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Congratulations Sony. You've just launched a new phone just as large as the one Gordon Gecko had in Wall Street. Source

Oracle really doesn't do its homeworks. They make a repository (file.deb) available for Debian, but when you unpackage the package, you end up with a partial installation of MySQL and not with something that's ready to run. How the fuck do they expect us to work with that? Why don't they...

When I try large downloads on the damn Linux server, the transfers stops after a few tens of MB. First time I tried to download mysql 5.6 from Oracle's website, the forst 30MB went thru, but then all networking activity stopped. I could not even ping Google. After a few minutes, everything...

I followed this guide to install Mariadb 5.5 alongside MySQL 5.5.31. It went smoothly up to the point where I'm supposed to copy and edit my-medium.cnf. It's because, the file isn't there. There's a my-medium.cnf.sh in /opt/mariadb/support-files, but no my-medium.cnf. Same goes for...

On a Dell PowerEdge 2950 III, I have a stripe of 2x 73GB SAS drive connected on the Perc 6/i adapter and one SSD connected to the motherboard's SATA port. There's no way to make the integrated SATA port bootable from what I can see : Server BIOS : The SSD is connected and it's possible to...

I stumbled on a very affordable HP 600GB 15Krpm SAS 6Gbps drive, 3.5". I need two 3.5" SAS drives for a Dell PowerEdge 2950 III. Except for the drive sled, should I be safe using an HP drive into a Dell server? Is it possible there's something in the firmware of the drive preventing me from...

I'm very tempted to get an Acer C7 Chromebook. I can get it for 237$ locally. Yes, it's a shitty laptop, but since I don't have a laptop at all and not much money to spare, I guess it would be better than nothing. I'd replace the internal 320GB hard drive with my spare Corsair Neutron GTX...

I have a problem with my new SSD and the Dell PowerEdge 2950 in which I intended to install it. The intergrated Perc 6/iR controller refuses to detect the SSD. I've placed the SSD inside an Icy Dock 3.5"-to-2.5" adapter, but that should not be a problem since there's no ontroller in that thing...

I look at the fees to reserve an IP address block on ARIN's website and I'm perplex. Is that the annual cost per IP address or for the entire reserved block? Somehow, given how rare the IP V4 addresses are, I have a hard time to imagine that it only cost 2250$ to reserve 4096 of them (a /20).

I used the short HTML code page you guys made for Ddrueding as a base to create a website for a singer friend of mine. You can view my pathetic attempt at a website at the following address : www.karinegamelin.com Yes, it's in French. She didn't have a website before and the only photos of...

I want to propose running Openstack on a local server in order to replace the costly Amazon EC2 instances we buy to run some shared online video softwares. We have several large instances on Amazon, but we could do with medium instances in most cases. However, the guy in charge of that project...

We've talked about this previously, but I can't find the thread(s). Any reason not to go with Dreamhost and their 8.95$ unlimited everything plan? The goal is only to host a web page for an artist, so she can show pictures/videos of herself and a short bio.

Superbiiz constantly has the best prices on the RAM I need for the server proposal I'm working on. And they advertize they have the sticks I want in stock to top it off. Is it too good to be true? Their prices are significantly below the rest of the market. Anyone here ever did business...

I'm looking at NAS for our server network. While HP has really nice options, they are prohibitively expensive, so I'm looking elsewhere. So far, I hesitate between the Thecus N1200Pro with an Intel X520-DA2 dual-port 10GbE NIC and a QNAP TS-EC1279U-RP. The later cost around 500$ more for...

News source The big lines are : * Haswell-based Xeon E3 12xx v3 for LGA1150 single-socket systems to be release at the end of May 2013. * Ivy-Bridge-EP Xeon E5-26xx v2 for dual-socket LGA2011 systems will get out in the third quarter of 2013. * Ivy-Bridge-EP Xeon E5-46xx v2 for quad-socket...

I've calculated that we have 18 servers running on various Linux distributions. I'm trying to find a way to combine their functions into a single server and then duplicate it on a second one, purely for redundancy. Yes, a single, very powerful server, could be enough, performance-wise, to do...

