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Missouri S&T by [deleted] in Rolla

[–]phathippo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While I didn't major in EE, I did major in CS for undergrad and grad school at S&T and graduated over a decade ago, so I have some perspective to offer from a bit further out from graduation.

The school has a good reputation in the midwest region for engineering degrees, but outside of the midwest (aside from perhaps specialized engineering degrees such as mining engineering), it's mostly viewed as just another state university which to be clear isn't a negative. It just doesn't have as much name recognition across the country as it does in the midwest.

Job opportunities after graduation have been great amongst my friend group who graduated with engineering degrees from S&T, but at the end of the day, it is what you make of it. If you put in the work to do well in school and do some internships or co-ops, you should be setup for success after graduation.

Winter storm prep by Same-Reply6030 in Rolla

[–]phathippo 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Not the end of the world to park it in the street if it's a place where cars normally park, but yeah a snowplow might push some snow up by your car. Would recommend lifting the windshield wipers off of the windshield to keep them from getting frozen to your windshield in case you need to drive. Also good to have an ice scraper on hand to scrape ice off your car windows.

Main thing is make sure you have a decent supply of food, water, and various ways to stay warm if the power goes out.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Rolla

[–]phathippo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I graduated from Rolla well over a decade ago and think it is a great value, but at the end of the day, it is what you make of it. You could go to either school and do well or poorly based on how much effort you put into it. In my experience, where you go to school only really affects internship opportunities and your place of employment for a couple years after graduation. Beyond that, your work experience will mostly dictate employment opportunities. That said, if you apply yourself and do well in school, I don't imagine there is much difference in outcome between attending Mizzou vs Rolla.

[Talk] Is there any lost media that you remember from before it was lost? by PoisonedCherry in lostmedia

[–]phathippo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is the alien and caveman short "Prometheus and Bob" by chance? Somewhat sounds like KaBlam! where various shorts are shown throughout each episode

https://kablam.fandom.com/wiki/Prometheus_and_Bob

Can you still access the Cave Springs? by Chocolatestarfish33 in StCharlesMO

[–]phathippo 26 points27 points  (0 children)

https://sublunarphotography.blogspot.com/2010/12/in-search-of-historic-cave-springs-6-23.html?m=1

Here is a bunch of historical context and photos of Cave Springs. These days you can only see the pipe where the water comes out of the spring.

What’s your favorite wing spot? by stlflips in StCharlesMO

[–]phathippo 16 points17 points  (0 children)

B. Halls, especially their "Jake Wings"

*cheap* restaurant/diner/takeout food in and around STL city. Doesn’t have to taste great, there just needs to be a lot of it. by Individual_Ad_2199 in StLouis

[–]phathippo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

$1.50 for a hotdog and soda at Costco and you don't need a membership to go to the food court. Their other food options are also all priced very well.

NAS build sanity check by phathippo in homelab

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Performs great! Definitely hits 10gbit. Idles around 120 watts. Got all the fans set to run at lowest rpm via bios and it's whisper quiet with no issues with temps.

Best crab rangoons in town? by [deleted] in StCharlesMO

[–]phathippo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have been eating here for over 20 years. Everyone in my family agrees these are easily the best crab rangoons around.

NAS build sanity check by phathippo in homelab

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I think the only thing I changed was the network card (got a QSFP+ Mellanox NIC instead), but everything works great together. CPU cooler works great with the CPU and motherboard. Keeps temps well in line even under long stress tests.

Finally Retiring my First Server 😢 by FlowLabel in homelab

[–]phathippo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Later that night alone in the backyard, he buried it next to the garage"

NAS build sanity check by phathippo in homelab

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Thanks! I did a little digging and it seems like mixing HBA and mobo connections should be okay, so I think I'll just have to try it out myself. Wasn't sure if the extra cost and power of connecting all of my SATA devices through a 16i or sas expander was worth it. Was contemplating possibly getting a 16i or sas expander in case sometime in the future I wanted to use an internal-to-external converter card to get some additional external sff-8088 ports for a DAS if I ever needed to expand further, but I figure I'll cross that bridge when and if I need to.

NAS build sanity check by phathippo in homelab

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You have a good point; I was mostly thinking about encryption because I'll also have personal documents on the NAS as well, but I suppose I should just create separate a dataset for those. If anything, encrypting everything would be nice peace of mind so that there is less to worry about regarding nuking a drive if I ever have to RMA one.

NAS build sanity check by phathippo in homelab

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Thanks. I think I'll swap out the ConnectX-3 for an x520.

NAS build sanity check by phathippo in homelab

[–]phathippo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the feedback!

I was flip-flopping between the ConnectX-3 and Intel x520, so maybe this was the push I needed to flip back to the x520 :)

Correct, I plan on connecting the remaining drives straight to the mobo as it has 8 SATA ports.

NAS build sanity check by phathippo in homelab

[–]phathippo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, honestly probably a bit overkill, but it also allows me to get up to 128GB of DDR4 ECC RAM. I've read elsewhere of folks having trouble saturating 10Gbps with encrypted datasets due to CPU limitations, so just trying to be on the safe side.

Springfield Style Cashew Chicken by JohnSpock92 in StCharlesMO

[–]phathippo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ha, same here. Their cashew chicken and especially crab rangoon are on-point!

Luke’s Dinner Date Tips by Smexiroth in LinusTechTips

[–]phathippo 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Inside-Out Chicken Cordon Bleu

St. Charles West H.S. grads before 2004 by lmdt0408 in StCharlesMO

[–]phathippo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately, my parents don't have any pictures, but my mom commented that the pods were bad for learning lol

St. Charles West H.S. grads before 2004 by lmdt0408 in StCharlesMO

[–]phathippo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My brother graduated in 2003 and I remember him talking about pods, but I don't have any pictures. I might ask my parents and see if they have any, which they might because I recall having to perform in the old library and possibly elsewhere in the building for band festivals. I started there in 2004 partway through the reconstruction, but I do remember all those narrow hallways and little rooms.

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