No monitor, no OS as we have an agreement with Microsoft for something like 275 XP license. I was wrong, they were 80GB drives and no burner as normal users don't need a burner. The price came out to $633 not $645 as noted.
Obviously, you do not do purchasing for your company do you. Anyone that purchases from the website is clueless. Ask someone who has a clue how much they pay for their Dell desktops.
I find this an overused second rate excuse to cover up for a lacking IT policy/management. My computer just works and works pretty damn good and I'll be damned if it's not running Windows XP. 90% of our problems come from failing hardware.
You've got to come up with something better. If your IT department had a brain, you won't have so many problems. Stop letting your users install idiot apps like Wallpaper changers and screen savers off the internet and you won't have so many problems.
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The entire company is high end IT except the single HR person. It's a custom hosting/access company. There are no techs that fix your computer and customer support comes from the engineers. If you couldn't fix it yourself, you wouldn't be there.
I can't understand why someone would buy an Apple for anything other than a normal home desktop. I just interviewed with a small growing company. Every single desktop they had were Apple. It didn't matter what it was doing, they were all Apple. Considering they could have had *just as good* for cheaper that did the same thing (and more depending on what you needed it to do) I think it was a very dumb and wasteful thing to do; especially for a small company. The only thing I saw that was from Apple that was a VERY good choice was their XServer RAID that was running not OS X, but OpenFiler (openfiler.org) project. They were using for off site replication from their NetApps which IMHO is absolutely brilliant.
BTW, Apple's XServer RAID is a rebranded LSI Logic RAID. Very cheap compared to other options and slapping OpenFiler on top of it is a very powerful and cheap setup. I recommend it to anyone looking for mass storage on the cheap side.
Osama bin Laden wasn't in America either. Afghanistan (or more precise the Taliban) didn't consider attacks on America or Britain for that matter illegal so maybe by your standards Bin Laden shouldn't be prosecuted either! Maybe you should just STFU until you have the ability to use common sense.
He committed a crime period. If he didn't want to face a penalty of the crime then shouldn't have committed it! It's plain and simple. It's why the cliche "Do the crime, do the time" exists. It has nothing to do with Britain being "America's bitch" or anything else. The man was a complete F'in moron for breaking into a any government's system in the first place. I'm 110% sure, he *thought* he was a 31337 H4x0r. Now he has his *31337* ass in trouble and I have no pity on him. The crime was stupid and I have ZERO pity for stupidity. If you're ignorant I suggest you educate yourself, if your stupid... Well, jail and Bubba are waiting on you!
I would take the Diamond Monster 3DFX over the 3DFX Voodoo3. Sure the Voodoo3 was a big step forward, but the Monster Card started the revolution. Same goes for World of Warcraft. (A game I never played) Everquest started the revolution and deserves the credit before WoW. You could say the same thing about Wolfenstein, but it doesn't always have to be the first, it just has to have the biggest impact on change. Doom had that over Wolfenstein, Diamond Monster 3DFX had that and Everquest had that. I don't have a problem with both Lotus 123 and Excel both in the list, because each were huge steps forward. IMHO, you can't have WoW without Everquest. You can't have graphic accelerator cards without having the Diamond Monster in the list.
I avoid Circuit City like the plague and always have. To me, an establishment like that shouldn't have commission based sales staff. Every time I went in to their store I always felt as if the staff was attempting to bamboozle me. On top of that, they never have the best price!
Actually, happiness is more important. Do whatever it is you enjoy doing the most. If you enjoy it you will be good at it. While I can program and enjoy it to an extent, I prefer what I do better and only program for short periods of time. (I revamp companies infrastructures for far less than consulting firms) What makes me happy is engineering more and better for less and it's why I do what I do. BTW, NO a white box {name your distro here} Linux server does not make a better router than an off the shelf appliance!
Chances are you problem is memory. Of course your database could be *ugly* too, but if your problem pretty much happens only in the morning during logons and such, you're probably choking your servers with a lack of memory.
