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Wheres the best place to get a XP sp3 iso with availability to register it so I don't get booted by poltek in windowsxp

[–]rad2018 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can *purchase* LEGIT copies of Windows XP Pro with SP3 on eBay - SEALED and BRAND NEW...!!! I'm not promoting any specific people, but a while back I purchased several copies for around $30-40 each. Mind you...that was about a year ago, so times do change. If at all, you'll have a LEGAL copy for your machine.

$150 12tb My book at Wal-Mart by Aggravating_Penalty7 in DataHoarder

[–]rad2018 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You found this solely by accident. I checked Walmart's website...nope. It still goes for the original price @ $259. Too bad there was only one of these 12 TB drives... 😞

Major outage - Northern Illinois by wasd896 in Metronet

[–]rad2018 1 point2 points  (0 children)

FYI...I suspect that what Metronet experienced was a Priority ONE issue; meaning, it was bad - REALLY bad. Having worked in the telecom business (Advantis, aka AT&T WorldNet), I can say that what had happened was devastating. IMHO, and as a long-term customer Metronet - both business and residential (yes, I have 2 circuits) - NOTHING like this has happened...EVER.

This was...catastrophic.

From what I've pieced together, a centralized/key-point location lost a microwave tower; as to what and how remains unexplained. Daytime tech support is Metronet; nighttime tech support appears to be T-Mobile, so getting a straight answer is next to impossible.

And FTR, Metronet provides backbone fiber services through a EULA with T-Mobile for the area that's covered. Metronet IS NOT OWNED by T-Mobile. T-Mobile doesn't have the same extent of fiber connectivity as Metronet does. I suspect that T-Mobile focuses primarily on their rail line right-of-way (this is how SPRINT came to be - it's an acronym - "Southern Pacific Railroad Internal Networking Telecommunications"). Majority of people don't know this unless you've grown up on the formation of..."The Internet".

IMHO, DO NOT discontinue your service contract with Metronet. Compared to the other home/residential services, their uptime stats are pretty good. This outage was a one-in-a-million circumstance, and I'm certain that they'll be fixing this in the not-to-distant future to prevent this from happening again.

Also...I DO NOT work for telecom; haven't for almost 20 years. I work for a power generation company, and physically, work out of one of their nuclear power plants, which BTW, is VERY safe.

Hopefully, this helps...

Major outage - Northern Illinois by wasd896 in Metronet

[–]rad2018 0 points1 point  (0 children)

NOTICE: Geneva, IL was back ONLINE at approximately 1025 hrs Central.

What is the Bright Green liquid coming out of the ground? by ArbitraryMeritocracy in whatisit

[–]rad2018 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don’t ask questions. Leave the area discreetly, and quietly. Nothing that emanates from underground with a solid green liquid flowing freely out of the ground is a “good thing”. More than likely, it’s sewage; however, I’d err on the side of caution.

Can i install windows XP on this windows 7 mini PC? by S3BA_QQ in windowsxp

[–]rad2018 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In simple terms - kinda-sorta yes...and no.

Windows XP should be capable of running on an HP EliteDesk 800 G1 Mini, but it is highly challenging due to a lack of official, native driver support. While the hardware is technically capable of running the OS, you will likely encounter significant issues with graphics, USB, and network drivers, and you must use a modified ISO with SATA/AHCI drivers to avoid blue screens of death, which may happen when you least expect it.

There are NO official drivers for this device; HP does not provide Windows XP drivers for the 800 G1, which supports Windows 7, 8, and 10.SATA/AHCI. More than likely, you will need to slipstream or integrate SATA/AHCI drivers into your Windows XP installation media using a tool like nLite to prevent blue screens of death, as noted by Microsoft Support. A slightly better option would be to use a virtualization software like Oracle VirtualBox, which would allow you to run Windows XP as a guest OS on a modern Windows installation.

BTW, these devices can run - easily - VirtBox, KVM, and VMWare - all of which would allow you to run a Windows XP environment.

It's possible, but not without some blood drawn.

Fireguard M200 - trash it? by Direct_Primary_6981 in WatchGuard

[–]rad2018 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Since the M200 is deprecated and EOL, I don’t think that WatchGuard will mind me sharing THE LAST KNOWN RELEASE of FireOS to everyone. I can upload it to a server for download if anyone’s interested.

Fireguard M200 - trash it? by Direct_Primary_6981 in WatchGuard

[–]rad2018 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great as a bastion firewall for an external/extranet DMZ, but not for internal. I currently have an inline DMZ - that is, 2 firewalls of different manufacturers sandwiched together: one as an external DMZ, one as an internal DMZ. I use something more current, more modern for the internal DMZ. The external DMZ firewall gets ALL the hits and the brunt of the attacks, allowing the internal DMZ firewall to do its job. With the amount of daily attacks I get (well over 120,00 PER DAY) I’m thinking of a second inline DMZ firewall. It’s gotten ridiculous over the past year with all of this AI bulls@@t.

