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You could tell them that you're not even sure you had turned fourty back when that machine got sold (I'm sure they can tell your fourties were a while ago... ;) ). You simply no longer have parts to repair that thing. Maybe you can retrieve the informations on the hard drive, but that's it...

From what I read, MariaDB is based on MySQL, but adds several functionalities and judging on the few benchmarks I've seen from a quick Google search, it scales a bit better. It might or might not be worth it, depending on your usage. I'm no DB guru. I just read a lot and I try to stay in the...

Congratulations to Bozo for overtaking Fushigi. And Mark has decided to give me trouble rejoining him at the top of the team. I have less GPU than he does, but my CPU should still give me the edge. My setup : 1x Core i7 3770 [Linux - Lubuntu 12.10] 1x Core i7 2600K [Windows 8 Pro] 1x Core i7...

I think Ddrueding would snob it : it's only 720p.

Except I would replace Apache by G.WAN. I'd like to know if it lives up to the hype. I'd install Lubuntu for the Linux distro, because it's light and easy to configure and maintain. Also, MariaDB instead of MySQL, if a database is needed. But if you can get 250$ for it, that's the best...

The RAM on that thing are expensive. They are FB-DIMM. This server could e used to perform a few non-CPU intensive jobs. You'll install ESXi on it?

At that price, you did well. I would have spent 30$ and go for a Pentium G2120 and a cheap LGA1155 motherboard, but that's me. I know sometimes, people don't have that 30$ more. Regarding the enclosure, Fractal Design has a nice small enclosure with the Core 1000. You could also opt for the...

AAARRRGGGHH!! It's SSE-X3348SR, damnit.

In case anyone looks for it, I've realized that I did a mistake in the name of the Supermicro switch. It's the SSE-X3348TR, not the SSE-3348SR like I wrote many times above.

BTW, that article at Anandtech made me smile : The other guy I work with, who's supervising all the upgrades and maintenance on the servers, made the company buy for 80,000$ of equipment in 2011. We still don't use virtualization...

Thanks to both of you. I prefer yEd and what I've been able to do with it so far is much better than Dia. Not that it is a surprise.

I've found this document quite interesting. It more or less confirms that I'm on the right track. I'll look into the prices of Netgear switches too. Anyone knows of a better free application than "dia" to create diagrams?

What page? I'm no web programmer and I'm not the one who'll be able to help you, but linking the page you're trying to understand will certainly help others to figure out what you're trying to do and how to get you there.

I've found this document regarding clustered firewalls. It only covers the topic on surface, but it's a good start, I think, to get a general idea about the concept. Regarding the guidance of our insurance company, with the cluster-fuck we currently have, I don't believe I can do worse.

Because if this single firewall fails, I'm fucked. Better. Combining those services at the firewall is an idea. I was planning on configuring the network failover on the switches rather than on the firewalls. I have no idea how to configured clustered firewalls for fail-over and...

That seat seems quite high for a 5'9" New Yorker.

This will certainly help to drive the prices down.

I planned to send the WAN straight into the Supermicro switch and isolate the port in the switch VLAN configuration, then send the signal to a VM with a firewall configured into it (under OpenBSD) and then ship back the connection to the switch to the rest of the network. This is a bad idea...

If you take a look at the servers I plan to use, whether it is the Supermicro 2027TR-H70RF+, HP Proliant Gen8 SL230 (in an SL6500 chassis), or something similar, you'll see that it's 4 half-width 1U servers inside a 2U chassis. The only things that are shared are the power supplies and...

I haven't address this, but it needs to : Indeed Indeed, they could have done it in 2008 and 2011, the two times they invested massively in their architecture. I've already identified the servers that are due to be replaced and the assosciated services. However, the network needs to be...

There's another Bozo in Team Picard. He started folding a few months before our Bozo did and he has roughly the same amount of points (~5.8 million versus ~6.3 for our own clown). Odd.

Not in this case. Except for the short two-months burst Mark had last Fall, his production never truly exploded in the past three years (I don't remember before that, except that he's been leading the team in points for at least the last five or six years at least). The closest I've been to...

That's great news! I'm especially interested inthe 60W/5000K bulb. I don't know what the CRI is, but I suppose it should be 80. Anyway, I've always prefered high color temperatures and 14$ won't ruin me. Dimmable too. What's not to like about it?

If I'd be rich, I would buy a thousand of the most efficient MK-R LED model and give a contract to JTR to make awesome lighting designs.

I don't know how many LED are needed for a typical light bulb, but looking at Cree's datasheet for the MK-R LED and searching for the prices of various models in the higher luminous range, I come up with prices between 6.5$ and 8.6$ per LED. Assuming you need at least 10 LED to make a bulb (I...

