Zuhkov

Wow, I missed the $199 price for the D-1520. I can't imagine that'll be the end price for the motherboard with CPU as that would completely destroy sales of the C2XXX Atoms. Is that perhaps the wholesale price of just the CPU to motherboard manufacturers? From what I've seen street prices for those SuperMicro motherboards with D-1520 and D-1540 will be more like $800-900. At that price, still very interesting, though not quite as compelling as they would be closer to the $600 range. ServeTheHome also has some good coverage. Asrock will also be making at least one board as well: http://www.servethehome.com/asrock-rack-intel-xeon-d-platform/

I found Guacamole after my kids destroyed my ultrabook :'( and I started using a Chromebook and it's been a life saver for me. I will probably try reverse proxying it behind NGINX at some point since it has good support for Websockets and I'm more comfortable with it than Apache anyway. I understand others have had success. If there's interest, I can document the effort here. I am pondering putting google_auth_proxy in front as well, as I'm not entirely confident in Guacamole's ability to resist brute force. If you do prefer Apache as a reverse proxy, I know the guacamole user's guide (I think they missed the boat by not calling them guac docs, but that's neither here nor there) has some info: http://guac-dev.org/doc/gug/installing-guacamole.html Freedif is a nice site. Had not been there before. I spend way too much time on Hacker News... I've added a couple new Dockers, Observium and Paperwork. I'm calling these beta for the moment as I don't have a lot of mileage on the Observium docker and Paperwork is pretty young as a project.

I will check to be sure, but I'm pretty sure the repo title is based on the name of the folder in which XML template resides in your repo. So in my repo (https://github.com/Zuhkov/docker-containers/tree/templates), my XML templates are in a directory called zuhkov which shows up in Docker manager as [ zuhkov ].

How do I get these? Update to at least Beta6-12 (12 is needed for the built-in Docker plugin) Add my Template repository at the bottom of the Template Repositories input of the Docker screen for my XML templates Template Repo: https://github.com/Zuhkov/docker-containers/tree/templates Beta Template Repo: https://github.com/Zuhkov/docker-containers/tree/beta-templates They are still not showing up? Press Reload Info in the upper right-hand corner My Dockers: Guacamole - Guacamole is a clientless remote desktop gateway. It supports standard protocols like VNC, RDP, SSH, and Telnet. This docker has a MariaDB (MySQL) database built-in for authentication and configuration. Website - http://guac-dev.org/ Docker Hub - https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/zuhkov/guacamole/ wallabag - wallabag is an open source, self hostable application for saving web pages. It is comparable to Pocket or Instapaper. Browser extensions and mobile apps are available. Website - https://www.wallabag.org/ Docker Hub - https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/zuhkov/wallabag/ My Beta Dockers: Observium- Observium is an autodiscovering network monitoring platform supporting a wide range of hardware platforms and operating systems. Website - http://www.observium.org/ Docker Hub - https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/zuhkov/observium/ Concerns - Lack of testing. While I have been running Observium in a full VM for some time, I have not yet tested all the functionality in Docker form. This one is a candidate to move out of beta soon. Need to validate database migrations associated with new version updates are working properly. Paperwork- Open Source note-taking & archiving alternative to Evernote, Microsoft OneNote & Google Keep Website - http://paperwork.rocks/ Docker Hub - https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/zuhkov/paperwork/ Concerns - Overall lack of maturity of the Paperwork codebase. High potential, but there's a lot that's still TBD. Have not been able to validate the update mechanism for database migrations. Looking Into: GitLab CI Runner - I use GitLab extensively in my own setup, but I don't yet do much Continuous Integration with it. Docker should be ideal for spinning up CI task runners. Elasticsearch Logstash Kibana (ELK) Stack - I am familiar with Splunk, but ELK seems an intriguing alternative. Let's Chat (https://github.com/sdelements/lets-chat) - No use for it at this point, but seems a nice alternative to Slack, HipChat, and Campfire. Either Cabot (http://cabotapp.com/) or Uptime (http://www.redotheweb.com/uptime/). I love Observium, but the free version does not do Alerting. GitLab - I'm pretty wedded to my existing VM, but flexibility is always a good thing and others may have interest. Thanks: smdion - for the use of his thread post as a template sparklyballs - his Koma docker was instrumental in helping me figure out how to configure MariaDB in several of my dockers Change Log: 2.25.15 - Release of Guacamole and wallabag 3.10.15 - Beta release of Observium and Paperwork

I would think you want something that would allow the most straightforward addition of SSL by retaining a common hostname or domain root. If you are using a single domain cert (self-signed or 3rd party), then you could do https://tower/admin and https://tower/unifi with one passing through to emhttp and the other going to a unifi docker. Alternatively with a wildcard cert, you could have https://admin.tower and https://unifi.tower. I find that a little cleaner, but the DNS configuration is potentially a little more complicated. Would be nice to be able to configure internal (limited/private subnets) vs. external visibility on a per service/application basis.

