The collected works of zmttoxics - Page 6

Yeah, I have several UEFI boxes running Linux... It's secureboot which I assume only OEMs selling Windows 8 PCs are really interested in that is the problem.

I don't really see this whole thing as a problem. AMDs e350 boards and such are all soldered chips, didn't stop me from buying them or other motherboard manufacturers from making them.

I think what you might want to do is grab the lion or mountain lion dmg files and then the Multibeast utility and build a usb stick with what you need. Booting with the -f -v -x options usually gets you a little further too (safe graphics, force driver load, verbose).

Bullshit.

Any 1U HP is half the dB of those boxes. I would take a DL360g5 over a T2000 any day and I don't have to lose my hearing doing it. The purple 1Us like the V210 aren't that loud either, the silver Suns (not just the 2000) are just obnoxiously loud. Sure in a telco rack or a datacenter, it probably doesn't matter. In an office that doesn't have sound proof walls? Terrible.

I run Tomato on a Netgear WNDR3500L as my home firewall/router. Does OpenVPN, my DDNS, excellent traffic monitoring, etc etc. I hung a 4500 off it not too long ago (summer maybe) as an AP to beaf up my wireless wireless performance. The Router has been solid for 2 years now though, and it was only ~$40.

So nice you posted it twice?

IOS is something I almost never want to play with at home. At home I just want to work. I have stacks of 3750s and all kinds of cisco stuff at work. Work should stay at work, home should be relaxing.

I had thought about replacing my 2009 iMac with a used Mac Pro, but I had a few fundamental flaws with it (this coming from a previous PMG5 owner who misses his cheese grater monolith). I have a full loaded Dell P490 (have had it for a few years, it was my hackintosh for a while there) with dual 5160s and 16GB of ram (8x2GB for quad channel config) and 4 drives in it. If I had bought a 2006/7 Mac Pro for cheap, would I be impressed with it? Probably not... I would have to spend another few hundred in upgrades and get the quad core cpus, a beefie gpu, etc, etc... Then how much is my cheap Mac Pro and how many features am I still missing from say a new iMac?

I thought about it for days, watched a few ebay auctions, talked to everyone on IRC, co-workers, the boss (the wife), and just couldn't decide what to do. Put and SSD in the iMac? New / used iMac? Get a baseline mini to hold me off for a while? It was a fairly endless conversation with my self.

I really fucking lucked out though. I went to bestbuy last Saturday and managed to find a miss priced open box 2012 base mini. It was marked for $569 CAD which was actually the sale price for the new ones. I bugged the sales rep about it being oddly high for an open box and they repriced it to $499 - but there was a problem. It was going to take 10 minutes for the new price sticker to take hold in the system, so they priced it even lower to $479 since I had to wait. On top of it all, I had a few hundred in gift cards and gift cash in my wallet which officially made this the cheapest new Mac I have ever purchased.

Things I love about it? All the new features. Thunderbolt, USB3, Ivy Bridge performance. All in a very low power, low space package.
Things I hate? The 5400 rpm drive it came with is terrible, worst I have ever had in a mac. I get like 65MB/s in disk perf. It will be replaced, along with an upgrade to 16GB of ram. So I will still have to spend some extra on it, but atleast all of the new features are there.

For shits and giggles, here are some benches of a dual 5160 Mac Pro:
http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbenc ... %20bits:32

Here is the base 2012 mini (same as mine):
http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/search?utf8= ✓&q=model%3A%22Mac+mini+%28Late+2012%29%22+platform%3A%22Mac%22+processor%3A%22Intel+Core+i5-3210M%22+
EDIT: Sorry, this link is crazy broken, just copy paste it or take my word that the mini generally out benches it.

In fact, here is mine: http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/1474097

Anyways, I think I will wait for the next model Pros.

I havent own'ed a 40, but I have seen them and own a 20m2 and work with around 50 20m2s and 20 first gen 20s. My big complaint with the silver workstations is that the cases are a little flimsy. I've seen the panels and chassis warp fairly easily. The plastics (like the front name plate) are a little brittle too, but there isn't much for plastic on them. That said, they are work horses are are still going strong.

If you want a U40, you might do better to look for a Sun Java Workstation 2100z. Very similar hardware with the 939 opterons and supports both SCSI and SATA drives, and its classic quiet purple hardware. A few years ago I got one with 2 cpus and 8GB of ram for $200. The U40s are hard to get that cheap, but its really hard to find drive rails for these guys. If you really want a U40, make sure you get one with both disk planes. This config supports 8 internal drives which makes for an awesome ZFS server. The U20s and the U40s take the classic spud trays so that wouldn't be a problem there.

Hope that helps.

Yeah it's probably not worth modding unless you can figure out how to get more disks into it. The base model U40 has room for 4 drives but the U20 only has room for 2 which is a let down. For ~$100 you can get a new case that has a lot more room and functionality.

That said, if you can get a u20m2 for $150, it makes for a nice low power server that supports VT and 16GB of ram.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5446?view ... cale=en_US

Nope. Though I would think something like Seagates Momentus XT setup would be a better performer (being hardware level based). But this setup definitely allows for much larger SSD space.

