Hi.
I'm obviously intelligent enough to be in this forum because two captchas, both of which were worse than any I've seen in other forums have been passed.
Captchas are there to stop spam bots, not dissuade possible members from joining up and the captchas you have need spelling skills, a pre-read of a few forums and a knowledge that supermicro is a mobo brand (that we don't have in NZ).
Maybe a human test like how many legs on a spider, number of moons the earth has, how many suns do we orbit, etc etc might work better than the current ones.
Also NAS - what does it stand for, requires spelling skills some don't possess. Attached is a *itch of a word and frankly NAS also stands for Not Another Stupid ..... add your own ending here. :)
Anyway - gripe over. Mostly there because I know many wont join the forum and we might miss out on some benefit just because some wont make it past the captchas.
About Me. - I'm fron Nz, have 36 years of computer experience, remember when DOS came out, stored my first data on tapes, still remember punch cards and have put networks / storage systems in place in both the first and third world. (BNC, Cat5, Cat6, 2.4 and 5.8 long distance (60km plus), Novell, modem to modem, EOP, POE driven systems over 2.5km, solar powered, battery powered, human powered etc etc etc.
I'm Linux, Windows and Apple Experienced from (MS Dos 1.x , Windows 2.0, Caldera Debian rc 0.? back in the early 90s, apple Europlus IIE) through to current.
Been building networks since peer to peer meant telephone calls between 150cps modems with manual AT commands still a thing of the future. (e.g. dial other modem using phone, push the send button and push the button to set the baud rate).
Been building servers and storage systems almost as long. My favourite hack was an Apple II networked to an AT / 186 running dos, with printer shares and file sharing. ( all I will say is it involved a long parallel cable, terminal services running a telnet like protocol and a hardware hack in the middle).
Currently own and work for a business providing support for small to medium businesses (got sick of corporate) and looking at using NAS more than we do as lots of companies now need file sharing but not the full Linux box with mail, SAMBAFS, Active directory etc and who dont want to get sucked into the cloud.
We have Synology, DLink Asustor NAS boxes in play, set up Linux boxes with samba etc but want to work more in the embedded OS area (more robust and configurable) as most of the previous mentions are expensive for what you get, under whelming in their performance and dont talk standard protocols making rsynch etc hard to connect to them. also SSL hasn't been upgraded so are vulnerable with difficult choices re upgrade paths.
Looking forward to being part of this community.
I'm obviously intelligent enough to be in this forum because two captchas, both of which were worse than any I've seen in other forums have been passed.
Captchas are there to stop spam bots, not dissuade possible members from joining up and the captchas you have need spelling skills, a pre-read of a few forums and a knowledge that supermicro is a mobo brand (that we don't have in NZ).
Maybe a human test like how many legs on a spider, number of moons the earth has, how many suns do we orbit, etc etc might work better than the current ones.
Also NAS - what does it stand for, requires spelling skills some don't possess. Attached is a *itch of a word and frankly NAS also stands for Not Another Stupid ..... add your own ending here. :)
Anyway - gripe over. Mostly there because I know many wont join the forum and we might miss out on some benefit just because some wont make it past the captchas.
About Me. - I'm fron Nz, have 36 years of computer experience, remember when DOS came out, stored my first data on tapes, still remember punch cards and have put networks / storage systems in place in both the first and third world. (BNC, Cat5, Cat6, 2.4 and 5.8 long distance (60km plus), Novell, modem to modem, EOP, POE driven systems over 2.5km, solar powered, battery powered, human powered etc etc etc.
I'm Linux, Windows and Apple Experienced from (MS Dos 1.x , Windows 2.0, Caldera Debian rc 0.? back in the early 90s, apple Europlus IIE) through to current.
Been building networks since peer to peer meant telephone calls between 150cps modems with manual AT commands still a thing of the future. (e.g. dial other modem using phone, push the send button and push the button to set the baud rate).
Been building servers and storage systems almost as long. My favourite hack was an Apple II networked to an AT / 186 running dos, with printer shares and file sharing. ( all I will say is it involved a long parallel cable, terminal services running a telnet like protocol and a hardware hack in the middle).
Currently own and work for a business providing support for small to medium businesses (got sick of corporate) and looking at using NAS more than we do as lots of companies now need file sharing but not the full Linux box with mail, SAMBAFS, Active directory etc and who dont want to get sucked into the cloud.
We have Synology, DLink Asustor NAS boxes in play, set up Linux boxes with samba etc but want to work more in the embedded OS area (more robust and configurable) as most of the previous mentions are expensive for what you get, under whelming in their performance and dont talk standard protocols making rsynch etc hard to connect to them. also SSL hasn't been upgraded so are vulnerable with difficult choices re upgrade paths.
Looking forward to being part of this community.
