Acer Extensa E420 Desktop, AMD 1640B Athlon, 1GB RAM, 160GB HDD, DVDRW, Linux Extra Value Celeron Dual Core E3200 Business PC 4GB DDR2, 320GB SATA HDD, DVDRW, NO O/S Extra Value Pentium Dual Core E5400 Business PC 2.7GHz, 4GB DDR2, 750GB SATA HDD, DVDRW, NO O/S Mesh Desktop PC, Pentium E5400 2.7GHz, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD, DVDRW, No Operating System
Prices start at £149 inc tax for the low-end Acer.
"She then turned back around and asked me if she had checked my ID. I gave her a hard time because in this system I am assumed to be untrustworthy until she says otherwise so she shouldn't trust anything..."
So how did the 'totally picked you at random' body cavity search go then?
One of the 'hangups' that is easily fixed is that of desiring a bay-based extra battery. Instead of having limit your laptop choices to find what you want, just get an external battery pack, like the the U20, which will plug into almost any laptop AND also has a 5V USB output. If you were already going to hawk around a spare battery (or the DVD drive when the battery is inserted) then this is a win-win PLUS you have a generic power source rather than one that just fits your laptop.
OMG - I remember running Lotus Notes on OS/2 as a Compaq Partner because that's how they communicated with us all at the time.
Everything synced through a V.32bis modem with sometimes literally hours of waiting when new floppy images or a new schema was released!
At the time we all shrugged our shoulders and enthusiastically 'dug into' the Notes way of doing things because we held some rose-tinted view that it represented 'the future' in terms of group-wide communication, even though it was a right pain in the ass to do anything creative with it.
Now I look back and wonder WTF we were thinking.
Oh, and hey guys, sticking an 'i' in front of your product name in the forlorn hope of making it sound sexy is the height of crass marketing and aint gonna work.
1) When I walk into Best Buy (or the UK equivalents in my case), I'm probably going to somwehere nearby and just popped in on the lookout for anything on special offer that might actually be worth considering - for example, 1TB external hard disks have been a very good buy recently. Failing that, I'm just there to have a hands-on look at the current laptop/netbook models and to listen-in to the hilarious sales patter - eg: PC World, Portsmouth (UK) a while back:
"Well, this laptop has a dual core processor so the Internet will be twice as fast...."
Good point - that's why all the disks in a RAID array should come from different manufacturers or at least different batches/manufacturing plants + your 'spare' server should be a different brand or made from different components.
In the mid 90's I was working for a training company in London and they hosted all their training data, courseware, disk images etc. on a big RAID 5 array with 5 disks. One day, the tech guy arrived at work to discover the drive bearings had seized on 3 disks!
1) We had a power surge that actually broke a LAN cable, fried the ADSL router and trashed an analogue phone. VoIP system stays up and goes into power fail mode as it should, but the analogue line everything is diverted to is the one with the now broken phone - boss says "See, the VoiP system has gone down"
2) A couple of weeks later a circuit breaker trips and after the UPS has done its stuff for 20 mins, it shuts down the VoIP server gracefully - boss says "Aha, unreliable VoIP again"
3) Boss tells Area Manager to arrange for a telecoms company to quote for a 'proper system' without telling me - I'm only the IT Manager after all.
Now, my boss sees everything in black-and-white and in this case he 'sees' that the 'VoIP system' died twice (when, in fact, there were two, unrelated incidents that could have knocked out ANY phone system) and so this 'Open Source', 'free' stuff is clearly unreliable and must be replaced. I could explain things to him (oh, how I have tried) - but then I am just being 'difficult'.
So why is Open Source dropped? Paying for things is 'cosy' because you then have someone to lean on when things go wrong and, of course, you can't do that with Open Source, can you? It's all down to perception at some levels and it's VERY frustrating. My boss has made up his mind and - well - he's the boss and he makes the decisions round here...he's even told me so!
Rest of our empire? some Win2K servers running a proprietary app that's so MS-bound it's never going to run on anything else, then Postfix/MailScanner for our email, BackupPC for cross-site and laptop backups (with deltacopy). Intranet is Joomla, Nagios monitors our LANs, servers and VPNs, HQ user shares are on a CentOS box and I have a total of 9 Linux servers doing remote corporate stuff, data collation and reporting (iReport and some automated scripts that drop stats into my Boss's inbox automatically). Damn dodgy all this Open Source stuff!
What's the solution? For me, shoot the boss come to mind!
