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Title: 4um's server has a new motherboard
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Published: Jul 10, 2009
Author: christine
Post Date: 2009-07-10 17:45:35 by christine
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We're all fixed up now.
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#1. To: christine, Pinguinite (#0)
Smokin' here - thank you both so much.
Seems to work faster now.
wow, it does!
The smooth criminal transition from Bush/Cheney to Obama
Yes, after 4 mysterious instances of the server seizing up, all without any sign of software problems, but all pretty much happening at times of intense or reasonably busy activity, I decided it was hardware failing, and shutdown web and other intense data services on the server so that more critical low demand services like email could continue. Today it was serviced and I'm told the capacitors on the old motherboard were showing some bubbling damage. I understand now that many motherboards from a few years ago were manufactured with faulty capacitors. Word is that a Chinese firm stole intellectual property from a competing firm on the chemical makeup of materials used in capacitors which they used to produce a great many, but the formula turned out to be incomplete. So many MB's from that timeframe are failing. This "new" MB is similar in power to the last one, but has twice the RAM. It's not new. I didn't want a new one as I didn't want to take a chance on the OS not liking the architecture, and didn't need a new one anyway. The new one is coming in a month or two and I expect will be much more powerful. Whether you'll notice a difference I'm not sure. The net only runs so fast. But there will be more downtime then when the xfer to the new server takes place. Sorry for the outage. Thanks for your patience.
Why don't you wait until this one craps out? It is absolutely smoking here. Why spend money to fix something that is not broken?
Personally I think all of us loudmouths owe you all a thanks. Where else could I hang out, cheap, with so many wonderful grumps, grouses, groaners, and curmudgeons?
"I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology...It's importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda...Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated." Bertrand Russel, Eugenicist and Logician
Maybe it was incomplete on purpose. My dad was on vacation a few weeks ago and someone stole his 5 gallon gas can and his gas. Now he has a new gas can sitting out and it has sugar in it. lol
I resemble that remark.
#2. To: christine (#0)
"If I were going to construct a God I would furnish him with some ways and qualities and characteristics which the Present One lacks... He would spend some of His eternities in trying to forgive Himself for making man unhappy when He could have made him happy with the same effort and He would spend the rest of them in studying astronomy." ~ Mark Twain
#3. To: wudidiz (#2)
#4. To: christine, *4um Admin News* (#0)
#5. To: Pinguinite (#4)
#6. To: Pinguinite, christine, Grumps, Groaners, Grouses, Curmudgeons, all (#4)
#7. To: Pinguinite (#4)
Word is that a Chinese firm stole intellectual property from a competing firm on the chemical makeup of materials used in capacitors which they used to produce a great many, but the formula turned out to be incomplete.
#8. To: Original_Intent, christine (#6)
wonderful grumps, grouses, groaners, and curmudgeons
This guy may be prowling 4um: |
Used Tires Amityville, Babylon, Lindenhurst
#9. To: lodwick (#5)
Very good question. Certainly it's a nice thought. The main reason is not the hardware, it's the operating system. It's running an older release of Mandriva Linux, which seems to be going out of style. I want to change over to Ubunutu linux, which I now use at home and which has excellent support, is much easier to keep up to date and presently looks like it will be around for many years to come. But porting over from Mandriva to Ubuntu cannot be done on the same server. There's just too much involved. I'll need to have a fresh installation set up and then port over each website, email setting and numerous customized programs one at a time. I'm not looking forward to it. So since a new server is needed anyway, might as well make it a new one and have something with a very low chance of failure. And I really don't want to wait until something dies on me anyway. I'm kinda fortunate this time when a reboot got it working again, giving me some warning.
Why don't you wait until this one craps out?
Why spend money to fix something that is not broken?
#10. To: Critter, Original_Intent, christine (#8)
Not me. I'm the calm upon the waters.
I resemble that remark.
