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I would be quite interested to know more about how they actually processed all of this data. According to Wikipedia they OCR'd quite a bit of it and used some other fancy stuff to work through it. In any case, if this has kept 376 journalists busy for about a year there should be some juicy info in there I hope. I must say I find it pretty impressive that so many people have been working on this for so long and until now there was nothing about it on the wires. That's some special-ops military-grade discipline.

It is highly likely that the features you're trying to enable have been physically broken in the silicon itself. This is not a reversible process (well, certainly not with any means at a normal person's disposal). And in this case, there is nothing you can do to re-enable those features (assuming the process worked as intended). More info here, with more links to sources and such: https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/3onp1m/how_do_companies_like_intel_or_amd_disable_cores/

In case anyone is wondering: http://bureauofcommunication.com/compose/apology

Alright guys, I've hidden some off-topic posts. Yes, inevitably any tech forum will get trolls who'll pretend to have some technical issues while they are in fact suffering from mental issues (which are a bit harder to troubleshoot, and often can't be fixed), such is life. Sometimes they're stupid obvious enough to get banned quickly, sometimes they're a bit more subtle. Was this thread created for trolling? I don't know. Maybe, maybe not. But here's the thing: Nobody is obligated to try to help OP. Every single member on this forum can just move past this thread without doing anything if they think it's not worth their time. If you think this thread was created for trolling... just don't help, ignore it. Nobody is forced to spend their time here. Either way, be nice to each other.

@gidonyouI'm currently playing around with OpenMediaVault, might be worth a look as well. Based on Debian, so the underlying basis is very solid. And yes, it is free, and should easily run on your hardware. RockStor is also on my list of things to try though, so don't let me stop you from that.

While I must say the trackpad on my MBP is very nice, I actually find it to be too large. I keep accidentally activating it with my palms when I type (yes, I have fiddled with all kinds of palm detection settings, and I've had it happen both in Linux and OSX, it just seems that I hold my hands in a way the designers did not intend when they made that machine).

Are you looking to measure the network share speed (by which I mean actually reading and writing from/to the share) or the connection? For simple network connection test I usually use iperf, has been quite handy for my needs. For the sequential share read/write speed, I usually just run a dd command between the two machines. Aside from that, I haven't really done any super-1337-guru-master-haxx0r synthetic benchmarks on my setups to be honest. Curious to see what others do for theirs though. This was the result when I originally tested my server: But I don't really run a super fancy setup at home (server + backup + the clients, basically), plus my dad is self-employed and needs things to be up and running for his work, so I can't tinker too much with it EDIT: This was between Linux and Windows though, didn't have a Mac available at the time. But iperf is apparently available for Mac too.

I got a 1920x1200 display on a laptop in 2004 or 2005. Then 1080p came along and screwed everything up. And 4K, while offering some beautiful images, is also 16:9, sadly. I have been looking at getting new monitors for my desktop, but I don't think a bunch of 1:1 displays would be within my budget for the time being (EIZO 1:1 is the only 1:1 display I could get around here, and it's 1K per piece for the 8bit one). On a laptop I'm not sure I'd want 1:1, I think it'd be a bit of an awkward form factor (assuming you build the laptop around the display's dimensions).

Yeah, I was very surprised indeed. I should probably point out that I was looking at business-grade laptops, because from a build-quality POV, that's what I'd consider the MBP to be comparable to. I've had some bad experience with consumer-grade laptops, so these days, if in any way possible, I will only buy business-grade machines. And these will be more expensive. One absolutely awesome thing about the Macbook Pro? 16:10 ASPECT RATIO DISPLAY, HELL YEAH!!! None of that 16:9 nonsense. Well, it will depend on what you want to program. DirectX development on Linux is probably not going to be the path of sanity. But for multi-platform stuff based on GTK+ or QT, Linux is viable in my experience. We did that for a project last semester, worked pretty well. Although if you do that, definitely actually make sure your stuff runs on a Windows machine, don't just compile on Linux and hope for the best. We had a few kinks to iron out on that front (well, the guy who was responsible for that part of our project). Aside from that, I do embedded programming with microcontrollers these days (which is mostly C). For that, it will primarily depend if the manufacturer's IDE is available on your platform or not. We used a dsPIC in our project last semester, and Microchip's IDE is indeed available on Linux (and it's actually pretty decent). In the end though, it will also depend on how well you know your platform. If you're very familiar with windows and don't know Linux, well then I wouldn't recommend switching to Linux to code, that just seems like asking for trouble. Me, I'm much more familiar with Linux these days, so unless there's some specific tool forcing me to use Windows, there's not much point in me switching to it. I know the Linux environment much better, so it's also much easier to troubleshoot for me on that platform.

