i fix a *lot* of machines for people, and if you get a spyware-ridden box, clean up as best you can with adaware and spybot search and destroy and then whack SP2 over the top. out of about 20 boxes, it's fixed all of them so far...
he said stuff that was present in XP, that he missed in 2k. I agree: i'm quite happy using Win2K here at work, but i'd love to have cleartype available. it's not, you only get it in XP.
it's all related to the original Good Manufacturing Practise processes. pros - our implemented stuff is *bulletproof* and identical down to LRF* level on the boxes. cons? what might take an afternoon on an unvalidated system can bloat out to a month's project under GxP.
i think that any system that has serious potential for abuse should go under similar levels of attention to detail: whether it's financial or contains significant personal details.
however, try convincing big business they need to spend the time and effort - unless you've got a heavy-duty regulatory authority like the FDA telling them it's got to be done that way, it won't be.
but also consider once you've drilled the holes, how much easier/faster/more secure your life would be if you simply slung a length of cat5 between the two holes...
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i've actually got to put together a costings analysis for refitting our cisco kit next week. fancy giving me a hand with it, i like your style!
i.e. solder joints that have a crack in them. as they heat up in use, the joint expands, and the crack breaks electrical flow. cool it down, and it contracts and makes electrical contact. this is why tv engineers often have aerosols of freeze spray - you spray it on to suspect dry joints and see if it fixes the problem.
RAID=REDUNDANCY/AVAILABILITY
this is not the same as backup, you fool. Disks come and go: your array remains. What's stored ON THAT ARRAY is your problem, and you maintain it despite the stupidity of your users via OFFSITE BACKUPS. THE END.
just because you're running some cheapo raid setup with no redundancy doesn't mean that proper, hardware independant raid isn't a good idea.
it's there to provide AVAILABILITY, not backup though: delete a file off RAID and it's gone: this is why you should have backup as well - e.g. to tape kept offsite.
any major outage of any type usually downgrades cell phone performance. reason being, each cell can only handle a relatively small number of simultaneous connections, and at the first sign of anything odd happening those connections will all be used up by people phoning their friends to tell them about it. if you're ever unlucky enough to see an accident on a motorway, just try using your cellphone then.
handily, under GSM emergency calls are meant to get priority and disconnect plain voice calls, but this doesn't always work...
and dell's incentive would be what, exactly?
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pissing off the company that sells them OEM operating systems at very low prices?
not pissing off any of your employees who are gun nuts.
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that's the point: they're tiny, they look cool, and you want one. much like a mont blanc fountain pen or an omega seamaster watch compared to a biro or a cheap digital watch: they don't do anything different - they're just nicer - and some people are prepared to pay for this.
personally i could have bought a hundred cheap watches for the price of my omega, but i keep telling myself that the amortised cost per glance at the time is quite reasonable!
they'll definitely have onboard sound: it just won't be "soundstorm" because they don't want to pay the licencing fees. i'm sure it'll be more than adequate for pretty much everything, just like the nforce2 realtek and soundstorm models were.
you seem to assume that big corporate IT want the fastest machines: we don't. we want ones that have a low, fixed total cost of ownership and have been tested to death by someone else before we buy them in droves. we want to know that we can continue to buy identical kit for the next 3 years. what we don't care about is whether jonny in accounts wants the latest and greatest processor in his machine...
Crucial = Micron. It's their retail arm. It's the *best* by far: I've built scores of systems, and Crucial *always* works. RAM isn't binary failure these days: use an nforce2 or 3 board (and you'd be daft not to) and you'll find a lot of super duper DDR450! turbo ultra extreme" riced up brands just don't work.
Crucial also ship it to you in an eyeblink, and give unconditional refunds: try going into a normal supplier and saying "this RAM I bought doesn't work in this particular motherboard. It's fine in some and obviously is going to work fine in your test rig, but honest, it's faulty".
If you work with modern boards then you'll find around 90% of problems are down to cheap RAM because tolerances are now "so tight.
i've had an SE P800, a P900 and am now using a Nokia 7610. All run Symbian OS, but the Nokia's *way* better to use. It may look odd, but it does the business with much less mither. One thing they're good at is usability.
you can almost certainly do this by simply turning round the polarising filter in front of the physical LCD - always used to work on LCD calculators when i was a kid....
stock ipod earphones are really poor. beyer's are great, but the open air ones are enormous, as expensive as an ipod, and leak. the sony 71's are about the same price as a large pizza in an average restauraunt, in-ear fitting and are black to avoid being mugged. what more do you want, you fool?
