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I've calculated that we have 18 servers running on various Linux distributions. I'm trying to find a way to combine their functions into a single server and then duplicate it on a second one, purely for redundancy. Yes, a single, very powerful server, could be enough, performance-wise, to do...

Honestly, I don't even know for sure. I know we're using one for the NAT service between the outside world and our internal networks and another one is purely there as a backup. I don't remember what the third one is for. I think it's because we use two different internet connections and its...

Are you telling me that it'll take more than 3.5 months before I overtake you? Not that I expected otherwise. You'll stop testing the point-less beta units sometime anyway.

Just so anyone else here knows next time, the maximal value one can declare for a gift is 60$. Above that, the motherfuckers will charge all the taxes and border fees. Since I'm now responsible for almost all orders in the company I work for, there will be no more shipment, ever, for as long...

With him. For him, I would have cracked his skull and left the job. I've ben working on a plan for a while, but since there's no available budget for this, everything is frozen.

Of course I can.

Ok, so after a verification with the vice-president of the company, I'm fucked. Since the package was delivered at my company's address and that they have an account with UPS, my company was billed and not me. Someone at my company previously told UPS to process all package and border fees...

No idea. I'll contest it. What is delicate is that the bastards charged my company instead of me because it was delivered there instead of my home address. It is outrageous.

Ok, now the UPS motherfuckers sent a 45$ invoice for processing the package through the border. They sent the invoice two weeks after the delivery has been made. This must be illegal. I'm pissed to no end after UPS. If they wanted to charge for processing the package, they just had to charge...

Apparently, there's even worse than our company.

See Chewy, we have four times less employees and 76 servers overall. While I agree that Ddrueding's strategy is the wisest, I think Merc nailed it when he mentioned lazinest. But that lazinest has a price. The main architect of this clusterfuck (my collegue) would be completly incapable of...

Oh and did I mentioned that the network switches are daisy-chained in two of the four racks we manage? So if the first one fails (not often, but it does happen), we lose two entire racks worth of servers. That would be one of our two main websites, plus our server group responsible for sending...

I'm sick and I feel lazy, so I'll just post a link to a thread on this subject on Ubuntu's forums : http://askubuntu.com/questions/6273/open-source-graphics-card-options From what I read about it, Nvidia's proprietairy drivers are the best, even though AMD is far more friendly to the...

In my view, the company I work for has way too many servers compared to what would normally be needed. However, I haven't seen that many server farms so maybe I'm wrong. Is it normal, for a 20-employees company with around a thousand customers and a 1.5TB monthly transfer volume, to have ...

And I read that a GT 630 is just a rebadged GT 430. If you want a Kepler generation card, it starts with the GT 640 with DDR5 memory.

I just want to say that the CPU is working flawlessly and I'm very happy I can finally put my one-and-a-half-years-old Gigabyte X58 board to good use. Together with the GTX 580 I grabbed two weeks ago, it gives me between 40K and 50K ppd running the FAH client.

Wow, look at the pissing contest between Bozo and Handruin today! Both had their best days in recent memory. Nice contribution guys.

No it's not. It comes and die with 4GB. Not for you I guess.

Have you considered an Asus UX31A-DH71? It has a 13" FullHD (1080p) screen, 4GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD. No optical drive. Weights less than 3lbs.

What about the upcoming Cortex A53/57, targeted at servers? While I doubt it will be any match for a Xeon E3/5/7, it should offer much higher performances per core than the actual Cortex A15. This might be sufficient for a gaming console. I agree it wouldn't allow a similar integration as an...

Done, thanks. My office no longer needs additional heating. The computers are enough.

Ok, my new system is assembled and running. Now the latest version of the FAH client (7.3.6 IIRC) only wants to enable GPU folding when the display is idled (off). WTF? How can I change it so that it folds all the time, even when i'm using the system?

I received it, thanks. For those who don't know it, Mercutio has the signature of a doctor.

Yes, it does. Are you using it for FAH or is it used under Linux? If not, I'd look elsewhere. Some games are more optimized for Nvidia's cards, others for AMD's, but on average, AMD offers the better deal in the price range you're targeting. Move around 350$ and that's another story. The...

BTW, around here at least, we can get Radeon HD 7950 for less than 300$. It should beat all the above-mentioned cards.

So this would be a 3-members forum : Timwhit, Blackerwry and Ddrueding. Maybe fb too. All the others I'm awared off would be R.I.P.

I didn't know that. You read it from the folks at the Stanford FAH forums?

The last two graphic cards I grabbed were GTX 580 for the FAH project. I got them for 280$ and 230$ respectively. But other than for FAH, they are not the best value in that price range. Stickly for gaming, I would probably get the 7870 based on the prices you gave. I like the 660Ti because...

Also, it is annoying that more than four coffees per day is supposed to be bad for your health, because even though it is 11p.m. and I've already taken four, I'd really like another one right now.

Why aren't the front and rear bars in the first pictures not parallel?

Well, that's at least one good side of having absolutely no friend.

Thanks for the info both of you.

Ever heard of revo uninstaller? Would have saved you a lot of grief.

I would really like to be able to believe in a religion and that my existence would continue after my physical death. Unfortunately, I can't. Knowing that I'll vanish forever in a few decades and that there's nothing I can do to change this is a living Hell. Death is the worst part of living.

If I could cry of joy, I would.

I sent you a PM. I hope you haven't sold it already.

What device should he buy then to connect to AT&T's 4G network? I went on AT&T's website and it isn't clear to me.

If I tell him to buy a Virgin Mobile U600 OverDrive Pro key and get their 55$/month unlimited 4G plan, should he be ok?

I forgot to mention it, but he needs internet access for his laptop, not a smartphone.

Would he be better with Sprint, Virgin, T-Mobile or another?

The president of the company I work for these days needs a 4G wifi card and a one-month internet plan. He's in Fort Lauderdale, in Florida. He'll need to transfer a lot of data (maybe up to 2GB or 3GB for the month). Where can he get it? What plan? What price? I'll do research on my own...

I hope so. Last time it happened was in the XV century, around the same time Christopher Colombus (re)discovered America.

I thought you were in Pensylvania. At this time of the year, shouldn't the heat produced by your computer allow your heating system to work a little less? I'm pretty sure that running all my computers in Winter doesn't cost me much more in electricity since I would use that electricity in...

So...what's up guys? This is the first time ever that I take half-a-million points to Mark in a week. Not that it doesn't make me proud but, something's wrong when I make 2/3 of the entire team's production. Lost interest in the project or what? On a more positive note, Handruin has...

So from now on, "Dirty Uncle Sam" will no longer be uniquely used to describe the american oil industry.

If it was, my lack of sensitivity to cold would have harmed or weaken my body and I would have been sick. I haven't. I'm just tougher than most to cold temperatures.

18degC isn't colder, it's fresher. Cold doesn't start before water turns to ice. I'm glad for you that the temperature is in a confortable range this time of the year. I pity you when it climbs above 30.

Today, David became the third member of our team to overtake Burn_In in total points contribution. I did it at the end of December while Mark did it a few months ago (late in September or very early in October). Now if only they could re-enable bonus points for the GPU units, it would help us...

For you, the next upgrade probably won't be before the Ivy Bridge E processors launch at the end of August or during September this year. There should be 10 or even 12 cores variants and with the improved IPC, you should get your 2x performance versus your current i7 980X. What I'd like to...

Ok, Windows 8 just pissed me off solid a few minutes ago. I applied my Media Center key and it started making modification to the OS, but without any warning, it restarted the computer. No message, no choice, nothing. I had remote sessions opened and didn't have the change to properly close...