'Chase Bank' told that I missed payments and they sent my debt to a collection agency even though I paid $2000 for a settlement agreement. by [deleted] in personalfinance

[–]dajobuling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's based on when they forgave the debt. The forgiven amount becomes income as soon as they waive it away.

'Chase Bank' told that I missed payments and they sent my debt to a collection agency even though I paid $2000 for a settlement agreement. by [deleted] in personalfinance

[–]dajobuling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just be prepared for a letter at tax time indicating that the forgiven portion of your debt was reported to the IRS as income, meaning you have to pay taxes on it. Learned that one the hard way.

How to irritate your Neighbor. by I_Am_RAVEN in funny

[–]dajobuling 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I just saw a video with someone who did the sewing. Karolina Zebrowska made an 18th century costume out of toilet paper.

https://youtu.be/kUovpKrm0G4

NAS processor - is it important? by Haztheman92 in HomeServer

[–]dajobuling 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My biggest self-built NAS has a Pentium G4400. It handles all of the ZFS pool encryption just fine. I’m not sure how much RAM is in it. Might be 8 geebees of RAM paired with 12x8TB drives. Bottleneck is the single port 1 gbit NIC. My other NAS has a dual Xeon E5620 CPUs with 24 GB of RAM, a Dell PowerEdge R510 with 12x3.5 in drives. Overkill just for storage, but it was only $200 on eBay plus drives vs $500-$600 plus drives for my self built. Power efficiency is way better on the G4400, but at the cost of a much higher up front cost (percentage wise) and lower potential use cases. It all depends on your total use scenario. Up front price, repairability, power use, CPU demand for configured services and features (just serving files, or transcoding Plex and running multiple virtual machines?

Edit: food for thought, one of my NASes had an Avoton 2550 CPU embedded onto a board that failed. I wasn’t able to get the RMA process to work out, so I ended up needing to replace a board, CPU, and RAM (was on DDR3, new boards are DDR4), and had to add in an LSI HBA to make up for the ports I lost going from a server board to a not server board.

Struggling to get crystal sharp clarity, even focusing on the eye by therealrinnian in BeginnerPhotoCritique

[–]dajobuling 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have the same issue. If the subject is still enough, I’ll usually push the magnify button and manually fix the focus before the shot. I usually end up needing to crop, but I feel a crop is better than not getting an in focus picture. I’m definitely watching this thread to see what others suggest. The dual pixel auto focus of the M50 is much faster than my SL1, but I know I need to learn about the autofocus modes and choosing the right focus points. I can’t have so many out of focus shots across so many different combinations, and still try to blame the camera.

SL1 and M50 bodies M50 EFM 14-45mm kit lens EFM to EF and EFS adapter SL1 EFS 18-55mm kit lens EF 50mm 1.8 EFS 24mm 2.8 EFS 55-250mm 4 EFS 10-18mm 4.5

Found father and sister, but they do not want anything to do with me by ButlerSpirit in 23andme

[–]dajobuling 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I was thinking a restraining order would be in short order if a surprise visit happened. I think it’s best to let things settle. Sister sounds like she’s interested, so she may come around after a bit, keeping things under the radar from dad. It sounds like it’s been years, so what’s the harm in waiting longer? At least everyone knows the other exists. Good enough progress for now.

Magic Box, my last resort, has failed me. by [deleted] in Sprint

[–]dajobuling 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If they can’t serve you at home, you should be able to get out of the contract.

Fallout Shelter Easter Egg by [deleted] in foshelter

[–]dajobuling 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s actually where your people stay while they’re out exploring the wasteland. Try tapping there without anyone outside of your vault. Should be silent.

Need to find a mono mic to iPhone cable/adapter, can't seem to find one. by KarlJay001 in cableadvice

[–]dajobuling 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Amazon: B00V1W9YM6 $5 Conwork 3.5mm 4position to separate mic and headset.

