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evening friends, my HTPC has served me dutifully for far too long (celeron G1840), time to upgrade it i think i'm looking for a mATX, probably something AMD based w/ an APU, couple year old should be fine, it'd be nice if it can do x265, it'd be rad if it could push 4k 60hz out the HDMI...

ok friends, i need your help... 9 years ago (!!!) i got my lenovo x201, within probably less than a year, it had 8GB ram and a new (at the time) 250GB 840 pro ssd in it what i LOVE about this laptop: after 9 years it's still completely viable... i have win10 pro on it, still incredibly snappy...

looking for a nice board for my old 2500k, needs to support 6 drives (5x hdd and 1x ssd sata) also looking for a somewhat modern mid tier single slot GPU to go in the small case for very light gaming, couple gen old OK, i'm running an old 5850 right now, so wouldn't take much to upgrade also...

does anybody know of a network cable that has the flexibility and durability of like an extension cord? i'm thinking just like having 100ft 200ft 300ft lengths for temporary construction site data cable installations something UV stable and able to be walked on, etc... usually just run bulk...

anyone ever try wiring in one of these highly rated lepai amps off of a PC power supply? https://www.amazon.com/Lepai-LP-2020A-Tripath-Class-T-Amplifier/dp/B0049P6OTI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1489532441&sr=8-1&keywords=lepai i would love to have one of these to automatically turn on/off with my...

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so i've ordered myself some new AC wireless gear for a rework of a PtMP system i've got... i ordered a LBE-5AC-16-120 for an AP and 6 LBE‑5AC‑23 for client access devices... well in typical supplier sketchiness, they send and bill me for the AP even though the client devices are nowhere to be...

after being involved with a few CAT6A installations where we were pulling off of spools, i now want nothing to do with boxes of cable... now that i have a couple nice spool holders, i'm looking for a good source for good quality (no CCA junk), SPOOLED (not boxed) cat5e and cat6 cabling...

well, the management folks who are responsible for early childhood have approached me (the IT side) about getting some new technology in the classrooms these would be for 3 and 4 year olds... they currently have PCs with touchscreen monitors (mostly ancient CRTs) on updated windows 7...

So i've been working on this project, got a config i've been editing for different routers, and it seems like 75% of the time the restore fails... (reboots to no activity on all ports, have to reset and access via layer 2) i allow the default config to go through, then i upload my script and...

anything? anyone? no? :( gonna be a long day for some of us i think EDIT: this may help http://www.csoonline.com/article/2687265/application-security/remote-exploit-in-bash-cve-2014-6271.html

i've currently got a whitelist http filter on a vlan and i'd like the users to be able to install apps from the main app stores... i've found the URLs to the CDNs apple uses for their app store, and everything is working great on the apple side, but i can't find the info for google play or...

i've never done this before, i've always just bought fiber with ends on it, even for a longer 100ft run, i just pull the cable with the ends on it... well, i've got some sites where i really need to run aerial fiber between some buildings, 5 buildings to be exact, so 4 aerial fiber runs...

deal seems INSANE: off lease switches: Nortel 5520 http://www.systime.com/product-p/net-nort-ref-al1001a05.htm stackable, L3, gig, poe, gbics.... all the goodies... they also have 24 porters $127: http://www.systime.com/product-p/net-nort-ref-al1001a06.htm also looks like free...

i know it's a pretty popular ITSP... anybody else not getting any inbound or outbound response right now?

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i've been reading a lot and getting some anecdotal stories from many people in the security and fire business that these two items are NOT compatible... time warner swears up and down that they are the same as any other telephone line... the people in the security/fire biz are saying it's a...

so i just got 2x Monoprice 10509s http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=114&cp_id=11401&cs_id=1130704&p_id=10509&seq=1&format=4#feedback and i've been using them for a few days on VGA because i couldn't get the DVI to work on my x1900xt (figured it wouldn't do dual link for both of...

http://www.48hourslogo.com/poll.php?id=213181367330518 what do you guys think? i quite liked #43, but i'm not a web design guy, so what do i know

i've been having a lot of issues with a site i've got 5 different core switches, all seem to be exhibiting similar problems, basically becoming unresponsive to all traffic, cutting in and out, being all around unreliable with passing traffic... they aren't the best switches, cheapy Cisco...

