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I wouldn't know; I never visit the Metro interface.

I finally passed on the deal. I'll get a nicer laptop when I'll have the resources to buy one.

Foxconn brand motherboards, yeurk! Those will give you trouble and they will fail sooner than you expect. You've been warned. Although for 50$, nothing great is available.

Yeah, I klnow about the Samsung. While the chassis is probably a bit better and it has a USB 3.0 port (which the Acer misses), the ARM CPU is significantly weaker and I'm not sure about the compatibility with alternative OSes. I won't invest twice the price in order to get a more powerful...

Screen estate is very useful for spreadsheets and for watching videos.

The only things I'd do on a laptop would be net browsing and office work. For that, I don't need much speed. Besides, the biggest speed impact is from having an SSD instead of an HDD and 450$ laptop don't have SSDs. Also, my main criteria is the screen definition and there again, 450$ laptops...

I'm very tempted to get an Acer C7 Chromebook. I can get it for 237$ locally. Yes, it's a shitty laptop, but since I don't have a laptop at all and not much money to spare, I guess it would be better than nothing. I'd replace the internal 320GB hard drive with my spare Corsair Neutron GTX...

It was the 3.5" to 2.5" adapter. I tried with another (exact same model) and it worked. I should have tried it before, but since this is just a connector redirect board, I didn't think it could be the problem. Thanks all for your help.

I've experienced slowdowns and even problems accessing Storageforum.net yesterday's evening. There might have been something going on.

The 3.5" SAS drives work just fine when connected in the same slots. No, I'm not familiar with the Perc, but it doesn't seem to be that complicated. I enter the controller's menu by pressing Ctrl+C at a certain moment during the bott up process and then I have the choice to create a array and...

I have a problem with my new SSD and the Dell PowerEdge 2950 in which I intended to install it. The intergrated Perc 6/iR controller refuses to detect the SSD. I've placed the SSD inside an Icy Dock 3.5"-to-2.5" adapter, but that should not be a problem since there's no ontroller in that thing...

I read briefly the wikipedia page about IPV6 and I don't get how it works. I don't understand the prefix notation and how it translates into actual addresses. The reserved prefix either. I'll have to digest its working somehow sometime in the future, but the 10 minutes I've spent so far on...

I look at the fees to reserve an IP address block on ARIN's website and I'm perplex. Is that the annual cost per IP address or for the entire reserved block? Somehow, given how rare the IP V4 addresses are, I have a hard time to imagine that it only cost 2250$ to reserve 4096 of them (a /20).

The services on EC2 are used to send video files to our customers. We send between 2TB and 3TB of data monthly. The services are on EC2 because the people working on the project didn't know better when the project started more than two years ago and they did not ajust since. There's also a...

That's why wallmounts are for. And since the sale is apparently for a limited time, there might not be any TVs left when David posts his review.

Apparently, P5_133XL, Ddrueding and Handruin all had simultaneous heart attacks and stopped contributing the project. Or the entire U.S. suffered a blackout. Or there's an alien invasion going on. Or...I don't know. Anyway, I slept 12 hours straight and the first thing I notice when I wake...

That's the thing with Chewy ; he's so insanely knowledgeable about certain things that I wouldn't even be surprised if he knew this by heart and didn't need Google to tell you.

Ok, that's almost impossible. 4K TVs were over 20K$ just 6 months ago. How can we have a 1500$ 4K TV now. Don't get me wrong, it was very predictable that the 4K TVs were to drop to this price eventually, but I expected it to happen in two years, not now. There has to be a gotcha somewhere.

I noticed it too yesterday, but today it seems fine.

One of the options is the "Magnetic Ride Control". Is that similar to the magnetic suspension developped by Bose almost ten years ago?

I have no idea how much it cost and what controller it uses, but if you want a 2TB SSD, the Optimus Eco is now available for you. It's supposed to be good for 50 full erase per day for 5 years, so its endurance is quite good.

I saw it. I'd really like to know how it fares against the Thecus N12000Pro. Those were the two models I did retain for my server farm replacement plan. The Thecus is slightly cheaper.

Thanks a lot!

I used the short HTML code page you guys made for Ddrueding as a base to create a website for a singer friend of mine. You can view my pathetic attempt at a website at the following address : www.karinegamelin.com Yes, it's in French. She didn't have a website before and the only photos of...

