Re: What is your system advice? Solved.

2015-10-07 Thread Brian Cluff
On 10/07/2015 07:03 PM, Michael Butash wrote: I slaughter 8gb of ram on the t440 with win7 seemingly like nothing, and the i5 proc will haaang visio forever doing complex edits of groups of shapes for sometimes 30sec. Windoze is still a pig I think, maybe the hardware would be ok with linu

Re: What is your system advice? Solved.

2015-10-07 Thread Nathan England
Good point! Actually, it was an extra SSD I had that I was not using. I figured it might make it a little quicker and I won't have to spend any money on it. One of these days I would like to replace that fan. On 2015-10-07 11:34, Stephen Partington wrote: > you bought it an SSD instead o

RE: What is your system advice? Solved.

2015-10-07 Thread Rusty Ramser
Funny rant. :) As for this: "Oh yeah, that f'in Fn key should never replace a ctrl in the bottom left-most corner. It infuriates me to almost throw it across a room." Completely agree. But I've found BIOS settings that can swap the Fn and Ctrl key functions. You should take a look around in th

Re: What is your system advice? Solved.

2015-10-07 Thread Michael Butash
Oh yeah - best part was dual ssd in that e7240 dell laptop for being all that and like 2lb too. I'm very fond of raid 1 with ssd's. Great little powerhouse, at least until one with a 4k display comes around. On 10/07/2015 07:03 PM, Michael Butash wrote: Before buying my dell, I looked at leno

Re: What is your system advice? Solved.

2015-10-07 Thread Michael Butash
My current customer threw me a t440 with a dock to use internally. Decent - light, but sorely underpowered. I slaughter 8gb of ram on the t440 with win7 seemingly like nothing, and the i5 proc will haaang visio forever doing complex edits of groups of shapes for sometimes 30sec. Windoze

Re: DNS Servers

2015-10-07 Thread Michael Butash
One thing to keep in mind is the dns lookup on a host is part of the transactional process, and inclusive of total delay. I've seen everything from crappy/slow dns servers causing application latency across clusters to broken dns records causing a good 10second delay in responding to clients d

Re: What is your system advice? Solved.

2015-10-07 Thread Stephen Partington
you bought it an SSD instead of a fan? On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Nathan England wrote: > > > I have a T500 that I bought years ago. I begged and begged and Lenovo > support sent me the better hard-backed keyboard which I promptly replaced. > It was originally a core 2 duo 2.8GHz with 4GB

Re: What is your system advice? Solved.

2015-10-07 Thread Nathan England
I have a T500 that I bought years ago. I begged and begged and Lenovo support sent me the better hard-backed keyboard which I promptly replaced. It was originally a core 2 duo 2.8GHz with 4GB of ram and a 160GB 7200 rpm drive. The fan went out a week after the warranty ended and I never had

RE: Bind9 / Cox reverse lookup

2015-10-07 Thread Keith Smith
Bind is working. Thank you for your insight and help!! Now its off to get the mail server running. On 2015-10-06 09:57, Rusty Ramser wrote: "Thank you for your help!!" No worries, mate. If I'm actually providing any help :) you're quite welcome. It sounds like to me you're wanting to use