Wow! That's a blast from the past. We had Apple ][ e's at school, and between the edutainment games ("You're the first kid president!"), we also used them for computer class, and learned Apple Basic and AppleScript. I remember my lab partner and I were so proud that we managed to prank the...
funny you mention POWER - Canada's largest grocery chain uses it a ton on the backend powering Oracle DBs - was my first job out of college supporting that, I felt so cool. Didn't one of Google's Chief Data Center Architects (or maybe the CTO) go on record as saying they'd LOVE to switch over to Po...
The best part of OS/2, just like Novell NetWare 3.x, is its absolute rock-solid stability and refusal to go down short of power failure (from which it gracefully restarts). One of my regulated entities still offers telephone touch-tone banking (on-line, just through Ma Bell and the keypad). The box...
If she's running an A10-7850 she's not running DDR2 RAM; A10-7850 (and Socket FM2+) are DDR3 only. I doubt a different 2-4 core APU would make much of a difference. She's already got 4 pretty fast (3.7GHz base, 4.0GHz turbo) cores now. If all the open browser tabs are causing her to hit the pagefil...
Sounds like an expensive solution (and only a partial one at that) to what is essentially a user education issue. If she never closes windows/tabs she'll still end up in the same boat eventually, it'll just take a little longer. I've tried teaching her "best practices" for a long time now...
Well, Brocade was an option, they made great L2/L3 devices. But they were recently sold for almost nothing to Extreme Networks so it looks like it's come to a bad end. A real shame. Huh. I didn't realize Extreme bought them. I haven't used their physical equipment yet, but their Virtual EXOS VM (wh...
If you want to buy parts and build just to build, then go for it. But this is a huge waste of money that will probably just end up frustrating your mother. Just install Windows on the iMac so she can use new hardware with her established workflows. Done in one. I've got a Windows App that she needs...
replace her current A10-7850 Kaveri setup. She just uses it for Windows 10, websurfing, email, and Office 2013 The A10-7850 can't handle those tasks? Yeah, no kidding! If that system feels sluggish for web/e-mail/office tasks, something is seriously messed up (or it is still using a mechanical HDD ...
replace her current A10-7850 Kaveri setup. She just uses it for Windows 10, websurfing, email, and Office 2013 The A10-7850 can't handle those tasks? It handles them fine. I just want to be a good son, and upgrade her PC for her. :D Still, I wish she'd use that nice iMac my brother-in-law gave her,...
Yeah, after finding out even the NSA was bugging Cisco devices going out of the USA, I'd be extremely skeptical of Chinese devices. They might well be doing the same... To a cetrainty. The thing about Chinese networked gear, especially models available in Asia, is that most edge stuff is designed t...
Can't wait to see what the full 16c/32t threadripper is capable of, with heavily multithreaded workloads, as well as a 1P and 2P review of Epyc. A buddy of mine is less than thrilled that he spent so much money on an i7-6950X setup early this year, especially if threadripper ends up costing less, an...
As I've mentioned a few times lately, I tend to run a lot of VMs simultaneously. The vast majority are networking VMs, from Cisco, Juniper, Arista, Extreme Networks, Cumulus, F5, Fortinet, Nokia (nee Alcatel-Lucent), MikroTik, Brocade, etc... in addition to multiple servers VMs, like Ansible/Saltsta...
Your guess is as good as mine, but for some odd reason, Linux didn't support the ALC299 or ALCI220 codecs until kernel 4.11. This affected not just Ryzen owners, but also folks who had Intel motherboards with the Z270 chipset. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-4.11-Sound-...
May as well link to the newer article on the subject. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd-aocc-optimizations&num=1 It's still not going to light the world on fire, but it's getting closer. That said, on the graphics front, using the RadeonSI/Gallium3D drivers will consume ...
It's a tie between the Riva 128 and Rage 128 graphics cards, and that stupid Logitech Soundman Wave soundcard is a close second. Nothing says "fun" like having the MIDI chip hang on the last note of the Tie Fighter intro, and it would blast it all throughout the gameplay. Could've been wor...
I think I'll stick with the Ryzen 7 1700, I can stick that in the MILO-08 case with no problems once I find a suitable HSF with the right mounting bracket. I rather doubt that I could use the "Threadripper" well enough to justify the cost anyway. Yeah, if it's going to be used for just ga...
I don't think there's any way Threadripper could be compatible with AM4. The extra memory channels alone is going to occupy a decent chunk of space which I don't believe is included in AM4 at the moment. I don't recall if I read it on a link I found in the comments section here, or over at Arstechn...
What? There are literally dozens of micro-ATX socket AM4 motherboards available. Spend $97 on the Gigabyte GA-AB350M-Gaming 3 and call it a day. The last time I had checked (within the first week or two of launch), the bulk of the microATX boards were from Biostar, and I think Gigabyte only had tha...
Dumb name aside, I'm curious what each chip will cost. The E5-2699A Xeons they positioned it against cost about $4K each, but I've got a bad feeling the Epyc chips won't undercut Intels price too much. Any rumors on what the expected cost per-chip is going to be? We've already seen rumors that Threa...
I had been eyeing those Corsair Carbide 240 and Fractal Node 804 cases, but the dearth of good quality microATX AM4 boards board kind of put me off (and Ubuntu support for Ryzen sucked at the time). I was just after a semi-small workstation that would let me use an 1800X, 64GB DDR4 RAM, a 1TB Samsun...
Man, seeing that list brought back some memories (and some regrets for parts I'd bought). I would've loved to have had a SB16 with that Roland GS daughterboard that was WaveBlaster compatible (instead of that stupid Logitech Soundman Wave I bought). I also wish I'd bought a nice 2D card and a pair o...
That sounds like something that would greatly benefit from AMD's new 16c/32t "Threadripper" CPU with lots of memory. I've been thinking the same thing about Threadripper, and possibly a 2P Epyc setup. I'm just curious to see what kind of behavior happens with a stock Ryzen, before droppin...
This is possibly too late, but I'd personally love to see how it would handle two concurrent Juniper vMX "instances" (or 4 vQFX-10K instances) either running in Linux using KVM, or in ESXi. I've got instances in quotes, since Juniper split both vMX and vQFX into two separate VMs that you n...
I'm likely the only person who's interested in this, but I'd love to see how Ryzen performs when trying to run virtualization, like KVM, Xen, VMware, etc... IF Ryzen ends up being a good CPU (the 8c/16t setup is important for the workloads I do), and doesn't flip out when trying to run Workstation P...
Sweet! Turns out the fastest way to avoid the entire "having to repair NPM12 after a reboot" issue in VMware is to run Solarwinds Orion permission checker, and then just click repair. Takes all of 7-8 seconds, compared to the 10-15 minutes it takes to repair NPM12 itself.
I'm sorry to say that I haven't used Solarwinds in a long, long time... but I do remember something that you could check. The reinstall-process-fixes-it is a red flag to me, specifically, that some part of the program (probably a DLL) isn't registering properly. Thus as soon as you restart the envi...
I feel like a total noob for asking this, but I've got two questions: 1) has anyone here managed to get Ostinato working correctly? I've followed the User Guide to the letter, and I *think* I've done everything correctly, but I can never get port one to go into the Transmit state, and all I ever s...
