IIRC, that was Big Blue - the memory board already had the capacity, and the "upgrade" was a tech removing a jumper allowing access to the second bank - It must have been cheaper to manufacture a board with full capacity and a jumper, than to manufacture two boards with different capacities.
You're correct about the morality of it, but it's been a sound business model since planned obsolesence was first thought of.
It's a better long-term business strategy to keep selling another unit to a customer - frequently and repeatedly - rather than make a product that is 1. long lived (reliable), and 2. economically repairable.
Farming hardware - tractors, harvesters, etc - has traditionally been *very* reliable and long-lived. In other words, what you might call "overbuilt". They have a hard time comprehending why their computers don't last longer than 3-4 years. I have to try to explain modern economics to them.
1. Pink noise generator, through a parabolic reflector aimed at the camera (microphone) 2. Small laser pointer aimed at the camera lens, or if that's a problem legally, a small array of superbright LEDs facing the lens - use some on white, and a few on red, green, and blue.
Longer term: Call the authorities at the slightest hint of a breach of regulations. Pay for a friend to stay at the guest house and take notes of any code violations - health, building, electrical, etc, then hand that over to the Council inspectors.
If you were to replace electric heating with gas/wood, and electric cooking with gas (or wood), your daily kWh (of electrical demand) would plummet. Any electrical heating element is a killer for off-grid use.
Is air-conditioning part of the consideration? Are you planning to live somewhere that you might do without it? Is your off-grid house going to have some passive cooling designs?
If you want to go off-grid, you've *got* to change your outlook. In order to avoid spending more money on PV, batteries, and backup generator fuel, your whole approach to energy use must change. Do an energy aufit of your current usage, and decide how much of that could be made more efficient, e.g. LED to replace incandescent lighting.
FWIW, my house of 2 adults and 2 teenagers used ~9kWh daily when I last did an audit. No aircon, no electric heating or cooking, all wood and gas. All but one of us use a laptop instead of energy-hungry desktops, and we don't do without anything else, except blackouts.
I'm rather displeased with Toshiba, too, but not for that reason. They've pulled out of the low-end and consumer laptop business, which is a shame, because in 10 years I've only had one customer with a fault that required talking to Toshiba customer support.
Now I've got to find a new brand that has similar reliability. Perhaps I'll give Lenovo a try - wouldn't touch HP with a ten-foot pole.
HA! Some of my customers boggle when I telnet into their email server to troubleshoot.
telnet {servername} 110 +OK POP3 server ready user blah +OK please send PASS command pass rhubarb +OK user blah is welcome here list quit Yep, they're all there. Let's see what Outlook is doing.
I can see a rise in popularity for "dazzle camoflage" makeup and hairstyles, and t-shirts with big pictures of famous people. A picture of Trump/famous-person-of-your-choice on your t-shirt is going to make life difficult for facial recognition systems.
Mind you, being identified as Trump is somewhat belittling.....
Perhaps use a dead celebrity on the front, and a live one on the back.
It does seem sispicious to me. I download and try lots of distros (well, a few of the top 10, and occasionally some others), so I'm contributing to the numbers on Distrowatch. I don't keep using most of them, but FWIW I like vanilla Debian/KDE.
If you're charging batteries using AC, you're doing it wrong (except in extended bad weather). There's been this push to make PV panels convert to AC immediately using a micro-inverter on each panel, then feed that AC to the grid - which is fine if you're grid-connected. OTOH my batteries are mostly fed by old-school DC. Being lead-acid, they need about 10% more put in than they can supply, they feed the DC lighting and refrigeration circuits directly, an the AC inverter runs at about 89-94% efficiency depending on load. I've been living this way for >20 years, and it IS a viable option. YMMV, but just because it's not viable *for some situations* doesn't mean it's off the table.
Why do so many people make binary statements? Renewable energy sources are *part* of the solution, they're not *all* of the solution, and they're not *none* of the solution.
That's not obvious at all. It has a very small attack surface (not many VOS instances around), running on highly specialised hardware. Can't run up one of those in a VM to test vulnerability. Lots of easier targets for the taking.
Also, my Win 7 systems (6 desktops/laptops) and one XP machine run no anti-malware with the exception of noscript in their browsers, all run behind a consumer-grade ADSL2+ modem/router with a consumer-grade firewall, and guess what? WE DON'T GET MALWARE INFECTIONS, because we're smart enough to follow basic security practices.
Some people need their hands held, and some don't. You can't lump us all in with the first category.
Well, the first experiment was to install it on the same laptop, but with an SSD instead of the HDD. It worked. Presumably the substitution of an SSD wasn't enough for the installation to consider it a different machine. I've now got an SSD with an activated copy of Win 7 to slot in as soon as the HDD fails.
Then I installed it as a guest VM (virtualbox) on the same host. That also worked. Didn't need luck, but I only did that to prove it would work.
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Pork belly + curing/smoking = bacon.
Pork belly is fantastic without further processing, but it ain't bacon.
IIRC, that was Big Blue - the memory board already had the capacity, and the "upgrade" was a tech removing a jumper allowing access to the second bank - It must have been cheaper to manufacture a board with full capacity and a jumper, than to manufacture two boards with different capacities.
You're correct about the morality of it, but it's been a sound business model since planned obsolesence was first thought of.
It's a better long-term business strategy to keep selling another unit to a customer - frequently and repeatedly - rather than make a product that is 1. long lived (reliable), and 2. economically repairable.
Farming hardware - tractors, harvesters, etc - has traditionally been *very* reliable and long-lived. In other words, what you might call "overbuilt". They have a hard time comprehending why their computers don't last longer than 3-4 years. I have to try to explain modern economics to them.
