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MasterP said:
You could always rebuild it with an Intel Atom. My HTPC/fileserver uses 35-45 watts.
That’s pretty *edited* low! I don’t have too much money to sink in right now (i’m paying off student loans as rapidly as possible). How much was it?
I plan on making my old pc a server of sorts. I want to make it host web, files, have the ability to rdp into it to get onto my home network, etc. I didn’t want to have to manually send a magic packet each time I wanted to use the computer. My solution was dd-wrt with a script that handles the wake ups.
I should add that this server wouldn’t be used *that* frequently which seems to make it a good WOL candidate for me. It normally draws like 300watts so I would love to reduce that.
As an update, DD-wrt has a script that checks a log file for connections to an ip on a port, checks if the machine is up, and if not wakes it. AWESOME. I bought a router and loaded dd-wrt on it.
The sad news: my evga 750i doesn’t seem to support wake on lan for sleep. It will wake on lan when shut down fully, but when it is sleeping it doesn’t accept the magic packet.
I’m debating buying a pci nic and hoping that it works in sleep mode. I’m really doubting that it would, but the lack of WOL functionality is making my router purchase a waste!
POO on the 750i’s lack of support.
I was actually just coming here to post about the airports/snow leopard. Apple calls it “wake on demand”. It is one of the big advantages to control both pieces of hardware (router and server). It is a pretty awesome behavior. I want to see if dd-wrt or tomato supports a similar functionality.
Conceptually, it isn’t that hard. In my head, you register certain services with the router for a given host. The router obviously has to do a few more intelligent things (remember the hosts mac/ip, keep track of the servers state). I feel like conceptually it isn’t the hardest task to make happen.
Obviously, apples behavior is ideal. I have never configured an apple server, but I can imagine it’s as simple as…”Yes, I want an ftp site. Yes, I want WOL. Yes, I want my router to manage this for me”. I would think the server communicates this stuff to the router and it is all instantly configured for you. Seems very Apple-y.
MasterP said:
AFAIK, there is no way to make it wake up for specific protocols. When WOL is activated, the network adapter waits for a specific frame sent to a specific port. There’s not a whole lot of flexibility since the actual waiting functionality is firmware based.
I mean, if it happens at a layer above the NIC wouldn’t it work? For instance, if the router was to handle the WOL under certain scenarios it would possibly work?
I have to look into ww-drt or tomato and see if either does some fun WOL stuff. My friend has an Apple Airport and says that it wakes his server on web traffic. Appealing, but not $180 worth of appealing. Because his Apple product can do it, though, it makes have a bigger drive to get it done for a quarter of the cost.
I mean, I wouldn’t want it to wake on EVERYTHING. I’d want it to wake for a few protocols, though (80, 443, 23, 3389, and maybe others that I can’t think of). That seems to be the ideal behavior for me. I wouldn’t want the wake the PC every time it was randomly sniffed, just for designated traffic.
MasterP said:
You can’t get a PC to wake on literally any network traffic as that’s not what wake on LAN is designed to do. If it were to wake the machine up when receiving any packet the PC would be asleep for less than a second before being woken up by a broadcast frame or a keepalive frame for a TCP connection. The only way to wake a computer up is by sending a “magic packet” which is a frame that contains a broadcast packet, which instructs routers and switches to send to all LAN ports on the local subnet, and 16 repetitions of the target computer’s MAC address. You’ll need a “server” program to activate this functionality on the target computer and a “client” program to craft the packet needed to wake it up. Windows7 has the “server” functionality built in and there are several websites and utilities you can use to wake it up remotely.
A decent guide:
http://windows7-issues.blogspot.com/2011/03/wake-on-lan-wol-for-windows-7-made-easy.html
Ninja add: It looks like Win7 can wake on any packet, I highly recommend you don’t do this. Your computer will wake up at random times.
Nickname said:
there is really no reason to use anything other than a full ATX board in a full-size ATX case… you really do give up too much. Even if you think you won’t need those extra pci/PCI-E slots, some day you will wish you had them.
