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I wrote on the evaluation paper we send him prior to the meeting that I wanted his job. He knew it about a week before the meeting. I've had my meeting this afternoon. I'm not oofficially the IT director, but I do have the powers generally assosciated with the title. He's open to change my...

I'm curious about the average ppd of the RX 480 and also about the stability of the client when running on Polaris. I'd guess around 300,000ppd? I've seen some very low prices on the RX 480 in the past few weeks. Barely a difference with the RX 470 around here.

No. It's his job or I'm gone and losing me would be prohibitively expensive. In a way, I'm helping him. He told me at least twice that he didn't do what he wants in life. I'm just giving him an opportunity to fulfill his dreams.

Tomorrow, I meet my pseudo "boss" for my annual job review. Remember that scene from T2? Well, I'll tell him "I want your chair, your job and your office". I plan to wear clothes though. The thing is, I'm already the decision maker most of the time and I've cut the department expenses by...

The sad way Intel is planning to play it. The writer of the above is biased for AMD and I have little doubt AMD would use the same tactics if it was in Intel's position. Still. Unless the official reviews don't show the same praise of Ryzen's performances as the snips we've had so far, I plan...

Why not just a KVM-over-IP solution like the Lantronix spider devices? Is the interface more responsive via the USB cable?

I don't even use it on that server (bought it used and I use local storage, not connected to a SAN). I was just wondering what caused the longer boot time, but I think it's because it's loading a more complex web interface since that's the main way to control the VMs now under ESXi 6.5. I've...

So it wasn't you who wrote about BarftaFS and Altoid devices? Good to know.

I just want to add that their response time to patch the leak was exemplary.

It is very common, but maybe not to the point of being on more servers than not present. Unlike the RAID controller and network adapter. But yes, support for everything in those DL380p should be considered mandatory before releasing a software version. They don't have any excuse.

The story. The list of potentially affected websites. Change your passwords. All of them. I was days from switching to BitDefender for the security service for all our computers. They are affected. They should have the time to patch their stuff before the switch. At least I'm lucky on...

In case you plan to ask, yes, I've used the HPE customized ESXi installation.

I've upgraded a development server from ESXi 6.0 to 6.5 this evening. The web interface is nice, but the server took about twice as long to boot. This particular server isn't very solicitated and I don't reboot it very often, being a dev server. Still, is the longer boot process something...

It's also twice as expensive as the Lexar S57. I buy them by the dozen for the staff. The S57 is way better than the cheaper Kingston DataTraveler I usually purchase and barely more expensive. I'll go with that.

Thanks. I was looking for a good USB key model and the Lexar S57 seems like a decent option. It's not very expensive either.

It's an awesome deal. I don't know the price per gallon of hydrogen, but 15,000$ worth of fuel should cover most if not all your needs for the leasing period. I hope something similar is available around here when my lease ends up in 2019. I doubt it though.

Thanks. I'll try to find the time to take a look at it.

Keep your money for important stuff, not computers. I earn way more than you do (well, all of us do) and my home computer is close to 6 years old. When you'll finish your studies, have a job, figured out how much it really cost you to pay your rent, groceries, electricity, internet access...

ah HA! Now we know where you are. Sending the troops to get you!

Bring the wife and the kid at the office. Of course you won't see this post before everything is back to normal.

It looks very well done. I would have left a little more extrat lenght on the pipes to be safer in case of vibrations, but still quite well made. What's the internal temperature once the cover is on and the system is being pushed for several hours?

Just saw that the compatible Mellanox dual-port 10G NIC is much cheaper.

QNAP TVS-1282: 2600$ at amazon.com. CPU is a Core i5 6500, there's 16GB of RAM and you can use as much as 4 SSD for caching. You'll have to add a 10G (or 40G) network card. The compatibility list is here. A dual-port QNAP 10G SFP+ card cost 383U$.

When it's not rackmount, it's not even on my radar. It's probably quite fast for a NAS and the processing power is sufficient to run a few VM out of it. It doesn't come with 10Gb SFP+ ports, but it's understandable since the targeted audience probably wouldn't know what to do with those and...

Currently using Spiceworks Desktop, but of course it's lacking in features. Read and heard good things about Quest Kace, but it's quite expensive. Lansweeper Pro is cheaper, but last time I checked (about 3 years ago), it lacked a few things compared to Kace. Don't remember what it was...

