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If it's around over over 1GB/s, I don't think people can quibble much. Mellanox NICs like the ones I use at home are around $50 each, so $150-ish to get 10GbE point to point seems pretty damned reasonable to me.

This is probably relevant to some interests. 4x2.5GbE, 2x10GbE SFP+. $50 and runs on under 10W.

Here's a pretty nice Wordpad Alternative, RectifyPad. It seems to follow current MS Office theming conventions but it does not open .docx files, which some past versions of Wordpad can.

Ukrainian Bradley gunner on taking out a Russian T90 that's about twice its size and with only a fraction of the armament.

I dropped Netflix last October. I had been continuously subscribed to it since late 1998. I used it for DVDs and very seldom for streaming and I just decided it wasn't valuable enough to keep paying, even though I was very happy to see it grow into what it is now. Amazon has The Expanse, but...

Amazon is awful for its workers, but it's sort of the same thing with Wal-Mart or any other company big enough to compete. They're all awful. Booksellers are the one place I'll go out of my way to buy from not-Amazon but as a general purpose retailer, it's so often the path of least resistance...

You can get a Visio product key from g2a.com for about $20.

Guy from my old colo. He's still cleaning out the old building.

I'm really going to have to think about how I want to set up this system. I could just make it another VM host that just has a lot more capacity than the other ones I have but what need for my systems is a place to put things. We're supposed to get a foot of snow this weekend so I have some...

New. New. New SSDs. I still haven't had an Intel 4510 fail. They've been excellent for me.

Everything has AI in it now because how dare we buy things that don't have AI. I guess it's nifty that the things we want to play games and run video editors with are the things that make AI go as well. 8c/16t and moderately capable integrated graphics for $330 is nothing to sneeze at.

Yeah. I have an S8 tablet I can swap in that gets $600 in credit, plus another $50 for reservation. The total to get an S24+ is $350 and the S24U is $500. The lack of SD card and overall reduced storage would be a pain but I have an S20 Ultra now and I think it's too goddamned big, and the S24+...

In this case I was specifically making a point that the option is available and affordable. I'm getting one set up so I can beat on it before I put in my datacenter. If I can get more of those at that price, they'll be great replacements for the RS550s I have out there now. This is the cheapest...

$400 got me an RS630v1. 2x Xeon 6136 for 24c/48t @ 3.5GHz, both 1100W PSUs, 4x10GbE, 10 front 2.5" bays and three internal u.2 ports. I have to put RAM in it but I am just fine with that; $800 will get me 512GB (the system will take 1.5TB), which should cover my needs for years to come. There...

Yes. And the Stainless Steel Rat.

I actually know a couple people who have been motivated to learn Norwegian because of Norway's prominence in fabric arts. Never heard of anyone voluntarily learning Swedish.

I am very sorry to hear that. It is hard to say goodbye to someone so central to your life. Set down your burden and rest.

The tools that are used to allow Hackintoshes can be used in a similar fashion to get old Macs on new versions of the OS. There are instructions all over the place for making it work. I mostly just want to have a working Mac around to have a Mac around, but right now I have a 2019 Mac Mini so...

IIRC, getting a phone with a data plan in 2003 was probably still $60ish for most people. The Sprint employee plan gave me unlimited 3G service and a massive discount on a Windows Mobile phone at a time when both of those things were exotic. The only caveat in the time since is that I've always...

An RS550s might be just the thing for you. sed. They're old, but they're cheap. Everything that goes in them is cheap, and a lot of the ones being sold now come in fully loaded configurations with a couple CPUs, redundant PSUs and a full set of filled DIMM slots. They're also very quiet other...

Everything in my house is 802.11ac aka Wifi 5. Apparently the Wifi 7 standard was ratified a couple weeks ago. My partner wants me to replace all my gear now because "It's outdated." I tried to explain to her that there's nothing in the house right now that can USE Wifi 7 and anyway it's not...

Buy a straight-up SAS controller please. People can't even get a USB to fully implemented RS232 adapters that work every time. If you have to dedicate a $100 ebay special desktop to running the SAS controller, so be it, but you definitely don't want to lose precious hours of your life trying to...

What do you tell the folks who can't afford $4k lenses at that point? Go be poor someplace else?

I've seen completely random shorts between chassis and mainboard reset a CMOS battery. Your symptoms sound like a drained CMOS battery, especially the time change. You definitely do have a little coin battery on your device somewhere, but some systems are pretty good at hiding them.

I think they'll exist for a while yet, if only because everybody else in the world is used to dealing with the idea that the physical SIM is the only thing they need to change their phone's identity. I'm sure every security agency and mobile carrier in the world wants them gone though...

Is this your LG? my guess is that you have a short somewhere. If you have any guesses as to the cause, you could try covering those areas with electrical tape.

$30/month unlimited everything? There is no better plan, at least not inclusive of data. On the other hand, my phones at least DO need a SIM. It might be because of the unusual nature of my phone plan, but I've been told I don't get to have an eSIM. I actually had a SIM physically fail last...

