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by axiolite 5y ago
Not criticizing at all. The R720s are still excellent servers. You can add a different RAID/HBA controller into an R720, flash LSI firmware onto the one you've got, or just put a bit more effort into ensuring you buy compatible
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by axiolite 5y ago
> My main wish for it would be serial console support FreeDOS doesn't work if you put: ctty com1 in your autoexec.bat? Seems to be supported: http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Ctty Perhaps you
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by axiolite 5y ago
> Now add to the $200 month bare metal server, the yearly salary of the 3 admins you need to manage it. That's the line the clouds, MSPs, and service contract providers sell you on, but it's never true. When you need help you&
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by axiolite 5y ago
If you want to use 4Kn drives, SSDs (w/trim), or easily switch between RAID and HBA modes, I would recomend an R730 with H730 controller instead. They're available on eBay with 128GB of RAM for just over $1,000 USD. If you don&#
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by axiolite 5y ago
The problem with AMD's PSB is the one-time eFuse on the CPU. If they just provided some way (perhaps electrically connecting a couple contacts on the chip) to reset the eFuse, it would be fine. Instead it causes CPUs to be locked to
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by axiolite 5y ago
> If we just had flash that was write protected unless a jumper was moved, this kind of thing just would not happen. This would make it incredibly hard to manage a bunch of servers in various remote data centers. > connect said jumpe
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by axiolite 5y ago
> Ohio has plenty of water California has 840 miles of coast line. Absolutely no shortage of water. Desalination and PV technology keep improving, too.
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by axiolite 5y ago
> Picking a location with natural greenery expands the labor pool. This is provably false. The US population is fleeing the areas with the most natural greenery, migrating south and west. The south western US is primarily dry desert.
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by axiolite 5y ago
I still have my Contura in a box in a closet. Along with a PCMCIA network card, the docking station and the 20MB RAM upgrade. Used it up until ~2010 when I got a similarly tiny and inexpensive EeePC. Was a nice small, cheap system that w
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by axiolite 5y ago
With DOS, there are lots of reasons you'd NEED to run an ancient OS on ancient hardware. Of course emulation provides some more options... With Linux, you can just keep your ancient programs and hardware running on modern systems.
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by axiolite 5y ago
eBay is a far better source for electronic components than Amazon. You can source single switches. The cheapest are direct from China with 1mo shipping times, but there are US sellers as well.
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by axiolite 5y ago
> The article doesn't really claim that this kind of sleep is better or more natural It does: "the benefits of dividing up sleep" "single periods of slumber might not be 'natural'." THIS article soft-pe
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by axiolite 5y ago
A much better study: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/10/the-many...
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by axiolite 5y ago
This article mentions that option and explains why it isn't sufficient.
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by axiolite 5y ago
Many systems have code in place to set the range when a partial (i.e. 2-digit) year is entered. Call it a two digit year cutoff or century pivot, it works, as long as it gets updated by someone every couple decades or so. Only having two-d
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by axiolite 5y ago
> A cast iron skillet, a pot, and a good saucepan are enough for most folks, There's a reason 99% of people have non-stick aluminum cookware. Everything else is horrible, and I say that from bitter experience. How often do you scr
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by axiolite 5y ago
Your "today" options can push their way into Amazon's market, and eliminate the unnecessary Amazon step... Wal-mart is certainly trying to do just that. Amazon had to drop their the minimum order value for free shipping back
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by axiolite 5y ago
> GTK's team is still fine (barely) Really? Isn't GTK where the CSD (client side decoration) is being forced onto every app, with no way to use native/normal window manager borders? It seems rather widely despised: http
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by axiolite 5y ago
> A properly engineered reinforced concrete building would easily withstand that. You could build a building like a tank, but it would price most people out of the market. Doors and windows in that structure won't be able to withst
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by axiolite 5y ago
Context. You jumped into this conversation very much on the side of the guy who did say: "warnings for the severe weather storm that would have prevented people coming in to work". Your comment about tornado warnings can ONLY ser
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by axiolite 5y ago
> They keep track of workers' productivity by the second, but they don't know how many were working there at that time?? I'd say there's a good chance their on-site computer systems that keep track of employees and th
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by axiolite 5y ago
Tornadoes aren't hurricanes... There aren't hours and days of advanced notice. Only a few minutes. You can't shut down for every thunder storm on the astronomical chance it'll turn into a tornado and head in your dire
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by axiolite 5y ago
> Were Gandhi/MLK/Rosa Parks wrong when they made a point of breaking unjust laws and encouraging others to follow along? Your question of right/"wrong" is a matter of morality, not legality. Stealing bread to f
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by axiolite 5y ago
> all of its functionality can be more easily performed with `host` I've seen far too many junior admins accidentally change the hostname of a server when checking a DNS record... Dig is verbose by default, which is usually what I w
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by axiolite 5y ago
> Fair to say: doesn't look like it's related to winamp Wasabi is just the toolkit. It is indeed used by Winamp. What you need to look for is Wasabi.player, as the first couple sentences in the second link I provided explains
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by axiolite 5y ago
> How do you keep tabs on all this stuff? There are plenty of sites that publish news about cellular carriers. It's a technical pursuit like any other. You can assign someone to read Microsoft press releases all day, and they won&
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by axiolite 5y ago
Has everyone forgotten Winamp was open source? Winamp3 was released as Wasabi.player, source code was free: https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php?topic=16613.0 https://web.archive.org/web/20031210093403&#x2
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by axiolite 5y ago
> I never got the feeling that either Virgin Mobile or Boost were just for poor, "especially inner city" people. Virgin wasn't. Boost was. That's why they needed a second prepaid brand. Tons of evidence to this effe
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by axiolite 5y ago
> I am somewhat dismayed that none of my news feeds picked it up I read it months ago from the curated news mix on https://prepaidcompare.net/ The pair of articles I recal were originally from fiercewireless. No RSS feed
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by axiolite 5y ago
> T-Mobile gave Boost nearly double the required time, Boost complained that it wasn't enough The CPUC says T-Mobile representatives lied under oath. They claimed that Dish would have until 2023 to migrate customers off of the CDMA

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