Ah yes, geocities rises from the dead.
Ha, ha. You funny.
Oh, ghu, we're never going to hear the end of this......
Really, ozzies love kiwis, we wouldn't have anyone to look down on, otherwise.
Or beat at rugby and cricket.
My nephews are kiwis, I love 'em both.
Short term solution:
1. Pink noise generator, through a parabolic reflector aimed at the camera (microphone)
2. Small laser pointer aimed at the camera lens, or if that's a problem legally, a small array of superbright LEDs facing the lens - use some on white, and a few on red, green, and blue.
Longer term:
Call the authorities at the slightest hint of a breach of regulations. Pay for a friend to stay at the guest house and take notes of any code violations - health, building, electrical, etc, then hand that over to the Council inspectors.
*Raises the question
Well, that settles it. Nothing to worry about, folks. Just keep consuming those finite resources and let your grandchildren worry about any problems.
Ads are something that detracts from the user experience, and we think you'll pay $20/year to be ad-free (at least on Outlook.com).
If you were to replace electric heating with gas/wood, and electric cooking with gas (or wood), your daily kWh (of electrical demand) would plummet. Any electrical heating element is a killer for off-grid use.
Is air-conditioning part of the consideration? Are you planning to live somewhere that you might do without it? Is your off-grid house going to have some passive cooling designs?
If you want to go off-grid, you've *got* to change your outlook. In order to avoid spending more money on PV, batteries, and backup generator fuel, your whole approach to energy use must change. Do an energy aufit of your current usage, and decide how much of that could be made more efficient, e.g. LED to replace incandescent lighting.
FWIW, my house of 2 adults and 2 teenagers used ~9kWh daily when I last did an audit. No aircon, no electric heating or cooking, all wood and gas. All but one of us use a laptop instead of energy-hungry desktops, and we don't do without anything else, except blackouts.
Never dealt with Asus, I suspect.
I'm rather displeased with Toshiba, too, but not for that reason. They've pulled out of the low-end and consumer laptop business, which is a shame, because in 10 years I've only had one customer with a fault that required talking to Toshiba customer support.
Now I've got to find a new brand that has similar reliability. Perhaps I'll give Lenovo a try - wouldn't touch HP with a ten-foot pole.
HA! Some of my customers boggle when I telnet into their email server to troubleshoot.
telnet {servername} 110
+OK POP3 server ready
user blah
+OK please send PASS command
pass rhubarb
+OK user blah is welcome here
list
quit
Yep, they're all there. Let's see what Outlook is doing.
Specifically, EBCDIC-ASCII tables.
I can see a rise in popularity for "dazzle camoflage" makeup and hairstyles, and t-shirts with big pictures of famous people. A picture of Trump/famous-person-of-your-choice on your t-shirt is going to make life difficult for facial recognition systems.
Mind you, being identified as Trump is somewhat belittling.....
Perhaps use a dead celebrity on the front, and a live one on the back.
It does seem sispicious to me. I download and try lots of distros (well, a few of the top 10, and occasionally some others), so I'm contributing to the numbers on Distrowatch. I don't keep using most of them, but FWIW I like vanilla Debian/KDE.
If you're charging batteries using AC, you're doing it wrong (except in extended bad weather). There's been this push to make PV panels convert to AC immediately using a micro-inverter on each panel, then feed that AC to the grid - which is fine if you're grid-connected. OTOH my batteries are mostly fed by old-school DC. Being lead-acid, they need about 10% more put in than they can supply, they feed the DC lighting and refrigeration circuits directly, an the AC inverter runs at about 89-94% efficiency depending on load. I've been living this way for >20 years, and it IS a viable option. YMMV, but just because it's not viable *for some situations* doesn't mean it's off the table.
Why do so many people make binary statements? Renewable energy sources are *part* of the solution, they're not *all* of the solution, and they're not *none* of the solution.
Obviously, it isn't connected to the Internet.
That's not obvious at all. It has a very small attack surface (not many VOS instances around), running on highly specialised hardware. Can't run up one of those in a VM to test vulnerability. Lots of easier targets for the taking.
Also, my Win 7 systems (6 desktops/laptops) and one XP machine run no anti-malware with the exception of noscript in their browsers, all run behind a consumer-grade ADSL2+ modem/router with a consumer-grade firewall, and guess what? WE DON'T GET MALWARE INFECTIONS, because we're smart enough to follow basic security practices.
Some people need their hands held, and some don't. You can't lump us all in with the first category.
Or a scheduled task (running every 10 seconds) using a powershell script to delete that "reboot" scheduled task?
It might sound stupid to have scheduled tasks fighting other scheduled tasks, but if MS supplies the tools, why not use them?
I've asked this before - I don't (I refuse to) have a W10 machine to test it on - but has anyone tried a shutdown abort as a scheduled task, i.e.
add a scheduled task to run every 10 or 20 seconds, running this command: shutdown -a
Well, the first experiment was to install it on the same laptop, but with an SSD instead of the HDD. It worked. Presumably the substitution of an SSD wasn't enough for the installation to consider it a different machine. I've now got an SSD with an activated copy of Win 7 to slot in as soon as the HDD fails.
Then I installed it as a guest VM (virtualbox) on the same host. That also worked. Didn't need luck, but I only did that to prove it would work.
Laptops generally come with a "media creator" tool to burn a set of installation discs. Some desktops, too.
Bonus - the toshiba tool creates an activated version of Win 7. That *could* be used to install many VMs, but I wouldn't know about that.
They have to do the needful.
I like to move it, move it!
Something like:
Edge is better!
No, It's not.
Is this the right room for an argument?