[QUOTE=PollytheParrot;50792390]holy guacamole things just jumped up 9000 pc gaming tactic00l levels
[t]http://i.imgur.com/9RShyno.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
Do you have to run through your take-off checklist every time you boot up? :v:
SO UPS got back to me quickly and basically said because it was shipped and packed by a UPS Store, I need to talk to them directly to sort it out. So I guess I'll head over there tomorrow after work. Hopefully it's the guy I worked with last time, he was nice and knows me from the last few things i shipped.
Speaking of shipping things, FedEx found the motherboard they lost over the weekend. But the other package is still missing.
[QUOTE=pentium;50792091][url=https://twitter.com/tr1nitr0n/status/757973537130811393]And after having their way with you once, they'll go smoke a cigarette, flip you over and go in for seconds.[/url]
[b][u]NEVER[/u][/b] under any circumstances should anyone use UPS short of a nuclear emergency.[/QUOTE]
UPS is fine if your package is capable of practically being packaged correctly.
Then again, I wouldn't describe server blades as "capable of being packaged correctly" through pedestrian shipping methods.
[editline]29th July 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=PollytheParrot;50792390]holy guacamole things just jumped up 9000 pc gaming tactic00l levels
[t]http://i.imgur.com/9RShyno.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
How do you sleep
I knew we'd finally see clever people: [url]https://www.amazon.com/U-2-SFF-8639-PCI-e-Lane-Adapter/dp/B0199CECJ4/ref=sr_1_27?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1469759447&sr=1-27&keywords=u.2[/url]
Since U.2 should basically just be PCIe over a SAS cable. Now you can do weird riser's via U.2. I'd love to see a U.2 to front RAIDbay option. Where it ties into a build in expander.
[QUOTE=PollytheParrot;50792390]holy guacamole things just jumped up 9000 pc gaming tactic00l levels
[t]http://i.imgur.com/9RShyno.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
I like blue.
[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;50792535]Do you have to run through your take-off checklist every time you boot up? :v:[/QUOTE]
Yep, just like in Elite.
[QUOTE=phygon;50792904]UPS is fine if your package is capable of practically being packaged correctly.
Then again, I wouldn't describe server blades as "capable of being packaged correctly" through pedestrian shipping methods.
[editline]29th July 2016[/editline]
How do you sleep[/QUOTE]
1. Not in my bedroom
2. I let the computer go to sleep at night.
Set them all to exhaust and you can rent it out as a near vacuum environment for scientific testing
I figured this would be the best place to post this...
It looks like everyone who owns a GTX 970 will be able to claim $30 from Nvidia due to the 3.5GB instead of really 4GB deal! Not sure exactly when people can make a claim, but hopefully somewhat soon.
[URL="https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/lawsuit-news/340705-nvidia-settles-graphics-card-false-advertising-class-action/"]Article[/URL]
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;50792188][URL]https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1528677[/URL]
I hope I'm not jumping the gun here but holy heck Microsoft stop.[/QUOTE]
welp I'm usually a Windows 10 apologist but this is just kinda fucked. Microsoft pls.
[editline]29th July 2016[/editline]
So I had a stupid idea at work and i've been fantasizing about it all day.
I've never seen anyone do this.
Buy a broken old Mac Classic/SE/Plus/Whatever, gut it, retrobrite the chassis if needed.
Buy an iPad 4 Retina display and one of those displayport breakout boards for it, mount display in place of CRT (should be about the same size, I'll need to get measurements to be sure)
Use a Mini ITX board or maybe even a laptop board for the actual internals, hook it all up internally, etc.
Floppy drive can be a card reader and/or front USB ports.
Use a GPU riser cable if necessary to mount a full-size GPU if going with an ITX build.
Keep the outside as stock as possible, maybe make fanholes if necessary for cooling (maybe even a custom water cooling loop?)
For an added bonus: Get the OG keyboard and mouse, modernize them. Turn an external floppy drive into an optical drive.
