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I have my phone (Nokia 7 Plus) paired with my desktop machine (which runs the latest KDE Neon) via Bluetooth. I can use the media controls on the desktop to control the YouTube app (and I presume others such VLC) on the phone and I can hear the audio as it is routed from the phone to the desktop...

I'm planning out a pfSense router and I am aware that pfSense is picky about WiFi hardware and best supports Atheros chipsets. If I buy a motherboard whose built-in WiFi is Realtek or some other not-so-well-supported/unsupported brand, can I remove the WiFi module and swap in a different one...

I am in the process of speccing out a small, high-density virtualisation and NAS server based around a mini-ITX motherboard. I would like to use something based around AM4 but I would also like dual NICs if possible. Does anyone here know of such a board which ticks all of these boxes? Many...

Background My workstation serves as a VirtualBox host for several Linux desktop VMs. The workstation has a Samsung 970 Pro as its boot device, with two Samsung 850 EVOs as a RAID 0 scratch drive. I have an external drive (two 1TB mechanicals in RAID 1) connected to the host which exposes its...

OK, this has just happened. I have two Samsung 850 EVO 1TB drives in RAID 0. I needed to reboot the machine and when it came backup I noticed this RAID 0 didn't restart. Using mdadm -E yielded "mdadm: No md superblock detected" on both /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1. I've trawled the search engines...

I currently have a Linux VM running on an old iMac for print server duty. The iMac is actually quite power hungry and since it's too old for iOS development, I would like to decommission it. That being said, I now need something else to handle print server duty. I've see a couple of wireless...

On a graphics card spec sheet, does the length include the PCI bracket, or not? I ask because I'm wondering if a Sapphire Vega 56 Nitro+ (270mm) could be squeezed into a Fractal Design Arc Mini R2 which gives the max graphics card length as ~260mm with the drive cages installed - I'm hoping...

I'm in the market for a microphone Basic requirements: - Connects via USB - Works well with GNU/Linux (i.e. just plug it in and it works) - Ideal for Skype/Discord/Teamspeak/Mumble - Decent brand and/or build quality I've never purchased one of these before, so if anyone can identify any...

I'm currently looking to upgrade my GPU, an NVIDIA GT-430 (yes, you read that correctly). My monitor's resolution is 1080p, although I may upgrade to 1440p at some point in the near future. I'm currently playing WoW although this will expand out to newer games once I have the GPU. My current...

On the image below, of the four metal contacts behind the Molex power connector, the one furthest right is broken. Does anyone know what they are called and where I might get replacements? Many thanks. :)

I'm in the hunt for a budget 24" IPS 1080p monitor and came across this model. Does anyone have any opinions on this model or iiyama monitors in general? Many thanks.

Hello -- I have set up an instance of pfSense to function as an OpenVPN client, connecting to a commercial VPN provider. However, I cannot seem to update the client with the provider's DNS server entry, which is pushed from the server to the client. I know in General Setup, DNS server entries...

I recently lifted one of these from an old Dell XPS M1210. I'd rather make use of it than let it go to landfill, but it appears to have some odd connector. Has anyone attached one of these to a PC in a "normal" way - i.e. USB or SATA? Many thanks. :)

Background I created an installation of Linux Mint 18 KDE onto a 16GB Kingston DataTraveler 102 (full install, not Live CD). The default Mint installer doesn't like using a USB flash drive as an installation target (Lord knows why), so I created a basic installation in VirtualBox, converted the...

OK, so I'm in the market for an Android tablet verified as Miracast-compatible (it's needed for business presentations). I have a Mircast dongle which works well with my Nexus 4, but tablet support is needed also. Requirements Miracast-compatible (obviously) Screen-size of 9.5" to 10.1" Runs...

I plan to keep the CPU, RAM, and PERC 5/i but what about the motherboard? Is there a Dell rack chassis it can easily fit into? Can a normal rack chassis be modded to accommodate it? Thanks. :)

I've just acquired one of these mSATA units and I would like to know if its interface is SATA 2.0 3.0Gb or SATA 3.0 6.0Gb. Information seems to be conflicting, and in the installed machine (Lenovo Yoga 13), I'm seeing read speeds of ~280MB/s and write speeds of ~130MB/s. Many thanks :)...

I found this article while doing my regular check of Storage Review. What caught my eye was the specs of this unit: What caught my eye is that there is no mention of a "RAID On Chip" or other such processor. Furthermore, considering the fact that a web configurator does not need 4...

I'm thinking of renting a server in a remote datacentre for a project or two. However, I would like to be able to create a "golden image" Linux installation at my desktop using VirtualBox or VMware, convert the disk image to raw and then image the remote server's hard disk with it. Is this...

