Recent content by somethingsketchy

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    PrimeGrid Olympics Challenge August 2-5

    I'll be there too, with as many cores as I can.
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    Mathematical update: What has Toody been doing?

    Congrats Fred on all of the hard work! I was always terrible in mathematics, so you have my great respect for your proofs :thumbsup:
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    Any DC clients that can utilize Xeon Phi?

    For Folding@Home, it seems there's no compatible application for the Phi: https://folding.stanford.edu/home/faq/faq-high-performance/#ntoc14
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    PrimeGrid LLR Races Thread 2016

    Late to the party, but I threw in six cores to help out.
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    Those of you on call for IT jobs, how goes it?

    Systems Engineer in a 6-week rotation (currently on-call right now). Required to carry a pager (a legit pager from the '90s) with a 30 minute response time. VERY small stipend for carrying the pager during the week. Unfortunately most pages come from application monitoring, and as the POC...
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    Quarterly BOINC Milestone Stats - Second Quarter 2015

    Thank you for the quarterly stats GLeeM!
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    Weekly Stats - June 14, 2015

    Thank you for the stats GLeeM!
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    Weekly Stats - March 22, 2015

    Congrats TeAm!!
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    Wait for Skylake or go LGA2011-v3 now?

    http://askubuntu.com/questions/27213/what-is-the-equivalent-to-the-windows-program-files-folder-where-do-things-g Nope, think of it as your "Users" profile on Windows (C: \users\<your name here>). This is where your data goes (pictures, videos, etc).
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    Weekly Stats - February 1, 2015

    Thank you for the stats, GLeeM!
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    UPS that shuts down ESXi when no power is detected

    I wouldn't recommend going cheap on the UPS, especially if this server is running VMs, but you can't go wrong with one of these APC units: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16842101393 It is pricey, but this UPS should give your server enough time to properly shut down all of the...
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    Weekly Stats - January 18, 2015

    Thank you for the stats GLeeM!
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    Can you convert Kubuntu 13.04 to 13.10?

    Do you get a similar 404 error when you try to run: do-release-upgrade -d As far as I know of, this usually works, if apt-get dist-upgrade fails to find the latest OS version.
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    PrimeGrid LLR Races Thread 2015

    With big thanks to Ken's juggling strategy, I was able to finish another 6 ESP WUs, but I had to abort four WU, as they would not finish on time. Here's hoping I can still hang on in the top 250 participants.