Flash back to the days of the Celeron and slot mount CPU's.
I had built a celerom PC for the in-laws across the state and mailed it to them, monitor keyboard and all.
When it arrived they gave me a call saying it wasn't working. I suspected that the CPU came loose and asked my father-in-law to open up the computer case and look around for a silver heat sink with 2 fans on it.. If it's loose plug it back into the big slot on the motherboard.. It'll only go in one way so don't force it.
He's good with tools so I didn't think I'd have much to worry about.. He said he'd call me back when he got it open.
I get the call about 10 minutes later.
FIL: I got the case open but I dont' see any heatsink with fans.. Me: Ok what do you see in there? FIL: there's a heatsink with out a fan. lots of wires and a big tube.. Me: A tube? FIL: yeah, a tube.. Me: Uhh thats the monitor.. Just umm put that back together. You need to open the other case. FIL: ohh the hard drive? Me: Uhh yeah.. The big square beige box..
10 minutes later it was working great.
I won't get into his trip to Wal-mart to buy a printer.
I've tried getting rebates for the company before on things like HP printers. The Fianace department didn't want to bother with the rebate checks. About the only thing I ever got them to go for was a free Jornada for buying an HP 4650 and returning an old LJ III for recycling.
With Vaporware you have an idea you pitched to the world but for whatever reason can't get it working enough to bring to market..
Here we have a great idea that does work but they can't say exactly why it works.. It's all great news I'll agree, But it's not a good idea to put new tech into a reactor when you don't know exactly how it functions.
Yeah it takes me back to my Brodcast TV days too..
I wonder how may people here even know what a quad is.
For those who don't it's a 2" wide reel to reel video tape system. It has an air drivin head and is quite the beast.
The station I worked for had 2 Ampex VR1200's, 2 RCA TR-50's and at the end of the quad era at theat station we picked up an Ampex AVR-1.. That thing was cool.
We ran those in production untill 1999 when they were retired for a digital library (think SAN with a video playback control system)
Most stores have the same sales online on Friday that they do in the stores and they start at midnight.. Just stay up after Thanksgiving (if you can, stupid Turkey). Hit Ben's Bargins & Fat Wallet then go shopping at midnight EST.
We scored everything we wanted and never set foot in the shopping nightmare at the mall.
Now as to fragile, it is one of the most stable since it can not blow up. Now, I am sure that somebody is going to mention challenger. The solid booster did NOT blow up. It was the main liquid tank that did due to the O-ring leaking a plume into it
Great point. If anyone cares to remember the soild boosters kept going after the main tank exploded.. Ground control had to blow them up since they were now uncontroled. Now that's stable!
HP's Blade servers run on a 48v bus. The PSU's are in a seperatly racked case. You can power an entire rack full with 2 PSU cages. You can get up to 6 enclosures in a 42u rack for a total of up to 96 blades.
Each PSU cage holds 6 PSU's and has 2-220v feeds so you can power a full rack with 4 220v circuts. The PSU's just deliver 48 volts so you could drop them entirly and use whatever 48v PS you have (telco anyone??) When were evaluating them we gave some serous thought to powering them through the Telco power supply.
Oh yeah like we've had great luck with standard disks in the last 5 years..
IBM DeathsStar drives come to mind along with the Travelstar line..(We've replaced hundreds of those) mosts of those were total failure with little to no warning.
More recently I had a 2 year old Maxtor puke on me.. Maybe it's me but todays drives just don't last like they used to.
If these new drives can run for 3-4 years before fraging themselves it'll be an improvement.
We were driving down I-80 on our way to Denver. I was checking the map on the latop as we were passing through Laramie, Wy. The wireless card poped up and said it found an access point.
Just for fun I poped up Slashdot but we lost the signal about 30 seconds later. Hit another a few miles down the road but I lost that before I could see if I had internet access.
I picked up this little tidbit from Thwackamole on the SCO Yahoo Forum
So long as any shares of Series A-1 Preferred Stock are outstanding, the Corporation shall not take any of the following corporate actions (whether by merger, consolidation or otherwise) without first obtaining the approval (by vote or written consent, as provided by the DGCL) of the Majority Holders:
(v) redeem, repurchase or otherwise acquire, or declare or pay any cash dividend or distribution on, any Junior Securities. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Corporation shall, without the prior approval of the Majority Holders, be entitled to repurchase Junior Securities from employees of the Corporation in connection with employee compensation plans approved by the Corporation's Board of Directors.
What the heck does that mean? basically without a majority vote they can't buyback stock from anyone except employee's..
