It's when I read articles like this i feel really old.
Someone writes the history on graphics cards and things like the Hercules/CGA card is not even mentioned.
Guess thats why history repeats itself, nobody bothers to learn from it.
I enter my office, press ONE button and everything in my phone gets backuped via Bluetooth . I sit in my car and when the phone rings in my backpocket, I press answer on my bluetooth speakerphone thingy and just talk.
When i want to call mum while driving I press the green button on my bluetooth speakerphone thingy and say "mum".
When my girlfriends siemens s55 is full of pictures she took with her camera she downloads some of them to me and can take more pictures.
When i had coffee at a local place i saw two guys trying to transmit a file from one to the other(IrDa) i scanned the neighborhood and transmitted a nice picture of my girlfriend(No, not the face) to one of them. Never talked to them though*grin*
Last week when my isp refused to deliver a connection to my adsl, I even used my phone/gprs to do banking(http). And no i did NOT use WAP or that silly little phone keyboard. I connected my PC via Bluetooth via phone/gprs to the net, a bit slow but I did manage to pay my bills on time.
So, personally I'm hooked.
Can You spot the lie by the way...... okey, You got me that part of having a girlfriend was a lie, but the rest just work. Neat eh.....
Sorry about typos, I guess the tought about a girlfriend distracted me a bit....
that dont use lots of banners to get traffic/revenue ( www.sysclub.org )
ah.. but they don't make any/little money, they just have sex with each other...
a well, if only I hade a date....
Actually, I did not wonder why You went with a startup for business.
I Used to be Head of Computing in a company that spend around 2 mill $ and when we dropped the biggest computer supplier in Norway for a small startup, guess what : We went from being a ok account in a huge company to being the biggest account in a small company (It more than trippeled its sales). We suddenly got really good service, better prices and every one we called for help/support/service bent backwards for us(when we wanted them to, wich wasn't that often*evil grin of power*)
So my advice to everyone managing a net is : don't follow the big fish, but find a place where You ARE the biggest fish.
A bit off topic maybe, but if everyone did the same when it came to ISP services, YOU to would have leverage if you wanted your ISP to implement something similar.
Finaly a point where I have some numbers. I used to manage a net for a pharmaceutical company and we used to run the machines like most people. Turning them on when needing them and turning them off at night to save power. When we changed the SOP for computer use(on the teory that machines mainly die when turning on) to keeping the computers permanently on we had a decrease in service costs by 75%-80%. When these figures where held against the increase on the powerbill we saved ALOT of money (around 200 machines!!) When these figures where in we where given a pat on the back and a bunch of undrinkable flowers. When we also showed how much downtime we saved, we got a pat on the back an a full night on the town (with beer Free as in BEER ).
The ISP already got payd from us, so no need adding them to the crowd of moneysuckers.
Guess i stick to with my trusty eMule.
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It's hard to be humble when You're Norwegian
Dinner time? whats that in the us? eh... who cares i just had dinner and i guess my dinner time is good enough. (norway calling)
Hallo. Jeg vil bare klage pa at dere ringer meg privat nar jeg ikke er interessert... etc... etc...
throw in some english to keep the attention up for a while and see how long i can keep it up. With free long distance (at work) keep the numbers cuming, i really need something to do while compiling
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Or like the map in the philosophy dep. of University of Oslo(Norway) Nice map, and big arrow marked with pen saying: "Why are You here?"
nahhh...... same as everyone else.... to bad RH is pulling the plug.....
It's when I read articles like this i feel really old. Someone writes the history on graphics cards and things like the Hercules/CGA card is not even mentioned. Guess thats why history repeats itself, nobody bothers to learn from it.
I enter my office, press ONE button and everything in my phone gets backuped via Bluetooth . I sit in my car and when the phone rings in my backpocket, I press answer on my bluetooth speakerphone thingy and just talk. When i want to call mum while driving I press the green button on my bluetooth speakerphone thingy and say "mum". When my girlfriends siemens s55 is full of pictures she took with her camera she downloads some of them to me and can take more pictures. When i had coffee at a local place i saw two guys trying to transmit a file from one to the other(IrDa) i scanned the neighborhood and transmitted a nice picture of my girlfriend(No, not the face) to one of them. Never talked to them though*grin* Last week when my isp refused to deliver a connection to my adsl, I even used my phone/gprs to do banking(http). And no i did NOT use WAP or that silly little phone keyboard. I connected my PC via Bluetooth via phone/gprs to the net, a bit slow but I did manage to pay my bills on time. So, personally I'm hooked. Can You spot the lie by the way...... okey, You got me that part of having a girlfriend was a lie, but the rest just work. Neat eh..... Sorry about typos, I guess the tought about a girlfriend distracted me a bit....
that dont use lots of banners to get traffic/revenue ( www.sysclub.org ) ah.. but they don't make any/little money, they just have sex with each other... a well, if only I hade a date....
But from reading the article and comments neither do anyone else.
Actually, I did not wonder why You went with a startup for business. I Used to be Head of Computing in a company that spend around 2 mill $ and when we dropped the biggest computer supplier in Norway for a small startup, guess what : We went from being a ok account in a huge company to being the biggest account in a small company (It more than trippeled its sales). We suddenly got really good service, better prices and every one we called for help/support/service bent backwards for us(when we wanted them to, wich wasn't that often*evil grin of power*) So my advice to everyone managing a net is : don't follow the big fish, but find a place where You ARE the biggest fish. A bit off topic maybe, but if everyone did the same when it came to ISP services, YOU to would have leverage if you wanted your ISP to implement something similar.
Finaly a point where I have some numbers. I used to manage a net for a pharmaceutical company and we used to run the machines like most people. Turning them on when needing them and turning them off at night to save power. When we changed the SOP for computer use(on the teory that machines mainly die when turning on) to keeping the computers permanently on we had a decrease in service costs by 75%-80%. When these figures where held against the increase on the powerbill we saved ALOT of money (around 200 machines!!) When these figures where in we where given a pat on the back and a bunch of undrinkable flowers. When we also showed how much downtime we saved, we got a pat on the back an a full night on the town (with beer Free as in BEER ).
The ISP already got payd from us, so no need adding them to the crowd of moneysuckers. Guess i stick to with my trusty eMule. _____ It's hard to be humble when You're Norwegian
Dinner time? whats that in the us? eh... who cares i just had dinner and i guess my dinner time is good enough. (norway calling) Hallo. Jeg vil bare klage pa at dere ringer meg privat nar jeg ikke er interessert... etc... etc... throw in some english to keep the attention up for a while and see how long i can keep it up. With free long distance (at work) keep the numbers cuming, i really need something to do while compiling Norw Blue