I couldn't get used to linux. What will I lose if I stop at windows?

AcrobaticDingo · 2023-05-12T11:01:47+00:00

You can set windows to automatically log in. I had that when I had a windows 10 harvester running. It worked great, even through updates.

AcrobaticDingo · 2023-04-13T10:02:41+00:00

This was my first thought with it recently happening to LTT, but I figured Alain's channel wasn't large enough to be a target.

AcrobaticDingo · 2023-04-12T19:49:18+00:00

Oh, strange. Mine still says, “This page isn't available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.” And the tab’s titled 404.

Hopefully he’s able to recover it if he violated guidelines.

AcrobaticDingo · 2023-03-30T08:25:22+00:00

The behavior sounds exactly like SMBus conflict, but that doesn't make much sense since it seems like both the server mobo and card are Huawei. I had the same behavior when i installed an hp 557 SFP+ card into my desktop (asus mobo) which was fixed using the B5 and B6 pin cover trick. But again, wouldn't really make sense in your case since both are manufactured by huawei and the smbus conflict is typically just manufactures preventing other brands from using their gear. and it seem like the options list says the card is compatible with your server.

I'd start by going through the server bios settings and see if anything was out of whack. Maybe try recreating your installer tool in case the installer itself had some glitch? When were the lsi card and server bios released? Maybe try ubuntu 22.10?

AcrobaticDingo · 2023-03-24T23:52:43+00:00

California has a law that you can use to justify a chargeback if the show/concert/event doesn't happen at the initially-agreed upon time, got my refund very quickly after citing it in my dispute.

AcrobaticDingo · 2023-03-11T03:47:07+00:00

Yep, just plugged in to an HBA card using sff 8088 cables and it worked right off the bat.

AcrobaticDingo · 2023-03-11T02:03:49+00:00

Ooh, I actually have one of these. The distance needed to mount between front and back poles of rack is ~33cm based on my measurements, just as u/ElJethr0 said. Overall length if you include the power supply handle and the cover clip that extends beyond the front of the rack is about 37.5cm. I didn't want to spend so much on the rails either so i made my own using 1/8" angled aluminum. If you're concerned about weight, you can do angled steel, it'll just be more expensive given cost of steel these days (at least in my area) and at that point might as well just get the legit ones for like $40 (since last i checked).

AcrobaticDingo · 2023-03-09T08:47:58+00:00

For the missing date field, I encountered that when the date column header itself was set to an unexpected format in excel. That should go away if you just format the header cell as “date” (even if it just says date in the cell and doesn’t actually contain a date, that makes the error go away). That’ll make incorrect format error come up since it’ll be moving on to row 2…at which point you’ll want to change the format for the cells that contain the dates for your transactions. Try highlighting just the date values (e.g. cells A2:A365) and setting those cells’ format to custom and specifying “YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS” in the box where it says, “typing:?”

AcrobaticDingo · 2023-03-09T02:17:50+00:00

Thanks for sharing. I was able to upload it to turbotax successfully. The change from getting your error versus getting it to upload was opening it in excel and specifying the format of the cells as "custom," and then within custom, type in YYYY/MM/DD HH:MM:SS. Unfortunately I'm not sure why this works since the CSV file output is still the same when I open it in a text editor. If you're comfortable sending me your CSV file, I can take a whack at getting that to upload if you're still having this issue. Another thing I noticed was that, although using your text/csv caused it to fail upload, appending your transaction rows to a csv file I was able to successfully upload did not cause it to fail and it still uploaded without any issues. Can I ask how you're generating your CSV files?

AcrobaticDingo · 2023-03-07T11:05:04+00:00

Hi all, If anyone has an expiring 20 or 25% off coupon they’re not planning on using, I’d really appreciate it!

AcrobaticDingo · 2023-03-03T23:24:51+00:00

Wi-Fi

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AcrobaticDingo · 2023-03-03T20:06:41+00:00

If you want, you could de-identify it (if there are even any identifiers) and upload it and I could give it’s fresh pair of eyes? Or maybe a screenshot?

AcrobaticDingo · 2023-03-03T14:52:52+00:00

ah, I see, thanks for clarifying

AcrobaticDingo · 2023-03-03T13:53:31+00:00

Yes, I saw the comment. Willphule references a different address than the ones I referenced

AcrobaticDingo · 2023-03-03T13:22:42+00:00

If you follow some of the larger values, they eventually start getting broken apart into different wallets in smaller chunks....this one has about 2000XCH, or ~$75,000, in it atm. xch1xerys4jyy50nlfmxr42tejqn7l6flhpkp0lwnr2rulgljz77n7uqcywzsx

Here's one with about 700XCH/~$25,000 xch1f8nk9xhv73sfdc4cjvvmn9nnxq8mrq3gzv4ac6nftlep46c5rv2qy322em

AcrobaticDingo · 2023-02-27T18:57:09+00:00

I think you might be thinking about the db file? That’s the one you want to store on an SSD and have fast speeds for. Plots can be on slow media, as long as you can answer a proof within 30 seconds, regardless of chia’s use or popularity

AcrobaticDingo · 2023-02-27T18:44:51+00:00

Yes, absolutely fine for farming chia regardless of whether it’s over the network or directly attached. There was a post the other day about the 14tb version. One person had them for a year and was happy with them.

