Post your random pics!

:wtf: I have to turn some things off just to use the microwave or it will trip a breaker.

Alan

Cyparagon said:

You need more switches, Mr Diachi.

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I actually added another 48 port gigabit managed switch after taking those pictures. 10/100 Cisco switches weren't going to cut it for the "lab" portion of the rack, at least not for iSCSI.

joeybab3 said:

What do you use all that for XD

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Studying Cisco/Windows/VMWare and a little messing around with Ubuntu/CentOS/FreePBX(Asterisk)/Juniper.

Some of the gear runs 24/7, two desktops and two rack mounted machines, as well as my "core" switch that connects all of the other switches and handles the internal routing, and the two "client" switches, one for the servers in the rack and the other at my desk. Have a WatchGuard x750e running pfSense for the firewall that is also up 24/7.

Services I'm running are Active Directory on 2012R2 server, Exchange 2010, File, Plex, FTP, uTorrent Web UI, Web Server, Backup Exec 2013, FreeNAS running ZFS/iSCSI, Spiceworks and I was running Asterisk with some SIP phones for a while. I think that's everything for the moment... Routing is mostly all dynamic with OSPF.

Production gear:

Dell PE2950 - 32GB RAM, 3x 2TB HDD RAID0, 3x 300GB SAS 10ks in RAID 5, ESXi 5.0
HP DL320 G4
watchGuard X750e running pfSense
Cisco 3560 24 port
Cisco 2960 48 Port
Linksys WRT54 running DD-WRT for bridge to my buddy's network
Cisco/Linksys 802.11AC access point
Lenovo M92 for FreeNAS
Lenovo dontknowthemodelnumber running ESXi 5.0
APC 3000kVA UPS with 4x 12V 80Ah SLAs for 2 hours run time with everything on, 4 with just the desktops and switches.

Other gear which isn't "production":

2x Juniper NS50s
2x Cisco 2621xms
2x Cisco 2950s x24 port
1x 3Com 48 Port Gigabit Switch
1x HP 24 port "dumb" 10/100 switch
1x HP DL320 G4
2x HP Dl360 G4
1x IBM server - Can't remember the model at the moment, same generation as the HPs though.

Mostly all older kit but it's mostly relevant enough to be useful for now.

Haven't finished running the cabling since tidying up at the weekend, 9 or so runs to add.

Pi R Squared said:

:wtf: I have to turn some things off just to use the microwave or it will trip a breaker.

Alan

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The "production" part that runs 24/7 is on it's own breaker, hooked up to a 3kVA UPS with 4x 12V 80Ah SLAs for ~2 hours of run time at ~1000W power consumption. The "lab" part of the rack is only on when I need to study something, that's on a smaller APC SmartUPS 1500 with internal battery, but probably uses about 1000W on it's own too, on a different breaker from the rest of the gear. The production part probably costs around $0.35/hr to run... I need newer hardware.

joeybab3 said:

These are cool, keep the updates coming

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Thanks : ) , Heres the cased version with the small 4 digit one on top .


001 by TwirlyWhirly555, on Flickr

T_Warne said:

The wildfires up here are terrible this year. Resources are stretched so thin that we have crews coming in from as far as Australia.

If fire does break out in my neck of the woods who knows how long it might take to get a response, so I built a "poor man's" fire truck.

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How much watering time do you think you'd get from that running at full pelt? I'm guessing it would last about 10-15 minutes but probably be quite effective over a large area.

T warne( Just beautilfull! )

trencheel303 said:

How much watering time do you think you'd get from that running at full pelt? I'm guessing it would last about 10-15 minutes but probably be quite effective over a large area.

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At full throttle it will throw 31.5 liters a minute. For transporting over uneven ground I only fill the tank with about 852 liters (225 gallons). A tank should last me 25+ minutes.

Intel NUC5i5MYBE , 480Gb M.2 SSD , 8GB 1600Mhz Ram

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Weird Al better not have been talking smack about Canada...

@ Gabe. I hope not. I got to visit your beautiful country for my first time this summer. We went to Shambhala music festival and spent a few days in Nelson with my wife's friend who lives just outside the camp grounds. Nicest people I have ever met and I would love to live there some day. Our friend was a great tour guide and knew a lot about the history of Canada. It's a very special place.

Awesome freefly! I'm very glad you enjoyed Canada. Even as an insider here I hear a lot of trashtalkin about "how boring Canada is, how lame and cold it is" but I still get surprised. Edmonton, my home, is usually widely regarded as barren industrial town with a large mall and not much else, but then you go fer a hike on some trails in our river valley parks (which I may add is almost 22 times the size of Central Park) and you realize there's a lot more to everything than you hear about in this country. Had a friend who visited Quebec City and says it was extremely nice, which shocked my cause I just presumed was a gabbage french cluster of old brick buildings in a windy cold plain. 'Course, I do wish Canada was more like the U.S. In the sense of the amount of things to do and technologically-oriented things to see. I do enjoy me a good nature walk every now and then, but where's a laser store when ya need one?! Toronto? Might as well be in China, what with how far away it is from me!

Gabe,

why do birds fly upside down over Edmonton?

nothing worth crapping on down there.:crackup:

Just joking, I have been around a large part of B.C. And Alberta and have been to Victoria, and I can say that Canada is a beautiful country. You've got plenty of empty space up there, they should make it easier to immigrate and should take in more refugees. There are many Canadians that move down here to Washington state and I don't understand why, yet it's very difficult for Americans to move to Canada, your government doesn't want us there. I know Americans aren't well liked anymore in many parts of the world but I hope that's not true now in Canada.

Alan

Pi- hahaha that bird one's good, consider it stolen! I too really do wish we would accept more immigrants, I hear it's just too damn expensive. Absolutely broke my heart the other day when I found out that that Syrian family the boy who washed up face down on a Turkish beach belonged to, tried to apply to Canada but got rejected. Can't say I was feeling too patriotic when I heard that. And nah, we may poke fun at Americans under our breaths up here every now and then, but we would still love to visit your country or welcome any American tourist/immigrant. We accept most valuable and sane-minded humans, warts and all!

Gabe said:

Awesome freefly! I'm very glad you enjoyed Canada. Even as an insider here I hear a lot of trashtalkin about "how boring Canada is, how lame and cold it is" but I still get surprised. Edmonton, my home, is usually widely regarded as barren industrial town with a large mall and no much else, but then you go fer a hike on some trails in our river valley parks (which I may add is almost 22 times the size of Central Park) and you realize there's a lot more to everything than you hear about in this country. Had a friend who visited Quebec City and says it was extremely nice, which shocked my cause I just presumed was a gabbage french cluster of old brick buildings in a windy cold plain. 'Course, I do wish Canada was more like the U.S. In the sense of the amount of things to do and technologically-oriented things to see. I do enjoy me a good nature walk every now and then, but where's a laser store when ya need one?! Toronto? Might as well be in China, what with how far away it is from me!

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If anyone feels Canada is boring then they really need to get out in nature more and turn the television off! So much to do. Plus your gvt actually takes care of its citizens with little things like health care!