Dell offers contracts for 99.9% system availability. This means that if you pay the service contract, your within 30 miles of a depot, they guarantee the system won't go down because of hardware for 8.76 hours out of the year. In training we were calculating all that. Technically, it calculates to two "no post" service calls out of the year. So it looks really good when you market 99.9% reliability.
It's also why many companies can say 99% uptime as that's close to 88 hours of downtime out of a year.
Hours in a year 8760 99% = 87.6 hours 99.2% = 70.08 hours 99.7% = 26.28 hours
If they are at 99.2% right now, I wonder how the heck they are going to get that extra 0.5% percentage points with all the problems they have now.
Maybe it was an assistant that is ordered to read/search for blogs and news articles that don't correctly attribute works. She reads a price sheet that says 'No pictures!' and sends a threat.
I just think its funny. I think if they just asked Shelley, there wouldn't of been such a problem. Instead this nice little threat is posted for the world to see.
I mean seriously, remember how much Oracle is being a dick when they bought PeopleSoft? And now MySQL with "only" $50 million in revenue is going IPO?
I mean hell, remember this? A private firm can turn down an offer, but a full public company has to go to its shareholders.
Its not about the software, its just that MySQL is a nice company that worked hard to get where it is. I just don't want to see it get destroyed because they just needed a bit more capital.
I have a Garmin C340 with the traffic updater. I remember one day, the entire city lit up, with major traffic eveywhere. It made me wonder if someone was playing a trick.
Not sure how much prank value this thing has. Not many people use this feature, not to mention its not very up to date when it comes to traffic.
Nono, I realize that. I was trying to compare the visuals of a game from the 360 to the PC. You would figure, with the lower res, that you could put more textures? Use all the cores? I know its comparing apples to oranges as I have a high end card, I just wonder that will any of these ported games ever will use all the power of the console, or if they just click a box in codewarriors cross platform C compiler.
I remember them talking about how innovative they are going to be using multiple cores in a new version of their engine. Have they finished it?
I see why they fear the PS3, its not really using identical cores. Heck, I am not even sure how you can build a cross-platform game and utilize all the features of the PS3.
Not that I care. I have played the demo of Quake 4 for the 360 and it looks like crap compared to the PC. Not going to be getting half-life 2 for either system.
I live in the DFW area, you know how many Borders and Barns and Nobel's there are in just a 10 mile block? God help a 30.
Its simple, they shut down stores. CompUSA realized this when you can get stuff online. I will easily make a 15 mile trek to Fry's because of good advertisements and because it's a unique experience. I will spend a weekend, driving to Ikea, 31 miles away, because its an intresting store.
If you want quantity over quality, the internet will win out evey time. Except for food. I have yet to find an online retailer promise that.
If I am doing the same work at the office that I could at home, I would like to do it at home. If the environment is nicer at my office with a more social atmosphere, then I would go to the office.
I don't see why us peons would care at any rate. Managers have already made up their minds on this issue beforehand.
A hatchet and some butane? What an obscure choice. Did you just look around your room to see what was there?
Er, well, yea. I was chopping some wood and trying to get a fire going in my fireplace. It was either that or garden shears to the SAN cables. Give me a bit of a break, I haven't got to work then. I am not in my data center killing mood till after I work at Exxon for a few hours.
I wonder how much SL is worth right now? I mean if someone was to go into their server room with a hatchet and some butane, is there even a way to re coop the "investment"?
Just seems all speculative to me, its more of a service industry. Though, it does make me wonder when or how governments will start to tax this.
Sure, but if that's true why is it such a hostile work environment? Its one thing to be a start up where even a few days of a server being down will kill it, its another thing being in a company that needs two triplicate forms for the part, JSA (Job Safety Analysis) and the placement of two cones to change a hard drive. This is even when they work there.
I mean, why would anyone WANT to work in a field where a degree doesn't help that much and the starting pay is worst than some retail stores? God help you if you have to change jobs, it's almost as bad as being an airline pilot in that respect.
