even tho they have downtime procedures, hospitals hate using them. They lose thousands of dollars an hour in lost labor when the nurses have to call the lab/radiology departments rather than placing the orders online.
Downtimes that last for days result in lawsuits for millions of dollars.
I think most of this could be avoided with more IS training on downtime procedures to get things back up, and basic troubleshooting skills (example, dont panic).
Most sysadmins brag to me about how long their unix servers have been running. Then when the UPS fails (and they all do) they have no idea who to call or how to restart databases. Most dont know what half of the machines in the computer room do. How are they backed up? No idea.
Then on the other end of the spectrum are the ones that insist on customizing every bit of their systems, thus breaking support's tools and increasing work/time to fix matters.
My point is this. Planned downtime typically helps more than it hurts. Ask questions before you assume changing something wont matter.
This sounds awfully obvious to me but it needed to be said.
You gotta figure a Series 1 TIVO wont last that long before being upgraded into something better.
Hustle it down to Bestbuy and snag the best one they have. When you're handing over the cash, be sure to sign up for their warranty. I think for my $250 Tivo it was something like 45$.If it comes with a rebate forget about cashing it in.
Fast forward two years in the future when the new model comes out. Just by accident, something just awful happens to your current Tivo, destroying it in a very subtle way.
Walk to your nearest Best Buy and you'll be handed your $250 back, minus $45 for the warrenty.
You just rented a Tivo for two years for $45. Isn't capitalism great?
I've never understood anyone not accepting Best Buy's warrenty. Obviously noone uses it for it's intended purpose.
I thought about yanking my loud cpu fans off my BP-6 and just put in some monster heatsinks, maybe underclock them a bit and watch the temperature. Seems like there's not too many places you can get a 4"-6" heatsink, they're all rather short with fans attached. Bummer.
Anyone know if a Peltier cooler uses fans or are they pretty quiet?
Ironic this comes up today. I was just playing around with my old BP6 motherboard with the Promise 66 controllers, and was trying to read up on the different possible setups.
Looks like you can do either PIO, UDMA or MW DMA.
Just by playing with a 'hdparm -t', it appears that I get the best performace with it set to UDMA.
(I managed to almost double the read speed by tweaking the IDE driver settings)
Anyone know where I could find out what PIO/UDMA/MW DMA is?
Last night I had to plug my windoze box directly into the cable modem (no router), turn on DHCP, and reboot. When the box came up I looked at ipconfig to write down my new DNS server IPs.
Then revert the windows machine back, edited the/etc/resolv.conf (on linux or whatever)with the new DNS entries and changed the router DNS. Might want to turn on DHCP on the WAN side of the router too. ATTBI has been issuing random IP addresses lately.
You can avoid all this excitement by turning on DHCP on the LAN side of the router, and having all your home PCs ask the router for the info. It'll screw up your home gaming setup nicely tho.
and it's an attempt to make support centers run better. Not really a fix for crappy engineering but it's a better process to get the problem fixed.
Read up here
speaking from experience, most Redhat OS upgrades go badly. I'll be running 7.2 on a test box for awhile before sliding it in place of work's production tomcat/apache server.
OT - who all knows about the massively broken source tree on the 2.4.9-6 kernel? I upgraded per Redhat's recomendation and have had alot of compile issues.
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I've never flown one, but the single engine piston fighters from the WWII era were exciting to fly/taxi due to the large engine.
Somewhere I read that taking off in a P-51 required no more than 75% throttle or it'd flip over on the runway.
The simulations I've seen on a Corsair made it about impossible to taxi faster than walking speed.
And who knows more about cars...a performace shop in business for 15 years or the manufacturer who's been around for 3 times that?
There's a reason sports cars cost more. Speed costs money. Making a Civic fast isnt hard, but making it fast and last is expensive.
sneakemail.com, sorry...
Give them the $10 and you'll rarely get spam again. If you do you'll know exactly who sold your address.
I've gotten next to zero spams since using their email forwarding. It's a breaze to setup.
even tho they have downtime procedures, hospitals hate using them. They lose thousands of dollars an hour in lost labor when the nurses have to call the lab/radiology departments rather than placing the orders online.
Downtimes that last for days result in lawsuits for millions of dollars.
I think most of this could be avoided with more IS training on downtime procedures to get things back up, and basic troubleshooting skills (example, dont panic).
