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Maybe because they had to find the power switch to turn it on and then knew where it was when it came time to turn it off.

A few more things. 1) No one warned me about Supermicro's stupidity when it comes to PWM fans. Apparently they have a hard / non-adjustable coded minimum RPM threshold written into the BIOS. This causes the fans to pump or oscillate their RPM. Every time the fans drop below the threshold...

I had this issue on one of my laptops and was able to fix it, let me turn on the PC and find the steps. Edit: I followed the instructions I found here: http://superuser.com/a/833706 Specifically running these steps: net stop wuauserv net stop bits rd /s /q %windir%\softwaredistribution net...

You're right. That sounds like an insurmountable problem. Best to keep all your eggs in one basket.

It's a good thing that's not the only way to move data over a distance. There are external drives and you can take them with you when you leave the house, assuming you're allowed to leave your house.

I got my stuff from Natex today. I decided to get my workstation with the X9SRA board working tonight. As part of that I decided to test the eight 8gB PC3-12800R ECC DIMMs I bought from eBay to make sure all eight slots in the Supermicro board work, etc, etc even though I'm only planning to...

You're on house arrest?

No, I use Google Hangouts sparingly though or just plain SMS.

I've never seen any way to insert emoji's from the keyboard on my two Android devices.

We have some piece of crap HP home office class all in one color inkjet at my current job. It's awful to the point I wouldn't piss on it if it was on fire to put it out.

That's probably because neither is making their own supplies, so the cables / connectors are whatever the OEM for the various models is using.

My stuff from the same seller also came yesterday. I didn't open any of the boxes yet to open them since I was focused on building up the v1 E5-26xx system. On that note, the Fractal Designs Define R5 case is pretty decent. I'm not a huge fan of the fan mounting, no pun intended. You can't...

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All of eBay's protections now side heavily with the buyer, it's hard to get burned as a buyer. The seller is sending me out an intact replacement CPU today. I've got a damaged or incorrect Blu-ray here or there, like movie that wasn't actually the 3D version that was listed. The sellers go...

Nah, I think they used a chisel. It was from these guys. I sent them a polite nicely worded message demanding an intact replacement or a refund.

So, I'm pretty sure something is missing here. An my first v1 E5-26xx build grinds to a halt. Oh, I have all the pieces, just some of them aren't usable. Minor detail...

So the Skylake refresh to the HP Elitebook 840 G1 notebook I have looks pretty nice. HP Elitebook 840 G3 It looks like I can customize one for about $1k with the 3 year warranty, no OS, and the QHD display. Pull the 500 HDD, add a 500GB 850 EVO M.2 SSD, 16gB of DDR4 DIMM, an OS, and be off to...

Well, you're a warranty writer's dream. :rofl:

Note to self, do not buy more Toshiba HDDs. Sure enough that wording is on the warranty paper in the 4TB consumer drives I bought. I have no idea if it's in the warranty on the enterprise drives. They don't come with a paper.

No, I'm more than a decade away from that mark.

I think it has to be terminated at the SFP+ module though. AFAIK, you can't terminate it at a wall plate and use a short patch "cable". That sort of rules all this out. My main server and backup box will be sitting next to or perhaps on top of each other and will have twinax DACs connecting them.

It's not practical for me to run fiber all over my house, or at least I don't think it is. Can you buy a reel of OM3 fiber and run it like CAT5/6 and terminate it to a wall plate and then use short patch fiber "cables", etc?

I had a good laugh at this video. I guess that makes me old.

Yes, that'd be wonderful if I wanted to use my large RAID-6 array as a scratch disk for other machines. However, I don't.

I decided to get 2 of these 7200RPM Toshiba drives. Newegg has a promo code that makes them $64.99 each. While not half of $112, I don't need 4TB drives for this.

I was thinking a SSD for boot / OS and maybe one or two spinners. I may even use an 80GB Intel G2 SSD or similar I have lying around. I could probably go pure network for the video compression jobs, but that requires I leave another box with the files on the whole time it's working since I...

What sort of storage are you looking for? SSD's and/or spinners? What sizes and how many?

Well that's not exactly true. :rofl:

These photos are pretty cool: http://imgur.com/a/mrdgk They're a SpaceX launch as seen out the window of a commercial jet. news story

That's just silly. I like it... A LAN party without the LAN in a single box.

He did say your HW can't be identical, but didn't elaborate exactly why. Or was that only for USB peripherals? It really can't distinguish between two identical devices?

Okay, that was pretty cool.

Don't take it. There's surveillance gear installed in it now.

Well, she plays the same basic character in all her movies.

It just proves that people, even those who run tech sites, are bad at math. From the article, "A solid state drive prototype was showcased at the CES 2016 last week which offered a capacity of 4TB at an estimated retaili price of $0.25 per gigabyte. This US$500 drive is said to be destined for...

So I decided to buy a E5-2670 after all since it's totally unclear how the magic of turbo boost will work in conjunction with the TDP limit of the chip. In short, the E5-2689 could run faster, but may not in my actual use. Both have the same TDP and the TDP rules the maximum clock speeds with...

I was unhappy that my network drive mappings didn't show up to applications running with administrator rights and I had map them again. A little Googling later and I found out about EnableLinkedConnections in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Policies/System. I'm...

Ditto. :scratch:

Well, I changed my mind and ordered 2 more 6TB drives. I will start with 10 of them in RAID-6. Still waiting on my SFF-8087 cables from China. They sat in Los Angeles for a week doing who knows what. They've since departed LA, but no idea when I will get them. Hopefully in the next few days.

I'm might be remembering wrong, but I thought the installer was signed.

Someone write make a note of this. Record the statement and the date.

The house density is pretty high and they already have $600k from the developers bond to pay for part of it, so the ~$5k per house would cover the other half.

It looks awfully thick for a 2.5" drive. That can't be a standard 9.5mm thick drive if that's an actual picture.

Sure, it's a new subdivision, they were building it out through the great recession and it took longer to complete than anyone expected. In new construction they usually only put the first of two layers of asphalt down and make any minor repairs to the first layer and put down the 2nd when the...

I'm pretty sure you're confused. The majority of films are crap, but so are many of the critically acclaimed films. They're not "good" & worthy of awards because they're fantastic masterpieces of art that and happen to be box office turds because they're just too sophisticated for the common...

Well, yesterday I sent a note to the seller of the E5-2689 for $225. They had several listings for them end at $225 without selling a single one. I politely suggested they might get more interest at a lower price like $150 (intentionally shooting low) given the low price of the E5-2670. I...

Yes, if lets them take a more aggressive negotiating position now, and counter action by the developer would be later after the first thing is already done and they don't care anymore.

I haven't seen it, but it seems that most of the critical acclaim in Hollywood award shows is for movies that are box office failures and aren't generally liked by the public at large.

They're using vague terminology. They're complaining about a NVMe M.2 SSD. A standard SATA M.2 SSD doesn't have the same heat issues. SATA ones are also much slower.

So, basically the lawyer said in so many words, "We're going to change the bylaws anyway without the consent of the developer and they can come after us down the road over it if they really want."