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17 minutes ago, Froberg said:
I saw positive mention on reddit and other places, but this is far beyond what I expected.
It is a quite good forum. Quite far between hostile threads because there are enough non-hostile regulars to calm down potential situations. And since RAID systems are so complex, it's quite important to have access to a great forum - both beginners and professionals will now and then get in a situation where help is needed. And making the wrong decision really isn't something you want to do if you care about your data. So having a free support forum that is way better than most commercial support you can buy for high-end systems really is worth a lot.
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54 minutes ago, Froberg said:
Confirmed: Verbatim Store n' Go 4GB Flash drive is not compatible with UnRAID.
It is most probably compatible with unRAID. But maybe not fully compatible with how your BIOS handles the USB ports. unRAID depends on the drive being available directly when the Linux kernel has booted - but with some BIOS, the USB port seems to renegotiate (and so dropping the drive) when Linux is starting. This is more common with USB 3 ports, because the BIOS does not have "full" USB support - it has some limited abilities to handle a mouse+keyboard and boot disks over USB but isn't nowhere near the support of the full USB stack in Windows or Linux. So the BIOS often doesn't configure all the USB host controller functionality. And it's hard for Linux to later reconfigure the USB host without confusing the specific USB device.
The above is also a reason why a number of people can solve their problems by trying different USB ports. Different ports may use different chips, and so result in different discontinuity situations when the handling of the USB hardware is handed over from BIOS to the Linux kernel.
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57 minutes ago, Homerr said:
I'd still consider slower rpm drives for low heat and noise.
Remember that helium drives draws much less energy (so less heat) than older technologies. So you can have 7200 rpm helium drives produce less heat than some 5400 rpm drives. And there isn't a clear rule about amount of noise between 5400 rpm and 7200 rpm drives.
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33 minutes ago, jonp said:
Fair enough, but at the same time, there are posts from us on the forum in that time frame. Just nothing about the next release. Some OSes go for much longer without updates, so I'm not sure if calling this a "problem" is really appropriate.
You had a post August 14.
Before that one July 25.
Before that a number of posts July 16.
Tom hasn't made a post since July 1.
Before that two posts June 13.
eschultz has 4 posts between June 23 and August 18. So also quite silent.
All in all quite silent, and not all visitors reads all subforum so some people are likely to have seen zero posts in 6-8 weeks.
42 minutes ago, jonp said:I guess I'd like to know what you'd want us to communicate about if it's not in relation to a release?
What you communicate isn't really that important - just some short pings now and then. Just so people see that if they get problems with keys or similar, then there is a clear indication that there is someone "home" that can help even if the previous key replacement was less than 12 months ago or in case some new user never got their key.
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6 minutes ago, bonienl said:
I have the feeling the Nudista font is not used (overruled?) in the case of John_M
Yes, it definitely explains why some people thinks the text is thin and hard to read, while I can't even under weapon threat claim the text is hard to read.
It was because other peoples descriptions felt so much off from what I saw, that I felt a need for screenshot comparisons.
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4 minutes ago, John_M said:
Is it embedded into the stylesheet?
I haven't looked at the styling of this site, but it's possible to have the styling specify a foreign font complete with download URL. The site owner can even buy a font for user with their site, and the download servers will verify the referrer field to see that the request is trigged from a paying domain.
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11 hours ago, jonp said:
In short, communicating every issue we run into as we work on a new release benefits no one.
The problem here is that it has been almost silent for over two months - which is also a reason why worried people have posted in the "relocation" thread wondering if something went wrong with the move.
No reason to post continuous updates about percentages etc, but some form of feedback that all is well and that there are staff still working for the company.
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28 minutes ago, John_M said:
OK. This is what I see. Not spidery and not bold. I wouldn't say large either. The x-height is large and the descenders are short. The strokes are thin. I'm using Chrome browser on macOS High Sierra and the text appears a similar size to the system font (Helvetica Neue) but is less legible. It's a standard monitor with pixels mapped 1:1 (i.e. not a Retina display).
A significant difference between your text and mine.
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13 hours ago, ogi said:
+1ing here as well... Looking at the CPUs that support Quick Sync Video, and the features I would like in a CPU for a server, the options aren't that great.
