If you run Linux servers (or can run one for the app), it's a great solution for imaging and managing fleets of computers, even if they're different types
We get variations of what is essentially the same question all the time: the system doesn't start Windows, dropping to PXE boot and failing and/or throwing a "no bootable device" or similar error. The answer is the same nearly every time. We ought to collect all these questions and have one quest...
The management screen is pretty basic, but shows cool graphs for statistics. You can also set FOG to be your DNS and DHCP server for your network (obviously, don't use it as the DNS server if you have Active Directory)
Fans are a bit noisier than I'd like, but aren't excessively loud under normal operating conditions. EVGA likes using double-ball-bearing fans for their longevity and reliability, but they run louder than the sleeve bearing fans others use.
(unlike with case fans, I have not heard of anyone using hydrodynamic bearings on a graphics card fan)
Having three fans helps with keeping fan speeds, and therefore noise, down.
> Supermicro also had the enthusiast-oriented C9X299-PGF on display, which features somewhat pared down specifications compared to the -PG300 but includes IPMI 2.0 support for out-of-band management.
That's still an ATX board but IPMI makes a return to Supermicro's gaming boards.
> Supermicro's 300W rating for a Core X-Series CPU certainly raises many questions. We've heard of the 165W Core i9-7980XE pulling up to 550W with beefy watercooling and even closing in on 1000W with LN2, so it's no doubt the processors are power hungry. Intel's thermal paste chokes off most of the fun early, though. It's fun to imagine a 300W TDP processor coming our way, but it could be nothing more than marketing. Supermicro representatives wouldn't provide more information.
The Skylake-SP die is notoriously power-hungry at high clock frequencies; they were designed for server use where clocks are nowhere near as high. On some boards, VRMs are known to overheat, resulting in the motherboard itself imposing thermal throttling.
(also apparently it's supposed to be fixed now. also it looks like it's calling out VNC software specifically, which probably doesn't redirect the display properly - while RDP does)
> Uninstall the Intel® Graphics Driver from the Intel NUC and use the basic Windows* graphics driver instead.
I need to set up a SSH tunnel to my mini server :P
> "The question came up at lunch today, and your name soon followed. We all just assume you have some kind of time traveling phone booth or Tardis, and like Bill and Ted of old, move through geek history to find answers to those long lost questions."
> I think the biggest blocker here is that they don't seem to put IPMI on cheapo boards, and you don't get vPro until you step up to the more expensive CPUs. The things that do support IPMI tend to be server chipsets that require ECC, which means new RAM, and on and on. If I drop the requirement for IPMI, I have about a billion options, but I really hate taking a system out of where it will go and dragging it across the house to a monitor when it breaks.
at these prices the $300 Supermicro board with a C2550 and IPMI looks better :P
probably should've thought of this before buying the other one, though
bleh
root@tryhard:~# snap refresh
error: cannot refresh []: Post search.apps.ubuntu.com/api/v1/snaps/metadata: x509: certificate has expired or is not yet valid
root@tryhard:~# date
Wed Nov 9 10:56:13 CET 2016
Package lxd:
p 2.0.0-0ubuntu4 xenial 500
p 2.0.2-0ubuntu1~16.04.1 xenial-security 500
p 2.0.11-0ubuntu1~16.04.4 xenial-updates 500
i 2.21-0ubuntu2~16.04.1 xenial-backports 100
root@amaterasu:~# virsh list --all
Id Name State
----------------------------------------------------
- benten shut off
- kubuntu shut off
- kumari shut off
- sae shut off
- susanoo shut off
- suseri shut off
- uzume shut off
@Bob eh, one of the boxes has several related services that all need to be on 443, but I wasn't able to get all of them to play well with reverse proxying so I chucked them on separate IPs and subdomains
@bwDraco 1. buy a dedi, 2. pick a Linux distro, and VM or container technology 3. follow a ZFS root guide (usually using ext4 for /boot) 4. install OS 5. do block-level transfers of your existing VMs or containers to the new platform and fix as necessary, or rebuild from scratch
@allquixotic it's helped me learn a fair bit about filesystems and disk structure in general (well, the process of digging up crap to fix failed installs has)
'cept of course that has little to do with the programmer day job
though I always was a sort of filesystem enthusiast, all the way back with reiserfs when reiserfs4 was the hot new thing, not that boring old ext3 or that super buggy ext4dev
IntelliJ <> Eclipse > Netbeans, imo... IntelliJ benefits from being extremely up-to-date and having native tools for easily generating projects in several languages (like Java/Spring) but I like code editing in Eclipse better (maybe because I'm just used to it?) and I'm not a huge fan of Netbeans except for its JPA reverse engineering tool that actually works unlike Eclipse's
...bleh. VS Code seems to be expecting a Node.js installation.
> [Info - 1:34:41 AM] ESLint server is running. [Info - 1:34:41 AM] Failed to load the ESLint library for the document c:\Users\brian\Documents\JSDev\sandbox.js
To use ESLint please install eslint by running 'npm install eslint' in the workspace folder JSDev or globally using 'npm install -g eslint'. You need to reopen the workspace after installing eslint.
Alternatively you can disable ESLint for the workspace folder JSDev by executing the 'Disable ESLint' command.
32GB RAM, 250Mbps unmetered (probably with allowable spikes occasionally to gigabit, but you’ll be sharing it with at least 4 other servers?), and $19/mo more than I’m paying with the discounted SP-128-S
Even without my discount it’s still a bad deal compared to literally any Canadian OVH offering, all of which have a much better price to hardware capacity and/or price to performance ratio
The only way I’d move is if they have equivalent pricing to Canada, which I doubt they will. It might come close but the “US Tax” is very significant in my experience, mainly the cost of labor
August 25, 1991: A student at the University of Helsinki announced a new operating system on Usenet. It was "just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu".
Nobody thought it would end up powering billions of devices around the world.
#Linux #TBT
