Nice! Have you considered upgrading from M44 to SKS-45?

(I will not even mention SVT-40).

That gun is a wall-hanger, you couldn't pay me to load a 7.62x54R and pull the trigger.. I already have a Soviet Tula arsenal SKS in my collection.

 

That gun is a wall-hanger, you couldn't pay me to load a 7.62x54R and pull the trigger.. I already have a Soviet Tula arsenal SKS in my collection.

You just need to do it Soviet style, get cotton stuffed short winter jacket: https://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-RU...m3b0bcc6cda:g:yz8AAOSw6-Nb1s3T&frcectupt=true
Then put the recoil pad on the carbine.
Then you shoot it.

 

You just need to do it Soviet style, get cotton stuffed short winter jacket: https://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-RU...m3b0bcc6cda:g:yz8AAOSw6-Nb1s3T&frcectupt=true
Then put the recoil pad on the carbine.
Then you shoot it.

No thanks. For me that would be like putting on a KKK robe. I like collecting weapons of former adversaries, not emulating them.

 

nsa, saw this today and thought of you: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod...0&cm_re=zotac_gtx_1050-_-14-500-411-_-Product
it kinda looks low profile, but I think it takes two slots. I don't think it will fit dl360, but it might work for dl380.

 

nsa, saw this today and thought of you: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500411&Description=zotac gtx 1050&cm_re=zotac_gtx_1050-_-14-500-411-_-Product
it kinda looks low profile, but I think it takes two slots. I don't think it will fit dl360, but it might work for dl380.

That should work nicely on a dl380. Doesn't need a Supplementary Power Connector either at 75W (max power for a pci-e slot card only).

 

98 degrees today outside. In the workroom with no AC it's a burner but the server fans are not too loud.

 

Just completed an upgrade of my house internet fiber speed (500M) on the Optical Network Terminal from the provider and my internal physical Ethernet switch before the firewall. After firewall speed from a online speed test web-page on the HP server on the other side of the firewall

Nothing but Net thru two switches and three network cards!

 

Sweet! Linux 64-bit Eagle Cad auto-route on the 12 processor machine.

 

Sweet! Linux 64-bit Eagle Cad auto-route on the 12 processor machine.

Wait...it can't draw straight lines?

 

Wait...it can't draw straight lines?

That's the first approximation (looks like a drunkard's walk probability path) of interconnects. optimizing and making straight lines takes a lot longer.

 

That's the first approximation (looks like a drunkard's walk probability path) of interconnects. optimizing and making straight lines takes a lot longer.

I haven't used an autorouter in a long, long time. But the ones I used in the past tended to minimize the number of jogs during the routing process. Lots of in-process rip and replace, but even the intermediate results were far cleaner than what your package is generating.

 

I haven't used an autorouter in a long, long time. But the ones I used in the past tended to minimize the number of jogs during the routing process. Lots of in-process rip and replace, but even the intermediate results were far cleaner than what your package is generating.

The intermediate results are meaningless if the final result is superior. I've got complex RF acceleration systems that can use two methods to fine tune beam power.

The old method uses a pretty standard sequential peaking method (tuning) of varying phase/voltage timing relationships between RF resonators, electrostatic quadrupoles and the accelerating ions. The newer superior method (that requires more cpu power) uses random walk probability with sliding tuning constraints to tune. Guess which one has intermediate results that looks poor (during the tuning process) but with superior final results.

https://forum.allaboutcircuits.com/...c-controlled-battery-array.32879/post-1460084

 

Replacing an old Linux friend I built for work engineering backup service years ago, The replacement is a used $400 DL360P server. There is a lots of good used x86 enterprise server hardware on the market now.


Old server uptime stats.


New server
CPU's and memory

 

The prices on these servers is crashing.
https://www.amazon.com/HP-DL360p-Ge...pd_rd_i=B07QCVVF7D&psc=1&ref_=pd_bap_d_rp_3_t



This guy testing perfectly with a 8 drive raid 60.
https://www.microsemi.com/product-directory/raid-controllers/4047-raid-levels#16

 

Linux netboot DL360 workstation. Lots of gen 8 and gen9 hardware hitting the surplus market. Fully loaded GEN 8 systems for less than $300. Add a GT-1030 video card for rock-sold dual monitor video on Linux.

 

Now that I have servers with the horsepower to easily saturate the 1G backbone during disk to disk transfers it's time to upgrade at least the server to server backbone.



No blue leds on this one.

 

What are you upgrading the server backbone to? Fiber?

 

What are you upgrading the server backbone to? Fiber?

10GBASE-T 10G copper CAT 6A STP
https://wbnetworks.com.au/blog/what-is-the-real-difference-between-cat6-and-cat6a

 

Just moving the servers to their own switch with no other changes gives a noticeable speedup on the general switching network during backups.

11-Mar 16:36 sma2-sd JobId 12177: Elapsed time=00:09:12, Transfer rate=68.16 M Bytes/second
11-Mar 16:36 sma2-sd JobId 12177: Sending spooled attrs to the Director. Despooling 46,687 bytes ...
11-Mar 16:36 sma2-dir JobId 12177: Bacula sma2-dir 9.6.7 (10Dec20):
Build OS: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu debian bookworm/sid
JobId: 12177
Job: hp8.2023-03-11_16.27.25_14
Backup Level: Incremental, since=2023-03-10 23:05:03
Client: "hp8-fd" 9.6.7 (10Dec20) x86_64-pc-linux-gnu,debian,bookworm/sid
FileSet: "Full Set" 2021-10-08 16:24:26
Pool: "File" (From Job resource)
Catalog: "MyCatalog" (From Client resource)
Storage: "File2" (From Job resource)
Scheduled time: 11-Mar-2023 16:27:21
Start time: 11-Mar-2023 16:27:27
End time: 11-Mar-2023 16:36:40
Elapsed time: 9 mins 13 secs
Priority: 10
FD Files Written: 217
SD Files Written: 217
FD Bytes Written: 37,628,776,398 (37.62 GB)
SD Bytes Written: 37,628,801,103 (37.62 GB)
Rate: 68044.8 KB/s
Software Compression: None
Comm Line Compression: 32.5% 1.5:1
Snapshot/VSS: no
Encryption: no
Accurate: no
Volume name(s): Vol-1172
Volume Session Id: 9
Volume Session Time: 1678481614
Last Volume Bytes: 39,303,478,082 (39.30 GB)
Non-fatal FD errors: 1
SD Errors: 0
FD termination status: OK
SD termination status: OK
Termination: Backup OK -- with warnings

Disk based tape emulation backup to XFS file system on mirrored raid 8TB drives.

 

The Yamaha Digital Reverberator should be good through 10G, after which you'll need an upgrade.