Alienware Computers: Unreliable, and rife with design flaws
My deparment bought five Alineware Area51m 766 laptops in 2004. All of them have had to be returned, all with unique hardware issues. Three of them have gone back twice. Their tunraround for returns approaches three weeks.
Yes they are fast (very fast), but not worth it in the least. I've read similar horror stories about their desktops.
It all started with the GeForce 6800 GPU a couple of years back. My patented process provides a "double-whammy" argument for the wife - A lower heating bill + a lower electricity bill!
You can check out one of the diagrams I provided in my patent application here.
Outlook 2003 was a major improvement over the previous version IMO. The entire Office 2003 suite was one of the few new Microsoft products that I liked from the first moment I tried it. If that's "decay" then I'd say Microsoft has a few more good years in them.
My problem is that you appear to group anyone who uses drugs into the same category based on your experience with one lazy pothead. As someone who used to smoke pot regularly (havn't touched it in five or so years), it is my experience that the personality defects that potheads display were already present before they started using the drug.
Your useless pothead coworker would most likely be just as useless if he/she were clean.
Your IT staff/computer ratio is around 1:50. I know IT Staff/computer ratio alone doesn't tell the whole story, but it seems very high from my perspective. Ours is around 1:300, and I've met IT monkeys from other places where it is worse.
"Additionally, they haven't been able to sell needed changes to senior management. Unacceptable server down time, maxed network storage, and no backups systems have hit the bottom line, and those on top are starting to notice"
It sounds like your IT department is not properly funded, and/or possibly undermanned.
How many bodies does the IT department consist of? Is it one guy, or twenty? How many computers and other systems do the IT dept handle? It's hard to tell you what to expect with so little info.
To continue this off-topic topic (which should be modded off-topic BTW!), for years I wondered why I never got mod points here, even though my Karma was "excellent". Then one day I was mucking around in my settings and saw the unchecked box next to "willing to moderate". Ooops.
Anyway, immediately I was asked to Meta Moderate, and now, everytime I log in I am asked to Meta Moderate...but I have never actually recieved mod-points. Is this something reserved for lower Karma people, or is it just that rare of an occurance to get regular mod-points?
"In separate analogy. It's interesting to notice that like von neumann's architecture DNA intersperses data and instructions. And of course we also get buffer overflow error too where data becomes instructions. I've foundit intriguing that Von Neuman also felt this ambiguity was more powerful than separation of data and instructions. These days keeping the separate is of course a big problem in robust programming. Yet life, the ultimate robust system, does the same thing."
"I'm sorry, that last bit just made me fall out of my chair, other browsers follow suite, like what? Internet Explorer 6? How many browsers can I think of that let ActiveX wreck complete chaos on your system... hmm the list isn't that long."
It has absolutely nothing to do with the browser and everything to do with the priviledge level the user is running the browser under. A firefox exploit can jsut as easily root your box as an IE exploit as long as the user is running as admin. Open up IE6 as a limited user and go to a website that tries to install an ActiveX control. It won't work.
For example, any tech journalist should know or know who to ask to find out that *nix has had its drivers in userland for ages
Some are, but a blanket statement like yours reaks of FUD itself. Video and Audio drivers in Linux/BSD are fully capable of bringing down the entire system. If they run in userland, they shouldn't be able to do this, right?
Also, in the 2.6 kernel I read that the fscking *mouse driver* was moved into the kernel. Is that true? If so, why?!
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"I hear that it got a little better but still sucks at multiple hosts. "
You "hear" huh?
Dude, you are so lame. You only caught 25% of the spelling errors in my post.
Alienware Computers: Unreliable, and rife with design flaws
My deparment bought five Alineware Area51m 766 laptops in 2004. All of them have had to be returned, all with unique hardware issues. Three of them have gone back twice. Their tunraround for returns approaches three weeks.
Yes they are fast (very fast), but not worth it in the least. I've read similar horror stories about their desktops.
"no way to remove SP2 without a format or reinstall of WinXP, no matter what Microsoft claims, try it and watch Windows get hosed"
I've done it multiple times - the first time with a RC version of SP2 - and had no problems. But I guess your mileage may vary.
Very true, but I don't run my windows machines as an admin.
"It's called "Phasing Out" a product in marketing speak."
