The Official Status Thread
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Status: Discovered one reason why my new server wasn't showing video--turns out its on-board video only does DVI-A. And all of my cables/inputs are DVI-D. Which doesn't work. Guess I'll have to go get a DVI-A -> VGA adapter or cable, because I do have a monitor that will take VGA input.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
I do have a monitor that will take VGA input.
1987 says hello.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
I do have a monitor that will take VGA input.
1987 says hello.
Hey, it was a free hand-me-down from my dad's office. It also has a DVI-D input.
Of the 4 non-laptop monitors I have in my office,
- Three (the ancient one and the other two 1080p monitors) accept VGA
- Two (ancient + one of the 1080p ones) also accept DVI-D.
- Three (not the ancient one) accept HDMI
- The fancy 4k display also has a display port input.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
The fancy 4k display also has a display port input.
That's the only reasonable modern thing in the list...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
on-board video only does DVI-A
Dafuq?
It's...not new. Old, in fact. But yeah, that was a bit
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
on-board video only does DVI-A
Dafuq?
It's...not new. Old, in fact. But yeah, that was a bit
's ok. I just ordered an older-ish Dell switch that apparently uses HDMI cables as "stack links" instead of other Ethernet cables.
'Course I'm only getting one but still.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
1987 says hello.
Of all people, you're the last one I'd have expected to -shame.
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@Zerosquare I'll only -shame people if they're older than me, and there aren't many of those around here. -shaming obsolete hardware, OTOH, is fair game. Paging @Tsaukpaetra. Although I have a few outdated monitors and computers, too.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
I do have a monitor that will take VGA input.
1987 says hello.
Hey, it was a free hand-me-down from my dad's office. It also has a DVI-D input.
Of the 4 non-laptop monitors I have in my office,
- Three (the ancient one and the other two 1080p monitors) accept VGA
- Two (ancient + one of the 1080p ones) also accept DVI-D.
- Three (not the ancient one) accept HDMI
- The fancy 4k display also has a display port input.
Sounds familiar:
- Two (my main monitors) take VGA and DVI. (Needs Dual-Link DVI-D for proper digital resolution support.)
- One (a 4:3 LCD TV used for my C=128D and the emulation computer) accepts VGA, HDMI, Composite, and S-Video.
- One (spare monitor) takes VGA and DVI.
- We also have a large LCD TV with HDMIs and an older Plasma TV with HDMI, Component, and Composite.
Next time I get a new video card I'll probably get two new monitors too. Hopefully by then the video cards won't cost an order of magnitude more than a monitor.
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Oooooooohhhhhhh! I think someone is trying to catfish me. I'll lay some bait and see what happens.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
Oooooooohhhhhhh! I think someone is trying to catfish me. I'll lay some bait and see what happens.
I wish I were so lucky...
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
I think someone is trying to catfish me.
An amateur, obviously. A professional would have dogfished you.
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Status: Woo-hoo! My coat hanger collection is set to skyrocket in value.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Woo-hoo! My coat hanger collection is set to skyrocket in value.
Just are "gamer girl" to the beginning and it will jump the value! Speculumers hate this one strange trick!
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I'll let it slide, but let's drop it.
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My good old big machine.... I switched it on, but did not care for it shortly afterwards. An hour later, I tried to connect via RDP. Not available. Ping: not available. Had to re-start it while a
ping -t oldie
was running from the other machine (strangely, it runs more stable then). Did not help.
Decided to open it and look around for any loose cables etc. Did not find one, but anyway, afterwards it worked again.
Wow, that's old hardware!
Bought around 2012. At least, Windows installation is from 1 Feb 2012.
Was rather high speck then. 8 GB RAM. Quadcore AMD processor (you see the big fan on it?). Nvidia whatever graphics card. 1 TB data disk, 200 MB system disk (spinning disks, of course).And it's the NVidia shitty which makes trouble. If the machine suddenly crashed, there is some entry about an NVidia driver crash in the Windows Event Logs.
Should buy a newer one somewhen. But it still works.
Setting up a new machine costs too much time .
No, really, I am far too lazy.
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@BernieTheBernie Holy shit, how come it's so clean!?
I spy with my little eye Arctic Cooling with their
:genius:
idea to feed hot air from the entire system into the power supply. How come the bulk cap hasn't exploded yet?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
How come the bulk cap hasn't exploded yet?
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
200 MB system disk
I assume you meant GB. Otherwise, you're well into @Tsaukpaetra territory.
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
Was rather high speck then. 8 GB RAM.
I would say medium spec. 8 GB was becoming pretty standard by 2012.
My laptop from 2012 has 16 GB, and that was lower-end-of-the-high-range spec for non-gaming laptops.
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@nerd4sale my 2012 MacBook Pro didnât apparently support 16GB according to Apple, it only came in 4GB and 8GB modelsâŚ
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
speck
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@nerd4sale said in The Official Status Thread:
8 GB was becoming pretty standard by 2012
No. Still 2-4 then. My notebook has still 4. The work notebook originally had 4, and then was upgraded to 16 at my request.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
speck
ĂŽntended.
