I placed several orders with outpost.com and without exception, they exceeded my expectations on every order. They offered free next day shipping on items that were in stock, and they were not kidding.
A few examples: I ordered a scanner for my sister from outpost.com on sunday night, and she called me monday morning to thank me! that was this week! As a last ditch effort at finding a gift for my brother in law, I ordered a CPU from Outpost.com on Tuesday night around midnight, and it was on my front porch when I got home from work on Wednesday!
I am most impressed with outpost.com's service! (not affiliated, no relation, etc...)
However, I also purchased several items from e-toys on December 6th (go ahead, flame me). While the inventory/ordering/giftwrap/shipping user interface was great (I'm think that some companies should take a look at their order flow processs), their delivery was less than satistfactory.
After placing a large order on 12/06/1999 that was to be delivered to several different addresses (everything was in stock on 12/06/1999), I received an order confirmation an hour later to confirm my order. Very good so far.
Two days later, I receive an e-mail that some of my articles were too big to gift wrap. Didn't they know that at the time of the order? Oh well.
Fast forward a week or so. I get a call from my sister that the order of lego's arrived just fine. Then, two days later, I receive an e-mail from e-toys that the lego order shipped.
To make a long story even longer, every shipping confirmation e-mail was received after the item had arrived. Not really a "bad thing", but annoying.
The worst part is that on 12/20/1999, I received an e-mail that two of my items were OUT OF STOCK! And I ordered them two full weeks prior! Thanks for the advance notice so that I can make other plans...Jeesh!
Anyways, I am VERY happy with outpost.com, and pretty pissed at e-toys.com (I would have ordered from toysrus.com, but their inventory sucked, IMHO)
lest we not forget, up until fairly recently ALL computers cost $2500.
Here is a short list of computers that I have purchased with $2500:
8086 XT with two floppy drives and a green screen 80286 AT with a hard drive (can't remember how big) 80386 Compaq clone with 1 meg and a 65 meg hard drive 80486 with 16 meg and a 400 meg hard drive pentium 90 with 64 meg and 1.2 gig drive dual pentium pro 2/512 meg and 2x4.5 gig scsi dual pentium III with 1 gig and 3x9 gig scsi
so--$2500 will always buy you a "state of the art" computer....and the state of the art changes about 3 days after purchase/delivery. Mainly because it was state of the art when you were contemplating ordering it--by the time it is delivered there is always a faster/bigger/badder machine available.
I don't advocate spending $2500 for one of these cooling units--just wait three to six months and you will get a much bigger bang for your buck....but then, you could always say "wait a while--the new xxx-IV is coming out next month"
so, do what you like!
just my $0.02 (collect 125,000 of these and you can buy a new machine!)
What you saw was spectacular, but was not associated with the leonid shower.
This is from the american meteor society's website: http://amsmeteors.org/leo99update.html
"On Tuesday evening, locally Nov. 16, at approximately 7:07 EST / 6:07 CST (November 17, 1999, 0007 UTC), a brilliant fireball lit up the American midwest, travelling slowly from west to east, and apparently breaking apart in transit. The AMS has received reports about this event from locations across central North America, from southern Canada to northern Texas (!). Regardless of what is being reported at other web sites and in the popular press, this event could NOT have ben associated with the Leonid meteor shower. At the time of this event, North America was completely in the shadow of the Leonid stream, with the radiant located slightly east of the anti-zenith, that is, underfoot. This object is most likely a very bright sporadic fireball (of which there are a few each year of this magnitude), or perhaps reentering space debris. "
This article has some very good points on where our productivity and creativity has been focused. However, there are many professions that make use of the efforts that have gone into computer science over the past several decades.
Bad example, but look at the tools that animation designers have available now vs. 5, 10, 20 and 50 years ago. What about simulation? Engineers can design-test-refine aircraft, bridges, automobiles, almost anything without having to build a prototype...
I agree--unfortunately my app has everything on the same box--I'd have to pay twice as much for co-location if I had a dedicated DB server and another box to do everything else.