Actually the word "milking the dead cow" came to my mind...but "Phasing out" is a pretty good euphemism.
IE and explorer run entirely in userspace too.
It all started with the GeForce 6800 GPU a couple of years back. My patented process provides a "double-whammy" argument for the wife - A lower heating bill + a lower electricity bill!
You can check out one of the diagrams I provided in my patent application here.
Outlook 2003 was a major improvement over the previous version IMO. The entire Office 2003 suite was one of the few new Microsoft products that I liked from the first moment I tried it. If that's "decay" then I'd say Microsoft has a few more good years in them.
Ok, fair enough.
My problem is that you appear to group anyone who uses drugs into the same category based on your experience with one lazy pothead. As someone who used to smoke pot regularly (havn't touched it in five or so years), it is my experience that the personality defects that potheads display were already present before they started using the drug.
Your useless pothead coworker would most likely be just as useless if he/she were clean.
The parent groups too many substances into one catagory (alcohol == pot == herione?) for the question to be taken seriously.
"I would love to see a PIII with 6GB of RAM. Such an extreme amount of RAM would make me wonder how large of a hard drive was sold with it."
I have a couple the server room at work.
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Your IT staff/computer ratio is around 1:50. I know IT Staff/computer ratio alone doesn't tell the whole story, but it seems very high from my perspective. Ours is around 1:300, and I've met IT monkeys from other places where it is worse.
"Additionally, they haven't been able to sell needed changes to senior management. Unacceptable server down time, maxed network storage, and no backups systems have hit the bottom line, and those on top are starting to notice"
It sounds like your IT department is not properly funded, and/or possibly undermanned.
How many bodies does the IT department consist of? Is it one guy, or twenty? How many computers and other systems do the IT dept handle? It's hard to tell you what to expect with so little info.
[i]"The fact that MS userland is hooked into the registry and alows root level access is the reason that crap binaries are so easy to create."[/i]
For a sentence that neither makes sense, nor contains any accurate information, it sure contains a ton of jargon.
Are you a consultant that specializes in Windows>UNIX migrations?
1.0, 1.01, 1.02, 1.03, 1.04, 1.05, 1.07, 1.5, 1.5.1.......
To continue this off-topic topic (which should be modded off-topic BTW!), for years I wondered why I never got mod points here, even though my Karma was "excellent". Then one day I was mucking around in my settings and saw the unchecked box next to "willing to moderate". Ooops.
Anyway, immediately I was asked to Meta Moderate, and now, everytime I log in I am asked to Meta Moderate...but I have never actually recieved mod-points. Is this something reserved for lower Karma people, or is it just that rare of an occurance to get regular mod-points?
"In separate analogy. It's interesting to notice that like von neumann's architecture DNA intersperses data and instructions. And of course we also get buffer overflow error too where data becomes instructions. I've foundit intriguing that Von Neuman also felt this ambiguity was more powerful than separation of data and instructions. These days keeping the separate is of course a big problem in robust programming. Yet life, the ultimate robust system, does the same thing."
It's not a bug. It's a feature!
"With 64 bit systems, you cannot install drivers unless they are signed by Microsoft."
It won't be that way when it ships.
Verisign? Yukk.
It's more like $900.00 - at least for an SSL cert.
"I'm sorry, that last bit just made me fall out of my chair, other browsers follow suite, like what? Internet Explorer 6? How many browsers can I think of that let ActiveX wreck complete chaos on your system... hmm the list isn't that long."
It has absolutely nothing to do with the browser and everything to do with the priviledge level the user is running the browser under. A firefox exploit can jsut as easily root your box as an IE exploit as long as the user is running as admin. Open up IE6 as a limited user and go to a website that tries to install an ActiveX control. It won't work.
For example, any tech journalist should know or know who to ask to find out that *nix has had its drivers in userland for ages
Some are, but a blanket statement like yours reaks of FUD itself. Video and Audio drivers in Linux/BSD are fully capable of bringing down the entire system. If they run in userland, they shouldn't be able to do this, right?
Also, in the 2.6 kernel I read that the fscking *mouse driver* was moved into the kernel. Is that true? If so, why?!
What a silly assumption. If the user gives out the admin password, they will still be able to install low level stuff.