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Synology is hard to beat, after all they’re designed to work with anything and everything.
The DS112j I bought for testing 5 years ago is still in use as a backup target and but has had the original 1TB drive replaced by a 3TB Toshiba P300. The first one I managed was a DS214 and that’s been running 24/7 since Oct 14 and still has the original pair of 1TB WD Greens. The monthly health check shows no bad sectors whatsoever on either of them. Both are still fully supported and receive all the updates and patches.
My latest, a DS218+, is capable of running an Active Directory Server (part of Samba) and that’s my next project. Bringing AD to small businesses for a fraction of the price and easy management.
As far as total cost of ownership goes they are a real bargain.
I believe Shuttle design their own motherboards and it’s those that do that tend to muck about. In the case of Shuttle, split placement may make the internal cabling simpler for the small form factor. I think Dell do it just to be awkward.
For people like me who invoice rather than do live selling, I use Wave Invoicing.
It’s totally free and very competent with mobile apps too. It’s absolutely brilliant. There is an option to take credit cards and customers get a link to do so on their invoice. You can also take payments manually over the phone which a lot of readers won’t do. It’s 1.4% = 20p for European currencies but you have to wait 7 days. That doesn’t bother me as I find people pay much faster, often on the nail.
It’s plugged into the motherboard alongside the rest of the “front panel” – power light, reset and power switch.
This is the standard configuration. Some OEMs, like Dell and HP will mess about with this, but if it’s a commercial motherboard it’ll follow this pattern. Sometimes right next to it there will be another block of pins for legacy speaker connections.
You’ll usually find it along the bottom of the motherboard to the right. It’s the only connection that will have multiple cables going into it.
In the end even XP wouldn’t run properly on 512mb ram.
They use a World Pay reader at the Legion in Whitchurch but I believe it’s part of the epos system they have.
My next PC will definetly be running an M2 drive. No idea when that will be as everything I have is more than powerful enough, indeed I’ve been re-purposing older kit. Dropping a £60 FX 8350 8 core CPU into an old 760G motherboard is proving an excellent VM host.
With M2 it’s worth paying a little more for the PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe (if your system can take it). £47 gets you an Adata XPG SX8200 Pro 256GB 3500MB/s Read, 1200MB/s Write and you can tell the difference. That’s Samsung Evo type performance for £30 less.
It’s just too old Les. You’ll only be able to run a system contemporary to the time.
Just heard on the news he did similar to ZTE then lifted it as a personal favour to Xi Jinping. It couldn’t have been about tech secrets then?
Straight out of the Trump / Farage play book. Deny everything, claim you’re being unfairly picked on by the establishment.
Prepare for absolute outrage that this could possibly be the case with lots of misdirection – look over there not over here.
You’re right Steve, this is becoming boring. I’m just embarrassed I got drawn in and provided some fuel to the fire.
There really is nothing more to see here, it’s all been heard before.
Straight out of the Trump / Farage play book. Deny everything, claim you’re being unfairly picked on by the establishment.
Prepare for absolute outrage that this could possibly be the case with lots of misdirection – look over there not over here.
You’re right Steve, this is becoming boring. I’m just embarrassed I got drawn in and provided some fuel to the fire.
There really is nothing more to see here, it’s all been heard before.
Flaws in Chinese kit are always certified back doors. Flaws in US kit are just software glitches.
I wonder which Govt was using the WhatsApp spyware?
Kingston SSD A400 £26 + free delivery (good luck!) on Amazon http://tinyurl.com/y2uffumn
Could be very useful with my work / home split. Sometimes I need to log into things as my customer too.
May 13, 2019 at 6:10 am in reply to: God is in for one hell of a grilling………..Go get him/her Brian………. #33300I remember him being on every Sunday. I would have loved to see him take on today’s idiots in his prime.
But you lose your apps and configs. I had a laptop in with a similar black screen issue this week and it was explorer and restarting it seemed to cure it permanently, that’s why I had the fixes to hand. Turns out there is also an underlying HDD issue queering the pitch too but at least I got going far enough to get to see that.
Might as well try the easy stuff first, but I agree it may well end up in a reset.
If you have autologin i.e. you briefly see the login screen then you get the black screen, it’s probably an Explorer problem.
But first try Windows key + Ctrl + Shift + B keyboard shortcut, which restarts the video driver and refreshes the connection with the monitor.
To resolve Windows Explorer process issues, use these steps:
Use the Ctrl + Shift + Esc keyboard shortcut to open Task Manager.
Click the More details button (if using the compact mode).
Click the Processes tab.
Right-click the Windows Explorer service, and select the Restart option.Terminating and restarting explorer.exe
Use the Ctrl + Alt + Delete keyboard shortcut to open Task Manager.
Click the More details button (if using the compact mode).
Right-click the Windows Explorer service, and select the End task option (if available).
Click the File menu.
Select the Run new task option.
