You should not have to pay a restocking fee on this transaction - the item is defective in your system. Insist on a full refund from the merchant. Then, if you charged this RAM on your credit card and the merchant is still unwilling to cooperate, call them and ask them about the procedure for disputing the charges. If the restocking fee is less than say $10, remind yourself that it isn't just about the money, it is about the principles. Never accept crappy service. You'll be doing both yourself a favor and everyone else who tries to buy from that merchant.
It is important to note that when people on Pricewatch mention the brand name of memory, they often are actually referring to the brand name of the CHIPS. Hitachi, Samsung, NEC, etc. make great chips. Then they sell the chips primarily to the DIMM manufacturers who actually put them on the PCB. The chips are almost all well made, but the boards are often crappy, out of spec and/or poorly assembled with generic memory. On the other hand, PNY, Kingston, and many other manufacturers manufacture their DIMMs using high quality chips and high quality PCB designs (Micron makes both chips and PCB's under the Crucial brand). Like another poster said, there can be good cheap RAM, but if you aren't familiar with the PCB manufacturer, have the RAM tested if possible before you exchange funds or at least put it in your motherboard.
To add to "other sale terms", it is important to note that most of the items near the top of the list (lowest price) are OEM versions of that hardware. For example, if you search for AMD Athlon MP 2000+ you will see the best prices are for OEM products with only a dealer warranty, usually much shorter (and much more likely to screw you) than the factory warranty. For most parts, especially those over $75 or $100, you owe it to yourself to pay the premium, usually 5-10%, for a full blown factory warranty. Also OEM products tend to skip on accessories. I've also found OEM sound cards that had connectors designed only to work with specific motherboards (you can work around it, but it is a pain), or even missing connectors you might want. And of course CPU's generally come with heatsink/fan combinations only in the retail package.
Since you are not going to be getting the blanket warranty from a pre-built direct or retail computer, you should really consider the benefits of full factory warranties for each component, especially the expensive ones.
I also like the new wording because it keeps people from buying a Microtel box at WalMart and then saying Lindows/Linux is a piece of shit, it doesn't even work like they said. The people who are buying these machines are likely to take their frustration to work, to their social circles, etc. I'd much rather hear these people saying "Linux is really neat but you can't run most of the software at CompUSA" than "Linux doesn't do anything it is supposed to."
The problem with this is speed. A serial or parallel interface (unless USB or FireWire) will be much slower than a 10Mbps and slower still than 100Mbps ethernet connection. But you can easily and securely set up a nonroutable network between your database and application server(s). A simple crossover between a single db and single application server, each with a separate NIC for this network, works well. The hardware is just as secure as a serial link, but fast enough for realtime processing or high speed batch processing. The same applies to kernel level security. Use an isolated switch (or VLANs if budget is a concern) to connect multiple computers on this "off net" backend connection. It is just as easy [hard] to sniff this ethernet connection as a parallel or serial connection - you have to have physical access to the hardware or kernel level access to the system's memory. Still, you can encrypt all connections across this network to add additional security.
* In running the echo canceller on sparcs (ss20, SPARCserver-1000), it takes between 3 and 4 times realtime to operate.
Now a Pentium III 800 will probably run it in a fraction of the time for an SS20, say 1/2 realtime to 1/4 realtime. But if it is for a mixing project, there will be several streams to process. I wonder if the cost of having to use a dedicated computer for software processing will outweigh the cost of dedicated DSP hardware?
At least he was downloading MP3's and keeping them (or at least I hope he used it that way). That reminded me of a whole problem I forgot to mention: people listening to their favorite [local] radio stations all day online, choosing the highest bit rate available of course. Several even watched TV all day!!! To make it worse, some of the worst offenders even had radios in their office!
How many times have I had to respond to "urgent network problems" only to find out the problem was someone installed some shit like "NetAccelrator" on a LAN connected computer (they say they saw an error message telling them their connection wasn't optimized...) or CyberPatrol so their kids can play afterhours. Nevermind the problems with clients DoSing us with their Outlook/IIS/Sircam worms, the biggest DoS is people installing Gnutella and other sharing programs and giving downloaders full bandwidth, thinking it will make their downloads faster.
Even software that doesn't usually mess up a computers network stack or even use the network can wreak havock. Enter the user who thinks he knows everything he needs to know, but really only knows how to break everything he touches. Send him to a training course? Only if you want to teach him how to break more stuff, even with the best ACL's!
