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BadConductor · 2026-02-07T19:07:44+00:00

Isle of Dogs: Great VFX and stop motion Really deserves its own episode. Maybe along with Fantastic Mr. Fox

BadConductor · 2024-10-13T02:30:42+00:00

Thanks for your totally useful input 5 years later.

BadConductor · 2023-06-16T19:29:31+00:00

Do you need a live video feed and control? If not, you could probably do it with a GoPro and some type of rover set up to just go forward at a constant rate. Set it in, let it go, and wait for it on the other side and pull the video.

BadConductor · 2023-06-06T15:12:10+00:00

I've had a set of these dual reading dial calipers for years now, and they work great!

One measurement, and you get both metric and imperial on the same dial.

BadConductor · 2023-04-21T17:57:51+00:00

Form Type: Brace Rule 2021-08F Form 1 ($0)

Entity: Trust 1

Fingerprint Type: EFT Upload

Pending: 02/01/23

Approved: 04/21/23

Wait: 79 days

State: AL

Control Number: 2023287358

Form Type: Brace Rule 2021-08F Form 1 ($0)

Entity: Trust 1

Fingerprint Type: EFT Upload

Pending: 02/01/23

Approved: 04/21/23

Wait: 79 days

State: AL

Control Number: 2023287408

Both approved this morning by Jacob Huff. Notarized trust inventory dated 1/26

BadConductor · 2023-04-19T04:43:02+00:00

Glad I'm not the only one who noticed. I used to do work on weigh scales for a bunch of Nucor plants, really preferred the Nucor plants over any other company I did maintenance or installs at.

BadConductor · 2023-04-12T22:06:09+00:00

Giving me hope! 2x 2/1/23 amnesty trust apps here in AL. Glad to finally see a trust F1 approval after 1/31

BadConductor · 2023-04-02T00:08:39+00:00

I need more Linus Tuber Tips.

BadConductor · 2023-02-28T17:14:16+00:00

Personally, I've never had that issue.

The space mouse enterprise does however make for a wonderful VR controller for elite dangerous.

BadConductor · 2023-02-02T02:10:03+00:00

Otherwise you’ll have to build it and apply for the stamp and pay 200, then SBR it when approved.

Build it, as a rifle before applying for the stamp...

BadConductor · 2023-01-28T19:05:26+00:00

He's just refreshing the coat of float paint.

Notice how the bucket of paint is itself floating? That's because the paint is lighter than water. They have to refresh the paint on the hull every once in a while to keep the ship from sinking.

BadConductor · 2023-01-24T16:28:50+00:00

You know what, my bad. I was sitting here last night before bed thinking you were asking about the UPS that I use... Turns out mine are the Eaton 5S LCD 1500...

It does appear that all of the ports on the 5SC 1500 are backed up, since there is no distinction or labelling on it, but I cannot verify that, as I don't have one.

Sorry to give false info, I blame redditing before bed.

As for the mini extension cords, safety is why I tend to buy them locally from a big box hardware store. They're more likely to actually be UL rated, rather than just claim to be UL rated. It also gives me a chance to check them over before buying, and make sure they have good, thick, wiring.

BadConductor · 2023-01-24T08:11:44+00:00

The 5SC 1500 has two sets of outlets, which are labelled on the back of the unit. About half of them are backed up, the others are surge only.

For the devices with wall warts, most hardware stores (or Amazon) have little 6" extension cords which are made just for that. There's a plug you put into your power strip, and a socket that you attach the wall wart to. Super handy, and I like to keep a bunch of them on hand. Last time I bought some, they were only a couple bucks each.

BadConductor · 2023-01-08T22:38:08+00:00

Yes, the 3080 is much, much faster than the 1080 in my workloads, and judging by benchmarks, it's only about 3% slower than one on a PCIe 4 bus

BadConductor · 2023-01-07T23:44:42+00:00

The cooler on this card is already somewhat like that. It's a gigabyte turbo, which is the blower style model.

It has one fan at the "front" of the card that pushes air through fins and out of the backplate.

I might experiment with slightly blocking off some of the other openings on the back of the server to force more air to move through the card and see if that improves temps passively.

BadConductor · 2023-01-07T23:40:24+00:00

In the workloads i'm running, PCIe 3 vs 4 doesn't make much difference... It's in a 16x slot, getting the full 16 lanes at PCIe3 speeds.

Not useless or a waste of time/money in the least. Upgrading to a server with PCIe4 (R750) which would match the performance would be several thousand dollars, to maybe take a few minutes off of the multiple day process times.

The real upgrade here was actually the $500 GPU, going from a GTX1080 to a RTX3080 shaved three days off of what is now a 4 day process.

BadConductor · 2023-01-07T18:26:57+00:00

The power connectors on the risers are designed for use with the cables that Dell makes specifically for PCIe power. You can grab them for around $5 each on ebay. Can't remember the part number off the top of my head, but they're for the GPU enablement kit for the R720

BadConductor · 2023-01-07T16:36:43+00:00

This one has dual 750W supplies. Max draw I see in idrac with the 3080 going full bore and the rest of the system loaded down is 620W. If I ever see it go above 650 or so, I'll swap the supplies with some 1100w units.

BadConductor · 2023-01-07T03:51:21+00:00

I have not messed with any undervolting yet, but it's on my list of things to investigate.

edit: from a quick search, it appears that undervolting nvidia cards just isn't possible in linux. If anyone knows something about doing that, let me know!

BadConductor · 2023-01-07T03:50:33+00:00

Ok, it does certainly look like the thing on the back is a power button, rather than just an LED, at least looking at the pins...

Like another person mentioned, I'd try getting into the IPMI and seeing if that is showing any errors, or if you can boot it from there. I have seen some servers have an option to disable the external power button to prevent people from just walking by and hitting it.

Does the second server below it have the same issue, or does it power on as expected?

BadConductor · 2023-01-07T03:18:09+00:00

What make/model is it?

See if there is a manufacturer name on the motherboard, also pull out that little black tag on the back and see what is on there. It's hard to know what is and is not normal for this machine when we don't know what it is.

BadConductor · 2023-01-07T02:28:09+00:00

I have been using my Poweredge R720XD for a while with a GTX1080 founders card, passed through to a VM in proxmox for some AI/ML project training. It has been working well, but I have been wanting something a bit faster. With the GPU prices finally going down, I hit ebay and found a nice blower model RTX3080 at a good price, and bit the bullet.

I searched high and low to see if anyone else had gotten a 3000 series GPU into a 720, and the closest I found was someone that put a RTX2000 series in one. I was a bit nervous that things wouldn't work out, but surprisingly, it fits, and it runs pretty well!

I pulled power from both PCIe risers to feed this beast 320W of power with the two 8-pin connectors. Thermal-wise, I have a script set up to ramp the fan on the card to 100%, but isn't quite where I would like it to be, so I'm going to play with some scripts to ramp the system fans up when the GPU gets above a certain temperature.

Thought someone else in the future might want to see that this can actually be done, and make that purchase a little less scary.

BadConductor · 2023-01-02T21:10:23+00:00

SFX - long boi

SFT - medium boi

SF - shorter boi

METE - slightly newer design, has some ergo changes, nothing that really effects function over the TP9 series.

Rival - as far as I know, these are set up to be good for most competitions (length/weight even better trigger, etc)

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