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I picked up a Wyse 7040 (Dell Optiplex 7040 USFF) w/ i7-6700TE for use as a micro hypervisor several months ago. I've since added 2x16GB DDR4, and a 500GB Samsung 960 Evo NVMe SSD. As of now, it's most intensive workload has been running Plex via docker, which generally transcodes native 720p or...

If memory serves, the cylinder comes out of the bottom, and removing the seat pan isn't required. I tried for a week to get one out to make the chair a little smaller for shipment to a friend a few years ago. I even tried using a pipe wrench. A friend who is a lot less technical and more prone...

This thread is clearly long dead, but I'd love to hear some recent thoughts on the topic of SFF (ish) NAS chassis. I currently have a Lian Li PC-TU200B and while I love it, ITX mobo options with a lot of versatility seem to be few and far between these days. I'm hunting for the most compact...

It takes some practice to build some technique but even shielded CAT5 isn't difficult to wire up. Watch a Youtube video on the topic, and keep an RJ45 wiring diagram handy. By the time you put on 10-20 ends you should have a good idea of what you are doing (and probably sore fingers). Take...

Also well worth adding to the list is "Vyos", which is a community fork of the late Vyatta Core. Ubiquiti's EdgeOS (used on the Edgerouter product line) is also a fork of Vyatta Core, making Vyos a natural and cross-compatible alternative for someone wanting to roll their own physical or virtual...

The models mentioned are fairly recent. I don't believe a direct successor to the T460/T560 or P50/P70 will come out for at least another year, but I could be wrong. As mentioned you also have the option of the Thinkpad P-series (the new "mobile workstation" class laptop product line). The only...

Understandable. A new Thinkpad T-series generation just came out. The T460/T560 look pretty awesome and finally seem to have combined the enhancements of the last two generations (Tx40/Tx50) quite well. I've included a link related to the new T series from my personal favorite laptop review...

I believe the only thing holding us back from this is the remote display protocol and client. Last year I failed in an attempt at getting a XenDesktop 7.6 + CentOS 7.1 + Nvidia GRID K1 VDI rolling due to lack of support in the XenDesktop Linux VDA 1.1 (agent that runs on the virtual desktop...

I've been waiting to upgrade my T430 for a while. Last year I swapped the stock 1600x900 LCD in my T430 with a 1600x900 panel from a Thinkpad X1 Carbon and while it's nowhere near the IPS 1080P screens available in the T440/T450, it's a massive upgrade in color and contrast. I'm not a fan of the...

I would recommend running "namebench". It will run a check from your connection, and compare your current DNS configuration against a significant number of available DNS server options, providing you with a comparison (benchmark results). From the results of a benchmark, you can select a few DNS...

I'd also recommend going with the Toughswitch or Toughswitch Pro's for powering the PoE UniFi APs. I have not personally had a chance to use one yet but they appear to be excellent value for the money considering the average price of decent PoE switches. On another note for active 48V PoE I have...

I'm currently using a i7-950 / 48gb ddr3 / 256gb ssd on a Supermicro X8STE. I also have a few xeon x3440 / 32gb ram hosts. Everything connects to a single storage server (10x1tb in a raid10) w/ 2x 120gb ssds as cache / dual xeon e5405 / 16gb ram. All the virtual hosts connect with 4x 1gige...

I'm also curious as to the cheapest way to get both IOS 12.4 and at least 1-2 1Gb interfaces on the LAN side (WAN would not hurt either but that's probably asking a lot on a low budget). Perhaps via some add-in card on an older model rather using having to spend the money on a 1921?

I do have AIM, I will attempt to help you out once I'm off the clock. Or here when I can respond. It would help myself, and others understand your setup/goals precisely, and work through the configuration of each component, if you were able to make a rough diagram, as well as pastebin.com'ing...

We are still running PC5324's and PC6024's here, but the configuration should not have changed much. Are 192.168.10.0/24 and 192.168.11.0/24 going to be utilized throughout all switches, or only on specific switches? You could simply use "Access" type VLANs to cover the access switches, if they...