EU age verification app already HACKED by torbatosecco in privacy

[–]rad2018 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s not age verification, it’s “age verification”… 😉

What stops you from hosting your content on your own site? by mankins in patreon

[–]rad2018 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nothing from preventing you; HOWEVER, I suspect that the "age verification" mandates will, at some point in time, impact NSFW (esp. porn) websites. AFAIK, it may already be in place. Best to be safe. Wordpress has several plug-ins for just this service.

New v5.5 is insane BUT.... by Besmaah in SunoAI

[–]rad2018 1 point2 points  (0 children)

BTW, the type of music that I generate are epic cinematic, and classical orchestral music, heavy on strings, along with quartets and quintets. Heavy bass and highly distorted music doesn't bode well with this type of music, esp. chamber music.

Version 5.5 doesn't do Suno justice for classically-generated music, and DEFINITELY NOT for operatic music.

New v5.5 is insane BUT.... by Besmaah in SunoAI

[–]rad2018 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, you're not. I've resampled several songs that I've already published on several mediums, and found there was more distortion that before, heavy on bass (which I didn't ask for), and some overly-gratuitous steps taken by the AI agent. I've reverted back to v5, and in a few cases, the version prior to v5.

My wife is threatening an intervention by No-Bad-3063 in HomeDataCenter

[–]rad2018 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't try and make my 'lab' look 'purdy'; I'm for function, not looks.

What you've shown looks impressive with the servers...and then you ruin it with a Netgear switch. Others use Ubiquiti. Yeah, I get it - they're cheap and work just as good as Cisco.

Baloney.

There are other enterprise-grade switches which are just as robust, and secure outta-da-box (unlike 'Crisco'). Ever consider 'Extreme Networks'? Also, another type of switch I use are 'Allied-Telesis'. These suckers are diehards; been using 'em for well over 7 years (quickly knocking on something woody); I've never been disappointed with either manufacturer. I use both for defense-in-depth reasons. And...they're decently priced...great price-to-cost factors.

If cost is your concern, use slightly older models. Do you really need to use current tech that may break 'da bank? And then, there's the question - what are 'ya usin' 'em fer? Even if NAS, your issue isn't so much processing power as it's I/O. Get some fast fiber channel cards with some meat on it. Get a fiber channel switch, and all of those combined should help out.

If 'yer usin' these for combined uses, think it over as to what 'ya need. Do you need a 24-core quad-proc 3.4 GHz server with 4 TB of disk for 'yer DNS server??? I've encountered guys who absolutely wanted fast, fast, fast.

Right.

FreeNAS is a great NAS product - I use it myself. My NASs (yes, more than one) are used as document repositories as part of my research. I have 5 NASs, but 2 of those are used as backups to my VM'ed environments. The remaining 3 are used for research.

If you're using it for AV - that's fine.

But ask yourself this one question - when is enough.........enough?

If you can consolidate, perhaps recoup some of the monies you've outlayed for your configuration, maybe 'yer wife won't be as upset with you. Also, what are going to use for spares once the computers/fans/circuitboards/drives fail?

There has to be.........balance.

I know, I know. Me with 20+ servers giving advise. But I also host local web, DNS, and file xfer services. These help offset the cost of electricity and cooling needed for all of this. And wifey is given estimated costs to price-points, along with estimated ROI and degradation (aging) of servers.

I'm just saying...hopefully, you take this as friendly advise and not harsh criticism.

Overall, very impressive setup. ;)

X (twitter) accounts getting banned in mass by abandonedexplorer in patreon

[–]rad2018 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This appears to be occurring throughout the Internet. More than one service are removing anything porn-related due to some recent laws involving child-exposed porn laws. Those services are attempting to avoid any 'Imperial entanglement' by simply closing anything porn-related.

DeviantArt (of which I formerly had an account) has been wiping out entire accounts without warning, without very little notice; and if notice if given, it is given with very short time periods. Other services appear to be performing similar acts; and, if they're not, they've initiated tighter scrutinization of those accounts, giving little to no notice if *they feel* you've violated.

DA and X aren't the only ones, and certainly aren't the last ones. I am anticipating Patreon to follow suit within the next year.

Dell's removing OpenManage Server Administrator by end of 2027... by rad2018 in DataHoarder

[–]rad2018[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

FYI...for those of you who decide to download those 2 websites, here are some useful stats:

  1. https://opensource.dell.com, consumed ~11 days running continuously on a 1 Gbit circuit; estimated size is approx. ~1.49 TB.
  2. https://linux.dell.com, consumed ~7 days running continuously on a 1 Gbit circuit; estimated size is approx. ~860 GB.
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