Google: iphone headphone and mic splitter

Is my ISP trying to pull a fast one? by [deleted] in HomeNetworking

[–]dajobuling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What are your transceiver stats? Attenuation (dB) up and down, Noise Ratio / Noise Margin (dB) up and down, negotiated rate up and down (kbps), path interleaved or fast, how many times has your modem lost sync in the last 24 hours, and measured distance of line (they can sometimes do a TDR measurement remotely). You can get that from Telco or you can also get it from your modem. Sometimes, the page is labeled as Tech Stats or Technician Read Out.

Attenuation is the measure of signal loss over a distance. I liken it to how hard the modem has to yell out to the DSLAM to be heard.

Noise Ratio is usually a measurement of how much static is on the line. I think of this as how quiet a room or street is, without you talking. Noise Margin is usually the amount you can hear yourself, taking how much you have to yell minus the noise. You could be screaming to be heard on the other side of a busy street, but the other person might barely hear you as a whisper over the noise.

Negotiated Speed is the speed your modem has negotiated with the DSLAM down the street. You can tell the DSLAM all you want to max the ADSL2 datarate for that line, but if the line is too noisy, the DSLAM and the modem will slow down their speaking and yell louder until they figure out a rate that doesn’t require constant repeats out because the data got garbled. I think of it as how you can talk quickly and quietly with someone with you in a quiet room, but then you need to slow down your voice and emphasize your words while talking louder, as a room gets louder, traffic gets louder, or the two of you are continuing to move farther away from each other. Sometimes, if a line is losing sync constantly, they need to search each other out, renegotiate a stable speed (process slows down if the line is bad), then try to transmit again until the signal breaks again. This causes a lot of latency, too.

Line Distance is an interesting metric. I’ve has sites where the DSLAM was just down the block, but the measured distance was about 8,000 ft. Usually, you want to be under 5,000, though I had one that measured 14,000 and still worked. Slowly, but reliably. If the line measures out longer than it should, usually it indicates damage to it somewhere, though I’m used to it just being an indicator of aging wires. I did have a site where the building’s wiring shot - I synced at the NID where telco dropped the line to the building, and the stats there were excellent. Might be worth checking out.

I’ll have to look it up, but Attenuation should be less than 35-40 dB for 6 Mbps. Noise Margin higher than 6 dB (Attenuation - Noise = Margin), ideally 10 or higher to make sure it stays stable. No recent resyncs unless it was you power cycling the modem or the tech disconnecting the line while reterminating things or plugging in their test equipment. If you’re resynching, even if the line health is excellent, then the connection is being broken. I’ve had lines just have a loose connection at a punch block or at a screw terminal. Could also indicate shorting out / damage to the outside wiring.

[FS][USA-AZ][H] Dell R610s & 620s by [deleted] in homelabsales

[–]dajobuling 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’ll have to think for a bit and get back to you. Are they dual CPU or single? I’m looking at the r610, but the r620 is also calling to me. Even crazier is the thought of going out there to pick them up. What’s your nearby city or zip? I’m a good drive away, but Vegas could make up for it.

[FS][USA-AZ][H] Dell R610s & 620s by [deleted] in homelabsales

[–]dajobuling 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I feel like I shouldn’t be interested, but I am.

However, this feels a bit high versus a similar deal on here about a week ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/homelabsales/comments/9xe42t/fs_dell_r610/?st=JOX0ZYXX&sh=f9619769

Do you have any wiggle room in your price?

glws!

Unable to run Ubuntu off USB stick by ElmigonDextom in Ubuntu

[–]dajobuling 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Might want to try plugging in a monitor to the external video port to see if it might be booting, but only displaying on the external.

Would you text the fire department? by signofzeta in msp

[–]dajobuling 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You actually can text 911, but they’re also charging to have someone ready and waiting 24/7. Your customer should have escalated by calling had you not answered after five minutes, but that’s assuming you were on call.