I am still on a Sprint employee plan. It has carried over to Tmo but if I need anything from the carrier, I can't go to a store for help. I have to call one specific person who can authorize sending me a new SIM or whatever. I think she's literally the only person I can talk to, because I've had...

I have zero social media. That's not an issue, but as things are, my phone has gotten its last OS update. Security updates end this year as well. That's the biggest problem. The battery is just mildly annoying. I used to end the day with around 45% of a charge remaining. Now it's more like 20%...

They're gonna be SAS. Almost ever SAS adapter you'll run across will be an LSI-something-or-ther whether it says Dell or HP or Lenovo on it. SAS host bus adapters are usually 8-lane cards and obviously it's better if you can find a 12Gbps SAS card than a 3 or 6Gbps version. A lot of cheap SAS...

More or less every "serious" lens Canon is making right now weighs in at well over that $2000 price point. Sure, there are some relatively affordable RF primes and that weird 3D stereo lens, but most everything (although not the 35mm and 50mm; the usual cheapies) that's /1.8 or faster? $2100...

Problem Steps Recorder and Wordpad are deprecated and supposedly will be removed in future Windows 11 updates. I use Problem Steps recorder a lot and really want it on computers I use. Further, deprecated tools don't stop working just because Microsoft stops including them. Windows Easy...

It works well for me, and I think it's incredibly useful to have the ability to change the entire personality of my phone to suit my needs. The contenders for me right now are the A54 ($450), the Xperia 1 v ($1000-ish) or whichever S24 offers a 1TB option (probably $1200+ on an Ultra body)...

Didn't Canonrumors get bought out a couple years ago? New guy may have some different priorities. And so might Canon, with all the cheapy-cheap telephoto options.

The #1 reason for the card slot is switching cards so I can back files up from my camera. I can copy over the .CR3s with a non-Canon 3rd party application using Wifi, but I'd rather just swap the cards since it's much faster to do that. Secondary reason is that I have a card full of...

I wasn't paid enough to make that my problem. I did the job I was paid to do. I copied the contents of one tape to a thumb drive after I recovered it and made sure that files opened. They didn't ask me to do anything else.

The divide isn't coastal. It's urban vs rural. Our natural resources are all out in the flyover places and all our economic might is concentrated in our big cities. We can't have one without the other. For the union to fracture, we would have to figure out how to restructure debts and ownership...

The S20 product line was the last Samsung S-series to have an SD slot and it also has more RAM than comparable newer S-series phones have, but my battery life isn't so great any longer and it's PROBABLY time to replace the phone. Looking at what's out there, I'm not a huge fan of Motorola...

Early last year, someone asked me to recover data off a TR3 that was written in 1999. Travan was a consumer format that was available in roughly the same time period as CD-R and their CDs were unreadable. I had a HELL of a time finding a copy of BackupExec 7.2 to handle the restore, but it...

The issue in the US in this point is not Trump. The ongoing nonsense isn't going to stop with him, even if he is not reelected. The position of the republican party at this point is that the will of the people is not as important as their rule over the people, and they're fully willing to...

The thing you are looking for is called LTO. You need to understand that you will need to buy multiple drives and that you will also want to preserve both a working PC and the relevant software to work the drive(s) you've chosen. LTO 5 is highly affordable for 1.5TB/tape and secondhand drives...

I'm sure it is, but there are plenty of BS features on GPUs that only a minority will use. Doesn't mean there's an excuse for not supporting it if every decent mobile device can do it without issue or complaint.

I'm just not willing to spend $500+ on crippled hardware. If Intel and pretty much every contemporary mobile SoC can handle 10 bit 422 HEVC in hardware, why the hell can't nVidia?

There's a certain level of aggravation in the low-cost slow aperture RF telephotos but $2000 seems reasonable for THAT much zoom range. The guys getting mad that it isn't able to keep up with $kidney-priced pro telephotos they want are perfectly free to go buy them. I had good enough weather to...

This might be of interested to LM. 4x10GBps SFP+, 1x2.5GbpsBaseT, 2x 2.5 SATA, 2x nVME, SFF 8087, USB C on a contemporary 8 core Celeron CPU. That's an awful lot of I/O for a small, dedicated server. Edit: Amazon Link.

There is no new manufacturing process. I think we're just doing more RAM and wider memory buses for this round.

nVidia is about to announce new RTX Super hardware at CES. AMD may have new cards coming as well. The 4070Ti Super has 16GB RAM and a not-crippled 256-bit memory bus for $800 MSRP and there are price cuts expected for the current 4080, 4070Ti and 4070 and probably on the AMD side as well. I...

Haven't gotten one yet. I'm probably waiting until spring to go visit my rack at this point.

You can use a media adapter to get your cables all on one standard and you'll probably have to manually assign the port speed on the switch rather than have it auto-negotiate. 10GbbaseT is kind of notorious for high power draw compared to 1Gb or 2.5Gb. Media adapters can be REALLY picky about...

I'm sure I CAN. The obnoxious issue is that the $800 cards don't do something the entry level Intel cards can.