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Mr Fahrenheit’s conquests

Posted by: MrFahrenheit on 2023-06-30 05:38:55

Ahh! Any plans to make any stops in California?

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San Diego, Calabasas, and haven’t planned it any further yet.

Posted by: MacUp72 on 2023-06-30 06:15:07

those paintings on page 1 are actually very good..who did those?

Posted by: MrFahrenheit on 2023-06-30 06:29:51

those paintings on page 1 are actually very good..who did those?

They were all painted by Mike Wehner in Indiana. He has a lot of stuff on eBay and elsewhere.

Mike Wehner Art - Illustrator and Palette Knife Painter

Mike Wehner is an American Artist (Painter) and this is site operates to showcase his work and sell it direct to consumer. He is best known for small abstract palette knife paintings on paper or canvas featuring every subject matter imaginable.

www.mikewehner.com

Posted by: MrFahrenheit on 2023-07-03 19:18:02

Bad storm on I-10 just outside Fort Stockton, TX

Posted by: MrFahrenheit on 2023-08-05 05:59:51

My OS/2 collection is now nearly complete.

Posted by: MrFahrenheit on 2023-08-05 06:02:03

My DOS and Windows collection is also nearly complete.

Posted by: MrFahrenheit on 2023-08-19 06:35:25

The family has been re-united

Posted by: joshc on 2023-08-19 11:21:00

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The family has been re-united

Childhood memories for me there. I had the middle Warcraft II box there, Tides of Darkness. Played many many hours of it as a kid, and it's still my favourite Warcraft release. I wish they would do a re-release of II.

Posted by: MrFahrenheit on 2023-08-19 18:02:17

Childhood memories for me there. I had the middle Warcraft II box there, Tides of Darkness. Played many many hours of it as a kid, and it's still my favourite Warcraft release. I wish they would do a re-release of II.

I loved Tides of Darkness, too. We used to pile a car full of friends and drive across town to setup a LAN someplace, and play WC2 late into the night and early morning hours.

Then it was Starcraft, and Marathon. Those were great days.

Posted by: MrFahrenheit on 2023-11-10 03:52:14

Mac OS X Server

It’s now for breakfast.

Posted by: MrFahrenheit on 2023-11-16 12:55:03

Posted by: bigmessowires on 2023-11-16 14:58:02

That heat sink is big enough to deserve its own zip code.

Posted by: MrFahrenheit on 2023-11-16 18:26:12

That heat sink is big enough to deserve its own zip code.

Actually, these are my smallest heatsinks.

This is what I'm using normally:

Posted by: cheesestraws on 2023-11-17 01:11:18

Heatsink engineering is underrated. They're interesting objects.

Posted by: MrFahrenheit on 2023-11-17 06:02:53

Heatsink engineering is underrated. They're interesting objects.

Definitely! I was introduced to well-engineered heat sinks in 2008 when I built my first real server. Well, real for me, anyways. Prior to that all of my servers were stock Macs (G3/G4/G5). Actually, the first server at work was a IIsi.

I needed a solution for cooling that didn’t involve any fans because the server was in a very dusty environment and I didn’t want fan failure to take down the server.

The local computer store discussed it at length amongst themselves and recommended the Scyth Ninja and that’s what I used on a set of Pentium servers I built and deployed in 2008.

In 2012 I built a bunch of Xeon servers to replace them, and the Ninja wasn’t available any longer. Speaking with the salesman at a different company, he recommended the Noctua D14. Presently I have 3 Xeon servers deployed using that setup. Built in 2012, running 24/7, no fans on the CPU (there are case fans though), without any issues.

This one pictured is one replacement for one of those, which I’ve been working on for…. 6 years. Things keep coming up at work that prevent me from working on the project and I don’t get much time for it. Fortunately the 2012 Xeon servers still work just great, but we all know time is against them.

This one pictured will be a 22 core v4 Xeon, with 256GB DDR4 RAM, and 5x Intel Optane 900p 280GB NVMe PCIe drives(all in RAID 1 for redundancy). I chose this Noctua P1 heat sink because it was designed by Noctua to be passive from the ground up, which is important to me.

I’ve benchmarked the 5 Optane drives to 10GB/sec read and write. These Optane drives have crazy high IOPS, perfect for a high transaction server.

I realize this is a Mac friendly site, but some workloads just work better on x86 Linux.

Posted by: MrFahrenheit on 2023-11-22 19:45:14

Did some software shelf reorganizing today