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Wow. How long before the major laptop vendors drop 2.5" completely? There are a lot of offerings in mSATA already.

Between Merc and I we may have cleared them out. I'm surprised that the board isn't on Amazon.

I wouldn't be surprised if 7 or 8 had many of those drivers in it already...

Just ordered: ASRock C2750D4I Mini ITX Server Motherboard FCBGA1283 DDR3 1600/1333 4x Kingston 16GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM ECC Registered DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Server Memory Model KVR16LR11D4/16 2x SAMSUNG 840 EVO MZ-7TE750BW 2.5" 750GB SATA III TLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) Total: $2100...

...and cancelled the order. That ASRock looks like a great board, just need to get the right RAM for it. That would almost run on a PICO PSU with 4 SSDs and 64GB...

Not a problem, you gave enough info ;) Just ordered a Supermicro SYS-5018A-FTN4, 32GB of 1600 ECC LV, and 4 SSDs to play with....I'll just figure out how to fit in some larger, slower fans (probably at an angle, maybe with some homemade air guides of some kind... This might be my Hyper-V...

That had completely escaped me, thanks for the tip! The A1SRi-2758F looks pretty sweet!

Was just reading that, thanks again. Some really interesting pictures and technical information on the pages of the new Zeppelin company in Germany. They are doing semi-rigid, which I wouldn't trust for the kind of durability I'd want at the scale I have in mind.

Cool. Thanks for the info. Most of the ligher-than-air craft being designed currently seem to have some element of lifting-body in their design, that can't be a part of mine as loitering will be the primary occupation.

I'd imagine only about 30% of what I do would be considered IT by normal corporate standards. For my smaller clients I've done everything from financial planning to hiring, to architecture and property management. The "team" I can call on for projects includes general contractors, fabricators...

We are running out, but I don't think it will go that quickly. And even if it was 5 times more expensive than it is now (too much for party balloons, which would cut consumption considerably), it wouldn't be an appreciable percentage of this total build. Of course, Hydrogen is a very tempting...

Finally had some time to get more design down; switched to SolidWorks after finalizing the floorplan so I could get the mechanicals and physical properties going. Looks like the preliminary hull is 300 feet long with a max diameter of 80 feet, only 50% longer/wider than the Goodyear Blimps. This...

Quite so. Most of my listening has gone to Pandora these days, and if I want a particular song I just do what all the teenagers do (YouTube). But I still have a significant local collection that is mostly used on my mobile devices, but local access at home would be nice. Is foobar2000 the place...

There are a number of programs I've seen lately that launch a browser window at some point and use IE regardless of settings. And at that point, if the "Do you want IE to be your default browser?" question pops up, that machine is hosed.

The ground in the quarry was iced over last night, had a blast drifting around.

And a special thanks to our newest regular, sedrosken, for putting another nail in my coffin. Having a completely reasonable and mature conversation with someone who wasn't born when I graduated high school. :p

If you are going to stay with that hardware, stay with XP. Just get a 60GB SSD and do a fresh install, maybe some more RAM, it will be fine.

Resolved. I re-loaded the latest firmware, then re-entered the config manually and it works correctly. Thanks for all the help!

I have a 3" tall stack of 3.5" disks that are Win 3.1 somewhere....

I can't help you, but would love a copy of the VM when you are done ;)

All QoS is disabled, WAN load balancing is round robin, and Protocol Binding has my service firing back out the same WAN link as the client is connecting to (WAN2).

I just saw what you saw in the log....SPT=49395... Don't know where it got that number from, but it is clearly wrong. But that item lists when we hit the firewall with traffic on 90.

Port 90 in and port 90 out. We specify port 90 in the connection string on the client app, and the server has been configured to receive on port 90. So no translation needed.

The problem being I don't check the domain accounts; I have specified my own normal address as the account admin.

Good idea, but no go. Disabled all the attack checks and the problem persisted. I'm also logging all dropped packets, so it should show up anyway.

