they've got a lot of stuff discounted at the moment, so it might be worth having a poke through the site and seeing if there's anything useful.
Also, I got trolled by PC World's website earlier, they were showing a 1TB Seagate external USB HDD for £40, but clicking on the link showed "product unavalible" :(
We have codec developers who get DL580's with Quadro 6000 GPUs in them for CUDA dev work - these are not a bad price for what they are but if I wanted something a bit cheaper what would you guys suggest?
do they need to be quadras? Aren't they the high end workstation stuff? Would any standard "home" graphics card do it, all the nvidia range support CUDA IIRC
@Chopper3 Indeed. I realise it's not my discipline, but it concerns me that I earn considerably more than the people they're trying to hire despite the fact I doubt I could do what he just did straight after watching the video.
There's always a Vocational argument with public sector stuff, but they wouldn't expect to get in an architect to build a new railway station for 25k
It does surprise me. I do get the vocational thing too - hey I'm in the public sector - but I'm earning a decent whack more than that and while I'm doing fairly well in my career path, I don't think its as difficult as what they're being asked to do, nor do the consequences matter so much
Serious (And not sarcastic) question - are newly minted graduates (Even CS grads) capable of doing that task do you think? Without prior knowledge of the end result
@RobMoir Very true. I suppose it's unfortunate that in IT, there's a wealth of comparison with the private sector. And even now, the private sector pays IT fairly well.
There's gotta be something very cool about working for GCHQ
re. the GCSE thing, I read a comment suggesting only people with experience with x86 assembler who recognised the magic in the first few bytes would end up being on the right track
I read the comment before I read the page, so I don't feel dumb for not having had any idea :)
Is it possible to install a vnc with a graphical user interface on a computer that doesn't have a monitor or video card? Work blocks facebook, and ideally I would like to install Ubuntu or Windows on the remote computer with the whole graphical user interface. Is this possible to do with like A...
of course the best idea would be to run a VM with a virtual frame-buffer/GPU, that works just fine, but I'm buggered if I'm helping him get around another sysadmin's system
we need a chat bot that sits in the room all day starring any comment that contains the word "boobs" or any variation, in order to stick to the room rule about starring any comments that contain boobs
If we're talking about needed easter eggs here, typing "os/2" should see the chat window ask you to insert 45 disks in turn, plus disk 1 after the first 20 and disk 2 after the next 20 then disk 1 after the last 5 again
@SpacemanSpiff sorry, was away - is this one you've already got as the P6300 is the same price (to me anyway) and much more flexible
@SpacemanSpiff as for limits, well there's only really 2 x 4Gbps ports per controller - even with the 2x10 switch in front of it - and there's only 4 device ports too and the max luns created is 1024 (2048 on others) but generally they're fine, if you can go for CV v10.x and XCS v10 too - makes a world of difference
ok, the P63/65xx are a nice replacement if you have a lot of EVA skilled peeps on the ground - love the 3par kit but their cheapest kit is more expensive than even an 8400
their biggest problem is they use an older type of shelf and disk, most new HP stuff sticks to one/two types of shelves and regular SAS disks, the 4400 (and older EVAs) use different shelves and specific disks (including the legendarily SHITE 1TB FATA disks that are about as reliable as my 16yo son)
My wife's been sat opposite me all morning going through all manner of Christmas lists constantly chirping in asking if we should put 'Mike and Susan" or "Susan and Mike" etc. it's days like this I hate getting to work from home and consider how much quicklime I could get on short notice
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You know the real b*tch of that too is that we've got one or two mods who are doing all the disagreeing. I can see their point occasionally when they disagree. But They're just flubbing it some time too. I've quit trying to flag things, it isn't worth the hassle.
Not sure if I really like the fact that it's all secret now, which mod accepted or rejected a flag. I suppose in the general case it's better that way, but that level of anonymity is getting abused right now IMHO.
I realize that tweeting questions by @serverfault (and other SE twitter accounts) is automated, but shouldn't questions with close votes not be tweeted?
For example this is way OT for SF and has 4 close votes at the time of this writing. It had (I believe) two close votes when it was tweeted.
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@ScottPack I've had 4 that one, one which I guess was a mistake on the mods part because it wasn't an answer and I resubmitted it and it was accepted and 2 I would argue if i could be bothered (both @ fw<500)
Ha, one of Microsoft's employees actually has to read all the Nigerian 419 scam emails... because his father used to be the president of Nigeria, so they could very well be real mail to him
tbh there's very few flags I decline, if only because it's a pain in the arse to do so - far easier to just click 'helpful' but leave in place - plus to be honest most of the ones I ignore are people moaning about what you nice chat users say (or me) - which I leave 'cos you're my pals :)
yeah - I rarely act on supposedly rude comments left on shitty posts where they deserve far worse abuse. It happens a lot, "I put half a second into this question and everybody's calling me lame, I'll flag their comments while I have a wank and cry" - fuck 'em
we buy DL580 G7's for our developers, for some reason they all refer to them as 'G7's, not 'DL580's, bit like saying my car's a '2010' not a 'Volvo' - they're driving me nuts, next time they ask for one I'm giving them a DL120, when they moan I'll say 'It's a G7'
very flexible boxes, we just put a pair of cpus and 64 GB in them, loads of options to upgrade as we need and they take a quadro 6k easily, good PSUs etc.
There is a proposal on Area 51 that definitely does NOT fit with the family-friendly nature of StackExchange. I have flagged it for moderator attention several times, but it was ignored.
(If it gets into production, I will boycott SE).
"I am thoroughly disappointed! After reading your question, I assumed that there would be something awesome on the other side of that link. Talk about a letdown. " MarkM
@MarkM I quite literally feel your pain. I was thoroughly let down
I facepalmed hard. I could go and take it out and say "printer? what printer? Oh, as you gave a me a lack of description, I gave you a lack of printer. Problem solved."
@Shads0 I suppose, but remember much like with the blind date thing you'd be picking through someone else's rejects... do you REALLY want rejected users?
@ChrisS Can't be as bad as going to your local convenience store for a sammich only to learn that your gf still has your debit card and you have no cash
because that didn't just happen to me or anything =/
What you need to do to reach your goal is dependent on the services you offer from the server. E.g., a file server has different requirements to offer a fail over than a DNS or LDAP server.
Anyway, a guide to a complete solution is out of the scope of this site, but we can help with specific pr...
I realize that tweeting questions by @serverfault (and other SE twitter accounts) is automated, but shouldn't questions with close votes not be tweeted?
For example this is way OT for SF and has 4 close votes at the time of this writing. It had (I believe) two close votes when it was tweeted.
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There is a proposal on Area 51 that definitely does NOT fit with the family-friendly nature of StackExchange. I have flagged it for moderator attention several times, but it was ignored.
(If it gets into production, I will boycott SE).
