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**sambooo** · 21st February 2012

Hosting solar systems

**nikomo** · 21st February 2012

Serial console? (wild guess, just going on the fact that 38400 is a baud rate)

It's serial, 8N1 = 8 data bits, no parity, 1 stop bit.

inconspicious · 21st February 2012

Guys, what are Sun servers good for?

My company is decommissioning about 10x 2U Sun servers. They said each one cost them about $30,000 back in 07. My boss sort of casually ask if I wanted to take photos to post them on Ebay for them. hah.

If they are worth using for something I might ask to get one. I don't know what kind, They just look like 2U racks with loads of drives.

You could host a decent database/webserver with them I suppose, depending on your internet connection.

**gman003-main** · 21st February 2012

leach139 posted:

Serial console? (wild guess, just going on the fact that 38400 is a baud rate)

I set up a null modem cable between two computers. Popped open minicom on one, HyperTerminal on the other, and eventually got it working as a basic, primitive chat system.

Hardly the most exciting thing, I know, but it was interesting to get such old technology working.

And I do mean primitive: this is 70's-era technology. 38400 bits per second, 8 bits data/no parity/1 stop bit. That comes out to about 4 KB/s.

Now granted, it was completely pointless. I mean, if I wanted data transferred, I grab an Ethernet crossover cable and hope Fedora comes with the proper drivers for the gigabit ethernet card. It was mostly to fuck around with ancient technology.

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Brt5470 posted:

Guys, what are Sun servers good for?

My company is decommissioning about 10x 2U Sun servers. They said each one cost them about $30,000 back in 07. My boss sort of casually ask if I wanted to take photos to post them on Ebay for them. hah.

If they are worth using for something I might ask to get one. I don't know what kind, They just look like 2U racks with loads of drives.

Like this?

**leach139** · 21st February 2012

tratzzz posted:

My computer turned itself on.

Have a look in your Event Log for events from source "Power-Troubleshooter", it'll tell you what the wake source is - quite often it's Wake on LAN or similar.

Here's a dirty simple custom view I use

Produces results like this (which in this case was me starting it over WOL)

Code:

The system has resumed from sleep.

Sleep Time: ‎2012‎-‎02‎-‎21T01:03:28.451598000Z
Wake Time: ‎2012‎-‎02‎-‎21T13:08:46.756472200Z

Wake Source: Device -Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller

BreenIsALie · 21st February 2012

ButtsexV3 posted:

that's like 10 minutes of programming without any caffeine

A semester of failing to me

**Brt5470** · 21st February 2012

gman003-main posted:

Like this?

These are the cabinets we had them in. Unfortunately I didn't get a good look. We have two fenced off sections of our datacenter and they were stacked. The ones on the right. We had about two cabinets of them.

So they can't do any decent rendering or anything?

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inconspicious posted:

You could host a decent database/webserver with them I suppose, depending on your internet connection.

What is the fun in databases.

**gman003-main** · 21st February 2012

Brt5470 posted:

So they can't do any decent rendering or anything?

It really depends on what they are.

If they're just NAS units (what I showed), they're only good for storing data. Admittedly, they'll scale into the petabyte range, but they can't do anything with the data.

If they're actual servers, they might have some better use. At the very least, they'd be able to run (certain) game servers well. Or make for really good web servers (or other "boring" stuff). If Minecraft didn't have x86 dependencies, I'd say that - you could easily run multiple servers on a single T4 processor.

Rendering though... probably not, especially if they're old ones.

**Brt5470** · 21st February 2012

My boss emailed me saying they are sunfire 440's

Edit: Looks like they aren't anything interesting, atleast not now. My desktop is faster.

Edited:

Can someone explain the draw of 2.5" SAS drives? These bitches are like 150GB and cost something like 900 dollars and we're constantly replacing them in our data center.

**Makol** · 21st February 2012

My 24-pin and CPU power 8-pin Bitfenix cables are coming in on Thursday.

Cool.

**nikomo** · 21st February 2012

Brt5470 posted:

Can someone explain the draw of 2.5" SAS drives? These bitches are like 150GB and cost something like 900 dollars and we're constantly replacing them in our data center.

