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You don’t need active directory, I’ve lived without it for years, but having said that I’ve set one up using my latest NAS. However that’s more to with testing scenarios for small businesses. Believe me AD is not pain free! It can be a monster to wrestle with, especially when the DNS side goes wrong.
If you’re purely looking at storing documents then there is nothing wrong with using the free cloud storage, it’s doubtful you’ll ever hit the storage limits. If you’re dealing with multimedia that’s a different story.
What a Synology NAS allows you to do is have your own private cloud. You can replicate your data over many machines using Synology Drive, which works like all the other Cloud sync apps you’ve seen. I use that on the laptops, the PCs just map a drive to the share.
If you’re looking at upgrading your PCs, unless you specifically need a desktop for it’s processing power, say if you went down the photography route, I’d concentrate on a laptop. My current favourite is the HP 255 G7 Ryzen 3 8GB 256GB Full HD 15.6in Win10 Laptop £350 at E-Buyer which I upgrade to Pro (with the right key from E-Bay).
Pro allows you to encrypt the hard drive (as it has a TPM chip) and for PCs I choose motherboards that allow me to install a TPM chip for the same reason.
If you go down the Photography route then an “Intel” Synology NAS is going to allow you to do a lot of things the big boys do, like create a secure file portal for people to download their photos. A surveyor I look after does just this and he’ll take 100+ photos on each survey. Using BTRFS you can stop any bit rot in photo archives as it’s self healing and deduplicates automatically to save space.
It also comes with comprehensive backup services for your PCs, integration with Cloud services like One Drive and a million and one things. You can backup the NAS to a local USB drive or to Synology’s own C2 Cloud (or Amazon AWS).
Cost wise a basic 2 bay DS218j is £160 and this is the level of chassis all my small business customers use. Recently I’ve been using the Intel powered DS218+ to give me AD, BRTFS, PC backup etc and that’s £316. Double, but money well spent if you can use what’s on offer but you can live without it. Still a lot cheaper than an MS solution.
I’ve done this many times now and will gladly help you if you want. I may be getting rid of my DS216j now I’m getting the DS218+ working as I want.
How can we not be inter dependent on an area where we do most of our trade and things like scientific research that’s mere miles away? Especially as we have prospered from that alliance and will be the poorer without it.
Why try and replicate this with countries thousands of miles away? Tell me the sense in that.
Who’s God would be responsible for the act? That’s the $64,000 question.
May be you have to accept the responsibility on behalf of your own God to show he can smite his foes better than the competition?
Then we can have a war to prove who’s God it was, not who’s it wasn’t.
VFM I understand what you’re saying but the result will be no different. If our leaders can be mad enough to purposely hurt our own country economically, why isn’t it tenable that any other country would? We don’t have a monopoly on cutting off our own noses. This is what we have been told, be tough because the British Bulldog will always be tougher than Johnny Foreigner. It’s total bollocks.
There’s a difference between doing a trade deal and getting a good one. We only have ourselves to think about? not really. We still do most of our trade with the EU and will still be very linked to them by supply chains. Unless of course you want to say goodbye to those industries like Aerospace?
If we start growing GM crops or use chemical washing that’s goodbye to the EU agriculture market, so where are we going to sell this stuff? Why replace a perfectly good product and market for an uncertain one? This is what I just don’t understand.
BoJo knows nothing can happen over the summer so he can blame the EU. When parliament is back and blocking his no deal plans he can blame the MPs. When Halloween looms and we won’t be out (not his fault he will say) he will call a GE. Then we shall see where we are. Until then it’s all hot air and his stooges will be doing the detailed work for him that he won’t, or can’t. He’ll just be tub thumping, misdirecting and promising the earth to everyone.
Did that a few years ago Richard. As an extended family we all have sim free phones, mostly from Amazon and mostly Motorola, but the recent ones are Huawei. All sub £200.
Most of us are now on Three for the data and have unlimited everything else, a couple of light users still on Tesco mobile.
Good for me. I see the other networks are charging a premium even though the service will be pretty much non existent. You wonder how many 4G phone owners have fallen for it?
If you have something like this then it will be 5v . Don’t worry about what Richard is on about, that’s the fast charging specs and both ends need to be compatible and will negotiate with each other. It’s 5 volts unless they both agree so you won’t have over volted the battery pack via a standard cigarette lighter to USB jobbie.
The Duracell power bank has such a fast charging socket so even if the Garmin needs more watts it should provide it and it can be charged itself whilst charging devices. So in theory all should be OK. How does it perform on the battery bank alone i.e. no cigarette light charger involved? Does which socket it’s plugged into make a difference?
