Post Your Server!!! - Page 64

Originally Posted by Plan9 

Shout if you need any help
Most definitely. They're both essentially the same anyway as Boxee is based on XBMC (I thought Boxee had discontinued it's PC support though. Surprised to hear there's still a Boxee OS floating about). In fact you can use a uPnP client on your phone and (on android at least) when I click a video to play it gives me the option to play on the phone or play on my XBMC media centre. You can also get XBMC remotes (you need the web interface enabled on XBMC) which are apps that run on your phone / tablet and allow you to use them as a remote control for your media centre.

Personally, I'd recommend you install XBMCbuntu. It's XBMC's official OS installer and (as you've already guessed) it's based off Ubuntu. So it should be a familiar internals to what you're used to plus a stress free way to get XBMC on your media centre (I think it works as a live CD too). Check their site for more details.
This is the problem though, Silverlight isn't more open - it only pretends to be. I can't run Netflix on my system because Netflix depends on DRM extensions in Silverlight that MS never released to Linux. So I either have to run XBMC in Windows and loose some of the other Linux features I use (not all that appealing) or loose Netflix. And what's most frustrating is that Netflix offers unlimited bandwidth and unlimited numbers of videos views - so the DRM is completely pointless as you'd just stream from the cloud rather than spend all that extra time pratting about with ripping the stream and then filling your own storage up. So in the movie industries attempt to reduce piracy, they've instead made it hard to watch things legitimately thus making the piracy route more attractive. (and now I'm back on my soap box! maybe I should start a blog lol)

Seriously though, the IT sector is in a serious mess and it's not all one sided with the downloaders being at fault . Us good guys get screwed left, right and centre.

Originally Posted by axipher 

Thanks for all the great info man
I started downloading XBMCUbuntu. But now I think I'm reading that you say it won't work with Netflix? Well that's a bummer... I'll try it out anyway, hopefully it work with my Rosewill MCE remote I already have.

Originally Posted by bobfig 

the problem with netflix is silverlite. they do have one open sourced for linux but the problem is that it doesn't work with DRM. netflix needs the DRM or it wont work.
http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/faq.aspx

Originally Posted by ZealotKi11er 

Before i spend some real money to build a $500 File server i am using some old hardware to see if it benefit me in any way.
Intel Pentium D 805 @ 2.66GHz
1GB + 512MB DDR1
ASUS P5S800-VM
Intel Stock Cooler or Xigmatek HDT-S1283
ATi Radeon X1650 PRO 512MB AGP
Generic 460W PSU
CM 690 (Heavily Modified)
1 x 20GB SATA HDD
1 x 120GB IDE HDD
1 x 200GB IDE HDD
Not sure what OS to get for this which i plan to use for the real server i will build. I know i cant run Linux because i have 2 programs that require Windows to run.

Originally Posted by Aestylis 

Finally getting around to posting some pictures, not the greatest though.
Home ESXI server I built from free/near free parts. See system in Sig.
OS: ESXI 5
Case: NZXT Whisper
CPU: 2x Intel XEON L5320 (quad-core) BSEL Modded to 2.33ghz
Motherboard: Intel S5000PSL
Memory: 20gb ddr-2 667 FBDIMM's (the picture was before an upgrade to the memory)
Cooling: Dual Coolermaster Hyper 101's on the CPU's with Thermaltake LGA771 brackets. 6 total 120mm fans, several others for FBDIMMS and positive airflow out the rear.
PSU: 550w Diablotek PSU (cheap but works great)
OS HDD: 4gb USB flash drive
Storage HDD(s): 8x 250GB WD RE drives with one spare. 750gb WD as a backup drive.
Server Manufacturer: (Ex: Dell, HP, You?) Me.
What you use it for:
(Minecraft server, web server, file server, media server, test environment for certifications, etc.)
Temps, loudness, etc.
Extremely quiet. Haven't gotten the temps out yet.

Originally Posted by frank anderson 

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Originally Posted by Pentium-David 

That's an amazing server but I still don't get why people think they need a quad core and 16GB RAM for a file/backup server. I have Pentium 3's and Pentium 4's that do that and they are still overkill for such simple tasks.

Originally Posted by Pentium-David 

That's an amazing server but I still don't get why people think they need a quad core and 16GB RAM for a file/backup server. I have Pentium 3's and Pentium 4's that do that and they are still overkill for such simple tasks.