Even more bonus: Have the option to boot into Mini vMac for shits and giggles :v: Go to a LAN, turn it on, BEEP, boots into System 7.5.5.
If I'm correct with measurements this could actually relatively easily be done and would make for a pretty neat little portable desktop.
I'll [I]give[/I] you a Mac Classic if you want. OF all the macs for people to fondle the Classic I and II are the shittiest machines Apple ever made.
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;50792188][url]https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1528677[/url]
I hope I'm not jumping the gun here but holy heck Microsoft stop.[/QUOTE]
damn it i only just switched back to windows 10 from linux because i was hoping the anniversary update was going to be good
i was wrong
time to switch back
[QUOTE=pentium;50794235]I'll [I]give[/I] you a Mac Classic if you want. OF all the macs for people to fondle the Classic I and II are the shittiest machines Apple ever made.[/QUOTE]
Shit that'd be cool :v:
And I test vintage Apple shit at my job. Trust me, I'm well aware how shitty those things are.
Nothing like plugging one in and have the CRT just make super angry fizzing sounds. Yikes.
Or having a floppy drive with a stuck ejection motor.
Or having bad caps causing display corruption.
Or some fucknut somehow managed to break the keyboard connector.
[QUOTE=Forumaster;50792141]So I just realized I did not share my new Mainframe building experience with you guys. Please forgive me.
Here's some stuffs:
[t]http://i.imgur.com/5UHSaPx.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
You have a Logitech G19 (or rather the newer version released in 2013)? Daammnn, it was the $200 keyboard I wanted back in 2009 because it had a fancy ass LCD screen.
[QUOTE=TrafficMan;50793172]Set them all to exhaust and you can rent it out as a near vacuum environment for scientific testing[/QUOTE]
If I set them all to intake it compresses the air enough to create a black hole.
[QUOTE=garychencool;50794808]You have a Logitech G19 (or rather the newer version released in 2013)? Daammnn, it was the $200 keyboard I wanted back in 2009 because it had a fancy ass LCD screen.[/QUOTE]
G19S, the newer model.
Anybody ever have a misaligned 5.25 inch floppy drive
"fun times"
Been a while since I last posted here.
After 2 months of Waiting, I finally managed to get a GTX 1080 for my new build. For some reason, the 1080 series is extremely hard to come by. All 1080 models here haven't been in stock a single time for weeks across multiple Swiss retailers. Some models even have an expected delivery time of 3months or more.
It's gonna feel great to run VR Games with an acceptable framerate
[QUOTE=Brt5470;50792030]Well today was bad and it got worse.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/iA5c7Q6.png[/img]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/t3ZQt8R.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
That looks familiar...
[t]http://i.imgur.com/xgpGdwg.jpg[/t]
The R710 I just bought:
(2 x X5560, 72GB RAM, 2 x 147GB 15K SAS Drives, PERC6i, and Intel PRO/1000 VT Quad-Port NIC)
[t]http://i.imgur.com/LRGY644.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;50795164]What the fuck Doritos[/QUOTE]
What? It was a super good deal!
710's are actually pretty damn cheap nowadays. I still want an r320 though, perfect for my uses.
[QUOTE=Levelog;50795181]710's are actually pretty damn cheap nowadays. I still want an r320 though, perfect for my uses.[/QUOTE]
My work has one sitting in our IDF not doing anything. I'm trying to talk them into letting me have it since I believe it's decommissioned.
So guy got back to me and said he would try and find the box and packaging for it. The tech's haven't come in to test it. I reaaaaaaaaaally hope he finds it, because I want to at least reimburse him for the case. But the case damage isn't my fault or from the listing. Server was basically mint when I brought it to UPS, so I'm not going to offer to pay up out of pocket, only once UPS accepts my claim.
[QUOTE=Doritos_Man;50795216]My work has one sitting in our IDF not doing anything. I'm trying to talk them into letting me have it since I believe it's decommissioned.[/QUOTE]
At my old job we had about 50 spare 710's sitting in the back room and I wanted to take one so bad.
