We own a small retail store, and we have 4 stations, all pentium 4's. Do they need to be pentium 4's? of course not. They used to be 386s and 486s... but there are problems...
A network card goes out... well, try finding and ISA/BNC network card at the local computer shop to fix a problem ASAP. Not too easy.
Try replacing that hard drive that just died... You will end up replacing the 400MB hard drive with a 40G drive because that's all you can find, and the BIOS won't support it (at all, or if you are lucky anything above 2GB).
Your network is too slow, running on 10Mb thinnet, causing a major bottleneck, not to mention the non-existent fault tolerance of the daisy-chain topology. Couldn't upgrade to 100MB switched network because the network cards aren't readily available.
We also have an internet site, so we need computers that can run web browsers, email clients, etc, at decent speeds, with interfaces that anyone can use... Needed faster hardware.
This list goes on and on. I have found it is easier to update your pc's every 5 years or so, so you can get replacement parts quickly. It may be overkill, but when problems happen in retail, solutions need to be quick - and I can be reasonably sure that I can find replacement hardware cheaply and easily if I am on (semi) modern PC hardware.
Just my experience, after doing the IT work for the last 8 years for small businesses. Our latest hardware rev, we used those little shuttle boxes, and they are excellent. Every square foot counts in retail, as that is how the lease is usually drawn up. And if we can save space, all the better!
Have you tried any vegas software? I mean for windows. I used to be a premiere user and then I switched to vegas video and it rocks.
not that it will help you switch to linux. i am in the same boat (with video editing). i tried cinerella and didn't like it near as much as vegas or premiere. I just bought another harddrive for when i edit video that boots windows (i only edit video every month or so as a hobby).
Good comment. CNN, MSNBC, etc. all have their biases. I find CNN and BBC quite biased, in fact. Maybe the parent has been brainwashed by another news source!.
The Tec-9 is not a machine gun. It is a 9mm semi-automatic pistol. It is just like any other 9mm pistol except it is pretty bad in quality, is prone to jam, and is not very accurate. I know, I have one. It is made by Intratec. I also have an Intratec Cat-9.
While it is possible to convert a Tec-9 to be fully automatic, it would need to be done by a skilled gunsmith to be anywhere near reliable. However, it would be a horrible choice, because the gun would overheat and jam a lot. There are much better guns to buy if you want to modify them to fully-automatic. The Tec-9 is basically an extremely cheap 9mm pistol that is unreliable and poorly made. But they do look cool.
Obviously your laptop is hosed and would require more money to fix than it's worth. But why don't you just buy a converter, pull the hard drive out, and connect it to your desktop? You can get IDE conveters to plug laptop drives into normal desktop systems. If you spent $20, you could have all your data.
It all depends on how much the data is worth to you.
Even though it's not a real commercial (used to be on AdCritic back when it was good), I loved the Dodge Aries K-Class car commercial. It was a hilarious spoof of car commercials...
Is that what all the cotton pickers said when the cotton gin revolutionized the industry? You need to adapt to what businesses want. If they want to outsource entire services, then join a good company that provices services and become a consultant.
i am not saying that businesses do the right thing by outsourcing (i personally have seen it fail multiple times), but if thats what they want, then thats what they get. Thats whay I quit with the BS and joined a (US) IT consulting firm.
If this is true, then what is to stop using that as a defense for playing dvds on linux? Isn't DeCSS defeating copy protection for purposes of interopability?
You are exactly right. Saddam knows that in this war, the biggest enemy to the US is the US. He knows that if he can discredit people, the US will in effect lose the war itself. That was his stategy.
He knew his military couldn't compete with the US's, and rather than discredit himself and give the opposition an even stronger case, he chose to hide the WMDs and attack via politics rather than with guns. It is more effective this way, for him.
Exactly. And Moore's Law doesn't apply to batteries since they have no transistors. It makes about as much sense as applying the speed limit on my local streets to a battery.
It's just like most things... it's like a monkey fucking a football.
There. Now we have over-analyzed an attempt at humor.
$400 is a bit steep. I just built a computer for one of my relatives. Pentium 4 Celery, 1.7GHz, 256MB DDR RAM, 30G hard drive, keyboard, optical mouse, nice small form factor IWILL case. Total cost was $369 with shipping from newegg.com. A larger hard drive would not have cost much more, and I got a whole computer minus monitor.
So the question is, how much will people pay for a convenience? It just seems most people interested in having their own file server would be the crowd of people that would just make their own.
Your average home user would probably not need or even know exactly what a fileserver/backup solution would do for them.
Still though, we will see what happens. I think at $300 it would be a much more attractive solution.
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We own a small retail store, and we have 4 stations, all pentium 4's. Do they need to be pentium 4's? of course not. They used to be 386s and 486s... but there are problems...
A network card goes out... well, try finding and ISA/BNC network card at the local computer shop to fix a problem ASAP. Not too easy.
Try replacing that hard drive that just died... You will end up replacing the 400MB hard drive with a 40G drive because that's all you can find, and the BIOS won't support it (at all, or if you are lucky anything above 2GB).
Your network is too slow, running on 10Mb thinnet, causing a major bottleneck, not to mention the non-existent fault tolerance of the daisy-chain topology. Couldn't upgrade to 100MB switched network because the network cards aren't readily available.