Hello -- I'm looking for dyndns server software (not client) for a project I'm working on, preferably open source and for Linux. I've been digging around, but the options seem limited. Does anyone have any recommendations? Many thanks. :)

OK, this is a strange one. I have two Hitachi 500GB drives which together make up a software RAID 1 pair, for booting the OS. Each drive is partitioned like this: Disk 01 (/dev/sdb): /boot 517MiB (bootable, raid autodetect) , swap 4.01GiB, / 461GiB (raid autodetect) Disk 02 (/dev/sdc): /boot...

While clearing some old stuff out of the loft space (including some old computer parts) I came across an eVGA 6800 Ultra I'd bought a few years back. Obviously it's now too old to run anything relatively current (not even World of Warcraft these days), but is there a collector's market for this...

I am currently building and maintaining a library of objects which runs on Android. The library is mostly pure Java; the only Android-specific code is android.util.Log, which is far more useful in an Android environment than System.out.println(). My build & test environment for this library is...

Hello -- I'm current developing a web application for a customer and one of the things they have asked for is the ability to generate reports, something I have never done before. I assume it involves writing log entries to a database and then performing queries upon that database? Is there...

Hello -- I'm currently scoping a project for a customer whereby they want a pair of application servers in a fault tolerant pair behind a load balancer. No problem. However, they also want failover to another clustered pair in another data centre. Accommodating one load balancer falling...

I'm only putting this here because there's no "Server" section that I could see, and mainframes were using virtualization when VMware was a just a twinkle in the founders' eyes. :p Anyway, I'm facing an upcoming project where the customer is looking to mobilise data stored in an old mainframe...

Last night I tried to use SpinRite to repair a drive passed to me by a friend. I installed into my system in the normal way (it's an internal). However SpinRite failed to detect any drives at all. As a test, I removed the faulty drive and tried booting with SpinRite again, and again the same...

OK, so I've been configuring my firewall so that anything destined for the Internet is forced over my VPN. The thing is that for some reason I can't figure out, access to my local LAN is blocked. Everything else works as normal. The system is Mint 14 KDE running in a bridged VirtualBox VM. My...

I have a requirement from a customer to develop a dynamic, post-install plugin architecture for an enterprise iOS application framework. The customer recognises that such applications are not permitted to be distributed on the Apple App Store; this application will not be using that channel...

Here in the UK, the price difference between the Caviar Black 1TB and the equivalent RE4 is £10. Apart from support for TLER in the firmware, what's the advantage of the RE-4? Is the support and/or RMA process different or better? Many thanks. :)

I've been thinking about this for a little while. VPNs look like they'll be more popular over the coming years so they are looking like a good business to get into. The question is, where would I start? I know I could sign up for an affiliate program but I'd really like to do my own thing...

I have a Dell XPS M1210. Not long ago, I tried running SpinRite 6.0 on it, against a hard drive connected via a friend's Express Card eSATA adapter - SpinRite didn't detect it. The SpinRite environment is based on FreeDOS and can see drives connected to the on-board SATA controller perfectly...

I'm in the process of planning a NNTP download robot for KDE 4.x. The plan is for it to have feature parity with NewsLeecher, which I've been using for quite a while. Unfortunately, NewsLeecher has performance issues. What I'm planning will not be simply an NZB downloader, but a fully fledged...

I'm currently using pfSense 2.0.1-RELEASE on my LAN as a DHCP server. I'm in the process of setting up a number of Ubuntu Server nodes on my network, which obviously will get their IPs via DHCP. However, I would also like to assign them a host name which is auto-generated from their assigned...

I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 WLAN - I recently purchased an EPL-3PHPBEGSTD "HDTV Adapter P30pin". Both devices were purchased here in the UK. Unfortunately I have had no luck getting the tablet to output an HDMI signal to a TV;I've tried on both a Samsung and Toshiba TV. The Samsung TV...

I notice that the MD3220i - being an iSCSI SAN box - has dual controllers. Obviously this is for fault tolerance, but how exactly is this achieved? Assuming that two H700s are connected to the same backplane, what causes the system to failover to the second controller? Is it a feature in the...

Looking to price up some hardware for a SMB, and wondering whether Dell UPS units are any good, or am I better off going "directly" to the likes of APC? Many thanks.

I'm researching virtualisation options for an SME. I know there are a lot of options out there, but I've narrowed the choices down to these two. Has anyone here had experience of either these two, specifically in a production environment? What's your impression of them? Many thanks. :-)

I've been researching storage and virtualisation options for an SME environment, and I've come across NexentaStor and QuantaStor. The former is based on OpenSolaris, with the latter built off of Ubuntu Server. Has anyone here had any experience with these products in a production NAS or SAN...

How would "virtualised storage" be defined? What constitutes "virtualised storage"? Would it be one or more of the following? 1. Virtual hard disks (big files), like what VirtualBox and VMware Workstation use? 2. Storage pooled and then partitioned into logical volumes, as used by Linux...