And I do indeed highly recommend Sir Pratchett's books, I now have about 15 of them:)
Also, the more you trade recommendations with people, and they learn your tastes (and vice versa), the better everyone will be able to pick books that each other may enjoy. It's also great if you swap books, as I said, because then you don't have to fork out quite so much, and you end up reading things you may otherwise have not.
If your on ADSL and you want faster uploads, talk to your ISP to see if they can do "annex-M", it can provide upto 2Mb/s upload speeds on ADSL2+ with only a slight loss in download speeds.
Not to mention good fibre will be upgradeable by simply dropping new routers at both ends well past 1Gb/s with todays technology.
As an Aussie about to have my old un-twisted, paper insulated, lead lined copper pair replaced with fibre in the near future, I can happily say "screw you DSL":)
Telling the truth (in this context) can not be considered to be wrong. Only if that truth will only cause harm can it be considered bad, for instance not redacting names of victims in those documents.
But of course the rule still applies, a hub is likely pre-programmed to split the juice evenly rather than use something likely more expensive and do it properly (dynamic allocation).
Most drives will eat a little more at spin-up, hence why I said it will need a bit more than the usual.
Also, you might want to check the power consumption of 3.5" drives (real ones, not the "green drives" or such), a lot of them will suck almost 2A of juice off the 12v rail at spin-up, meaning close to 24W of power just to get the ball rolling, drops to about 300mA after a second of course, but that doesn't excuse the fact that they need that much to work at all.
Publications will be classified ‘RC’ : (a) if they promote or provide instruction in paedophile activity; or if they contain: (b) descriptions or depictions of child sexual abuse or any other exploitative or offensive descriptions or depictions involving a person who is, or appears to be, a child under 18 ; (c) detailed instruction in: (i) matters of crime or violence, (ii) the use of proscribed drugs; (d) realistic depictions of bestiality; or if they contain gratuitous, exploitative or offensive descriptions or depictions of: (e) violence with a very high degree of impact which are excessively frequent, emphasised or detailed; (f) cruelty or real violence which are very detailed or which have a high impact; (g) sexual violence; (h) sexualised nudity involving minors; (i) sexual activity involving minors; or if they contain exploitative descriptions or depictions of: (j) violence in a sexual context; (k) sexual activity accompanied by fetishes or practices which are revolting or abhorrent; (l) incest fantasies or other fantasies which are offensive or revolting or abhorrent.
Now, some of these I agree with, some are worded badly, some are just wrong, and some leave things way too open to interpretation by the person who is judging you.
(k) sexual activity accompanied by fetishes or practices which are revolting or abhorrent;
For instance, will stop you looking at any pictures of a girl ejaculating, because by the Classification Boards ruling, that is urination and "water sports" are abhorrent...
I work in retail sales and support. I get around 2 businesses (not counting home users) a week who bring in a computer with a trashed HDD that won't even detect and is so old I can't get a replacement IO board for that has absolutely NO backups.
I had all my fucking sympathy (for idiots) burned out of my by fucktards, and yes, my mother is proud.
Its not the 90s any more, backing up your stuff should be as natural as booting your pc or installing software updates.
Are you using a single USB cable to run it or one of those split ones that lets it draw from 2 ports?
Because no matter which, plugging both connections or a single connection into an un-powered hub means your trying to suck 2-3A from a 1.5A source, a source that as you know has over-current protection;)
If a single lead connector works on a PC but not the hub, likely the PCs motherboard is a little more tolerant of devices over-drawing (I know Gigabyte are now doing some motherboards that can pump quite a few amp into the USB).
That's all well and good if the dell/hp box that your buying is exactly the one you would have built, if its not and they will not negotiate build requirements then there is potential for large savings.
As another person pointed out with his case of number crunching workstations for scientists that needed a huge processor but not a big ram or hdd footprint and dell would not sell it to them because it just wasn't something they wanted to build.
Dell will be happy to sell this guy high end quad core Intel machines with huge memory and large hard drives when all he will likely need is a cheap AMD quad 4G ram and an 80G hdd, if that's the scenario I am reading, then yes, they can potentially cut the price in half if not better.
Btw, ever notice editors want to capitalise hdd as being an acronym but not ram?
I would hope that the store would, for the sake of almost a million dollar sale, sit down and discuss things like part and build quality, I know I would:)
You could start with using a part of the funds saved, if the person is on as a contractor then they can be dumped as soon as it becomes obvious that the plan is not going to work out.
As for the fairy dust, I had someone offer me Speed once for a server config job...