So, I leave a processor free for Apache, perl, mail, etc...
anyone know of any cheap (less than $200 a month) co-location places?
Yes, 11.9.2 on Linux does support SMP. I've tested it with max_online_engines set to 2 on a dual processor box, but I've scaled back to just a single engine 'cause I didn't want the box dedicated to Sybase.
I've always been told that min/max_online engines should be set to # of processors -1
I didn't see any mention of Sybase in this article-IMHO, the author left out a very robust database solution available to Linux users.
Sybase currently offers two different versions of their database server for Linux:
1) an older version 11.0.3.3 is available for free and you can do anything that you wish with it. Develop, deploy, e-commerce, etc. Free. 2) their "latest" version 11.9.2 is available free via download or $100.00 for a couple of CD's and manuals. 11.9.2 is free (or $100) for development, but if you deploy it then you need to purchase a license from sybase.
and no, I don't work for Sybase, I'm a happy user of Sybase on Linux, Solaris and HP-UX.
check out Sybase at http://www.sybase.com or the Sybase on Linux FAQ at http://www.mbay.net/~mpeppler/linux.html
I'd love to get in on this new Exxon/Titan spin off IPO. But I'm sure that "those bastards" at E-titan won't let me in on the IPO.
Listen-I've been using and generating hydrocarbons since before I was born. I have every right to be able to get in on this opportunity of the century.
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Let's ask Mr. Owl-
Mr Owl, How long does it take to count 1 000 000 000 links anyway?
Mr Owl: "ah one, ah two, ah three *CRUNCH*-- ah three"
There you go folks, it takes three to count 1 000 000 000 links. Thank you, Mr. Owl!
I placed several orders with outpost.com and without exception, they exceeded my expectations on every order. They offered free next day shipping on items that were in stock, and they were not kidding.
A few examples:
I ordered a scanner for my sister from outpost.com on sunday night, and she called me monday morning to thank me! that was this week!
As a last ditch effort at finding a gift for my brother in law, I ordered a CPU from Outpost.com on Tuesday night around midnight, and it was on my front porch when I got home from work on Wednesday!
I am most impressed with outpost.com's service! (not affiliated, no relation, etc...)
However, I also purchased several items from e-toys on December 6th (go ahead, flame me). While the inventory/ordering/giftwrap/shipping user interface was great (I'm think that some companies should take a look at their order flow processs), their delivery was less than satistfactory.
After placing a large order on 12/06/1999 that was to be delivered to several different addresses (everything was in stock on 12/06/1999), I received an order confirmation an hour later to confirm my order. Very good so far.
Two days later, I receive an e-mail that some of my articles were too big to gift wrap. Didn't they know that at the time of the order? Oh well.
Fast forward a week or so. I get a call from my sister that the order of lego's arrived just fine. Then, two days later, I receive an e-mail from e-toys that the lego order shipped.
To make a long story even longer, every shipping confirmation e-mail was received after the item had arrived. Not really a "bad thing", but annoying.
The worst part is that on 12/20/1999, I received an e-mail that two of my items were OUT OF STOCK! And I ordered them two full weeks prior! Thanks for the advance notice so that I can make other plans...Jeesh!
Anyways, I am VERY happy with outpost.com, and pretty pissed at e-toys.com (I would have ordered from toysrus.com, but their inventory sucked, IMHO)
Have a happy new year, everyone!
Robert
Woo-Hoo! First post, dud3z!
FreeBSD Rules!
Micro$oft Ru13z!
lest we not forget, up until fairly recently ALL computers cost $2500.
