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Hi all, long time listener, first time poster (in a few years). I'm still active and friends with many on the forum. I've recently taken the plunge with a PV install and am recording my stats to pvoutput. I've joined the OcUK team as "EricaGaff". Thanks! x

Wow, didn't expect replies to be so vicious. You can argue I've "ignored all the advice" here but I haven't at all. Only a few components have changed. I actually thought I was being reasonable by posting an update to what I bought. Oh well... Having slept on it, I do appreicate people offered...

Hi guys, Bumping this old thread as I can show you exactly what I went with in the end. Total damage was £1700, mainly because I was having a hard time finding a decent monitor around my ~£300 budget so had to go bigger or go home on a few bits. Plus adding £10-£40 on additional items when...

Thanks for the responses guys. I'm going to probably end up with a blend of suggestions. I'm not sure on a wide monitor, I'm used to the standard 24"!

Hi, I've read through the forum for a lot of advice on the latest rig builds. I'm currently on the following which was built for gaming/virtualization 5-6 years ago now: - i7-3770k @ 3.4GHz - 32GB RAM - 500GB Samsung 970 SSD - Nvidia GTX970 - A fairly crappy old Iiyama 24" screen. I'm working...

I did my VCAP-DCA in 5.5 almost two years ago now. Started off with some CBT nuggets from Jason Nash then moved on to the blueprint and cracking on with a home lab and practical experience. Great learning (if you like VMware and want to get more technical) and good fun. I studied HARD for two...

Hi, I've blogged about something very similar in the past when trying to upgrade from 5.5 to 6.0. There was an issue before the vSAN filesystem would run through the update due to inaccessible objects. I had to remove them before continuing. I was able with the support of GSS to work out what...

Hi, I think that particular Dell PERC controller is limited to 8 physical disks. I don't know any way of merging them, it's a fairly basic controller. As you are using VMware I assume you will be formatting the LUN with VMFS volumes from those disks. The block size on VMFS-5 is 1Mb. The stripe...

Hi OcUK, A group of friends an I are going to Alton Towers in a few weekends time. We are staying in Staffordshire for the long weekend and have a Monday free with not much planned or anything to do. Being that this is the area of OcUK HQ (kinda), can anyone recommend some fun...

I've had a back pack for years and *touch wood* haven't had any issues. There is always a chance one day and I appreciate that, but I need one to carry my stuff. I've heard the same about having back boxes and that they can affect handling and if they go down can be dangerous to the rider and...

I've done a bit of looking, seems that: http://www.revzilla.com/motorcycle/alpinestars-slipstream-backpack Is one of the few completely waterproof (not water resistant) back packs made by Alpinestars. Their gear is always good from experience. I might have to take a ride down to a few local...

Hi, I'm an all year rider generally. Only things that put me off are snow and ice. Recently, my daily commute has gone from 30 mile round trip to 60 mile round trip. From 20 mins each way to around 45mins each way. I have a good range of wets gear and winter gloves that are full gortex...

Bit of an update! I didn't go for the same motherboard as it wasn't in stock and I went for 32GB RAM instead as I wanted the possibility of setting up vSAN in the lab. I'm running the vSphere 5.5 autolab from Lab guides. He says it can take 2-3hrs to build on his machine and I think I managed...

I am a biker. When I saw this, I felt sorry for the car driver the most! Although legally at fault, I'm willing to bet a high percentage of the drivers in the UK would not have seen him and caused a similar accident; myself included, and I really try and pay attention for bikers whilst in a car...

Hi, I'm thinking of upgrading my home PC to a beast in order to run VMware Workstation and a home lab using AutoLabs (from Labguides). The reason for this is that I'm looking to certify for a VCAP-DCA. At present, my home rig is 1st gen i7, 12GB Ram and SSD only running on SATA2 due to the...

I'm with Debenhams and have renewed with them for another year. One of my cats got badly insured last year and damaged his back leg quite badly. Overall cost was about ~3.5-4k to fix him rather than amputate. Only had 2k on the limit but they paid in full. I paid the rest and was very thankful...

In early summer, one of my cats brought a half dead wood pigeon into the house. It was clearly a gonner but I managed to save it from being mauled to death by cats at least. At 5am, I took it outside into my back garden and had to try and figure out how to finish the poor thing off. I ended up...

How many folder targets are there, just the source server and the receiving server? Which ones are enabled within DFS folder targets? Is it the case that users could have accessed the receive server folder target through the DFS namespace, deleted files but then it not replicated back to the...

Thanks for that info, does that mean you are advocating using a Banks insurance, subject to their T&C?

Hi all, I've just purchased myself a Samsung Note 3 from Ebay. It is brand new, sealed box, etc, but I got it slightly cheaper than a lot of retail places online. This is because its been purchased outside the UK. Given my past history with phones (not good, loss), I was kinda keen to insure...