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I had some codes yes. first one was due to windows 10 not supporting it. upgraded to the creators update and it fixed it. the last one that broke the camels back though.. nope. no idea. screen turns black, video card shuts down and no screen. Holding the power button for +10 wouldnt turn off the system either.
Anyways, returned the failen.. now running my old movie studio setup. runs like a champ with the same video card and psu that i used for the ryzen. not a single crash on the "new" old system. go figure.
I built a new machine this year in anticipating of getting into a HTC Vive for driving sims, Tiltbrush and lulz.
My last one was put together in 2009. Its rather annoying and depressing to find that the first features and specs manufacturers want to tell you about these days are about how much it can light up. On and on they wax lyrical about LEDs. Thanks teenagers.
I went with an i7 7700k because I'm a feelthy OSX person and I want to hackintosh it.
I stayed with air cooling mostly because of familiarity and for a bit less hassle.
NVME is the mtfkn best, do it.
MSI 1080ti. Really quite impressed.
A 4k Dell monitor.
Windows 10 is actually mostly ok... I don't mind it as much as I thought I would.
It was rock solid for the first two weeks, but then started with occasional crash to desktop in the middle of a game. Overall I'm quite impressed at how biffo this thing is.
For now I'm probably skipping on the VR headset because car parts.
Finally gave up on the problem of the WD media player randomly losing its network mappings. Bought an external 8TB drive to plug directly into it, and I'll just reverse-mount it onto the VM instead. Currently transferring the existing media from the 4TB internal drive to the new one, and laughing about the fact that it's moving twice the capacity of my first hard drive every second, over a skinny little cable, in the background while I'm doing other stuff.
In unrelated news, 200TB used to look a lot more impressive than it does today:
Running plex is easy, nothing complex about it. Using Linux as a platform for home media center or central storage is also not only doable, but fairly easy given today's package management systems and quality GPL projects. Yes, it will likely be more involved than doing it on windows and one will need slightly better set of skills, but Linux is not magic. you just have to be willing to dig and drop to shell, maybe recompile a kernel in a more extreme case.
While throwing all of this on a PC or old server is doable and even kind of fun.. for those who don't have the time to mess with all this and have some money I would recommend looking at Synology or QNAP. These NAS devices can function not only as a cloud enabled home storage with massive capacity, but run Plex and do transcoding while outputting the content over HDMI or streaming over network. Better yet, pair up a simple NAS box with something like Amazon FireTV with Kodi or Plex. It's a small and powerful box with very easy to use interface and remote. Totally worth it.
I've compiled TIA on the VAX 11/780. It's running well.
We've had six POTS lines run into the apartment. The neighbors are not happy about the trenching, but obsolete federal regulations mean that it costs us nothing.
Zach has done some arcane wizardry to bind the six 28.8 modems into a single TCP/IP connection.
Is it TCP/IP, or is it NetVX? Only the transport layer knows for sure.
Trumpet Winsock runs on the Windows machines. I use Netscape Navigator to initiate the connection.
The 10b2 ethernet cable throbs with excitement.
From downstairs, I hear the modems whistle their shrill mating call from the shelf above the Debian machine.
In 1995 i was in school...in 2000 i was working as sysadmin for a dotCom using Toshiba Libreto mini laptops with dual PCMCIA cards splitting into 4 serial ports running US Robotics modems dialing our modem banks and then bonding those channels. It was our way to get to multiple T1s across the county in order to provide fast wi-fi to other machines where we could not get anything more than a few phone lines. Librettos were not only operating modems, but also ran server OS and a cache proxy on top. This way any client accessing libretto over wi-fi and using it as a gateway would be able to get high speed access to the internet and any pages pulled up by a single machine would be cached for all other clients. When i starting working in IT 33.6 was already standard with 56k being the new fancy way to get online. I've also just cought the tail of the token ring networks a few years prior to that in 1998, when they basically died for good.
I've compiled TIA on the VAX 11/780. It's running well.
We've had six POTS lines run into the apartment. The neighbors are not happy about the trenching, but obsolete federal regulations mean that it costs us nothing.
Zach has done some arcane wizardry to bind the six 28.8 modems into a single TCP/IP connection.
Is it TCP/IP, or is it NetVX? Only the transport layer knows for sure.
Trumpet Winsock runs on the Windows machines. I use Netscape Navigator to initiate the connection.
The 10b2 ethernet cable throbs with excitement.
From downstairs, I hear the modems whistle their shrill mating call from the shelf above the Debian machine.
The plants remain un-watered. They will die.
Night falls.
Someone's been rolling up copies of Neal Stephenson's early works and smoking them like cigars.
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