and a deejay, so the "unbalanced" part refers to the audio signal in general! Not sure why I named my domain that though!

Looks like it's released! I have a Surface Pro 3. Was running the insider preview of 10.

Use VMWare converter and set the VMDKs to thin disks. Once the server has been converted, power down the legacy server or disconnect the NICs and power up the converted one.

But then you'd have to use converter again so you can use it in ESXi. If you have a spare laptop I'd install converter on that and plug up your usb drive with the vmguest.

yep, real easy. install converter on the OS, launch it and select VMware workstation what you are converting to. from there you can select the drive you'd like to put the images on.

Installing a consumer grade fan bus will bypass your BMC and end up generating alerts. Your best bet is to undervolt your fans with a resistor by installing it inline with the power to the fan. I've completed this mod in my esx lab on both of my dell poweredge IIIs. Temps are great...

Do you have a vcenter server? Or is this just a sandalone esxi host?

make sure that the raid controllers have large drive support. All SAS controllers for the most part are backwards compatible with SATA drives.

nope as the OS will be using the systems memory.

You can do that, but at the end of it all, you have to pick up a hardware raid card, cache battery plus the price for the backplane, it will be close to the price of a used server. This is only if you decided to go with and enterprise level controller.

You can actually find some pretty cheap servers on ebay to make a NAS out of. I picked up a 12 bay dell poweredge that came with 16GB of ECC for less than 500 bucks. Came with a perc H700 wich supports 2GB+ large drives. I had two of my WD reds crap out on me in my raid 10 array, and I can...

I've given up on HTPC remotes quite a few years ago. There are a lot of good remote control applications for smart phones these days. Not sure if this is something you'd want to look into. I use myremote for android, and if I am using my surface, I use Ceton's "my media center"

Well, the dyson actually has a fan with blades in it!

Thanks! It is an Nixie tube In-14 clock.

My Music Studio\ESXi Lab with FC SAN.

I would not use raid 5 for anything more than 1 TB drives as anything more you get an increased chance of unrecoverable read errors. I would pick up a hardware raid card as performance may take a hit on the on-board raid controller and use raid 10. Yes, you lose the space for this...

Don't forget that WSE 2012 has deduplication available, so backing up your other workstations\servers should save you some hdd space if enabled. You would have to turn off compression for the backups though in order to get decent dedupe rates. EDIT: looks like y'all beat me to the punch!

I've fell onto the Nest wagon over a year ago and even though it is expensive, I can say that we have seen a significant drop with our gas bill during the winter time. Out of all of the gadgets and home automation devices out there, this has form and function. If I had to purchase it all over...

Well, I now know that the LSI 9260-8i is definitely supported in Openfiler 2.99.1 as Dell uses that chipset in their Perc H700 controllers (What I am using for openfiler in my dell C2100.) I'm wondering if it could be the motherboard you are using?

Have you checked to see if the Raid controller is on the HCL for openfiler? One option is to install openfiler on your plain Jane SATA ports, and run a system update\conary updateall, (Which effectively brings up openfiler to 2.99.2 which has more supported devices.) After updating you may see...

‘Tis true. I purchased an AccessVirus a while ago and needed a good DAC with ADAT capabilities to route all of the channels into my sound card. I had an EMU1212 that was about 10 years old that worked perfectly, but once I tried ADAT for the first time on that card, I could not even get it to...

Completely agree with you… I’ve ditched my Logitech harmonies (had a few) for the unified remote solution for HTPCs. Only thing that stinks is when UAC kicks in and you’ll have to plug in a real keyboard or mouse to hit okay. I’ve even ditched the receiver remote as...