In his mother's womb. :P Sorry, I had to say it. I'm so evil.

Found an adapter supposed to work for the PowerEdge 2950.

Not unless what I saw 6 months ago completly changed. 40Gb adapters are significantly more expensive than the SFP+ DAC 10Gb adapters. The cables' prices diference wasn't that high (~25% IIRC), but the adapters make the solution prohibitive unless you need the bandwidth. You just don't get it...

Didn't know that. I thought dual channel would be fine. Thanks for letting me know. Regarding the workload and multi-threading vs single thread applications, I'll have to ask the programmer who's working with the concerned project manager. Network bandwidth shouldn't be an issue. Gigabit...

Yeah. I'll probably even propose to opt for a SuperMicro SYS-2027TR-HTRF+ and populate only two nodes to begin with, because of the redundant power supplies, something the 1U solutions miss. It would push the Intel solution up to ~6000$ though. It would be the best solution in the middle to...

I want to propose running Openstack on a local server in order to replace the costly Amazon EC2 instances we buy to run some shared online video softwares. We have several large instances on Amazon, but we could do with medium instances in most cases. However, the guy in charge of that project...

They have some interesting products. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.

I haven't paid attention about the announcements. I have not seen any LGA1150 motherboard in my price lists either. But don't worry, they'll be there in time.

You can check the MSRP of the upcoming Haswell processors here. Prices are very similar to their relative Ivy Bridge siblings.

You don't have to be limited to Ubuntu if you prefer something else (although Ubuntu is fine). Check YUMI.

Wow, thanks. At that price, I won't mind the minor service interuptions. It's a great deal. I've never thought about Google sites. I'll check that eventually, but for now, I think I'll go with Handruin's deal on Dreamhost.

Just don't shake it too hard and it should remain in one piece, instead of being "fragmented internally".

Thanks, that's actually very helpful. It's probably because they are big, but they look like they have issues very frequently. Maybe I'm off, but shouldn't a well planned architecture have less downtime than this? Everyone will experience a switch of server failure once in a while, but you're...

We've talked about this previously, but I can't find the thread(s). Any reason not to go with Dreamhost and their 8.95$ unlimited everything plan? The goal is only to host a web page for an artist, so she can show pictures/videos of herself and a short bio.

From what I can see on their website, they only have firmware updates for their SSD. No downloadable utilities.

Oh and the other times before the last bite where not as bad? How many times have been bitten by tarantulas? Did you try scorppions?

32 hours of labor...is that also part of that russian "I can suffer more" thing? Anyway, congratulations.

Oh and I paid 220$ for it with free shipping. Tremendously less than the 8600$ SuperTalent asked for their 256GB five years ago as described but Fushigi in the 7th post of this thread.

Ok, so maybe I'm five years late, but I've finally purchased my very first SSD. I've put many in customers' boxes, but I've never owned one before. It won't even go into one of my systems, at least not in the beginning. I bought it to do tests on the servers at the job, because I'm sick of...

The last two times Intel launch a new CPU architecture (Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge), the new CPUs were available at very good prices for the first few days and then the prices inflated a little due to the stock drop and strong demand. I expect the situation to be the same for Haswell's launch...

Yeah. Haswell goes out in about a month and a half (June 3rd). You're obviouly patient regarding system upgrade since the one you're upgrading hasn't been for the past five years or so. What's the rush? While Haswell won't bring spectacular CPU performance enhancements, its integrated...

Thanks for finding the page and linking it here. In the last few months, I've took the installers from www.majorgeeks.com. They are there too.

No matter what we end up buying, we'll of course have a couple extra of everything : SSD, RAM, server modules, NICs, SFP+ cables. We'll also have two main switches and two NAS, each configured to hot replace each other in case of a failure.

Android-based tablets and most Apple products have issues/incompatibilities with Flash. If the page uses Flash, it's not surprising those devices have trouble displaying it.

Our most used drives have roughly 30GB of data written on them daily, five days per week. Obviously, we need the highest possible IOps from them (they store randomly accessed databases), but 30GB per day doesn't require enterprise-class SSD endurance level unless we plan to keep them more than...

The Corsair Neutron GTX has restarted to show in stock at online stores. It's the drive I'm the most interested in these days, along with the Intel DC S3700. The Neutron GTX is half as expensive and just as fast for server types of loads, when you leave ~20% overprovisionning. The only other...