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New toys

Unread post by bones » Thu Feb 27, 2014 8:45 pm

Got any new toys to share? Show off your Shiny New Shit here!

This isn't mine, personally, but for here at work: Synology NAS (Linux based!) with a 3TB drive (there's two drive bays, can add more later).
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Re: News toys

Unread post by wuxmedia » Thu Feb 27, 2014 8:48 pm

Nice kit.
We got a new UPS battery stack today.
not very exciting though.

Might wanna rename the title BTW 8)
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Re: News toys

Unread post by bones » Thu Feb 27, 2014 8:51 pm

Aw, crikey, I can't edit the title! Can someone change it to "New toys," rather than "News toys?" Donkeyshins! ;)
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Unread post by GekkoP » Thu Feb 27, 2014 8:53 pm

^ done :)
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Unread post by wuxmedia » Thu Feb 27, 2014 8:55 pm

^ You'll be splitting topics before you know it Gekko 8)
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Re: New toys

Unread post by rust collector » Thu Feb 27, 2014 9:00 pm

Soo, I have been looking at those wd red nas drives...
Would they work as usual in a regular desktop, or are they "different"?
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Re: New toys

Unread post by bones » Thu Feb 27, 2014 9:02 pm

rust collector wrote:Soo, I have been looking at those wd red nas drives...
Would they work as usual in a regular desktop, or are they "different"?
Good question, but I don't know. Worth some research.
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Re: New toys

Unread post by bones » Thu Feb 27, 2014 9:17 pm

On using NAS drives for standard desktops:

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/29512 ... ves-normal
http://www.eaegis.com/the-differences-b ... s-hdd.aspx
http://techgage.com/article/western_dig ... ve_review/
http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/review/we ... rx/439429/
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Re: New toys

Unread post by rust collector » Thu Feb 27, 2014 9:33 pm

Cool! I keep finding the red drives in good sizes, for a reasonable price.
Thanks for the info
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Unread post by dkeg » Fri Feb 28, 2014 12:30 am

Well no Linux toys here, but with my Lenovo T440, was also given a Surface2 today.

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Re: New toys

Unread post by machinebacon » Fri Feb 28, 2014 4:35 am

Just got ourselves these:

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Strap-on spelled backwards is no-parts.
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Re: New toys

Unread post by bones » Fri Feb 28, 2014 6:24 am

^ Ahahaha, I love it, good times! But what is the giant (peanut) M&M-looking thing?
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Unread post by machinebacon » Fri Feb 28, 2014 7:15 am

It *is* an M&M.
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Re: New toys

Unread post by bones » Fri Feb 28, 2014 7:17 am

Oh sheesh, that changes my perspective. TINY toys. Hilarious.
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Re: New toys

Unread post by RandomCharacter » Fri Feb 28, 2014 1:46 pm

I got a new printer, a Brother all-in-1 inkjet. It is wireless, so we don't always have to swap the cable. And we can even print from our iPads and iPhones.

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Re: New toys

Unread post by ivanovnegro » Sat Mar 01, 2014 8:09 am

:D :D Bacon, yeah.
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Re: New toys

Unread post by elixir » Sat Mar 01, 2014 8:53 am

Got myself an Acer Laptop (linux on it!) for school and it was on clearence with a wireless mouse, case, and 8 gig USB all for the fabulous price of $200 :)
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Re: New toys

Unread post by machinebacon » Sat Mar 01, 2014 12:03 pm

Fair price. Now go and partition it well ;)
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Re: New toys

Unread post by elixir » Sat Mar 01, 2014 5:40 pm

I did! I even partitioned my desktop how you were suggesting! I have a lot of room for other WM's and distros :)
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Unread post by machinebacon » Sat Mar 01, 2014 5:45 pm

just never share the /home folder, and everything's gonna be all right. (it is better to mount manually if needed, but if /documents or /music is anyway on a separate partition, nothing bad happens). I strongly advise *against* shared /home folders in which .config files are sitting *if* the installed OS's track different branches. No problem if all OS's track for example sid.
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