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Wow, 6h33am and yu're already up. Those kids surely don't let you sleep much!

Well, I'm highly disapointed now. Network communication is choppy. "Top" tells me the RAM and CPU are turning their thumbs most of the time, but my clients connected to the server are receiving data in chunks and then nothing for a second or two. Data should normally be flowing smoothly...

Solved! Even after I copied your line within the zone, it still blocked the access to ports lesser than 1024. All pissed, I followed the link you provided. The command that did the trick was (from the global zone, with the zone being halted) : #>zonecfg -z zonename #zonename>set...

Get an i5-3470. Period. What, explanations? Come on! Oh, ok... It's an Ivy Bridge with 4 cores and the HD4000 graphics and it's relatively affordable. Around here, it's 10$ more than the 3450 with the slower HD2500 graphics and 30$ less than the 3570 that operates at only 200MHz more...

Thanks a lot!

It won't help me if this is a permission issue. I'll see about this a little after 8am when I'll be at work (in ~2h11m).

I think it is. Apparently, it had a magnitude of 4.5 and occured at ~0:19am. I live more than 50Km from the epicentre and I felt it enough to know it wasn't a truck passing in of the house.

Woohoo! We've just had an earthquake! A small one though. Nothing to do with what the West-Coast guys live.

The hamster (my co-worker : small, fat and only has short-term memory) told me that he was strongly considering bacula too.

I haven't setup any virtual switch. I've only created vnics and assosciated them to the different zones. Is it bad to do so? I have 6 vnics and two physical nics. 5 of thevnics need to be assosciated with the same physical nics. So maybe the problem is related to the fact that my program...

One last issue I have to make my config work. Within a zone, I need to open the port 443 to allow our program to communicate, but apparently, ports below 1000 are blocked by default. How can I open just one? I haven't configured a firewall on that machine. Anything that filters the ports is...

Amanda The other tech here planned to use it for our automated backup, but he ended up finding it too complicated to setup. We must do backups of servers with the following OS : Windows Server 2003 Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows XP Windows Vista Windows 7 Suse...

I meant "should not be a problem". I guess my fingers skipped a word.

CPU. If you only do 2D, 1080p should be a problem.

In the Ivy Bridge lineup, the i3 3220 is probably the closest to the Sandy Bridge i3 2120 Merc mentioned above. I'd not go with less than a true 4-core CPU myself, but if you don't have the money for it, the i3 3220 is probably the next best thing. You'll probably also want a motherboard with...

You don't put an optical drive. Use an external USB-powered one if you must, but optical drives no longer are mandatory IMO.

Here's a new one, about the same size (19.5L) as the Cooler Master Elite 120, but better IMO : Fractal Design Node 304. No external bays, but internal space for 6 drives and capable of hosting heatsinks up to 165mm high. Accepts standard PSU too. Two front USB 3.0 ports of course. ~80$.

Maybe they're scuba-diving?

Found how. I only have to do the add net loop twice.

If the ultimate goal is to enhance your chances to have a laptop and a drive that last long, one of my first recommendation would be to stop jiggling it all the time, because no matter if the drive protection software works or not, you sure don't help the drive by shaking it like you do.

Is it possible to assign two VNICs to a single zone? I've tried and so far, I've not found a way (it's only been 10 minutes). When in the zone configuration mode, you can "add net" and then set the physical NIC (or VNIC), but when you try to add a second NIC, it replaces the first one instead...

Your dog's tongue?

Logically, it should work to place a rackmount system face down, like your coffin, with the fan sending the hot air up. I'm having ideas with the new Supermicro 6017TR-TF. I don't know if it would be possible to build a frame around it to silence it a little since I'm pretty sure that...

So Merc, when are you supposed to make a decision on this? Please let us know. I'm curious about the outcome.

Or there's something like that if you truly want a touch screen. A 15$ Windows 8 upgrade will be mandatory at the end of the month to keep it usable IMO.

