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The server venture continues, looking at shrimps dancing in the water...

I finally gave in and bought the little Quadro P400 to do my Emby encoding...

I said I wouldn't but they are high output video cards with very low power consumption at a dirt cheap price.

Without the 3DFx Gaming bla bla... These things can play 3 different videos on 3 monitors at high resolution at the same time. Without breaking a sweat and will use 30 watts a full blast and can decode literally 100S of movies at the same time... With 2 gig of ram.

I checked it and transcoding a 4k movie was taking 61 mo of the video ram and went unnoticed.

There's was a little frustration there... With the installation in The VM passthrough ect... I'm glad I did it because it gives me an idea how it's going to be with the big brother coming in soon...

Then tadammmm... all codecs availlable in hardware in the Happy Emby.

It took me at least 6 hours to comprehend the how to get to exclude the Video card from being used by the host.... Still not automatic in ProXmoX... But once I got it. Video and Audio where native in the VM...

Then the next morning... A major update gets out....

Darn...
 
jaylach said:
You guys are doing much more than myself as to a VM. For me, I'll stick with VirtualBox as I understand it and have had zero issues.

One of the complaints I've seen with VirtualBox is with networking but that is normally easily solved by setting the VM network adapter to NAT. If I understand it then uses the physical NIC as a pass through sort of access device.
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Networking has never been my stong point :eek:, fortunately I want my VMs on the same LAN so a simple bridge does the trick.
That being said today I plan to double NAT my internet connection. My ISP requires VLAN tagging and provided an eero router. They seem ok (albeit ridiculously overpriced) for average home use but definitely lack in basic functionality if you want to do anything more than connect devices to the internet. Internally I have a high end (but not new) Asus mesh system that can do everything I need but cannot supply the VLAN tag, and I can't justify replacing it.
But I do want to set up a site to site split tunnel VPN and use static routes - simply not possible with the Eero.
 
You need vlan on your lan ? or just the gateway ? Do you have a DMZ in that eero ? You could put a router that supports vlans and untag everything.

The Beast has arrived 😁 That thing is almost a foot long...3840 cores... lolll.

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This is the support for the AI VM... It should be able to nearly saturate the PCIe bus, I installed 2 crazy Sandisk Nvme on it.

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Cracking the case open after a good coffee.
 
MaloK said:
You need vlan on your lan ? or just the gateway ? Do you have a DMZ in that eero ?
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Just the gateway and no the GBP300 pos does not even support DMZ. My double NAT and split tunnel VPN worked just fine so I'm a happy bunny. Added bonus is that Amazon no longer gets to see what's going on inside my network (yeah yeah they say they can't / don't...). Plus all the IOT gadgets are now outside a hard wall
 
Can anyone figure out why my Snipping Tool won't work on my pc? I also can't even make changes to pictures in photos..
I still can't load the Microsoft Store after a month of trying. I guess if there is no fix, it will have to be a complete reinstall? 🫠

Snipping tool error: "Something happened on our end. Here’s the error code, in case you need it: 0x87E10BC6"

Photos edits: "It looks as though you don't have permission to save changes to this file."
 
MattW said:
Can anyone figure out why my Snipping Tool won't work on my pc? I also can't even make changes to pictures in photos..
I still can't load the Microsoft Store after a month of trying. I guess if there is no fix, it will have to be a complete reinstall? 🫠

Snipping tool error: "Something happened on our end. Here’s the error code, in case you need it: 0x87E10BC6"

Photos edits: "It looks as though you don't have permission to save changes to this file."
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Here is a link to the Microsoft App Store on-line.
apps.microsoft.com

Microsoft Store - Download apps, games & more for your Windows PC

Explore the Microsoft Store for apps and games on Windows. Enjoy exclusive deals, new releases, and your favorite content all in one place.
apps.microsoft.com

With the photos it is likely a permissions issue. Apply the following hack. Right click on the photo folder in question and select to Take Ownership. All files and sub folder within the selected folder will automatically have permissions reset to allow access. In your case it may or may not work but has served me well in the past.

The following may help with the Snipping Tool.
The error code 0x87E10BC6 when using the Snipping Tool typically indicates a problem with the application or Windows services, but there are several troubleshooting steps you can take to resolve it.

Possible Causes​

The error code 0x87E10BC6 can occur in various scenarios, including:
  • Issues with the Windows Store or application services.
  • Problems with the Snipping Tool itself or its installation.
  • Conflicts with Windows updates or system settings.