Hmmm... Now I want to order that second drive kit... haha

That is a large quantity for new old stock in 2013. Pretty impressive looking if its not a scam. I got rid of mine a long time ago, I don't think I'll be picking one up but I would be interested in pictures if anyone else does.

My iMac is my home server with all of my home files and such and I do 4 stages.

1: The data is on a Mediasonic 4 drive FW800 array using raid 1+0 (4x1TB for 2 TB usable, divided into a few volumes).
2: The data volumes I care about the most are watched by Time Machine with a 2TB FW800 single drive.
3: My data is mostly replicated between all of my computers, so at any point, any other computer is a restore source.
4: Every few months I pull out another 2TB drive and do a flat copy of the data.

Seems like a lot but mediasonic array was really cheap and I don't have 100% faith in it, especially now that it's a few years old. I just got that new Mac Mini and will likely move to a tbolt solution on it.

It's not a console. It's a spec. It's a PC to run in your TV stand and run Linux supported Steam games (which has a very small list at the moment), which typically cost more than a PS3.

There were several prototypes by different makers are CES as well, not just this one.

You are missing the point. The price can not be dictated by Valve when giving vendors creative rights on hardware design. Some steam boxes will be $500 and some will be much more expensive.

The great thing about creating a spec rather than a product, is you can build your own. It's a linux box, running steam. Run with it.

They may roll their own, sure. But absolutely nothing is stopping you from downloading the packages and installing them on an Ubuntu 12* machine or a Fedora 17* machine like I did.

http://www.eurocom.com

A canadian company, I know a sales rep that works there but nothing other than that. Server/ workstation in a box. Xeons, ECC, big video cards, etc. No SAS but 4 SSDs is more than you need, surely.

1. Lazy research on your part. Yes ECC SODIMMS exist, example: http://www.adata-group.com/index.php?ac ... 6&piid=174

2. *and* are a quarter of the performance per watt. Pointless to push for unless you are hoping it would make it cheaper.

3. Who needs SAS in a workstation when you have SATA3 + SSD performance, 4 of them no less. Raid 1+0 them and enjoy life.

Yeah, there were a few other companies but I think they went out of business because there isn't really a market for this. :p

1. I don't know, places. http://www.ebay.ca/itm/HYNIX-HMT351S6BF ... 612wt_1165

2. Hah. Sure, well go with AMD opterons being on par with sandy bridge xeons and let that conversation slide (though if you do any sort of server purchasing, I suggest you update your figures).

3. No, I am not confused on acronyms. I am suggesting that SAS provides zero benefit over SATA3 on a system with only 4 drives, and if those drives are SSD based, you should see incredible performance anyways.

4. This whole numbered reply thing is getting old. At this point you should be hitting google for some practical self research.

Does it matter even? The statement isn't wrong. The steam library is massive. Steambox compatible is a different subject.

Just my 2 cents on VNC. Version compatibly can be a big problem. Newer tightvnc clients have issues connecting to older servers even. In my experience, UltraVNC on Windows and JollysFastVNC (I have the Pro version) on OS X have the highest compatibility across different VNC Servers and versions.

I never had anything good to say about Chicken of the VNC.

I think you will find that Solaris 11 doesn't support the v245, so that should answer your question.

In this case, it means does not run.

If you want CIFS on S10, you can use the SFW Samba packages, they work fine.

Solaris 10 ships with both CDE and what they call JDS which is basically a theme for GNOME. All Solaris 10 releases have CDE.

But you are right, whats more fun here is that server has no video card. Instead, you have lights out which means a whole lot to me more than a gui on my servers.

The loudest of fan noise. I would search the forum for other T2k threads. Unless you can host it out side in your shed far away from your ears, you wont want to take this disaster home with you.

Cool to play with, but performance is terrible and ridiculously loud.

The clock speed is set by a jumper on the motherboard. I suspect you need the Silver edition as mentioned above to get to the correct 1.5ghz.

What he/she said.

My advice is to setup a jumpstart server anyways. Making a Solaris 10 VM for this is crazy easy using the docs provided. Spool up your solaris of choice (9 should work on the 20) and away you go. Anytime you need it, fire up the VM and then you can do rescues and installs over boot net.

4.x is going to be tuff. 5.x you will have a much better time. If you actually want to use the machine, I would look at putting Solaris 9 on it (SunOS 5.9). Besides, 4.x is BSD and not UNIX! Who wants that!?

Neat! That actually looks like a fun project, thanks SAQ!

I would drop to init 3 and check you have 3d accelerated graphics. F18 and 17 with Gnome 3 gave me this trouble and I had to install the official nvidia drivers to fix it.

Edit: whoops, I read the above backwards. Sorry! Thought you had problems with the new GDM.

Numbers look good to me. Apple's temp specs are usually a lot higher than what you're seeing.

Perhaps a PRAM / SMC reset is in order to clear the warning lights? If you are really worried there are memtest programs for OSX...

The other way is to check your configs, down the interfaces and do a "svcadm restart physical".