a laid back girl surely isnt impossible, what is impossible is to find a girl who is rational about everything.
My girlfriend can be quite cool about a lot of stuff, and she takes a lot of weird stuff from me, but convincing her we dont need to keep every single movie we come across is not by any means easier then buying a few extra disks
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No honestly getting a sane girlfriend seems easier.
i've been sticking to 1.5 TBs for the past year, those 5400 rpm green drives simply are unbeatable BFTB wise for the storage server, if 2 TB drives had a better price/size ratio i would have switched in a heartbeat.
Currently at 8,25 TB of storage in the server, allthough over 50% of that is empty currently, but at the present rate, that will take about a year to fill up.
By then i'll look into building a new server, it'd be nice if these 3 TB disks were common good by then
just started a java update (you know, wouldnt want to get my work machine compromised), and what do you know? oracle wants me to install the Bing toolbar for internet explorer..
Since when does MS need lackies like elison to install their crappy toolbars?
which is bat-shit annoying compared to the centralized update mechanism in most linux distros.
Not to mention the sneaky attempts to also install openoffice or a google toolbar along with the update..
(honestly, i liked sun, but their update shens became a bit rude. Knowing oracle though, the next java update will come with a mandatory install of some oracle enterprise product, followed by a license key bill for every single cpu core in your system)
18 months seems really short to me too... I would think a reasonable spec machine should last three to four years at least.
I think that is just some unlucky frasing, i interpret it as, the spec lasts 18 months, so for 18 months every system which gets built is "Spec 2010", then after the initial 18 months, the spec gets updated to accomodate for newer hardware, availability, price, that sort of stuff, and you end up with "Spec 2012".
I dont think they will be replacing all 1000 seats right away, rather then just replacing all the old stuff in a rolling refresh kind of way.
As for the idea, i'd suggest the following, haggle the fuck out of dell right now to get a new contract for the comming year (for perhaps 200 machines to handle refreshing), and in the meantime single out one department (with a good number of machines, perhaps up to 100?) and use that as a pilot for the DIY plan. Spec the machines completely to user needs, order enough spares, and just see for a year if it works out in your organisation, if it does, cut off dell after your trial and go for it.
per USB spec yes, but there are plenty of hubs/ports which supply the full 500mA regardless
honestly though, this hack is pointless, you might as well get a cheap ass 350w computer PSU, hook up the 12v to a hotplate and hotwire the thing, much easier
Programmers tend to be afraid of technology they are not used to, so everything that isn't their core thing tends to be labeled as "crap".
The saddest thing is when you (as a programmer) get introduced to a new language/platform and are baited with stuff like modern OO features, and then it turns out it actually is crap...
my case.. Intersystems cache, which is basically Mumps (from pdp-7 fame) with OO tacked on, very poorly, shipped with a toolset that makes vi/gcc look like a usefull alternative...
I'm excited about this new space war/flight simulator game too- have a free copy- it looks super deep and if I can make it through the learning curve (it's a full fledge starship combat / star colony simulator) I'll buy the full version for... 99 cents.
care to share the name of this potential gem with us?
so you proved infinity equals 0, and untill you can prove all real numbers to also equal zero (in effect squishing the entire range of real numbers into a singularity), you proved the range of real numbers is circular
you'll be happy to know that riding a motorcycle is about as close as you can come to riding a kids trycicle.. at least AFAI can tell, never had a trycicle as a kid..
but yeah, the step from office 2k/2k3 to OO is much smaller then to the new ribbon shit in 2k7
i just checked again what a roomba costs, and i can get one for 300 bucks, that is gonna be awesome in the new house, i can have my very own robot underling vacuming the wooden floor in the living room/kitchen!
i have a completely stripped thinkpad t43 on my desk at home (currently painting the plastic shell white, so all the gubbins are out of their home), its ram has already been upgraded from the default 512mb to 2gb, i could change out the cpu (a 1,86 GHz one) to a 2,26 GHz one. I can replace the combo-drive with a dvd burner / sata drive, i could upgrade the hdd to a larger one, the wifi card to a 802.11n model
laptops might not have the same upgradability as your average joe desktop, but most non-apple laptops have quite some capabilties to be enhanced
(oh, and before i forget, i also upgraded the OS to ubuntu 10.10..)
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a laid back girl surely isnt impossible, what is impossible is to find a girl who is rational about everything.
My girlfriend can be quite cool about a lot of stuff, and she takes a lot of weird stuff from me, but convincing her we dont need to keep every single movie we come across is not by any means easier then buying a few extra disks
No honestly getting a sane girlfriend seems easier.
you never had a girlfriend did you?
i've been sticking to 1.5 TBs for the past year, those 5400 rpm green drives simply are unbeatable BFTB wise for the storage server, if 2 TB drives had a better price/size ratio i would have switched in a heartbeat.