Also, I'm curious why everyone is so concerned with NVIDIA based decoding on the server. Unless I'm misunderstanding something, the server doesn't really decode video, it encodes it to formats that are friendly to the devices doing the playback (typically to x264), no?
To transcode, the server has to decode the original format (which may be heavy 4k) and then optionally rescale to a lower resolution and finally encode again.
Decoding 4k video is expensive, so it helps to have hardware-accelerated decoding.
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55 minutes ago, bonienl said:
The "hint" that the label UNRAID isn't found, is already an indication that the USB device is somehow wrong.
An alternative is that the USB drive gets disconnected a short while during the boot process (making the machine fail to see any volume UNRAID) and then gets connected after the startup code have already failed to mount the USB.
1 hour ago, Froberg said:But more crucially, it seems like it's missing network drivers or something.
Lots of the required files are on the USB drive. Some of that content is picked up by the BIOS + boot loader on initial boot. But after Linux has started, the volume UNRAID must be found so the startup script can mount the USB drive and so get access to the rest of the files. So it isn't too far off to describe what you get as a system without drivers.
Do you see any UNRAID volume after the system has booted? In that case, it's likely to be an issue with disconnecting USB drive and you should try with a different port. If you don't see any volume named UNRAID in the directory /dev/disk/by-label, then it's likely that you for some reason hasn't managed to make the thumb drive correctly.
root@n54l-3:/mnt/disk2/radium/test# ls -l /dev/disk/by-label/ total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 4 06:37 UNRAID -> ../../sda1
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I cheated and designed a machine with two tower cases bolted together side-by-side. Twice the front real-estate and the empty right-hand semi-tower can fit a large amount of drives internally too. I had an initial goal of >= 24 3,5" hot-swap and >= 10 2,5" which made it hard to find any standard case after Chieftec stopped selling their Jumbo 1500 and Jumbo 1800 cases.
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13 hours ago, WingsGB said:
and posted in other topics regarding the matter before creating this thread. I already went through diagnosis steps and came to a conclusion. So why repeat in this thread?
It's normally a good idea to add links to other threads if you have already debated a problem there. Just because people reading this thread doesn't keep track of what you write in other threads. Or what help you have already received. To you, this might be your "main thread" to get help with an issue. To other people, this is just a single thread among hundreds of other. So we normally only relate to text written in this thread - or clearly linked from this thread.
A good initial post is a great investment, when the goal is to get help.
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47 minutes ago, DZMM said:
New theme is fresh, but I'm definitely finding the font colours and type hard to read - it somehow looks blurry to my eyes particularly the signatures,
Not the first person complaining about the fonts. Someone else complained about spidery text.
That makes me suspect that some web browsers hasn't selected the correct font. I do not see any spidery text and I don't find the signatures hard to read. But the main post text is quite bold and quite large. Maybe different people needs to take screenshots and post so we can see if all text renders similarly.
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55 minutes ago, jonp said:
I never understood why folks felt the need to manually set the text color to black. Every iteration of our forums previously used black text by default, so why did folks feel the need to manually set the font color to the same as the default?
Same reason why some people feel a need to post their questions using larger, bold, italic, colored text just to show they have the skill to press all buttons available - or maybe because they would get better service by making their text look different.
Best is probably to teach the site that hard-selected "black" or "white" color should not be treated as that but as the complement of the used theme. No one should be allowed to write black on black or white on white. -
8 hours ago, pkn said:
...that limetech fell for this "more air" designers scam. This forum theme is horrible. Why did you do this guys?
I don't notice any "more air" in the new layout. It's about the same amount of spacing. But the used font is a grade larger.
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1 hour ago, Frank1940 said:
This tends to make the blacks a dirty gray depending on the native contrast ratio of the monitor.
Best is to calibrate the monitor using any of the test tools - or the calibratin views often available on DVD and BD movies.
But a dark theme should not be pitch black. It should be based around dark grays. Pitch black almost always results in too high contrast unless you view the page in a pitch black room.
Same with a white layout. It should not use 100% white as the background. It should use a light gray background to not burn the eyes of the viewer.
When using a good electronic book reading software, the optimal settings may use a beige background for a light theme while using a satin-colored background for a dark night-time theme. Too much contrast is tiring in the long run, and should always be ignored. And this is more important as users has better monitors capable of larger contrasts between white and black - the white text or the white background should not feel like looking into a sun.