anybody else seeing problems with this combo since the IE10 push with microsoft? we find that you have to manually turn on the compatibility mode to get it to function properly when trying to submit the modal forms... breaks a few other things i guess too... anybody have any ideas on how to...

wanted to get you guys' opinion on this... i could have posted this on ubnt forums, but i like you guys better here... here are my buildings... i've got a quoted fiber price on this, but probably won't have approval for it until july/august some time, but the current underground...

we've got around 400 users and like most places are pretty understaffed for IT personnel (especially considering how much custom work we do) i count it as a blessing pretty much every day that we outsourced our email to google... it's made my job so much easier it's ridiculous, i NEVER have to...

as of late i've really been on an autoprovisioning kick... right now at each main location i have a phone server w/ a TFTP server on it and i'm using DHCP option 66 to autoprovision my voip phones got it all set up fantastically.... now, i'm working on getting an FOG server set up to start...

ok, i've got 4 asterisk servers... my main box is called green... i have iax2 trunks to the other 3 boxes, back and forth... running untangle routers at each location... for some reason my iax2 trunks time out in one way on 2 legs so... 6 connections... green -> morg works great morg ->...

like patch panels/bulk wire/patch cables/keystone jacks/plates.... i tend to like monoprice, but the quality on their keystones is so-so... also need to buy plates like these http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0032G1UB2/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER for wall...

i just heard this... customer appreciation day i guess... applies to sammiches #1-6 and the BLT not delivery... may want to check your local store...

i've been tasked with researching the feasibility of a job-site wide wifi system... would need to be mobile (to be moved from jobsite to jobsite) and would service workers in about a 500'x500' area... within this area would be ~5 offices (about the size of half of a mobile home) one of these...

ok so i know there are a few yealink fans out there, but i had a few issues i wanted to try to tackle as far as automatic phone settings were concerned... right now i've got an XML phonebook hosted for the whole company to use, the problem is i have to manually install on each phone the remote...

well i finally went out and bought a RB750 to play around with... after just messing around enough to figure out how to do something as simple as change the LAN side IP (like.... a million steps) i'm now wanting to try setting up a VPN server, wanting to start out simple and do a few normal...

looking for the easiest way to convert my VMs... mainly doing the switch because it'll greatly simplify our maintenance of virtualized servers... we really don't need the performance increases associated with ESXi, and with how low-volume we are it really was overkill.. so... how do i get...

first of all, i work for a nonprofit... they don't want me buying used gear, yet they don't want me to spend a lot of money on equipment... how do i convince them that buying used gear on ebay is ok? and actually a good idea... what i need... switches, poe... >24 port, doesn't have to...

i realize this is an overly complicated setup, and believe me, i want things to be as simple as possible.... but here goes... ok, i currently have a location with 2 separate networks, one controlled by me with untangle, 10.0.10.1/24, and one controlled by someone else, with a cisco PIX...

i've come late to a deployment of security cameras at a number of locations by a local security company... said security company seems shady and unwilling to support the REEEALLY crappy DVRs they installed... these DVRs drop cameras on a regular basis, AND if the cameras stay up, the web...

must be equipped with Microsoft Windows Pocket PC 2003 SE or higher (no windows phone 7 obviously) i know some of you guys probably have these things sitting in a drawer or something that you're not using... a friend of mine is a missionary serving in africa, and there is a particular...

so i've started using logon scripts now heavily in my AD environment, i've been using the option under the user in users and computers, not the GPO logon script... so i've made the vbscript and it works fantastically... the problem is it randomly won't run on a client machine... i've got...

i've talked w/ habey usa about a few of their systems, which i had planned to use as an untangle or pfsense router, asking about certain specs, and they're interested in the applications for what i was wanting, so i wanted to come in here and ask you guys what the interest would be on my idea of...

ok, after looking at a few SAN setups and realizing that they would just be adding complication and are overkill for my needs, i'm looking at putting two identical servers running xenserver side by side... for examples sake, say i have 8 VMs on these two servers, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H...

I know a lot of the cost of buying a san is tied up in the software... so I was wondering, is freenas ready to be used to turn a storage server into a san in a business environment? What about zraid? I guess the question is.... is freenas fast/stable/good enough to be used in primetime...