Re: Anyone using VS 2015, thoughts?

2015-07-24 Thread Greg Keogh
I've been running it in a VM with some sanity checks to ensure important projects checkout fresh and compile. I haven't pushed it hard, but so far everything's working ... *except* Sandcastle help projects say they're not compatible and won't open, which is weird, because it all installs nicely and

Re: Anyone using VS 2015, thoughts?

2015-07-24 Thread Greg Keogh
I've been running it in a VM with some sanity checks to ensure important projects checkout fresh and compile. I haven't pushed it hard, but so far everything's working ... *except* Sandcastle help projects say they're not compatible and won't open, which is weird, because it all installs nicely and

Re: [OT] home server

2015-07-24 Thread Stephen Price
Synology NAS. Any model, choose based on your storage needs. Does all your file sharing, media stuff etc. I even got Crashplan running on it It's brilliant On Fri, Jul 24, 2015, 2:51 PM ILT wrote: > I’d appreciate some advice, from those who dabble in this area (home > networking, media server)

Re: [OT] home server

2015-07-24 Thread Dave Walker
Yeah I'm looking at synology as well. Any recommendations? I was looking at a https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/DS415play with 2 3tb red drives for now. On 25 Jul 2015 09:44, "Stephen Price" wrote: > Synology NAS. Any model, choose based on your storage needs. > Does all your file sharing,

Re: [OT] home server

2015-07-24 Thread David Burstin
Before you buy a synology, check out UnRaid. I've got it running on a hp microserver. Great product, great support and community and can't beat the price. On 25 Jul 2015 8:24 am, "Dave Walker" wrote: > Yeah I'm looking at synology as well. Any recommendations? > > I was looking at a https://www.s

Re: [OT] home server

2015-07-24 Thread Stephen Price
I went for the 5 bay one the upgraded to an 8 bay. The 5 was then moved to our office and is our file server there. Love the cloud sync it means we can access Dropbox files without having to have the drive space on office laptops. The files sit on the nas and just share the folder. Forget the mode