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    Z170/Z270 don't support Coffee Lake (ASRock Tweet)

    I was reading a bit on that. Seems like I'll probably end up with Intel again for this round.
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    Z170/Z270 don't support Coffee Lake (ASRock Tweet)

    I can say that in building my PCs, the number of times I've only upgraded the CPU is zero. At the point where I feel I need a new CPU, I probably also need more RAM and probably a new graphics card, and hey look they've increased storage capacity! Time for a new build. As to the Intel vs AMD...
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    ARM server status update / reality check

    Reminds me of IBM trying to push Linux on POWER. Sure, they're running it and can probably get customers to run on their hardware but who else is going to jump on. Azure can help but if Microsoft is the only one really doing Windows Server on ARM, eventually the economics work out better to...
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    ARM server status update / reality check

    Not necessarily. If you look at the underlying reason of why those other architectures failed under Windows (software availability), the problem remains when Windows Server ARM comes out. You'll have a hardware platform that runs Windows with only a subset of all the Windows software...
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    ARM server status update / reality check

    Alternative architectures have worked well for Microsoft. Just look at Windows on Alpha, PowerPC, Itanium, and MIPS. Then there was Windows RT on ARM previously as well.
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    What am I missing? Why all the love for mechanical keyboards?

    I'm a mech board fan. I particularly enjoy lighter linear switches like MX reds and will have a Hall Effect board from XMIT via MassDrop arriving shortly to try out. For me, they're simply more comfortable to type on - something I see most every day as I type on a rubber dome at work. They...
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    BATTLEFIELD 1

    Spotting on the minimap could be nice but if my memory of BF2 and, "enemy boat spotted," is any indicator, there will be a lot of humorous use of it.
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    Sun or Oracle Sparc processors

    Interesting but it's a test of a single SQL query. That PC isn't going to be running a massive database of any kind with that configuration. I'd rather see a comparison to an Intel system that can run a large database and do some real-world tests. That would provide more beneficial results...
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    production vm storage?

    Not so far, though I've mostly been delved in Puppet work for automating a bunch of software installs and configurations. Someone on the team may have run into that and I just didn't hear all the details. I was the lucky one when we had the engineer on site that was plugging in twin-x cables...
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    production vm storage?

    It's typically not the techs we have issue with though that one was definitely an interesting situation. It's more things like FIs failing when trying to do firmware updates and firmware updates in general not going well even when we've got Cisco people on hand.
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    production vm storage?

    I'm curious, what are you using it for? We were trying to use 3par years ago for a couple servers with clustered file systems and ended up with so many problems with it that giving people 3par storage became a threat at work. Yet I talked to some other people that had used it with no problems...
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    production vm storage?

    UCS. Oh hey, you're back-rev'ed on firmware. Let's update you.... except that will require two updates. And we get an FI that fails. Next time, the engineer on site replacing the FI has some of the twin-x cables plugged in upside down (confirmed later by another tech). We never made it to...
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    production vm storage?

    Hell, we had a nice quantity of OSes running for a while. AIX, Linux, Solaris, and HP-UX along with the other stuff. Got rid of HP-UX since that was, fortunately, only a single app that migrated off an HP 3000. It's now on Linux. These days the vast majority of my time is spent dealing with...
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    production vm storage?

    Tapes. Ugh. Somewhere in the data center is a Sun Ultra 60 still on Solaris 8 that runs ACSLS to handle tape robotic arm duties for whatever tape unit we've got left for legacy stuff the business said we just had to keep.
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    production vm storage?

    I wish we could say that. Regardless of OS (Linux / RHEV, VMWare, Windows, AIX, Solaris). They all have the potential for (and have experienced) problems during many a filer failover. The worst part is that it's inconsistent and NetApp's not been able to really hone down a solution to the...
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