Giving employees VoIP connected to a phone system is NOT a virtual office. We have many satellite offices and guys that work in more remote areas from home. For that we use Citrix and pay for them to have VoIP (if possible usually through their cable provider) at their house and a printer that they can print to via Citrix. They aren't on our phone system nor do they need to be since they can call all over North America without cost. We pay for their cell phone and all data is hosted at our main office so that no matter where they are, their data is backed up properly. The best thing about Citrix is that Bob out of Dallas, TX can fly to Boise, ID and still have full access to his desktop, data, and portable printer.
We should start a pool to pay for reexamination fees on some of these patents.
On top of that, the law firm that did the initial review should be forced to repay the research cost and overturning process cost when the patent is overturned and return any fees charged for the patent research.
I think this is stupid, but then again I thought it was stupid to downgrade Pluto anyhow. While redefining what a planet is I don't mind, but they should have just grandfathered Pluto. 10 million school books already proclaim it is and I'm not going to change.
All Hail the planet Pluto. Eat shit International Astronomical Union.
"The most obvious [problem] is deciding which version of Linux to offer. There are more than 100 distros, and everybody seems to want a different one
It doesn't matter what everyone wants, you install the most consistent and popular version. (or two if decided upon) While there are lots of great distros (Linux and non-Linux) out there, you would be a fool offer DSL, Gentoo, or even FreeBSD. All three are great and I've use (or have used) them now, but the following for these arn't big enough to make a profit or even break even trying to produce. While Jim enjoys FreeBSD and would buy a Dell Desktop with BDS, Jack who is a FreeBDS fiend wouldn't because he prefers to build his own.
On the other hand, if you released a Desktop PC with Fedora (or RHEL WS) or even SUSE (spit) you would be more likely to sell them even to users who prefer other distros because if Fedora runs on it, chances are they will be able to get their favorite distro to run on it.
I think the biggest issue isn't a Desktop with Linux pre-installed as it is knowing Linux will support all the hardware features.
Get a job in the IT or data processing department of a small company and then put your skills on display. It's how I started. I went to work for fast growing local ISP as a customer support rep. (I had no work computer experience) When there, I would take canceling customer calls. If they were canceling because they couldn't get their service working, I would fix them. The ISP took notice and I started writing their Intranet Knowledge base and the tech support guys used it! Anyhow, they promised they would move me to systems, but they went public and hired a management firm. Needless to say, things change. They were going to hire from the outside. I left two weeks later with my new found tech experience for a small Wine and Spirits company as a data processing operator. Within three months, I switched them to DSL making their net service faster, brought email on site with stopped all the email problems. Within three months, they double my salary and gave me the title Systems Administrator and hired a new data processing operator. Thats how I got my foot in the door.
'I have traveled around the world, and every nation is thinking how it can model [intellectual property governance] after the U.S,' Dudas said. 'It's a proven system, over 200 years old.
Just because it's a proven system over 200 years old, doesn't mean it still functions today the way it was intended 200 years ago. Hell, I don't bank the way I did five years ago. Times change and a huge part of why it doesn't work is that almost everything has changed along with it.
Life's parameters change. When that happens the algorithm that governs it sometimes must change too.
Pretty much the number one consideration when designing a technical architecture for a mission critical is to guarantee that no transaction is lost.
With todays databases like Oracle losing a translation just doesn't happen. (for the most part anyhow) What is cool is to have a fail-over that keeps in sync with the production DB, will fail-over, run the logs, and come online in mere minutes with a system this size and with this load. No matter what, it's impressive even if it's effect was visible to the users. Of course, they always could do better.:)
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No monitor, no OS as we have an agreement with Microsoft for something like 275 XP license. I was wrong, they were 80GB drives and no burner as normal users don't need a burner. The price came out to $633 not $645 as noted.
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25 Dell Optiplex 745 for $15,825 USD. 15,820 / 25 = $633.
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Obviously, you do not do purchasing for your company do you. Anyone that purchases from the website is clueless. Ask someone who has a clue how much they pay for their Dell desktops.
Dell Optiplex 745.