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Welcome to John Katz's mind. When he watches/buys/uses/hears something, he feels inclined to somehow connect it, by thinking out loud in Slashdot editorials, to the issues he cares about. Unfortunately, it always reads like someone taking bong hits and trying to get philisophical. His brain misfires a little here and there, and he ends up connecting banner ads to open source, globalism to lunar cycles, etc. Just when he's on to something, he tries to write it out and ends up way off course.
Good point, Apple does have people from other Unices coming over. But I would imagine that they hope those people are trying out the interface on a new Powerbook G4 or top-end G4 desktop in the store. At the same time, it's hard to convince someone using a 270MHz Ultra 5 to switch to a 800MHz G4 processor with an interface that feels as slow as a 110MHz Sparc 10.
Apple knows if they turn their hardware in to commodity hardware (with constant upgrades needed to use the latest), their users will be less loyal, since that is one of the selling points for die-hard Mac users. Their users love backwards compatability and long machine livability. Think - FireWire and gigabit ethernet standard.
Also, Apple knows that a good interface will sell more machines. Mac users are likely to think that OS X is really pretty and simple to use when they try it on their G3, and will think less about its lack of speed. But in the long run, users will eventually realize the need for a new upgrade, and will of course pick something running OS X. That happens to be another Apple machine.
I had several friends warn me about Iomega, who had similar failure rates with their tape drives. Thinking the times had changed and that Iomega had surely learned from their past, I bought a Jaz 1GB drive. It died approximately every three months, usually taking a full 1GB of data with it. At work my production department bought 5 drives, and cartridges were almost always bad by their thrid use. A 2GB drive, which was supposed to be more reliable, only proved to eat more files than the 1GB version. To top off all of these problems, Iomega's customer support was quite unfriendly, always made you fax originaly receipts in as proof of date of purchase (for replacement drives that died too) and several times tried to deny warranty claims on their lifetime warranty for media. Best of all, the drives and media were always kept well within the environmental specs. Hopefully their NAS box uses another manufacturer's fully sealed, dustproof hard drive and interface boards. And don't put anything important on these boxes!
You might also be surprised at the number of smaller businesses that use SSL on their outsourced web site, but then use PGP to send the collected form data via email to the person processing the orders. It is an inexpensive method that many non-profits use to accept donations, for example.
If your public library doen't have a PDF viewer, you should ask them to add one on at least one workstation. If their computers can't support Acrobat 3, it is probably time to move out of that rural mining town to a place that actually values education.
Those situations are covered by other regulatory bodies. Software regulation is not mutually exclusive of the industry in which it is used. The more risk involved, the more regulations. The FDA regulates the computers, software included, used in medicine, for example. There are strict criteria that the software must meet, specific tests must be passed, etc.
It would not be appropriate for software regulations to be sweeping over all industries when the uses vary greatly. Instead, the industry should have individualized (by function) regulations. These could (actually they are in many cases) even be regulated by several athorities. For example, the Department of Saftey may regulate software controlling a chemical plant to prevent human injury. Then the Environmental Protection Agency regulates the software to prevent a computer crash from releasing nasty gasses.
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That first number is the decompressed number. The decompression occurs before the client can save or render the file. Try it - save the file from a web page (from a gzip compressed page of course) and then look at its contents. Note that it is no longer compressed.
I'm sure this guy is regreting it. I mean, his website is blackholed right now, a few days before the primary! And this guy was supposedly "net savy"....
I wonder how long it will be before someone makes a brochure with a picture of frustrated yet adorable Korean elementary schools kids unable to access the Internet because the oponent abused their network. If this guy has anything about supporting education in his platform (have any gubernatorial canidates ever left this out?) it would be a perfect counter attack.
Significantly, real estate is a fair bit cheaper in major cities here than in the U.S.
Did it every occur to you that this might have to do with the weather and location? Real eastate in costal Florida and California is more expensive because people actually desire to live there for reasons other than "that's where I have to live for my job.
If I recall correctly, they were not being responsive to people using throw away dial-up accounts as quick relays, and so they became known among spammers as an easy place to get an account. The simple fix was to stop routing port 25 from dial-up customers to outside of their network, but they refused. Then ISPs started blocking Earthlink email, customers started complaining, and within short time frame they caved and blocked port 25.
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You should not have to pay a restocking fee on this transaction - the item is defective in your system. Insist on a full refund from the merchant. Then, if you charged this RAM on your credit card and the merchant is still unwilling to cooperate, call them and ask them about the procedure for disputing the charges. If the restocking fee is less than say $10, remind yourself that it isn't just about the money, it is about the principles. Never accept crappy service. You'll be doing both yourself a favor and everyone else who tries to buy from that merchant.
