From bob at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Sat Feb 27 20:42:21 2016 From: bob at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Andrew Adamson) Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2016 20:42:21 +0800 (AWST) Subject: [tech] Linux SOE on Pinball & New Graphics Card Needed Message-ID: Hi All, I spent some time on Oday installing the mint SOE on pinball (the machine closest to the whiteboard). In a bizarre coincidence, the graphics card in it decided to kick the bucket as I rebooted after the install. This led to several hours of debugging by tpg and myself, and I subsequently discovered that, of the four spare graphics cards we have in the machine room, all four are broken. So pinball is currently running with the graphics card out of the projects bench machine. I backed up and restored the host keys to the new install, so those are the same (yay!). Committee: can we please get a new graphics card for pinball? I was thinking of something like the Asus 2G GTX 950 from msy for $237+postage. Link: http://www.msy.com.au/waonline/pc-components/16408-asus-gtx950-oc-2gd5-2g-gtx-950-oc-pci-e-vga-card.html I'm not really keen on a gigabyte alternative either - of the Gigabyte graphics cards the club has purchased since 2010, every single one of them has failed. Andrew Adamson bob at ucc.asn.au |"If you can't beat them, join them, and then beat them." | | ---Peter's Laws | From bob at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Sat Feb 27 20:45:55 2016 From: bob at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Andrew Adamson) Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2016 20:45:55 +0800 (AWST) Subject: [tech] Linux SOE on Pinball & New Graphics Card Needed In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Actually the best graphics card to get would be this one because it has a ball bearing fan: http://www.msy.com.au/waonline/new-products/15720-asus-turbo-gtx960-oc-2gd5-2g-gtx-960-turbo-oc-pci-e-vga-card.html It is slightly more expensive but the price difference is definitely worth it. Alas, we'll have to look elsewhere for it because it's out of stock in WA. Andrew Adamson bob at ucc.asn.au |"If you can't beat them, join them, and then beat them." | | ---Peter's Laws | On Sat, 27 Feb 2016, Andrew Adamson wrote: > Hi All, > > I spent some time on Oday installing the mint SOE on pinball (the machine > closest to the whiteboard). In a bizarre coincidence, the graphics card in > it decided to kick the bucket as I rebooted after the install. This led to > several hours of debugging by tpg and myself, and I subsequently > discovered that, of the four spare graphics cards we have in the machine > room, all four are broken. So pinball is currently running with the > graphics card out of the projects bench machine. I backed up and restored > the host keys to the new install, so those are the same (yay!). > > Committee: can we please get a new graphics card for pinball? I was > thinking of something like the Asus 2G GTX 950 from msy for $237+postage. > Link: > http://www.msy.com.au/waonline/pc-components/16408-asus-gtx950-oc-2gd5-2g-gtx-950-oc-pci-e-vga-card.html > > I'm not really keen on a gigabyte alternative either - of the Gigabyte > graphics cards the club has purchased since 2010, every single one of them > has failed. > > > Andrew Adamson > bob at ucc.asn.au > > |"If you can't beat them, join them, and then beat them." | > | ---Peter's Laws | > From bob at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Mon Feb 29 18:19:34 2016 From: bob at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Andrew Adamson) Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 18:19:34 +0800 (AWST) Subject: [tech] [ucc] Minutes of Meeting on Monday, 29th February 2016 In-Reply-To: <20160229041654.4B10D20083@motsugo.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> References: <20160229041654.4B10D20083@motsugo.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> Message-ID: > ##General Business > ---------------- > - [BOB]: approve me spending up to $286 for a graphics card > - Committee is currently investigating the purchase of two new machines, > there is provisioning there to purchase a new graphics card when that > happens, leave it to committee These two machines have been "currently investigated" for the past six months. Pinball is a 2.67GHz i5 with 8G of RAM - it has plenty of power for what it's used for and definitely doesn't need replacing at this time. Furthermore, in the time that it's delayed, the projects bench computer has no graphics card. The "leave it to committee" answer is pretty poor when you have a member willing and able to do the replacement work immediately - I discourage committee from taking the position that only committee members can do things within the club. I also note that there is no action item for a committee member to do the task anyway. So, can committee please communicate with each other, perhaps via the email lists for once, and come up with a better solution to this that is faster than waiting for yet another committee meeting? Andrew Adamson bob at ucc.asn.au |"If you can't beat them, join them, and then beat them." | | ---Peter's Laws |