I don't know if this is available outside the mac world, but my powerbook lets me use what it calls Interference Robustness which, according to apple, may slow your connection but will improve the ability to connect.
Not very cheap considering this week silly sales at dell get you a laptop for $549.
It may not be high quality, but I'll take a laptop over a desktop most days.
I'm hoping more tech-savy slashdot readers can help me understand a couple things. I read cringely's article, got interested by the PowerPC servers that IBM are selling, looked at them on IBM's site, and was surprised that the cheapest one was $5000, for a 1.5 Ghz CPU, 512 memory and 36 GB SCSI HD.
Can someone explain to me how this is competitive? I understand that mhz isn't everything, and PPC is 64 bit, but for that much money I can buy Five Rackmount Dell 2.4 Ghz Xeon pizza boxes with similar specs, or a single Dual Xeon Tower with 6x73 GB SCSI in Raid 5 config, 2 GB Ram, & Tape backup. Perhaps the best comparison is an AMD Opteron 1U with 1 GB memory, only I can buy 3 Opteron servers.
I'm no fan of Dell, but I would choose them (or HP, etc) over an IBM PPC box for $5k. If you are someone who would chose the IBM PPC, I'd like to know your thoughts and what you see as advantages, given the price. Thanks
I've had to configure CA eTrust at work (pointy hairs make the decision) and it was knocking off good emails from an inaccurate blacklist in minutes. I have to wade around with settings, users are powerless, and the company is getting mad at me for spending to much time 'configuring' it.
If I could put DSpam on Exchange, I'd be happier than a clam. DSpam, for those who don't know it, is a great Bayesian filter.
You don't need to sit through college statistics courses to see the idiocy in thier argument. Imagine a study of car crashes that reveals only.3% of auto deaths occur in Lamborghini's, and that more peole die in American-built cars than Japanese-built cars. This study 'concludes' that Lamborghinis must be the safest cars, and Japanese cars are safer than American cars. It doesn't bother to find out that only.1% of the population owns Lamborghinis or that more American cars are driven than Japanese cars.
This brings to mind the famous saying "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." Read about this quote on Wikipedia.
Ebay can do something to encourage appropriate feedback. I recently left negative feedback for a new ebay user, a non-paying bidder. He retaliated with negative feedback, and was kicked off ebay days later. My ensuing auctions got _significantly_ less money, I estimate I lost $400 dollars.
What ebay could do is not count feedback by those who have more negative feedback than positive and are then kicked off ebay. Bad buyers/sellers are usually awful from the begining, and their early feedback shows this. Ebay users who are kicked off should not have the power to hurt other members, particularly in the weeks before ebay kicks them.
I think this would encourage ebay members to appropriately give negative feedback, particularly to new users, without worrying about retaliation.
When it comes to databases, I certainly don't know what the fuck [I'm] talking about, but I bet the US Census Bureau knows a thing or two about databases.
MySQL Press Release
Dells pricing makes little sense. Yes, if you configure the N-Series at its base price, it is $319, vs the $400 (Post Rebate) price of this weeks Small Business 2400 sale.
But, the SB 2400 comes with: Pentium 2.4 vs Celeron 2.4 Good Keyboard vs crappy keyboard Optical Mouse vs regular roller ball mouse 80 GB 7200 Hard Drive vs 40 GB 5400 HD Floppy vs no Floppy Speakers vs no Speakers Modem vs no Modem
AND a copy of XP Home you can sell on Ebay.
So even if i'm installing Linux, why would I get the N-Series? Between the Pentium, Optical Mouse, Larger/Faster Hard Drive, (I won't use the rest but others will), I'd rather pay 400 for the better box.
If you price the N-Series with identical specs to this weeks 2400 Deal, the N-Series is 479 with the Celeron (no Pentium upgrade available).
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Microsoft stated it would raise prices on it's Windows and Office Suites, bringing in an expected $750 Million Dollars over the next 10 years.
I don't know if this is available outside the mac world, but my powerbook lets me use what it calls Interference Robustness which, according to apple, may slow your connection but will improve the ability to connect.
Not very cheap considering this week silly sales at dell get you a laptop for $549. It may not be high quality, but I'll take a laptop over a desktop most days.
I'm hoping more tech-savy slashdot readers can help me understand a couple things. I read cringely's article, got interested by the PowerPC servers that IBM are selling, looked at them on IBM's site, and was surprised that the cheapest one was $5000, for a 1.5 Ghz CPU, 512 memory and 36 GB SCSI HD.
Can someone explain to me how this is competitive? I understand that mhz isn't everything, and PPC is 64 bit, but for that much money I can buy Five Rackmount Dell 2.4 Ghz Xeon pizza boxes with similar specs, or a single Dual Xeon Tower with 6x73 GB SCSI in Raid 5 config, 2 GB Ram, & Tape backup. Perhaps the best comparison is an AMD Opteron 1U with 1 GB memory, only I can buy 3 Opteron servers.
I'm no fan of Dell, but I would choose them (or HP, etc) over an IBM PPC box for $5k. If you are someone who would chose the IBM PPC, I'd like to know your thoughts and what you see as advantages, given the price. Thanks
If I could put DSpam on Exchange, I'd be happier than a clam. DSpam, for those who don't know it, is a great Bayesian filter.
especially if your house is created out of recycled cardboard, Velcro, nylon wing nuts and tape.
Someone tell Richard Gere
This brings to mind the famous saying "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." Read about this quote on Wikipedia.
Ebay can do something to encourage appropriate feedback. I recently left negative feedback for a new ebay user, a non-paying bidder. He retaliated with negative feedback, and was kicked off ebay days later. My ensuing auctions got _significantly_ less money, I estimate I lost $400 dollars.
What ebay could do is not count feedback by those who have more negative feedback than positive and are then kicked off ebay. Bad buyers/sellers are usually awful from the begining, and their early feedback shows this. Ebay users who are kicked off should not have the power to hurt other members, particularly in the weeks before ebay kicks them.
I think this would encourage ebay members to appropriately give negative feedback, particularly to new users, without worrying about retaliation.
When it comes to databases, I certainly don't know what the fuck [I'm] talking about, but I bet the US Census Bureau knows a thing or two about databases. MySQL Press Release
Dells pricing makes little sense. Yes, if you configure the N-Series at its base price, it is $319, vs the $400 (Post Rebate) price of this weeks Small Business 2400 sale.
But, the SB 2400 comes with:
Pentium 2.4 vs Celeron 2.4
Good Keyboard vs crappy keyboard
Optical Mouse vs regular roller ball mouse
80 GB 7200 Hard Drive vs 40 GB 5400 HD
Floppy vs no Floppy
Speakers vs no Speakers
Modem vs no Modem
AND a copy of XP Home you can sell on Ebay.
So even if i'm installing Linux, why would I get the N-Series? Between the Pentium, Optical Mouse, Larger/Faster Hard Drive, (I won't use the rest but others will), I'd rather pay 400 for the better box.
If you price the N-Series with identical specs to this weeks 2400 Deal, the N-Series is 479 with the Celeron (no Pentium upgrade available).
Sometimes, Dell makes no sense.