Wish this didn't sound like a troll, but I bought this thing when it first came out. The Longest Journey was by far my favorite adventure game of all time and even at the $40 dollar price tag, Dreamfall was far worth it. (Ending was bleh, but it makes me want the last in the series)
Just that the times have changed. No one wants to pay real money for games now a days. It takes just a few clicks to get a pirated game, its just that easy now adays. Why spend $40 bucks on a single player adventure game when it can be had for "free"
I really wish for a final game in the Dreamfall series, but I saw the seaders/leachers when Dreamfall came out, and I just think 200k is a bit conservative.
Working for Dell, I found out you can blast a system with the standard green XP SP2 disk, no matter how old or new it is. I suspect its even the same with the purple Vista Ultimate disk but I could be wrong.
They must be going off the bios of the Dell. Its stupid, but I guess it saves Dell money, though it negates the bare drive option as I am sure Microsoft would be pissed if they offered it.
One of the reasons why I went out and bought a legit copy of XP (OEM) for my built system was I was just tired of WGA irritants. Lets face it, if your using a piece of software for months, if not years, why not buy it?
Though, to be fair, I bought it because of all the horror stories they were talking about when SP2 was going to come out. Last thing I wanted was my Outlook PST file deleted. (I know its not true, but when you hear it from a clueless computer user more than 5 times in a week, even I started believing it:P)
Not to troll, but I HATE it when people say " should offer blank drives and let the customer install the OS of there choice"
First off, Dell technically does. Atleast on their server or high end systems. When you bulk order Optiplex's, there is an option not to have license keys as major cops have their own image to put on. But these are people who KNOW what they are doing (or hopefully do)
A standard grandma packaged home user dosn't knows any better. First thing my grandma was confused on her new computer was that office wasn't installed. Why? She thought that it was preinstalled on all computers. If she had to pick an operating system, what possible webpage could even begin to tell her the differences? What level of support? The use of yum or, god help her, emerge? Not even the grandma factor, how about the general idiot population? Remember, customer support is always a money losing position. They wouldn't have to hire idiots if they had to deal with idiots eveyday. Kind of a Catch-22
Though, in respects for Dell, the price is already built in. The OEM green XP SP2 disk will install XP on any Dell machine without the need of the key. So, in essence, all Dells already have XP, even if you didn't pay for it:P
Everything that goes in a server eventually trickles down to desktop. Right now servers are using buffered DDR2. Especially, the ram data lines are converted into a type of packet serial data on a special chip on the ram stick. At close to 1066mhz, these things get hot. Like burn your fingers hot. (Know from experience)
Eventually, we will have to go with buffered DDR2, because you don't get as bad signal degrading after 4gigs. (Only systems I know of that support 64gigs of ram, without special riser cards use buffered)
Not to say it wasn't convent to have a computer with a handle.
That being said, I wonder how hard it would be to miniaturize this kind of scanning technology. There is a real need for smaller computers, but is there a real need for mass-produced mass spectrometers?
I think its just me, but I just don't "trust" my webhost provider ordering my domain for me. Heck, its still hard for me to trust GoDaddy, even if they are a resonable provider, just because the name dosn't sound profesional
Sorry, I use it ALL THE FREAKING TIME. Ask any trucker if they will part with their Satellite radio.
I drive close to 300 miles a week in the DFW area and local radio stations just don't have enough content to keep me intrested. Except for a few talk shows that I listen to, I need a sat radio to keep sane.
Yes, I do have an ipod loaded to the gills with music, but to be frank, without Satellite, I wouldn't have any NEW content to keep me awake.
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Though, its starting to sound like anyone who tries to use their hacking powers to show vulnerability's, they are suddenly the bad guy.
Dell offers contracts for 99.9% system availability. This means that if you pay the service contract, your within 30 miles of a depot, they guarantee the system won't go down because of hardware for 8.76 hours out of the year. In training we were calculating all that. Technically, it calculates to two "no post" service calls out of the year. So it looks really good when you market 99.9% reliability.
