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Nope ddrueding is ddrueding. Edit: Of course, that is after the MBF...before that I think I only had another 1.5k posts. I'm not particularly memorable ;)

Didn't realize what an understatement that was. My second post was on 02-04-2002, 09:22 PM My third post was on 11-17-2003, 10:03 PM Spent most of that time quasi-homeless and drifting, didn't realize it was over a year and a half!

I'd like that. My old e-mails got lost along the way, but IIRC it was Tony that dropped me a cryptic e-mail with a link to this place. I joined right away, but then didn't come back for quite some time (my life was quite dynamic at the time).

I would agree, but I certainly don't want to pay for his room and board until he dies of old age. That is why I support the death penalty, much cheaper than "life without parole".

Nah, I think it is the switch giving bogus info; the receiver is also connected, and it only supports 1080P. As soon as I bypassed the switch and went direct, everything was fine.

If you can't fine one elsewhere, I have some AuzenTech cards sitting around.

You're joking, right? Memory compatibility lists on non-server hardware have been spotty for years. RAM is RAM (or should be). If the speed/voltage/type of RAM is supported by the motherboard, it should work.

You did a complete re-image to new hardware? OS and all? Same name? Same IP? I've done that plenty of times without having to remove/re-add workstations.

It is awesome. The best color and uniform brightness I've ever seen. It is darn heavy, and not exactly cheap, but it is great. My only complaint (and not about the monitor) is that I can't get my HDMI matrix switch to support any resolution beyond 1920x1080.

An old roommate had a big yellow sign on the door to his office: "Warning: 10,000 Ohms" I thought it was funny.

10 a week.

The throughput must not be a limitation for them.

They said in the article that saturating the NIC only happens in bench tests and that, in production, a server is filled in 25 days. They also stated that they have far more writes than reads. I wouldn't be surprised if they had a caching server full of SSDs on the front end that simply keeps...

Didn't say it was much, just that that is all they provided. Would make a hell of a home media server; I'm just passing 12TB used at the moment.

The only performance metric provided was that they could easily saturate a GbE link.

Indeed. I was 17 when I started there. I still haven't connected all the dots to who there = who here...but it really doesn't matter.

The advantage of being an employee with some power. I told them to suck it up. ;)

There are more bits in there as well. 1. They run their servers blank for a few days due to high infant mortality rates. 2. Higher temps in the middle of racks don't cause more failures. 3. 1% annual failure is currently being observed with the HDS5C3030ALA630 drives.

These guys offer online storage very cheaply, and they release the entire hardware spec of their servers to the public. Their new one does 135TB in a 4U server for $7400. An interesting quote from someone who would know:

I think Splash explained it in his own post: After being here for years, that is a problem. ;)

I'm actually stunned how well this has gone. The S/N ratio here is like no other place on the internet that I've seen. That we have had such a great core of regulars for such a long time is really amazing. 10 years is a really long freaking time.

I recall having multiple choices for verification as well, but modifying an A record was always the most trivial. When I did migrations from Outlook to Google Apps, it would start by redirecting the MX records, with the users still getting on Outlook to read their old messages (they could even...

Thanks Splash! I had completely missed those. Of course, I agree as well, but that card/cable will make just jacking in an old drive that much more convenient.

i think the different capacities are different colors.

72F as I get home. i think it hit 80F today.

Indeed. But it doesn't vibrate...as far as I know. The size and rubbery nature of it's wrapping makes it very durable.

I have had luck with the Patriot Minis. Not the fastest, but small, durable, and I haven't had one go bad yet. If sheer performance is what you are after, I'd get the Flash Voyager.

I did for a long time, but not so much anymore. Most of the things that I would want to protect are already in the possession of the people that I would want to protect them from.

Clearly you don't interact with typical middle management? It used to be that if the TLAs on someone's resume were the same as those on the position requirements, then they were hired. Now they need someone to say that they were good with those TLAs.

The smaller the pixels the better. Of course, this is overridden by the more pixels the better. Having pixels that are infinitely small, and therefore the edge of a letter can be exactly where it needs to be, is ideal. Provided, of course, that the screen is of the physical size you want...

You also don't want to do that with a cheap screen; only something with really good color consistency and viewing angle will still look decent in portrait mode. My cheap 27" ASUS something-or-other looks crap that way, but my Dell U2711 looks awesome.

I've managed to get two people jobs through LinkedIn (at the very least it gave their new employer warm fuzzies that there was a reputation trail of some sort.

I'm certainly not putting anything up there that I'm not already certain is commonly and cheaply available already, nor am I associating it with any other IDs that I might consider bogus/anonymous.

I have a LinkedIn account, and until this Google+ thing, had never even been to facebook ay any of the others. The problem is that I need to know how these things work. We'll see how long I bother.

Over a year ago I put an X25-M 160GB into mine. I know it is out of your budget and not big enough for you, but it is the only experience with drive swapping in PS3s I have. It did speed up loading in GT5 considerably, though ;)

I wouldn't believe that, either. The RevoDrive chips don't have a case around them, and the CPU shows 111F in dead air.

Ah, nevermind. You weren't even on the first page. This thing is growing very fast ;)

With the photo of Chilli Willy?

I don't think any of the add-on RAID cards deal with SSDs well. I've always had better performance with the onboard controller.

Well, I bought 3 of the 250GB 510s. They'll be in a new ESXi server by the end of next week and in production. I love having a resilient enough failover system to be able to do this kind of thing; it would be so expensive to run HCLed servers with tried-and-true hardware. Even then you might get...

I use the bigger version of AirWire, PowerBridgeM...might not want to stand too close for too long ;)

I got one, but it seems that Google doesn't have it playing nicely with Google Apps accounts yet. Grr.

I agree with Coug, running is for when someone is chasing you.

I have a 600CFM fan up there (about 5k cu.ft.), but I was wiring it in at the time. It'll be much better once that is running and set for 75F.

I'm up to 10-15 miles at about 16 miles an hour. Still a wuss compared to my triathlete coworkers (one just finished the Race Across America), but I'm feeling good about it.

The only thing I was worried about was the RAID controller on the Revo Drives not being detected properly by ESXi. An SATA drive, provided it doesn't fail, requires no verification to make it work.

One of the downsides of wanting more reliability is having to wait longer for the QA. I haven't gotten an answer on ESXi and the RevoDrives, so I'm going with some Intel 510 250GBs instead. This way each VM will get it's own.

Yesterday it was 101F in my attic, even with the fan on, even though it was overcast. Couldn't work for too long before the mask clogged with sweat and had to be changed out.

If you want to go hardcore, get a pair of these and some of these, add the rest of the hardware and software of your choice (Smoothwall, for example with some basic modifications), and that is about as hardcore/fast as a home-user could possibly want.

With the 960GB version coming in at just over $3k. As soon as I can verify compatibility with ESXi I'll be ordering one. Our DBs (currently running on some X25-Ms) are taking a beating.