As others have mentioned already you will need a volume license of windows if you want to transfer it. The nice thing about equus is that you can send them an image and any system you order from them will come with it preloaded. Oh and equus will be able to continue shipping XP Pro downgrade if you should need it.
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Comcast etc. already have location monopolies on customers for the most part. You don't have two cable companies competing for the same area usually. Granted there is DSL though. So basically they are given an area of customers that may not have any other choice.
They then charge them whatever they want; the same exact service can vary widely from city to city (mostly based on whether or not there is any competition).
They then receive kickbacks from the government to pay for infrastructure improvements.
I hear no complaints about telcom companies losing money on the current model. Yet there are inroads made frequently that restrict, cap or otherwise hinder the flow of information with no kickback to the customer. I hear that a small percentage ruins it for the rest of us, those few who manage to serve hundreds of gigabytes of data apparently cause a lot of problems for telcoms. So technically the load should be reduced and the "threat" should be removed. Shouldn't the prices go down as a result?
Even cell phone providers, which operate in a similar fashion, usually let stuff "roll over".
I have no problem paying for a service and I have no problem with a company making money off their services. However, I don't see any good intentions in any of this. All I see is a board room filled with people asking themselves how much more they can get out of the consumer without giving anything back.
.. but sometimes one needs to find something in their everyday work routine and capitalize on it, but more on that shortly.
I saw a comment earlier about working in less than ideal conditions, like on a farm outside for a living. People with âoecrappyâ jobs like that are just as likely to love/hate their job as anyone else. While there is more physical demand there is more physical satisfaction, such as physically seeing a house you built or the seeing the very ground transformed like in the farming example above.
Take a more active roll in things, make it your personal mission to improve upon something that has a direct impact on the company. Sometimes personal satisfaction is the only thing that makes people happy enough to keep coming in every day. Without more information I canâ(TM)t give you a good example but you mention it being repetitive, find a way to automate things. Usually the people who hate doing a repetitive task are the best to automate it because due to negativity they are more in tune with every process. A normal person tries to tune repetitive things out, for a frustrated person every step grates on them.
Even if you are in IT your company still has an infrastructure like any other and usually that means there is an opening somewhere else in the company that focuses on something different.
I have never seen an estimate of loss due to downtime come remotely close to the actual numbers when everything is said and done.
Depending on the type of work that is being done there usually isn't any loss at all.
I can't tell you how many times I have heard "if we are down for x amount of minutes we loose y amount of dollars" and then when the numbers are out for that month they are exactly the same as they were before after standard fluctuations and expected growth are taken into account. If the downtime is minimal people usually work a little harder or goof off for 5 less minutes during the day to get the work done.
I know they have to quantify it but it is something that peeves me every time I hear it.
He even said that it was eventually corrected, also the articles like that are sometimes temporarily locked to prevent vandalism.
At least it can be peer edited, if it were left up to the author he could spout crap and never correct it. Just like Frank Ahrens of The Washington Post.
I have the same issue with my DSL (1.5mb package). For whatever reason my upload is always perfect but my DL suffers all the time.
The weird thing is, my internet always works perfectly the first few months I move to a new place. Either they are screwing with me or I am crazy. Cable and DSL seemed to do this, I would live there for a few months and I would get excellent uptime and excellent speeds and then the three months would pass and it would take a shit.
I picked up a 805 myself and just like Tom's I could do 3.33 with stock vcore. Read any other ocing articles on the 805 and 4ghz can only be achieved with water cooling. Even if you shoot for 3.8 you are going to need a $60 heatsink and pray it gets the job done.
He also says: "It's noteworthy that the core voltage levels of 2.7 volts didn't read out correctly here."
This isn't true according to my testing. CPUZ shows the correct voltage, well close to it anyways. For some reason currently shipping intel motherboards and nf4 intel motherboards have a hard time supplying the correct voltage when oced and under load. The voltage always drops by a substantial amount, for example at 3.33 it drops from 1.337 to 1.25 while under load. I broke out my multimeter to make sure since I was contemplating upping the voltage in the bios to compensate.
At any rate I would say ocing it to 3.33 is good enough considering the price.
I am so tired of people not taking responsibility for their own actions and trying to blame others for their problems.
I bet these women also believe McDonalds is responsible for fat people. Unfortunately it just doesn't work like that. They have a choice whether to follow what is portrayed in the media. Being "pressured" has nothing to do with it either, as a male I am "pressured" to live up to all kinds of media endorsed standards. I make the distinction between real life and media though.
Next up the overweight low IQ crowd will be blaming Homer Simpson for their problems.
Although he occasionally got tech stuff wrong he really did have a gift for talking to noobs. He really helped the geek culture, even if that meant raising the average geek IQ.
I have yet to get a review posted on newegg. I have come across multiple items that have a Known issue (and have had the issue for at least a year) that I would have wanted to know myself before buying.
It's not like I say it sucks or no one should buy it. I simply give the pros and cons, I went so far as to give twice as many pros than cons, so there is no pro/con ratio drop limit apparently.
You would think that a person could be able to post useful information besides "Newegg rocks buy this product!!!1" yet they can't. I see useless gag reviews on newegg all the time, nothing more than "This will go great with my shoes, newegg rocks buy this product" and newegg lets that through.
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Comcast etc. already have location monopolies on customers for the most part. You don't have two cable companies competing for the same area usually. Granted there is DSL though. So basically they are given an area of customers that may not have any other choice.
They then charge them whatever they want; the same exact service can vary widely from city to city (mostly based on whether or not there is any competition).
