Hi! I would love to learn about kvm! I'm a noob though so be patient with me. (i might ask a few too many questions lol)
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Hi! I know accounts are paused but I still wanted to introduce myself here. I've been using Linux on and off for a long while now. My first experience was Ubuntu Breezy Badger, back when they started shipping free live CDs hahaha. (Any of you guys still remember Jono Bacon?) I'm not a master sysadmin in anyway and would love to get more hands-on experience. Please let me know if there is anything I can help with
@randumbguy said:
Hi! I would love to learn about kvm! I'm a noob though so be patient with me. (i might ask a few too many questions lol)
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Welcome randumbguy to LES. All questions are welcome. Hope to see you more active around LES.
@nergar said:
Hi! I know accounts are paused but I still wanted to introduce myself here. I've been using Linux on and off for a long while now. My first experience was Ubuntu Breezy Badger, back when they started shipping free live CDs hahaha. (Any of you guys still remember Jono Bacon?) I'm not a master sysadmin in anyway and would love to get more hands-on experience. Please let me know if there is anything I can help with
Welcome nergar to LES. Ubuntu 5.10, huh? Can't say I have ever used it. I started from ubuntu 16 if i remember correctly. Before that was using CentOS. All help is welcome. Do look around the forums in case something catches your eyes.
LES does have a few other "free giveaways" running now, including lucky draws. Do apply there as well
I speak fluent sarcasm and broken logic. | I would agree with you, but thæn we’d both be wrong.
Thanks a lot for the warm welcome @somik, and thanks for the offer to look at the giveaways. Right now I don't need anything but the opportunity to learn more about the inner working of KVM and play with it in an environment where a little oopsie doesn't cause the downtime of important servers really caught my eye.
@VMCreator is the guy who leads the Discord server FreeRDP, which is the group of guys who took wholesale advantage of the MetalVPS free offer. He created a 1.4 TB account and provided 20 or so subaccounts.
The thing I do not understand is that, other than decency, there intentionally were no constraints against doing what he did. So, why does he think he is so cool to have overcome . . . nothing?
@Nubuki said: @somik weird question but do you know of any vps provider in les that charge in each customer's currency?
Unfortunately, no. You need to convert your local currency into the host's currency for payment (with the high markup for paypal/bank). I would suggest to find a local VPS provider that is in your country so they charge you the same currency.
I speak fluent sarcasm and broken logic. | I would agree with you, but thæn we’d both be wrong.
@Not_Oles said:
Edit: There was a post which has been removed.
@VMCreator is the guy who leads the Discord server FreeRDP, which is the group of guys who took wholesale advantage of the MetalVPS free offer. He created a 1.4 TB account and provided 20 or so subaccounts.
The thing I do not understand is that, other than decency, there intentionally were no constraints against doing what he did. So, why does he think he is so cool to have overcome . . . nothing?
Free services are always abused. Even some paid services are abused if it's cheap. Only when the service is expensive and the user has a potential to lose money if the abuse takes place (like yearly subscriptions where they ban your account and no refunds) the user thinks thrice before abusing the service. Another way to prevent it is to verify the users identity. Finally, you can make them wait for the service. Some will still abuse, but this will limit the signups as most people dont want to wait 3 months just to get something free they can get elsewhere.
I speak fluent sarcasm and broken logic. | I would agree with you, but thæn we’d both be wrong.
@Not_Oles said:
Edit: There was a post which has been removed.
@VMCreator is the guy who leads the Discord server FreeRDP, which is the group of guys who took wholesale advantage of the MetalVPS free offer. He created a 1.4 TB account and provided 20 or so subaccounts.
The thing I do not understand is that, other than decency, there intentionally were no constraints against doing what he did. So, why does he think he is so cool to have overcome . . . nothing?
@Not_Oles said:
Edit: There was a post which has been removed.
@VMCreator is the guy who leads the Discord server FreeRDP, which is the group of guys who took wholesale advantage of the MetalVPS free offer. He created a 1.4 TB account and provided 20 or so subaccounts.
The thing I do not understand is that, other than decency, there intentionally were no constraints against doing what he did. So, why does he think he is so cool to have overcome . . . nothing?
Seems like something who is very free and is extremely insecure about himself would do. If you get caught, own up and move on. Who goes through the trouble of making a gif of someone's avatar?
I feel like the longer I am on the internet, the weirder people are getting...
I speak fluent sarcasm and broken logic. | I would agree with you, but thæn we’d both be wrong.
@itsmepaddi said:
I'm back (only for today!)
So I'm here to tell that I probably will not use metalVPS anymore, as I will be busy on another stuffs, plus final exams will start in like a week.
I really enjoyed MetalVPS in the past and learned a lot of stuffs. I hope MetalVPS will be back soon, and I hope more people can learn together using MetalVPS.
Thanks everyone for your support ))
@iamvinh123 Thanks for your comment here. It's interesting to compare what you say here with your many posts into the FreeRDP Discord group. How should we understand any differences we might find?
@itsmepaddi Same question for you! How should we understand any differences we might find between what you have posted here and what you have posted into the FreeRDP Discord group?
Also, for sure it's just a random co-incidence, but I happened to notice that a new LES account called @Paddi appeared approximately the same time that you said @itsmepaddi was going to be busy with finals, etc. So I am wondering if @itsmepaddi and @Paddi might be alts.