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i fix a *lot* of machines for people, and if you get a spyware-ridden box, clean up as best you can with adaware and spybot search and destroy and then whack SP2 over the top. out of about 20 boxes, it's fixed all of them so far...
he said stuff that was present in XP, that he missed in 2k. I agree: i'm quite happy using Win2K here at work, but i'd love to have cleartype available. it's not, you only get it in XP.
i think that any system that has serious potential for abuse should go under similar levels of attention to detail: whether it's financial or contains significant personal details.
however, try convincing big business they need to spend the time and effort - unless you've got a heavy-duty regulatory authority like the FDA telling them it's got to be done that way, it won't be.
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but also consider once you've drilled the holes, how much easier/faster/more secure your life would be if you simply slung a length of cat5 between the two holes...
i've actually got to put together a costings analysis for refitting our cisco kit next week. fancy giving me a hand with it, i like your style!
i.e. solder joints that have a crack in them. as they heat up in use, the joint expands, and the crack breaks electrical flow. cool it down, and it contracts and makes electrical contact. this is why tv engineers often have aerosols of freeze spray - you spray it on to suspect dry joints and see if it fixes the problem.
RAID=REDUNDANCY/AVAILABILITY
this is not the same as backup, you fool. Disks come and go: your array remains. What's stored ON THAT ARRAY is your problem, and you maintain it despite the stupidity of your users via OFFSITE BACKUPS. THE END.
just because you're running some cheapo raid setup with no redundancy doesn't mean that proper, hardware independant raid isn't a good idea. it's there to provide AVAILABILITY, not backup though: delete a file off RAID and it's gone: this is why you should have backup as well - e.g. to tape kept offsite.
any major outage of any type usually downgrades cell phone performance. reason being, each cell can only handle a relatively small number of simultaneous connections, and at the first sign of anything odd happening those connections will all be used up by people phoning their friends to tell them about it. if you're ever unlucky enough to see an accident on a motorway, just try using your cellphone then.
handily, under GSM emergency calls are meant to get priority and disconnect plain voice calls, but this doesn't always work...
pissing off the company that sells them OEM operating systems at very low prices?
not pissing off any of your employees who are gun nuts.
that's the point: they're tiny, they look cool, and you want one. much like a mont blanc fountain pen or an omega seamaster watch compared to a biro or a cheap digital watch: they don't do anything different - they're just nicer - and some people are prepared to pay for this.
personally i could have bought a hundred cheap watches for the price of my omega, but i keep telling myself that the amortised cost per glance at the time is quite reasonable!
this is the sound of tumbleweed
i'm sure someone like IBM Global Services would do it cheaper and better. Not.
..... PROFIT!
they'll definitely have onboard sound: it just won't be "soundstorm" because they don't want to pay the licencing fees. i'm sure it'll be more than adequate for pretty much everything, just like the nforce2 realtek and soundstorm models were.
you seem to assume that big corporate IT want the fastest machines: we don't. we want ones that have a low, fixed total cost of ownership and have been tested to death by someone else before we buy them in droves. we want to know that we can continue to buy identical kit for the next 3 years. what we don't care about is whether jonny in accounts wants the latest and greatest processor in his machine...
because there's always some idiot who wants to spend $300 on a high end card because it'll give them another few FPS in 3DMark2003.
they *manufacture* RAM, they don't rebadge it.
Crucial = Micron. It's their retail arm. It's the *best* by far: I've built scores of systems, and Crucial *always* works. RAM isn't binary failure these days: use an nforce2 or 3 board (and you'd be daft not to) and you'll find a lot of super duper DDR450! turbo ultra extreme" riced up brands just don't work.
Crucial also ship it to you in an eyeblink, and give unconditional refunds: try going into a normal supplier and saying "this RAM I bought doesn't work in this particular motherboard. It's fine in some and obviously is going to work fine in your test rig, but honest, it's faulty".
If you work with modern boards then you'll find around 90% of problems are down to cheap RAM because tolerances are now "so tight.
it does do wifi.
you can cram anything into a cellphone, but past a certain point it's not going to fit in your pocket very easily
i've had an SE P800, a P900 and am now using a Nokia 7610. All run Symbian OS, but the Nokia's *way* better to use. It may look odd, but it does the business with much less mither. One thing they're good at is usability.
to go with your USB hotplate and USB phone charger. It may not *need* a driver...
you can almost certainly do this by simply turning round the polarising filter in front of the physical LCD - always used to work on LCD calculators when i was a kid....
stock ipod earphones are really poor. beyer's are great, but the open air ones are enormous, as expensive as an ipod, and leak. the sony 71's are about the same price as a large pizza in an average restauraunt, in-ear fitting and are black to avoid being mugged. what more do you want, you fool?