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• (Quote) To me there is no higher fire hazard risk with using the rackmount gear than there is desktop gear. In fact, enterprise gear generally uses better quality components so one might say it's less risk than cheaper desktop power supplies and ge…

  in Server rack at home Comment by rajprakash August 2020
• (Quote) Nope. Southeast US.

  in Server rack at home Comment by rajprakash August 2020
• About 18 months ago I ran about 12U of rackmount gear at home (2 8-bay LFF Supermicros, 4 Dell R815s). SWMBO thought the heat and noise was too much. Now all of that gear has been replaced by two Mediasonic 4-bay Proboxes (well, one is a a Probox,…

  in Server rack at home Comment by rajprakash August 2020
• Burst.net :)

  in Who do you think of when you think about the big players in the VPS market? Comment by rajprakash August 2020
• Personally I run BTRFS RAID1 with transparent filesystem compression on two drive arrays. In years past I used mdadm RAID10f2 for the mirroring with performance gains!

  in RAID for home PC Comment by rajprakash July 2020
• Happy Bday Pony. (Image)

  in BuyVM turns 10! New Stallion features launched: BGP Sessions, ISO Uploading, & 2F Authentication! Comment by rajprakash July 2020
• I've really gotten to like Mint. For me, things "Just Work" (tm). At this point in my life, that's what I need. I fell in love with Linux over 20 years ago because I had the time to tinker. Nowadays, I need things to be functional the …

  in Linux Mint 20 “Ulyana” Cinnamon released! Comment by rajprakash June 2020
• Nine on my Android phone, and either Sylpheed (Linux) or Thunderbird (Linux or Windows) for desktop.

  in What email client do you use? Comment by rajprakash June 2020
• Not to bump this older thread, but those of you who have Atomic Pis, what your thoughts on the ease/performance of the board after a half or full year of usage. I have a line on a handful of similar tv box type machines with the same specs as the a…

  in Your single-board computer (SBC) setup ? Comment by rajprakash May 2020
• Also try sshguard

  in iptables preferred IP block Comment by rajprakash May 2020
• Try VirtualBox to install Windows and try any number of environments/IDEs

  in Development environment on Windows Comment by rajprakash April 2020
• (Quote) Bah. 1.9 kernel compiles on 386 hardware ran overnight! :) Edit: I think it was after around the 1.9 series that I moved over to Debian Bo, which was the first time I had a 2.0 series kernel. Dang that makes me feel old.

  in If you could not use a package manager e.g. yum/apt what which OS would you choose? Comment by rajprakash January 2020