If you are buying a material amount of gear, and have your own internal accounting/finance people to establish proper etiquette in purchasing, Dell will never "lose" based on price. As customers, you can say what you're willing to spend on a solution, if you understand the BOMs and all the details and "the business rules" then Dell can be a good enough partner.
We operated a hundred petabyte sized warehouse, and did it at the fraction of the cost of cloud services even factoring in engineers, networking, power and redundancy and DR.
No, MSI is not better. It pains me to say it, but Dell has the best post-purchase support on data center gear. Their servers "just work" for commodity needs, even into HPC and custom gear. Once you exceed that, there's a half dozen opencompute vendors that will go deeper with customizations and requirements.
Transitioning? It already happened decades ago. Only smaller scale/generic or less proficient "we bought all Dell and HP" use AC. At large scale it's been a ton of DC for literally decades. And for 70 years in telco and network gear.
Supermicro is definitely a "you get what you pay for". We bought thousands of servers from their vertical integrations partners, had massive board and backplane problems. Took a few years but they eventually took back over $30 million dollars worth of servers, which were scrapped ultimately because the rework on them was so cost prohibitive. We lost $30M on that even after the $30M in good will refunds.
Supermicro also has the lowest bios/efi/bmc/ipmi/redfish out of any vendor we have seen.
Just low tier cheap ass shit by a company who can barely survive quarter to quarter without running some new scam on customers, investors, and even governments.
I wouldn't if I were you. Indeed there's a membrane that can keep drops away from electronics, but one big drop will find a way eventually. Doesn't even have to be a spill. Macs are infinitely fragile actually, there is zero effort spent on moisture or even dust intrusion.
The lightning and power boost can do up to 50amps though, the old trucks had to be running and you had to have a second or hight output alternator added.
Having the battery/hybrid with their nice inverters was nice
This is a shame. Coworker got a Lightning and he loves it. He doesn't tow with it but he does field work for fiber optic stuff, usually back home every day. Runs his computers, tools, ventilation for going down manholes, he even powered a sump pump from it, without needing to haul a generator.
The hybrid truck can now do the same, but it's a really nice truck
Donated! Thank you very much, NetBSD was one of my first experiences, on a Pentium 60 with a 504MB hard drive. It made me who I am today, eternally grateful to have learned from such amazing and talented people.
I'm so glad you say that. Resi aerial is perfect in most locations. No dig, no service boxes in front yards, under someone's unpermitted driveway pour, ample power easily, a guy in a bucket truck is all you need.
Trenchless works well when it can, but even reasonable infrastructure underground is twice as expensive.
I love seeing a neighborhood lit up in fiber in 2-5 days and subscribers online at 1-10Gb in soooo many places. Keeps crews busy either way :D
Lots of words to say "use already available time libraries and use ISO time formatting". Cool story bruh. And really really terrible way to communicate one of the most beaten to death categories with that site design
I've been out of rails for more than a decade, ended up mostly with Django, but I always kinda miss rails. But Django has treated me so well, just wish async and python in general had more legs on this side
Except, he paid people for, and promoted the upload of copywrited works. He knowingly participated and basically tailored his products to pirating.
Some people love him, but he will see his day in court apparently, but no one wants to even deal with him because he's gone crazy.
I just love my eBay Juniper gear. There's a fan less PoE 12 port switch which is line rate forwarding, vlans, managed, etc, the Juniper EX-2200-C (compact, fanless very large heatsink industrial design).
There's fanless Juniper SRX firewalls that'll do 1Gb/s NAT and L3 just fine.
Yah it's an old proprietary freebsd binary blob network OS to commercial silocon, but they're solid and do REST and custom controllers if that's your thing (can build overlays and calico kubernetes with bgp on em even)
It still makes sense. They went bankrupt (because they literally ran out of money, they could no longer process withdrawals and billions was missing, it got put into receivership, and good to best outcome was achieved.
This is not vindication of SBF or FTX, they sunk and were saved
Sure, if you intend on working until your late 70s. I'm not sure which side of the coin with AI and shit wether or not coding vs hauling is a longer term career
It's not just SMB. it's nfs and iscsi too. Awful performance or downright completely buggy and broken. Iscsi requires third party software and you can enjoy the year 2006 in terms of performance. It's truly pathetic.
It sounds like you're trying to speak for everyone. Clearly there is a balance (money needs to be spent building new generation of some type). But we can work on climate -and- avoiding the extinction of vital fish species by restoring the flows of rivers.
I don't think the systems at large will afford humanity a second chance or "over time" if we fail to act.