Recent content by dba

I was going to say eBay, because I get them for nearly free there, but you let us know that US auctions don't work for you. How about Digital Loggers then? In the US you can get one for as low as $129. See: Web Power Switch 15 Day Free Trial! - Ships overnight.

Very nice. Can you share a parts list? I have a quad GPU unit that is probably going to need to be upgraded fairly soon.

Photos please!

I feel your pain! I had the same thing happen to me: During the Christmas season two years ago, two girls on bicycles made a habit of stealing packages from homes in my neighborhood. In my case, they lifted an $800 I/O board from a very specialized server. My only consolation is knowing that...

Absolutely agree. After all, those little SSD drives aren't going to vibrate themselves free are they, and they certainly don't weight enough to require being screwed down.

Ikea DIY run amok. That it comes from Russia says all - imagine how difficult it is to get your hands on Supermicro gear there. Thanks for posting.

I drive a sporty variety of car, which is an absolute blast the 5% of the time when I'm driving because I want to drive, but 95% of the time I'm just trying to get somewhere, and a self-driving car would make my life oh so much better. It would blend the calm and relaxed environment of nice...

Zabbix graphing is really primitive. Check out Grafana when the built-in stuff gets too annoying for you. They have a pretty nice Zabbix plug-in.

I am not hoping... I am planning on buying a full level 4 autonomous car by 2020. I'm guessing it'll be race between Volvo, Mercedes, and Tesla to see who gets my money, depending on who has the technology.

I'm not a big Hawaii fan (never feels exotic enough compared to say French Polynesia) but my favorite is Kauai for the hiking and kayaking. And I'm not above a zipline or two. The last time I was there we rented a primo four-bedroom house for two couples - nicer than almost all of the hotels and...

OK it may be a bit of an exaggeration, and possibly hubris, or just trying to tease Texans a bit, but I say the Texas gear actually comes from California companies who are just hosting or recycling it in Texas...

I bought them all with racks included. Man, I wish there were more racks available, because the servers still appear to be in good supply, but they are not useful to me without a way to stack them.

Nice hardware if you need quad CPU, and combined with some ES CPUs from eBay, probably pretty cost efficient. That said, you can get almost as much grunt for most workloads from a pair of newer fast Xeon E5 CPUs but for less watts and with less noise. On balance, you'd go for the quad Xeon E7...

Anyone who got a fully loaded CS100 for $15K Canadian got one heck of a deal. Here is a quote from the 2013 release: "That solution, the Converged System 100 for Hosted Desktops, combines 45 ProLiant m700 server cartridges with integrated graphics prepackaged to run 180 hosted desktops. It has a...