++ ATOT official NEF thread part IV ++

[MotF Bane]

Yes. Professors hated teaching that class and always tried to pawn them off.

I remember one time, another professor came to me and asked me to teach it. I agreed, thinking nothing of it. The next day, my advisor came to me and bitched me out, talking about how I couldn't do that because of my job in his lab and allegedly, it would violate my research assistantship.

Of course, the following semester when HE got stuck teaching that course, he magically changed his tune and I was suddenly teaching it.

LOL.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

thing with freenas is you can just keep adding hdd to it. And I am sure you have a spare box somewhere. Quite a few of the nas solutions you buy is based on freenas

Yeah, but I want to get rid of the boxes. I don't want the power consumption and maintenance. An appliance is a better option, IMO.

 

[MotF Bane]

For us, Circuit Theory is primarily taught in the fall. It is always taught by the same Chinese woman. Fall semester has somewhere between 80 and 100 students. She teaches the lecture session, and one recitation. Another two recitation sections are taught by other lecturers - not full-time professors.

The lab is always operated by another full professor... officially. He works with the primary lecture professor (more of, works for her) to set up the lab experiments, but then there's a small flock of half a dozen TA's running the 6-8 lab sections.

In spring, the lecture is half the size, many of the students are repeats from the fall semester. There are three recitations again, but they're much smaller. She teaches one, another instructor teaches the other two. The lab design is the same, except there's only four sections.

 

[sdifox]

Yeah, but I want to get rid of the boxes. I don't want the power consumption and maintenance. An appliance is a better option, IMO.

they do have # of hdd limit however. And some have drive size limit. Plus you should have at least gigabit.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

LOL.

He was one of the reasons I left. I still should've finished though. My advice: if at all possible, try to avoid taking "breaks" from school because life may get in the way and you may not finish.

 

[alfa147x]

Power consumption at load is around 40w with 2 drives. It was my biggest reason to go this route and not the DIY route. Also you enable root access and mess around with the debian backend it's running. Comes in handy when you fuck up a bunch of file permissions.

 

[alfa147x]

Power consumption at load is around 40w with 2 drives. It was my biggest reason to go this route and not the DIY route. Also you enable root access and mess around with the debian backend it's running. Comes in handy when you fuck up a bunch of file permissions.

Also WOL is nice. I use it all the time. One NAS is nearly always running (Transmission, PLEX, and UPNP server). The other only runs when needed.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

they do have # of hdd limit however. And some have drive size limit. Plus you should have at least gigabit.

To keep initial costs down, what I was thinking was to get a 6 bay unit (the one I linked has dual gigabit with failover and load balancing plus is ESX compliant) and to use the six 750 GB drives I currently have. Once 4 TB drives drop in price, I'd swap them all out.

I still need to research backups. I wonder if maybe it would support a USB attached drive for backing up critical stuff?

 

[sdifox]

I might build a freenas box for all my media. Need to wire the house first though.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Power consumption at load is around 40w with 2 drives. It was my biggest reason to go this route and not the DIY route. Also you enable root access and mess around with the debian backend it's running. Comes in handy when you fuck up a bunch of file permissions.

What about backups? Does it support connecting a USB drive for local backups? I have a 2 TB USB drive where I currently backup the critical stuff off my server. I don't back up stuff like DVD rips.

 

[MotF Bane]

He was one of the reasons I left. I still should've finished though. My advice: if at all possible, try to avoid taking "breaks" from school because life may get in the way and you may not finish.

I've never taken a break, despite how much of a failure I am as a student, because I know full well I'd almost certainly never return.

 

[zzuupp]

ned

 

[sdifox]

What about backups? Does it support connecting a USB drive for local backups? I have a 2 TB USB drive where I currently backup the critical stuff off my server. I don't back up stuff like DVD rips.

that is where freenas kicks ass.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

that is where freenas kicks ass.

Windows works fine too. I just don't want a DIY solution if I go this route (still am not 100% sure yet).

 

[sdifox]

install freenas on a usb stick and you are laughing

 

[sdifox]

or run it in a vm

 

[sdifox]

http://www.freenas.org/features

 

[sdifox]

Windows works fine too. I just don't want a DIY solution if I go this route (still am not 100% sure yet).

you can setup snapshots to provide multi-generational backup of your important directories.

 

[MotF Bane]

I'm toying with telling the lab professor about today. He told us to tell him if the TA is screwing up.

Not even knowing that the door in the corner of the room is a stockroom, not having supplies for us to do the lab... that's screwing up.

 

[MotF Bane]

But, on the other hand... if this guy really has no clue what's going on, and from how dimwitted he seemed today, I should be able to run over him at will, which suits my purposes pretty well.

 

[sdifox]

ni

 

[Barfo]

I don't have my borrowed $30 phone with me. Hope I left it home, otherwise it got stolen :/

 

[MotF Bane]

Nef.

 

[MotF Bane]

A photo on an FB group connected to my school:

"Not sure if girl is hot...

...or standards Lowellered."

Oh my.

 

[sdifox]

arf