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Learning how to program a Cisco switch is something accessible to a teenager. Just buy a used one off eBay and play on it following the documentation available on Cisco's web site. Now tell me how a fifteen-years-old is supposed to get access to an AS400?

I'm sorry to learn the bad news for your wife too, Chewy. All I can say is that I've known several people who had cancer over the years and those who tend to fare better are those who kept seeing life in a positive way. I know it's hard to do, but if your wife fall into depression, in my...

You could do worse than a Lenovo TS140 for 384$ (without the hard drive). It has a quad-core Xeon E3-1225v3 (Haswell). Just 4GB of RAM, but it's still enough to install a modern OS and run a few applications. All you need to add is a hard drive.

Want to learn something relatively simple that will garantee you a job in the foreseable future? Learn the Cisco CLI for their switch. Probably half of the IT world runs on Cisco switch and AFAIK, there is and has been a short supply of people knowing how to manage them properly. It's boring...

Keep in mind that the yougest forum member other than you is more than twice your age (Blackerwry or Timwhit, can't remember which one is younger). All of us have at least ten years of experience in IT. None of us earns minimum wage, partly because of that. It doesn't mean we aren't tight on...

Putting me in HR would be quite a show. I'm less certain it would decrease employees turnover though.

Congrats! I will never see that day.

I mentionned those back in October :

Well, it's round and has a hole in the center, so in theory, you could help yourself with one. What a strange idea though.

I have a user here who cannot send e-mails through his Exchange account on his iPhone, but only when he's connected to the 3G/4G network. It works when he's connected to the local wifi. The iPhone is still using iOS 6. This is not my field of knowledge at all.What to do?

I was a bit optimistic about my Broadwell in Q2 prediction. More like late Q3 or Q4.

I mainly focus on server-grade hardware nowadays. The next consumer CPU that will come out will be Broadwell in Q2 IIRC. Those will be 4-core/8-thread chips. Haswell-E (6-core, perhaps 8-core) won't be available before September. I don't know about the top frequency at which they will...

We use Hyper-V 2012 R2 most of the time. We also have one or two ESXi systems, but we won't use vMotion on those. Since this would be for a testing environment, backups would be done manually to a NAS.

When everything is running inside virtual machines, having different architectures for the host doesn't matter IMO.

Found my answer. A Xeon E5-4610 is about on par with a Xeon E5-2630 (100MHz difference between both). So both are more or less equal at virtualization, while Intel's Xeon beats the Opteron more often than not at other workloads despite having less than half the cores. So once the E5-4610 v2...

I don't know why, but text formating has been screwed and I cannot correct it with the editing tool (won't let me save). I've tried with both Epic Browser and Firefox. Must be some weirdo thing with our network.

Both the Xeon E5-46xx and AMD Opteron6xxx are about to be updated. A look at the current generation brought me a question. For a relatively affordable (emphasis on "relatively") quad socket server, what would bring the most performance, a quad E5-4610, or a quad Opteron 6376? I'm not talking...

They've been saved by Mircea Popescu, a filty rich Romanian.

IBM launched their new System X6 servers, which use Xeon E7. So I expect the new Xeon E7-v2 to be officially released in the upcoming week or so. Otherwise, why would IBM introduce a new generation of servers? It's true, however, that IBM's marketing department often does weird things...

It's my pleasure. I seldom can help you on high-level IT since you have been doing this for much longer than I do, so I'm happy when I get the occasion.

I read that here, which is based on this message. Let's say that they pay their electricity 8¢/KWh, which I assume is a pretty average number (our company pays less than 6¢ per KW/h). In order to climb to 20000$, you have, according to my calculations, to pump a bit more than 28KW per hour...

I don't know why HP bragged so much about their entire website being served by their Moonshot server, launched several months ago. Their website has been unresponsible all week long, just like a server that is too saturated to timefully answer all requests. The Moonshot might be a good idea...

That and screaming like a girl. It must be effective because half of humanity does it. I, however, chose to refrain from using it.

