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With the kind of neighborhood and "special" friends Merc has, he's probably been woken up a few times by boys with their tail out...and girls too.

You could do what I'm trying to do now at work (among other things) and install an openstack-based cloud targeted at online video streaming. With a few thousands followers, you'll easily reach (and maybe bust) your 16TB per month allowance. That's the kind of bandwidth you need for a 24x7 TV...

So there shouldn't be any traces of it on places like /var/lib or /var/I-forgot-what? Removing the mysql folder I created seems too simple. I hope it'll work. Thanks.

I installed the tarball in /usr/local. It's the .deb that installed in /opt.

That picture reminds me how much time has passed. Last time we saw a picture of Mark, he was more brownish than whitish. Same happened to me in the same period. My black hairs are scarse on my head now, while I was half-and-half last time I sent a picture of myself (not on the forum). Anyone...

In another thread : I thought it would be more appropriate to post this here. Does the Radeon HD 7970 produces 100K ppd in Linux or in Windows too? Only with beta units or with default options too?

I finally found a way to make it work earlier today, but either I or the other guy working on it screwed it because mysql.server now refuses to start since we reboot the server. I installed mysql 5.6.12 from a tarball. I read that the problem I have could be fixed by reinstalling mysql. All...

Partially unrelated ; while reading the web, trying to find a solution to my problem, I read some people speaking of a "brew installation". What's the link between beer and programming? If there is one, no wonder why so many programs fail all the time.

Oracle really doesn't do its homeworks. They make a repository (file.deb) available for Debian, but when you unpackage the package, you end up with a partial installation of MySQL and not with something that's ready to run. How the fuck do they expect us to work with that? Why don't they...

Heard at the office this morning : one of my co-workers told a client that he should keep the old hard drive from an aging system because it's one of the parts that is less likely to fail inside a computer. It was hard to choke my laugh.

The performance per thread of AMD's processors sucks. Unless you're heavily multi-threading, you're going to have a better user experience with Intel's hardware currently (when compairing the FX-8350 to Intel's i5). Plus, the AMD platform generates a lot more heat than the comparable Intel...

You went there to present the latest addition to the family to your wife's relatives?

The problem was that I had two NIC on the same network and although they had different IP addresses, it somehow caused troubles. I disactivated the second network port and all was fine afterward.

I don't identify as one or the other. I'm probably the only person on this forum without a smartphone.

Whatever NIC comes on the motherboard of a Dell PowerEdge 2950 III. I doubt they are cheap. It's either Intel's or Broadcom's NIC.

I'll add that I have a lot of packet loss when pinging Google, but none when I ping a local IP (a 192.168.0.xxx). There are two network card in the server. One is set with a fixed IP address and the other one is on the DHCP because I didn't bother to set it to a fixed IP. They don't have the...

When I try large downloads on the damn Linux server, the transfers stops after a few tens of MB. First time I tried to download mysql 5.6 from Oracle's website, the forst 30MB went thru, but then all networking activity stopped. I could not even ping Google. After a few minutes, everything...

If you want to do it in a more civilized way, just open the drive, disassemble the platters and use sandpaper on the platters. It will take you more time, but it will be equally effective. Personnally, I'm more the barbaric type.

Well, guess what : it's mostly made of metal. I usually put the hard drive on several layers of shock-absorbing materials when I smash one. It still makes a lot of noise, but at least the people on the other side of the floor don't think I'm trying to enter their office without using the...

Meh, you live in skyscapper city and the highest stairs you can take is a 4 floors equivalent. There must be ten times less skyscappers in Montreal than there are in New York and I'm sure I can find at least 10 building with 20 floors or more than I can access. On the top of my head, just...

I've started a trend in the company I work for. Every now and then, I use the stairs instead of the elevator to get to the 12th floor where I work. I do it quite fast too. One of the youger guys was looking for a way to improve his stamina and I suggested him to do the same. He did and told...

Samsung's optical drives used to be lame. I hope they've improved, but since optical media are rarely used nowadays, it won't really matter wether it's good or not.

Sold my first Haswell-based system today. It's a fairly low-end build, but it should be a very good office system nonetheless : Intel Core i5 4430 3.0GHz quad core with HD4600 graphics Asus H87M-E motherboard Kingston KHX1600C9D3B1K2/8GX (2x 4GB 1600MHz kit) Corsair Neutron GTX 240GB SSD...

I'm pretty sure you were 5 back then. Certainly, a quick forum search would back me up on this.

Nevermind.

If you re-use one of your older power supplies, just make sure it is compatible with the Haswell platform. Tech-Report compiled a list of those (it's no an exclusive list - your PSU might work even if it's on there, but those models are certified to be compatible).