Troubleshooting Steps​

  1. Run the Windows Store Apps Troubleshooter:
  • Open Windows PowerShell as an administrator.
  • Run the following command to reset the Snipping Tool:
Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.ScreenSketch | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers Microsoft.ScreenSketch | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}


  1. Reinstall the Snipping Tool:
  1. Check for Windows Updates:
  1. Use System Restore:
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MattW said:
Can anyone figure out why my Snipping Tool won't work on my pc? I also can't even make changes to pictures in photos..
I still can't load the Microsoft Store after a month of trying. I guess if there is no fix, it will have to be a complete reinstall? 🫠

Snipping tool error: "Something happened on our end. Here’s the error code, in case you need it: 0x87E10BC6"

Photos edits: "It looks as though you don't have permission to save changes to this file."
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Its a Microsoft store app - did you maybe get too aggressive on the debloating?
 
seangee said:
Added bonus is that Amazon no longer gets to see what's going on inside my network (yeah yeah they say they can't / don't...). Plus all the IOT gadgets are now outside a hard wall
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Thinking about it that's quite terrifying. Including all the smart plugs for my tanks I have moved 27 devices outside the wall, and I'm not quite done yet. That's 27 devices inside my network all running software on (potentially) insecure devices that I have registered via multiple websites where I have no idea how secure they are. In fairness I never use my actual email address and never re-use passwords, but I wonder how many do!!!

In case you think it can't happen to you I was working for Samsung when it emerged that a security vulnerability in their "smart fridges" was being used to gain network access!
 
seangee said:
Thinking about it that's quite terrifying. Including all the smart plugs for my tanks I have moved 27 devices outside the wall, and I'm not quite done yet. That's 27 devices inside my network all running software on (potentially) insecure devices that I have registered via multiple websites where I have no idea how secure they are. In fairness I never use my actual email address and never re-use passwords, but I wonder how many do!!!

In case you think it can't happen to you I was working for Samsung when it emerged that a security vulnerability in their "smart fridges" was being used to gain network access!
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That is why, other than 2 HDTV screens, I have no smart devices. First I don't have a need and, second, the security issues. As the the TV sets they are on wired connections, not wireless. I also have automatic set updates turned off. Actually on both my 55 inch LG and 43 inch Samsung, they seem to have decent security. If there is an attempt to connect to either set the TV throws up an alert and will not allow connection unless I allow.
 
MattW said:
Can anyone figure out why my Snipping Tool won't work on my pc? I also can't even make changes to pictures in photos..
I still can't load the Microsoft Store after a month of trying. I guess if there is no fix, it will have to be a complete reinstall? 🫠

Snipping tool error: "Something happened on our end. Here’s the error code, in case you need it: 0x87E10BC6"

Photos edits: "It looks as though you don't have permission to save changes to this file."
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Download the latest iso mount it up in windows and do an in place upgrade... All your settings and app will be gone.

But your docs and stuff should be right there in a completely repaired windows...

Then go easy on the debloat don't remove too much critical stuff...

I still use Picasa3 to deal with pics, lolll.

jaylach said:
That is why, other than 2 HDTV screens, I have no smart devices. First I don't have a need and, second, the security issues. As the the TV sets they are on wired connections, not wireless. I also have automatic set updates turned off. Actually on both my 55 inch LG and 43 inch Samsung, they seem to have decent security. If there is an attempt to connect to either set the TV throws up an alert and will not allow connection unless I allow.
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Peoples are really paranoid... From all the TVs I dismantled for parts etc... I never found a camera nor mikes...

I never connect their wifi and use ethernet cable to update that is unplug all the time.

I also have an advanced active router, and nobody is phoning home. It blacklists automatically communications from both sides of the gateway.

If a machine starts to spit on DNS, SMTP, Scans, or any service ports, it's blacklisted. Too many retries Blacklisted...

This conducted me to trow some cheap Wifi expanders in the trash... Because they where always getting on blacklists...

lolll.
 
seangee said:
Thinking about it that's quite terrifying. Including all the smart plugs for my tanks I have moved 27 devices outside the wall, and I'm not quite done yet. That's 27 devices inside my network all running software on (potentially) insecure devices that I have registered via multiple websites where I have no idea how secure they are. In fairness I never use my actual email address and never re-use passwords, but I wonder how many do!!!

In case you think it can't happen to you I was working for Samsung when it emerged that a security vulnerability in their "smart fridges" was being used to gain network access!
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Yes, while it doe's not prevent the data collection. Having all iot on a segregated vlan is highly suggested.
 
Server update:

The Nvme drives appeared instantly for attribution and I promptly created a ZFS mirror to install Ubuntu Server. adjusted the config, installed all Nvidia support and driver. And succeeded at first try.

The beast is on line, Configured, Tamed and Ready to rock. It was a real challenge to get proper cooling performance as these High Power GPU's are not certified by DELL server platform and automatically fires up emergency cooling... No mater what, the firmware are locked and the system is in protection mode. With the help of my programming assistants... I wrote a simple script easy to install in any Linux that can manipulate all Poweredge servers idrac fan speed directly with IPMI commands... My little script simulates perfectly what you would expect from a home computer... Go as low as possible when idle, and rinse the engine when required... But Server stuff runs by triggers and once triggered they wont go down without a reboot.

And At the price of this video card, I ringed every pins of the power cable I got... Confirmed the power input... Made the necessary BIOS modifications. And put the PSU's in high power video attached mode. The available power confirmed passed from 750 to 2100 watt peak, 1850 max.... I had a little "gulp" there...

The idle has raised ... But, a lot less than I thought.

Stressing the CPUs brings the fans up now and while I have not tried stressing the GPU, temperature is well reported in the script, that uses the same logic and take the highest number...
 
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