I tried to get a new phone last week, because my old Nokia's starting to fail on the "5" key. Worn out.
Getting a phone that just makes calls is difficult. I gave up. I'm getting out my soldering iron and see if I can get the key to last another year or two.
From reading the article, I glean that Sony is advertising Spidey in such a way as to not include Marvel in any way.
"Spiderman" by Sony Entertainment. No mention of Marvel anywhere. At least, that is what I get from "MARVEL is accusing SONY of doing everything it can to disassociate SPIDERMAN and MARVEL in the minds of retailers."
I can't figure out their pricing strategy. (Disclaimer: I'm a Warhammer 40k addict) I went to a tournament in Calgary and bought a particular character at both the store in Edmonton (300km away) and at the tournament.
In the store, the box of 1 character is $28.00 CAD. At the tournament, individual frames of parts are $4.00. The character in question comes on 2 frames, so $8.00. Plus $.20 for a frame of the cool little green rods that the character needs. So total $16.20 for the same $28.00 character, with no decals.
Go figure.
At the tournament, you could also buy scenery, castles, defensive postsitions etc that are only available from Mail Order in England. I did find one guy who would sell it mail order from Nova Scotia for less than the tournament prices (10% - 20% less) including shipping.
Yea, every weekend - lately anyway. Our daily save does all the libraries, Notes etc, but our main application is in-house RPG. Some of the Lotus Notes data isn't saved unless you kick everyone off (they always forget to log off at night) and I like to have a good image + all the data just in case.
I've had to upgrade both O/S's the last few weeks to V5R2M0, so full bootable backups are nessecary. I've never had an OS upgrade go bad, but it would be hell on earth if it did. With the library this is easy. Each/400 is set to 1/2 of the library (2 drives, 10 tapes). I can just SSH in to my firewall box, and VNC to my PC as the console. We have 2 820's with 10 X 18.5G drives, only about 70G of data, which takes less than 10 tapes with V5R2. It seems to be much better at data organization on the tapes!
We have 4 270's (P10 processor group) that I just installed as my Notes domain, so they aren't full at all. About 10%, also with 10 X 30G drives. They were on special 1/2 price before christmas, so we bought 2 new ones. 270's are bad at interactive, 820's rock at interactive. Makes the 270's perfect for Notes, and the 820's perfect for our in house apps.
I administer several AS/400's, and if it weren't due to the Win2K domain I also administer, I'd have nothing to do.
AS/400's just run. I take an hour or so to go through the backup logs - which are mostly automated now. I just search for "Not Saved" and check that the value is zero. Anything else, I investigate. I check the logs for break in attempts and any severe errors.
They do have some tasks that people just must do. Someone with "QSECOFR" or 'root' authority must check the message logs to make sure no processes are looped, or that pool memory isn't all used etc.
Every once in a while the lock tab on a backup tape will get flipped (anyone who uses a Magstar 3570 know what I mean - Arrrrg!), and the machine will be in a restricted state come morning. Then all hell breaks loose until you kill the backup processes and restart subsystems so people can work. There are just some things that need a human decision.
It backfires. Some unknown stranger reads it and says, "Oh! You fix computers!, Well, when I click...." then the voices in my head drown out the rest of what they say.
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It might have Mad Cow Disease.
Thit
They don't feel that need. You don't make a billion dollars by being stupid.
They are addicted to the risk. The risk of losing it all. The risk of a bad decision. No adrenelyn rush like it.
Your geek membership has been revoked. Hand in your pocket protector at the door. OutOutOut!
The only comparison in operations between the Shuttle and commercial avaition is the landing, during which the Shuttle has never failed.
CD? What was this CD doodadthingie? I remember playing Space Quest on 3 1/2"ers and having to swap floppies! (before I got my Seagate 10M RLL drives.)
Not this one though, on a better monitor. Perhaps in 3D.
But I don't see any of those games being Duke Nukem Forever.
I tried to get a new phone last week, because my old Nokia's starting to fail on the "5" key. Worn out.
Getting a phone that just makes calls is difficult. I gave up. I'm getting out my soldering iron and see if I can get the key to last another year or two.
"Spiderman" by Sony Entertainment. No mention of Marvel anywhere. At least, that is what I get from "MARVEL is accusing SONY of doing everything it can to disassociate SPIDERMAN and MARVEL in the minds of retailers."
I can't figure out their pricing strategy. (Disclaimer: I'm a Warhammer 40k addict) I went to a tournament in Calgary and bought a particular character at both the store in Edmonton (300km away) and at the tournament.
In the store, the box of 1 character is $28.00 CAD. At the tournament, individual frames of parts are $4.00. The character in question comes on 2 frames, so $8.00. Plus $.20 for a frame of the cool little green rods that the character needs. So total $16.20 for the same $28.00 character, with no decals.
Go figure.
At the tournament, you could also buy scenery, castles, defensive postsitions etc that are only available from Mail Order in England. I did find one guy who would sell it mail order from Nova Scotia for less than the tournament prices (10% - 20% less) including shipping.
Does that mean I can order from him anymore?
I love that guy! He reminds me of a skin-and-bones girl with anorexia asking "....Am I fat...?"
How can you if no one knows you've been arrested?
Some of it is quite pretty, and with diamond mines the #1 growth industry, it'll be a good place to be. If you have warm clothing.
I've had to upgrade both O/S's the last few weeks to V5R2M0, so full bootable backups are nessecary. I've never had an OS upgrade go bad, but it would be hell on earth if it did. With the library this is easy. Each /400 is set to 1/2 of the library (2 drives, 10 tapes). I can just SSH in to my firewall box, and VNC to my PC as the console. We have 2 820's with 10 X 18.5G drives, only about 70G of data, which takes less than 10 tapes with V5R2. It seems to be much better at data organization on the tapes!
We have 4 270's (P10 processor group) that I just installed as my Notes domain, so they aren't full at all. About 10%, also with 10 X 30G drives. They were on special 1/2 price before christmas, so we bought 2 new ones. 270's are bad at interactive, 820's rock at interactive. Makes the 270's perfect for Notes, and the 820's perfect for our in house apps.
*smack*
You want to transfer systems to ones that go up and down like a yo-yo? You'll be sorry! I can't blame you for Officevision though...
I administer several AS/400's, and if it weren't due to the Win2K domain I also administer, I'd have nothing to do.
AS/400's just run. I take an hour or so to go through the backup logs - which are mostly automated now. I just search for "Not Saved" and check that the value is zero. Anything else, I investigate. I check the logs for break in attempts and any severe errors.
They do have some tasks that people just must do. Someone with "QSECOFR" or 'root' authority must check the message logs to make sure no processes are looped, or that pool memory isn't all used etc.
Every once in a while the lock tab on a backup tape will get flipped (anyone who uses a Magstar 3570 know what I mean - Arrrrg!), and the machine will be in a restricted state come morning. Then all hell breaks loose until you kill the backup processes and restart subsystems so people can work. There are just some things that need a human decision.
Homer: (points at comic book guy) "Does anyone care what this guy says?"
Crowd:"Nooooooooo"
It backfires. Some unknown stranger reads it and says, "Oh! You fix computers!, Well, when I click...." then the voices in my head drown out the rest of what they say.