Currently at 8,25 TB of storage in the server, allthough over 50% of that is empty currently, but at the present rate, that will take about a year to fill up.
By then i'll look into building a new server, it'd be nice if these 3 TB disks were common good by then
just started a java update (you know, wouldnt want to get my work machine compromised), and what do you know? oracle wants me to install the Bing toolbar for internet explorer..
Since when does MS need lackies like elison to install their crappy toolbars?
which is bat-shit annoying compared to the centralized update mechanism in most linux distros.
Not to mention the sneaky attempts to also install openoffice or a google toolbar along with the update..
(honestly, i liked sun, but their update shens became a bit rude. Knowing oracle though, the next java update will come with a mandatory install of some oracle enterprise product, followed by a license key bill for every single cpu core in your system)
18 months seems really short to me too... I would think a reasonable spec machine should last three to four years at least.
I think that is just some unlucky frasing, i interpret it as, the spec lasts 18 months, so for 18 months every system which gets built is "Spec 2010", then after the initial 18 months, the spec gets updated to accomodate for newer hardware, availability, price, that sort of stuff, and you end up with "Spec 2012".
I dont think they will be replacing all 1000 seats right away, rather then just replacing all the old stuff in a rolling refresh kind of way.
As for the idea, i'd suggest the following, haggle the fuck out of dell right now to get a new contract for the comming year (for perhaps 200 machines to handle refreshing), and in the meantime single out one department (with a good number of machines, perhaps up to 100?) and use that as a pilot for the DIY plan. Spec the machines completely to user needs, order enough spares, and just see for a year if it works out in your organisation, if it does, cut off dell after your trial and go for it.
per USB spec yes, but there are plenty of hubs/ports which supply the full 500mA regardless
honestly though, this hack is pointless, you might as well get a cheap ass 350w computer PSU, hook up the 12v to a hotplate and hotwire the thing, much easier
Programmers tend to be afraid of technology they are not used to, so everything that isn't their core thing tends to be labeled as "crap".
The saddest thing is when you (as a programmer) get introduced to a new language/platform and are baited with stuff like modern OO features, and then it turns out it actually is crap...
my case.. Intersystems cache, which is basically Mumps (from pdp-7 fame) with OO tacked on, very poorly, shipped with a toolset that makes vi/gcc look like a usefull alternative...
no, that would be:
VB - the language everyone looks down on with a level of contempt second only to that felt for "HTML programmers"
if i hadnt already posted in this thread, you would have gotten an extra +1 funny from me
intel actually owns its own plants...
peat moss? you lucky bastard, in my day we got fake welsh accents
i'll probably get flamed to hell for this, but that sounds like some sort of excellent mexican food...
You'll be happy to know that using an F-22 stealth fighter pilot is basically the same as using a lear jet
okay, you win the absurdity contest, comparing a pilot to a plane is way better then mine...
(i was just pointing out that comparing a to b while at the same time admitting you dont really know a is a bit weird)
if you divide on term by x, you also have to divide the other one:
0/0 != 1/0
1 != infinity
I'm excited about this new space war/flight simulator game too- have a free copy- it looks super deep and if I can make it through the learning curve (it's a full fledge starship combat / star colony simulator) I'll buy the full version for ... 99 cents.
care to share the name of this potential gem with us?
0.00...1 * infinity == infinity
so you proved infinity equals 0, and untill you can prove all real numbers to also equal zero (in effect squishing the entire range of real numbers into a singularity), you proved the range of real numbers is circular
if the .. in 0.999.. means 9s ad infinitum (which i assume it does), then your reasoning doesnt work
just as long as no-one proves 0 = 1 we computerpeople are safe...
you'll be happy to know that riding a motorcycle is about as close as you can come to riding a kids trycicle.. at least AFAI can tell, never had a trycicle as a kid..
but yeah, the step from office 2k/2k3 to OO is much smaller then to the new ribbon shit in 2k7
now that would be an interesting poll
oh boy, judging from your comment you would describe yourself as a roomba owner right?
Thank you!
i just checked again what a roomba costs, and i can get one for 300 bucks, that is gonna be awesome in the new house, i can have my very own robot underling vacuming the wooden floor in the living room/kitchen!
I'm over two years now without a single replacement--the first time ever.
You must be one the scared little phone children refer to as the boogieman
non-sense
i have a completely stripped thinkpad t43 on my desk at home (currently painting the plastic shell white, so all the gubbins are out of their home), its ram has already been upgraded from the default 512mb to 2gb, i could change out the cpu (a 1,86 GHz one) to a 2,26 GHz one. I can replace the combo-drive with a dvd burner / sata drive, i could upgrade the hdd to a larger one, the wifi card to a 802.11n model
laptops might not have the same upgradability as your average joe desktop, but most non-apple laptops have quite some capabilties to be enhanced
(oh, and before i forget, i also upgraded the OS to ubuntu 10.10..)