On Sun, 14 Jul 2019 18:30:00 +0100, Andy Burns
wrote:

T i m wrote:

ss wrote:

not to all websites but I think thats a lesser issue and possibly
firewall or something.

Or browser, from your previous messages.

Running XP means running old browsers, old browsers don't support modern
encryption, some sites that don't really need to be encrypted are anyway
because somebody thought it would be a good idea, so you end up with
inaccessible web sites ...

FWIW, I'm still running XP (here) and Firefox and can't remember
having any trouble accessing any web sites?

I don't necessarily get everything as intended (like the odd embedded
video won't run) and some eMails don't open embedded images but will
normally open ok 'in browser'.

I have actually built a replacement box to this MacMini, quad core
Atom, silent (passive cooling), SSD, (full size) BD, W10-64 but
haven't got round to plumbing it in ... and a Quad core, passively
cooled Shuttle, also with an SSD and running W7-64 that will probably
go along side it.

I'm still think about a NAS to supplement my aging WHS. A mate has
just given me an old Buffalo TeraStation with 4 x 2TB drives but it
seems one drive has failed (probably why he took it offline and in his
loft a few years ago). As it's RAID5 I'm happy to find a replacement
drive and give it a good run and might leave it online here for a
while, prior to giving it to our daughter.

I'm still looking at Synology boxen, DS218J or just a DS119j (I think
it is, single drive) and maybe use a RPi running OMV to act as a
backup to that?

The TeraStation draws ~40W when running and ~15W idle, versus the
DS218j which I think is 17W running and 4W idle?

Cheers, T i m