I would guess, for a thousand of them, if built from brand name parts, that's at least 20 of them are going to have a bad part right out of the box (that's at least, if building for cost rather than quality the number will be higher), lets assume about a quarter of those can be salvaged by using parts from other DOA boxes, thats 20+ parts he needs to replace and RMA before he rolls out.
Now this is all working on an "ideal situation", if you want to know the hell of doing this all the time, a good example is the Asus M2N-MX SE motherboard, fairly standard board, same Nforce chip-set of a lot of other integrated boards of its time, but our failure rate on these within warranty period is close to 85% (that is, 85% have failed of those sold), its gotten to the point where if we see one in a PC, we replace it, no further testing. Imagine if this sort of part was used as the basis of those 1000 PCs...
And as for all this, the original poster's comapy should put out an expression of interest for a contractor to handle this in house, he should stay well away from this one, let his boss manage it, if it works he gets a pat on the back from the boss for the idea, if it fails, he is distanced enough from the project that it shouldn't bite him on the arse.
It gets better than that, you don't RMA single parts at a time, you keep a small surplus and when that starts to run low, then you RMA a batch, for instance Seagate and WD both have serial numbers all over their HDD, RMAing 10 drives is not a heck of a lot harder than RMAing 1, and you can combine shipping.
The biggest pain is sorting who to RMA to, usually you can take it back to the people you got it from, but for a lot of parts its quicker to contact the manufacturer.
We stick to good, brand name parts, Kingston ram, Gigabyte or Asus motherboards, Seagate or WD HDD. When we tried using lower quality parts, we got as bad as 1 in 10 in some cases.
It might be worth it to the big OEMs, but for where I work, quality is more important than price, we can always pass the cost on to the customer, and our clientele appreciate that although we cost 5% more than anyone else, chances are good we will never have to see the thing this side of 3 years.
Sir, you scare the living bajeezus out of me for knowing exactly how much juice you can drain from a USB port.
Never, and I mean NEVER come anywhere near the computer store where I work please!
Although at least you wouldn't be like the tool who run 3 unpowered USB hubs, plug in 3 ipods, a mobile phone and a USB powered toaster (who the FUCK though those were a good idea) and wondered why their computer doesn't work any more.
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Yeah, I work for my money too...
And I do indeed highly recommend Sir Pratchett's books, I now have about 15 of them :)
Also, the more you trade recommendations with people, and they learn your tastes (and vice versa), the better everyone will be able to pick books that each other may enjoy. It's also great if you swap books, as I said, because then you don't have to fork out quite so much, and you end up reading things you may otherwise have not.
Great series, I found them by referrals from friends. You know, switching off the computer, getting outside and, uh, talking to people :)
We regularly catch up and swap books around so that we all have something new and a little different to read.
Sometimes the best answers to these sorts of problems, isn't to make another computer solution.
If your on ADSL and you want faster uploads, talk to your ISP to see if they can do "annex-M", it can provide upto 2Mb/s upload speeds on ADSL2+ with only a slight loss in download speeds.
Also line bonding may be your only other option.
Not to mention good fibre will be upgradeable by simply dropping new routers at both ends well past 1Gb/s with todays technology.
As an Aussie about to have my old un-twisted, paper insulated, lead lined copper pair replaced with fibre in the near future, I can happily say "screw you DSL" :)
Yup, the same in fact that limited their sales to US/Canada and screwed the few they did pay out of a large chunk of their reader base.
Nope, you will drag me away from my collection of dead trees when I am a cold dead corpse.
Speaking of which, I am down to only a few books in my buffer, time to buy some more :)
Forget typing it, the poor lil bastards have to try and read it, line after line.
If this information is really correct then that will make them all geniuses.
Lets just write all text books in captchas.
Telling the truth (in this context) can not be considered to be wrong. Only if that truth will only cause harm can it be considered bad, for instance not redacting names of victims in those documents.
500mA was USB1.1
But of course the rule still applies, a hub is likely pre-programmed to split the juice evenly rather than use something likely more expensive and do it properly (dynamic allocation).
Bravo to Mr Adolf, good find sir :)
Most drives will eat a little more at spin-up, hence why I said it will need a bit more than the usual.
Also, you might want to check the power consumption of 3.5" drives (real ones, not the "green drives" or such), a lot of them will suck almost 2A of juice off the 12v rail at spin-up, meaning close to 24W of power just to get the ball rolling, drops to about 300mA after a second of course, but that doesn't excuse the fact that they need that much to work at all.
Now, some of these I agree with, some are worded badly, some are just wrong, and some leave things way too open to interpretation by the person who is judging you.
