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Hi all, Does anyone have a reference or know how to decode the suffix for Delta fan part numbers? I'm trying to replace a fan in a switch and even though the major part number is the exact same, the fans behave differently. The part number guide on Delta's website shows how to decode the main...

Hi All, I think I already know the answer to this question.. Are there any USB-C/Thunderbolt Ethernet adapters with a good Intel chipset? I'm thinking of replacing my 13" Retina Macbook Pro with a Skylake Dell XPS 13 and I will need an Ethernet adapter as I use them frequently. Most seem to...

Hi All, I'm looking for a hard sleeve or case for my iPad Air 2 - something that I can put it in that will protect it from getting bent or crushed while in my backpack. Something like this...

I'm not sure if this belongs here, but... Does anyone know of a way to properly copy thin-provisioned (sparse?) iSCSI file extents in FreeNAS 8.3/FreeBSD? I have a 6TB thin-provisioned file extent inside a ZFS file system along with a number of other extents. I'd like to move the 6TB...

Hi All, Does anyone know of a tool that would let one mass-identify network cables (Cat 5/6) with only one terminated end? Basically, I'm running into situations where the installers are very poorly labelling their network runs. So, I'm tasked with punching down 100+ runs, in order, and...

Hi All, Just ran into an issue over the last couple of weeks. Here is the setup and symptoms: Setup ===== ZFS SAN: Openindiana oi_151a2 w/ napp-it 0.8k2 as a guest on ESXi 5 AMD Athlon x2 250 16GB ECC DDR2 Asus Sabertooth 990FX Norco 16-bay hotswap case 2 x LSI2008 based SAS...

Hi All, I have an OI 151a system that has been flawless for almost a year now. Recently it's been hard locking without leaving anything in the logs (so far as I can tell). There have been a few changes made to the system since the issue has started happening: - Some ZFS tuning...

So, I have a ZFS storage server and will be using it to serve a hyper-v failover cluster. I originally had thought I was going to do 1Gb iSCSI, but I think I'm going to want something faster. 10Gb is too expensive. 1Gb iSCSI is going to be okay, but I'd like better 2 x 1Gb iSCSI either via LACP...

Anyone have anything good or bad to say about them? I'm looking at getting the SG300-10 for ~$200 CAN (8/10 Port 10/100/1000). They look pretty nice: - Lifetime warranty (5 years after the product is discontinued, original owner only) - Lifetime updates, no need to register. I went onto...

Hi All, Looking to implement a home ZFS NAS/SAN in the near future to be used to serve a Hyper-V failover cluster via iSCSI. I was originally planning to use 4 x 1TB WD Black SATA drives. The pool would consist of two mirrors of two drives. I would use a low cost 32 or 64GB SSD for the...

Hi All, Did some searching, but didn't come up with much. I'm going to be wiring a new (to me) house with a couple cat 6 runs to each room. The runs will all be brought back to an enclosed 6u rack and cat 6 110 style patch panel. This rack will contain: - HP 2824 Switch - PfSense...

Hi All, Looking at picking up an HP 2824 for a network at home and to play around with. What's the noise level? The HP docs say 53dBa @ full load.. Anyone with experience? Thanks!! Riley

I like my machine to sleep after approximately an hour of inactivity. However, sometimes I have large file transfers, downloads, and/or other processor intensive tasks running which are cut-short by Windows going to sleep. Does anyone know of a way to "tweak" the Windows sleep feature? Does...

Quick question.. I'm putting together a low-powered atom based "server" that will be in a hosted location not easily accessible. It won't be anything critical, but I'm going to have two 500GB SATA drives which I'd like to mirror. I have a great deal of experience with various hardware RAID...

So I decided to give Chrome a try and so far I really like it. It's a bit different than Firefox which I've been using since 0.7x (I think). I'm seeing issues with the back button and Firefox used to have this bug too. Whenever you click "back" it takes you to the previous page, but always...

A few times now I've been stuck wishing that I had a SCSI to USB adapter so I could image or pull data from a SCSI drive. Currently, I just throw an old HBA in my PC and hook up the drive that way. The drives are always 68 or 80 pin. Google brings up a few hits and it looks like these were...

Hi All, Trying to figure out how to accomplish something on a Cisco. I have a Cisco 3560G-24 switch configured as follows: Port 1-10 on VLAN2 Port 11 - 20 on VLAN1 Port 21 and 22 is setup using a no switchport command to turn them into layer 3 ports. Port 24 is a VLAN trunk to...

Does anyone have experience with either of these switches? I really like HP, but D-Link seems to have a very nice switch with the DGS-3200. It's fully managed layer 2, while the HP looks to be more of a "smart" layer 2. I was leaning towards the HP, but the D-link has support for Microsoft's...

I have this really weird throughput issue between two systems. Here are the specs: Source (Workstation): Q9300 Raptor 74GB Seagate 7200.10 250GB WD 640GB 8GB RAM Asus P5E w/ Marvell "Yukon" GbE Vista Ultimate x64 SP2 beta Desintation (Server): Dual Opteron 275 6GB RAM Iwill DK88...

Has anyone else bought patch cables from Newegg lately? I had a bunch of different Cat 6 patch cables in my cart (Around 30 in total of various colors and less than 14ft lengths) as well as some computer equipment. When I went to checkout I noticed shipping was over $90 and the total order...