Today, Trump could launch the nuclear missiles targetting China, it still wouldn't make the headlines here. The only there is on TV is the local hockey team's coach Michel Therrien being fired and replaced by Claude Julien, the ex-Bruins coach. Now I remember why I stopped paying for cable...

Of course I signed NDA agreements before, but this is the first time I'm being offered to try unreleased server platforms months in advance.

I'm not very affected by the "war on the muslim world" that Trump's administration is trying very hard to promote these days, what makes me cringe the most about him is the deregulation of business laws put in place to protect the public. Someone hasn't learned from the 2008 crisis that cost...

"Hey sucker! Take a deep breath!" "I'll shove my bat deep enough in you ass that when I'll turn the light on, you eyes will glow!"

The problem with a motorcycle is that it attracts clan-people and I'm more a lone wolf. When I stop somewhere, it's not to chat with people. It's generally because I need to lose weight or eat something.

For the first time ever, I've been proposed to sign an NDA agreement to access priviledged information regarding upccoming products and not yet released server platforms and processors. Of course, I won't be allowed to share anything here. The only thing I'll say is it is from an innovative...

I thought you were something like 57 in 2002 or 2003. That would put you in your early seventies by now. I also remember not to take everything you write to the first degree. Thinking about it... early seventies not to be taken to the first degree ...do you tweet a lot?

With Flagreen's return, Bozo lost his forum elder title. I read and heard that elders develop a fondness for bitter/sour food and drinks. Has it happened with you now that you are in your early seventies, or you still drink the same beverages than thirty years ago?

A "frost line", in California??? You plan to put it on top of a mountain or what?

Unless it's changed during the past year, the VPlayer is free for personal use, but you need the workstation version to create the VM. Virtualbox is free.

In Quebec, it's 341mL.

I mostly drink beer from local micro-brewers. Many are quite good, but you'll never see those outside Quebec. Best alcoholic drink I've had was a maple-sirup-flavored one made by Domaine Kildare. You mix the "Crème" with the "Digestif" from them and it is just awesome.

Meh. So it means I would have to amputated both my hands if I were to work for your company? No thanks.

We often use a Black Box 25U rack on coaster to setup customers' architectures. It doesn't have any cable management, but it's sturdy and cheap. You can combine it with cable managers to do a cleaner build.

It's T-800. As for compensation, they don't offer enough. But you can't plan a global system shutdown on a monday morning either, so I didn't have a choice to do it during a week-end.

Well, I moved the servers and networking gears to the new rack this week-end and it's too short for the HPE StoreEasy 1650 Expanded. It's very tight with the 3PAR rails too. The rear lateral PSU management also are useless since the rack is so short that the server rails overlap the rear 0U...

Official statement. Our company uses Avaya IP phones. It would cost us a lot (six figures) to replace the entire system. I planned an OS upgrade on the IP 500 servers next month. I don't know if it's worth it now. Their phones show up at half price on eBay. I hope someone will buy their...

What about the GGMM M4? The reviews are good, but several come from the Apple crowd, so they have little value to me. It seems bigger than the units you mention in this thread. I just need something that plays nice for a bedroom and can play audio broadcasted from another room about 20 feet...

My first thought when I read Mubs' post regarding SmartTV was also to flag the glaring security issues of those devices. Remember the massive DDoS attack that disrupted the internet on good parts of U.S.A last Fall? It was a orchestrated with a network of DVR players and similar devices, but...

I ment to show the other picture. A mooner moment of my part.

I'll be dead for at least 6 of those, possibly 8. I should still be around for the 2024 one that will happen a tad South or where I am. My vacations aren't in August, so I won't be able to make the trip for this one.

I bought this Tripp-Lite rack during the holidays, for hosting our company's servers and networking hardware. Cost about a thousand U$. I've received it las week, but haven't had the time to transfer the servers into it (will have to plan a 2-day shutdown during a week-end). It's still all...

Do you have something to measure the power consumption while you're doing the original data transfert?

Is the filez server also a DC/DNS/DHCP (like your stereodude.net DC)?

I didn't know a chopper could be so agile. It's worrying to think what I drone-like chopper with a fast integrated AI could do.