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Thanks Dave, I'll check those later when I'll have some free time. Regarding the how-to guides, I've used some too. I few years ago, I fell on a video by EZ-Tool on how to make an RJ-45 connector. Before that, I missed maybe one-in-five connectors I made. Since then, I've never missed one...

I have a hard time finding interesting content on Youtube. Not helping is the fact that the top row on the front page is always showing shortcuts to videoclips of teenage girl music, like Taylor Swift and Nicky Minaj, both of whom I can't name a single song (not even hum the beat - but I...

Ahhh, but then what was... Then you've probably been misquoted or taken out of context. You could have a bright future in politics.

Wow. It looks like Merc's neighbors made a website.

WTF is the Adult Swim channel? There's no such thing as "adult" swim. Either you swim or your drown, no matter if you're a kid or an adult.

Wow. You must have the nervous system of a squirrel.

More than 7 is supposedly toxic and could damage the nervous system. I'm not talking about teenagers here, I'm talking about adults.

Free Space Optical. I asked for a quote from FSONA early last year and their products were interesting. We did not end up purchasing their solution though because our management chose to move us to a building further away without direct line of sight. In you case though, it would probably be...

I thought 21 was the legal age for alcohol in the States. Here, it's 18. Anyway, moderate your alcohol consumption while you're still in your teens. While you don't realize it, your brain hasn't fully developped yet (hence why most teens have trouble with risk assertion) and early alcoholic...

Jeep's transmissions are about as reliable as your syntax.

So that is why so many people south of the border play with fireworks all the time, celebrate and drink like drunks during July! I've never realized before. Wow, you must be a very important person.

Is that how you call what's attached to your infamous pink balls? Are you an ex-porn actor?

I will impersonate Chewy and suggest FSO.

It's a start.

Same main chipset, but different USB controllers would be my guess. I hope for you that your UPS 3.1 last much longer than your previous UPS.

That's what I have in my main computer. It's only about 4 years old. It certainly doesn't feel obsolete and it runs Windows 8.1 Pro quite well.

Reading that the FCC fined AT&T for 100 millions was the highlight of my day. Take that in the nuts, you corporate bastards!

I've used Keepass for the last few years. It's ok. One problem I've had with it is more admin-related than anything else : I often forget the passwords I've written to open some seldom used keepass files. So these are unusable when I end up needing them. I've never used lastpass.

That drive model is a consumer drive. It is meant to be used in a workstation, not a server. It communicates via the PCI-E interface, but a RAID controller has SAS 12Gbps interface. At the very least, you'd need a server supporting NVMe drives. The drives you should be looking for are the...

No need to go in the registry : http://www.thewindowsclub.com/prevent-hard-drive-going-sleep-windows I've tested it and it works.

It might be because Windows decides to stop powering off the drive when it's not being used aftetr a while in order to save energy. My computer does this with my data drive. I run Windows 8.1. Unfortunately and unlike on some other devices like network cards, I don't see a section in the...

That's revolting. The state should force Verizon to pay back the higher fees they were allowed to charge for making the 45Mbps for everyone by 2015 promess, plus interest and a huge penalty for failing to meet their duty to the Pensylvania state customers. Their CEO looks like a rat BTW.

Thanks.

I'm trying to download the 64-bit version and I can't even access the website. I've tried via Majorgeeks too without success. Anyone here has the 64-bit 2.11 version?

Do you have a WSUS configured? Probably not, but if you do, you might want to verify the update push settings.

We get similar (or slightly lower) processing performance with 20W less power consumption per processor, so we'll end up with a slight overall reduction on our global energy needs. That's the good news. However, from a single user perspective, these new processors are a big "meh" to my eyes...

If you buy a Mac, at least don't buy it used.

This will certainly interest you.

The Surface Pro 3 is nice, but the Surface Pro 4 is coming in less than two months, so if you want to go that route and can wait a little, don't rush the purchase. The Dell XPS 13 is getting a lot of praise and I've read at least one positive review about the XPS 15 (on Ars Technica IIRC)...

