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SoftLayer has been expanding to new geographic locations for a while now.  Last time I talked to a rep from SoftLayer was at a conference and he was talking about how great their new Hong Kong Datacenter was for the Asian market.  Well it seems like they have another Asian location open now...

Alright!  Since most of you guys all work in IT I figured I'd ask around on some easy solutions for this. I'm moving a client from his Desktop computer to a Laptop because he'll be travelling soon.  Lets say I have a hard drive (Windows 7, so NTFS partition and all that) with 2 partitions. One...

Saw this on reddit. http://techreport.com/review/27436/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-two-freaking-petabytes tldr: Six SSDs, running constant data transfers.  Two SSDs have written more than two petabytes.  How awesome is that?  

Anyone remember the infamous multi-personality (worse than GVH-Jonny in terms of having aliases) script kiddie CurtisG who scammed people out of their money? Seems he made the news again recently...

Howdy folks! So recently there was a situation where a phone we had lost all of it's pictures via user error (User deleted all of their pictures accidentally when they wanted to delete one picture).  So I'm doing what I can to try and do data recovery, but it's not going too well (Recuva's...

So I've always been a big fan of the Computerphile account on Youtube.  They have some pretty basic but still interesting videos on stuff that's 100% related to our interests. Well, recently I've been writing parts of my thesis and decided to procrastinate by watching some of these videos...

So this is old old news, but might as well post it here. So Internet.bs has been releasing a list of unregistered .com domains for a while now, and putting the on the internet Excel format here: http://internetbs.net/available-coms/index.php Seems pretty awesome.  They're planning on releasing...

Howdy! So it seems me screwing with my old tried and true observium installation isn't helping out with it at all. So I'm on the latest community version (0.14.4.5229) and after using it for a while suddenly my host pages are... bare. Here's a screenshot to illustrate what I mean...

Howdy guys, So I've been working trying to get the slave function to work for smokeping. Long story short, I'm trying to get the master-slave relationship going. Anyways, it seems the slave is having permission problems for authentication. It outputs a notification stating it can't read the...

So I've been using Google Inbox for a while now and I've got to say, I see them trying to make emails "easier", but I personally don't like it at all.   I absolutely dislike how they want to try and "clump" emails together, frequently mislabelling many of my emails.   Anyone have their own...

Seeming as we have a ton of incredibly knowledgeable people around here, I have a question to make. I have Collectd installed on both the slave (monitored) server and the master (monitoring) server.  Unfortunately, the slave server is a very low-resource server (64 MB RAM) and therefore doesn't...

Alright so yes I saw this on Reddit.    https://pay.reddit.com/r/excel/comments/2jtd2f/worked_on_a_completely_locked_down_machine_time/   This guy basically made a Media player (Audio and Video) in Excel, due to his work monitoring the processes running on his computer.  This is ridiculous.  ...

So Dacentec recently sent this email.  I removed the link (because I don't know if they want to hand it out or not?), but they're now selling Dual L5520s for 60/month on a rent-only model.  There are one-time buy-downs, which are $50 up-front cost for -$5 monthly, $100 up-front cost for -$10...

So...  This may or may not look a bit sketchy, I totally understand (and it's totally reasonable to think of it as such).   But my network right now (in Asia) is absolutely annoying internationally.  Recently (thanks to @TheLinuxBug) I've found some pretty interesting things about my own...

Howdy folks! So just going to put this out there (might as well ask!).  I've had a supermicro Dual L5420 1U 1/2 depth server sitting in my room for a while now and I've finally decided to do something with it.   I'm going to be moving it from the 1U server case to a desktop/tower ITX case...

Howdy folks. Seeming a ton of you guys are working in IT, I thought I'd ask you guys for help on troubleshooting this WiFi access point (something I've been trying to do for a few days now).   So I have a Buffalo AirStation HighPower N450 (Of course, this has DD-WRT Pre-installed using the...

Alright so lets talk about this. Anyone know a good and easy way to create a self-hosted distributed storage system? This can either be a local cluster (via LAN), or one through the interweb (aka like hooking up a bunch of cloud servers up to make a distributed storage).   I think it'd be...

This is a bit of old news, but for those of us with private nodes that like a one-stop solution Proxmox is one of the Go-tos for Virtualization.  As I was looking for the latest Proxmox ISO for a local desktop computer I have at work, I found out Proxmox released version 3.3 of their PVE...

So... this e-mail came in today. Seems Internet.bs is now continuing to expand to different TLDs and .me, but also...  did I miss something or did they just announce they got acquired by CentralNic? Email below:

Alright.  Lets break out the thinking caps and jump right in! Lets say, hypothetically, I have 12 Dual E5 nodes with 128 GB of RAM and 500 GB HDD each as the slave nodes.  The master would be an E3 or something node with 32 GB RAM (or should I use a CPU that supports more RAM?) and lets say 12...