I spent all my early coding/hacking/bbs days with a portable RCA CD player that cost me $180 and only lasted 3 hours on 4 AA's, thank god for AC adapters.
Short Description: Ettercap is a multipurpose sniffer/interceptor/logger for switched LAN. It supports active and passive dissection of many protocols (even ciphered ones) and includes many feature for network and host analysis.
Dual 2GHz PowerPC G5 512K L2 cache/processor 1GHz system bus/processor 1GB DDR400 ECC SDRAM 80GB Serial ATA drive Mac OS X Server (Unlimited Client) Dual Gigabit Ethernet CD ROM drive
Dell $4,127
PE1750 1U Dual 2.4GHz Xeon 72GB HD 1GB RAM Dual Gigabit Ethernet CDROM NO OS
$5,626 if you get the dual 3.2 GHz chips (1MB Cache, 2MB is more) that Apple compares the XServe to on their website.
As a former Best Buy employee, I've seen this happen a lot.
It happened mostly during the holidays. People are visiting relatives in the states, and they're taking advantage of after-Thanksgiving sales and such.
Let me first say, the pricing has very little to do with the 'weak US dollar'. It's just simply cheaper to buy things like computers here. How many computer manufacturers are based in England, compared to the USA?
Basically, they'd give us the same reasons you are. They'd typically buy a machine for $2000 which would cost $3000 or more in England/wherever they were from. They'd buy a notebook bag and pack it all up and leave the box and everything at the store, so it looked normal when they went back through the airport.
We actually had some repeat customers every year, and they would buy more than 1 laptop, and sell them when they got home!
He's not a 'dot-bomb failure', he created Netscape (the browser and the company) and in effect popularized the Internet and caused the WWW to be what it is today.
Since Napster, cable modems...I haven't bought one in YEARS.
CD burners don't help either. When someone at work gets a new CD, suddenly we're low on CDR's in the supply closet and everyone has a copy of the Rascal Flatts new album.
Why does the performance vary so much on the individual test??
570fps vs 525fps in the Quake III test...Intel advantage...8%
2.78 minutes vs 2.48 minutes...11% in the 3D studio test faster with the Intel chip
Then in the compiling test....the AMD is ahead by about 15%!!
The only thing I can think of, is the Intel motherboards have a much faster graphics subsystem and the AMD's are much faster when it comes to disk i/o, and the Intel chips have a better memory i/o system.
Windows XP's Fisher Price interface is much faster than KDE/GNOME.
Flame me, call me a troll, but it is.
This is why I stick with one of the 'minimalist' window managers. Sure, I'm missing out on a lot of things, and Joe user probably needs KDE/GNOME and all their associated parts, but I don't.
On the extreme side there are still people who only use a terminal.
Other than the power supplies going out, there's not much wrong with the eMachines. As a former Best Buy employee, some of my friends and I still have Linux on the first eMachines still chugging away in our dorms/basements.
They only had 2 PCI slots? 5400rpm drives? Integrated sound card?
They were only $299!!
What did you expect?
They basically created the sub-$1000 PC market. Remember what it was like before? PC, monitor, printer, you'd walk out of the store with a $2900 dent in your VISA, and all you'd have to show for it would be an IBM Aptiva or a Packard Bell.
You could buy an eMachines for $299, get a monitor and inkjet and a copy of Deer Hunter, and you still have money to buy the kids christmas presents. We'd have people drive from 80 miles away coming to buy the new cheap computers.
It was a pretty nice place. Gateway used to make a pretty nice box in the 90's. Haven't had much contact with their products since the whole Dell/Compaq/HP domination.
I don't think they'll be in the PC business for that much longer.
Try different pens. Too skinny, too thick, different tips, metal, plastic...
There are hundreds of different pens at OfficeMax/Staples. Some of them are pricey though. Raid the supply closet at work, it's cheaper. I like the gels and roller balls. Spring-loaded ball-points give me the worst results. Pilot G2, Sarasa, and Uniball are my choices.
SLOW DOWN. Write slowly. It helps a ton.
Write bigger. It's a little easier to make out writing if you don't need a magnifying glass to read it.
Practice makes perfect! Get some lined paper out, and write out your alphabets. Remember in school, you'd have to make a whole page of each letter, and you got graded on penmanship? Write slow, you can learn to speed up later, once your form is better.
WRITE IN ALL CAPS. Working for a construction/design firm, it's a given, but I've found my writing to be much better if I write in all caps.
Be consistant. Make each of your characters the same way, every time.
He's got a point. The PowerBook G3 (Pismo/Lombard) that came out in 1999, could go 5 hours on a single battery. A friend of mine had one, and I thought my 2.5 hour battery life of my Dell laptop was good at the time.
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One of the biggest selling points of the 3 year extended warranty, was that if the product was serviced more than 3 times, you got a new one.
[i]and at least 20 employees as below average.[/i]
At least 20 people are below average?
What kind of math is that?
I spent all my early coding/hacking/bbs days with a portable RCA CD player that cost me $180 and only lasted 3 hours on 4 AA's, thank god for AC adapters.
Sounds like a good time to check out Ettercap
Short Description:
Ettercap is a multipurpose sniffer/interceptor/logger for switched LAN.
It supports active and passive dissection of many protocols (even ciphered ones) and includes many feature for network and host analysis.