In my view, the company I work for has way too many servers compared to what would normally be needed. However, I haven't seen that many server farms so maybe I'm wrong. Is it normal, for a 20-employees company with around a thousand customers and a 1.5TB monthly transfer volume, to have ...

The president of the company I work for these days needs a 4G wifi card and a one-month internet plan. He's in Fort Lauderdale, in Florida. He'll need to transfer a lot of data (maybe up to 2GB or 3GB for the month). Where can he get it? What plan? What price? I'll do research on my own...

During a meeting with people from Insight, they told me that, although it's not advertised, servers' warranty only apply at the original location where they were delivered and installed. If we move (and we plan on moving our offices this summer), the warranty will be void, unless we give the...

Source Those must only be rebranded Hitachi 4TB drives, but maybe I'm wrong. I still haven't seen them in stores so I've no idea how expensive they are.

I have a little problem here. We have a failed hard drive that's been replaced under warranty by HP. But the failed drive has valuable information on it, so we'd like to erase it before sending it back. I plugged the defective drive in an HP server with an HP 410i controller. We haven't...

We'll be moving our servers to an external hosting site in the beginning of next year. We'll also keep a few systems in our office. We want to create two domains with two different IP segments, linked by VPN (one local, one remote). I'm trying to figure out what's the best way to do it. For...

Look here Cisco is offering huge discounts on several of their last generation servers, hoping for sure to clear their inventory. The model in the link above is probably the best deal they have now. Unless you need storage, then it will be a C210 with 16x 2.5" drive bays and occupy 2U of rack...

We are looking to part with our servers and send a bunch of them at a remote location with better electrical and cooling redundancy than what we can implement in our offices. We'll need to setup a VPN access between the servers at the remote location and the few we'll keep in our offices. We...

Not that is especially powerful, but its size sets it apart from the norm. Here's a comparison between Sandy's size and the largest cyclone ever recorded (1979's Typhoon Tip) : Tip Sandy ...Sorry for the missing pictures. I can't figure out how to include pictures I've uploaded in this...

I prefer the Lubuntu variant, but anyway, they all are available now.

Here's the review. The bottom line : I know a guy who has to buy a bunch of computers these days who should strongly consider this PSU if he hasn't bought it yet.

Amanda The other tech here planned to use it for our automated backup, but he ended up finding it too complicated to setup. We must do backups of servers with the following OS : Windows Server 2003 Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows XP Windows Vista Windows 7 Suse...

No, not really. At least not in the next two months. We'll see in November. Since the old thread with the same title is apparently unrecoverable, I thought about starting a new one. Among the interesting new cars, there's the Cadillac ATS. A new turbocharged 2.0L engine will be offered...

Out of curiosity, I was looking at the relative performance of AMD's processors compared to Intel's at various price points and the global picture is quite depressing for the underdog. As general purpose processors, no AMD processor can hold a candle to Intel's offering in the same segment...

http://www.ashlin.ca/p/Hard_Drives_Hitachi_Ltd_0S03363_Hitachi_Deskstar_4_TB_3_5_Internal_Hard_Drive_-_20_Pack_1020909544.htm#tabs It clearly says that it's a 20-pack. I've seen the drive at 230$ at a local store and thought it was quite a deal, but a 20-pack for 444$, wow! SSD are really...

I doubt anyone here has any kind of experience with their blade servers, but I'm drooling about the things I could do with even a single SBE-720E 7U blade bay filled with their SBI-7227R-T2 blade servers. I'd need to add a 500$ SBM-CMM-003 module (for KVM access) and a 550$ SBM-GEP-T20 module...

I plan to move all our native Solaris setups to zones. It will sit on a computer that will be isolated on the network, without direct internet access. Our company doesn't plan to pay for support from Oracle for the operating system. I know Chewy told me to run from this situation, but I want...

