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Read Ars Technica's report here. They won't ship it internationally before next year. Too bad, as I would have reserved one this morning. Who's in? It's certainly not very expensive for the power it can store. Anyone who thinks it is should take a look at industrial UPS battery packs. At...

Not much advices to give, since the world was quite different when I was your age and that I wasn't in the same country. However, from what I read, the student grants situation has gone to shit during the past decade in the U.S.A. Limit yourself on that front the more you can. They seem to be...

Rationally, especially now that you have a kid, I'd tell you to follow Mooner's advice. But since I haven't been to a physician since 2003 myself, I can only tell you to do what I say, not what I do.

Looks like you Aussies would be a bit better if iiNet would be purchased by M2 : http://www.zdnet.com/article/m2-launches-au2-25-billion-counter-bid-for-iinet/ At least they fight for their customers' right a little. That should tell something.

3 years Networking hardware is upgraded or replaced much less often than servers and computers. A typical life cycle for a switch is at least ten years. Since those switches are less than one third the price of similar equipment from other manufacturers, if they last more than a third of...

Gnodal has been bought by Cray in 2012, according to what I read. Some of their switch models are regularly on sale on eBay, but the prices seem to be too good to be true. Their GS4008, which is a 40x10GE+8x40GE sells for only 3000$. It's an L2+ only switch, but still. They also have a 2U...

I'm just testing my memory and I haven't googled it, but was Johnson the cowboy that replaced Kennedy when he got shot?

The goal of a short signature limit is IMO to maintain forum readability. I really haven't looked into this, but if there's a way to fix the caracters size to the smallest size, then I wouldn't mind a small bump in the allowed caracters number. Otherwise, abuse is at risk and too much screen...

No. I typically use my boots or a sledgehammer.

Today is the day that we pass the billion point mark.

A memorial is for people who keep living. P5's remains won't be happier if we commemorate him or not. If members of his family aren't aware of his involvement here, it won't change anything for them either. That being said, if members of our forum want to do something to remember him, I'm not...

I've searched the obituaries for Salem, Oregon and the last "Turner" who died there was in 2011, so not him. Unless he moved just before he passed away. His business is still listed.

Another helpful link.

I don't think the Dynatron heatsink would be enough. The fans inside the ML350 G6 are much slower than the 40mm fans inside a typical 1U server. The air pressure for the flow that would go into an heatsink with a small surface like the Dynatron would therefore be much less. I've found another...

He's in his late fifties, so being the father of a newborn, I just don't believe it. He's supposed to be passed his mid-life crisis and the possible consequences that come with it.

We've inherited an HP Proliant ML350 G6 at the office. It only has a single modest Xeon E5620 inside and 8GB of RAM. I'm trying to find parts to upgrade it. Although a new processor pair and RAM are relatively easy to find on eBay, it is surprisingly hard to find a heatsink for this...

I've never seen it this low, hence why I post it here. Only for today, at Rakuten. The Samsung 850 Pro is probably the best consumer grade SSD on the market these days, so having it at less than 50¢ per gigabyte is a good deal.

I thought bonding and aggregation were reserved to the pub & brewery.

The cheaper they are, the simpler they generally are too. The cheaper ones almost always use low-quality components, especially capacitors, that barely do the job. I don't think cheap power supplies are more likely to fail at 240V than at 120V. I think they are more likely to fail, period...

I may not be up to date on this, but last time I checked, some two years ago, MariaDB was supposed to be preferable to MySQL. I don't remember the reason, but there was something that made MySQL 5.6 slower for several operations than its predecessor. MariaDB was faster IIRC. I'm no DB...

I agree with Timwhit. You are blaming the wrong company. What you can blame them for, perhaps, is the very short notification time.

It's more than enough for OS, your apps and your live data. You won't store your movies, your music and your pictures on an SSD. That's more the job of a bunch of multi-terabytes LFF drives, ideally in some form of RAID (a stripe is not RAID!) to insure redundancy.

Now I know which drive I'll use in my next personal system build. The PCI-E version.

I admit I don't follow here. I was compairing me paying ~1223$CDN versus you paying ~1025U$. Yes, you probably could buy the unit from North of the border with U$ currency, although the bank is sure to swallow 2.5% to 3.5% of the convertion in the process, but that's not what I wanted to...