Apple
$3,999
Dual 2GHz PowerPC G5
512K L2 cache/processor
1GHz system bus/processor
1GB DDR400 ECC SDRAM
80GB Serial ATA drive
Mac OS X Server (Unlimited Client)
Dual Gigabit Ethernet
CD ROM drive
Dell
$4,127
PE1750 1U
Dual 2.4GHz Xeon
72GB HD
1GB RAM
Dual Gigabit Ethernet
CDROM
NO OS
$5,626 if you get the dual 3.2 GHz chips (1MB Cache, 2MB is more) that Apple compares the XServe to on their website.
As a former Best Buy employee, I've seen this happen a lot.
It happened mostly during the holidays. People are visiting relatives in the states, and they're taking advantage of after-Thanksgiving sales and such.
Let me first say, the pricing has very little to do with the 'weak US dollar'. It's just simply cheaper to buy things like computers here. How many computer manufacturers are based in England, compared to the USA?
Basically, they'd give us the same reasons you are. They'd typically buy a machine for $2000 which would cost $3000 or more in England/wherever they were from. They'd buy a notebook bag and pack it all up and leave the box and everything at the store, so it looked normal when they went back through the airport.
We actually had some repeat customers every year, and they would buy more than 1 laptop, and sell them when they got home!
Considering many of his 'donations' are Windows PC's and Microsoft software...
He's not a 'dot-bomb failure', he created Netscape (the browser and the company) and in effect popularized the Internet and caused the WWW to be what it is today.
Someone must have goofed.
I used to buy 2 or so a month.
Since Napster, cable modems...I haven't bought one in YEARS.
CD burners don't help either. When someone at work gets a new CD, suddenly we're low on CDR's in the supply closet and everyone has a copy of the Rascal Flatts new album.
Why does the performance vary so much on the individual test??
570fps vs 525fps in the Quake III test...Intel advantage...8%
2.78 minutes vs 2.48 minutes...11% in the 3D studio test faster with the Intel chip
Then in the compiling test....the AMD is ahead by about 15%!!
The only thing I can think of, is the Intel motherboards have a much faster graphics subsystem and the AMD's are much faster when it comes to disk i/o, and the Intel chips have a better memory i/o system.
Anyone have some insight?
Windows XP's Fisher Price interface is much faster than KDE/GNOME.
Flame me, call me a troll, but it is.
This is why I stick with one of the 'minimalist' window managers. Sure, I'm missing out on a lot of things, and Joe user probably needs KDE/GNOME and all their associated parts, but I don't.
On the extreme side there are still people who only use a terminal.
Do not use the Mozilla logo on your products!
Need electricity and plumbing?
Move to America!
Other than the power supplies going out, there's not much wrong with the eMachines. As a former Best Buy employee, some of my friends and I still have Linux on the first eMachines still chugging away in our dorms/basements.
They only had 2 PCI slots? 5400rpm drives? Integrated sound card?
They were only $299!!
What did you expect?
They basically created the sub-$1000 PC market. Remember what it was like before? PC, monitor, printer, you'd walk out of the store with a $2900 dent in your VISA, and all you'd have to show for it would be an IBM Aptiva or a Packard Bell.
You could buy an eMachines for $299, get a monitor and inkjet and a copy of Deer Hunter, and you still have money to buy the kids christmas presents. We'd have people drive from 80 miles away coming to buy the new cheap computers.
They closed our Gateway Store about a year ago...
It was a pretty nice place. Gateway used to make a pretty nice box in the 90's. Haven't had much contact with their products since the whole Dell/Compaq/HP domination.
I don't think they'll be in the PC business for that much longer.
Here's some ideas, no one thing is sure to help.
Try different pens. Too skinny, too thick, different tips, metal, plastic...
There are hundreds of different pens at OfficeMax/Staples. Some of them are pricey though. Raid the supply closet at work, it's cheaper. I like the gels and roller balls. Spring-loaded ball-points give me the worst results. Pilot G2, Sarasa, and Uniball are my choices.
SLOW DOWN. Write slowly. It helps a ton.
Write bigger. It's a little easier to make out writing if you don't need a magnifying glass to read it.
Practice makes perfect! Get some lined paper out, and write out your alphabets. Remember in school, you'd have to make a whole page of each letter, and you got graded on penmanship? Write slow, you can learn to speed up later, once your form is better.
WRITE IN ALL CAPS. Working for a construction/design firm, it's a given, but I've found my writing to be much better if I write in all caps.
Be consistant. Make each of your characters the same way, every time.
Jobs buys 500 G5's for Pixar
The next week, Apple comes out and lowers all the prices $300 and doubles the RAM and HD space, and includes iPods with every purchase.
Virginia Tech's "Big Mac" has proved the G5 to be very powerful in a cluster.
I'd assume you're using CRT screens.
LCD's to the rescue!
A good 21" CRT is going to suck down 110watts+, an LCD will probably do 30...
Plus, If each of them are 4 square feet, thats 88 sq feet less office space, or one more cube.
This isn't Jurassic Park.
Plus, they only had a 117 Sun workstations in the original Toy Story render farm.
Disney's "Toy Story" Uses More Than 100 Sun Workstations to Render Images for First All-Computer-Based Movi
Peebles went on to say that this switch was "a move that no doubt made common CEO Steve Jobs very happy.
I wonder if he gets comission.
or... he could get a Mac.
He's got a point. The PowerBook G3 (Pismo/Lombard) that came out in 1999, could go 5 hours on a single battery. A friend of mine had one, and I thought my 2.5 hour battery life of my Dell laptop was good at the time.
Dual batteries, 10 hours of use out in the wild.
The list price of the system, which is made up from 40 RamSan 320 units, reviewed here, is $4.7million
Purchased from Dell's website that would have been....$12.5 million?
Software doesn't kill people, people kill people.
Just like guns/cars/knives don't kill people, people kill people.