Pofi
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Keyboard Given that I managed to accidentally get some water in the keyboard while cleaning my corsair K70 and now the <E> <R> <A> and <4> keys don't always work - this would totally save me
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switching motherboards results in losing data? y/n?
Pofi replied to wildgg's topic in CPUs, Motherboards, and Memory
Data won't be lost in the sense that you can put your previous motherboard back in and be able to access it, but I've had issues with Windows not wanting to boot and needing to be reinstalled for new board (I'm guessing drivers r to blame, tho not sure). Since the motherboards are so similar though i'd just try swapping them out and seeing if the PC boots, there's a good chance it will work just fine. (Unless you're on Win10.... that .... thing.... is just ugly with keys and stuff, if you're on Win10 I'll bet it won't work without contacting microsoft or using pirated or technical preview editions) -
could you hypothetically install your OS into your RAM?
Pofi replied to RobertHowie's topic in Storage Devices
Yes, but if you're doing this just for performance I'd recommend looking into PCIe SSDs instead. Far more reliable and not too much slower, also - much much much less trouble. I'd pick that over RAM any time. -
could you hypothetically install your OS into your RAM?
Pofi replied to RobertHowie's topic in Storage Devices
32GB is more than enough for that. Unless you're intentionally testing how much bloatware windows can set up on your computer if you don't pay attention to what you click. But that's only true for windows and only for poor usage scenario. -
could you hypothetically install your OS into your RAM?
Pofi replied to RobertHowie's topic in Storage Devices
Yes. You'd have to use an OS that doesn't require a restart during install - then you're set. Otherwise might still be possible but extremely complicated. OR if you mean ANY OS and not necessarily INSTALL then you could go with something like KNOPPIX - which doesn't exactly install, but can be booted on directly to ram. That way you'd need to keep your computer on the whole time, BUT your OS would be fully inside of your RAM the entire time post boot. -
NUC for my grandma... I keep promising to give her my old computer when I get a new one, but I only get new ones when the old one is relatively unusable A NUC for skype and watching videos would be perfect! link: http://www.amazon.ca/Intel-NUC5CPYH-Graphics-2-5-Inch-BOXNUC5CPYH/dp/B00XPVRR5M/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1449974863&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=Intel+NUC+NUC5PPYH
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Well, all storage interaction has to go through the OS, since script can't directly interact with the kernel, so if it has tons of permission checks or whatnot it would slow everything down, so I'm assuming there must be at least some difference there between distros. As for raid - guess i'll go grab a raid controller. Thanks!
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I'm about 99.9999% certain that ram won't ever be an issue here - the data is kept off of ram as much as possible - the second some value that i need is acquired - it will be stored in the database. Since many scripts can be ran at once - I want all of them to have an always up-to-date database to use, so they don't keep any information in ram for too long. AND they only grab up to 1mb of data at a time (i would imagine it's actually even less). As such I'd love an OS that has the least amount of overhead associated with read/write from/to the SSDs. Which actually brings me to another topic that I forgot to mention originally - there should be 3 SSDs in raid 5 array, so would you recommend having the raid be done on the motherboard or the OS. As for not having GUI - it's still a debate for me - it has it's solid benefits, but I'm pretty new to terminals and the person doing all the node.js stuff has never used terminals, so it will all depend on whether we get used to not having a GUI in the time that we'll have access to the machine.
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So, as the title says - any ideas on which distribution i should choose and why for a website server - the machine itself will only run a node.js server which will call many python scripts to crunch and mainly store moderate amounts (few hundred gigs) of data in sqlite3. A thing to consider is that I'm fairly new to Unix systems and would like the setup process to be relatively easy - that being said I don't want it to be the Windows or Apple-like "here's the OS set to our decided defaults and you can't change anything". For example Gentoo was too hard for me, while Debian was quite nice (I couldnt get the graphics drivers to work tho... but that's not important in this case). I've also tried openSuse.
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I'd totally use this as my test server before copying code off to the actual server. This would be amazing thing for that - just leave it up next to the modem/router (I have those set up in a really small amount of space, so only something as small as MAGNUS would fit.
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@manikyath Huge thanks for the openhardwaremonitor - it can run a server with all the values written out and I'm sure I can read the values from there fairly easily, thanks!
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So if a program doesn't have an API and I tried to do everything by reading memory values - is there any guarantee that the objects im reading will be stored in the same memory location every time i run the program, or will they just be random every single time?
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Hello, Any idea if there's some way to read in values directly from programs and use them in a script as a variable. For example stats from an end game screen or gpu temperature from speedfan or hwinfo?
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Now that would be an epic gift for my grandma considering that she's using my 15year old desktop with like 4GB HDD
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but... now we'll have to ghetto it... (( I was planning on buying one sometime early 2015 and now I hear this Sadness. (prefer the MATX kit, though I didn't buy the parts yet, so a mini ITX will work too)
