Stereodude
Not really a
He doesn't want people to see the recommendations from his account when he's projecting. Pretty simple to figure out.
Something Random
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I'm not familiar with the Windows 10 or whatever could do that.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
Stereodude
Not really a
It looks lime my cable company changed my internet plan. It looks like I have 50/5 now up from the 22/2 I had before. I think I will be downgrading to their new standard 25/3 tier to save the $20 a month.
Small update on this. I learned soon into working on this project that the RDMA portion of Linbit's DRBD is an enterprise licensed feature so I was not able to test it (yet). My company is in discussions with Linbit to work out NDAs so we can get a license to try their enterprise software.
However, I did fall back to using the Infiniband adapters with IP over Infiniband (IPoIB). I started with some raw measurements to see where things stand and so far as I was able to determine, the most I could pump through a single QSFP+ port that has an established 56Gb link was roughly 24.8Gb/sec. This was with using the CentOS Infiniband software packages and opensm software. I did rev the firmware on the Mellanox adapters to their latest but this didn't help. It's very possible that the Mellanox OFED software suite may improved this but I was not able to get IPoIB to work properly in the time allotted to me so I fell back to the CentOS stack.
Overall I saw a 10-20% increase in performance in certain test parameters when compared to a similar setup configured with 10Gbe SFP+ as the difference between the tests. The tests consisted of running fio at 1, 8, and 16 iodepth against block sizes of 4k, and 64k in size. There is still tuning that can be done to improve Infiniband's IPoIB but I'm still very new to using this technology. There should be a lot more performance available once the TCP stack is taken out of the picture and communication is done right through RDMA.
Coug, these cards are loaners from Dell for us to evaluate them as part of our product offering. Without this it may not have been feasible or justifiable to convince management to purchase a pair of these. We are in need of a fast way to replicate an high performance NMVe SSD across two systems and so far this is working pretty well.
sedrosken
Florida Man
So I downloaded and installed Visual Studio Community 2015. I selected all of the options without paying attention to the space required as I often do, not knowing that it was going to take up 40 GB... I'm considering uninstalling it and reinstalling it with a more conservative featureset but it took all night to install the first time. On a SSD.
Howell
Storage? I am Storage!
If you just uncheck the parts you don't want the installer will figure it out. No need to actually uninstall and reinstall. I'd imagine it took so long due to decompression of the installer files.
I've been playing the game with Comcast for a few years now. This year looks like my bill is bumping up by about $20 because my old 'promo' is no longer available now. At least they upgraded my internet speed and I have all the pay channels now (only watch HBO though for Silicon Valley and Game of Thrones & Starz for Black Sails).
For the extra $20 I'm going to take advantage of the speed:
For the extra $20 I'm going to take advantage of the speed:
timwhit
Hairy Aussie
Who is your provider?
Stereodude
Not really a
Well, that's certainly fast... BTW, there's a new version of sabnzbd.
Stereodude
Not really a
That's not 1.0. 1.0 has a different look to the GUI.
Do you mean one of the many cities/towns in the US with that name, Columbia University in NY, or Colombia the country in South America?
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
I've had three 128GB Lexar USB3 flash drives die in the last two weeks. Normally, they're not worth the time it takes to send them back but that's so offensively crummy that I think I'm going to do it on general principle.
I may have to leave the country. :shaking:
Stereodude
Not really a
You're that worried about Donald Trump that you're going to leave the country if he wins? Or are you worried he's going to evict you?
What? I am a civilian, not aligned with American politicos.
Howell
Storage? I am Storage!
The politicos in Columbia are considerably worse.
Chewy509
Wotty wot wot.
Brazil's current situation isn't crash hot either, and they are about to host the next Olympics....
Stereodude
Not really a
I think you mean Colombia...
Stereodude
Not really a
Way to miss the joke. Every four years some celebrities swear they're going to leave the country if ______ wins. I was wondering if you were making that sort of threat, or if you were worried about being deported because you're an illegal. :razz:
Howell
Storage? I am Storage!
I never noticed that...I won't make that mistake again.