Is there a free server-appliance application alternative to utilities like LogMeIn and GoToMeeting? We currently use the Bomgar remote support appliance and it's pretty good, but is there something else that's open source? Thanks!! Riley

Hi All, I'm having a rather weird issue with a Cisco 1841 router. Version 12.4 We have three interfaces configured on it. 192.168.111.1/24 192.168.1.1/24 172.16.1.254/24 We're using route tracking on the 172.16.1.254 main link to failover to the 192.168.111.1/24 backup interface...

Hi All, I've tried two different routers both with the same results: 1) WRT54GL DD-WRT v24RC3 2) WRT54G V4 DD-WRT v24RC3 I am trying to get signal to my garage space ~150 - 200 feet away and ~30 feet below. Looking out the window of the room the router is in the garage space is a clear...

Hi all, I have a Cisco 2600 with a T1 WIC and an Ethernet port. The T1 is an Internet T1, but we only have ONE public I.P. (don't ask). Currently, the Cisco is doing NAT. I need to be able to use that public I.P. on a Sonicwall. Usually, I would assign an I.P. from the block to the...

Hi All, My main workstation is DVI. I'm regularly working on a number of different PCs. Most with VGA only and some with DVI. I have an Iogear DVI KVM. According to iogear you can use a VGA to DVI adapter if the workstation doesn't have a DVI port. I have this adapter. Unfortunately, it...

I'm looking for an external enclosure that supports Power Management (i.e. It allows the drive to spin down). I'm going to be putting a 500 or 750 GB drive in it and it will be hooked to my server with my RAID array so that I can schedule nightly backups of some selected data. The...

Hi All, I've got a really weird issue that I can't seem to find anything about on google or anywhere else... I have the following system.. 3200+ Winchester 1GB PQI PC3200 (2x512) 2 x 36GB Raptors (Not RAID'ed) Abit AN8-SLI (New Part) Powercolor x800xl (New Part, the one with the...

Well, I finally ordered it.. A 510 Deluxe SLI I've been sitting on the fence for the last could of days about which PSU I should get for my new (semi) "Uber" system.. My reason for being hesitant isn't so much the price, but the noise. I've read reports that the PCP&C 510's are pretty noisy...

I just came across this VERY disturbing review of the Fortron "Blue Storm" unit. The inside of the power supply doesn't look very good. Small heatsinks, bare PCB, etc.. Now keep in mind this is for the 400W unit, but it makes me wonder if the same quality carried over to the 500W unit? I hope...

I'm torn between these two power supplies. I'd like to know if it's worth paying twice as much for the PCP&C unit. The system I'm going to be powering will be.. Athlon 64 3500 .90nm MSI K8N Neo2 1GB Crucial PC4000 2 x 36GB Raptors 1 x DVD Burner Swiftec 12v Pump (2.0A on the 12v line)...

I'm looking at picking up a K8N Neo2 board soon and I would like to watercool.. Looking at the pictures of the board, the Nforce3 chip is very close to the AGP slot and I don't think an MCW-20 chipset block will fit. Anyone have any experience with this combo? Does the chip even NEED to...

Looking for a good power supply for the Asus NCCH-DL. I'll be running 2 x 2.8 Noconas with some overclocking (hopefully). Asus says the motherboard requires an SSI-type 12v Power supply. It has a 24-pin Connector PLUS an 8-pin connector. They say they recommend a power supply that can provide a...

I'm trying to create a "generic" Windows XP Pro image that I can use to deploy across multiple machines with multiple hardware configurations. The destination systems will be anything from P3 500's to new Centrino laptops. I have a machine setup right now that's fully patched, and has all the...

I want to hop on the train and start working towards my MSCE designation. I've read the Microsoft site and I think these are the exams I need to pass.. 70-290, 291, 293, and 294. The study material I was going to buy was the self-paced study kit that includes books for all the exams...

I'm having a problem with a Windows 2000 server. The problem is that when ANY user logs in the contents of the "All Users" Start menu and desktop are not showing up on the desktop and start menu. I've tried all that I can think of. I tried changing the location of the All Users Profile in...

Ok, here goes.. For the last few days I've been trying to get this system to work properly. Here's what's up. Windows 2000 Server Machine w/latest patches. It's a member of a domain. 1) The "All Users" folder doesn't take effect on ANY user account 2) "Registry Editing" and mmc doesn't...

I've been browsing fleabay for some cheap SCSI goodness and I got to thinking about how much I can actually trust used hard drives sold on ebay. For example, I was looking at these. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2789704277&category=39975 It's a lot of 10 18.2gig SCSI...

I've been scouring the net looking for information on the Maxspeed line of thin terminals. I'm trying to get into the settings on the terminal, but I don't know the key sequence for it. Does anyone have an idea?? <edit> I should mention that this is an OLD MAxspeed sysytem (read: Windows...

OK, here's the scoop.. You know all those online "speed test" pages that are everywhere? Well, I need something that returns those results, but be able to run from the command line and dump the reults to a txt file. At work, were upgrading our DSL connection and we need to be able to see...

As the topic says.. I'm looking for the following... 1 x 128MB (or 256MB) PC800 Non-ECC RIMM. 1 x CTRIMM Card (Not a plain CRIMM) 1 x Slot 1 PIII 600EB (133fsb/256k) CPU (SL3H7 or compat.). Found one on Ebay. No longer needed [edit] The CPU I need is an SL3H7 or compatible. If you...