We also have an internet site, so we need computers that can run web browsers, email clients, etc, at decent speeds, with interfaces that anyone can use... Needed faster hardware.
This list goes on and on. I have found it is easier to update your pc's every 5 years or so, so you can get replacement parts quickly. It may be overkill, but when problems happen in retail, solutions need to be quick - and I can be reasonably sure that I can find replacement hardware cheaply and easily if I am on (semi) modern PC hardware.
Just my experience, after doing the IT work for the last 8 years for small businesses. Our latest hardware rev, we used those little shuttle boxes, and they are excellent. Every square foot counts in retail, as that is how the lease is usually drawn up. And if we can save space, all the better!
Have you tried any vegas software? I mean for windows. I used to be a premiere user and then I switched to vegas video and it rocks.
not that it will help you switch to linux. i am in the same boat (with video editing). i tried cinerella and didn't like it near as much as vegas or premiere. I just bought another harddrive for when i edit video that boots windows (i only edit video every month or so as a hobby).
And I, for one, welcome our new boobie overlords!
Good comment. CNN, MSNBC, etc. all have their biases. I find CNN and BBC quite biased, in fact. Maybe the parent has been brainwashed by another news source! .
*jerk-off motion with hand*
a private investigator could easily find this information out fo ra few hundred bucks. You could do it yourself if you were so inclined.
The Tec-9 is not a machine gun. It is a 9mm semi-automatic pistol. It is just like any other 9mm pistol except it is pretty bad in quality, is prone to jam, and is not very accurate. I know, I have one. It is made by Intratec. I also have an Intratec Cat-9.
While it is possible to convert a Tec-9 to be fully automatic, it would need to be done by a skilled gunsmith to be anywhere near reliable. However, it would be a horrible choice, because the gun would overheat and jam a lot. There are much better guns to buy if you want to modify them to fully-automatic. The Tec-9 is basically an extremely cheap 9mm pistol that is unreliable and poorly made. But they do look cool.
I have a suggestion.
Obviously your laptop is hosed and would require more money to fix than it's worth. But why don't you just buy a converter, pull the hard drive out, and connect it to your desktop? You can get IDE conveters to plug laptop drives into normal desktop systems. If you spent $20, you could have all your data.
It all depends on how much the data is worth to you.
you must work for hp...
Just curious about your sig... are you saying there should not be limits on freedom?
The speed limit and every law on the books are limits on freedom.
Well, poop. Here is a link that doesn't require an evil subscription.
Cool, I found a link to it once again. Check it out here if you haven't seen it before.
Even though it's not a real commercial (used to be on AdCritic back when it was good), I loved the Dodge Aries K-Class car commercial. It was a hilarious spoof of car commercials...
98 horsepower... standard.
map light... standard.
etc.
true that my friend. Haven't seen many ads since I got my Tivo 6 months ago.
hate to be the one to tell you thing, but you just fell for a rather obvious troll.
I know it was a bad analogy, but the point is you have to do whatg businesses want to get what one wants (money). Don't take the analogy so literally.
wow you don't work at hp do you?
Is that what all the cotton pickers said when the cotton gin revolutionized the industry? You need to adapt to what businesses want. If they want to outsource entire services, then join a good company that provices services and become a consultant.
i am not saying that businesses do the right thing by outsourcing (i personally have seen it fail multiple times), but if thats what they want, then thats what they get. Thats whay I quit with the BS and joined a (US) IT consulting firm.
If this is true, then what is to stop using that as a defense for playing dvds on linux? Isn't DeCSS defeating copy protection for purposes of interopability?
You are exactly right. Saddam knows that in this war, the biggest enemy to the US is the US. He knows that if he can discredit people, the US will in effect lose the war itself. That was his stategy.
He knew his military couldn't compete with the US's, and rather than discredit himself and give the opposition an even stronger case, he chose to hide the WMDs and attack via politics rather than with guns. It is more effective this way, for him.
You have never driven a diesel, have you. Silly, ignorant man.
Exactly. And Moore's Law doesn't apply to batteries since they have no transistors. It makes about as much sense as applying the speed limit on my local streets to a battery.
It's just like most things... it's like a monkey fucking a football.
There. Now we have over-analyzed an attempt at humor.
I can understand you wanting Quicken and Photoshop, but there are better alternatives our there for Thumbs Plus. For free.
Not really. The "time of flight" latency of a fiber cable is ~0.0065s per meter.
0.0065s / meter * 6,000,000m (3000km * 2 round trip) = 39,000s.
There are 1,000,000 s in one second. There are 1000 s in a millisecond. A round trip ping time would be around 39milliseconds.
Give or take a few milliseconds for the adapters, etc. It still beats anything else.
$400 is a bit steep. I just built a computer for one of my relatives. Pentium 4 Celery, 1.7GHz, 256MB DDR RAM, 30G hard drive, keyboard, optical mouse, nice small form factor IWILL case. Total cost was $369 with shipping from newegg.com. A larger hard drive would not have cost much more, and I got a whole computer minus monitor.
So the question is, how much will people pay for a convenience? It just seems most people interested in having their own file server would be the crowd of people that would just make their own.
Your average home user would probably not need or even know exactly what a fileserver/backup solution would do for them.
Still though, we will see what happens. I think at $300 it would be a much more attractive solution.
what is wrong with giving the full URL? It could be an ftp site, news site, etc.