2.1Ghz Core 2 Duo CPU
1GB ram
256MB ATI X1300 Pro
160GB SATA II HD
Windows XP
$645
Use proper IT Policy and you shouldn't have any problems and it will run whatever you want. (Including Vista ugh)
I find this an overused second rate excuse to cover up for a lacking IT policy/management. My computer just works and works pretty damn good and I'll be damned if it's not running Windows XP. 90% of our problems come from failing hardware.
You've got to come up with something better. If your IT department had a brain, you won't have so many problems. Stop letting your users install idiot apps like Wallpaper changers and screen savers off the internet and you won't have so many problems.
The entire company is high end IT except the single HR person. It's a custom hosting/access company. There are no techs that fix your computer and customer support comes from the engineers. If you couldn't fix it yourself, you wouldn't be there.
Sure, I will get modded down by Apple zealots.
I can't understand why someone would buy an Apple for anything other than a normal home desktop. I just interviewed with a small growing company. Every single desktop they had were Apple. It didn't matter what it was doing, they were all Apple. Considering they could have had *just as good* for cheaper that did the same thing (and more depending on what you needed it to do) I think it was a very dumb and wasteful thing to do; especially for a small company. The only thing I saw that was from Apple that was a VERY good choice was their XServer RAID that was running not OS X, but OpenFiler (openfiler.org) project. They were using for off site replication from their NetApps which IMHO is absolutely brilliant.
BTW, Apple's XServer RAID is a rebranded LSI Logic RAID. Very cheap compared to other options and slapping OpenFiler on top of it is a very powerful and cheap setup. I recommend it to anyone looking for mass storage on the cheap side.
Osama bin Laden wasn't in America either. Afghanistan (or more precise the Taliban) didn't consider attacks on America or Britain for that matter illegal so maybe by your standards Bin Laden shouldn't be prosecuted either! Maybe you should just STFU until you have the ability to use common sense.
He committed a crime period. If he didn't want to face a penalty of the crime then shouldn't have committed it! It's plain and simple. It's why the cliche "Do the crime, do the time" exists. It has nothing to do with Britain being "America's bitch" or anything else. The man was a complete F'in moron for breaking into a any government's system in the first place. I'm 110% sure, he *thought* he was a 31337 H4x0r. Now he has his *31337* ass in trouble and I have no pity on him. The crime was stupid and I have ZERO pity for stupidity. If you're ignorant I suggest you educate yourself, if your stupid... Well, jail and Bubba are waiting on you!
I would take the Diamond Monster 3DFX over the 3DFX Voodoo3. Sure the Voodoo3 was a big step forward, but the Monster Card started the revolution. Same goes for World of Warcraft. (A game I never played) Everquest started the revolution and deserves the credit before WoW. You could say the same thing about Wolfenstein, but it doesn't always have to be the first, it just has to have the biggest impact on change. Doom had that over Wolfenstein, Diamond Monster 3DFX had that and Everquest had that. I don't have a problem with both Lotus 123 and Excel both in the list, because each were huge steps forward. IMHO, you can't have WoW without Everquest. You can't have graphic accelerator cards without having the Diamond Monster in the list.
It's not there because the Abacus kicks it's ass. ;)
I avoid Circuit City like the plague and always have. To me, an establishment like that shouldn't have commission based sales staff. Every time I went in to their store I always felt as if the staff was attempting to bamboozle me. On top of that, they never have the best price!
knowledgeable to infringement
On the 30 second segment or an entire 30 minute show? Cause you're only infringing if the clip is of extended length.
That none of your skills matter, only mine. ;)
Actually, happiness is more important. Do whatever it is you enjoy doing the most. If you enjoy it you will be good at it. While I can program and enjoy it to an extent, I prefer what I do better and only program for short periods of time. (I revamp companies infrastructures for far less than consulting firms) What makes me happy is engineering more and better for less and it's why I do what I do. BTW, NO a white box {name your distro here} Linux server does not make a better router than an off the shelf appliance!
Chances are you problem is memory. Of course your database could be *ugly* too, but if your problem pretty much happens only in the morning during logons and such, you're probably choking your servers with a lack of memory.