They then receive kickbacks from the government to pay for infrastructure improvements.
I hear no complaints about telcom companies losing money on the current model. Yet there are inroads made frequently that restrict, cap or otherwise hinder the flow of information with no kickback to the customer. I hear that a small percentage ruins it for the rest of us, those few who manage to serve hundreds of gigabytes of data apparently cause a lot of problems for telcoms. So technically the load should be reduced and the "threat" should be removed. Shouldn't the prices go down as a result?
Even cell phone providers, which operate in a similar fashion, usually let stuff "roll over".
I have no problem paying for a service and I have no problem with a company making money off their services. However, I don't see any good intentions in any of this. All I see is a board room filled with people asking themselves how much more they can get out of the consumer without giving anything back.
"At $30 per gigabyte, it would be great to have a 10-gig for OS and your current favorite MMO game."
Unless you play Age of Conan, roughly $1050. That would pay for like 2 months of subscription and the cheetos required to sustain the individual.
.. but sometimes one needs to find something in their everyday work routine and capitalize on it, but more on that shortly.
I saw a comment earlier about working in less than ideal conditions, like on a farm outside for a living. People with âoecrappyâ jobs like that are just as likely to love/hate their job as anyone else. While there is more physical demand there is more physical satisfaction, such as physically seeing a house you built or the seeing the very ground transformed like in the farming example above.
Take a more active roll in things, make it your personal mission to improve upon something that has a direct impact on the company. Sometimes personal satisfaction is the only thing that makes people happy enough to keep coming in every day. Without more information I canâ(TM)t give you a good example but you mention it being repetitive, find a way to automate things. Usually the people who hate doing a repetitive task are the best to automate it because due to negativity they are more in tune with every process. A normal person tries to tune repetitive things out, for a frustrated person every step grates on them.
Even if you are in IT your company still has an infrastructure like any other and usually that means there is an opening somewhere else in the company that focuses on something different.
Interesting insight into the games of that era. Could have used a lot less ego stroking and more details, I wouldn't be all that proud of a port.
I have never seen an estimate of loss due to downtime come remotely close to the actual numbers when everything is said and done.
Depending on the type of work that is being done there usually isn't any loss at all.
I can't tell you how many times I have heard "if we are down for x amount of minutes we loose y amount of dollars" and then when the numbers are out for that month they are exactly the same as they were before after standard fluctuations and expected growth are taken into account. If the downtime is minimal people usually work a little harder or goof off for 5 less minutes during the day to get the work done.
I know they have to quantify it but it is something that peeves me every time I hear it.
He even said that it was eventually corrected, also the articles like that are sometimes temporarily locked to prevent vandalism.
At least it can be peer edited, if it were left up to the author he could spout crap and never correct it. Just like Frank Ahrens of The Washington Post.
Everyone knows whaling on the moon is the next big thing.
Were whalers on the moon. We carry a harpoon..
I have the same issue with my DSL (1.5mb package). For whatever reason my upload is always perfect but my DL suffers all the time.
The weird thing is, my internet always works perfectly the first few months I move to a new place. Either they are screwing with me or I am crazy. Cable and DSL seemed to do this, I would live there for a few months and I would get excellent uptime and excellent speeds and then the three months would pass and it would take a shit.
And a hefty power bill to go along with it.
I picked up a 805 myself and just like Tom's I could do 3.33 with stock vcore. Read any other ocing articles on the 805 and 4ghz can only be achieved with water cooling. Even if you shoot for 3.8 you are going to need a $60 heatsink and pray it gets the job done.
He also says: "It's noteworthy that the core voltage levels of 2.7 volts didn't read out correctly here."
This isn't true according to my testing. CPUZ shows the correct voltage, well close to it anyways. For some reason currently shipping intel motherboards and nf4 intel motherboards have a hard time supplying the correct voltage when oced and under load. The voltage always drops by a substantial amount, for example at 3.33 it drops from 1.337 to 1.25 while under load. I broke out my multimeter to make sure since I was contemplating upping the voltage in the bios to compensate.
At any rate I would say ocing it to 3.33 is good enough considering the price.
Oh and why fsck did this article need 45 pages?
They could have found better tech support. Although the geek squad has just enough knowledge to hook up a a/v cable to a xbox so I guess it works out.
"Hello Geek Squad? This is Brittney Spears, I need to hire someone to turn my TV on and off."
I am so tired of people not taking responsibility for their own actions and trying to blame others for their problems.
I bet these women also believe McDonalds is responsible for fat people. Unfortunately it just doesn't work like that. They have a choice whether to follow what is portrayed in the media. Being "pressured" has nothing to do with it either, as a male I am "pressured" to live up to all kinds of media endorsed standards. I make the distinction between real life and media though.
Next up the overweight low IQ crowd will be blaming Homer Simpson for their problems.
Especially the old 'super computers'. As they say, they don't make them like they used to.
Although he occasionally got tech stuff wrong he really did have a gift for talking to noobs. He really helped the geek culture, even if that meant raising the average geek IQ.
Too bad G4 Sucks Ass though.
I have yet to get a review posted on newegg. I have come across multiple items that have a Known issue (and have had the issue for at least a year) that I would have wanted to know myself before buying. It's not like I say it sucks or no one should buy it. I simply give the pros and cons, I went so far as to give twice as many pros than cons, so there is no pro/con ratio drop limit apparently. You would think that a person could be able to post useful information besides "Newegg rocks buy this product!!!1" yet they can't. I see useless gag reviews on newegg all the time, nothing more than "This will go great with my shoes, newegg rocks buy this product" and newegg lets that through.