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(old?) Dell power-edge rackserver power supplies

by Michael Voorhis

Hello all, I have a number of spare power supplies for old Dell power-edge rackservers. If anyone has an old rack server and they're looking for spare parts to extend its lifespan, I've got the following dell power supplies. Listed are # I have, the server they supposedly work with, and the power-supply model number: 6x pe-1950 PS, mod d670p 4x pe-r415 PS, mod d500e 2x pe-r710 PS, mod a870p 2x pe-???? PS, mod d750p. 2x pe-r200 PS, mod ?ps5341? 1x pe-r210-ii PS, mod. L250e Take them if you're going to use them. Please don't take them just re-sell 'em... --MCV.

Feb. 22, 2024

Re: Zoom Safety-Privacy-Security Question on Ubuntu

by hammerron

John, I have absolutely no idea where the hotmail.org came from. it should be hotmail.com. I looked at the email that I sent and see no dot org. My guess is if you sent an email to dot org it may have bounced because it might not exist. Its not mine, anyway. Ron On 2/21/24 16:18, John Stoffel via WLUG wrote: > Just a note, my reply directly to hammerron(a)hotmail.org (org!!!?!?!?) > bounced, because it thinks I'm a spammer because my VPS is in a > netblock they don't like. > > _______________________________________________ > WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org > Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ > Change Settings: https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ > Web Forum/Archive: https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/72KXM…

Feb. 22, 2024

hotmail.org !!!?!?!?

by Keith Wright

John Stoffel via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes: > Just a note, my reply directly to hammerron(a)hotmail.org (org!!!?!?!?) > bounced, because it thinks I'm a spammer because my VPS is in a > netblock they don't like. (org!!!?!?!?) is right. Where did that come from? I checked hammerron's original message, including all headers, and can find no trace of hotmail.org. I did some dig-ing and found no MX record for it. It does have a web page, which is a advertisement for Microsoftware. I am sending this to the address that comes up when I reply, which is hammerron(a)hotmail.com (com !!!!). I'll let you know if anything interesting happens. -- Keith

Feb. 21, 2024

Re: Zoom Safety-Privacy-Security Question on Ubuntu

by John Stoffel

Just a note, my reply directly to hammerron(a)hotmail.org (org!!!?!?!?) bounced, because it thinks I'm a spammer because my VPS is in a netblock they don't like.

Feb. 21, 2024

Re: Zoom Safety-Privacy-Security Question on Ubuntu

by John Stoffel

> Is the Zoom meeting client a relatively safe thing to download unto > a machine running Ubuntu? > I thought I should ask here, as googling will gives me different > responses. Should be fine. Especially if you run it on a linux which is upto date. I personally like Debian based stuff now, and use Linux Mint for my desktop. Haven't actually used it yet though. John

Feb. 21, 2024

Zoom Safety-Privacy-Security Question on Ubuntu

by THE HAMMER

Hey Gang, Is the Zoom meeting client a relatively safe thing to download unto a machine running Ubuntu? I thought I should ask here, as googling will gives me different responses. Thanks Ron

Feb. 21, 2024

Re: Reminder: WLUG Meeting tonight: Topic ProxMox / Turning Pi 2

by soup

Yep, definitely the case. Need CUDA cores, without them it's doing other and more work. It's funny the apple silicon will probably see faster performance increase than the Radeons just because that's where the people wrenching on this stuff are. I'm still in intel land there for OSX and will be for quite a while (audio software reasons). I'm operating slowly with a 2070RTX and agree, once you've got process, it is a much better value proposition to pay for cloud inferencing. Merging of large checkpoints, building intricate models, aren't possible on consumer hardware until you get into silly money and datacenter boards will always be faster in any case. There's facility and process for separation of elements but were I working professionally in this fashion I would not be expecting final output from inferencing. I would use it as a stock library, at this point in the tech anyway. Even the simplest use of the thing- generating backgrounds, saves so much work and allows for so much different _kind_ of work that if that was all it did it would be a revolution. Separation or direction of elements during inferencing has seen improvement in leaps and bounds, though. Not long ago it was just inpainting (creating masks), and autogeneration of partitions with math, then partition by token/attention and now even automatable manipulation of masking and weights by partition by mask. So it's definitely doable but would require each to build pipeline for their needs. Those tools are still in early stages but the ComfyUI¹ has a 'workflows' conceit for doing a lot of that with visual programming. I haven't moved on from grado library webui yet so no first hand experience with it. Already have pipelines for my purpose in that, the usual, no time to move to the bleeding edge~ For that particular need, the stock featureset of Automatic1111² can do growth, called "outpainting", of a given input. There's extensions to expand on steering capabilities for that but it does a fine job in my experience, as long as the checkpoint and tokens you're using "knows" something of the input. Talking about art is like dancing about architecture so I hope I'm being clear. Also, I should say this is all down at the consumer level, folks building huge base models or using it in enterprise are much more likely to be using pytorch and the diffusers lib. soup ¹ https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI ² https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 9:52 AM John Stoffel <john(a)stoffel.org> wrote: > > You have to have a recent nVidia CPU to get good results, I was trying > using AMD GPUs and it just wasn't fast at all. So instead of spending > $500 on a GPU, I think spending $20 on some cloud rental might be a > good use of my money and time. > > Still watiing on <blanking on his name> to post his setup instructions > from New Orleans so we can all start poking at it. > > > Now one big issue I see is that once get generate an image, can you > get a version broken into layers? Do professional artists work mostly > in layers on computers so they can more easily re-compose their > layout? > > For some of the examples, I though it was really neat, but I'd like to > shift the result to the left say to emphasize the background more. > > But since I'm a terrible artist without any training or much talent, I > leave it to others to answer these questions. >