Oh yeah, and I'll gloss over the fact that we have a similar phone system at HQ and my boss has a Snom 360 VoIP phone on his desk!
PS: Anyone after a damn fine Systems Admin person? South Coast UK, open to offers!
Their dry leather sandals prevent current flow to ground and if it's damp, the decreased resistance to ground merely lets the current drain away at a safe rate.
Your homework is to determine the capacitance and inductance of RMS, and at what frequency he would resonate.
Possibly - I am running Fedora 11 (Kernel 2.6.29.6) and I think by the time I'd opened up a reply window and typed my message the thread screen refresh finally finished and my comment got knocked off track.
Doesn't this just mean that users will discover more quickly that OpenOffice b0rks at anything beyond basic Excel macros and that there's no extremely decent open source equivalent to Outlook?
Nice as faster-this-and-that may be, how many have actually heard a potential Windows convert saying "it's all well and good, but the desktop seems a tad slow?"
Don't get me wrong, but I put this in the category of: Nice to have, but not necessarily a deal-maker.
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I think it means you still shouldn't cross the streams.
ebuyer begs to differ:
Acer Extensa E420 Desktop, AMD 1640B Athlon, 1GB RAM, 160GB HDD, DVDRW, Linux
Extra Value Celeron Dual Core E3200 Business PC 4GB DDR2, 320GB SATA HDD, DVDRW, NO O/S
Extra Value Pentium Dual Core E5400 Business PC 2.7GHz, 4GB DDR2, 750GB SATA HDD, DVDRW, NO O/S
Mesh Desktop PC, Pentium E5400 2.7GHz, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD, DVDRW, No Operating System
Prices start at £149 inc tax for the low-end Acer.
"She then turned back around and asked me if she had checked my ID. I gave her a hard time because in this system I am assumed to be untrustworthy until she says otherwise so she shouldn't trust anything..."
So how did the 'totally picked you at random' body cavity search go then?
One of the 'hangups' that is easily fixed is that of desiring a bay-based extra battery. Instead of having limit your laptop choices to find what you want, just get an external battery pack, like the the U20, which will plug into almost any laptop AND also has a 5V USB output. If you were already going to hawk around a spare battery (or the DVD drive when the battery is inserted) then this is a win-win PLUS you have a generic power source rather than one that just fits your laptop.
http://www.umpcportal.com/2009/05/umpc-accessory-test-ultimate-netbook-u2o-universal-power-pack-and-umpc-holder-10-off/
Oh yeah...just grab yourself a Linux server and install OpenGoo...
http://www.opengoo.org/
OMG - I remember running Lotus Notes on OS/2 as a Compaq Partner because that's how they communicated with us all at the time.
Everything synced through a V.32bis modem with sometimes literally hours of waiting when new floppy images or a new schema was released!
At the time we all shrugged our shoulders and enthusiastically 'dug into' the Notes way of doing things because we held some rose-tinted view that it represented 'the future' in terms of group-wide communication, even though it was a right pain in the ass to do anything creative with it.
Now I look back and wonder WTF we were thinking.
Oh, and hey guys, sticking an 'i' in front of your product name in the forlorn hope of making it sound sexy is the height of crass marketing and aint gonna work.
Yeah, but my food comes in tins and the metal shielding will protect it from all this, won't it?
A carrier brings me my network kit in large boxes, or is that a courier? Carrie Fisher? I dunno.
Anyw £($_! NO PACKET
So that's what Tribett was up to!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/43492742@N00/352574903/
Indeed, and didn't we all learn from a previous article about DIY solar cells that human hair is a semiconductor!
Shedding hair all over your netbook could have diastrous comsequences - or upgrade your RAM.
A little elaboration:
1) When I walk into Best Buy (or the UK equivalents in my case), I'm probably going to somwehere nearby and just popped in on the lookout for anything on special offer that might actually be worth considering - for example, 1TB external hard disks have been a very good buy recently. Failing that, I'm just there to have a hands-on look at the current laptop/netbook models and to listen-in to the hilarious sales patter - eg: PC World, Portsmouth (UK) a while back:
"Well, this laptop has a dual core processor so the Internet will be twice as fast...."
It's an IT-Themed comedy store!
The next part of that post can be found 3 weeks back - or is it in 3 weeks time?
The drive may not cost the earth, but that's still around 50% more than you'd pay for a 1TB external drive with a USB 2.0 interface.
