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I'm trying to get some things set up on my file server and am having difficulty setting up a SSL cert and I believe it's because I'm using PIA as a VPN on my PFsense firewall and No-IP for my DDNS. Am I hosed? I'm not sure if it matters but I'm trying to set up NextCloud and OpenOffice. If this...

Hello all, I just ordered some new server hardware to replace my decade old system. It's got plenty of processing power and about 32 GB of RAM. This server will be used mainly for media, so I don't really need all of the power this thing has, but I'm future-proofing a bit. I need to have a...

WTF!? I almost posted some kind of yawn comment. It's gotten to the point where this is just business as usual. "Several million records said to include bank account details, Social Security digits, wire transactions, and other mortgage paperwork, were found publicly accessible on the server...

Woops. Systems at a number of Baltimore’s city government departments were taken offline on May 7 by a ransomware attack. As of 9:00am today, email and other services remain offline. Police, fire, and emergency response systems have not been affected by the attack, but nearly every other...

The pace at which HDDs are increasing in size in astounding. Here I am thinking that my 8 TB drives are huge. These aren't HAMR either. I wonder when we'll see them in the wild and what they'll cost. Link...

UBNT is ceasing production of the USG-XG-8. I hope this isn't a road sign for further decline in Unifi products. The explanation they give seems a little flimsy to me. We recently made the decision to halt production of additional units of the USG-XG-8 and wanted to explain exactly what this...

I've been running PFsense for about a year now and it's driving me crazy. Every now and then I loose internet connectivity even though PFsense says the connection is up. The only way I can resolve this is to reboot the router. Fk'n lame. I've had to reboot the system three (YES. 3) times today...

I have a Lenovo D20 and I want to reinstall Windows 7 but I can't seem to find the driver for the SAS controller. I have found an .exe on the Lenovo site but that won't help me much during OS install. Does anyone have any ideas short of copying the entire contents of C:\Windows\System32\drivers...

I'm in a bit over my head here I think. I just set up Nextcloud in Virtual Box using a VM I got from Tech and Me. It's running on my WHS 2011 system. It's Ubuntu 18.04.1. My dilemma is that I have users with their own folders shared from my Windows system and I want these folders to also be...

I followed this guide to set up CloudFlarfe as my DNS server on my pfsense machine and my results are a bit off it would seem. Instead of the three servers that I specified in pfsense, the two CloudFlare servers and Google, I see what I believe is an IPv6 address listed first, then the two...

I just last week made the switch from DD-WRT to pfsense and now that I finally have everything running the way it was on my old router I'm looking for ways to leverage all of the possibilities of my new machine. Ad blocking: I used to block ads using this pixelserv method and it worked rather...

I had the older Unifi outdoor AP mounted outside. The sip ties that held it in place dies (maybe an eagle or something tried to sit on it?) and it was hanging upside down. Then it rained and the thing filled with water. Then it died. I need a replacement. I can't seem to find the same model on...

Looking at some of the new X470 boards on Newegg I see noted "For Ryzen Series CPUs (Raven Ridge), ECC is only supported with PRO CPUs.". What does that even mean? When I Google Ryzen Pro I see some announcements from last year and a fancy page up on the AMD site but nothing other than that...

I have shucked a few of the 8 TB WD external drives. They are REDs for the record. What happens is after a while of transferring data to them the transfer slows waaaaaayyyyy down. Then when I restart the system the partition is gone and the disk shows up 13,ooo MB in disk management. I also have...

So last night all network connectivity in my house went tits up. I ran a patch cable from my desktop to my router and everything is good, hence I can post this. The weak link there is my Dell 2724. I had it in managed mode and I switched it to unmanaged because I never used that stuff any way...

I recently got a fancy pants pfsense machine and am using Private Internet Access VPN on it. It doesn't play nicely with my DDNS though. So..... How do I get the ports I need for the DDNS not going through the VPN? SOmethign about split tunneling? Pfsense is a lot different than the DD-WRT...

But it was this morning. I reinstalled WHS 2011 on a SSD today since the installation went belly up a week ago or so. Now the device manager just shows it as an unknown raid card. I have tried all of the drivers on the SM site for it and none of them are working. As I recall it installed with no...

I have enabled remote logging on my Unifi controller and have a syslog server set up on the same machine but I'm seeing no entries on the server. I have tried setting the controller to both the IP address of the machine and to 127.0.0.1 to no avail. So I'm wondering if there is a way to see if...

I started forwarding the logs from my Unifi controller to a syslog server and unfortunately they don't resemble the logs which are found within the controller itself at all. I would like to be able to see via syslog which devices are connected and to which AP. Is this possible? If so how would I...