It is interesting you suggest this as I was thinking the same thing. Its not a trivial solution as it requires some interaction with docker config but with something as simple as nginx reverse proxy you could stop users having to remember ports at all and everything would be http(s)://server/. From a non skilled user point of view this would be a big boost and you could then inherit a single ssl cert and the security features of nginx for all web based GUIs and add a second level of access security to the emHTTP. Also form a port scan only one port would be open as all the other ports would be loopback only. This is a great idea. I do this for some of our internal administrative servers. The base http server on port 80 will redirect to the other ports, urls and sometimes other hosts. I also do something with https 1.1 and hostnames to do the redirection automatically. This way multiple hostnames accessing the same host, get redirected to the respective urls/ports. Was just going to suggest this and I agree that it's an excellent idea. I use Nginx both as a reverse proxy and for SSL termination for everything I serve out of my home network (except Plex for the moment). It allows me to setup things like Perfect Forward Secrecy once and then slap that in front of all my applications. Very convenient and inexpensive additional layer of security. I never need to remember what port a service is on. For the paranoid, there could even be the option to add Naxsi, a fairly simple (though still immature) WAF for Nginx. The trick is in keeping the configuration of it all simple enough for the users, but I'd be willing to bet on the ingenuity of this community.

Bought this bundle a week ago. Once you update the bios to version 4.3, you can overclock to 4.3GHz on the stock Intel HSF using just the OC Genie function in the BIOS. Will probably look to push it at some point, but for now it's fast and stable. Heck of a deal for $100.

Another vote for Private Internet Access. Been very happy with them. Used them from my laptop, desktop, phone, and unRAID server and never had a problem.

Makes me very interested to see the prices for the Rangeley combos.

THANK YOU!!! I hit that forum, but maybe once a month.

You have a number of different options. When I was first getting organized, I preferred a more hands-on approach, so I was manually organizing files in the filesystem over SMB and then renaming them with theRenamer (http://www.therenamer.com/) to a convention that would be acceptable both for human readibility and for parsing by front-ends like XBMC and Plex. Based on your examples, your files may already be acceptably named for parsing by your front-ends, but you may decide (like I did) that you want all the filenames to look the same, use the exact same naming convention, and not include information like resolution and encoder in the filename. I use SageTV and Plex as my front-ends and with the appropriate SageTV plugins both will parse my library and pull metadata and fanart etc with little-to-no effort on my part. The web interface for Plex Media Server is pretty fantastic. There are also a few good file organization and metadata retrieval applications that are slightly more front-end agnostic. Media Center Master (http://www.mediacentermaster.com/), Ember Media Manager (http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=165012), and Media Companion (http://mediacompanion.codeplex.com/) can do organization, renaming, and downloading of metadata and fanart/posters/banners/etc using conventions that are understood by a number of different front ends. These may be the closest you come to an all-in-one solution.

My 2 cents on the chromebook: I have 18 month old twins and they are really rough on anything they can get their hands on. This made couch surfing with my laptop both difficult and dangerous (they managed to damage the hinge on my ultrabook). We tried just keeping laptops out of the living room, but that just drove me crazy. The Samsung Chromebook was the answer. At $250, even if they actually destroy it, it's not the end of the world. Having said that, it's quite durably built and everything screws or snaps back together quite easily (found out from experience). I was also very pleasantly surprised with the performance. I've had netbooks in the past and was prepared for agonizingly slow performance, but it does just fine. I tend to keep around 10-20 tabs up at a time and doesn't seem to bother it. The multi user capabilities work well enough for me and my wife to share the machine (it just lives in the living room). Netflix works. Plex Web works. When I need a little more power, I can RDP or VNC into one of my other machines. I've also been considering messing around with Crouton (https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton). In short, it definitely doesn't do everything, but what it does, it does well and very simply. I'd definitely recommend one to my parents or anyone non-technical, but as a highly technical user, it also works fine given proper expectations.

You can find cheaper CX4 NICs on eBay (especially if you're willing to go for single port). Cost of entry is not as bad as you might think if you only need 4 or less 10Gb ports. Check out the LB4 or TRX100 switches available on the bay. Many of them come with the 4 port CX4 option and can be had for $150-$225 depending on the seller by submitting an offer. I replaced my previous primary switch with one, got three Myricom CX4 cards for $35 each, and then cables for $25 each and wired up my primary servers plus my desktop with 10Gb. More broadly, UnixSurplus have a number of eBay seller IDs they use in addition to their website. They often allow offers on eBay, so if you find something you like on their website, you might look for it from one of their seller IDs and see if you can save a few bucks.

I use that exact expander (possibly bought from that seller) with an M1015 and it works great.

What kind of system are you looking to build? Are you looking for a small overall footprint like a mini ITX board, something to give you room to grow (ATX or micro ATX), or best overall value for cost (probably micro ATX)? There are a lot of good options out there. In the desktop area, Asrock and Asus are my current favorite brands, but there are advocates for any number of different brands around here. One potentially interesting thing about choosing an i3 is that a lot of workstation and server boards support i3 in addition to Xeon processors, so if something like IPMI is of interest to you, Supermicro has a lot of options worth looking at. Overall, I think with a better understanding of what you're looking for we can probably provide more precise recommendations.