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Xerox bad, Konica/Minolta a known evil (their networking is just a bit less reliable than I'd like, what do you mean you can't scan to a windows network share reliably?!) No experience with the others.

I want to replace all but one of the other computers in my house with locally connected virtual machines (as shown in the videos above). Besides by main workstation, there are 6 other computers in the house constantly running. Replacing 5 of those with one (even if it is a dual-Xeon) is going to...

What you really need is for your NAS to support iSCSI and those 10Gb connections we were talking about...:diablo:

Seriously, if this had existed when I owned the LAN center I would have been all over it.

...and it was only for the USB devices. If you didn't see it, here is when he scaled it to 7 gaming machines. https://youtu.be/LXOaCkbt4lI

I believe it is so that you can easily identify the devices by description and sort them out. I'd bet that some trial and error would also suffice.

The build I have in mind is an older dual-Xeon with 128GB, 6x8TB, 4x512GB SSD, Intel 10GbE, some low-end Quadros, and maybe put a Titan on one of them. I'll start a thread on the project this afternoon.

An inch in 30 minutes probably counts as "getting rain". Looks like another inch at least today. The storm was bad enough that it snapped two power poles in half at the country club; one across the parking lot and the other (transformer and all) onto the roof of the cart barn. Had to wire in a...

I'm putting together an UnRAID system to run 3 clients and my NAS at home. Similar to this: https://youtu.be/LuJYMCbIbPk

Interesting weather data from here last night. https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=KCASALIN15#history/s20160228/e20160306/mweek Notice how right at midnight the pressure started to rise, wind basically stopped, then the clouds effectively fell on us, then...

I was just talking with my dad about a similar architecture he's implementing for a machine control system (biotech). Keeping the code as light and as close to the hardware as possible allows them to iterate individual components without having to recertify the whole thing. The recent crazy...

I haven't seen it, but I only have ~40 machines on Win10 so far.

$5k a house would be pretty cheap for that, roads are crazy expensive.

This is why they wanted to break it into two sections, so they can be argued independently in court.

Indeed. I suspect it has to do with the size of the part compared to power consumption and how isolated it is from the rest of the motherboard. When those same chips are mounted to a 2.5" drive it isn't as big a deal.

Yup. I've had exactly one HOA, and they had my car towed from in front of my house twice, cited me for installing a hot tub in my backyard, and prevented me from installing double-pane windows to replace the ancient aluminum ones.

I suspect he is simply omitting a step titled "go to court, win right to modify contract" in between "remove protections" and "further modify contract". I wouldn't be surprised if the whole thing ends up in court several times. Contracts that prevent use of the legal system are very often...

FLIR One, not that expensive. ($250) Easy work justification. AC in server room wasn't keeping up, and the thermostat was giving poor readings. Turned out to be an air circulation issue. Also good for identifying hot spots in computers for instability or failing components. For example, the...

Just a warning for anyone looking to run M.2 SSDs, they get hot and will thermally throttle if you don't cool them. I even went so far as to use thermal epoxy to attach large heatsinks to mine, and the base of the drives is still the second hottest thing in the computer.

Merc nailed it. Also, when you get it running, take another image of your 7 system ;)

I don't know of any way to measure capacity or (by extension) power draw or charge rate. I'm sure there are industrial-level tools for that, but I know of nothing in the consumer space.

SD@8K! Sweet.

Pis and no programming means implementing some of the existing builds. Arcade? Home Automation?

If disk backups are failing, you need to pull them. I might try to pull these, erase them every way you can think of, and then restore back. Or just replace them and hold onto these for a less critical project in the future.

Should be able to. I'll be visiting the fab shop early next week.

RED Scarlett with a walk-around fit and one lens was still ~$2.2k to rent for a week.

RED is too much for me, even just a week rental would be thousands. 5DsR and a 35/1.4II? Not sure the 17-40/4 will be sharp enough, but the 24/1.4 should be, no? And the 100-400II should be fine as well?

...or maybe a RED?

I don't plan on buying anything for a while, but I do have a vacation coming up in a month, and it would be nice to play with some fancier gear to make the vacation more interesting.

Which camera rental places do you guys have good experiences with? I'd love to try out the 1DX II...

Unfortunate. Though I expected anyone actually trying to profit from DRM defeat to go down eventually.

Speed might be ok but the bandwidth would be too expensive for the security camera streams. Razzolink is a local wireless ISP that I have a really good relationship with. They have 500Mbps+ of internet at the top of a local hill and would let me buy some. I've attached images of both runs for...

Yup, using Ubiquiti gear. The relay down into the quarry will be a sector antenna, probably one of these, to feed the different facilities (gatehouse, scales, processing, haul trucks, etc). I'm currently evaluating different options to get data in there. Ideally it would be a direct feed from...

...and 2x 10GbE, and IPMI...too many thoughts...

I recently had to dig into the cert wormhole here (when you want a piece of "The Cloud" hosted locally you get into all kinds of mess). At the end of the day I had the vendor providing the software deal with it.

This one isn't for the back yard. I need to relay a wireless signal into a canyon we're going to start mining. Most open mines are built into the back side of hills so you can't see them from the main valley, this makes line of sight from our other facilities difficult. I've had a plastic garden...

Even my NAS boxes have SSDs for the OS ;) Shrinking the W7 partition and putting both on the SSD seems to make the most sense. It will also give you an apples/apples comparison of the speed.

I'm going with a deep-cycle lead for my current project. The draw and charge are going to be slow enough compared to the capacity of the pack, and the weight and size of the box will be mostly irrelevant. Well, it will matter to a few people on the day they deploy it, but I'm going to be...

Each of the cells is individually fused, so that helps. Metal box is a good idea. Clear of the house is a better idea. I'm currently putting together a garden shed with solar panels, battery array, and inverter for off-grid use. We'll see how it does.

Verizon here.

Installing OSes on drives with data scares me quite a bit. In fact, installing OSes on drives with an existing partition structure isn't something I've done in years. If there is space on the SSD that already has 7, I'd disconnect your data drives and install 10 alongside 7 if it lets you...

My G4 got the same update at the same time. Interesting. The 1DX II is a fun looking camera, but I'd be using the network connection over the others.

Type-C is the new regular socket. You will live long enough to have to make at least one more switch. This is also the first new connector of all the ones you listed that has an actual advantage; it is fully reversible. It can also handle more power and faster data while in theory being more...

No type-C connector, no replaceable battery. Boo. https://youtu.be/7SKRn_VNwNA

Can't do it that way. During the copy, when you are being hard on the drives, you don't have a backup.

Backing up and restoring is better in all ways except that you need to have 200%+ your array capacity online at the same time. Also, when 1GbE was the thing an array backup and restore would have taken longer.

One of those will be my next phone. I love the G4, but the accessories and compatibility checks available to the Samsung products is amazing.

My guess would be that the CMOS cells weren't fully discharging between exposures. An interesting failure mode.

Wow. Thanks for that. Had no idea adjusting the autofocus point was even a thing.

Is it bad that I don't know what any of that means?