Feb. 16, 2024

Re: Reminder: WLUG Meeting tonight: Topic ProxMox / Turning Pi 2

by Dennis Payne

On Thu, 2024-02-15 at 09:52 -0500, John Stoffel via WLUG wrote: > > > > > > Now one big issue I see is that once get generate an image, can you > get a version broken into layers? Do professional artists work > mostly > in layers on computers so they can more easily re-compose their > layout? > I don't know if most artists do. I do for my bad artwork. I started remaking covers of old Dragon magazines. I tend to use a lot of layer so I move them around. Also I think it could be neat to animate or maybe use for a visual novel at some point. https://youtu.be/6Hm4wHMfsxc I don't think any of the AI tools separate out the layers. -- Dennis Payne dulsi(a)identicalsoftware.com https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@dulsi

Feb. 16, 2024

Re: Reminder: WLUG Meeting tonight: Topic ProxMox / Turning Pi 2

by John Stoffel

>>>>> "soup" == soup <soupforare(a)gmail.com> writes: > They began leveraging large language models against... any data set > as I understand it. There were a few papers that set the world on > fire with their implementations. Academia was raided for > questionably sourced corpus for commercial use veiled in community > gain. > I've been wrenching on stable diffusion API for a few weeks, as a > former professional photographer it is shocking to me the quality > you can get from very little input and common COTS GPUs. Haven't > touched any of the SaaS cloud inferencing services that have come > out in this gold rush but they can do quite a lot more with the > datacenter class GPU grunt. Text to video (so-called "T2V") is here > and getting scary.~ You have to have a recent nVidia CPU to get good results, I was trying using AMD GPUs and it just wasn't fast at all. So instead of spending $500 on a GPU, I think spending $20 on some cloud rental might be a good use of my money and time. Still watiing on <blanking on his name> to post his setup instructions from New Orleans so we can all start poking at it. Now one big issue I see is that once get generate an image, can you get a version broken into layers? Do professional artists work mostly in layers on computers so they can more easily re-compose their layout? For some of the examples, I though it was really neat, but I'd like to shift the result to the left say to emphasize the background more. But since I'm a terrible artist without any training or much talent, I leave it to others to answer these questions.

Feb. 15, 2024

Re: Reminder: WLUG Meeting tonight: Topic ProxMox / Turning Pi 2

by soup

They began leveraging large language models against... any data set as I understand it. There were a few papers that set the world on fire with their implementations. Academia was raided for questionably sourced corpus for commercial use veiled in community gain. I've been wrenching on stable diffusion API for a few weeks, as a former professional photographer it is shocking to me the quality you can get from very little input and common COTS GPUs. Haven't touched any of the SaaS cloud inferencing services that have come out in this gold rush but they can do quite a lot more with the datacenter class GPU grunt. Text to video (so-called "T2V") is here and getting scary.~ Bless, soup On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 4:19 PM Keith Wright via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: > John Stoffel via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes: > > > And does anyone have pointers to the Image generating stuff we talked > > about? It wiould be fun to try it out myself and for $10 I could get > > alot of fun. > > That wasn't a motion, but I second it anyway. > > >From the viewpoint of a jit.si watcher, that was one of the most > fun demos of a program I have seen at a WLUG over the decades. > > But eye-candy aside, I was most interested that the demonstrator > claimed to understand how it works and to have some links. > > The meaning of words changes over time. More change in less time now. > > A cartoon generating program is called "artificial intelligence". > I can't draw cartoons, so I must not be intelligent. > > The words "machine learning" were used. As I said Thursday, I did > my dissertation on machine learning. At that time, it meant a computer > (with appropriate programming) would input a sequence of examples, > each marked as in or not in a certain class. The computer would then > (we hoped) be able to correctly classify examples that had not been > explicitly shown before. > > I didn't see anything like that in the demo. > > It was said to be based on a "neural net", but neural nets have been > around since Minsky started inventing words back in the fifties. > What changed to make neural networks suddenly start working? > > -- Keith > _______________________________________________ > WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org > Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ > Change Settings: > https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ > Web Forum/Archive: > https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/7OFTT… >

Feb. 13, 2024