Type the following command and click the OK button: explorer.exeAfter that it’s boot from a W10 USB stick and try repair or set Safe Mode for booting. When the Windows boot screen appears power off the PC. Do this three times so that on the 4th Windows boots in Advanced Startup
BL: it doesn’t have a “bridge” mode, but in theory you connect it to an Ethernet router (most VDSL routers can do this) then create a DMZ pointing to that routers WAN port IP. That will allow Port Forwarding etc. to work even though there is double NAT going on.
Drezha: I think half a dozen concurrent users will be fine on your TPL.
There are chunkier Huawei and TPL 4G routers available, I’ve heard good things about the £122 B525 It is dual band g/n/ac 300mbps, 4 Ethernet ports and will take better external antenna (dual connections). There’s a 618 with 600mbps WiFi too but that’s too many £££s. There are other better ways to do the same spending less.
I had a quick look at the TP-Link kit and user guides. Even the 6400 has a Guest network plus a PPTP and OpenVPN server built in! That’s a £70 device, impressed. Of course many routers, like the Drayteks, can take a USB dongle but check for support.
I concentrated on the Huawei as that’s what comes bundled by Three (but you can use the sim in anything). Whilst the TPL kit is just as capable, if not more, and cheaper, I like the external 4G antenna option of the Huawei. I suspect placement of any unit using it’s internal antenna will be key and even adding a “rubber duck” would help. If you can get the antenna outside, even better. A directional antenna pointing at the mast, marvellous.
Mine should be installed in the next week or so at the housing charity and will be dealing with 12 residents (via UAP WiFi), a SOHO office and remote access to a 6 camera CCTV setup.
And here we see the problem and why we get nowhere as a nation. VFM, you and your kind are all about stopping things and coming up with fantasy scenarios that could never be agreed. At least the pseudo economic arguments have stopped in the face of reality and we’re down to personality politics and naked idealism.
We are now told that everyone voting Leave knew they were agreeing to No Deal even though that notion was so toxic at the time anyone mentioning it would have been ostracised. We would get a fantastic deal, it would be easy as the EU needed us more than we needed them. UKIP said it could be done in an afternoon over a cup of tea. The German industrialists and French farmers would be knocking on Tusk’s door demanding it was so. Dogs that didn’t bark.
VFM everything you have predicted that will get your cause over the line has failed. You are just an echo chamber for whatever Brexit faction you decide to get behind today. As one fails you jump to another, the one that is gaining headlines so you can get on the next band wagon with your mates. These factions are all totally bereft of any ideas that will actually get you where you want to be – outside of the EU.
They throw you and your kind some red meat and you eat it up and bay for more without looking where it’s come from. When will you see that real compromise is what’s needed for the sake of the nation and not an economic disaster of a No Deal, especially if that’s gained by annoying Brussels into doing it? The Westminster mathematics means that factional blowhards on all side get a disproportionate say (and in some cases £££) but they cannot persuade anyone else to their way of thinking, so here we go again – impasse.
A Corbyn – May deal may not be an ideal world but if it moves us further on you would have thought Brexiteers would be glad to get to the next and most important stage, the real deal. But no, it’s now about changing the constitution as well as leaving the EU now!
Listen to Farage, listen to Trump – you know VFM, the Trump you vilify. Farage moved on to attacking the press on national TV today, the “commentariat”. Ring any bells VFM? Will we be the 51st state of Trumpland where huge lies are the story of the day and if you’re caught out just tell another even bigger one. Blame everything on others, the opposition for sure and especially Johnny Foreigner who probably is here illegally.
Look at the road you are going down, really look at it and where it leads, it isn’t made of yellow bricks road and there is no rainbow. There may well be a wicked Wizard or two though.
I see someone has resigned because they don’t like Claire Fox’s attitude to the IRA. It will be UKIP all over again, a one man band with little substance behind anything and a mish mash of anyone who wants to stand being allowed to. Policies? They have extremes wider than the Tiggers who you assured us could never coexist with each other. Ann Widdecombe and a Communist, now that is a broad church. First past the post will, as always, do for Brexit and Change in a GE. Plenty of skeletons in closets will be found as I suspect vetting of candidates is virtually nil.
But a GE looks miles away given there’s now two turkeys who won’t be voting for Christmas rather than one. Lets remind ourselves that the protest vote went to the centre, and a Leave one at that. I realise that neither Brexit nor Change were standing, but why would an ardent Leaver vote for the LD? They didn’t vote UKIP. I wouldn’t vote rather than vote for a Tory or Brexiteer, I ran out of candidates long before X’s in the parish election.
A May – Corbyn agreement may well appear in the next few days for PR purposes but then it’s got to get through Parliament where the same wreckers on all sides will try and scupper it. If they do they will hasten a “Peoples Vote” not No deal. Anything in anyone’s Manifesto has meant little for a while now, except as a convenient excuse. Manifesto’s will be ignored rather than a GE call.
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