Celebrities have options. My function is affected only moderately by political policies.
We have to be non-partisan.
Stereodude
Not really a
Clearly you don't work for the IRS. Must be the CIA, like I've said all along.
mubs
Storage? I am Storage!
AFAIK, Lexar went crappy many years ago. I have a 256 MB (yes, that's correct) Lexar Jumpdrive whose write protect switch is malfunctioning (I can't write to it in any position). Only Lexar product I bought. Rest all - flash drives, memory cards, everything has been Sandisk for the last dozen+ years, and none has failed so far.
The write protect switch was useful; I could put pics on it, protect it and take it to a printing service to make hard copies of pics without getting infected when they stuck it into their PC. I achieve the same thing now with a standard SD card (they have write protect sliding switches) shoved into a small USB card reader.
mubs
Storage? I am Storage!
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
I knew everything in this video, except the 35 feet from the power line on the ground. Congratulations to the Pudget Electricity company for making informative videos like this one (there are many others from them).
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
Happy ANZAC day to the antipodeans among us.
Chewy509
Wotty wot wot.
Thank you.
time
Storage? I am Storage!
It's good of you to notice, Merc, but it's not exactly a "happy" event. It's essentially a wake.
Of course, this year it fell on a Monday so most of us scored a long weekend ... the level of social happiness definitely went up a few points.
Of course, this year it fell on a Monday so most of us scored a long weekend ... the level of social happiness definitely went up a few points.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
I rather thought a solemn moment at 11AM followed by many shrimps on the barbie (or the mid-autumn equivalent) would be in order.
timwhit
Hairy Aussie
Memorial Day in the USA is not a solemn event.
time
Storage? I am Storage!
The solemn event is the *dawn* service, after which they play the Last Post.
Then there's a wait until 1pm (depending on the state) until the licensed establishments open for business.
Entities that got into trouble included:
a) a major supermarket chain that slyly opened in the morning to cook BBQ chickens, ready for sale in the afternoon
b) a politician that tried to link a contentious housing tax concession to military veterans
c) a TV network that went for an ad break in the middle of the Last Post (played by a lone bugle).
Then there's a wait until 1pm (depending on the state) until the licensed establishments open for business.
Entities that got into trouble included:
a) a major supermarket chain that slyly opened in the morning to cook BBQ chickens, ready for sale in the afternoon
b) a politician that tried to link a contentious housing tax concession to military veterans
c) a TV network that went for an ad break in the middle of the Last Post (played by a lone bugle).
sedrosken
Florida Man
So last week my desktop finally kicked the bucket after ten years of being a cheaply-made yet reliable little machine. It survived the better part of those ten years in a heavy smoking area. So I do my due diligence and do an autopsy on it... rapid-onset capacitor failure. Damn things popped like popcorn. Most of them were Rubycon MBZ series caps. It hangs in the middle of POST, I'm frankly surprised it gets that far. One day out of the blue it went down with a BSOD and was just never able to come back up.
Prepping the case, drives and power supply for my graduation build: MSI H110M-VD Pro, Celeron G3900 (still comfortably faster even than my Core2Duo, and has the potential to be upgraded to an i7 at just about any time should I need it), 1x8GB Crucial Ballistix Sport LX PC4-19200 (gives me room to upgrade to 16GB quickly and easily if I need/want to). The integrated graphics are just a hair slower than the HD4650 I was using, but will use much less power and support more hardware decoding of video, not to mention the driver support will be better just about anywhere I go that isn't XP. The VD part of the motherboard refers to the video ports on offer, 1 VGA and 1 DVI, which is what my twin monitors use. I might go one step further to the Eco model, which also has an HDMI port. It's decent for expansion as far as I need/want, is decent for performance, and should barely sip power compared to the A64X2, all for a decent price all told at about ~$150 total.
The power supply should do fine. The load should be less than it was with the A64X2 board, and I checked inside and everything seems just dandy bar some dust I had to clean out. The board does not require a "Haswell ready" auxilary CPU power connection, just uses good old 4-pin P4 power.