I had a very curious experience when I went shopping for a new laptop last year actually. After filtering out products which didn't meet my requirements for one reason or another, Lenovo and Apple were left, and the Macbook Pro turned out to have better price/performance. As in: I spec'd out the Lenovo machines which were possible candidates similarly to the MBP, and they ended up being more expensive by a few hundred. Having said that, at least some Lenovo products seem to be significantly more expensive where I live than elsewhere for some reason. So I ended up with a 15" MBP. Mostly very happy with it, a few niggles and complaints (well, primarily one: The keyboard not having dedicated Insert, Home, Page Up, Page Down and Delete keys is fucking retarded). Though I'm not too big on OSX, so I put Arch Linux on it. Been using that as my primary workhorse for the past year or so, it's doing a nice job of it. As for the topic's question: It might also just be that you notice Macs more when they're being used. Though I can't say for sure, of course. But in the end, OSX, Windows and Linux should allow you to do front-end web development unless you need to use some specific tool for your specific job which is only available on one platform. But in the end, what do you really need? A good editor or IDE, browsers to test out the page, graphics programs? But I might be overlooking something, I'm not a professional front-end dev, after all.

But yeah, looking forward to this.

Yes, yes, I'm here! I see my 2CPU fetish is starting to be well-known.

Well then, now that you have an excuse to upgrade, I look forward to seeing your 100 drives, 600 TB machine, right?

There's only one ranking, which goes by points. And on that, you're rank 40. The capacity and drive count are just for additional info, but the actual rankings go by points. That's why the table and the three ranking plots are all in the same order, they're all sorted by ranking points (which is the product of the capacity in terabytes and the natural logarithm of the number of storage drives). And my sympathies, that sucks. Did you lose anything critical?

IPS doesn't really have a nice built-in way to transfer thread ownership, but maybe I can find a workaround. I'd need to have the OK from Luclocke though (assuming it can actually be done).

No worries, I'm in no rush. As for the second thing: It would require some hackery in the database, probably not that great of an idea to mess with that.

Credit goes to mortis, I tried to find it, but failed (he knows the database better than I do, I was looking in the wrong spot ). So: Fred needs to make a thread in the test forum, I'll then post the dump from the DB into that thread and we can work on fixing it up again. Once it's done, the content can be moved into the post in this thread, and you should have the post right on the first page of this thread again.

He asked nicely, and it seemed to be a pretty big post. Or curiosity just got the better of us. And because the post wasn't properly parsed for the new forum, it might require some manual interference on our part to make it work again, I don't really want to work on this somewhere in the depths of a 3,600-page-long thread.

@MyInnerFred We've found your post (well, @colonel_mortis did :D). Looks like it got broken and dropped by the upgrader. Since it never got properly parsed for the new forum, it might require some editing and fixing though. If you want to, make a thread in the test subforum and I can post it there, then you can see how it works/if it works, play around with trying to fix it. test forum can be found here btw.: https://linustechtips.com/main/forum/90-test-posts

Thanks! Now I just need to refactor the horrifying mess that is the ranking script. I was a bit lazy and just wanted to get it done, didn't pay much attention to good coding practices, plus I'm not very experienced in Python. But yes, the topic of huge HDDs starting to mess up the rankings had been raised a few times, so we thought it was time to take that into account and mitigate that issue. At first I just took the product of drive count and total capacity, but the results of that were a bit extreme, hence why I switched to using the logarithm for the drive count. An example for how it looked without the log: So yeah... results got a bit too extreme for our tastes, with some systems surpassing others despite having significantly less storage capacity. Figuring out the table design was also quite interesting. At first I was just going to replicate the old table, but then I realized I could do significantly more with the new forum. Plus, spoilers actually look nice now, so I could use those without screwing everything up, aesthetically. Which made it possible to add more plots without the post becoming a mile long. This is another example of the table, first version where I added bars. Not very readable I think, hence why I changed it: Also, credit to @MG2R for helping me figure out a sane way to structure the table.