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500k in 24-hours....not bad ;)

I'll ask my dad if he got a similar letter for his MSDN subscription.

My computers, my boss' electricity. I'm used to consulting, and setting up my own work environment. As such everything in my office I bought (computers, chairs, florescent tubes, acoustic panels, tools, etc).

Yup. Just got the message myself. So for anyone that plans to run a server longer than the 180-day trial, are we buying retail copies?

If you end up doing that, let me know how it works. I've been thinking of the same for quite a while, but would want to map a physical NIC directly to that VM for the red interface. Of course, you won't need to worry about that if the only machine inside the firewall is the ESXi box.

I know of quite a few use cases, but they are always "emergency only". Ocean races, arctic crossings, etc. There was one in one of the villages (Manang) on the Annapurna Trail, but they only used it to call in the rescue plane ($15k for the flight, the call was complimentary)

Had one for an offshore sailboat race years ago, but never used it.

Looks like today will be another record day for me. But having both massive machines going will only last the weekend.

The Titans are folding now, but without an overclock and without beta units. That system is pulling ~900W and the other (dual 690s) is around 850W. Add that to the silent machine (250?) and some auxiliary equipment I had going, and it was likely 2500W+. 20A@120VAC=2400W

Running my new, old, and silent 4770s systems in my office. I now have them on multiple circuits, as I blew one Thursday morning.

PTGui for one.

I would not be comfortable putting ESXi directly on the internet. I would probably try to find a way to get a hardware firewall in there somehow. Even if it is a gumstix-type machine running smoothwall stickytaped to the back of the 1U server. Unless your bandwidth requirements are beyond that....

10:30 am and 90F. So glad I don't live here.

Only three things for that. The right shorts, the right seat, and (over time) a lot of time in the saddle. I find that if I don't ride for a week the next ride isn't nearly as comfortable.

This one likes to bounce, so I walk around on the balls of my feet getting a calf workout. I'll be getting a bike trailer for the baby as soon as mom lets me.

That is the plan. This is just a push based on some inconvenient scheduling. And of course the baby cannot be delayed ever. Hopefully by mid-next week I'll be back to at least 7 hours of sleep a night.

Nope. It is really starting to take a toll. Tired all the time, IQ down probably 30 points. Can't win a card game to save my life (normally I do better than average).

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I can't find any OC program that will work with my Gigabyte board. The "EasyTune" software won't load correctly, and the nTune software crashes the machine every time on load. Maybe I'll put in the time tomorrow to do it the old-fashioned way.

No fan controller ships with the 900D. In the market for one right now.

The F@H client.

Amazing. In still 80F air, with F@H running on the CPU, the CPU temp is stable at 72C and the chipset at 32C. I've since dropped the voltage by -0.042v and it is still stable and the temp is falling.

The upside is that it is waterproof. So comparing it to a different phone plus a waterproof case makes it a more reasonable size.

I have had small, single-slot motherboards where as soon as anything was connected to the PCIe slot the onboard video disabled itself. Running headless still wasn't an issue, but I had to get it set up correctly first.

This case has a 3-drive hot swap system that you can mount to any of the 3, 3-drive sets. You can also buy two more and have 9 hot-swap SATA bays. That would make the cabling look fantastic.

Mom. I was on baby duty until 2AM, then woke up at 5AM to start setting up the course and closing roads. Finished clearing the roads by 10PM and was back on baby duty until 2AM again. Then on Sunday I moved us out of our house and into the garage and demo'ed 1200sq.ft. of flooring so the new...

I removed one of the drive bays just because. At the moment it is housing 3x 3TB (RAID-0) and the 512GB 840 Pro The P180 was my previous "favorite case", but this beats it by a mile. It also costs nearly triple the price. 10% on the computer case is not unreasonabe.

Pre-OC the Win8 Performance score is 8.1 (tied but for graphics, 8.5)

The Corsair Obsidian 900D is by far the best case I've ever worked in. The Gigabyte GA-G1.SNIPER 5 just disappears inside of it, with room above for a 3x140 or 4x120 radiator and fans in both push and pull. There is also room for a full row of cable management openings below the MB and two rows...

Haven't ridden in almost two weeks. Was busy organizing and running a Crit in my hometown. That was a massive PITA. (PDF)

We are trying to help inform people, mentioning iThings doesn't help ;)

Yup, than something about "refining bath-salts", shooting his neighbors dogs, and possibly his neighbor.

Most of the phones I've used ask once during the setup phase. I'd love to know where that setting is. Also how to actually merge contacts instead of just "link" them (limit to 10 linked accounts).

I think the case was just vague and messy enough, and him just famous enough, to avoid it going anywhere. He does seem to be quite the character, though.

Don't be silly, he's rich ;)

In my experience, most of the non-consumer items you listed make a machine slower for most single user/single task applications.

Switches are expensive, but I don't mind fooling with multiple NICs. Getting better speed to my NAS would be nice, particularly once 4k video starts getting more common.

Anything over 100MB/s I consider maxing the GbE. Can't wait for 10Gb to start shipping on gaming boards.

I tend to get some gaming done at the office ;)

So I think Everything is in the Amazon Shopping Cart: Corsair Obsidian 900D Gigabyte GA-G1.SNIPER 5 Intel i7-4770 Corsair Dominator Platinum 32GB 2400MHz (2) EVGA GeForce GTX Titan SuperClocked 6GB Samsung 840 Pro 512GB Corsair AX1200i PSU Corsair H100i Liquid CPU Cooler Corsair SP120 Quiet...

Indeed. That is a very expensive way to do it. SSDs are a great deal if you are measuring in IOPS.

It is a really good idea in my opinion. Running independant physical servers usually leads to tons of underutilized hardware. Going Virtual allows you to minimize waste. But it also means that bottlenecks in the hardware will become an actual issue. HDD IO is a significant bottleneck...

New spin: Dad just got a gig rewriting the Corsair Link software, So I told him I'd need some more gear handy for testing/etc. If I use the Corsair H100i cooler (and Obsidian 900D for easy mounting), Corsair AX1200i PSU along with Corsair Dominator CMD32GX3M4A2400C10 memory (32GB@2400), that...

Yup. Haven't been able to actually see combat yet, but the UI is really intuitive for the whole multi-planet thing. The math on the back-end for making it all work right must be intense.

Not playable yet. Only about 30 seconds before a crash.

Looks great. Downloading the Alpha now....thanks!

Nah, clock speed is too important to go anywhere but top end (3.5, maybe 3.4). The OC is optional, so I might skip the "K" part to get the other features. Coug, that system would be too noisy. I suspend folding when I am in the office, so it only needs to be quiet when near idle. I think the...

Less than I was thinking, and less than the Shimano Ui2 system I was looking at. Of course, I'd need to price in the price of the rest of the wheel and having it built.

Haswell-E looks interesting, but not soon enough. Same with Ivy-E Sandy-E doesn't have the clock speeds I'd like. Cores is nice, but many of the things I do are still mostly single-threaded.

Awesome.