In other news the STLP state conference came and went. STLP stands for student technology leadership program, it's a Kentucky thing apparently. I was in it some time ago, even won the state championship at Elementary/Middle level in the computer repair challenge back in eighth grade. I tagged along for the Certipalooza event they were having there. Long story short I got my MTA certs in OS Fundamentals, Networking Fundamentals, and Security Fundamentals in short order, only spending about five minutes on each test and scoring a 94, 77 and 80 respectively. Not bad for never having had a class on the last two. The practice test had my friends and I both thinking we were going to fail spectacularly. I walked out with the most certs out of anyone in the state, and got a prize for my troubles. It's being sent to the school now, as are my cert certificates or whatever they are.
On the subject of my using Windows 10, I turned off all the privacy concerns and telemetry settings using Spybot S&D creator's Anti-Beacon. Seems to do the job, also handles reapplying of the settings in the event that they are reset by updates as they are wont to do. I also use Avast free and Spybot S&D free itself for protection, had a bit of a scare recently and got scared straight. This team of programs is just about the only one that I feel it's worth running on older machines such as my laptop. Just about everything else brings the computer to their knees while doing absolutely nothing, it's crazy.
Prepping the case, drives and power supply for my graduation build: MSI H110M-VD Pro, Celeron G3900 (still comfortably faster even than my Core2Duo, and has the potential to be upgraded to an i7 at just about any time should I need it), 1x8GB Crucial Ballistix Sport LX PC4-19200 (gives me room to upgrade to 16GB quickly and easily if I need/want to). The integrated graphics are just a hair slower than the HD4650 I was using, but will use much less power and support more hardware decoding of video, not to mention the driver support will be better just about anywhere I go that isn't XP. The VD part of the motherboard refers to the video ports on offer, 1 VGA and 1 DVI, which is what my twin monitors use. I might go one step further to the Eco model, which also has an HDMI port. It's decent for expansion as far as I need/want, is decent for performance, and should barely sip power compared to the A64X2, all for a decent price all told at about ~$150 total.
The power supply should do fine. The load should be less than it was with the A64X2 board, and I checked inside and everything seems just dandy bar some dust I had to clean out. The board does not require a "Haswell ready" auxilary CPU power connection, just uses good old 4-pin P4 power.
In other news the STLP state conference came and went. STLP stands for student technology leadership program, it's a Kentucky thing apparently. I was in it some time ago, even won the state championship at Elementary/Middle level in the computer repair challenge back in eighth grade. I tagged along for the Certipalooza event they were having there. Long story short I got my MTA certs in OS Fundamentals, Networking Fundamentals, and Security Fundamentals in short order, only spending about five minutes on each test and scoring a 94, 77 and 80 respectively. Not bad for never having had a class on the last two. The practice test had my friends and I both thinking we were going to fail spectacularly. I walked out with the most certs out of anyone in the state, and got a prize for my troubles. It's being sent to the school now, as are my cert certificates or whatever they are.
On the subject of my using Windows 10, I turned off all the privacy concerns and telemetry settings using Spybot S&D creator's Anti-Beacon. Seems to do the job, also handles reapplying of the settings in the event that they are reset by updates as they are wont to do. I also use Avast free and Spybot S&D free itself for protection, had a bit of a scare recently and got scared straight. This team of programs is just about the only one that I feel it's worth running on older machines such as my laptop. Just about everything else brings the computer to their knees while doing absolutely nothing, it's crazy.
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Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
Hey, so where do we send graduation presents?
sedrosken
Florida Man
I'm not particularly comfortable just slapping my address on a site that anyone can look at, so those who want to send me something can PM me and I'll send it to them.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
I think we'll probably set up something communal. I've run these things before for SF members. I ran it by a couple folks and I'm sure we're going to be OK for... something, at least. Anyone else who wants to kick in a bit, PM me and I'll put it in the bucket.
What's your laptop situation right now sed?
sedrosken
Florida Man
My Core 2 Duo is my only laptop, that i3 I tried to fix fell apart some time after I got it. Thermal sensor stopped working right and it would cost more to fix than it was worth. I get what I need out of it.
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