Ontopic Random Computer-Electronics Thread

[Mr. Argumentor]

What do you do if you don't have a hard edge to roll that against?

 

[fly]

What do you do if you don't have a hard edge to roll that against?

If it's like our textured ceilings, just freehand it. You can make your 'line' about a 1/4" to 1/2" below the real line and you'll never be able to tell.

 

[Domon]

what scenario would that be?

 

[Mr. Argumentor]

what scenario would that be?

Artsy shit in a house not setup like yours

 

[Ledboots]

My father in law used to blame me when the cheap painters tape I gave him would let paint seep through the bond line.
...
Like smooth lines are free, right?!

He's using too much paint, his fault anyway

 

[Domon]

Artsy shit in a house not setup like yours

oh, like the pinstriped walls and shit?

I suppose either you freehand that with tape, or set up some sort of moving guide to roll it against.

 

[fly]

oh, like the pinstriped walls and shit?

I suppose either you freehand that with tape, or set up some sort of moving guide to roll it against.

My mom did pinstripes in her bathroom. Pretty sure she used the high quality frog tape shit. However, she's a professional, so maybe she just fucking free handed it.

 

[Domon]

New fan wall i made for the 4u works awesome. I put it in the server, along with 2 80mm exhausts that werent there before, and the server at maximum load is silent outside of 2 feet. Compared to the previous jet engine that could be heard at all times, throughout the house, its amazing.

System temp is also 4 degrees cooler. CPU temps however... are not. Vertical orientation is a bitch for passive CPU coolers. Gonna have to upgrade em to active. Jet engine fans didnt cool em, neither does the new solution.

 

[APRIL]

or just learn to edge properly. I cheat and use one of these fuckers, and get perfect edges with no tape every damn time

As long as your wall/ceiling is perfectly constructed.

 

[Domon]

you're not gonna see a couple mm deviation on any wall or ceiling unless you've looking for it.

 

[Strings]

What goof started paint talk in the electronics thread anyway?
... Ohhhhhh.
Never mind.

 

[Mr. Argumentor]

you're not gonna see a couple mm deviation on any wall or ceiling unless you've looking for it.

In newer construction, you can easily see the deviations in the edges. I don't have any good examples in this house (as it's older) but the last one I was in there were several examples. Inside corners that didn't line up with the outside one just below it, waves in the drywall on the ceiling.

Then you get into the actual old stuff that has started to sag and shit. I should have taken pictures of my friend's place in Brooklyn. I honestly do not think there was a level, plumb, or straight line on the floor.

 

[Josh]

Speaking of backups, I think I'm going to just take it in the shorts and convert over to Crashplan's business offering.

Basically nobody else does loonix backups, and the only migration option I have without losing my entire history is to go with Carbonite (which explicitly doesn't support loonix desktop clients).

Carbonite rate limits on restores, so if you have a lot to restore, it'll take forever or you pay like $100 and they send you your data on a harddrive. I've used iBackup for Windows servers on a few of my client systems, but I haven't done a full restore to test the speeds :/ https://www.ibackup.com/online-backup-linux/ If iBackup is something anyone wants to sign up for, I'd appreciate using my company referral code. They will terminate my referral account soon if I don't sign up more customers.

Edit: Cloudberry is another option. It's just a frontend for using whatever cloud storage provider that you want (Amazon S3, Amazon Glacier, Microsoft Azure, etc). https://www.cloudberrylab.com/backup/linux.aspx

 

[Domon]

@Jehannum AWS glacial storage (or any other s3 storage) backs up just fine from linux

 

[Jehannum]

Carbonite rate limits on restores, so if you have a lot to restore, it'll take forever or you pay like $100 and they send you your data on a harddrive. I've used iBackup for Windows servers on a few of my client systems, but I haven't done a full restore to test the speeds :/ https://www.ibackup.com/online-backup-linux/ If iBackup is something anyone wants to sign up for, I'd appreciate using my company referral code. They will terminate my referral account soon if I don't sign up more customers.

Edit: Cloudberry is another option. It's just a frontend for using whatever cloud storage provider that you want (Amazon S3, Amazon Glacier, Microsoft Azure, etc). https://www.cloudberrylab.com/backup/linux.aspx

ibackup looked promising until I got to the page that said 10GB of backup for $10/mo.

I've got a hair over 400GB that is firmly in the "cannot lose" category.

 

[Jehannum]

@Jehannum AWS glacial storage (or any other s3 storage) backs up just fine from linux

I don't have an AWS account.

 

[Domon]

ibackup looked promising until I got to the page that said 10GB of backup for $10/mo.

I've got a hair over 400GB that is firmly in the "cannot lose" category.

for that tiny of an amount, why not just back it up yourself to an offsite drive store.

 

[Domon]

I don't have an AWS account.

so make one.

 

[Jehannum]

for that tiny of an amount, why not just back it up yourself to an offsite drive store.

Because I don't have an offsite drive store.

 

[Jehannum]

so make one.

I'll give it a whirl, and make it my secondary offsite backup for a year. If nothing goes awry, I'll transition off crashplan.