Huh, interesting. This is honestly the first time I've heard of Intel Itanium, since it isn't really something I've ran into even with dealing with used enterprise gear. Thank you for sharing this, PluM, this was a good educational piece for me to look into.
This is probably as good of topic as any, but I do eventually plan to upgrade from my Dell R710 server to something newer. I wanted either the R720XD or R730XD. Especially to get away from those dual power hungry Intel Xeon X5690 CPUs to something a little more efficient. This system is used for ESXi for all my VM's. I have a Super Micro chassis running FreeNAS still that I need to install my lower powered Xeon chips into, but I'd really love to consolidate everything into one box to reduce the heat output and power draw.
I've primarily gotten into more enterprise gear for my home server and network setup thanks to an IT buddy, and this has been on going for a long while now. Gone are the days of using any basic router in favor of turning a miniITX Xeon board into a router and using Ubiquiti AP's in the house with Wifi 6E capabilities. Especially with 10gig network connections between the server, network switches, and my two desktop computers between my bedroom for the HTPC and my main gaming rig.
Of course my internet is too slow for all of this, but it's all for internal networking speeds anyway since I do utilize NAS for a lot of things.
Though of course, I'm as slow at dealing with this side of my hobby and interests as I've been with certain upgrades to my home theater system. (Maybe I'll talk about that in another thread, sometime. Especially since I modeled up some plans in Blender.)
This thread would probably be as good a place as any to mention I got a second Python certificate recently. I'm now doing HTML/CSS, and afterwards I plan to do Javascript too.
I recently bought a Raspberry Pi 5, with the intention of using it for experimenting with web development. I'm sure I'll find many other uses for it later too, as they can serve many purpose. Some people even use them as emulation stations. Come to think about it, I wonder if it would be powerful enough to play certain games like Rayman 2.
Yeah I would say this is a great place to mention it! So what exactly is it you do with these certificates? Is it mostly for future job opportunities? Out of all of those programming languages, the only ones I've dove into is HTML, CSS, and a bit of PHP. Of course my problem is I don't use any of it enough to remember everything so I always have to refresh my memory on things.
You know, I should consider using one of my Raspberry Pi's for a small test server, since I've been keeping the Dell R710 off since I haven't been fully utilizing the things I run on it. That thing easily draws 400+ watts of power which creates more heat and wastes energy.
Though I did get it originally so I could dabble with enterprise gear, which I do enjoy. I probably should dive into this more and actually study and try getting an A+ cert someday. My local friend has and I've helped him out with giving him a used enterprise network switch I once used.
Speaking of network switch, Ubiquiti apparently came out with a nifty new product:
Every RGB IT fanboy out there would love RGB on their network switches now I'm sure.
Though what's neat about these is you can effectively color code everything now, between port speeds to vlans. Which is super handy. I've always liked trying to color code by cable color. Since my PoE cables are generally red, for example.
Steo wrote: Sat Dec 16, 2023 3:32 am
Intel or AMD?
This is a really good question, and I used to would go for Intel for the sole reason I wanted to toy around with overclocking and it was much easier for me to overclock my Intel Core 2 Duo than it was my AMD Phenom CPU at the time.
Our first computer that came with Windows 3.1 had an Intel Pentium in it that ran at 75MHz, if my memory serves correctly. Our first custom built computer had like a 900MHz AMD Slot A style of Athlon in it. Though by the time I built my first computer back in I believe is 2006, it was an AMD Athlon 64. Then later was the Phenom before I switched to Intel with my C2D. I later got the i7 2600k, and I stuck with Intel up until AMD came out with their Ryzen series, well, I waited a bit until the 3000 Ryzen series. I'm now using the Ryzen 5900X.
All in all, I want to say AMD because Intel has had some very shady practices over the years, and they were not innovating or moving things further until AMD began putting them to shame. We need good competition in the CPU world and AMD helped re-enforce that with providing solid products.
And with as much of a mess Intel is in again now? I mean it's a no brainer I choose AMD.