It's also why many companies can say 99% uptime as that's close to 88 hours of downtime out of a year.
Hours in a year 8760
99% = 87.6 hours
99.2% = 70.08 hours
99.7% = 26.28 hours
If they are at 99.2% right now, I wonder how the heck they are going to get that extra 0.5% percentage points with all the problems they have now.
Maybe it was an assistant that is ordered to read/search for blogs and news articles that don't correctly attribute works. She reads a price sheet that says 'No pictures!' and sends a threat.
I just think its funny. I think if they just asked Shelley, there wouldn't of been such a problem. Instead this nice little threat is posted for the world to see.
I mean seriously, remember how much Oracle is being a dick when they bought PeopleSoft? And now MySQL with "only" $50 million in revenue is going IPO?
I mean hell, remember this? A private firm can turn down an offer, but a full public company has to go to its shareholders.
Its not about the software, its just that MySQL is a nice company that worked hard to get where it is. I just don't want to see it get destroyed because they just needed a bit more capital.
I have a Garmin C340 with the traffic updater. I remember one day, the entire city lit up, with major traffic eveywhere. It made me wonder if someone was playing a trick.
Not sure how much prank value this thing has. Not many people use this feature, not to mention its not very up to date when it comes to traffic.
I was thinking the same thing, just wish there was some easier way to visualize it. I keep thinking of hooky sci-fi books.
Nono, I realize that. I was trying to compare the visuals of a game from the 360 to the PC. You would figure, with the lower res, that you could put more textures? Use all the cores? I know its comparing apples to oranges as I have a high end card, I just wonder that will any of these ported games ever will use all the power of the console, or if they just click a box in codewarriors cross platform C compiler.
I remember them talking about how innovative they are going to be using multiple cores in a new version of their engine. Have they finished it?
I see why they fear the PS3, its not really using identical cores. Heck, I am not even sure how you can build a cross-platform game and utilize all the features of the PS3.
Not that I care. I have played the demo of Quake 4 for the 360 and it looks like crap compared to the PC. Not going to be getting half-life 2 for either system.
I live in the DFW area, you know how many Borders and Barns and Nobel's there are in just a 10 mile block? God help a 30.
Its simple, they shut down stores. CompUSA realized this when you can get stuff online. I will easily make a 15 mile trek to Fry's because of good advertisements and because it's a unique experience. I will spend a weekend, driving to Ikea, 31 miles away, because its an intresting store.
If you want quantity over quality, the internet will win out evey time. Except for food. I have yet to find an online retailer promise that.
If I am doing the same work at the office that I could at home, I would like to do it at home. If the environment is nicer at my office with a more social atmosphere, then I would go to the office.
I don't see why us peons would care at any rate. Managers have already made up their minds on this issue beforehand.
Er, well, yea. I was chopping some wood and trying to get a fire going in my fireplace. It was either that or garden shears to the SAN cables. Give me a bit of a break, I haven't got to work then. I am not in my data center killing mood till after I work at Exxon for a few hours.
I wonder how much SL is worth right now? I mean if someone was to go into their server room with a hatchet and some butane, is there even a way to re coop the "investment"?
Just seems all speculative to me, its more of a service industry. Though, it does make me wonder when or how governments will start to tax this.
God. Remind me not to apply for whomever you work for.
Sure, but if that's true why is it such a hostile work environment? Its one thing to be a start up where even a few days of a server being down will kill it, its another thing being in a company that needs two triplicate forms for the part, JSA (Job Safety Analysis) and the placement of two cones to change a hard drive. This is even when they work there.
I mean, why would anyone WANT to work in a field where a degree doesn't help that much and the starting pay is worst than some retail stores? God help you if you have to change jobs, it's almost as bad as being an airline pilot in that respect.
