except for Apollo 13, which suffered a meteor collision enroute
WTF are you talking about? An oxygen tank ignited, most likely due to damage that was known about while the craft was still in testing weeks before the mission. It was an oversight of replaning a below-spec component that almost killed the crew.
I have no idea where this meteor theory came from.
I'm curious, though -- why am I a sniveling loser for complaining about an incompetent sysadmin? Pointless ranting is the traditional pasttime of Slashdotters everywhere.
You've answered your own question. Not all of us get on here to bitch.
If you really did that good of a job, an occasional problem would not be an issue. I've never worked for a company who snaped at a sysadmin for downtime in the situation you described, unless that sysadmin though that a year of uptime and dealing with "stupid" quesions was good enough to warrant not being responsible for something going wrong that's SUPPOSED to be under their control. It's not.
Too many sysadmins think that the computer systems drive the company, when the computers are really nothing more than tools to support the company objectives. If more sysadmins knew ANYTHING about business, they might be less arrogant and better at their jobs.
They also need to understand that the above means you actually have to do things off-hours because nobody gives a shit why you have the reboot the servers in the middle of the day (because of a patch that you're too lazy to handle after everyone leaves or...gasp.... early in the morning).
And, my god....being disturbrd at your desk during lunch! No employee except for a sysadmin has EVER had to deal with anything like that before.
Big headed sysadmins need to go get their heads screwed back on and they might just earn their way into an engineering or management position some day. Sysadmin is NOT a career destination....sorry to have to inform you all of that.
Either 1.) your are a sniviling loser or 2.) your company has no upper management whatsoever
Either way, it's pathetic. If it's 2.) I guarantee you any good network engineer can fix whatever the hell is wrong, and train a new and more competent sysadmin to do their job properly. Hell, I've been doing that for yers.
If it's 1.), get a life. You attitude certianly is not helping matters. And if you can do so without whining, your supervisor should be made aware of 2.) in a tadctful yet forceful way it gets handled.
Or go get a job somewhere else. Shouldn't be a problem....you think you're supergeek....go proove it.
I haven't opened mine to check, but HP's traditional approach to printed circuit boards is to plate the ENTIRE BOARD with gold, not just the contacts, for better corrosion resistance, extended life, and improved electrical stability.
What? Where did you get this one from?
As a former repair tech (back in the end-of-life days of the LJ III's, to the heyday of the 5 series) I can guarantee you that that is simply not true. I've seen VERY FEW gold plated contacts on HP printers, including the monstrous si models, which would be the logical ones to get that kind of treatment.
Don't know where you got your information, but it's pretty much just wrong.
Oh yeah...I think I saw gold-plated contacts on ink cartridge headers on most of their POS ink-jets (the one they won't even send repair parts to authorized warranty centers for because they are of such poor quality....depot repair only).
But that's not true. Cannon makes MOST of the engines. The 5L was HP's first (pathetic)attempt at makeing their own engine. They are still doing so on some lower model (definitely throw-away consumer) laser printers.
I remember this one well, because I was unfortunate enough to be working in a repair facility that was HP authorized at the time the 5L came out. Complete crap....nothing but paper path problems and formatter's blowing chunks les that a week out of the box.
I don't know how that statement makes what I said not true. While I agree that for $500 you can get a point and shoot that will save TIFFs (that comes with what....a 16 MB memory "stick"), being able to print a "good-looking" 8x10 doesn't make anything more than a consumer model point-and shoot.
The fact remains that the average point-and-shoot users who has gone digital does not want to pay half the price of their camera to upgrade the memory in it so they can save in.TIFF format. The market demands a "good enough" lossy format. And PNG isn't it.
YMMV, but the last several "electronic" cars I have had have been able to tell you this. Its a hack, but there is usually a diagnostic output plug somewhere that if you jump pin X with pin Y wiht say, a paperclip, the "check engine" light will blink patterns at you which indicate the exact failure, or at least which system to start looking in.
Haven't bought a car recently, have you? It's called OBD-II, and you need a scanner. Been that way since '97 on everything but very low production vehicles (like exotic vehicles).
Not nearly as easy as a SUN machine, but how many of us have 30K to buy a diagnostic tool for the car?
Either you're sorely misinformed, or you have the attitude I've seen so often where you just must buy a Sub-Zero commercial fridge for $2000 when the $800 Kenmore does the same thing. OBD-II scanners have been availabe on the consumer market for years at sub $300 prices. And the best part about OBD-II is that one scanner works for every make and model.
They probably have a hand me down washing machine and dryer, and an old yellow fridge that freezes half the stuff in it and melts the other half.
This is a troll. But the color you are thinking of is "harvest gold". It goes along with avacado and brown, the only three colors that were availabe in the 70s.