Drives identified by WWN, not port, pop out drive, pop in somewhere else, still same identifier, server goes down, migrate discs to another server in no time.
Multipath I/O (fault-tolerance)
Error-recovery uses SCSI stuff instead of ATA SMART, more functionality.
Not to mention the whole SAS domain stuff.

**gman003-main** · 21st February 2012

Also, aren't they usually 10K or 15K RPM drives instead of 7200?

(Also also, if you don't want the Sun Fire V440, I'll take one)

**Brt5470** · 21st February 2012

gman003-main posted:

Also, aren't they usually 10K or 15K RPM drives instead of 7200?

(Also also, if you don't want the Sun Fire V440, I'll take one)

He's looking to sell them all on ebay. I'll forward all the auctions if you all are interested.

**B!N4RY** · 21st February 2012

Brt5470 posted:

He's looking to sell them all on ebay. I'll forward all the auctions if you all are interested.

Do it

**SGTNAPALM** · 21st February 2012

benjgvps posted:

I'm taking an online "Intro to Computer Programming" class. This was today's assignment:

Forever alone.

Your class uses Dropbox? That's awesome.

MC3craze · 21st February 2012

I thoroughly enjoy the W8 bootloader.

I got rid of my linux partitions because the battery life with them is terrible.

pure.Joseph · 21st February 2012

Brt5470 posted:

My boss emailed me saying they are sunfire 440's

Edit: Looks like they aren't anything interesting, atleast not now. My desktop is faster.

Edited:

Can someone explain the draw of 2.5" SAS drives? These bitches are like 150GB and cost something like 900 dollars and we're constantly replacing them in our data center.

Yum. Enterprise grade 2.5" drives are epic. Smaller platter = faster access times, problem is largest capacity you can get is 1TB in 2.5" 7,200RPM sata or SAS. I believe you can get 900GB in 2.5" 10K, which are around 400-600 a pop. I believe you can also get 300GB in 2.5" 15K. But honestly, if you care about random access, 10K 2.5" 900GB will be more than fast enough, and gives you a decent performance/GB. Some new 3.5" drives are now also using 2.5" platters, but in a 3.5" drive format.

Like you know, the velociraptors, they use a 2.5" drive, but are loaded in a 3.5" heatsink.

Also Server manufactors like Dell, HP, IBM etc usually uses drives from the likes of Seagate or Hitachi for enterprise. The reason they are alot more expensive than the usual OEMS, are because of custom firmware, and HP uses Dual port SAS for higher I/O throughput. SAS also has better ECC, and various RAS features.

**nikomo** · 21st February 2012

Yet another feature in Chrome that exists, and I had no idea it did.
Watching some Top Gear, need to convert mph into kmh.

Oh.
(mph into kmh is the same conversion as miles into kilometers since you can eliminate h from the equation)

MC3craze · 21st February 2012

I love that feature. Unit conversions were never my strong suit.

pure.Joseph · 21st February 2012

This is what I love.

After fighting with apache and SNMP, you get observium working, shits leet: Even supports IPMI :D

MC3craze · 21st February 2012

So you work for WebNX.

**Shadaez** · 21st February 2012

MC3craze posted:

So you work for WebNX.

that was so easy to see through

pure.Joseph · 21st February 2012

MC3craze posted:

So you work for WebNX.

No I don't. I work for a private company, but given the fact that I compete with some known people on here, I want to stay private. Wingless knows what I do though :).

Some of my servers are in WebNX, they are rentals yes, I got such a great deal it was hard to pass on. Once SB-E releases, we'll be building servers on that platform forsure.

PS: I plan on leaving my current company soon and working by myself, also wingless, once I get my grant, I'm flying you to California to work on some awesome stuff with me.

PPS: DONT TELL ANYONE! EDIT: Who cares, we're all friends right?

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Shadaez posted:

that was so easy to see through

That I didn't really care about, a simply rdns on my IP blocks will show that they are from WebNX. I believe we have 2 /28's and 2 /27's. from them currently.

Warship · 21st February 2012

But you....just told everyone

**Killowatt** · 21st February 2012

pure.Joseph posted:

No I don't. I work for a private company, but given the fact that I compete with some known people on here, I want to stay private. Wingless knows what I do though :).

Some of my servers are in WebNX, they are rentals yes, I got such a great deal it was hard to pass on. Once SB-E releases, we'll be building servers on that platform forsure.