Wish this didn't sound like a troll, but I bought this thing when it first came out. The Longest Journey was by far my favorite adventure game of all time and even at the $40 dollar price tag, Dreamfall was far worth it. (Ending was bleh, but it makes me want the last in the series)
Just that the times have changed. No one wants to pay real money for games now a days. It takes just a few clicks to get a pirated game, its just that easy now adays. Why spend $40 bucks on a single player adventure game when it can be had for "free"
I really wish for a final game in the Dreamfall series, but I saw the seaders/leachers when Dreamfall came out, and I just think 200k is a bit conservative.
Meh. I need something for work that uses RPM's and works with RedHat 4. Dell dosn't have anything for 5 yet.
Freaking Easy.
I just downloaded Centos 4.4 and just fell in love. I like debian, but RedHat really has a nice polished product here.
PS - Just in case, Centos 4.4 is the same as RedHat ES 4.4, just recompiled from sources.
I think you accurately described why we all love this lug. Brain size of a planet with the showmanship of Houdini.
Heck, being agnostic here, if he went out and proved God didn't exist I might just believe him.
Working for Dell, I found out you can blast a system with the standard green XP SP2 disk, no matter how old or new it is. I suspect its even the same with the purple Vista Ultimate disk but I could be wrong.
They must be going off the bios of the Dell. Its stupid, but I guess it saves Dell money, though it negates the bare drive option as I am sure Microsoft would be pissed if they offered it.
One of the reasons why I went out and bought a legit copy of XP (OEM) for my built system was I was just tired of WGA irritants. Lets face it, if your using a piece of software for months, if not years, why not buy it?
Though, to be fair, I bought it because of all the horror stories they were talking about when SP2 was going to come out. Last thing I wanted was my Outlook PST file deleted. (I know its not true, but when you hear it from a clueless computer user more than 5 times in a week, even I started believing it:P)
Not to troll, but I HATE it when people say " should offer blank drives and let the customer install the OS of there choice"
First off, Dell technically does. Atleast on their server or high end systems. When you bulk order Optiplex's, there is an option not to have license keys as major cops have their own image to put on. But these are people who KNOW what they are doing (or hopefully do)
A standard grandma packaged home user dosn't knows any better. First thing my grandma was confused on her new computer was that office wasn't installed. Why? She thought that it was preinstalled on all computers. If she had to pick an operating system, what possible webpage could even begin to tell her the differences? What level of support? The use of yum or, god help her, emerge? Not even the grandma factor, how about the general idiot population? Remember, customer support is always a money losing position. They wouldn't have to hire idiots if they had to deal with idiots eveyday. Kind of a Catch-22
Though, in respects for Dell, the price is already built in. The OEM green XP SP2 disk will install XP on any Dell machine without the need of the key. So, in essence, all Dells already have XP, even if you didn't pay for it:P
Everything that goes in a server eventually trickles down to desktop. Right now servers are using buffered DDR2. Especially, the ram data lines are converted into a type of packet serial data on a special chip on the ram stick. At close to 1066mhz, these things get hot. Like burn your fingers hot. (Know from experience)
Eventually, we will have to go with buffered DDR2, because you don't get as bad signal degrading after 4gigs. (Only systems I know of that support 64gigs of ram, without special riser cards use buffered)
Not to say it wasn't convent to have a computer with a handle.
That being said, I wonder how hard it would be to miniaturize this kind of scanning technology. There is a real need for smaller computers, but is there a real need for mass-produced mass spectrometers?
I think its just me, but I just don't "trust" my webhost provider ordering my domain for me. Heck, its still hard for me to trust GoDaddy, even if they are a resonable provider, just because the name dosn't sound profesional
Bleh, I am not hip anymore.
Sorry, I use it ALL THE FREAKING TIME. Ask any trucker if they will part with their Satellite radio.
I drive close to 300 miles a week in the DFW area and local radio stations just don't have enough content to keep me intrested. Except for a few talk shows that I listen to, I need a sat radio to keep sane.
Yes, I do have an ipod loaded to the gills with music, but to be frank, without Satellite, I wouldn't have any NEW content to keep me awake.