Just sayin'
Good point - that's why all the disks in a RAID array should come from different manufacturers or at least different batches/manufacturing plants + your 'spare' server should be a different brand or made from different components.
In the mid 90's I was working for a training company in London and they hosted all their training data, courseware, disk images etc. on a big RAID 5 array with 5 disks. One day, the tech guy arrived at work to discover the drive bearings had seized on 3 disks!
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So why are we dropping Asterisk on one site?
1) We had a power surge that actually broke a LAN cable, fried the ADSL router and trashed an analogue phone. VoIP system stays up and goes into power fail mode as it should, but the analogue line everything is diverted to is the one with the now broken phone - boss says "See, the VoiP system has gone down"
2) A couple of weeks later a circuit breaker trips and after the UPS has done its stuff for 20 mins, it shuts down the VoIP server gracefully - boss says "Aha, unreliable VoIP again"
3) Boss tells Area Manager to arrange for a telecoms company to quote for a 'proper system' without telling me - I'm only the IT Manager after all.
Now, my boss sees everything in black-and-white and in this case he 'sees' that the 'VoIP system' died twice (when, in fact, there were two, unrelated incidents that could have knocked out ANY phone system) and so this 'Open Source', 'free' stuff is clearly unreliable and must be replaced. I could explain things to him (oh, how I have tried) - but then I am just being 'difficult'.
So why is Open Source dropped? Paying for things is 'cosy' because you then have someone to lean on when things go wrong and, of course, you can't do that with Open Source, can you? It's all down to perception at some levels and it's VERY frustrating. My boss has made up his mind and - well - he's the boss and he makes the decisions round here...he's even told me so!
Rest of our empire? some Win2K servers running a proprietary app that's so MS-bound it's never going to run on anything else, then Postfix/MailScanner for our email, BackupPC for cross-site and laptop backups (with deltacopy). Intranet is Joomla, Nagios monitors our LANs, servers and VPNs, HQ user shares are on a CentOS box and I have a total of 9 Linux servers doing remote corporate stuff, data collation and reporting (iReport and some automated scripts that drop stats into my Boss's inbox automatically). Damn dodgy all this Open Source stuff!
What's the solution? For me, shoot the boss come to mind!
Oh yeah, and I'll gloss over the fact that we have a similar phone system at HQ and my boss has a Snom 360 VoIP phone on his desk!
PS: Anyone after a damn fine Systems Admin person? South Coast UK, open to offers!
Can you just imagine it...
"It looks like you want to save your last hour's edits to disk. Well, maybe they're in Quantum RAM, maybe they're not. Do you want me to have a look?"
[YES] [NO] [BOTH]
Meh, our build area has a 12" IBM LCD POS (Point of Sale) display.
Actually, it's handy to take to site when we are visiting headless servers.
You just know that somebody, somewhere, in a board meeting is saying "Fuck it, we're going to 9 monitors, with an aloe bezel"
You are mixing the voltages measured phase-to-neutral and phase-to-phase.
In the UK/EU, 'nominal' 220V 3 Phase is 220V phase (live) to neutral and 415 volts between phases.
Their dry leather sandals prevent current flow to ground and if it's damp, the decreased resistance to ground merely lets the current drain away at a safe rate.
Your homework is to determine the capacitance and inductance of RMS, and at what frequency he would resonate.
Whoosh
Considering how much a typical HDMI cable costs, I am not surprised that the console manufacturers leave them out of the box - look:
Monster MC 1000HD-2M Ultra-High Speed HDTV HDMI Cable (2 meters) $90.95 (Amazon)
Denon AK-HM500 5M Ultra High Quality HDMI Cable $200 (Denon)
BTW, I did also find this one, but I suspect the price is a typo - I guess it should be $186.90 so don't think you're getting a bargain!!
Cables Unlimited premium 2M HDMI cable $18.69 (Techsourcepro)
Possibly - I am running Fedora 11 (Kernel 2.6.29.6) and I think by the time I'd opened up a reply window and typed my message the thread screen refresh finally finished and my comment got knocked off track.
Damn these slow kernels.
Doesn't this just mean that users will discover more quickly that OpenOffice b0rks at anything beyond basic Excel macros and that there's no extremely decent open source equivalent to Outlook?
Nice as faster-this-and-that may be, how many have actually heard a potential Windows convert saying "it's all well and good, but the desktop seems a tad slow?"
Don't get me wrong, but I put this in the category of: Nice to have, but not necessarily a deal-maker.