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Except that hasn't happened outside of China so far. The more infected people you allow in, the more likely it is.

Ah, the old time honored empty and flawed argument of if you can't guarantee 100% effectiveness you should do nothing. Because only having 1 person trying to beat you isn't any better than having 20 people trying to beat you. A few virus spreaders is just as bad as a few hundred or even...

That's exactly backward. You want to close the border for something like the Coronavirus because you can't realistically screen for it due to the long incubation period and the fact that is is contagious while no systems appear. Something like SARS you can screen for at the border and wouldn't...

Baby steps... Foreigner who have been to China in the past 14 days will not be allowed into the US. https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/china-reports-cases-virus-death-toll-rises-213-68654311 Citizens and immediate family apparently are less contagious...

I'm still firmly in the I'll believe it when I see it camp given how stingy Canon has been in the past decade, but it's probably true. All signs so far point to it being true except for the seemingly incredible nature of the specs.

It's a good thing we're letting those planes land and screening the passengers. :rolleyes:

I guess it's voluntary, but if you try to leave they'll make you stay. Works for me. Now if only we could stop the flights from China.

They can pull another 5D II, disrupt the entire market, and then coast on that momentum for another decade. 🤣

So after buying the correct IBM/Lenobo Supercap (FRU 81Y4579) I was able to update the firmware for the M5016 to the latest LSI/Avago/Broadcom firmware (5.14PR) and not get any errors about the "BBU". The seller in China I had bought the supercaps from years ago isn't selling the correct...

That's okay, the US is only doing a voluntary 3 day quarantine for the US folks evacuated from Wuhan at the air base in CA. The virus has a 14 day incubation period. Makes sense right? :unsure:

I've been listening to the War Room: Pandemic podcast and have found it interesting. Ignore the thumbnail, it's not about impeachment (that's their other podcast)

And we have person to person transfer of it in the US now. The husband of the first case in the US (Chicago area) now has it. Meanwhile, the planes from China are still landing... :mad:

They're at least a week late on that one.

File this in the I'll believe it when I see it category: https://www.canonrumors.com/canon-eos-r5-specifications/ Canon is way too innovation stingy to drop that. Someone is trolling us.

They'll go on a LSI (Broadcom?) HW Raid controller in RAID-6. The same one I'm using now. Since I'm not replacing any of the PCs, just the arrays I'm going to stick with the Windows setup I'm using now.

Who knows about that... http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2019/09/hand-sanitizer-shown-less-effective-hand-washing-against-flu Do you have N95 masks?

We don't really know that... 🤨

Because that's totally how communist regimes operate. See Chernobyl. :ROFLMAO: If it was something on par with the regular flu it wouldn't likely have gotten onto anyone's radar, especially not so quickly. There's no way the common flu has a 3.9% fatality rate. It's that the vast majority...

Is anyone else following this situation closely? I don't think we can trust anything the Chinese are saying. The actions they claim to be taking seem out of proportion with the severity of the situation they're describing in their official numbers. In the US the CDC basically admits they have...

Well, I didn't say I was buying them this week. It all depends if I can figure out what's wrong with the old nightly backup server and why its misbehaving (beyond the array drive issues). I'm getting BSOD's. But yeah, more than $3k since I'd buy 9 to have a matching spare and the best price...

So, I'm thinking to upgrade the drives in my my main server. Not because I need more space or more speed, but because the drives in the nightly backup server are ~10 years old and should be refreshed since they're starting to throw some errors. My thinking is to get a new drive set and put...

Well, there's no accounting for quirky tastes. ;)

So the latest 2.10 SwOS release from Mikrotik fixed the slow transfer gremlins I was having. All 3 of my Mikrotik switches had 2.7 and there was wonkiness on some 10gig -> 1gig traffic. Some computers with a 1gig connection could saturate the link pulling from a device connected to the switch...

The spare M5016 card worked as expected with no ECC errors. I ordered two working pull cards for $75 (not each) on eBay via a best offer.

That sucks that you couldn't get the part locally. You couldn't find it online somewhere else that could get it to you in time? I bought my new hot water heater online from out of state and had it shipped to me via UPS. I didn't even attempt to buy it locally.