I replaced my motherboard recently and now Windows 7 is telling me to re enter my product key. I just so happen to have three different keys and none of them work. I get a message saying that they aren't valid for this version of windows. Odd that, since I've been using one of them for the past...

I need a socket 775 board. Preferably with ich 10, p45 and coax S/PDIF. Does anyone out there have something like this lying around in need of a new home?

Maybe it's a long shot, but, can the Unifi controller send HTTP requests upon a specific event? I would like my home automation system to know when my cell phone is connected to my back yard AP.

I have a home automation system and I'm starting to log everything it does. I'm planning on putting this all in some kind of database somehow. Here's the rub. I am not a programmer. So I need to know where to start and if this is even a reasonable ambition. Is this going to be something I'm...

I recently updated my Unifi AP's to 3.X firmware. I have noticed that roaming between AP's has gotten fantastic! I simply don't understand how this works. When I look at the Unifi controller it still says the AP's are on different channels. I thought that zero handoff meant that they operate on...

I read some conjecture in the news section a while back to the effect of Comcast removing their 250 GB / month cap. Is this true? If so what are the conditions under which this has happened? I'm asking because I currently have a business class service with them but it seems as though I'm paying...

I use coax S/PDIF form my PC to my stereo and am now needing to also send that signal to a separate receiver simultaneously. Is it possible to split the S/PDIF signal? An other option might be to use the fiber port. Do the coax and fiber ports issue the same signals at the same time? Does any...

So I am about to get at least one new AP with the plans for getting another come fair weather. Here's the scoop: I have a 1/3 acre yard which is long and narrow. It is mostly back yard. I have a 2.200 Sq. Ft. Ranch with a finished basement with the gable end facing front/back. I also have a...

Basically the title says it all. I put my desktop to sleep when I'm out. I can have my home automation system kill power to the monitor when the desktop is napping. Will that have adverse reactions?

I currently am running WHS 2011 which does a lot of stuff for me including running Utorrent and providing me with remote access to my media. I am moving from a hardware based to a software based home automation system and would like to run it on XP in a VM. Now, I have never installed or played...

I'm trying to get my neighbor on my network. Her house is about 70' away across a street. I was toying with the idea of getting outdoor cat 5 and running it over there by way of the telephone pole but those cables are very expensive. More than $1 per foot. Can the outdoor cable be gotten...

I'm thinking of making a ZFS server to use as an ISCSI target for WHS 2011. I would like to do this all on one machine but apparently it isn't really possible to do. I guess ESXi doesn't mix well with WHS 2011 or something? I have a SuperMicro X8sil f and a Xeon to use for it. I can get up to 16...

I am in the process of moving and networking my new house. I have all of the wall plates in place and all of the keystone jacks terminated but for some reason I am unable to get any of the cables to work when I terminate the other end with a regular plug and not an other keystone jack. So...

I use Skype as my main phone service. I also use uTorrent. I also browse the internet. These three activities conflict from time to time. I noticed that my DSL modem/router has QoS settings but I don't really understand how to utilize this feature. Some screenshots: Could someone...

1ST PC CORP. 8" Quad 4pin molex splitters http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812706015 I just put one of these in my Norco 4224. It fried all 4 drives on a backplane! That's 4 2TB drives! I notice that they are not carried any more. Coincidence? 8 TB of data gone. Not trivial.

As the title says I'm looking for a SM board with IPMI and a LSI SAS controller. I would prefer a dual socket 1336 board but 1156 is OK too.

Well I have been hemming and hawing over a new build and I think it's time to just bite the bullet and go for it. Of course it's all going into a Norco 4224. The OS will be housed on a RAID 1 or 10 array. I have an ARC 1210 to handle all that. So I need recommendations on: 1. A motherboard. I...

I'm planning on virtualizing my WHS. I have a system with a Q6600 which is well overclocked and I use it to encode video. I was using it as a desktop but I have replaced it with a mini ITX system and moved it to the basement. I'm going to put it in a Norco 4224 and run my WHS in VMWare. So the...

I have recently recovered from a disaster with WHS which I hope to never have to deal with again. WHS is not for me. I want away from it in a bad way. It's eye candy does nothing for me. I have been tinkering with the idea of setting up a RAID 6 array on a LSI or Adaptec card with an HP or...

Hello all. Glad to be here. I have been wanting to join for a couple months as the other forum I participate on isn't suiting my tastes. The registration process didn't like any of my email addresses though so it took a little doing. Any way. I screwed myself and would like some...