Recent content by John Kotches

Thinking out loud here... The keys don't need to be on the external at all. The encryption could be upstream of the write. The drive would just be a bucket of bits. Most efficient would be a cryptochip/ASIC or an FPU to do encryption chores. The datastreams aren't particularly intensive...

I haven't gone hunting for keys... Yet. I'm just moving data around. The 2TB partition isn't directly accessed. It is the extended partition that contains the additional space beyond the first TB. The space is accessed through logical partitions 5-8. As many as are needed to use all the...

I'm working with externals only. Sent from my Nexus 6 using Tapatalk

I've been working on a move from 2TB to 3.0TB drive over the weekend and thought I'd discuss this topic. Now that I've "walked a mile in their shoes" I understand why drives are limited to 3TB. I don't understand why they chose to take this path to get to where they are, but that's another...

I use a Synology 5 bay NAS with 5tb drives for the simplicity of management. I spend enough time wrangling about 100ish servers and 600ish OS Instances that I want to spend very little time on this. I have > 400 Blu-ray disks ripped and just upgraded from 3TB disks around May. I also have...

Raspbian at the moment, I might switch over to a different distro at some point. Sent from my Nexus 6 using Tapatalk

Basic services for me... DHCP, Caching DNS and syslog servers. Sent from my Nexus 6 using Tapatalk

A half a day is forever on this type of hyperscale solution. For four nines (99.99%) you get 1 second of unscheduled outages for about every 3 hours or less than 1 hour a year. Sent from my Nexus 6 using Tapatalk

I look forward to reading your impressions in another week. Sent from my Nexus 6 using Tapatalk

The fewer the tracks the easier it can be. But there's a reason the best are the best, and it isn't because its easy to do. Sent from my Nexus 6 using Tapatalk

I'll probably replace mine. I use it as an appliance for caching DNS and DHCP services I don't need it, but might do more on it with more speed. And it'll be about $60/with a case and an SD card. Scott is it SD or microSD. Sent from my Nexus 6 using Tapatalk

Maybe try HandCent SMS. I don't know if it can do this or not, but I strongly preferred it over the stock Samsung apps. Sent from my Nexus 6 using Tapatalk

Harshness: It is "trivial" to do a stereo mix but decidedly non-trivial to do a good or great one. Sent from my Nexus 6 using Tapatalk

No more or less so than synthesizing a stereo mix. Put another way there is no there there. It's all an artificial construct since its likely that no two musicians were recording at the same time. They might not have been in the same studio for that matter. So which artificial reality is...

Neither is a bad choice. If the larger and higher resolution screen isn't appealing save yourself a few $$.