I'm with CmdrTaco on the "seen it coming" bit. I was sort of a fan of VA.. Yet there was a few things about them that bugged me.
Back before the dot-bomb bubble burst, the co. I worked for gave me a huge budget, and pretty much allowed me to order whatever I needed. These orders included a number of Sun and VA servers. Here's the thing:
Why did they HAVE SOUNDCARDS?
Why did they have hardcore 3d cards?
It was basically like paying a bloated few thousand dollars for a Linux Hack's gaming box. Plus a little extra for a rackmount case. I like linux, and I do gaming (on my windows box)... But for a rackmount machine, I don't want a sound card. I dont want a 3d card. I don't want all this novelty bullsh*t (X, games, etc) installed into my kernel by default.
They should have spent some more time accelerating the console administration kernel module. They should have wasted less money on lame 3d graphics chipsets and sound. And, maybe, they should have hired more people with better business sense than ones who basically marketed a rackmountable PC. Oh yeah... What in the heck possessed them to do celeron?
For the former employees: sorry about your misfortunes. For traders who lost exorbitant amounts of money: HAHAHAHAHA. Idiots. Serves you right.
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I'm with CmdrTaco on the "seen it coming" bit. I was sort of a fan of VA.. Yet there was a few things about them that bugged me.
Back before the dot-bomb bubble burst, the co. I worked for gave me a huge budget, and pretty much allowed me to order whatever I needed. These orders included a number of Sun and VA servers. Here's the thing:
Why did they HAVE SOUNDCARDS?
Why did they have hardcore 3d cards?
It was basically like paying a bloated few thousand dollars for a Linux Hack's gaming box. Plus a little extra for a rackmount case. I like linux, and I do gaming (on my windows box)... But for a rackmount machine, I don't want a sound card. I dont want a 3d card. I don't want all this novelty bullsh*t (X, games, etc) installed into my kernel by default.
They should have spent some more time accelerating the console administration kernel module. They should have wasted less money on lame 3d graphics chipsets and sound. And, maybe, they should have hired more people with better business sense than ones who basically marketed a rackmountable PC. Oh yeah... What in the heck possessed them to do celeron?
For the former employees: sorry about your misfortunes. For traders who lost exorbitant amounts of money: HAHAHAHAHA. Idiots. Serves you right.
Regards,
-l
Leased PoPs = saturation
I wonder how the eng scene is looking right now...
Mspg: IE4.01/IE5. Dunno about Earthlink...