Given the price of enterprise SSD and the fact that you'll want redundancy (RAID1), the cost would be prohibitive. For instance, my two main virtualization nodes each have ~10 VM each. That would mean 10 SSDs without any redundancy or 20 with RAID1. For VMs needing more capacity than a single...

An interesting read and something I didn't expect. SSDs struggle in VM

She really seems to like her koala.

I think you might be better of with a basic Cisco SG500X-24MPP for roughly the same price. You would need controller cards with SFP+ ports instead of RJ-45 ports for the 10G links though. There's also the Cisco SG500XG-8F8T for even more 10G ports, but it's ~3500$.

That switch can't be more than 6 years old. The ports are not SDR or DDR Infiniband, they are QDR, so it's a lot more recent and significantly faster and modern. Of course it sounds like a jet engine. The rating I've seen is close to 60dB and the power consumption is around 300W. But it's...

You want a cheap but tremendously fast switch, look at this one. 36x 40Gb ports, manageable and dual PSU...for 325$ and free shipping. At this point, we should either stop or move the last part of the thread in the For Sale & Deal section of the site IMO.

Infiniband has a lower latency. I have no idea if it's more complicated to configure though, as I've never had to play with Infiniband devices. Both 10Gb networking gears and Infiniband are a significant upgrade versus commun gigabit network connections. Since I've configured quite a few...

He doesn't look like he could fly anyway...or run very fast either for that matter. Quails on the other end...

I've never noticed Rufus on the Hiren BootCD. What's the latest version BTW? The last one I've used was 15.2.

I'm with Howell: you don't need any dynamic routing protocol like OSPF. At most, if you have a static IP from your ISP, you could set a static route in your router for the default gateway, which has a much lower metric than an OSPF-learned route (1 versus 110) and is safer. I don't know if...

Such power fluctuations wouldn't affect hardware connected to an on-line UPS like Mercutio already has. Everything is already powered from the batteries. If there's a hit to take, the UPS will take it. However, on a line-interactive UPS like your APC probably is, your hardware might be at...

Is it a very dry room? The fact that most failures occured during winter, when heating is on, could also point towards a too low humidity level (and therefore a very high static electricity level). I thought about the possibility that all your drives are busting the 5V line, but modern drives...

Is it possible that you draw so much power on this circuit that you have brown outs? Power supplies, especially very efficient ones, don't like brown outs at all. It might be worth it to invest in an on-line UPS. They aren't cheap, but replacing 3 or 4 250$ PSU per year isn't either.

Same goes for me. It is not available in the MSDN account.

Be sure to update your firmware and change the default password ASAP on your Ubiquity router. Otherwise, chances are good it will be controlled by someone else than you.

There must be a catch, but it's not obvious to me. Look at this auction on FleaBay. Seems too good to be true, but if I had the spare cash, I'd try. The lowest price on those processors I've found is 3995$, so that's half the price. 18 cores 36 threads 2.3GHz / 3.6GHz turbo 45MB L3 cache...

Oh, I've seen the prices of the models you are considering. Forget my Watchguard recommendation. It is way above your budget. Sorry for wasting screen space.

BTW, the best router/firewall I've dealt with are made by Watchguard. Overkill for a SOHO, but damn nice equipment nonetheless. We have a 3 Series and two 5 Series at work. Simple to configure, reliable, troublefree. If you can afford it, an XTM-25W would probably be the best router you...

Handruin has been working in a datacenter environment for the past, what, fifteen years. He probably qualifies as a hardcore networking guy. I only have Ubiquity access points at work. They work ok. A notch below our Aruba wifi controller, but less than one third the price too.

There's also the newer model : Intel DC S3710 (part #SSDSC2BA200G401). And the one I've put into our file server, the Samsung 845DC Pro, although it's only available in 400GB (MZ-7WD400EW) and 800GB (MZ-7WD800EW) sizes. The Samsung is significantly cheaper than the Intel, but it's a lot harder...

A single GTX 780 gives 200K ppd? I did not realize that. In the past, when I used to GPU fold, what I didn't like was that 3 different graphic cards died on me after only a few months of running the client 24x7 (two Nvidia GTX 570 and one Radeon 7950, which only the fans started to make...