Couldn't find a place for bacon in the post, so speck must do.
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
ĂŽntended.
I believe you. I was acknowledging it.
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
@nerd4sale said in The Official Status Thread:
8 GB was becoming pretty standard by 2012
No. Still 2-4 then. My notebook has still 4. The work notebook originally had 4, and then was upgraded to 16 at my request.
For laptops/notebooks, yes. 4-8 GB was normal then.
I had to look pretty hard to find one which even allowed 16GB.Desktops regularly supported 16GB, and 8GB was pretty normal then.
My low-budget desktop that I also bought in 2012 was an i5 with 8GB.
It still runs as my backup media-server (backup from my NAS). I added some harddrives, I think it has now 6 or 7 TB.I remember all that shit, becuase I bought my last computers in 2012.
Afterwards, all my hardware was supplied by my employer(s).
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@BernieTheBernie Holy shit, how come it's so clean!?
I spy with my little eye Arctic Cooling with their
:genius:
idea to feed hot air from the entire system into the power supply. How come the bulk cap hasn't exploded yet?The power supply is often one of the hotter parts of the system, so getting the heat from that straight out of the case is also a good plan.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
a good plan.
Which only works well if the room has good ventilation and/or is regularly dusted like our Bernie here has (it would appear). Otherwise it becomes the only place where all dust bunnies gather.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
a good plan.
Which only works well if the room has good ventilation and/or is regularly dusted like our Bernie here has (it would appear). Otherwise it becomes the only place where all dust bunnies gather.
#dustbunnylivesmatter
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
Uh, no, that clearly has PCI slots...
You prefer ISA?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@BernieTheBernie Holy shit, how come it's so clean!?
It is in Germany.
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@topspin full-length with VESA extension, yes, thanks.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@nerd4sale my 2012 MacBook Pro didnât apparently support 16GB according to Apple, it only came in 4GB and 8GB modelsâŚ
Was that the first model that didn't let you swap in your own laptop ram? I have a Late 2011 model, and although officially it only supports up to 8 GB, it works just great with 16
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OMFG! I'm trying to buy a skype subscription for everything they have and it's fucking impossible to contact someone about a vat receipt.
Does anyone have experience with a VOIP provider that offers yearly contracts and support that I can talk to? I can throw a reasonably unreasonable amount of money at this.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@nerd4sale my 2012 MacBook Pro didnât apparently support 16GB according to Apple, it only came in 4GB and 8GB modelsâŚ
My 2012 MacBook has 4G. It's really slow now. (But I've transitioned my builds to 2020 Air M2)
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@dcon I fitted 16GB memory after-market, seemed to work out fine.
But I replaced it with an MSI box in 2016 owing to the GPU being outclassed.
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
Bought around 2012.
My most recent old machine is from 2010. I bought my new (refurbished) machine last year, but the old one is still running.
Was rather high speck then.
Yeah, that's why my old one has lasted so long. It was a Xeon-based engineering workstation. It didn't have much RAM when I got it, but I upgraded that and the graphics card. Graphics performance is, theoretically, about equal to the card in the new machine, but supports more monitors, 3 DP, 1 HDMI, and 1 DVI-D, IIRC; the newer card only has 1 DP and 1 HDMI. But the overall system performance of the new machine is significantly better, so I make do with fewer monitors.
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Server update: With an appropriate cable, it POSTs and even gets to the GRUB menu (supplied by a bootable USB). But selecting "Try or Install Ubuntu Server" results in a blank screen even after waiting 10+ minutes. Not black--the video connection is still on. Just...not showing anything.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
Uh, no, that clearly has PCI slots...
You prefer ISA?
I gave no preferences. Just saying that the words put in my mouth would not logically excrete thenceforth under the given conditions.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Server update: With an appropriate cable, it POSTs and even gets to the GRUB menu (supplied by a bootable USB). But selecting "Try or Install Ubuntu Server" results in a blank screen even after waiting 10+ minutes. Not black--the video connection is still on. Just...not showing anything.
Yeah, you're supposed to find the "Safe graphics" option. Or edit the command line and add the
nomodeset
option in there (IIRC).
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Server update: With an appropriate cable, it POSTs and even gets to the GRUB menu (supplied by a bootable USB). But selecting "Try or Install Ubuntu Server" results in a blank screen even after waiting 10+ minutes. Not black--the video connection is still on. Just...not showing anything.
Yeah, you're supposed to find the "Safe graphics" option. Or edit the command line and add the
nomodeset
option in there (IIRC).Hmm. There were only two options. I'll have to try it again once I'm not supposed to be at work (and so the keyboard and mouse aren't being used otherwise.
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@Benjamin-Hall You can hit a function key to edit the kernel command line. I think it's F2.
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IIRC, it's Tab. But maybe F2 work as well.
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https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/23/html/Multiboot_Guide/GRUB-runtime.html
Both wrong. It's e
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@PleegWat entuitive
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Status: Configuring a Dell PowerConnect 5524 switch.
I'm actually fucking happy I found my little USB-to-rj45-serial adapter thingy.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
fucking happy
There is typically a strong positive correlation between those.
I'm actually fucking