Thanks Google for sending me an e-mail that I need to update the billing credentials for a domain that doesn't include the name of the domain. They include the last 4 digits of the offending credit card (since replaced), but I purchased all of the domains! I've set up 50+ of these things over...

I just swapped out the FatPipe for a Netgear ProSafe SRX5308 Quad-WAN router. Working great. Only issue is that there is one service that I need to forward from the outside. Objective: Forward traffic on port 90 to internal IP address 192.168.0.18 Steps taken: 1. Under "Security"->"Services"...

I have a paid license, thanks ;)

Many of the brands have a business-class line of PCs that aren't crap. Lenovo: ThinkPad / ThinkStation Dell: Latitude / Optiplex (not all) / Precision HP: Elite whatever I stick with Lenovo at this point, simply because I am now familiar with their range and their particular set of gotchas...

It is all ordered. I'll let you know how it goes during the build.

Definitely not aiming for silent. If the two HDDs are the loudest thing I will be happy.

You secured the computing time, it is only fair to run them on your account. If you felt like buying a bunch of time on AWS or secured time on some other supercomputer, that would be your contribution as well.

Yes sir. ;) 16GB sticks seem a no-brainer as they are significantly cheaper in $/GB. That is unusual.

Good find Stereodude. That is a tempting little machine.

Like most of my projects, price hasn't been mentioned until you brought it up. That isn't an issue. When you say server-grade RAM, are you specifically saying registered? Or simply RAM on the HCL for the board?

Isolating chunks of the network one at a time, waiting about 30 minutes between each step. The main switch has 48 ports, most of them uplinks to additional switches, so I pulled 12 of them at a time (third group did it), then 4 of the offending 12 (fourth was it), then found the one of those 4...

Thanks again Coug. Any recommendation on heatsinks? I'd love to put some tower-style units in there, but the RAM bays look pretty close...

They'd rather not; the local users would prefer the lowest latency they can get.

No idea why it was killing the traffic yet. They are on separate subnets in addition to being entirely different physical networks (separate switches, etc). A different NIC on the VoIP server does connect to the data network, but that has a static IP and is handled properly. It may be ARP or...

Thanks for those links, I didn't know such things existed. But I still don't think I need to make things that complicated. This computer does not need five nines reliability; one nine would be plenty. And I don't think the requirements are pushing any performance envelopes either; the only...

Also interesting that they show a 2.5" SSD as an upgrade option? I thought it ran a pair of mSATAs?

Thanks for that. I knew I was getting it wrong and I knew you'd correct me. Much appreciated. So the board for that would be a S7056 or an S7066?

Three very late nights of troubleshooting and I've found the issue. One of my users disconnected the LAN cable from their laptop and connected it to the "PC" connection on the back of their VoIP phone, effectively bridging the networks. This causes no immediate problem, but after 10-20 minutes...

Looking at a pair of Intel Xeon E5-2420, and I'd love to use a Tyan S7045 but I'm not sure it would fit.

I've been meaning to play with Hyper-V for quite some time. You and Merc have both said nice things about it, and I believe it could be better than ESXi. But I have no experience with it at this point and it is time to start the project. 32GB of RAM won't be enough; 48 might do it, but I'd...

Thanks Coug, I love me some data. My performance could most charitably be called "inconsistent".

1. Due to a large number of recent acquisitions, there are currently 10 servers. Until they are able to integrate the data and users from the other companies, this is how it will be. 2. The number of users is much higher, but the other users work from home and remote in to WinXP/7/8 VMs running...

The demand for a decent ESXi server is there, but the server room isn't. This will be sitting in a room with 8 people who talk on the phone all day for a living. I've already done all I can with the acoustics of the space in general, but this thing will be within 6 feet of a couple people no...

Giving it a shot now, I liked his first album quite a bit when it came out.

That is definitely outside my normal listening zone ;) But I did find this today: http://youtu.be/s1JsBhRCRH0