All those really fast i9-13900 cores! All that really fast DDR5 RAM! All 4 TB of really fast RAID 0 Gen 4 NVMe! The unlimited 1 Gbps! The extra i9-9900K, 128 GB RAM, 2 TB NVMe disk bare metal server on which you had root! All for free!
@Not_Oles said:
Also, for sure it's just a random co-incidence, but I happened to notice that a new LES account called @Paddi appeared approximately the same time that you said @itsmepaddi was going to be busy with finals, etc. So I am wondering if @itsmepaddi and @Paddi might be alts.
No?
Also in fact I don't really talk about MetalVPS anymore.
The actual GIF creator is not VMCreator, as I know.
I wonder why you didn't talk in the discord server at all.
I'm busy for final exam, I spent my little time writing this. This is my only account and I didn't create any alts and NEVER create one.
Is there any difference with what I posted here and what I posted in the discord server?
Probably.
Before the port scanning issue I posted what I do in metalvps and we discuss about metalvps together.
After that port scanning issue, MetalVPS has enforced ID / student ID verification which is hard for us to complete... So we decided to leave metalvps and start discussing about another stuffs (still VPs related).
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Hi! I would love to learn about kvm! I'm a noob though so be patient with me. (i might ask a few too many questions lol)
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Hi! I know accounts are paused but I still wanted to introduce myself here. I've been using Linux on and off for a long while now. My first experience was Ubuntu Breezy Badger, back when they started shipping free live CDs hahaha. (Any of you guys still remember Jono Bacon?) I'm not a master sysadmin in anyway and would love to get more hands-on experience. Please let me know if there is anything I can help with
Welcome randumbguy to LES. All questions are welcome. Hope to see you more active around LES.
Welcome nergar to LES. Ubuntu 5.10, huh? Can't say I have ever used it. I started from ubuntu 16 if i remember correctly. Before that was using CentOS. All help is welcome. Do look around the forums in case something catches your eyes.
LES does have a few other "free giveaways" running now, including lucky draws. Do apply there as well
Thanks a lot for the warm welcome @somik, and thanks for the offer to look at the giveaways. Right now I don't need anything but the opportunity to learn more about the inner working of KVM and play with it in an environment where a little oopsie doesn't cause the downtime of important servers really caught my eye.
@somik weird question but do you know of any vps provider in les that charge in each customer's currency?
Teehee!
Edit: There was a post which has been removed.
@VMCreator is the guy who leads the Discord server FreeRDP, which is the group of guys who took wholesale advantage of the MetalVPS free offer. He created a 1.4 TB account and provided 20 or so subaccounts.
The thing I do not understand is that, other than decency, there intentionally were no constraints against doing what he did. So, why does he think he is so cool to have overcome . . . nothing?
I put @VMCreator's post on archive.org at https://web.archive.org/web/20230522141521/https://lowendspirit.com/discussion/comment/140427/
in case the LES team decides to take it down.
Best wishes! Have a good day!
Unfortunately, no. You need to convert your local currency into the host's currency for payment (with the high markup for paypal/bank). I would suggest to find a local VPS provider that is in your country so they charge you the same currency.
Free services are always abused. Even some paid services are abused if it's cheap. Only when the service is expensive and the user has a potential to lose money if the abuse takes place (like yearly subscriptions where they ban your account and no refunds) the user thinks thrice before abusing the service. Another way to prevent it is to verify the users identity. Finally, you can make them wait for the service. Some will still abuse, but this will limit the signups as most people dont want to wait 3 months just to get something free they can get elsewhere.
Rude! He would earn a lifetime ban in my books.
DM us for private tracker invite.
I feel sorry for him!
Seems like something who is very free and is extremely insecure about himself would do. If you get caught, own up and move on. Who goes through the trouble of making a gif of someone's avatar?
I feel like the longer I am on the internet, the weirder people are getting...
same
I also enjoyed MetalVPS in the past
@iamvinh123 Thanks for your comment here. It's interesting to compare what you say here with your many posts into the FreeRDP Discord group. How should we understand any differences we might find?
@itsmepaddi Same question for you! How should we understand any differences we might find between what you have posted here and what you have posted into the FreeRDP Discord group?
Also, for sure it's just a random co-incidence, but I happened to notice that a new LES account called @Paddi appeared approximately the same time that you said @itsmepaddi was going to be busy with finals, etc. So I am wondering if @itsmepaddi and @Paddi might be alts.
All those really fast i9-13900 cores! All that really fast DDR5 RAM! All 4 TB of really fast RAID 0 Gen 4 NVMe! The unlimited 1 Gbps! The extra i9-9900K, 128 GB RAM, 2 TB NVMe disk bare metal server on which you had root! All for free!
Friendly greetings!
No?
Also in fact I don't really talk about MetalVPS anymore.
The actual GIF creator is not VMCreator, as I know.
I wonder why you didn't talk in the discord server at all.
I'm busy for final exam, I spent my little time writing this. This is my only account and I didn't create any alts and NEVER create one.
Maybe the LES team removed that new account.
Thanks for letting me know.
Yes. I understand.
I didn't yet think of anything I wanted to say. Maybe someday before too long.
Good luck on your exam! Best wishes!
Probably.
Before the port scanning issue I posted what I do in metalvps and we discuss about metalvps together.
After that port scanning issue, MetalVPS has enforced ID / student ID verification which is hard for us to complete... So we decided to leave metalvps and start discussing about another stuffs (still VPs related).
How could ID verification be made easy for you?
How could we get the person who did the port scanning to confess and apologize?
That's okay if you use other servers. I hope everyone gets the server he wants!