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Last time I did a new build it took me about 45 minutes and it worked first time - guess that's the benefit of previously working for a Server Manufacturer.
 

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I used to but do enough of them over the years, and I have, and the novelty starts to wear off. Especially those times you finally press the power button that first time and absolutely nothing happens. :mad:
That's part of the fun!

The idea of buying premade just doesn't compute with me anymore.
 

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That's part of the fun!

The idea of buying premade just doesn't compute with me anymore.

Since this machine is my main PC, multi screen game station, RAID tower file server, A/V capture card etc the idea of having to rebuild and recable everything internally and outside is making me break out in a cold sweat.
 

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Since this machine is my main PC, multi screen game station, RAID tower file server, A/V capture card etc the idea of having to rebuild and recable everything internally and outside is making me break out in a cold sweat.
Eww.

Seperation!
 

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Eww.

Seperation!

Considering I also have 3 NAS servers, 3 Linux machines, 2 Raspberry PI's, a streaming server and more monitors than NASA if I separated any more I think I'd need my own data centre.
 

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Considering I also have 3 NAS servers, 3 Linux machines, 2 Raspberry PI's, a streaming server and more monitors than NASA if I separated any more I think I'd need my own data centre.
FFS.

Virtualisation.

I have

1 main pc
2 NAS (one has 16 drives in it, the other has 6 drives)
6 Raspberry PIs (HSM, NTP servers, tvheadend, home automation)
3 streaming headends (2 intel nucs, 1 Minix U9-H)
3 monitors (two of which are those Dell ones)
 

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Seperation!
Nah. One box.

Especially for video store. As far as I can see, people buy NASes and suffer hardware failures and lose their shit. With 'dose you just import your drives elsewhere.

Maybe you can resolve that, of course, but I'd done with my techie learning :)
 

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Nah. One box.

Especially for video store. As far as I can see, people buy NASes and suffer hardware failures and lose their shit. With 'dose you just import your drives elsewhere.

Maybe you can resolve that, of course, but I'd done with my techie learning :)
What bollox is this?

You buy a NAS which can survive a hardware failure, be it a drive(s), PSU or MB. Make sure the data can be imported into another system. I use ZFS and can import my pool into FreeNas or any system that supports OpenZFS (as long as my feature flags are at the same or lower level)

What happens in your main pc with a single drive and that fails? Anyway, BACKUPS!
 

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FFS.

Virtualisation.

FFS. Granny. Suck. Eggs :rolleyes: ;)

I can't visualise most of it since - 1 Linux + Nvidia card for ML dev work. 1 Linux + AMD for OpenCL dev work and SRV-IO, DPDK testing. 1 Linux for scratch server, container and virtualisation testing, screaming that K8's is wank and why can't things be simple anymore. I do have a plan to consolidate the NAS's but that's non-urgent as honestly all the sailing across the internet in a pirate ship has slowed down since streaming in now so easy.
 

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FFS. Granny. Suck. Eggs :rolleyes: ;)

I can't visualise most of it since - 1 Linux + Nvidia card for ML dev work. 1 Linux + AMD for OpenCL dev work and SRV-IO, DPDK testing. 1 Linux for scratch server, container and virtualisation testing, screaming that K8's is wank and why can't things be simple anymore. I do have a plan to consolidate the NAS's but that's non-urgent as honestly all the sailing across the internet in a pirate ship has slowed down since streaming in now so easy.
Depending on the hypervisor used you should be able to do passthrough for all those workloads. I have never needed to do passthrough of GPUs so have no direct experience.
 

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Depending on the hypervisor used you should be able to do passthrough for all those workloads. I have never needed to do passthrough of GPUs so have no direct experience.

That's SR-IOV and one of the things I'm playing around with. In theory you could put multiple GPU, even different vendors, in a single server and pass-thru one or partial slices to individual VM's. This is the kind of shit I do when I'm bored during lockdown.
 

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When I built my current PC it didn't boot with no indication as to what was wrong. I was tearing my hair out, reseating everything inside, trying it with 1 DIMM in each slot etc. I could not figure out what was causing it to fail.

It turned out, if you use a naff DisplayPort cable which isn't standards-compliant (which is actually a surprising number of them), the power pin is connected at both ends, causing the monitor to send a tiny bit of power backwards down the cable which completely confuses the PSU or motherboard or whatever and causes it to panic and instantly turn off.

So, I learned something new that day. Either boot without the cable plugged in and plug it in after you're through the POST (obviously a pain in the arse) or buy a standards-compliant cable.
 

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When I built my current PC it didn't boot with no indication as to what was wrong. I was tearing my hair out, reseating everything inside, trying it with 1 DIMM in each slot etc. I could not figure out what was causing it to fail.

It turned out, if you use a naff DisplayPort cable which isn't standards-compliant (which is actually a surprising number of them), the power pin is connected at both ends, causing the monitor to send a tiny bit of power backwards down the cable which completely confuses the PSU or motherboard or whatever and causes it to panic and instantly turn off.

