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Does Full Disk Encryption using Veracrypt on a home PC affect my gaming performance and cloud storage options?

I'm considering encrypting my gaming machine SSD (A Samsung 850 EVO, 1 TB) and HDD (1 TB classic HDD) with Veracrypt for the added security (although it's unlikely i'll need it). However, I have some concerns: I use Dropbox to have backups and…
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Can a personal cloud storage device be used for syncing OneNote?

(Please note this is a question about a type of NAS (Network Attached Storage) device, not an online cloud storage service.) If I understand it correctly, a personal cloud storage device (for example the My Cloud by WD) is basically a simplified…
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What is the cloud?

I don't know if this question is suited for superuser or not, but it doesn't seem right for Stack Overflow. Basically I have been hearing a lot about the cloud, but I don't understand what exactly it is. I am familiar with things that I am told…
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Spark standalone running job error

Have been stuck on this error for a few days, desperately need help. So with standalone deploying mode, I am trying to run sample jobs, yet no matter how simple the job is (even starting spark-shell with counting an array of numbers) the following…
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How does Panda Cloud Antivirus work?

The question is simple, How does Panda Cloud Antivirus work? I mean how can it detect an infected file without having an offline database or sending the actual file to be checked by a remote server?
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Combining multiple linux boxes and create VMs out of it

I am running on Ubuntu. I have a set of linux machines (5 to 6 machines). Which I want to combine as a single resource pool and on demand create multiple virtual instances of machines out of it. This is comparable to what VirtualBox does in a…
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VirtualBox detects only less than half of the cores and designates ANY number of cores to be used by 'red' on a machine with a high number of cores

I have been using Oracle VM VirtualBox for many years and even on systems with only two cores, I have always seen the 'green' light for 50% of the cores. To my surprise, currently on a Linux machine with 80 cores, I only see 32 cores in VirtaulBox!…
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Confused about cloud computing

I've read about three types of cloud computing services: IaaS. PaaS. SaaS. I've read about these all in many books. But I'm confused about their applications and examples. What do they mean and how do they work? Please give some daily life…
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Best way to install some Linux distros in the cloud and record screen

I am looking to record some training on a few Linux distributions. Will something like Microsoft Azure be able to do this or online IDE or perhaps DigitalOcean? I will download, upload the ISO and then boot the distro. ideally it would be great to…
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What are the differences between Cloud Virtual Machines and Virtual Machines on a computer?

Google has a service that allows you to create Virtual Machine on his Cloud. There are many Virtual Machine Types like Browsers (StackBrowsers), Mobile Phone, Operating Systems. You can use the Cloud to compute experiments that would have been…
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Modify VM system configuration without turning it on. Will it be OK?

I am using Virtual Box. I make a Virtual machine with this specification: Base memory : 1024 MB Processor : 2 CPU OS : Ubuntu Everything is working well. Later on, I will migrate the *.vdi to the cloud system. However,…
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Create a fake RDNS resolution in Linux

I'm currently contributing at Mozilla Community IT, and I'm working with our infrastructure team to setup a puppet master. Puppet doesn't play nicely without RDNS resolving properly, but our cloud provider (HP) doesn't currently offer RDNS I was…
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Peformance of Amazon EC2, what do I actually get?

I have read some articles about Amazon's Web Services and am interested in: Knowing exactly what I am getting (maybe some equivalent terms to a physical machine would be helpful) The "performance" compared to I guess my own machine or other widely…
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fastest non volatile memory type available for High Performance Computing/ Cloud computing?

I am working on parallel computing and distributed programs and noticed that file i/o is quite a bottleneck. It seems quite clear this particular aspect is major issue in many high performance solutions. So I was just curious what would be the…
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What is the difference? Dedicated Server Hosting/Cloud Hosting

I want to know which is more cost effective and powerful for hosting games and apps. As I understand it, a game console is powerful because it is a dedicated machine. On the other hand, I hear cloud servers run on clustering. Both of these methods…
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