1) While I can't read the words, I like the pretty pictures, and usually I can pull out brand names and google them seperately http://mobbit.info/
2) While I can read the words, I enjoy the humour http://theregister.co.uk/
3) I use http://bink.nu/ to tell me whats new in the micro$oft world
New site about Networking and the site is down. I lost my trust in Tom when he stopped making an informed decision and started saying that the people that advertise with him have the best products. Launching a Networking site that can't stay up under load just makes me laugh even harder and will make me never come back.
I'm not sure that I'm qualified to comment. Because you see I'm a Canadian. But though our information may not be of a security level to warrent starting World War Three, we'd still like to keep some of it confidential.
I've worked for computer companies in sales in the past and I have sat infront of individuals from Statistics Canada and Revenue Canada and presented our sales pitches. Both Govenment agencies destroy hard drives and it costs them money. Let's say that they by a new machine from me. The shipping guy at the hard drive factory drops a case of hard drives and tells no one so he can keep his job. That case is sent to us and then we put a drive from that case in a machine we sell to Revenue Canada. 4 weeks later the drive dies a horrible death. Weather the data is still there or not they can't use the drive so they need to buy a new one. They won't give me the drive for warrenty because of "classified information". And me as a retailer sure as hell isn't going to give them free replacement, so they buy a new drive at tax payer expense.
So what do you do? We drop the price of the drive, because we don't have to offer warrenty. And because we want to do even better business with the government we called the drive manufacturer (Maxtor Canada) and they drop the price of the drive because they don't have to offer warrenty.
This senario happened three years ago. A 4Gb drive selling for $280.00 canadian, could be put in a machine for around $175.00 with no warrenty. At that price we could have sold them two drives. One for use now, and one for when the government wants to give the computer away to a school.
Protect our information, destroy the drives, look for another alternative to allow them to end up in our schools.
JagEsquire
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1) While I can't read the words, I like the pretty pictures, and usually I can pull out brand names and google them seperately http://mobbit.info/ 2) While I can read the words, I enjoy the humour http://theregister.co.uk/ 3) I use http://bink.nu/ to tell me whats new in the micro$oft world
This actually has me laughing on the floor.
New site about Networking and the site is down. I lost my trust in Tom when he stopped making an informed decision and started saying that the people that advertise with him have the best products. Launching a Networking site that can't stay up under load just makes me laugh even harder and will make me never come back.
I'm not sure that I'm qualified to comment. Because you see I'm a Canadian. But though our information may not be of a security level to warrent starting World War Three, we'd still like to keep some of it confidential. I've worked for computer companies in sales in the past and I have sat infront of individuals from Statistics Canada and Revenue Canada and presented our sales pitches. Both Govenment agencies destroy hard drives and it costs them money. Let's say that they by a new machine from me. The shipping guy at the hard drive factory drops a case of hard drives and tells no one so he can keep his job. That case is sent to us and then we put a drive from that case in a machine we sell to Revenue Canada. 4 weeks later the drive dies a horrible death. Weather the data is still there or not they can't use the drive so they need to buy a new one. They won't give me the drive for warrenty because of "classified information". And me as a retailer sure as hell isn't going to give them free replacement, so they buy a new drive at tax payer expense. So what do you do? We drop the price of the drive, because we don't have to offer warrenty. And because we want to do even better business with the government we called the drive manufacturer (Maxtor Canada) and they drop the price of the drive because they don't have to offer warrenty. This senario happened three years ago. A 4Gb drive selling for $280.00 canadian, could be put in a machine for around $175.00 with no warrenty. At that price we could have sold them two drives. One for use now, and one for when the government wants to give the computer away to a school. Protect our information, destroy the drives, look for another alternative to allow them to end up in our schools. JagEsquire -You'd have to be really vain to believe a low post rating means we have nothing to say.