The fact that the user is very old (so near retirement) and that despite his food abuse, his last laptop lasted 5 years push me to recommend another laptop. He probably won't have the time to ruin it before he leaves, unless he starts drooling because one side of his mouth no longer shuts tight...

I barely escaped going into an infinite loop following your link.

Usually, you power off your computer, plug two cables to it (one for data, one for power) and you boot your computer. After going to the "disk management" section of the "computer management" window, you create a new volume on the newly detected drive and then you quick-format it. It's just a...

Bummer. So it means we have to buy the drives from them for much mucho dinars. I haven't found a part number for the 2.5" drive tray. I'll go with the Intel server then. Thanks again.

Thanks, I appreciate you check this.

After an entire day of swearing and cursing, I think I can safely say that I'm fairly knowledgeable about Solaris zones : how to configure them, how to run applications within them and how to resolve issues preventing them from starting. I've finally been able to setup my test server to...

I use CoreTemp to monitor the CPU temperature. It isn't as versatile or full-featured as Speedfan, but it seems to be very accurate at the only thing it does.

Lack of sleep, the things it will make you do... Do you know if they come with drive caddies... We don't use IPMI on our servers, but we should. We just don't know how it works, but I'll try to get information about it.

Do you know I they come with the drive caddies or if you have to buy the horribly expensive drives made for them in order to get them? It's a lot less interesting if you have to pay two or three times the price of the drive in order to have storage. A 2173$ 100GB SSD? No thanks.

Did I mention that up until two months ago, we still had an OS/2 server in production?

Found another similar server, but this time from Cisco : the UCS C240 M3. The power supply is a bit smaller at 650W (normally, the server comes with only one and you have to buy the 350$ second PSU in order to get redundancy), but it's also 80Plus Platinum certified. The RAM from Kingston for...

Because a four-way multiboot on every damn 80 systems is a management Hell compared to VMs. The management should be able to understand that. It means less downtime. Less time wasted by your tech guy doing avoidable monkey tasks every time a system is toasted. More time for your IT guy to...

I have the regret to announce you that you're working with retards. All of them. Look somwhere else and move on. Apply for mining companies (not coal). Pays well.

Well, we don't pay electricity as it is included in the rent. I advocate that less heat would be generated, giving us more time to react in case of a failure of the cooling system, but so far I haven't found an open ear.

Firefox turned ten years old yesterday (back when it was called Phoenix).

Any attempt to push a centralised server solution is vain then? Sorry we can't sell them the salad for you. It's sad, because it would be awesome. And it would make a sale point for your managers. They could then brag they have a modern setup, something that isn't true if you spend all the...

Oh and SR has a review already.

Those HP thin clients, with Atom processors, start at 430$. I wouldn't pay more than 250$ for such a limited computer, but that's just me.

Samsung announced new lines of hard drives : the 840 and 840 Pro. The advertised iops are impressive. Should be available in about three weeks.

Wait for October 26th and pay 40$ for Windows 8. You'll have to learn it some day anyway. Regarding AMD's APU, their new generation is coming out soon. Might want to wait for it. I still believe going Intel's Ivy Bridge route would be better though. If the integrated GPU is not enough for...

8GB USB keys are 5$ each.

Well, maybe it's too high-end for a terminal, but my 350$ system proposal is quite an office computer on its own.

CD burners are for retards. There are tools to make bootable USB sticks for all operating systems.

Another possibility, giving him a lot more computing power, would be to leave the Intel R2224GZ4GCSAS and replace it with 3 R1208GZ4GC. It would give him enough space for the 24x 512GB Plextor SSD and triple the amount of gigabit network ports. Putting 2 Xeon E5-2680 and a 64GB DDR3 1600Mhz...

Yeah, we send you parts to build a new computer. Seeing you drag that obsolete vintage museum box is painful. Make no mistake : I'm poor. But I'm not poor enough to cope with a 2003-era computer. I'm sure that if that box could look at you, it would be like a terminal-cancer patient, begging...