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Data integrity laws? Here is the plan: 1. Buy 4U rackmount chassis. 2. Install bunch o' computing bits 3. Stick computer in rack and connect power and NIC Obviously, this machine wouldn't be storing any data. It would also be inside the firewall with no ports routed to it, so no significant...

Yup. And I coulda sworn I'd deleted that post last night when I saw that it hadn't. :shrug:

That would be because she is a he ;)

I'll include a relevent bit of the data here: Average Number of Days Above 90F/32CYears on Record: 12 YEARJan.Feb.Mar.Apr.MayJun.Jul.Aug.Sep.Oct.Nov.Dec. Days30------1---1------11------4

Clearly none of you live in a mild marine climate? Did you look at the average annual temps I linked above? There is no need for AC in this environment. Really. $1M+ houses around here don't have it.

That is a very informative series of videos. Well presented and produced.

The objective is to keep the cool air in. The way to do that is a) avoid air exchange with the outside and b) avoid producing heat inside.

A poor dirty joke. Feel free to ignore it.

The house insulation keeps it very comfortable so long as I'm not dumping 1000W+ into the air 24/7 during the summer. I'll just need to move some of my folding rigs to the office.

So that is what you are calling it these days ;)

Usually custom device drivers along with preventing the machine from loading any unapproved drivers. It is a real PITA for everyone involved. You need to work somewhere pretty anal before they go that far. The only times I've done it is government work.

The humidity is normally very reasonable. Air to air heat exchangers will manage the fresh air requirements, though simply opening some windows when I get home works fine as well ;)

There are perhaps 4 houses in the city with AC. With the exception of the random temp spike, the averages are very mild. It would be a real waste most of the time.

The temp if coming back down already. Supposed to be 72F over the weekend and mid-60s next week with clouds.

They are indoors. And i have a very well insulated house without air conditioning. With it 100F outside and these pcs off, it is 74F inside when I get home. With them on it was 90+ inside.

Nope. Didn't do it. And I'll need to dial it back for a while here, it is 93F (34C) outside.

Yup. From what I understand, it works pretty well.

Yup. Only for login and file share permissions. If I knew more Linux/Samba stuff I would be doing that, but I don't.

Nice. Any data?

Nothing helpful to say besides thanks for reminding me why I don't do Exchange servers any more.

Nah. Though I was considering filling a Gigbyte Guerrilla with an i7-970 and 3 GTX590s ;)

Yeah, I don't see myself catching you anytime soon. Perhaps I'll try to get some spares assembled and running for a while, but my hardware is fairly set at the moment.

We managed nearly 375k points on the 27th. I just started another machine temporarily, but I don't think it's massive unit will complete this month.

Reactor 2 has melted through the steel reactor vessel, but is probably still inside the concrete containment vessel.

Depends on where it is going to. In California? Try these guys.

I believe APC sells them, but for my money I would replace the whole thing. UPSes (and their power conditioning properties) is something I very much believe in.

At least they started with good bones; from what I've read they included more spare chips for load balancing and a larger cache.

I would put money on the new batteries just being crap.

Mostly not. Two of the SATA ports were fine, so most laptops won't see an issue.

Plutonium found outside reactor. It is very possible that this is much worse than we've been led to believe.

Wow, I remember that. We've all been here a while...

Should just be renamed "where to go on vacation".

Yup. Dedicated 4x PCIe.

That article called it the "Honda Accord" of SSDs. That sounds about right. Nothing groundbreaking, but cheap and super reliable. I suspect I'll be buying loads of the 40GB and 80GB versions.

"Home1" scored an even 1000. I wonder if I pegged it?

Funny. I just had that problem last night on "home2" after a reboot. 7 x64 Ultimate.

If you take on a massive unit (requiring many days on a quad-core system) and complete it within a fairly strict time frame, you get many times the normal reward.

Sorry, it was a random UPS-related anecdote, so I stuck it here. The rest is in "Random".

Those bonus points will bring up your average soon enough.

I'm afraid I've built a bit of a reputation for being able to show up and make stuff work in adverse conditions. Rarely cheap or pretty, but if you happen to need a massive data-entry/report writing effort in a floorless tent with sketchy power in a massive rainstorm under unachievable...

Nope. That was the back-up plan. The in-house power killed my equipment. Anything that wasn't behind a bad-ass UPS got smoked. Then, during the event, as the heaters were turned on, I lost another circuit. Then the DJ started and I lost another. At this point I was back down to one (and I knew I...

Heh. I was driving a small army of workstations and high-powered laser printers off old low-efficiency two-stroke generators at the time. How many Cougteks are required to offset me? :p

15k in 3 days? I'll see what I can do.

You. Doctor. Go.

That might be close...

This just saved by bacon. Working at a temp site with some really funky power. I blow a fuse, so they move me to another circuit. Instantly two power strips connected to that circuit catch fire and the 4 LCD monitors connected to it fry their power bricks. This UPS just started beeping and...

Cool. I just noticed that in FAH GPU Tracker V2 you can click on the client name in the main window (SMP, GPU0, GPU1,...) and get all that info (except the bonus points). So combined with the page above, you have a very good idea what is going on.

Any decent AV package will do that for you. NOD32 works with Chrome, FF, Safari, and IE. It only makes sense that MS would lock-in that feature to only their browser.

Try to keep the rest of you around as well ;)

Long day, in anticipation of several more longer ones to come. Tomorrow I'm driving from Monterey to San Francisco to Sacramento and back to Monterey. MtG in Sac for a friend's birthday. I'll be driving for 7 hours and gaming for 7.