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Let me guess : your old mama orderered a new rocking chair and you weren't there to help her installing it?

I want to witness how badly they locked the damn Metro interface and how it is possible to toggle it off. My Windows 8 Public Preview installation is quite snappy when only Aero runs.

F-word, f-word, f-word. I thought I would be able to grab the RTM today, but I'll have to wait untill the 15th of the month. F-word, f-word, f-word.

It must be they secure boot sector novelty that's preventing its installation on ESXi. There's a campaign against the new secure boot on the Free Software Foundation. I signed it earlier today.

Random wedding fact : I often tell men who get merried that they'll lose half their worth when they'll put the ring on. Odly enough, Facebook's CEO, something Zukerberg IIRC, married on the day of his IPO or the next and since then, Facebook's shares have almost drop to half the price they...

Yeah and if they send me a single drive, I'll have paid twice what I would have if I'd get it locally. No thanks.

Seagate drives for a RAID array? I expect the worst.

http://www.ashlin.ca/p/Hard_Drives_Hitachi_Ltd_0S03363_Hitachi_Deskstar_4_TB_3_5_Internal_Hard_Drive_-_20_Pack_1020909544.htm#tabs It clearly says that it's a 20-pack. I've seen the drive at 230$ at a local store and thought it was quite a deal, but a 20-pack for 444$, wow! SSD are really...

At least I finally made it to 40 million points. Only took me 10 years or so.

Except for the number of QPI links, what's the performance difference between the E5-24xx Xeon and the X5-26xx Xeon? I know the latter is available in higher frequencies models, but otherwise, I don't see the difference. The socket is different, but purely from a performance perspective, they...

I've looked into HP's blade solution. A 6U c3000 blade enclosure can house 8 half-eight blade servers like the BL460 G8. The BL460 G8 has up to two Xeon E5-2670 CPUs per server and it cost ~8000$. The c3000 blade enclosure cost between 6000$ and 10K$ depending on the options. However, I...

We have 73 rackmount servers, where do you want to start? I've looked into Intel's lineup and they have something similar to SuperMicro's SYS-2027TR-HTRF+ server, the H2216JFJR. The SuperMicro 2027-HTRF+ was the server system I was eyeing before stumbling on SuperMicro's 7U 10-bay blade setup...

For now, we are hosting our own equipment, but depending on the cost, we would consider sending the servers elsewhere. Of course, the least space we rent, the lesser the cost. I'm also looking into lowering the electrical consumption and increasing the power eficiency. Why? Because if the...

AFAIK, neither Dell of HP offer something similar. IBM might, but they sell it at least three times as much. With Dell or HP, the same density isn't possible unless, even with Xeon E5-46xx series. So I'd had to buy at least two blade server bays. Their bays are also two to three times the...

I doubt anyone here has any kind of experience with their blade servers, but I'm drooling about the things I could do with even a single SBE-720E 7U blade bay filled with their SBI-7227R-T2 blade servers. I'd need to add a 500$ SBM-CMM-003 module (for KVM access) and a 550$ SBM-GEP-T20 module...

Can someone please post a graphical explanation for the Lunar mister. (Ddrueding implied there was only two persons interested in off-brand VCRs on Craiglist)

He shouldn't have to. I too have problems with Flash, as well as several of my co-workers and customers. About the only thing that doesn't crash playing Flash is Google Chrome and I don't think they use the same plugin as everyone else. Adobe srewed up big time with Flash and they seem to...

You wrote earlier that you replaced it with an Asus Z9PE-D8 WS. ?

BTW, what have you done with the dual socket-2011 Supermicro board that wasn't compatible with your Zalman heatsinks?

Oh I know I want it too, but I also know I can't afford to spend 10K$ right now. Even 500$ would be too much in my situation. I won't have extra money before November. Forgive me, but I'll pass.

She still hasn't paid you? Great for the team, but sad for your wallet. Are the stability issues gone?

BTW, I used "Windows Classic Shell" to get rid of Metro. It's probably not completly deactivated, but at least I don't have to suffer it thru the UI so that makes it a lot more tolerable.

