This is a little late...

[John Esak]

I just put together a machine last March... It is fantastic. Haven't used it
yet. It is my "studio2" box. It will handle all my audio (and video)
rendering and conversions, etc.  Core i7, the DDL-3 memoery, etc. 6Tb worth
of SATA2 RAID 5. hell the 1.5TB drives were only $100 each!!  Now, you can
get a 2TB drive for that I'm sure.

Anyway, my bud at Tim's place just tells me that he has finished a new
gaming machine in his basement. It's got the new super core I-whatever it
is... Even more amazing DDL memory... With SATA3 drives, and I am pretty
sure he said USB-3 as well?  Haven't even checked to see if that is a real
thing, or did I just ranatasize it?  The thing that pisses me off is the
SATA3 and the newer more ridiculous chip.  All in the space of what for me
was 6 months not even a year.

It is all true to form to that syndrome I've described before where all the
punk kids are around the Executive Board table of the various huge hi-tech
companies... And someone pipes up... "Okay, Esak just bought the lates CPU
and peripheral stuff... We can release the newer series now!"  They all
applaude for having screwed me yet again... :-)  

Actually, with audio (and probably video) it is critical that even if a new
series of CPU's motherboards, etc., are brand new and working... To find out
if *all* of the drivers for your most favorite hardware are upgraded for it
yet.  You usually end up sitting around with the thing in 32bit mode rather
than 64, and using only this scheme instead of that one, until all the third
party driver writers get their act together.  (Hey doesn't "driver writers
have a nice flow to it sor t of like m*ther f*ckers... Um, er, well you get
the idea what I think about them :-)  the ever spiraling up technology
causing us all to re-buy every design cycle is going to destroy various good
things in our culture. It probably keeps us moving ahead nicely into the
future... But those things we are losing... Some of them are importatnt.)

John


> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com 
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.co
> m] On Behalf Of Bill Campbell
> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 12:41 PM
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Re: This is a little late...
> 
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010, Fairlight wrote:
> >On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 05:03:41PM -0700, Bill Campbell may 
> or may not have
> >proven themselves an utter git by pronouncing:
> >> I haven't made any changes recently.  The Mailman lists here run
> >> in a free VMware Server virtual machine, CentOS 5.x on a 2U
> >> Supermicro box with dual Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz
> >> processors, 8GB RAM, and pretty vanilla WD SATA drives.  There
> >
> >SATA or SATA2?
> 
> SATA.  I bought this box from eBay a couple of years ago.  It's
> got some Adaptec faux-RAID card on the Supermicro main board.
> 
> >And are those dual Xeon or quad Xeon?  I've seen both in that speed
> >range...just as Core2 Duo processors can be quad or dual, 
> depending on
> >model.
> 
> Just dual Xeons.  It's too old for quad.
> 
> >> The only time there will be any significant delay in message
> >> processing is when somebody sends from an e-mail address that
> >> isn't on the subscriber list, is too large, or identified as spam
> >> by spamassassin, all of which put it on hold for moderator
> >> approval which may take some time depending on when Mark or I see
> >> it, and get around to approving it.
> >
> >John is right, though...  Back 3-5 years ago, it did used to 
> take 30min to
> >3hrs to get a non-approval-needing message to echo back to 
> the list.  I
> >believe this was prior to the adoption of lists.celestial.com though.
> 
> Could be.
> 
> >> FWIW, I got a snail-mail from Puget Sound Energy last week
> >> telling me that our electric usage is 75% greater than our
> >> neighbors, which I attribute to having three racks of servers.
> >> Any donations gratefully accepted.  The houses on either side of
> >> ours are about 4,500 sq ft while ours is a modest 3,100 or so.
> >
> >Would it be cheaper to co-locate the boxes at a real 
> carrier, or to pay the
> >electric?  I'm guessing to pay the electric would be 
> cheaper.  I remember
> >Bill Vermillion telling me that it was about $750/rack at 
> Level 3--per
> >month.
> 
> I priced it out a while back with Integra Telecom, our T1
> provider, and it would have been more expensive.  The big win
> would be when we have wind storms here that take out the power
> for a week at a time.  I have a Honda 3,000 watt generator that
> keeps the computers running nicely, but it's a PITA to have to
> put gas in a couple of times a day, and can be a bit of a bear
> when the wind combines with snow as our driveway is long and
> steep.  So far I've always been able to get up it in my AWD
> Subarus, but it wouldn't be fun humping gas cans up the hill if I
> couldn't.
> 
> Bill
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