To be fair, most of the tests I did were during the Holidays' two week shutdown. I ran the client too during off hours in early December, but not for long. BTW, you're aware that the E5-26xx v2 has quad-channel memory? Because in order to use your memory sticks in the most efficient way...

The support we get here from HP on business products is excellent, regarding the warranty replacement at least (can't say the same for on site installation/configuration of 3PAR SAN). But HP being good here doesn't mean HP being good in your hot southern inferno. Other Aussies could provide a...

You could just buy a stick magnesium with a torch blower. It would be very bright, but it wouldn't last long.

We don't use SAN switches. We are directly attached to the SAN. Because of a misunderstanding, there won't be hardware replication between our main SAN (3PAR) and our SAN at our remote (backup) location. We'll use Veeam to do it instead. While the reporting manager isn't required before we...

We'll then soon work with similarly performing systems as our Proliant DL380p also use E5-2690v2 Xeon. I hope you get better support from whatever SAN you use than we get from HP for our 3PAR though. We've spent the entire day trying to configure the reporting system on a Linux VM. HP's...

So basicly, you want a flashlight for someone who isn't a lightbulb?

Sorry for the lack of spacing. I have issues with the forums on my work laptop.

Apparently, the SSD into RAM socket idea isn't that bad. According to this article on enterprisetech.com, it allows to deliver a lot more IOps : More than 3 times the IOps than a server without it. Not bad. Not bad at all. I didn't know that another company than Smart Storage Systems...

Aussie's accent at its finest ;-)

Indeed

Yes. That's exactly the behavior.

Yes. Maybe it's my browser (Epic, Chromium-derived).

The long delay only happens when I click the "Reply to Thread" button at the top of the page.

The E5-24xx v2 should be out any day now since HP has server models with v2 processors advertised on its website, with part numbers are specifications.

Same problem again when I try to reply to a thread. Long delay before being able to write something.

We've had -21°C twice during the Fall that just ended (that's ~-6°F to you). And yes, I start to find that cold. It's currently -16°C outside, but very windy.

Try Ease Us Todo Backup. There's a free version available for home users.

The sentence was complete right there. No need to add anything after. I've had more HP Pavilion sent to me for repair than any other brand, including Acer (that should be scary to you). The HP Elitebook are great, but the Pavilion, well, if robots could shit, Pavilion would be their turds.

So that's it. The last of my big units has been uploaded to Stanford's servers. All the temporary virtual machines have been shut down and will be deleted tomorrow. We should still gain some positions, albeit slowly. Our global production, without the temporary servers, should place us...

Since Australia is in the southern hemisphere, shouldn't be hotter in the North than it is in the South, being closer to the equator?

The power button is usually quite obvious, either on the front or top of the tower/desktop box. Once opened, the way to shut it down depends on the operating system you use. In Windows 8 or 8.1, you send your mouse cursor to the top or bottom right corner, chose "settings" and then click on...

Meh. Did you put a lighter under it? That's the kind of temperature I would expect in the middle of the australian desert, not near the East Coast. -55°C, I could manage, but 55°C, I'd die.

Same question as Mercutio and happy new year. If you can only post from a coin-operated computer, I assume you've been hit harder than I thought you would.

What you describe are third-world country living standards. I can understand the charm of living in your home country, but when you know what true civilised living conditions are (I'm not talking about culture here, just comodities), unless you want to punish yourself somehow (or if you have...

Come on! Its the Holiday season and you complain those little bits don't move fast enough for you despite having to travel half-way around the World to reach your computer. You have no heart. Poor little bits, abused by the angry Indie man.

Yep. Last night, it went below -30°C (meteoman said -33°C IIRC), but I did not go out to verify. The coldest I've sustained was -37°C back in the early nineties. It was -54°C with the wind factor. I stayed out for almost an hour and my feet were so frozen that I did not know when they...

No winter storm here, but polar temperature. We've beaten cold temperature records for January 1st. We might beat some lows tomorrow too. The last time the temperature dropped close to the numbers we have these days was during the '93-'94 winter IIRC. I took an half-an-hour walk this...