… in the past CO2 (or water) was pumped, at some cost, into depleting oil and gas fields to get out more. This will continue, but the taxpayer will contribute to these costs as the oil companies will be paid for taking the unwanted stuff off governments emission balance sheets! No wonder the oil companies are keen on CCS…
#11. To: farmfriend (#10)
My ass... hehehe
I'm the calm upon the waters.
This guy may be prowling 4um: |
Used Tires Amityville, Babylon, Lindenhurst
#12. To: Critter (#11)
Mmmm yes what about your ass? A very nice ass I'm sure.
My ass... hehehe
… in the past CO2 (or water) was pumped, at some cost, into depleting oil and gas fields to get out more. This will continue, but the taxpayer will contribute to these costs as the oil companies will be paid for taking the unwanted stuff off governments emission balance sheets! No wonder the oil companies are keen on CCS…
#13. To: christine, Pinguinite, lodewick (#0)
Congratulations on hitting the mother lode, y'all expecting to be needing any professional security?
The ultimate effect of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. - Herbert Spencer
#14. To: Pinguinite, christine (#9)
But porting over from Mandingo to Mbuti.... Wow, giant African warriors and even diminutive Pygmies are developing software now?
I want to change over to Ubunutu linux, which I now use at home and which has excellent support, is much easier to keep up to date and presently looks like it will be around for many years to come.
#15. To: HOUNDDAWG (#14)
its all implants these days
The ultimate effect of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. - Herbert Spencer
#16. To: HOUNDDAWG (#14)
So it would seem, and doing a damn fine job of it too! Ubuntu is supposed to be an African tribal word for "cooperation" or something like that. Probably a bit PC in scope, but... my Ubuntu systems here at home work great and kick serious butt so I'm not going to complain. We can question the motives but there's no argument that Ubuntu works and works well.
#17. To: Pinguinite (#16)
Well, you would certainly know my friend. And, your recommendation will no doubt be appreciated there, too.
Ubuntu is supposed to be an African tribal word for "cooperation" or something like that. Probably a bit PC in scope, but... my Ubuntu systems here at home work great and kick serious butt so I'm not going to complain. We can question the motives but there's no argument that Ubuntu works and works well.
#18. To: HOUNDDAWG (#17)
Well, Ubuntu advertises it's theme when you first install it, complete with a recorded video interview of Nelson Mandela right on the desktop when you first install it. A bit of a controversial choice, obviously. Of course all linux distros, including Ubuntu, are joint efforts from people world-wide so "Ubuntu" is just the chosen theme. But... a couple years ago I needed to install linux on a new PC with a flat panel screen, and Mandriva Linux, which is running this web server, couldn't do it. Neither could 3 or 4 others I had. Just weren't up to date with the latest video hardware. Found Ubuntu on the net, downloaded it, burned a disk and it installed great. Never looked back. Can't argue with success. I highly recommend it, especially for all you windows users out there. Clear a 30 gig partition on your PC and install it. It's very user friendly these days. No geek braincells required. It'll make your PC dual bootable so you can choose either windows or Linux when you turn it on. Then the next time your windows gets a virus or doesn't work anymore, you can use linux until you either fix windows or realize you don't need windows anymore. Two thumbs up!
#19. To: Pinguinite (#18)
Outstanding!
#20. To: Original_Intent (#6)
Thanks for the ping!
#6 To: Pinguinite, christine, Grumps, Groaners, Grouses, Curmudgeons, all
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#21. To: Pinguinite, HOUNDDAWG (#18)
I ran Ubuntu for over a year until I switched back to the Mac OS recently and did not mind it at all. It is a good basic, stable, Operating System. I would suggest it is preferable to run it on an Intel/AMD based machine as not everything is supported for the Motorola Power PC Chip. I definitely prefer it to Microshit Windows, and it has plenty of functionality - it comes with Open Office which has a very good open source Office Suite - which can read "Word" documents, and Firefox is the installed browser. There are a lot of nice gizmos and add-ons as well. No Dashboard though. As far as I am concerned it is the only choice other than the Mac OS (which is built on a Linux Shell). I refuse to give Gates any of my money to help fund his eugenics operations. Ubuntu gets better with each generation and seems to be becoming the standard Linux for non-geek home users. Although it does help to learn a few basic Linux commands and how to use a Terminal Window as not all external installs have an installer. Also you have to download extra Codecs to make Totem fully functional. However, I think VLC Media Player is better than Totem although again you have to download and install extra codecs.