Check for a firmware first! Why trash it if there's a way to fix the problem? Beside, why trash it at all. Just secure erase it if you no longer want it and sell/give it to someone else. SSD aren't like mecanical drives. After a secure erase, old data cannot be restored. Trashing it is a...

I personnally wouldn't invest too much in a four-years-old computer, server or not. That machine, while still quite capable, won't produce more than 10K points per day, I believe. That's about as much as a Sandy/Ivy Bridge Core i5. The server will consume significantly more electrical power...

No. I just wanted to make the calculation clearer instead of bluntly writing "YOU'RE WRONG", like Stereodude would have done. It wasn't meant to be an attack (and still isn't). Written communication often is a poor way to transmit intentions.

After the GB comes the TB. 40GBx365x5 gives 73,000...GB, so 73TB. 73PB would be 73,000,000GB. I've only seen enterprise-SSD be advertised with PB endurance.

Ok, so next time we want to thank you for hosting the forum, you prefer a set of tires to a brand new computer, correct?

There is still no trace of the Micron MTFDDAK960MAV-1AE on any of my suppliers.

Here's a representation of my idea that I did with dia (yes, it's ugly) : "Switch pur IPMI" means "Switch for IPMI" "Lien" means "link". Nevermind the three lines of French text. Since this won't be showed to the company's directors before Ivy Bridge EP Xeon are out, I took the liberty of...

Not sure. I know each Supermicro module has a dedicated RJ-45 port for IPMI and KVM-over-Ethernet. I planned on controlling the server thru that port. Therefore, if a switch would fail and I hadn't found an intelligent way to perform the link switching automatically, I could...

Is your dual-socket server a rackmount one? If not, there's no reason it shouldn't be quiet too. What model is it (motherboard if it's not an OEM box)? I see no problem with your setup if it's stable and doesn't slow down your machine too much. Like you might have read, the current batch of...

Wow, looks like a must-have utility for running VM in production. You use it at work?

If anyone else is doing GPU folding with Nvidia cards, you should remove the "client-type = beta" slot, if youadded it previously. I've got one of those huge unit 7661 that Mark wrote about. On a GTX 580, it would have taken more than 7 days to complete and I would have missed both the...

Did you check on the manufacturer's website if a firmware update is available? For instance, I know Time would have been fucked if he didn't apply the firmware update on the Crucial M4 SSDs he sold last year when the POH limit issue has been made public by Micron.

I can assure you that they let one go BEFORE grabbing the other one, because doing those steps in the reverse order would result in a crispy repair tech. I'm also glad Chewy hasn't been hurt severely. Speaking of motorcycles, my little brother is getting one soon. He's not a young man anymore...

You can try with Acronis, but don't forget Macrium Reflect. I prefer it to Acronis. Too bad it's not available in French or I would tell my customers to use it too. Since you obviously don,t need another language than English, you should be happy with it. I admit I've never tried to backup...

Because they impede too much the peripheral vision and earing. On a motorcycle, you have mirrors, lights and you move at the same speed as other motorized vehicles. On a bike, you move slower, you don't have break lights and you can't indicate to other vehicles your intention of turning left...

It looks like Bozo received another electricity bill and his wife confiscated the computer.

There was a rumor around the 21st of January about Google set to announced a refresh to its Nexus 10 tablet during the Mobile World Congress. MWC 2013 came and passed and I've heard nothing about the rumored quad-core Nexus 10 refresh. What's up with that?

Out of curiosity, how much more is the Seasonic G-450 versus the SII-430 in your corner of the Globe? Here, it cost me the same price as the Antec Earthwatt Platinum, but it's modular and 80Plus Gold. According to JonnyGuru, it's an excellent unit. But overall, it's an excellent small box...

Except if you're Gordon Gecko ; sharks grow teeth all their lives...

I'm not entirely sure, but I think this is my first million-points week, ever.

I've installed simultaneously Debian 6.07 and Lubuntu 12.10 on my shoebox with an Asus P8H61-I motherboard and neither distro like my HDMI output.

I've been keeping the stats for the team since October 2010. Today, while filling the numbers for February, I've noticed a 5.8 miilion point disparity between the numbers posted after October 2010 and the amount of points we had prior to October 2010. I don't know where I made the mistake and I...

That or anything fitting in a MiniBox M350 enclosure, which is slightly larger, but easier to get.

Since it's for lawyers, don't feel bad about overcharging.

One of my two GTX 570 died today. It will be a while before I get the replacement. And it looks like Stanford finally paid Mark for the work on the beta units. I won't overtake him anytime soon.