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In fact, yes, American can and often do beat Japanese cars for that. American cars very often outlast their Japanese counterparts on longevity. It is the reliability along the way that gives them a poor reputation. American cars passing 300K miles is common, while it almost never happens for...

What do you guys think of the new Chrysler 200 2015? I've read two positive reviews about it so far, albeit they are probably not the most objective sources. It looks very good on paper, but...it's a Chrysler. How good can it really be? Since they've been bought by Fiat, can they have finally...

I read it here : http://www.tomshardware.com/news/lenovo-battery-recall-models,26412.html I ended up on TH by accident and stumbled on this news. I thought it could be meaningful for some people here, especially Ddrueding and Mercutio. Several laptop models are affected :

Can't you boot on a WinPE CD and try a chkdsk /r? Sometimes, it fixes file security attributes errors. You can also retrive the Windows key with Magical Bean Key Finder or something similar. It is pre-installed on the WinPE environment of any recent Hiren's Boot CD. Honestly, unless you...

They are still among the fastest drives on the market. To get something something better, you'll have to dig in your wallet (~270$ to ~280$) for a Seagate Constellation ES.3 or a Western Digital Caviar Black RE. IMO, the HGST 4TB is the best value right now. The design has been mostly...

A new client is available since March 19th : version 7.4.4. The previous version, the one most of us still use, is version 7.3.6.

The meteo station shows -21C already, so my home termometer must be a bit off. I confirm that it is a new record low for this time of the year. The preview record was -19C in 1976.

Apparently, Spring has arrived. I couldn't tell by looking at the termometer : it's currently -18C outside (-0.4F). It's supposed to drop to -20C or -21C before sunrise. On March 24th.

I would get the HGST Desktar 4TB if I were you. They are generally faster and HGST's drives are famous for always working well in RAID setups.

Then New Egg is wrong. It wouldn't be the first time.

It is much too early in your life to be able to tell wether you'll be able to "compete" or not. Maybe you'll always be piss poor, but maybe you'll get a decent job and climb from there. Give it time. For now, focus on developping your skills, do well at school and try to develop a personality...

Since the management still hasn't provided me with the software licenses needed to properly configure the servers for production use, I've decided, in protest, to relaunch the FAH client. Only during the week-end and perhaps too during off business hours, until I finally receive what's missing...

Meanwhile, the Seiki 50" 4K TV is down to 699$ at Amazon, with free shipping. Granted, it only does it at 30Hz, but still.

You mean the VS239H-P? Because the VS247H-P uses a TN panel. Their VN248H-P also features an IPS panel and is fairly cheap.

More like option #2.

Stereodude, the little Christ, told "rise and walk!" and the Lazarus thread came back to life.

We have some immature pricks, but I'm tremendously skilled at crushing someone's self-esteem, so I usually make an example when I have to deal with one of those and the word passes. I don't plan to quit my job and do nothing at home, drinking beer and eating chips. But unless the management...

Am I the only one with a downright ass-grabbing job? I mean, during the past two weeks, I've felt asleep every day during the afternoon...and nobody cares. I'm about to buy a sombrero! Not that I haven't tried to make things move faster, but I always end up waiting for the management to make...

Apparently, the world's largest datacenter is (or was) in Québec, near Montréal : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e97g7_qSxA

I either pulled it out of my ass, or I read it here. I don't know in what consist the improvement to the TIM used in the upcoming Haswell processor.

Not massively overclockable. Hitting 4.2GHz from a 3.5GHz base clock isn't all that special. The TIM (thermal interface material) between the CPU core and the heat-spreader is shit on Haswell processors, although this will soon be rectify by Intel in the upcoming months. The TIM in mainstream...

Ok, how about :

They probably do for their consumer-grade hardware and they most certainly do for their server-grade hardware. It's basic computer technical knowledge combined with years of experience in the field. People carry on average around 15KV of static electricity. While the current amount is...

Your Gigabyte EX58-UD5 isn't enterprise-grade hardware. It is mostly high-end consumer grade. If it made it to 5 years, then it wasn't particularly bad (or good). It is the expected service lenght of consumer-grade hardware. If you want something more robust, I suggest something like this...

I can confirm that I experience the delays too and it is now ~7am on the East Coast.

