When it comes to motherboards I have always gotten the cheapest one that meets my requirements, it has never let me down yet
I've had my current PC for about 10 years now and the motherboard did actually start going on it about 2 years ago but I bought the exact model replacement for like $30 and it's been going strong since
I definitely paid less than $100 for the initial one so overall it's cheaper than some of these $200+ motherboards that in my opinion are mostly just unnecessary fluff
If you see anything computer related that is marketed as "gaming" don't buy it, it's the same as anything else with a 40% markup because it has fancy colors and possibly neon lights
@FaheemMitha in the US and Europe, what often happens is that non-leased systems owned by businesses, when they reach the end of their useful life, are sold off cheaply to employees and/or brokers, and then end up on various auction sites or brokerage forums
@StephenKitt My last company used to give them to the IT department for free if we wanted them, or they would actually pay a recycling company to "dispose" of them
I imagine the recycling company was actually throwing them on ebay
The US has fairly strict laws for electronics disposal, supposedly the manufacturer of the product is responsible so you can supposedly force dell to dispose of old servers theoretically (if they were purchased from dell of course) but I've never seen it happen that way
@FaheemMitha Well private citizens definitely throw electronics in the regular trash, myself included sometimes. However large companies are much less likely to risk it because they are likely to receive hefty fines to violating the law on it
@FaheemMitha it shows up in any accounting audit, since hardware is purchased (ignoring leased stuff here); companies need to have documentary evidence of the correct disposal of electronics
of course that only becomes a factor if the accounts are audited
@FaheemMitha Most of the auditors I've worked with can be very easily manipulated
Records of virtually anything are easily faked and often times I think they don't look at them very carefully. They ask for documentation and usually just check the box if you provide something...anything, without carefully examining it
@StephenKitt Yeah I think that is how most ITSM standards work too. They outline recommendations but really in order to be compliant you just need to define your own standards, even if they are simply "We will not do this"
When you have purchased something and someone asks a question about it, you get an email asking if you can answer the question. I think some people think they have to answer
When installing Ubuntu18.04.2 LTS (64bit Gnome Desktop DVD), at the "Installation type" page of the installer, choosing " Install Ubuntu alongside Windows 8" results in the partitioner automatically choosing to use sdd as the drive. There is no option to select sda or sdc. Only has one item the "...
I tried to use google translate to figure out what "telepitese" and "melle" mean. Apparently in Hungarian "telepitese melle" means "Install her breasts"
@JeffSchaller An AIX question that I dived into a bit too quickly. I'm not on AIX so I might have responded too quickly. You may give a better answer: unix.stackexchange.com/questions/534579/…
@Kusalananda fyi only, the IBM-provided expect package puts out /opt/freeware/bin/expect and /usr/linux/bin/expect, so whatever's in their /usr/local/bin/ is ... hand-made.
@FaheemMitha I've mostly got Intel boxes, but they're all several years old. My workstation (at work) is nVidia, which is somewhat a pain (though dkms makes it not that bad). Performance of the Intel graphics hardware at least was a fair bit less than nVidia. I'm tempted to go with AMD next time, I've heard those now have good open source drivers. Depending on what you want to do you may have limited choices (e.g., GPU compute stuff seems to be mostly nVidia)
@derobert Hey. Just looking for regular hardware. Nothing fancy of specialist. But choices here are indeed limited, though maybe not in the way you are thinking about.
I would like to find and replace the first column of matched lines with a character and non-matched lines with another character and then do the same with the subsequent column and so on until the desired output using regex script (I am using EmEditor), for instance,
I have the following:
12345,...
Well, it depends on what you use the computer for. If you're not gaming or doing GPU computation (e.g., OpenCL) then anything half-current is going to be OK for desktop compositing, etc.
@terdon I tried pointing out that the poster is asking for one thing (i.e. replacing columns one by one) but then doing something different in the example(s) (i.e. inserting a column in a non-matching line)
Intel stuff has been supported by drivers Intel helps maintain (open source, part of the kernel) for many years. I think AMD stuff is similar now, as of the last few years. nVidia releases proprietary drivers for their stuff.
@FaheemMitha Not really. I haven't built a PC in several years.
@Kusalananda I have a bad feeling about this; unregistered user; Last seen 24 mins ago. Hopefully they're busy registering their account and running commands to update their post.