And the SAS raid card generated multiple correctable single bit ECC errors on the cache module in the process of performing a backup of several TB of data. I tried reseating the module, but the errors continued. I swapped the card for a spare. It insists on doing a background initialization...

So you'd rather have a 486 over a modern i7 or a 40 year old bicycle over a modern one? Or are you speaking only to a limited subset of device categories?

:cool: that you were able to make some improvement. That depends on the platform. The newest AMD systems will steer threads to the highest performing available core. I think Intel does something similar. How they determine highest performing available core is somewhat murky. It's not...

I've thought about replacing mine. Not because there's anything wrong with it or that I'm worried it's about to die, but I'm intrigued by some of the capabilities of newer units. Like inverter based variable capacity A/C compressors, infinitely variable speed brushless DC furnace blowers, and...

The i7-2600k performs about 50% better. I get a little more than 600MB/sec during the copy. The verify is slower. I'm using SyncBack SE V8. It seems like their verify routine is not well optimized. It rereads the file from both the source and destination drive and does something to compare...

Yeah, it's a bit of a dog... With a 10gB NIC the performance is not thrilling. CPU usage is high and seems to be holding copy speeds back. Time to scavenge something else. An i7-2600k is the next candidate.

I see I'm not the only one doing HVAC work recently. Hopefully you get it sorted.

I'm finally putting together the older, smaller brother to this last "NAS" build. I'm using the same IBM raid card + HP SAS expander in a Norco 20 bay chassis. I'm using the 10+ year old motherboard from my old "NAS" with a better CPU (Q9550S). I'm using the eight 2TB Samsung 5400 RPM drives...

I ordered a Mikrotik CRS309-1G-8S+IN to expand my 10gig network since I'm currently out of 10GbE SFP+ ports and I'm finally getting around to assembling the improved nightly backup server out of the parts I had collected for it. Also grabbed a few more LC/LC fiber cables and SFP+ modules from...

I ripped all 47 of my SACDs to .ISOs. 152GB for all of them. I hadn't bought one in probably close to a decade. I probably listen to less than one a year. Now that they're files I can play on a computer that might change.

So I am enjoying the 10 gig speeds. :cool:

Give it a few years, it could pick back up at any minute. :ROFLMAO:

And I discovered the humidifier on my furnace isn't work anymore. It worked before I changed the hot water heater. I don't really see the connection on why replacing one causes a failure in the other, but anyhow... I poked around with a multimeter and figured out how the system is supposed to...

Are you sure it's working as expected? That sound really bad even for the sort of shoddy corner cutting found in laptops. I'd be tempted to pull the heatsink and check for good contact between it and the CPU.

Ripping to a .ISO is much smaller than .DSF files (by ~2.5x). Since foobar will play the .ISO files and I'm not trying to play the tracks on anything else I don't see any reason to do anything other than .ISO.

There definitely isn't a user replaceable anode on my old one. I pulled off the power vent and removed all the caps on the top. It's a gas unit, so I presume that precludes it being a plastic tank.

:cool: So it works. The first SACD ripped both the stereo and multichannel layer fine. Working on a second one now.

The whole anode rod thing was news to me. I had never heard anything about that before I started researching replacing the leaking one. I'm not sure my old unit had a user replaceable one. There's no markings on the top or obvious spot for it. I'm going to pop some of the molded caps off it...

I came upon this thread some months ago. I finally got around to buying a cheap'ish used compatible blu-ray player (BDP-S5100) from eBay for ~$35 shipped. I plan to rip all my SACDs with it and convert them to PCM and compress them to FLAC. I haven't tried it yet.

It was a slow leak inside the hot water heater. There was a ~12" puddle on the ground under the unit. I nursed it along for about a week until I was able to replace it.

It looks like the 3950X is now fairly widely available. The local Microcenter has a bunch in stock, Amazon, B&H, Newegg, etc. have them in stock at $750 or really close to that price point.

That was the start of the process. 😭

In other news I have hot water in my house again. :cool:

Lets play a hypothetical. If I don't accept it, I can do what to stop it?

You just keep digging and slinging insults. Maybe I should get in the game... You're working awfully hard to twist my words and intentionally misunderstand what's funny. I never said the US should get into a war with Iran. I'm not advocating a war with Iran. Your belief that the US can't...