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I'll just add that to the other $140 worth of cables I need to buy. I'm actually surprised at how reasonable fiber is now. I remember paying $75/m for ST-ST patch cables back in the day and here I am getting just over 60m of cables for not quite double that.

I found a working 24 port 7250 with the 10Gb ports on Ebay for under $80 shipped. I'll have to pick up some AOC cables (it's hard to find twinax longer than 7m) to really mess with it but I definitely have a few 10GbE cards already. I wouldn't mind being able to attach a few more computers to...

That looks like extremely specific R6iii rumors to me. 1/180th second sensor readout gets it into the same ballpark as the R3 and the Z8, and if that's a fix for rolling shutter, I'm here for it.

There is a fix available now, although it'll be almost a week before I can check it myself.

In the category of solution to a problem I didn't realize that I have, Komga is a really interesting tool. It's a media server for Ebooks, PDFs and comic book data formats. I've generally been content to toss the things I'm reading on to Google Play Books, but Play Books has a hard limit of...

Every distribution handles things a bit differently, but it's forced reboots don't happen very often. Things like web browsers that rely on updates let you know when they need to restart though. Basically you only HAVE to restart when your kernel gets upgraded. But there isn't much in the way...

I do think that almost all cases, there are plenty people willing to help if you need something. 99% of the tuning that Windows needs is day 1 setup nonsense and that's true of pretty much every Windows version. For that matter, I have to do a day of tuning for a personal-use Linux or MacOS...

It's not a hack? You are configuring the operating system to your liking. There may very well be people who want and like Recall or like the new context menu and center start menu, but you can change all those things if you don't like them. re: Linux, one of the biggest issues is that Linux has...

Here's my updated autounattend.xml adapted to kill Recall. Apparently, if you omit Recall from your Windows image entirely, it screws up the entire Windows 11 setup. It really has been made a dependency for Windows Explorer. You can still shut it off after Windows is installed, so I have dism...

First: the end user component of Recall simply doesn't show up on the current version of Windows 24H2. It *IS* enabled by default. There's a proper way to shut it off, which is to run dism /online /disable-feature /featurename: recall from an admin terminal session. Second, Windows 10 also has...

TrueNAS loves having lots of RAM and will cache a lot more with more RAM available, hence the insistence on getting pretty large amounts of RAM in the first place. Rack equipment does not have to be loud. Lenovo RD550s are extremely tolerable, like just above silent. even with the traditional...

What do you mean by safe? It's going to be able to run Windows 10 for as long as you feel like running it and if you want to give in and try Windows 11, I suggest starting from the autounattend.xml instructions I posted up thread to make a bullshit-free installation.

Consumer demand for monster sized drives isn't very high, although Arstechnica and the like seem to think we might see 50TB drives by the end of the decade.

Asus has that one all-m.2 NAS but it only has 4GB RAM and not much in the way of flexibility. I'd look at a $1500 Asrock Rack ALTRAD8UD-1L2T paired with a 40W Q32-17 (literally, 32 1.7GHz Ampere cores). I'd set it in a 2U rack enclosure or perhaps an older version of the Silverstone LaScala...

Is the goal low overall power, high capacity or fast capacity?

Every time I look at commercial NASes, I wind up running down what's available with goofy AliExpress hardware. I'd love to see something with 1 10GbE port, at least a x8 PCIe slot and a mix of SATA or MiniSAS + at least m.2 on an ITX package. It's not hard to find most of those but never all of...

Mechwarrior 5 Clans trailer just dropped. Battletech is the property that's most likely to get me to spend money, but Mechwarrior 5 Mercenaries had some really awful AI and never quite lived up to what it could've been. I still like seeing a new game, even if I prefer isometric turn based...

My sacrificial lamb systems, a Beelink Ser5 (R7 5800H, 16GB) and some or other Asus Vivobook with a 13500, don't even show the options for Windows Recall on 24H2. Apparently it's only present on computers that have an NPU and even then it's disabled by default. So we're all probably safe for...

That's an interesting device. I wonder if that thing will talk to ConnectX cards in ethernet mode over the QSFP+ ports. Edit: Dammit I was looking at the specs on the next model up.

Here's a 10 port Mikrotik SFP/SFP+ L3 switch that can handle 10GbE on 9 ports that consumes a very reasonable 20W under full load. Most rack mountable 10Gb switches are more like 200W and sound like dying wildebeests. It's $180 on Amazon.

I have ~80 classroom PCs I have to go and update, plus client systems at customer sites that are going to need to update, and this change is big enough that I'm going to want to shepherd it to completion myself. So I'm going to have to make an updated ISO plus updated drive images now. The...

24H2 is now the default release of Windows 11 that is available for download. Wave a tearful goodbye to Wordpad and PSR.exe and say hello to dumbass new labels on the standard context click and also dumbass Window Recall. If you want to make Wordpad work again on Windows 11, just put the three...

ARM has unified memory built in to the SoC that's about four times faster than DDR sitting in a DIMM slot and that bandwidth can be directed to either CPU or GPU cores, since they're on the same physical component. Quad channel DDR can get to similar-ish levels of performance, but I don't think...

My top PCIe slot is set up as 4x4x4x4 for the dumb u.2 adapter. My GPU is in the middle on 16x and my IB NIC is using four lanes of a 16x slot and rather stupidly has to be on a extension because my GPU fans stick out a little too much. The bottom port is running off the chipset lanes rather...

