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It's been... interesting.
Friday: I finally got my media server setup, and somewhere during the process, I lost a whole 2TB worth of movies.
Saturday: I added another 3TB drive (making the box hold 14TB). I also officially ran out of SATA ports on the motherboard (four built-on, and four in an add-on card). Interesting observation #1 - drives connected directly to the motherboard show up as regular drives, but drives connected to an add-on card show up as *removable* drives. I don't know why, but that surprised me. That night, I started putting movies back on the server, starting with movies that start with numbers.
Sunday: Copied movies that start with "A". I had an epiphany in the middle of this process - I had three prepped Linux boxes in the server room sitting there not doing anything, so I installed Brasero (among other things, it copies DVDs to .ISO files) on them, and started copying files on those as well. Interesting observation #2 - the default power management scheme is to turn off the monitor after 10 minutes of no use. Depending on the KVM switch you're using, this could become a problem because the monitor might not be turned on when you switch back to the machine after the monitor has been turned off by the OS.
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Issues:
0) I don't know why, but I couldn't copy files from any of the Linux boxes to the samba shares on the file server box. I suspect it might be because I don't have samba installed on any of them, but I haven't looked at it yet.
1) The monitor sleep thing I talked about before cused me to have to do a hard reset on the file server. Well, remember that thing I talked about regarding how the drives are mounted depending on where they're connected (motherboard or add-on card)? Well, when I did a hard reset, it corrupted one of the disks where I was copying movies, and when the system was done booting from the restart, that drive wasn't automatically mounted. When I tried to mount it, I got the dreaded "superblock cannot be reached" error. To say I was heaving depressed at the thought of having to RE-COPY ALL 210 MOVIES would be an understatement. However, I found a fix (to be included in my article about migrating to Linux), and I got all the files back!
2) Brasero can't seem to create files on network shares, so I've had to shuttle the files around from the Linux boxes to the file server (Windows does not exhibit this problem). In point of fact, Brasero does not retain last-used settings at all, and that annoys the hell outa me.
I have yet to put Linux on my main desktop, or my wife's desktop, because I still have to copy movies B-Z do the file server. I'm staring at the stack of B movies wondering if I could hire a neighborhood kid to sit in the server room and copy movies for me... I already have almost 600 on the server...
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I installed samba on all of the non-server boxes, and that fixed the problem where I couldn't copy files to the server.
".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
modified 21-Oct-18 19:13pm.
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800 movies and more to come,
if you spent 8 hours per day watching them that's 150 days just for the 800 on the server,
call it half a year.
OK, not criticizing, but throwing something into the air for you to think about...
Ask yourself, are you really going to watch all of those movies [again]? How many times?
throw in the ![Beer | [beer]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) and peanuts, are you really going to commit to that?
(if it's for retirement where you think I'll sit on my ass and watch them all? well, if you want to live retired for more than a year 1 word: don't.)
I know it's nice to have for a rainy day, and ahead of time you never know the rainy-day movie you want to watch, and you paid for them all, and if people visit (hopefully not for a 150 day watch the lot marathon)
but really, consider just keeping a few, for others there's on-demand options.
if you have the DVD's sell them, even for a dollar each: there's your on-demand paid for, add in money saved on HDDs, power, systems, and most importantly your time converting, maintaining, backing up... (what's your hourly charge/pay rate = how much is your time worth, could/should you have been doing the gutters last weekend ....) is it really worth it?
I used to keep movies too: DVD's (used too much space), moved to HDD - took a long time, and more time backing up, moving them around every time equipment upgraded or got flakey... in the end tossed them all (DVD's earlier went to 2nd hand shop -> beer money, yeah a loss, too bad).
Nice lightweight system, I keep some music (perhaps 5GB tops, no audionutter so I'm happy with 128 bit MP4's). My entire system, including old work files and the operating system: fits in 1TB. Should I need it: Full raw backup: about 15 minutes (about the length of a relaxed cup of coffee) and fits on something smaller than a pack of fags, power consumption: [based on a 450W PSU I've never heard the fan start on (corsair)]: bugger all ......
who cares about that... Time available to do other stuff (even should I attempt a full system upgrade/rebuild): shitloads
Yeah and BTW I'm sure, you think I only need to do it once and it'll be good for years, and 2 - max 5 years later new [storage/system] tech will be around, and you'll think "are my movies safe on HDD, they are so slow, could do with a backup anyway..." and off you go again for a few weekends doing it all again - and once more did you count the number of those movies you actually watched in those 2 - 5 years?
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On the other side of the fence, The Nerd Factor! (But I have to laugh at the fact that he has spent more time setting up the system than he ever would have cumulatively spent handling disks, even if he had to go to another room to get them!  ) It is cool, though, and interesting from the technology standpoint.
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I think you miss the point - JSOP enjoys tinkering (on a rather major scale). Not happy with a muscle car he customised it into a beast, not satisfied with a home network system he has built what sounds like a large media library.
