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by warhead
Mon Nov 16, 2015 9:50 pm
Forum: Mobile Tech
Topic: It's a Monster
Replies: 7
Views: 2331

Re: It's a Monster

I really loved my G750-JH from a few years ago. It's still going strong except for batteries stopped charging; so when it came time for upgrades last year, I got the ROG G760-JZ. I must admit being quite disappointed. It is extremely "non-mobile" and very heavy. Sharp edges on the raised k...
by warhead
Mon Nov 16, 2015 2:47 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Anyone repair anything today?
Replies: 1407
Views: 199218

Re: Anyone repair anything today?

Finished drywalling son's room yesterday afternoon, was standing there patting myself on the back when I looked at one wall all "hrm didn't I put two outlets in this wall?" "FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF" 2 hours of cursing and careful cutting (aka breaking the sheet ...
by warhead
Sun Nov 15, 2015 4:30 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Skylake Damagebox giveaway entry thread
Replies: 130
Views: 83234

Re: Skylake Damagebox giveaway entry thread

Great contest...
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by warhead
Thu Sep 18, 2014 9:49 pm
Forum: Networking
Topic: static route tracking issue
Replies: 5
Views: 3155

Re: static route tracking issue

If the 2nd hop away (remote) isn't under your control, you'll have to rely on policy routing by weight / failover, etc. If they are, I'd look to ospf tutorials. I've found Greg Sowell has posted some of the best explanations on routing and the corresponding implementations for Mikrotik-specific setu...
by warhead
Mon Dec 09, 2013 11:00 pm
Forum: TR Distributed Computing Effort
Topic: As the Work Unit Crunches
Replies: 335
Views: 179948

Re: As the Work Unit Crunches

The old SMP software used to use all available threads, now it uses 1 less than the total available no matter what. I also found that annoying. You can force it to use all threads in the advanced control options - configure - slots. But I also notice that, unlike the earlier version, when you wake ...
by warhead
Mon Dec 09, 2013 10:16 pm
Forum: Storage
Topic: HDD not recognized in new system
Replies: 6
Views: 2382

Re: HDD not recognized in new system

I'd make sure the drive wasn't affected by hooking it to something of a known quantity - like a USB to SATA adapter or the original system. Then grab backups. I've seen something similar before, albeit on a much older system, up to 3 would work, but if I loaded 4 SATA drives on the controller it wou...
by warhead
Sat Nov 02, 2013 9:46 pm
Forum: System Builders Anonymous
Topic: Need advice on NAS build
Replies: 26
Views: 7249

Re: Need advice on NAS build

I would definitely like to second CampinCarl on the flexibility of FreeNAS. The OS and configuration easily installs on an old 2 or 4 GB USB thumb drive, and you don't lose any HDD space to the host OS. ZFS RAID across 4 1TB drives powers my development server NFS for lab VMs, accessible by both Xen...
by warhead
Thu Oct 03, 2013 10:39 am
Forum: TR Distributed Computing Effort
Topic: TR Frankenbot 2013
Replies: 178
Views: 95897

Re: TR Frankenbot 2013

Arise from the dead! Wow, it has been years. I have a rack of decommissioned 2850 servers I'll throw in. Power is on the house.
by warhead
Sun Apr 25, 2010 8:07 pm
Forum: Networking
Topic: I need a person that knows cisco!!!
Replies: 16
Views: 3922

Re: I need a person that knows cisco!!!

Evermore gave you the two critical pieces to figure this out. In order to learn Cisco, you shouldn't rely on diagrams. You need to be able to picture what each device is responsible for, and what it can talk to vis-a-vis each leg, both directly connected (ARP table) and then what is routed (show run...
by warhead
Thu Mar 11, 2010 3:11 pm
Forum: Developer's Den
Topic: language choices
Replies: 28
Views: 5431

Re: language choices

I'm pretty set on Debian. It's extremely stable, and unlikely that anything other than security patching would be updated. (which would, of course go through a mirrored test before production rollout) Our internal IT is familiar with it, and can support it pretty well. Back to languages, anybody hav...
by warhead
Wed Mar 10, 2010 10:57 pm
Forum: Developer's Den
Topic: language choices
Replies: 28
Views: 5431

Re: language choices

It sounds like you want a lightweight web front-end to an old-fashioned database, in which case Java is probably a little heavy for the job in terms of development time. As far as I know, choosing between PHP, Perl, and Python should just be a matter of your local expertise and existing codebase --...
by warhead
Tue Mar 09, 2010 5:40 pm
Forum: Developer's Den
Topic: language choices
Replies: 28
Views: 5431

Re: language choices

Edit: Sorry to help derail your thread, warhead. I'll try and butt out now. Not at all, SNM, I want blunt answers. I understand the various scenarios presented previously, and this is exactly what I'm looking for - various experiences. There IS no perfect language, there is NO perfect compiler, for...
by warhead
Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:50 pm
Forum: Developer's Den
Topic: language choices
Replies: 28
Views: 5431

Re: language choices

I agree, except I suggest PHP over Python. PHP has the advantage that you can now compile it into C++ with HipHop, which makes it run circles around any other web based language (i.e. scale) on the market: http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?story=358&blog=1 If scalability is a concern, the...
by warhead
Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:41 am
Forum: Developer's Den
Topic: language choices
Replies: 28
Views: 5431

