That's a great idea EXCEPT I have yet to see a non-Apple laptop with a powered 6-pin firewire plug. Yeah, you can get an add-on PCMCIA firewire adapter with 6 pin plugs but of the ones I've seen, they too are un-powered.
I'm a sysadmin for one of the Big 5 consultancies and we too are having trouble finding qualified people in Bangalore. I'm tired of the 12 page resumes, interviewing early in the morning or late at night, the crappy VOIP lines and having to decipher a thick accent accompanied by street noise because the interviewee decided the best place to call us was from a rickshaw. We've given up on asking technical questions; the interviewee never seems to "get" the question and if they do we always get a one-word answer. All we look for now is the ability to speak english clearly and ask them about their past experience with the hope that they are telling the truth. The few candidates we do extend an offer to never seem to show up, they probably found a job somewhere else in the meantime that pays a penny more an hour.
I would have a little more compassion for audtiors if they weren't fscking idiots. I'm fed up with the morons that PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Accenture, KPMG, IBM GS, etc sends us.
I saw Revenge of the Sith on opening day at a Gold Class theatre in Bangalore, India. I had the Bombay Blues but still had a good time. I'm a big guy (193cm, 200kg) but the seats were still comfortable. Tickets were only like 500 rupees ($10 USD). Wish they had something like that here in Texas; I'd be willing to pay $50 USD a seat!
You have clearly never worked in an Enterprise type environment. There are still plenty of uses for VxVM in a SAN environment: mirroring, replication, multipathing, snapshots, etc.
It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
--Edsger Dijkstra's Evaluations of Programming Languages (c. 1982)
Thank ${DEITY} it doesn't snow/ice down here much in the winter, it is truly terrifying to be on the road with morons doing pirouettes down I35 because they don't know how to slow down.
I don't know about you, but IBM Service and Support is a joke.
When I had problems with TSM HSM on my 3995 Optical Library attached to an RS/6000, the internal blame game began. The Optical Library folks blamed AIX, the AIX folks blamed TSM, and the TSM folks blamed the Optical Library folks.
Whenever my equipment needed service, the parts were never available locally (Dallas/Ft. Worth) or it took multiple part replacements to get a resolution.
I fondly remember riding across the Texas A&M campus my sophomore year on a bike without brakes. My roommate almost got hit a car once, he borrowed my bike without realizing the breaks didn't work, =).
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I seem to recall reading an article on/. about EFI and an Intel mentioned Open Firmware was unsuitable because it wouldn't support ACPI, er, maybe it was DRM. Tis a shame....
I used to work for the Eletrical Engineering Dept at Texas A&M as a student tech. One time this PhD student complained to me that his new PC monitor was "broken" because the screen was "jiggling". Turns out this moron had put his PC monitor right next to an old Sun monitor, the type that makes every monitor in a 15 foot radius jiggle when you hit the degauss button. Simply moving the PC monitor magically fixed the problem.
These days, "I've got a Sun" seems to elicit "Huh! That's kind of neat. Don't you spend all of your time trying to get seemingly trivial applications to compile, though?"
You are a moron. Most well written software compiles quite easily on Solaris, the only time you have a problem is when some LiNuX d00d3r made a poor assumption. You haven't experienced pain until you have tried to compile KDE (or anything for that matter) on AIX 4.3.
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Chinese is not a language you insensitive clod! Perhaps you meant Mandarin or Cantonese...
This USB=>PS/2 adapter will work with a Unicomp Model "M". I wish Unicomp would come out with a native USB Linux layout...
That's a great idea EXCEPT I have yet to see a non-Apple laptop with a powered 6-pin firewire plug. Yeah, you can get an add-on PCMCIA firewire adapter with 6 pin plugs but of the ones I've seen, they too are un-powered.
I'm a sysadmin for one of the Big 5 consultancies and we too are having trouble finding qualified people in Bangalore. I'm tired of the 12 page resumes, interviewing early in the morning or late at night, the crappy VOIP lines and having to decipher a thick accent accompanied by street noise because the interviewee decided the best place to call us was from a rickshaw. We've given up on asking technical questions; the interviewee never seems to "get" the question and if they do we always get a one-word answer. All we look for now is the ability to speak english clearly and ask them about their past experience with the hope that they are telling the truth. The few candidates we do extend an offer to never seem to show up, they probably found a job somewhere else in the meantime that pays a penny more an hour.
I would have a little more compassion for audtiors if they weren't fscking idiots. I'm fed up with the morons that PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Accenture, KPMG, IBM GS, etc sends us.
As a fellow USian, I hate American software/devices that won't let me use a 24-hour clock.
I bet the Thai hate everyone though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6_hour_clock.
I saw Revenge of the Sith on opening day at a Gold Class theatre in Bangalore, India. I had the Bombay Blues but still had a good time. I'm a big guy (193cm, 200kg) but the seats were still comfortable. Tickets were only like 500 rupees ($10 USD). Wish they had something like that here in Texas; I'd be willing to pay $50 USD a seat!
You have clearly never worked in an Enterprise type environment. There are still plenty of uses for VxVM in a SAN environment: mirroring, replication, multipathing, snapshots, etc.
I think SAIT or LTO would be a better solution, IMHO. But to answer the OP, this places sells a 20 pack for $40. http://www.wic-store.com/
Yeah, but those crazy Belgians put mayonnaise instead of ketchup on their french fries. Yuck!
That's $500 a CPU thank you very much. It's painful deploying some of these Tivoli products on my 72-way 15k frames.
Thank ${DEITY} MCA didn't trickle down.
I live in Dallas too!
Thank ${DEITY} it doesn't snow/ice down here much in the winter, it is truly terrifying to be on the road with morons doing pirouettes down I35 because they don't know how to slow down.
I don't know about you, but IBM Service and Support is a joke.
When I had problems with TSM HSM on my 3995 Optical Library attached to an RS/6000, the internal blame game began. The Optical Library folks blamed AIX, the AIX folks blamed TSM, and the TSM folks blamed the Optical Library folks.
Whenever my equipment needed service, the parts were never available locally (Dallas/Ft. Worth) or it took multiple part replacements to get a resolution.
I fondly remember riding across the Texas A&M campus my sophomore year on a bike without brakes. My roommate almost got hit a car once, he borrowed my bike without realizing the breaks didn't work, =).
Don't we explore to exploit?
It's not quite as hard as you think.
I seem to recall reading an article on /. about EFI and an Intel mentioned Open Firmware was unsuitable because it wouldn't support ACPI, er, maybe it was DRM. Tis a shame....
I used to work for the Eletrical Engineering Dept at Texas A&M as a student tech. One time this PhD student complained to me that his new PC monitor was "broken" because the screen was "jiggling". Turns out this moron had put his PC monitor right next to an old Sun monitor, the type that makes every monitor in a 15 foot radius jiggle when you hit the degauss button. Simply moving the PC monitor magically fixed the problem.
USB works great on OpenBSD and FreeBSD, in fact it has for several years now.
You are a moron. Most well written software compiles quite easily on Solaris, the only time you have a problem is when some LiNuX d00d3r made a poor assumption. You haven't experienced pain until you have tried to compile KDE (or anything for that matter) on AIX 4.3.
$11.23 Basic Local Service
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What a fscking ripoff!
That's funny, Sun Microsystems' Broomfield office also uses that exchange. I recognized it from my many a call to the HAS group concerning my F15ks.
Or when was the last time you heard of people being *trampled* to death at an American football game?