Random thoughts thread

[Juvenile]

If the 86 was FWD would it be called FFS in the US?

[Grishbok]

Originally Posted by Juvenile

If the 86 was FWD would it be called FFS in the US?

no, it would just be called crap.

[IntotheOcean]

Only 3 more hours until 4 more hours.
Than nap time
Than hookah.
Damn friend is moving away to Ohio so this will be our 2nd to last outing

[Spd229]

Originally Posted by Dimman

Fuck taxes.

Agreed.

Then again that's because this is the time of year you get to see the big numbers.....how much you took home vs what you actually made and come to see that you really only get about 65% of your salary after it all. Then reduce that another 7% for sales tax.....lulz.

Also. here you go for memory limit info:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...mits_windows_7

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...(v=vs.85).aspx


dayummm.....windows 2012 server....4 TB of RAM, yes plz.

[Spd229]

I also think someone doing the weather confused what a tornado watch vs warning are. Issuing a warning for the whole atlanta area seems a bit off....that'd be a helluva tornado.

---other random thought:
so this whole skyrim thing coming up...riding dragons. Is this going to work with the randy savage macho dragon mod?

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bifmj1O3D24"](Skyrim) Macho Dragon Mod - YouTube[/ame]

The eve dust 514 concept seems pretty neat too....need to d/l it.

[ichitaka05]

Woke up seeing the clock, freaked out that I was late... & just barely noticed, today is night shift.

...well looks like it's one if those day. Lol

[Want.FR-S]

Originally Posted by Dimman

Fuck taxes.

I'm looking at a hypothetical computer build, right now to distract myself from that evilness.

Also if @Want.FR-S could chime in.

What is Windows 7 Pro (or whatever the 64bit one is) RAM limit? If I'm looking at motherboards that can support say 512GB, I heard Win 7 can only handle 32GB, but not sure if this is the 'normal' or Pro or whatever version. So this would be where a dual boot setup with Linux would be needed?

Originally Posted by Spd229

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Also. here you go for memory limit info:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...mits_windows_7

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...(v=vs.85).aspx

dayummm.....windows 2012 server....4 TB of RAM, yes plz.

I wonder what you can do with that 4 TB of RAM.... load the whole HDD to RAM? That would be fun!!

BTW, thanks for the links.

Anyway, @Dimman, I am playing the various Linux builds at the moment. Before we get carry away on the hardware spec, let's just share some findings done with a 2008 Intel processor with 3 GB of RAM.

1. The latest Linux version of Ubuntu 12.04 or 12.10 is quite interesting, compared with RHEL 3 or 4 where I was familiar. The GUI is nice, and it can read your Windows NTFS drives along with LibreOffice to work on your M$ documents. Tried the OpenFOAM setup and run a sample simulation according to the website without issue. I ran the simulation either with a VM (Oracle VirtualBox 4.2.6) and natively and in both cases the performance seems satisfactory. I did not try some lengthy sims because I need to understand the OpenFOAM more to make intelligent statements.

2. The open-sourced Oracle VirtualBox is OK to run Linux apps, but you still need to run the Linux installation to setup the image for usage. One thing though is that if you kill the image without proper shut-down, the Ubuntu OS will try to scan the image and its virtual HDD for error while booting, and that could mislead you to think the image was corrupted if you are not patient enough.

IMHO I would rather run the OS natively, especially now with the Ubuntu there are other nice tools and updated browser that you can do multi-tasking on your computer.

3. I will be trying the latest CentOS 6.3 to see how it compares with Ubuntu. The reason with CentOS is that many CAD tools are greatly supported on the RHEL/CentOS. I will see if I can run OpenFOAM in that OS as well.

Now back to the hardware spec: unless you are doing a server cluster where multiple (>100) people are running at the same time, anything more than 16 GB RAM would be overkill IMO, that is, for a quad-core processor. If you think this way: one core, 4 GB or RAM, that should be plenty. However, if the price of RAM is dirty cheap, you might want to go with 32 GB if you can afford it.

Dual-boot has little thing to do with the size of RAM. Dual-boot is merely a choice during boot up to choose which OS you want to run. Once you boot up, the OS has the full usage on the RAM anyway.

One thing to note is that Linux is supposed to be more efficient and require less resources (RAM, CPU power) compared with Windows. So with a reasonable performance computer, be it laptop or desktop, it is possible to setup Linux image on this machine. For casual usage, 50 - 100 GB of disk space should get you going. If you are going to run many Linux apps, get a 300 GB partition should be enough, I think.

So lastly, if you are just poking the Linux for fun, give the Oracle VM a try and be patient. If you are serious on running Linux, partition your HDD for a good size and run dual-boot. If you will be living on the Linux all day long, get a dedicate box.

Links for virtual box: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

Sorry for the wall of text.

[Jayde]

Originally Posted by ichitaka05

Woke up seeing the clock, freaked out that I was late... & just barely noticed, today is night shift.

...well looks like it's one if those day. Lol

For some reason, I've been waking up like an hour to two hours ahead of when I set my alarm, and I can't figure out why. Though, my schedule doesn't change. Up at the same time everyday. Hell I could probably keep my alarm off and my body will just wake up by itself at or around the time I need to be up.

[Spd229]

Originally Posted by Jayde

For some reason, I've been waking up like an hour to two hours ahead of when I set my alarm, and I can't figure out why. Though, my schedule doesn't change. Up at the same time everyday. Hell I could probably keep my alarm off and my body will just wake up by itself at or around the time I need to be up.

I know how that is, happens pretty often during the week yet on the weekends I sleep like the dead if I don't get up at 7....then I'm just groggy and feel like I wasted half my day off.

I probably should just get up when I wake up during the week...even if on only 5 hours as attempting sleeping after that is just an irritating and futile exercise.

[NickD]

I took a 3000 level math last semester, this semester taking a 2000 level math to fill a requirement. Its kind of boring learning things that we went over last semester, and learning them in less detail, lol

[Asterisked Accolade]

I'm barely competent in even the most rudimentary of maths.

[NickD]

I'm not so great either, but I don't have any friends so I spend my time studying and not partying.

[Asterisked Accolade]

Originally Posted by NickD

I'm not so great either, but I don't have any friends so I spend my time studying and not partying.

Ooh, me too-- i just study stuff other than math. Loser's club.

[Dimman]

I am using for reference on requirements that one automotive case on an i7 with 32GB of RAM takes 24-36 hours. 1-2 hours on a Xeon-based workstation (but specs unknown at the moment).

My past experience is old 3d animation and rendering software, and high polygon count models, coupled with ray-tracing would just kill things.

With CFD, finer meshes are better (high polygon equiv?) plus instead of light rays that just go straight, the air modelling is kind of like raytracing where the rays interact with each other and don't have to go straight. So lots of RAM would be in order, especially since it can't send it to a fancy graphics card.

I'm probably going to shoot for 64GB on Windows 7 Pro, and a virtual Ubuntu setup.