For instance, will stop you looking at any pictures of a girl ejaculating, because by the Classification Boards ruling, that is urination and "water sports" are abhorrent...
Yes, the laws are fucked, we are all doomed.
Ok, background then :)
I work in retail sales and support. I get around 2 businesses (not counting home users) a week who bring in a computer with a trashed HDD that won't even detect and is so old I can't get a replacement IO board for that has absolutely NO backups.
I had all my fucking sympathy (for idiots) burned out of my by fucktards, and yes, my mother is proud.
Its not the 90s any more, backing up your stuff should be as natural as booting your pc or installing software updates.
Are you using a single USB cable to run it or one of those split ones that lets it draw from 2 ports?
Because no matter which, plugging both connections or a single connection into an un-powered hub means your trying to suck 2-3A from a 1.5A source, a source that as you know has over-current protection ;)
If a single lead connector works on a PC but not the hub, likely the PCs motherboard is a little more tolerant of devices over-drawing (I know Gigabyte are now doing some motherboards that can pump quite a few amp into the USB).
+1
Seriously, if his data fitted on a USB stick, he could have at least used Mozy's free service to backup.
Guy deserved to have his data stay lost.
It was up for $10 or so the other month.
Also, its not valve who put the Australia tax on there, its the publisher of the game.
Yeah, try getting the "vincible" achievement solo without using the wall bug, and not playing a siren.
They could rename the project "Black Mesa Forever"...
That's all well and good if the dell/hp box that your buying is exactly the one you would have built, if its not and they will not negotiate build requirements then there is potential for large savings.
As another person pointed out with his case of number crunching workstations for scientists that needed a huge processor but not a big ram or hdd footprint and dell would not sell it to them because it just wasn't something they wanted to build.
Dell will be happy to sell this guy high end quad core Intel machines with huge memory and large hard drives when all he will likely need is a cheap AMD quad 4G ram and an 80G hdd, if that's the scenario I am reading, then yes, they can potentially cut the price in half if not better.
Btw, ever notice editors want to capitalise hdd as being an acronym but not ram?
I would hope that the store would, for the sake of almost a million dollar sale, sit down and discuss things like part and build quality, I know I would :)
You could start with using a part of the funds saved, if the person is on as a contractor then they can be dumped as soon as it becomes obvious that the plan is not going to work out.
As for the fairy dust, I had someone offer me Speed once for a server config job...
I would guess, for a thousand of them, if built from brand name parts, that's at least 20 of them are going to have a bad part right out of the box (that's at least, if building for cost rather than quality the number will be higher), lets assume about a quarter of those can be salvaged by using parts from other DOA boxes, thats 20+ parts he needs to replace and RMA before he rolls out.
Now this is all working on an "ideal situation", if you want to know the hell of doing this all the time, a good example is the Asus M2N-MX SE motherboard, fairly standard board, same Nforce chip-set of a lot of other integrated boards of its time, but our failure rate on these within warranty period is close to 85% (that is, 85% have failed of those sold), its gotten to the point where if we see one in a PC, we replace it, no further testing. Imagine if this sort of part was used as the basis of those 1000 PCs...
And as for all this, the original poster's comapy should put out an expression of interest for a contractor to handle this in house, he should stay well away from this one, let his boss manage it, if it works he gets a pat on the back from the boss for the idea, if it fails, he is distanced enough from the project that it shouldn't bite him on the arse.
It gets better than that, you don't RMA single parts at a time, you keep a small surplus and when that starts to run low, then you RMA a batch, for instance Seagate and WD both have serial numbers all over their HDD, RMAing 10 drives is not a heck of a lot harder than RMAing 1, and you can combine shipping.
The biggest pain is sorting who to RMA to, usually you can take it back to the people you got it from, but for a lot of parts its quicker to contact the manufacturer.
We stick to good, brand name parts, Kingston ram, Gigabyte or Asus motherboards, Seagate or WD HDD. When we tried using lower quality parts, we got as bad as 1 in 10 in some cases.
It might be worth it to the big OEMs, but for where I work, quality is more important than price, we can always pass the cost on to the customer, and our clientele appreciate that although we cost 5% more than anyone else, chances are good we will never have to see the thing this side of 3 years.
Sir, you scare the living bajeezus out of me for knowing exactly how much juice you can drain from a USB port.
Never, and I mean NEVER come anywhere near the computer store where I work please!
Although at least you wouldn't be like the tool who run 3 unpowered USB hubs, plug in 3 ipods, a mobile phone and a USB powered toaster (who the FUCK though those were a good idea) and wondered why their computer doesn't work any more.