Yes, there is a noticable difference in quality when using "Raw TIFF" as it's referred to in digital photography (yes, the same market that refers to digital file sizes in Megs, as opposed to any type of meaningful resolution). The problem is, that's on a $2K plus SLR body that nobody bothers using without a 1GB IBM Microdrive or better. That constitutes about 1% of all of the digital cameras made. The rest are point and shoot pieces of crap that the average consumer would buy, and they save in.jpg..png just isn't compressable enough for the 4 MB flash card that comes with that kind of junk.
I'm aware of what two NICs can do. I'm questioning the necessity, popularity, and demand of having them in a board which seems to be targeted at the higher end gaming audience.
These are people who PROBABLY know that a DSL/Cable router is the better way to do this. How much is a cheap-o cable router/hub combo now? $80. Probably even less if you look around and don't buy it as RatShack.
Why is that informative? Who is going to build a router/firewall platform on a board with bad-ass graphics?
The last time I checked, the PC I'm writing this from had only one network card and is connected to my local network and the Internet. (wow...routers are so damn amazing....) Are they marketing this to higher end users, or mororns? I'm confused.
Or maybe its for uber-gaming....can you team the NICS for 200 MB of fraggin' bandwidth?
The 8200's were the WORST Apple case design I've seen. It's their biggest failure.
Just adding memory is a chore, and changing boards is a nightmare.
Mac hardware design has BEEN superior for years
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As a former repair tech at a PC/Apple shop, I've known for years that Apple has been consistantly (not 100% of the time, just most times) superior to other consmer PCs as far as hardware design goes. Cases included.
And has anyone has the occasion to use Apple ServiceSource? Simply the best repair documentation ever. Down to sample startup sounds for the laser printers. We used to put the new guys on Apple repair because just about any moron with average reading comprehension abilities and a screwdriver could follow the procedures in there.
The problem has always been the OS, and the costs of the hardware.
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I'm sure you meant because Cindy Crawford certianly can't be buying underware off the rack.....right?
except for Apollo 13, which suffered a meteor collision enroute
WTF are you talking about? An oxygen tank ignited, most likely due to damage that was known about while the craft was still in testing weeks before the mission. It was an oversight of replaning a below-spec component that almost killed the crew.
I have no idea where this meteor theory came from.
Damn the man. Damn the man brother.
I'm curious, though -- why am I a sniveling loser for complaining about an incompetent sysadmin? Pointless ranting is the traditional pasttime of Slashdotters everywhere.
You've answered your own question. Not all of us get on here to bitch.
If you really did that good of a job, an occasional problem would not be an issue. I've never worked for a company who snaped at a sysadmin for downtime in the situation you described, unless that sysadmin though that a year of uptime and dealing with "stupid" quesions was good enough to warrant not being responsible for something going wrong that's SUPPOSED to be under their control. It's not.
This week, I got layed off!
I'm guessing that the fact you can't spell was a contributing factor.
Exactly.
...gasp.... early in the morning).
Too many sysadmins think that the computer systems drive the company, when the computers are really nothing more than tools to support the company objectives. If more sysadmins knew ANYTHING about business, they might be less arrogant and better at their jobs.
They also need to understand that the above means you actually have to do things off-hours because nobody gives a shit why you have the reboot the servers in the middle of the day (because of a patch that you're too lazy to handle after everyone leaves or
And, my god....being disturbrd at your desk during lunch! No employee except for a sysadmin has EVER had to deal with anything like that before.
Big headed sysadmins need to go get their heads screwed back on and they might just earn their way into an engineering or management position some day. Sysadmin is NOT a career destination....sorry to have to inform you all of that.
Either
1.) your are a sniviling loser
or 2.) your company has no upper management whatsoever
Either way, it's pathetic. If it's 2.) I guarantee you any good network engineer can fix whatever the hell is wrong, and train a new and more competent sysadmin to do their job properly. Hell, I've been doing that for yers.
If it's 1.), get a life. You attitude certianly is not helping matters. And if you can do so without whining, your supervisor should be made aware of 2.) in a tadctful yet forceful way it gets handled.
Or go get a job somewhere else. Shouldn't be a problem....you think you're supergeek....go proove it.
I haven't opened mine to check, but HP's traditional approach to printed circuit boards is to plate the ENTIRE BOARD with gold, not just the contacts, for better corrosion resistance, extended life, and improved electrical stability.
What? Where did you get this one from?
As a former repair tech (back in the end-of-life days of the LJ III's, to the heyday of the 5 series) I can guarantee you that that is simply not true. I've seen VERY FEW gold plated contacts on HP printers, including the monstrous si models, which would be the logical ones to get that kind of treatment.
