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...that you are a programmer[^]...
Kinda funny! 
Can someone please explain it to the VB programmers... 
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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shouldn't that be a bored programmer ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Dunno, but it was a bored Lounger that posted it, that's for sure...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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It kind of reminds me about this famous quote,
There are only 10 kinds of people in this world; those who know binary and those who don’t.
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I have that on a T-shirt... Heh...
And another one with, "There are only two kinds of people in this world; Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data"
That one gets a better reaction from the non-geeks. Either they laugh, or I laugh because they don't understand it 
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Ian Shlasko wrote: they laugh
the first kind
Ian Shlasko wrote: I laugh
the second
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The control to increase precipitation, it's obvious.
(2, 7)
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We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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No brainer ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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I think you should have said something like sounds like control so knob becomes nob but hey ho - now for tomorrows 
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Me awesome.
May not be the answer to your CCC but it is damn obvious.
"You'd have to be a floating database guru clad in a white toga and ghandi level of sereneness to fix this goddamn clusterfuck.", BruceN[ ^]
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Wrong answer - or perhaps right answer but not to this question?
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Hello all,
I've been thinking about a small server, but probably a NAS would be a much better solution in my case.
I'm interested in:
1. Subversion/GIT server.
2. File server (protecting accesses given user credentials).
3. RAID.
4. Being able to backup all the pictures on all the cell phones at home.
5. DLNA to connect it to all the house TV's and devices.
I think a sinology solution would work perfectly for all those things.
Questions:
A. Do you use NAS solutions to perform all those tasks? is it a good move? do you recommend it?
B. How do you make backups of the NAS device?
I understand both RAID and hot swap capabilities make it much more safer, but given an electric problem it could all be burned, how do you backup your NAS? in a server you can use tapes... but what is used in a NAS?
Thank you all.
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I've used a Synology NAS for years, quite happy with it, although I don't use nearly as much of its capabilities as I could. I mainly use it as one of my backups (so I don't backup the NAS, it's just one of the devices I backup onto).
One thing I did is I put 2 server grade disks in it (RAID), and I have the NAS for about 4 years now and it's still running without problems.
Wout
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I just built a very small low powered silent (no fans or spinning HDD's) "server" that can do all those tasks, I'm mainly using it as a Roon server (http://www.roonlabs.com)
Its got an ASRock mITX mobo with an Intel N3160 processor and uses around 10W of power in total, the CPU uses just 6W!
Its running Ubuntu server and its great, the best media server I've ever built when considering power usage vs performance.
Its got space for three internal 2.5" drives but I'm also using an external raid USB3.0 caddy with 2x4tb HDD's mirrored, which should take care of data security, but taking separate backups would be a good idea.
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I have a Seagate Business 4 bay 16TB NAS, in RAID 5 - it's my third (or possibly fourth) NAS now, and it's definitely worth having!
I've never thought of putting GIT on it - might be an idea, but I use BitBucket as a GIT server as I get an "additional backup" which is offsite that way.
Individual users on all my NAS's have had read / read-write access permissions - Michelle has some access to my NAS but only read-only so she doesn't get scared of making a mistake. It lets her play movie and music without being allowed to add or delete files, but to have read-write access to her backup folder, and no access at all to mine!
I use RAID5: my 16TB HDD's give me 11TB or so of space. Had a disk fail on a previous NAS and all I had to do was get a new disk, replace the duff one and carry on - no data lost, no "down time".
My phones / tablets are Android, and have ES File explorer loaded - so they access the NAS with no problems at all.
DLNA works fine to my Chromecast and Amazon Fire TV sticks. For Chromecast I use LocalCast, on Fire I use VLC.
Backups. Ah. Well...no, I don't - I use it as one of my backup devices, and I don't back it up, though I could (at a cost) - it has a USM interface, but I don't have any USM drives. In theory, it will sync itself to a second NAS over the internet, if I had a second NAS in a different location. That would be a prefered option if I decide I need this backed up. I might; I'm generally paranoid about backups and thinking about this is making the back of my head itch... Probably cheaper than enough USM drives to do a "proper" backup...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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At £4,647.05 (current price on Amazon) I think you have/had a lot more money than me to spend Unless you got someone else to pay for it.
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It didn't cost that when I bought it!
Under £400 IIRC - I'd have to check back paperwork to be sure.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Under £400 for 16Tb, that's a good price!
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I thought so at the time - it was a special offer IIRC, down from around £700 but I can't remember where I got it...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I've had a NAS for years (more than I can remember). At first, i was running FreeNAS, but they changed it to the point where the new version's filesystem wasn't at all compatible with the old version's filesystem, so I lost about 900 movies that had stored on the drives. I got pissed, and removed FreeNAS and installed Win7. My NAS box has 15TB of drives in in it. I use it to serve movies and store backups from my other machines.
I wrote an article about building a NAS box:
Build Your Own NAS Device[^]
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Interesting, any updates since 2011?
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