Personally I agree with you, keep some music and download video when required.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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All 130+ music CDs have already been ripped, and curiously, the music folder seems to be immune to my tinkering. BTW, we don't buy a lot of music anymore because all the good songs have already been written.
".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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I can only think of (literally) a handful of movies I'd watch more than once (and have).
Way back when, I used to accumulate movies, burn them to disks, and start to build a library.
To slightly reword a song:
"Where have all the coasters gone? Long-time burning."
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Inspired by your recent posts I pulled my fairly new Intel NUC out of premature retirement (it was constantly crashing and burning with Windows 10) and installed Ubuntu 18.10.
Process:
On wife's MBP I downloaded the ISO, formatted the 4Gb USB stick and used Etcher to make the USB bootable and transfer the ISO.
Booted NUC from USB and installed Ubuntu.
Booted Ubuntu and installed Chrome. Confirmed it sees my wireless HP printer / scanner.
Process time - slightly longer than halftime between the Bears and Patriots. 
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I've been living with an Ubuntu laptop for the last three weeks, and I really have no tangible complaints for general use. I have a Samsung 500GB nVME drive in it, and it boots lightning quick. With the obvious exception of my Pi's, all of the other machines are running Lubuntu (because they don't need a heavy-duty UI). When it's time, I'm going to install Mint on mine and SWMBO's desktop boxes. Right now, I'm running Linux on 11 out of 13 machines.
".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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Alright, I'm going extra-pedantic on this one.
John, you always make a point of numbering lists starting at zero, which you did in this case. (I've always assumed that was to annoy the VB coders out there, with their silly idea of having arrays start at 1.)
However, your two observations in the first paragraphs start at 1. 
But on the actual topic:
I know where you're coming from. I transferred a few hundred DVDs to a hard drive last year. In any case, that exercise took an entire month of "swapping discs when not busy" work. In my case, I wrote a script to keep dumping DVD files in a folder without user interaction, which saved a bit of time (the script detects a disc, copies it, ejects it, and waits for the tray to get closed and restarts)...although I suspect in your case you're using Brasero because you need to remove copy protection, so this wouldn't help you here. But, if Brasero can be scripted, maybe you can set it up so you don't need to respond to prompts to start the next disc...
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dandy72 wrote: However, your two observations in the first paragraphs start at 1
I'm just trying to keep everyone on their toes. 
dandy72 wrote: if Brasero can be scripted, maybe you can set it up so you don't need to respond to prompts to start the next disc
I haven't investigated that yet, but even if you can, there's no excuse for a crappy user interface.
".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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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: there's no excuse for a crappy user interface.
[Open source advocate]
But you have the source!! You can fix it if you're not happy!
[/Open source advocate]
[Me]
That's great, Sparky, assuming your time has no value.
[/Me]
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I really have no desire to write code for Linux. I have a Windows VM I'll use for VS2017, but that's it.
".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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My point exactly. "Being able to fix it yourself because it's open source" isn't a selling feature for any software, IMO. As far as I'm concerned, it seems to absolve the author of any responsibility if he decides to disagree with what you think it should do or how it should operate.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Depending on the KVM switch you're using, this could become a problem because the monitor might not be turned on when you switch back to the machine after the monitor has been turned off by the OS.
You can also ssh into the remote machine and have the application display on the monitor for the current machine...no kvm necessary. A command shell login is what you get by default, but add a -XY as the first parameter and it will open xwindows and show the graphics from the remote machine on your current machine.
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If I had known it was going to corrupt the superblock, I would have looked for that kind of solution, but I'm kind new at this Linux thing.
".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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So I'm at this web shop and they have a product which is expected on "30-11--0001" (for Americans, that's the logical order of day-month--year).
That's a pretty weird date, I'd expect 01-01-0001 or 01-01-1970 or even 01-01-1753 (the SQL min value), but never 30-11...
The extra dash between the month and the year bothers me too, that's not a standard notation anywhere as far as I know.
The best part though, is that I can pre-order the product, so apparently 30-11--0001 is a date in the future!
And to make it worse, it's a best selling product, so they've already sold plenty.
I can only draw one conclusion from all of this: this web shop is centuries, if not millennia, ahead of us (or at least they serve time travellers)! 
Is your software Y10K proof?
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Sander Rossel wrote: Is your software Y10K proof?
Actually it is. When the y2k problem rolled in, we decided (as a joke) to resolve the y10k problem too, so we can rest a bit when it became actual...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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There's an RFC for that... RFC 2550 - Y10K and Beyond
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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That's a whole lot of words for "add another digit"
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Sander Rossel wrote: "add another digit"
...only when necessary!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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By mutual agreement of the partners in the interchange?
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How many orders did you put on that date?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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None, I got the hell out of there
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Just place as much orders for that date as possible.
Stuff from this era will be worth a lot by then, and you have time enough to save for the bill 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Sander Rossel wrote: I got the hell out of there
What you don't trust a site that stores it's dates a strings?
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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