"I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology...It's importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda...Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated." Bertrand Russel, Eugenicist and Logician
#22. To: Esso (#20)
You're welcome. ;-)
"I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology...It's importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda...Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated." Bertrand Russel, Eugenicist and Logician
#23. To: Original_Intent, pinguinite, linux (#21)
saved for future reference. Thanks
#24. To: Old Friend (#23)
You're most welcome.
"I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology...It's importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda...Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated." Bertrand Russel, Eugenicist and Logician
#25. To: Original_Intent, HOUNDDAWG (#21)
I will admit that in the area of audio/video, linux, and even Ubuntu, is still a little behind windows. I still get situations where I can't run one audio application because something else is tying up the soundcard, and Windows seems to allow multiple applications to access the sound card simultaneously which is how it should be. In the past this was a much bigger problem but it's still not what it should be. I'm looking forward to new generations of Ubuntu to square this problem away once and for all. On video, yes there are numerous codecs out there for playing the many types of video formats available, and you sometimes need to install a new codec for something different. But on that score, Ubuntu recognizes that it needs a new codec, and asks you if it should do it, and at a click of a button downloads whatever codec is needed. And then you have it, without having to understand anything at all about what codec it just downloaded. The really nice think about Ubuntu for newbies is that it tells you what needs to be downloaded and does it for you. Other (past) versions of linux make you go find it and install it which is not friendly at all, and then you'd often run into problems with more dependency packages you then have to go find. But with Ubuntu updates, you get an icon on your desktop telling you there are updates. Click it and it tells you what they are and how big it is to download. Click install and it downloads and installs, and the update icon goes away. New updates come maybe an average of once a week. It's very simple and very friendly. For auxillary software (a basic install of Ubuntu does NOT install everything it could -- not even close) a package manager lets you search a list and description of what's available. Games, education, science stuff whatever. With a couple clicks, it's downloaded and installed, complete with any dependency packages that are needed. Very clean. Uninstalls work the same way. I quite often make use of the command prompt/terminal/console/DOS prompt style (whatever you want to call it) window to type commands in. Do it all the time. Maybe that's something casual linux users will come to use or maybe not. I've been using them so long I don't know if how handy it would be for Linux newbies, or if the various icon tools clickable on the desktop can substitute for all that. Yes Open Office can replace the MS Office suite, replacing not just MS Word reading and writing docs in the *.doc format, but it will also do spreadsheets too. I *think* it will read and create any kind of MS calc spreadsheet with no problem at all but I've not stress tested that. It's possible an MS Excel sheet with very fancy formulas and charts wouldn't be fully compatible. The only thing Linux cannot do these days is run specialized 3rd party applications that vendors have made only for the Windows environment. For those times when I absolutely have to have windows, I use vmware, which lets me, in linux, open up a graphic window inside of which is MS Windows, and from there I can run just about any windows program I want. It's complete with internet access, and acts like a separate PC in my house on the same network as my linux system. Setting that up takes a little bit of geek-help, but it's nice too because if it gets a virus, you can just delete the windows files that are maybe 6-10 gigs in linux, restore from an earlier time (like when you first installed windows), restart and your back with a completly virus free version of windows. So your MS windows installation can be copied, backed up, restored and deleted as you see fit. There's no need to virus scan with mere hopes it can fix all your infected files. I could go on a bit about vmware advantages, but with linux and vmware, MS Windows is just another linux application program.
