IT BS thread

Yeah, right. As soon as Oracle acquired Sun "the organization I used to be in" started porting everything from Sun servers running Solaris to HP and Dell boxes running Red Hat. I mean, within the same month we got that project started. Based on how Oracle did business, we knew Sun was dead.

How right we were.

 

when your company uses a *.company.com cert and puts it everywhere and the application people don't even understand certs.......and it expires in 1 month......this is going to be a giant cluster fuck

 

Shitfuck. The home system I built almost 11 years ago won't boot.

What's the point of building a monster system if it won't last?

 

11 years? Core 2? Sorry for your loss, but that is like 200 years old in human years.

 

I've taken her apart and put her back together again. It's looking like the quad 9550 Yorkfield (core 2) will overclock no more.

Already planning my next monster beast that should last 12 years. Since I don't really game it's going to basically be an office PC that also serves as a NAS.

 

I was using my overclocked 4790K as a NAS. Wasn't really worth it with the power consumption and amount of heat it radiated. Bought an older ThinkPad x240 to use instead. Small footprint, low power, low heat, built in battery. Came with the dock, so plenty of USB ports with Ethernet jack. It's only a i5-4200U, which is plenty for a file server.

 

There was a time when I got fed up with the longevity of the mainstream boards, even the better brands seemed to crap out on me after 3 years, so I started using Intel-branded boards only. Had great luck with the high-end ones, and the quality difference was noticeable. A bit more expensive, but super stable. That and a quality PSU. The rest of the stuff is easy to swap out if there is an issue.

 

Just got my FIL's old Core 2 duo booted and working (reasonably quick, too), and there's a 5th gen i5 at their house they haven't even turned on in 3 years. Plan is to turn the duo into an HDD box (for the time being) and then use the i5 for PC stuff. Need places to recover files to, and I ought to be able to make due until I figure out what I need.

I also have a 12 year-old laptop here that boots, but is slower than snail sex.

 

This was an Asus Maximus II. The board looks new. If the CPU hadn't shit itself the thing would probably keep going another 11 years.

 

Since when does Java = Javascript?

 

My last 2 boards were the Sabertooth series, apparently before Asus quality went downhill from what I hear. Afaik, both the boards and CPUs are still good.

Before that, I had a couple Biostar boards, only good for a couple years.

 

Hate. All. Java.

And Macs.

And cloud service providers.

 

JavaScript ain't going away anytime soon since literally every front end is built on it.

/Posted from my Macbook Pro

 

I picked up an r710 on ebay for a NAS. Normally its a bit underutilized, but these last couple months its been a godsend for work. And its super stout.

I've also had really good luck with gigabyte motherboards. The one on my desktop is circa 2013 and still ticks right along. Original seasonic power supply too.

 

Spent some of the morning sorting out WiFi MAC addresses for my devices. I use MAC filtering on my router. It only holds 32 entries. Over the years I've had to keep deleting entries to make room for new ones. Today I got the list down to 9 current devices.

 

I am going to upgrade my system. Currently on cable 64MB. Motorola 6140 modem. TP Link 24 Port Gigabit switch for wired and TP link Wifi 6 that sucks. My Linksys AC1900 worked better.

New stuff on order Motorola MB7621 1000 MBPS modem, NETGEAR Nighthawk Whole Home Mesh WiFi 6 System, 3-pack. I plan on upgrading my cable connection once everything arrives and should have no problem streaming anywhere on my property.

 

Kudos on the Nighthawk. I've tried to overwhelm my X10 - and all attempts have been unsuccessful. Even when family is over and we get the number of connected devices up to around 30 (everyone has phones and tablets, and my brother works from wherever he's at) it doesn't miss a beat.

In other news, I recovered the data off of my old system onto a less-old one. My office is literally 8 degrees cooler without that overclocked quad core converting electricity to heat. I should have upgraded that thing years ago. My MIL has offered me my FIL's system (3 years old) to convert into a storage server since it has the bays, and I think it's time to take her up on it. I forgot how much cooler these new processors are compared to the first-gen cores.

 

When I was younger living at my parents house I had a system with a processor that would run pretty darn hot. Combine that with an AMD graphics card that was known for running hot as well and I could pretty much heat my room with that sucker.

 

I have a ~2000 user environment with about 700 Windows PCs. Right now I have 10 DCs. I'm considering paring down that number significantly.

At a minimum, I want to cut it down to 5--two for the main campus and one for each remote site. I'm beginning to think of just running two total for DC, DNS, DHCP, and eliminating the DCs at the remote sites. They're point-to-point fiber connections at 250-500 mbps that have (knock on wood) never gone down for more than about a minute here or there in six years. Realistically, having a domain controller locally does nothing if that fiber link goes down anyway since their home directories are stored in the main datacenter and they'd lose their internet connection too.

Is just two DCs for an environment of that size insane?