Just look at this covering Intel's nonsense:
I would also choose AMD personally for several reasons. Ever since the Ryzen 3000 series came out, AMD basically seemed to have been walking it. That's not to say Intel hasn't been releasing decent CPUs of course, but AMD have been giving the best price to performance by far, and it would make absolutely no sense to me to pay more money for the same performance, with the only logical reason being that maybe you don't want to buy a new motherboard. That being said, you essentially have to do that anyway if you're going to buy the latest CPU, given the socket types have changed, and you will need to get DDR5.
Now to that video you shared, "nonsense" is definitely the right word for it. What the hell are they talking about to act like "oh you're 15 now you're a big boy, time to buy an i9", and even going as far as to say maybe a 5 year old uses an i3? Like, what the hell is that?
The amount of hypocrisy in the video is unbelievable, coming from a company like Intel. Honestly, that's shameful in my opinion, and they should be better than this. Sure as Steve mentioned, AMD might be releasing a "refresh", but of course, Intel are leaving out the numerous times they did the exact same thing. What's worse, is they did it even more times, and as Steve also mentions, they have literally released so many 14nm CPUs that it's ridiculous they even think they have the right to say releasing a refresh is such a bad thing when another company does it.
Those contradictions too, like "latest isn't always the best", then proceeding to state their own technology is the latest and greatest... WHAT!?
None of it makes any sense, and their chart on which CPU you should buy for which application is completely absurd too. Like oh now you're getting older and big brained, that's going to take more power for your computer to keep up with. Come on like lol.
There's so much nonsense in the video it's hard to even keep track of it all, but that's honestly shameful from a multi-billion dollar company like Intel, who had dominated for so long in the past, to resort to spreading absolute nonsense in an attempt to essentially "eliminate the competition". It's all just brainwashing tactics, trying to target a clueless audience and fill their head with nonsense, while of course, it's good that people review these things to actually help others out who might fall for such nonsense and buy into it.
That has to be the most ridiculous thing I have seen ever since all the LTT drama that happened a few months back. I also love how Steve literally made a video about it while travelling, because it was actually that ridiculous. Also, the fact he had to even say "is that real".
I'm really glad that I switched over to AMD if this is the road that Intel are going down. AMD is better at the moment either way, but these low blow tactics would put anyone off.
Steo wrote: Mon Dec 18, 2023 9:46 pm
Those contradictions too, like "latest isn't always the best", then proceeding to state their own technology is the latest and greatest... WHAT!?
I know right? This among so many other things is just appalling, and I'm glad people like Steve at GamersNexus called them out on it. Especially in the middle of his trip like he was on. It's that insane.
I think Intel pulled this stupid document from their site too over this, but it's too late. The damage has already been done and the news has spread like wildfire.
They need to spend their time and effort on actually being innovative, not on petty bullshit like this, but this is Intel we're dealing with. They keep doing stupid stuff with their naming scheme too.
I just completely randomly started to think of how the Unix epoch counts how many seconds have passed since 01-01-1970, and wondered when it would essentially overflow. Apparently, a signed 32-bit integer would overflow after we hit 19-01-2038 03:14:07 UTC. When the time is supposed to tick to 03:14:08, it would instead result in 2,147,483,647 overflowing to -2,147,483,648, causing it to now become 13-12-1901 20:45:52 (UTC).
I'm sure that 64-bit systems will be fine assuming they will store the seconds as a 64-bit int instead, but it's interesting as to what may happen regarding anything still storing the time as a signed 32-bit int. I assume older computers would probably need some sort of workaround to keep the time after this point also. I also think it's interesting that back then, people didn't think about it being an issue despite it only being 68 years away from the time it started counting. Then again, technology improves so drastically these days, that they probably just assumed we'd have a way around it by 2038.
EDIT: So anything that stores it as a 64-bit integer will apparently last 292 billion years, roughly 21 times the age of the universe. That's a tad more than 68 years.
Yes, that's the infamous Y2K38 problem, which already prevented me from running Steam after a misadventure with BIOS calls set my system clock far in the future!
