Re: power supply

2007-12-06 Thread Shawn Badger
Most UPS are nothing more than surge surge suppressors that provide power once the power feeding them falls out of range. I would count the PC on the UPS any different from the other 2 unless you have a true online UPS. On Dec 5, 2007 11:53 PM, Charles Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had 3

Re: power supply

2007-12-06 Thread keith smith
WOW that seems extreme. Something must be going on that you lose so many power supplies. I don't think I have lost one in 20 years. For the lat 15 years I have used an Isobar surge suppressor to protect my equipment. While they are a little pricey, losing a computer or worse some work

Re: power supply

2007-12-06 Thread keith smith
A basic surge protector uses a capacitor. Once the capacitor is at capacity it becomes a basic extension cord. Charles Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:I had 3 PCs running 24/7, one of them was on a UPS, and the other 2 had surge protectors. They all equally failed. I think the house

OT: Motherboard with Two CPU, 4 PCI-e x8 slots?

2007-12-06 Thread Alan Dayley
I need help finding a vendor for a motherboard with particular requirements. The application requires high I/O through-put on PCI-e (PCI Express) adapter boards. Therefore the hard requirements are: - At least four slots for PCI-e x8 adapters. x16 is, of course, acceptable - At least two CPU

Re: power supply

2007-12-06 Thread Technomage-hawke
On Thursday 06 December 2007 08:19, keith smith wrote: A basic surge protector uses a capacitor. Once the capacitor is at capacity it becomes a basic extension cord. WRONG! lets explain a little here.. firstly, the surge protection devices are not capacitors. they are MOV's (Metal Oxide

Re: OT: Motherboard with Two CPU, 4 PCI-e x8 slots?

2007-12-06 Thread Technomage-hawke
try Tyan. On Thursday 06 December 2007 10:50, Alan Dayley wrote: I need help finding a vendor for a motherboard with particular requirements. The application requires high I/O through-put on PCI-e (PCI Express) adapter boards. Therefore the hard requirements are:

Re: OT: Motherboard with Two CPU, 4 PCI-e x8 slots?

2007-12-06 Thread Nathan Aubrey
On Thursday 06 December 2007 10:50:26 Alan Dayley wrote: I need help finding a vendor for a motherboard with particular requirements. The application requires high I/O through-put on PCI-e (PCI Express) adapter boards. Therefore the hard requirements are: - At least four slots for PCI-e x8

OpenCON 2007 Photos

2007-12-06 Thread Darrin Chandler
I've put up a few photos from OpenCON 2007 in Venice, mostly from the OpenSSH 2^3 Birthday Party. A good time was had by all :) http://phxbsd.com/OpenBSD/OpenCON-2007/ -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://phxbug.org/ |

Re: OpenCON 2007 Photos

2007-12-06 Thread Tuna
Darrin Chandler wrote: I've put up a few photos from OpenCON 2007 in Venice, mostly from the OpenSSH 2^3 Birthday Party. A good time was had by all :) http://phxbsd.com/OpenBSD/OpenCON-2007/ Awesome cake! begin:vcard fn:Tuna n:;Tuna email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] x-mozilla-html:FALSE

Re: power supply

2007-12-06 Thread Michael Havens
it is about time mail started working again! as for the ventilation there is nothing in it's way. I think it just may be bad bearings. But the noise is not all the time. Right now it is quiet as a church mouse! On Wednesday 05 December 2007 6:09 pm, Jon M. Hanson wrote: Does it have good

hw and sw xen

2007-12-06 Thread der.hans
moin moin, a software install of xen requires special xen kernels. Do those same kernels work when running on a hardware install of xen? Do they run on hardware without being on a Dom0? In talking to one of my co-workers about the RHCE study classes we thought of using xen for them in addition