#26. To: Pinguinite (#25)
I think one thing we have to remember is that Ubuntu has not been around as long as Windows. If you compare Ubuntu to Windows after the same number of years following introduction I think Ubuntu is far ahead of that. What you say about installation of codecs etc., is true BUT only on an Intel based machine. I was running it on an older G3 Mac and ran into a lot of trouble with compatibility problems. Those mostly go away if you are using an Intel processor. In the "old days" (the Dark Ages of MS DOS and those forgotten behemoths named Honeywell and VAX - and those archaic and hoary with age devices called "Streaming Tape Drives" - when a 5 Megabyte Hard Drive cost 2 Grand) we called it a "Command Line Interpreter". For someone already computer literate it is not hard to master but for the newbie, having taught them, it is anything but intuitive. I do like Open Office and now that I am back running the Mac OS I am still using it - NeoOffice 3.0 - which is Open Office ported to the Mac. Since I don't do big Spreadsheets I can't qualify the Spreadsheet, and I need a good open DB for keeping Text Files. Relational DB's have been "all the rage" but for writing an old Mac Program called "FactFinder" was my favorite. Unfortunately the Mac OS has evolved to the point where it will not run properly under the current version I am running (OS 10.4.11 - still preferred for the dual G-4 rig I currently have).
I quite often make use of the command prompt/terminal/console/DOS prompt style (whatever you want to call it) window to type commands in.
"I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology...It's importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda...Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated." Bertrand Russel, Eugenicist and Logician
#27. To: lodwick (#1)
Hope it's the good stuff.
Smokin' here - thank you both so much.
"Satan / Cheney in "08" 
#28. To: Pinguinite (#4)
My personal opinion after reading the wikipedia discussion (which I always take with a grain of salt) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Capacitor_plague is that it sounds plausible but there are other ways for the MB to fail (a failed one I just looked at from around 2005 had good caps). But I also heard from another source that Intel MB's always used "good" caps. So far my one intel board seems to be doing ok, but it's less than a year old.
Word is that a Chinese firm stole intellectual property from a competing firm on the chemical makeup of materials used in capacitors which they used to produce a great many, but the formula turned out to be incomplete. So many MB's from that timeframe are failing.
Money problems do not come from a lack of money, but from living an excessive, unrealistic lifestyle
#29. To: purpleman (#28)
If the story is true, then anything less than 2 years old would have good components on it. My digital camera died a slow death recently. It down takes paintings instead of pictures. Some might fit in an impressionist art gallery. Maybe I'll try taking it apart and see.
So far my one intel board seems to be doing ok, but it's less than a year old.
#30. To: tom007 (#27)
Hope it's the good stuff. I wish.
Smokin' here - thank you both so much.
#31. To: Pinguinite, purpleman, all (#29)
I'm pretty sure that everyone knows about tomshardware.com where reviews of all sorts of computer related stuff is reviewed.
#32. To: Original_Intent, Pinguinite, christine, Grumps, Groaners, Grouses, Curmudgeons, all (#6)
Hello again, OI. What "wonderful" category do I fall into -grump, grouse, groaner ( never!), or curmudgeon?
Personally I think all of us loudmouths owe you all a thanks. Where else could I hang out, cheap, with so many wonderful grumps, grouses, groaners, and curmudgeons?
#33. To: scrapper2 (#32)
Scrap... Where have you been??? Jail I bet. hehehehehe
#34. To: scrapper2 (#32)
hey, scrap! good to see you. you've been missed.
#35. To: scrapper2 (#32)
Good to see you back. Well, far be it from me to be so presumptuous, but it occurs to me that a Grouse has feathers and that somehow seems more feminine. ;-)
Hello again, OI. What "wonderful" category do I fall into -grump, grouse, groaner ( never!), or curmudgeon?
"I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology...It's importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda...Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated." Bertrand Russel, Eugenicist and Logician
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