Cigarette lighters are 12v, USB is 5v.
We’ve heard all these arguments before, the dogs that never bark. It was German cars, French cheese and Italian Proseco back in the day.
The EU will protect their core principles and if they take a hit they will suck it up. Isn’t that exactly what the Brexiteers say they will do for the UK? Out whatever the cost? It’s all one sided propaganda and always has been.
BoJo knows all this very well and those supporting him would do well to google “The terrible art of the candidate is to coddle the self-deception of the stooge”.
When we go on our 5 day European jaunts it’s to a major city but we always try and spend one day elsewhere. We could easily hire a car but we’ve not found a need to. Fares are usually cheaper than here but you do get “summer specials” too. Last summer we got a 1st class return ticket to Graz for E40 each – through the UNESCO Simmering Pass. We’ll be looking at doing that in Berlin, but the travel pass includes Potsdam so that’ll probably be it.
The exception is Venice, but the unique geography has a lot to do with that. Tourists do pay double what the locals pay though and you do get the sense you’re a cash cow.
Our local train to Weston-Super-Mare was a 2 car affair, now we have ex Thames Valley 3 car jobs, but they’ll still be rammed in this weather with day trippers. Why can’t they make them longer, join two together? I can only assume they don’t have the rolling stock.
All my plans went out of the window. Mrs R waiting for a call from the doctors after which it was too hot to think about even the walk to the bus stop. It’s still 22 and doesn’t look like getting much cooler. It did try and rain just now, downpour for 30 seconds then even the clouds couldn’t be @rsed.
It was this hot and muggy in Geneva & Venice but we managed to get out and get things done. Probably the cooling breeze from the bodies of water once you got on the shore, but I think a good nights sleep in an air conditioned room had more to do with it.
Richard, yes there can only be one route to a destination. If you put in a loop you create two, hence the hub and spoke arrangement. In your case the various switches are creating new hubs, each from a single spoke of their own so that’s fine. As you say, still only one route.
However as always these rules can be broken (or new ones created) but not with basic kit. I’ll not go into anything here as it can make your head hurt just thinking about it ? And of course we’re talking Ethernet, I used to run Token Ring networks which had to have a loop.
Sounds ideal. Not much on as it’s holiday season. so I was going to sort the workshop out but it’s too darn hot in there.
Determined to get out tomorrow and sit under an umbrella somewhere with a cold beer or ice cream watching the world go by. May be the Bristol Docks area at the Wild Beer bar, they do an excellent thirst quenching Gose Lager called Sleeping Lemons. Not very alcoholic so OK for a bottle or two in the day time.
I thought you were going to say you need a second mortgage ?
Typical of the whole IT sector I’m afraid. Early adopters = beta testers.
A bit like saying one snail is going faster than another. Technically it’s a fact but when you’re alluding to the concept of speed it needs to be put in it’s proper context. Sterling has a long, long way to go to pre Referendum levels. Now that would be a rise worth talking about and a true assertion that they like Boris and his plans. It’s not going to happen is it?
“GBP already trades at crisis levels and typically struggles to move much lower,” says Rochester. ‘While we acknowledge that a no-deal Brexit is a risk and would very likely record new lows in GBP, we do not expect the market to assign a higher hard Brexit premium than previously or until parliament returns after the summer break in September.”
So if he keeps his gob shut I may get about the same this month as last.
Bob, you can connect switches anywhere you like as long as you stick to a spoke – hub configuration i.e. you don’t put a loop in.
So a spoke could link to a new hub no problem, but that new hub mustn’t have a link into any other existing hub. Think branches on a tree.
Bob, I think your house infrastructure will be OK, unless you have any dead spots.
I use a range of different bits of kit to measure bandwidth, whatever is to hand basically. Mobile phones are nearly always worse than the laptop – I think it’s down to smaller antenna – but iPads are just awful.
Unless you’re pushing lots of data around your house then really you only need it to be quicker than your ISP can provide as that’s the bottleneck.
Thunderstorms just woke me up, did nothing for the heat, in fact there was little rain just a few sharp showers.
Not quite as hot as Richard at 20 but it’s heading upwards quickly.
This article (written yesterday) sums up the position with Sterling. It depends very much in Brexit and if Boris gets gobby about No Deal, down it goes. I’m off to Berlin in 4 weeks time so hopefully they’ll be on summer holidays and it can at least stay where it is.
Apart from a day trip to St. Ives, I’ve not been west of Truro for a long time. A mate / colleague lived on Roseland peninsula and I used to visit when working in Truro. Beautiful part of the country. I’m glad we’re eating more Hake now, I prefer it to Cod but only used to see it in Spain.
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