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• The 5 TB of onedrive space in O365 is best in my experience. Plus obv you get office and skype mins etc incl too. Also better if you want to backup 5x family members...then each can have their own a/c

  in Backup storage choices... Comment by havoc March 2020
• (Quote) I don't see the taxman being happy with that approach lol

  in Contabo strange billing policy Comment by havoc March 2020
• Any idea what providers will be affected?

  in Inap (Internap) files for bankruptcy Comment by havoc March 2020
• Looks like folding@home is swamped by the interest...no more project available temporarily. Alternatively check out BOINC / world computing grid - same concept (Quote)

  in Contribute your computing resources to fight COVID-19 Comment by havoc March 2020
• (Quote) People are discovering that it's no good at it's last credible purpose - store of value - either. Blockchain is a great concept. Bitcoin is not.

  in WTF is going on with BTC (bitcoin)? Comment by havoc March 2020
• Always thought that reselling stuff is weird. I don't want to deal with some random

  in due to recent events - selling old accounts Comment by havoc March 2020
• Pretty sure the standard unix search stuff is optimised to death so I'd probably try to find a way to turn this into text files

  in Fastest way to search through text records Comment by havoc March 2020
• (Quote) Both are terrible at performance per watt. Don't get me wrong they're great - I've got about 4 raspberries and some other SBC...but not on that particular metric. (Quote) Would dockerize where possible - less overhead

  in How do I build the next big data center in my garage? Comment by havoc March 2020
• (Quote) Check out subreddit /r/homelab ...full of exactly this. As burble says electricity and noise is gonna be an issue But no don't think you can run multi-IP from home easily. Most ISPs won't sell you more than a 1 fixed IP gigabit with low co…

  in How do I build the next big data center in my garage? Comment by havoc March 2020
• Same as comparable Intel after deducting hit for vulnerabilities. Don't really care what it says on the tin...I just want good performance without any super hairy vulnerabilities.

  in Would you pay more for EPYC cloud servers? Comment by havoc March 2020
• (Quote) lol. You know someone's job is serious business when they have a button like that

  in Some special deals - 48 hours, no rules march madness. [Multiple Hosts] Comment by havoc March 2020
• (Quote) Would anyone use that though? I'm personally a little wary of mirrors hosted by randoms. torrents don't have that issue

  in Torrents - seeding *nix content Comment by havoc March 2020
• Pity. Oh well - was worth a try Thanks all

  in Torrents - seeding *nix content Comment by havoc March 2020
• (Quote) Highly recommend checking out BOINC instead, and among that the World Community Grid project. Goes towards a blend of good stuff - medical cures, clean energy etc. For phones and tablets there is also Dreamlab - vodafone sponsored project -…

  in SETI@home shutting down. Comment by havoc March 2020
• I mean it is finance. The debits & credits worked the same in 1990 as they do today. Airlines & booking agents are also still using a terminal like system. (Called Amadeus I believe). Much of the stockmarket run via bloomberg terminal...it…

  in Canada's Auditor General still using DOS for production Comment by havoc March 2020
• No I told you so, but yeah didn't seem like a freelancer heavy crowd

  in So... the freelancer tag did not work out :) Comment by havoc March 2020
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