Thinking about the best place for Merc : Las Vegas. Highest population ratio of strippers in the U.S. He would have quite a social life ;-)

I haven't noticed anything regarding slow access to the site, but you're the one who sees the logs, so if you say there are error messages, then there must be.

Thanks for noticing. BTW, two online stores North of the border (here and here) sell it for less than amazon.com does, once you factor the currency convertion (~1.00U$ = 1.25$CDN). Both list it as being in stock. It's rare, but for once, I could grab something for less than you Americans can...

You don't look very "Nashville" to me. Do you prefer tornadoes and "Country" or earthquakes and money?

You wouldn't have enough space for all you computer gears and you would have to move South because this tiny thing would certainly be hard to heat during Winter in any place where there's a Winter worth calling a Winter. I'm not sure you would appreciate the sanitary compromises regarding the...

I'm simply disgusted by the way big corporations try to appropriate themselves of what should be considered private life.

What drive model does that? I'm considering the Seagate Enterprise NAS drives (ST5000VN0001) for a new storage unit. I don't want to be f**ked with a bad purchase.

Beware of AT&T's gigabit to home Internet offer : http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/03/atts-plan-to-watch-your-web-browsing-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/ Being worse than Google regarding privacy is quite a feat, but they've achieved it.

If it's Datacenter, then get it. Unlimited Windows VM and licences on the system on which you install it, although you probably don't have access to any hardware that can trully benefit from this. Still, it's worth ~5000$.

You need to update your signature ; it still shows 2x GTX690. It is important to us so we can follow the life of the rich and famous.

I read that it's an early alpha and still buggy as Hell, but promising nonetheless once it'll have mature a bit.

I normally delete the recovery partition and use the space to increase the size of the primary partition. In my opinion, it's only useful if you need to reset the system and you either don't have a Windows installation media or missing drivers.

It's a full electrical model and it's between 12 and 15 years old, I don't remember. Not leaving scars on the repaired appliance leaves the fun out of it. I guess I'll never switch fields.

Something odd happened today. My clothes dryer stopped heating the laundry last week, so drying took forever. Like most things that fail me, I ended up kicking it. The bump on the side caused noise due to the friction with the inside drum. It was unusable. Fast forward this afternoon, I...

Nobody uses SSD in such NAS units, period.

I don't know what people expected from this unit. It uses a quad-core Cortex A-15 processor, which is significantly outguned by even an Atom C2750, or any Core i3. Of course, this NAS wouldn't be that fast. It performs right according to its price: slightly better than the Synology DS1815+...

I saw this 10 minutes ago elsewhere. He did live long, but I expected him to live even longer.

The Surface 4 Pro will almost certainly be out by the time Windows 10 is launched (or the two will happen simultaneously). It will feature a much improved battery life. Apple, really?

We've purchased a few tens of Thinkpad T series in the past 6 months or so. I should have already verified that they weren't infected, but I haven't found the time yet. I hope they're not. On the positive side, the adware is apparently fairly easy to remove.

Keeping in mind that I almost exclusively use it as a phone (I don't browse the Net, use any of the included apps except the alarm and the phone), I still like it. Like I wrote ealier, it's too small to do RD on it, but as a phone, I have no complain. The battery holds up for ~3 days, so I...

I've stopped using the servers for running the FAH client. My production will be limited to my home system, so ~20,000ppd.

There's also the same card, but with an SFP+ port if you prefer. The 2m DAC cable is ~62$.

Somehow, I really doubt Mooner has a switch with SFP+ ports at home, although I could be surprised. If you're able to configure port aggregation (it is quite simple) on your switch, then opting for a unit with four gigabit ports might be wiser. The QNAP TS-853 Pro would be just fine for your...

Only our servers and a few (five I think) other computers are on the UPS/generator combo. The weekly test only involves running the generator for ~10 minutes. We've had a short outage last week and the entire building went dark, except for the servers. The power protection does its job.

That's odd, we test our generator every Friday at 1pm too. It must be the default setting.

I get this message on the top of the page when I log out : Warning: Declaration of vB_DataManager_User::do_set() should be compatible with vB_DataManager::do_set($fieldname, &$value, $table = NULL) in ..../includes/functions.php on line 497 Warning: Declaration of vB_DataManager_User::save()...