Hmm that would be people like the CEO and other senior executives??
To put it another way they just gave executives a 13 million dollar payday.
Every job I've had save one was through a friend or someone I have worked with.
I got into a 7 year gig in Broadcast TV through an old HS friend. I jumped into my first 3 years in IT through another old High School buddy.
From there I got a contract at Intel through a friend from my first IT job.
That was 2000.. Intel stock droped (well so did everyone else too) and the Layoffs started..
I posted a resume on Monster and 3-4 other boards, got picked up by a headhunter, placed in a Job I hated after 2 days, Called the head of HR from my first IT job (oh look another friend) and got an offer from her, quit the bad job on day 3 and never missed a day of work.
Now one of the guys I met at the bad job works here because He remembered me and I gave him a good recomendation.
Now the Datacenter is relocating to Denver, Everyone that's not going is pulling out all the contacts they can.. And ya know what? it's working!
Slashdot Mirror
To me it looks like this
b3b6c2d6c60b198193b4de6e5031442d
(MD4 hash)
Flash back to the days of the Celeron and slot mount CPU's.
I had built a celerom PC for the in-laws across the state and mailed it to them, monitor keyboard and all.
When it arrived they gave me a call saying it wasn't working.
I suspected that the CPU came loose and asked my father-in-law to open up the computer case and look around for a silver heat sink with 2 fans on it..
If it's loose plug it back into the big slot on the motherboard.. It'll only go in one way so don't force it.
He's good with tools so I didn't think I'd have much to worry about.. He said he'd call me back when he got it open.
I get the call about 10 minutes later.
FIL: I got the case open but I dont' see any heatsink with fans..
Me: Ok what do you see in there?
FIL: there's a heatsink with out a fan. lots of wires and a big tube..
Me: A tube?
FIL: yeah, a tube..
Me: Uhh thats the monitor.. Just umm put that back together. You need to open the other case.
FIL: ohh the hard drive?
Me: Uhh yeah.. The big square beige box..
10 minutes later it was working great.
I won't get into his trip to Wal-mart to buy a printer.
I've tried getting rebates for the company before on things like HP printers.
The Fianace department didn't want to bother with the rebate checks.
About the only thing I ever got them to go for was a free Jornada for buying an HP 4650 and returning an old LJ III for recycling.
I guess you are not aware of the little firebombs called Lithium-Polymer batteries you hold up to your head every day in your cell phone.
Overcharge a Li-Poly or Li-Ion battery and they will literally explode and burn.
Drain them to low and they won't ever charge up again.
Thanks to smart chargers and current limiting circuts in the packs themselves they are safe for every day use.
Here's a Video of a Li-Poly pack being over charged.
Lithium Poly Fire WMV
No its exactly the oposite of Vaporware.
With Vaporware you have an idea you pitched to the world but for whatever reason can't get it working enough to bring to market..
Here we have a great idea that does work but they can't say exactly why it works..
It's all great news I'll agree, But it's not a good idea to put new tech into a reactor when you don't know exactly how it functions.
Yeah it takes me back to my Brodcast TV days too..
I wonder how may people here even know what a quad is.
For those who don't it's a 2" wide reel to reel video tape system.
It has an air drivin head and is quite the beast.
The station I worked for had 2 Ampex VR1200's, 2 RCA TR-50's and at the end of the quad era at theat station we picked up an Ampex AVR-1.. That thing was cool.
We ran those in production untill 1999 when they were retired for a digital library (think SAN with a video playback control system)
I miss those days
Yeah I read the press release..
All I got other than a headache was it lets you build ??? for your customers..
No specifics.. Just hype.
I still don't have a clue what it does.
Hmm well everything we ordered was delivered on time.. no problem.
What a load of crap..
By Monday all the good deals are GONE!!!!
Most stores have the same sales online on Friday that they do in the stores and they start at midnight.. Just stay up after Thanksgiving (if you can, stupid Turkey). Hit Ben's Bargins & Fat Wallet then go shopping at midnight EST.
We scored everything we wanted and never set foot in the shopping nightmare at the mall.
Now as to fragile, it is one of the most stable since it can not blow up. Now, I am sure that somebody is going to mention challenger. The solid booster did NOT blow up. It was the main liquid tank that did due to the O-ring leaking a plume into it
Great point. If anyone cares to remember the soild boosters kept going after the main tank exploded.. Ground control had to blow them up since they were now uncontroled. Now that's stable!
Funny thing is they do make em like this..
HP's Blade servers run on a 48v bus. The PSU's are in a seperatly racked case. You can power an entire rack full with 2 PSU cages.
