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Looks really good. I'd add a wireless card to it though.

Looks like Coug got another machine doing big units to pull ahead of me? What a coincidence...

Ubiquiti makes awesome hardware at very competitive prices. I use their stuff for all of my WAN links. The main frustration is the high rate at which they release new products and the poor availability.

Yeah, I don't have a server, either. I would probably run it on my wife's machine, as I consider that "mission critical" when it comes to up time, maintenance, and general reliability.

I've used Smoothwall in the past with great success. I'm actually considering running a smoothwall in a VM on another machine, with a pair of NICs dedicated to the VM. Not sure how well that would work, but it would eliminate the hardware complexities/expense.

Hamsters aren't available in green.

It would actually. I've been considering one not just for HVAC, but also a hot water heater that uses an air-source heat pump.

I would need several million hamsters to power my computer even if I wasn't folding :(

Degrading solar array?

That seems to describe your post count here as well. Hopefully your time isn't ending that quickly...

Congratulations. Being good at something is always a rewarding feeling. Being that good at something where there are enough users to have a thousandth of a percent be a significant figure is impressive. I would be more impressed if I knew what it was, of course.

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.