I was kind of seeing it that way myself. I do plan on getting a full tower. I currently have a mid tower and my videocard is pretty crammed in there. Being that I am getting a giant case I see no reason to get a small mobo. Is that logic good?
Derrick LeBrocq said:
yousillyGoose said:
Can you recommend an alternate Mobo? I want a good one (but don’t need the absolute best one).
Were you planning on going crossfire/SLI?
OR were you planning on adding a soundcard/extra expansion card?
I would suggest the ASUS Maximus IV Gene-Z. It’s mATX, but supports dual video cards (both SLI and Crossfire).
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131759&Tpk=maximus%20iv%20gene
If you’re not into mATX, I’d suggest this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128498
Either way, you want z68 as opposed to p67.
I would also suggest, for an AIR cooler if you’re overclocking, go with something like this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835106150
or if you want to be able to see your motherboard, grab a corsair H80.
You’d be crazy not to OC a 2600k. They are BUILT for that. You can get at least 4.4GHz effortlessly on every chip, no matter the batch.
I’m not immediately planning any additions to the build above. Maybe in the future I’d go for a pcie ssd drive. SO mATX just means smaller, yes? What would be the advantages of having smaller mobo?
What about the situation where you have pretty much no regular transfer of data between drives? I plan on only using the ssd for os and games while the conventional drive will be storage. This wouldn’t be slowed due to a saturated bus.
A SSD on SATA 6.0 seems > a physical drive considering a physical drive doesn’t come close to saturating a SATA 3.0 connection. Do SSD drives really have the ability to saturate SATA 6.0??
Lemm said:
yousillyGoose said:
Adam Faulkner said:
get something you dont like .. so when it breaks you dont feel bad.
they all break. well most do. mine did
I have had like 3 cheap (~$40) sennheiser pairs that I have broken. I had a steelseries 5h V2 that I tripped over the cable and broke the 3.5mm plug. I bent the plug back and rma’d it (that broken set was my fault). The replacement lasted a while. I had it sitting on my pc case (~2ft off the ground) and it fell of on to a hard wood floor and snapped in half. I should say, though, that it wasn’t the first dive the headset took. So, that break was on me.
It is very sad when they break
ha I broke 3 sennheisers the same way…
They must manufacture them to be trippy.
I have gone with a new strategy: always use an extension cable. Now, when I inevitably trip, it just detaches.
Adam Faulkner said:
get something you dont like .. so when it breaks you dont feel bad.
they all break. well most do. mine did
I have had like 3 cheap (~$40) sennheiser pairs that I have broken. I had a steelseries 5h V2 that I tripped over the cable and broke the 3.5mm plug. I bent the plug back and rma’d it (that broken set was my fault). The replacement lasted a while. I had it sitting on my pc case (~2ft off the ground) and it fell of on to a hard wood floor and snapped in half. I should say, though, that it wasn’t the first dive the headset took. So, that break was on me.
It is very sad when they break
I’m very surprised that SPSS doesn’t have a native way to import excel documents. If you save it as a csv SPSS can’t read it?
To my knowledge the keyring password is just the root password. Can you sign into sudo (meaning do you have the correct root password)?
Let me know!
Rob
Sorry I wasn’t more clear. Custom vote maps are not working. I can’t vote for snow or scoutz or anything fun. I posted it a few times throughout this thread and it was overlooked but I feel that it would definitely help populate the server.
yousillyGoose said:
Votes for custom maps are still not working
🙁 I don’t want to seem like an *edited*, but this is the third time I’ve posted this and it hasn’t even been like…addressed.
Custom maps fill up the server too, especially snow when there aren’t many people.
A few things
1- I don’t have the ability to vote any custom maps
2- Make a fun night or something. Get the server populated!
3- Remove buytime on gungame server (when there are only like 4 people in the server, often times both team mates die before 1 respawns). Also, boost up the immunity time after spawning to like 3 seconds or something.