Giving employees VoIP connected to a phone system is NOT a virtual office. We have many satellite offices and guys that work in more remote areas from home. For that we use Citrix and pay for them to have VoIP (if possible usually through their cable provider) at their house and a printer that they can print to via Citrix. They aren't on our phone system nor do they need to be since they can call all over North America without cost. We pay for their cell phone and all data is hosted at our main office so that no matter where they are, their data is backed up properly. The best thing about Citrix is that Bob out of Dallas, TX can fly to Boise, ID and still have full access to his desktop, data, and portable printer.
We should start a pool to pay for reexamination fees on some of these patents.
On top of that, the law firm that did the initial review should be forced to repay the research cost and overturning process cost when the patent is overturned and return any fees charged for the patent research.
It's a crying shame that Novell purchased SUSE... While not the same, I suspect MS will end up using Novell the way MS used SCO/Caldera.
Nothing revolutionary in this release but definitely some nice new features, bug fixes, and improvements.
:) Yeah, I know mod me down flame bait or what have ya. I hate you anyway! ;)
Did they fix the developer's smug bug in this release?
I think this is stupid, but then again I thought it was stupid to downgrade Pluto anyhow. While redefining what a planet is I don't mind, but they should have just grandfathered Pluto. 10 million school books already proclaim it is and I'm not going to change.
All Hail the planet Pluto. Eat shit International Astronomical Union.
"The most obvious [problem] is deciding which version of Linux to offer. There are more than 100 distros, and everybody seems to want a different one
It doesn't matter what everyone wants, you install the most consistent and popular version. (or two if decided upon) While there are lots of great distros (Linux and non-Linux) out there, you would be a fool offer DSL, Gentoo, or even FreeBSD. All three are great and I've use (or have used) them now, but the following for these arn't big enough to make a profit or even break even trying to produce. While Jim enjoys FreeBSD and would buy a Dell Desktop with BDS, Jack who is a FreeBDS fiend wouldn't because he prefers to build his own.
On the other hand, if you released a Desktop PC with Fedora (or RHEL WS) or even SUSE (spit) you would be more likely to sell them even to users who prefer other distros because if Fedora runs on it, chances are they will be able to get their favorite distro to run on it.
I think the biggest issue isn't a Desktop with Linux pre-installed as it is knowing Linux will support all the hardware features.
I can't get too http://www.opennms.org/. Their network management sucks!!!! :P
Get a job in the IT or data processing department of a small company and then put your skills on display. It's how I started. I went to work for fast growing local ISP as a customer support rep. (I had no work computer experience) When there, I would take canceling customer calls. If they were canceling because they couldn't get their service working, I would fix them. The ISP took notice and I started writing their Intranet Knowledge base and the tech support guys used it! Anyhow, they promised they would move me to systems, but they went public and hired a management firm. Needless to say, things change. They were going to hire from the outside. I left two weeks later with my new found tech experience for a small Wine and Spirits company as a data processing operator. Within three months, I switched them to DSL making their net service faster, brought email on site with stopped all the email problems. Within three months, they double my salary and gave me the title Systems Administrator and hired a new data processing operator. Thats how I got my foot in the door.
'I have traveled around the world, and every nation is thinking how it can model [intellectual property governance] after the U.S,' Dudas said. 'It's a proven system, over 200 years old.
Just because it's a proven system over 200 years old, doesn't mean it still functions today the way it was intended 200 years ago. Hell, I don't bank the way I did five years ago. Times change and a huge part of why it doesn't work is that almost everything has changed along with it.
Life's parameters change. When that happens the algorithm that governs it sometimes must change too.
Pretty much the number one consideration when designing a technical architecture for a mission critical is to guarantee that no transaction is lost.
:)
With todays databases like Oracle losing a translation just doesn't happen. (for the most part anyhow) What is cool is to have a fail-over that keeps in sync with the production DB, will fail-over, run the logs, and come online in mere minutes with a system this size and with this load. No matter what, it's impressive even if it's effect was visible to the users. Of course, they always could do better.
why is everyone under the impression that they are?
Because a lot of people don't know the difference.