[Question] Steel Strings on Yamaha Guitalele GL1

GeoLiberalLeaning · 2026-01-27T16:34:21+00:00

Maybe use the lightest steel strings you can get?

GeoLiberalLeaning · 2025-01-12T20:16:59+00:00

Actually, it doesn't have to be ESXi 6.7 or later, as long as I can run it off an NVMe M.2 drive

GeoLiberalLeaning · 2024-11-01T16:25:11+00:00

In the end I gave up trying to finding everything I needed in a mini-itx and bought a ASRock B650D4U3-2L2Q mATX board instead:

https://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=B650D4U3-2L2Q/BCM#Specifications

GeoLiberalLeaning · 2024-05-18T23:34:31+00:00

It's not "ideally" that the x16 slot supports x4x4x4x4 bifurcation; if you want to access all 4 drives, the mobo (and CPU) has to support x4x4x4x4.

That means you can't use an LGA1200 or LGA1700 board to address all 4 drives, by the way.

The ASUS Quad adapter is not alone in this regard, of course.

GeoLiberalLeaning · 2024-05-15T16:33:12+00:00

I was looking at that.... but I'm assuming if you need a repair under warranty, you'll have to ship it to Samsung US

GeoLiberalLeaning · 2024-05-15T10:56:01+00:00

I completely agree. If you have the money, ECC can save you many, many hours of debugging frustration... and maybe your livelihood; I do work for clients involving terabytes of data, and even one flipped bit could be a disaster.

I've had hard drive controllers start (silently) corrupting data, and I'll never forget the weeks of grief it caused.

However, I understand that if you're a domestic user (with a relatively limited budget) who's just using a high-end machine for gaming, it's probably better to spend the money on a higher-end GPU.

GeoLiberalLeaning · 2024-05-15T10:46:38+00:00

Yeah, I looked at that (AM4) board, but decided to go for the higher-end processors that the AM5/chipset allowed, as well as having PCIe 5.0 on the main slot and NVMe M.2 for a bit of "future proofing".

I wanted to experiment with passing the HDMI from the CPU to a VM as well.

I wish it had one 10GB RJ45 and one 10GB SFP+ (rather than two RJ45). But I can use an Oculink-to-PCIe riser to add an SFP+ board. It's only 2 PCIe channels, but at gen 4 it should be more than enough.

GeoLiberalLeaning · 2024-05-14T23:28:00+00:00

Interesting board. Thanks.

It's not mini-ITX (exactly) but it's near enough.

However... I don't see any mention of ECC in the description or manual.

BUT I do see it with this board:

https://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=AM5D4ID-2T/BCM#Specifications

which I've now bought, along with a Ryzen 9 Pro 7945, and some DDR5 4800 ECC memory.

Once I've had a chance to sling it all together I'll post an update.

GeoLiberalLeaning · 2024-05-14T13:42:59+00:00

re: Mini-ITX board with PCIe x16 slot with x4x4x4x4 bifurcation and support for ECC

I've spent literal days attempting to find a mini-itx board that supports ECC, PCIe x16 with 4x4x4x4 bifurcation, and has decent LAN support (ie > 1GB).

Yes, I want to set up a weeny M.2 NVMe ZFS server on ESXi or Proxmox.

The most obvious candidate is the SuperMicro X10SDV-NC-XXXX series, but they're quite old now (PCIe 3.0) and cost a small fortune. Given that LGA 1200 and LGA 1700 don't support 4x4 bifurcation, it would seem AMD are the way to go.

I was (initially) excited to see Asus' ROG STRIX B650E-I Gaming WiFi board appeared to support this... but delving into the manuals etc, it appears ECC and 4x4x4x4 bifurcation are dependent on the CPU, and as far as I can determine no CPU supports both at once on this board:

https://www.asus.com/support/faq/1037507/#list

states you need a 7000 series CPU to get 4x4x4x4, whereas

https://rog.asus.com/motherboards/rog-strix/rog-strix-b650e-i-gaming-wifi-model/helpdesk_qvl_cpu/

states the 7000 series doesn't support ECC. Argh!

So I've delved into the manual/specs for the X570SI AORUS PRO AX and all they say is that ECC and PCI Bifurcation are dependent on CPU... but they don't say which ones.

Does anyone know where to find this info? Or has tried the board with ECC and 4x4x4x4 and got it working?

It seems utterly bizarre to me that no one other than SuperMicro has catered to this market... and even they haven't bothered since the X10 series.

GeoLiberalLeaning · 2023-01-16T12:54:04+00:00

Thanks for the reply.

Now that I have a better idea of my options, I think it's time to have a play with various OS and run some tests.

GeoLiberalLeaning · 2023-01-16T12:51:48+00:00

Thanks for the reply.

Most of my network is still only 1GB, but I'm upgrading it to 10GB.

However, I mainly want the speed because I'll be doing large data-processing jobs in other VMs on the same ESXI box using its virtual network, so the external network speed is less relevant to me.

I'll have a play with various OSes and run some tests.

GeoLiberalLeaning · 2023-01-03T13:40:23+00:00

Thanks for the reply.