You can get up to 6 enclosures in a 42u rack for a total of up to 96 blades.
Each PSU cage holds 6 PSU's and has 2-220v feeds so you can power a full rack with 4 220v circuts. The PSU's just deliver 48 volts so you could drop them entirly and use whatever 48v PS you have (telco anyone??) When were evaluating them we gave some serous thought to powering them through the Telco power supply.
Oh yeah like we've had great luck with standard disks in the last 5 years..
IBM DeathsStar drives come to mind along with the Travelstar line..(We've replaced hundreds of those)
mosts of those were total failure with little to no warning.
More recently I had a 2 year old Maxtor puke on me..
Maybe it's me but todays drives just don't last like they used to.
If these new drives can run for 3-4 years before fraging themselves it'll be an improvement.
Is it confusing if IE has tabs, but other core parts of the Windows experience, like Windows Media Player or the shell, don't have?
Well this statement should give MS a clue for it's next project.. Put tabs in all the other MS products too! Like everyone else said.. A unified UI..
Well I have a list here
Legos (My girls have my old legos plus new ones we Bought)
Hot Wheels
Wooden Blocks
Lincon Logs
Tinker Toys
Little People are still out there although changed quite a bit
Barbie Dolls (They are girls, it can't be avoided)
This link is the real deal.. Oh yeah.. looks like it'll suck!
Thats hardly anything new.. I saw my first RC flying mower back in 1986 and it wasn't new then.
I was expecting something like this
Hover Lawn mowers
That design has been around forever!!!
I saw one in Zilla, WA back in 1986 and it was an old design then.
If you don't have a support contract with MS than the only way to talk to them for support is with your credit card.
We were driving down I-80 on our way to Denver.
I was checking the map on the latop as we were passing through Laramie, Wy.
The wireless card poped up and said it found an access point.
Just for fun I poped up Slashdot but we lost the signal about 30 seconds later.
Hit another a few miles down the road but I lost that before I could see if I had internet access.
Honestly trying to compare SS1 to the shuttle is like comparing a corvette to a Peterbuilt
Yeah they are both vehicles but they don't have much else in common.
The Shuttle is designed to take large payloads into space and stay there for days with a large crew.
The SS1 is built to get a couple people up there and play around for a bit.
Keeping a sale secret isn't the point.
The point is having a guaranteed buyer for their stock when they get around to exercising their options. McBride is sitting on 600,000 options.
You think he's going to just ride those into the ground when the stock collapses?
This way he won't have to flog them on the open market.. he has a prearranged sale to the company ready to go when he needs it.
I picked up this little tidbit from Thwackamole on the SCO Yahoo Forum
So long as any shares of Series A-1 Preferred Stock are outstanding, the Corporation shall not take any of the following corporate actions (whether by merger, consolidation or otherwise) without first obtaining the approval (by vote or written consent, as provided by the DGCL) of the Majority Holders:
(v) redeem, repurchase or otherwise acquire, or declare or pay any cash dividend or distribution on, any Junior Securities. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Corporation shall, without the prior approval of the Majority Holders, be entitled to repurchase Junior Securities from employees of the Corporation in connection with employee compensation plans approved by the
Corporation's Board of Directors.
What the heck does that mean? basically without a majority vote they can't buyback stock from anyone except employee's..
Hmm that would be people like the CEO and other senior executives??
To put it another way they just gave executives a 13 million dollar payday.
It looks like Viacom and Dish have setteled after only 36 hours. See the Viacom Press release
Dish is standing by it's offer to knock $1 off bill for this month and is giving subscribers 1 free PPV movie.
We run SAV (Hey they changed Norton to Symantec for the new 8x system)..
I've set the system to update every 60 minutes.
Also Sabari is recomending setting Antigen filters to dump zip files that are less then 40k
Every job I've had save one was through a friend or someone I have worked with.
I got into a 7 year gig in Broadcast TV through an old HS friend. I jumped into my first 3 years in IT through another old High School buddy.
From there I got a contract at Intel through a friend from my first IT job.
That was 2000.. Intel stock droped (well so did everyone else too) and the Layoffs started..
I posted a resume on Monster and 3-4 other boards, got picked up by a headhunter, placed in a Job I hated after 2 days, Called the head of HR from my first IT job (oh look another friend) and got an offer from her, quit the bad job on day 3 and never missed a day of work.
Now one of the guys I met at the bad job works here because He remembered me and I gave him a good recomendation.
Now the Datacenter is relocating to Denver, Everyone that's not going is pulling out all the contacts they can.. And ya know what? it's working!
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