Interesting - the longest I've ever had to wait for Cisco gear was 3 weeks, and it's usually 4-5 days, but my vendor was Berbee. Now that CDW owns Berbee, it may change.
I'd much rather speak to TAC with an issue than HP Support.
No numbers (why would I use facts in an argument on/.?) but it's got to be more than a few percent. I live in a big city in the MidWest, and yet 14 miles away are areas that have only satellite-based Internet if they don't want dial-up. The phone company won't provide DSL yet, and the cable company provides digital cable, but not internet-over-cable yet.
Worked for a small company - single server that handled payroll/inventory/sales/everything. An ex-employee, disgruntled for being fired, stole said server, and the safe containing the backup tapes, except for the offsite backups. However, he stole the install media, and there was no such thing as bare metal restore at the time.
It took 6 weeks to recover from that. In that time, the company lost half of its staff and customers. Went from being a sales-award winning computer shop and the fastest Mac and PC repair in the area to an also ran that couldn't get credit - no credit, no product, no customers.
I disagree with the first part of this. Teachers also love these because they can enhance what they are doing, and because they can teach in places they can't reach at all. Working with the Stanford School of Education years ago, they were doing incredibly cool things with distance learning that really helped the classroom environment, instead of replacing it.
Yes, if you have lazy teachers, this can be the new babysitter, but with the right teachers, this can do so much more.
What would you have done if you were in a building with no cell signal? Where I live, there are many university buildings with walls that block radio/cell/pager. Not intentionally, as these are ancient (by American standards) buildings. I can't sue a building owner for not putting a cell repeater with multiple antennae in the building. That's simply insane. Therefore, what right would I have to sue because a building owner used cell blocking paint?
I'd prefer to keep them separate because I've yet to have a phone that still worked after 1.5 years or so, and I wouldn't want to keep replacing my iPod. Not that I've yet seen a reason for me to have one of those... Same with my PDA - it gets beatup a lot less than my phones seem to do so, so I'd rather it was separate too.
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Or they get beer-trucked, and the company folds. Great business plan that.
Interesting - the longest I've ever had to wait for Cisco gear was 3 weeks, and it's usually 4-5 days, but my vendor was Berbee. Now that CDW owns Berbee, it may change. I'd much rather speak to TAC with an issue than HP Support.
I had never had the puff test until just recently. I've always had the physical pressure test. I prefer that...
No numbers (why would I use facts in an argument on /.?) but it's got to be more than a few percent. I live in a big city in the MidWest, and yet 14 miles away are areas that have only satellite-based Internet if they don't want dial-up. The phone company won't provide DSL yet, and the cable company provides digital cable, but not internet-over-cable yet.
Worked for a small company - single server that handled payroll/inventory/sales/everything. An ex-employee, disgruntled for being fired, stole said server, and the safe containing the backup tapes, except for the offsite backups. However, he stole the install media, and there was no such thing as bare metal restore at the time.
It took 6 weeks to recover from that. In that time, the company lost half of its staff and customers. Went from being a sales-award winning computer shop and the fastest Mac and PC repair in the area to an also ran that couldn't get credit - no credit, no product, no customers.
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You went to the wrong high school, then. Go to a Jesuit school. If you are serious, you certainly do learn how to think critically.
I disagree with the first part of this. Teachers also love these because they can enhance what they are doing, and because they can teach in places they can't reach at all. Working with the Stanford School of Education years ago, they were doing incredibly cool things with distance learning that really helped the classroom environment, instead of replacing it. Yes, if you have lazy teachers, this can be the new babysitter, but with the right teachers, this can do so much more.
What would you have done if you were in a building with no cell signal? Where I live, there are many university buildings with walls that block radio/cell/pager. Not intentionally, as these are ancient (by American standards) buildings. I can't sue a building owner for not putting a cell repeater with multiple antennae in the building. That's simply insane. Therefore, what right would I have to sue because a building owner used cell blocking paint?
I'd prefer to keep them separate because I've yet to have a phone that still worked after 1.5 years or so, and I wouldn't want to keep replacing my iPod. Not that I've yet seen a reason for me to have one of those... Same with my PDA - it gets beatup a lot less than my phones seem to do so, so I'd rather it was separate too.