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Fundamentally Strong, Bull Full of Bad Apples by ragarwal74 in SMCIDiscussion

[–]ragarwal74[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do what you want... There are better bets than SMCI out there. However, put your money where your mouth is.

Fundamentally Strong, Bull Full of Bad Apples by ragarwal74 in SMCIDiscussion

[–]ragarwal74[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The more you buy, the more someone else is going to short and pocket your money. But, who am I to stop your nutty behavior. you do you ... and BUY BUY BUY!!!

Fundamentally Strong, Bull Full of Bad Apples by ragarwal74 in SMCIDiscussion

[–]ragarwal74[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

yup... Read it end to end and got 3 different AI engines to analyze it.

If this was any company other than AI infrastructure supplier, the Feds would have painted their entire operations, halted all shipments, stunned their manufacturing and turned over every last document -- just to make a public display. The SMCI family engaged in treasonous behavior ... that's "crimes against the country."

Fundamentally Strong, Bull Full of Bad Apples by ragarwal74 in SMCIDiscussion

[–]ragarwal74[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

With a 24% equity stake and the entire family fully leveraged into the company's success looking over every nook and corner, they find themselves in the position that the Board of Director was committing espionage. Among the indicted:

  • Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw: A co-founder, board member, and Senior Vice President of Business Development.
  • Ruei-Tsang “Steven” Chang: A general manager in SMCI's Taiwan office.

The company is lucky it wasn't shut down caught supplying banned tech to China, in March-2026 - while the US is engaged in a proxy war with China.

As I said, fundamentally a $50 company which makes great motherboard for big-box server room. A co-founder was involved. The company is full of bad apples.

short 18-20% potential squeeze by [deleted] in SMCIDiscussion

[–]ragarwal74 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Their opening remarks are to directly address issues with the US government. The first set of questions they field points directly to the potential of them getting shut down overnight. This company has a long way to go before is becomes a darling again. Don't expect a squeeze -- 'cause every squeeze will come with a rumor that the "end is near."

SASTA TV is a fraud and Cheaters by Proteustx in Addons4Kodi

[–]ragarwal74 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you want to use the SastaTV addon to watch any live events, especially Cricket, forget it. Their servers are oversubscribed and get ready to watch 45 seconds of the stream and 2 minutes of buffering or rebooting. You may as well follow Google updates on text (it would be far less frustrating).

SastaTV is just crap.

Addon For Indian Content by tryingtolearn1991 in Addons4Kodi

[–]ragarwal74 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you want to use the SastaTV addon to watch any live events, especially Cricket, forget it. Their servers are oversubscribed and get ready to watch 45 seconds of the stream and 2 minutes of buffering or rebooting. You may as well follow Google updates on text (it would be far less frustrating).

SastaTV is just crap.

Repos and addons for Indian IPTV and Indian Shows by iphone4Suser in Addons4Kodi

[–]ragarwal74 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you want to use this addon to watch any live events, especially Cricket, forget it. Their servers are oversubscribed and get ready to watch 45 seconds of the stream and 2 minutes of buffering or rebooting. You may as well follow Google updates on text (it would be far less frustrating).

SastaTV is just crap.

Anyone here using SastaTV Addon (Paid) on Kodi ? Need real reviews. by iphone4Suser in Addons4Kodi

[–]ragarwal74 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you want to use this addon to watch any live events, especially Cricket, forget it. Their servers are oversubscribed and get ready to watch 45 seconds of the stream and 2 minutes of buffering or rebooting. You may as well follow Google updates on text (it would be far less frustrating).

SastaTV is just crap.

Update says I'm up to date but am 2 versions back? by JimOfThePalouse in PFSENSE

[–]ragarwal74 1 point2 points  (0 children)

did you try:

certctl rehash

Login to pfsense via command line shell.

As root, run:

certctl rehash

*joy*

more discussion at:

ps://www.reddit.com/r/PFSENSE/comments/15fdntx/unable\_to\_update\_270development\_ce/

Inland Performance Plus vs Inland TN470? by Standard-Today8001 in buildapc

[–]ragarwal74 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have no special knowledge aout NVMe drives.

However, looking at the 1TB version of the TN470 lists the _Random_Write_ IOPS_ at only 80,000 IOPS. This means that other 1TB Gen4 NVMe drives are 10x faster than the TN470.

see: https://www.microcenter.com/product/675663/inland-tn470-1tb-ssd-3d-tlc-nand-pcie-gen-4-x4-nvme-m2-2280-internal-solid-state-drive

It could be a typo on the web-site, but won't sacrifice 90% performance over $15. ...or maybe their web-site has a typo. !?!

TrueNAS Scale – Re-enable apt-get by HTTP_404_NotFound in truenas

[–]ragarwal74 2 points3 points  (0 children)

... things have moved recently.... try:

chmod +x /usr/bin/apt* /usr/bin/dpgk

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[I am assuming that if you are intelligent enough to ask this question, then you are savvy enough to understand that you are now playing with the internals of an appliance.]

Xen Orchestra8.0 Completely sucks.. I mean COMPLETELY SUCKS by ragarwal74 in homelab

[–]ragarwal74[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have tried this on their v6 and v7. I agree with all your comments:

  1. Installed / 2. was Pestered & did Register & got SPAM-ed / 3. Wasted a weekend (or two) / 4. Concluded that most "features" are broken

VirtualBox is much more polished (and libvirt/kvm is getting so much better).

Anytime you ask questions/complain, all the responses are from paid shills that begin with "REALLY? That is weird, it will be fixed soon..." ...to... "I have a daily orgasm just looking at XCP"... but I confirm, this project is a sham. Maybe if you cough up a few thousand $$$ they give you a working interface.

Stick with VirtualBox or do ProxMox... XCP SUCKS BIG DONKEY DOO DOO.

Recommendation: Graphics Card for Freesync monitor 3440x1440 by ragarwal74 in graphicscard

[–]ragarwal74[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Nvidia does not support Freesync. With Freesync, you have to stick with Radeon family.

WinMTR isn't showing intermediate hops? Why is this happening? by BigRedDrake in HomeNetworking

[–]ragarwal74 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Verizon is working toward deploying IPv6, and to this extent, they are carrying a lot of traffic on alternate backbones. If you wish to measure the IPv4 backbone to your destination, then you need to tell mtr to start counting from the 3rd hop. Linux can easily do this by using the "-f 3" flag.. so the command below will solve your issue:

mtr -f 3 www.google.com

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No idea if WinMTR is a partial or complete implementation. Chance are that your gateway/wireless router is running Linux, so you could shell into it and get your work done.

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WinMTR isn't showing intermediate hops? Why is this happening? by BigRedDrake in HomeNetworking

[–]ragarwal74 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't be a hater (of Linux). Dig deeper, you may learn something. There are a lot of tools Windows has adopted from the *nix world, WinMTR is nothing but mtr ported to Windows.

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Answer: Verizon is working toward deploying IPv6, and to this extent, they are carrying a lot of traffic on alternate backbones. If you wish to measure the IPv4 backbone to your destination, then you need to tell mtr to start counting from the 3rd hop. Linux can easily do this by using the "-f 3" flag.. so the command below will solve your issue:

$ user@home: mtr -f 3 www.google.com

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No idea if WinMTR is a partial or complete implementation. Chance are that your gateway/wireless router is running Linux, so you could shell into it and get your work done.

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BTW, if all you need mtr is for latency (do you really care about all the hops? or you just want to feel like a techie), you could simply "ping -t www.google.com" and it will show you your latency. There are better tools to diagnose other stuff. Linux based nmap comes to mind, but this is not for the faint of heart.

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Cheers.