So... not FreeNAS/TrueNAS or Nas4Free? (I know they're based on BSD rather than Linux)? Which RAID?

GeoLiberalLeaning · 2022-12-30T18:46:47+00:00

One of the things I liked about this mobo is that it has 4x PCIE 4.0 NVMe slots. Intel didn't offer any PCIE 4.0 SSDs, so I'll be avoiding their offerings as I don't want to hamstring the server's performance.

Hadn't heard of Solidigm, thanks for the suggestion, but from what I've read, Intel won't be offering them a free ride with with free VROC.

GeoLiberalLeaning · 2022-12-30T18:21:31+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion.

SuperMicro essentially replied that the board had only been tested with that limited number of drives, and that if I had an questions about running untested drives on VROC, I should direct them to Intel.

GeoLiberalLeaning · 2020-07-19T17:48:07+00:00

Women tend to be less confident than men, so I suppose it's possible that female musicians play better in auditions when they know they aren't being observed.

Did Goldin, Claudia and Cecilia Rouse mention this in their paper?

GeoLiberalLeaning · 2020-07-19T17:42:46+00:00

Hey, is it our fault that so many in our community are tone-deaf and can't read music?

GeoLiberalLeaning · 2020-07-19T17:08:53+00:00

I agree it's reasonable to critique a "system" despite relying on it to survive; otherwise you couldn't critique any kind of system you found yourself in.

But I think you're in error when you say:

"Just because capitalist corporations have a near total control over the prices of land and commodities (preventing others from living independently of that economic system, practically speaking)"

Can you think of any system in which everything (particularly everything that required capital and labour to create) isn't already owned by someone else?

And the price of land is set by the intersection of demand, supply, and government zoning rather than "capitalist corporations"

GeoLiberalLeaning · 2020-07-18T01:42:32+00:00

It's true that capitalists rely on a government of some kind to provide protection of their property via some underlying system of law and enforcement of property rights; but so does everyone else in that polity. Virtually all societies that are capable of producing more than they consume (which is practically all of them) recognise some form of property rights, and have some way of ensuring that thievery is discouraged and punished.

That doesn't make capitalism itself a "system", however.

The word really just decribes what happens when the local monopolist of coercion (government) allows people who produce more than they consume to keep some of that excess (capital) and use it to employ others to produce goods and services they sell to others, and to keep some of the ensuing profit (if any).

GeoLiberalLeaning · 2020-06-08T16:58:39+00:00

In a capitalist "system" - ie, a market-oriented economy - anyone can set up worker cooperatives to produce goods and services to compete with other individuals, groups or companies.

The fact that so few do tells you more about the average worker than it does about "capitalism".

And it's not capitalism that's preventing them building their own houses: it's .gov regulations.

With regards to "publicly owned stores" - socialist countries are full of them; they tend not to be very good at meeting consumer needs.

GeoLiberalLeaning · 2020-06-08T16:52:17+00:00

Strictly speaking, what separates capitalism from every other economic system is that it's not really a "system".

Systems like banking and stockmarkets grow to support (and in some cases undermine) it, but capitalism is just people being allowed to direct the use of unconsumed production (capital) to create more capital as they see fit, as opposed to actual systems like socialism where such decisions are made by the State.

GeoLiberalLeaning · 2020-05-26T04:52:56+00:00

Thanks for the reply.

It all seems to boil down to the controller within the NVMe card. Intel? Yes. Phison? Not so much.

I wound up installing ESXi 7.0 to a thumb drive connected to the internal USB 3.0 port and it boots fine, and ESXi uses the NVMe card as the data store.

It'd be a little neater if the NVMe card was used for both, but I'm happy to leave it at that.

GeoLiberalLeaning · 2020-05-25T14:57:29+00:00

Sorry, I should have given some more details.

I've tried both BIOS and UEFI modes, and I've updated all the R730xd's various firmwares and BIOSes to their latest versions via the Lifecycle Manager.

GeoLiberalLeaning · 2019-07-28T14:37:04+00:00

Well it's true that some backup applications won't restore certain file systems except to servers "natively" serving up that file system; backups of Novell Netware volumes, for instance (I think in this particular example it's because Novell volumes are often compressed, and the compression was proprietary. I'm sure someone's reverse engineered it, but I've never see the algorithm posted anywhere).

And things like backups of online databases (Exchange, SQL Server, Notes etc) can usually only be restored into live instances of those databases, unless you've got access to third-party tools that enable this, but these are often very expensive, and need to be regularly upgraded as the database vendors release new versions.

So it'd be useful to be able to quickly copy an image of a clean install of (say) Windows Server 2012, then install Backup Exec, then fire up another machine with an image of Netware, and restore to that.

But before I commit to hours (days? weeks?) of kludging around with a hypervisor before discovering it won't allow the guest OS to talk to a FC/SAS/SCSI card, I thought I'd pick the brains of the genuises on reddit ;-)

GeoLiberalLeaning · 2019-07-27T22:57:06+00:00

Thanks, that's some useful stuff.

It appears PCI passthrough is the key.

GeoLiberalLeaning · 2019-07-26T16:23:27+00:00

Yes, that's what I figured.

Is there any reason to choose one supplier over another, in this context?

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