Why just not move to Windows 7 Pro and its XP Mode? You can still use the XP Mode for the retarded applications, but use the rest of the system to interact with the world. I've used this several times over the years for people who wanted to use printers that were not supported in recent...

If those machines are used by users who browse the web using IE8, then the answer is a loud "yes". That simply bad planification from her part. If she didn't have the time to put money on the side after 13 years and three skipped upgrade-cycles, just show her a mirror. Business IT has a cost...

If it's RAM and processing power they need, an HP DL380p #748303-S01 (2U) with 2x E5-2690v2 (3GHz/10-core each) and 32GB of RAM should cost ~6800U$. It comes with only two 16GB sticks, but you can add more at ~260U$ per 16GB DDR3 1866MHz ECC stick. You can also put any 2.5" drive you want, as...

If you can get a hold of it, the HGST Ultrastar SSD800MM #0B28587 (the 800GB model) is probably the fastest 2.5" SSD you can get. It's also approximately 4000$. Faster than that, as the others told you, you have to go PCI-E. A Virident FlashMax II 2.2TB (their fastest model as the 4.8TB model...

So, how were your tests? What was the top electrical consumption of the blade chassis when all 8 blades were running Prime 95 (I assume two 5108 chassis)?

Thanks for taking the time to ask. I thought about doing it yesterday in Extreme Oc's forum, but their forum doesn't seem to receive a lot of traffic and I thought I wouldn't get an answer quickly. It is a good gesture to give away your systems. It also means our global contribution will...

You seem to still maintain these stats. Have you only made 575$ so far? It's been four months since you've started this. One would have thought that your hardware would have repaid itself sooner (like, before the Mt.Gox collapse).

At this point, I think it's fair to assume that who ever takes care of the stats there either gave up or screwed up in the process. Maybe he did a Davin/Eugene special. Or maybe he concluded that the income from the site's ads wasn't worth the trouble of maintaining the stats system. I'm no...

That's the first thing I've tried before I resumed the bigadv earlier this week. I get the failed ID request error that I've complained about a few days ago. On both servers. It's probably something in our firewall that is blocking it, but I won't open ports in our corporate firewall just to...

It looks outdated. I can't believe there's been no new nightly build in 11 months.

I'm using the latest stable build of Chrome under Lubuntu 3.10. Thanks for the warning about the beta version, but I've had so many problems setting up a functional NaCl client that I won't try to run it under a beta version anytime soon.

Aging isn't cool. The middle finger of my left hand is starting to show signs of a trigger finger. I wish it was a joke. It's annoying. I keep stretching it, but the feeling never goes.

You had me searching a little before I've found that it's a VNX7600. Nice storage unit. Your company officially has more IT budget than mine. What's preventing you from stressing the systems with the FAH client is the need to get Internet access, isn't it? On unrelated news, I've finally...

That would be the two virtual machines running the FAH client part time. It is only a matter of days before I shut them down permanently in order to replace them with production machines.

I was a bit off (but still quite close) with the prices of the E5-46xx v2 series :http://ark.intel.com/products/series/75284/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-4600-v2-Product-Family

Those are from the project 8105 and 8104, I think. I ran two instances of the FAH client on VM on our new server setup, configured to receive big units (since the Google app didn't work). I might run those on occasion until our electrical circuit is up and that I have to move to the production...

In the debugging console, this is the error I get :DEBUG: Status: downloading: Requesting ID. main.js:72OPTIONS http://assign5.stanford.edu/api/id?0.7155914502218366 No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'http://folding.stanford.edu' is therefore...

I've configured it in a VM under Lubuntu, but I always get the message : "Waiting to retry ID request". I'm sure my username, team and passkey are correct. WTF?

Good luck getting a clear answer to that.

HGST drives perform typically well in RAID arrays. I don't see why this model should be any differrent. I would like to setup a 12-drive 2U server with those. Even using RAID 10, we're talking about 36TB of useable storage.

The 6TB HGST helium drive is now available at only ~570$CDN. That's quite a drop from not so long ago. I will be in the market for additional drives in not too long since I have less than 300GB of free space left. This drive looks like a strong candidate.

Well, you've used UPS so you're partly to blame from not knowing better. However, it's not hard to imagine that Samsung's RMA system is some kind of a maze. It's sad to read that they haven't figured out how to properly give support to their customers. It's sadder to think that it's...

Reading your stories about your computers is like watching an episode from "The rich and famous".

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