Re: language choices

! 90 Minute is a regular in my icebox. Love IPAs. I even had the opportunity to try their 'Fort' this weekend. Too sweet for me, and what a sock in the head! 18 percent! I dunno, that's definitely extreme for beer. But I love that brewery, takes experimentation to a whole new level. I am indeed in t...
by warhead
Tue Mar 09, 2010 9:37 am
Forum: Developer's Den
Topic: language choices
Replies: 28
Views: 5431

language choices

Since I know everyone here loves to give away free beer *ahem* I mean advice, I was wondering what was on tap at the bar. A bit of background. My experience with programming is way outdated to say the least. My previous fifteen years in the industry have been more networking and infrastructure relat...
by warhead
Fri Aug 22, 2008 11:26 pm
Forum: Networking
Topic: Are all consumer routers junk?
Replies: 45
Views: 5512

Re: Are all consumer routers junk?

http://www.untangle.com For Linux newbies wanting to get their feet wet without the hassle of Monowall complexity, this baby offers it all. I know you have enough spare hardware laying around... Combine that with something small like a micro ATX form factor, routing Nirvana. I've deployed half a doz...
by warhead
Tue Apr 17, 2007 11:23 pm
Forum: Linux, Unix, and Assorted Madness
Topic: Help me Unix-wan Kenobi!
Replies: 3
Views: 2153

dangit... spoke too soon, apparently Dtrace is only available for version 10.... I think that site might yield some other useful info for you, though "prstat" is what I think you're looking for ultimately though, kinda the same as top in Unix Here's a good link: http://developers.sun.com/s...
by warhead
Tue Apr 17, 2007 11:15 pm
Forum: Linux, Unix, and Assorted Madness
Topic: Help me Unix-wan Kenobi!
Replies: 3
Views: 2153

the force is with you ...

I'd start here: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/dtrace/ Unfortunately my Unix experience is limited to very old SCO, and I don't think anything here would apply to Solaris. I can't speak for dtrace's use specifically, but the bigadmin site in general has plenty of places to get peeking. good luc...
by warhead
Wed Apr 11, 2007 10:56 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Your thoughts on Microsoft technologies
Replies: 26
Views: 7075

Re: Your thoughts on Microsoft technologies

I would like to hear your opinions about alternative platforms as well, because I suddenly feel like I have wasted quite a lot of time on learning expensive stuff that is in NO WAY the best tool for the job, and I fell a huge urge to to switch to PHP/postgresql studies from now on. It's the market ...
by warhead
Fri Mar 09, 2007 9:29 pm
Forum: General Software
Topic: free powerpoint maker
Replies: 11
Views: 3113

freeserif

Can't beat free software . The worst it'll do is hose your system. :p I've never used it, though, so that's not experience talking. :lol: I have used it, and for the average Joe, it does a fine job. I've even recommended it to non-profits or people that want to produce a simple door-door flyer. w
by warhead
Fri Mar 09, 2007 9:26 pm
Forum: General Software
Topic: resizing a ntfs partition
Replies: 11
Views: 2772

Best product I've ever used for monkeying around with combining OS'es for testing... Partition Commander from V-Com - it's not free but it works, 100% of the time - I've even broken proprietary mirrors from RAID controllers before and it was able to reconstruct the MFT. The other alternative is a se...
by warhead
Mon Feb 26, 2007 8:31 pm
Forum: General Hardware
Topic: Router Q please
Replies: 33
Views: 8779

Incoming!

I'll send you a freebie 4-port Dlink router. Works fine. Not wireless.
PM me if interested.

w.
by warhead
Mon Dec 11, 2006 12:23 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Verizon's Bad Math
Replies: 14
Views: 4257

Quite true... they do have a reputation for good math education. Just don't outsource your software project to them. I've been peripherally involved in at least 3 projects which cratered because of botched outsourcing agreements to Indian contract development firms. I've had negative experience wit...
by warhead
Mon Dec 11, 2006 12:07 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Interesting thing with numbers
Replies: 26
Views: 6461

definitely wouldn't work

"!=" in many (most?) programming languages means "not equals". I don't think the math community formally accepts it though. In mathematics (specifically statistics), ! is factorial. So, you would be getting a number just a wee bit bigger than three as a result. Check this for starters. http://mathf...
by warhead
Mon Nov 14, 2005 5:02 pm
Forum: TR Distributed Computing Effort
Topic: Random Folding Related Poll
Replies: 11
Views: 2069

You're not really smashing proteins...since all of you are truly a bunch of 'fanatics' - that's how I voted.
by warhead
Tue Oct 18, 2005 11:07 am
Forum: Developer's Den
Topic: Rusty SQL
Replies: 35
Views: 12437

avoid Access

Turkina Being that this is a ground-up DB, let me 2nd JBI's recommendation to use MSDE. You can get your table structure set up and raw data in fairly quickly, and you can then design a form interface in Access that pulls from the database, if you are requiring a 'comfortable' look and feel for the ...
by warhead
Fri Sep 30, 2005 10:24 am
Forum: Networking
Topic: Wireless Network for LAN Gaming Center - good/bad idea?
Replies: 4
Views: 1350

For only 20 pc's the wiring job would not be very expensive, either. 20 wireless nics, even at 20$ each would easily go over the cost of Cat5
by warhead
Mon Aug 22, 2005 2:13 pm
Forum: Networking
Topic: Need help with odd home network.
Replies: 5
Views: 1400

Check your default IPC$ share. Go to the server cmd prompt. Type net share and see if IPC$ is listed, if not, possible virus. to confirm that, check if the server has the following directory \winnt\system32\drivers\media Resolution: To fix it, delete winsys32.exe from \windows\system or winnt\system...
by warhead
Thu Aug 18, 2005 11:51 am
Forum: Networking
Topic: pinging returns "Destination Host Unreachable"
Replies: 28
Views: 4627

Don't overlook the obvious. Switch cabling. Switch ports on the hub, and make sure you're not using an uplink port or something like that. As far as fixable, this is very fixable, but as it was posted earlier, if you give us the outputs of the previous suggestions, we can track it down. Rather than ...
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