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2 minutes ago, Frank1940 said:
On Windows with Chrome and Firefox (Didn't check IE), you can change the percentage option by Holding down on the Ctrl-key and rolling the scroll wheel on the mouse. I seem to recall that that adjustment is 'sticky' for that website.
Not sticky (as in associated with the web site) to my knowledge. And several of the browsers remembers the percentage and will open new windows with the same percentage - which means that viewing one site at 80% and then opening the next site that already had optimum size means the user might have to adjust back to 100% for that window.
But the better PC-class browsers still gives better options than what is available for mobile phones. Some sites are horrible on a mobile phone because the site forces settings that the phone can't override.
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1 hour ago, John_M said:
I know that serif fonts are unfashionable at the moment but they are so much more legible. But don't mind me, I'm a dinosaur.
This depends on monitor. Serifs always wins on printed media, when it comes to readability (unless printing very tiny text). But for computer monitors, it requires that the user has enough DPI. I use high-resolution monitors, so serifs are fine. But I know that at earlier times, sans-serif was easier to read because of display limitations. I don't know what the average display capabilites are for the forum users - especially for people viewing on mobile devices.
But I think the font is a bit too heavy, and a bit too large. But then several users did complain that the previous forum design had too small print. So it isn't easy to be perfect unless the user gets a percentage option on the profile page. -
4 hours ago, jonp said:
There is no option for that at this time, but it is something we can consider to develop in the future.
Don't leave it too much into the future. Rule #1 for forums is to consider one light and one dark theme - else a significant percent of the users will be unhappy. I do co-own a commercial web site, and of the active customers there is a very wide spread between people using a light or a dark theme. Having just one alternative always results in bad feedback so when we update the layout we request that the designer prepares light/dark from the beginning.
By the way - I have always liked dark themes with orange. So this seems to be a very good dark theme. Just that it should be complemented with a lighter friend.
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6 hours ago, John_M said:
I agree. Black text on white is much less of a strain. I use the white themed unRAID GUI for that very reason.
That depends on mood, time of day and ambient light conditions. A reason why most sites offers at least one light and one dark theme. This updated forum needs a light theme - it isn't nice to have half of one monitor pitch black and the other screen estate using white background. That gives a rather big clash.
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And the announced maintenance time has moved from 1PM to 4PM PST.
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Some motherboards are notorious for failing SMBus communication. But the problem can also come from having two programs concurrently trying to communicate over the bus.
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51 minutes ago, John_M said:
Does that pinpoint the faulty module? It would be interesting to see if it agrees with the BIOS log.
The motherboard manufacturer might have decided on custom naming of the memory slots and have the BIOS present these custom names. The printout in the Linux kernel log is based on how the CPU is addressing the problematic memory module. So there just might be a difference between the BIOS log and the kernel log. Computers likes zero-indexed numbers, but lots of product managers prefers to start numbering from one. Not too many people are used to "the zeroth chair".
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45 minutes ago, kernelpaniced said:
If I upgrade hardware to a motherboard that can handle more than 6 sata drives can I plug and play the flash drive or do I have to email unraid and or reinstall the OS?
You can move the USB to a newer machine. When adding more disks, you might have to upgrade to a more expensive license depending on how many disks that are supported by the license you originally buy.
46 minutes ago, kernelpaniced said:Can I use a large capacity external drive to backup the entire array in an image file for off site storage?
No image backup. And not even practical. unRAID stores non-striped data. So every single data disk is basically a stand-alone disk. Each data disk has a separate file system.
You can do your backup by copying individual disks to external storage (over ethernet, USB, ...) or you can backup user shares spanning multiple disks (assuming the destination can handle that amount of file data).
48 minutes ago, kernelpaniced said:Is there anyway to "upgrade" from say the Basic version to the Plus version without paying the full $89? For example if I buy the $60 Basic version can I then pay $30 to upgrade?
There is an update path. You pay a little update fee, but still way less than buying a completely new license.
The Basic license is $59. Updating to Plus costs $39.
See the update tab on:
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This is an example of a free software using RDP:
http://www.freerdp.com/
And here is a link to RDP specifications from Microsoft:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc240445.aspx