My dad used to work for a small family owned steel foundry - every Christmas they would buy every member of staff a turkey.
You could judge the state of their order book by the size of turkey, one year it was too big to go in the oven in one piece, another year my mam had to go out and buy a chicken to roast alongside it.
I used Asda/Wal Mart and they deliver until 9pm, and they give you a 1 hour delivery window. Obviously the evening deliveries get booked up fairly quickly.
For those that don't know what Ben is on about... see this slang guide here This guide doesn't cover the origin of the phrase, which is a derogatory way of referring to someone who is Spastic (suffering from Cerebral Palsy)
I'd like to second the comment about portion sizes being a part of the problem. I was recently in USA on holiday and I amazed by the amount of food on the plate. The portion sizes were routinely 75% larger than the portions in the UK (maybe we're just stingy).
An example of this is a starter I ordered in an italian restaurant - bruschetta. In the UK this would have been 3 pieces of bread, in the US it was an entire 6" baguette.
Another problem is a growing reliance on pre-prepared foods. Rather than cooking a meal, just go to the chiller section and get a 99% fat free meal. Unfortunately most of these meals are crammed full of sugars to make them taste good and keep longer, so undoing any health benefits from the reduction in fat.
You don't have to buy a volume manager from Veritas, you can use Solstice Discsuite. This allows mirroring of root disks, striping, concatanating..
The home directories in/export/home is to make it easier to setup NIS and automounted home directories, allowing members of staff to be able to access their home directories from any machine on the network.
There was research saying that child pornography was used by paedophiles during the 'grooming' process (when the abuser gets the child's trust).
They used the pornography to demonstrate that what they wanted the child to take part in wasn't unusual or wrong. In this case even realistic virutual child porn (i.e. non anime) could prove harmful to children, even if no children were harmed in the production of the film/photos.
The 106 CPUs is quite bizarre. The Starcat has 18 System Boards and 18 I/O Boards..
18 system boards with 4 CPUs = 72 CPUS
BUT! They have this cunning little thingy (can't remember the name of it) that allows you to replace a I/O board with a board populated with 2 CPUs (but no memory), giving
17 I/O boards with 2 CPUs (got to keep 1 I/O board in obviously!) = 34 CPUS
Giving us a grand total of 106 CPUs.
Don't know many people who will sacrifice most of their I/O to get the extra CPUs.
The Word filters are good enough - but not perfect. I use StarOffice at work (5.1) and I converted a document to Word format. I got a question back from the person receiving the document asking why my bulleted lists were falling off the edge of the page, and why my bullet symbol was 1/2 rather than a bullet. So now I have to check all converted documents in a copy of word on my laptop before sending them out to customers.
StarCalc has real weaknesses - to someone brought up using Excel and the formulae that you can use, I find it really frustrating not being able to use an IF statement in a cell formula to prevent division by zero problems.
I agree with Poligraf on most of his points except
I think HP will try to move them to much more widespread HP-UX (many of the vendor packages are released for Solaris and Linux first, HP-UX second, and AIX third. TRU64X and Irix are distant fourth, and many don't even port there)
I work as an Oracle DBA and Compaq are VERY agressive in this arena, having forged a strong alliance during the development of 9iAS. Oracle have started porting to Compaq early (in some cases earlier than HP).
Compaq also have the cluster interconnect technology (inherited from Digital) which would allow for the clustering of smaller cheaper boxes. As far as I'm aware no other UNIX manufacturer has anything as fast and low latency (HP or Sun).
I seem to remember that the twin was called SAL 9000 (had a female voice). Some of the chips from SAL were taken out and put into HAL to activate him for 2010.
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My dad used to work for a small family owned steel foundry - every Christmas they would buy every member of staff a turkey.
You could judge the state of their order book by the size of turkey, one year it was too big to go in the oven in one piece, another year my mam had to go out and buy a chicken to roast alongside it.
I used Asda/Wal Mart and they deliver until 9pm, and they give you a 1 hour delivery window. Obviously the evening deliveries get booked up fairly quickly.
This guide doesn't cover the origin of the phrase, which is a derogatory way of referring to someone who is Spastic (suffering from Cerebral Palsy)
I'd like to second the comment about portion sizes being a part of the problem. I was recently in USA on holiday and I amazed by the amount of food on the plate. The portion sizes were routinely 75% larger than the portions in the UK (maybe we're just stingy).
An example of this is a starter I ordered in an italian restaurant - bruschetta. In the UK this would have been 3 pieces of bread, in the US it was an entire 6" baguette.
Another problem is a growing reliance on pre-prepared foods. Rather than cooking a meal, just go to the chiller section and get a 99% fat free meal. Unfortunately most of these meals are crammed full of sugars to make them taste good and keep longer, so undoing any health benefits from the reduction in fat.
You don't have to buy a volume manager from Veritas, you can use Solstice Discsuite. This allows mirroring of root disks, striping, concatanating..
/export/home is to make it easier to setup NIS and automounted home directories, allowing members of staff to be able to access their home directories from any machine on the network.
The home directories in
Charlie is slang for cocaine.
I know its bad form to reply to my postings, but here's a reference to the use of child porn in the 'grooming' process.
d ex .cfm?section=15&menu=3
http://www.savethechildrenaustralia.com/base/in
There was research saying that child pornography was used by paedophiles during the 'grooming' process (when the abuser gets the child's trust).
They used the pornography to demonstrate that what they wanted the child to take part in wasn't unusual or wrong. In this case even realistic virutual child porn (i.e. non anime) could prove harmful to children, even if no children were harmed in the production of the film/photos.
The 106 CPUs is quite bizarre. The Starcat has 18 System Boards and 18 I/O Boards..
18 system boards with 4 CPUs = 72 CPUS
BUT! They have this cunning little thingy (can't remember the name of it) that allows you to replace a I/O board with a board populated with 2 CPUs (but no memory), giving
17 I/O boards with 2 CPUs (got to keep 1 I/O board in obviously!) = 34 CPUS
Giving us a grand total of 106 CPUs.
Don't know many people who will sacrifice most of their I/O to get the extra CPUs.
The Word filters are good enough - but not perfect. I use StarOffice at work (5.1) and I converted a document to Word format. I got a question back from the person receiving the document asking why my bulleted lists were falling off the edge of the page, and why my bullet symbol was 1/2 rather than a bullet. So now I have to check all converted documents in a copy of word on my laptop before sending them out to customers.
StarCalc has real weaknesses - to someone brought up using Excel and the formulae that you can use, I find it really frustrating not being able to use an IF statement in a cell formula to prevent division by zero problems.
Ho hum.
I agree with Poligraf on most of his points except
I think HP will try to move them to much more widespread HP-UX (many of the vendor packages are released for Solaris and Linux first, HP-UX second, and AIX third. TRU64X and Irix are distant fourth, and many don't even port there)
I work as an Oracle DBA and Compaq are VERY agressive in this arena, having forged a strong alliance during the development of 9iAS. Oracle have started porting to Compaq early (in some cases earlier than HP).
Compaq also have the cluster interconnect technology (inherited from Digital) which would allow for the clustering of smaller cheaper boxes. As far as I'm aware no other UNIX manufacturer has anything as fast and low latency (HP or Sun).
I seem to remember that the twin was called SAL 9000 (had a female voice). Some of the chips from SAL were taken out and put into HAL to activate him for 2010.