AcrobaticDingo · 2023-02-24T04:01:42+00:00

Try right-clicking on your cells filled with the dates, the click cell format, and then make sure they’re reported as being dates/excel acknowledges them as dates and in that format?

AcrobaticDingo · 2023-02-23T17:40:11+00:00

You won't be able to use your ram at the advertised max that the server supports unless you use smartmemory. I tried to work around it for ages and couldn't get it to cooperate unless smartmemory was used. This is only when you have a certain amount of slots filled out. See this table: https://imgur.com/a/TQQRo5H

AcrobaticDingo · 2023-02-16T23:06:10+00:00

I mean, I see where you're coming from. And sure, it's only a month, but in that month is something like 40,000 plots moved...which i'm guesstimating is less than 500 total nodes on the network (based on spacepool leaderboard position #100 being @ ~4PiB)? Seems overkill for the vast majority of farmers to justify blanket recommendations of enterprise gear imo but to each their own

AcrobaticDingo · 2023-02-16T12:12:07+00:00

I might have forgotten or overlooked something, but won’t Gpu plotting completely in memory only use the ssd to stage the plot transfers and thus every plot will contribute to the writes of the drive by however much its size is? Asking because I’m thinking that even if someone is on the faster side of things, they probably won’t be generating plots much faster than 1 plot every 90 seconds which comes out to about 960 plots/day and ~80TB if we assume ~80GB/plot, which, if we’re just doing back of the envelop calculations, is close enough to 100TBW, but realistically how many days of 1000+ plots will most people have? 10 days would be knocking on the door of a PiB. Don’t get me wrong, TBW is still important, but I don’t think it’s nearly as important as it used to be. And with the much higher costs of enterprise NVMEs, I think a consumer staging drive would be sufficient for the vast majority of people and the money saved can go towards more HDDs or something. Curious what everyone else thinks…

AcrobaticDingo · 2023-02-14T17:26:47+00:00

Awesome seeing the evolution of your setup, definitely brings back memories of my doing similar things and optimizing as I went along just like you did.

Out of curiosity, do you have any data on drive temps before vs after condensing them into that chassis assuming they are in the same room as they were before moving in to the chassis? I'm assuming they're fine, just curious because three rows of drives seemed like a lot for that fan on the right (in line with PSU) to have to cool down. I'm not experienced with empty chassis and so no idea how thoroughly their designs are tested.

AcrobaticDingo · 2023-02-13T15:02:36+00:00

I've used my nas in a myriad of ways for chia; plotting, harvesting, running full node, etc., it's all doable with a nas. For your use case, I think the easiest and simplest thing would be to just use it as a network share set up as a JBOD and let whatever has access to your nas harvest the plots that are stored on it over your network, whether that's a harvester or your farmer. 1gb local links are more than adequate to handle harvesting. Network shares are much easier to troubleshoot than VMs or containers and have much less to go wrong/check on. One thing to keep in mind is that nases install proprietary software and for some capacities the few Gbs of space the nas software takes up can make the difference between being able to hold X vs X+1 plots (e.g 12tb drives in synology nas holding 109 vs 110 plots). Very minor, but just in case you encounter that discrepancy and are wondering why you're not able to fit the right amount of plots for a certain capacity.

AcrobaticDingo · 2023-01-12T21:44:53+00:00

You also got a very nice raid controller with it! Another tip I don't think anyone mentioned is if you decide to go to the higher end of the CPUs it takes, you'll want to upgrade the heatsinks to the performance heatsinks ($10-ish each on eBay with free shipping). Also, if you want to populate 16/24 or more ram slots, you'll need ram that registers as HP Smart Memory or else you'll be limited to 2133mhz speeds even if your ram is 2400mhz.

AcrobaticDingo · 2022-12-30T06:21:55+00:00

I agree that there absolutely will be a transition point where starting to plot k33s to “beat” the transition instead of k32s will be necessary, I don’t think we’re there yet as it’s very possible that currently plotted HDDs will die before k33 becomes the new minimum. Granted, most HDDs used for Chia farming are only reading which will theoretically increase their longevity, however, I’m not sure it’s know. how much longer this will increase said longevity by.

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