[QUOTE=ballads;50795272]Keep us posted brt. I know this isn't the case but before I shipped something via USPS. Literally covered the graphics card I was shipping in foam and after that bubblewrap. Needless to say it got there fine but the guy said I took the fan cover off and kept it and demanded a full refund.
[editline]29th July 2016[/editline]
Oh and he claimed that the PCB was snapped in half[/QUOTE]
What a shitstain. How'd that turn out?
went a little crazy and i brought along my small rig on vacation, setup is painful because the cables are short and there's no desk in the number. i did this because photo editing and i don't have a laptop
[QUOTE=Lyokanthrope;50794323]Shit that'd be cool :v:
And I test vintage Apple shit at my job. Trust me, I'm well aware how shitty those things are.
Nothing like plugging one in and have the CRT just make super angry fizzing sounds. Yikes.
Or having a floppy drive with a stuck ejection motor.
Or having bad caps causing display corruption.
Or some fucknut somehow managed to break the keyboard connector.[/QUOTE]
Not even that shit. That's just age related maintenance.
The classic I was basically the Macintosh SE FDHD with a case and motherboard refresh but it was hard limited to 10mb of ram and because it's an MC68000 it has no 24 or 32-bit modes. It might be great for system 6 but when Apple was trying to sell it most people were already starting to move to system 7.5.
The Classic II was basically the SE/30 with its arms and legs blown off. It was the slowest 68030 they could find, again with the ram limitation and you lost the PDS connector so you couldn't add something like ethernet or an accelerator.
Also they were ugly as shit.
[img]http://lowendmac.com/wp-content/uploads/mac-classic.jpg[/img]
The only thing remotely cool about them is the OS is so small it's in ROM. hold CMD OPTION X O while you turn the machine on and it boots almost instantly to System 6.
Speaking of servers....Last weekend I went to a thrift shop and spotted a Dell rackserver. Good condition, new enough to have a Xeon sticker on it. The build date seemed to be 2011 if I read it right.
I thought about it, and maybe I should check if it's still there next weekend. I don't need a server, but if I can get it for a steal then I could sell it for more than I bought for...
[QUOTE=papkee;50790579]I got one of those flashy NZXT fan controllers because I'm secretly 14 years old[/QUOTE]
I feel you. I love RGB lighting, both as room lights, case lights, keyboard lights, mouse lights, anything lights. my wet dream is to replace all the lighting in my house with Philips Hue to have the ultimate RGB
[QUOTE=PredGD;50795853]I feel you. I love RGB lighting, both as room lights, case lights, keyboard lights, mouse lights, anything lights. my wet dream is to replace all the lighting in my house with Philips Hue to have the ultimate RGB[/QUOTE]
Last semester my dorm room was lit by all RGB led strips and was all controlled by my PC. This year my friends and I have an apartment and are planning to go all out with RGB uplighting, backlighting, and strips all over the place. We're dumping about $300 into it.
One day humanity will replace the sun with RGB LEDs
[QUOTE=pentium;50795482]Not even that shit. That's just age related maintenance.
The classic I was basically the Macintosh SE FDHD with a case and motherboard refresh but it was hard limited to 10mb of ram and because it's an MC68000 it has no 24 or 32-bit modes. It might be great for system 6 but when Apple was trying to sell it most people were already starting to move to system 7.5.
The Classic II was basically the SE/30 with its arms and legs blown off. It was the slowest 68030 they could find, again with the ram limitation and you lost the PDS connector so you couldn't add something like ethernet or an accelerator.
Also they were ugly as shit.
[img]http://lowendmac.com/wp-content/uploads/mac-classic.jpg[/img]
The only thing remotely cool about them is the OS is so small it's in ROM. hold CMD OPTION X O while you turn the machine on and it boots almost instantly to System 6.[/QUOTE]
you probably weren't serious but I would gladly take a Mac Classic even if they're shitty machines :v:
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