Yes, but then along comes dickhead attendee #6969, sees the flash drive in the system and goes "woah, cool, free flash drive! score!" and you're left with a hung system...
Regardless of vendor lock-in, they're missing a crucial element - the employees of the Australian Public Service are terrible and impossible to retrain.
The contract has explicit instructions, which your company knew when bidding the job. So, you've been paid to destroy those drives, whether your accounted it that way or not.
Do not put your company at risk of defrauding the government.
This.
Destroy the drive, and invoice the government for the cost of it's replacement. They'll pay it.
For what it's worth, I've never seen a laptop dock with dual video outlets. All the laptop users I know who do multiple-monitor use the laptop screen as one of the monitors, and the dock-connected one as the second.
I commute for 80-90mins each way on the train to and from work. I could spend the time working on the train but I'd still need to spend my time working in the office as well, therefore I use my train time to relax and read. In the last month I've read A Dance with Dragons by George R R Martin (1510 pages), Pandora's Star (992 pages) and Judas Unchained (848 pages) by Peter F Hamilton, as well as the last 3 of Charles Stross's Merchant Princes series, each around 300 pages. Honestly, I would've preferred to read the Merchant Princes books in one big go, rather than in dribs and drabs. Still really enjoyed them. But they had nothing on the epic worlds created by Martin and Hamilton, without the re-hashing of why things are happening in this universe because it's a separate book form the previous one in the series.
Yes but conventional home ovens won't go high enough. How's this for an idea... Take it to your nearest hospital. Sneak into the room where they keep the MRI, and leave the hard drives in the bottom. Wait for them to turn on the MRI and BAM!!! All your magnetic field are belong to us!!!
Sounds like too much effort? Worried about legal ramifications? Fine. Just get a magnetic drill bit and then drill through the platters. Cheap, effective... but nowhere near as cool as sticking them in the MRI:)
Feel free to tell that to my former employers, who seem to think they are going to save thousands by moving away from linux to an all Windows environment... I'm just watching the train-wreck leave the station from a safe distance:)
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also, just do give you some idea of the damage - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYUpkPTcqPY The scariest thing is it happened again this year.
Wrong link provided. Try this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Queensland_floods
I took my family to Queensland about 3 weeks after these floods, the amount of damage that had been caused was incredible.
Yes, but then along comes dickhead attendee #6969, sees the flash drive in the system and goes "woah, cool, free flash drive! score!" and you're left with a hung system...
... spoken proudly as an ex-employee of the APS! :)
Regardless of vendor lock-in, they're missing a crucial element - the employees of the Australian Public Service are terrible and impossible to retrain.
Darwin, in 1942 was bombed just as badly as Pearl Harbour was... but most people don't actually know that.
Citation - The Age
exception - when buying them at an apple store. the apple "genius" clicks through that for you.
I'LL TAKE 12!
The contract has explicit instructions, which your company knew when bidding the job. So, you've been paid to destroy those drives, whether your accounted it that way or not.
Do not put your company at risk of defrauding the government.
This. Destroy the drive, and invoice the government for the cost of it's replacement. They'll pay it.
THIS.
Well played, sir!
For what it's worth, I've never seen a laptop dock with dual video outlets. All the laptop users I know who do multiple-monitor use the laptop screen as one of the monitors, and the dock-connected one as the second.
Dell PR02X - for some reason I can't find it on the Dell site, but ebay has them and they have dual DVI out: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Clean-Dell-PR02X-Docking-Station-/180733204077?pt=Laptop_Docking_Stations&hash=item2a1489d66d
I commute for 80-90mins each way on the train to and from work. I could spend the time working on the train but I'd still need to spend my time working in the office as well, therefore I use my train time to relax and read. In the last month I've read A Dance with Dragons by George R R Martin (1510 pages), Pandora's Star (992 pages) and Judas Unchained (848 pages) by Peter F Hamilton, as well as the last 3 of Charles Stross's Merchant Princes series, each around 300 pages. Honestly, I would've preferred to read the Merchant Princes books in one big go, rather than in dribs and drabs. Still really enjoyed them. But they had nothing on the epic worlds created by Martin and Hamilton, without the re-hashing of why things are happening in this universe because it's a separate book form the previous one in the series.
Thank you for giving people something to be smug about, no matter what side of the argument they are on.
Epic Kudos to LunchTableGoat for actually doing it too, despite what those naysayers have said!
I also thought the same thing. I blame the Simpsons.
Sounds like too much effort? Worried about legal ramifications? Fine. Just get a magnetic drill bit and then drill through the platters. Cheap, effective... but nowhere near as cool as sticking them in the MRI :)
Mine too. Sadly my old man didn't think to conference me in to the call...
same.
Feel free to tell that to my former employers, who seem to think they are going to save thousands by moving away from linux to an all Windows environment... I'm just watching the train-wreck leave the station from a safe distance :)
I don't care if your name IS George Lucas, but HAN SHOT FIRST.
Thanks for that, my monitor really needed my morning coffee all over it!!!
This.
... we'll all be able to max out our connections on something local, before we hit the international bottleneck!
I'll need to tell them I'm not the one on their watchlist, considering I'm not an American.