So, I learned something new that day. Either boot without the cable plugged in and plug it in after you're through the POST (obviously a pain in the arse) or buy a standards-compliant cable.

When I built this rig I genuinely thought the i7 8700k was a simple socket 1151 form processor. Lots of parts went to and from Amazon before I found out there is a socket 1151 V2 :rolleyes:
 

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When I built this rig I genuinely thought the i7 8700k was a simple socket 1151 form processor. Lots of parts went to and from Amazon before I found out there is a socket 1151 V2 :rolleyes:
Use pcpartpicker It shows compatible stuffs ;)
 

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FFS.

Virtualisation.

I have

1 main pc
2 NAS (one has 16 drives in it, the other has 6 drives)
6 Raspberry PIs (HSM, NTP servers, tvheadend, home automation)
3 streaming headends (2 intel nucs, 1 Minix U9-H)
3 monitors (two of which are those Dell ones)
6 Pi's???
FFS. Granny. Suck. Eggs :rolleyes: ;)

I can't visualise most of it since - 1 Linux + Nvidia card for ML dev work. 1 Linux + AMD for OpenCL dev work and SRV-IO, DPDK testing. 1 Linux for scratch server, container and virtualisation testing, screaming that K8's is wank and why can't things be simple anymore. I do have a plan to consolidate the NAS's but that's non-urgent as honestly all the sailing across the internet in a pirate ship has slowed down since streaming in now so easy.
Level1techs did a bunch of stuff mucking around with passthroughs
 

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6 Pi's???

Level1techs did a bunch of stuff mucking around with passthroughs
Yeh, for example my 2 NTP servers cannot be virtualised due to the hardware they require to be stratum 1. Same for the home automation hub. Oh and I have some running flight tracking stuff.
 

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Busting two drill bit drilling into the stone wall of my house, fuck only know what it's made of. It's sandstone outside, certainly isn't inside.
 

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Got a mate who works in management in the EA - they're simply not equipped to agressively go after transgressors.

I'd ramp up their powers, ramp up the potential consequences (fines), provide 5 years of seed-funding and then ensure that fine money from successful prosecutions went back into the pot to provide self-sustaining funding.

We'll never get on top of fly-tipping until tips become free again (which is why they were made free in the first place), but prosecutions against big pollutors are practically non-existent and they do business with impunity.
 

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sat next to this and the outside pane decided to spontaneously fail.

weird
 

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Looks to me like something hit it on the bottom right side in the middle square.
Nope. And its one big pain. But it does seem like the fault is eminating out from the right side near the bottom as you say. The surface is smooth outside and unless it was shot at with a bb gun nothing that could hit it.

@Edmond seen this before?
 

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Nope. And its one big pain. But it does seem like the fault is eminating out from the right side near the bottom as you say. The surface is smooth outside and unless it was shot at with a bb gun nothing that could hit it.

@Edmond seen this before?

This is toughened glass, you can usually see where it starts from, and yes i would say the bottom of the middle square, but as you say its one pane.

It could be a spacing packer behind the bead that has always been there but has always been a little bit tight. The slam of the door or just general expansion/contraction is enough to set it off. The weakest part of toughened glass is the edge, you can smash the hell out of the surface with a hammer and it will not break, but tap the bare edge and boom!!

I'm not coming down to Cornwall to change it for you either :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
 

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This is toughened glass, you can usually see where it starts from, and yes i would say the bottom of the middle square, but as you say its one pane.

It could be a spacing packer behind the bead that has always been there but has always been a little bit tight. The slam of the door or just general expansion/contraction is enough to set it off. The weakest part of toughened glass is the edge, you can smash the hell out of the surface with a hammer and it will not break, but tap the bare edge and boom!!

I'm not coming down to Cornwall to change it for you either :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
Damn you dont want a weeks vacation thrown in haha.
 

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A website hosting company that insists on me either having a static IP to access their FTP servers (which costs money) or asking them to whitelist my IP every time my modem reconnects (which can be multiple times a day). That's not normal, is it? Their firewall seems to be ridiculously tight, I never had problems with it for the first 10 or so years of my time with them.
 

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A website hosting company that insists on me either having a static IP to access their FTP servers (which costs money) or asking them to whitelist my IP every time my modem reconnects (which can be multiple times a day). That's not normal, is it? Their firewall seems to be ridiculously tight, I never had problems with it for the first 10 or so years of my time with them.

The bigger problem is them still using FTP which is probably why they are being so anal about who can access it.
 

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A website hosting company that insists on me either having a static IP to access their FTP servers (which costs money) or asking them to whitelist my IP every time my modem reconnects (which can be multiple times a day). That's not normal, is it? Their firewall seems to be ridiculously tight, I never had problems with it for the first 10 or so years of my time with them.
It's not something I've come across before but FTP is a pretty naff protocol these days :(
 

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