Actually Steam didn't think anything, it was just getting an EOVERFLOW from glibc because it couldn't make the time fit in a 32-bit integer! Now if I'd run it on a 32-bit kernel things might have been more interesting…
Hi everyone. I was planning to buy a new laptop as the one I'm currently using will be 8 years old in about a month. I've been looking for some interesting laptops, but right now I'm thinking about these ones:
I know I can't survive without 32 gigs of RAM anymore. I thought 16 would keep me safe for a long time to come... until I started working on my GTA IV Liberty City -> Unity project, and unless I had a proper, optimised asset streaming and custom memory management system in place, which I didn't, yikes... It would suck up over 20 GB, crashing my entire system after only 5 minutes. Now with 32 I at least have the room to actually work on the streaming system
Elite Piranha wrote: Fri Jan 12, 2024 6:41 pm
Well, that depends, what are you going to do with that laptop? (gaming, video editing, graphic design, coding, etc.).
It would be a personal laptop, although its main function would be work (multitasking with different programs, mainly for making graphs and figures and writing reports with heavy images). As for gaming, I would use it with emulators (PCSX2 or similar) or with games like Rayman 2 or Rayman 3, which already work fine with my current laptop.
Elite Piranha wrote: Fri Jan 12, 2024 6:41 pm
Well, that depends, what are you going to do with that laptop? (gaming, video editing, graphic design, coding, etc.).
It would be a personal laptop, although its main function would be work (multitasking with different programs, mainly for making graphs and figures and writing reports with heavy images). As for gaming, I would use it with emulators (PCSX2 or similar) or with games like Rayman 2 or Rayman 3, which already work fine with my current laptop.
Well, in my case I do some video editing, very little gaming and a lot of image editing, so in my case I can survive with 8GB of RAM, however I made sure the display had decent viewing angles and color accuracy (since I really care how the images look). I don't know how important the display is to you, in my case I had to ignore many laptops with great specs because of their TN panels, which have worse colour accuracy and poorer viewing angles than the IPS ones.
I guess you could check the minimun requirements for the programs you use or want to use, just to make sure everything will run smoothly. Checking CPU bechmarks (like this one) could be helpful too, for example it seems that an AMD Ryzen 7 7730U performs better than an i7 1255U (when compared to an Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz) . About the storage, I never had the need for more than 512 GB SSD (specially considering that I have an external drive), however if I had to edit a lot of high-resolution footage, I would probably need at least 1TB. You mention "heavy images", I wonder how many MB are we talking about.
As you can see, everyone's needs and priorities are different. If I tried to use the programs that Adsolution uses, my computer would probably crash .
I've finally bought the laptop and if everything goes fine I'll get it next week. It turns out the HP 255 was from an external provider which had some bad reviews, so well, it was an easy choice . To be honest, I would have been happy with any of the options, so that Asus is fine.
Anyway, thanks both for your feedback!
The amount of misinformation I encountered over yesterday's global outage was quite something…
I had people at work telling me that a dodgy Microsoft update had corrupted driver files, resulting in bootloops on every Windows PC (except the ones in our company because our IT team were lagging on updates). There was even mention of bricking BIOSes due to said corrupt files. I was also told CloudFlare were involved somehow, despite the fact that I had no issues accessing RaymanPC (which is protected by CloudFlare).
It wasn't until I tuned into the news on the way home that I found out that it wasn't a Microsoft update at all, it was an update to CrowdStrike's (not CloudFlare's) security software. And then a trip to Wikipedia revealed it was a single bad config file, not corrupt driver file(s). The bootloop bit is true, but booting into recovery mode to remove the bad file is possible (it's just a slow manual process, which is why the whole thing is such a headache for IT admins).
I suspect heads are gonna roll over this… It's unfair that people seem to be blaming Microsoft, who actually were not at fault at all. (Hey, I may not like Windows, but I will defend it from misinformation!)
Indeed a huge majority of the hard crashes of Windows is due to faulty third-party drivers, but Microsoft always gets blamed first. That's just how it is. For this reason they came up with all this WHQL certification stuff for drivers. Yet things still slip past, and having some intimate knowledge of certain aspects of WHQL - I can say that a good deal of it is pretty shoddy quality, and Microsoft is not very proactive in fixing anything.
We were lucky for it, as we came back by train! A few people who came with us to Lyon had to look for an alternative...
Fun fact... Due to a McAfee glitch in Windows XP, in 2010 many Internet webpages were took down. The man who was McAfee's CTO at that time is now the CEO of Crowdstrike
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. To be honest, I would have been happy with any of the options, so that Asus is fine.