I tried Windows 8 for the first time today. Microsoft needs to provide a simple way to disable Metro or else they can kiss goodbye to the entire business market. There's no way I'll let that piece of shit be installed on any of the computers I manage at the the office and unfortunately for...

It's a twenty-years-old game.

Yep, they are illegal here too, but the police generally targets the customers according to what I've heard on TV.

So far, what I've learned from your experience is that you work with someone who has a turd instead of a brain. That's why it smells every times she open it up.

Since they usually don't last more than five years, it's quite normal the prices have fallen like that.

It's because he wasn't in the sanctuary!

I'll suggest the Synology DS1812+. Synology's "+" products never disappoint. But it will cost you a bit more than a thousand bucks. If you don't mind having a bigger box, dropping the hot-swap feature and configuring the OS yourself, then it's more economical to assemble a computer with a...

I'm also fairly confident that he's the only one with sufficient knowledge to do his job within his company, so the risk of him being fired is close to nil. He has enough lever there to command certain things regarding IT and I'm sure he doesn't have to bow to stupid cows' caprices. And using...

You're the IT guy, you set the option. The ignorant bitch's only right is to shut up and live with your decision. Go tell your boss about the power saving of your solution versus continuing running nine oldies and I'm sure he'll be on your side. "She already said no..." Pffft! Stupid cow...

If you compare the i7 3667U to the i5 3320M, you'll see that the latter should beat the former most of the time. Except for the additional 1MB of cache, the i5 3320M beats or equals the i7 3667U in all departments. The M version is rated at 35W TDP while the U version is not supposed to need...

Congratulations Chewy. I certainly wouldn't have enough motivation to go back to school again. If your universities are more or less like ours, earning a mark in the nineties is quite a feat.

Since it's apparently a topic of interest here (and I fail to see why), I'm not a fudge packer. I don't think I'm an unassuming person either. I do however, almost only listen to heavy metal music. I recently discovered this website, which should help me to widen my listening pool (meaning ...

I hate the store's name, but IMO, this deal is even better (good until Sunday's evening). 240GB Agility 3 for 165$.

I listen to a great variety of music styles : heavy metal, thrash metal, power metal, industrial metal, black metal, gothic metal, death metal, I could go on... There's some vague link between those styles, but I think I'm fairly open-minded regarding music.

I bought an Antec EA-450 Platinum for 65$ this evening. For such a power supply, it's a steal. I didn't need it and I already had another in stock (that I paid 95$), but it was hard to pass on.

Nevermind, I found it.

Are you speaking about I94? Because the only I64 I can find is between Charleston, West Virginia and St-Louis, Missouri. Quite a detour from Michigan to Illinois. It's quite possible I missed it though, as I'm not familiar at all with that area.

I also try very hard not to post anything even remotely controversial for the same reasons. Those people terrify me.

You think you're gonna die before you can make another thousand posts or so? You do more than this each year. If you're sick to the point that you believe you won't live another year, what the Hell are you doing still working?

Every job has its tradeoffs.

Put it aside when I had an opportunity to work as a network/system administrator. I can learn stuff that I hadn't the chance to touch when I was self-employed. I don't earn more money, but I think I'll fare better if the economy goes the way I think it'll go. One month after being hired, I...

Yeah, but that's because I work for a finance company and the Toronto market will be closed tomorrow. I'll work Thursday, but it will be a very quiet day.

I fell about as concerned by the Fête du Canada as you can be. I don't care about the national holiday of the country next to mine. People celebrating it here piss me of quite a lot though. I once thought about buying little canadian flags to wipe my butt after my daily dump, but it would be...

Aren't little green elf-persons from Ireland instead of Iceland?

I just read that folks in Queensland and Victoria states in Australia aren't allowed to swear in public!?! Are you fucking kidding me? Are Aussies now just as stuck as British? So now we'll have to call people from Melbourne the "polite Mexicans" or what? Forbidding an Aussie from swearing...

I was able to find the building from which the picture was taken fairly easily (less than three minutes), but not the floor, room and much less the phone number.

Thanks. When's your national holiday?

Damn! 16 answers and no one got it right. The safest way to delete data from a magnetic drive, or to destroy about anything smaller than a building for that matter, is to give it to me and let me take care of it. You guys sure don't learn fast.