It is important to note that when people on Pricewatch mention the brand name of memory, they often are actually referring to the brand name of the CHIPS. Hitachi, Samsung, NEC, etc. make great chips. Then they sell the chips primarily to the DIMM manufacturers who actually put them on the PCB. The chips are almost all well made, but the boards are often crappy, out of spec and/or poorly assembled with generic memory. On the other hand, PNY, Kingston, and many other manufacturers manufacture their DIMMs using high quality chips and high quality PCB designs (Micron makes both chips and PCB's under the Crucial brand). Like another poster said, there can be good cheap RAM, but if you aren't familiar with the PCB manufacturer, have the RAM tested if possible before you exchange funds or at least put it in your motherboard.
To add to "other sale terms", it is important to note that most of the items near the top of the list (lowest price) are OEM versions of that hardware. For example, if you search for AMD Athlon MP 2000+ you will see the best prices are for OEM products with only a dealer warranty, usually much shorter (and much more likely to screw you) than the factory warranty. For most parts, especially those over $75 or $100, you owe it to yourself to pay the premium, usually 5-10%, for a full blown factory warranty. Also OEM products tend to skip on accessories. I've also found OEM sound cards that had connectors designed only to work with specific motherboards (you can work around it, but it is a pain), or even missing connectors you might want. And of course CPU's generally come with heatsink/fan combinations only in the retail package.
Since you are not going to be getting the blanket warranty from a pre-built direct or retail computer, you should really consider the benefits of full factory warranties for each component, especially the expensive ones.
I also like the new wording because it keeps people from buying a Microtel box at WalMart and then saying Lindows/Linux is a piece of shit, it doesn't even work like they said. The people who are buying these machines are likely to take their frustration to work, to their social circles, etc. I'd much rather hear these people saying "Linux is really neat but you can't run most of the software at CompUSA" than "Linux doesn't do anything it is supposed to."
The problem with this is speed. A serial or parallel interface (unless USB or FireWire) will be much slower than a 10Mbps and slower still than 100Mbps ethernet connection. But you can easily and securely set up a nonroutable network between your database and application server(s). A simple crossover between a single db and single application server, each with a separate NIC for this network, works well. The hardware is just as secure as a serial link, but fast enough for realtime processing or high speed batch processing. The same applies to kernel level security. Use an isolated switch (or VLANs if budget is a concern) to connect multiple computers on this "off net" backend connection. It is just as easy [hard] to sniff this ethernet connection as a parallel or serial connection - you have to have physical access to the hardware or kernel level access to the system's memory. Still, you can encrypt all connections across this network to add additional security.
This is a good start. Note that the perl script linked to above only provides raw data to the ec.exe binary, but the source code is linked to on that page. Also, there is more information and the source code at http://www.isip.msstate.edu/projects/speech/softwa re/legacy/fir_echo_canceller/. Nevertheless, consider:
* In running the echo canceller on sparcs (ss20, SPARCserver-1000), it takes between 3 and 4 times realtime to operate.
Now a Pentium III 800 will probably run it in a fraction of the time for an SS20, say 1/2 realtime to 1/4 realtime. But if it is for a mixing project, there will be several streams to process. I wonder if the cost of having to use a dedicated computer for software processing will outweigh the cost of dedicated DSP hardware?
I remember in 1992, even as late as 1994, many people said "individual telephone lines will never allow data transfers faster than 28800bps".
Of course DVD-ROMs (or another large capacity, inexpensive medium) will be more popular by the time bandwith makes a 650MB download seem trivial.
At least he was downloading MP3's and keeping them (or at least I hope he used it that way). That reminded me of a whole problem I forgot to mention: people listening to their favorite [local] radio stations all day online, choosing the highest bit rate available of course. Several even watched TV all day!!! To make it worse, some of the worst offenders even had radios in their office!
Amen brother!
How many times have I had to respond to "urgent network problems" only to find out the problem was someone installed some shit like "NetAccelrator" on a LAN connected computer (they say they saw an error message telling them their connection wasn't optimized...) or CyberPatrol so their kids can play afterhours. Nevermind the problems with clients DoSing us with their Outlook/IIS/Sircam worms, the biggest DoS is people installing Gnutella and other sharing programs and giving downloaders full bandwidth, thinking it will make their downloads faster.
Even software that doesn't usually mess up a computers network stack or even use the network can wreak havock. Enter the user who thinks he knows everything he needs to know, but really only knows how to break everything he touches. Send him to a training course? Only if you want to teach him how to break more stuff, even with the best ACL's!
