Built a supercomputer cluster using an old Linux distro, using netbooting and 26 Dell GX200's no longer used in classrooms at my school. I used to have a lab we called the Graveyard we did all kinds of crazy stuff in. Other pet project was taking laptops with bad backlights and ripping the LCD apart, suspending it…

Yeah I have no idea either. I was just curious because my RAID initializes almost instantly...even degraded and showing the ROM prompt it was only taking ~5sec more (to flash warnings at me lol). I hate drive death on a RAID array though...pretty similar setups though.

How long does it take to initialize your RAID array? Software/hardware? My BIOS actually pushes the oprom boot in the background or suppresses it altogether (never booted from it though).

Yeah I made the same mistake for a bit. And then my RAID5 had a drive die and I decided it was time for more like a 3 tier storage setup... SSD, bulk nonvolatile storage, and RAID10 for a bit of redundant storage. Symlinks once I had it up and running and it’s been flawless since.

If you do it right (symlinks etc) it’s effortless. I actually currently run a SSD, Raid10 array, and large single drive. All you have to do is tell the libraries where they should be looking and they just do it.

I took a lot of the fun out of all that by using stuff like nLite (and later alternatives). Used to do annual wipes and just be able to pop in a DVD and walk back to a fully set-up computer complete with user accounts, registry tweaks, updates and everything.

Thermoworks makes some pretty good products - my lab has one of their high precision digital reference thermometers, a year of testing everything from 265F to 0F and it was still dead-on at its annual calibration.

Thermoworks makes some pretty good products - my lab has one of their high precision digital reference thermometers,…

I use two of the non-swivel air vent one in my work truck (side by side) with one plate on my Pixel (non-XL). With the Otterbox Defender, one wasn’t enough to stop it from sliding. Works PERFECTLY, and it’s stayed put in some seriously rough terrain.

Just fun fact for anyone looking :D

I use two of the non-swivel air vent one in my work truck (side by side) with one plate on my Pixel (non-XL). With…

Top 15 cars kept by their ORIGINAL owner. Got my ‘98 S10 in 2004, still have it. Bought an ‘02 in 2012, transferred it to a family member in 2017. And I’m pretty typical for an S10 owner...

+1. This thing is great for actually shaving. And buy a damn OneBlade already...for when you don’t need to! A year now and I’m still on the original blade.

Or just stop forcing MP in general. I don’t play PC games to be social, quite the opposite in fact - they’re my brief but complete respite from the rest of humanity.

This. And this was my first thought too, “Ugh, looks like a F150". I wish they’d just aggressively go after commercial customers like Ford does...I’d much rather be driving a Chevy every day, up to 3k miles a week than my F150.

Story of my life as a kid. I still refuse to let my parents throw away an old Electrolux I had. The vacuums were about the only thing I never took apart and didn’t put back together...

8 months, haven’t replaced the blade but finally recharged it for the first time last month. Had a bit of a panic because I couldn’t find the charger, actually...

8 months, haven’t replaced the blade but finally recharged it for the first time last month. Had a bit of a panic…

Drove mine for 1 month after expiration... Ordered my ‘17 truck, wasn’t expecting dealer arrival until December and it showed up in November instead. If I would have licensed it in 2016 it would have only been a 1-year registration, licensing it in ‘17 let me do 2.
N7-MAK0.

98-03 S10's with the 2.2L I4 had a pretty cool system - if you had an aftermarket air intake anyway. You could reach down at a 45 from the left side of the engine and easily grab the filter, unscrew it, and let it sit on the last thread. A special plastic channel ran down to right next to the oil drain plug and caught…

I can attest to that. I dropped my Galaxy S4 ~25 feet when I was on some powered equipment a few years ago with a Defender, it edge-on smacked two steel posts on the way down and landed face down. Not a dimple or a scratch on the phone itself. Sure, the beams probably helped a little on overall velocity, but it still…

They’re about to Andromeda it. And then they’ll bitch when it doesn’t have AAA sales and cancel all development on it, including bugfixes...

I’d rather (and am planning on) a zero-clearance wood fireplace insert. Ultra low emissions, ultra high efficiency with blower and passive venting as well. Sealed combustion!

I’m not saying gas isn’t better, but you really can’t beat wood for comfort, and zero clearance sealed combustion makes it pretty well the best…

There’s actually a valve just for that in the dishwasher. It’s what allows it to function and drain normally.