I forget which board this machine had first, I think the X58 was the 2nd, after some other board wasn't stable. I've had that experience a few times :-(
@FaheemMitha how often do you work on it? Most systems don’t need any expansion card apart from the GPU (if it’s not integrated), and not much space for drives either. The biggest “peripheral” is the CPU cooler...
Yeah, especially if things aren't designed right. E.g., I my home workstation actually came from a system builder. And the way that case works is to replace one of the hard drives, all you have to do is remove the RAM. That's not so bad. Oh, and also unmount the CPU heatsink. WTF.
Intel is AFAIK much more popular. And if you want fast, I think they have the fastest CPUs. AMD, though, I think currently wins on price (and price per performance). Not sure about in the real low end.
You'd have to read the fine print. There are a couple of standards it might be certified against. Which could matter if, e.g., you want to shake your PC constantly.
@FaheemMitha I was in the US military and literally none of the equipment I worked with was better than it's civilian counterpart. In most cases it was significantly worse
The firearms are manufactured by the lowest bidding companies, the vehicles are trash, the IT equipment was mostly just off the shelf civilian equipment stuck into green "tactical" boxes and sold with a 400% markup
@derobert @Jesse_b What I'm basically asking is if I should ignore all this tuff and durable talk, and just buy something based on relavant specs and features.
@derobert It's because they can only buy from a limited number of approved vendors. I think all the way down to the smallest things the spending is non-trivial. The military is only allowed to buy office supply type things from a company called GSA Advantage. I remember comparing things like staplers and reems of paper
(I hope from all the :-P you realize I'm not being serious)
@FaheemMitha We have enough here for the whole world. So too probably does Russia. I don't think we dance with them, though. I don't think Trump could be convinced to dance with one, but parade with one is certainly possible!
@FaheemMitha They just seem to be less common. Granted this is with my lowest bidder mentality. I don't think I would ever spend more than $100 for a motherboard
@derobert I think it was reported by a few credible sources but I do remember supermicro saying they weren't credible
But I believe in the same statement they said they were going to stop procuring hardware from the source in question so it seemed like they were just trying to minimize impact
@derobert When I was still in the military my unit ordered like 300-400 lenovo laptops and when they arrived we got told not to use them because some of the components were made in china. This was around 2010
Possibly they branded it that way for a while, don't recall. I'd guess you all used to by ThinkPad machines, and that got sold to Lenovo
"Although Lenovo acquired the right to use the IBM brand name for five years after its acquisition of IBM's personal computer business, Lenovo only used it for three years. " from Wikipedia ... so I guess that's why it was IBM Lenovo
So, if it wasn't utter idiocy, it was probably caused by that sale; e.g., purchase originally planned before IBM sold business to Lenovo, and either no one thought to cancel it or it couldn't be canceled.
(And, honestly, back to the alleged Chinese covert modifications of Supermicro boards ... seems like a lot of work for little gain. I mean, is anyone at all confident their IPMI firmware is secure? It sure as heck is buggy.)
Among other purposes, yeah. But putting a hidden extra chip on the board is rather risky. Seems like something you'd only contemplate against chosen targets, not do in general. Exploiting one of the no doubt many firmware flaws, OTOH, is much harder to pin on you. And with the number that are never upgraded, you can just use a patched flaw, which has essentially no cost.
I've been playing around with different login forms online lately to see how they work. One of them was the Facebook login form. When I logged out of my account my email and password were autocompleted by my browser. Then I decided to misspell my email and see what would happen if I tried to log ...
Yeah I kind of agree with the arguments made about the passwords. Apparently they are checking for the presence of capslock too so you can't just paste in the password with the wrong case. However the username variations must add literally thousands if not hundreds of thousands of possible combinations for your login when there should only be 1 acceptable combination
I thought they said that was only if you mess up the actual user part of the email (before the @)
Yeah I wasn't sure either but I figure javascript can do some interesting browser stuff
> Of particular interest is the caps lock scenario. I tested this by first manually typing my password into notepad, reversing the case, then pasting that result into Facebook. It denied that password. I then turned on caps lock and typed my password as though cap lock were off, thus reversing the case. That attempt was successful, and I was logged in. Facebook is not only checking what the password is but how you enter it.
