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    Terminated employee cost company hundreds of thousands of dollars because nobody revoked access

    Our process is that if the termination form is missing a date/time, then it’s executed immediately upon ticket created notification. We get a bit testy when HR or the department manager don’t send us a form. Apart from that form and responsible parties opening tickets, we have no visibility on...
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    Hypervisor preference fight - GO!

    I'll give that another poke at some point; redownloaded the VSAN CVM and am going to see if my free license works on it or not. Their documentation is sometimes not the best. But VSAN running as a Windows service (Samsung PCIe HHHL 3.2TB and 40Gbit networking in both hosts) has been stable and...
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    Hypervisor preference fight - GO!

    I was contemplating a Proxmox cluster with StarWind VSAN in their new appliance VM, but the NVMe drives I bought to go in my R640 nodes apparently will randomly freak out and fail into diagnostic mode when Linux is running. They don't do this with Windows. No one has a good answer as to why...
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    Hypervisor preference fight - GO!

    I run a Windows 2019 DC failover cluster with StarWind VSAN at home, and a larger identical cluster with a hardware SAN at work. A lot of my workloads are Windows (RDS Server, AD DC (DNS and DHCP), Exchange for giggles (on prem at work has been shut down after hybrid conversion). I run Linux...
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    RTX 5090 FE Molten 12VHPWR

    I'm not an EE and have no knowledge of the functional limits of PCB traces, but would doubling the voltage to reduce amperage increase the safety margin of the contact points? Or would that then introduce complexity on the GPU board that would result in increased failures as well? Obviously...
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    Solar Panel Deal Thread

    Depends a great deal on your solar production hours and peak rates. For me, the battery covers the second half of peak time when my solar is producing little to nothing. So I'm using solar, or $0.16 off-peak power to charge it and riding through the $0.38/kWh peak time. Most of the time, baring...
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    Microsoft is grouping its efforts to fix Windows internally under the K2 project

    All of Win11's requirements are paper requirements. See the IoT Enterprise version: it has none of the hardware checks that other W11 editions have, but is the same OS core and feature set. You just stick a PID file with a certain key in the sources folder of the W11 media and it's happy to...
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    Valve wins lawsuit against Rothschild and associated entities, with a jury agreeing they violated an anti-patent troll protection act

    Oooo, I like this aspect:
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    NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Melts 12V-2×6 Connector Despite -100 W Power Limit

    Per spec, 8-pin GPU PCIe is 150W, so 12.5A @ 12V, divided by 4 conductors, so 3.125A per conductor. Max spec for the actual Molex connector appears to be around 330W, so 27.5A more or less, or 6.9A and change per pin, with a max wire size of 16AWG. Where are you getting 8A per pin?
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    NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Melts 12V-2×6 Connector Despite -100 W Power Limit

    Even at 500W max board power, the cable has to supply just under 42 amps (41 2/3), or just under 7 amps per pin? So 12 AWG wire unless I'm reading the table wrong (using NEC 125% sizing for continuous load). And all the ones I can find seem to be 16 AWG. I feel like the cable, even built to...
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    Ruckus R710 Ebay $29.99

    The ground potential between two buildings that widely separated will be different. I guess if it’s a straight run all the way to the AP it might be fine. But I always design around separation and maximum protection, but I used to do WISP stuff in a previous job.
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    Ruckus R710 Ebay $29.99

    With that much separation, I’d either pull fiber and use media converters, or make sure you have lightning protection on both ends with proper grounding.
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    8TB WD sn850x on sale again

    Back down to $540. Offering 10% back if you have a Prime Visa card. ... I might have to get 2.
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    New Mass Effect Game

    I remember the Indoctrination Theory discussions as well for the ending of ME3; and my reaction to that was "If enough of your audience would rather reframe your ending(s) as hallucination/dream/mind control then you really screwed up." My canon ending for ME3 is the Citadel DLC. We offed the...
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    New Mass Effect Game

    Migrated to a new toolkit (Frost IIRC?) instead of UE so making level changes required full map rebuilds to test, some significant bugs at launch (that did mostly get fixed), and calling it Mass Effect brings expectations. ME2 was excellent, and despite its 'artistic integrity' ending, ME3 set a...
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