Re: [H] Laptop for College Student

2014-07-28 Thread Alex Lee
Regardless of brand name, these specs and price point for a UHD screen is awesome. http://www.techbargains.com/lenovo-ideapad-y50-deals lenovo http://www.techbargains.com/jump.cfm?clkSubId=C0N0A00414472C96afsrc=1id=6840tb_arg_id=26376 has the Lenovo IdeaPad Y50

Re: [H] USB Charger Tester

2013-11-20 Thread Alex Lee
looks great, ordered one too. wonder why they didn't make it with a display to show the precise values instead of just bars. On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 6:49 AM, Brian Weeden brian.wee...@gmail.comwrote: Haven't gotten mine yet but there's a review here:

Re: [H] NAS Software

2013-11-12 Thread Alex Lee
Unraid is basically a special version of slackware linux. I used to use Unraid and switched over to Synology at 2x the cost. a. 1 disk failure tolerance for Unraid - I wanted 2 (which Synology offered with their hybrid raid setup) b. Unraid performance is great if you use a cache disk (SSD),

Re: [H] NAS Software

2013-11-12 Thread Alex Lee
. Or go with Unraid for $70.00 (or free if I limit myself to 3 disks). Does Synology do an array of differing size disks? Steve On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Alex Lee a...@kukaki.net wrote: Unraid is basically a special version of slackware linux. I used to use Unraid and switched

Re: [H] Nas 3.0

2013-07-07 Thread Alex Lee
flexraid is zfs-based? On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Chris Reeves tmse...@rlrnews.com wrote: I ended up going with flexraid. So far, very happy with it. 18tb avail in one array and 26tb in the other. All good so far. -Original Message- From: Bryan Seitz se...@bsd-unix.net Sent:

Re: [H] List info / Jim Edwards

2013-03-18 Thread Alex Lee
yes it is, i lurk more than ever now. i remember the early days where hardwaregroup.org resided on a tower PC in my dorm room, briefly as school admins gave me a stern talking to and warning letter about hosting external sites. that letter is still somewhere in one of my books in storage. jim

[H] XP File sharing issues

2005-04-18 Thread Alex Lee
Hey folks, I've got a bizzare issue. 2 machines, PC1 and PC2, both with SP2, fully patched, same workgroup, both using identical local user account names and passwords to log in. Simple filesharing is turned off. I create shares on PC1 like Games etc (\\PC1\Games) and am able to access them