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Recently, I have begun building a new 24-bay hot-swap storage server. In the meantime, I was going to use it to replace my partner's failing laptop that they use for digital art (Tablet). With prices having dropped so much, its actually cheaper for me to purchase a Patriot Blaze 128GB NVMe drive than it is to purchase a regular SATA SSD. The only issue, Im currently running this all on an Intel S5520HC Server board with 2 Xeon E5645 (Hex Core @ 2.40Ghz) CPUs and 32GB of RAM. With the drive on a riser board and plugged in, my Windows installer can see it, but I have no way to get the BIOS to see it. Does anyone know of a workaround of some kind so that way these wonderful drives can be used on this older equipment? Thanks for any help you all can provide.

NavePoint does not offer burial cable, but they do offer long-length patch cable with a pretty wide variety of connector choices. I got my LC-LC cable in today and it works perfect! FS.com will have you covered for direct burial, but for cost on short patch cables, i'd choose NavePoint. I mean, it helps with shipping since I paid for prime so I get 2 day shipping for free but that's faster than anything else I've seen. As for SFPs, I just got some old Cisco 1Gb LC units. $5 for 4 listed on ebay. Even the 10Gb units don't cost much anymore. Anyone who says fiber isnt worth it because of the cost obviously hasnt seen how much the prices have dropped. I could easily make my house fully optical for under 1000.

OP, If you still haven't bought your cables yet, I would take a look at NavePoint. Its a company based out of Illinois and they sell budget supplies, but it works. I've gotten lots of server rack parts from them, and I recently got several LC MMF SFP Transceivers from an old business nearby me that im getting fiber for myself. They are showing 300m (984.252ft) multi-mode fiber optic cable for $109. While it may not be the cheapest, they are on amazon and they offer a lot of choices. Ill link the 300m multi-mode here. They might be able to help you find something a bit more trustworthy. After several coworkers making bad choices about networking stuff from overseas (Boxes torn to shreds, extremely low quality, terrible service, etc.) Ive switched to NavePoint and they haven't disappointed. https://www.amazon.com/NavePoint-LC-LC-Duplex-Multimode-Orange/dp/B0125WYF5Q/ref=sr_1_1?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1501441526&sr=8-1&keywords=Navepoint+Fiber+300M

Thats the reason im even looking into the compute stick. I was intending to use a raspberry pi but no matter what i do, it wont boot.

Technically, yes. The hub is powered by the wall outlet at the end of the day, but the hub is both powered by and drawing power from the stick. This is one of the few times in computing that we can have such an issue.

I am looking to set up a computer for my grandfather, using an Intel Compute Stick attached to the back of a monitor, with a powered USB strip attached. Is it possibly to plug the Stick's power USB into the strip, but to also plug the strip into the USB output from the stick? Im trying to minimize cabling, and that would be the most efficient way to do such.

I could only suggest using actual cameras screwed into the building. While I can see the cheapness of an "Andriod" security system, i would think of it as too prone to theft and software manipulation. Used dedicated cameras, and segment them on a VLAN if you really want secure. Many will come with apps or software to let you view them from a distance.

Like, I hate to be the seemingly "old guy" of the forum, but I see no advantage to challenging the status quo of headphone jacks. Its a waste of time, effort and money. They try to justify a thinner phone with being "More portable" but all I see is "More breakable and a smaller battery". Give me a nice THICK phone with 80% of it just being battery that lasts me four days on one charge, and ill be happy. Plus better screens. Less glass. More Acrylic.

Congratulations to Brandon, who is getting better and better with each video that he releases!

Motorola has dropped in quality very sharply. It used to be that you were a complete scrub if you didn't have a Motorola phone. I swear at this point, they are simply riding off of company loyalty to make money. Can I just get a decent smartphone that works and wont break within 3 years? Im tempted to downgrade back to my old blackberry-esque Samsung phone. lasted me 8 years and still going strong after so much.

128 GB will be more than enough. Im running most of those programs on a laptop with a 128GB SSD, and Im not even to half capacity. And adding un a USB or SD card will expand the storage probably further than what you will ever use on that.

In most companies, yes he could move up. While he doesn't simply go about telling people in that way, he could work on making other jobs more efficient, allowing more clients to be processed in shorter spans of time and increasing the amount of businesses they could do in a given time. There are people making seven digits a year who work solely for improving workplace efficiency.

Can we please end this dispute regarding opinions from @The Benjamins and @josephaltareb. This forum should be seen as a place for constructive discussion, not pointless squabbling. There are both good sides and bad sides to space exploration and mining. While we have many problems here on earth, we cannot forget that sometimes we need to split our focus. Space mining can lessen some of the issues we have on earth, and can pay for itself in the long run. The trivial details ("Space Garbage" and such), are just that. TRIVIAL. We need to focus on the greater good of expanding knowledge and technology. We have less and less to discover on earth with the sciences, and we need to redirect underperforming sectorss to focus on other worlds (Such as geology. We know what rocks are on earth. now lets find a new planet).

Contrary to what im seeing from many people, Im in the middle ground. To the people saying that he didnt deserve the money he was paid, and that it should be taken away, youre flat out wrong. Did he deserve to get fired? Yes. He no longer met the requirements of his position (Being able to program). This is straightforward. Did he get fired for automating his job? No. No SMART company would fire you for that. If anything, they would give him a raise and ask for the code, and see what else he could do. The issue is the fact that he forgot how to program while probably breaking other company policy (Such as no gaming at work). Should his pay be forced to go back to the company? No. The company can do no such thing in america. When the money enters your bank account from a paycheck, it is yours and yours only. They can try to sue for it back, but they would lose simply because of gross negligence of not checking up on the employee. Its a lot like the McDonalds employee who had a direct deposit of some $40,000 due to an accounting error, and who promptly left and never came back. Can the company reclaim that money? No. They could sue but would lose for negligence. In this case, both sides failed in a massive way. They each got what they deserve.

I have to agree with those talking about mining asteroids vs planets. Asteroids with lower gravity are significantly easier to mine from, and on some cases, they can be incredibly easy. With the lack of gravity and atmospheres to contend with, you can use more 'extreme' ways of mining. One method that I know is being looked into sounds rather boring, but could be very beneficial: Explosives. Without gravity, you build a giant structure encasing the entire asteroid, just strong enough to contain the flying particles, and then shatter it using controlled explosions. Then, collect the pieces and move on. The hardest part is simply refining. there are fewer dangers in the long run dealing with asteroids than planets (fewer worries about fuel, fewer needs for massive supports to counteract gravity, and fewer chances of gravity tearing apart your vehicle.).