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chicaneuk
Who joined July 10, 2012, 3:48 a.m.
Wrote the following at Feb. 18, 2015, 2:40 p.m...
It's back again :) Thanks, nekonono for keeping this valued resource going! :)
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nekonoko
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Wrote the following at Feb. 18, 2015, 2:45 p.m...
You can always follow me on Twitter for site updates.
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foetz
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Wrote the following at Feb. 18, 2015, 2:47 p.m...
chicaneuk wrote: It's back again :) Thanks, nekonono for keeping this valued resource going! :)

what he said :-)
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nekonoko
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Wrote the following at Feb. 18, 2015, 3:55 p.m...
No problem - the old server died so I had to order a replacement. Took an extra day to get everything in from Newegg/Amazon due to the 3-day weekend.
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vishnu
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Wrote the following at Feb. 18, 2015, 8:27 p.m...
By a coincidence which may seem strange I just ordered a new laptop for my nephew from newegg, I love those guys! :mrgreen:

Pete, may I be so bold as to enquire what hardware we're running under now? Cause I've got a fairly kick-ass never-been-used 2U dual Xeon HP server I'd have been perfectly happy to donate to the cause... 8-)
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nekonoko
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vishnu wrote: Pete, may I be so bold as to enquire what hardware we're running under now? Cause I've got a fairly kick-ass never-been-used 2U dual Xeon HP server I'd have been perfectly happy to donate to the cause... 8-)


Thanks, but I want to keep the power bill and noise level as low as possible :)
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ClassicHasClass
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Wrote the following at Feb. 18, 2015, 10:44 p.m...
So it really is running on a BeagleBone in a shoebox? ;)
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ClassicHasClass wrote: So it really is running on a BeagleBone in a shoebox? ;)

Not a shoebox but egg cardboard boxes for better sound isolation! :lol:
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nekonoko
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Wrote the following at Feb. 19, 2015, 2:50 a.m...
ClassicHasClass wrote: So it really is running on a BeagleBone in a shoebox? ;)


Close :) The last motherboard was a D525 (had D510 & 230 boards even earlier on, there are some old threads on this). This is a J1900.
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chicaneuk
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Wrote the following at Feb. 19, 2015, 2:53 a.m...
For some reason I always assumed that Nekochan was hosted on SGI hardware. Though that would be an expensive way of running a forum so in hindsight wouldn't make much sense :)
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nekonoko
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It was running on SGI hardware until 2009 or so.
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Jack Luminous
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Wrote the following at Feb. 19, 2015, 3:39 a.m...
Why did you switch from SGI ? For security reasons or electrical bill ? May I ask what upload rate do your ISP provide and at what price ? I wanted to do something similar at home (using my Octane 2) but getting a decent upload rate where I live is prohibitively expensive so I gave up... I would have gladly hosted a nekoware mirror if the whole thing went through.
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GL1zdA
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nekonoko wrote:
ClassicHasClass wrote: So it really is running on a BeagleBone in a shoebox? ;)


Close :) The last motherboard was a D525 (had D510 & 230 boards even earlier on, there are some old threads on this). This is a J1900.

Did these motherboards fail or was it something else?
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calvin
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I demand a refund of my wasted $0!
No SGIs here.
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vishnu
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You can always find out who's running what at netcraft, click in the what's that site running box and type in the URL...
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nekonoko
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Jack Luminous wrote: Why did you switch from SGI ? For security reasons or electrical bill ? May I ask what upload rate do your ISP provide and at what price ? I wanted to do something similar at home (using my Octane 2) but getting a decent upload rate where I live is prohibitively expensive so I gave up... I would have gladly hosted a nekoware mirror if the whole thing went through.


Both. I ran two very loud O350s towards the end, and dealing with the noise and the increasingly difficult to keep up to date PHP/Apache/MySQL was getting out of hand. Plus they weren't very speedy as web servers go.

The circuit is business class SDSL, but very expensive - $200 a month.
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nekonoko
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GL1zdA wrote: Did these motherboards fail or was it something else?


Yes, the power regulation failed on the D525. The previous boards were replaced because I wanted to try newer ones.
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jan-jaap
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nekonoko wrote: I ran two very loud O350s towards the end, and dealing with the noise and [...]

And then there's the power consumption. I think an O350 module consumes around 250W, so running my two-module O350 at home where I have to pay €0,23 per kWh would cost about €1000 annually. That just crazy.
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hamei
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Wrote the following at Feb. 20, 2015, 4:09 a.m...
jan-jaap wrote: I have to pay €0,23 per kWh.

I s'pose you know, you have the world's most expensive electricity ? Even post-Enron California is only about a third that price. There must be a reason ?
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jan-jaap
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hamei wrote:
jan-jaap wrote: I have to pay €0,23 per kWh.

I s'pose you know, you have the world's most expensive electricity ? Even post-Enron California is only about a third that price. There must be a reason ?

I looked it up and it breaks down roughly like this:
43% is the cost for the electricity
17% transportation cost
40% taxes (VAT and environmental tax)
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