PS: I plan on leaving my current company soon and working by myself, also wingless, once I get my grant, I'm flying you to California to work on some awesome stuff with me.

PPS: DONT TELL ANYONE!

Edited:

That I didn't really care about, a simply rdns on my IP blocks will show that they are from WebNX. I believe we have 2 /28's and 2 /27's. from them currently.

My heart just dropped.
Sadface.

**Doritos_Man** · 21st February 2012

Warship posted:

But you....just told everyone

It's on the internet can't take it back now.

**nikomo** · 22nd February 2012

pure.Joseph posted:

This is what I love.

After fighting with apache and SNMP, you get observium working, shits leet: Even supports IPMI :D

2.6.18

You should be feeling really bad right now.

pure.Joseph · 22nd February 2012

Warship posted:

But you....just told everyone

It was sarcasm. My team & I have a very nice relationship. Sadly, I feel that they are holding me back of my potential. But to each his own.

as most of you can tell, I'm very open to things.

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nikomo posted:

2.6.18

You should be feeling really bad right now.

The servers are hosted remotely ( Can't risk dun-goofing and paying for remote hands, it's expensive ), plus, I needed to get most of these machines up within a short period of time, and since 2.6.18 worked fine for what we're doing, no point in fixing something that aint broken. For my own in-house built machines, they will be running custom compiled kernals for sure :)

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Killowatt posted:

My heart just dropped.
Sadface.

I don't understand. why?

**benjgvps** · 22nd February 2012

SGTNAPALM posted:

Your class uses Dropbox? That's awesome.

It's called a dropbox, though it's just a place to upload assignments. It looks like this:

**Killowatt** · 22nd February 2012

I dislike this Pure.Joseph fellow already, no offense sir.

**FlakTheMighty** · 22nd February 2012

My god.

Go read the comments, people are fucking stupid if they can't tell that that's fake. Then the guy who uploaded it has the dumbest sense of "Oh it'll work if I do this shit because I don't even know how the PSVita will load stuff or any of this I mean it isn't even released and he supposedly has GTA IV running on it.

Gta sanandreas also may be released by me for * ps vita

if i can some how find a way to mount the iso so it is playable on the

ps vita!

God I hate him already.

pure.Joseph · 22nd February 2012

Killowatt posted:

I dislike this Pure.Joseph fellow already, no offense sir.

That isn't very nice.....

SO what do you dislike about me huh?

**Shadaez** · 22nd February 2012

immediately noticed how fake it was 2 seconds in when he moved the psp and the game didnt move at all

**FlakTheMighty** · 22nd February 2012

Shadaez posted:

immediately noticed how fake it was 2 seconds in when he moved the psp and the game didnt move at all

That and when he moves the joysticks it's out of sync and he never presses a button. Also

**Makol** · 22nd February 2012

I like how comments need his approval.

**SGTNAPALM** · 22nd February 2012

FlakTheMighty posted:

That and when he moves the joysticks it's out of sync and he never presses a button. Also

this is youtube seriously why are you even bothering

**FlakTheMighty** · 22nd February 2012

SGTNAPALM posted:

this is youtube seriously why are you even bothering

~~Because it's dumb humans, why can't the smart just kill the dumb off through tests that only smart can solve? Like, build a computer without help or something I don't know.~~
Scratch that, it's because I get mad at small shit like that.

pure.Joseph · 22nd February 2012

FlakTheMighty posted:

Because it's dumb humans, why can't the smart just kill the dumb off through tests that only smart can solve? Like, build a computer without help or something I don't know.

Dude, this reminds me. There was this one guy on youtube, he made it like EXTREMELY important to say that his computer costed 5 grand.... It was i7 2600k in a case labs case, with only the CPU watercooled by a XSPC watercooling kit. He was 17, a redneck, and retardly cocky. I told him, ocool, I built a system with the similar cost, but #1 I don't brag about it, #2 who gives a shit how much the system cost. Then he decides to call me out, pics or it didnt happen. I posted CPU-Z + PICS, and he blocked me. LUL.

**G-Strogg** · 22nd February 2012

-snip-

**FlakTheMighty** · 22nd February 2012

Mods don't ban me for linking to warez because I'm 90% sure this is fake anyway but here's another of his videos.

Ha it only has one link anyway.