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Comment on I hate Ubuntu by Mark

Mark — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:25:17 +0000

I hate Ubuntu because they spend too much time listening to arrogant dicks like you and not enough time listening to their “idiot” users who just want their computers to work out of the box.

Assholes like you are the reason desktop Linux is the failure that it is today.

“Less than 1% of our market uses our products! Woo!”

I’ve tried a dozen distros over the years, including several years of solid daily Ubuntu use. Ubuntu’s the best, but it’s still a pile of crap, and I’m ready to try a Mac.

Comment on Sun Ultra 27 Review – The Ultimate Linux Workstation by kev009

kev009 — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:48:44 +0000

Hi Andy,
I haven’t tried Windows but it is very quiet in Linux and I don’t have any sensor programs running — even under 8 threads full throttle for hours. Make sure to check the BIOS and that you have speedstep and such enabled. Make sure your Windows install has all the Intel platform drivers installed as well.

My system also has 2 graphics power outlets. Perhaps there is some variance in power supplies?

A gaming system with an extreme edition CPU will be essentially the same minus ECC memory. Likewise, you could put a consumer GPU in the Sun to sweeten the price/performance if the opengl cards aren’t important to you. The Mac pro is a lot more expensive, but you also have the option of a dual socket workstation which Sun doesn’t offer at the moment.

Comment on Sun Ultra 27 Review – The Ultimate Linux Workstation by Andy

Andy — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:23:57 +0000

The case fan is very loud here, varying between the individual machines.
The problems seems to be the lack of sensors exposure to the OS (Windows, Linux), not the temperature.
The hdd bays are very hard to use. The hdd usually get stuck when inserting
them into the bays. It has only power for one PCI-E graphics card.
A GTX-285 fits but you need to remove the plastic thingy that is supposed
to fix the card.
This now seems to be the “top” line of Sun/Oracle in Workstations.
Most Gamer PCs will probably out do this, let alone a Mac Pro.

Comment on Java: The Good Parts by No One

No One — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:02:56 +0000

So, what exactly were the good parts again?

Comment on Java: The Good Parts by Michael Laccetti

Michael Laccetti — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:31:55 +0000

MVC as a paradigm is both painful, and dying. Component-based frameworks that expose events are far easier to work with and maintain. Frameworks like Wicket and GWT are the way forward, not MVC.

Comment on Java: The Good Parts by Java: The Good Parts

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Comment on Xen 3.4.1 on RHEL/CentOS 5.4 by Xen bee

Xen bee — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:35:26 +0000

In Centos 5.3. works too…

Comment on I hate Ubuntu by maathieu

maathieu — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:39:42 +0000

Hate hate hat!

Comment on IBM xSeries 330 (x330) SATA Retrofit by Jan

Jan — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:06:03 +0000

Just installed my megaraid card and it works perfectly!
I’m only missing the molex plug. Kev, where did you buy the plug?

Comment on IBM xSeries 330 (x330) SATA Retrofit by kev009

kev009 — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:58:30 +0000

@Jan
I believe it was the same/similar connector as the one detailed in this post. The servers are 2000 miles away from me so I can’t take a look for you until March.

@Ashley
Yes, if you take a look at the pictures in the post I hacked the bay and trays to accept SATA drives (albeit non-hotswap) on the x330. The process would be similar for the x346, though you will have 3x the cabling.

If this is a commercial application, you are better off buying an external SATA JBOD and using the internal SCSI bays for the operating system.

You may also wish to look into the System x 3650 which is the successor to the x346. Very nice octo-core capable machines and relatively cheap on the used market. These support SAS which is cross compatible with SATA.