The fact that Apache is now responsible for the development of OpenOffice is new to me. I thought it felt into the grasp of Oracle. I don't remember Oracle absorbing Apache, but I could have missed the news. So now we have LibreOffice on one side and Apache OpenOffice on the other. I thought...

Would this motherboard fit inside a node of that enclosure? I prefer the Asus motherboard for the wider memory support and lower cost, but there are no compatible Asus quad rackmount enclosure with 2.5" hot-swap front bays, only 3.5" bays. I'm trying to fit an entire 42U setup inside a 2U...

Ok, I'm starting to have a small panic attack. I'll probably get a contract with a relatively big firm in which I'll have to maintain Solaris servers and program Cisco switches. I'm not familiar with either of those. I have two days to look good in an interview and about a week to become a...

Asus P8Z77-i Deluxe You can mount a Thermalright Archon on it AND IT FITS! So now you can overclock the Hell out of a processor on a mini-ITX motherboard. That's awesome! Now I just need to find a proper smallish case to let me do that...

I have a customer who wants to password-protect the content of a few folders. I'm almost never asked to do that. Before hitting Google, I thought asking you guys about it. The OS is Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. He doesn't want to encrypt his entire profile, just a few folders.

The Pub thread "I don't want to buy a used car" is missing. Is it just me or this thread vanished? I tried the search and it doesn't show anywhere. I posted there not too long ago. Where is it? It's late and I'm tired, but I don't think I'm THAT tired as to not be able to find a thread I...

I have to help a damsel in distress on a Linux box. Problem is, the said person, currently drawning in his own misery, is on the other side of the continent. How can I do something like RDP on his Ubuntu 11.10 box? I also have a Ubuntu 11.10 installation here.

Since it's the best performing antivirus I've seen in the few AV testing web sites I've visited, I told one of my customers to buy G-Data for his five computers. But, as good as it is, G-Data has a major issue I wasn't aware of : it flags and automatically clean/quarantine/destroy a critical...

That should be interesting. Products based on it should arrive in a few months I guess. News source Press release

I need to learn how to run a BSD server. It will probably be an OpenBSD installation, but I still don't know, so I chose to try FreeBSD instead as it seems to be more user-friendly. I made a bootable USB stick with FreeBSD 6.2 64-bit on it, using Universal USB Installer. I installed it on a...

Don't ask me what they changed other than the version number. Bengali (India) for Mubs Hindi (India) also for Mubs English US still for Mubs (Damn, make up your mind man) and most others. French for Time's wife German for Buck Dutch for Chewy's father Swedish for The Swede I searched a...

The S25 SAS. Press release Up to 900GB capacity, max 204MB/s transfer rate, 2.5" form factor, 32MB cache, SAS 6Gbps interface, 7.8W max/5.3W at idle, 5 years warranty, rather noisy with 37dBA seeks. No idea about the price. Much slower than an SSD, but also certainly cheaper for similar...

I've been monitoring my blood pressure for a few weeks. While my diastolic pressure always is in the desirable range, my systolic pressure indicates that I do prehypertension. Among the main cause of prehypertension, the only one I have is a sedentary life style. I don't smoke, only causally...

I'm doing my numbers (finances) for last year and I'm surprised how little I spent in the entire year on computers and peripherals. Including two Core i7 2600 systems, 4 printers I destroyed along a few enclosures too, as well as my main computer monitor, I only spent a little over 2400$ last...

I sent a DOA Hitachi 7K1000.D 1TB in RMA. The process was easy and they quickly shipped me back a replacement drive. I received it last week, but I put it aside since I didn't need it immediately. Today was the day I opened the bag. The drive felt heavier than I remembered the...

...because their former CEO killed himself in a small plane crash. Steve Appleton was only 51 years-old. Company statement Time must have sent him too much negative thoughts due to the Crucial firmware fiasco.

My young cousin (I could very well be his uncle) studied computer sciences and he has ok programming skills. He also is a gaming addict and he wants to start a forum where he and his kiddo friends can brag about how much l33t they are (I know even know what freaking game they're playing)...