Don't know where you got your information, but it's pretty much just wrong.
Oh yeah...I think I saw gold-plated contacts on ink cartridge headers on most of their POS ink-jets (the one they won't even send repair parts to authorized warranty centers for because they are of such poor quality....depot repair only).
But that's not true. Cannon makes MOST of the engines. The 5L was HP's first (pathetic)attempt at makeing their own engine. They are still doing so on some lower model (definitely throw-away consumer) laser printers.
I remember this one well, because I was unfortunate enough to be working in a repair facility that was HP authorized at the time the 5L came out. Complete crap....nothing but paper path problems and formatter's blowing chunks les that a week out of the box.
Yeah...I'm just snotty like that. ;)
I don't know how that statement makes what I said not true. While I agree that for $500 you can get a point and shoot that will save TIFFs (that comes with what....a 16 MB memory "stick"), being able to print a "good-looking" 8x10 doesn't make anything more than a consumer model point-and shoot.
.TIFF format. The market demands a "good enough" lossy format. And PNG isn't it.
The fact remains that the average point-and-shoot users who has gone digital does not want to pay half the price of their camera to upgrade the memory in it so they can save in
YMMV, but the last several "electronic" cars I have had have been able to tell you this. Its a hack, but there is usually a diagnostic output plug somewhere that if you jump pin X with pin Y wiht say, a paperclip, the "check engine" light will blink patterns at you which indicate the exact failure, or at least which system to start looking in.
Haven't bought a car recently, have you? It's called OBD-II, and you need a scanner. Been that way since '97 on everything but very low production vehicles (like exotic vehicles).
Not nearly as easy as a SUN machine, but how many of us have 30K to buy a diagnostic tool for the car?
Either you're sorely misinformed, or you have the attitude I've seen so often where you just must buy a Sub-Zero commercial fridge for $2000 when the $800 Kenmore does the same thing. OBD-II scanners have been availabe on the consumer market for years at sub $300 prices. And the best part about OBD-II is that one scanner works for every make and model.
They probably have a hand me down washing machine and dryer, and an old yellow fridge that freezes half the stuff in it and melts the other half.
This is a troll. But the color you are thinking of is "harvest gold". It goes along with avacado and brown, the only three colors that were availabe in the 70s.
Yes, there is a noticable difference in quality when using "Raw TIFF" as it's referred to in digital photography (yes, the same market that refers to digital file sizes in Megs, as opposed to any type of meaningful resolution). The problem is, that's on a $2K plus SLR body that nobody bothers using without a 1GB IBM Microdrive or better. That constitutes about 1% of all of the digital cameras made. The rest are point and shoot pieces of crap that the average consumer would buy, and they save in .jpg. .png just isn't compressable enough for the 4 MB flash card that comes with that kind of junk.
Now see, that's where you're wrong.
I'm aware of what two NICs can do. I'm questioning the necessity, popularity, and demand of having them in a board which seems to be targeted at the higher end gaming audience.
These are people who PROBABLY know that a DSL/Cable router is the better way to do this. How much is a cheap-o cable router/hub combo now? $80. Probably even less if you look around and don't buy it as RatShack.
Why is that informative? Who is going to build a router/firewall platform on a board with bad-ass graphics?
The last time I checked, the PC I'm writing this from had only one network card and is connected to my local network and the Internet. (wow...routers are so damn amazing....) Are they marketing this to higher end users, or mororns? I'm confused.
Or maybe its for uber-gaming....can you team the NICS for 200 MB of fraggin' bandwidth?
The 8200's were the WORST Apple case design I've seen. It's their biggest failure.
Just adding memory is a chore, and changing boards is a nightmare.
As a former repair tech at a PC/Apple shop, I've known for years that Apple has been consistantly (not 100% of the time, just most times) superior to other consmer PCs as far as hardware design goes. Cases included.
And has anyone has the occasion to use Apple ServiceSource? Simply the best repair documentation ever. Down to sample startup sounds for the laser printers. We used to put the new guys on Apple repair because just about any moron with average reading comprehension abilities and a screwdriver could follow the procedures in there.
The problem has always been the OS, and the costs of the hardware.
Fixing one out of two isn't bad, right?
Micrisift is nipping at their heels on turnround time. What a great position to be in.
(Insert obligtatory Linux plug here)
and is no longer operative because the magic smoke has escaped
I used to have a can of that on my repair bench for when it escaped from whatever I was working on.
No, C=64. I even get the occasional argument as to what the ,8,1 means, and blah blah blah blah....
Now he says:
"Actually, I prefer the term jovial."
The yearbook committee payed a lot of money
You graduated high school without learning how to spell "paid"?
Yes, it's a troll.