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  1. HalfEatenPie

    Collaboration Script/System/Solutions

    Inspired from So whether it be personal organization purposes or working with a team, it's much easier to have a piece of software help you take care of all of that.   We can categorize most of the current solutions into three "types"... For Coding, for Business (non-coding), and for...
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    StyleXNetworks Going Out of Business

    Remember that LET host about a year or two back that offered the first five PM-ers a 256MB Free VPS Hosting for life??? Well...  they're going out of business at the end of the month. I mean, I'm not too surprised or annoyed by it because I wasn't paying for the VM, but it's a bummer seeing...
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    Server Hardware Vendor

    So... Where do you purchase your server hardware from?  Do you purchase it one server at a time or in bulk?  If you buy just the parts, do you assemble it yourself?   Where do you get the hardware!  I'm thinking about getting some hardware together for a special pre-made system (that runs on...
  4. HalfEatenPie

    Backup Network anyone?

    With more and more jobs/work/shenanigans based on the internet or work-at-home scenarios, I was wondering what do you have (for those of you who are working at home) to make sure you can clock in everyday?  Do you have an additional service from another company you use as a backup network...
  5. HalfEatenPie

    Travelling Security

    So...  I'm doing a bit of travelling again!  I'm reporting live from an open WiFi access point in a hotel room!  Woo hoo!  I'm currently using a VPN and all that jazz at the moment to encrypt my traffic and hopefully not have anyone sniffing my packets, but what else is there to protecting your...
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    Networking Hardware

    I was talking with a few close friends who work full time for ISPs around in the United States and it got on the topic of networking hardware. Now, I will 100% admit this isn't my strong suite and I really need to brush up even more on my reading, but what do you look for in networking...
  7. HalfEatenPie

    Alcohol of Choice

    Alright lets do this. You'd be surprised the vast majority of the people here aren't 12/13/17 years old. So lets hear it.  What's your favorite drink? Beer?  Cocktail?  Mixed Drink?  Wine?  Straight up Liquor? I'm more of a nice beer type of guy.  My days of heavy consumption is now over...
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    foobar2000 Mobile Kickstarter

    So we all know Foobar. It's the most popular (besides iTunes) music player software available. It does everything. Well they've been running a kickstarter for $100k USD for to develop a Mobile version of Foobar on all platforms (Apple, Android, and Microsoft). This software looks pretty great...
  9. HalfEatenPie

    Windows System Administrator

    Hey all! So we are all familiar with Linux and Linux System Administrator work.  That's all fancy and dandy, but in a more corporate environment most user hardwares (and often more critical systems) are Windows based.   How's Windows System Admining?  What experiences do you have to share for...
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    Star Citizen?

    So... Anyone here who's into Star Citizen?  
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    ServerHub Network Upgrade

    Well... Copying and pasting e-mails, butttt Cool!  Just want to know who they're adding onto their network.  
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    Anger Masks my Cowardice

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF5ivqakjIc   That is all.
  13. HalfEatenPie

    Definition of "Cloud"

    The term "Cloud" (usually short for Cloud Computing) has most commonly been used as a marketing term for VPS Services.  "Come Test our Cloud Servers!" sometimes merely means a single VM on a single server with no hardware redundancy.  Now today, the general consensus has been "Cloud" has to...
  14. HalfEatenPie

    VoIP and Phone Numbers

    Hello everyone! So I have a concept/idea that I'd like to ask your guys' opinions on. Goal - Send/Receive Phone Calls - Send/Receive Texts - Work on an Android phone So my current idea is to setup an Asterisk server and get a phone number from someone like Flowroute and use the Linphone...
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    DigitalOcean vs Vultr - The Asian Face-off

    Howdy everyone!   So I decided to spin up an instance of DigitalOcean Singapore and Vultr Japan to see which one truly kicks more butt for Asia! (Or in my case... for me).  This may look like a review, but its not meant to be a review (probably because I just got this and believe a true review...
  16. HalfEatenPie

    [Selling Hardware] Dual Core Atom (1.80 GHz), 4GB RAM, 300 GB HDD

    Howdy there! I'm selling this server bid-style.     If you bid, that's a bid.  No backsies.   You pay for shipping and handling and all that fun stuff   Current Location: Telehouse New York City Datacenter (85 10th Ave, New York City, New York, USA) Specs: Dual Atom 1.80 GHz (D425) 4GB RAM  300...
  17. HalfEatenPie

    Creating a Page Scraper (Web Crawler?) and File Downloader

    Hello there! So, part of what I do as a "researcher" is read new research papers. But an event arrived where I need to download and format (in a presentable fashion) large quantities of research papers. I was wondering if anyone knew how I should start this (especially with the...
  18. HalfEatenPie

    High Volume CPU VPS

    Yeah we dislike all these requests for high volume CPUs but hear me out on this one. This is the spec I need: 8 CPU Cores (minimum, more is preferred) at 2.0 GHz minimum 512 MB RAM (1GB Preferred) (KVM because I don't think OpenVZ works for this) 20 GB HDD (An installation of Ubuntu and some...
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    Digital Ocean Opens Another Amsterdam Location

    http://emailcampaigns.createsend4.com/t/i-l-ahihid-kuhhhtn-y/'> New Amsterdam Datacenter (AMS2) DigitalOcean is excited to announce the opening of their second datacenter in Amsterdam (AMS2) with Shared Private Networking on all Droplets. This is highly anticipated news, as effort to expand...
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    (Request) Budget Dedicated Servers in Fremont, CA (HE)

    So, I decided to place this in VPS Request because it's a request for a service. Anyone know any good budget dedicated server provider in Fremont, CA?  I'd prefer if it was less than 50 dollars (around 40 to 45 would be preferred).   The preferred spec is a good old Dual L5420 with about 8GB...
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