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If JJ Abrams did a Terrestrial action film in the same vein of his Star Trek and Star Wars films it would go something like this: Residents of the West Coast of America witness terrorists blowing up the Eiffel Tower, so they hop in their car and drive to Moscow, arriving in under 5 minutes.

I saw a quote from a media representative that they actually did consider not watching the commercials to be stealing. At the time, they just couldn't do anything about it. Found it:

I have a pair of 950s running media duty for the 4k tvs over my workstation, which is probably a waste. I was using a pair of g3258 anniversary edition pentiums @4gz, but I discovered something. Youtube will drop frames on anything less than 4 cores - I get better youtube playback on a Q6600 at...

Cute cluster.

These motherboards are pulls from a Cray cluster computer, afaik, powering pairs of boards at a time. Sourcing such things where I live is costly, to say the least. Not to mention the weird formfactor. I'm much happier adapting an ATX supply than trying that.

I hope that's all it is. I really want those ATX adapters - it's another $50 in parts and about 4 days work to make my own :( It took 4 months for me to receive a package of switches, with no obvious extra customs investigation indicated.

So, a small update. I'm having problems with overseas shipments - anything from China is taking up to 2 months or so extra to arrive, for unknown reasons. That means I'm currently still short of fans, and, crucially, the ATX->Supermicro power adapters. The only thing new that I have received are...

I haven't used the X8DTL machine much, except as a stand-in desktop for the couple of months it took to actually build the bigger machine. When I get some of my other projects going, it will be a linux box so I can do my dev work. I disabled the built in VGA on both boards in the windows...

I think a VP was ultimately fired, but it hasn't changed the corporate culture. It's actually worse now. Some tools are IE only, some are Chrome only, and others will stop working in one or the other after a rollout.

Those are the silver 45's. They go in shiny side down, apparently.

The company I work for managed to switch to windows 7 a couple of years back. We have a custom virtual machine app that does one thing - runs IE 6 to support our highly customized Siebel installation. They're now installing Chrome on the machines, with an auto-redirector from ie8 for some...

Wow. I've been using one of these Nighthawks for my access point for years, but I haven't been updating the firmware - I left it on whatever it came with. Turns out I should pay more attention to it. Thankfully I just turned it down in favour of a couple of Linksys EA6500's meshed together using...

I picked up an 80186 out of an early graphics design/cad terminal (An intergraph?) It was pretty cool for the age - 20+ inch built in monitor and a ton of individual expansion boards.

I can't say I was impressed but, sadly, that was not the worst-shipped ram I've received in the last couple of months. I had ordered some ECC ram for my file server - 3 sticks - and they shipped it in a padded envelope, inside of which each stick was in a to-size static bag. This was shipped...

So, more money spent. Brought in an additional 96gb of ram, so 192gb total for the cluster - 48gb/node and 24gb/cpu. Once again, an eBay purchase gone right, despite arriving in this scary looking bag: