[QUOTE=darksoul69;43764427]I'll buy it for $50 (the whole thing, that is).[/QUOTE]
Funny.
30 more ltc miners good god
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Is CPU litecoin mining at all effective? Our render machines at work have Xeon E3-1230v3's, but they've only got HD 5450's.
[QUOTE=Trekintosh;43767805]Is CPU litecoin mining at all effective? Our render machines at work have Xeon E3-1230v3's, but they've only got HD 5450's.[/QUOTE]
Unfortunately, no.
There are some crypto-currencies that are CPU centralized such as Primecoin, perhaps take a look at that
Okay, then another question. How long do you estimate it would take for one proper mining rig to turn a profit?
[QUOTE=Trekintosh;43775759]Okay, then another question. How long do you estimate it would take for one proper mining rig to turn a profit?[/QUOTE]
It all depends on hashrate, cost of power, and price you spent on the rig.
There's multiple websites that calculate profit. Here's one for bitcoin [url]http://www.bitcoinx.com/profit/[/url]
New server ordered:
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Most of the VMs I actually need day-to-day are pretty lightweight, so my power sucking Q8400 server with four hard drives, 8GB of DDR2 and a Radeon X800 (No onboard graphics) is overkill. I'd be able to leave it turned off until I want to mess around with Sharepoint or something.
I'll be putting in my 3TB WD Red for storage, a shitty 250GB laptop HDD for boot / VM storage (Might get a WD Black or something better later) and 2x2GB DDR3 sticks in (Leftover from my brother's upgrade). 4 GB of RAM is going to be an issue, so that will be the first thing to upgrade. Then I'll be sticking in a 2 port gigabit NIC, which seem to go for about $35 if you search for the HP NC360T, which seems to be a rebranded Intel card. Then I'd be able to replace my Neoware box running PFSense with a VM.
Family Photo!
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I've always wondered but, why do people use many virtual servers for different services? For example one for mail, one for apache, one for ftp. Wouldn't it be better to run all 3 on the same VM? That way the physical server doesn't need to have 3 instances of the OS loaded.
[QUOTE=Adamhully;43855227]I've always wondered but, why do people use many virtual servers for different services? For example one for mail, one for apache, one for ftp. Wouldn't it be better to run all 3 on the same VM? That way the physical server doesn't need to have 3 instances of the OS loaded.[/QUOTE]
It's mainly because if I see a good VPS deal I can't help but buy one :v:. Physical location plays a part too - Like my game servers are mostly Australian so I get a decent ping but webservers/seedboxes/etc are American or European because hardware and bandwidth prices are so much lower.
[QUOTE=Adamhully;43855227]I've always wondered but, why do people use many virtual servers for different services? For example one for mail, one for apache, one for ftp. Wouldn't it be better to run all 3 on the same VM? That way the physical server doesn't need to have 3 instances of the OS loaded.[/QUOTE]
I like to keep them sepperate because they practically cost nothing (I pay like 30$ a month for 4 great servers) and because it's easier to manage. Especially when you are running a shared hosting for friends etc. You don't have to worry about them fucking up the server badly and breaking your mail etc.
Also it's nice to have one server with a 120GB hdd for cloud and another one with 1GB ram and 50GB hdd for webhosting for the same price.
I also like using different distros for different purposes.
Oh, and if you chuck all your crap on a single server and something happens to it you're screwed until its fixed. Don't really have that problem with multiple servers.
Oh I thought you guys were showing your home servers. Makes more sense that they're a VPS that you've rented.
[QUOTE=Adamhully;43857172]Oh I thought you guys were showing your home servers. Makes more sense that they're a VPS that you've rented.[/QUOTE]
Not many people round here that actually own their servers let alone run VPS's on them.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMLldIXGtxI[/media]
This is the startup procedure to engage The Pandora Array. It's a 5-machine Pandora's Box system that enables us to clone one of our client's setups. The big normal monitor is the control machine, and the other 8 smaller crappier monitors combine to form one contiguous segment spread across 4 machines driving 2 displays each. The big server on the bottom has dual-quad-core Gulftown Xeons and a GTX 770. The rest are all Ivy Bridge i5's with GTX 550 Ti's. The monitors each run 1024x768, except for the control one which is 1080p.
[QUOTE=Trekintosh;43905192][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMLldIXGtxI[/media]
This is the startup procedure to engage The Pandora Array. It's a 5-machine Pandora's Box system that enables us to clone one of our client's setups. The big normal monitor is the control machine, and the other 8 smaller crappier monitors combine to form one contiguous segment spread across 4 machines driving 2 displays each. The big server on the bottom has dual-quad-core Gulftown Xeons and a GTX 770. The rest are all Ivy Bridge i5's with GTX 550 Ti's. The monitors each run 1024x768, except for the control one which is 1080p.[/QUOTE]
"Well shit" is literally all I could think while watching the video.
[QUOTE=Levelog;43905369]"Well shit" is literally all I could think while watching the video.[/QUOTE]
Is it a good "well shit" or a bad "well shit"?
[QUOTE=Trekintosh;43905444]Is it a good "well shit" or a bad "well shit"?[/QUOTE]
An in awe oh shit
it is pretty damn nice.
[QUOTE=Trekintosh;43905192][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMLldIXGtxI[/media]
This is the startup procedure to engage The Pandora Array. It's a 5-machine Pandora's Box system that enables us to clone one of our client's setups. The big normal monitor is the control machine, and the other 8 smaller crappier monitors combine to form one contiguous segment spread across 4 machines driving 2 displays each. The big server on the bottom has dual-quad-core Gulftown Xeons and a GTX 770. The rest are all Ivy Bridge i5's with GTX 550 Ti's. The monitors each run 1024x768, except for the control one which is 1080p.[/QUOTE]
You turning on the individual boxes like that reminds me of Ellie Sattler turning on the individual circuit breakers for Jurassic Park.
That shit needs a primer handle like in Jurassic Park. It would make it look more awesome turning on.
[QUOTE=Trekintosh;43905192][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMLldIXGtxI[/media]
This is the startup procedure to engage The Pandora Array. It's a 5-machine Pandora's Box system that enables us to clone one of our client's setups. The big normal monitor is the control machine, and the other 8 smaller crappier monitors combine to form one contiguous segment spread across 4 machines driving 2 displays each. The big server on the bottom has dual-quad-core Gulftown Xeons and a GTX 770. The rest are all Ivy Bridge i5's with GTX 550 Ti's. The monitors each run 1024x768, except for the control one which is 1080p.[/QUOTE]
It looks cool and all but what's the purpose exactly? haha
We got our new core switch[I]es[/I] in today :dance: Pics eventually.
A pair of Catalyst 6800's with built-in ASA modules and plenty of 10G copper and fiber. And of course Cisco made the chassis gold because apparently we're supposed to worship it like an idol or something.
[QUOTE=MTMod;43910192]We got our new core switch[I]es[/I] in today :dance: Pics eventually.
A pair of Catalyst 6800's with built-in ASA modules and plenty of 10G copper and fiber. And of course Cisco made the chassis gold because apparently we're supposed to worship it like an idol or something.[/QUOTE]
All hail our Cisco overlords.
[QUOTE=Akito8;43909804]It looks cool and all but what's the purpose exactly? haha[/QUOTE]
it's a clone of the control system for this:
[img]http://nextnowagency.com.s130668.gridserver.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/FremontStreet-1024x576.jpg[/img]
The Fremont Street Experience. A quarter mile long video screen. Our company produces the music videos that are played on it.
[QUOTE=Trekintosh;43912467]it's a clone of the control system for this:
[img]http://nextnowagency.com.s130668.gridserver.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/FremontStreet-1024x576.jpg[/img]
The Fremont Street Experience. A quarter mile long video screen. Our company produces the music videos that are played on it.[/QUOTE]
oooh very cool! I was wondering what you were cloning that required all those screens hah
[QUOTE=Akito8;43913590]oooh very cool! I was wondering what you were cloning that required all those screens hah[/QUOTE]
The input system and LED controller for the display is, frankly, archaic. They take 8 inputs and combine to make a 7552x552 display. The closest way we can display it on any set of normal monitors is 8 monitors running at 1024x768 each. Plus, they are relatively close to the actual Fremont display inputs. So that's how their display preview system works. One Pandora's Box manager system controls 4 Pandora's Box player systems which each drive 2 crappy displays, which are cloned to the Fremont Street inputs with fancy-pants VGA brute force encoders(fucking Koreans made these goddamn things and they are utterly monstrous to maintain). So our array here at home mimics their setup so we can test changes and troubleshoot problems without having to drive to Vegas every time they make a mistake up there.
[QUOTE=Trekintosh;43914375]The input system and LED controller for the display is, frankly, archaic. They take 8 inputs and combine to make a 7552x552 display. The closest way we can display it on any set of normal monitors is 8 monitors running at 1024x768 each. Plus, they are relatively close to the actual Fremont display inputs. So that's how their display preview system works. One Pandora's Box manager system controls 4 Pandora's Box player systems which each drive 2 crappy displays, which are cloned to the Fremont Street inputs with fancy-pants VGA brute force encoders(fucking Koreans made these goddamn things and they are utterly monstrous to maintain). So our array here at home mimics their setup so we can test changes and troubleshoot problems without having to drive to Vegas every time they make a mistake up there.[/QUOTE]
Ouch. I'm sure Pandora's box systems support more than just VGA. They couldn't at least use SDI out? Well I guess it depends on the projectors they're using as well.
[QUOTE]We got our new core switches in today Pics eventually.
A pair of Catalyst 6800's with built-in ASA modules and plenty of 10G copper and fiber. And of course Cisco made the chassis gold because apparently we're supposed to worship it like an idol or something.[/QUOTE]
Gah I never quite understood Cisco's color schemes. 6500's are the ungodly gray/green, 6800's are silver-ish-gold. At least with the Nexus line they went for a more attractive silver color.
[QUOTE=Akito8;43915555]Ouch. I'm sure Pandora's box systems support more than just VGA. They couldn't at least use SDI out? Well I guess it depends on the projectors they're using as well. [/quote]
Projectors? No projectors here. The Fremont street display is an LED setup. Each pixel is about the size of a walnut and has 3 LED's to make its color. And the Pandora's Box system works fine, it's not the problem, it's actually a replacement for the old playback system. The problem is the display side of the system. The way it receives input is incredibly annoying. However in the next four years or so we hope to get a brand new screen with double the resolution and an all-digital control system that doesn't gargle goat gonads.
[QUOTE=Trekintosh;43914375]The input system and LED controller for the display is, frankly, archaic. They take 8 inputs and combine to make a 7552x552 display. The closest way we can display it on any set of normal monitors is 8 monitors running at 1024x768 each. Plus, they are relatively close to the actual Fremont display inputs. So that's how their display preview system works. One Pandora's Box manager system controls 4 Pandora's Box player systems which each drive 2 crappy displays, which are cloned to the Fremont Street inputs with fancy-pants VGA brute force encoders(fucking Koreans made these goddamn things and they are utterly monstrous to maintain). So our array here at home mimics their setup so we can test changes and troubleshoot problems without having to drive to Vegas every time they make a mistake up there.[/QUOTE]
According to an article I found on it back when it was first ran in 1995, it was done using special multi-color light bulbs, and 30 computers with one master controller, and almost 100 GB of storage combined, which sort of made me chuckle. Interesting none-the-less.
[QUOTE=Akito8;43915555]
Gah I never quite understood Cisco's color schemes. 6500's are the ungodly gray/green, 6800's are silver-ish-gold. At least with the Nexus line they went for a more attractive silver color.[/QUOTE]
Yeah our old 4500 is like... brown/green. eugh
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