Welcome to John Katz's mind. When he watches/buys/uses/hears something, he feels inclined to somehow connect it, by thinking out loud in Slashdot editorials, to the issues he cares about. Unfortunately, it always reads like someone taking bong hits and trying to get philisophical. His brain misfires a little here and there, and he ends up connecting banner ads to open source, globalism to lunar cycles, etc. Just when he's on to something, he tries to write it out and ends up way off course.
Good point, Apple does have people from other Unices coming over. But I would imagine that they hope those people are trying out the interface on a new Powerbook G4 or top-end G4 desktop in the store. At the same time, it's hard to convince someone using a 270MHz Ultra 5 to switch to a 800MHz G4 processor with an interface that feels as slow as a 110MHz Sparc 10.
Two reasons -
Apple knows if they turn their hardware in to commodity hardware (with constant upgrades needed to use the latest), their users will be less loyal, since that is one of the selling points for die-hard Mac users. Their users love backwards compatability and long machine livability. Think - FireWire and gigabit ethernet standard.
Also, Apple knows that a good interface will sell more machines. Mac users are likely to think that OS X is really pretty and simple to use when they try it on their G3, and will think less about its lack of speed. But in the long run, users will eventually realize the need for a new upgrade, and will of course pick something running OS X. That happens to be another Apple machine.
I had several friends warn me about Iomega, who had similar failure rates with their tape drives. Thinking the times had changed and that Iomega had surely learned from their past, I bought a Jaz 1GB drive. It died approximately every three months, usually taking a full 1GB of data with it. At work my production department bought 5 drives, and cartridges were almost always bad by their thrid use. A 2GB drive, which was supposed to be more reliable, only proved to eat more files than the 1GB version. To top off all of these problems, Iomega's customer support was quite unfriendly, always made you fax originaly receipts in as proof of date of purchase (for replacement drives that died too) and several times tried to deny warranty claims on their lifetime warranty for media. Best of all, the drives and media were always kept well within the environmental specs. Hopefully their NAS box uses another manufacturer's fully sealed, dustproof hard drive and interface boards. And don't put anything important on these boxes!
You might also be surprised at the number of smaller businesses that use SSL on their outsourced web site, but then use PGP to send the collected form data via email to the person processing the orders. It is an inexpensive method that many non-profits use to accept donations, for example.
If your public library doen't have a PDF viewer, you should ask them to add one on at least one workstation. If their computers can't support Acrobat 3, it is probably time to move out of that rural mining town to a place that actually values education.
Real men use cat. Real men don't even use less or more, they just read really fast.
You mean real men read at 38400bps on a serial console.
Castro just likes some redundancy in his messages...
Also, "swapoff -a" will turn off all swap partitions (and files) listed in /etc/fstab .
Those situations are covered by other regulatory bodies. Software regulation is not mutually exclusive of the industry in which it is used. The more risk involved, the more regulations. The FDA regulates the computers, software included, used in medicine, for example. There are strict criteria that the software must meet, specific tests must be passed, etc.
It would not be appropriate for software regulations to be sweeping over all industries when the uses vary greatly. Instead, the industry should have individualized (by function) regulations. These could (actually they are in many cases) even be regulated by several athorities. For example, the Department of Saftey may regulate software controlling a chemical plant to prevent human injury. Then the Environmental Protection Agency regulates the software to prevent a computer crash from releasing nasty gasses.
That first number is the decompressed number. The decompression occurs before the client can save or render the file. Try it - save the file from a web page (from a gzip compressed page of course) and then look at its contents. Note that it is no longer compressed.
I'm sure this guy is regreting it. I mean, his website is blackholed right now, a few days before the primary! And this guy was supposedly "net savy"....
I wonder how long it will be before someone makes a brochure with a picture of frustrated yet adorable Korean elementary schools kids unable to access the Internet because the oponent abused their network. If this guy has anything about supporting education in his platform (have any gubernatorial canidates ever left this out?) it would be a perfect counter attack.
Significantly, real estate is a fair bit cheaper in major cities here than in the U.S.
Did it every occur to you that this might have to do with the weather and location? Real eastate in costal Florida and California is more expensive because people actually desire to live there for reasons other than "that's where I have to live for my job.
Don't forget spy software, bad credit removals, mortgage refinancing. Who the hell trusts their credit and/or their HOME to a spammer?
If I recall correctly, they were not being responsive to people using throw away dial-up accounts as quick relays, and so they became known among spammers as an easy place to get an account. The simple fix was to stop routing port 25 from dial-up customers to outside of their network, but they refused. Then ISPs started blocking Earthlink email, customers started complaining, and within short time frame they caved and blocked port 25.
Message GPF32. The phone customer you are atempting to reach is temporarily out of service. Error GPF at 0x0F07021. Please try your call again later.