Recent content by connchri

To be fair though, it's a capable OS for serving. Being originally based on the FreeBSD Kernel and all. And that powers a lot of the web's infrustructure - routers, DNS Server, some webservers. It's networking stack is second to none - or it used to be anyway, hence why it was taken by...

Yeah, I was wanting to avoid the 1 to 1 nat, so I can just administer the servers and their firewalls without having to deal with the firewall in the router. I'll look into more of this bridging stuff. If I really have to, I may just have everything bridged and throw in a couple of old routers...

Pfft, never going to happen. The west isn't interested in a war. Putin likes the bravado and it helps him win elections. And NATO is second to no one, and completely dwarfs Russia, in military capability. I'm not losing any sleep over it. Besides, people are becoming more connected and...

Hullo, Had a wee quick look at the regulars (or used to be when I was active) - glad to see many are still kicking about. I had a question on networking, but thought it's a bit rude not to say hi whilst I'm here. Life's so hetic to be as active as I used to be. So, Trump's in power, Brexit...

As Cortb says. It's not just your providers limitation that could be an issue, the receiving mail box might have a size limit. Typically these are about 25MB - not a very long video at all.

Long time no speaky... I have a nice internet connection (well, for being out in the sticks) and a Draytek 2920 router. From my ISP I have a static /29 block of IPv4 addresses, and /56 block of IPv6 addresses - lovely jubbly. I'll have a spare few days in a months time and want to sort out my...

Aw c'mon. So, now it's if someone does something illegal then it's best to have an electrician? Anyone willing to run the system without getting a certificate is breaking the law either way, and wouldn't give a flying monkeys what the rules and regs say, so why would the bother with the hassle...

Note: I said inferred, and the statement above, due to the topic of conversation, inferred that bare tails were required for CT's, otherwise you would not have stated this in reply to using such CT's. No, this is not illegal, and yes, that is a direct quote - you did indeed say it was illegal...

Agree with this 100%. I don't have an internal optical drive, but I have a Samsung USB External one, and you're lucky if I've used it 5 times in the last 6 months.

Bah humbug.... Here we go again: Correct, I'm talking about a flex, not a behind the wall cable. A flex is a flex, a cable is a cable - I'm being pedantic on my terminology for a reason - otherwise mistakes and misinterpretations happen. For instance, if you wished to replace a flex from the...

Hullo! Your video memory is treated seperately from your system memory. Video memory is used purely for video processing, holding textures, rendering scenes, etc etc etc. Unless you're using your GPU for Cuda processing or whatnot, in games it's being used for video only. Your system RAM...

Since we're title dropping now: I'm well aware of the wiring regs, as I'm a qualified Incorporated Electrical & Electronics Engineer who's spent time with 2 of the big six energy companies in the UK (RWE Npower & Ibedrola - trading as Scottish Power) as well as one of the world's largest...

Perhaps you could explain why you would need a qualified installer? These don't require you to break into any wiring, and if done as per instructed, then it is safe. Current transformers are used even with the free home kits that you get (In the UK anyway) to monitor your energy consumption -...

If you're still using XP, get a hold of an old version of Ghost. I'm trying to remember what version it was that allowed you to make a bootable USB drive or whatnot, but it's easy enough to make a bootable CD from it. Just make sure it's the "good" Norton Ghost. I think Norton Ghost 2003 was...

If it's not a hard drive fault, it could be something related to it. Are you doing any overclocking? Or have you messed with such settings. Although the memory spec itself wouldn't cause any issue with running at the slower speed, there could be an issue (depending on the chipset and any...