What Are You Doing Right Now
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 @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now: Same with our HP desktops, failure rates near zero. Yeah, getting away from the whiteboxes they had when I started hear has made my job so much easier. Also realized that you can pickup refurbished workstation class hardware for about the same money as a new desktop. That's two orders of magnitude we've moved up in reliability! 
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 Got the car registered this morning. 
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 @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now: Same with our HP desktops, failure rates near zero. I have a Z420 at work and it's awesome. We bought some new beefy Z400's that are working really well also. 128GB RAM and dual 6 core Xeons. 
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 @stacksofplates said in What Are You Doing Right Now: @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now: Same with our HP desktops, failure rates near zero. I have a Z420 at work and it's awesome. We bought some new beefy Z400's that are working really well also. 128GB RAM and dual 6 core Xeons. Fujitsu isn't bad either. No faults in nearly 6 years, apart from a fan on an AMD FirePro. Decent dual-socket workstation are available too: Celsius R5xx line. 
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 I just got back from lunch, and have a headache.... bah. Anyways for lunch I had a roast beef sandwich, with chips and a pickle spear. 
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 @thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now: @stacksofplates said in What Are You Doing Right Now: @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now: Same with our HP desktops, failure rates near zero. I have a Z420 at work and it's awesome. We bought some new beefy Z400's that are working really well also. 128GB RAM and dual 6 core Xeons. Fujitsu isn't bad either. No faults in nearly 6 years, apart from a fan on an AMD FirePro. Decent dual-socket workstation are available too: Celsius R5xx line. Hard to get those in the US. 
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 Waiting on Vendor from yesterday to get a hold of me.... I was smart this time and brought a laptop. 
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 @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now: @thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now: @stacksofplates said in What Are You Doing Right Now: @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now: Same with our HP desktops, failure rates near zero. I have a Z420 at work and it's awesome. We bought some new beefy Z400's that are working really well also. 128GB RAM and dual 6 core Xeons. Fujitsu isn't bad either. No faults in nearly 6 years, apart from a fan on an AMD FirePro. Decent dual-socket workstation are available too: Celsius R5xx line. Hard to get those in the US. Oh, ok. You can see them as often as Dell or HP here. 
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 @DustinB3403 said Anyways for lunch I had a roast beef sandwich, with chips and a pickle spear. Pedestrian but satisfying. 
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 So many screaming kids here today. 
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 @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now: So many screaming kids here today. On ML or in Houston? 
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 @coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now: @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now: So many screaming kids here today. On ML or in Houston? Yes. 
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 Just posted a topic, and I need your help please  
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 This is exactly what I thought when I saw that trophy 
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 Getting ready to go grab some dinner before tonight's live event: Rifftrax (MST3K guys) live riffing the classic Mothra! 
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 Dinner is underway here. Considering Sonic drinks just because. 
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 Noticing the age in my profile is wrong. Just by a day or so, though! 
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 Did some work on a critical server that I built for a customer a few years ago. Noticed uptime: 831 days. Wow. 
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 @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now: Did some work on a critical server that I built for a customer a few years ago. Noticed update: 831 days. Wow. Do you mean uptime? 
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 @DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now: @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now: Did some work on a critical server that I built for a customer a few years ago. Noticed update: 831 days. Wow. Do you mean uptime? Dammit. YEs. 