Most sysadmins brag to me about how long their unix servers have been running. Then when the UPS fails (and they all do) they have no idea who to call or how to restart databases. Most dont know what half of the machines in the computer room do. How are they backed up? No idea.
Then on the other end of the spectrum are the ones that insist on customizing every bit of their systems, thus breaking support's tools and increasing work/time to fix matters.
My point is this. Planned downtime typically helps more than it hurts. Ask questions before you assume changing something wont matter.
This sounds awfully obvious to me but it needed to be said.
Take the card and the paperwork. Burn the paperwork. Use the card.
They wont care. Promise.
Does this mean the manufacturer has no faith in their product or no desire to support old technology? A bit of both?
Should they care what the customer thinks? The hard disk business isnt exactly swamped with competition.
You gotta figure a Series 1 TIVO wont last that long before being upgraded into something better.
Hustle it down to Bestbuy and snag the best one they have. When you're handing over the cash, be sure to sign up for their warranty. I think for my $250 Tivo it was something like 45$.If it comes with a rebate forget about cashing it in.
Fast forward two years in the future when the new model comes out. Just by accident, something just awful happens to your current Tivo, destroying it in a very subtle way.
Walk to your nearest Best Buy and you'll be handed your $250 back, minus $45 for the warrenty.
You just rented a Tivo for two years for $45. Isn't capitalism great?
I've never understood anyone not accepting Best Buy's warrenty. Obviously noone uses it for it's intended purpose.
How about this monster
I thought about yanking my loud cpu fans off my BP-6 and just put in some monster heatsinks, maybe underclock them a bit and watch the temperature. Seems like there's not too many places you can get a 4"-6" heatsink, they're all rather short with fans attached. Bummer.
Anyone know if a Peltier cooler uses fans or are they pretty quiet?
Ironic this comes up today. I was just playing around with my old BP6 motherboard with the Promise 66 controllers, and was trying to read up on the different possible setups.
Looks like you can do either PIO, UDMA or MW DMA.
Just by playing with a 'hdparm -t', it appears that I get the best performace with it set to UDMA.
(I managed to almost double the read speed by tweaking the IDE driver settings)
Anyone know where I could find out what PIO/UDMA/MW DMA is?
I'm dying to know the answer to this:
ATT is advertising the first series TIVO with a $100 discount, but they'll never say if it'll cooperate with their digital tuner.
Is the TIVO smart enough to change channels with the digital tv reciever? Or does it contain the reciever?
My VCR wont change channels if the input is coming off the digital tuner. If the input isnt coming off the tuner, you can't see the premium channels.
paypalwarning.com has been massively spamming newsgroups with their url for the past week or two.
It wouldn't surprise me if a Paypal competitor did setup the website to generate business.
The whois says the url has existed since April of this year. Why'd they suddenly start spamming their message if the site has been around awhile?
Last night I had to plug my windoze box directly into the cable modem (no router), turn on DHCP, and reboot. When the box came up I looked at ipconfig to write down my new DNS server IPs.
/etc/resolv.conf (on linux or whatever)with the new DNS entries and changed the router DNS. Might want to turn on DHCP on the WAN side of the router too. ATTBI has been issuing random IP addresses lately.
Then revert the windows machine back, edited the
You can avoid all this excitement by turning on DHCP on the LAN side of the router, and having all your home PCs ask the router for the info. It'll screw up your home gaming setup nicely tho.
As much as everyone around here complains about spam and other sleazy advertising habits, how can anyone here not get annoyed by Salon's adverts?
CNN, FOXnews, Wired, ect doesn't resort to such tasteless and pushy schemes.
Why does Slashdot encourage this?
This update from ATT says Denver will be back on Wednesday. Alot of cow-orkers heard that it'll be a week or two but I'm hoping for the best.
I was hoping, since it was meant to be humorous, that they write it in .NET
and it's an attempt to make support centers run better. Not really a fix for crappy engineering but it's a better process to get the problem fixed. Read up here
speaking from experience, most Redhat OS upgrades go badly. I'll be running 7.2 on a test box for awhile before sliding it in place of work's production tomcat/apache server.
OT - who all knows about the massively broken source tree on the 2.4.9-6 kernel? I upgraded per Redhat's recomendation and have had alot of compile issues.