LM, I have a full-fat file server and a tape changer on hand as well as Crashplan online backups. I think I'm OK with my backup situation. The two drives I have in RAID are where I stick work in progress and intermediate data. That's all stuff I can re-render if I really need to since I have...

There's a thread in the toolbox section with all the stuff I use.

It's interesting to me as a possible classroom project. I've walked people through assembling 3D printers from components and it doesn't seem like that much of a reach.

I have two 8TB drives in RAID 0 for video work. They could just as easily be in a JBOD but why not get throughput gains?

This is what I use right now. The drives I'm using, a mix of Crucial and Intel PCIe 3.0 models, don't get particularly hot.

Oldversion.com still has the last free version of Reflect of you don't wanna buy it.

Not yet. I actually got the NICs I have last time I was at Microcenter. The original idea was just to be able to direct connect the USB and the PCIe guy to speed up new setups on laptops.

I have 28TB of u.2 drives on a x16 card in my new workstation. The HBA cost a whole $50 and I think I spent $1300 total on those drives. The 8TB drives were new, not pulls, although nobody has them that cheap any longer. Micron, Samsung, Intel/Solidigm and WD have affordable high capacity PCIe...

I don't think 2.5 or 5GbE are formal standards at all, but in theory I think they're just derivatives of 10Gb anyway. I'm pretty sure the basic functionality could be added in drivers if there was real demand. Something weird I've observed with the Realtek 2.5Gb NIC is that SMB connections are...

M silicon usually lines up with xx60 nVidia hardware until you get into the workstation products and workloads where the unified memory makes having huge amounts of RAM worthwhile. It's... Whelming at best for configs with modest amounts of RAM and core counts.

nVidia doesn't have to play in that space. It is apparently working with Mediatek on a new consumer ARM SoC, but it doesn't currently make an x86 CPU and thus isn't part of the NPU game right now. Presumably, anyone with a recent RTX is already in the right ballpark anyway. Part of the deal...

Sensor: Kodak/ONsemi KAI-11000

Just remember fb, you gotta license all those SQL Server instances. That's US$130,000 if you're running SQL Server Enterprise edition on 16 cores on-prem.

One of those could probably every Haswell-E I still have in service.

Arrow Lake is official and all that the leakers said over the last couple days ago seems to have held true: They're a little slower and a lot cooler. Doesn't look like mainstream desktop prices have been changed from last gen. The Ultra 9 285 is just under $600 and the two Ultra 5s are ~$300. It...

Open source full frame MILC camera. Use Sony E mount, which means it can probably adapt just about any other full frame mount as well. The body is mostly 3D printed, with a 10.5MP sensor and a $100 single board ARM computer and some open source code doing the lifting. I can't see where to...

I do enjoy some Coleman Hawkins and Dexter Gordon. My partner isn't so much interested in classical music, but we both like jazz, so that's been the sound of my home the last few years.

Leaked pricing suggests 5090 north of $2200, 5080 16GB $1300+ and 5070 12GB at $600 or $700. No big changes for relative rasterization performance (fill rates etc) but much better ray tracing capabilities. Per Moore's Law is dead. Usually we can expect the 80 series card to catch up to the...

A bunch of usual suspect Twitterers are saying that the Blackwell 5070 will be inflicted with 12GB GDDR7 over a 192 bit bus for an effective 15% gain in memory bandwidth and probably a much higher than $600 launch price. I'm sure you all can join me now in a bout of laughter out loud.

Neither of the server-class 10Gb NICs I have here will negotiate a 2.5GbE connection on Cat6a with this cheapo 2.5GbE switch I just got. But it did work with a $10 PCIe NIC with a Realtek chip on it and my Asus 2.5Gb USB dongle. I'm not surprised that Intel and Broadcom didn't bother to...

Zen 5 isn't bad as it is. It got slightly better performance on lower power draw. If you're coming from anything other than Zen 4, it's going to be substantially faster than what you have.

OK, the lower power demands are actually very substantial: The 2x0 7/9 SKUs are 125W / 250W max TDP and Ultra 5s will max out at 160W. So Intel is getting quite a bit of benefit from the die shrink, just not as a performance boost. Source is some leaked slides for the release press kit that's...

Dave, you are rocking a two year old flagship CPU and GPU. I realize cost is not a limiting factor for you but unless you suddenly need a fuck-ton of 40Gb+ Thunderbolt ports in the next 12 - 24 months, there's probably not a single damned thing you're likely to get out of a CPU upgrade or...

It is official. Lunar has won "Something random." Here's the problem: You guys are going to start seeing hurricanes as climate becomes increasingly temperate. Sandy hit NYC 10 years ago and yes that was an extreme outlier at the time, but given the number of 500 year extreme weather events...

I'll take the occasional hurricane over four months of black ice and snow that's pretty for 20 minutes in December until it mixes with the charming rust belt melange of industrial effluent and thereafter makes the entire world look like 50s TV. I'd prefer New Orleans to Florida though. Better...

Apparently Core Ultra 9 285k benchmarks show that it's functionally on par with the 9950X on typical benchmarks while using somewhat less power than the 14900k. This is important because the 14900k is faster for games than the 9950X. If that's what you care about for your next gen CPU, you'd...