I've used CD Burner XP for years. It's the one that pissed me off the least.

Handruin is now a fixture. An odd title to reach after eleven and a half years for a guy who's run things the entire time being the scene.

Random fact : You can fit a Thermalright SilverArrow SB-E on an ASRock Z87E-ITX inside a Fractal Design Node 304 as long as you just install the middle heatsink fan and not the front one. You can also fit a GTX780 if you remove one of the three hard drive brackets. Of course, the Node 304 has...

For all the last few new CPU generation introduction, prices were at their lowest during the first single or two weeks following the launch (at least here). The prices never fell back to the introduction price before several (think 6-9 months at least). This has been true since the Core 2 Quad...

Transexuals, something I'll never understand. Talk about people running after misery. Just accept yourself as you are. Typical result of the values pushed in our society. Whatever.

Thanks to thunderstorms, there's been an electrical outage and I've lost at least 3 hours worth of production, plus at least one unit. Great. The meteo man forecast more thunderstorms tomorrow, so more potential production lost to come.

Not yet. I admit I haven't paid much attention to LGA1150 motherboards so far. Even though the reviews are out today, the new platform will only be officially available Monday. Then, we should see what's on the shelves. Now, the only thing I can tell you is that there will be many available...

I can tell you that a dual socket server with two Xeon E5450 is roughly equivalent to a single i7 2600. So a 10K$ 4-years-old server performs just like a 2-years-old desktop for Folding@home. And I don't know how Mark does to get 40Kppd from a single GTX 580 because both of mine are stuck at...

I don't know if you've waited or not, but I can tell you that LGA1150 motherboards have been stock in many stores for at least a week. One I visited yesterday had plenty of them and because of uninformed staff, they've been selling them since last week-end. They did not receive any laptop with...

My production should increase significantly from now on. It should go back to approximately what it was two months ago. At last.

Hitting space bar switched the port to auto like you said. Thanks. Now the BIOS says it's an unknown device, but if I hit F11 (the boot menu) during the boot up process, I see the embedded SATA port among the boot options. I won't reinstall Ubuntu on the server for now because Debian is...

The company's lead programmer is more eager than you are. He's also my boss. I have to make this work.

I tried, but it fails. Don't remember the dependancy error and at this point, I don't really care either. Anyway, I want to install it on a second hard drive (an SSD to be precise) and I don't think apt-get would let me do that. It would put it in the default directory, which isn't what I...

I followed this guide to install Mariadb 5.5 alongside MySQL 5.5.31. It went smoothly up to the point where I'm supposed to copy and edit my-medium.cnf. It's because, the file isn't there. There's a my-medium.cnf.sh in /opt/mariadb/support-files, but no my-medium.cnf. Same goes for...

I've finally been able to install a distro that worked. I went with Wheezy (Debian 7.0) and upgraded the kernel to version 3.8.2 (from the original 3.2 that came with Wheezy). SMS Linux worked too, but I'm not very familiar with Slackware, so when I saw that I could succesfully installed...

Nothing prevents me from doing so. I'll try. There must be a way to do it with the drive plug in though. To Hell with it, I'll remove the SSD during the OS installation.

Too bad he's coming this week-end and not the one after. Haswell is launching next Monday and while it's a so-so new for desktops, it's great news for laptops. It has way superior graphics and lower TDP than Ivy Bridge. Laptops with Haswell processors should therefore have increased battery...

On a Dell PowerEdge 2950 III, I have a stripe of 2x 73GB SAS drive connected on the Perc 6/i adapter and one SSD connected to the motherboard's SATA port. There's no way to make the integrated SATA port bootable from what I can see : Server BIOS : The SSD is connected and it's possible to...

Judging from the trailer, the upcoming Riddick movie seems to be a remake of year 2000's Pitch Black, except with the same main actor.

How much would it cost to make the trip by train? It would be a lot faster by airplane, but somehow, I don't think you're an airplane guy.

Excuse me, starting? I'm running out of black hairs here.

Of course, I know it's rebranded. I'm almost certain the drive is a Seagate Cheetah ST3600957SS. Nonetheless, I was worried that HP might have modified the drive's firmware in order to make sure it isn't used in another brand than theirs. I'm probably just paranoid.

I stumbled on a very affordable HP 600GB 15Krpm SAS 6Gbps drive, 3.5". I need two 3.5" SAS drives for a Dell PowerEdge 2950 III. Except for the drive sled, should I be safe using an HP drive into a Dell server? Is it possible there's something in the firmware of the drive preventing me from...

Well, my opinion about them comes from personal experience over a few years back when I sold several of their boards to my customers. 2006 to 2008. After that, I knew better.