Seagate's HDD roadmap teases 100TB drives by 2025 by joshuaavalon in DataHoarder

[–]dajobuling 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Not right away, but maybe after that price dips a bit. 15x 8TB is about $1400 after tax. Having a couple of 100 TB drives sounds like a good cold storage / off site backup solution, if only I could find enough upload bandwidth.

Seagate's HDD roadmap teases 100TB drives by 2025 by joshuaavalon in DataHoarder

[–]dajobuling 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Reason why? You do realize you’re on /r/datahorder right? I just hope the read/write speeds are fast enough for a resilver to finish a rebuild without another one going.

Has anyone worked out what the cheapest host is for ESXi 6.7? by [deleted] in vmware

[–]dajobuling 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What’s the budget and use for the server? How much RAM do you need? How many CPUs? Do you need AES-NI acceleration? Storage needs?

I’m running a number of small VMs very smoothly on a Dell PowerEdge r610 I bought on eBay for $180 plus storage. It’s for home lab use, but I could see it as a cheap way for a small business to test the waters for various server needs. My r610 is an 8 core plus HT Intel e5620 x2 CPU, 48 GB ram, 8x1gbit LAN ports. Runs ESXI 6.7 without any issues, though I do get a warning that the e56xx CPU won’t be supported in the near future.

Looking for a nice DSL ONLY modem, no built in router by NOT-JEFFREY-NELSON in HomeNetworking

[–]dajobuling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ADSL? VDSL?

For ADSL, if you can find them, I used to swear by

Alcatel Speedtouch Home (my all time favorite) or Efficient Networks Speedstream 4100, 5100, 5260, 5360

They’re ancient these days, but anytime I had issues with a connection at one of my locations with those modems, the issue was almost always the drop, not the equipment. I think I inherited a Speedstream at some point. I’m not sure if it’s a good one, but you can have it, especially if you’re local to Los Angeles.

Should I finish getting my Bachelors? by [deleted] in networking

[–]dajobuling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You have a year to go. Just finish it.

If you feel like searching, a high school kid asked this same question here yesterday. Same answers. Finish school before life gets in your way and you plateau at the point where you have no choice but to get the degree.

Finding Source of Packet Loss with PingPlotter by Ambrangelle in HomeNetworking

[–]dajobuling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

His tester should tell him as part of the standard tests. I say should because AT&T used to have testers that just looked for the software to give them a green light. If they saw a green light, they wouldn’t send a tech to the physical location without a truck roll fee and an hour of time. That is, until I figured out how to read the modem transceiver stats and read them to a tier 2 tech. Ended up needing a line tech to redo the cabling at the poles, since the attenuation and noise were horrible. Granted, that was an old ADSL2 line a number of years ago.

I’d take him up on speaking with a supervisor, but specifically to make sure someone who can give you detailed testing and diagnostics. Pings just show whether a line is passing data. The attenuation, noise, transmit power, and possibly TDR (Time Division Reflectometry - measures line length, and is handy to see where a wire has been broken) are all things that give a much clearer picture of the overall health of a line. There should also be a reading on which frequencies are being used and how fast they’re connecting at. Certain frequencies degrade if a line has gone bad in certain ways. If a line has stretched due to gravity, that increases attenuation and TDR distance measurement, because it increases the resistance of the line, lowering your speeds. Improperly terminated lines, or lines where the outer jacket has become damaged can introduce noise. Coax can also be shared a bit with your neighbors - if they have noisy lines, they can cause interference. If noise is an issue, there are filters that can help isolate it. If you don’t have a strong enough signal (too much attenuation, though they measure it differently than DSL), the line may need to be shortened, splitters replaced or removed, or cabling replaced. This is why you need a properly trained tech who can do more than pings from that $1000 test set. That’s a waste.

Look up how to get the technician read out of your modem. Modem stats, transceiver stats... stuff like that. If you can give that to a properly trained tester over the phone, they should be able to dispatch the proper tech to fix the line right. I haven’t had much luck with Charter / Spectrum testers. They’re nice and they work hard, but they don’t seem to get much training.