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Re: The Geek Post Whore (for the ones who miss out irl)
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Re: The Geek Post Whore (for the ones who miss out irl)
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Re: The Geek Post Whore (for the ones who miss out irl)
« Reply #704 on: July 12, 2012, 07:34:51 PM »
^ From which date is that? It looks from late 60's?

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Re: The Geek Post Whore (for the ones who miss out irl)
« Reply #705 on: July 12, 2012, 07:48:58 PM »
So, replaced two older machines that are doing the majority of the downloads with one machine and a virtual machine:
- 4GB: twice the amount of RAM (partly needed for the VM)
- 2* 500GB disks: twice the amount of diskspace (with half the amount of drives)
- C2D@2,1GHz: twice the amount of processor power (loading large newsgroups was getting slow)

And the main reason to do this:
- less then 80W/hour of power used: half the amount of the previous two machines!

:thumbsup for advances in electronics!
Stumbled accross this, 3 years later: current config is using SSD drives (3: 480GB + 120GB + 100GB, could not find another 480GB+ in time).
Also replaced the case with a smaller one and it contains now a 80% effeciency power supply.
Net result? Power usage is now less then 60W/hour! :cow:
I will never earn the cost back with the saved power  :rofl:  but what the heck, its FAST in repairing rar's and requires less ventilation and produces less noise.

Edit: Finally have my DVD collection 'online':



Took me a few years of ripping and waiting for HDD's to get big enough.

Result:


To the left is the main computer (temp storage and it runs the virtual machines) it's the smallest case I could find that holds a micro ATX board (from Antec).
To the right of that: 3 QNAP TS-412's and a TS-212 holding a total of 14 3TB drives.
Net storage: 39TB (no I did not use it all yet :)) )

Result: all my Movies, Music and Series DVD's are now available without leaving the chair I sit in  :thumbsup
(a couchpotatos dream  :rofl:)
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Re: The Geek Post Whore (for the ones who miss out irl)
« Reply #706 on: July 15, 2012, 07:43:07 PM »
^
It's so...so...beautiful!
:gmon tears:

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Re: The Geek Post Whore (for the ones who miss out irl)
« Reply #707 on: July 15, 2012, 08:40:35 PM »
Wow. That's amazing!

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« Reply #708 on: July 17, 2012, 07:01:02 AM »
^ From which date is that? It looks from late 60's?
1979.


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« Reply #713 on: September 14, 2012, 05:24:41 AM »
Tall pic is tall. Click to see full size.  :)



:rockon:

And yes, whoever made/put that pic together spelled "you're" wrong.  :lol:

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Re: The Geek Post Whore (for the ones who miss out irl)
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Re: The Geek Post Whore (for the ones who miss out irl)
« Reply #716 on: October 21, 2012, 04:33:30 PM »

Back in the day

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Re: The Geek Post Whore (for the ones who miss out irl)
« Reply #717 on: October 21, 2012, 09:27:43 PM »
I had a 2600 back in the day. I've never seen a 7800 in person (though I recall seeing the box gathering dust in the high shelf of Toys R Us when I was a kid.

I still wish I had bought a Turbo Graphx 16 when they were $50 though.

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Re: The Geek Post Whore (for the ones who miss out irl)
« Reply #718 on: October 26, 2012, 10:32:15 PM »
With Windows 8 now out, and Microsoft really pushing BING and I.E. to go with it, something tells me somethign like this could become rather popular:
http://www.getyourgoogleback.com

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