Here is a short list of computers that I have purchased with $2500:
8086 XT with two floppy drives and a green screen
80286 AT with a hard drive (can't remember how big)
80386 Compaq clone with 1 meg and a 65 meg hard drive
80486 with 16 meg and a 400 meg hard drive
pentium 90 with 64 meg and 1.2 gig drive
dual pentium pro 2/512 meg and 2x4.5 gig scsi
dual pentium III with 1 gig and 3x9 gig scsi
so--$2500 will always buy you a "state of the art" computer....and the state of the art changes about 3 days after purchase/delivery. Mainly because it was state of the art when you were contemplating ordering it--by the time it is delivered there is always a faster/bigger/badder machine available.
I don't advocate spending $2500 for one of these cooling units--just wait three to six months and you will get a much bigger bang for your buck....but then, you could always say "wait a while--the new xxx-IV is coming out next month"
so, do what you like!
just my $0.02 (collect 125,000 of these and you can buy a new machine!)
What you saw was spectacular, but was not associated with the leonid shower.
This is from the american meteor society's website:
http://amsmeteors.org/leo99update.html
"On Tuesday evening, locally Nov. 16, at approximately 7:07 EST / 6:07 CST (November 17, 1999, 0007 UTC), a brilliant fireball lit up the American midwest, travelling slowly from west to east, and apparently breaking apart in transit. The AMS has received reports about this event from locations across central North America, from southern Canada to northern Texas (!). Regardless of what is being reported at other web sites and in the popular press, this event could NOT have ben associated with the Leonid meteor shower. At the time of this event, North America was completely in the shadow of the Leonid stream, with the radiant located slightly east of the anti-zenith, that is, underfoot. This object is most likely a very bright sporadic fireball (of which there are a few each year of this magnitude), or perhaps reentering space debris. "
I married a geek last January. She is a database wizard and a perl goddess, and we met on the jobsite.
It was truly a whirlwind romance, with her showing me how to implement of arrays of hashes and the like.
Good luck to all of the single geeks out there--there is someone waiting for you!
This article has some very good points on where our productivity and creativity has been focused. However, there are many professions that make use of the efforts that have gone into computer science over the past several decades.
Bad example, but look at the tools that animation designers have available now vs. 5, 10, 20 and 50 years ago.
What about simulation? Engineers can design-test-refine aircraft, bridges, automobiles, almost anything without having to build a prototype...
gotta run, but this is an interesting article.
as a user of ms-windows at work, this sounds like a great idea....
on an unrelated note--what if we had a be-os cluster of these mice?
I like instruction #5--
5.You must be a resident of the U.S. or Canada, excluding Quebec, to participate.
Last time I checked, Quebec hadn't secceded from Canada (yet).
ponto do slash
I completely agree with your sig!
I agree--unfortunately my app has everything on the same box--I'd have to pay twice as much for co-location if I had a dedicated DB server and another box to do everything else.
So, I leave a processor free for Apache, perl, mail, etc...
anyone know of any cheap (less than $200 a month) co-location places?
Yes, 11.9.2 on Linux does support SMP. I've tested it with max_online_engines set to 2 on a dual processor box, but I've scaled back to just a single engine 'cause I didn't want the box dedicated to Sybase.
I've always been told that min/max_online engines should be set to # of processors -1
I didn't see any mention of Sybase in this article-IMHO, the author left out a very robust database solution available to Linux users.
Sybase currently offers two different versions of their database server for Linux:
1) an older version 11.0.3.3 is available for free and you can do anything that you wish with it. Develop, deploy, e-commerce, etc. Free.
2) their "latest" version 11.9.2 is available free via download or $100.00 for a couple of CD's and manuals. 11.9.2 is free (or $100) for development, but if you deploy it then you need to purchase a license from sybase.
and no, I don't work for Sybase, I'm a happy user of Sybase on Linux, Solaris and HP-UX.
check out Sybase at http://www.sybase.com
or the Sybase on Linux FAQ at http://www.mbay.net/~mpeppler/linux.html
I'd love to get in on this new Exxon/Titan spin off IPO. But I'm sure that "those bastards" at E-titan won't let me in on the IPO.
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Listen-I've been using and generating hydrocarbons since before I was born. I have every right to be able to get in on this opportunity of the century.
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