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Bought a couple of Dell desktop office PCs for $850 ea, with Intel Core Ultra 7 265 CPU, 32Gb RAM, 2TB SSD, seems like a good deal.

I haven't done any real comparison to last year, but whoa, 25% is a lot!
I didn't do much shopping, seems to me Black Friday deals are generally watered down to "deals" you can find for most of November and major holidays.

I am done shopping for SSDs for a while, I got all I need for the time being.
I just need to find an office PC or two for a business I do IT work for at times, most of their stuff is Dell PCs so I may go that route again.

https://www.speedguide.net/news/cloudflare-outage-causes-error-messages-across-8700

Their malicious IPs config file "grew beyond an expected size of entries," and caused crashes, heh. This is another recent single point of failure of a huge cloud provider within the last month.

I have a personal ...

From what I've read, AI datacenter infrastructure has put upward pressure on memory and HDDs/SSD prices, LLMs (Large Language Models) require a lot of hardware.

Still, I think some companies will try to entice some buzz/hype/coverage in their retail sales, so there are always a few decent deals ...

I just saw a Cloudflare issue trying to read some news on my phone as well. There is definitely something going on with their services.

Ah cool, that makes sense. You can make a second PC into a NAS, or/and Linux experiment, etc.
I did put an USB 3 front panel on mine, and I also have a USB 3 hub that goes from a back port to my desk too.

TP-Link Deco (WiFi 6 nodes) are easy to setup and inexpensive, they are sold online and everywhere from electronics stores like Best Buy to Costco and Home Depot, the only downside being the US Government is considering sanctions against TP-Link.
For under $200, I would still consider Asus RT-AX86U ...

You are not missing anything, the details on what we know about those ports are listed in the online ports database.

The important thing is you have no open ports, no running servers you don't know about.
Seems like most of your ports are filtered (no response from your end to the test server ...

I don't really see the glass panel on mine at all, as the PC is sitting on the ground right next to my desk, transparent side facing the side of my desk drawers. Mesh or glass, it can all be easily covered on the inside with some self-adhesive black 1/4" foam padding, muffles noise pretty well too :)

Looks really good.

I do like the 140mm fans, that would keep it quiet with plenty of airflow. Not sure about the mesh side panel, theoretically front intake and back+top exhaust fans should take care of airflow, you don't need the side panel to be entirely open unless you want intake air from there ...

https://pcpartpicker.com/ - There is a decent histogram of prices, once you drill down to the particular part you want...

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/ - they have some price charts, price history, and value charts (performance / price) for CPUs, Video Cards, etc.

Samsung does that... It is the same price on Amazon. The heatsink version of 2tb 990 Pro is $155 on Amazon today.

They will likely have some deals around Black Friday I imagine.

Thank you!
Just got back from couple of days at Biketoberfest in Daytona Beach, had some fun with friends bar hoping and listening to rock bands all weekend.

Received the 4tb this morning, that was quick. Seems price went up already to $308 today, thanks for the heads up.

Here's something weird about the Newegg sale... The have the 4tb drive for sale at $319. But they have the same 4tb drive with a heatsink for $259. Do you think that's a misprint?

The heatsink 4tb 990 Pro is at $259 (both Newegg and Amazon), not a misprint at all. I guess they have more in ...

Ordered another 2TB Samsung 990 Pro. I use those for OS drives in the SG servers actually (with 1u low-profile PCIE riser cards), 2 or 3 SSDs in Raid1 for redundancy, they've been rock-solid even if they're not "Enterprise" drives.

Edit: cancelled, went for 4TB

Hemm, Amazon even has the Samsung Evo Plus 4TB for $199 (the version without DRAM). Very tempting, heh

At least they don't have as many beached Florida whales.. er. nm.

Folding@Home still seems to be around..
SETI@home was stopped.

The modem DHCP IP address lease time likely varies by region, it could be anywhere from a few hours to a week.. You could try powering it off for longer.
You could try connecting to the modem directly with your wired device/computer. Sometimes changing the connected device does DHCP release/renew of ...

Thanks! I was an intermittent original DSLR member and now see that they have gone tits up.

Any news what happened there? I saw Justin (or someone else) brought the homepage back up, but nothing else, haven't followed closely. Sorry to see DSLR go, forums had so much collective knowledge ...

Most residential ISPs have a pool of IP addresses, and you get assigned some address at random. If your cable modem remains offline for a period of time (until the DHCP lease on that device expires), your IP goes back to the pool, and you will be issued a new IP next time your device comes online ...

Crypto Mining is pretty much dead for small operations afaik. It may still be feasible for some large-scale businesses, and if you have access to free/low-cost electricity.

Most people in the past few years were mining other alt coins (Ethereum, etc.) with number of graphic cards, rather than ...

HVAC is always an option

I actually liked the weather in So Cal last I went there in the summer, it seemed to stay in the mid 60s at night. Without the traffic and the LA smog would've been great even, hehe.

Sorry to hear it's getting toasty.

It depends how elaborate your current setup/customizations are. If you have many programs installed, I wouldn't bother, since the benefit of reinstalling Windows would be small. There are less drastic steps to cleanup temp folders, browsers caches, even registry with tools like CCleaner, that ...

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The old versions of vB (vB4) had a lifetime license option that we had, then the company got bought and moved to annual license structure, some type of cloud hosting, and the software changed a lot visually, the database changed, many plugins didn't work either. phpBB being a community software ...

Hi Psyko, good to hear from you, it's been a minute indeed!

Glad your career is doing well. I have another friend in IT that moved away from CA after 15+ years recently, he's in TX now though. He didn't like CA taxes much I suppose, heh.

Moved to PhpBB probably a year ago now, as the old vB forums ...

MadDoctor wrote: Sat Sep 06, 2025 12:59 pm Is the fish for sale?

What happened to "No feathers, no scales" ?

I have a couple of keyboards lying around, I have become increasingly particular over the years about having full sized arrow keys numbers pad on the side, full sized enter and shift keys, heh.

That's one nice reel.

Still updating some PHP functions on the back end, but almost done. Updated the GeoIP library for IPs on the main site today.

Hehe, be careful about the max legal size limit

In Florida recreational limit is 11 to 22 inches fork length.

Looks like you have a comfy setup there, I prefer spinning reels for normal size fishies, I only use conventional if we go deep-sea/reef fishing for bigger game.

Good to hear, not scientific but it seems faster on my end too.

Welcome to the new SG server (Dual AMD Epycs, 256GB RAM, 3ea. Samsung 990 Pro NVME SSDs in RAID1, etc.) !!!
Upgraded OS to latest Fedora Core Linux, PHP, SQL, etc. It was a major change, especially for the main site and the forums, everything had to be updated to work with PHP 8.

This upgrade has ...

Good to see you around as well! :)

I tell people they don't need 1Gbps if they can get away with 500Mbps anymore, unless you are a power user with a number of teens in the house downloading large files, heh. Even streaming 4K video is 10Mbps or less, so yeah, speeds changed ;) Technology also ...

21ms of latency is great.

You can't directly change the RWIN/TCP Window value in Windows 10, so don't worry about it, as long as the TCP Auto Tuning is set on "Auto" in the TCP Optimizer it will be fine.

Congrats on the updated Internet speed, that's quite a difference, heh

Ordered one, it's processing. Tempted to order a second, heh (edit: tried, wouldn't let me use the code a second time).

If anyone else is interested, the gift card is in the "Shell Shocker" section.

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