While looking for something entirely unrelated I ran across a listing for a 32 port 40GbE Dell Force10 Z9000 switch for $250 (plus, shipping), which seems like a pretty damn good price.
Dell Force10 Z-Series Z9000 (Z900-AC) Switch 32 x 40 Gigabit QSFP+ NO PSU | eBay $249.99 OBO
Dell Force10...
Kent Overstreet, the original developer of the bcache block caching system for Linux, has been developing bcachefs which he refers to as "The COW filesystem for Linux that won't eat your data" for awhile now and I was curious if anyone has had a chance to give it a spin.
I've been running Btrfs...
There are quite a few public recursive DNS providers these days; what do you use?
Google
OpenDNS (Cisco)
Quad9 (IBM, PCH, et al.)
Dyn (Oracle)
Verisign
OpenNIC
Norton ConnectSafe (Symantec)
Comodo
Fourth Estate
Or, maybe you use something a bit more esoteric.
I'd be interested to hear what people around here think about the recent comments from Jim Thompson (CTO of Netgate and core pfSense team member).
Possible Malware on pre-installed 3rd party pfSense Hardware • r/PFSENSE
Cavium ThunderX CN88XX 2U ARM Server 96 core dual 64-bit processors 128GB DDR4 | eBay
I can't attest to how great of a deal it is but if nothing else I hope someone finds it interesting.
A friend's employer has an HP Z840 workstation that they don't need and I have the chance to buy it but I can't quite decide if I should go for it or not.
HP Z840
1 × Xeon E5-2637 v3 (4c @ 3.5 GHz w/ 15 MB cache)
32 GB (4 × 8 GB) DDR4 ECC PC4-2133P
2 × 1 TB SATA hard drives (spinners)
Quadro...
Is anyone familiar with Intel's VCA boards? There's frustratingly little information about them on Intel's site.
I ran across this board which doesn't quite look like the PR photos that I've seen on Intel's site, maybe it's an engineering sample. The little information that I've been able to...
I've been thinking about replacing my aging Ivy Bridge based workstation with something a little more powerful yet fairly cheap. Currently I'm running an i5-3570 (Ivy Bridge) with 32 gigs and a dual Samsung 850 SSDs. These days it doesn't cost much to build a dual 2600 v1/v2 system. With twin...
v1: QUANTA WINDMILL OPEN COMPUTE SYSTEM BOARD V1 WITH 10GbE ETHERNET HEATSINK | eBay
v2: QUANTA WINDMILL OPEN COMPUTE SYSTEM BOARD V2 WITH 10GbE ETHERNET HEATSINK
Does anyone know in what way the two versions of the Quanta Windmill board differ? Are there any major architectural differences...
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